RealTimeData/bbc_alltime
This dataset contains BBC News articles from 2017 to 2022. The articles are arraged by month. Access the specific month by using the format "YYYY-MM" as config. Such as load_dataset("RealTimeData/bbc_alltime", "2021-1").
0332
1{"title": ["Hungary to play matches behind closed doors after racist behaviour of fans at England game - BBC Sport", "Boris Johnson: What to expect when the PM visits the White House - BBC News", "Joe Biden plays down chances of UK-US trade deal - BBC News", "Pimlico Plumbers sold to US firm Neighborly - BBC News", "Princess Beatrice gives birth to a girl - BBC News", "Very difficult winter ahead for many, warns Kwasi Kwarteng - BBC News", "Pen Farthing: Charity Commission scrutinises Afghan animal rescue - BBC News", "Government borrowing higher than expected in August - BBC News", "Texas abortion: Doctor sued in first known challenges of new law - BBC News", "Carbon-dioxide shortage threatens food security - meat industry - BBC News", "Evergrande: Asia stocks mixed as investors weigh China concerns - BBC News", "Museum of the Year: Colchester gallery Firstsite wins £100,000 prize - BBC News", "Culture wars make BBC impartiality tougher, director general Tim Davie says - BBC News", "Lady Marmalade singer Sarah Dash, of the group Labelle, dies at 76 - BBC News", "Russian spy: What happened to Sergei and Yulia Skripal? - BBC News", "Children face 'agonising' waits for mental health care - BBC News", "Climate reporting reaches melting point - BBC News", "Nicola Faith fishing boat: Families to set up charity to improve sea safety - BBC News", "'No clear end to HS2 cost and delays' say MPs - BBC News", "Afghan girls school ban would be un-Islamic, Pakistan PM says - BBC News", "Salisbury poisoning: What did the attack mean for the UK and Russia? - BBC News", "Migrants in Texas: US probes horseback charge on Haiti migrants - BBC News", "Kidbrooke death: Teacher found dead near community centre named - BBC News", "Covid: Pressure on ICU staff concerning, Hywel Dda consultant says - BBC News", "Overprescribing of medicines must stop, says government - BBC News", "Gas price crisis: Food firms face huge price rise for carbon dioxide - BBC News", "Increase climate change commitments, Boris Johnson to urge Joe Biden - BBC News", "Staff to gain right to request flexible working from first day - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon: 'Encouraging' fall in Scottish Covid cases - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: NHS needs 1,000 more hospital beds say A&E doctors - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Journalists tell of beatings by Taliban - BBC News", "NFT-based fantasy football card firm raises $680m - BBC News", "HMP Styal: My baby died due to errors in prison, says former inmate - BBC News", "Russia behind Litvinenko murder, rules European rights court - BBC News", "Canada election: Trudeau stays in power but Liberals fall short of majority - BBC News", "Denbighshire carer urinated on child's toothbrush, panel hears - BBC News", "Killamarsh deaths: Family's tribute to children found dead at house - BBC News", "Organ donation: NI Assembly passes opt-out bill to next stage - BBC News", "Afghanistan: MoD shared more than 250 Afghan interpreters' details on email - BBC News", "Starmer warned Labour leadership rule changes risk 'civil war' - BBC News", "Community in race to buy remotest mainland pub - BBC News", "Covid: US opens up to fully vaccinated travellers - BBC News", "Covid-19: NI health service 'will topple over' without action - BBC News", "Gas crisis: Pig farmers fear they may have to cull animals - BBC News", "Gabby Petito: Body found in Wyoming is missing 'van life' blogger - BBC News", "Abba's Bjorn Ulvaeus launches campaign to fix £500m music royalty problem - BBC News", "Harry Dunn: Liz Truss raises case with US at United Nations Assembly - BBC News", "Gabby Petito: FBI searches fiancé Brian Laundrie's home - BBC News", "Covid: Mark Drakeford says PCR tests should be kept for travel - BBC News", "Covid-19: Drop in mask wearing on public transport, and men caught sneaking into KFC during lockdown - BBC News", "Scottish venues told to 'use common sense' on vaccine passports - BBC News", "As it happened: Oxford jab should be fine for US travel - adviser - BBC News", "Killamarsh deaths: Police continue murder investigation - BBC News", "Wally the wandering walrus is spotted in Iceland - BBC News", "Royals recall Duke of Edinburgh's mustard joke - BBC News", "England's men's and women's team withdrawn from Pakistan white-ball tour - BBC Sport", "Harry Dunn: Parents reach resolution in civil case against suspect - BBC News", "Sharon Graham: Unite leader to skip Labour conference - BBC News", "Afghanistan: 'I feel betrayed. We feel left behind' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Soldiers to drive ambulances from this weekend - BBC News", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu beats Zhang Shuai to reach third round - BBC Sport", "Capitol riot: 'QAnon Shaman' pleads guilty in federal court - BBC News", "Storm Ida: Before and after images of US flooding - BBC News", "Man guilty over abusive emails sent to Starmer and Thornberry - BBC News", "Asda to open more shops at Issa brothers' petrol stations - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Leaked document warns of refugee funding shortfall - BBC News", "Afghanistan: British Army officers tell of 'chaotic' evacuation operation - BBC News", "Heart inflammation link to Pfizer and Moderna jabs - BBC News", "Nitrous oxide: Patel orders Laughing gas review to decide on potential new law - BBC News", "Flu jabs in England and Wales delayed due to HGV driver shortage - BBC News", "Ayia Napa: Woman appeals against conviction for false rape claim - BBC News", "Richard E Grant heartbroken at the death of his wife, Joan Washington - BBC News", "Covid-19: Jabs for healthy 12 to 15-year-olds not recommended and Australia-UK vaccine swap - BBC News", "Life in Kabul under Taliban: Where is your male escort? - BBC News", "Dizzee Rascal: Rapper denies headbutting ex-girlfriend - BBC News", "Penallta fire: Petrol pollutes stream and kills fish after blaze - BBC News", "Breeding seabird numbers in Scotland almost halved since 1980s - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Vaccine certificates issued with QR codes - BBC News", "Pat Hume, widow of John Hume, has died - BBC News", "Blackpool Illuminations 2021: Switch-on honour for Strictly's Ballas - BBC News", "Climate change: Arctic warming linked to colder winters - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Kabul airport could reopen for evacuation flights soon, says Dominic Raab - BBC News", "Yoshihide Suga to step down as Japan's prime minister - BBC News", "Burrell Collection to reopen in March after five years - BBC News", "Covid: UK reports another 42,000 coronavirus cases - BBC News", "Covid: Watchdog launches new crackdown on PCR test firms - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Vaccination certificates still have security glitch - BBC News", "Man, 86, died in Bude Canal saving disabled daughter - BBC News", "Christchurch shootings: The people killed as they prayed - BBC News", "Hardys wine owner warns of Christmas shortage risk - BBC News", "NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's response to Auckland terror attack - BBC News", "Boy wins £290,000 over father's dive death off Cape Wrath - BBC News", "US Open: Dan Evans battles past Alexei Popyrin to reach fourth round - BBC Sport", "Arrest after woman falls to death from Arthur's Seat - BBC News", "Scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds - BBC News", "Hungary v England: Visiting players racially abused at Puskas Arena - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: Taliban increasingly violent against protesters – UN - BBC News", "Apple delays plan to scan iPhones for child abuse - BBC News", "Manchester United 2-0 Reading: New boss Marc Skinner opens WSL season with victory - BBC Sport", "Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight 'mishap' - BBC News", "Climate-above-all plea by US fails to stir China - BBC News", "Islamic State 'Beatle' Alexanda Kotey pleads guilty over US hostage deaths - BBC News", "Hungary v England: Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings after racist abuse aimed at players - BBC Sport", "Food price rise fears amid staff shortages - BBC News", "M4 reopens between Swansea and Llanelli after closure - BBC News", "Pat Hume: Tributes paid to 'extraordinarily strong' widow of John Hume - BBC News", "Your pictures of Scotland: 27 August - 3 September - BBC News", "Pet abduction to be made new criminal offence in England - BBC News", "Coin hoarding at home leads to charity plea - BBC News", "Covid: What Israel tells us about the way out of the pandemic - BBC News", "Storm Ida: Floodwater pours into New York City subway station - BBC News", "Hurricane Ida: Before and after images reveal devastation - BBC News", "Birmingham dancing thief's 'fancy footwork' caught on camera - BBC News", "Hurricane Ida: New Orleans under curfew amid blackout - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Dominic Raab says the UK has shared interest in a stable country - BBC News", "Buy Now Pay Later: 'I'm stressed over debt' - BBC News", "Ex-BBC employee reports alleged fashion sex assault - BBC News", "Afghanistan Panjshir: Fighting intensifies over holdout Afghan valley - BBC News", "Councils hit by bin collection delays due to driver shortage - BBC News", "Covid: Care home diary reveals lockdown isolation - BBC News", "EU and AstraZeneca reach deal to end vaccine row - BBC News", "Campaign to halt development of Carmarthenshire quarry - BBC News", "Michael Gove: What will he do with beefed-up planning and levelling up job? - BBC News", "Carbon-dioxide shortage threatens food security - meat industry - BBC News", "Chess icon sues Netflix for Queen's Gambit portrayal - BBC News", "Pet cat missing for 10 years in Aberdeen reunited with owners - BBC News", "Reshuffle: Boris Johnson's new cabinet meets for first time - BBC News", "US man files $1m lawsuit after Michigan teacher cuts child's hair - BBC News", "Astronauts return to Earth after China's longest space mission - BBC News", "Lyra McKee: Two men charged with murder of journalist - BBC News", "Papers can be served on Andrew's US lawyer - judge - BBC News", "Cabinet changes: Who is in Boris Johnson's top team? - BBC News", "House-building reforms paused amid Conservative MP anger - BBC News", "Covid-19: Travel traffic light system being simplified - BBC News", "Afghanistan: US admits Kabul drone strike killed civilians - BBC News", "NI100: DUP asks Irish president to rethink centenary invite - BBC News", "David Gomoh murder: Gang members jailed for NHS worker stabbing - BBC News", "The Wanted's Tom Parker: 'I'm not paying attention to cancer' - BBC News", "Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 - BBC News", "Who is Nadhim Zahawi? - BBC News", "Cladding: Panels failed fire tests 13 years before Grenfell - BBC News", "Aukus: China denounces US-UK-Australia pact as irresponsible - BBC News", "Aukus: US and UK face backlash over Australia defence deal - BBC News", "Reid Steele: Toddler died after being 'submerged in water' - BBC News", "Climate change: UN warning over nations' climate plans - BBC News", "Broadcasting cash offsets Man Utd's Covid losses - BBC News", "California fires: General Sherman and other sequoias given blankets - BBC News", "Liz Truss: The teenage Lib Dem who lasted just 45 days as PM - BBC News", "Travel rule changes 'positive', say airlines - BBC News", "Welsh sports fans will need to show Covid passes from October - BBC Sport", "Brazil legend Pele says he is 'recovering very well' after surgery - BBC Sport", "GB News: I became a minority of one, says Andrew Neil - BBC News", "Women threatened over maternity care bills - BBC News", "Covid-19: Travel rules set to change and Wales to decide on 'vaccine passports' - BBC News", "Queen's University students within 40 miles 'unlikely' to get room - BBC News", "'I’m constantly worried about being evicted' - BBC News", "Scotland to launch vaccine passports on 1 October - BBC News", "Your pictures of Scotland: 10 - 17 September - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Soldiers to drive ambulances under military aid plan - BBC News", "Cyprus gang rape case: Woman appeals against conviction for lying - BBC News", "Covid: Vaccine passports not ruled out in Wales - BBC News", "Dorman Long tower to be destroyed after listed status revoked - BBC News", "What's Boris Johnson's reshuffle really all about? - BBC News", "Military to be called in to help Scottish ambulance crews - BBC News", "Ruling limiting under-16s puberty blockers overturned - BBC News", "Infection known as mad cow disease found on Somerset farm - BBC News", "Scrap Covid tests for most travellers, says industry - BBC News", "NI100: Michael D Higgins defends decision not to attend centenary event - BBC News", "Ronapreve: 'Most vulnerable' to get new Covid drug next week - BBC News", "Prince Philip's will to be secret for 90 years - BBC News", "Lyra McKee: Two men accused of murder appear in court - BBC News", "Emmerdale: Actress Elizabeth Estensen leaving ITV soap after 22 years - BBC News", "What are the travel rules for France, the US, and other popular destinations? - BBC News", "Covid: Legal action begins over quarantine hotel rules - BBC News", "'Vaccine passports make me even more reluctant to get a Covid jab' - BBC News", "Mars: Nasa rover's rock cores were 'highest priority samples' - BBC News", "Heart inflammation link to Pfizer and Moderna jabs - BBC News", "Afghanistan crisis: Taliban kill civilians in resistance stronghold - BBC News", "'No answers' decade after Glyn Summers' Spanish fall death - BBC News", "Health tax could increase family breakdown, tax authority warns - BBC News", "Grenfell Tower inquiry: Reckless firms showed neglect - lawyer - BBC News", "NHS sparks pride but one in five go private, survey finds - BBC News", "As it happened: Covid jabs will help reduce education disruption - Whitty - BBC News", "Record number of environmental activists murdered - BBC News", "Barry attempted murder: Man admits stabbing lottery-winner partner - BBC News", "Fake Walmart news release claimed it would accept cryptocurrency - BBC News", "COP26: UK still lagging on climate policy, report says - BBC News", "Andrew Neil resigns from GB News three months after channel's launch - BBC News", "Covid-19 vaccine clinics open on Northern Ireland campuses - BBC News", "Eitan Biran: Italy investigates 'kidnap' of cable car crash survivor - BBC News", "Primark says leggings still popular as comfort rules - BBC News", "England vaccine passport plans ditched, Sajid Javid says - BBC News", "Covid jab rollout for 12 to 15-year-olds to start in UK schools - BBC News", "Ferraris sale worth £8.5m help fund Pwllheli RNLI boathouse - BBC News", "Harvey Elliott: Liverpool FC star gives fan his kit after hospital meeting - BBC News", "Apple iPhone risk from powerful motorbike vibrations - BBC News", "Taylor Swift: Pop star poses for selfies in Belfast - BBC News", "Britney Spears announces engagement to Sam Asghari - BBC News", "Trans man says confusion caused cervical screening delay - BBC News", "US Open: Novak Djokovic loses to Daniil Medvedev in New York - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: Vaccine passport spot checks 'an option' for major events - BBC News", "Scrap Covid tests for most travellers, says industry - BBC News", "Tanya Fear: British actress reported missing in LA - BBC News", "Medical officers recommend Covid vaccines for older children - BBC News", "Why North Korea keeps launching missiles - BBC News", "Warning on teachers' lack of Holocaust knowledge - BBC News", "M25 junctions blocked by Insulate Britain campaigners - BBC News", "Prince Andrew's lawyer says NY case is baseless and non-viable - BBC News", "British American Tobacco negotiated bribe for Mugabe, new evidence suggests - BBC News", "TUC says 'proper pay rise' would fix shortages problem - BBC News", "Covid: Top medics back jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds and UK scraps vaccine deal - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu: US Open champion on resilience, celebrations and pleasing her parents - BBC Sport", "Ryanair: Holiday prices likely to rise sharply soon - BBC News", "Tanya Fear: Missing British actress found safe in LA - BBC News", "Schoolboy cyclist outpaces pros on Tour of Britain - BBC News", "Periods: Festivals need facilities at live events, says singer - BBC News", "North Korea tests new long-range cruise missile - BBC News", "UK scraps Covid-19 vaccine deal with French firm Valneva - BBC News", "Spain fire: Thousands flee blaze near Costa del Sol town - BBC News", "Cressida Dick: Tech giants make it impossible to stop terrorists - BBC News", "Afghanistan: More than $1bn pledged for Afghanistan - BBC News", "TikTok star and Wales' oldest woman dies at 110 - BBC News", "Six Palestinian prisoners escape Israeli jail through tunnel - BBC News", "Analysis: A very significant tax rise - BBC News", "Covid-19: UK passes 7 million confirmed Covid cases - BBC News", "Mother refused 5pm finish wins £185,000 payout - BBC News", "Sexually transmitted infections fall during pandemic - BBC News", "Climate change: Dragonflies spread north in warming world - BBC News", "M9 crash victim Lamara Bell 'trying to escape when rescuers arrived' - BBC News", "CCTV shows 'idiotic' drive down Birmingham rail tracks - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban fire warning shots at protest in Kabul - BBC News", "Social care: Arguments ahead as PM sets out overhaul of sector - BBC News", "Netflix to continue with BBFC age ratings after successful trial - BBC News", "Covid-19: Table service rules over for NI pubs and restaurants - BBC News", "Why workers face the bill for care revolution - BBC News", "Brazil's Bolsonaro: Only God will remove me from power - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon to set out plans for Holyrood year ahead - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'I'm double-vaccinated but can't show the proof' - BBC News", "Triple lock pension pledge suspended for one year - BBC News", "Scottish NHS to receive £1.1bn from UK-wide social care tax - BBC News", "Austria 0-1 Scotland: Lyndon Dykes penalty earns huge away win - BBC Sport", "Record numbers of UK students head for university - BBC News", "BBC's director of news Fran Unsworth to leave the corporation - BBC News", "Mexico: Flash flooding sweeps away cars after heavy rain - BBC News", "UK fires up coal power plant as gas prices soar - BBC News", "Muppets creator Jim Henson's Hampstead home given blue plaque - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban claim to have taken Panjshir Valley - BBC News", "Man charged after lorry crashes into house in East Kilbride - BBC News", "MH17 plane crash: Trial hears trauma of relatives demanding justice - BBC News", "Michael K Williams: The Wire star remembered as 'a fine man and a rare talent' - BBC News", "Bolsonaro: New bill will limit tech giants' power to remove content - BBC News", "Social care: PM bets on imperfection over inaction - BBC News", "Fostering: Referrals up as mother urges people to sign up - BBC News", "Carmarthen: Doctor jailed after paedophile hunter sting - BBC News", "Chinese social media site Weibo suspends 22 K-pop accounts - BBC News", "FM promises 'significant' public service reform - BBC News", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu into quarter-finals after beating Shelby Rogers - BBC Sport", "Fear and excitement in El Salvador as Bitcoin becomes legal tender - BBC News", "Police Scotland fined £100,000 over M9 crash death failures - BBC News", "As it happened: PM announces new tax to fund social care reforms - BBC News", "Wales basks in September sun - but will it last? - BBC News", "Red Funnel Southampton check-in kiosk flattened by lorry - BBC News", "Wales: FAW confirms fans can travel to October away qualifiers - BBC Sport", "Planned job cuts fall despite furlough deadline - BBC News", "Social care reform: BBC Political Editor questions Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Mexico decriminalises abortion in landmark ruling - BBC News", "Channel migrants: Children among those brought ashore at Dungeness - BBC News", "London Underground: Man died after falling into gap, RAIB finds - BBC News", "Cookie banners: G7 urged to consider solution to pop-up notices - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon: SNP-Green deal 'a leap of faith' - BBC News", "Arthur's Seat death: Man charged with murder of Fawziyah Javed - BBC News", "Police Scotland to change how they handle calls - BBC News", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces date of Autumn Budget - BBC News", "NHS to get £5.4bn extra to deal with Covid backlog - BBC News", "Covid-19: Northern Ireland health system 'one step from chaos' - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban increasingly violent against protesters – UN - BBC News", "Plastic waste: Study finds crabs confused by chemical additive - BBC News", "Prince Charles has 'no knowledge' of aide honours claim - BBC News", "Scottish government to restart work on case for independence - BBC News", "Boris Johnson outlines new 1.25% health and social care tax to pay for reforms - BBC News", "TV channels go off air after fire alarm - BBC News", "Prince Andrew's lawyers accept he was served with US case papers - BBC News", "Welsh street sign puts Scottish Highlands in Skewen - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban hang bodies as warning in city of Herat - BBC News", "One of NYC's poshest buildings facing $250m lawsuit over building defects - BBC News", "Hauliers and poultry workers to get temporary visas - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Hundreds pay respects at London vigil - BBC News", "Elvis fans all shook up as run marks Porthcawl festival's return - BBC News", "Olly Stephens: Three teenagers detained over boy's stabbing death - BBC News", "Ryder Cup: United States open 11-5 lead over Europe at Whistling Straits - BBC Sport", "China frees Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig after Huawei boss released - BBC News", "Actor Michael K Williams died of accidental drug overdose, coroner confirms - BBC News", "Ryder Cup: US dominate Europe in Friday's opening day at Whistling Straits - BBC Sport", "Oleksandr Usyk beats Anthony Joshua: Ukrainian challenger outclasses Briton by unanimous decision - BBC Sport", "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis on rise in Northern Ireland - BBC News", "Music company buys NFT of 'Side-eyeing Chloe' meme - BBC News", "Sgt Matiu Ratana shooting: Memorial services held - BBC News", "BP closes some sites due to lorry driver shortage - BBC News", "Tamworth SnowDome: Boy, 12, dies after injury during activity - BBC News", "Universal credit: Tory peer wants to force Commons vote on cut - BBC News", "Canary Islands: Airport closed as volcano intensifies - BBC News", "Somalia: Seven killed in suicide attack near presidential palace - BBC News", "WW2 Normandy veteran's son 'insulted' by pension repayment demand - BBC News", "Covid-19: Rules in NI to change for international travel - BBC News", "Rwanda genocide 'kingpin' Théoneste Bagosora dies in prison - BBC News", "Petrol station boss says no need for chaos at the pumps - BBC News", "Nike and Costco warn of product shortages and delays - BBC News", "Viola Beach: Memorial to band unveiled in Warrington - BBC News", "Labour conference: Any tax rises under Labour will be fair - Starmer - BBC News", "Labour conference: Sir Keir Starmer forced to drop leadership rule change - BBC News", "Labour conference: New rights for workers to boost fairness, Rayner vows - BBC News", "Huawei's Meng Wanzhou flies back to China after deal with US - BBC News", "Germany elections: Merkel backs 'bridge-builder' Laschet as successor - BBC News", "Soldiers arrive in Scotland to drive ambulances - BBC News", "Milly Main: Criminal investigation over hospital deaths - BBC News", "Teesside Airport light aircraft incident leaves one seriously injured - BBC News", "Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou freed by Canada arrives home in China - BBC News", "Driver shortage: 50,000 more HGV driving tests promised a year - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Hundreds gather to pay respects at London vigil - BBC News", "Elon Musk says he and partner Grimes are semi-separated - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Book of condolence opened for killed teacher - BBC News", "Margaret Keenan: First UK person to get the Pfizer jab gets booster - BBC News", "Warning after Lewes girl, 6, has surgery for swallowing magnets - BBC News", "EVCL Chill: 400 jobs at risk as food firm goes bust - BBC News", "Global Citizen Live: Ed Sheeran, Lizzo and Billie Eilish feature in 24-hour concert - BBC News", "Joe Biden plays down chances of UK-US trade deal - BBC News", "Matthew Strachan: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? composer dies at 50 - BBC News", "Killamarsh: Man in court charged with murdering three children and woman - BBC News", "Boris Johnson tells Macron: Donnez-moi un break over new pact - BBC News", "Fraudsters steal £4m a day as crime surges - BBC News", "GCSE media studies to cover Rashford's food campaign - BBC News", "I'm a Celebrity: Crew member's Covid case triggers lockdown - BBC News", "PMQs: Raab and Rayner clash over living costs - BBC News", "Covid debt: A baby, job loss - and now eviction - BBC News", "Pen Farthing: Charity Commission scrutinises Afghan animal rescue - BBC News", "Boris Johnson and Joe Biden hold White House talks - BBC News", "Warnings instead of prosecution for Class A drug users - BBC News", "Food firms warn of panic-buying this Christmas - BBC News", "Trump sues niece and New York Times over tax story - BBC News", "President Biden pledges 500m more vaccine doses to developing world - BBC News", "Harry Dunn: Family aim to 'forge ahead' with criminal case - BBC News", "'No clear end to HS2 cost and delays' say MPs - BBC News", "Covishield travel row: UK recognises vaccine but isolation rules confusion remains - BBC News", "Jamie Cannon: The 125-day search for missing Saltcoats student - BBC News", "Gas price crisis: Food firms face huge price rise for carbon dioxide - BBC News", "Overprescribing of medicines must stop, says government - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Second email data breach by MoD uncovered - BBC News", "Frisky male Llandudno goats get stuck pursuing females - BBC News", "Derby County officially enter administration and are deducted 12 points - BBC Sport", "G7: UK and US have an 'indestructible relationship', PM says - BBC News", "Biden meets Boris: Shared priorities but some bumps remain - BBC News", "Extremists using video-game chats to spread hate - BBC News", "Taliban ask to speak at UN General Assembly in New York - BBC News", "Willie Garson: Sex and the City actors remember late co-star - BBC News", "China pledges to stop building new coal energy plants abroad - BBC News", "Rolling Stones resume live shows with emotional Charlie Watts tribute - BBC News", "HMP Bronzefield baby death: Mother was 'failed' says inspectors - BBC News", "Insulate Britain: Injunction granted against M25 protesters - BBC News", "Hospitals inquiry: Mother says daughter's death was 'murder' - BBC News", "US lifting ban on imports of British lamb, says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "'Surrogacy is absolutely what I want to do' - BBC News", "Quarter of a million pupils to join BBC's Share Your Story - BBC News", "Pret to hire 3,000 new staff as city workers return - BBC News", "Gabby Petito: Body found in Wyoming is missing 'van life' blogger - BBC News", "Covid-19: NI health service 'will topple over' without action - BBC News", "Laura Kuenssberg: PM gets Oval Office meeting but no trade deal - BBC News", "Robert Fyfe: Last of the Summer Wine actor dies at 90 - BBC News", "Gas crisis: Pig farmers fear they may have to cull animals - BBC News", "Abba's Bjorn Ulvaeus launches campaign to fix £500m music royalty problem - BBC News", "Ineos confirms £1bn green investment in Grangemouth - BBC News", "Netflix lands golden ticket by buying Roald Dahl estate - BBC News", "Melbourne earthquake: Tremor rattles southeast Australia - BBC News", "Covid: Immune therapy from llamas shows promise - BBC News", "Ukraine leader's aide survives assassination attempt - BBC News", "Major record labels could face competition inquiry - BBC News", "Afghanistan: 'I feel betrayed. We feel left behind' - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa murder: Family left devastated by teacher's death in Kidbrooke - BBC News", "Labour conference: Keir Starmer sets out what he stands for in essay - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Government 'working urgently' to free up NHS beds - BBC News", "Harry Dunn: Parents reach resolution in civil case against suspect - BBC News", "Sharon Graham: Unite leader to skip Labour conference - BBC News", "Boris Johnson: Humanity is reaching a turning point on climate change - BBC News", "Rhondda house fire: Man arrested after woman seriously hurt - BBC News", "La Palma volcano lava engulfs homes and swimming pools - BBC News", "Love Island star Amy Hart says she got death threat from 13-year-old - BBC News", "Climate change: Young people very worried - survey - BBC News", "Climate change: Rare birds return to Wales after bog project - BBC News", "CJ Ujah: British Olympic 4x100m relay silver medallist's 'B' sample positive - BBC Sport", "Formula 1 fan arrested after being mistaken for mafia boss - BBC News", "Tomos Rhys Bunford, 9, died in Ferndale after being crushed by vehicle - BBC News", "Dominic Raab urged to block new Rwandan diplomat amid human rights concerns - BBC News", "Afghanistan crisis: Taliban kill civilians in resistance stronghold - BBC News", "Energy customers hit by collapse of People's Energy and Utility Point - BBC News", "M25 protests: Arrest tally over Insulate Britain action reaches 77 - BBC News", "Covid: Vaccine passports not ruled out in Wales - BBC News", "Andrew Neil resigns from GB News three months after channel's launch - BBC News", "Fake Walmart news release claimed it would accept cryptocurrency - BBC News", "Gleision: Call for inquest into mining disaster 10 years on - BBC News", "Covid jab rollout for 12 to 15-year-olds to start in UK schools - BBC News", "Brexit: Checks on goods imported from the EU delayed again - BBC News", "High Street vouchers to be issued in early October - BBC News", "Covid-19 remains a risk, warns Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Great British Bake Off 2021 contestants revealed - BBC News", "Covid: Boris Johnson on Covid plans and restrictions - BBC News", "Nationalised shipyard misses out on ferries order - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Decision due 'soon' on jabs for 12-15 year-olds - BBC News", "Boris Johnson's mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl, dies aged 79 - BBC News", "Harvey Elliott: Liverpool FC star gives fan his kit after hospital meeting - BBC News", "Notting Hill crash: Three dead after car hits block of flats and catches fire - BBC News", "Taylor Swift: Pop star poses for selfies in Belfast - BBC News", "Poor housing affecting disabled children's health - BBC News", "Met Gala 2021: Celebrities show off lavish outfits in New York - BBC News", "Covid booster vaccine rollout to begin across UK next week - BBC News", "Scrap Covid tests for most travellers, says industry - BBC News", "Boris Johnson warns Covid risk remains as he unveils England's winter plan - BBC News", "Covid: Swansea Bay health board advises return of school Covid rules - BBC News", "Coronavirus: PM set to unveil Covid winter plan for England - BBC News", "Scotland invites 12-15s to vaccine drop-in clinics - BBC News", "Apple iPhone 13 brings portrait mode for video - BBC News", "Grimsby hospital: High demand blamed for A&E queue - BBC News", "Prince Andrew's lawyer says NY case is baseless and non-viable - BBC News", "Llandudno goat selfie warning from coastguard - BBC News", "Pennies back in production as cash is hoarded during Covid - BBC News", "Scotland to vaccinate 12 to 15-year-olds from Monday - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu: US Open champion on resilience, celebrations and pleasing her parents - BBC Sport", "Tropical storm Nicholas brings heavy rain to Texas and Louisiana - BBC News", "Parents warn of tsunami of school-anxiety cases - BBC News", "Scotland records 722 drug deaths in first half of 2021 - BBC News", "Tanya Fear: Missing British actress found safe in LA - BBC News", "Covid-19 vaccines for over-12s and boosters for over 50s - BBC News", "China's ambassador Zheng Zeguang banned from UK Parliament - BBC News", "Your pictures of Scotland: 3 - 10 September - BBC News", "Doctors are exhausted, says BMA Scotland chief - BBC News", "Don't mix business and public duty, Tory co-chair Ben Elliot told - BBC News", "England v India: Fifth Test at Old Trafford cancelled amid Covid-19 concerns - BBC Sport", "Amazon offers to pay college fees for 750,000 US staff - BBC News", "Betsi Cadwaladr health board cancels some surgery amid Covid rise - BBC News", "Barbados to Rotherham: Lizard's 4,000-mile trip hidden in bra - BBC News", "Fortnite video chat app Houseparty to close - BBC News", "US Open: Emma Raducanu 'excited' to play Maria Sakkari in semi-finals - BBC Sport", "Grenfell risk assessor reckless over cladding, inquiry hears - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Infection rate jumps to record one in 45 - BBC News", "US Open: 'Exceptional talent' Emma Raducanu living 'every 18-year-old's dream' - BBC Sport", "Driver shortage: 50,000 more HGV driving tests promised a year - BBC News", "Racism fuelling far-right threat in UK - MI5's Ken McCallum warns - BBC News", "Twin Town: Follow-up to cult film shot only on phones premieres - BBC News", "National Television Awards 2021: Ant and Dec 'overwhelmed' by 20th win - BBC News", "9/11 anniversary: Queen tells Biden the victims are in her prayers - BBC News", "Delays in state pension payments 'causing anxiety' - BBC News", "Metal detectorist's Bronze Age find on display for first time - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu: The making of Great Britain's US Open champion - BBC Sport", "9/11: Husband of Welsh victim to be played in Netflix film - BBC News", "Prince Andrew served with papers, accuser's team claims - BBC News", "Biden administration sues Texas over restrictive abortion law - BBC News", "'Pingdemic' dents UK economic growth in July - BBC News", "West Midlands Police apologises for failing domestic abuse victim - BBC News", "Rail industry urges workers not to spurn the train - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu: Teenager's US Open run captures imagination - BBC Sport", "Car use back to levels seen before first lockdown - BBC News", "Cressida Dick: Met commissioner given two-year contract extension - BBC News", "Upside-down rhino research wins Ig Nobel Prize - BBC News", "Austria man kept dead mother in cellar for pension, police say - BBC News", "Covid-19: Schools safe for children and staff, says CMO - BBC News", "M1: Arrest warrant for mum accused of killing kids in crash - BBC News", "'This was a race and we lost': How US doctors really feel about Covid surge - BBC News", "Brexit: Maros Sefcovic urges politicians to 'dial down' NI Protocol rhetoric - BBC News", "Afghanistan: First foreigners fly out of Kabul since US pull-out - BBC News", "NHS Borders 'busier than any of the busiest winters' - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu: British teenager reaches US Open final - best shots - BBC Sport", "Covid: Wales vaccine passport decision due next week - BBC News", "Lucy-Anne Rushton murder detective jailed for witness signature forgery - BBC News", "US Open: Emma Raducanu says reaching final is 'crazy, cool and absolutely mind-blowing' - BBC Sport", "Tax on landlords could help pay for social care, says Keir Starmer - BBC News", "Hong Kong: Police raid Tiananmen Square museum - BBC News", "Mercury Prize 2021: Arlo Parks wins for Collapsed In Sunbeams - BBC News", "All of Disney's 2021 movies to debut exclusively in cinemas - BBC News", "Why Don't We: US boy band accuse manager of mental and financial abuse - BBC News", "Bernadette Walker murder: Family 'kept going to police' - BBC News", "As it happened: Waless Covid vaccine passport plan to be announced - BBC News", "Afghanistan: First refugees arrive in Wales after Taliban coup - BBC News", "Janey Godley dropped from government Covid ads over tweets - BBC News", "TRNSMT festival: Up to 50,000 music fans arrive at Glasgow Green - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon says Janey Godley apology was 'dignified' - BBC News", "MI5: 31 late-stage terror plots foiled in four years in UK - BBC News", "Clarkson's Farm: 'Swamped' village has seen more trade - BBC News", "MP Nigel Adams filmed swearing at Mr Stop Brexit Steve Bray - BBC News", "More people trying to give up their lockdown dogs, says charity - BBC News", "Bernadette Walker: Stepdad jailed for murdering teen over abuse claim - BBC News", "First UK LGBT business champion appointed - BBC News", "Scotland to launch vaccine passports on 1 October - BBC News", "Your pictures of Scotland: 3 - 10 September - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu reaches US Open final in New York - BBC Sport", "Cressida Dick: Police Federation backs Met commissioner - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon: Indyref2 timetable is realistic despite Covid - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban increasingly violent against protesters – UN - BBC News", "Apple dealt major blow in Epic Games trial - BBC News", "Covid: Vaccine protection still strong - Oxford jab creator - BBC News", "US Biden and China's Xi hold first call in seven months - BBC News", "Thieves steal mouthwash worth £25,000 in Lincolnshire raid - BBC News", "Another 37,622 coronavirus cases recorded in UK - BBC News", "Afghanistan: UN condemns Taliban's brutal crackdown on protests - BBC News", "Benjamin Mendy: Manchester City footballer in court on rape charges - BBC News", "Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts - BBC News", "Capitol riot: 'QAnon Shaman' pleads guilty in federal court - BBC News", "Singing Leicestershire plumber lands record deal on job - BBC News", "Storm Ida: Before and after images of US flooding - BBC News", "Jobs market set for bumpy ride, says Resolution Foundation - BBC News", "Married Anglican bishop joins Catholic Church - BBC News", "US Open: Naomi Osaka's title defence ended by teenager Leylah Fernandez - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: British Army officers tell of 'chaotic' evacuation operation - BBC News", "Heart inflammation link to Pfizer and Moderna jabs - BBC News", "Pride march returns to Glasgow after Covid pause - BBC News", "Flu jabs in England and Wales delayed due to HGV driver shortage - BBC News", "Ayia Napa: Woman appeals against conviction for false rape claim - BBC News", "MPs told to smarten up their clothing ahead of Commons return - BBC News", "Afghanistan: RAF veteran recalls lives saved to stop own 'dark spiral' - BBC News", "Life in Kabul under Taliban: Where is your male escort? - BBC News", "Dizzee Rascal: Rapper denies headbutting ex-girlfriend - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Former vice-president tells BBC he's in Panjshir Valley - BBC News", "Blackpool Illuminations 2021: Switch-on honour for Strictly's Ballas - BBC News", "Government communications are failing, says ex-No 10 adviser - BBC News", "Tokyo Paralympics: Hannah Cockroft & Aled Sion Davies retain titles for GB - BBC Sport", "Why Scotland and Yorkshire are TV's top UK destinations - BBC News", "Two injured after plane crashes into sea near Bournemouth - BBC News", "Tuna bounce back, but sharks in 'desperate' decline - BBC News", "Hardys wine owner warns of Christmas shortage risk - BBC News", "Gareth Bale: I never planned to retire, says Wales and Real Madrid star - BBC Sport", "Heathrow criticises Border Force for 'unacceptable' queues - BBC News", "US Open: Dan Evans battles past Alexei Popyrin to reach fourth round - BBC Sport", "Scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds - BBC News", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu wins and plays Shelby Rogers next in New York - BBC Sport", "Almost 50 shops a day disappear from High Streets - BBC News", "Flu jab delay: Doctors call for MPs to take action - BBC News", "US Open: Naomi Osaka to take break after title defence ended by teenager Leylah Fernandez - BBC Sport", "Manchester United 2-0 Reading: New boss Marc Skinner opens WSL season with victory - BBC Sport", "Two missing divers presumed dead off Cornwall coast - BBC News", "Photographer tracks down Conwy castle proposal couple - BBC News", "Church abuse: Batley vicar jailed for assaulting three-year-old - BBC News", "Scotland 1-0 Moldova: Lyndon Dykes goal keeps Steve Clarke's side in World Cup hunt - BBC Sport", "Lee Collins: Partner demands welfare for pro players - BBC News", "GDPR: Welsh government breached data laws 300 times since 2019 - BBC News", "US Open: Novak Djokovic fights back to beat Kei Nishikori and reach fourth round - BBC Sport", "M62 crash: Police officer seriously injured in collision - BBC News", "Police name woman who died in Arthur's Seat fall in Edinburgh - BBC News", "TV channels go off air after fire alarm - BBC News", "Abdirahim Mohamed: Seventh murder charge after teenager stabbed - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban hang bodies as warning in city of Herat - BBC News", "Status Quo bassist Alan Lancaster dies aged 72 - BBC News", "Covid case rate continues to rise in Wales - BBC News", "Ryder Cup: US beat Europe to regain trophy at Whistling Straits - BBC Sport", "No fuel shortage, says transport secretary - BBC News", "Hauliers and poultry workers to get temporary visas - BBC News", "Belfast: Teenage girl sexually assaulted at Ormeau Park event - BBC News", "Labour conference: Delegates vote to back nationalising energy industry - BBC News", "Labour conference: Not right to say only women have a cervix, says Starmer - BBC News", "Labour conference: Reeves promises £28bn a year to make economy greener - BBC News", "Immigration system 'not meeting' Scotland's needs - BBC News", "Ryder Cup: United States open 11-5 lead over Europe at Whistling Straits - BBC Sport", "Oleksandr Usyk beats Anthony Joshua: Ukrainian challenger outclasses Briton by unanimous decision - BBC Sport", "Labour backs Sir Keir Starmer over party rules reforms - BBC News", "Amtrak train derails in Montana, killing three and injuring dozens - BBC News", "Laura Kuenssberg: Starmer's relief and delight at Labour rule changes - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Man arrested on suspicion of murder - BBC News", "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis on rise in Northern Ireland - BBC News", "Lorry driver shortage: Very little benefit to visa plan, haulier says - BBC News", "Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham: Gunners defeat north London rivals at Emirates Stadium - BBC Sport", "Farmers warn of Christmas turkey shortage due to lack of staff - BBC News", "Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile in BBC One drama - BBC News", "Canary Islands: Airport closed as volcano intensifies - BBC News", "Rwanda genocide 'kingpin' Théoneste Bagosora dies in prison - BBC News", "Energy regulator Ofgem says gas crisis not its fault - BBC News", "Switzerland same-sex marriage: Two-thirds of voters back yes - BBC News", "German election: Social Democrats edge ahead of Merkel's party - BBC News", "Platinum Jubilee medal designed for emergency service staff - BBC News", "Labour conference: Welsh MP concerned party may not win election - BBC News", "Covid: Welsh NHS warns waiting list backlog could take years to clear - BBC News", "Labour conference: Any tax rises under Labour will be fair - Starmer - BBC News", "Nike and Costco warn of product shortages and delays - BBC News", "SeaMonitor: At sea with 'Europe's largest fish counter' - BBC News", "Labour conference: New rights for workers to boost fairness, Rayner vows - BBC News", "Strictly's Tom Fletcher and partner test positive - BBC News", "Covid-19: Ireland ends mandatory hotel quarantine for travellers - BBC News", "NHS waits: More people feeling forced into private healthcare - BBC News", "German election: Who could succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor? - BBC News", "Labour conference: Angela Rayner stands by calling Boris Johnson 'scum' - BBC News", "Milly Main: Criminal investigation over hospital deaths - BBC News", "Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou freed by Canada arrives home in China - BBC News", "Anthony Joshua 'will bounce back' and take rematch after Oleksandr Usyk defeat - BBC Sport", "Driver shortage: 50,000 more HGV driving tests promised a year - BBC News", "Covid-19 vaccine passports a 'no brainer', says Nichola Mallon - BBC News", "Soldiers available to drive ambulances 'for long run' - BBC News", "River Foyle: Casualty airlifted to hospital after jet ski incident - BBC News", "Lewis Hamilton takes 100th win in Russian Grand Prix as Lando Norris spins in rain - BBC Sport", "Sabina Nessa: Book of condolence opened for killed teacher - BBC News", "Global Citizen Live: Ed Sheeran, Lizzo and Billie Eilish feature in 24-hour concert - BBC News", "Unpaid state pension: 'I'm disgusted by delays' - BBC News", "Pembrokeshire hotel slated for £200 fee to deter instagrammers - BBC News", "Climate change: UN warning over nations' climate plans - BBC News", "Holiday bookings surge after travel rules change - BBC News", "More than half of Department for Transport cars still diesel - BBC News", "Afghanistan: US admits Kabul drone strike killed civilians - BBC News", "Carbon-dioxide shortage threatens food security - meat industry - BBC News", "Energy customers hit by collapse of People's Energy and Utility Point - BBC News", "Strictly champ Oti Mabuse goes for hat-trick with rugby star Ugo Monye - BBC News", "Gas price rises prompt urgent government talks - BBC News", "Your pictures of Scotland: 10 - 17 September - BBC News", "Boxer Amir Khan removed from US flight - BBC News", "Afghanistan: A new order begins under the Taliban's governance - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Soldiers to drive ambulances under military aid plan - BBC News", "Girl, 2, dies after falling from pony at Bedale Hunt meet - BBC News", "Chess icon sues Netflix for Queen's Gambit portrayal - BBC News", "Covid calculator spots people vulnerable despite jabs - BBC News", "Papers can be served on Andrew's US lawyer - judge - BBC News", "Red Bull in trademark dispute with English gin firm Bullards - BBC News", "Robert Durst convicted: US millionaire found guilty of first-degree murder - BBC News", "Liverpool 3-0 Crystal Palace: Reds remain unbeaten as Sadio Mane scores 100th goal - BBC Sport", "David Gomoh murder: Gang members jailed for NHS worker stabbing - BBC News", "Police condemn 'racist and sectarian' singing at Orange walks - BBC News", "Migrants in Texas: Thousands moved to processing centres - BBC News", "Travel rule changes 'positive', say airlines - BBC News", "Shocked Dudley couple find python hiding in bedroom - BBC News", "Brazil legend Pele says he is 'recovering very well' after surgery - BBC Sport", "Ruling limiting under-16s puberty blockers overturned - BBC News", "Infection known as mad cow disease found on Somerset farm - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Woman, 85, receives first care home booster jab - BBC News", "Festival of Rescue sees firefighters showcase skills - BBC News", "Gabby Petito: Fiance Brian Laundrie goes missing too - BBC News", "Post, courier, e-mail - the saga to serve papers on Prince Andrew - BBC News", "Thousands of migrants gather at US-Mexico border crossing - BBC News", "Ronapreve: 'Most vulnerable' to get new Covid drug next week - BBC News", "Women threatened over maternity care bills - BBC News", "Covid: Rise in unvaccinated pregnant women ill with Covid - BBC News", "Ofgem warns soaring gas prices will feed into customer bills - BBC News", "Students must have say over online learning - regulator - BBC News", "Planes turned into graffiti canvasses by street artist - BBC News", "What are the travel rules for France, the US, and other popular destinations? - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Women protest against all-male Taliban government - BBC News", "Scotland's hottest September day in 115 years - BBC News", "Boeing: Directors to face investor lawsuit over fatal crashes - BBC News", "Twitter tests bigger pictures in timeline - BBC News", "António Guterres says Taliban need UN's humanitarian aid - BBC News", "Analysis: A very significant tax rise - BBC News", "Mother refused 5pm finish wins £185,000 payout - BBC News", "US Open: Emma Raducanu set for Belinda Bencic quarter-final in New York - BBC Sport", "Covid: Positive Anglesey care home staff cover shift amid shortage - BBC News", "Record numbers of UK students head for university - BBC News", "Holy Cross dispute: The terror and the trauma recalled 20 years on - BBC News", "Cladding: Cardiff homeowner's tears as safety costs spiral - BBC News", "US Open: Emma Raducanu reaches semi-finals by beating Belinda Bencic - BBC Sport", "Hong Kong: Tiananmen vigil organisers arrested - BBC News", "The Wanted reunite for Tom Parker cancer charity gig - BBC News", "Carl Bean, singer of LGBT pride anthem I Was Born This Way, dies aged 77 - BBC News", "London Underground: Man died after falling into gap, RAIB finds - BBC News", "Edinburgh sex attacker who raped four women 'checked pulse of victim' - BBC News", "Russian emergencies minister Zinichev dies on Arctic drill - BBC News", "Thunderstorms cause flash-flooding in Devon - BBC News", "AstraZeneca bosses warn against rush for boosters - BBC News", "Amazon pays £492m in UK tax as sales surge to £20.6bn - BBC News", "National Insurance to rise next year after MPs' vote - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Don't recognise Taliban regime, resistance urges - BBC News", "Covid-19: Northern Ireland health system 'one step from chaos' - BBC News", "CCTV shows 'idiotic' drive down Birmingham rail tracks - BBC News", "Social care tax rise: Boris Johnson defends plan ahead of vote - BBC News", "Green and amber lists could go in travel rules shake-up - BBC News", "Mexico: Powerful earthquake hits Acapulco - BBC News", "Sophie Moss death: MP says strangling sentence too lenient - BBC News", "England fan admits abusing players after Euro 2020 loss - BBC News", "Paris attacks: Historic day of reckoning for night of terror - BBC News", "Poland 1-1 England: Three Lions drop their first points in World Cup qualifying - BBC Sport", "Minister admits mistake over Marcus Rashford-Maro Itoje mix-up - BBC News", "Firmus energy: Gas prices rising by 35% in towns across NI - BBC News", "Stamford auction house surprise as Ru ware fetches £320,000 - BBC News", "Government to shorten HGV driver testing process - BBC News", "Climate change: Vulnerable nations call for 'emergency pact' - BBC News", "Indonesia prison fire: Tangerang jail blaze kills 41 inmates - BBC News", "Social care tax rise: Boris Johnson wins Commons vote - BBC News", "Mexico decriminalises abortion in landmark ruling - BBC News", "Social care: PM bets on imperfection over inaction - BBC News", "Fortnite gamer's mum becomes pro herself - BBC News", "Scottish government to restart work on case for independence - BBC News", "Geronimo the alpaca: TB test results disputed - BBC News", "Covid: Boris Johnson concerned over unvaccinated hospital patients - BBC News", "Rents outside London rising at fastest rate since 2008 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'I'm double-vaccinated but can't show the proof' - BBC News", "Boris Johnson outlines new 1.25% health and social care tax to pay for reforms - BBC News", "Triple lock pension pledge suspended for one year - BBC News", "Special-needs support beyond crisis, heads say - BBC News", "Austria 0-1 Scotland: Lyndon Dykes penalty earns huge away win - BBC Sport", "PMQs: Johnson faces MPs' questions on health and social care - BBC News", "Montenegro clashes as Serb Orthodox Church leader installed - BBC News", "Afghanistan: 'Everyone got it wrong' on Taliban takeover - armed forces chief - BBC News", "Jobs market set for bumpy ride, says Resolution Foundation - BBC News", "Michael Fawcett: Charles' former aide steps down over honour claims - BBC News", "Grenfell Tower: Families angry at lack of consultation over demolition - BBC News", "Tokyo Paralympics: David Smith to carry GB flag at closing ceremony - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Pub marquees could become permanent fixtures - BBC News", "It was a dark time - now I want to revive granny's legacy - BBC News", "MPs told to smarten up their clothing ahead of Commons return - BBC News", "Tom Hardy: Can a star's posts give locations a tourism boost? - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Former vice-president tells BBC he's in Panjshir Valley - BBC News", "Pro-Kremlin trolls target news website comments, researchers say - BBC News", "Holy Cross: Remembering a school run like no other - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Despair of Brits and UK allies stuck behind Taliban lines - BBC News", "Covid-19: Vaccine passports to start in England this month - BBC News", "Why Scotland and Yorkshire are TV's top UK destinations - BBC News", "England v India: Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed set up thrilling final day - BBC Sport", "Two injured after plane crashes into sea near Bournemouth - BBC News", "Hilary Mantel compares Wolf Hall's Thomas Cromwell to modern political figures - BBC News", "Heathrow criticises Border Force for 'unacceptable' queues - BBC News", "Sarah Harding: Remembering the Girls Aloud star's life and career - BBC News", "Afghanistan: What's life like since the Taliban took over? - BBC News", "Almost 50 shops a day disappear from High Streets - BBC News", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu wins and plays Shelby Rogers next in New York - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: Boris Johnson to face MPs over handling of crisis - BBC News", "Two missing divers presumed dead off Cornwall coast - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban accused of killing pregnant police officer - BBC News", "Young footballer dies after West Bridgford match collapse - BBC News", "Glasgow company fined £150,000 for making nuisance calls - BBC News", "England 4-0 Andorra: Three Lions score three late goals after slow start - BBC Sport", "Tokyo Paralympics: Great Britain finish Games with two more bronze medals - BBC Sport", "Scotland 1-0 Moldova: Lyndon Dykes goal keeps Steve Clarke's side in World Cup hunt - BBC Sport", "Frozen eggs and sperm storage limit increased to 55 years - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Vaccine passport benefits 'outweigh concerns' - BBC News", "Blaenavon fire: Crews tackle large blaze at recycling plant - BBC News", "Pat Hume: Tributes paid to 'extraordinarily strong' widow of John Hume - BBC News", "Belarus 2-3 Wales: Gareth Bale scores hat-trick in World Cup qualifier - BBC Sport", "Tokyo Paralympics: Great Britain 'rewrote the history books' in Japan - BBC Sport", "No trains running between Glasgow and Edinburgh on Sunday - BBC News", "Claudia Lawrence: Police end Sand Hutton lake search - BBC News", "Ikea struggles with supply problems due to driver shortage - BBC News", "Sarah Harding dies: The Girls Aloud icon's life in video - BBC News", "City Road: Five taken to hospital after reports of assault in Cardiff - BBC News", "NHS child gender identity clinic whistleblower wins tribunal - BBC News", "Police name woman who died in Arthur's Seat fall in Edinburgh - BBC News", "Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding - her life in pictures - BBC News", "Louis Watkiss: Boy who died at Tamworth SnowDome named - BBC News", "Hospitals inquiry: Parent told child would be 'safer at another hospital' - BBC News", "Air pollution: New 50mph speed limits to be enforced - BBC News", "First-time buyers struggle in Scotland's 'frantic' housing market - BBC News", "High street £100 voucher site opens amid 'huge demand' - BBC News", "Hospitals in England can relax Covid rules to treat more patients - BBC News", "Grant Thornton fined £2.3m for Patisserie Valerie scandal - BBC News", "Labour conference: Party promises to bring back neighbourhood policing - BBC News", "Labour conference: Emily Thornberry backs Sir Keir Starmer over trans row - BBC News", "Ex-Rochdale footballer jailed for 24 years for child rapes - BBC News", "School keep clear lines painted outside primary closed in 2003 - BBC News", "Aldi says deliveries normal despite lorry driver shortage - BBC News", "Ryder Cup: US beat Europe to regain trophy at Whistling Straits - BBC Sport", "Belfast: Teenage girl sexually assaulted at Ormeau Park event - BBC News", "Rapper Wiley issued with arrest warrant after failing to attend court - BBC News", "Half of young people willing to get Covid jab - study - BBC News", "Labour conference: Not right to say only women have a cervix, says Starmer - BBC News", "Covid: Boris Johnson makes inquiry pledge to bereaved families - BBC News", "Labour conference: Reeves promises £28bn a year to make economy greener - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Man questioned on suspicion of murder - BBC News", "Covid travel: Wales partly agrees to relax rules - BBC News", "Killamarsh: Woman and children died as a result of 'violent acts' - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Man charged with teacher's murder - BBC News", "Insulate Britain: M25 targeted near Heathrow as activists stage protest - BBC News", "COP26: Australia PM undecided on attending crucial climate summit - BBC News", "Schools warn about hoax anti-vaccine letters - BBC News", "Covid: UK records another 37,960 coronavirus cases - BBC News", "Laura Kuenssberg: Starmer's relief and delight at Labour rule changes - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Man arrested on suspicion of murder - BBC News", "Climate Change: Don't sideline plastic problem, nations urged - BBC News", "Children face safeguarding risk from registration loophole, report says - BBC News", "Far-right group Britain First registers as a political party - BBC News", "Farmers warn of Christmas turkey shortage due to lack of staff - BBC News", "Labour conference: Angela Rayner renews attack on Johnson in scum row - BBC News", "Labour conference: Party should be inspired by Wales - Drakeford - BBC News", "Switzerland same-sex marriage: Two-thirds of voters back yes - BBC News", "German election: Social Democrats edge ahead of Merkel's party - BBC News", "Labour conference: Frontbencher Andy McDonald quits in protest at Sir Keir Starmer - BBC News", "Strictly's Tom Fletcher and partner test positive - BBC News", "Manchester Arena Inquiry: Bomb tore mother of victim's world apart - BBC News", "Sophie Ellis-Bextor reveals she was raped at the age of 17 - BBC News", "NHS waits: More people feeling forced into private healthcare - BBC News", "Instagram for kids paused after backlash - BBC News", "Man killed as Crete struck by 5.8-magnitude earthquake - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Social distancing to end in shops and theatres - BBC News", "Covid-19 vaccine passports a 'no brainer', says Nichola Mallon - BBC News", "R. Kelly found guilty in sex trafficking trial - BBC News", "Pantelleria: Two killed as tornado hits Italian island - BBC News", "M1: Arrest warrant for mum accused of killing kids in crash - BBC News", "9/11 anniversary: Queen tells Biden the victims are in her prayers - BBC News", "Proms season draws to a close with a tango - BBC News", "M1 crash: Mum accused of killing children might alter appearance, say police - BBC News", "Venice Film Festival: Abortion drama wins top prize - BBC News", "Rare wild flowers growing in meadows, council says - BBC News", "PM's levelling up plan at risk of failure, warns ex-No 10 adviser - BBC News", "Bullying probe recommends Bishop Anne Dyer should leave role - BBC News", "Delays in state pension payments 'causing anxiety' - BBC News", "MI5: 31 late-stage terror plots foiled in four years in UK - BBC News", "Afghanistan: What has changed in 20 years - BBC News", "Barmouth Bridge: 'Trigger's broom' bridge to get £30m upgrade - BBC News", "Prince Andrew served with papers, accuser's team claims - BBC News", "Afghanistan: A new order begins under the Taliban's governance - BBC News", "Finsbury Park mosque attacker fears eye loss after prison stabbing - BBC News", "Covid third wave 'perfect storm' for care in Hywel Dda - BBC News", "Last Night Of The Proms: Accordion tangos end season on a joyous note - BBC News", "'A split-second decision saved my life on 9/11' - BBC News", "Runner airlifted to hospital after Anglesey cliff fall - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu wins US Open by beating Leylah Fernandez for maiden Grand Slam - BBC Sport", "Didsbury Mosque: Police investigate fire as hate crime - BBC News", "Families and leaders mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 - BBC News", "Tax on landlords could help pay for social care, says Keir Starmer - BBC News", "Coronavirus: PM set to unveil Covid winter plan for England - BBC News", "Covid-19: Schools safe for children and staff, says CMO - BBC News", "All of Disney's 2021 movies to debut exclusively in cinemas - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu: Channel 4 to show US Open final against Leylah Fernandez live - BBC Sport", "Air India Express: Deadly plane crash blamed on human error - BBC News", "Six men arrested in £160m cocaine haul off Plymouth coast - BBC News", "Prince Andrew's team dispute claims accuser served legal papers - BBC News", "Why Don't We: US boy band accuse manager of mental and financial abuse - BBC News", "Ms Great Britain contestant to compete make-up free - BBC News", "In pictures: Silence and tears as US remembers 9/11 attacks - BBC News", "9/11 anniversary: From United to Disunited States - BBC News", "US Open: 'Exceptional talent' Emma Raducanu living 'every 18-year-old's dream' - BBC Sport", "9/11 anniversary: Biden calls for unity as US remembers attacks - BBC News", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu faces fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez in final - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: UN condemns Taliban's brutal crackdown on protests - BBC News", "Cristiano Ronaldo twice scores as Manchester United beat Newcastle - BBC Sport", "9/11 anniversary: Victims remembered at events across US - BBC News", "GPs say shortage of doctors puts safe care at risk - BBC News", "Red carpet debut for 'Bennifer' 2.0 in Venice - BBC News", "John Lewis to create thousands of Christmas jobs - BBC News", "SpaceX: Amateur astronauts launch on Inspiration4 mission - BBC News", "Ex-models demand change over French sex abuse laws - BBC News", "Stefan Sutherland: 'No criminality' in 25-year-old's death - BBC News", "Nationalised shipyard misses out on ferries order - BBC News", "Covid booster vaccine rollout to begin across UK next week - BBC News", "Welsh mine tragedy: Inquests opened on Gleision deaths - BBC News", "Apple iPhone 13 brings portrait mode for video - BBC News", "Who is Dominic Raab? Karate black-belt who resigned as deputy PM - BBC News", "Paul Hamill: Tributes after DUP councillor's death - BBC News", "Simone Biles: Speaking about Larry Nassar abuse empowered me - BBC Sport", "Gleision mine disaster: Families still want answers - BBC News", "Lyra McKee: Four men arrested in connection with journalist's death - BBC News", "Barrymore pool death: Stuart Lubbock's father Terry dies - BBC News", "Covid: Opioid pain relief 'soared during pandemic' for some patients - BBC News", "Mental health: TikTok rolls out support to combat suicide searches - BBC News", "California recall: Democratic governor survives bid to oust him - BBC News", "China's ambassador Zheng Zeguang banned from UK Parliament - BBC News", "Cannabis ban in athletics: World Anti-Doping Agency to review rules - BBC Sport", "North and South Korea test ballistic missiles hours apart - BBC News", "Cabinet changes: Who is in Boris Johnson's top team? - BBC News", "Nadhim Zahawi announced as education secretary - BBC News", "Prince Charles foundation chair quits amid cash-for-access claims - BBC News", "High Street vouchers to be issued in early October - BBC News", "Alanis Morissette distances herself from 'salacious' new film - BBC News", "Covid-19: Close-contact pupils 'should not be sent home from school' - BBC News", "Covid: Work from home to curb winter spike - expert - BBC News", "Taylor Swift: Pop star poses for selfies in Belfast - BBC News", "Liz Truss replaces Dominic Raab as foreign secretary in reshuffle, Zahawi takes over in education - BBC News", "FCA signs up celebrities to warn of investment risks - BBC News", "Why North Korea keeps launching missiles - BBC News", "No finding in nine out of 10 prison death FAIs - BBC News", "Countryside Properties scraps leasehold ground rent rises - BBC News", "Simon Coveney: Irish foreign minister wins confidence vote - BBC News", "Pennies back in production as cash is hoarded during Covid - BBC News", "Parents warn of tsunami of school-anxiety cases - BBC News", "Aukus: UK, US and Australia launch pact to counter China - BBC News", "Covid-19 vaccines for over-12s and boosters for over 50s - BBC News", "CJ Ujah: British Olympic 4x100m relay silver medallist's 'B' sample positive - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Pope puzzled about vaccine hesitancy in the Church - BBC News", "Asos and Primark set out new green pledges - BBC News", "Covid-19: More 'big acts could pull out of NI gigs' - BBC News", "Gleision: Call for inquest into mining disaster 10 years on - BBC News", "Covid: Plan B would be triggered by NHS pressure, Sajid Javid says - BBC News", "Liz Truss: The teenage Lib Dem who lasted just 45 days as PM - BBC News", "HMS Queen Elizabeth: Why is a UK aircraft carrier going on a world tour? - BBC News", "Martin Bashir: Police take no action over Diana interview - BBC News", "Welsh mine deaths: family tributes and safety calls - BBC News", "Athlete A: Questions on Larry Nassar scandal explored in Netflix documentary - BBC Sport", "Facebook under fire over secret teen research - BBC News", "M25 protests: Activists return to Hertfordshire, Surrey and Kent - BBC News", "Larry Nassar: FBI failed to investigate USA Gymnastics abuser, watchdog finds - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu 'hungry' to improve after US Open win - but not sure on Indian Wells - BBC Sport", "Manchester Arena Inquiry told police failed in response to bombing - BBC News", "Microsoft's passwordless plans lets users switch to app-based login - BBC News", "Energy customers hit by collapse of People's Energy and Utility Point - BBC News", "Cabinet reshuffle: Where did it go wrong for Gavin Williamson? - BBC News", "Gavin Williamson's most memorable moments - BBC News", "Brian Phelan: Daniel Carroll found guilty of 2018 murder near Newry - BBC News", "What's Boris Johnson's reshuffle really all about? - BBC News", "Poor housing affecting disabled children's health - BBC News", "Boris Johnson warns Covid risk remains as he unveils England's winter plan - BBC News", "Former IS teenage bride Shamima Begum offers to help fight terror in UK - BBC News", "Jess Brammar gets senior BBC job after impartiality row - BBC News", "Scotland to vaccinate 12 to 15-year-olds from Monday - BBC News", "Liverpool 3-2 AC Milan: Reds pull off comeback in Champions League epic - BBC Sport", "Larry Nassar case: The 156 women who confronted a predator - BBC News", "Comedian Norm Macdonald dies at 61 from cancer - BBC News", "Nadine Dorries becomes new culture secretary - BBC News", "Call for investigation of menstrual changes after Covid jabs - BBC News", "Scotland considers setting up parades commission - BBC News", "As it happened: Covid could be more like cold by spring - expert - BBC News", "GP appointments in Wales: People facing crisis, says watchdog - BBC News", "Boris Johnson tells Macron: Donnez-moi un break over new pact - BBC News", "Cancer: New gene tests mean Welsh patients could avoid chemo - BBC News", "Migrants freezing to death on Belarus-Poland border - BBC News", "Millions face winter finance squeeze, says charity - BBC News", "Labour conference: Party pledges to cap foreign sales of new homes - BBC News", "Covid debt: A baby, job loss - and now eviction - BBC News", "Wallaby escapes from petting zoo into Aberdeenshire countryside - BBC News", "Former Labour MP Keith Vaz should be ashamed of bullying behaviour, report says - BBC News", "Air pollution: Even worse than we thought - WHO - BBC News", "Gabby Petito case: FBI issues arrest warrant for boyfriend Brian Laundrie - BBC News", "Grenfell: No action over 2009 cladding warning, inquiry told - BBC News", "Food firms warn of panic-buying this Christmas - BBC News", "Working from home: Staff abuse it, says City boss - BBC News", "President Biden pledges 500m more vaccine doses to developing world - BBC News", "Killamarsh: Father's tribute to daughter killed at sleepover - BBC News", "EU rules to force USB-C chargers for all phones - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Murder arrest as police issue CCTV appeal - BBC News", "Matthew Strachan: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? composer dies at 50 - BBC News", "Afghanistan war: UK's lowest payout for civilian death was £104.17 - BBC News", "Victorian ledger found at March railway station - BBC News", "Gas price crisis: Food firms face huge price rise for carbon dioxide - BBC News", "Alex Salmond inquiry leaks being investigated by police - BBC News", "Notting Hill director Roger Michell dies aged 65 - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Second email data breach by MoD uncovered - BBC News", "Hospitality staff set to keep all their tips under rule change - BBC News", "R. Kelly lawyer compares him to Martin Luther King - BBC News", "Covid-19: Life expectancy is down but what does this mean? - BBC News", "BP closes some sites due to lorry driver shortage - BBC News", "Forced adoption: Birth parents urged to give evidence to inquiry - BBC News", "Inflation: Bank of England says price rises to top 4% by year-end - BBC News", "Extremists using video-game chats to spread hate - BBC News", "'Side-eyeing Chloe' Clem to sell iconic meme as NFT - BBC News", "Isle of Man election: Results declared across island - BBC News", "Pembrokeshire man, 81, suffocated his wife before suicide - BBC News", "Johnson and Biden: Contrasting characters do business - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa killing: Met Police investigate stranger attack theory - BBC News", "US lifting ban on imports of British lamb, says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Ministers weigh up visa changes to fix staff shortage - BBC News", "Robert Fyfe: Last of the Summer Wine actor dies at 90 - BBC News", "£280,000 of alcohol stolen in Ayrshire factory raid - BBC News", "Swansea driver with Covid charged £45 to change speed course date - BBC News", "Woman with Down's syndrome loses abortion law fight - BBC News", "Footprints in New Mexico are oldest evidence of humans in the Americas - BBC News", "Apple bans Fortnite from App Store during Epic Games legal battle - BBC News", "Angry scenes at Haiti airport as deported migrants arrive - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa murder: Family left devastated by teacher's death in Kidbrooke - BBC News", "Boris Johnson: Humanity is reaching a turning point on climate change - BBC News", "Labour conference: Keir Starmer sets out what he stands for in essay - BBC News", "US Haiti envoy quits over 'inhumane' deportations - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Teacher killed on walk to meet friend - BBC News", "Linda Evangelista says she was left 'deformed' by cosmetic procedure - BBC News", "Portugal changes vaccine rules for UK visitors - BBC News", "Amid violent reprisals, Afghans fear the Taliban's 'amnesty' was empty - BBC News", "New eco-petrol baffles a quarter of motorists - BBC News", "Tokyo Paralympics: Day-by-day guide to key events, big stars and British medal hopes - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: British passport delay blamed for baby stranded in Kabul - BBC News", "Afghanistan crisis: Unclear if ruthless Taliban will change, says US general - BBC News", "Coronavirus: UK daily deaths above 200 for first time since March - BBC News", "JoJo Maman Bebe hikes prices for first time in 5 years - BBC News", "Wetherspoons runs low on some beer amid driver shortage - BBC News", "Transfer deadline day: Premier League spending tops £1bn but is down on previous year - BBC Sport", "As it happened: Dominic Raab grilled by MPs on Afghan withdrawal - BBC News", "Declan Donnelly: Men admit plot to steal presenter's car - BBC News", "Maddie Durdant-Hollamby: Woman found in house was stabbed to death - BBC News", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu wins on New York main-draw debut - BBC Sport", "Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill tests positive for Covid-19 - BBC News", "Transfer news: Done deals on August deadline day and during September 2021 - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: What was left behind by US forces? - BBC News", "McDonald’s hiring 14-year-olds in Oregon amid labour shortage - BBC News", "Cristiano Ronaldo breaks men's international scoring record with 110th and 111th goals - BBC Sport", "Third Covid jab advised for most vulnerable 1% - BBC News", "Universal credit: Minister resists call to halt benefit cut - BBC News", "Climate change: Big increase in weather disasters over the past five decades - BBC News", "Life-saving cholesterol jab recommended on NHS - BBC News", "Troubles pensions scheme opens for applications - BBC News", "Colin Pitchfork: Double child murderer released from prison - BBC News", "One in three trees face extinction in wild, says new report - BBC News", "NI hospitals: 400 emergency patients wait over 12 hours for bed - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban increasingly violent against protesters – UN - BBC News", "Afghanistan: UK and Taliban in talks over further evacuations - BBC News", "John Simpson on Afghanistan: A country abandoned - BBC News", "Lorry drivers told to 'take care' after railway bridge struck - BBC News", "Luton airport worker died five years after hangar door crush - BBC News", "Tokyo Paralympics: Boccia player David Smith retains individual title with thrilling victory - BBC Sport", "Liverpool man trapped in Afghanistan pleads for help - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Joe Biden defends US pull-out as Taliban claim victory - BBC News", "Scots to need vaccine passports for large events - BBC News", "Syed Ali Geelani: Kashmir's separatist leader dies aged 92 - BBC News", "Ofcom clears ITV over Piers Morgan's Meghan comments on Good Morning Britain - BBC News", "International Space Station facing irreparable failures, Russia warns - BBC News", "Gunfire as Taliban celebrate US leaving Afghanistan - BBC News", "Hurricane Ida: New Orleans under curfew amid blackout - BBC News", "Cheryl podcast: BBC R&B series draws criticism - BBC News", "Benjamin Mendy: Manchester City player to remain in custody on rape charges - BBC News", "Long Covid in children 'nowhere near scale feared' - BBC News", "Afghanistan: UK embassy told Afghans to go to Abbey Gate before suicide attack - BBC News", "Geronimo the alpaca killed as legal row ends - BBC News", "Tokyo Paralympics: Swimmer Reece Dunn sets world record to win third gold of Games - BBC Sport", "Pair complete UK's longest straight-line challenge - BBC News", "Tour de Yorkshire 2022 cancelled - BBC News", "Universities told to give students face-to-face teaching - BBC News", "US Open: Emma Raducanu reaches semi-finals by beating Belinda Bencic - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: A new order begins under the Taliban's governance - BBC News", "Covid: Mandatory jabs for health staff being considered in consultation - BBC News", "Don't mix business and public duty, Tory co-chair Ben Elliot told - BBC News", "Amazon offers to pay college fees for 750,000 US staff - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Journalists tell of beatings by Taliban - BBC News", "Three brings in EU roaming charges and ends global scheme - BBC News", "Green and amber lists could go in travel rules shake-up - BBC News", "Minister: Doubts continue over Army's troubled Ajax armoured vehicles - BBC News", "Poland 1-1 England: Three Lions drop their first points in World Cup qualifying - BBC Sport", "US Open: Emma Raducanu 'excited' to play Maria Sakkari in semi-finals - BBC Sport", "Grenfell risk assessor reckless over cladding, inquiry hears - BBC News", "Government to shorten HGV driver testing process - BBC News", "Cawston Park: Police seek man after death of patient Ben King - BBC News", "Costa gives 5% pay rise to some staff and recruits 2,000 - BBC News", "Cressida Dick: Prime minister urged to replace Met Police commissioner - BBC News", "International Space Station: Smoke triggers alert on board - BBC News", "National Television Awards 2021: Ant and Dec 'overwhelmed' by 20th win - BBC News", "PayPal raises fees between UK and Europe - BBC News", "Numbers on furlough drop to new low - BBC News", "Robert E Lee statue: Virginia removes contentious memorial as crowds cheer - BBC News", "Biden administration sues Texas over restrictive abortion law - BBC News", "MSPs back Scottish vaccine passports - BBC News", "Covid: Sydney reveals plan to end months-long lockdown - BBC News", "North Macedonia: Deadly fire guts Covid hospital - BBC News", "London transport staff warned of anti-mask posters with razor blades - BBC News", "Boris Johnson accuses charity of airbrushing Winston Churchill - BBC News", "Stamford auction house surprise as Ru ware fetches £320,000 - BBC News", "Probe after Covid-positive Anglesey carers allowed to work - BBC News", "Social care: PM bets on imperfection over inaction - BBC News", "Climbing: All-women Pinnacle Club celebrates its centenary - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu shock at reaching US Open semi-finals in New York - BBC Sport", "Brexit: Maros Sefcovic urges politicians to 'dial down' NI Protocol rhetoric - BBC News", "Afghanistan cricket: Australia will cancel men's Test if women's team banned - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: First foreigners fly out of Kabul since US pull-out - BBC News", "Accountancy giant KPMG to recruit more working class staff - BBC News", "EasyJet rejects takeover bid and seeks to raise more money - BBC News", "Covid: UK records another 167 coronavirus deaths - BBC News", "'Predatory paedophile' headteacher jailed for abuse - BBC News", "Medomsley detention centre abuse victims share £7m payout - BBC News", "Hong Kong: Police raid Tiananmen Square museum - BBC News", "Mercury Prize 2021: Arlo Parks wins for Collapsed In Sunbeams - BBC News", "Firmus energy: Gas prices rising by 35% in towns across NI - BBC News", "Social care tax rise: Boris Johnson wins Commons vote - BBC News", "Afghan Special Forces commander faced race against time to flee - BBC News", "Covid: Boris Johnson concerned over unvaccinated hospital patients - BBC News", "Facebook accused of allowing sexist job advertising - BBC News", "Covid: Pfizer and AstraZeneca approved as booster vaccines - BBC News", "Rio Ferdinand says football is 'sliding backwards' because of racist abuse online - BBC Sport", "Janey Godley dropped from government Covid ads over tweets - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Women protest against all-male Taliban government - BBC News", "Afghanistan: A new order begins under the Taliban's governance - BBC News", "First UK LGBT business champion appointed - BBC News", "Scotland to launch vaccine passports on 1 October - BBC News", "Carl Bean, singer of LGBT pride anthem I Was Born This Way, dies aged 77 - BBC News", "Rio Ferdinand tells MPs online hate is 'normalising' racism - BBC News", "Edinburgh sex attacker who raped four women 'checked pulse of victim' - BBC News", "National Television Awards: Stars hit the red carpet - BBC News", "Morrisons warns driver shortage will raise prices - BBC News", "University of South Wales: Hacker jailed for selling exam answers - BBC News", "Flu jab delay: Doctors call for MPs to take action - BBC News", "Sophie Moss death: MP says strangling sentence too lenient - BBC News", "MSPs to vote on Scottish vaccine passport scheme - BBC News", "Ashraf Ghani: 'I apologise that I could not make it end differently' - BBC News", "Lynette White murder: Cardiff Five are victims, chief says - BBC News", "Minister defends social care bill reform wait - BBC News", "Climate change: Fossil fuels must stay underground, scientists say - BBC News", "Racist fan's Facebook post 'harassed' West Brom player - BBC News", "Bristol petrol station siege: Man arrested and another injured - BBC News", "WW2 pilot has 100th birthday flight over Shropshire - BBC News", "SpaceX: Inspiration4 amateur astronauts return to Earth after three days - BBC News", "Pembrokeshire hotel slated for £200 fee to deter instagrammers - BBC News", "Liam Gallagher shares photo after 'helicopter fall' - BBC News", "Covid inquiry: Prof Hugh Pennington warns against Wales-only probe - BBC News", "Holiday bookings surge after travel rules change - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 0-3 Chelsea: Thomas Tuchel's side win London derby to extend unbeaten run - BBC Sport", "Aukus: French minister condemns US and Australia 'lies' over security pact - BBC News", "Energy customers hit by collapse of People's Energy and Utility Point - BBC News", "Covid: Children missing school to protect family holidays - BBC News", "Conservationist injured and cameraman killed in air crash - BBC News", "Strictly champ Oti Mabuse goes for hat-trick with rugby star Ugo Monye - BBC News", "Boxer Amir Khan removed from US flight - BBC News", "Girl, 2, dies after falling from pony at Bedale Hunt meet - BBC News", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe husband talks to Truss about detained wife - BBC News", "Gas price rise: US boss holds crisis gas talks with UK - BBC News", "Jimmy Greaves: Spurs, Chelsea and West Ham lead tributes to former striker - BBC Sport", "Jimmy Greaves: Watch great goals of Tottenham, Chelsea, West Ham & England striker - BBC Sport", "Liverpool 3-0 Crystal Palace: Reds remain unbeaten as Sadio Mane scores 100th goal - BBC Sport", "UK energy company seeks funds to stay afloat - BBC News", "Council tax shake-up could be part of Labour-Plaid deal - BBC News", "Migrants in Texas: Thousands moved to processing centres - BBC News", "Boris Johnson to call for climate action during US visit - BBC News", "Gas price rise: 'UK not seeing risks to supplies right now' - BBC News", "Shocked Dudley couple find python hiding in bedroom - BBC News", "BBC 'extremely sorry' over loss of murdered schoolgirl's clothes - BBC News", "Aukus: Truss defends security deal amid criticism - BBC News", "Jimmy Greaves: One of football's most popular and enduring figures - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: Stay home, female Kabul government workers told - BBC News", "Killamarsh deaths: Man arrested after four bodies found - BBC News", "Post, courier, e-mail - the saga to serve papers on Prince Andrew - BBC News", "Covid: Pupils return to Wales' schools amid concerns - BBC News", "Jimmy Greaves: Ex-England & Tottenham striker dies aged 81 - BBC Sport", "Lib Dems: Give parents Covid catch-up vouchers to spend - BBC News", "'Mam fled civil war in Nigeria as a child 55 years ago' - BBC News", "Folic acid to be added to UK flour to help prevent birth defects - BBC News", "Police outnumber protesters at right-wing Capitol rally - BBC News", "UK security planning loose and lacks oversight, MPs and peers say - BBC News", "Aukus: Australia defends role in security pact amid French condemnation - BBC News", "Students must have say over online learning - regulator - BBC News", "Jimmy Greaves: Ex-England & Tottenham striker dies aged 81 - BBC Sport", "Only Fools and Horses: Boycie actor John Challis remembered as 'Peckham pal' after death at 79 - BBC News", "Six Palestinian prisoners escape Israeli jail through tunnel - BBC News", "The Taliban embrace social media: 'We too want to change perceptions' - BBC News", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu into quarter-finals after beating Shelby Rogers - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: UK passes 7 million confirmed Covid cases - BBC News", "Afghanistan women's cricket team: Players hiding in Kabul fear Taliban rule - BBC Sport", "Cardiff’s Castle Street: Work to begin for return of cars - BBC News", "Tottenham v Chelsea: Premier League tie to be first net zero carbon football match - BBC Sport", "Michael Fawcett: Charles' former aide steps down over honour claims - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Minister apologises over 'inaccurate' veteran suicide claim - BBC News", "Grenfell Tower: Families angry at lack of consultation over demolition - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Resistance leader says open to peace talks with Taliban - BBC News", "Twins conjoined at head separated after rare surgery in Israel - BBC News", "England v India: Jasprit Bumrah sets up tourists' 157-run win at Oval - BBC Sport", "Pro-Kremlin trolls target news website comments, researchers say - BBC News", "Stereophonics and Sir Tom Jones to play festive Cardiff show - BBC News", "UK fires up coal power plant as gas prices soar - BBC News", "Arthur's Seat death: Man charged with murder of Fawziyah Javed - BBC News", "Holy Cross: Remembering a school run like no other - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Despair of Brits and UK allies stuck behind Taliban lines - BBC News", "NHS to get £5.4bn extra to deal with Covid backlog - BBC News", "Covid live updates: UK records another 41,000 coronavirus cases - BBC News", "Claudia Lawrence: New leads after search offer no hope, mum says - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban raise flag in Afghan resistance stronghold - BBC News", "Students return with school restrictions lifted - BBC News", "Covid: Tube rush hour busiest since start of pandemic - BBC News", "Inside Big Ben's restoration as it nears finish - BBC News", "French film great Jean-Paul Belmondo dies at 88 - BBC News", "Staff shortages could last two years, says CBI - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban increasingly violent against protesters – UN - BBC News", "Afghanistan: What's life like since the Taliban took over? - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Boris Johnson to face MPs over handling of crisis - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban accused of killing pregnant police officer - BBC News", "Social care: Arguments ahead as PM sets out overhaul of sector - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban claim to have taken Panjshir Valley - BBC News", "Red Funnel Southampton check-in kiosk flattened by lorry - BBC News", "Rapper Wiley charged with east London assault and burglary - BBC News", "Afghanistan: PM pledges not to abandon UK allies left behind - BBC News", "Covid-19: Table service rules over for NI pubs and restaurants - BBC News", "City Road: Suspected ammonia attack injures five in Cardiff - BBC News", "Why workers face the bill for care revolution - BBC News", "MH17 plane crash: Trial hears trauma of relatives demanding justice - BBC News", "Frozen eggs and sperm storage limit increased to 55 years - BBC News", "Michael K Williams: The Wire star remembered as 'a fine man and a rare talent' - BBC News", "Borth fire: Neighbour alerted grandchild to house fire - BBC News", "NI Protocol: Further delays for Irish Sea border checks - BBC News", "Jean-Pierre Adams: Former France international dies after 39 years in coma - BBC Sport", "Five in hospital after Anglesey poultry plant chemical leak - BBC News", "Channel migrants: Children among those brought ashore at Dungeness - BBC News", "Brazil v Argentina abandoned five minutes after kick-off after visiting players accused of Covid violation - BBC Sport", "Shropshire baby deaths: Hospital dismissed mum's fears - BBC News", "Jitender Maan Gogi: India gangster shot dead in Delhi court - BBC News", "Killamarsh: Man in crown court charged with murders of children and woman - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Hunt for man caught on CCTV - BBC News", "Doctor Who: Russell T Davies returns as programme showrunner - BBC News", "Hospitality staff set to keep all their tips under rule change - BBC News", "Fuel shortage: Several petrol stations shut in Wales - BBC News", "CBD trial to treat hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease - BBC News", "Footprints in New Mexico are oldest evidence of humans in the Americas - BBC News", "Tom Felton: Harry Potter star collapses during celebrity golf match - BBC News", "Covid: How can missing five million be persuaded to have the jab? - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa killing: Does following the 'rules' keep women safe? - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Murder suspect questioned over teacher death - BBC News", "Covid: Cancer backlog could take a decade to clear - BBC News", "Labour conference: Party pledges to cap foreign sales of new homes - BBC News", "Carmarthenshire: Boy, 3, hit by trailer while on bike, inquest hears - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Hundreds pay respects at London vigil - BBC News", "Gabby Petito case: FBI issues arrest warrant for boyfriend Brian Laundrie - BBC News", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu faces title-winning serve - BBC Sport", "Covid: Students urged to get vaccine in freshers' week - BBC News", "BP closes some sites due to lorry driver shortage - BBC News", "Your pictures of Scotland: 17 - 24 September - BBC News", "Covid-19: Rules in NI to change for international travel - BBC News", "Canary Islands volcano: 'Miracle house' escapes lava - BBC News", "Disability discrimination case settled with PSNI and jobs firm - BBC News", "As it happened: Lorry driver shortage made worse by pandemic - Shapps - BBC News", "Elon Musk says he and partner Grimes are semi-separated - BBC News", "Margaret Keenan: First UK person to get the Pfizer jab gets booster - BBC News", "Prince Andrew's lawyers accept he was served with US case papers - BBC News", "Climate change: Construction companies told to stop knocking down buildings - BBC News", "Vet unfairly dismissed by Department of Agriculture - BBC News", "Migrants freezing to death on Belarus-Poland border - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Murder arrest as police issue CCTV appeal - BBC News", "Burnley man denies Marks & Spencer terror attack murder attempt - BBC News", "Covid: Scotland's international travel testing regime to be relaxed - BBC News", "R. Kelly lawyer compares him to Martin Luther King - BBC News", "Kim Yo-jong says North Korea open to ending war if conditions met - BBC News", "Port of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks port - BBC News", "Catalan exile Puigdemont freed by Italian court - BBC News", "Labour conference: New rights for workers to boost fairness, Rayner vows - BBC News", "Ministers weigh up visa changes to fix staff shortage - BBC News", "Airport arrivals hit by passport gate failure - BBC News", "Hillary Clinton inaugurated as new Queen's University chancellor - BBC News", "Olly Stephens: Three teenagers detained over boy's stabbing death - BBC News", "Afghanistan war: UK's lowest payout for civilian death was £104.17 - BBC News", "Rewilding project for 500,000 acres of Highlands - BBC News", "Tamworth SnowDome: Boy, 12, dies after injury during activity - BBC News", "Isle of Man election: Results declared across island - BBC News", "Lyra McKee: Patrick Gallagher and Jude McCrory in court on riot charges - BBC News", "China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal - BBC News", "Insulate Britain: Climate protester, 82, prepared to go to jail - BBC News", "Huawei's Meng Wanzhou flies back to China after deal with US - BBC News", "Roger Michell: Julia Roberts pays tribute to 'kind and gentle' Notting Hill director - BBC News", "Boris Johnson and Macron speak after military pact row - BBC News", "Great North Run 2021: Thousands take part as event returns - BBC News", "9/11 anniversary: Queen tells Biden the victims are in her prayers - BBC News", "M1 crash: Mum accused of killing children might alter appearance, say police - BBC News", "'Vaccine passports make me even more reluctant to get a Covid jab' - BBC News", "Venice Film Festival: Abortion drama wins top prize - BBC News", "Pope warns of anti-Semitism as he visits Hungary - BBC News", "Clacton stabbing: Police arrest eight people in murder probe - BBC News", "Mars: Nasa rover's rock cores were 'highest priority samples' - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Pen Farthing 'so happy' as rescue workers escape - BBC News", "Covid: Unite calls for Army to ease ambulance waits at A&E - BBC News", "YesCymru: Welsh independence group must act, a founder says - BBC News", "Bullying probe recommends Bishop Anne Dyer should leave role - BBC News", "Health tax could increase family breakdown, tax authority warns - BBC News", "Priti Patel: Labour demands probe after home secretary meets hotel boss - BBC News", "Porthcawl man seriously hurt after fight at seaside resort - BBC News", "COP26: UK still lagging on climate policy, report says - BBC News", "Italian GP: Lewis Hamilton & Max Verstappen collide as Daniel Ricciardo wins for McLaren - BBC Sport", "Fabrice Muamba's son 'faced racist chants' in school rugby game - BBC News", "Finsbury Park mosque attacker fears eye loss after prison stabbing - BBC News", "Covid: Travellers from Wales can soon use private PCR tests - BBC News", "FBI begins declassifying documents into Saudi 9/11 links - BBC News", "England vaccine passport plans ditched, Sajid Javid says - BBC News", "Care worker low wages in Wales 'not sustainable' - BBC News", "Ferraris sale worth £8.5m help fund Pwllheli RNLI boathouse - BBC News", "Brighton Marathon organisers apologise over course that was too long - BBC News", "Covid: Wales vaccine passport decision due next week - BBC News", "Watchdog urges tougher line on Covid test firms - BBC News", "Covid third wave 'perfect storm' for care in Hywel Dda - BBC News", "Last Night Of The Proms: Accordion tangos end season on a joyous note - BBC News", "Hospital pressure to continue for a month, health minister says - BBC News", "US Open: Novak Djokovic loses to Daniil Medvedev in New York - BBC Sport", "Emma Raducanu wins US Open by beating Leylah Fernandez for maiden Grand Slam - BBC Sport", "Green and amber lists could go in travel rules shake-up - BBC News", "Families and leaders mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 - BBC News", "Paris residents alarmed by air force drill on 9/11 anniversary - BBC News", "Coronavirus: PM set to unveil Covid winter plan for England - BBC News", "Air India Express: Deadly plane crash blamed on human error - BBC News", "Prince Andrew's team dispute claims accuser served legal papers - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu's hometown celebrates US Open win - BBC News", "British American Tobacco negotiated bribe for Mugabe, new evidence suggests - BBC News", "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie singer dies aged 69 - BBC News", "TUC says 'proper pay rise' would fix shortages problem - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu: US Open champion 'does not want to let go' of trophy - BBC Sport", "Cressida Dick: Tech giants make it impossible to stop terrorists - BBC News", "Ryanair: Holiday prices likely to rise sharply soon - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu favourite for BBC Sports Personality award in epic sporting year - BBC Sport", "Emma Raducanu: US Open champion 'outstanding', says the Queen - BBC Sport", "NHS sparks pride but one in five go private, survey finds - BBC News", "US Open highlights: Emma Raducanu beats Leylah Fernandez to win maiden Grand Slam - BBC Sport", "Spain fire: Thousands flee blaze near Costa del Sol town - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu wins US Open - watch the winning moment - BBC Sport", "SpaceX: Amateur astronauts launch on Inspiration4 mission - BBC News", "Covid-19: France suspends 3,000 unvaccinated health workers - BBC News", "Manic Street Preachers: Crowds in Cardiff for music events - BBC News", "Champions League drama as Liverpool win, Man City hit six and Messi disappoints - BBC Sport", "Fife athletics coach jailed for sex offences against teens - BBC News", "US man files $1m lawsuit after Michigan teacher cuts child's hair - BBC News", "French storms: Nine drown in choppy Mediterranean sea - BBC News", "Who is Dominic Raab? Karate black-belt who resigned as deputy PM - BBC News", "Paul Hamill: Tributes after DUP councillor's death - BBC News", "Lyra McKee: Two men charged with murder of journalist - BBC News", "As it happened: Health worker's joy as first Covid boosters rolled out - BBC News", "Cabinet changes: Who is in Boris Johnson's top team? - BBC News", "Nadhim Zahawi announced as education secretary - BBC News", "NI100: DUP asks Irish president to rethink centenary invite - BBC News", "Nadine Dorries becomes new culture secretary - BBC News", "Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 - BBC News", "Patient gets £2.8m over botched surgery - BBC News", "Cladding: Panels failed fire tests 13 years before Grenfell - BBC News", "Aukus: China denounces US-UK-Australia pact as irresponsible - BBC News", "Five Eyes: Is the alliance in trouble over China? - BBC News", "Simon Coveney: Irish foreign minister wins confidence vote - BBC News", "Woman guilty of murdering husband in knife attack at Clydebank flat - BBC News", "Aukus: UK, US and Australia launch pact to counter China - BBC News", "Covid-19: Pope puzzled about vaccine hesitancy in the Church - BBC News", "England move up to third in men's world rankings - BBC Sport", "London arms fair DSEI attended by Welsh government - BBC News", "Gabby Petito: Police hunt woman missing from trip with fiancé - BBC News", "Covid: Care homes want more insurance help over virus - BBC News", "HMS Queen Elizabeth: Why is a UK aircraft carrier going on a world tour? - BBC News", "Liz Truss: The teenage Lib Dem who lasted just 45 days as PM - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'No evidence' of spike in cases after TRNSMT - BBC News", "John Lewis charters ships to ensure Christmas stock arrives - BBC News", "Martin Bashir: Police take no action over Diana interview - BBC News", "GB News: I became a minority of one, says Andrew Neil - BBC News", "Mother wins court case over Staffordshire landfill site emissions - BBC News", "Queen's University students within 40 miles 'unlikely' to get room - BBC News", "Online classes 'would not justify high university fees' - BBC News", "Facebook under fire over secret teen research - BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson continues reshuffle - BBC News", "Thousands of suspected quarantine-breakers not investigated by police - BBC News", "Marks & Spencer blames Brexit as it closes 11 French stores - BBC News", "Starmer lacks election-winning vision, says Len McCluskey - BBC News", "Microsoft's passwordless plans lets users switch to app-based login - BBC News", "Piers Morgan to launch new show on Rupert Murdoch-owned network - BBC News", "Ambulance crisis: 'I thought my mum was going to die in front of us' - BBC News", "Cabinet reshuffle: Where did it go wrong for Gavin Williamson? - BBC News", "Cyprus gang rape case: Woman appeals against conviction for lying - BBC News", "Moon contract signals new direction for Europe - BBC News", "Brian Phelan: Daniel Carroll found guilty of 2018 murder near Newry - BBC News", "Dad of girl murdered by Stephen Leonard says review rebuff 'unfair' - BBC News", "What's Boris Johnson's reshuffle really all about? - BBC News", "Covent Garden and St John's Wood to continue al fresco dining - BBC News", "Military to be called in to help Scottish ambulance crews - BBC News", "Sturgeon under fire over 'in crisis' ambulance service - BBC News", "Former IS teenage bride Shamima Begum offers to help fight terror in UK - BBC News", "Prince Philip's will to be secret for 90 years - BBC News", "Sir Elton John: UK and European tour postponed to 2023 after hip injury - BBC News", "Co-op to start selling groceries on Amazon Prime - BBC News", "Liverpool 3-2 AC Milan: Reds pull off comeback in Champions League epic - BBC Sport", "Call for investigation of menstrual changes after Covid jabs - BBC News", "Pimlico Plumbers sold to US firm Neighborly - BBC News", "Princess Beatrice gives birth to a girl - BBC News", "CBeebies: Channel appoints George Webster as new host - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 0-3 Chelsea: Thomas Tuchel's side win London derby to extend unbeaten run - BBC Sport", "Rich nations must increase climate support funds, says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Football agent Aidy Ward broke rules by targeting minors - BBC News", "Conservationist injured and cameraman killed in air crash - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Shielders get 'lower vaccine protection' - BBC News", "Lib Dems: Give parents Covid catch-up vouchers to spend - BBC News", "Pfizer/BioNTech jab safe for children aged five to 11 - BBC News", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe husband talks to Truss about detained wife - BBC News", "Gas price rise: US boss holds crisis gas talks with UK - BBC News", "Jimmy Greaves: Spurs, Chelsea and West Ham lead tributes to former striker - BBC Sport", "CO2: Food and drink fears for Wales over carbon dioxide cuts - BBC News", "Climate change: Demolition to start on Wales' most polluted street - BBC News", "Gabby Petito: Body matching missing woman found in Wyoming - BBC News", "HMP Styal: My baby died due to errors in prison, says former inmate - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Journalists tell of beatings by Taliban - BBC News", "UK energy company seeks funds to stay afloat - BBC News", "Ceredigion: Seal pup dies after selfie snappers scare mother - BBC News", "Police condemn 'racist and sectarian' singing at Orange walks - BBC News", "Gwynedd: Crumbling wall above rail line sparks disaster fears - BBC News", "Early baby therapy could reduce autism diagnoses - BBC News", "Russia shooting: Gunman kills six at Perm University - BBC News", "Canada election: Trudeau stays in power but Liberals fall short of majority - BBC News", "Killamarsh deaths: Family's tribute to children found dead at house - BBC News", "Organ donation: NI Assembly passes opt-out bill to next stage - BBC News", "RHS Chelsea Flower Show returns for autumnal one-off - BBC News", "Killamarsh deaths: Man arrested after four bodies found - BBC News", "Afghanistan: MoD shared more than 250 Afghan interpreters' details on email - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Stay home, female Kabul government workers told - BBC News", "La Palma volcano: Lava destroys homes in the Canary Islands - BBC News", "Community in race to buy remotest mainland pub - BBC News", "Covid: US opens up to fully vaccinated travellers - BBC News", "Covid: Welsh Labour conference cancelled ahead of expected autumn peak - BBC News", "Gas crisis: Pig farmers fear they may have to cull animals - BBC News", "Emmy Awards 2021: The Crown and Ted Lasso sweep major categories - BBC News", "Carson Shephard: Missing boy, 7, found hiding in gran's loft - BBC News", "Gabby Petito: FBI searches fiancé Brian Laundrie's home - BBC News", "Northern line extension: Two new Tube stations open - BBC News", "Increase climate change commitments, Boris Johnson to urge Joe Biden - BBC News", "Covid-19: US lifts travel ban on UK and EU citizens - BBC News", "England's men's and women's team withdrawn from Pakistan white-ball tour - BBC Sport", "Aukus: France pulls out of UK defence talks amid row - BBC News", "Covid vaccination begins for UK 12 to 15 year olds - BBC News", "Wally the wandering walrus is spotted in Iceland - BBC News", "Folic acid to be added to UK flour to help prevent birth defects - BBC News", "Sophie Fairall: Celebrity wish-list girl dies from rare cancer - BBC News", "Aukus: Australia defends role in security pact amid French condemnation - BBC News", "M25 protests: Arrests made as Insulate Britain activists block motorways - BBC News", "Only Fools and Horses: Boycie actor John Challis remembered as 'Peckham pal' after death at 79 - BBC News", "What are the travel rules for France, the US, and other popular destinations? - BBC News", "Review bid after right-wing extremist 'told to read classic books' - BBC News", "Prince Harry uses GQ awards show spot to make vaccine plea - BBC News", "Portugal changes vaccine rules for UK visitors - BBC News", "Man guilty over abusive emails sent to Starmer and Thornberry - BBC News", "Afghanistan women's cricket team: Players hiding in Kabul fear Taliban rule - BBC Sport", "Tokyo Paralympics: Day-by-day guide to key events, big stars and British medal hopes - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: British passport delay blamed for baby stranded in Kabul - BBC News", "Wetherspoons runs low on some beer amid driver shortage - BBC News", "Declan Donnelly: Men admit plot to steal presenter's car - BBC News", "Covid: Schools aren't infection hubs, says public health boss - BBC News", "Sarah Storey wins 17th gold to become Britain's most successful Paralympian - BBC Sport", "Tokyo Paralympics: Dan Pembroke, Bethany Firth and Ben Watson win golds for Great Britain - BBC Sport", "Driffield mural divides opinion over lack of diversity - BBC News", "Hungary v England: Visiting players racially abused at Puskas Arena - BBC Sport", "School funding warning as pupils return to class in England - BBC News", "Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight 'mishap' - BBC News", "Milton Keynes lake rescue: Mum tracks down pair who saved son - BBC News", "Covid: Pupils return to Wales' schools amid concerns - BBC News", "Hurricane Ida: Before and after images reveal devastation - BBC News", "Denmark 2-0 Scotland: Steve Clarke's side outclassed in World Cup qualifying - BBC Sport", "Covid: Difficult winter in Wales if cases keep rising, says doctor - BBC News", "Storm Ida: Floodwater pours into New York City subway station - BBC News", "Warning over cuts to NHS services without £10bn extra funding - BBC News", "One in seven bookings failing to show up at restaurants - BBC News", "Cristiano Ronaldo breaks men's international scoring record with 110th and 111th goals - BBC Sport", "Tory MSP apologises for suggesting Nicola Sturgeon is anti-English - BBC News", "As it happened: Covid: Patients will be at risk unless NHS gets extra £10bn - health chiefs - BBC News", "Winnie-the-Pooh collectable coins to mark bear's 95th anniversary - BBC News", "Spain hit with severe flooding after storm - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Vaccine passport benefits 'outweigh concerns' - BBC News", "Film: More people needed to work with Hollywood stars - BBC News", "Hurricane Ida: New Orleans under curfew amid blackout - BBC News", "More students turn to crypto investing to plug financial gap - BBC News", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu beats Zhang Shuai to reach third round - BBC Sport", "Afghanistan: Rescued animals 'in amazing condition' in UK - BBC News", "Amid violent reprisals, Afghans fear the Taliban's 'amnesty' was empty - BBC News", "Mikis Theodorakis, composer of Zorba the Greek, dies aged 96 - BBC News", "First Minister's Questions - BBC News", "Afghanistan crisis: Unclear if ruthless Taliban will change, says US general - BBC News", "Maddie Durdant-Hollamby: Woman found in house was stabbed to death - BBC News", "Pat Hume, widow of John Hume, has died - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Kabul airport could reopen for evacuation flights soon, says Dominic Raab - BBC News", "Third Covid jab advised for most vulnerable 1% - BBC News", "Sarah Storey 'has carried on being the best she can' - Tanni Grey-Thompson - BBC Sport", "US states to accept driver's licence on iPhones - BBC News", "Climate-above-all plea by US fails to stir China - BBC News", "Scotland had fourth hottest summer on record - BBC News", "Gym Group sees demand surge as young people lack space at home - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Female journalist who interviewed Taliban flees country - BBC News", "Scots to need vaccine passports for large events - BBC News", "Syed Ali Geelani: Kashmir's separatist leader dies aged 92 - BBC News", "Top Gun and Mission: Impossible films delayed due to US Covid spike - BBC News", "Hungary 0-4 England: Sterling, Kane, Maguire and Rice score in emphatic win - BBC Sport", "Met officers sent bullying and offensive texts, panel finds - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Pen Farthing still working to rescue terrified staff - BBC News", "Mars rover: Nasa confirms Perseverance has its first rock sample - BBC News", "Climate change: Arctic warming linked to colder winters - BBC News", "McDonald’s hiring 14-year-olds in Oregon amid labour shortage - BBC News", "Claudia Lawrence search: Sand Hutton lake drained by police - BBC News", "Afghanistan: Taliban increasingly violent against protesters – UN - BBC News", "Islamic State 'Beatle' Alexanda Kotey pleads guilty over US hostage deaths - BBC News", "Afghanistan: How can the West stop terror bases? - BBC News", "One-in-two-million blue lobster landed by Aberdeen fisherman - BBC News", "Amazon offers punctual staff £50 for turning up - BBC News", "Storm Ida death toll climbs to 41 across four states as floods continue - BBC News", "Joe Rogan: Popular US podcast host says he has Covid-19 but is 'feeling great' - BBC News", "Long Covid in children 'nowhere near scale feared' - BBC News", "In Pictures: Scotland's RIAS buildings of the year - BBC News", "Thousands 'not referred' to long Covid support service - BBC News", "Councils hit by bin collection delays due to driver shortage - BBC News", "Coronavirus vaccines cut risk of long Covid, study finds - BBC News"], "published_date": ["2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-21", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-03", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-17", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-13", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-07", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-25", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-22", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-14", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-10", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-04", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-26", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-18", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-08", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-05", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-27", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-11", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-15", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-23", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-01", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-09", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-19", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-06", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-24", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-12", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-16", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-20", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02", "2021-09-02"], "authors": [[], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], [], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"], ["https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews"]], "description": ["Hungary are ordered to play two matches behind closed doors by Fifa following the racism English players experienced at the World Cup qualifier in Budapest on 2 September.", "From misunderstandings to gaffes, there's a lot at stake when the PM meets Joe Biden on Tuesday.", "The US president's comments come as he meets Boris Johnson for talks in the White House.", "The deal will see founder Charlie Mullins offload his 90% stake in the group.", "The princess and her daughter are \"doing well\" and the Queen is \"delighted\", Buckingham Palace says.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says price rises and changes to benefits could hit households.", "Around 150 animals were evacuated to the UK, along with Paul \"Pen\" Farthing and animal shelter staff.", "Borrowing was lower than a year earlier, but was still the second-highest on record for August.", "The cases against a doctor who admitted to performing an abortion are the first known lawsuits.", "A shortage of the gas could hit meat production and packaging, UK processors warn.", "The Chinese property giant is facing a debt crisis, triggering fears of contagion in global markets.", "Alongside top exhibitions, its café became a canteen offering free school meals during the pandemic.", "It's harder than ever for the BBC to maintain impartiality, the corporation's director general says.", "Dash was a co-founder of the rock/R&B group Labelle, best known for their 1975 hit Lady Marmalade.", "Timeline of events surrounding the poisoning of Russian spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter and a couple in Amesbury.", "BBC investigation finds children in England face \"agonising\" waits in pandemic to access services.", "A trip to a melting glacier will shape how the BBC's new climate editor reports on climate change.", "Three fishermen died off the Conwy coast after the Nicola Faith sank in January.", "The Public Accounts Committee is \"increasingly alarmed\" about key parts of the rail project.", "Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks to the BBC's John Simpson about events in neighbouring Afghanistan.", "Two years ago an attack on a former Russian spy in the UK sent shockwaves though MI6.", "Images which seem to show border agents on horseback driving migrants back spark an investigation.", "The south-east London school where Sabina Nessa worked pays tribute to the \"brilliant\" teacher.", "An ICU consultant says staff shortages are making him \"dread\" the winter months.", "Some prescribed treatments are unnecessary and even harmful, says government-commissioned report.", "The US supplier of CO2, which will receive millions in UK taxpayer support to reopen, will hike prices.", "Boris Johnson is meeting US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office in Washington DC on Tuesday.", "All employees will be given the right to request flexible working, under government proposals.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says new cases fell by 31% last week - but that the position remains \"fragile\".", "The extra capacity would relieve pressure on emergency departments and the ambulance service, claim senior medics.", "Reporter Taqi Daryabi tells the BBC he was kicked in the face and beaten with sticks by Taliban fighters.", "But some fans question if crypto-assets and football are a good mix.", "A woman whose baby died during childbirth in HMP Styal says \"more could have been done\" to save her.", "The former Russian spy, who became a British citizen, was poisoned in London with polonium in 2006.", "Canadian prime minister's gamble fails to pay off as Liberals projected to form minority government.", "Rebecca Spencer denies the allegations, which relate to her time working at a care home last year.", "The two children were found dead along with their mother and another child in Killamarsh, Derbyshire", "If passed, the legislation would mean people automatically become donors unless they state otherwise.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has launched an investigation, while the MoD has apologised for the breach.", "New leader of the Unite union Sharon Graham criticises proposals to change the rules to elect future a Labour leader.", "Locals are facing a challenge from potential private buyers to purchase The Old Forge in Knoydart.", "The US rolls back international travel restrictions, answering a major demand from allies.", "Michelle O'Neill warns that healthcare staff are facing \"a very difficult winter\".", "A shortage of carbon dioxide used to stun pigs at abattoirs means a backlog of animals is growing.", "A coroner says the 22-year-old's death was a homicide but gives no details as to how she died.", "Bjorn Ulvaeus launches a campaign to ensure musicians don't miss out on unpaid royalties.", "Foreign Secretary Liz Truss speaks to the US Secretary of State about \"delivering justice\".", "Police say Brian Laundrie, who vanished earlier this month, is a \"person of interest\".", "Welsh government still deciding whether to follow England in reforms to international travel rules.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "The Scottish government sets out details of which venues and events will need to check vaccine passports.", "Fully vaccinated travellers from the UK and EU will be allowed into the US from early November.", "Terri Harris and her children Lacey and John Paul were found dead with Lacey's friend Connie Gent.", "The 800kg mammal had not been seen for more than three weeks.", "The Duke of Cambridge reveals Prince Philip's mustard-squirting antics in a poignant BBC documentary.", "England withdraw their men's and women's teams from series in Pakistan that were due to take place in October.", "The parents of the teenager, killed in 2019, had filed a claim for damages against Anne Sacoolas.", "Sharon Graham insists she is not snubbing party leader Keir Starmer but it's a matter of priorities.", "An Afghan interpreter affected by an email data breach at the MoD says he feels betrayed by the UK.", "The MoD says it will provide a total of 225 personnel to drive ambulances and help run mobile testing units.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu delivers another impressive display as she sweeps aside China's Zhang Shuai to reach the US Open third round.", "Jacob Chansley had been indicted on six counts for his role in the pro-Trump siege at the US Capitol.", "Before and after satellite images of the devastation caused by Storm Ida in the north-east US.", "David Knott sent an \"excessive number of abusive emails\" to Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry.", "The supermarket plans to widely expand its Asda on the Move convenience stores by the end of 2022.", "Resettling eligible Afghans over the next 10 years could cost more than £2.5bn, a leaked document says.", "The senior British commander in Kabul speaks for the first time about the UK's evacuation operation.", "But European regulators say the benefits of Covid vaccines continue to far outweigh the risks.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel seeks advice on whether the unlawful possession of nitrous oxide should be a crime.", "The maker says it is two weeks behind on its deliveries, and vaccinations will have to be rescheduled.", "The woman challenges her conviction for making a false report of an attack by 12 men in a hotel room.", "Actor is heartbroken at the loss of his wife, who was a vocal coach on films including The Witches.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening.", "Lyse Doucet takes the temperature on the streets of the Afghan capital as the Taliban tighten their grip.", "The rapper, whose real name is Dylan Mills, is due to go on trial in February next year.", "The fire service says about 200 tonnes of waste and machinery caught fire.", "A new study by NatureScot looked at 11 species of breeding birds in Scotland over the last 35 years.", "The scannable image will allow people without a smartphone to use a vaccine passport, if they are approved by MSPs.", "Her family said they were \"heartbroken\" but that she died peacefully and was \"generous to the end\".", "Shirley Ballas leads a star-studded line-up to start an extended run for Blackpool's famous lights.", "A new study connects the heating of the Arctic region to extreme winter weather in the US.", "Kabul airport could reopen \"in the near future\" the UK's foreign secretary says, after talks in Qatar.", "Mr Suga had been appointed to the role just a year ago following the resignation of Shinzo Abe.", "The museum closed in October 2016 for a £68m redevelopment and was supposed to have reopened last year.", "And 121 more people have died in the UK within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19.", "One company is under investigation and 19 others could face legal action following complaints.", "The flaw which allows people to edit personal details on the documents after downloading them was first spotted in May.", "Lawrence Casey's family say \"his final act of love\" was to \"sacrifice his life to save hers\".", "The lives and stories of those killed in the two Christchurch mosque attacks.", "The firm behind Echo Falls says continued staff shortages could definitely hit the festive season.", "Jacinda Ardern says a stabbing attack in Auckland was carried out by a person who was a \"known threat\".", "Vincent Warner's father died while on a diving trip off Cape Wrath in the Scottish Highlands.", "Dan Evans produces a gritty comeback from two sets down to beat Alexei Popyrin in a gruelling match and reach the US Open fourth round.", "A 31-year-old woman died at the scene after the cliff fall in Edinburgh at about 21:00 on Thursday evening.", "But 200,000 extra children with underlying conditions will now be eligible for two doses.", "England condemn as \"completely unacceptable\" the racist abuse directed towards their players during Thursday's 4-0 win over Hungary in Budapest.", "Taliban authorities in Afghanistan should stop using force against protests, a UN rights body says.", "It said it had listened to feedback from privacy campaigners and others and would reassess.", "Manchester United open the new Women's Super League season with victory over Reading in manager Marc Skinner's first game in charge.", "US authorities are investigating why Sir Richard Branson's recent space flight drifted off course.", "Envoy John Kerry's 'it's more important than politics' appeal falls on deaf ears.", "Alexanda Kotey is facing life in prison over the murders of US journalists and relief workers.", "Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings after racist abuse was aimed at England players during Thursday's 4-0 World Cup qualifier win over Hungary in Budapest.", "Wholesalers are facing a \"perfect storm\" of adverse effects, warns one leading industry figure.", "The M4 was closed in both directions to allow the air ambulance to land after a \"serious incident\".", "Ex-Irish President Mary McAleese describes Mrs Hume as the \"perfect partner\" to her husband John.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 27 August and 3 September.", "The new law will acknowledge the emotional distress pet theft can cause, ministers say.", "UK residents are hoarding an estimated £50m in loose change, according to UK Finance.", "Third jabs given as part of a booster programme are beginning to dampen the latest Covid surge.", "Videos also show passengers on flooded buses and cars being swept away, after record rainfall from Storm Ida.", "Aerial photographs reveal damage and flooding in parts of Louisiana following Hurricane Ida.", "Police describe Abdelhadi Bahou Jabour's moves as \"part Bruce Forsyth, part Artful Dodger\".", "Millions of homes remain without power across New Orleans and the wider region following Hurricane Ida.", "The foreign secretary says the UK will give £30m in aid to countries bordering Afghanistan.", "One in ten Buy Now Pay Later shoppers have been chased by debt collectors, Citizen's Advice says.", "She claims she was sexually assaulted while working to expose abuse in the fashion industry and has given a statement to French police.", "The Panjshir Valley, near Kabul, is the only area of Afghanistan that has not fallen to the Taliban.", "Some 18 councils across the UK are suffering waste collection delays due to a lack of bin lorry drivers.", "A 94-year-old's diary of life at a care home during the pandemic is turned into a book.", "AstraZeneca agrees to deliver 200 million doses by next spring, ending the threat of court action.", "About 600 people have signed a petition to protect \"one of the most beautiful parts of Wales\".", "Michael Gove is known as a reformer and is now in charge of controversial planning changes.", "A shortage of the gas could hit meat production and packaging, UK processors warn.", "Nona Gaprindashvili files a defamation lawsuit claiming she was incorrectly portrayed in the series.", "Forbes vanished in Aberdeen in 2011, and Neil and Lucy Henderson say finding him is a \"dream come true\".", "The PM gives his new line-up of ministers a \"half-time pep talk\", after this week's reshuffle.", "The US man says his daughter's rights were violated when she had her hair cut without permission.", "The three astronauts spent 90 days at China's space station, some 380km above Earth.", "The men, 21 and 33, have been charged over the shooting in Londonderry in April 2019.", "Virginia Giuffre is pursuing a civil case in New York against the prince over allegations of sexual assault.", "Boris Johnson replaces ministers who quit and forced him to announce his departure as prime minister.", "Newly appointed Housing Secretary Michael Gove wants to address concerns, the BBC has been told.", "Fully vaccinated people returning to England from non-red list countries will no longer need PCR tests from 4 October.", "An inquiry finds the strike, days before the US pullout, killed 10 members of a family - not militants.", "The service is part of a programme of events to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland.", "David Gomoh managed to stagger back home before dying in front of his family.", "\"The more you pay attention to it, the more the cancer has control of you,\" says The Wanted star.", "The inventor, entrepreneur and ZX Spectrum creator died at his London home following a long illness.", "The Conservative Party chairman, and former chancellor, is sacked amid a row over a tax penalty.", "The results of tests on panels commonly used in UK construction have been passed to the BBC.", "The alliance will allow Australia to build and deploy nuclear-powered submarines for the first time.", "The nuclear submarine deal with Australia has angered France and raised fears of a war with China.", "An inquest into the death of a two year old has been opened.", "Climate plans of more than 100 countries show we're heading in the wrong direction, the UN says.", "Football giant says year was among its most challenging but sees broadcast income jump sharply.", "Fire-resistant blankets protect General Sherman and other sequoias as a California blaze closes in.", "Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after a chaotic 45 days in Downing Street.", "Simplifying the traffic light system and reducing testing requirements will boost the industry, airlines say.", "Sport fans will need to show a pass proving they have been fully vaccinated or had a negative Covid test to attend large-scale events in Wales from 11 October.", "Brazil legend Pele says he is \"recovering well\" from a recent operation after briefly being readmitted to intensive care.", "The ex-BBC presenter who quit the channel says people can decide themselves if it is too right wing.", "A debt collection company told some women that future visas for in the UK would be refused if they did not pay.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Those living within that radius are told to make \"alternative travel and accommodation arrangements\".", "Debt charity StepChange is calling for emergency support for renters who have fallen behind on payments.", "Plans to only allow fully vaccinated people into nightclubs and other large events are approved by MSPs.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 10 and 17 September.", "The Scottish Ambulance Service confirms logistical staff will also be made available to help ease pressure on its crews.", "Her legal team says she retracted the rape allegation while under extreme pressure from police.", "Mark Drakeford says he may be persuaded for the need for the certificates with a decision due Friday.", "Nadine Dorries strips Historic England protection from the 1950s Dorman Long building.", "The PM hopes his rejigged top team will allow him to get things done following Brexit and Covid.", "A series of serious ambulance delays have emerged, including one where a man died after a 40-hour wait.", "The appeal decision reverses a High Court ruling that under-16s would struggle to give informed consent.", "Officials say there is no current risk to public health from the infection, known as mad cow disease.", "The government has \"choked off\" travel trade and 70% of firms plan redundancies, says Abta.", "Michael D Higgins says the title of the church service to be held in Armagh had become \"political\".", "Antibody therapy Ronapreve, given to Donald Trump, will be given to eligible NHS patients in hospital.", "A judge says he made the ruling, in line with other royal deaths, to protect the Queen's dignity.", "Ms McKee, who was 29, was observing rioting in the Creggan estate when she was shot on 18 April 2019.", "Elizabeth Estensen, who played landlady Diane Sugden, says it is time to \"say goodbye\".", "What you need to know about visiting France, Spain, Italy, US, Ireland, Germany and Greece.", "A law firm representing travellers is taking the government to court over the UK's quarantine hotel policy.", "The new uni term starts soon but anyone who isn't fully vaccinated won't be allowed into clubs.", "Nasa's Perseverance rover was last week commanded to acquire two significant rock samples on Mars.", "But European regulators say the benefits of Covid vaccines continue to far outweigh the risks.", "The militants target civilians in Panjshir, the BBC finds, despite promises of restraint.", "Glyn Summers, 17, was on an educational trip to Spain when he fell from a hotel balcony.", "The UK's tax authority says a National Insurance hike will also have a \"significant\" impact on firms.", "A QC representing many victims of the 2017 disaster strongly criticises several construction firms.", "The charity Engage Britain polled more than 4,000 British adults on their attitudes to the NHS.", "The UK's Chief Medical Officers explain why they believe 12 to 15-year-olds should be vaccinated.", "More than 220 environment and land rights activists were murdered last year, according to a report.", "Emma Brown, 49, is known for donating to local causes after winning £5.5m in 2017.", "A news story claiming Walmart would accept cryptocurrency Litecoin was fabricated, the retail giant says.", "UK policies will deliver a quarter of emissions cuts needed, say campaigners ahead of the COP26 summit.", "The ex-BBC broadcaster helped to launch the station and briefly appeared as its lead news anchor.", "Walk-in clinics will be available throughout September in a bid to get more more students vaccinated.", "The grandfather accused of whisking his grandson to Israel is placed under investigation in Italy.", "The discount fashion chain says shoppers are still stocking up on cycle shorts and seam-free clothes.", "The health secretary rules out the scheme for nightclubs and large events, following much criticism.", "Parental consent is sought for the programme for children aged 12 to 15-year-olds.", "Legacy gift from classic car enthusiast pays for new state-of-the-art lifeboat base.", "A \"shocked\" teenager met Liverpool's Harvey Elliott after they were both injured playing football.", "Camera performance can \"degrade\" if attached to high-volume, high-power motorbikes, Apple says.", "Wildest Dreams came true when the American pop princess visited the city.", "The singer, who is fighting a legal battle over her conservatorship, met fiancé Sam Asghari in 2016.", "Jamie waited three months for an appointment after an abnormal result - it should be two weeks.", "Russia's Daniil Medvedev wins his first Grand Slam title by shattering Novak Djokovic's hopes of completing a calendar sweep of the majors in a one-sided US Open final.", "Scotland's health secretary said such a move may be introduced when the scheme goes live on 1 October.", "The government has \"choked off\" travel trade and 70% of firms plan redundancies, says Abta.", "Tanya Fear, 31, who has appeared in Doctor Who, has not been seen since last week.", "The benefit of vaccinating younger people is an “important and potentially useful additional tool” says England’s chief medical officer.", "North Korea keeps testing missiles despite international condemnation. Why does Pyongyang persist?", "Many teachers do not know enough about the Holocaust to combat myths and falsehoods, a study suggests.", "Police make more than 40 arrests at a series of co-ordinated protests around the motorway.", "The Duke of York is being sued in New York over allegations of sexual assault by Virginia Giuffre.", "Documents reveal British American Tobacco’s role in bribery and spying in southern Africa.", "Higher wages for workers is key to building a strong economic recovery, says Frances O'Grady.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening.", "As Emma Raducanu basks in her new-found New York fame, she explains where she found the mental strength to win a Grand Slam title.", "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says fewer flights amid spiking demand will lead to higher prices.", "Tanya Fear was reported missing by friends and family, who said she had not been seen since last week.", "Xander Graham was watched on live TV as he raced alongside riders on the Tour of Britain near Edinburgh.", "Having a period at festivals can be dehumanising due to a lack of facilities, festival-goers say.", "It suggests the country is developing new weapons despite food shortages and an economic crisis.", "The French firm says the deal was cancelled over allegations of a breach of the agreement, which it denies.", "Almost 2,000 people have left their homes as the military joins efforts to contain the flames.", "Pressure on tech firms intensifies as Priti Patel unveils fund for technologies to keep children safe.", "Countries vow to step up support as people in Afghanistan face \"perhaps their most perilous hour\".", "Amy Winifred Hawkins became a TikTok hit when a video of her singing was seen over 150,000 times.", "Israel launches a huge manhunt after six militants dig their way out of the high-security jail.", "Pensioners will have social care certainty, but workers and work will be taxed.", "The milestone comes as another 41,000 daily cases are recorded, but the real total is likely to be higher.", "Alice Thompson was awarded £185,000 after being told she could not work shorter hours to pick up her child.", "Genital warts and herpes saw the biggest decrease, the figures for England reveal.", "The expansion of dragonflies across Britain and Ireland is an indicator of climate change, say experts.", "A woman who lay trapped in a car for three days after it crashed was trying to escape when rescuers arrived, her brother says.", "Aaron O'Halloran causes eight-hour passenger delays with his half-mile car ride between stations.", "Unrest grows as more Afghans demand women's rights and chant anti-Taliban and anti-Pakistan slogans.", "Boris Johnson makes his first big move of the political season, with only ragged support from his MPs.", "The streaming giant and the regulator will work together long term after a successful trial.", "Up to 15 people are now allowed indoors in homes while dancing will be allowed at wedding receptions.", "Old age care needs another £10bn a year - the government plans to get it by raising National Insurance.", "With his approval rating at a low, Brazil's leader strikes a defiant note on independence day.", "Scotland's first minister will announce her \"programme for government\" for the coming year at Holyrood.", "A woman who got one jab in England and one in Scotland says her vaccine certificate only confirms a single dose.", "It follows government concern that a big rise in earnings would have meant pensions increasing by 8%.", "The prime minister confirms a proportion of the UK-wide tax will be ringfenced for NHS Scotland.", "Scotland impressively revive their World Cup hopes with a momentous victory over Austria to climb into the Group F play-off spot.", "More UK students have accepted uni places this year but EU student numbers fall sharply.", "Fran Unsworth, who oversees all news and current affairs output, will leave at the start of 2022.", "Heavy rain in central Mexico sparked flash floods in Ecatepec and Nexahualcóyotl.", "An old coal plant has had to be brought back online after a spike in the price of natural gas.", "The plaque is on the Hampstead house where Jim Henson lived for more than a decade.", "The Taliban raise their flag over Panjshir Valley, but resistance fighters deny being defeated.", "A 33-year-old man is due in court on Thursday after the building in East Kilbride was extensively damaged in the incident.", "The Malaysian Airlines flight was downed over Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people on board.", "Tributes are paid to Michael K Williams, best known for the HBO series, who has died at the age of 54.", "Brazil's president signs a decree requiring firms to provide \"just cause\" before removing posts.", "Boris Johnson has chosen to wager that the public will accept higher taxes for healthcare.", "Bridget Davies says the children she has fostered \"have been awesome\".", "Jamil Rehman was caught by paedophile hunters after travelling to meet a 15-year-old girl.", "The social media site says 22 fan accounts have been suspended for \"irrational celebrity support”.", "Nicola Sturgeon outlines plans for the year ahead, with the \"immediate priority\" being to \"lead Scotland out of the pandemic\".", "British teenager Emma Raducanu puts in another devastating performance to reach the US Open quarter-finals as her dream New York debut continues.", "Millions of Salvadorians are expected to download a digital wallet app with $30 of free Bitcoin.", "The force admitted that failures in its call-handling system \"materially contributed\" to a young woman's death.", "Boris Johnson says he accepts the UK-wide \"health and social care levy\" breaks a manifesto commitment.", "It may officially be autumn - but Wales will bask in sunshine as temperatures soar on Tuesday.", "Staff members and passengers rush to help three people working inside a ferry kiosk in Southampton.", "The Football Association of Wales has confirmed Wales fans will be allowed to travel to October's World Cup Qualifiers in Czech Republic and Estonia.", "August saw the fewest redundancies since 2014 despite plans to end furlough on 30 September.", "The BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, asked the prime minister if the Conservatives are still a low tax party.", "The Supreme Court rules that prosecuting women for terminating pregnancies is unconstitutional.", "A steady stream of crossings is thought to be have taken place amid calm waters and sunny skies.", "He fell between the train and the platform while alighting and was not seen by the driver.", "Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham believes the issue needs to be solved collectively.", "Scotland's first minister says the SNP-Green deal could represent \"a new and better way of doing politics\".", "Kashif Anwar, 27, made no plea when he appeared in private at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.", "They said all calls would be dealt with individually after assessing the risk posed to the caller.", "It comes as the Treasury asks government departments to identify 5% of \"savings and efficiencies\".", "Boris Johnson says the money will \"go straight to the front line\" in England over the next six months.", "BBC News NI is given exclusive access to an intensive care unit, where patients are battling Covid.", "Taliban authorities in Afghanistan should stop using force against protests, a UN rights body says.", "An additive in the waste may resemble a chemical normally found in food sources, a study says.", "The Prince of Wales fully supports an investigation by his foundation, Clarence House says.", "The Scottish government had paused its indyref2 plans because of the Covid pandemic.", "Boris Johnson says he accepts the UK-wide tax rise of £12bn a year breaks an election promise.", "Channel 4 and Channel 5 were among those affected following a fire alarm at a London broadcast centre.", "Virginia Giuffre is claiming damages from Prince Andrew over allegations he sexually assaulted her.", "Visitors to a south Wales street could be forgiven for thinking they had taken a wrong turn.", "Bodies of alleged kidnappers are hung in public, a day after a warning executions would resume.", "A posh building on NYC's Billionaire Row has been facing a series of serious woes.", "Some 10,500 foreign lorry drivers and poultry workers will be able to work in the UK until Christmas Eve.", "The vigil in south-east London was held near where a wanted suspect was captured on CCTV.", "Blue suede running shoes are needed as the event returns after being hit by the pandemic.", "Olly Stephens, 13, was ambushed by two boys after being lured to a field by a girl in Reading.", "The United States look set to regain the Ryder Cup after another dominant display on day two at Whistling Straits sees them open a six-point lead over Europe.", "Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were released after tech executive Meng Wanzhou was freed in Canada.", "The actor died after overdosing on a combination of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin and cocaine.", "Jon Rahm and Sergio Garcia strike first for Europe but the US win both sessions 3-1 to open their biggest lead over Europe after day one at a Ryder Cup.", "Oleksandr Usyk is the new unified heavyweight world champion after dethroning Anthony Joshua with an incredible performance in London.", "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) causes scarring of the lungs and is on the increase in NI.", "The image of two-year-old Chloe Clem making a disapproving face was auctioned in cryptocurrency.", "Sgt Matiu Ratana is remembered across London and Sussex on Saturday, and with a service in November.", "The oil firm said only \"a handful\" of sites are affected by the fuel supply issues.", "His death is \"almost beyond belief\", the ski centre's management says, as an investigation begins.", "The government is scrapping the £20-a-week benefit rise, introduced during the coronavirus pandemic.", "Hundreds of homes have been destroyed on the Spanish island since the eruption began.", "The Islamist militant group Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack in Mogadishu.", "David Edwards' son Chris says his father had missed out on £100,000 he was entitled to.", "Rules on pre-departure Covid-19 testing change as the MoD prepares to send armed service medics to NI.", "Bagosora was serving a 35-year sentence for his role in the massacre of 800,000 people.", "A petrol station boss appeals for calm with continued high demand causing \"chaos\" at the pumps.", "The sportswear giant and retailer are struggling to source products due to supply chain issues.", "A memorial to Warrington band Viola Beach, who died with their manager in a car crash, is unveiled.", "The Labour leader says he can't rule out tax rises if Labour wins power, but working families won't be hit.", "The Labour leader is hoping to get the party's conference to back a watered-down package of reforms.", "New rights for workers in first 100 days of Labour taking power, the party's deputy leader promises.", "The row over Meng Wanzhou's detention in 2018 strained China's relations with Canada and the US.", "The outgoing leader strongly endorses her party's candidate Armin Laschet in an unusually tight race.", "More than 100 armed forces personnel will begin non-emergency driving work from Sunday.", "Police Scotland is investigating a number of deaths at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.", "Three people taken to hospital following an incident at Teesside International Airport.", "Two Canadians detained by China are also freed, bringing to an end a three-year diplomatic row.", "The government will make it quicker to get an HGV driver licence, amid an industry-wide shortage.", "More than 500 gather for a vigil for the teacher who was killed as she walked to a London pub.", "The SpaceX founder said that their work had seen them spending significant amounts of time apart.", "It is set up near to where the teacher was found dead as police continue to hunt a man seen on CCTV.", "The 91-year-old got her booster in Coventry alongside the matron who administered her first dose.", "The girl had swallowed 23 strong magnets, which ripped through her bowel.", "The firm says 650 jobs are saved but 400 others are under threat as a chilled food firm goes bust.", "The Global Citizen Live festival saw performances from more than 60 artists in six continents.", "The US president's comments come as he meets Boris Johnson for talks in the White House.", "Matthew Strachan wrote the music for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? with father Keith.", "Damien Bendall is accused of murdering Terri Harris and three children at a house in Derbyshire.", "Boris Johnson tells the French president to \"get a grip\" amid anger over a submarine deal.", "Total losses through fraud rockets by 30% in the first half of the year, with many victims not refunded.", "Pupils will learn how social media can make an impact, by studying the player's campaign work.", "A crew member on I'm a Celebrity tests positive, sending thousands into lockdown and sparking a backlash.", "Living costs and rising energy prices are the focus in the Commons as the deputy PM stands in for Johnson.", "Tenants are being evicted due to rent arrears built up during the pandemic, an investigation finds.", "Around 150 animals were evacuated to the UK, along with Paul \"Pen\" Farthing and animal shelter staff.", "Boris Johnson and Joe Biden have held face-to-face talks in the White House.", "People caught with small quantities of Class A drugs in Scotland could be given a warning instead of facing prosecution.", "Gaps on supermarket shelves may become commonplace as labour shortages bite, industry bodies say.", "A lawsuit accuses Mary Trump and reporters of an \"insidious plot\" to obtain confidential documents.", "The US president promises an extra 500 million shots to the developing world, as he hosts a Covid summit.", "Harry Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, says the resolution of a civil case is a relief.", "The Public Accounts Committee is \"increasingly alarmed\" about key parts of the rail project.", "People given the vaccine in India and several other countries still have to isolate on arrival in the UK.", "Jamie Cannon was on his way to college when he disappeared - which police said was \"very out of character\".", "The US supplier of CO2, which will receive millions in UK taxpayer support to reopen, will hike prices.", "Some prescribed treatments are unnecessary and even harmful, says government-commissioned report.", "The MoD apologises again as it emerges dozens of people were mistakenly copied in to another email.", "Eighteen amorous billy goats were left stranded after chasing two females onto a rocky outcrop.", "Championship side Derby County enter administration and are deducted 12 points by the English Football League.", "Boris Johnson tells the BBC he has coined a new term for the so-called special relationship.", "The meeting in the Oval Office sends a message of how Joe Biden views the US-UK relationship.", "Campaigners say including extremist narratives among everyday conversations can be a pathway to radicalisation.", "The group wants to address world leaders, weeks after ousting Afghanistan's former government.", "The actor, who has died aged 57, was known for his role as Stanford Blatch in the series and films.", "The announcement is the country's latest climate pledge and a major step forward to address emissions.", "Sir Mick Jagger dedicates the band's comeback show to the late drummer, who died last month aged 80.", "Inspectors say the death of the newborn baby at HMP Bronzefield \"should never have happened'.", "National Highways wins a High Court ruling against protesters who have been disrupting the M25.", "Kimberly Darroch tells an inquiry she wants the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow campus to close.", "The PM admits the UK is now aiming only for \"incremental steps\" on US trade, rather than a full agreement.", "Women tell their stories as the number of parents having a baby via surrogacy increases.", "BBC stars and staff invite teenagers to share their stories to help recover from the pandemic.", "The coffee and sandwich chain plans to hire 3,000 staff after cutting same number in 2020.", "A coroner says the 22-year-old's death was a homicide but gives no details as to how she died.", "Michelle O'Neill warns that healthcare staff are facing \"a very difficult winter\".", "Boris Johnson has had to wait for his White House meeting due to the Covid pandemic.", "The Scottish actor played henpecked husband Howard in the BBC sitcom for 25 years.", "A shortage of carbon dioxide used to stun pigs at abattoirs means a backlog of animals is growing.", "Bjorn Ulvaeus launches a campaign to ensure musicians don't miss out on unpaid royalties.", "The chemicals giant wants to reduce emissions by powering the plant with hydrogen tied to carbon capture and storage.", "The streaming giant will own and control works like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda.", "A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rattles Australia's second largest city, causing damage to buildings.", "An immune therapy derived from llama blood shows \"exciting potential\" in early coronavirus trials.", "President Zelensky vows a strong response after his aide's car is struck by a volley of bullets.", "The competition watchdog has been asked whether major record labels are distorting the market.", "An Afghan interpreter affected by an email data breach at the MoD says he feels betrayed by the UK.", "Her cousin pays tribute to the primary school teacher describing her as a \"beautiful soul\".", "The Labour leader writes 11,500 words on how he would change the UK, ahead of his party conference.", "Efforts are under way to make space in Scotland's hospitals - but nursing and social care groups say more help is needed.", "The parents of the teenager, killed in 2019, had filed a claim for damages against Anne Sacoolas.", "Sharon Graham insists she is not snubbing party leader Keir Starmer but it's a matter of priorities.", "World leaders must make major changes in four areas - \"coal, cars, cash and trees\", Boris Johnson says.", "A 28-year-old woman is in a critical condition and three children are treated for smoke inhalation.", "Molten rock from the erupting Cumbre Vieja volcano is destroying hundreds of buildings.", "Amy Hart tells a House of Commons inquiry on influencer culture that social networks should do more.", "Over half of respondents in a survey believe humanity is doomed and governments are failing to act.", "Curlews and golden plovers have returned to marshland after not being seen since the 1990s.", "British Olympic silver medallist CJ Ujah's 'B' sample tests positive, following his initial positive test at the Tokyo Olympics.", "Dutch police thought he was the head of the Sicilian mafia who has been on the run for decades.", "Tomos Rhys Bunford died at the scene due to a blunt force injury to his chest, an inquest is told.", "A Rwandan diplomat has been accused of detaining a government critic portrayed in the film Hotel Rwanda.", "The militants target civilians in Panjshir, the BBC finds, despite promises of restraint.", "People's Energy and Utility Point, which supply power to more than 500,000 people, have ceased trading.", "Police thank drivers for their \"patience and understanding\" during the disruption.", "Mark Drakeford says he may be persuaded for the need for the certificates with a decision due Friday.", "The ex-BBC broadcaster helped to launch the station and briefly appeared as its lead news anchor.", "A news story claiming Walmart would accept cryptocurrency Litecoin was fabricated, the retail giant says.", "Bereaved families say there has been \"no closure\" and they feel \"cheated\" out of an inquest.", "Parental consent is sought for the programme for children aged 12 to 15-year-olds.", "The government blames Covid and supply chain difficulties as it puts back changes.", "The scheme aims to help businesses in retail and hospitality which have been hit by the pandemic.", "But the prime minister adds that the UK is better placed to tackle the disease as he outlines his winter plan.", "A police detective, a retired midwife and a software developer are among this year's hopefuls.", "Protecting the NHS from being overwhelmed \"has to remain the objective\" and there are \"all sorts of data\" being looked at says the PM.", "Two CalMac ships for the Islay route will be built by an overseas yard after Ferguson fails to make the shortlist.", "The UK's Chief Medical Officers have recommended the move in a bid to reduce disruption to education.", "Charlotte Johnson Wahl died \"suddenly and peacefully\" in London on Monday, the PM's family says.", "A \"shocked\" teenager met Liverpool's Harvey Elliott after they were both injured playing football.", "Three people die after a car crashes into a block of flats and bursts into flames in Notting Hill.", "Wildest Dreams came true when the American pop princess visited the city.", "A charity says many families believe unsuitable housing is damaging their children's health.", "This year's famous guests were inspired by everything from the Matrix to the Statue of Liberty.", "Experts say a single dose of Pfizer should be offered at least six months after a second dose.", "The government has \"choked off\" travel trade and 70% of firms plan redundancies, says Abta.", "But he says the UK is better placed to tackle the disease as he outlines England's winter plan.", "Rising Covid cases see secondary schools in one area asked to reintroduce some Covid measures.", "The plan will include contingency measures that would come into force if the NHS was under pressure.", "Nicola Sturgeon confirms that children aged 12 and over can be jabbed from Monday, 20 September.", "The portrait-mode style video setting can pull focus on its subjects automatically.", "There was a lack of space for walk-ins at Grimsby's hospital due to social distancing, a trust says.", "The Duke of York is being sued in New York over allegations of sexual assault by Virginia Giuffre.", "Visitors have been spotted taking selfies with the goats on the cliffs.", "No new 1p coins were made by the Royal Mint in 2018 and 2019 but production resumed last year.", "The jabs will initially be available at drop-in centres, with appointment letters being sent out the following week.", "As Emma Raducanu basks in her new-found New York fame, she explains where she found the mental strength to win a Grand Slam title.", "Meteorologists warn of life-threatening flooding, power outages and storm surges.", "Cases of crippling school anxiety preventing attendance are spiralling, support groups say.", "The latest figures show the number of drug deaths in Scotland is still close to the record high.", "Tanya Fear was reported missing by friends and family, who said she had not been seen since last week.", "Northern Ireland's 12 to 15-year-olds will be offered one jab, while all over-50s and healthcare staff can get a third.", "A row erupts after Zheng Zeguang is told he is not welcome while sanctions against MPs are in place.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 3 and 10 September.", "Lewis Morrison says doctors are \"worn out\" by the pandemic and years of covering for staff shortages.", "Party co-chair Ben Elliot is warned to be \"cautious\" and avoid lobbying on behalf of business clients.", "The final Test between England and India at Emirates Old Trafford is cancelled, with the result of the series yet to be decided.", "The online shopping giant says all US frontline workers will be eligible as it fights to attract new employees.", "The north Wales health board has also decided to ban visitors except in \"exceptional\" circumstances.", "A Rotherham woman finds she has brought more home from the Caribbean than just a tan.", "The developers of the video chat app say they can no longer give it \"the attention it deserves\".", "Emma Raducanu says it is a \"weird feeling\" to be one of the few remaining players in the locker room after reaching the US Open semi-finals.", "An expert witness criticises the decision to sign off the tower's cladding as safe without evidence.", "Scotland has the highest rates across the UK nations, according to the Office for National Statistics.", "Britain's \"cool, calm and composed\" US Open finalist Emma Raducanu is meeting the challenges of her first overseas Grand Slam head on.", "The government will make it quicker to get an HGV driver licence, amid an industry-wide shortage.", "Teenagers are a growing part of the problem, with children as young as 13 drawn into extremism online.", "Rhys Ifans and Dougray Scott star in new romantic comedy and 'companion piece' to cult Brit flick.", "The duo have won the TV presenting prize at the National Television Awards every year since 2001.", "After sunset, 67 candles were lit to remember British victims as part of remembrance events in the UK.", "Hundreds of new state pension claimants failed to get payments due to Covid and staffing problems.", "The sun pendant is one of the most important finds of the last 100 years, the British Museum says.", "As British teenager Emma Raducanu wins the US Open, BBC Sport charts her rapid rise - with the help of a host of experts.", "Charles Wolf's wife Katherine was killed while working in the World Trade Center's north tower.", "Legal documents were served to a police officer in Windsor last month, US court papers say.", "The Texas law effectively bans abortions from as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.", "The UK economy grew just 0.1% in July, with Covid self-isolation keeping many workers at home.", "Suzanne Van Hagen's family say they have fought for more than eight years to get the truth.", "City centres and High Streets could suffer unless workers start taking the train again, the industry warns.", "Emma Raducanu and her brand of tennis with a smile is capturing the imagination after reaching the US Open semi-finals on her debut.", "The data is likely to intensify debate about how to get people out of vehicles and on to public transport.", "Dame Cressida Dick has come under fire from victims of police injustice who called for her to go.", "Who knew? It's actually safer to move a tranquilised rhino by its ankles than on its side or chest.", "The suspect is said to have \"mummified\" the corpse in order to continue receiving her pension.", "Sir Michael McBride says \"certainty of long-term harm to many children\" from not attending school.", "Mary McCann misses a court date where she was due to answer charges following a crash on the M1.", "Healthcare workers react to the growing rise of Covid patients in US hospitals despite vaccines.", "European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic calls for calm as he visits Northern Ireland.", "Dozens of people, including 13 UK citizens, take a plane from Kabul to Qatar's capital Doha.", "The medical director of NHS Borders asks the public to \"be kind\" to under pressure staff.", "Watch the best shots as British teenager Emma Raducanu reaches the US Open final with a stunning straight-set win over Greek 17th seed Maria Sakkari in New York.", "It comes as Wales' first minister warns daily Covid hospital admissions could more than double.", "The former officer signed a witness's name on a statement during an inquiry into a woman's murder.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu says reaching her first Grand Slam final at the US Open feels \"crazy, cool and absolutely mind-blowing\".", "The Labour leader responds to the PM's plan to raise taxes to pay for the NHS and social care.", "The raid comes a day after four members of the group that ran the venue were arrested.", "Soul singer Arlo Parks scoops the 2021 Mercury Prize for her debut album, Collapsed In Sunbeams.", "All films set to come out 2021 will be released in cinemas, handing a boost to struggling venues.", "US group Why Don't We claim they were made \"hostages in our own home\" and had their food restricted.", "The brother of a girl who is missing-presumed-dead says her killer had a history of violence.", "Wales' average number of Covid cases is 2,260 a day, compared to 1,862 the week before.", "Those arriving in the country have directly supported Welsh-based armed forces in Afghanistan.", "The Glasgow comedian admitted the tweets, from several years ago, had \"terrible, horrific undertones\".", "The three-day event will see performances from artists including Liam Gallagher, Snow Patrol and Amy Macdonald.", "The comedian was dropped as the face of a Scottish government health campaign after \"unacceptable\" tweets emerged.", "The terror threat to the UK remains \"a real and enduring thing\", the head of the security service says.", "Jeremy Clarkson said businesses in Chadlington were \"doing better\" due to an influx of visitors.", "Nigel Adams defends his response to campaigner Steve Bray accusing him of harassing politicians.", "The Dogs Trust says it has seen a 35% increase in calls related to giving up dogs in recent weeks.", "Scott Walker is jailed for at least 32 years for killing Bernadette Walker, who has never been found.", "Iain Anderson says he will work to \"build a bridge\" between the government and LGBT community.", "Plans to only allow fully vaccinated people into nightclubs and other large events are approved by MSPs.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 3 and 10 September.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu reaches the US Open final as her meteoric rise continues with a stunning straight-set win over Greece's Maria Sakkari.", "The Police Federation says \"it is easy to comment and criticise from the side-lines\".", "Scotland's first minister says a referendum could be held within two years despite Covid making \"everything harder\".", "Taliban authorities in Afghanistan should stop using force against protests, a UN rights body says.", "A judge in the Apple vs Epic trial says Apple must give app developers alternative payment options.", "Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert said offering a booster dose this autumn was \"a complex decision\".", "The two agree competition must not \"veer into conflict\" in their second call since Biden took office.", "Two thieves are seen breaking into a compound drive away with a container full of dental products.", "A further 147 deaths were also reported in the latest government statistics.", "The United Nations says the Taliban used live ammunition, batons and whips on protesters, killing four.", "The Premier League footballer is accused of attacking three women at his home in Cheshire.", "Twitter wants \"good\" bot accounts to label themselves as non-human.", "Jacob Chansley had been indicted on six counts for his role in the pro-Trump siege at the US Capitol.", "Kev Crane's talents were spotted when he sang along to the radio as he fitted bathrooms.", "Before and after satellite images of the devastation caused by Storm Ida in the north-east US.", "Those still on furlough face uncertain times when the scheme ends, the Resolution Foundation says.", "Jonathan Goodall says he made the move after a long period of prayer, which had been a \"testing\" period.", "Naomi Osaka's US Open title defence is over as she falls in the third round to a stunning performance by Canadian teenager Leylah Fernandez.", "The senior British commander in Kabul speaks for the first time about the UK's evacuation operation.", "But European regulators say the benefits of Covid vaccines continue to far outweigh the risks.", "Participants, dressed in bright colours, were asked to take a lateral flow test before the event and wear masks.", "The maker says it is two weeks behind on its deliveries, and vaccinations will have to be rescheduled.", "The woman challenges her conviction for making a false report of an attack by 12 men in a hotel room.", "Jeans and chinos are banned in a toughening of post-Zoom Commons rules set by the Speaker.", "Michelle Partington was the first female paramedic with the RAF to be deployed to the conflict in 2009.", "Lyse Doucet takes the temperature on the streets of the Afghan capital as the Taliban tighten their grip.", "The rapper, whose real name is Dylan Mills, is due to go on trial in February next year.", "Amrullah Saleh, in the Panjshir Valley, tells the BBC that fighters face a \"difficult\" situation.", "Shirley Ballas leads a star-studded line-up to start an extended run for Blackpool's famous lights.", "The PM's ex-adviser says inexperienced staff and leaks damaged the government's Covid response.", "British athletes Hannah Cockroft and Aled Sion Davies retain their Paralympic titles, as canoeists Charlotte Henshaw and Laura Sugar also triumph on day 11 in Tokyo.", "There's been a glut of shows featuring stunning scenery, simple lifestyles and down-to-earth people.", "Eyewitnesses describe seeing the wing-walker biplane flip as it hit the water near Poole harbour.", "Extinction list update reveals mixed news for marine life, as world conservation summit open in France.", "The firm behind Echo Falls says continued staff shortages could definitely hit the festive season.", "Gareth Bale says he \"never planned\" to retire as he aims to put doubts about his future to one side and lead Wales to a first World Cup since 1958.", "The airport says too few staff were on duty at passport control as families returned from holiday.", "Dan Evans produces a gritty comeback from two sets down to beat Alexei Popyrin in a gruelling match and reach the US Open fourth round.", "But 200,000 extra children with underlying conditions will now be eligible for two doses.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu earns a stunning win over Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo to reach the US Open last 16.", "Britain's High Streets lost more than 8,700 stores in the first six months of 2021, research suggests.", "Flu jabs in England and Wales are delayed due to an HGV driver shortage, a supplier says.", "Naomi Osaka says she will take another break from tennis after her US Open title defence ends in the third round.", "Manchester United open the new Women's Super League season with victory over Reading in manager Marc Skinner's first game in charge.", "The divers were exploring a former Royal Navy frigate which was sunk to create an offshore reef.", "The romantic photo of a man proposing on bended knee has been shared thousands of times online.", "A judge slams \"hypocrite\" Gordon Newton, who admitted a series of assaults on the child.", "Scotland keep their World Cup qualification dream alive with a narrow but deserved win over Moldova thanks to Lyndon Dykes' first-half tap-in.", "Rachel Gibbon wants players to avoid crises like those faced by the late Yeovil Town captain Lee Collins.", "Cases include \"unauthorised disclosure\" of personal sensitive data including criminal allegations.", "Novak Djokovic has to come from behind to beat Kei Nishikori to advance to the US Open fourth round and keep his bid for a calendar Grand Slam alive.", "West Yorkshire Police were trying to stop a car on the M62 when the crash happened.", "A man is charged after Fawziyah Javed, 31, died following a cliff fall in Edinburgh on Thursday evening.", "Channel 4 and Channel 5 were among those affected following a fire alarm at a London broadcast centre.", "Abdirahim Mohamed, 18, died after being found with multiple stab wounds in Leicester.", "Bodies of alleged kidnappers are hung in public, a day after a warning executions would resume.", "Lead singer Francis Rossi calls Lancaster an integral part of the band's sound and success.", "The rolling case rate remains highest in Neath Port Talbot, according to Public Health Wales.", "The United States regain the Ryder Cup, beating Europe by a record 19-9 score at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.", "Grant Shapps blames \"irresponsible\" briefing by a haulier group for sparking a rush on petrol stations.", "Some 10,500 foreign lorry drivers and poultry workers will be able to work in the UK until Christmas Eve.", "Police say two girls came to the assistance of the victim and are appealing for them to get in touch.", "The vote comes after leader Sir Keir Starmer rules out putting big energy firms into common ownership.", "The Labour leader calls for \"mature, respectful debate\" over trans rights after MP's comments.", "Rachel Reeves promises to be the UK's \"first green chancellor\" if Labour wins power.", "External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson calls for urgent action from Westminster over temporary visas.", "The United States look set to regain the Ryder Cup after another dominant display on day two at Whistling Straits sees them open a six-point lead over Europe.", "Oleksandr Usyk is the new unified heavyweight world champion after dethroning Anthony Joshua with an incredible performance in London.", "The changes - opposed by many on the left - give MPs more say in choosing future Labour leaders.", "Dozens of people are injured after several carriages of the Amtrak train came off the tracks.", "The leader's office hope changes to Labour rules will make the party more manageable and disciplined.", "A 36-year-old was arrested on Sunday in what police describe as a \"significant development\".", "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) causes scarring of the lungs and is on the increase in NI.", "There will be 5,000 temporary visas for fuel tanker and food lorry drivers, until Christmas Eve.", "Arsenal score three times in the opening 35 minutes as they beat north London rivals Tottenham at a jubilant Emirates Stadium.", "Sales are already soaring despite fewer birds being produced for the big chains, a farming boss says.", "The comedian and actor says he did not take the decision to play the disgraced TV personality \"lightly\".", "Hundreds of homes have been destroyed on the Spanish island since the eruption began.", "Bagosora was serving a 35-year sentence for his role in the massacre of 800,000 people.", "The boss of the regulator tells the BBC no-one could have predicted the sharp rise in gas prices.", "Nearly two-thirds have voted yes to the proposal, already law in most of western Europe.", "The result is tight - both the centre-left and the conservatives say they will try to form a coalition.", "The medal, to mark the Queen's 70-year reign, will also be given to members of the armed forces.", "Beth Winter says she is concerned Labour will struggle to win the next general election.", "The head of the body representing Welsh health boards delivers a bleak outlook to patients.", "The Labour leader says he can't rule out tax rises if Labour wins power, but working families won't be hit.", "The sportswear giant and retailer are struggling to source products due to supply chain issues.", "Marine researchers return to the Irish Sea to work on a project to protect vulnerable species.", "New rights for workers in first 100 days of Labour taking power, the party's deputy leader promises.", "The McFly singer and professional dancer Amy Dowden will miss Saturday's show after getting Covid.", "No traveller arriving in the Republic from any country will now have to quarantine in a hotel.", "Increasing numbers are raising money to go private rather than wait for NHS operations.", "The two main rivals for the German chancellorship claim a mandate to govern after a tight election.", "Labour's deputy leader says she will say sorry when the PM apologises for past \"racist\" comments.", "Police Scotland is investigating a number of deaths at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.", "Two Canadians detained by China are also freed, bringing to an end a three-year diplomatic row.", "Anthony Joshua says he \"is not a sulker\" and \"will bounce back\" after his world heavyweight defeat by Oleksandr Usyk.", "The government will make it quicker to get an HGV driver licence, amid an industry-wide shortage.", "SDLP Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon says she has raised the issue with the NI Executive.", "Scottish Secretary Alister Jack says troops are ready to drive ambulances beyond the initial two months.", "Two people are taken to hospital after an incident on the River Foyle on Saturday evening.", "Lewis Hamilton won the Russian Grand Prix after a frantic last few laps caused by heavy rain dashed Lando Norris' hopes of a maiden victory.", "It is set up near to where the teacher was found dead as police continue to hunt a man seen on CCTV.", "The Global Citizen Live festival saw performances from more than 60 artists in six continents.", "Thousands of people who have turned 66 have not been paid their state pensions and they are furious.", "Owner of the Druidstone Hotel says the clifftop bar was overrun by tourists wanting to see the sunset.", "Climate plans of more than 100 countries show we're heading in the wrong direction, the UN says.", "Travel agents report a rise in bookings after the amber list is scrapped and testing rules are eased.", "Figures show the department in charge of the transition away from diesel still relies on the fuel.", "An inquiry finds the strike, days before the US pullout, killed 10 members of a family - not militants.", "A shortage of the gas could hit meat production and packaging, UK processors warn.", "People's Energy and Utility Point, which supply power to more than 500,000 people, have ceased trading.", "Oti Mabuse and Ugo Monye's rivals include the show's first all-male pair - John Whaite and Johannes Radebe.", "There are concerns the high price of wholesale gas could have a far-reaching impact on the economy.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 10 and 17 September.", "The Briton was asked to leave the plane at Newark airport after a reported row over face coverings.", "The Taliban's new ministers have taken office - but are they any different this time around?", "The Scottish Ambulance Service confirms logistical staff will also be made available to help ease pressure on its crews.", "Bedale Hunt in North Yorkshire confirms the young girl died in a \"tragic accident\".", "Nona Gaprindashvili files a defamation lawsuit claiming she was incorrectly portrayed in the series.", "An online tool could help doctors identify those who would benefit from boosters or early therapy.", "Virginia Giuffre is pursuing a civil case in New York against the prince over allegations of sexual assault.", "The Austrian energy drink company is pursuing a legal challenge over the use of the word \"bull\".", "Durst was convicted of killing his best friend Susan Berman in 2000, and is likely to die in prison.", "Liverpool remain unbeaten in the Premier League this season after Sadio Mane scores his 100th goal for the club in a victory against Crystal Palace.", "David Gomoh managed to stagger back home before dying in front of his family.", "The force said there were \"outbreaks of racist and sectarian singing\" by some attending the procession.", "More than 10,000 people have gathered under a bridge in Del Rio, a Texas border town.", "Simplifying the traffic light system and reducing testing requirements will boost the industry, airlines say.", "The couple say they have no idea how the 5ft female python got into their home.", "Brazil legend Pele says he is \"recovering well\" from a recent operation after briefly being readmitted to intensive care.", "The appeal decision reverses a High Court ruling that under-16s would struggle to give informed consent.", "Officials say there is no current risk to public health from the infection, known as mad cow disease.", "Anne Webb is believed to be the first care home resident in the UK to have a third vaccination.", "More than 300 firefighters from around the UK demonstrate their expertise in a mass public exercise.", "Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the disappearance of Gabby Petito, has gone missing.", "What is the latest in Virginia Giuffre's attempt to sue Prince Andrew and will the case ever begin?", "At least 10,000 people are camped under the bridge at the US-Mexico border, in poor conditions.", "Antibody therapy Ronapreve, given to Donald Trump, will be given to eligible NHS patients in hospital.", "A debt collection company told some women that future visas for in the UK would be refused if they did not pay.", "Wales' Chief Medical Officer Dr Frank Atherton says pregnant women should get a Covid jab.", "The energy watchdog says that rising prices for fossil fuels, especially gas, will feed into household bills.", "The higher education regulator says students must have a say on how much of their teaching is online.", "Street artist Jim Vision had an idea for what to do with planes that have ended their flying days.", "What you need to know about visiting France, Spain, Italy, US, Ireland, Germany and Greece.", "Dozens of women march in Kabul and in Badakhshan province, angry at the new Taliban government.", "A temperature of 28.6C has been recorded in the Scottish Borders - the highest since a record in Moray in 1906.", "Shareholders can sue Boeing over claims it ignored safety warnings about its 737 Max plane, a US judge rules.", "Twitter's latest test to change its core experience makes photos and videos fill a mobile screen.", "In return, the new regime must provide conditions for the UN to work in Afghanistan, secretary general tells BBC.", "Pensioners will have social care certainty, but workers and work will be taxed.", "Alice Thompson was awarded £185,000 after being told she could not work shorter hours to pick up her child.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu says her stunning run to the US Open quarter-finals is \"surreal\", putting her success down to feeling \"really, really happy\".", "Two care home staff worked to cover a night-shift gap as there was no emergency cover available.", "More UK students have accepted uni places this year but EU student numbers fall sharply.", "A teacher, priest and minister recall the dispute outside Holy Cross Primary School in Belfast in 2001.", "As well as increased charges and insurance costs, many owners also face expensive repair work.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu reaches the US Open semi-finals with a superb straight-set win over Swiss 11th seed Belinda Bencic.", "Members of a pro-democracy organisation have been detained under a controversial security law.", "The group also announce a greatest hits album, including their first new music in seven years.", "Carl Bean was also a prominent Aids activist who founded a network of LGBT churches.", "He fell between the train and the platform while alighting and was not seen by the driver.", "Dillon Anderson raped four young women in a series of attacks, the first when he was 14.", "Yevgeny Zinichev was killed while trying to save a cameraman who had fallen into water, reports say.", "Businesses are affected and roads made impassable due to flood water caused by downpours.", "Data on whether they are needed is still awaited but ministers say the NHS is ready to go if they are.", "The online retail giant saw UK sales rise by 50% last year amid a Covid-driven hike in demand.", "A UK-wide tax rise to help fund the NHS and social care is voted through by a majority of MPs.", "The all-men interim cabinet includes names of people on the US and UN most-wanted lists.", "BBC News NI is given exclusive access to an intensive care unit, where patients are battling Covid.", "Aaron O'Halloran causes eight-hour passenger delays with his half-mile car ride between stations.", "The PM says the levy will help with \"catastrophic costs\", but Labour says it is unfair on working people.", "The BBC has been told that the green and amber categories could be removed and replaced with a new system.", "The magnitude-seven quake struck near Acapulco, and was felt around 370 km away in Mexico City.", "Campaigners say the sentence given to Sophie Moss's killer sends a \"dreadful message\".", "Scott McCluskey posted racist comments about black England players on social media.", "Survivors and families attend the long-awaited trial of 20 men accused of the deadly 2015 attacks.", "Substitute Damian Szymanski scores a stoppage-time equaliser to deny England victory in their World Cup qualifying game away to Poland.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson confuses the England footballer and rugby player in an interview.", "The Consumer Council says the average Firmus energy annual bill is set to rise by about £182.", "The \"simple-looking\" bowl turned out to be a rare Chinese relic, smashing its initial valuation.", "Government to fast-track lorry drivers to alleviate chronic shortage, BBC understands.", "The countries at greatest risk say all nations must take bigger steps to avoid climate catastrophe.", "All of the dead, including two foreigners, were inmates, with guards unable to unlock doors in time.", "Boris Johnson wins a House of Commons vote on his plan to increase National Insurance tax.", "The Supreme Court rules that prosecuting women for terminating pregnancies is unconstitutional.", "Boris Johnson has chosen to wager that the public will accept higher taxes for healthcare.", "Anne Fish began as her son's manager and has just signed a professional gaming contract.", "The Scottish government had paused its indyref2 plans because of the Covid pandemic.", "The government said it found evidence the animal had the disease, but supporters dispute this.", "Boris Johnson says a \"higher proportion\" of younger people are being affected by the virus.", "Rents are increasing at their fastest pace in more than 10 years, according to property website Zoopla.", "A woman who got one jab in England and one in Scotland says her vaccine certificate only confirms a single dose.", "Boris Johnson says he accepts the UK-wide tax rise of £12bn a year breaks an election promise.", "It follows government concern that a big rise in earnings would have meant pensions increasing by 8%.", "Funding has to rise so all pupils can be supported to learn, the National Association of Head Teachers says.", "Scotland impressively revive their World Cup hopes with a momentous victory over Austria to climb into the Group F play-off spot.", "In his first question time since Parliament's summer break, Boris Johnson defends his new tax, while Labour labels it \"unfair\".", "The fierce protests reflect tensions in the country, which broke away from Serbia in 2006.", "Gen Sir Nick Carter says the speed of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan surprised the UK.", "Those still on furlough face uncertain times when the scheme ends, the Resolution Foundation says.", "Michael Fawcett has been accused of offering to help a wealthy Saudi businessman receive a CBE.", "Bereaved relatives say they have not been consulted on when the tower will be taken down.", "Boccia gold medallist David Smith will carry the Great Britain flag at Sunday's closing ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics.", "Some of the outdoor seating set up by businesses in the pandemic could be allowed to remain.", "Barrie Henderson was devastated when his family restaurant closed, but now plans to bring back the family name.", "Jeans and chinos are banned in a toughening of post-Zoom Commons rules set by the Speaker.", "Tom Hardy, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Forest Whitaker have all been seen enjoying Wales while filming.", "Amrullah Saleh, in the Panjshir Valley, tells the BBC that fighters face a \"difficult\" situation.", "An influence operation is posting responses on Western media sites, Cardiff University researchers say.", "BBC News NI's Gareth Gordon reflects on the 20th anniversary of Belfast's Holy Cross school dispute.", "An NHS worker, a teacher and families trapped in Afghanistan tell the BBC about their plans now.", "The scheme for nightclubs and other venues from the end of September aims to ensure they stay open.", "There's been a glut of shows featuring stunning scenery, simple lifestyles and down-to-earth people.", "England make a promising start to their pursuit of a record 368 to leave the fourth Test against India primed for a thrilling conclusion at The Kia Oval.", "Eyewitnesses describe seeing the wing-walker biplane flip as it hit the water near Poole harbour.", "Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel says modern political figures don't match up to past ones.", "The airport says too few staff were on duty at passport control as families returned from holiday.", "The late singer was an irrepressible and immensely likeable pop star with a \"wild child\" reputation.", "People around the country tell the BBC they have lost basic freedoms and are struggling to survive.", "Britain's High Streets lost more than 8,700 stores in the first six months of 2021, research suggests.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu earns a stunning win over Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo to reach the US Open last 16.", "Boris Johnson will vow to use \"every economic, political and diplomatic lever\" to help Afghans.", "The divers were exploring a former Royal Navy frigate which was sunk to create an offshore reef.", "The killing comes amid increasing reports of escalating repression of women in Afghanistan.", "Dylan Rich, 17, is suspected to have suffered a cardiac arrest during the game in Nottinghamshire.", "Glasgow-based DialADeal Scotland Ltd made more than half a million unsolicited calls between August 2019 and March 2020.", "England score three times in the last 18 minutes to overcome Group I minnows Andorra and secure a fifth straight World Cup qualifying win.", "Great Britain win two bronze medals on the final day of the Tokyo Paralympics to finish second in the medal table.", "Scotland keep their World Cup qualification dream alive with a narrow but deserved win over Moldova thanks to Lyndon Dykes' first-half tap-in.", "The health secretary says it \"will help turn off the ticking clock in the back of people's minds\".", "Health Secretary Humza Yousaf tells BBC Scotland the passports are preferable to another lockdown.", "Residents in the area were told to keep doors and windows shut due to a large smoke plume.", "Ex-Irish President Mary McAleese describes Mrs Hume as the \"perfect partner\" to her husband John.", "Gareth Bale scores a match-winning hat-trick to save Wales from embarrassment against Belarus and keep alive their hopes of qualifying for the World Cup.", "Great Britain's Paralympics team has \"rewritten the history books\" with their performance in Tokyo, says chef de mission Penny Briscoe.", "The trains have been cancelled due to engineering works and strike action and no replacement buses will be available.", "Nothing significant was found during a new search for clues to the chef's disappearance, police say.", "The furniture giant is among businesses struggling with a driver shortage due to Covid and Brexit.", "The singer, who announced she had breast cancer in August 2020, has died at the age of 39.", "The ambulance service says it sent its hazardous area response team to the scene.", "An employment tribunal rules in favour of a staff member who says bosses treated her unfavourably.", "A man is charged after Fawziyah Javed, 31, died following a cliff fall in Edinburgh on Thursday evening.", "From Popstars: The Rivals to chart-topping, award-winning success and a Celebrity Big Brother win.", "Emergency services were called to the centre on Friday to reports a child had been seriously injured.", "A mother says a cancer specialist told her the best way to keep her child safe was at a unit other than Glasgow's super hospital.", "Drivers face warnings and fines on five of Wales' most polluted roads as new limits are introduced.", "BBC Disclosure looks at Scotland's \"housing crisis\" with many young and less affluent people priced out.", "More than 400,000 requests are made for the voucher as the public is urged not to rush \"at once\".", "Testing and isolating low-risk patients before planned operations can be dropped, new advice says.", "The accountancy firm has been fined £2.3m for audit failings of bust cake chain Patisserie Valerie", "The shadow home secretary says Labour will \"tackle anti-social behaviour\" if the party wins power.", "The shadow trade secretary says it is “factually inaccurate” to say only women have a cervix.", "Jonathan Diba-Musangu, 23, met his victims through a church in Rochdale where he taught Sunday school.", "Greg Smith, who lives in the converted primary, says the surplus paint job is a waste of council tax.", "The boss of supermarket chain Aldi UK says he doesn't expect any disruption for customers this Christmas.", "The United States regain the Ryder Cup, beating Europe by a record 19-9 score at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.", "Police say two girls came to the assistance of the victim and are appealing for them to get in touch.", "Wiley is accused of assault and burglary with intent to cause criminal damage.", "The findings come from one of the first Covid surveys asking the young, rather than parents, their views.", "The Labour leader calls for \"mature, respectful debate\" over trans rights after MP's comments.", "Boris Johnson says he will appoint an inquiry chair before Christmas, after meeting a campaign group.", "Rachel Reeves promises to be the UK's \"first green chancellor\" if Labour wins power.", "The man was arrested in the early hours of Sunday, more than a week after Ms Nessa's death.", "Ministers agree with most of England's planned changes, but are undecided on post-arrival tests.", "Inquests have opened into the deaths of a woman and three children found dead at a house in Derbyshire.", "The 28-year-old primary school teacher was found dead in a south-east London park.", "A total of 53 people are arrested following the protest on the M25 slip road at Heathrow Airport.", "The coal-supporting nation has faced increasing pressure to commit to a net zero emissions target.", "Head teachers have warned of fake consent letters for Covid vaccines being circulated in schools.", "Another 40 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test.", "The leader's office hope changes to Labour rules will make the party more manageable and disciplined.", "A 36-year-old was arrested on Sunday in what police describe as a \"significant development\".", "Scientists fear plastic pollution will be overlooked as politicians focus on climate change policy.", "Adults working in private schools, housing associations and faith groups do not have to register.", "The far-right group was deregistered in 2017 when it failed to renew its registration in time.", "Sales are already soaring despite fewer birds being produced for the big chains, a farming boss says.", "Labour's deputy leader says she will apologise to the PM in person if he retracts his past comments.", "Mark Drakeford says Labour can learn how to win at Westminster by looking at success elsewhere.", "Nearly two-thirds have voted yes to the proposal, already law in most of western Europe.", "The result is tight - both the centre-left and the conservatives say they will try to form a coalition.", "Andy McDonald says Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has made the party \"more divided than ever\".", "The McFly singer and professional dancer Amy Dowden will miss Saturday's show after getting Covid.", "Marion MacLeod tells an inquiry of the moment the Manchester Arena bomb went off, killing her daughter.", "The singer recalls being assaulted as a teenager in an attempt to dispel myths around rape.", "Increasing numbers are raising money to go private rather than wait for NHS operations.", "Facebook delays its child-friendly Instagram version to do more work with concerned parents.", "Officials say the man died when a church dome collapsed on the southern Greek island.", "However, ministers have not halted the 1m social distancing rule for hospitality venues.", "SDLP Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon says she has raised the issue with the NI Executive.", "After decades of allegations, the singer is convicted of running a scheme to abuse women and children.", "Nine others were injured as the whirlwind overturned cars on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria.", "Mary McCann misses a court date where she was due to answer charges following a crash on the M1.", "After sunset, 67 candles were lit to remember British victims as part of remembrance events in the UK.", "The Last Night concert will also feature Wagner, accordion solos and Rule, Brittania!", "Mary McCann is wanted by police after two of her children died in a crash on the M1.", "Audrey Diwan's Happening is set in 1960s France but comes amid debate over strict new laws in Texas.", "One local said a mouse had gnawed its way into her bedroom because they are too close to homes.", "The government needs to help local people take back control of their communities, a former aide says.", "Bishop Anne Dyer faces claims of bullying and that her Aberdeen and Orkney diocese is \"dysfunctional\".", "Hundreds of new state pension claimants failed to get payments due to Covid and staffing problems.", "The terror threat to the UK remains \"a real and enduring thing\", the head of the security service says.", "Women's education and independent media have been the success stories, but all this might change now.", "Like Trigger's Broom from Only Fools and Horses, the bridge doesn't have much from its first build.", "Legal documents were served to a police officer in Windsor last month, US court papers say.", "The Taliban's new ministers have taken office - but are they any different this time around?", "The Finsbury Park mosque attacker was stabbed by an inmate while serving a life sentence for murder.", "It comes as some Welsh boards postpone routine surgery and halt some visits as Covid cases rise.", "The Last Night concert ended with a tribute to the \"healing and uplifting power of music\".", "If Scot Andrew Cullen hadn't hit the down button instead of heading back up the tower, he would have been killed seconds later.", "A major search and rescue operation was launched to rescue the woman after her fall.", "Emma Raducanu ends Britain's 44-year wait for a women's Grand Slam singles champion as she beats Leylah Fernandez to win the US Open.", "Mosque leaders says they are \"so grateful\" to neighbours who tried to put out the blaze with coats.", "Commemorations have taken place on the 20th anniversary of the 11 September attacks.", "The Labour leader responds to the PM's plan to raise taxes to pay for the NHS and social care.", "The plan will include contingency measures that would come into force if the NHS was under pressure.", "Sir Michael McBride says \"certainty of long-term harm to many children\" from not attending school.", "All films set to come out 2021 will be released in cinemas, handing a boost to struggling venues.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu's history-making US Open final against Leylah Fernandez will be shown live on Channel 4.", "Failure to follow procedures contributed to last year's crash at Calicut airport, investigators say.", "A British man is among six arrested on a luxury yacht carrying more than two tonnes of cocaine.", "A US judge will decide whether papers were served before a case brought by Prince Andrew's accuser can begin.", "US group Why Don't We claim they were made \"hostages in our own home\" and had their food restricted.", "Elle Seline hopes to inspire the next generation to be more comfortable in their own skin.", "Ceremonies are held in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania to mark the lives lost 20 years ago.", "Twenty years after that seismic, devastating day, the US feels a much sadder, more introspective place.", "Britain's \"cool, calm and composed\" US Open finalist Emma Raducanu is meeting the challenges of her first overseas Grand Slam head on.", "The president pays tribute to the 2,977 victims on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the attacks.", "Emma Raducanu seeks to become the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title in 44 years when she takes on fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez in the US Open final.", "The United Nations says the Taliban used live ammunition, batons and whips on protesters, killing four.", "Cristiano Ronaldo scores twice on his return to Manchester United as the hosts eventually cruise to victory against Newcastle to send Old Trafford into raptures.", "Former President George Bush speaks movingly about the loss felt by the nation, 20 years after 9/11.", "The Royal College of GPs says a failure to recruit enough doctors has put services under pressure.", "Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez arrive in Venice for the premiere of The Last Duel.", "The partnership is looking to fill 7,000 temporary roles in shops, department stores and warehouses.", "The all-civilian Inspiration4 crew leave Earth on their three-day private spaceflight.", "French law says the models have run out of time to start criminal proceedings over sexual assault.", "The family of Stefan Sutherland believed his death in Caithness was suspicious and campaigned for a review.", "Two CalMac ships for the Islay route will be built by an overseas yard after Ferguson fails to make the shortlist.", "Experts say a single dose of Pfizer should be offered at least six months after a second dose.", "Inquests open on the four miners who became trapped in the flooded Gleision mine in the Swansea Valley.", "The portrait-mode style video setting can pull focus on its subjects automatically.", "The Conservative MP was a close ally of PM Rishi Sunak, but resigned after a bullying probe.", "Paul Hamill was a \"hard-working and dedicated representative\" says the DUP leader.", "Simone Biles says she felt \"empowered\" after speaking out against her sexual abuser and US gymnastics team doctor, Larry Nassar.", "The families of four miners killed in the Gleision colliery disaster say they are still waiting for answers about what happened.", "The men, aged 19, 20, 21 and 33, were all detained on Wednesday under the Terrorism Act.", "Terry Lubbock, whose son Stuart died after a party at the entertainer's house, had terminal cancer.", "Researchers in Aberdeen say the use of strong painkillers by some patients was up 40% as they awaited surgery.", "The move comes as Instagram is facing fresh scrutiny over its impact on young people's wellbeing.", "Gavin Newsom appears to have survived a rare state-wide vote to remove him with a clear majority.", "A row erupts after Zheng Zeguang is told he is not welcome while sanctions against MPs are in place.", "The World Anti-Doping Agency is to review whether cannabis should remain a banned substance after Sha'Carri Richardson missed the Olympics for testing positive for the substance.", "The tests highlight an arms race on the peninsula, as nuclear talks with North Korea remain stalled.", "Boris Johnson replaces ministers who quit and forced him to announce his departure as prime minister.", "The reshuffle sees Nadhim Zahawi taking charge of schools, colleges and universities in England.", "Douglas Connell resigns during an investigation into donations at The Prince's Foundation.", "The scheme aims to help businesses in retail and hospitality which have been hit by the pandemic.", "The singer has described Jagged, which addresses her being raped as a teenager, as \"salacious\".", "Officials say schools should not identify close contacts unless asked by the Public Health Agency.", "Working from home could curb the spread of Covid during winter, says Sage member Andrew Hayward.", "Wildest Dreams came true when the American pop princess visited the city.", "Liz Truss is the new foreign secretary and Nadhim Zahawi becomes education secretary as the PM carries out a major reshuffle of ministers.", "Influencers are part of the City regulator's plan to highlight decisions over high-risk investments.", "North Korea keeps testing missiles despite international condemnation. Why does Pyongyang persist?", "A study of 196 fatal accident inquiries found the sheriff made no recommendation to improve practice in 90% of cases.", "Developer latest to drop clause campaigners say makes homes impossible to remortgage or sell.", "Ireland's foreign minister was under pressure over the appointment of a UN special envoy.", "No new 1p coins were made by the Royal Mint in 2018 and 2019 but production resumed last year.", "Cases of crippling school anxiety preventing attendance are spiralling, support groups say.", "Beijing says the deal, involving nuclear-powered submarines, undermines regional peace.", "Northern Ireland's 12 to 15-year-olds will be offered one jab, while all over-50s and healthcare staff can get a third.", "British Olympic silver medallist CJ Ujah's 'B' sample tests positive, following his initial positive test at the Tokyo Olympics.", "Pope Francis says most people at the Vatican are vaccinated except for a \"small group\".", "The chains says their clothes will stay reasonably priced but will be more sustainably produced.", "Restrictions at indoor concerts could lead to more big name acts pulling out of NI, promoters warn.", "Bereaved families say there has been \"no closure\" and they feel \"cheated\" out of an inquest.", "Government scientists are warning of a jump in Covid hospital admissions if rules are not tightened soon.", "Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after a chaotic 45 days in Downing Street.", "HMS Queen Elizabeth is about to travel 26,000 miles - but is it more than a flag-waving exercise?", "Detectives find no evidence of criminal activity associated with the 1995 Panorama programme.", "Relatives pay tribute to the four men killed in the Swansea Valley mining tragedy amid calls for a safety review.", "BBC Sport speaks to the directors behind Athlete A, Netflix's new documentary about the Dr Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal.", "It had evidence Instagram was a harmful place for young people - but failed to share its findings.", "Police arrest 71 people as activists disrupt motorway traffic in Hertfordshire, Surrey and Kent.", "While agents dragged their feet, the report found, Larry Nassar continued to prey on gymnasts.", "Britain's Emma Raducanu says she is \"hungry\" to improve after her US Open win but wants a few days' rest first.", "Police \"failed\" in their response to the Manchester Arena attack in 2017, an inquiry hears.", "Microsoft says users can delete all passwords from their accounts and use a different login system.", "People's Energy and Utility Point, which supply power to more than 500,000 people, have ceased trading.", "The reshuffle has seen the removal of an education secretary much criticised during the pandemic.", "The prime minister has sacked Mr Williamson, who faced repeated calls to quit as education secretary.", "The father-of-two died after being stabbed on a rural road near Newry in 2018.", "The PM hopes his rejigged top team will allow him to get things done following Brexit and Covid.", "A charity says many families believe unsuitable housing is damaging their children's health.", "But he says the UK is better placed to tackle the disease as he outlines England's winter plan.", "The 22-year-old, who left London at 15 to join the Islamic State group, says she could be useful.", "Her appointment comes amidst a political controversy, following her criticism of Boris Johnson.", "The jabs will initially be available at drop-in centres, with appointment letters being sent out the following week.", "Jordan Henderson's strike gives Liverpool victory in a remarkable Champions League group opener against AC Milan.", "Ex-Olympic doctor Larry Nassar has received a 175-year sentence for abuse. This is his victims' story.", "The Canadian comic was best known for presenting a news parody on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s.", "The MP for Mid Bedfordshire and former health minister replaces Oliver Dowden.", "There is no evidence of any impact on fertility - but research will help to counter false claims.", "It comes after police made several arrests at a series of Orange Walks in Glasgow at the weekend.", "Prof Sir John Bell says the country \"is over the worst\" and things \"should be fine\" once winter has passed.", "By the time Becca Martin's family got an appointment for her dad, he was so ill he was taken to hospital.", "Boris Johnson tells the French president to \"get a grip\" amid anger over a submarine deal.", "The new technology means Kate Molton's stage four lung cancer can treated with one tablet a day.", "The BBC finds stranded migrants facing near-zero temperatures amid a row between Poland and Belarus.", "Low-income families face a £710 rise in costs, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation estimates.", "The party will set out the plan at its annual conference, arguing it will help first-time buyers.", "Tenants are being evicted due to rent arrears built up during the pandemic, an investigation finds.", "Eddie, who is about six months old, escaped the day after arriving and was last seen outside a village pub.", "The ex-Labour MP faces a Parliament pass ban over his conduct - but he rejects the inquiry's verdict.", "The WHO is slashing recommended maximum limits of key pollutants as evidence of danger mounts.", "The indictment says Brian Laundrie used a debit card that did not belong to him after her death.", "The London Fire Brigade asked the government to warn of the risks seven years before the Grenfell fire.", "Gaps on supermarket shelves may become commonplace as labour shortages bite, industry bodies say.", "Staff should not have the right to ask for flexible working from day one of new job, an employer says.", "The US president promises an extra 500 million shots to the developing world, as he hosts a Covid summit.", "Connie Gent was one of three children who were killed at a Derbyshire home.", "Manufacturers could be forced to change devices to a uniform charging system.", "A 38-year-old is arrested in Lewisham as police release an image of a second man they are searching for.", "Matthew Strachan wrote the music for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? with father Keith.", "The compensation payment is one of hundreds by the Ministry of Defence, revealed for the first time.", "The luggage ledger dates back to April 1885, when the railway station opened.", "The US supplier of CO2, which will receive millions in UK taxpayer support to reopen, will hike prices.", "The leaks relate to the Scottish government's inquiry into harassment allegations against the former first minister.", "The filmmaker was also known for movies including Venus and My Cousin Rachel.", "The MoD apologises again as it emerges dozens of people were mistakenly copied in to another email.", "The government is set to make it illegal for hospitality bosses to withhold tips from their workers.", "The defence makes its final arguments in the singer's sex-abuse trial.", "Life expectancy for men has fallen because of the Covid pandemic - but what will be the long-term effect?", "The oil firm said only \"a handful\" of sites are affected by the fuel supply issues.", "Thousands of unmarried women in the UK say they had to give up their babies in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.", "The Bank keeps interest rates at 0.1% and says there are signs of slowing economic growth.", "Campaigners say including extremist narratives among everyday conversations can be a pathway to radicalisation.", "The image of Chloe Clem could fetch her tens of thousands of dollars at auction.", "The island has chosen 24 members to serve in the House of Keys until 2026.", "David Arnold sent a letter outlining his intention to kill his wife.", "No major gaffes and progress on climate change on PM's US trip but a trade deal remains a distant prospect.", "The teacher had been on her way to meet a friend but was killed shortly after leaving home.", "The PM admits the UK is now aiming only for \"incremental steps\" on US trade, rather than a full agreement.", "The government said it is \"looking at options\" to deal with labour shortages ahead of Christmas.", "The Scottish actor played henpecked husband Howard in the BBC sitcom for 25 years.", "A convoy of three lorries was used to remove pallets of Blue WKD drink from Caledonian Bottlers in Ayrshire.", "Norman Taylor says he was asked to pay the fee when he could not attend a class on falling ill.", "Heidi Crowter says the current law on abortion for foetuses with the condition does not respect her life.", "Scientists have found evidence that humans reached the Americas earlier than previously thought.", "The game won't be available on iPhones or other Apple devices until its legal battle with Epic Games ends.", "The US is flying migrants out of a Texas border town where 13,000 have gathered in makeshift camps.", "Her cousin pays tribute to the primary school teacher describing her as a \"beautiful soul\".", "World leaders must make major changes in four areas - \"coal, cars, cash and trees\", Boris Johnson says.", "The Labour leader writes 11,500 words on how he would change the UK, ahead of his party conference.", "Daniel Foote says US policy on Haiti is \"flawed\" and sending migrants back is \"counterproductive\".", "Primary school teacher Sabina Nessa was killed as she made a short walk to a pub, police believe.", "The star says she has become \"a recluse\" after an adverse reaction to a fat reduction procedure.", "UK visitors no longer need to quarantine for 14 days if they can't prove they are fully vaccinated.", "Reports suggest the Taliban are searching for, and allegedly killing, people they pledged to leave in peace.", "E10 is set to become the new standard petrol, but 24% of drivers are unaware of it, says the RAC.", "Want to know what's happening when in the Tokyo Paralympic Games? Check out our comprehensive guide to all the action.", "\"We want to hug her, kiss her\", say her parents, who had to return to the UK to replace travel documents.", "General Mark Milley says it \"remains to be seen\" whether the Islamist group will change.", "The number of coronavirus patients in hospital on ventilators is also the highest for six months.", "The baby goods retailer tells the BBC that it has raised prices for the first time in five years.", "The pub chain and a Coca-Cola bottler are among firms affected by a shortage of UK lorry drivers.", "Cristiano Ronaldo's move back to Manchester United on transfer deadline day helps to push Premier League clubs' spending past £1bn - but overall outlay has dropped.", "The foreign secretary says intelligence suggested Kabul would not fall to the Taliban this year.", "The group of four admit they had planned to steal about £750,000 worth of high-value vehicles.", "Maddie Durdant-Hollamby was stabbed while Benjamin Green's injuries were self-inflicted, police say.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu again shows her talent and maturity on the Grand Slam stage as she eases to victory on her US Open main-draw debut.", "A meeting of the Stormont Executive on Wednesday to discuss restrictions has been postponed until next week.", "Check out all the significant signings on August deadline day and during September 2021 as clubs reshape their squads for the new season.", "As US troops took off from Kabul, they abandoned 73 aircraft - all disabled.", "An Oregon branch sees flood of applications after failing to recruit older workers.", "Cristiano Ronaldo breaks the world record for goals scored in men's international football with two headers against the Republic of Ireland.", "More than 400,000 people in the UK are eligible - but plans for further boosters are yet to be confirmed.", "The work and pensions secretary rejects a call from UK politicians to maintain a £20 universal credit top up.", "Floods, storms and extreme events increase five-fold but the number of people dying in them fell.", "Inclisiran is a new treatment that works even when other fat-busting drugs, like statins, have not.", "It offers payments to people injured during the Troubles but is more than a year behind schedule.", "Colin Pitchfork was jailed in 1988 for raping and murdering two 15-year-old girls in Leicestershire.", "Experts say 17,500 tree species are at risk around the world, including magnolias, oaks and maples.", "A senior doctor says many of those waiting for beds are \"our most vulnerable patients\".", "Taliban authorities in Afghanistan should stop using force against protests, a UN rights body says.", "A UK official is in Qatar for talks to secure the exit of both UK and Afghan nationals, No 10 says.", "As foreign forces end their 20-year campaign, our world affairs editor considers what has been achieved.", "Passengers are warned about disruption until the weekend after a bridge is struck in Plymouth.", "Susan Dorbon was left tetraplegic after being found trapped between hangar doors, an inquest hears.", "Britain's David Smith likens himself to footballer Cristiano Ronaldo as he retains his Paralympic boccia individual title.", "The Liverpool taxi driver travelled to the country about two weeks ago to help his family flee.", "Staying in Afghanistan was not an option, the US president says, as Taliban militants celebrate.", "People who have not been fully vaccinated will not be able to attend many sporting events, concerts or nightclubs.", "Syed Ali Geelani, a staunch critic of India, was under house arrest for much of the last decade.", "TV watchdog Ofcom rejects a record 58,000 complaints about his criticism of the Duchess of Sussex.", "The majority of in-flight systems on the ISS have passed their expiry date, an official warns.", "Gunfire rang out as the BBC's Lyse Doucet reported on US troops' departure from Kabul.", "Millions of homes remain without power across New Orleans and the wider region following Hurricane Ida.", "The BBC Sounds and Radio 2 commission has been criticised for not having a black host.", "Defender Benjamin Mendy, who has been charged with rape, has a bail application refused by a judge.", "Public should be reassured over rates of persistent symptoms, leading child health experts say.", "Despite an attack being expected, emails seen by the BBC show embassy staff directing Afghans to the gate.", "A destruction order is carried out on the alpaca that tested positive for bovine TB.", "Reece Dunn sets a new world record to win his third gold medal of the Tokyo Paralympics, as the medals continue to flow for Great Britain on day seven.", "Calum Maclean and Jenny Graham climbed mountains, scrambled down gullies and tackled steep rocky crags on the route.", "The race organisers say the 2022 event would be unviable due to \"escalating financial challenges\".", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says students should expect in-person teaching for new term.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu reaches the US Open semi-finals with a superb straight-set win over Swiss 11th seed Belinda Bencic.", "The Taliban's new ministers have taken office - but are they any different this time around?", "Some unions and care organisations have warned that making the jabs mandatory will lead to staff shortages.", "Party co-chair Ben Elliot is warned to be \"cautious\" and avoid lobbying on behalf of business clients.", "The online shopping giant says all US frontline workers will be eligible as it fights to attract new employees.", "Reporter Taqi Daryabi tells the BBC he was kicked in the face and beaten with sticks by Taliban fighters.", "Three is the third UK network to bring back roaming charges for the EU post-Brexit.", "The BBC has been told that the green and amber categories could be removed and replaced with a new system.", "Defence minister tells MPs he hopes noise and vibrations problems can be resolved but gives no deadline.", "Substitute Damian Szymanski scores a stoppage-time equaliser to deny England victory in their World Cup qualifying game away to Poland.", "Emma Raducanu says it is a \"weird feeling\" to be one of the few remaining players in the locker room after reaching the US Open semi-finals.", "An expert witness criticises the decision to sign off the tower's cladding as safe without evidence.", "Government to fast-track lorry drivers to alleviate chronic shortage, BBC understands.", "Ben King died while being treated at Cawston Park, which closed in May.", "Costa said the 5% pay rise was to reward 14,500 staff for their hard work during the pandemic.", "Paul Gambaccini and the brother of murdered investigator Daniel Morgan are among those demanding change.", "The alarm went off as the space station's batteries were being charged, Russia's space agency says.", "The duo have won the TV presenting prize at the National Television Awards every year since 2001.", "PayPal is bringing in a new fee for commercial transactions between the UK and EEA.", "The number of young people on furlough falls, but older people and travel workers are less fortunate.", "The statue became a focal point for the protests following the death of George Floyd last spring.", "The Texas law effectively bans abortions from as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.", "Despite objections from opposition MSPs, the Scottish government wins a vote which will see the introduction of vaccine certification for some venues.", "Australia's biggest city is likely to exit lockdown from next month, provided vaccinations continue.", "Fourteen people are killed at a makeshift hospital treating Covid-19 patients in Tetovo.", "The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union says its members are at risk.", "But Sir Winston Churchill's grandson says his family \"unreservedly support\" the organisation.", "The \"simple-looking\" bowl turned out to be a rare Chinese relic, smashing its initial valuation.", "Health Minister Eluned Morgan said \"it is not a situation that is acceptable\".", "Boris Johnson has chosen to wager that the public will accept higher taxes for healthcare.", "An all-women club for climbers marks its centenary where it began - in Snowdonia.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu expresses her surprise at her run to the US Open semi-finals, having had flights back to the UK booked a fortnight ago.", "European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic calls for calm as he visits Northern Ireland.", "Cricket Australia (CA) will cancel its men's Test match with Afghanistan if reports that the women's team cannot play under Taliban rule are true.", "Dozens of people, including 13 UK citizens, take a plane from Kabul to Qatar's capital Doha.", "By 2030, KPMG wants 29% of its senior staff to have parents that worked in \"routine and manual\" jobs.", "The airline says a recent takeover approach undervalued the business and announces plans to raise £1.2bn.", "Case rates have risen in every area of England apart from the South West, Public Health England says.", "Duggie Speight sexually abused a teenage boy and filmed youngsters at a swimming baths.", "Medomsley detention centre, which shut in 1988, housed teenagers who had committed minor crimes.", "The raid comes a day after four members of the group that ran the venue were arrested.", "Soul singer Arlo Parks scoops the 2021 Mercury Prize for her debut album, Collapsed In Sunbeams.", "The Consumer Council says the average Firmus energy annual bill is set to rise by about £182.", "Boris Johnson wins a House of Commons vote on his plan to increase National Insurance tax.", "An Afghan Special Forces commander says he owes his life to members of the Parachute Regiment who helped him escape.", "Boris Johnson says a \"higher proportion\" of younger people are being affected by the virus.", "An investigation by Global Witness suggests its algorithm is biased in choosing who sees which ads.", "The UK regulator's decision paves the way for a rollout ahead of winter to millions of people.", "Rio Ferdinand says football is \"sliding backwards\" and racism is being normalised by the prevalence of racist abuse online.", "The Glasgow comedian admitted the tweets, from several years ago, had \"terrible, horrific undertones\".", "Dozens of women march in Kabul and in Badakhshan province, angry at the new Taliban government.", "The Taliban's new ministers have taken office - but are they any different this time around?", "Iain Anderson says he will work to \"build a bridge\" between the government and LGBT community.", "Plans to only allow fully vaccinated people into nightclubs and other large events are approved by MSPs.", "Carl Bean was also a prominent Aids activist who founded a network of LGBT churches.", "The former England was giving evidence to MPs and Peers about the government's draft Online Safety Bill.", "Dillon Anderson raped four young women in a series of attacks, the first when he was 14.", "It's the first big awards night for British TV since the pandemic began.", "Transport secretary Grant Shapps says the UK must \"stand on its own two feet\" and not rely on EU drivers.", "Hayder Aljayyash was sentenced to 20 months after breaking into University of South Wales' systems.", "Flu jabs in England and Wales are delayed due to an HGV driver shortage, a supplier says.", "Campaigners say the sentence given to Sophie Moss's killer sends a \"dreadful message\".", "The move will mean only fully vaccinated people will be allowed into nightclubs and many large events.", "Ashraf Ghani, who has sought refuge in the UAE, says he left Kabul to avoid \"horrific\" violence.", "Five men spent time in prison when they were wrongly accused of killing Lynette White in 1988.", "Helen Whately admits the changes to the system are \"a little way off\" but says it is a big reform.", "Almost 60% of oil and gas and 90% of coal must stay in the ground to keep global warming below 1.5C.", "A court rejects autocorrect as the excuse for the message about West Bromwich Albion's Romaine Sawyers.", "Staff are seen fleeing to a safe room and loud bangs are heard in the stand-off in Bristol.", "John Trotman, twice awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, has got behind the controls once more.", "The four amateur astronauts landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean after three days orbiting Earth.", "Owner of the Druidstone Hotel says the clifftop bar was overrun by tourists wanting to see the sunset.", "The former Oasis frontman shares an image of his bruised face after playing the Isle of Wight Festival.", "Prof Hugh Pennington, who chaired the 2005 E. coli inquiry, says it would cause \"enormous overlap\".", "Travel agents report a rise in bookings after the amber list is scrapped and testing rules are eased.", "Chelsea stretch their unbeaten Premier League run to five games as Thomas Tuchel's team deservedly beat Tottenham.", "France's foreign minister accuses its allies of \"duplicity\" and \"contempt\" over a new security pact.", "People's Energy and Utility Point, which supply power to more than 500,000 people, have ceased trading.", "One mum says \"it's something we've got to do\" because her children are looking forward to a holiday.", "Conservationist Sacha Dench and Dan Burton were on a round Britain paramotor flight when the crash happened.", "Oti Mabuse and Ugo Monye's rivals include the show's first all-male pair - John Whaite and Johannes Radebe.", "The Briton was asked to leave the plane at Newark airport after a reported row over face coverings.", "Bedale Hunt in North Yorkshire confirms the young girl died in a \"tragic accident\".", "Richard Ratcliffe says he will urge the new foreign secretary to take firm steps to secure his wife's release.", "Meat producers and supermarkets fear a shortage of CO2 will hit the availability of fresh produce.", "Tottenham and Chelsea lead the tributes for their former player Jimmy Greaves, who has died aged 81.", "BBC Sport looks back at some great goals from Jimmy Greaves' career and highlights the statistics that made him a footballing legend.", "Liverpool remain unbeaten in the Premier League this season after Sadio Mane scores his 100th goal for the club in a victory against Crystal Palace.", "Bulb, the UK's sixth largest energy provider, is seeking funds due to price rises in wholesale gas.", "Both parties are continuing to discuss \"an ambitious co-operation agreement\" in the Welsh parliament.", "More than 10,000 people have gathered under a bridge in Del Rio, a Texas border town.", "Boris Johnson will also visit the White House for the first time since Joe Biden became US president.", "COP26 president Alok Sharma says people should not be concerned about prices hikes or supply shortages.", "The couple say they have no idea how the 5ft female python got into their home.", "Michelle Hadaway says Martin Bashir asked to get her daughter's clothes DNA tested for a BBC programme.", "The deal will make the UK safer and could create hundreds of jobs, the new foreign secretary says.", "One of England's greatest goalscorers, Jimmy Greaves was also a popular and enduring figure, writes Phil McNulty.", "It is the latest restriction imposed on Afghanistan's women by the country's new Taliban rulers.", "A school says it is closed as three of its students have been involved in the \"tragic incident\".", "What is the latest in Virginia Giuffre's attempt to sue Prince Andrew and will the case ever begin?", "With Wales at alert level zero, the Welsh government says it will keep an eye on Covid cases.", "BBC Sport looks back at the career of former England striker and Tottenham's record goalscorer Jimmy Greaves, who has died at the age of 81.", "Sir Ed Davey calls for a fairer deal for carers, parents and business in his conference speech.", "Fleeing Nigeria on the brink of civil war in 1966 gave my mother empathy for today's refugees.", "It is estimated that fortifying flour with folic acid could prevent up to 200 birth defects a year.", "A rally in support of jailed rioters draws a few hundred attendees - and more press and police.", "Events in Afghanistan exposed \"serious weaknesses\" in the UK's approach, a report says.", "The PM defends ending the multi-billion dollar agreement in favour of a new pact with the US and UK.", "The higher education regulator says students must have a say on how much of their teaching is online.", "World Cup-winning England striker and Tottenham's record goalscorer Jimmy Greaves dies at the age of 81.", "The actor, who died on Sunday, was best known for playing car dealer Boycie in Only Fools and Horses.", "Israel launches a huge manhunt after six militants dig their way out of the high-security jail.", "Famed for their shunning of technology, the Taliban are realising they need to be on social media too.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu puts in another devastating performance to reach the US Open quarter-finals as her dream New York debut continues.", "The milestone comes as another 41,000 daily cases are recorded, but the real total is likely to be higher.", "Members of Afghanistan's women's cricket team are hiding in Kabul, fearing for their safety following the Taliban's return to power.", "The council says the closure has increased pollution nearby but green groups want it to stay closed.", "Fans will be urged to travel to the stadium via bicycle or public transport and eat only vegan food when Spurs host Chelsea later this month.", "Michael Fawcett has been accused of offering to help a wealthy Saudi businessman receive a CBE.", "James Heappey corrects himself after mistakenly saying a British Afghan veteran had taken their own life.", "Bereaved relatives say they have not been consulted on when the tower will be taken down.", "The leader says he backs a plan to end the fighting in Panjshir Valley, an anti-Taliban stronghold.", "The one-year-old girls are said to be recovering well after the 12-hour operation in Israel.", "England's batting disintegrates in the face of an inspired India, who win the fourth Test by 157 runs to take a 2-1 lead in the series.", "An influence operation is posting responses on Western media sites, Cardiff University researchers say.", "The rockers will be joined by Sir Tom Jones and Catfish And The Bottlemen in all-Welsh concert.", "An old coal plant has had to be brought back online after a spike in the price of natural gas.", "Kashif Anwar, 27, made no plea when he appeared in private at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.", "BBC News NI's Gareth Gordon reflects on the 20th anniversary of Belfast's Holy Cross school dispute.", "An NHS worker, a teacher and families trapped in Afghanistan tell the BBC about their plans now.", "Boris Johnson says the money will \"go straight to the front line\" in England over the next six months.", "Another 45 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test have been reported in the UK.", "Joan Lawrence says she cannot live in hope of a breakthrough in solving her daughter's disappearance.", "The Taliban claim to have taken Panjshir – the last pocket of Afghanistan not under their control.", "Students across the UK are returning to school after the summer break and and a year disrupted by Covid.", "Passenger numbers are rising, but remain below pre-lockdown levels, Transport for London says.", "The restoration of Elizabeth Tower, which will ultimately cost at least £80 million, draws to a close.", "Star of Breathless, Jean-Paul Belmondo was one of France's most popular actors.", "Industry body the CBI wants immigration rules eased for lorry drivers, welders, butchers and bricklayers.", "Taliban authorities in Afghanistan should stop using force against protests, a UN rights body says.", "People around the country tell the BBC they have lost basic freedoms and are struggling to survive.", "Boris Johnson will vow to use \"every economic, political and diplomatic lever\" to help Afghans.", "The killing comes amid increasing reports of escalating repression of women in Afghanistan.", "Boris Johnson makes his first big move of the political season, with only ragged support from his MPs.", "The Taliban raise their flag over Panjshir Valley, but resistance fighters deny being defeated.", "Staff members and passengers rush to help three people working inside a ferry kiosk in Southampton.", "Wiley is accused of assault by beating and burglary with intent to cause criminal damage.", "Boris Johnson promises help for them to leave safely - but is accused of not showing leadership.", "Up to 15 people are now allowed indoors in homes while dancing will be allowed at wedding receptions.", "Police say the people involved in the attack are known to each other.", "Old age care needs another £10bn a year - the government plans to get it by raising National Insurance.", "The Malaysian Airlines flight was downed over Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people on board.", "The health secretary says it \"will help turn off the ticking clock in the back of people's minds\".", "Tributes are paid to Michael K Williams, best known for the HBO series, who has died at the age of 54.", "A neighbour says three generations of the same family were in the house when the flames took hold.", "The UK's Brexit minister says the move will \"provide space for further discussions\" with the EU.", "Former France footballer Jean-Pierre Adams, who had been in a coma for 39 years, has died at the age of 73.", "Emergency services were called to a food processing factory in north Wales on Monday.", "A steady stream of crossings is thought to be have taken place amid calm waters and sunny skies.", "Brazil and Argentina's World Cup qualifier is abandoned after Brazilian health officials walked onto the pitch minutes after kick off to object to the participation of three Argentine players.", "Charlotte Jackson's son died after she reported fluid loss to staff at an under-fire hospital trust.", "Two men dressed as lawyers opened fire in court on a man police detained on charges of murder and extortion.", "Damien Bendall is accused of killing Terri Harris and three children at a house in Derbyshire.", "Police say finding the man - filmed near where a vigil will be held for Ms Nessa later - is \"vital\".", "The It's A Sin writer says he is \"beyond excited\" to resume the role he filled from 2005 to 2009.", "The government is set to make it illegal for hospitality bosses to withhold tips from their workers.", "But Tesco and Asda say they have good availability and can refill despite queues at some stations.", "Charles Ogilvie-Forbes is a volunteer in a clinical trial at King’s College London.", "Scientists have found evidence that humans reached the Americas earlier than previously thought.", "The actor, 34, is carried off a golf course after collapsing during a celebrity match in the US.", "Headlines have focused on teenagers and booster doses - but millions still haven't had a first jab.", "Safety tips for women continue to suggest murderers have an excuse for killing.", "A 38-year-old is arrested and police release an image of a second man they are searching for.", "Research identifies 20,000 missing patients in England - and warns more staff and equipment are needed.", "The party will set out the plan at its annual conference, arguing it will help first-time buyers.", "Ianto Cerwyn Sior Jenkins, three, had been playing with his sister and cousin.", "The vigil in south-east London was held near where a wanted suspect was captured on CCTV.", "The indictment says Brian Laundrie used a debit card that did not belong to him after her death.", "Great Britain's Emma Raducanu relives her US Open-winning ace before trying to return the same serve from a machine.", "With pop-up vaccination centres on campus, student nurses are inviting their peers to get the jab.", "The oil firm said only \"a handful\" of sites are affected by the fuel supply issues.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 17 and 24 September.", "Rules on pre-departure Covid-19 testing change as the MoD prepares to send armed service medics to NI.", "The volcano on La Palma has been erupting since Sunday, destroying hundreds of homes.", "An unsuccessful applicant for a PSNI administrative post settles discrimination case for £12,500.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says there's a bottleneck because HGV driver tests were not available during the pandemic.", "The SpaceX founder said that their work had seen them spending significant amounts of time apart.", "The 91-year-old got her booster in Coventry alongside the matron who administered her first dose.", "Virginia Giuffre is claiming damages from Prince Andrew over allegations he sexually assaulted her.", "Britain’s top engineers are urging the government to stop buildings being demolished.", "Dr Tamara Bronckaers says she was \"excluded, ignored\" for raising animal welfare concerns.", "The BBC finds stranded migrants facing near-zero temperatures amid a row between Poland and Belarus.", "A 38-year-old is arrested in Lewisham as police release an image of a second man they are searching for.", "A Burnley man tells a court he \"did not attempt to murder\" two women in a Marks & Spencer store.", "Pre-departure tests for fully vaccinated travellers will be scrapped and the system aligned with the rest of the UK.", "The defence makes its final arguments in the singer's sex-abuse trial.", "Kim Yo-jong was responding to a renewed call from the South to officially declare an end to the Korean War.", "Queues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.", "Carles Puigdemont was detained in Italy over a failed Catalan bid to win independence.", "New rights for workers in first 100 days of Labour taking power, the party's deputy leader promises.", "The government said it is \"looking at options\" to deal with labour shortages ahead of Christmas.", "Passengers arriving at UK airports suffer delays after an IT problem hits self-service passport gates.", "The former presidential candidate describes the university as \"special\" during her speech.", "Olly Stephens, 13, was ambushed by two boys after being lured to a field by a girl in Reading.", "The compensation payment is one of hundreds by the Ministry of Defence, revealed for the first time.", "The 30-year scheme will cover an area from Loch Ness across the central Highlands to the west coast.", "His death is \"almost beyond belief\", the ski centre's management says, as an investigation begins.", "The island has chosen 24 members to serve in the House of Keys until 2026.", "They are charged with rioting and throwing petrol bombs on the night Lyra McKee was killed.", "Trading Bitcoin and other crypto-currenices is a criminal activity, China's central bank says.", "Judy Bruce from Swansea protests by sitting on motorways with members of the Insulate Britain group.", "The row over Meng Wanzhou's detention in 2018 strained China's relations with Canada and the US.", "The Notting Hill star says she was \"fortunate\" to have worked with its director, who has died at 65.", "UK and France will work together despite a diplomatic spat over Australian submarines, Downing Street says.", "The 40th edition of the world's biggest half-marathon sees 57,000 take on the route in Tyneside.", "After sunset, 67 candles were lit to remember British victims as part of remembrance events in the UK.", "Mary McCann is wanted by police after two of her children died in a crash on the M1.", "The new uni term starts soon but anyone who isn't fully vaccinated won't be allowed into clubs.", "Audrey Diwan's Happening is set in 1960s France but comes amid debate over strict new laws in Texas.", "Francis also meets PM Viktor Orban, who holds starkly divergent views on immigration and refugees.", "A 21-year-old man died in hospital after suffering a fatal wound, police say.", "Nasa's Perseverance rover was last week commanded to acquire two significant rock samples on Mars.", "Staff at his animal shelter successfully crossed from Afghanistan to Pakistan, says Pen Farthing.", "Union leaders say the Army should be deployed and \"pop-up\" wards erected at A&E departments to ease ambulance waits.", "Siôn Jobbins says Scotland's push for an independence referendum means Wales must be ready.", "Bishop Anne Dyer faces claims of bullying and that her Aberdeen and Orkney diocese is \"dysfunctional\".", "The UK's tax authority says a National Insurance hike will also have a \"significant\" impact on firms.", "The party says she has \"questions to answer\" after attending a lunch without civil servants present.", "A 33-year-old is in a serious condition in hospital after an early hours fight near a beach.", "UK policies will deliver a quarter of emissions cuts needed, say campaigners ahead of the COP26 summit.", "McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo won the Italian Grand Prix after a harrowing crash between title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.", "A top school is investigating after Fabrice Muamba says his son was abused during a rugby game.", "The Finsbury Park mosque attacker was stabbed by an inmate while serving a life sentence for murder.", "There was criticism people in Wales had to pay for NHS tests while those in England could \"shop around\".", "The memo lists some contact between Saudi nationals and hijackers, but does not implicate the government.", "The health secretary rules out the scheme for nightclubs and large events, following much criticism.", "Researchers say the coronavirus pandemic exposes \"vulnerability\" of the care sector in Wales.", "Legacy gift from classic car enthusiast pays for new state-of-the-art lifeboat base.", "Organisers of the event said they hoped it had not \"marred the experience\" for runners.", "It comes as Wales' first minister warns daily Covid hospital admissions could more than double.", "Basic standards for firms to qualify for the government list should be significantly improved, says the CMA.", "It comes as some Welsh boards postpone routine surgery and halt some visits as Covid cases rise.", "The Last Night concert ended with a tribute to the \"healing and uplifting power of music\".", "The prediction comes as a further eight deaths and 2,317 new Covid cases are recorded in Wales.", "Russia's Daniil Medvedev wins his first Grand Slam title by shattering Novak Djokovic's hopes of completing a calendar sweep of the majors in a one-sided US Open final.", "Emma Raducanu ends Britain's 44-year wait for a women's Grand Slam singles champion as she beats Leylah Fernandez to win the US Open.", "The BBC has been told that the green and amber categories could be removed and replaced with a new system.", "Commemorations have taken place on the 20th anniversary of the 11 September attacks.", "A fighter jet was escorting an Airbus A330 - with PM Jean Castex on board - at low altitude.", "The plan will include contingency measures that would come into force if the NHS was under pressure.", "Failure to follow procedures contributed to last year's crash at Calicut airport, investigators say.", "A US judge will decide whether papers were served before a case brought by Prince Andrew's accuser can begin.", "This is how people in Bromley, London – including her former tennis coach – reacted to the result.", "Documents reveal British American Tobacco’s role in bribery and spying in southern Africa.", "María Mendiola, one of the members of the duo Baccara, has died in Madrid at the age of 69.", "Higher wages for workers is key to building a strong economic recovery, says Frances O'Grady.", "Emma Raducanu says she does not want to let go of the US Open trophy as her fairy tale in New York culminates in the ultimate happy ending.", "Pressure on tech firms intensifies as Priti Patel unveils fund for technologies to keep children safe.", "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says fewer flights amid spiking demand will lead to higher prices.", "Emma Raducanu is clear favourite with bookmakers to be BBC Sports Personality of the Year after her remarkable US Open triumph.", "The Queen leads the congratulations to Emma Raducanu after the 18-year-old Briton clinches the US Open title with victory against Leylah Fernandez.", "The charity Engage Britain polled more than 4,000 British adults on their attitudes to the NHS.", "Watch the best shots as Emma Raducanu wins the women's US Open to become the first British female winner at Flushing Meadows since Virginia Wade in 1968 and the first qualifier in the Open era to win a Slam.", "Almost 2,000 people have left their homes as the military joins efforts to contain the flames.", "Watch the moment Britain's Emma Raducanu beats Canada's Leylah Fernandez to win the US Open women's singles final in straight sets.", "The all-civilian Inspiration4 crew leave Earth on their three-day private spaceflight.", "The country has made Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for all healthcare and care home workers.", "About 50,000 music fans are set for the capital, starting with Thursday's open-air Biffy Clyro gig.", "After an opening night that failed to ignite, the Champions League signals its return with drama across Europe on Wednesday.", "Former athletics coach Eric Simpson, 73, targeted teenage girls in Fife between 1981 and 1999.", "The US man says his daughter's rights were violated when she had her hair cut without permission.", "Those who drowned in the dangerous conditions were all in their 50s, 60s and 70s.", "The Conservative MP was a close ally of PM Rishi Sunak, but resigned after a bullying probe.", "Paul Hamill was a \"hard-working and dedicated representative\" says the DUP leader.", "The men, 21 and 33, have been charged over the shooting in Londonderry in April 2019.", "The first people in the UK receive their coronavirus booster jab - as winter Covid preparation begins.", "Boris Johnson replaces ministers who quit and forced him to announce his departure as prime minister.", "The reshuffle sees Nadhim Zahawi taking charge of schools, colleges and universities in England.", "The service is part of a programme of events to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland.", "The MP for Mid Bedfordshire and former health minister replaces Oliver Dowden.", "The inventor, entrepreneur and ZX Spectrum creator died at his London home following a long illness.", "The woman was left with \"life-changing injuries\" after being operated on by former NHS Tayside neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel.", "The results of tests on panels commonly used in UK construction have been passed to the BBC.", "The alliance will allow Australia to build and deploy nuclear-powered submarines for the first time.", "The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has expanded into politics but faces a split in dealing with Beijing.", "Ireland's foreign minister was under pressure over the appointment of a UN special envoy.", "The 36-year-old struck out after claiming her husband did not stick up for her in a row with a stranger.", "Beijing says the deal, involving nuclear-powered submarines, undermines regional peace.", "Pope Francis says most people at the Vatican are vaccinated except for a \"small group\".", "Gareth Southgate's men climb to third in the Fifa world rankings, equalling their highest ever position.", "Plaid called the event \"contemptible\" but the Tories said it was right for officials to go.", "Police say the boyfriend of 22-year-old Gabby Petito is a person of interest in her disappearance.", "Owners say homes could face closure if they are not given the same protection from claims as the NHS.", "HMS Queen Elizabeth is about to travel 26,000 miles - but is it more than a flag-waving exercise?", "Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after a chaotic 45 days in Downing Street.", "Prof Jason Leitch says the festival's mitigations had \"gone smoothly\" and he had not seen evidence of infection spread from the event.", "The department store chain says it is trying everything to get goods to the UK for the holiday season.", "Detectives find no evidence of criminal activity associated with the 1995 Panorama programme.", "The ex-BBC presenter who quit the channel says people can decide themselves if it is too right wing.", "Rebecca Currie says her son's breathing difficulties have been made worse by landfill emissions.", "Those living within that radius are told to make \"alternative travel and accommodation arrangements\".", "International report says students in England will expect in-person teaching for their tuition fees.", "It had evidence Instagram was a harmful place for young people - but failed to share its findings.", "Junior and mid-ranking ministers started to find out if they were keeping their roles.", "Thousands of travellers who might have breached restrictions were never investigated by Police Scotland due to a lack of data.", "Brexit has made it \"near impossible\" for it to supply fresh and chilled products to France, the retailer says.", "The outgoing Unite leader tells the BBC he is pessimistic about Labour's chances at the next election.", "Microsoft says users can delete all passwords from their accounts and use a different login system.", "It is the controversial presenter's first major new job since he left Good Morning Britain in March.", "Lillian Briggs, 86, had to wait eight hours for an ambulance after falling and breaking her hip.", "The reshuffle has seen the removal of an education secretary much criticised during the pandemic.", "Her legal team says she retracted the rape allegation while under extreme pressure from police.", "The European Space Agency wants more missions to look like the UK's Lunar Pathfinder satellite.", "The father-of-two died after being stabbed on a rural road near Newry in 2018.", "Jim Holt's daughter Lorraine was murdered in 1979 by a man who would try to kill again in 2018.", "The PM hopes his rejigged top team will allow him to get things done following Brexit and Covid.", "Outdoor dining is made permanent in parts of central London but Soho's future remains unclear.", "A series of serious ambulance delays have emerged, including one where a man died after a 40-hour wait.", "Nicola Sturgeon says her government is \"actively considering the details\" of a request to the military for \"targeted assistance\".", "The 22-year-old, who left London at 15 to join the Islamic State group, says she could be useful.", "A judge says he made the ruling, in line with other royal deaths, to protect the Queen's dignity.", "The rock star says it \"breaks my heart\" to postpone, but he is still recovering from a hip injury.", "Shoppers will be able to order Co-op's full range of groceries via Amazon across the UK by Christmas.", "Jordan Henderson's strike gives Liverpool victory in a remarkable Champions League group opener against AC Milan.", "There is no evidence of any impact on fertility - but research will help to counter false claims.", "The deal will see founder Charlie Mullins offload his 90% stake in the group.", "The princess and her daughter are \"doing well\" and the Queen is \"delighted\", Buckingham Palace says.", "The appointment of 20-year-old George Webster prompts praise on social media from viewers.", "Chelsea stretch their unbeaten Premier League run to five games as Thomas Tuchel's team deservedly beat Tottenham.", "The UK prime minister says he is \"increasingly frustrated\" at support offered to poorer countries.", "Aidy Ward also tried to involve his then-client Raheem Sterling in a bid to attract an under-age player.", "Conservationist Sacha Dench and Dan Burton were on a round Britain paramotor flight when the crash happened.", "The study was published as a booster programme for vulnerable people and over 50s began.", "Sir Ed Davey calls for a fairer deal for carers, parents and business in his conference speech.", "The positive trial results could pave the way for vaccinating children younger than 12, if approved.", "Richard Ratcliffe says he will urge the new foreign secretary to take firm steps to secure his wife's release.", "Meat producers and supermarkets fear a shortage of CO2 will hit the availability of fresh produce.", "Tottenham and Chelsea lead the tributes for their former player Jimmy Greaves, who has died aged 81.", "One of Britain's biggest poultry processors says there needs to be urgent action within days.", "Preparatory work on the 23 homes due for demolition is to start following months of delays.", "Crews searching for the missing Florida woman have found a body in a national park, the FBI says.", "A woman whose baby died during childbirth in HMP Styal says \"more could have been done\" to save her.", "Reporter Taqi Daryabi tells the BBC he was kicked in the face and beaten with sticks by Taliban fighters.", "Bulb, the UK's sixth largest energy provider, is seeking funds due to price rises in wholesale gas.", "Tourists have been urged to stay away from their pups which are sometimes seen off Wales' coast.", "The force said there were \"outbreaks of racist and sectarian singing\" by some attending the procession.", "The boundary wall, which is said to need repairs, overlooks a steep bank with a railway track below.", "Video training for parents could improve communication with their infants, a small study suggests.", "The attacker, a student, walked on to the university campus on Monday morning and started shooting.", "Canadian prime minister's gamble fails to pay off as Liberals projected to form minority government.", "The two children were found dead along with their mother and another child in Killamarsh, Derbyshire", "If passed, the legislation would mean people automatically become donors unless they state otherwise.", "After a year out due to Covid, this year's show is being held four months later than is traditional.", "A school says it is closed as three of its students have been involved in the \"tragic incident\".", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has launched an investigation, while the MoD has apologised for the breach.", "It is the latest restriction imposed on Afghanistan's women by the country's new Taliban rulers.", "A volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma has demolished homes and caused evacuations.", "Locals are facing a challenge from potential private buyers to purchase The Old Forge in Knoydart.", "The US rolls back international travel restrictions, answering a major demand from allies.", "A thousand people were expected to attend but there are fears of a peak in cases in November.", "A shortage of carbon dioxide used to stun pigs at abattoirs means a backlog of animals is growing.", "Netflix's royal drama and Apple's comedy series swept the drama and comedy prizes at Sunday's event.", "Schoolboy Carson Shephard was discovered inside a wall cavity in his own home after an overnight search.", "Police say Brian Laundrie, who vanished earlier this month, is a \"person of interest\".", "The Northern line extension serves new stations at Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station.", "Boris Johnson is meeting US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office in Washington DC on Tuesday.", "The White House says fully vaccinated travellers will be allowed into the US from November.", "England withdraw their men's and women's teams from series in Pakistan that were due to take place in October.", "Paris is angry after Australia cancelled a submarine contract in favour of a deal with the UK and US.", "It is part of the drive to get more people protected ahead of winter as the pandemic continues.", "The 800kg mammal had not been seen for more than three weeks.", "It is estimated that fortifying flour with folic acid could prevent up to 200 birth defects a year.", "The 10-year-old met TV chef Gordon Ramsay and won support from Premier League footballers.", "The PM defends ending the multi-billion dollar agreement in favour of a new pact with the US and UK.", "Insulate Britain activists have caused disruption at the M25 and A1(M) in Hertfordshire.", "The actor, who died on Sunday, was best known for playing car dealer Boycie in Only Fools and Horses.", "What you need to know about visiting France, Spain, Italy, US, Ireland, Germany and Greece.", "As part of his sentence, Ben John is reportedly told to read classics such as Pride and Prejudice.", "The Duke of Sussex urges governments to tackle the \"huge disparity\" in access to the Covid jab.", "UK visitors no longer need to quarantine for 14 days if they can't prove they are fully vaccinated.", "David Knott sent an \"excessive number of abusive emails\" to Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry.", "Members of Afghanistan's women's cricket team are hiding in Kabul, fearing for their safety following the Taliban's return to power.", "Want to know what's happening when in the Tokyo Paralympic Games? Check out our comprehensive guide to all the action.", "\"We want to hug her, kiss her\", say her parents, who had to return to the UK to replace travel documents.", "The pub chain and a Coca-Cola bottler are among firms affected by a shortage of UK lorry drivers.", "The group of four admit they had planned to steal about £750,000 worth of high-value vehicles.", "Dr Yvonne Doyle seeks to reassure parents as pupils head back to classrooms across the country.", "Sarah Storey wins her 17th Paralympic gold to become Great Britain's most successful Paralympian of all time.", "Javelin thrower Dan Pembroke is one of four gold medallists for Great Britain on day nine of the Paralympics in Tokyo.", "The council says it was designed to attract people to Driffield, not generate negative publicity.", "England condemn as \"completely unacceptable\" the racist abuse directed towards their players during Thursday's 4-0 win over Hungary in Budapest.", "As pupils return to class in England, there's a warning that more money is needed to help pupils catch up.", "US authorities are investigating why Sir Richard Branson's recent space flight drifted off course.", "Her seven-year-old fell into a lake and was rescued by strangers who she says \"saved his life\".", "With Wales at alert level zero, the Welsh government says it will keep an eye on Covid cases.", "Aerial photographs reveal damage and flooding in parts of Louisiana following Hurricane Ida.", "Scotland's World Cup hopes were dealt a serious blow as they were taken apart by a vibrant Denmark side in Copenhagen to slip seven points behind the Group F leaders.", "Public health director Kelechi Nnoaham says everything must be done to stop the rising trend.", "Videos also show passengers on flooded buses and cars being swept away, after record rainfall from Storm Ida.", "Without the extra funding for England patients could be put at risk, NHS organisations warn.", "A report looking into the issue of no-shows says the hospitality sector loses £17bn a year from it.", "Cristiano Ronaldo breaks the world record for goals scored in men's international football with two headers against the Republic of Ireland.", "Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"deeply offended\" after Conservative MSP Tess White heckled her in the Holyrood chamber.", "Health chiefs warn waiting lists could more than double without £10bn extra funding to tackle backlogs.", "The Royal Mint commemorate the world's favourite fictional bear's 95th birthday with nine-piece set.", "Homes in north and central Spain are left isolated and without electricity as roads are forced to close.", "Health Secretary Humza Yousaf tells BBC Scotland the passports are preferable to another lockdown.", "Forest Whitaker and Tom Hardy have filmed in Wales - but the sector says it needs people to help stars.", "Millions of homes remain without power across New Orleans and the wider region following Hurricane Ida.", "Three-quarters of students asked by website Save The Student said they had considered dropping out.", "British teenager Emma Raducanu delivers another impressive display as she sweeps aside China's Zhang Shuai to reach the US Open third round.", "Most of the 150 animals rescued by \"Pen\" Farthing's charity are to be adopted by veterans.", "Reports suggest the Taliban are searching for, and allegedly killing, people they pledged to leave in peace.", "Mikis Theodorakis was also a key figure of resistance to the Greek military junta of the 1970s.", "Nicola Sturgeon faces questions from opposition party leaders and backbench MSPs.", "General Mark Milley says it \"remains to be seen\" whether the Islamist group will change.", "Maddie Durdant-Hollamby was stabbed while Benjamin Green's injuries were self-inflicted, police say.", "Her family said they were \"heartbroken\" but that she died peacefully and was \"generous to the end\".", "Kabul airport could reopen \"in the near future\" the UK's foreign secretary says, after talks in Qatar.", "More than 400,000 people in the UK are eligible - but plans for further boosters are yet to be confirmed.", "In her latest BBC Sport column, Tanni Grey-Thompson remembers meeting a 14-year-old Sarah Storey for the first time at the 1992 Paralympics.", "Apple's new ID system for its Wallet will be rolled out at airports to start.", "Envoy John Kerry's 'it's more important than politics' appeal falls on deaf ears.", "The Met Office said it was unusual for the UK's highest August temperature to be recorded in Scotland.", "Gym Group says it has seen a \"rapid recovery\" in membership numbers and plans to open 40 more sites.", "Beheshta Arghand, who made headlines when she interviewed the Taliban, has spoken out after fleeing the country.", "People who have not been fully vaccinated will not be able to attend many sporting events, concerts or nightclubs.", "Syed Ali Geelani, a staunch critic of India, was under house arrest for much of the last decade.", "Tom Cruise's movies are put on hold as studios fear a recent US Covid spike will deter cinemagoers.", "England maintain their 100% winning record in World Cup qualifying with an impressive second-half showing to ease past Hungary.", "One officer was charged with a criminal offence, another resigned before they could be dismissed.", "The former Royal Marine who flew animals over from Afghanistan says he will not give up on staff.", "It's a historic moment. The first ever rock sample from another planet intended for return to Earth.", "A new study connects the heating of the Arctic region to extreme winter weather in the US.", "An Oregon branch sees flood of applications after failing to recruit older workers.", "Aerial pictures show officers looking for clues at a fishing spot linked to the chef's disappearance.", "Taliban authorities in Afghanistan should stop using force against protests, a UN rights body says.", "Alexanda Kotey is facing life in prison over the murders of US journalists and relief workers.", "The foreign secretary says the UK will fight ISIS-K by all means available - but what does that mean?", "The Aberdeen man says he will offer it to an aquarium, or put it back into the sea if it is not wanted.", "The online shopping giant says it will give a bonus to workers at some sites for good attendance.", "Several people were trapped in flooded basements in New York City.", "He caused controversy in April when he suggested young, healthy people did not need the vaccine.", "Public should be reassured over rates of persistent symptoms, leading child health experts say.", "The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland have named 14 buildings as their 2021 award winners.", "A charity says NHS bureaucracy is preventing patients from being referred to its support service.", "Some 18 councils across the UK are suffering waste collection delays due to a lack of bin lorry drivers.", "The study adds to growing evidence that vaccination helps protect against Covid in a number of ways."], "section": [null, "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "Business", "UK", "UK Politics", "UK", "Business", "US & Canada", "Business", "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "Entertainment & Arts", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "Health", "Science & Environment", "Wales", "Business", "Asia", "UK", "US & Canada", "London", "Wales", "Health", "Business", "UK Politics", "Business", "Scotland", "Scotland", "Asia", "Technology", "Manchester", "World", "US & Canada", "Wales", "Derby", "Northern Ireland", "UK", "UK Politics", "Highlands & Islands", "US & Canada", "Northern Ireland", "Business", "US & Canada", "Entertainment & Arts", "Northampton", "US & Canada", "Wales politics", "UK", "Scotland politics", "UK", "Derby", "Cornwall", "UK", null, "Northampton", "UK Politics", "UK", "Scotland", null, "US & Canada", "US & Canada", "London", "Business", "UK Politics", null, "Health", "UK Politics", "Business", "Derby", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "Asia", "London", "Wales", "Tayside and Central Scotland", "Scotland", "Northern Ireland", "Lancashire", "Science & Environment", "UK Politics", "Asia", "Scotland", "UK", "Business", "Scotland", "Cornwall", "Asia", "Business", null, "Highlands & Islands", null, "Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland", "Health", null, "World", "Technology", null, "Science & Environment", "Asia", "US & Canada", null, "Business", "Wales", "Northern Ireland", "Scotland", "UK", "Business", "Health", null, "US & Canada", "Birmingham & Black Country", "US & Canada", "UK", "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "Asia", "Business", "Wales", "Europe", "Wales", "UK Politics", "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "NE Scotland, Orkney & Shetland", "UK Politics", "US & Canada", "China", "Northern Ireland", "UK", "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "UK", "US & Canada", "Northern Ireland", "London", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "UK Politics", "UK", "World", "World", "Wales", "Science & Environment", "Business", "US & Canada", "UK Politics", "Business", null, null, "UK Politics", "Health", "UK", "Northern Ireland", "Business", "Scotland politics", "Scotland", "Scotland", "Derby", "Wales politics", "Tees", "UK Politics", "Scotland politics", "UK", "Somerset", "Business", "Northern Ireland", "Health", "UK", "Foyle & West", "Entertainment & Arts", "Explainers", "Business", "Newsbeat", "Science & Environment", "Health", "Asia", "Wales", "UK Politics", "UK", "UK", "UK", "Science & Environment", "Wales", "Technology", "Science & Environment", "Entertainment & Arts", "Northern Ireland", "Europe", "Business", "UK", "UK", "Wales", "Leeds & West Yorkshire", "Technology", "Northern Ireland", "Entertainment & Arts", "Humberside", null, "Scotland", "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", null, null, "Family & Education", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "UK", "World", "Business", "UK", null, "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Wales", "Asia", "Business", "Europe", "Business", "Asia", "Wales", "Middle East", "Business", "UK", "Business", "Health", "Science & Environment", "Tayside and Central Scotland", "Birmingham & Black Country", "Asia", "UK Politics", "Entertainment & Arts", "Northern Ireland", "Business", "Latin America & Caribbean", "Scotland politics", "Scotland", "Business", "Scotland politics", null, "Family & Education", "Entertainment & Arts", null, "Business", "London", "Asia", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Europe", "Entertainment & Arts", "Latin America & Caribbean", "UK Politics", "Wales", "Wales", "Entertainment & Arts", "Scotland", null, "Technology", "Tayside and Central Scotland", "UK", "Wales", "Hampshire & Isle of Wight", null, "Business", null, "Latin America & Caribbean", "Kent", "London", "Technology", "Scotland politics", "Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland", "Scotland", "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "Northern Ireland", "World", "Humberside", "UK", "Scotland politics", "UK Politics", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "Wales", "Asia", "US & Canada", "Business", "London", "Wales", "Berkshire", null, "US & Canada", "US & Canada", null, null, "Northern Ireland", "US & Canada", "London", "Business", "Stoke & Staffordshire", "UK Politics", "Europe", "Africa", "Wales", "Northern Ireland", "Africa", "Wales", "Business", "Liverpool", "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "US & Canada", "Europe", "Scotland", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Tees", "US & Canada", "Business", null, "US & Canada", "London", "Coventry & Warwickshire", "Sussex", "England", "World", "UK Politics", "Entertainment & Arts", "Derby", "UK", "Business", "Family & Education", "Australia", "UK Politics", "UK", "UK", null, "Scotland politics", "Business", "US & Canada", "US & Canada", "Northampton", "Business", "UK", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Business", "Health", "UK", "Wales", null, "UK Politics", "US & Canada", "Technology", "Asia", "Entertainment & Arts", "China", "Entertainment & Arts", "England", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "Scotland", "UK Politics", "UK", "Family & Education", "Business", "US & Canada", "Northern Ireland", "UK Politics", "Entertainment & Arts", "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "Scotland", "Entertainment & Arts", "Australia", "Science & Environment", "Europe", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "London", "UK Politics", "Scotland", "Northampton", "UK Politics", "UK", "Wales", null, "Entertainment & Arts", "World", "Wales", null, "Liverpool", "Wales", "UK Politics", "Asia", "Scotland business", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "Wales politics", "Entertainment & Arts", "Technology", "Wales", "UK", "UK Politics", "Northern Ireland", "UK", "Entertainment & Arts", null, "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Scotland", "UK Politics", "Leeds & West Yorkshire", "London", "Northern Ireland", "Disability", "US & Canada", "Health", "Business", "UK", "Wales", "UK", "Scotland", "Technology", "Humberside", "UK", "Wales", "Business", "Scotland politics", null, "US & Canada", "Family & Education", "Scotland", "Entertainment & Arts", "Northern Ireland", "UK Politics", "Scotland", "Scotland", "UK Politics", null, "Business", "Wales", "Sheffield & South Yorkshire", "Technology", null, "UK", "Scotland", null, "Business", "UK", "Wales", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "Business", "Shropshire", null, "Wales", "UK", "US & Canada", "Business", null, "Business", null, "Business", "London", "Science & Environment", "Europe", "Northern Ireland", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "US & Canada", "Northern Ireland", "Asia", "South Scotland", null, "Wales", "Hampshire & Isle of Wight", null, "UK Politics", "China", "Entertainment & Arts", "Entertainment & Arts", "Entertainment & Arts", "Cambridgeshire", "Wales", "Wales", "Scotland", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Scotland politics", "UK", "Oxford", "York & North Yorkshire", "UK", "Cambridgeshire", "Business", "Scotland politics", "Scotland", null, "London", "Scotland politics", "World", "Technology", "UK", "China", "Humberside", "UK", "Asia", "Manchester", "Technology", "US & Canada", "Leicester", "US & Canada", "Business", "UK", null, null, "Health", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Business", "Derby", "UK Politics", "Wales", "Asia", "London", null, "Lancashire", "UK Politics", null, "Entertainment & Arts", "Dorset", "Science & Environment", "Business", null, "UK", null, "Health", null, "Business", "Health", null, null, "Cornwall", "Wales", "Leeds & West Yorkshire", null, "Somerset", "Wales politics", null, "England", "Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland", "Entertainment & Arts", "Leicester", "Asia", "Entertainment & Arts", "Wales", null, "Business", "Business", "Northern Ireland", "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "Scotland", null, null, "UK Politics", "US & Canada", "UK Politics", "London", "Northern Ireland", "Wales", null, "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "Europe", "Africa", "Business", "Europe", "Europe", "Birmingham & Black Country", "Wales politics", "Wales", "UK Politics", "Business", "Foyle & West", "UK Politics", "Entertainment & Arts", "Europe", "Health", "Europe", "UK Politics", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "US & Canada", null, "Business", "Northern Ireland", "Scotland", "Northern Ireland", null, "London", "World", "Business", "Wales", "Science & Environment", "UK", "UK Politics", "US & Canada", "Business", "Scotland business", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "Scotland", "UK", "Asia", "Scotland", "York & North Yorkshire", "Entertainment & Arts", "Health", "UK", "Norfolk", "US & Canada", null, "London", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "US & Canada", "Business", "Birmingham & Black Country", null, "UK", "Somerset", "Wales", "Tyne & Wear", "US & Canada", "UK", null, "Health", "Health", "Wales", "Business", "Family & Education", null, "Explainers", "Asia", "South Scotland", "Business", "Technology", null, "Business", "Business", null, "Wales", "Family & Education", "Northern Ireland", "Wales", null, "China", "Newsbeat", "Entertainment & Arts", "London", "Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland", "Europe", "Devon", "Health", "Business", "UK", "Asia", "Northern Ireland", "Birmingham & Black Country", "UK Politics", "Business", "Latin America & Caribbean", "Tees", "Liverpool", "Europe", null, "UK Politics", "Northern Ireland", "Lincolnshire", "Business", "Science & Environment", "Asia", "UK Politics", "Latin America & Caribbean", "UK Politics", "Technology", "Scotland politics", "Bristol", "UK", "Business", "Scotland", "UK Politics", "Business", "Family & Education", null, "UK Politics", "Europe", "UK", "Business", "UK", "London", null, "UK", "Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland", "UK Politics", "Wales", null, "UK", "Northern Ireland", "UK", "UK", "Entertainment & Arts", null, "Dorset", null, "UK", "Entertainment & Arts", "Asia", "Business", null, "UK Politics", "Cornwall", "Asia", "Nottingham", "Glasgow & West Scotland", null, null, null, "Health", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland", null, null, "Scotland", "York & North Yorkshire", "Business", null, "Wales", "UK", "Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland", "Entertainment & Arts", "Stoke & Staffordshire", "Scotland", "Wales", "Scotland", "Northern Ireland", "Health", "Business", "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "Manchester", "York & North Yorkshire", "Business", null, "Northern Ireland", "London", "Health", "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "London", "Wales politics", "Derby", "London", "London", "Australia", "Family & Education", "World", "UK Politics", "London", "Science & Environment", "Wales", "UK Politics", "Business", "UK Politics", "Wales politics", "Europe", "Europe", "UK Politics", "Entertainment & Arts", "Manchester", "Entertainment & Arts", "Health", "Technology", "Europe", "Northern Ireland", "Northern Ireland", "Entertainment & Arts", "Europe", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "UK", "Entertainment & Arts", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "Entertainment & Arts", "Wales", "UK Politics", "NE Scotland, Orkney & Shetland", "Business", "UK", "Asia", "Wales", "UK", "Asia", "Wales", "Wales", "Entertainment & Arts", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Wales", null, "Manchester", null, "UK Politics", "UK", "Northern Ireland", "Entertainment & Arts", null, "India", "Devon", "UK", "Entertainment & Arts", "England", "US & Canada", "US & Canada", null, "US & Canada", null, "Asia", null, "US & Canada", "UK", null, "Business", "Science & Environment", "Entertainment & Arts", "Highlands & Islands", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Health", "South West Wales", "Technology", "UK Politics", "Northern Ireland", null, "Wales", "Northern Ireland", "Essex", "NE Scotland, Orkney & Shetland", "Business", "US & Canada", "UK Politics", null, "Asia", "UK Politics", "Family & Education", "UK", "Northern Ireland", "Entertainment & Arts", "Northern Ireland", "UK", "Northern Ireland", "UK Politics", "Business", null, "Scotland", "Business", "Europe", "Business", "Family & Education", "World", "Northern Ireland", null, "Europe", "Business", "Northern Ireland", "Wales", "UK", "UK Politics", "UK", "UK", "Wales", null, "Technology", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "US & Canada", null, "Manchester", "Technology", "Scotland business", "Family & Education", null, "Northern Ireland", "UK Politics", "Disability", "UK", "UK", "Entertainment & Arts", "Scotland politics", null, "US & Canada", "US & Canada", "Entertainment & Arts", "Health", "Scotland politics", "UK", "Wales", "UK", "Wales", null, "Business", "UK Politics", "UK", "NE Scotland, Orkney & Shetland", "UK Politics", "Science & Environment", "US & Canada", "UK", "Business", "Business", "US & Canada", "Derby", "Technology", "London", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "Cambridgeshire", "Business", "Scotland politics", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "Health", "Business", "UK", "Business", "Technology", "US & Canada", "Isle Of Man / Ellan Vannin", "Wales", "UK Politics", "London", "UK Politics", "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Wales", "Coventry & Warwickshire", "Science & Environment", "Technology", "Latin America & Caribbean", "London", "UK", "UK Politics", "US & Canada", "London", "Entertainment & Arts", "Business", "Asia", "Business", null, "UK", "US & Canada", "UK", "Business", "Business", null, "UK", "London", "Northampton", null, "Northern Ireland", null, "World", "Business", null, "Health", "UK Politics", "Science & Environment", "Health", "Northern Ireland", "Leicester", "Science & Environment", "Northern Ireland", "World", "UK", "Home", "Devon", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", null, "Liverpool", "Asia", "Scotland", "India", "Entertainment & Arts", "Europe", null, "US & Canada", "Newsbeat", "Manchester", "Health", "UK", "Bristol", null, "Scotland", "England", "Family & Education", null, "Asia", "UK", "UK Politics", "Business", "Asia", "Technology", "Business", "UK Politics", null, null, "UK", "Business", "Norfolk", "Business", "London", "Europe", "Entertainment & Arts", "Technology", "Business", "US & Canada", "US & Canada", "Scotland", "Australia", "Europe", "London", "UK Politics", "Lincolnshire", "Wales", "UK Politics", null, null, "Northern Ireland", null, "Asia", "Business", "Business", "UK", "England", "Tyne & Wear", "China", "Entertainment & Arts", "Northern Ireland", "UK Politics", null, "UK", "Technology", "Health", null, "Scotland", "Asia", "Asia", "Business", "Scotland politics", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK Politics", "Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland", null, "Business", "Wales", "Health", "Tees", "Scotland politics", "Asia", "Wales", "UK Politics", "Science & Environment", "Birmingham & Black Country", "Bristol", "Shropshire", "Science & Environment", "Wales", "Entertainment & Arts", "Wales", "UK", null, "Europe", "Scotland business", "Wales", "Highlands & Islands", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "York & North Yorkshire", "UK", "Business", null, null, null, "Business", "Wales", "US & Canada", "UK", "UK", "Birmingham & Black Country", "UK", "UK", null, "Asia", "Derby", "UK", "Wales", null, "UK Politics", "Wales", "Health", "US & Canada", "UK", "Australia", "Family & Education", null, "UK", "Middle East", "Asia", null, "UK", null, "Wales", null, "UK", "UK", "London", "Asia", "Middle East", null, "UK", "Wales", "Business", "Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland", "Northern Ireland", "UK", "UK Politics", "UK", "York & North Yorkshire", null, null, "London", null, "Entertainment & Arts", "Business", "World", "Asia", "UK Politics", "Asia", "UK Politics", "Asia", "Hampshire & Isle of Wight", "London", "UK Politics", "Northern Ireland", "Wales", "Business", "Europe", "Health", "Entertainment & Arts", "Wales", "Northern Ireland", null, "Wales", "Kent", null, "Shropshire", "India", "Derby", "London", "Entertainment & Arts", "Business", "Wales", null, "Science & Environment", "US & Canada", "Health", "London", "London", "Health", "UK Politics", "Wales", "London", "US & Canada", null, "Wales", "Business", "Scotland", "Northern Ireland", "Europe", "Northern Ireland", "UK", "US & Canada", "Coventry & Warwickshire", "UK", "Science & Environment", "Northern Ireland", null, "London", "Lancashire", "Scotland", "Entertainment & Arts", "Asia", "Kent", "Europe", "UK Politics", "Business", "Business", "Northern Ireland", "Berkshire", "UK", "Highlands & Islands", "Stoke & Staffordshire", "Isle Of Man / Ellan Vannin", "Northern Ireland", "Technology", "Wales", "US & Canada", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK Politics", "Tyne & Wear", "UK", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "Newsbeat", "Entertainment & Arts", "Europe", "Essex", "Science & Environment", "UK", "Scotland", "Wales politics", "NE Scotland, Orkney & Shetland", "UK Politics", "UK Politics", "Wales", "Science & Environment", null, "Manchester", "Wales", "Wales", "US & Canada", "UK", "Wales", "Wales", "Sussex", "Wales", "Business", "Wales", "Entertainment & Arts", "Wales", null, null, "Business", null, "Europe", "UK", "India", "UK", null, "World", "Entertainment & Arts", "Business", null, "Business", "Business", null, null, "UK", null, "Europe", null, "Science & Environment", "Europe", "Wales", null, "Scotland", "US & Canada", "Europe", "UK Politics", "Northern Ireland", "Northern Ireland", "UK", "UK Politics", "Family & Education", "Northern Ireland", "Entertainment & Arts", "UK", "Scotland", "UK", "World", "Asia", "Europe", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "World", "Europe", null, "Wales politics", "US & Canada", "Wales", "UK", "UK Politics", "Scotland", "Business", "UK", "UK Politics", "Stoke & Staffordshire", "Northern Ireland", "Family & Education", "Technology", "UK Politics", "Scotland", "Business", "UK Politics", "Technology", "Entertainment & Arts", "Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland", "Family & Education", "Derby", "Science & Environment", "Northern Ireland", "Cambridgeshire", "UK Politics", "London", "Scotland politics", "Scotland", "UK", "UK", "Entertainment & Arts", "Business", null, "Health", "Business", "UK", "Leeds & West Yorkshire", null, "UK Politics", "UK", "Highlands & Islands", "Scotland", "UK Politics", "Health", "UK", "Business", null, "Wales", "Wales", "US & Canada", "Manchester", "Asia", "Business", "Wales", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "Wales", "Health", "Europe", "US & Canada", "Derby", "Northern Ireland", "London", "Derby", "UK", "Asia", null, "Highlands & Islands", "US & Canada", "Wales politics", "Business", "Entertainment & Arts", "Glasgow & West Scotland", "US & Canada", "London", "UK Politics", "UK", null, "UK", "Health", "Cornwall", "Health", "Hampshire & Isle of Wight", "Australia", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "UK", "Explainers", "Leicester", "UK", "Business", "London", null, null, "UK", "Business", "London", "UK", null, null, "Humberside", null, "Family & Education", "Science & Environment", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "Wales", "US & Canada", null, "Wales", null, "Health", "Business", null, "Scotland politics", "UK", "Wales", null, "Scotland", "Wales", "US & Canada", "Business", null, "Essex", "Asia", "Europe", "Scotland", "US & Canada", "Northampton", "Northern Ireland", "UK Politics", "Health", null, "Technology", "Asia", "Highlands & Islands", "Business", null, "Scotland", "India", "Entertainment & Arts", null, "London", "Essex", "Science & Environment", "Science & Environment", "Business", "York & North Yorkshire", "World", "US & Canada", "UK", "NE Scotland, Orkney & Shetland", "Business", "US & Canada", "US & Canada", "Health", "Scotland", "Scotland", "Business", "Health"], "content": ["Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHungary have been ordered to play two matches behind closed doors by Fifa following the racism English players experienced at the World Cup qualifier in Budapest on 2 September.\n\nHowever, the second ground closure is suspended for two years.\n\nThe Hungarian Football Federation has also been fined £158,400 (200,000 Swiss Francs).\n\n\"Fifa takes a clear zero tolerance stance against such abhorrent behaviour in football,\" read Fifa's statement.\n\nThe governing body added that it remained \"firm and resolute in rejecting any form of racism and violence as well as any other form of discrimination or abuse\".\n\nIn June, Uefa fined the Hungarian federation £85,500 and ordered a three-game stadium closure, the final match being suspended, for discriminatory behaviour by their supporters during Euro 2020.\n\nThat sanction did not apply for England's visit as the World Cup qualifier was a Fifa game rather than being under the control of Uefa, who did not ask for the punishment to be transferred.\n\nFifa said it imposed the sanctions \"after analysing and taking into consideration all the circumstances of the case, specifically the seriousness of the incidents (racist words and actions, throwing of objects, lighting of fireworks, blocked stairways)\".\n\nRaheem Sterling and Jude Bellingham were both targeted, England players were pelted with objects in the second half and a flare was thrown on to the pitch by the home fans at Puskas Arena.\n\nThe England players were also booed as they took the knee before the match at the 67,000-capacity stadium.\n\nSterling was pelted with paper cups and bottles when he opened the scoring for England before a flare was thrown on to the pitch after Harry Maguire put Gareth Southgate's side 3-0 ahead.\n\nSouthgate also had ice thrown at him by fans during his post-match interview with BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nKick It Out's head of development Troy Townsend tweeted: \"What does 'zero tolerance approach' even mean? Words that read good in print but we'll never actually adhere to them.\n\n\"Anyway, we [in England] have our own problems and don't even go this far with punishments, so best leave alone.\"\n• None How has Wayne Rooney dealt with anger? Listen now as he tells Tony Bellew what makes him see red\n• None The Sports Desk Podcast goes beyond the headlines to find out", "\"When it goes wrong, it really does go wrong - one wrong move, one throwaway comment and months of planning and international diplomacy are in the bin.\"\n\nNo stress then! As one former Downing Street senior staff member recalls, visits to the White House are about as high pressure as it gets.\n\nBritish prime ministers always lavish praise on the importance of the relationship with the US. So when it's time for an invite to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the pressure is really on.\n\nIn the run up to the big event, warm words are the order of the day.\n\nToday is no exception. Boris Johnson told the travelling press pack that the relationship between the two countries is as \"good as it has been for decades\", claiming his relationship with President Biden is \"genuinely terrific\", and joking the two have bonded over their love of rail - \"he's a train nut\".\n\nThere's bonhomie, and - having witnessed the two at the G7 in Cornwall - it is visible.\n\nThe UK camp is encouraged at the American removal of travel restrictions on UK citizens in November. And there's a sense that the president might be ready to make extra commitments on climate finance which would thrill Downing Street. But nothing is that straightforward.\n\nThey'll have to confront tensions over the handling of the withdrawal of forces in Afghanistan. And the UK doesn't expect much progress on trade either, saying American negotiators are \"ruthless\", playing down expectations of things moving forward.\n\nBut first and foremost both sides will want Tuesday's big meeting to go smoothly. No gaffes, no misunderstandings, no embarrassments.\n\nWhatever the personal friendships or frictions between the two main protagonists, it matters because, as one No 10 insider told me, \"the relationship matters for the mutual benefit of our people\".\n\nThe current Downing Street team don't seem to be nervous about the meeting on Tuesday, at least outwardly, but they are conscious of how much it matters, and how previously things have gone awry.\n\nWho could forget the last time a British prime minister held talks in the Oval Office? The press conference back in 2017 was quite the experience.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump joked about the special relationship with the UK\n\nWhat you might not know was that Theresa May's team was worried about the menu - because the ribs on offer at the getting-to-know-you lunch might plaster barbecue sauce all over the then prime minster's face during the huge TV moment. They discovered the meat was \"neatly chopped\" after all.\n\nOr that former President Trump anti-bacced his hands after shaking hands with Theresa May's team - one of them now jokes \"he was ahead of his time\".\n\nOr indeed, that \"May bossed her foreign secretary around on the plane on the way, talking down to him in front of others, and yet he is the man now in charge\". Ouch!\n\nFor David Cameron's team there were similar stresses, and frankly high farce. After \"endless discussions about photo ops\", one member of his team remembers, the two men took Air Force One to a college basketball game, putting David Cameron under unfamiliar pressure when he had to give a half-time interview about the match on a \"subject he knew nothing about\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Barack Obama has given British Prime Minister David Cameron a front row seat at the US college basketball championships\n\nMoney couldn't buy these kind of images for a British prime minister - putting them on the spot over alley-oops or a 5-out motion, less desirable altogether.\n\nAnd that's before you factor in the British reaction back then to the mere name of the White House protocol supremo, Randy Bumgardner, to the bemusement of the Americans. Two nations divided perhaps not just by a common language, but by different senses of humour too.\n\nSo, there is a lot at stake - the risk of misunderstanding, disagreement on policy, a clash of political personality, or just blunders that cause blushes. As one of those who felt it go wrong to their cost told me, \"it's important to be on best behaviour\".\n\nMr Johnson has been to the White House before, as foreign secretary in 2019. But so much has changed then, on this side of the Atlantic and at home. A very different prime minister. A very different president. A very different set of challenges for the world.\n\nAnd British prime ministers' visits to the White House are, as occasions in themselves, about as momentous as it gets.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is a very important trip for us\": Boris Johnson and Joe Biden hold face-to-face talks\n\nJoe Biden has played down the chances of a post-Brexit free trade deal between the US and UK, as he held talks with Boris Johnson at the White House.\n\nThe US president said he would discuss the issue \"a little bit\" with the UK prime minister, adding: \"We're going to have to work that through.\"\n\nDowning Street said a direct deal with the US remained the \"priority\".\n\nBut UK ministers are pondering joining an existing North American trade pact instead, the BBC understands.\n\nMr Biden and Mr Johnson also discussed Northern Ireland, climate change and Afghanistan during the 90-minute meeting.\n\nThe UK is keen to strike free trade deals around the world in the wake of leaving the European Union's single market - including with the US, with which annual trade was worth an estimated $273bn (£200bn) in 2019.\n\nA deal would encourage more business between the two countries by making it cheaper, usually by reducing or eliminating taxes called tariffs.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, echoing Mr Biden, downplayed chances of securing agreement with the US before the next general election, saying: \"The Americans do negotiate very hard.\"\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told Sky News: \"We still very much hope to be able to put together an agreement with the United States. We are not putting timescales on it.\"\n\n\"It's just not a priority for the US administration,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson highlighted the decision to lift the ban on British beef, and Downing Street is increasingly confident that there could soon be a favourable decision lifting the export ban on lamb.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in the Oval Office before the talks, Mr Biden said: \"We're going to talk a little bit about trade today and we're going to have to work that through.\"\n\nHe did not counter the assertion from his predecessor Barack Obama that the UK would have to join \"the back of the queue\" in seeking a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nIt's really clear from both sides that there is no rapid path to a trade deal - the opportunity that used to be lauded by Brexiteers and by President Trump.\n\nMr Johnson hinted at that realism in his curtain-raiser conversations on his way over here.\n\nAnd the president pretty much confirmed that in the meeting in the Oval Office.\n\nThe UK seems no longer to want to believe, or pretend, that doing business in a major deal is top of their list.\n\nInstead, while the government is still officially pursuing a stand-alone deal with the US there's a twin track with a more incremental approach - there have already been changes to whisky tariffs and British beef. But No 10 is now hopeful that the Americans are seriously considering changing tack on British lamb.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nA source familiar with the government's thinking told the BBC the UK could negotiate entry into an existing trade arrangement between the US, Canada and Mexico - the USMCA - set up after former US President Donald Trump tore up its predecessor, NAFTA.\n\n\"There are a variety of different ways to do this,\" the source said. \"The question is whether the US administration is ready. The ball is in the US's court. It takes two to tango.\"\n\nElsewhere, Downing Street said Mr Johnson and Mr Biden agreed all diplomatic and humanitarian methods must be used to stop conditions getting worse in Afghanistan.\n\nThe leaders said any international recognition of the Taliban must be contingent on the group respecting human rights.\n\nThis followed a request by the Taliban to address world leaders at the United Nations summit in New York this week.\n\nBrexit gave the UK the freedom to strike its own trade deals - and accounting for £1 in every £6 of British trade, a pact with the US was the ultimate prize.\n\nBut Whitehall officials have for months been scrabbling for an alternative after the Biden administration indicated it was in no hurry to resume talks.\n\nJoining the USMCA arrangement already agreed by the US, Canada and Mexico could give the UK deeper benefits on some goods and digital trade with North American economies.\n\nBut it has limited coverage of the UK's biggest strength when it comes to selling to America, namely services. Economists say the overall gains from joining USMCA may be very limited, perhaps less than 0.1% of GDP\n\nAmerica's price of admission may include a hurdle already encountered: standards surrounding food and agricultural goods. For President Biden is explicit that his priority is US workers, not least its farmers.\n\nHe is also clear that domestic issues take precedence. Even if the UK does want to sign up to USMCA, it may still be at the back of a queue - simply to get its application considered.\n\nBefore the meeting, Mr Biden also issued a fresh warning to the UK that peace in Northern Ireland must not be jeopardised as a result of complications caused by Brexit.\n\nHe made it clear he had concerns about the Irish border, amid continuing issues with Northern Ireland Protocol - the arrangement which helps prevent checks along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe pair also discussed the new UK, US and Australia security pact in the Asia-Pacific region, with No 10 describing it as an example of \"shared values and approach to the world\".\n\nThe meeting, taking place on the sidelines of the UN summit, involved the traditional exchange of gifts.\n\nMr Biden gave the prime minister a framed photo of their first meeting in Cornwall at the G7 summit in June, and a White House-branded watch.\n\nMr Johnson presented the president with a signed copy of a book written by British astronaut Tim Peake, with an inscription expressing hopes that it \"provides a reminder of what we're fighting to save as our countries tackle climate change together\".\n\nThe prime minister's gift comes weeks ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, which is seen as a crucial moment to bring climate change under control.\n\nEarlier, Mr Biden announced the US would double its climate finance pledge and increase funding for developing countries to $11.4bn (£8.3bn) by 2024.\n\nMr Johnson said the US had \"stepped up to the plate\" with what he called a \"massive contribution\" towards the $100bn (£73bn) goal for countries to raise.", "Pimlico Plumbers has been sold to US home services group Neighborly.\n\nThe deal will see founder Charlie Mullins offload his 90% stake in the group and is expected to be worth between £125m and £145m, according to the Financial Times.\n\nThe entrepreneur's son, Scott Mullins, will retain a stake of about 10%, and continue his role as chief executive.\n\nThe London-based firm currently makes nearly $70m (£50.7m) in revenue a year, and employs more than 400 workers.\n\nFounded in 1979, Pimlico's services include heating, plumbing, bathrooms, drainage and electrics. It completes an average of more than 100,000 service jobs for central London homeowners and businesses each year.\n\nFrom starting the plumbing business with a second-hand van and a box of tools, Mullins said he had received approaches from a number of buyers after hiring advisers from Cavendish Corporate Finance.\n\n\"We had various people who wanted to buy the business, and interest from all over the world, including France, America, and somewhere in the Middle East,\" Mullins told the BBC.\n\nThe businessman often speaks publicly on economic matters and was an opponent of Brexit.\n\nPimlico completes an average of more than 100,000 service jobs for central London homeowners and businesses each year\n\nHe said the firm had experienced a strong year despite the coronavirus pandemic, with both in and out-of-hours calls increasing, as well as emergency call outs.\n\n\"Covid helped to lift the company to another level,\" he said, pointing to an increase to 2,000 to 3,000 jobs a week. \"It now needs to go international.\"\n\nHe added: \"The business will always be something I will cherish. It has been a lifetime of work, and what it has achieved is remarkable. Neighborly will take that to the next level.\"\n\nMr Mullins plans to use some of the income from the sale to back other ventures in music promotion and overseas property.\n\nNeighborly, founded in 1981, is a home services provider, serving more than 10 million residential and commercial customers. As well as plumbing, it provides pest control, cleaning, and home inspection services.\n\nThe acquisition allows Neighborly to extend its international reach. Neighborly was bought by KKR from investment firm Harvest Partners just two months ago.\n\nMike Bidwell, president of Neighborly, said: \"We are thrilled to be growing our global footprint with the addition of Pimlico as the next subsidiary brand to join our global family of home service professionals.\n\n\"Pimlico's wide array of trade services as well as its exceptional customer care perfectly align with Neighborly's purpose, which is to build an extensive service community known for providing excellent experiences.\"", "The couple were married in a private ceremony last year\n\nPrincess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have welcomed a baby girl, who was born on Saturday.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter gave birth to her first child, weighing 6lb 2oz, at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the princess and her daughter were \"doing well\" and the baby's grandparents and great-grandparents were \"delighted\".\n\nThe baby girl will be 11th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, the princess said she was \"so delighted to share the news of the safe arrival of our daughter\", thanking the midwife team and everyone at the hospital \"for their wonderful care\".\n\nBeatrice is the elder daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York. She married property tycoon Mr Mapelli Mozzi in a private ceremony in July 2020.\n\nShe is stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with ex-fiancee Dara Huang.\n\nA statement from Buckingham Palace said: \"The new baby's grandparents and great-grandparents have all been informed and are delighted with the news. The family would like to thank all the staff at the hospital for their wonderful care.\n\n\"Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well, and the couple are looking forward to introducing their daughter to her big brother, Christopher Woolf.\"\n\nBeatrice became an aunt for the first time in February, when her sister Princess Eugenie gave birth to a baby boy named August.\n\nFollowing the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's second child - Lilibet \"Lili\" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - in June, the princess herself moved from 9th to 10th in line to the throne.\n\nThe princess, who is not a full-time working royal, is vice-president of partnerships and strategy at Afiniti, an artificial intelligence software firm.\n\nShe is also patron of a number of charities, including the Forget Me Not Children's Hospice, the Teenage Cancer Trust and the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre.\n\nHer husband, known as Edo, is the son of former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis.\n\nPrincess Beatrice was last seen in public on September 16, at the Forget Me Not Children's Hospice garden party to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Russell House.", "Many UK households could face a \"very difficult winter\", with fuel prices surging and the £20-a-week uplift in universal credit ending, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has warned.\n\nBut he told BBC Breakfast the energy price cap was staying in place, despite a global spike in prices.\n\nThe temporary universal credit rise, brought in earlier in the pandemic, is due to end in October.\n\nLabour has called for it to remain in place to help hard-pressed households.\n\nUniversal credit is a benefit for working-age people which replaces six former payments, including income support, housing benefit and income-based jobseeker's allowance.\n\nAsked about the end to the uplift, Mr Kwarteng said: \"It's a difficult situation. It could be a very difficult winter.\n\n\"That's why, as energy minister, I'm very focused on helping people that are fuel poor. Universal credit... is an issue for the chancellor and the work and pensions secretary, I'm speaking to them a great deal about it.\"\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an anti-poverty think tank, has warned of a \"perfect storm\" for consumers this autumn, as problems with global supply chains also increase food prices.\n\nWorkers also face a rise in National Insurance payments from next April, to help fund higher costs for the NHS and social care.\n\nLabour is to hold a debate in the Commons on Tuesday, calling on the government to halt the proposed cut to the universal credit top-up.\n\nThe party's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Bridget Phillipson, said the combination of price rises and falling incomes wasn't \"a freak event\".\n\n\"Instead of changing direction and taking action, [the government] have created an avoidable and unacceptable burden on working people, making the squeeze on household finances worse by putting up taxes for working people and cutting universal credit,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Two's Newsnight programme on Monday, the Conservative former Brexit Secretary, David Davis, warned there was a risk of a \"cost of living crisis\" for new Tory voters such as \"the plumber, the bricklayer, the lorry driver\".\n\nHe said his advice to Chancellor Rishi Sunak would be: \"You think hard about the ordinary family's take-home pay and what they have to buy with it, because that will be a dictator of how people feel going in to the new year.\"\n\nWhile Mr Kwarteng said the rise in National Insurance payments was \"not strictly a winter issue\", he did add that there was more immediately a \"global energy spike in terms of prices\".\n\nSeveral small energy companies have warned they will go out of business unless they are able to pass on costs to customers.\n\nMr Kwarteng said he was \"very clear\" that the price cap - introduced in January 2019 for standard variable or default tariffs, which are typically the most expensive - would remain, \"so we're protecting customers there\".\n\nHe added that the warm home discount - a one-off payment for those most in need - and winter fuel payments, \"focused on the most vulnerable customers\" were also staying.\n\nAnd defending the end of the universal credit £20 a week top-up, he said the government had spent a \"huge\" amount of money during the pandemic, supporting workers and the economy, adding: \"There was a debate about how long we could afford this.\"", "A former Marine's mission to bring rescue animals back to the UK as the Taliban took over Afghanistan is being examined by the Charity Commission.\n\nThe regulator has told the BBC it is looking into the funding arrangements of Operation Ark, which raised more than £200,000 from supporters in days.\n\nOperation Ark was launched by Pen Farthing's charity Nowzad to evacuate staff members and their immediate families, plus the animals in its care.\n\nThe charity says it acted correctly.\n\nNowzad, which reported income of close to £1m last year, told the BBC: \"The trustees are wholly confident that Nowzad's life-saving work in incredibly difficult circumstances was both the right and only thing to do and was absolutely in furtherance of the charity's purpose.\"\n\nThe Charity Commission has contacted Nowzad for further information after receiving reports around the governance and financial arrangements of Operation Ark.\n\nIt is examining the use of charity funds for the evacuation and whether it is in line with the charity's purpose.\n\n\"We will assess the information provided by the trustees to determine whether or not there is a role for the Commission,\" it said in a statement provided to the BBC.\n\nLeading charities lawyer Edwina Turner at Anthony Collins solicitors says this can be \"a crisis point\" in the life of a charity.\n\n\"It's very serious if the regulator gathers information from you. The charity will want to clear up any concerns,\" Mrs Turner said.\n\n\"One question they [Nowzad] would need an answer to is have they spent money raised in furtherance of their objects? Secondly, have they spent the money in the best way possible to achieve their charitable purposes. Thirdly, has the money raised through Operation Ark been spent in accordance with the terms of the fundraising campaign?\"\n\nNowzad operated an animal clinic, dog and cat shelter and donkey sanctuary in Afghanistan. It trained and employed local Afghans - including women - as vets.\n\nAs the Taliban takeover progressed last month it said its staff were in danger due to their work with foreign organisations, such as embassies, and \"the animals were at risk because the Taliban considers companion animals, particularly dogs, unclean.\"\n\nThe former Royal Marine and his supporters led a vociferous evacuation campaign which garnered a lot of public attention. It received huge public support but also came in for criticism, including from Defence Secretary Ben Wallace who complained it distracted from focusing on evacuating the most vulnerable.\n\nThe charity says an \"extremely fraught but ultimately successful\" evacuation ensued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pen Farthing This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt says \"all staff and their families, including young children and two newborns, and 162 dogs and cats have been delivered to safety.\"\n\nNowzad confirmed the Charity Commission is asking for their trustees' comments on Operation Ark including, specifically, how it furthered the charity's purpose.\n\n\"The trustees of course recognise that it is entirely proper for the Commission to gather more information regarding this high-profile and unprecedented operation and are very happy to provide the information requested,\" it added.\n\nNowzad is a registered charity in England and Wales and is regulated by the Charity Commission.\n\nAt this stage, the Charity Commission has made clear they are gathering information and no findings have so far been made.\n\nAccording to Mrs Turner, the Charity Commission has a range of powers, including \"removing trustees, putting in an interim manager to run a charity or certain aspects of a charity\" or, in extreme circumstances, \"they can bring a charity to a close.\"\n\nMr Farthing, the founder of the animal shelter, who is originally from Dovercourt in Essex, is now working to find new homes in the UK for both his airlifted staff and rescued animals.\n\nHe is also considering expanding his charity's work abroad, in countries he deems safer than Afghanistan, though he does not rule out a return to Kabul if conditions one day improve.", "Government borrowing was higher than expected in August as debt interest payments rose due to higher inflation.\n\nBorrowing, which is the difference between tax income and spending, was £20.5bn, official figures show - £5.5bn lower than in August last year.\n\nHowever, it was still the second-highest figure for August since records began.\n\nEconomists had expected government borrowing to be about £15bn.\n\nBorrowing has been at record levels, with billions being spent by the government on measures such as the furlough scheme to support the economy.\n\nThis high spending, combined with less money coming into the exchequer due to the pandemic and a fall in economic output, has pushed government debt up to more than £2.2 trillion, or about 97.6% of GDP - a level not seen since the early 1960s.\n\nThe interest payments on government debt were £6.3bn in August. That was £2.9bn more than in August 2020, but lower than the monthly record of £8.7bn in June 2021.\n\nDanni Hewson, a financial analyst at AJ Bell, said: \"Inflation is not just something that's making us wince when we get to the supermarket checkout, it's also taking its toll on the public purse.\n\n\"Interest payments on all that debt shot up in August and September will be even more painful\".\n\nThe government borrowed a total of £325.1bn in the financial year to March, which amounts to 15.5% of GDP, the highest percentage since the end of World War Two.\n\nThe figure was an increase of £27.1bn compared with the previous Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimate, which was largely due to the expected cost of £20.9bn on guarantees on loans to firms that will not be able to pay back.\n\nIsabel Stockton, research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, noted that this estimate suggested that non-repayments would total just over a quarter of the £80bn loaned out.\n\n\"This is a big number, but not as big as feared by the Office for Budget Responsibility whose Budget 2021 estimate was that £27bn would not be recouped,\" she said.\n\nMs Stockton added that for the public spending figures, the precise size of last year's spike in borrowing \"is not all that important\".\n\n\"What matters more are the strength of the eventual recovery, whether current strength in tax receipts persists into future years and whether the large income tax, corporation tax, and National Insurance tax rises announced since March are actually implemented as planned.\"\n\nWhile borrowing this year is coming into land better than the gloomy forecasts of the OBR, in August it was still higher than expected, and the second highest on record.\n\nIt was the direct impact of rising inflation on borrowing costs that drove the figures.\n\nWhile the chancellor is still heading for some extra room for manoeuvre ahead of next month's Budget and Spending Review, there is also some room for reflection in the revision to last year's borrowing numbers.\n\nThe post war record for borrowing last year was revised up substantially to £325bn, driven by more than £20bnn in expected losses on government-backed Covid contingency loans.\n\nThis is a significant sum, about a quarter of such loans, reflecting the hidden extent of corporate distress. Though this figure is lower than some original estimates of write-offs.\n\nThe ongoing economic recovery will also help ensure this figure does not rise further.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is due to deliver a new Budget and growth forecasts on 27 October, as well as new multi-year spending limits for individual government departments.\n\nRuth Gregory, senior UK economist for Capital Economics, said: \"With the chancellor intent on signalling in his Budget on 27 October that the fiscal stimulus seen since the pandemic is now firmly at an end, the big fiscal boost to the economy last year will soon become a fiscal drag.\"\n\nShe said that while tax revenues of £61.2bn were higher that last August's £55.8bn, government spending was \"elevated\" in August, including £1.1bn on the furlough scheme as well as £2.1bn on the self-employment income support scheme.\n\nHowever, she added that the figures showed that \"the government's financial position isn't as bad as the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted back in March\".", "Protests were held against the new legislation outside the Texas State Capitol in Austin\n\nA Texas doctor who admitted to breaking the state's new abortion legislation has been sued, in what could be a test of how lawful the mandate is.\n\nWriting for the Washington Post, Alan Braid said he had carried out a termination on a woman who was in the early stages of her pregnancy but \"beyond the state's new limit\".\n\nFormer lawyers in Arkansas and Illinois filed lawsuits against him on Monday.\n\nThe new legislation bans abortions from as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.\n\nThe law came into effect on 1 September, giving any individual - from Texas or elsewhere - the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. However it does not allow the women who get the procedure to be sued.\n\nThe law bans terminations after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat, something medical authorities say is misleading.\n\nDr Braid, who has been practising medicine for nearly 50 years, wrote in an opinion column published on the weekend: \"I acted because I had a duty of care to this patient, as I do for all patients, and because she has a fundamental right to receive this care.\n\n\"I fully understood that there could be legal consequences - but I wanted to make sure that Texas didn't get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested,\" he wrote.\n\nOscar Stilley, a former lawyer in Arkansas who is serving a 15-year federal conviction for tax fraud in home confinement, said he had decided to file the lawsuit after reading Dr Braid's opinion piece. He said he was not opposed to abortion but sued to force a court to test the legality of the new legislation.\n\nIn an interview with Reuters news agency, he said the new restrictions violate women's constitutional rights.\n\nA second lawsuit was filed by Felipe Gomez, from Illinois, who described himself as a \"Pro Choice Plaintiff\" in the suit and claimed the law was \"illegal as written and as applied\".\n\nDr Braid has not commented on the lawsuits, the first known legal challenges to the law which is one of the most restrictive in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2019: The US abortion battle explained in three minutes\n\nThe \"Heartbeat Act\" was signed into law by Republican Governor Greg Abbott in May. It took effect after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal by abortion providers.\n\nEarlier this month, the US justice department filed an emergency motion, seeking to block enforcement of the law while it pursues legal action.\n\nAbortion providers say the law is at odds with the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade, under which US women have the right to an abortion until a foetus is viable - that is, able to survive outside the womb. This is usually between 22 and 24 weeks into a pregnancy.\n\nThe law enforces its ban with an uncommon approach: it empowers any private citizen to sue anyone who \"aids and abets\" an illegal abortion.\n\nPeople who successfully sue under the Texas law will be awarded at least $10,000 (£7,200), in addition to any legal fees incurred.\n\nCritics, like the American Civil Liberties Union, have said this leaves the responsibility for enforcing it on individuals, rather than local or state officials, and could give rise to abortion \"bounty hunters\".", "Meat processors are in talks with the government over a shortage of carbon dioxide that could hit meat production.\n\nThe gas is used to stun pigs and chickens prior to slaughtering, and also in the packaging process.\n\nThe carbon dioxide used by the meat industry is a by-product of fertiliser production, but fertiliser factories have been halting production due to soaring natural gas prices.\n\nThe government said it was monitoring the situation \"closely\".\n\nIt has been holding emergency talks with industry groups and meat processors, as first reported by the Financial Times.\n\nFertiliser producers have been struggling with natural gas prices that are at record highs as economies around the world begin to recover from the Covid crisis.\n\nIn the UK, lower winds have meant less renewable energy is generated, there have been outages at some nuclear stations, and there have been lower flows into the UK of natural gas from Norway, pushing up the price of natural gas.\n\nThis week, two large UK fertiliser factories owned by US firm CF Industries Holdings suspended operations due to soaring gas prices, and on Friday Norwegian firm Yara said it would also cut production at a number of its European plants.\n\nNick Allen, the chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA), attended emergency talks with the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on Friday to discuss the issue.\n\n\"This crisis highlights the fact that the British food supply chain is at the mercy of a small number of major fertiliser producers - four or five companies - spread across northern Europe. We rely on a by-product from their production process to keep Britain's food chain moving,\" Mr Allen said.\n\nAbout 20 million birds per week are slaughtered, but abattoirs only hold a limited stock of carbon dioxide, British Poultry Council chief executive Richard Griffiths said.\n\n\"With fewer than 100 days to go until Christmas, and already facing mounting labour shortages, the last thing British poultry production needs is more pressure.\n\n\"If CO2 supplies become tighter and more unpredictable then supply chains will have to slow down. Ultimately, no CO2 means no throughput.\"\n\nHe said the industry group's members \"are on a knife-edge situation at the moment\".\n\nMeat processors are working with government to \"mitigate any major impact on a sustainable supply of food\", he added.\n\n\"This is incredibly serious,\" one supermarket executive told the BBC. \"Some suppliers are telling us they could run out of CO2 in less than two weeks.\"\n\nIndustry groups and processors also had a meeting with the government on Thursday.\n\nMeat processors have already been struggling with a shortage of lorry drivers and recruitment problems at abattoirs exacerbated by EU nationals leaving the UK after Brexit.\n\nCarbon dioxide is used when slaughtering pigs and chickens to stun them, and it is used during the packaging process for all meat to prolong shelf life.\n\nIt is widely used throughout the food industry, including in brewing.\n\nHowever, the closure of the two CF Industries plants has cut 60% of the UK's food-grade carbon dioxide supply, the BMPA spokesperson said.\n\nIt unclear how much carbon dioxide abattoirs and other food factories have stored.\n\nThe remaining UK carbon dioxide production is being prioritised for the NHS for medical uses, and for the nuclear industry, which uses it as a coolant.\n\nWithout carbon dioxide, the slaughtering process of pigs and chickens cannot go ahead, the spokesperson said.\n\nThe Cucumber Growers Association also warned of the effect of high natural gas prices on crops.\n\nGas is used to heat greenhouses and provide carbon dioxide \"which are both critical factors in growing and achieving the yields required to survive in the modern industry\", it said in an open letter.\n\nThe \"extreme rise\" in wholesale gas prices has piled costs on growers, it added.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are monitoring this situation closely and are in regular contact with the food and farming organisations and industry, to help them manage the current situation.\"", "Asian stocks were mixed on Tuesday as concerns persisted over Chinese property group Evergrande and its impact on the global markets.\n\nJapan's Nikkei 225 index closed 2.2% lower, but Hong Kong's Hang Seng index regained earlier losses to end up 0.5%.\n\nThere are concerns that Evergrande - a major Chinese property developer - is struggling to meet interest payments on more than $300bn of debts.\n\nRegulators have warned it could affect the country's financial system.\n\nInvestors fear that this could hit big banks exposed to Evergrande and companies like it, causing contagion in global markets.\n\nThe jitters among the markets also come as the global economy is still recovering from the impact of the coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday, the Dow Jones index in the US ended 1.8% lower. That followed similar falls in Europe, with Germany's Dax index losing 2.3%, and the Cac 40 in France down 1.7%.\n\nMajor stock exchanges in mainland China were closed on Monday and Tuesday for the annual mid-Autumn festival.\n\nDespite the recent falls, Japan's Nikkei is up by almost 30% compared to a year ago.\n\n\"The fear of an Evergrande bankruptcy appears to be leading to concern about China's very own Lehman [Brothers] moment, and a big overspill across the region,\" said Michael Hewson of CMC Markets.\n\nInvestors are also nervous that the US Federal Reserve, which meets on Tuesday and Wednesday, will confirm plans to cut back support for the US economy this year.\n\nGlobal stocks have rallied as economies reopen and central banks have provided trillions of dollars in support to boost growth.\n\nBut there are concerns of a decline if support is taken away at a time when the Delta variant of coronavirus continues to drag on recovery.\n\nStrategists at Morgan Stanley said they expected a 10% correction in America's S&P 500 index as the Fed starts to unwind its support.\n\nThey added that signs of a stalling recovery could deepen that slide to 20%.\n\nHowever, other analysts played down fears of a rout, noting that September is typically a bad months for stocks.\n\n\"Overall, September continues to live up to its bad reputation as historically the weakest month of the year. But that doesn't mean it can't rebound,\" said JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade.\n\nAnd Lindsey Bell of Ally Invest said any pullback may be short-lived.\n\n\"Much of investing is about sorting through what's signal and what's noise,\" she said. \"While there is concern about the Evergrande situation infecting global markets, for the long-term investor, this situation may just be noise.\"", "Colchester's Firstsite art gallery has won the coveted Art Fund Museum of the Year award, 10 years after it opened.\n\nThe £100,000 prize was presented to the Essex organisation's director Sally Shaw at a ceremony at London's Science Museum on Tuesday.\n\nThe centre has been praised for its community work, such as offering free school meals to children in the holidays and sending out art packs.\n\nArt Fund director Jenny Waldman said it \"exceeded all our expectations\".\n\nShe added that Firstsite was \"an outstanding example of innovation and integrity\".\n\nShe explained: \"At their core is powerful, engaged contemporary art, housed in a gallery that gives space for everyone, from artists to NHS staff to local families and refugee groups.\n\n\"Here is a small organisation thinking big and caring for their local community. Here is excellence in Essex.\"\n\nWorks by NHS frontline workers went on display\n\nThe gallery beat four other venues to the prestigious prize - Experience Barnsley, The Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds, Timespan in Helmsdale in the Scottish Highlands, and the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry. They each won £15,000 for making the final.\n\nFirstsite's recent exhibitions include a summer show called Welcome to Essex by Michael Landy, while the lockdown art packs were put together by 50 artists including Mark Wallinger and downloaded by almost 100,000 people.\n\nShaw has previously said her art space is \"relentlessly inventive\".\n\n\"Everything should be constantly changing - it's an art gallery,\" she said. \"There's no rules. That goes from how we run our restaurant to the things that are in our shop to the difference we can make in a town like Colchester. It should be extraordinarily creative.\"\n\nSpeaking about the 8,500 free school meals they plated up, Shaw said that while \"it was bizarre for an art gallery to be doing that and part of me is really depressed by that... part of me is excited... because the people we meet now, many have never been to a gallery before\".\n\nFirstsite also showcased The Great Big Art Exhibition, which encouraged people to put their own art in their windows during lockdown; and Art for Life, an exhibition of work by frontline NHS workers.\n\nIn response to Black Lives Matter, the gallery commissioned Essex artist Elsa James to make a downloadable work titled We Stand With You. It also worked with clients of Refugee Action Colchester for a collection titled My Name Is Not Refugee.\n\nLast year, the Art Fund shared the prize money equally between five museums due to the challenges faced by the pandemic.\n\nThe Art Fund is the national fundraising charity for art, and provides millions of pounds every year to help museums to acquire and share works of art across the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tim Davie: \"I think we've got a real battle on our hands, I walk a tightrope every day on this, but we've got to fight for it.\"\n\nIt is harder than ever for the BBC to maintain impartiality amid the \"culture wars\" and a polarisation of online views, its director general has said.\n\nThe corporation has \"done it pretty well for 99 years\" and still is, Tim Davie has told a committee of MPs.\n\n\"I just think it's tougher now, by the way,\" he said on Tuesday. \"I think the culture wars are raging, I think we've got a real battle on our hands.\n\n\"I walk a tightrope every day on this, but we've got to fight for it.\"\n\nImpartiality is \"sacrosanct\", said Mr Davie, whose headaches over the issue since taking over a year ago have ranged from ruling on whether Newsnight's Emily Maitlis should have shared a tweet from Piers Morgan about the government's response to the pandemic, to whether staff can attend Pride marches.\n\nThe BBC is \"nothing if it's not a good facilitator of proper open debate and diverse views\", he told the House of Commons media select committee.\n\n\"I think that's essential to us. It's mission critical. It's us, and it puts you in a very different place to where the rest of the world is heading in my view, which is a dangerous place around partial media.\n\n\"I and others feel very passionately about this. We're in a battle for this, and I think we need to really be clear that we're not perfect. We've got plenty of work to do to facilitate a space where we can properly debate these issues.\"\n\nHe said the BBC must hire people from across the political spectrum, even if they know they must leave their personal views at the door.\n\nThe hearing came after the appointment of former HuffPost UK editor Jess Brammar to a senior role in BBC News, despite a row over old tweets that were critical of Brexit and the government.\n\nBBC director of news Fran Unsworth announced her resignation shortly before Ms Brammar was appointed executive editor of BBC news channels, but Mr Davie said her decision to leave had \"nothing to do with the latest incident\".\n\nHe added: \"I just saw a senior hire in [BBC] online going to someone from The Daily Telegraph. We need to hire the best as the BBC and we need to hire across the political spectrum.\"\n\nReferring to the choice of Ms Brammar, he said: \"That is an incredibly important precedent and this affair is dangerous territory for us, not because of the process, but if people begin doubting our ability to hire people with [political] views into the BBC, and when they get here they leave them at the door.\"\n\nMr Davie also warned that the corporation was losing stars in a \"red hot\" battle with rivals and streaming services.\n\n\"We're in an incredibly inflationary market,\" he said. \"And we have lost people. Graham Norton has gone to Virgin Radio, and we've lost people to GB News, to LBC and other places. They're being poached.\"\n\nMichaela Coel won an Emmy Award for her BBC drama I May Destroy You on Sunday\n\nHe also referred to Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who signed an exclusive deal with Amazon Prime. Michaela Coel, however, has spoken about rejecting $1m (£730,000) from Netflix for her acclaimed drama I May Destroy You because the BBC offered her more creative control.\n\n\"Life is not just about money,\" Mr Davie said. \"It's also about the creative experience you get. It's about making Normal People, it's about making something wonderful in drama or some of the documentaries [and] that ability to actually be on BBC One and have a big audience.\n\n\"So I wouldn't be too depressed about it. Having said that, I think, over time, there will be increasing pressure on us.\"\n\nMr Davie was also asked about former BBC correspondent Martin Bashir, who was found to have acted \"deceitfully\" to gain his 1995 interview with Princess Diana.\n\nThat scandal has also put the spotlight on his other work, including an investigation into the 1986 murders of two girls. Michelle Hadaway, the mother of one of the victims, has said Bashir took her daughter Karen's clothes but did not do the promised DNA testing or return the clothing.\n\nMartin Bashir has told BBC bosses he doesn't know what happened to the clothes\n\n\"We are extremely sorry for the distress this has caused Ms Hadaway,\" Mr Davie said. \"It's very distressing that we haven't been able to give her answers in terms of what happened to that clothing, and I'm appalled that that got lost. It's a very serious issue.\"\n\nA new attempt to find them has not yielded results, he said.\n\n\"With a slightly heavy heart, we're at a point where we are where we are, which is the clothing… and we have talked directly to Martin Bashir rather than through any agent.\n\n\"He doesn't know where the clothes are. I didn't speak to him… but he just doesn't know where the clothes are. Any other evidence coming to us, of course, we will proactively look at.\"", "Singer Sarah Dash, a co-founder of trailblazing US group Labelle, who had a huge hit with Lady Marmalade, has died at the age of 76.\n\nFellow group member Patti LaBelle confirmed the news on Twitter, saying she was \"heartbroken\" but that Dash's spirit would \"live on\".\n\n\"We were just on stage together on Saturday and it was such a powerful and special moment,\" she posted.\n\nLady Marmalade went to number one on the US Billboard chart in 1975.\n\nThe track found a new audience when it was re-recorded by Christine Aguilera, Pink, Lil' Kim and Mya for the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's film Moulin Rouge in 2001.\n\nBorn in New Jersey in 1945, Dash joined up with Patti LaBelle and Nona Hendryx and they settled on the name LaBelle in 1971. They became known for their fusion of rock, R&B and funk, and their lavish stage outfits, including a set of spacesuits.\n\nLabelle, with Sarah Dash right, were known for their flamboyant and futuristic costumes\n\nThey opened for bands such as The Who before finding mainstream fame themselves.\n\nAfter LaBelle broke up in 1976, Dash embarked on a solo career and also sang on The Rolling Stones' 1989 album Steel Wheels and did session work for the O'Jays and Chic's Nile Rodgers.", "The UK has named two Russian nationals suspected of the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said the suspects entered the UK on Russian passports using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Moscow denies any involvement in the attack.\n\nIn an interview with Russia's state-run international broadcaster, RT, on 13 September, the two men said they were in the UK to visit the \"wonderful town\" of Salisbury and see its \"famous\" cathedral.\n\nInvestigative website Bellingcat has since claimed Mr Boshirov is actually an intelligence officer by the name of Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga.\n\nMr Skripal and his daughter were discovered unconscious on a bench in the Wiltshire city of Salisbury on 4 March. A second poisoning incident in nearby Amesbury in July is believed to be linked to the attack.\n\nThe British government says a military-grade Novichok nerve agent was used.\n\nHere's what we know so far about the movements of the Skripals and the Russian suspects on 2, 3 and 4 March.\n\nTwo suspects using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov arrive at London Gatwick Airport from Moscow on Aeroflot flight SU2588.\n\nPolice say the men are thought to be officers from Russia's military intelligence service.\n\nThe men say they work in the sports nutrition business and were in the UK on holiday.\n\nRussian officials have denied claims by the Bellingcat website that Mr Boshirov is Col Chepiga - who is reported to have been working undercover for the past nine years after serving with a special forces unit under the command of the GRU - Russia's military intelligence service.\n\nThey travel to London's Victoria station before heading to Waterloo for about 18:00 GMT. They then make their way to the City Stay Hotel in Bow, east London, for the first of their two-night stay.\n\nTraces of Novichok, below the levels that would cause health concerns, were later found in their room.\n\nThe Russian suspects arrive in Salisbury from Waterloo on what police believe was a reconnaissance mission.\n\nSergei Skripal's 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, flies into London's Heathrow Airport on a flight from Russia. It is believed she was picked up by a family friend.\n\nThe Russian suspects return from Salisbury to London by train.\n\nThe Russian suspects again take the London Underground from Bow to Waterloo, before continuing their journey by train to Salisbury.\n\nMr Skripal's red BMW is seen in Salisbury in the area of London Road, Churchill Way North and Wilton Road.\n\nLondon Road is home to Salisbury's cemetery, where Mr Skripal's wife Liudmila and son Alexander are buried.\n\nThe suspects arrive at Salisbury station. They are about a mile from Mr Skripal's home.\n\nThe men are filmed on CCTV at a Shell petrol station on Wilton Road, not far from Christie Miller Road, where Mr Skripal lives. Police believe this was moments before the Novichok was sprayed on the door handle of Mr Skripal's house.\n\nThe Russians are seen on CCTV on Fisherton Street, possibly on their way to the train station. They pass close to where the Skripals would later spend the afternoon having a drink and a meal together in the centre of Salisbury.\n\nMr Skripal's car is seen driving down Devizes Road, towards the town centre.\n\n1) Mr Skripal, 66, and his daughter arrive at the Sainsbury's upper level car park at the Maltings shopping precinct.\n\n2) They then head to the Mill pub.\n\nThe two Russian suspects return to London by train, arriving in the capital at approximately 16:45 GMT.\n\n3) The Skripals dine at Zizzi restaurant and stay until 15:35 GMT.\n\nTraces of a military-grade nerve agent are later found at the Mill and Zizzi.\n\n4) Emergency services receive the first report of an incident. Police find the Skripals on a bench in an \"extremely serious condition\".\n\nThey are taken to hospital along with police officer Det Sgt Nick Bailey, attending the incident. All three were later discharged.\n\nThe suspects board the London Underground to London Heathrow Airport.\n\nThe men are caught on CCTV going through passport control at Heathrow.\n\nThe pair depart on Aeroflot flight SU2585 to Moscow.\n\nA massive clean-up operation was launched to decontaminate nine sites known, or thought, to be contaminated with the nerve agent.\n\nUK authorities said the highest concentration of Novichok was found at Mr Skripal's house, but the operation involving more than 200 personnel, included eight other sites.\n\nWiltshire and Novichok again hit the headlines in July, when another couple fell ill in suspicious circumstances, in Amesbury, only a few miles from the Skripal investigation.\n\nParamedics are called twice to a flat in Muggleton Road, Amesbury, after Dawn Sturgess, 44, collapses.\n\nA friend of the couple, Sam Hobson, said Ms Sturgess appeared to have had a fit and was \"foaming at the mouth\".\n\nParamedics return to same address after Ms Sturgess's friend Charlie Rowley also falls ill.\n\nPolice initially think the two had been using heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch of drugs, however they declare a major incident after Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley need treatment for suspected exposure \"to an unknown substance\".\n\nTests at the UK's military research lab, Porton Down, find the pair had been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok.\n\nFive areas the victims are believed to have visited prior to falling ill are cordoned off: in Amesbury they are Muggleton Road, Boots pharmacy and the Baptist church, while in Salisbury and John Baker House in Rolleston Street and Queen Elizabeth Gardens.\n\nMs Sturgess dies in hospital on 8 July. Mr Rowley remains in a critical condition.\n\nPolice later confirm the Novichok that poisoned Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley came from a small bottle found during searches of Charlie Rowley's house on Muggleton Road.\n\nThe counterfeit Nina Ricci perfume bottle, with a specially-adapted applicator, had been picked up by Mr Rowley from a charity bin on 27 June.\n\nHe told police he got some of the contents on himself while he was putting the bottle parts together. Ms Sturgess applied some of the substance to her wrist before feeling unwell.\n\nThe working assumption of police is that the bottle was a container discarded after the Skripals' poisoning, according to BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera.", "Children struggling with mental health problems during the pandemic are facing \"agonisingly\" long waits for treatment, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nData from half of England's services found one in five seen in the past year waited over 12 weeks for care.\n\nThe situation has got so bad that parents and head teachers told the BBC they had lost faith in the system.\n\nAnd doctors reported distressed children were ending up at A&E as they had no where else to go.\n\nDr Catherine Hayhurst, from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said in many cases hospitals have been left with no option but to admit youngsters on to general wards, even though they cannot be provided with specialist mental health support there.\n\n\"Children are distressed and agitated. It's difficult to manage on the wards,\" she said.\n\nNHS England acknowledged the pandemic had been very difficult for children and young people, but it said it was in the process of significantly expanding access to services to ensure they received quick access to care.\n\nSue Peacock's teenage daughter suffers from severe anxiety and has self-harmed.\n\nShe has been waiting for treatment since before the pandemic began.\n\nMs Peacock said the situation has made her daughter feel depressed and start to become violent.\n\n\"We don't know how long it's going to be before she receives help.\n\n\"That feeling of helplessness, I can't even describe how awful as a parent it is to see that.\n\n\"You're waiting for a service that you know can help your child.\"\n\nSpecialist care is provided by a network known as Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).\n\nThese teams include psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses and social workers who support children with conditions ranging from anxiety and depression to schizophrenia.\n\nDuring 2020-21, they saw 420,000 children and young people - although an estimated 1.5 million under-18s are thought to have a mental health disorder.\n\nThe waits they faced are not routinely published.\n\nBut the BBC obtained data under the Freedom of Information Act from 46 of England's services, half of the total, covering just over 250,000 under 18s.\n\nThe figures from April 2020 to March 2021 showed:\n\nA third of the trusts also provided data on youngsters still waiting for treatment, with the numbers doubling since the end of the first lockdown in June 2020.\n\nThere are signs that waiting times have improved since before the pandemic.\n\nBut this is likely to be down to a drop in people coming forward for help in the first lockdown, helping services tackle the backlog in those waiting for treatment.\n\nThe BBC has also been told some services closed their waiting lists altogether, meaning the true extent of the waits may be undercounted.\n\nHead teacher Michelle Catterson has lost faith with child mental health services because of the waits. She runs Moon Hall School in Surrey, which teaches children aged seven to 16 with dyslexia.\n\n\"The pandemic has been really difficult for children. But the support is just not there when they need it,\" Ms Catterson said.\n\n\"Services are completely overwhelmed as things stand currently.\n\n\"When I have parents that are in a really desperate situation, I'm often reluctant to refer them because I know the length of time that they'll have to wait, and sometimes there just isn't that opportunity to wait.\n\n\"You need that support right there, right then, to try and help the child and the family.\"\n\nEmma Thomas, chief executive of the YoungMinds charity, said it was clear the waits young people were facing were \"agonising\".\n\n\"We have seen a big rise in referrals to mental health services and, as this data shows, it's clear they have been struggling to cope. The pandemic has had a huge impact on young people's mental health, exacerbating existing pressures and creating new ones.\n\n\"The young people we work with have told us that they have struggled with isolation, loneliness and concerns about the future, whilst those that experienced trauma during the lockdowns, or were already experiencing inequalities, are likely to be disproportionately affected,\" she said.\n\nNHS England said it was investing in services, which by 2023 would help support another 345,000 children and young people - on top of the 420,000 being seen currently.\n\nThis includes the rollout of school mental health teams which are designed to provide earlier support to children than CAMHS services.\n\nA spokeswoman for NHS England said: \"There is no doubt that the pandemic has turned children and young people's lives upside down.\"", "A trip to a melting glacier will shape how the BBC's new climate editor, Justin Rowlatt, reports on the story of climate change.\n\nYou cannot help but be awed by the scale of Antarctica, the great white continent.\n\nI visited just before the pandemic struck and it is impossible not to feel humbled in the presence of something that seems so much bigger and more powerful than you.\n\nBut that sensation is an illusion.\n\nWhen we finally flew over the front of the enormous glacier after weeks of travelling, I found myself staring down at an epic vision of shattered ice.\n\nAs I wrote at the time, it felt like I'd reached the frontline of climate change; a place where the equilibrium that has held our world in balance for thousands of years was slipping and crashing.\n\nSatellite monitoring shows that the overall rate of ice loss from West Antarctica has increased five-fold over a 25-year period. This one glacier - Thwaite's glacier - alone now accounts for 4% of global sea level rise.\n\nNeedless to say, this acceleration is a result of us humans polluting the air with greenhouse gases. That fact explodes any impression that the ice is overwhelming. The opposite is true, we are overwhelming the ice.\n\nI was surprised how moved I was by what I'd seen. In the weeks it took to travel home, I tried to process my emotions.\n\nI thought about the men and women who had set our camp, who flew the planes, cooked the meals, processed the rubbish and groomed the ice runways. And I thought about the scientists who have been studying the processes at work for decades.\n\nOur research trip was only possible because of a huge chain of human enterprise culminating with the hardworking people in the UK and US whose taxes paid for it all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Justin Rowlatt learns to make an igloo\n\nAs I flew back to the UK, I reflected how it is often claimed that selfishness, greed and conflict are the hallmarks of humanity, but that is wrong.\n\nThe defining human characteristic is actually our ability to co-operate - our ability to solve problems together explains the dominance our species has achieved.\n\nFor the first time since I had been to the front of the glacier I began to feel the stir of something I was worried I'd lost entirely: a sense of purpose.\n\nI retell this story now because I want that sense that we can come together and take control of the processes driving climate change to underpin my reporting in my new role as climate editor.\n\nOf course, the BBC has been reporting climate change for decades and we'll be keeping up that tradition, especially during a crucial UN climate conference in Glasgow in November, where nations will be asked to renew their commitments to cutting emissions.\n\nBut however ambitious the deal there is, we need to continue to report the latest science on climate change and the effect it is having on our world.\n\nAnd use that science as a yardstick to judge the progress our societies are making to reduce emissions.\n\nThat means scrutinising what politicians, business people and - yes - all of us consumers are doing to try to reduce our impact on the climate.\n\nI do not want to nag or hector. We all face the same dilemmas over how the choices we make in our lives affect the climate.\n\nAnd I am optimistic about what we can achieve.\n\nWe humans are wary of change but we are actually extraordinarily adaptable - another key to our success as a species. And we have a vast capacity for innovation.\n\nThink of the huge offshore wind industry flourishing here in the UK, or the way our car industry is retooling as the ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles approaches.\n\nLook at the UK companies at the forefront of all sorts of exciting low-carbon technologies - from nuclear fusion to plant-based foods - and consider the fortunes to be made as these new markets go global.\n\nAnd look at the progress being made to mobilise international finance behind the effort to tackle climate change - an endeavour being led by the City of London.\n\nBut I will not forget what I saw in Antarctica. It reminds us that climate change is a process that is likely to take centuries to play out, and tens of thousands of years to reverse.\n\nConsider this: the last time CO2 levels were this high is reckoned to have been around four million years ago and it is estimated that the sea level then could have been as much as 30-40 metres higher than it is now.\n\nThat's a measure of how important the climate issue is and also explains why I'm so pleased to be given this opportunity to play a role in covering it for the BBC.\n\nTackling global warming will be the central project of the 21st Century and it is an incredible privilege to have been given a front row seat.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Nicola Faith was only found more than two months after it went missing\n\nThe families of three fishermen whose boat sank off the Conwy coast plan to ensure it \"never happens again\".\n\nAlan Minard, 20, Ross Ballantine, 39 and skipper Carl McGrath, 34, died after their boat, the Nicola Faith, sank off Colwyn Bay in January.\n\nTheir relatives plan to work with organisations and launch a charity to improve safety at sea in their memory.\n\n\"We will campaign and explore for change,\" the men's families said.\n\nIn an episode of a BBC programme about the RNLI this week, lifeboat crews speak of their frustration and sadness that they were unable to find the boat or its crew when it first sank.\n\nIt was six weeks before the fishermen's bodies were discovered washed up on the shore of north-west England - the wreck of the boat was not located for many more weeks.\n\nAn investigation is now under way by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) to work out why the boat sank.\n\nThe bodies of Alan Minard, Ross Ballantine and Carl McGrath were discovered in April\n\nThe families say they want to set up a new charitable organisation to make sure any action points recommended in the official investigation can happen in the long term.\n\n\"We will campaign and explore for change for anything in the MAIB report or things we feel may have made a difference to getting the men home and preventing this from ever happening again in honour of Carl, Ross and Alan.\"\n\nThe Nicola Faith pictured at the quayside in Conwy\n\nNathania Minard, mother of Alan Minard, the youngest crew member, said: \"This is in the early stages, we've set ourselves a big task and we're trying to take baby steps towards it.\n\n\"We want to try to look at the positives we can get out of this, not just for our own healing, but for the communities healing as well and to try to prevent something like this from happening again.\"\n\nMs Minard said the families of the three men have \"supported each other\" and intend to carry on.\n\n\"Finding the boys, finding the boat, bringing the boat to the surface - it took a long time.\n\n\"For me personally, grieving has only just started, which is why it's important to try and find a positive focus for ourselves.\n\n\"The RNLI helped us when we were helpless, and we now want to take some action and try and support those who supported us and develop something that's long lasting for the boys.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the search for the three fishermen was called off, a community desperately rallied\n\nIn this week's episode of Saving Lives At Sea, lifeboat crews from Llandudno and Rhyl look back on the initial search for the Nicola Faith and how they felt when no trace of the boat or its crew could be found.\n\nAndrew Wilde, from Rhyl lifeboat, said the decision from the coastguard to stand down was \"a real hard decision to take\".\n\n\"We were thinking about the families - all those families were waiting, didn't know what had happened... and neither did we,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a heavy feeling in the pit of your stomach that there's nothing more that you can do.\"\n\nLifeboat crews from Rhyl searched for the Nicola Faith until nightfall on two separate days, but no trace was found\n\nHis RNLI colleague, Graham Heritage, from Llandudno lifeboat, told the programme of the poignant moment when they returned home on the final day of searching.\n\n\"I remember looking into the waves and thinking, 'give us something, there's got to be something here'. But there was nothing, nothing at all.\n\n\"We wanted a bit of debris: A hat? A jacket? Anything? But there was nothing to be found.\n\n\"We go out there. We save people, and that's what we do. But on this occasion, we hadn't done it.\n\n\"Everyone had gone out there and given their all.\"", "MPs are concerned that delays at Euston Station could lead to more costs\n\nThere is \"no clear end in sight\" to HS2 costs and delays, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have said.\n\nThe committee is \"increasingly alarmed\" about key parts of the project, including a lack of progress at Euston Station.\n\nWithout a government decision on the station, the project \"will literally run out of time\", the committee fears.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said it was making significant progress delivering HS2.\n\nEuston Station is an important part of the first phase of the rail project, both as a London terminus and as a link to other infrastructure such as the London Underground.\n\nBut the DfT \"is yet to make key decisions on the design and approach to construction there\" despite having the necessary planning consents.\n\nThis could \"lead to yet more costs, delays and uncertainty over the promised benefits of the programme\", the committee said.\n\nDame Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said: \"HS2 is already one of the single most expensive taxpayer-funded programmes in the UK but there's actually no clear end in sight in terms of the final cost, or even the final route.\n\n\"The project was plagued by a lack of planning and transparency from the start and there are many difficulties ahead.\n\n\"This project cannot simply keep sinking more taxpayer funds without greater clarity on the later phases. The development of Euston is a real challenge that must be resolved swiftly now.\"\n\nThe current estimated cost of completing HS2 is between £72bn and £98bn at 2019 prices, compared with an original budget of £55.7bn in 2015 at 2015 prices.\n\nThe DfT said: \"We are making significant progress delivering HS2, a key part of our promise to build back better from Covid-19.\n\n\"We will continue to rigorously control pressures, and as our latest update to Parliament confirmed, Phase One remains within budget and schedule.\"\n\nThe Integrated Rail Plan would soon outline how major rail projects, including HS2 Phase 2b, would work together to \"deliver the reliable train services that passengers across the North and Midlands need and deserve\", it added.\n\nHS2 Ltd, the firm behind the project, said: \"HS2 Phases One and 2a have received parliamentary approval and have very clear cost ranges.\n\n\"Although there have been challenges - particularly relating to the pandemic - the project remains on budget.\"\n\nThe company said the HS2 was supporting more than 20,000 jobs.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee has been critical of the rail project in the past, and in May 2020 said HS2 was \"badly off course\" and that bosses had been \"blindsided by contact with reality\".\n\nThe committee accused HS2 Ltd and the DfT of lacking transparency and undermining public confidence.\n\nFollowing this criticism, the government was now providing \"a clearer explanation of costs than we have previously seen in its reporting to Parliament\", the MPs said on Wednesday.\n\nAs tunnelling machines bore into the earth below the Chilterns, intense scrutiny of HS2 continues above ground.\n\nHS2's huge budget, environmental impact and community disruption are making lots of MPs and their constituents angry. But last week the government's high speed minister recommitted to the project \"going full steam ahead\".\n\nBut there is still a major political issue for the government on HS2 - will it all get built?\n\nThe prime minister still hasn't confirmed if the Eastern leg from the West Midlands to Leeds will happen, and Northern politicians are starting to express their frustration.\n\nConservative and Labour MPs in Yorkshire see it as crucial for \"levelling-up\" the region, alongside other major rail investment they want too.\n\nBut the government's cheque book is under pressure after a huge year of Covid spending. And with inflation rising and costs growing, we wait to see if the chancellor and prime minister push the button for it in full - or if HS2 will be slimmed down.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pakistan's prime minster suggests that women can \"assert their rights\" in Afghanistan\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said preventing women from accessing education in neighbouring Afghanistan would be un-Islamic.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Khan laid out the conditions that would need to be met for Pakistan to formally recognise the new Taliban government.\n\nHe called for the leadership to be inclusive and to respect human rights.\n\nMr Khan also said Afghanistan should not be used to house terrorists who could threaten Pakistan's security.\n\nLast week, the Taliban excluded girls from secondary schools with only boys and male teachers allowed back. But Pakistan's leader said he believed girls would soon be able to attend.\n\n\"The statements they have made since they came to power have been very encouraging,\" he told the BBC's John Simpson.\n\n\"I think they will allow women to go to schools,\" he said. \"The idea that women should not be educated is just not Islamic. It has nothing to do with religion.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSince the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August, fears have grown over a return to the regime of the 1990s when the hardline Islamists severely restricted women's rights.\n\nIts leadership maintains that the rights of women will be respected \"within the framework of Islamic law\".\n\nThe decision to exclude girls from returning to school last week prompted an international outcry, with a Taliban spokesman later saying they would return to the classroom \"as soon as possible\".\n\nBut it is not yet clear when girls will be able to return or what form of education will be provided if they do.\n\nWhen pressed on whether the Taliban would realistically meet his criteria for formal recognition, Mr Khan repeatedly called on the international community to give the group more time.\n\n\"It's just too early to say anything,\" he said, adding that he expected Afghan women to eventually \"assert their rights\".\n\nPakistan has not been seen by all as a firm ally in the battle against jihadist terrorism. It has long been accused by many in the United States and elsewhere of providing support for the Taliban, something it denies.\n\nAfter the 9/11 attacks that were planned in Afghanistan, Pakistan positioned itself as an ally of the US in the so-called \"war on terror\". But at the same time, parts of the country's military and intelligence establishment maintained links with Islamist groups like the Taliban.\n\nMr Khan said that Pakistan would make a decision on whether to formally recognise the Taliban government alongside other neighbouring states.\n\n\"All neighbours will get together and see how they progress,\" he said. \"Whether to recognise them or not will be a collective decision.\"\n\nMr Khan also called on the hardline group to form an inclusive government, warning that a failure to do so could see the country descend into civil war.\n\n\"If they do not include all the factions, sooner or later they will have a civil war,\" he said. \"That would mean an unstable, chaotic, Afghanistan and an ideal place for terrorists. That is a worry\".\n\nOn Tuesday, a Taliban spokesman announced the remaining members of Afghanistan's all-male government.\n\nThe additions included a doctor as health minister, but analysts say the government is predominantly made up of loyalists with little minority representation.", "Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious but both survived the attack\n\nOn 4 March 2018 emergency services received a phone call from members of the public in Salisbury who had seen an old man and a young woman ill on a bench. It was a call that would set in motion a chain of events leading to a major crisis with Russia.\n\nAfter the pair were taken to hospital, local police did an online search on the name of the man taken ill.\n\nThe result set off alarm bells. He was a former Russian spy.\n\nA call came into the duty officer at MI6 headquarters that Sunday evening.\n\nThe realisation that Sergei Skripal - a man who had provided MI6 with secrets from his time in Russian military intelligence - had been targeted sent shock waves through the building, challenging the very core of its work in recruiting agents to work with the organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA few hours later, the next call went to Porton Down, home to Britain's biological and chemical research establishment.\n\nA rapid-response team was quickly deployed. Samples analysed in labs on-site identified A234, a military-grade nerve agent from the Novichok family developed by the Soviet Union in the Cold War.\n\nThe revelation caused shock. Detective work by police would identify two officers from Russian military intelligence as the main suspects and a perfume bottle as the means of delivery of the nerve agent onto Mr Skripal's front door handle.\n\nA local woman, Dawn Sturgess would die months later when she came into contact with the Novichok after it had apparently been discarded.\n\nAlexander Mishkin (left) and Anatoliy Chepiga are thought to have carried out the Salisbury attack\n\nRussia denied any role - even putting the two accused men on TV to say they had visited Salisbury simply to see the cathedral spire - but London was convinced it knew who was behind the attack.\n\nWhen another former Russian intelligence officer, Alexander Litvinenko, was killed in 2006 (that time by radioactive polonium) the response was delayed and perceived as weak.\n\nLondon was determined to learn its lesson.\n\nEvery known Russian intelligence officer operating under diplomatic cover in the UK (apart from the declared liaison officer for each Russian intelligence service) was quickly expelled - 23 in total.\n\nMany other countries then followed suit, with 60 expulsions in the US. It seemed as if the Kremlin was taken by surprise by the strength of the reaction.\n\nBut two years on, the legacy of those events looks more uncertain.\n\nBritish officials believe they did real damage to Russian intelligence operations in the country but that damage is likely to have been short term as new spies were dispatched to replace them and as Russia continues a shift to rely on alternative means of espionage.\n\nIn the Cold War, spies under diplomatic cover and illegals were the primary way the Russians could recruit and run agents and steal secrets.\n\nNow there is cyber-espionage and the use of people travelling under different cover, as say businessmen, to operate.\n\nIn the wake of the attack, there was also considerable talk of a tougher line over Russian money and influence in London. But there has been relatively little public sign of action.\n\nThe failure to publish the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee's \"Russia Report\" about influence and subversion in British life before the election has only added to questions as to whether the appetite to deal with this broader issue remains strong.\n\nThere are also cracks in Western unity over a tough line on Russia, with President Emmanuel Macron of France pushing for trying to improve relations with the Kremlin and uncertainty over the position of the Trump administration in Washington.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Russia President Vladimir Putin met during an international summit on Libya in January\n\nMr Skripal himself has not appeared in public since the poisoning.\n\nMI5 and the Home Office carried out a \"refresh\" to check on the level of protection for defectors like Mr Skirpal - something officials acknowledge was overdue.\n\nThe poisoning itself was a failure, several senior officials who served in British intelligence concede.\n\nA risk assessment was carried out when Mr Skripal was swapped out of a Russian prison in 2010 but the Russia of 2018 was very different from Russia then.\n\nRussia appears to have stepped up a long-standing campaign to track defectors from 2014, including in the US as well as UK.\n\nThat was also the point at which relations began to deteriorate rapidly over the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea and in which other alleged operations, like the deployment of online trolls to interfere in US politics increased.\n\nOne question western intelligence officials have been asking is whether Russia has been deterred from taking such action again by the Western response.", "Images which appear to show border agents on horseback driving migrants back to a river have sparked an investigation in the US.\n\nThe pictures widely shared on social media show riders allegedly using their reins against migrants and pushing them back towards the Rio Grande in Texas.\n\nHomeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says his department will investigate reports of alleged abuse.\n\nHe said the officers were trying to manage the migrants crossing the river.\n\nSome 13,000 mainly Haitian migrants have gathered in a makeshift camp under a bridge connecting Del Rio to Mexico's Ciudad Acuña on the US-Mexico border.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the footage was horrible to watch.\n\n\"I have seen some of the footage. I don't have the full context. I can't imagine what context would make that appropriate. But I don't have additional details and certainly I don't think anyone seeing that footage would think it was acceptable or appropriate.\"\n\nSome social media users said the pictures were reminiscent of the violence seen in slavery times in the US.\n\nThe pictures taken by AFP photographer Paul Ratje show Haitians going back and forth across the border to get food for their families, and finding themselves blocked by the horses.\n\n\"Some of the migrants started running to try to get around the horsemen, and one of the agents grabbed the Haitian in the picture by the shirt and he ended up swinging him around while the horse trotted in a circle,\" he said of a couple of particular photographs.\n\nRatje says he does not think the man was hurt; shortly after that, he said they \"kind of calmed down, and they started letting people in\".\n\nUS Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz said the incident was being investigated to make sure there was not an \"unacceptable\" response by his officers, adding they operated in a difficult environment, trying to distinguish migrants from smugglers.\n\nUS Border Patrol agents on horseback have been trying to close off crossing points along the Rio Grande river\n\nThe UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR, has said it is monitoring US expulsions to Haiti, adding it was imperative that people fearing persecution had access to asylum, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nThe US government has reported a surge of migrants arriving at the border with Mexico this year.\n\nThe number of people detained there in July exceeded 200,000 for the first time in 21 years, according to government data.", "Sabina Nessa was found dead near the OneSpace community centre in Cator Park, Kidbrooke\n\nA teacher who was found dead near a community centre in south-east London has been named by police.\n\nThe body of Sabina Nessa, 28, was discovered near the OneSpace community centre in Cator Park, Kidbrooke, on Saturday afternoon.\n\nA man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of murder but has since been released under investigation pending further inquiries.\n\nThe school where Ms Nessa worked described her as a \"brilliant\" teacher.\n\nPolice believe the 28-year-old, who was from Kidbrooke, was attacked on Friday at about 20:30 BST.\n\nA post-mortem examination which was carried out on Monday morning was inconclusive, the Met Police said.\n\nThe school's headmistress Lisa Williams said staff and pupils were \"devastated by Sabina's tragic death\".\n\n\"She was a brilliant teacher; she was kind, caring and absolutely dedicated to her pupils.\n\n\"She had so much life ahead of her and so much more to give and her loss is desperately sad,\" she said.\n\nPolice believe the 28-year-old was attacked in the park on Friday night\n\nMs Nessa was described as kind, caring and absolutely dedicated to her pupils\n\nAppealing for witnesses, Det Ch Insp Joe Garrity said the park \"was likely being used by many people from dog walkers to joggers\" at the time of the attack.\n\n\"Did you see someone loitering or acting suspiciously? Or, did you see someone leaving the area in a hurry, perhaps running away?\n\n\"If you have any information, it is vital you tell us,\" he said.\n\nCh Supt Trevor Lawry described the killing as a \"shocking incident\" and said there would be \"extra high-visibility patrols both in and around the crime scene\" for the next few days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe pressure on intensive care staff is as high as it has been since the pandemic began, a leading consultant has said.\n\nDr Michael Martin, of Hywel Dda University Health Board, said patients with other conditions on top of Covid patients is making the situation worse.\n\nTen of about 24 critical care beds in its hospitals were occupied by Covid patients on Monday.\n\nStaff shortages have made him dread the winter months, the doctor said.\n\nCovid cases in the Hywel Dda area, which covers Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, have been rising with planned surgery suspended in some hospitals due to Covid pressures.\n\nDr Martin said west Wales' infection rates compared to the rest of Wales were \"much lower\" in the first two waves.\n\n\"Now it's probably more than what we had throughout the period when it was difficult in the first two waves, especially for Glangwili hospital as we've tried to centralise things a bit more,\" he said, adding staff are \"burnt out\".\n\n\"Here, in Glangwili hospital, the emergency hospital for west Wales, it's a difficult scenario because we basically lose more than half of our intensive care beds.\n\nHe said Covid patients means \"a lot of work for everybody - they're difficult\", adding: \"You don't just cure them in a couple of days\".\n\nThe health board said about half of its 12 Covid-positive patients are vaccinated.\n\nWhile those that have been jabbed are seeing better treatment success rates, Dr Martin said he remains concerned about the number of patients coming into hospital already seriously ill with other conditions.\n\nDr Martin has written to Hywel Dda heath board expressing concern for the current situation at his hospital\n\nThere are fears of a pent-up demand from people either reluctant to get help due to the pandemic or those who might have had difficulties being seen due to growing delays and waiting times.\n\nHe said cancer diagnoses are happening later, at end stage, when the patient is very unwell in intensive care.\n\n\"It never used to happen that way,\" he said.\n\nHe added that intensive care medicine is \"good at reversing acute things\" but \"patients are getting worse and worse because nobody has looked into them because the heath service has been busy [dealing with the virus]\".\n\nDr Martin thinks that despite a high take up of vaccinations, the pressure on his hospitals is likely to remain high throughout the winter.\n\nHe questioned how people will deal with Covid if it \"restarts\" in the winter \"because of all the patients we're seeing that the health service has not been able to deal with\".\n\n\"For me, personally, that is more emotionally difficult to deal with at the moment.\"\n\nNicky Hughes, associate director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, said some of her members were at \"breaking point\".\n\n\"Our nurses are telling us they are exhausted, they haven't had the chance to get over any of the last 18 months, they haven't had a let-up, every time they think there is a let-up, they are asked to do more and more,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"We talk about resilience but how can you be resilient for two years at this level? It's just not going to work.\n\n\"Health boards need to make a decision on what services are priority and they need to priorities the safety of their staff,\" she said.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, who is vice president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, said Covid had exposed the lack of adequate staffing before the pandemic hit, and a mounting backlog of treatment and care.\n\n\"Health boards are being asked not only to upgrade their ability to reduce the backlog, but also try and tackle the rising cases of Covid, and keeping the two streams of work separate,\" she said.\n\n\"We really need some compassionate leadership here to ensure there is value for the NHS workforce, that they are getting the rest they need to face what could be an incredibly difficult winter, especially if we have a flu pandemic.\"\n\nOn the front line, for Dr Martin one of the biggest challenges he faces is having to deal with staff shortages.\n\nHe said burnt-out senior staff are choosing to leave intensive care for a \"better work-life balance\", causing him constant difficulty trying to fill rotas.\n\n\"After two Covid waves, a lot of doctors and nurses are trying to get out of intensive care. They simply don't want to do it anymore, they're burnt out, it's been emotionally draining.\"\n\nHe said very junior nursing staff are on ITU because of shortages and trying to convince junior doctors who are overworked to come in for extra shifts is \"more difficult than the clinical work\".\n\n\"At the moment, that is one of the most difficult aspects of the work.\"", "Many patients are being prescribed unnecessary and even harmful treatments, a report warns.\n\nThe review, in England, suggests one-tenth of items dispensed by primary care are inappropriate or could be changed.\n\nAround 15% of people take five or more medicines a day - some are to deal with the side-effects of the others.\n\nThe government is appointing a prescribing tsar to help with the issue and stop waste.\n\nThe more medicines a person takes, the higher the chance that one or more of them will have an unwanted or harmful effect.\n\nChief pharmaceutical officer for England, Dr Keith Ridge, said: \"Medicines do people a lot of good and this report is absolutely not about taking treatment or services away from people where they are effective. But medicines can also cause harm and can be wasted.\"\n\nThe number of items dispensed by GPs and other primary care providers has doubled in recent years, from an average of 10 per person in 1996 to around 20 per person now, according to the report.\n\nRepeat prescriptions make up around three-quarters of all prescription items.\n\nAnd around 6.5% of hospital admissions are caused by adverse effects of medicines. This rises to up to 20% in the over-65 age group.\n\nImproved patient records and handovers between hospitals and GP surgeries are among the recommendations made in the report.\n\nClinical pharmacists working with GPs to review medication and a move to more personalised care is already helping, say experts.\n\nProf Martin Marshall, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, said: \"Prescribing is a core skill for GPs and many of our nurse and pharmacist colleagues in primary care and doing whatever we can to prescribe the most appropriate medicine for our patients, in an evidence-based way is something we strive to do on a daily basis - and in the vast majority of cases, this review shows this is happening.\n\n\"With our growing and ageing population, with more patients living with multiple, chronic conditions, many people are taking several medications in order to manage their various health illnesses, and the interaction between various medicines is something prescribers will take into account.\n\n\"In most cases, these medicines are necessary, appropriate and of benefit for the patient - but the aspiration to reduce the number of medications a patient is taking, where safe and possible, is a good one.\n\n\"GPs will only ever prescribe medication to patients in conversation with them,and after a frank discussion about the risks and benefits of the treatment - and when alternative options have been explored.\n\n\"What GPs and other members of the practice team often need, however, is better access for their patients to alternative, non-pharmacological treatments, which can be patchy across the country.\"", "The British food industry will be forced to pay five times more for carbon dioxide as part of a government deal with a US company to restart production in the UK.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said carbon dioxide prices would rise from £200 per tonne to £1,000.\n\nThe government has agreed to pay out tens of millions of pounds to CF Industries to reopen a plant in the UK.\n\nThe closure had raised fears over food supplies and the nuclear industry.\n\nUS-owned CF Industries recently shut two UK sites that produce 60% of the country's commercial carbon dioxide supplies, because of a sharp rise in gas prices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFarms, food producers and supermarkets have warned that a shortage of carbon dioxide will lead to significant disruption to the manufacture and supply of fresh produce.\n\nThe Times also reported that ministers were concerned that the UK might have to close its six advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactors, which also use CO2.\n\nThe government announced late on Tuesday night that it would meet the full operating costs to run CF Industries' Billingham plant in Teesside for three weeks. The costs are expected to be in the \"low tens of millions\" and will be below £50m.\n\nMr Eustice said that the deal with CF Industries \"will be not a loan, it will be a payment to underwrite some of their fixed costs\".\n\nAt the end of the three-week period, it is hoped that the price of carbon dioxide will have risen sufficiently to make it economically viable for CF Industries to keep production running.\n\nMr Eustice said the food industry would have to accept \"a big, sharp rise\" carbon dioxide prices from £200 to £1,000 a tonne.\n\n\"The critical thing was to get the production up and running expeditiously. That's why we've needed this government intervention,\" he said.\n\n\"But we've had meetings with the food industry. They all recognise that the price of carbon dioxide is going to increase substantially and when that price increases, then the market signal will be then for these plants to continue producing.\"\n\nMr Eustice insisted that the rise in cost would not have a \"significant impact\" on food prices.\n\nHe said that while food prices were increasing \"due to global commodity prices, oil prices and also other factors such as labour shortages\", carbon dioxide was \"a tiny proportion\" of the industry's overall costs.\n\nCF Industries had halted two of its fertiliser factories - which produce carbon dioxide as a by-product - because of gas prices.\n\nCarbon dioxide is used in the slaughter of animals such as chickens\n\nCF Industries' Billingham plant will need up to three days to start producing new CO2.\n\nThe company told the BBC it had \"no estimate\" on when its second UK plant at Ince in Cheshire would resume production.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association said the deal to open CF Industries' Teesside plant was a \"huge relief\" and said it was now \"focused on re-establishing supplies before Friday this week, which is when around 25% of pork production was in danger of shutting down\".\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, welcomed the decision, but said the timetable to restart CF Industries' factory and begin producing carbon dioxide \"will still be tight\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"Our understanding is that provided that carbon dioxide starts to get through to food producers by the end of the week, then we can avert major and significant disruption in our stores.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the \"exceptional short-term arrangement\" would ensure industries that rely on a stable supply of CO2 \"have the resources they require to avoid disruption\".\n\nHe said: \"With regards to the CO2 situation, it was abundant, it was very cheap and I think a lot of people were surprised at what happened.\"\n\nThe government intends to publish the letter from Mr Kwarteng to Tony Will, chief executive of CF Industries, which sets out the terms of the taxpayer support.\n\nCommenting on the three-week deal, Mr Kwarteng said: \"In a critical intervention you have to have a way of exiting the arrangement.\n\n\"It is not a case of just trying to nationalise it or supporting it indefinitely, and that is why in the critical period we needed to have a short term arrangement I am confident that we can get other sources of CO2 in that period.\n\nMr Eustice said that the shortage of carbon dioxide had been caused by a \"perfect storm\" of circumstances where CF Industries had shut its two plants because \"an increase in gas price means they are not profitable\", while two other providers had closed their sites for maintenance.\n\nBut the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said the current difficulties showed how exposed the UK is, because of its reliance on such a small number of carbon dioxide producers.\n\n\"Over many years, we have had a major consolidation of the industry resulting in sectors like food and drink, nuclear and health being reliant on a very small number of very large suppliers,\" the BMPA said.\n\n\"If a market-based solution is to be found, it will likely involve longer-term higher prices for CO2, which will be sustainable for some, but not all users of the gas.\"\n\nIan Wright, the chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, also called on the government to support other fertiliser producers and help food producers to look for alternatives to CO2.\n\nMr Will, who flew from the US to the UK on Sunday to meet Mr Kwarteng, said: \"We look forward to working with Secretary Kwarteng and the UK government on developing a longer-term solution, including the development of alternative suppliers of CO2 for the UK market.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that the deal with CF Industries has been drafted so that other companies who stop production because of high commodity prices will not be able to ask the government for similar help.\n\nNorwegian firm Yara has also cut production at a number of European factories, including one in Hull.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he does “not believe people will be short of food” amid reports of some empty supermarket shelves.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson urged people not to worry about putting food on the table this winter, amid rising energy and food bills and a cut to universal credit.\n\nWholesale prices for gas have surged 250% since January, with a 70% rise since August alone, leading to calls for support from the industry and the collapse of some smaller energy firms.\n\nMr Opie added that the government should also take action on other issues affecting food retailers in recent weeks, such as the shortage of HGV drivers, which has been exacerbated by the pandemic and many drivers returning to the European Union after Brexit.\n\nThe government has been keen to stress that this is very much an emergency measure, time-limited, and with a cap on the amount it is prepared to pay.\n\nIt had to do something. Food producers were warning that shortages would become apparent within days, at a time when supply chains have already been disrupted by other issues, such as a lack of lorry drivers.\n\nBut the fact remains that it has agreed to give a large US-owned company tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money, just to operate one of its own plants. That isn't a particularly good look - and it has cast a glaring spotlight on the vulnerability of a key part of the economy.\n\nNow there is a three-week window for government, supermarkets and food producers to come up with a \"sustainable market-based solution\". In practice, that's likely to mean users paying more for their CO2, a cost which will ultimately be borne by consumers.", "Boris Johnson is expected to urge US President Joe Biden to increase his country's climate commitments in a meeting at the White House.\n\nOn Monday, the PM had said he was \"frustrated\" that richer countries were failing to financially support poorer ones fighting climate change.\n\nThe two men are also likely to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.\n\nBut the PM played down the chances of progress on a UK-US trade deal, calling US negotiators \"pretty ruthless\".\n\nMr Johnson said he would \"rather get a deal that works for the UK than get a quick deal\", adding that the president had \"a lot of fish to fry\".\n\nThe prime minister has travelled to the US for a meeting of the UN's General Assembly, which is being attended by over 100 world leaders.\n\nAddressing a UN climate meeting on Monday, the prime minister said richer economies had done \"nowhere near enough\" to support those nations suffering the impact of global warming.\n\nIn 2009, developed countries agreed to provide $100bn (£73bn) a year to poorer countries to fight climate change.\n\nBy 2019, the figure had reached just over $79bn that year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).\n\nThe lead author of a UN-commissioned expert report into the pledge, Amar Bhattacharya, says within the G7 [a group of rich countries], Germany, Japan and France have been the leaders in terms of meeting the target.\n\nThe UK and Canada are slightly behind them while the United States and Italy are further behind.\n\nMr Johnson told UN delegates \"the gulf between what has been promised, what is actually being delivered, and what needs to happen… remains vast\".\n\nThe US's climate envoy John Kerry raised hopes that there could be progress towards the target, telling Sky News: \"I think we're going to get it done by COP [the climate conference to be held in Glasgow], and the US will do its part.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Biden would announce more funds this week, he added: \"I'm telling you to stay tuned into the president's speech, and we'll see where we are.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it would \"send a massively powerful signal\" if the US did commit to more funding but insisted \"we are not counting our chickens\".\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister also met Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. A Downing Street spokesman said they \"discussed the upcoming COP26 Summit and agreed there was an urgent need to mobilise more public and private money to help developing countries protect biodiversity\".\n\nThe spokesman added that the PM \"raised the issue of taxation, and hoped progress could be in implementing the G7 agreement on tax\".\n\nJoe Biden and Boris Johnson met in Cornwall earlier this year\n\nThe meeting with the president in the Oval Office will be the first time Mr Biden and Mr Johnson have met face-to-face since a G7 summit held in Cornwall earlier this year.\n\nThe prime minister acknowledged that the US-UK relationship had experience some problems in recent years, referring to \"pebbles in the shoe\".\n\nBut, he pointed to negotiation successes citing the end of the ban on British beef, and suspension of US tariffs on Scotch whisky.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meeting, Mr Johnson described his own relationship with Mr Biden as \"genuinely terrific - we see eye to eye on all sorts of things\" adding that the two men had bonded over trains.", "The government is proposing to give all employees the right to request flexible working when they start new jobs, the BBC understands.\n\nA consultation is to be launched on the proposals this week.\n\nThe plan would allow all UK employees to request a flexible working arrangement from their first day at a new employer.\n\nAt the moment, workers have to wait until they have been in their role for six months.\n\nThe proposals would also see bosses have to respond to requests for flexible working more quickly than the current maximum of three months. It would also force firms to explain why any requests were refused.\n\nIt is understood that the consultation document will be published on Thursday by the Department for Business.\n\nIt started examining a range of flexible working options in 2019, including working different or condensed hours, job sharing and remote working.\n\nJane Hutton, chief executive of the job search website Evenbreak, a social enterprise run by disabled people, said she welcomed the news.\n\n\"For employers, offering flexible working means they can access so much more talent and that really benefits the business as well.\n\n\"Before the pandemic there was a huge resistance for people working from home but the reality is they are just as productive if not more so - it's just a pity it took a global pandemic for employers to trust their employees.\"\n\nMary Doyle says the right to work from home would have made a huge difference to her earlier in her career\n\nExecutive coach and disability equality trainer Mary Doyle said the right to request flexibility would help more employees.\n\nPreviously she worked for 28 years in technology and working from home was not an option.\n\nBefore the pandemic, she said that when it became more acceptable to work from home at a corporate level it still wasn't the preferred option.\n\n\"For it to be right rather than a privilege would have made a huge difference to me earlier in my career,\" she said.\n\nStephen Warnham, head of content at UK jobs site Totaljobs.com, said the move pointed to \"a growth in a hybrid way of working\", where people are \"trusted to work in the way that best gets the job done\".\n\n\"If you consider the jobs market as it stands with all its vacancies, businesses listening to the needs and wants of employees is key.\"\n\nAs part of a survey of 200,000 staff worldwide, published in March this year, Totaljobs found that nine in 10 employees wanted partial flexibility to choose where they work.\n\n\"From a legislative perspective this is long overdue as a third of employers we speak to are already doing this anyway, so it is a really critical change,\" said Mr Warnham.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said that flexible working \"should be a right\" to everyone from their first day in the job.\n\n\"But these proposals won't be the game changer ministers claim, as employers can still turn down any or all requests for flexible working,\" she continued.\n\n\"The government should change the law so that workers have the legal right to flexible work from day one in the job - not just the right to ask for it.\"\n\nAnd Angela Rayner MP, Labour's Deputy Leader and Shadow Secretary of State for the Future of Work, said: \"Labour will give workers the right to flexible working - not just the right to request it - and give all workers full rights from day one on the job.\"\n\nGill McAteer, head of employment law at Citation, said that if an employee contract said the place of work was the office, employees have no legal right to work remotely.\n\n\"Until this becomes a reality, employees will have to accept their employer's back to work plan or face challenging it through the existing flexible working process,\" she said.\n\nHowever, Ms McAteer said that while it was \"relatively easy\" for employers to refuse a work from home request before the pandemic, now it is \"more challenging\" as employees can demonstrate they have \"effectively\" carried out their role from home during the crisis.\n\nThe potential repercussions of employers getting this wrong can be costly, Ms McAteer explained, referring to a recent tribunal decision to award £185,000 in damages to an estate agent who was denied a flexible working request to leave work earlier to collect her daughter from nursery.", "The Scottish Lib Dem leader insists it is not just caused by the pandemic.\n\nHe argues the military, fire fighters and taxi drivers should not have to bail out the ambulance service.\n\nMr Cole-Hamilton says: \"Can I ask the cabinet secretary just how long does he expect this crisis to last?\"\n\n\"We are in the midst of a global pandemic,\" replies the health secretary.\n\nMr Yousaf says Mr Cole-Hamilton lacks credibility if he says the pandemic has nothing to do with the pressures on the ambulance service.", "A thousand extra hospital beds are needed to help relieve the \"unrelenting pressure\" facing Scotland's emergency departments, doctors have claimed.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine said many A&E units were struggling because there are too few beds available elsewhere in hospitals.\n\nFigures for the week to 12 September show almost 30% of people attending A&E having to wait more than four hours.\n\nScottish ministers will later update Holyrood on plans to bolster the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said £12m of extra funds had already been announced for non-Covid emergency care.\n\nAccording to the latest figures from Public Health Scotland, there were 27,354 attendances at A&E services in Scotland in the week ending 12 September.\n\nOf these, 71.5% were seen and either admitted, discharged or transferred elsewhere within four hours - the lowest total for a number of years, and well below the target level of 95%.\n\nA total of 1,895 patients spent more than eight hours in an A&E department, while 551 of them were there for more than 12 hours.\n\nIn a BBC interview, John Thomson, vice-president for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in Scotland, and a consultant in emergency medicine, said there was currently an \"unrelenting pressure on our emergency departments\" but that Covid was only one part of the problem.\n\nHe said: \"We have patients who are waiting in emergency departments who should be receiving the next stage of their care elsewhere in the system.\n\n\"The college estimates that we're approximately 1,000 beds short nationally and that would certainly help alleviate some of the issues relating to what we call exit block, which are patients waiting to move from the emergency department when they no longer require care within the department.\n\n\"Emergency departments can be very busy and function very smoothly when we have no exit block. Conversely when we've seen significant exit block, and long wait for patients to move to beds, then we can have relatively few patients in A&E and struggle to provide the right level of care that we would want to.\"\n\nJohn Thomson, vice-president for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in Scotland, said it was \"too simplistic\" to say Covid was entirely to blame for the pressures facing the NHS\n\nThe Scottish government has asked the MoD for military assistance for the under-pressure ambulance service and the health secretary is expected to give more details of the plan at Holyrood later.\n\nUnite convener Jamie McNamee questioned the value of army personnel driving vehicles \"without the ability to emergency respond\" or having the necessary clinical skills.\n\nAsked how much help they would be, he told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Whilst we welcome them on board they will be little or no help to the Scottish Ambulance Service in their emergency care provision.\"\n\nMr McNamee expects that the military will instead work in the non-emergency sector to free up capacity by, for example, providing non-emergency hospital transport.\n\nThe convener also said he fears for the winter as the current situation is the worst he has known in his 35-year career.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Thomson said increasing the number of beds would go \"a long way\" to alleviating the problems facing the NHS.\n\nHe added: \"The sole reason ambulances have to await to offload is there is no space in the emergency departments for that patient to go.\"\n\nBefore the Covid pandemic, the average daily number of beds which were staffed and available for patients for acute specialties in Scotland was about 13,000.\n\nAccording to Public Health Scotland, the number has been going down for many years in line with evolving models of healthcare provision which aims to reduce the frequency and duration of hospital admissions.\n\nThere have been reports of some people facing severe waits for an ambulance to arrive\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"We announced £12m in additional funding to boards to support non-Covid emergency care and put measures in place to reduce waiting times for urgent or emergency treatment, with a focus on boosting available beds and supported by record NHS staffing levels.\n\n\"The Covid pandemic has inevitably affected A&E attendance and the pressure is being felt across the UK. Scotland's core A&E departments have outperformed those in the rest of the UK for more than six years.\n\n\"Weekly performance is impacted due to a range of challenges including high attendances, staffing pressures due to isolation and annual leave and the continued requirement for infection control precautions that is affecting the time people need to spend in A&E. This is combined with increased levels of people attending A&E who are much sicker and require higher levels of care.\"\n\nMr Yousaf will face questions from MSPs at Holyrood later, with the Scottish Conservatives calling the latest waiting times figures \"shocking and reprehensible\".\n\nPublic health spokeswoman Sue Webber said: \"Thousands of patients are waiting hours on end in A&E departments, despite the best efforts of our heroic frontline staff.\n\n\"The SNP's health secretary needs to accept the reality and admit there is a crisis in our NHS, for the sake of patients and - equally as important - staff wellbeing.\"", "Journalists from the Etilaatroz newspaper were flogged with cables\n\nJournalists in Afghanistan say that they have been beaten, detained and flogged by the Taliban when attempting to cover protests.\n\nPhotos circulating online show two journalists from Etilaatroz newspaper with welts and bruises after their arrest in the capital Kabul.\n\nOne of them, Taqi Daryabi, told the BBC he had been taken to a district police station where he was kicked and beaten.\n\nOn Wednesday, the BBC's team were also prevented from filming.\n\nMr Daryabi, alongside Etilaatroz's photographer Nematullah Naqdi, had been covering a women's protest in Kabul on Wednesday.\n\nAfterwards, they were taken to a police station, where they say they were beaten with batons, electrical cables and whips. A few hours later, they were released by the Taliban, without explanation.\n\n\"They took me to another room and handcuffed my hands behind me,\" he told the BBC's Secunder Kermani in Kabul. \"I decided not to defend myself because I thought they would just beat me even worse, so I lay down on floor in a position to protect the front of my body.\n\n\"Eight of them came and they started beating me... Using sticks, police sticks, rubber - whatever they had in their hands. The scar on my face is from shoes where they kicked me in face.\n\n\"I was unconscious after that so they stopped. They took me to another building where there were cells and left me.\"\n\nMr Daryabi said he had fallen unconscious after the beating, and that after about two hours he had been released.\n\n\"I could barely walk but they were telling us to walk quickly. I was in very bad pain.\"\n\nNematullah Naqdi said Taliban fighters had tried to take away his camera as soon as he started taking photographs of the protest.\n\n\"One of the Taliban put his foot on my head, crushed my face against the concrete. They kicked me in the head... I thought they were going to kill me,\" Mr Naqdi told AFP news agency.\n\nHe asked why he was being beaten, only to be told: \"You are lucky you weren't beheaded.\"\n\nAfghanistan's Tolo news agency reported that its cameraman had been arrested and held by the Taliban for nearly three hours.\n\nThe CPJ, an international non-governmental organisation, said at least 14 journalists had been detained and then released over the past two days.\n\n\"The Taliban is quickly proving that earlier promises to allow Afghanistan's independent media to continue operating freely and safely are worthless,\" said Steven Butler, CPJ's Asia programme co-ordinator.\n\n\"We urge the Taliban to live up to those earlier promises, to stop beating and detaining reporters doing their job, and allow the media to work freely without fear of reprisal.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the Taliban, which seized control of Afghanistan in a sweeping offensive more than three weeks ago, announced the formation of an all-male interim government to rule the country.\n\nSince then, they have effectively banned protests, declaring them illegal unless permission is sought from the ministry of justice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A group of women protest in Kabul against the all-male Taliban government", "French firm Sorare, which sells football trading cards in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), has raised $680m (£498m).\n\nThe NFT-based cards are used by fans to create fantasy football teams which can then \"play\" each other.\n\nThe funding was led by tech investor Softbank, with ex-England international Rio Ferdinand also putting in money.\n\nNFTs are controversial, with concerns over financial risk and environmental impact.\n\nAn NFT is a \"one-of-a-kind\" digital asset that can be bought and sold like any other piece of property.\n\nAs with crypto-currency, a record of who owns what is stored on a shared ledger known as the blockchain and maintained by thousands of computers around the world.\n\nPlayers can buy cards from Sorare at auctions, or fans can also auction cards they own to other players.\n\nSorare claims $150m worth of cards have been traded on the platform since January. The latest investment puts its value at $4.3bn (£3.15bn).\n\nAs NFTs, the cards can also be sold on platforms such as OpenSea and Rarible.\n\nSorare says it has partnerships with more than 180 football clubs and has 600,000 registered users.\n\nA number of players including Spain's Gerard Pique and France's Antoine Griezmann also invested in the company.\n\nThe firm recently announced a deal with Spain's La Liga and told the Telegraph it hoped to have \"something to announce\" about the Premier League.\n\nSome journalists, charities and fan organisations have begun to question if crypto-assets and sports mix.\n\nSorare isn't the only business to have deals with clubs featuring crypto-based assets.\n\nClubs such as Barcelona, Juventus, Manchester City and Paris St-Germain already have arrangements with a firm called Socios to sell crypto-currency-based fan-tokens.\n\nThe firm promotes tokens on its website as a way to \"influence decisions of your favourite teams, unlock VIP rewards and access to exclusive promotions, games, chat & a superfan recognition\".\n\nBut because the tokens can be traded, some fan organisations worry clubs are encouraging speculation in crypto-currencies.\n\nLeeds United Supporters' Trust, for example, was critical of the club's decision to reach an agreement with Socios saying fans would be entering a \"crypto-currency ecosystem, something which many may have very little knowledge of\".\n\n\"If football chooses to bring unregulated crypto-currency into the game, we believe that clubs also need to provide education and guidance on the purpose and risks associated.\"\n\nDepending on the technology used, maintaining a blockchain requires considerable computing power with a sizeable carbon footprint.\n\nAs in traditional investing, financial impropriety and crime are a risk, but the protections for consumers are generally less robust.\n\nThere are also concerns about a lack of regulation.\n\nRecently OpenSea, the largest digital collectable marketplace, revealed an employee used inside knowledge to buy NFTs before they were promoted on the website.\n\nCEO Devin Finzer said the incident was \"incredibly disappointing\" and did not represent the team's values.\n\nInsider trading - where individuals use non-public knowledge about a company for financial advantage - is illegal in most regulated markets.\n\nBut the NFT market does not have such restrictions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Louise Powell says her baby died \"due to errors\" made after she went into labour in prison\n\nA woman has told how her baby died during childbirth \"due to errors\" made after she went into labour in prison.\n\nLouise Powell, 31, said she begged for an ambulance before her baby, Brooke, died in a cell at HMP Styal in 2020.\n\nThe Prison Ombudsman is reviewing the death and is also due to publish its findings on another baby's death at HMP Bronzefield in Middlesex in 2019.\n\nThe Prison Service said it had already \"made significant improvements to support female offenders\".\n\nMs Powell said she did not know she was pregnant when Brooke was delivered prematurely between 30 and 32 weeks, weighing 2.5lbs (1.1kg), but told BBC Newsnight her daughter's death could have been avoided \"if [her condition] was taken seriously enough\".\n\n\"Brooke was let down by the people who were meant to look after us,\" she said.\n\nThe Prison Ombudsman is conducting an investigation into Brooke's death\n\nMs Powell, who was sentenced to eight months in March 2020 after admitting common assault, racially-aggravated harassment and criminal damage, said it was her first time in jail and she \"wasn't in a very good place\" after a relationship breakdown.\n\nOn her first day at HMP Styal, she told staff there was \"no chance\" she was pregnant.\n\nHowever, her lawyer Jane Ryan said prison staff were aware she had not had a period for four to five months and never followed it up.\n\nAt about 17:00 BST on 18 June, Ms Powell said she started feeling \"extreme\" pain.\n\nShe said her cellmate told staff she was bleeding and had severe cramps and had not had a period in months.\n\nA female prison officer then told her she looked six months pregnant, she said.\n\nMs Powell said she \"still didn't have a clue... but I felt like I was dying\", adding that the officer \"left me in the cell\".\n\nBBC Newsnight understands the prison officer contacted the on-site health care team about Ms Powell's condition and raised concerns about pregnancy, but it is claimed no medical professional went to see her.\n\nMs Powell said she was bent over with pain and crying but managed to leave her cell and found a prison officer, telling them: \"I need an ambulance. I'm dying.\"\n\nShe said the officer told her to go back and lie down.\n\nBBC Newsnight understands the officer called the health care team again, but no medical professional was sent.\n\nAt about 21:00, Ms Powell said her cellmate pressed the emergency bell, as she felt the need to push.\n\nShe said her baby's legs \"came out\", because Brooke was breech, and it was then that a prison nurse arrived and helped with the delivery.\n\nMs Powell described the chaotic scenes which followed the birth, during which she said she went into shock and was given oxygen.\n\nShe said an officer \"told me I had a beautiful baby girl\", but when the officer returned, \"her face was different\".\n\nShe said she knew at that point her daughter \"wasn't OK\".\n\nBBC Newsnight understands staff tried to call for an ambulance, but the prison radio system failed.\n\nMs Powell said \"nobody tried to revive [Brooke]\", and when paramedics arrived, it was \"too late\" to save her baby.\n\n\"I don't blame anyone for not knowing I was pregnant... but nobody came to look at me,\" she said.\n\n\"I feel like a lot more could have been done.\"\n\nLawyer Jane Ryan says Brooke's death was \"a tragedy which should not have happened\"\n\nShe said Brooke was a \"perfect baby and she died due to error\".\n\n\"She should be here with me... and that's been taken away from me through no fault of my own.\n\n\"I never got listened to.\"\n\nShe added that the prison \"clearly can't look after people\" and treated inmates as \"a number, not a person\".\n\nMs Ryan said Brooke's death was \"a tragedy that should not have happened\" and she believed that in different circumstances Ms Powell's daughter might have survived.\n\n\"[She] was premature but she was healthy,\" she said.\n\n\"Evidence shows [that] had Louise been properly assessed... then Brooke could have survived.\n\n\"That's devastating for Louise and also a matter of public concern that yet again this has happened.\"\n\nLouise Powell gave birth in her cell at HMP Styal\n\nMs Ryan said the two baby deaths were a \"disgrace\" and a \"stain on all of us\".\n\n\"Prison is the punishment itself,\" she said.\n\n\"You still should be appropriately cared for and be able to access adequate healthcare.\"\n\nThe Prison Service said it was a \"deeply sad and distressing case\".\n\nA spokesman said the service had \"made significant improvements to support female offenders\" and inmates now had \"greater access to education, healthcare and employment\".\n\n\"We await the report and will respond accordingly to improve the care for pregnant women and mothers in prison,\" he added.\n\nSpectrum Community Health CIC, the prison's healthcare provider, said it \"extended its deepest condolences to Ms Powell\" and had \"fully co-operated\" with the ombudsman's investigation.\n\n\"As the investigation report has yet to be published, we are unable to provide any further comment,\" it added.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexander Litvinenko died in hospital three weeks after he was poisoned with polonium\n\nRussia was responsible for the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found.\n\nLitvinenko, a former Russian spy who became a British citizen, was fatally poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in London in 2006.\n\nA UK public inquiry conducted 10 years later concluded that the killing was \"probably approved\" by Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nRussia has always denied any involvement in his murder.\n\nThe UK inquiry said former KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi and another Russian, Dmitry Kovtun deliberately poisoned Mr Litvinenko, probably by putting the radioactive substance into his tea.\n\nLitvinenko's widow, Marina, took the case against Russia to the Strasbourg-based rights court, which has agreed with the UK inquiry's conclusion.\n\n\"The court found in particular that there was a strong prima facie case that, in poisoning Mr Litvinenko, Mr Lugovoi and Mr Kovtun had been acting as agents of the Russian state,\" the ECHR ruled.\n\nIt concluded that Russia's failure to refute claims that it had organised the killing further pointed towards the state's responsibility.\n\nBoth Mr Lugovoi and Mr Kovtun have denied any involvement in the killing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrei Lugovoi speaking in 2016: \"All this I can call nothing but a spectacle\"\n\nA year afterwards, Mr Lugovoi became a member of Russia's lower house of parliament for a right-wing nationalist party. He later condemned the UK public inquiry as a spectacle and an open lie.\n\nHowever, the Strasbourg rights court found it had established \"beyond reasonable doubt\" that the pair had carried out the poisoning, from the complex procurement of \"rare, deadly poison\", to the travel arrangements and the repeated and sustained attempts to poison Litvinenko.\n\nLitvinenko had fled Russia, where he had been an officer with the FSB security service. He became a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin and was in the pay of the UK's MI6 secret service, reportedly investigating Russian mafia links with Spain.\n\nLitvinenko was admitted to hospital soon after meeting the two Russians for tea in London\n\nHe met Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun for a cup of tea at a central London hotel on 1 November 2006. He soon fell ill and was admitted to hospital shortly afterwards. His condition worsened and he died on 23 November.\n\nThe ECHR found that if his murder had been a \"rogue operation\" then Russia would have been able to prove that. But the court said no serious attempt was made to disprove the findings of the UK authorities.\n\nAlthough it said Russia should pay Litvinenko's widow €122,500 (£105,000; $144,000) in costs and other damages, it rejected her claim for punitive damages.\n\nThe poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko broke a number of unwritten rules and taboos.\n\nIt was an unprecedented use of a radiological weapon - polonium-210 - on British soil, with the perpetrators leaving a trail of forensic clues wherever they went.\n\nThe assassination, again on British soil, of someone who had been helpful to MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, was also highly unusual. But the cause of his death very nearly went undiscovered.\n\nPolonium-210 is a rare material, produced in a reactor that emits alpha rays, not gamma rays. These are too weak to penetrate the skin but if ingested they are lethal, breaking down the cell walls, causing multiple organ failure.\n\nIn Litvinenko's case it was only discovered, too late, in his urine and the precise source identified by nuclear scientists from the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire.\n\nThe ECHR's ruling that Russia was behind this murder will come as no surprise to those who have already investigated it.", "After a 35-day race, the voters have spoken. And they've decisively chosen to stick to the status quo.\n\nAfter Canada's most expensive federal election in history, the electoral map is largely unchanged.\n\nPreliminary results show that the Liberals actually lost three seats in this election, over what they had won in 2019.\n\nIt comes after then-and-still-Prime Minster Justin Trudeau declared a snap election last month, hoping to firm up his minority government and establish a majority.\n\nBut despite not winning a majority, he is still the man in charge after winning his third term.\n\nOur coverage was brought to you by BBC Canada's Holly Honderich, Jessica Murphy, Robin Levinson-King and Dan Lytwyn.", "Rebecca Spencer was suspended from the care home last year for her alleged actions\n\nA care worker at a home for 11 to 18-year-olds urinated on a young person's toothbrush, a fitness to practise hearing has been told.\n\nRebecca Spencer, who worked at a home in Denbighshire, faces eight charges at a Social Care Wales hearing.\n\nIt is alleged she texted her former partner, Sarah Jones, claiming she had urinated \"on his toothbrush. Lol\".\n\nMs Spencer has admitted some charges, but denies urinating on the child's toothbrush, among other allegations.\n\nShe also denied urinating on a young person's boxer shorts, providing cutlery which she had rubbed on her genitals and adding laxatives to the food of one or more young people.\n\nShe has admitted to taking and sending pictures of one or more young people without authorisation, as well as sending a text message referring to her use of recreational drugs.\n\nShe has also admitted failing to disclose her previous work history.\n\nThe alleged offences took place early last year, before she was suspended from the care home, which provides therapeutic services for children and young people who present with sexually harmful behaviours, as well as those with mild to moderate learning difficulties, in April 2020.\n\nThe panel heard she worked at a home which provides therapeutic services for children and young people who have mild to moderate learning difficulties.\n\nOne text read: \"These kids are doing my head in. There is no escape.\"\n\nIn evidence about some of the alleged acts mentioned in the messages, Ms Jones said Ms Spencer had also discussed the acts.\n\nMs Spencer claimed Ms Jones had edited messages, and hacked into her social media, which Ms Jones denied.\n\nDelme Griffiths, presenting officer for Social Care Wales, said they were \"appalling\" messages and while there were no witnesses to the alleged acts, he said they would be \"bizarre things to make up\".\n\nHe added she had been caught because she had been \"bragging\" about them.\n\nThe hearing, which is scheduled to last five days, continues.", "John Paul and Lacey's father Jason Bennett said \"life will never be the same again\"\n\nThe family of two children, who were found dead along with their mother and another child at a house in Derbyshire, have paid tribute to them.\n\nJason Bennett said he was heartbroken at the loss of daughter Lacey, 11, and son John Paul, 13, as he laid flowers at Chandos Crescent, Killamarsh.\n\nA 31-year-old man from Killamarsh, who was known to the family, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe third child has been named as Connie Gent, 11, from Sheffield.\n\nIt is believed she was Lacey's friend and had been in the house for a sleepover.\n\nDerbyshire Police said they were called to the house at 07:26 BST on Sunday after concerns were raised about the safety of a man.\n\nThey found the bodies of the three children, along with that of 35-year-old Terri Harris, who was Lacey and John Paul's mother.\n\nAt the scene today, Mr Bennett told Sky News: \"I'm broken, I just want to kiss my babies.\n\n\"I just want to kiss them and hold them. TikTok Queen and my beautiful boy, they were beautiful.\"\n\nIn a message posted on Facebook earlier, he said \"life will never be the same\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lacey and John Paul's grandparents said the children were \"beautiful\"\n\nThe children's grandparents, Debbie and Trevor Bennett, also arrived at the scene to leave flowers.\n\nMrs Bennett said: \"They were beautiful, well mannered kids. Terri was a beautiful and wonderful mother.\n\n\"Their dad was on holiday in Devon. He had to drive home knowing he has lost his children.\n\n\"I don't know how he's going to come through this.\"\n\nMr Bennett added: \"He's going to need a lot of help and our strength for him.\n\n\"I've only spoken to him on the phone and it breaks my heart to hear him like that.\"\n\nLacey and John Paul's mother Terri Harris was found dead at the house\n\nMrs Bennett said Lacey was a West Ham fan and John Paul liked TikTok and computers.\n\nThe Outwood Academy City school in Sheffield confirmed it was closed following the \"tragic incident\" involving three of its students.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, the school said: \"It is with great sadness that the academy will be closed today.\n\n\"A tragic incident has taken place in the community involving 3 of our students. We will however be open to any students who need our support.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all those affected by this sad news.\"\n\nLocal residents have been lighting candles at St Giles Church\n\nKillamarsh is a community in mourning and disbelief, according to the Rev Canon Helen Guest, rector at St Giles Church.\n\n\"We can't believe this tragedy has happened in our community and it's literally a stone's throw from where I live,\" she said.\n\nThe church opened this morning so that people could write in a book of condolences and light candles to remember the woman and three children who have been killed.\n\n\"So far we've had a gentle flow of people who are coming in,\" said the rector.\n\nMany of those arriving to pay their respects had young children themselves. One of the mothers had tears in her eyes after lighting a candle.\n\n\"My thoughts just go out to the whole family,\" she said.\n\n\"It's such a close knit community I think it has affected everybody. I have three children and it was a very anxious time yesterday, not knowing what was happening.\"\n\nSpecially-trained officers are liaising with the families of the deceased\n\nFlowers have been left near the police cordon on Chandos Crescent\n\nDerbyshire Police's chief constable Rachel Swann said the deaths were an \"understandably shocking event that has deeply affected the local community in Killamarsh, as well as colleagues, family and friends in Sheffield.\"\n\nShe thanked the officers who arrived to the scene \"in such a difficult situation\" and added: \"While understandably worrying and upsetting, this is believed to be an isolated incident in which those involved were known to one another and nobody else is being sought in connection with the deaths.\"\n\nShe said officers were particularly keen to speak to anyone who was in Chandos Crescent between 21:30 BST on Saturday and 07:30 BST on Sunday, and had any information that could help with their investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief Constable Rachel Swann described the deaths as a \"shocking event\"\n\nHundreds of people from the Killamarsh community gathered at Baker Park near Chandos Crescent on Monday night for a vigil.\n\nJenny Eells from BBC Radio Sheffield said people arrived to lay candles, flowers and teddies around a post in the centre of the children's playground.\n\n\"The commemoration lasted around 20 or so minutes with people of all ages, many standing in silence… some with their arms round each other and visibly upset,\" she said.\n\nPeople started gathering for a candlelit vigil in the local park earlier on Monday night\n\nMourners also left flowers and teddies alongside the candles\n\nOrganiser David Taylor, who is a local pastor from Church on the Street, said it was \"a dark day in the place I call home\".\n\n\"Each one of you is here to remember four people who are no longer with us,\" he said.\n\n\"And it is a day that we'll all remember because this doesn't happen in Killamarsh. But it has.\n\n\"Some of you know the family, some of you know the children, some of you will have never seen them before. But you're all here to show your respect.\"\n\nFollowing the vigil he told the BBC: \"Many of them wanted to be able to come and show their feelings for one another, for the community and to be there to support one another.\n\n\"I met the father this morning and as you can imagine he's in a really bad way and all I could do is comfort him and pray with him, and he appreciated that.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Man arrested after four found dead in house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a soft opt-out system\n\nA major change to organ donation rules in Northern Ireland has passed its second reading at Stormont.\n\nAssembly members approved the bill by 69 votes to six, and it will now go before the health committee.\n\nIf passed, the legislation would mean people automatically become organ donors unless they specifically opt out.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently the only part of the UK where an opt-out system for organ donation is not in place.\n\n\"One of the things this bill has allowed us to do is to start to have that conversation as to what organ donation means,\" said Health Minister Robin Swann during the debate.\n\nUntil June, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had blocked attempts to pass a bill.\n\nFollowing talks between First Minister Paul Givan, Robin Swann, who proposed the legislation, and campaigners, Mr Givan announced he had given approval for the legislation to proceed to the assembly.\n\nThe lack of opposition would allow for such a bill to become law before the assembly is dissolved ahead of the election due in May.\n\nThere are currently about 115 people waiting for an organ transplant in Northern Ireland\n\nHowever, campaigners have raised concerns that the bill might never become law due to the DUP's threat to collapse Stormont over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nEarlier this month, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said his party may quit Stormont \"within weeks\" if its demands over the protocol are not met,\n\nThere are currently about 115 people waiting for an organ transplant in Northern Ireland.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the bill had been \"long-awaited by all who are involved in the organ donation process.\"\n\nHe told the assembly the move would increase the number of donors \"and ultimately the number of life-saving organs available for transplantation\".\n\nThe minister outlined how the bill had taken on board lessons from legislation in other parts of the UK.\n\n\"This bill will mean that adults in Northern Ireland will be considered potential donors unless they choose to opt out or are excluded,\" he added.\n\nMáirtín MacGabhann, whose four-year-old son Dáithí has been waiting for a new heart for three years said the proposals would be \"a massive step\" forward for Dáithí and others on the waiting list.\n\n\"A transplant is used when all other options have been exhausted, it's the last hope for them,\" he said.\n\n\"There is something that our politicians can achieve to increase your loved ones' chances of receiving the vital organ.\"\n\nMáirtín MacGabhann's son Dáithí has been waiting for a new heart for three years\n\nHe encouraged those in power to keep the political institutions \"up and running, so important issues like soft opt out organ donation have a chance of going through\".\n\n\"I'm just pleading with those politicians to please give these important pieces of legislation a fighting chance because they can change our society so much,\" he said.\n\nHe said if Stormont were to collapse over the issue he would be \"absolutely heartbroken\".\n\n\"We have come so far and gathered so much support politically and it would be an absolute travesty if the likes of soft opt-out organ donation was not to come into law because of the collapse of Stormont,\" Mr MacGabhann said.\n\nFearghal McKinney, from the British Heart Foundation, told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme campaigners would get back up to fight for the legislation if power-sharing were to dissolve before it could pass.\n\n\"The gift of life is in the hands of our politicians right now,\" he said.\n\nIn the first year after England introduced an opt-out system, the organs of 296 people were donated.\n\nThis accounted for 29% of all donors in the 12-month period and resulted in a total of 714 organs being transplanted.\n\nTransplant surgeon Dr Tim Brown said he did not believe opt-out legislation was the \"way to achieve\" change.\n\nHe said he would like to get to a position where organ donation registration lists were \"unnecessary\".\n\n\"I would like that the norm in society, that if somebody does find themselves in the tragic position of being an organ donor, I would like it to be normal for them to go and donate without any need for them to be on a list,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had difficulty with \"the removal of autonomy from an induvial\" in the opt-out plans.\n\n\"I think education and support around donation is the way to achieve that, legislation is a further step that I don't think is necessary,\" he added.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has launched an investigation into a data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.\n\nMore than 250 people seeking relocation to the UK - many of whom are in hiding - were mistakenly copied into an email from the Ministry of Defence.\n\nTheir email addresses could be seen by all recipients, showing people's names and some associated profile pictures.\n\nThe MoD has apologised in a statement.\n\nThe email was sent to interpreters who remain in Afghanistan or have been able to get to other countries.\n\nConservative MP and former defence minister Johnny Mercer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The reality is we've left the vast, vast majority of our interpreters behind so this is going to have a profound impact on people who are still in the country.\"\n\nHe said he had spoken to the brother of one man, trained by the UK to serve in Afghan special forces, who had been executed after the evacuation by the US and UK and whose family is now on the run.\n\nFailings by the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office had led to Afghan allies being \"hunted ruthlessly by the Taliban\", he said.\n\nThe email was sent by the team in charge of the UK's Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap), which has been in contact with them since the Taliban took control of the country last month.\n\nThe team told the interpreters it was doing everything it could to help relocate them.\n\nIt also said they should not put themselves or their families at risk if it was not safe for them to leave their current location.\n\nBut one interpreter who received the email realised that more than 250 Afghans who worked with British forces had been copied into the email.\n\n\"This mistake could cost the life of interpreters, especially for those who are still in Afghanistan,\" they told the BBC.\n\n\"Some of the interpreters didn't notice the mistake and they replied to all the emails already and they explained their situation which is very dangerous. The email contains their profile pictures and contact details.\"\n\nThe MoD then sent another email 30 minutes later with the title \"Urgent - Arap case contact\" asking the recipients to delete the previous email and warning \"your email address may have been compromised\".\n\nIt recommended the interpreters change their email addresses.\n\nLabour shadow defence secretary John Healey said the data breach had \"needlessly put lives at risk\" and called on the government to urgently step up efforts to get the interpreters to the UK.\n\nAfter the BBC approached the Ministry of Defence, the defence secretary was angry enough to order an immediate inquiry.\n\nIt's likely this data breach was just human error, and the apology is certainly sincere, but there are obviously concerns if the email addresses, names and pictures fall into the wrong hands.\n\nWhile the military evacuation on the ground was rightly lauded, the failure to get all those who worked with British forces out has left hundreds stranded and in hiding.\n\nJust this week we spoke to the family of an eight-month-old British baby who is still stuck there, an interpreter who is on the run fearing for his life, and another interpreter who just does not know what to do.\n\nThis data breach just compounds their safety concerns.\n\nAn MoD spokeswoman said an investigation had been launched into what Mr Wallace called an \"unacceptable breach\".\n\n\"We apologise to everyone impacted by this breach and are working hard to ensure it does not happen again,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the MoD \"takes its information and data handling responsibilities very seriously\".\n\nTobias Ellwood MP, who chairs the defence select committee, welcomed the investigation but said it was more pressing to get the interpreters out of the country as soon as possible.\n\n\"Each day they remain in the country the risk of them not making it out increases,\" he said.", "Proposed changes to how Labour elects a future leader have been criticised as an attempt to 'deCorbynise' the party.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has re-opened a bitter internal dispute just days ahead of his party's conference.\n\nHe has tried to convince trade unions to back a plan to scrap the leadership rules which enabled predecessor Jeremy Corbyn to get elected - but has so far failed to secure their support.\n\nCurrently grassroots members elect the leader - a system introduced by Ed Miliband.\n\nBut Sir Keir wants to return to an \"electoral college\", where ordinary Labour Party members would only account for a third of the votes in a future leadership contest.\n\nMPs would be given a further third of the vote - a move backed by \"moderate\" members of the party as they believe elected politicians more closely reflect the views of constituents and not just activists.\n\nThe unions would also be given a third of the vote.\n\nThat may, on the surface, seem to appeal to the unions, but Labour politics is never that simple.\n\nBetween them, the unions account for half the votes at Labour conference, so they will have huge influence over whether the leadership rules will change.\n\nThose under left-wing leadership see the proposed rule changes as an attempt to \"de-Corbynise\" the party - reintroducing rules which gave MPs too much say at the expense of the members.\n\nIn her first broadcast interview, Sharon Graham - the new leader of the influential Unite union - said Sir Keir had not floated the idea with her in advance and should \"think again\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"People will remember that at their conference, Labour talked about rules not issues. That's a huge error for them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sharon Graham says Labour should focus on \"issues facing workers and communities\" not the rules to elect a future leader.\n\n\"We are almost trying to save [the Labour leadership] from themselves. This is not the path to go down.\"\n\nMs Graham, who has written to Labour MPs urging them to oppose Sir Keir's position, argued: \"This proposal to reduce the membership to one third of the vote, while inflating the vote of Labour MPs, is unfair, undemocratic and a backwards step.\"\n\nLabour MP Sam Tarry, who serves in Sir Keir's frontbench team as a shadow transport minister, tweeted that he \"cannot support a regressive plan to dilute Labour members' votes and divide our movement\", adding: \"We are one party and should all have an equal say in choosing who leads any Labour government.\"\n\nThe left-wing group Momentum condemned the move. Vice chair Callum Bell said: \"These rule changes would mark the start of a civil war in the party. Starmer holds the membership in contempt.\"\n\nAnd former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, also on the left of Labour, criticised Sir Keir for concentrating on \"internal factional pursuits\" as the party meets in Brighton for its first face-to-face conference since Covid hit.\n\nBut Labour MP Neil Coyle urged left-wingers to back the changes so that the party can improve its chances of winning power in the future, and get on with tackling issues voters cared about.\n\n\"We need to pick someone who can actually win for us and not another loser on an epic scale, like we had before,\" the Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP told the BBC's Politics Live.\n\nEd Miliband - who introduced the system Sir Keir wants to overturn - said it was \"a leader's prerogative\" to make changes adding: \"I support his decision to do that.\"\n\n\"Keir Starmer's intention is to get the Labour Party in touch with voters - that is the key thing.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Sir Keir argued his case directly to the unions which affiliate to Labour but I have been told there were \"no takers\" for his plan to change the rules.\n\nA source told me the meeting was \"cordial\" and the Labour leader was in \"listening mode\" but the unions urged him to delay his plans so they could discuss them more widely with their members.\n\nA joint statement from Labour and Mike Whelan - chair of the Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation - said the meeting was \"positive\" and that discussions \"will continue\".\n\nSir Keir added \"this was never a take it or leave it conversation... I am continuing to take suggestions and have discussions about how we do everything we need to in order to make the Labour Party the party of working people again.\"\n\nBut insiders tell me that very little preparation had been done, and that the Labour leader has no guaranteed support.\n\nFor his plan to succeed he would need to win over three big unions - the GMB, shopworkers' union Usdaw and public service union Unison.\n\nIf it is clear that too many unions are opposed to it, the proposal will not go to Labour's conference.\n\nIf, however, two of those unions back him and another agrees to abstain, the proposal would go to Labour's National Executive Committee on Friday and then on to the full conference at the weekend.\n\nThe proposals in some form will go to Labour's National Executive Committee (the party's ruling body) on Friday night - only then will a decision be taken on whether to risk a conference vote.\n\nSir Keir has so far been seen as a cautious leader, but this would be a high-wire act, because he could be defeated either before conference or on the conference floor.\n\nBut allies are praising him for leading from the front and hope his authority will be strengthened if he wins.\n\nI am told that he is willing to negotiate on the precise make-up of the electoral college and may be willing to give unions a bigger say in a leadership contest in order to get the proposal through.\n\nAhead of Wednesday's meeting with the unions, Sir Keir said the current rules \"focus us inwards to spend too much time talking to and about ourselves\".\n\n\"I know that this is difficult - change always is - but I think these changes are vital for our party's future.\"\n\nHe added: \"I have said I will make the Labour Party the party of working people. I am determined that the Labour Party I lead focuses on the country, on the concerns of voters, so we need party reforms that better connect us with working people.\"\n\nHe will also propose to make it more difficult for local parties to oust - or deselect - MPs.", "Owner Jean-Pierre Robinet said the time was right to move on after 10 years as Britain's remotest mainland publican\n\nA community hoping to take over Britain's remotest mainland pub could know this week if it has the finances to make a bid for it.\n\nThe Old Forge in Inverie is on the Knoydart Peninsula in Lochaber.\n\nThe only way of reaching the village - and its pub - is by walking 18 miles (29km) or making a seven-mile (11km) sea crossing.\n\nSince it went up for sale earlier this year, a community group has been working to raise the funds to buy it.\n\nThe Old Forge is on sale for offers over £425,000. Private buyers are also potentially interested in the property.\n\nThe pub's Belgian owner Jean-Pierre Robinet told locals in January he was selling up after running the business for 10 years.\n\nSince January, the small community which has a population of just over 100 people, has held a consultation on a community buyout. Seventy residents took part, with almost all backing the idea.\n\nThe Old Forge Community Society was set up, and earlier this month it launched a community share offer. The rules mean 75% of the shares must be owned by locals, with a limited number owned by people living outside the area.\n\nIn just days, the shares offer was climbing towards its target of £240,000.\n\nThis week, the society hopes to learn if its application to the Scottish Land Fund for support has been successful.\n\nLocal businesswoman Isla Miller has bought a share in the community buyout bid\n\nThe Scottish government-funded land fund provides grants of up to £1m to support community and volunteer group-run projects.\n\nIn 2019, the Black Bull in Gartmore, near Stirling, was purchased by the community with financial support from the Scottish Land Fund.\n\nThe Old Forge Community Society has sought an undisclosed sum of money from the land fund to help cover renovation and other costs.\n\nSociety secretary Stephanie Harris said the community had always known there was a risk of losing out to a private buyer, but added that the determination of the community could not be underestimated.\n\nMs Harris told BBC Scotland: \"I have no doubt we will be able to raise the finance that we need. Time is the problem, and we are going as fast as we can.\"\n\nIsla Miller, who runs a pottery and a tea room with her sister in Inverie, is among those hoping to buy a share.\n\nShe said the pub was an important gathering place for the community, and welcomed the society's plan to keep the premises open all year round and not close it temporarily over winter as has happened previously.\n\nShe said the pub was a community hub, describing how local mothers returning home by ferry to the peninsula from hospital would often stop at The Old Forge with their newborn babies, adding: \"It is where you would meet new additions to Knoydart, and then everyone would head off.\"\n\nMr Robinet said he fell in love with Knoydart after visiting 25 years ago, and was later encouraged to buy the pub by his late father.\n\nWhile he said he had not done much to change to the look of The Old Forge, Mr Robinet said he had made food a priority of the business and used locally caught seafood and Scottish beef in its meals.\n\nHe said he made a commitment to run the premises for 10 years and after that spell \"as Britain's remotest mainland publican\" it was now the right time to move on.\n\nMr Robinet said: \"My father died last year and my mother, who is very brave, is suffering being by herself and having severe illness.\"\n\nHe said it was time for \"a different phase of life\" and to help his sister look after their mother.\n\nMr Robinet said the community bid for The Old Forge was a \"great idea\".\n\nThe only way of reaching Inverie - and its pub - is by walking 18 miles or making a seven-mile sea crossing\n\nKnoydart's coast and mountains have been described as mainland Britain's last wilderness.\n\nThe easiest route to Inverie is by boat from Mallaig. People who chose to walk from Kinlochhourn and Glenfinnan usually break the trip down to a journey of two to three days and are advised to contact the local ranger service for advice on the routes.\n\nIn the middle of the 19th Century, the land on Knoydart was cleared of crofters and turned over to sheep and deer.\n\nIn 1948, a group of crofters known as the Seven Men of Knoydart launched a \"land raid\" in a bid to seize back the land and live independently from the landlord system. They were unsuccessful, as the landowner obtained a court order to remove them.\n\nHowever, more than 20 years ago, the community achieved what the seven had set out to do when the Knoydart Foundation purchased 17,200 acres (6,960 ha) of estate land on the peninsula for £750,000.", "The new air travel rules will come into effect in November\n\nThe US is easing its coronavirus travel restrictions, reopening to passengers from the UK, EU and other nations.\n\nFrom November, foreign travellers will be allowed to fly into the US if they are fully vaccinated, and undergo testing and contact tracing.\n\nThe US has had tough restrictions on travel in place since early last year.\n\nThe move answers a major demand from European allies, and means that families and friends separated by the restrictions can be reunited.\n\n\"It's a happy day - Big Apple, here I come!\" French entrepreneur Stephane Le Breton told the Associated Press news agency, as he looked forward to a trip to New York City that had been put on hold because of the restrictions.\n\nWhite House Covid-19 co-ordinator Jeff Zients announced the new rules on Monday, saying: \"This is based on individuals rather than a country-based approach, so it's a stronger system.\"\n\n\"Most importantly, foreign nationals flying to the US will be required to be fully vaccinated,\" he said.\n\nUS restrictions were initially imposed on travellers from China in early 2020, and then extended to other countries.\n\nThe current rules bar entry to most non-US citizens who have been in the UK and a number of other European countries, China, India, South Africa, Iran and Brazil within the last 14 days.\n\nUnder the new rules, foreign travellers will need to demonstrate proof of vaccination before flying, obtain a negative Covid-19 test result within three days of travelling, and provide their contact information. They will not be required to quarantine.\n\nOfficials said there would be some exceptions to the new policy, including for children who are not eligible to be vaccinated.\n\nIt was not immediately clear if the new rules applied only to US-approved vaccines, with Mr Zients saying this would be determined by the US Centers for Disease Control.\n\nA White House source told the BBC that the question of whether people who have had the AstraZeneca vaccine or 12- to 18-year-olds who have only had one jab would be allowed in under the new rules was a level of \"granular detail\" that was still being worked out, though this would affect millions.\n\nAmericans who are not fully vaccinated will still be able to enter, but they will need to be tested before their return to the US, and after they arrive home.\n\nMr Zients said the policy would come into effect in early November, but did not give an exact date.\n\nThe new rules do not apply to land borders, meaning that restrictions continue to apply to cross-border travel with Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe easing of travel rules came as a surprise to many, after the US government last week said it was not the right time to lift the restrictions.\n\nOne British official told the BBC on Monday that the decision had come completely out of the blue.\n\nFollowing the announcement, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"delighted\".\n\n\"It's a fantastic boost for business and trade, and great that family and friends on both sides of the pond can be reunited once again,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nGerman Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz also welcomed the change, saying it was \"great news for German and European investments, our exports and transatlantic relations\".\n\nFor months a joint working party has been looking at ways to relax the travel ban. The work, I'm told, has been detailed and assiduous.\n\nBut last Friday in Washington next to no one (not even in the Biden administration) was expecting today's announcement. So what's changed?\n\nThe Biden administration is aware of the growing disquiet among European allies about a range of issues - Afghanistan notably, but in recent days French fury over the Aukus submarine deal. And remember France is America's oldest ally.\n\nThis week Joe Biden will be meeting not only Boris Johnson, but a whole pile of EU leaders during the UN General Assembly in New York. And all had it on their dance cards to raise the travel ban.\n\nAccording to one diplomatic source, the US over the weekend just weighed the countervailing forces: annoy some Americans with a policy that could be characterised as being weak on Covid; or continue to alienate your European allies who are growing increasingly irritable.\n\nWith the data no longer supporting the ban, this weekend came a decision. Out of the blue in one way, but quite logical in another.\n\nAirline shares rose in response to the new travel rules, with British Airways owner IAG up as much as 10%.\n\nDoug Parker, chairman and CEO of American Airlines, said he welcomed the \"science-based approach\" to lifting travel restrictions.\n\n\"With the shared goals of health and safety always at the forefront, we're looking forward to welcoming more customers back to easy, seamless international trips for business, for leisure, and to reconnect with family and friends,\" he said.\n\nTravellers also celebrated the changes.\n\nPhil White, a British entrepreneur who lives in the US, said the decision would allow him to see his 23-year-old daughter who lives in London for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\n\"We haven't been able to see our daughter over this time. And that has been very, very, very difficult for us,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\nHe said he immediately booked a flight for her daughter after the news about the change was confirmed. \"[A]s a family we're going to be together for Thanksgiving, which is amazing,\" he added.\n\nThe US has recorded more than 42 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, and over 670,000 deaths.\n\nIn an interview with BBC World News on Monday, White House coronavirus adviser Dr Anthony Fauci urged more Americans to get vaccinated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US daily death toll from Covid-19 has risen above 2,000 for the first time since February", "The first and deputy first ministers visited the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast\n\nNorthern Ireland's health service is \"about to topple over\" if immediate action is not taken, the deputy first minister has said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said staff were \"facing into a very difficult winter\" under current pressures.\n\nShe met staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast on Tuesday along with First Minister Paul Givan.\n\nThey both said they wanted to avoid any further lockdowns or \"circuit breakers\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill says Northern Ireland health staff \"are begging for support\".\n\nSinn Féin vice-president Ms O'Neill said the healthcare system was facing increased staff absences with workers feeling \"burnt out\".\n\n\"They're begging for our support. They are physically and mentally exhausted,\" she said.\n\nMr Givan of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said the Northern Ireland Executive would take a \"measured approach\" when ministers meet on Thursday to discuss future Covid-19 plans.\n\nHe said ministers would take into consideration the current transmission rates and hospitalisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: Paul Givan says there needs to be 'balanced decisions'\n\nHe said politicians needed to be honest with people \"about the realities in what we're facing\".\n\nHe added that he was concerned about other issues linked to lockdowns, saying: \"People are presenting with severe mental health issues as a result of the lockdown and delayed treatments and some couldn't access services.\"\n\nMr Givan said healthcare staff were working \"more hours than they've worked before\" and there was \"a need for us all to take the personal responsibility very seriously, whether that's through regulation or through guidance\".\n\nMichelle O'Neill said health staff were feeling burnt out due to pressures on the system\n\nMs O'Neill said she \"would not rule out anything\" and would \"keep everything on the table - it's the prudent and honest way to proceed\".\n\n\"We need a very cautious approach in the time ahead.\"\n\nShe added that Health Minister Robin Swann would bring forward a winter surge plan for the health service in due course and that further details for how the executive would respond to winter pressures should be announced on Thursday afternoon.\n\nFrom the 11 of November, anyone working or volunteering in a care home in England will need to be fully vaccinated against coronavirus, unless they are exempt.\n\nThere is also a consultation on whether it should be made mandatory for all frontline workers in health and care settings.\n\nVisiting professor of public health at Bristol University, Gabriel Scally, said while he did not like the thought of compulsory vaccinations there was a \"particular duty of care\" in health care settings.\n\n\"People in hospitals or care homes are already ill and the burden of infectious disease really can be avoided largely by vaccination so I think I am in favour of it,\" he told BBC News NI's Talkback programme.\n\nBut professor of social policy at Ulster University, Deirdre Heenan, told the programme she was opposed to vaccines becoming compulsory for health and social care staff in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We have to take account of the needs of health care workers and it's important to see both sides,\" she told Talkback.\n\n\"When we are talking about social care workers I'm not comfortable with forcing people to have vaccinations, in fact scapegoating the lowest paid part of the social care workforce, often young women who have real issue about vaccination,\" she said.\n\n\"I would rather we have a programme of talking to people and understanding why people are vaccine hesitant.\"\n\nFive more deaths and 1,020 cases of coronavirus were reported on Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThere were 379 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals on Monday, compared to 419 on Friday.\n\nThere were 33 patients with Covid-19 in hospital intensive care units on Monday, down from 38 on Friday.", "Pig farmers fear they may soon have to start killing their animals because of a carbon dioxide shortage at abattoirs caused by soaring gas prices.\n\nCO2 is widely used in the food and drinks industry, including for stunning animals at abattoirs before slaughter.\n\nBut some CO2 suppliers have halted production due to rising energy costs, creating a huge backlog of pigs that at some point will have to be killed.\n\nA food and drink trade body says the UK might need to subsidise CO2 production.\n\nFarmer Kate Morgan told the BBC on Monday \"thousands of pigs are backlogged on farms. If we can't kill our pigs in an abattoir, then unfortunately we will be resorting to killing them on farms\".\n\nCarbon dioxide used by the meat industry is a by-product of fertiliser production. The gas is also used to keep food fresh as well as in dry ice and fizzy drinks.\n\nCF Industries, the US-based business which produces about 60% of the UK's food grade CO2, has suspended production at two UK fertiliser plants. Norwegian firm Yara has also cut production at a number of European factories.\n\nMs Morgan, who runs a pig farm near Driffield, east Yorkshire, told BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme the situation for the industry was already \"pretty dire\" because of labour shortages. Now, meat shortages at supermarkets are a real possibility, she said.\n\n\"Abattoirs have about a week's supply of gas. It's a chain: We have constantly got pigs coming out of the breeding herd that need to go in homes. Those homes need to be emptied.\"\n\nHer farm sends about 1,500 pigs each week to abattoirs.\n\nKilling her own animals is not something she can bear thinking about. \"I can't even begin to think how we would do it. I don't want to put people who work for us in that situation,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\nOn-farm killing means the meat is not something that would be able to enter the food supply chain. \"It would be wasted,\" she said.\n\nIt is estimated there are about 100,000 pigs left on farms that would otherwise have been sent for slaughter, with the backlog having started building up weeks ago because of staff shortages.\n\nAndrew Saunders, a director at the UK's biggest pig producer, Pilgrims Pride, said there is no alternative to stunning with CO2. \"It is an essential part of the process,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Saunders, also chairman of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"80% of pigs in the UK are slaughtered in about 10 abattoirs, and those abattoirs all use CO2 stunning systems. We already face some challenges regarding keeping those abattoirs operational - some shortage of labour in those plants.\"\n\nHe said pigs can be kept on farms for only \"a very short period of time. They go beyond their target slaughter weight, they're then unsuitable for size of packets we have for our customers\".\n\nHe added: \"We hope the government can turn around to intervene to get these CO2 plants up and running again. The particular plants in question supply about 60% of all UK needs and something's required here to get this going pretty quickly.\"\n\nIt is not just the pig industry facing problems, however. On Monday, the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) warned the whole sector faces disruption.\n\nIn a letter to Environment Secretary George Eustice, the FDF's chief executive, Ian Wright, said: \"Important parts of the food and drink supply chain - already under significant pressure from the impacts of labour shortages, particularly HGV drivers - are now seriously compromised by disruptions in the supply of CO2.\n\n\"Across industry, there is a united view that the situation is worsening with little prospect of additional CO2 supply unless the UK government intervenes.\"\n\nIf ministers are considering financial help to support the energy sector, Mr Wright said then \"any subsidies made available must also be considered for the manufacturers of fertiliser to ensure there is no further deterioration across the UK food and drink supply, and production can be restored\".\n\nThere are worries that food and drink shortages are starting to appear on supermarket shelves, with the problem expected to worsen in the run-up to Christmas without action.\n\nRichard Walker, managing director of Iceland, said his supermarket is building up stocks and while there is no immediate shortage problem, he told the BBC the CO2 situation needed to be sorted quickly.\n\n\"The thing that has shocked me is that 60% of [CO2] production is concentrated in two factories which are both owned by a foreign business.\n\n\"This is something that's clearly critical to national security - not just food but also healthcare as well. So it seems quite perplexing that it's at the whim of a private enterprise in terms of whether it's profitable or not and therefore whether they produce the stuff or not.\"\n\nThe British Soft Drinks Association said if manufacturers could not get hold of CO2 supplies, \"after their reserves have run out, production of certain products will have to cease\".\n\nTony Will, chief executive of CF Industries, has held talks with the government over production at its two fertiliser plants, but the outcome is not clear.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted that he had met Mr Will and \"discussed the pressures the business is facing and explored possible ways forward to secure vital supplies, including to our food and energy industries\".\n\nWholesale prices for gas have surged 250% since January, with a 70% rise since August alone, leading to calls for support from the industry and the collapse of some smaller energy firms.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who is in New York for a UN General Assembly meeting, said the problem with wholesale prices was \"temporary\".\n\nHe added that he was \"very confident\" in the UK's supply chains and that market forces should be \"very, very swift\" in fixing the issues but that government would help where it could.\n\nA statement from the government said: \"We continue to monitor supplies across critical sectors and are in regular contact with industry on their CO2 supplies.\n\n\"The UK benefits from having a diverse range of gas supply sources and we have sufficient capacity to more than meet demand. We do not expect gas supply emergencies this winter.\"", "The FBI has confirmed that a body found inside a Wyoming national park on Sunday belongs to the missing \"van life\" blogger Gabby Petito.\n\nA coroner made an initial finding that her death was homicide but gave no indication as to how she died.\n\nMs Petito, 22, was visiting Grand Teton National Park with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, 23.\n\nPolice are currently searching for Mr Laundrie, whose whereabouts are unknown.\n\nHe is considered a \"person of interest\" in the case, but has not been charged with any crime.\n\nNo details from the post-mortem have been released.\n\n\"Teton County Coroner Dr Brent Blue confirmed the remains are those of Gabrielle Venora Petito... Coroner Blue's initial determination for the manner of death is homicide,\" the FBI's Denver office tweeted.\n\nThe couple had been travelling for several weeks before Mr Laundrie returned home to Florida alone with their white van on 1 September. He did not contact police or the Petito family on his return.\n\nSeveral weeks earlier, police in the Utah town of Moab were called to a possible domestic violence incident.\n\nBodycam footage showed Ms Petito crying and complaining about her mental health. A police report later said Mr Laundrie claimed Ms Petito had struck him during an argument.\n\nNo charges were filed, with officers recommending that the couple spend the night apart. What happened next is unclear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police stopped Gabby Petito more than two weeks ago\n\nMr Laundrie's family reported him missing over the weekend. They claim he left for a hike on 14 September and never returned. He had refused to speak with investigators before disappearing.\n\nThe search for Mr Laundrie has focused on a 24,000-acre nature reserve near his home in North Port, Florida.\n\nPolice are using dogs, drones, and all-terrain vehicles for the search, which officers say is complicated by difficult, swampy terrain.\n\nAdditionally, police are investigating hundreds of reported sightings of Mr Laundrie, including more than a dozen from Alabama, which borders Florida to the west.\n\nOn Monday, investigators searched the Laundrie family home. Agents were then seen removing several boxes from the house and towing away a silver Ford Mustang.\n\nThe case has captivated the public, with each new development becoming the focus of web sleuths on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Twitter.\n\nAs of Tuesday, the hashtag #GabbyPetito had received more than 650 million views on TikTok alone, according to the Associated Press.\n• None What do we know about case?", "Bjorn Ulvaeus said there was \"no excuse\" for record labels not to credit writers properly\n\nAbba star Bjorn Ulvaeus has launched a campaign to ensure musicians don't miss out on millions of pounds in royalties.\n\nCalled Credits Due, the scheme aims to ensure all songwriters and musicians are correctly identified when a song is recorded.\n\nAt present, missing and incomplete data means that about £500m is unallocated or misallocated globally every year.\n\n\"It happens frequently,\" Ulvaeus told the BBC. \"Which means that streaming services don't know who to pay.\"\n\nThe scheme will also ensure fans see the correct credits for songs - from the writers and producers to the session musicians and engineers.\n\n\"We want to get back to that experience we had when we opened a double-sleeved LP and listened to the songs while reading the liner notes,\" Ulvaeus explained. \"I think that's a very valuable experience that young listeners today are missing.\"\n\nThe scheme will ensure that every person who is involved in the creation of a song will be \"clickable in the digital liner notes\", allowing you to look up every other record they have worked on.\n\n\"Every new person that walks into the recording studio will be registered,\" Ulvaeus said. \"So, even in a symphony orchestra, every member will be clickable.\"\n\nPop star Alison Goldfrapp was among the artists who supported the initiative\n\nThe Abba star launched the scheme at Tuesday's Ivor Novello Awards in London - which recognise the contribution of songwriters. Among the attendees, there was widespread support for the idea.\n\n\"I think it's really important because there's lots of people behind the scenes that don't get the credit they deserve,\" said singer Emeli Sande.\n\n\"You've got musicians that have practised and refined their art for their whole lives - so yeah, I'm very happy to support Bjorn.\"\n\nSongwriter MNEK, who has penned hits for Little Mix and Beyoncé and scored his own number one single last year with Head and Heart, said: \"I think it highlights that more that goes into making music, than just being a pop star.\"\n\nThe Credits Due campaign tackles one of the most boring, broken, complex and crucial problems facing the music industry: metadata.\n\nWhen a song is released, either on CD and vinyl or on a streaming service like Spotify, it includes a huge amount of underlying information, including titles, alternative titles, featured artists, songwriter and producer names, publishers, and much more.\n\nThat information needs to be synchronised with databases around the world to make sure the right people get paid when a song is streamed, bought or played.\n\nOften, that doesn't happen - and with 60,000 new songs uploaded to Spotify every day, the problem is growing. \"Can you imagine what a mess it is?\" asked Ulvaeus.\n\nThe new scheme is backed by The Ivors Academy for songwriters and The Music Rights Awareness Foundation, which Ulvaeus founded with songwriters Max Martin and Niclas Molinder in 2016.\n\nTogether they are launching an app to help songwriters, producers and record labels gather all the necessary data before a song is released.\n\n\"It's in the interest of all these people to get it right,\" said Ulvaeus. \"Today, in 2021, there's really no excuse.\"\n\nAbba have filmed performances in motion capture suits, enabling the digital avatars to mimic their movements\n\nThe star was speaking three weeks after Abba unveiled their comeback - with a new album and a virtual tour that will launch in the UK next May.\n\nTheir return, after a 39-year break, was met with a rapturous reception around the world. Two new singles, Don't Shut Me Down and I Still Have Faith In You, entered the UK top 20, while the Abba Voyage album broke pre-sale records.\n\n\"I didn't anticipate it being so global,\" said Ulvaeus. \"How that happened, I don't know. But I'm very grateful.\"\n\nHe explained that the concert will feature a mixture of live music and pre-recorded elements, with a live band augmenting the \"Abba avatars\" on stage.\n\nSome of the songs may sound different - singers Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad now sing \"one tone lower than they used to\" - but he said the group \"laughed all the time\" during rehearsals.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss has raised the case of Harry Dunn with the US Secretary of State during the United Nations General Assembly.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, was killed when his motorbike was hit by a car driven by US citizen Anne Sacoolas in 2019.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Ms Truss spoke to Antony Blinken about \"delivering justice for Harry's family\".\n\nMr Dunn's mum Charlotte Charles said: \"It means the world to us to see Harry remains at the top of the agenda.\"\n\nIt is alleged Mrs Sacoolas's car struck the teenager's motorbike moments after she left RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in 2019, where her husband Jonathan worked for a US intelligence agency.\n\nShe had diplomatic immunity asserted on her behalf following the crash and left the UK.\n\nMrs Sacoolas was charged in the UK with causing death by dangerous driving, but an extradition request submitted by the Home Office was rejected by the US State Department in January last year.\n\nThe Dunn family is pursuing a civil claim against her.\n\nDunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"It is over two years since Harry died and almost two years to the day since Harry's family were told by Northamptonshire Police that they had less than one per cent chance of having anyone held accountable for his death, which led the family to start their campaign for justice.\n\n\"We are grateful to Dominic Raab and the excellent officials at the FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) for everything they have done in pressing the the US government to reverse this denial of justice and I look forward to talking to Liz Truss later today to see where we are up to.\n\n\"Words are all well and good but it is high time that justice is now delivered.\"\n\nCharlotte Charles says she will never stop campaigning for justice\n\nMs Charles said \"Harry would be so proud\" to be at the forefront of the foreign secretary's mind.\n\n\"We continue to suffer and miss Harry every single day,\" she said.\n\n\"We feel we are just existing at the moment and I would just ask the officials in both London and Washington to do all they can to help my family get justice for Harry as soon as possible please.\"\n\nMs Truss raised the matter with Mr Blinken during a discussion around a range of issues. Those included UK and US ambitions to build a stronger economic and security alliance, security in the Indo-Pacific and the lifting of travel restrictions on fully-vaccinated travellers from the UK to America.\n\nA FCDO spokesperson said: \"The Foreign Secretary also raised the case of Harry Dunn and the need to make progress on delivering justice for Harry's family.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The FBI has searched the Florida home of Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of 22-year-old Gabby Petito, a missing woman now believed to be dead.\n\nAgents with a search warrant surrounded the property on Monday. Mr Laundrie's parents were removed from the home but have since been allowed back inside.\n\nOn 1 September, Mr Laundrie, 23, returned home alone after a cross-country road trip with Ms Petito.\n\nOn Sunday, remains matching Ms Petito's description were found in Wyoming.\n\nPolice consider Mr Laundrie a \"person of interest\" in the case but have not charged him with any crime. He declined to speak to police earlier this month, and has since gone missing.\n\nHis family has said they last saw him on 14 September.\n\nVideo from local media on Monday showed officers and FBI agents approaching the Laundrie home, some with guns drawn, cordoning it off with crime scene tape and placing Mr Laundries' parents in an unmarked van.\n\nAgents were then seen removing several boxes from the house.\n\nIn a tweet, the FBI confirmed it had secured a search warrant in court. \"No further details can be provided since this is an active and ongoing investigation,\" the agency said after the hours-long search.\n\nThe FBI is also set to conduct a full forensic investigation of the remains found on Sunday inside Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, to determine whether the woman is Ms Petito.\n\nSince Mr Laundrie returned home, he had not spoken to authorities or to the Petito family. Mr Laundrie's parents reported him as missing last Tuesday.\n\nAuthorities had been looking for Mr Laundrie in a 24,000-acre nature reserve in North Port, Florida, this weekend with police dogs and drones. On Monday, police called off the search, said they had \"exhausted all avenues in searching\" the area.\n\nMs Petito was visiting the Grand Teton National Park with Mr Laundrie when she disappeared.\n\nThe young couple had set out on a cross-country campervan trip in July, documenting their adventures on social media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police stopped Gabby Petito more than two weeks ago\n\nTwo weeks before Ms Petito went missing, on 12 August, police in the southern Utah town of Moab were called to a possible domestic violence incident involving the couple.\n\nPolice released bodycam footage which showed Ms Petito crying and complaining about her mental health to officers. She also said the couple had been arguing more frequently.\n\nThe officers recommended they spend the night apart but did not file any charges. It is not yet known what happened next.\n• None What do we know about Gabby Petito's boyfriend?", "The UK government should be keeping PCR tests for returning international travellers, Wales' first minister has said.\n\nSignificant changes to the travel regime in England are due to come into force in October.\n\nWales has not decided whether to follow suit - Mark Drakeford said his ministers face a \"difficult decision\".\n\nEnding day two PCR tests was a \"step away\" from the UK government's duty to people's health, he said.\n\nHe said the tests allow scientists to detect new variants of the virus.\n\nUnder the changes the international travel system for England will be simplified with a single red list, with the amber list of countries scrapped.\n\nFrom 4 October fully vaccinated travellers will no longer have to take a pre-departure test, or a day eight test on their return.\n\nLater that month no PCR test will be required on day two, replaced instead by a lateral flow test.\n\nThe announcement prompted concern in Scotland, which has backed simplifying the lists but may keep the testing regime.\n\nWales did agree to remove eight countries from the red list, including Turkey and Egypt.\n\nMr Drakeford told the Senedd that while there was no objection to the decision to merge the green and amber list of countries, reducing the red list was \"more concerning\".\n\nBut the \"most concerning\" decision was moving away from PCR tests on day two, \"because that was the strongest defence against the re-importation of viruses from elsewhere in the world\", he said.\n\n\"In Wales we genomic sequence a higher proportion of tests than any other part of the United Kingdom and it is that sequencing that allows the very skilled scientists who do it to identify new variations in coronavirus.\"\n\nHowever the fact that many Welsh travellers travel to the UK via English ports made it a \"difficult decision\", with English ports not keen to communicate differences in rules.\n\nMr Drakeford, who was responding to a question from Caerphilly MS Hefin David, said ministers would come to a decision \"shortly\".\n\n\"The real answer should have been to have retained the day two PCR tests across the United Kingdom, and the failure to do so, I think really is a step away from the duty that the UK government owes to the health of people in this country.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nNetwork Rail says just 20% of rail passengers are still wearing masks at major stations in England now it is no longer compulsory. Before restrictions in England lifted on 19 July, that figure was 80%. Passengers still have to wear masks to get on board buses and Tubes in London - it is meant to be a condition of carriage, such as paying for a ticket. But some unions representing transport workers say there has been a reduction in mask-wearing on Transport for London services too. Mike Lynch, of the RMT union, warned that \"as more people see others failing to comply, the situation will escalate quickly over the autumn\". Mick Whelan, of Aslef, wants more mask-wearing to protect passengers and staff from Covid.\n\nBoris Johnson has said people should not worry about putting food on the table this winter, amid surging energy prices and a cut to universal credit. Energy and food bills are rising due to a spike in global gas prices and many families face a £20-a-week benefit cut. The prime minister has rejected calls from Labour MPs - and some members of his own party - to scrap the cut to the universal credit top-up, which had been introduced to help people through the pandemic. Instead, Mr Johnson said: \"We think the best thing we can do is help people into high-skilled, high wage jobs, that is what is happening.\" He added that the surge in energy prices was a \"short-term\" problem caused by \"the global economy coming back to life\" after the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he does “not believe people will be short of food”\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged venues to use \"common sense\" when checking vaccine passports, as she set out details of where and when they will be required. Major events and venues such as nightclubs will be expected to ensure that everyone present has had two doses of vaccine from the start of October. But spot-checks will be allowed at larger events, with organisers expected to do a \"reasonable number\" of checks. The scheme will help reduce transmission of the virus and could encourage vaccine uptake, the first minister said. But some business leaders are concerned the scheme \"goes well beyond what was initially proposed\" and could impact on hotels, pubs and other hospitality venues.\n\nThere's good news for staff at Cornwall's Eden Project - they're being given a fully paid week off as a \"thank you\" for their work during the pandemic. The site has faced staffing pressures and hosted major events over the past 18 months, including a visit from G7 world leaders and members of the Royal Family. David Harland, interim chief executive, said closing in November for a \"staff wellbeing week\" would recognise \"that the team has continued to work at an exceptionally high level\" throughout.\n\nThe Eden Project has hosted the Royal Family, G7 leaders and six live concerts in recent months\n\nPolice in New Zealand have charged two men with breaching the country's tough Covid-19 rules - after they were caught trying to enter Auckland with a car boot full of KFC food and tens of thousands of dollars. Under Auckland's strict Level 4 lockdown, all restaurants, including take-away services, remain closed. Police said the men, two alleged gang associates aged 23 and 30, had travelled from Hamilton, about 75 miles south of Auckland. It is unclear whether the men intended to sell the chicken or if they hoped to use it as a distraction if they were to be pulled over.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nCheck on the latest rules around international travel here.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Nicola Sturgeon has urged venues to use \"common sense\" when checking vaccine passports, as she set out details of where and when they will be required.\n\nMajor events and venues such as nightclubs will be expected to ensure that everyone present has had two doses of vaccine from the start of October.\n\nHowever spot-checks will be allowed at larger events, with organisers expected to do a \"reasonable number\" of checks.\n\nThe first minister said the scheme will help reduce transmission of the virus.\n\nAnd she said it could encourage uptake of vaccines and help keep venues like nightclubs open for business.\n\nSome business leaders voiced concerns that the scheme \"goes well beyond what was initially proposed\" and could impact on hotels, pubs and other hospitality venues.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that Covid-19 cases had fallen in Scotland in recent weeks, but warned that \"the position remains fragile\" with the NHS under \"sustained pressure\".\n\nThe government's vaccine certification scheme will come into force at 05:00 on 1 October, with people over the age of 18 required to show they have had both doses of vaccine before they will be allowed entry to:\n\nCertificates will be displayed via an app, which will be available for download from 30 September, while venue staff will either scan this using another app or visually check the QR code shown,\n\nThe government has drawn up a working definition of a \"nightclub\" as being a venue which is open between midnight and 05:00, serving alcohol, and which has a designated area for dancing and provides live or recorded music for this purpose.\n\nMs Sturgeon said detailed guidance would be published, but said venues should use \"common sense\" over the scheme.\n\nShe said a venue which has a dancefloor would not have to check people coming in for a pub lunch in the afternoon, but said \"it would be reasonable\" to check customers who arrive later in the evening.\n\nThe first minister added: \"A pragmatic approach will be encouraged, so that businesses can make sensible judgements.\"\n\nWhile clubs and smaller events will be expected to inspect the certificates of all customers, the organisers of larger events will have to carry out a \"reasonable number\" of checks.\n\nAberdeen nightclub owner and spokesman for the Night Time Industries Association Scotland, Gavin Stevenson, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme the definition was still confusing.\n\n\"It is not a definition of just nightclubs because it includes about 2,000 pubs and bars across Scotland in addition to the 100 nightclubs that are actual nightclubs.\n\n\"It would be fair to say that it has not in any way been communicated well by the Scottish government with only nine days to go until this policy is implemented.\"\n\nHe added: \"Typically pubs would have opening hours up until about 01:00 and most of them would have some form of entertainment on at the weekends. This will also apply to lots of city centre circuit bars and to hotel function rooms with parties or events going on in them.\n\n\"These venues will now have to take on door staff to control entry when they would previously have had no requirement to do so under their existing licences. There is a critical shortage of door staff and it won't be possible to implement this by 1 October so we have raised our concerns with government on that basis that this is a fundamentally unworkable plan.\"\n\nFootball chiefs had said spot-checks would be \"the only practical reality\" when dealing with matches involving tens of thousands of fans, warning of lengthy queues and potential for disorder if every attendee was checked.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there had been talks with football clubs and licensed trade organisations, saying their feedback had been \"very helpful\".\n\nThe Scottish Chambers of Commerce was critical of the plans, with chief executive Liz Cameron claiming \"thousands\" of businesses would be caught up in the scheme.\n\nShe said: \"We have made it clear that the practical application of what is being asked is not workable in the timelines being proposed.\n\n\"Scotland's economy remains fragile, and many businesses remain in survival mode - there is no doubt that vaccine certifications will serve as an economic detriment.\"\n\nOpposition parties at Holyrood - which all voted against the plans but saw them approved by MSPs from the SNP-Green administration - also called for greater clarity about the plans.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Sandesh Gulhane said: \"The SNP government vaccine passport scheme comes into force next week, and the first minister is still finalising guidance and businesses are worried about the impact it will have on them.\n\n\"Despite promises of a reset, it is clear that jobs and businesses are still not the priority of this government.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said detail had been provided \"at long last\", but the government was still falling short.\n\nHe said: \"There are still big gaps in the detail, still limited engagement with businesses affected, and limited evidence published of the difference it will make.\"\n\nMr Sarwar added that it was \"at best disingenuous\" to suggest the scheme is the same as one being set up in Wales, where people will have to provide either proof of vaccination or a recent negative test.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the problem with the Welsh scheme was that it relied on self-reporting of test results, which she said was \"not the best approach\" and would not drive up the uptake rates of vaccines.", "Nadine with her brother Ash Cooper and her sister Victoria Cooper, the last time they were all together in 2019 Image caption: Nadine with her brother Ash Cooper and her sister Victoria Cooper, the last time they were all together in 2019\n\nNadine Beasley, from Bournemouth, is one of those who have been waiting to visit her family in the US.\n\nDespite the change in travel rules she is going to miss her sister’s wedding, for which she is maid of honour, by days. However, she will be reunited with her family at Christmas.\n\n\"My sister is getting married on 30 October in California,\" she says. \"I was meant to be her maid of honour, my daughter a flowergirl.\n\n\"We were due to fly out on 22 October, so we're naturally upset about the ban being lifted in November, because we'll miss her wedding by days.\n\n\"However, we've now made our fourth rebooking since February 2020 to fly out on 20 December. So that means Christmas with my parents and my siblings, who are all in California, which is better than the last 18 months of waiting and knowing nothing.\"\n\nWith the travel ban she has not seen her siblings or parents for more than two years.\n\nShe says it is annoying that she will miss her sister's wedding by days, having already missed her brother's but says the fact there is \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of a date means it feels like \"a weight’s been lifted\".\n\n\"We’re going with my nan. It’s bittersweet because we lost grandad,\" she adds.", "Tributes have been flooding in from the community and beyond\n\nPolice are continuing to question a man over the deaths of three children and a mother at a house in Derbyshire.\n\nThe community of Killamarsh has rallied round after the bodies were found in Chandos Crescent on Sunday morning.\n\nFresh flowers have been placed near the house and a fundraiser for the families has raised more than £16,000.\n\nA 31-year-old man, who was known to the family, was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody, said Derbyshire Police.\n\nThe force also revealed the man was taken to hospital with self-inflicted minor injuries after being arrested at the property.\n\nOfficers were called to the house at 07:26 BST on Sunday after concerns were raised about the safety of a man.\n\nTerri Harris, 35, and her two children Lacey, 11, and John Paul, 13, were found dead alongside Connie Gent, also 11.\n\nIt is believed Connie, from Sheffield, was Lacey's friend and was visiting for a sleepover.\n\nJohn Paul and Lacey's father Jason Bennett said \"life will never be the same again\"\n\nThe grandmother of John Paul and Lacey has thanked everyone who has paid tribute to them and laid flowers.\n\nDiane Bennett who visited the scene again on Tuesday said: \"There are so many people bringing flowers, teddy bears.\n\n\"At the moment it's my son I'm worried about. I know we've lost somebody but he's lost even more.\n\n\"I just wish we could have done more. It's horrible.\"\n\nOutwood Academy City, where the three children studied, said their memories would \"live on forever\".\n\nIn a statement, the Sheffield school said: \"The children had bright futures ahead of them but sadly none of us will get to see this.\n\n\"Lacey and Connie had just embarked on their secondary school journey with us and already made a positive impression on everyone they came into contact with.\n\n\"John Paul was a popular and polite young man, well-liked by staff and with a close-knit group of friends.\"\n\nThe school said specialist support was available for those who need it.\n\nLacey and John Paul's mother Terri Harris was also found dead at the house\n\nSpeaking to Sky News at the scene on Monday, Jason Bennett, father of Lacey and John Paul, said: \"I'm broken, I just want to kiss my babies.\n\n\"I just want to kiss them and hold them. TikTok Queen and my beautiful boy, they were beautiful.\"\n\nAbout 300 people from the Killamarsh community gathered at Baker Park near Chandos Crescent on Monday night for a vigil.\n\nThey left candles, flowers and teddies around a post in the centre of the children's playground.\n\nMourners also left flowers and teddies alongside the candles\n\nResidents have also continued to lay similar tributes under the street sign at Chandos Crescent, which remains closed while police investigations continue.\n\nA fundraiser for the families has raised more than £16,000 in less than a day, with more than 1,200 people donating.\n\nOrganiser Cassie Perry, from Northampton, said she saw the news on Facebook and was \"devastated\" by what she read, so decided to set up the fund to help with costs.\n\n\"The last thing anyone wants to worry about at a time like this is finances,\" the 22-year-old said. \"No amount can take away the pain but we can at least try to help in any way we can.\"\n\nThe pile of flowers and tributes continues to grow\n\nDerbyshire Police has set up an online portal for people to report information or send video footage which could help their investigation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Sally Blaiklock, who is leading the investigation, said: \"Myself and the team of the detectives are particularly keen to hear from anyone who was in Chandos Crescent between 18:00 on Saturday and 07:00 on Sunday, as well as anyone who may have video footage of the street.\n\n\"That can include dashcam, mobile phone, CCTV or video doorbell footage.\"\n\nShe said the road would remain closed and residents would see an increased number of officers in the area in the coming days.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The walrus, seen here when he was in Ireland this year, had not been spotted for more than three weeks\n\nA walrus previously spotted in Ireland, France, Spain and the UK has turned up in Iceland, marine experts have said.\n\nThe 800kg (125st) Arctic walrus, known as Wally, had not been seen for more than three weeks, with spotters saying they were \"starting to lose hope\" of ever seeing him again.\n\nHowever, Seal Rescue Ireland said he had been seen in Iceland on Sunday after 22 days of no sightings.\n\nHe was identified from scars on both his front flippers, the group said.\n\nThe wandering walrus was thought to have travelled 4,000km (2,485 miles) before reaching Ireland, with the new sighting in Iceland meaning he had swum more than 900km (560 miles) from his last known location in Cork.\n\nWally had a pontoon made for him in the Isles of Scilly after he damaged boats\n\nSeal Rescue Ireland said that Wally was identified after \"conferring and comparing photos with our friends at British Divers Marine Life Rescue\" and his identity was confirmed \"based on the identification of scars on the front of both front flippers\".\n\nThe walrus, thought to be about four years old, first made waves in Ireland when he was spotted in County Kerry in March, as well as along the coast of western Europe, including Spain, Tenby in Wales and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly since then.\n\nA purpose-built pontoon was made for him in Scilly in a bid to reduce damage he he caused by climbing on boats.\n\nSeal Rescue Ireland said it was \"delighted\" at the sighting after \"starting to lose hope of ever seeing the young, wandering walrus again\".\n\nIt said: \"We are absolutely over the moon that he's not only still alive and well, but he is well on his way home to the Arctic.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Young royals share one of Prince Philip's favourite practical jokes in the BBC One programme\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has revealed one of the Duke of Edinburgh's favourite games was getting his grandchildren to squirt mustard all over the ceiling.\n\n\"He used to take the lid off [the tube] and put it in your hands... and then he'd squish your hands together to fire the mustard onto the ceiling.\"\n\nHer Majesty was not amused.\n\n\"He used to get in a lot of trouble from my grandmother,\" Prince William recalls, in a forthcoming BBC One documentary to be aired on Wednesday.\n\nPrince Philip: The Royal Family Remembers features all four of the Queen and Prince Philip's children, along with their adult grandchildren and members of the duke's long-serving staff.\n\nZara Tindall and Peter Phillips - children of the Princess Royal - also reminisce about the duke's antics with the mustard.\n\n\"He gets you to hold it in your hands and I can't remember exactly what he says - but he ends up slamming your hands together... it goes all over the ceiling,\" says Ms Tindall.\n\n\"I actually think the marks are still there,\" her brother adds.\n\n\"He enjoyed those jokes, he enjoyed messing around the children and being a grandfather,\" says Prince William, who remembers the duke - who died in April aged 99 - as \"the heart of the family\".\n\nThe light-hearted revelation is one of a number of poignant and amusing insights in the documentary, originally conceived as a personal portrait to mark Prince Philip's 100th birthday - with much of the footage shot before his death.\n\n\"He made time for all of us, he supported all of us - and he kept control of... most of us,\" laughs Mr Phillips.\n\nMr Phillips also recalls the duke's frustration as he got to grips with a new gadget, often denouncing the offending machine as \"bloody stupid\" in loud tones, overheard from the breakfast room\n\n\"I have memories of him getting a new laptop or a new printer - and hearing him shouting at it,\" says Mr Phillips. \"He loved technology... but it was always quite entertaining to see him trying to figure them out!\"\n\nThe documentary-makers were given special access to the Queen's private cine-film collection, which shows the Royal Family enjoying ordinary family events, such as barbecuing in Balmoral and riding bikes around their garden.\n\n\"Every barbecue that I have ever been on, the Duke of Edinburgh has been there cooking,\" says Prince William, over footage of a family picnic.\n\n\"He adored barbecuing,\" says Prince Charles, adding, with a smile: \"He turned that into an interesting art form....\"\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh is the longest-serving consort in history\n\nBoth Prince William and his brother, the Duke of Sussex, said the Queen and the duke looked forward to unexpected events while carrying out their official duties together.\n\n\"My grandfather loved things when they go wrong,\" says Prince William.\n\n\"They've lived a life where everything has to go right the whole time and so when things go wrong, they both chuckle an awful lot.\n\n\"Everyone else gets mortally embarrassed. They love it.\"\n\n\"More than anything I miss his humour,\" says Prince Harry. \"But I miss him more for my grandmother because I know how incredibly strong she was with him there.\n\n\"I also know that she's going be OK without him,\" he adds.\n\nPrince Philip: The Royal Family Remembers, Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland have withdrawn their men's and women's teams from series in Pakistan that were due to take place in October.\n\nThe men were set to make their first trip to Pakistan since 2005, while the women had never before played there.\n\nOn Friday, New Zealand's men abandoned their tour of Pakistan because of a \"specific and credible threat\".\n\nAn England and Wales Cricket Board statement said: \"We know there are increasing concerns about travelling to the region.\"\n\nIt continued: \"We believe that going ahead will add further pressure to a playing group who have already coped with a long period of operating in restricted Covid environments.\"\n\nEngland's men were using the Pakistan trip as part of their build-up for the T20 World Cup with fixtures on 13 and 14 October in Rawalpindi that were also double-headers with the women. Heather Knight's team were then due to play one-day internationals on 17, 19 and 21 October.\n\nThe ECB statement added: \"There is the added complexity for our men's T20 squad. We believe that touring under these conditions will not be ideal preparation for the T20 World Cup, where performing well remains a top priority for 2021. \"We understand this decision will be a significant disappointment to the Pakistan Cricket Board, who have worked tirelessly to host the return of international cricket in their country.\"\n\nNo international cricket was played in Pakistan for six years following an attack on the Sri Lanka team by gunmen in 2009, with Pakistan holding the majority of their home matches in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nTouring teams began to return in 2015 and Pakistan hosted their first home men's Test for 12 years when Sri Lanka travelled in 2019.\n\nEngland players have taken part in Pakistan Super League games in Pakistan and the South Africa men's team toured earlier this year.\n\nThe only non-Asian women's team Pakistan have ever hosted are the West Indies and the Netherlands. Their last home fixtures were against Bangladesh in the latter part of 2019.\n\nPakistan Cricket Board chairman Ramiz Raja told BBC World Service: \"It's absurd. We have gone out of our way to accommodate international sides.\n\n\"I'm extremely disappointed and so are the fans. Right now, we needed England.\n\n\"It's a small cricket fraternity that we have. We were expecting England to be a little bit more responsible. We are hurt, but forward we shall move.\"\n\nPakistan toured England in both 2020 and 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020 in particular, Pakistan agreed to strict bio-secure conditions in order to play in the UK.\n\nNew Zealand's men were visiting Pakistan for the first time in 18 years for three ODIs in Rawalpindi and five T20s in Lahore.\n\nHowever, the Black Caps pulled out of the tour on the day of the first ODI after \"an escalation in the New Zealand government threat levels for Pakistan\".\n\nRaja, who played 57 Tests for Pakistan, added: \"When Pakistan needed the Western bloc, they have not supported us.\n\n\"Security can be an issue anywhere in the world. We feel slighted by the way things have been handled by the Western bloc.\n\n\"They can quote mental fatigue, but that is not good enough.\"\n\nEngland's men are scheduled to play three Tests in Pakistan at the end of 2022.\n\nThe ECB said it wanted to \"emphasise an ongoing commitment to our main touring plans in Pakistan for 2022\".\n\nClare Connor, the ECB's managing director of women's cricket, told ESPNcricinfo: \"We've had lots of meetings over the last few days, with everything that has been going on in that part of the world, and it's desperately sad for Pakistan cricket and for the fans in that part of the world who are desperate to support their players and see live cricket in their country.\n\n\"It's very disappointing. Our players were excited about the prospect of a historic tour for England women to Pakistan and to take international women's cricket to that part of the world would have been something they were very much looking forward to and would have been proud of, but it's not to be.\"\n\nThere is a clear and interesting difference in England's stance to that of New Zealand.\n\nWhereas New Zealand withdrew because of a specific security threat, the word 'security' doesn't appear in the ECB statement at all.\n\nPakistan will be devastated by this second withdrawal within the space of a few days as they try to restore some normality to the game there.\n\nBut, with suffocating security and bio-bubbles to come at the T20 World Cup and the Ashes, the ECB has put the welfare of its players first.\n\n'Nothing short of a catastrophe for PCB'\n\nFor the Pakistan Cricket Board, this is nothing short of a catastrophe and their future plans to host other countries, such as Australia in 2022, look very uncertain.\n\nThey have in the last few years strived very hard to assure protection and provide a sense of safety and security to visiting teams.\n\nThey have successfully hosted Pakistan Super League matches, hosted a World XI and, from 2019 onwards, have had visiting teams from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and South Africa.\n\nThe emerging sentiment within the cricket fraternity in the country is how this decision highlights the inequality within the game, where power dynamic among countries and commercial interests are often prioritised.\n\nEspecially if one considers that Pakistan has toured English shores every year since 2016, and the tour in 2020 was carried out at a time when the UK was seeing the worst of its Covid outbreak and touring teams had to maintain a long, and hard, quarantine.\n\nThe expectation by the PCB was that perhaps their tour to New Zealand in early 2021, as well as the summer tour to the UK, would help in those teams making reciprocal visits to Pakistan.\n\nSadly, it wasn't to be.\n• None How has Wayne Rooney dealt with anger? Listen now as he tells Tony Bellew what makes him see red\n• None The Sports Desk Podcast goes beyond the headlines to find out", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe parents of Harry Dunn have reached a \"resolution\" in a civil claim for damages with the woman alleged to have killed him, the family's spokesman has said.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike was hit by a car driven by US citizen Anne Sacoolas near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in 2019.\n\nShe later left the country, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nDunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said the outcome was \"a real milestone\".\n\nDetails of the agreement reached between the parties involved in the civil case have not been disclosed.\n\nMrs Sacoolas's car collided with the teenager's motorbike moments after she left the US base, where her husband Jonathan worked for a US intelligence agency.\n\nThe teenager's parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, brought the civil claim against Mrs Sacoolas in the US state of Virginia.\n\nHarry Dunn's family began the damages case against Anne Sacoolas to force her to give evidence about what happened, because it appeared to be the only way to get her into court.\n\nBut that was before the Biden administration assured London that it would not stand in the way of some kind of alternative process of achieving justice for Harry, providing Ms Sacoolas and British prosecutors could agree.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service is not downplaying what it says are the \"challenges and complexity\" of that proposal - but nor is it suggesting that it's hopeless.\n\n\"Restorative justice\", in which someone accounts for their actions, is a feature of both the British and American criminal justice systems.\n\nWe don't know what prosecutors are considering - but Harry Dunn's family are clear: justice and truth must lie at the heart of whatever happens.\n\nThe Alexandria District Court in Virginia heard Mr and Mrs Sacoolas' work in intelligence was a \"factor\" in their departure from the UK, as they left for \"security reasons\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 44, and her husband were due to give evidence last month but it was postponed.\n\nMr Seiger said Mr Dunn's parents would now be able to \"put this part of the campaign behind them\".\n\nHe said: \"The family's courage and determination to see this through has been incredible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the death of teenager Harry Dunn became a diplomatic struggle between the UK and US\n\nIn December 2020, the Crown Prosecution Service authorised Northamptonshire Police to charge Mrs Sacoolas with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nAn extradition request for Mrs Sacoolas to be brought to the UK was rejected by the US government.\n\nHowever, the UK authorities are continuing to press for her to return to the UK to face the criminal charge.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, the parents of Harry Dunn, flew out to the US for parts of the civil case\n\nMr Seiger said the family would now turn its \"attention to the criminal case and the long-awaited inquest into Harry's death which will follow the criminal case\".\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss raised Mr Dunn's case with the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.\n\nSpeaking on the train to Washington where she will meet with Joe Biden, Ms Truss said the resolution of the civil case was \"absolutely not\" the end of efforts to get Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK.\n\n\"We continue to press for justice for Harry,\" she said.\n\nLegal representatives for Mrs Sacoolas have been approached for comment.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Sharon Graham was elected Unite leader on a promise to take the union \"back to the workplace\" and spend less time on Westminster politics.\n\nShe insisted that \"wasn't just an electoral chant\", and has argued that she was \"all about action\".\n\nBut one of her earliest decisions is about not doing something.\n\nShe is the first leader of Unite - Labour's biggest trade union funder - to decide not to attend the party's annual conference this weekend.\n\nIt is in stark contrast to her predecessor Len McCluskey, who was an influential and ever-present figure in Labour circles.\n\nBut she has told the BBC that her time can be better spent elsewhere.\n\nMs Graham said: \"We shouldn't always do what we have always done just because we have always done it.\n\n\"I am days into my leadership - we currently have 16 industrial disputes going on, from Tesco drivers to Weetabix to locksmiths in Scunthorpe and Wolverhampton.\n\n\"What I need to do is be with those workers in dispute and personally take leadership.\"\n\nShe denied she was snubbing Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, adding: \"We are in a crisis - workers are going to have a really rough ride.\n\n\"I am showing I am with them, and the Labour Party needs to do the same, and show it is with workers and communities too\".\n\n\"It's definitely not a snub - I have made a priority decision.\"\n\nIn fact, she met Sir Keir on Monday for an hour, describing the meeting as \"cordial\".\n\nBut Ms Graham said he hadn't raised his proposed changes to Labour's leadership rules with her.\n\nThe Labour leader is meeting representatives of key unions on Wednesday to discuss that controversial move.\n\nShe said the row over rule changes is like \"white noise\" to her members.\n\nAnd she gave the Labour leader the following advice: \"I made it really clear that I really want Labour to focus on the issues workers have - it has to be a continuous programme.\"\n\nSharon Graham said her decision not to go to the Labour Party conference was not a snub to Sir Keir Starmer\n\nThe union gave Labour £3m in the run up to the last election, but party funding wasn't on the meeting's agenda.\n\nMs Graham told me the union will continue to pay an affiliation fee to Labour, but she would want a lot more in return for optional donations.\n\n\"For those additional payments, it'd be wrong of us to say there is a blank cheque,\" she said.\n\n\"I have to be able to say, head held high, 'this money has gone into [opposing] fire and rehire' or 'this was put in to research and development'. It's about workers' issues.\n\n\"If Labour doesn't talk about that agenda, people are quite rightly going to question why we are giving those additional funds.\"\n\nMs Graham also confirmed her union delegates would vote to oust Labour's most senior official, general secretary David Evans if - as expected - Labour conference votes on whether to endorse him this weekend.\n\nHe is carrying out a programme of voluntary redundancies at Labour's head office.\n\nShe said: \"David Evans engaged in all essence in a fire and rehire practice - any CEO who did that would not get our support.\"\n\nBut a Labour spokesperson rejected the criticism, saying the party was undertaking a \"voluntary severance scheme\", which was \"nothing like fire and rehire\".\n\nUnite under Len McCluskey financed a range of legal challenges against Labour when the party tried to discipline or expel left-wing members.\n\nIf Ms Graham wanted to be involved in less intra-party wrangling, would that continue?\n\nShe said: \"I am doing a review of every single area of the union, including legal. The most important thing about our legal services is whether they support the members.\n\n\"I will make decisions with the [union] executive. I don't know all the details [of the legal actions].\n\n\"But on a broader level, my focus is jobs, pay and conditions of workers - therefore the resources of the union are going to be on that.\"\n\nFormer Unite leader Len McCluskey was heavily involved in the political side\n\nMore generally, she would be reorganising the country's second largest union - bringing together members in each sector of industry.\n\nShe intended to go through the books of big companies \"forensically\" if they attempted to cut pay and conditions, to find out if they were genuinely struggling or if they were using the Covid crisis to reduce her members' rights.\n\nAnd she will draw up a \"workers' manifesto\" that she will push with whoever is in power.\n\nMs Graham said she resisted pressure on her to stand aside in the contest for her union's top job to give another left-winger a clear run.\n\nShe described some of that pressure as \"toxic\" and \"vile\".\n\nShe added: \"I have a 12-year-old son and I didn't think it was a good moral for him to capitulate. It made me more determined.\"\n\nAnd now that she has succeeded, she is clearly just as determined to do things differently.", "Thousands of people have been evacuated from Afghanistan - but some of those left behind say they feel \"betrayed\"\n\nUK nationals and former interpreters stranded after British forces pulled out of Afghanistan have told the BBC they feel abandoned. Now hundreds are fearing for their safety following a UK government data breach.\n\nAhmad, not his real name, is in hiding in Afghanistan. He is one of more than 250 Afghan interpreters and local staff whose names and some profile pictures were mistakenly shared in a Ministry of Defence data breach.\n\nHe is eligible for relocation under the UK government's Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (Arap) but he is still in the country.\n\nWhen Ahmad received the MoD email he says he initially \"felt good\". \"I thought, they're still chasing our cases.\"\n\nThen he realised the error. The email addresses and names of all the recipients could be seen by everyone on the email. Many of those who got the email, like Ahmad, remain in hiding, fearful their lives could be in danger.\n\nThe government has apologised to those affected and an investigation has been launched. But Ahmad says the error could put him in danger.\n\n\"I'm sure that it will have a negative impact on our safety\", he says. \"We are already displaced from our home town.\"\n\nAhmad was shot by the Taliban while on patrol as an interpreter with British troops in Helmand, in 2011.\n\nBefore the airport in Kabul closed last month, officials told him to take his family there to be evacuated. But the crush to get on flights was too much for his baby daughter.\n\nLeft behind in Kabul, he now lives apart from his wife and child to try to keep them from danger. \"I feel betrayed and we feel left behind,\" he says. \"We were the people deserving to be relocated.\"\n\n\"I am living from place-to-place, going door-to-door. It is very difficult for me financially and from the security perspective - and also mentally.\"\n\n\"Just when you think it can't get worse than this, along comes [the email],\" he told the BBC.\n\nSince mid-August, when the Afghan government fell, the UK says more than 15,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan.\n\nThe BBC understands this includes more than 8,000 UK nationals, while a few hundred more have made it out under their own steam. Two flights out of Kabul to Doha in the past week have carried a further 26 British nationals and four Afghan spouses.\n\nOfficials will not say how many British citizens have still to make it out of the country but chat among the community left behind in Afghanistan gives a sense of the scale of the problem facing Liz Truss, the UK's new foreign secretary.\n\nZiad travelled to Afghanistan in July and says other UK nationals are stuck there\n\n\"There are loads of people waiting,\" says Ziad, who travelled from Newport to Afghanistan in July to visit his sick mother. His name has been changed to protect his identity.\n\n\"My cousin is also a British citizen, he's also waiting. Lots of my school mates are here as well. My driving instructor, he's stuck here as well. So imagine how many more would be here.\"\n\nThe government says it has advised against travel to Afghanistan for many years. But those who did make the trip and are now stuck feel abandoned.\n\n\"They are not serious about their citizens,\" Ziad says. \"Until now, I did not receive any help.\" He is not alone.\n\nEarlier this month, BBC News reported on a seven-month-old baby left behind in Afghanistan because of a delay in processing her passport.\n\nThree weeks later, her family in London say they are still waiting for news about what can be done to help them.\n\nZahra, not her real name, told the BBC about her fears for her family in Afghanistan whose details she had registered with the UK government for assistance. She says they still have not had any good news. Her family is now making plans to travel to a third country.\n\nSayyid, also not his real name, said he was worried about his brother who had previously worked for a British charity in Afghanistan because he had been threatened by the Taliban.\n\nThis week he updated the BBC to say that his brother remained in hiding.\n\nMujeeb Ashraf, a former interpreter for UK forces, might appear to be one of the lucky ones.\n\nAfter getting confirmation he was eligible for relocation under Arap, he managed to get himself on a commercial flight out of Kabul before the airport closed. He took the flight rather than wait for the UK to evacuate him.\n\nNow in Dubai, Mujeeb has sent repeated pleas to officials about what to do next but says he has so far not had any information about relocation to the UK.\n\nMujeeb Ashraf, a former interpreter for UK forces, in currently stuck in Dubai\n\n\"It seems they have no plan for third countries,\" he says. \"Every day I'm checking my email to have some good news from the UK government. I don't know what to do next and I have no idea where to go.\"\n\nWith only handouts from voluntary groups to get by, and having to pay around £300 a month in rent to share a small house with 21 people, Mujeeb fears for what will happen after his visa expires.\n\nHe pleaded with the UK government to \"help those people who helped you in your operations\".\n\nThe BBC asked the government how it intended to help evacuate people like Mujeeb who are stranded in third countries.\n\nA spokesperson said they could not comment on individual cases but work was under way to support the logistics of relocation of those accepted as eligible who are already in third countries.\n\nWhere possible, the government would contact those identified for relocation who are not yet in the UK, the spokesperson added.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The UK's evacuation operation helped over 15,000 people to safety including British nationals, Afghan interpreters, and other vulnerable people.\n\n\"Whilst the success of that operation exceeded our assumptions, we know that there are many left in difficult circumstances.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government's \"utmost priority is to continue to work with allies and partners in the region to ensure safe passage for those who want to leave Afghanistan\".\n\nAre you a UK national in Afghanistan or eligible for relocation to the UK and unable to leave? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Just over 100 military personnel will be brought in to help the ambulance service\n\nSoldiers will be driving Scottish ambulances from this weekend as part of efforts to ease pressure on the service.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it was providing 114 personnel, including drivers and support staff, to carry out non-emergency driving work.\n\nAn additional 111 personnel will help to run mobile Covid testing units.\n\nFurther drivers will also be provided by the fire service, the British Red Cross and taxi firms.\n\nThe military support was announced following a request from the Scottish government.\n\nIt comes amid warnings from health professionals and opposition politicians of a crisis within the Scottish Ambulance Service in recent weeks, with reports of some patients facing extremely long waits for help to arrive.\n\nThey include a pensioner who died in Glasgow after having to wait 40 hours for an ambulance, and an 86-year-old woman who had to lie on her kitchen for eight hours after falling and breaking her hip.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf told the Scottish Parliament that cases such as these were unacceptable, and apologised to families who had been let down.\n\nBut he said the ambulance service and wider NHS were facing unprecedented demand, largely because of Covid but also due to a range other factors including \"exceptionally busy emergency departments\".\n\nAmbulance crews in Scotland responded to 10,733 life-threatening incidents last month compared to just 5,788 in August 2018.\n\nWith winter approaching and the NHS preparing for its most challenging time of the year, Mr Yousaf confirmed an additional £20m for the ambulance service to \"help improve response times, alleviate pressures and improve staff wellbeing\".\n\nHowever, he said the short-term pressures on the service would only be relieved \"through the wider public and voluntary sector standing up and supporting the service at this incredibly challenging time\".\n\nScottish government officials had been working since last Thursday to finalise a package of support from the military.\n\nWaiting times in Scotland's A&E units are at a record high\n\nMr Yousaf told parliament on Tuesday afternoon that the government had asked for 88 drivers and 15 support staff - a total of 103 military personnel.\n\nHowever, a short time later the MoD confirmed that it would provide provide 114 drivers and support staff, as well as the 111 personnel who will help run mobile testing units.\n\nIt said they would be deployed from 25 September and were expected to perform their role for a couple of months - primarily in the central belt.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said: \"Our fantastic British Armed Forces have played a key role in the fight against Covid-19 across the UK and it is admirable to see them once supporting crucial public services in Scotland in times of need.\n\n\"The dedication and professionalism of the 225 personnel being deployed will be invaluable for the Scottish Ambulance Service and Covid Mobile Testing Units. We are grateful for all their efforts to keep us safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf announced a series of measures in the Scottish Parliament\n\nSpeaking ahead of the MoD announcement, Mr Yousaf said: \"My thanks to the army, as always, for their responsiveness.\n\n\"We have also reached out to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, and I'm glad to say in typical fashion they have risen to a call.\n\n\"We have also brought support in from the British Red Cross as well as private contractors such as taxi companies to help with some of the ambulance service's work where no emergency ambulance is required.\"\n\nHe stressed that anyone in critical or life-threatening need would be taken to hospital in an ambulance if one is requested.\n\nThe health secretary also announced a range of other measures including:\n\nMr Yousaf had earlier been told off by the parliament's presiding officer after he revealed details of his plan to the Daily Record newspaper before formally announcing it in the Holyrood chamber.\n\nOpposition leaders were critical of the government's approach, saying action to ease pressure on the ambulance service should have been taken much sooner.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Sandesh Gulhane accused the government of using the pandemic as an excuse for long-standing issues.\n\nAnd Labour's Jackie Baillie said accident and emergency waiting times were at an all-time high despite the best efforts of NHS staff.\n\nShe highlighted comments by John Thomson of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, who has told BBC Scotland that the NHS needs an additional 1,000 hospital beds to cope with the current crisis.\n\nOver 550 people waited more than 12 hours in an emergency department in the second week of September, a record high. Until this summer, the previous weekly high was in the depths of winter 2018, when the peak number waiting more than 12 hours was 463.\n\nMuch of the pressure comes from a scarcity of beds in other parts of the hospital, to allow people to continue their treatment away from A&E. If there is no room elsewhere, people have to sit on trollies, in cubicles, or in ambulances which cannot then be dispatched elsewhere.\n\nThere are numerous reasons why the NHS is under siege and Covid is only part of the picture. There are challenges in the community getting people out of hospital, and sometimes wards are closed to new admissions because of staff sickness or isolation.\n\nStaff report dealing with patients presenting with more advanced illnesses, who need to stay in hospital longer.\n\nMany of the problems the NHS is facing existed before the pandemic. Demand is ever-growing and being met with long-term staff vacancies and a reduction in hospital beds.\n\nHelp from the army and additional funds will be welcomed, but they won't solve the problem overnight.\n\nAccording to the latest figures from Public Health Scotland, there were 27,354 attendances at A&E services in Scotland in the week ending 12 September.\n\nOf these, 71.5% were seen and either admitted, discharged or transferred elsewhere within four hours - the lowest total for a number of years, and well below the target level of 95%.\n\nA total of 1,895 patients spent more than eight hours in an A&E department, while 551 of them were there for more than 12 hours.\n\nMr Yousaf said the government was having \"urgent\" discussions with local authorities and care providers about how to free up bed capacity, saying he would not dismiss the idea of field hospitals entirely.\n\nHe added: \"I have spoken to every health board and mentioned that the equipment we had for the Louisa Jordan is available for them to use.\n\n\"But it's not just a case of simply setting up beds, we have to have staff as well - we would have to pull the workforce out of extremely busy hospitals.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu delivered another impressive display which belied her youth and inexperience as she swept aside China's Zhang Shuai to reach the US Open third round.\n\nRaducanu won 6-2 6-4 against 32-year-old Zhang, who is ranked 101 places higher than the 18-year-old.\n\nSuperior in every department, Raducanu needed one hour and 21 minutes to win.\n\nNext she will face Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo on Saturday for a place in the fourth round.\n\nFollowing her stunning run to the Wimbledon last 16 as a wildcard, Raducanu is backing up that breakout display in New York.\n\nRaducanu qualified for her first major last week and, unfazed by the magnitude of playing in her first overseas Grand Slam, has continued to create a buzz at Flushing Meadows.\n• None Relive how Raducanu swept aside Zhang to reach US Open third round\n• None Top seed Barty through to third round, along with Kvitova & Swiatek\n• None Zverev drops just four games in one-sided win\n\nA throng of fans packed once again into court 10 to watch why Raducanu has emerged as Britain's brightest young talent and the Kent teenager did not disappoint.\n\nAfter securing victory, Raducanu stayed on court posing for countless selfies with star-struck fans - a gauge of the excitement which is surrounding her.\n\n\"I love it here. I'm extremely grateful for all the support I've been receiving here in the States. Honestly, it's taken me a bit by surprise,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"Of course I really want to connect with the fans because they're doing so much for me, getting me through some really tight moments.\n\n\"Connecting with them, I have so much fun, especially the younger kids. I hope that they can get a little bit inspired.\"\n\nStunning win shows how far Raducanu has come\n\nPlaying aggressively and confidently from the start, Raducanu dominated to such an extent that the scoreline alone did not fully do justice to her superiority.\n\nWith Raducanu leading by a set and a double break, even a glum-looking Zhang was stunned by the quality of her opponent.\n\nEventually the world number 49 - an experienced player who has won more than 500 singles matches - fought back in the second set. By that time it was far too late.\n\nDelving deeper into the match stats helps paint a fuller picture of Raducanu's brilliance.\n\nOn serve, she won 28 of 33 first-serve points as Zhang won just 11 return points.\n\nHer returning game - characterised by clinical timing and precision off both wings - yielded 27 winners and produced just 11 unforced errors as the Briton won 49% of return points.\n\nThere was a slight dip as she closed in on victory, but none of the edginess of her first-round win - where she needed a seventh match point to beat Swiss opponent Stefanie Vogele - in the latter stages.\n\n\"She was definitely going to throw everything at me and wasn't going to let me run away with the match,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"As soon as I dropped off my level, like five per cent, she was all over me and had me running corner to corner.\n\n\"I'm very proud of myself to regroup and come through the match, being resilient is one of my strengths.\"\n\nWhen the pair met in San Jose at the start of August - Raducanu's first match since reaching the Wimbledon last 16, where she retired with breathing difficulties and dizziness - Zhang won in straight sets.\n\nThis display was a measure of how far Raducanu has come since then in terms of execution, confidence and physicality.\n\nAt Wimbledon she was ranked 338th and now, just four events later, is closing in on a place in the world's top 100.\n\n'The ceiling is so high for Raducanu' - analysis\n\nFormer British number one Laura Robson on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra:\n\nEmma Raducanu played a phenomenal match. She was under so much pressure towards the end and handled it well - I can't believe she is 18 years old.\n\nI don't want to be on the hype train but how can you not when she is playing this way?\n\nI haven't seen many bad days from Emma recently and her base level is is right up there with the best players.\n\nThe ceiling is so high for her.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None How do you start again when everyone remembers your past?\n• None Watch the deep and dark new thriller from the producers of Line of Duty", "A prominent supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon has accepted a plea deal in federal court for his involvement in the US Capitol riots.\n\nJacob Anthony Chansley was one of thousands of Trump supporters who attempted to prevent the US Congress from certifying the 2020 election.\n\nChansley pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony count of obstruction in an official proceeding.\n\nNearly 600 people have been charged in the federal investigation of the riot.\n\nAt least 36 defendants have to date pleaded guilty, eight of whom have pleaded guilty to felonies, according to CBS News.\n\nChansley became the de facto face of the siege, pictured amid the unrest in horns and a bearskin headdress, with the American flag painted on his face. He called himself the \"QAnon Shaman\".\n\nQAnon is a wide-ranging conspiracy theory whose followers believe former President Donald Trump was waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media.\n\nChansley told the FBI he came to DC \"at the request of the president that all 'patriots' come to DC\".\n\nHe has been in custody for eight months.\n\nHis attorney Albert Watkins told the court on Friday his client was \"non-violent, peaceful and possessed of genuine mental health issues\".\n\nChansley - who has made several request for his release - now claims to disavow both QAnon and Mr Trump.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced in November and could face up to 51 months in prison.\n\nSupporters of the Capitol riot defendants are reportedly planning a large demonstration in DC later this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In 2021, Jake Angeli spoke from jail about his role in the Capitol riots", "Storm Ida has unleashed flash flooding and tornadoes across the north-east of the US, killing dozens and causing devastation in a number of states.\n\nNew York City and New Jersey have been hit by unprecedented levels of rainfall, with residents left trapped in flooded basements and cars. Tornadoes, spawned by the storm, ripped off roofs and sent debris thousands of feet into the air.\n\nSatellite images taken by Maxar on Thursday showed large areas of New Jersey submerged - with business and homes devastated by floodwater.\n\nThe rising waters reached a baseball stadium in Bridgewater, home to the Somerset Patriots.\n\nIf you cannot see the images, please try a different browser\n\nThe city of New Brunswick in New Jersey was also badly hit.\n\nMemorial Parkway and key roads on the banks of the Raritan River were completely inundated.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nLarge areas of Manville, New Jersey, were also completely inaccessible.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nA tornado ripped apart homes in the New Jersey neighbourhood of Mullica Hill, with high winds tearing off roofs and walls.\n\nResidents described how it took just seconds for homes to be destroyed.\n\nThe latest destruction caused by the storm - the fifth strongest to ever hit the US mainland - follows widespread flooding of communities in Louisiana and Mississippi earlier this week.\n\nIda's remnants brought 6-8ins (15-20cm) of rain to large areas or the north east - including New York, the National Weather Service said.\n\nIt set an hourly rainfall record of 3.15ins (8cm) for Manhattan, breaking one set by Tropical Storm Henri less than two weeks ago.\n\nWeather mapping from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the wide band of heavy rain, which hit the area between 1 and 2 September.\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul described a \"Niagara Falls level of water\".\n\nUS president Joe Biden has now declared an emergency in both New Jersey and New York, enabling both states to receive federal funding to support local disaster relief efforts.\n\nIda arrived in New Orleans on 29 August, 16 years after Hurricane Katrina followed a similar path in 2005, killing 1,800 people.", "A member of Sir Keir's staff said the \"language and tone of the emails\" from Knott were very distressing\n\nA man who sent dozens of abusive and threatening emails to Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry has been found guilty of harassment.\n\nDavid Knott, 46, from Islington, was charged with two counts of harassment against staff due to an \"excessive number of abusive emails\".\n\nKnott claimed he sent the messages to the Labour leader and his local MP as a \"form of protest\" over his housing.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 1 October at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe court heard Knott's emails - often laced with profanity and threats to protest outside the politicians' constituency office - were related to an \"ongoing casework matter\" about housing.\n\nJennifer Gatland, prosecuting, told the court that many of the emails were \"rambling and incoherent\".\n\nThe court heard that a cease and desist letter was sent to Knott - but the emails continued.\n\nKnott told the court he was trying to complain to the MPs about the condition of his former apartment in Camden - which left him and his late quadriplegic partner \"sleepless for six months\".\n\nHe said that ongoing London Underground work had left the noise in the apartment \"unbearable\" and he was trying to warn the MPs to stop letting tenants live there.\n\nKnott said: \"I spent four years trying to get a response from these people - my MP's treatment of me is absolutely disgusting.\n\n\"I'm working class and I used the words as an expression of the torture I have suffered.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Alexander Jacobs said the emails went over a \"line that must never be crossed\".\n\nHe told Knott: \"I believe you are well aware your language was abusive and should not have been used.\n\n\"Any reasonable person would have known the number of emails and the language used would have caused harassment.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Asda has announced plans to open nearly 230 convenience stores at petrol stations owned by the Issa brothers.\n\nBillionaires Mohsin and Zuber Issa, who bought the supermarket giant last year, will launch 28 Asda on the Move shops this year after trialling the format at five petrol stations.\n\nThey will be rolled-out at petrol forecourts controlled by EG Group, the Issa brothers' business.\n\nAsda said it intended to launch a further 200 stores next year.\n\nThe move will give Asda a foothold in the convenience stores market after falling behind rivals such as Tesco and Sainsbury's, which have long operated smaller format shops.\n\nOne of the first actions that the Issa brothers took after buying Asda last year with private equity firm TDR Capital for £6.8bn, was to open a small number of Asda on the Move stores.\n\nThe supermarket said the shops would be up to 3,000 sq ft and stock up to 2,500 products. Asda will supply goods to EG Group on a wholesale basis.\n\nAsda also announced its latest trading figures which showed that like-for-like sales fell by 0.7% between the beginning of April and the end of June.\n\nIt blamed the fall on the comparison to last year when the UK entered its first Covid lockdown and households stocked up on shopping.\n\nAsda said that compared to two years ago, before the pandemic struck, like-for-like sales rose by 3.1%.", "The Treasury must \"urgently\" confirm extra funding before councils can start making offers to house Afghan refugees, a document seen by the BBC suggests.\n\nIt estimates the cost of helping those coming to the UK over the next 10 years could be more than £2.5bn.\n\nAnd it suggests a shortfall in the cash committed by Whitehall so far.\n\nA government spokesperson said hundreds of Afghan nationals who had worked alongside the British in Afghanistan had already been welcomed to the UK.\n\nBut Labour's shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, said it was \"deeply worrying\" that the government was \"failing to step up and play its role in providing national coordination, leadership and support\".\n\nThe Treasury has been asked to comment on the contents of the leaked document.\n\nThousands of people have fled Afghanistan since the country fell to the Taliban in August, as US and UK troops withdrew their forces after 20 years on the ground.\n\nAround 15,000 people eligible to come to the UK were evacuated in the final two weeks, including 8,000 Afghans who had worked alongside British forces.\n\nBut the government has admitted it cannot be precise with how many others were left behind.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab is in the region to try to negotiate safe passage through neighbouring countries for Britons and others still trying to leave Afghanistan.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Pakistan, he pledged £30m in aid to bordering countries taking in the majority of the refugees, to help provide shelter and sanitation.\n\nAnd he promised the UK would be \"shouldering our humanitarian responsibilities\" to help.\n\nThe government is talking to councils about how many people could be resettled in their areas when they reach the UK, calling for a fair distribution across the country.\n\nThis call was echoed in a joint statement by council leaders in Greater Manchester, including its mayor, Labour's Andy Burnham, who said \"every part of the country needs to take a share of the responsibility across all schemes, asylum and resettlement\" - rather than areas with lower house prices accommodating \"far higher numbers of those seeking sanctuary\".\n\nThe leaked document - Afghan Resettlement: Domestic Support Offer and Funding Requirements - was discussed by ministers on Wednesday.\n\nIt said just under £400m has been allocated so far to help resettle those who had fled the country, but an extra £557m could be needed over the next three years.\n\nThe government intends to provide funding to local authorities to accommodate Afghans, and the document says relocation costs were a \"substantial - but necessary - offer of support\".\n\nMinisters met to discuss resettling plans on Friday before holding a meeting with local authority leaders, telling them to see \"no offer of housing and support as too small\".\n\nBut the BBC understands the councils were not given confirmation of how much funding they would receive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Getting the plane out of Afghanistan was the \"happiest moment of my life\"\n\nAmong the councils offering support, Walsall Council in the West Midlands has taken in 69 evacuees so far and says it hopes to house up to 120.\n\nMike Bird, the council leader, said it was a difficult task, housing families with children who needed school places.\n\n\"With children going back to school, and the pressure on school places, that in itself is something the government don't seem to be taking into account,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got the whole of the UK that should be considered. If only one [some] councils are coming forward... then the government have got to step in and make sure it does happen.\"\n\nOne refugee, Ahmed, whose real name is not being used, arrived in the UK from Kabul with his wife and six children in July.\n\nHe told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme this week about the challenges his family faced.\n\n\"We have been living in hotels for quite a while now in larger groups and it's becoming tougher and tougher, so it's time for us to move to a proper house,\" he said.\n\n\"That is the overarching concern we are having, because we can't have a bank account.\"\n\nSchemes for people fleeing the country include the existing Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) for Afghans who worked with the UK government and a new Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) for vulnerable people.\n\nFunding models for the resettlement schemes are still being developed, but initial proposals suggested the figures would be based on 5,000 Afghans arriving under the ACRS scheme per year (capped at 20,000 people) at a cost of £715m, 5,000 arriving under the UK Resettlement Scheme each year at a cost of £1.65bn, and 7,000 arriving under the ARAP scheme in 2021-2 at a cost of £190m.\n\nThe document also suggested that while some refugees would require more support than others, local authorities should be given a set amount per person housed to make their funding easier to plan.\n\nIt recommended local authorities should be given £20,520 per person split over three years, plus more for education costs.\n\nIt also recommended extra healthcare funding of £3,200 per person and £15m funding per year to \"international partners\" to support resettlement in third countries.\n\nThese initial funding proposals suggest the costs would reach £187m in 2021/2 and £975m over the course of this spending review period - which lasts until 2024/5.\n\nBut the document said that with just under £400m of this funding already committed, there would be a shortfall of approximately £557m, so confirmation of further funding from the Treasury will be required \"urgently\".\n\nLabour's Mr Thomas-Symonds accused ministers of being \"disastrously complacent\" throughout the crisis in Afghanistan.\n\nHe said: \"Councils across the country want to do the right thing, so it's deeply worrying that the UK government is failing to step up and play its role in providing national coordination, leadership and support.\"\n\nThe shadow home secretary called on the prime minister to urgently set out details on how promised funding would be spent to \"allow Afghan people who have been through hellish experiences rebuild their lives here\".\n\nBorder Force staff were assisting Afghan refugees on their arrival from Afghanistan\n\nA spokesperson from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government said that the government was calling on all councils who had not yet offered, to come forward with offers of support.\n\n\"Thanks to the efforts of nearly a third of Britain's councils and vital delivery partners, hundreds of Afghan nationals who have worked alongside our Armed Forces and diplomats in Afghanistan, risking their lives supporting us, have already been warmly welcomed to the country,\" they said.\n\n\"Councils in England, Scotland and Wales will have access to a share of an additional £5m to help them provide the necessary housing and support to Afghans who have worked for this country in Afghanistan, but who now face threats of persecution or worse.\"", "The senior British commander on the ground in Kabul has been speaking for the first time about the UK's evacuation operation from Afghanistan.\n\nBrigadier James Martin spoke of his soldiers' resilience in the face of seeing children and women dying in front of them.\n\nThe last British troops returned from the country at the weekend after helping to rescue more than 15,000 people.", "Heart inflammation is a \"very rare\" side-effect of the Covid vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, according to regulators in Europe.\n\nThe European Medicines Agency said the side-effects were more common in younger men.\n\nThe medicines safety body said the benefits of Covid vaccines continue to far outweigh any risks.\n\nBut doctors and patients have been advised to be aware of the symptoms of heart inflammation.\n\nThese include chest pain, a feeling of breathlessness and a pounding or fluttering heartbeat. Anyone with these symptoms should see a doctor.\n\nTwo conditions were linked to the vaccines - inflammation of the heart muscle itself, known as myocarditis, and inflammation of the fluid-filled sac the heart sits in, known as pericarditis.\n\nFive people died. The review said they were all either elderly or had other health conditions.\n\nThe UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has also been investigating the link.\n\nIt reported: \"A consistent pattern of cases occurring more frequently in young males and shortly after the second dose of the vaccines.\n\n\"These reports are extremely rare, and the events are typically mild with individuals usually recovering within a short time with standard treatment and rest,\" it added.\n\nMost cases are thought to be within 14 days of vaccination.\n\nWhile the risk is very rare, it is more likely to develop in young people - who are currently the focus on the vaccination campaign in the UK.\n\nConcerns about the side-effects have already played into the UK debate around vaccinating children, who are at lower risk of Covid.\n\nMyocarditis and pericarditis will be officially listed as side-effects in the UK and Europe, mirroring a move by the regulators in the US last month.\n\n\"The chance of these conditions occurring is very low, but you should be aware of the symptoms so that you can get prompt medical treatment to help recovery and avoid complications,\" the EMA said.\n\nThe link with heart inflammation was found only in the vaccines that rely on mRNA technology to train the immune system.\n\nThere was no link found for vaccines such as Oxford-AstraZeneca or Janssen, which use a genetically modified virus.\n\nHowever, the EMA has advised anyone with a history of capillary leak syndrome should not be given the Janssen vaccine. This is a rare but serious syndrome in which fluid leaks from blood vessels in the body.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The unlawful possession of laughing gas could be made a crime in England and Wales.\n\nMinisters have asked independent advisers to review the harm caused by nitrous oxide.\n\nUsually sold in small silver canisters and inhaled, it is the second most-used drug among young adults.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel wants the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to review the harm caused by nitrous oxide.\n\nShe said was prepared to take \"tough action\" and introduce further restrictions.\n\nBut drugs experts said the move was \"completely pointless\" and a \"waste of time\".\n\nSold legally, nitrous oxide is used for medical and commercial uses, such as making whipped cream - but is illegal when sold as a psychoactive drug.\n\nWhen inhaled, the gas can cause elation and hallucinations.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, there were 36 deaths in Great Britain associated with nitrous oxide between 2001 and 2016.\n\nMs Patel said: \"Misusing drugs can have a devastating impact on lives and communities. We are determined to do all we can to address this issue and protect the futures of our children and young people.\"\n\nShe added that if the ACMD recommended further restrictions, she would be \"ready to take tough action\".\n\n\"Should the expert ACMD recommend further restrictions on this drug, we stand ready to take tough action.\"\n\nBut former ACMD chairman Professor David Nutt, who was sacked in 2009 after claiming that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol, called the move a \"gimmick\".\n\nProf Nutt, founder of the charity Drug Science, said it was \"completely symptomatic of the utterly blinkered perspective that this Government has on drugs\".\n\nHe added: \"This is completely pointless, an utter distraction. This is pretence of doing something about drug problems, but focusing on a drug that has very, very little harm - way less harm than alcohol - and they should be investing their money on people who are dying of drugs like fentanyl and heroin.\"\n\nAnother leading drugs expert called the move a \"waste of time\" and said criminalising possession \"would likely lead to illicit sales\".\n\nAdam Winstock, a consultant psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist, said: \"Asking for evidence is great but the ACMD advice comes framed by the current home secretary's preconceived notion that a problem related to drug use can be successfully addressed by making something illegal.\n\n\"This is palpably and evidentially false. But making a drug with minimal risk to most users illegal will add the risk of criminality to all.\"\n\nBut ministers have faced cross-party pressure to tighten the regulations on the sale of nitrous oxide.\n\nLabour MP Rosie Duffield told a Commons debate in 2020 that recreational use had become \"much more prevalent\" during the pandemic.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds welcomed the review, saying it was right to \"assess the harm\".\n\nBut he added: However, this will not be an answer to the terrible impact Conservative cuts to policing have caused.\"", "One of the UK's largest suppliers of seasonal flu vaccines has said there will be a delay in jab deliveries to some GP surgeries due to issues related to a shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nSeqirus, one of the world's largest flu vaccine companies, said it had told customers about delays of up to a fortnight.\n\nThe company said it was \"working hard to resolve the delay\".\n\nNHS England says patients who are affected will be contacted by their GP.\n\nSeqirus, which supplies vaccines to GP practices and pharmacies in England and Wales, said: \"Due to unforeseen challenges linked with road freight delays, we have informed all our customers of a consequent delay to their scheduled vaccine delivery by a maximum of one to two weeks.\n\nThe company, which is one of a number of suppliers, said customers would be able to reschedule their flu vaccination clinics.\n\nThe professional body representing GPs said it would hit practices.\n\n\"This is news we really didn't want to hear\", said Dr Gary Howsam, vice chairman of the Royal College of GPs.\n\n\"With more than 36 million people eligible for the flu vaccine on the NHS this year, GPs need the supply chain to run like clockwork.\n\nDr Howsam said GPs are \"already under enormous pressure and still waiting for details of how the Covid booster campaign will align with everything else they need to do this winter\".\n\nDoctors meticulously plan jabs each year, he said, adding that it is \"essential that as many people as possible in at-risk groups get their vaccination as early into the flu season as possible\".\n\n\"A delay of even a couple of weeks is going to have a big impact on practices and their patients, especially when GPs are already dealing with the fallout caused by the shortage of blood test bottles and the anxiety this is causing.\"\n\n\"General practice and the entire NHS is dependent on the smooth roll-out of the winter flu vaccination programme. It cannot fail,\" he said.\n\nDoctors are already dealing with a shortage of blood test tube vials due to supply chain issues.\n\nDr Richard Vautrey, British Medical Association GP committee chairman, said the delay is likely to affect a \"significant proportion\" of practices - and have a \"serious impact\" on practice workloads and patients.\n\nHe said: \"Many practices will have spent the last few days and weeks meticulously planning for their flu vaccination programme, inviting and booking patients in for their jabs, only now to have to contact them all again to cancel or reschedule appointments.\n\n\"This causes a huge increase in staff's already unsustainable workloads, and inconvenience and unneeded anxiety for patients who will be keen to be protected ahead of winter.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said: \"GPs are at their wits' end, first forced to cancel blood tests because of bottle shortages and now we learn flu vaccines will be delayed.\n\n\"This has been a summer of crisis for the NHS with patients paying the price.\n\n\"With winter coming and flu resurgence a huge risk, ministers must urgently get a grip.\"", "The woman covered her face as she arrived at court in January 2020\n\nA British woman who reported being gang-raped in Cyprus hopes to have her conviction for lying about the attack overturned.\n\nThe woman, then 19, told Cypriot police she had been raped by a group of 12 Israeli men in Ayia Napa in July 2019.\n\nThe Derbyshire teenager retracted the allegation after being held without a lawyer, and was then tried and convicted of causing public mischief.\n\nHer appeal will now be heard by the Cypriot Supreme Court on 16 September.\n\nIf the conviction is not overturned her legal team intends to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.\n\n\"She wants to get on with life, but for her to get on with life she needs to get this conviction overturned,\" said barrister Michael Polak, who is helping the woman in his role as director of the law firm Justice Abroad.\n\n\"This will be on her record. It means any time she applies to join an association or for a job she will be thinking back to this and what's happened to her.\n\n\"So it's very important to her, even though she's not in prison now, she's back in the United Kingdom, it's very important for her to overturn the conviction for that reason.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters say they believe the British woman's rape claim\n\nHer case outraged women's rights groups, who protested outside court ahead of the sentencing in January 2020.\n\nJudge Michalis Papathanasiou gave the teenager a four-month suspended sentence, which meant she could return to the UK.\n\nShe will not have to return to Cyprus for the appeal hearing.\n\n\"We will be arguing that the conviction is unsafe for a number of reasons and we are hoping the Supreme Court will set aside the conviction,\" said Mr Polak.\n\nOne of these arguments will be that the judge did not consider evidence the woman really was raped.\n\n\"For public mischief you need to be making a false allegation and every time we brought forward evidence that the rape took place he would shout at our female Cypriot lawyers and say 'this is not a rape trial, this is not a rape trial',\" said Mr Polak.\n\n\"He did it about seven times during the trial process, so in effect he shut out any consideration that the rape had taken place, which meant he didn't properly consider all the elements of the offence.\"\n\nThe woman's mother (left), shown leaving court in December 2019, said her daughter was prevented from defending the case properly\n\nThe woman's mother said getting the conviction overturned would be \"the first step for my daughter reclaiming her life\".\n\n\"Imagine being raped then imprisoned because the authorities say you lied, after refusing to hear evidence to the contrary, then having to relive this each time you apply for a job or training course,\" she said.\n\n\"This is a terrible burden for my daughter, having such a terrible thing happen to her and then carrying a conviction against her name for life.\"\n\nShe said it was \"difficult to be optimistic about the outcome of the appeal\" given their experience of the courts in Cyprus.\n\n\"Our daughter was prevented from defending the case properly because of the trial court's unwillingness to hear evidence of the serious sexual offences that she was subjected to,\" she said.\n\n\"If this is understood then we have some hope that the legal minds in the Cypriot Supreme Court should acquit.\"\n\nIf that does not happen, she said they would \"take this matter to the European Court where we are certain that the justice will ultimately prevail\".\n\nBarrister Michael Polak, director of Justice Abroad, said he would take the case to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary\n\nAnother argument relates to the woman retracting the rape claim, which her lawyers say she did under pressure from police.\n\n\"She was there for almost seven hours without a lawyer, without her parents,\" said Mr Polak.\n\n\"European law is particularly strong on this. There's a case against Cyprus where a young teenager was taken into a police station in Limassol and a confession was taken from him with no lawyer.\n\n\"So in European law, the European Court of Human Rights has already decided that issue against Cyprus, and so we hope the Supreme Court will take account of that.\"\n\nMr Polak said the woman would ultimately like the men involved to be prosecuted, but for now her legal team is concentrating on getting her conviction overturned.\n\n\"It was a really horrendous experience for her and she, of course, would like to see justice done in this case,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing for the moment is to get the conviction overturned so she doesn't have to carry it around for the rest of her life.\n\n\"We hope the Cypriot Supreme Court will make the right decision when we go there in a few weeks, and we hope we don't have to take it all the way up to the European Court of Human Rights.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oscar-nominated actor Richard E Grant has said his heart is broken after the loss of his wife, Joan Washington, a dialect coach on films including The Witches and Red Sparrow.\n\nHe tweeted a film of them dancing, calling her the \"love of my life and giver of life to our daughter Olivia\".\n\nWashington worked on Oscar-winning film Elizabeth and with Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman on The Phantom Menace.\n\nJessica Chastain was among the famous names paying tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard E. Grant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChastain said Washington had a \"profound impact on me\", having worked with her on a number of projects including the 2016 film Crimson Peak.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jessica Chastain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWashington worked on an impressively long catalogue of films, with 118 credits on the Internet Movie Database, including the Oscar-winning film 1983 Yentl, starring Barbra Streisand, and 1984's The Bounty, starring Anthony Hopkins.\n\nShe also worked with Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Feinnes, Brendon Gleeson and Emma Stone.\n\nGrant's tweet received condolences from many other famous names, including Nigella Lawson, David Morrissey, David Baddiel, Sarah Millican, Rebecca Front, Joanne Harris and JoJo Moyes, who all expressed their sadness for his loss.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Nigella Lawson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Morrissey described Washington as being \"so kind and wonderful to me\", adding: \"She encouraged me and we had some great laughs together.\"\n\nComic and writer Dawn French said: \"Joan Washington will ALWAYS be remembered by those of us who knew her and were taught by her, as a PHENOMENAL WOMAN. So much love to Richard E Grant and all the family.\"\n\nActor Jason Watkins, who recently played Harold Wilson in The Crown, also paid tribute, saying: \"I owe her everything.\"\n\nHe added: \"The incomparable Joan Washington has died. Joan taught me dialects and accents when I trained at Rada and beyond.\n\n\"I have made my career using accents and dialects. Such a terrible loss to Richard E Grant and us all. Rest in peace.\"\n\nThey met in 1982 when Washington taught Swaziland-born Grant British dialects\n\nComedian and actor Chris Addison also worked with Washington. \"What a huge loss to the world,\" he said. \"The wonderful Joan Washington has left us. She lit up many a film set and many a life.\n\n\"Urbane, funny, unflappable, deeply knowledgeable and wildly talented. The secret sauce in a million performances.\"\n\nSinger Elaine Paige said the news was \"heartbreaking\", and that \"she was special both as a teacher and as a friend. Never to be forgotten\"\n\nActress Emily Mortimer replied to Grant's post on Instagram, saying: \"Joan was incredible. One of the world's great teachers. It was a privilege to know her and have been in her orbit. And your guys' love story is just an inspiration ❤️\"\n\nMad Max and The Favourite actor Nicholas Hoult added: \"I can never thank her enough for all her kindness, the lessons she taught me and the memories I'll cherish.\"\n\nFearne Cotton also expressed her sadness, along with actors David Thewlis and James D'Arcy.\n\nGrant, who recently appeared in Disney+'s Loki TV series, was Oscar-nominated in 2019 for the film Can You Ever Forgive Me? He met Aberdeen-born Washington in 1982 after she worked with him on a series of regional British dialects.\n\nIn a joint interview with the Independent in 2011, Grant recalled their first meeting, saying: \"I met her at the Actors' Centre in London. She was wearing a boiler suit and had fairly short, cropped hair and Kicker shoes, and was chain-smoking, which I thought was insane.\n\n\"She was teaching an accent session with a bunch of actors, and I thought she had the most wonderful voice and huge, sort of monkey eyes. She seemed fairly frenetic. I thought that she was really cute and all that.\"\n\nThe actor also has a stepson, Tom, who is Washington's son from a previous marriage.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow.\n\nThe UK's vaccine advisory body has refused to give the green light to vaccinating healthy children aged 12 to 15 years old on health grounds alone. As children are at such low risk from the virus, they decided that vaccination would offer only \"marginal gain\" and, therefore, there was \"insufficient\" evidence to offer mass vaccination for this age group. But the JCVI said the government could consider wider issues including disruption to schools. Meanwhile, an extra 200,000 teenagers with underlying conditions will now be eligible for two doses.\n\nThe EU and UK-Swedish drug-maker AstraZeneca have settled a row over a shortfall in coronavirus vaccines that affected the European rollout earlier this year. AstraZeneca has agreed to deliver 200 million doses of its vaccine, which had been promised under a contract, to the EU by the end of March 2022. Earlier this year AstraZeneca angered European Commission officials when it said it could only deliver a fraction of the doses agreed for the first three months of 2021. The commission accused the company of breaking an August 2020 advanced purchase deal while AstraZeneca hit back, arguing that the contract only required its \"best effort\" to deliver millions of vaccine doses on time.\n\nOfficials have opened an investigation into PCR testing firm Expert Medicals following complaints that Covid test results had not been provided on time or at all. The competition watchdog warned a further 19 firms about advertising misleading prices. It comes after a review that found customers often faced poor service, hidden fees and refund issues.\n\nAustralia says it has secured an extra four million doses of the Pfizer vaccine from the UK in a swap deal. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the extra vaccines will help his country come out of its lockdowns sooner. About half of Australia's population is currently in lockdown due to outbreaks in the cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Under the deal, Australia will send the same number of doses back to the UK later in the year.\n\nA collection of 51 statues has gone on display as a gesture of thanks to NHS staff and other key workers in the pandemic. The feature, named Gratitude, will remain on show in Manchester's St Peter's Square until 12 September, before it is taken to Edinburgh and London. The statues, each decorated by a different artist, will eventually be auctioned to raise money for NHS Charities Together.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The statues were made as a gesture of thanks\n\nWith experts recommending a third Covid vaccine for those with severely weakened immune systems who are over 12, here's what you need to know about the vaccine and booster jabs.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "\"Why are you travelling without a mahram?\" the Taliban guard asks a young Afghan woman about her missing male escort.\n\nShe sits on her own in the back of a beat-up Kabul yellow taxi as it pulls up to the checkpoint marked, like all the others, by the white Taliban flag with black script.\n\nWhat is allowed now in Kabul, and what is not?\n\nThe turbaned Talib, rifle slung over shoulder, tells her to call her husband. When she explains she doesn't have a phone, he instructs another taxi driver to take her home to get her husband and bring them back. Once completed, all is resolved.\n\nKabul is still a city of a grinding traffic gridlock, wooden market carts groaning with Afghan green grapes and deep purple plums, and street kids in tattered tunics threading through the melee.\n\nOn the surface, the city seems much the same. It's not.\n\nIt's a capital governed by Taliban statements, and some Taliban on the streets.\n\n\"Be careful in how you deal with your people. This nation has suffered a lot. Be gentle,\" urged spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid in an impromptu press conference, flanked by fighters in full combat gear, the first day after the last US soldier flew home.\n\nSome things don't need saying. As soon as the Taliban swept, with surprising speed, into Kabul last month, Afghans knew what to do during Taliban rule 2.0. Men stopped shaving to allow beards to grow; women switched bright scarves to black ones and checked the length of their dresses and cloaks.\n\nSo much else is uncertain, unnerving.\n\n\"What should I do?\" many Afghans ask in urgent cries for advice, and assistance to escape, tumbling by the hour onto my phone and computer, and those of countless others around the world.\n\nMaryam Rajaee knew what to do when Kabul collapsed.\n\nOn 15 August, as Taliban fighters surged into the streets, she was conducting a long- awaited workshop for female prosecutors in the attorney general's office.\n\n\"We must continue,\" her eager students implored her when she flagged the looming threat.\n\nBut her class soon resigned itself to this sudden reversal. Since then, Rajaee has been moving from one safe house to the next with her family including two young children.\n\nMaryam Rajaee was leading a workshop on female prosecutors when the Taliban took power\n\nHer three-year-old daughter, Nilofar, already says she wants to be an engineer; her multi-coloured plastic building blocks sit in the corner of a mud-brick room, a late summer sun streams through the windows.\n\nNo one is quite sure yet what Taliban leaders mean when they say women and girls will be given \"all their rights within Islam\".\n\nMany women, including Rajaee, were told in no uncertain terms, \"don't come back to the office\". Many fear they'll never be allowed to return to the life they lived in a city they no longer feel is their own.\n\n\"It is my right to be educated, to have a good job, to participate in society at a high level,\" Rajaee tells us as she sits next to a pile of textbooks for her university degree, and her work heading a unit on gender and human rights awareness.\n\n\"All my dreams have been destroyed,\" she reflects, her voice breaking.\n\nTwo decades of international engagement created a space for new ideas, new identities. Now some lives lived are a liability.\n\n\"I have good memories of our Christmas parties, of times we cooked delicious food and we were all so happy,\" reminisces Hameed, who'd been a head chef at the British embassy in Kabul for 13 years. We sit cross-legged on a carpet with his five young children, and a pile of faded photographs and certificates of appreciation for his work.\n\nHameed worked at the British embassy but feels betrayed\n\nBut Hameed, and some 60 other employees at the embassy were hired through a private contractor. Sources say almost all of the staff directly employed by Britain's foreign office managed to fly out of Kabul before Taliban moved in; contractors were left behind.\n\n\"We worked so hard, even during the Covid lockdown. If they don't take us out of here, it is a big betrayal,\" laments Hameed. Britain, like some other Western countries, is promising to find ways to help, in third countries, but for many it's a daunting and dangerous prospect to find new routes out.\n\nSome have already fled from this city in haste; some now happily rush in.\n\nTaliban fighters stream into Kabul from the provinces. A group from Uruzgan, in central Afghanistan, invite us for a chat as we approach the entrance to Kabul airport.\n\n\"I haven't been able to visit Kabul for years,\" says 25-year-old Rafiullah, effusive about his \"great happiness\". Asked about the many educated Afghans his own age who feel their future has disappeared, he waves an olive branch. \"We are all Afghans and the country is now moving toward a good path of peace and prosperity.\"\n\n\"We are all Afghans,\" the Taliban says\n\nIn some neighbourhoods, Taliban fighters go house-to-house. There's a knock on the door, a demand to hand over government phones and cars, anything of value from their old job. Sometimes even private cars are seized by Taliban who doubt it could have been afforded without some kind of corruption.\n\nIn western Kabul, in neighbourhoods like Dasht-e-Barchi, populated largely by members of the minority Hazara community, residents whisper of house searches, of men being taken away.\n\n\"I'm scared,\" says one woman who travels into the centre of the city for her job. \"We are telling the Taliban we are our family's only source of income and we have to go to work.\"\n\nIn the heart of Kabul, the queues in front of the banks stretch all the way down the street. Most branches are shut; most have no money.\n\n\"It's been a week I have been coming every day to get some money,\" declares one man in the bulging crowd. \"This is a new start just to go backwards.\"\n\nFrom rural areas, far from this city in so many ways, come comments of relief that American warplanes have finally left the skies, that fighting has gone. For millions of Afghans who live with deepening hunger and hardship, life hasn't changed one jot in their struggle just to survive.\n\nCrowds have been forming outside banks\n\nIn this time between the collapse of the old order and the creation of the new, many take each day, as it comes.\n\n\"Is this history, is this real, I can't believe my eyes what I am seeing,\" says freelance Afghan journalist Ahmed Mangli when we meet by Kabul airport.\n\nWe talk in a district strewn with rubbish and luggage abandoned during the scramble to board the last military flights during the unprecedented international airlift. Mangli first started working in Kabul when the Taliban were ousted 20 years ago.\n\n\"The Taliban spokesman is trying to co-ordinate media but everyone has a weapon, everyone feels they are king,\" he reflects. \"I don't know how long I can take this risk but I want to be part of this history.\"\n\nA historic moment unfolds; a historic past is being undone. Billboards with beaming brides in glittering white gowns and racy red lipstick are now being blacked out. The sweeping street murals of the Art Lords team - which told stories of courageous journalists, committed doctors, a yearning for peace after so much war - are being painted over. The first to go was an image, starkly painted in black and white, to mark the signing of a deal last year in Doha between the Taliban and the United States.\n\nA people of poets now struggles to find words.\n\nAn old friend, Masood Khalili, who's fought on so many fronts over so many years, sends me some verse.\n\n\"Last night the Writer of Fate whispered in my ear, Our Book of Destiny is filled with smiles and tears.\"", "The rapper will appear again at Croydon Magistrates' Court next year\n\nRapper Dizzee Rascal has denied headbutting his ex-girlfriend at a home in south London this summer.\n\nThe 36-year-old, of Sevenoaks in Kent, pleaded not guilty to \"pushing his head into the complainant's head and pushing her to the floor\" at an address in Streatham on 8 June.\n\nA woman reported minor injuries in the alleged attack, police previously said.\n\nThe grime artist is due to go on trial at Croydon Magistrates' Court on 18 February 2022.\n\nHe was charged with assault by beating on 2 August.\n\nDizzee Rascal's tour manager, who \"received a phone call when the altercation took place\", will give evidence at the trial, along with his ex-girlfriend's mother, the court heard.\n\nThe rapper, whose real name is Dylan Kwabena Mills, was awarded an MBE in the Queen's birthday honours in 2020 for his services to music and has performed at various festivals throughout August.\n\nHe was released on conditional bail following the hearing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are environmental concerns for the area, following the blaze\n\nOil and petrol have polluted a stream and killed fish after a blaze at a recycling plant.\n\nThe fire took hold at Penallta Industrial Estate, Hengoed, Caerphilly county, at 15:13 BST on Wednesday.\n\nAbout 200 tonnes of plastic, foam, electrical items, batteries, gas cylinders and machinery caught fire, firefighters said.\n\nA clean-up has been started by Natural Resources Wales (NRW), Spill Response Wales and the fire service.\n\nIt is thought about 200 tonnes of plastic, foam, electrical items, batteries, gas cylinders and machinery caught fire\n\nNRW said \"a large amount\" of oil and petrol had entered a stream near the site and a number of dead fish had been seen.\n\nPeople have been warned to avoid contact with water in Nant Cylla, a tributary of the River Rhymney, and nearby water courses whilst the clean-up takes place.\n\nNRW said measures had been taken to absorb oil and petrol run off and dams have been built in nearby brooks. Pipes have been fitted to let clean water through.\n\nDavid Letellier of NRW said it was \"imperative\" residents and the environment were protected.\n\n\"We'll continue to monitor the impact on air quality and local watercourses over the coming days,\" he said.\n\nSouth Wales fire service station commander Mark Kift said crews had worked \"tirelessly\" to tackle the fire and stop it spreading.\n\nPetrol and oil have polluted a stream and killed fish\n\nThe fire has been put out and firefighters have now left the scene, Mr Kift said.\n\n\"The clean-up process is now underway and we would like to remind local residents that the recycling plant remains closed at this time and to follow any guidance from NRW and Public Health Wales regarding the surrounding area.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the fire service said: \"Due to the scale of the fire, the materials alight continued to smoulder and crews worked in partnership to strategize and decide a course of action.\"\n\nThe service's urban search and rescue teams were also deployed to provide support and lighting for crews and partner agencies working overnight.\n\nA range of specialist equipment, including aerial ladder platforms, high volume pumps and numerous fire appliances were used to help tackle the fire and secure the area, the spokesperson added.", "The number of Arctic skuas has dropped by 81% since 1986\n\nThe number of breeding seabirds in Scotland has declined by almost half since the 1980s, according to a new report.\n\nThe figures are included in NatureScot's latest biodiversity indicator, which looked at 11 species of breeding seabirds.\n\nThe results show that numbers fell by 49% between 1986 and the most recent estimate in 2019.\n\nArctic skua numbers dropped by 81% and the number of common terns fell by 48%.\n\nHowever, guillemot numbers have increased by 17% since 2016.\n\nGuillemot numbers have increased by 17% in the last five years\n\nReductions in the availability of sandworms and increased predation from great skuas are believed to have led to the sharp reduction in Arctic skua numbers.\n\nNatureScot said other species, including herring gulls, appear to be stabilising, albeit at lower levels than the 1986 baseline year.\n\nNatureScot's trends and indicator analyst Simon Foster said \"internationally-important\" breeding seabird populations were continuing to decline despite \"some positive signs of stabilisation.\"\n\nHe said: \"We know that these declines are driven by factors including climate change, fisheries and invasive non-native species.\n\n\"The Scottish government's forthcoming Scottish seabird conservation strategy will be a crucial step in shedding more light on the pressures and threats that our seabirds face and setting out action to help secure their future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People in Scotland can now download or receive a paper QR code showing their Covid vaccination status.\n\nThe change comes after plans to require vaccine passports for nightclubs and large events were announced.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said the codes would allow people without smartphones to show they had been vaccinated if the scheme is approved by the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe free documents can be downloaded from the NHS Inform website.\n\nThey can also be posted to people requesting them by phone.\n\nThe scannable images, or 2D barcodes, are being added to all vaccination records requested from Friday.\n\nVaccinated children over 12 will only be able to request a copy of their vaccination status by phoning the Covid-19 Status Helpline.\n\nOn Wednesday, Nicola Sturgeon announced plans for vaccine passports to be required for entry to nightclubs and many large events in Scotland from the end of September.\n\nThe plans, which go before MSPs next week, would apply to indoor and outdoor events.\n\nWhen similar plans for England were outlined by the UK government over the summer, senior Scottish government figures including Mr Yousaf and Deputy First Minister John Swinney said they did not believe vaccine passports were the way to go in Scotland.\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats and Scottish Labour have also criticised the proposals ahead of next week's vote in the Scottish Parliament., with Labour leader Anas Sarwar saying the government was using a \"knee-jerk reaction\" to cover for the fact it was losing control of the virus.\n\nAnd the Scottish Conservatives have accused the government of wasting months that could have been used to plan for the introduction of the scheme, before pulling a \"striking u-turn\" at the last minute that was causing confusion for businesses and the public over how it will work.\n\nBut the first minister said vaccine passports were needed to help stem the recent surge in the number of cases in Scotland, which she described as \"extremely concerning\".\n\nLatest figures showed a further 6,107 people had tested positive, with the number of people in hospital doubling in the past 10 days.\n\nSeveral areas of Scotland are also among the regions with the highest rates of the virus in Europe.\n\nMr Yousaf told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme on Thursday that he now believed that \"the benefits of a certification scheme, in terms of a public health intervention, in terms of incentivising vaccination, those benefits outweigh the concerns that still remain\".\n\nHe said adding QR codes to paper or PDF records would resolve the problem of people who did not have smartphones being unable to access the vaccine passports.\n\nEntertainment venues like the Hydro in Glasgow may have to demand a vaccine passport for large crowds from the end of September\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Swinney told Holyrood's Covid-19 recovery committee earlier this week that the government hoped to increase the uptake of vaccines in younger people.\n\nLatest estimates for the proportion of 18 to 29-year-olds who are unvaccinated stand at 25.6% in Scotland, but 50.8% of 16 to 17-year-olds have now received their first dose.\n\n\"What we have to balance that against is the likelihood that unless we take action to further improve vaccination levels, we may have to take action at a later stage which may lead to the application of further restrictions,\" Mr Swinney said.\n\nHe acknowledged there was a \"pretty fine line\" between some venues being a pub or a nightclub, and said the issue would be discussed with the sector in the coming days.\n\nA vaccination status record is a document showing proof of vaccination, but it is not yet legally required to gain access to venues within Scotland.\n\nIt is, however, already required for travel to some countries. Within the UK, it can be used to show Covid-19 status instead of providing a negative PCR or lateral flow test to enter some venues such as theatres.\n\nWhereas in England and Wales people have been able to use the NHS app to show their vaccination status, those in Scotland have to request a record of vaccination online or by phone. This can be sent in the post or downloaded as a PDF to be printed out or shown on a smartphone.\n\nOld copies of vaccination status records will still be valid at this stage unless they are to be used in a country that requires the QR codes.\n\nThe documents can be obtained by anyone over the age of 12 who has been vaccinated in Scotland, although under-16s cannot apply online.\n\nScottish residents who were vaccinated in other parts of the UK Common Travel area (including the Channel Islands and Ireland), will also be able to request the document.\n\nThose who moved to or from Scotland between doses will need to request proof of the other dose from the country they were vaccinated in, as they would if they had received two doses in another country.\n\nRepresentatives of sporting and entertainment venues expecting to be affected by the vaccine passports have questioned their use.\n\nScottish Professional Football League (SPFL) chief executive Neil Doncaster previously said there would be \"significant unintended consequences\" for clubs.\n\nAnd Mike Grieve, director of the Night-Time Industries Association Scotland, told the BBC the policy was \"incoherent\" and \"inconsistent\" as, for instance, a large pub could let hundreds of people in without the passports but they would be required at a small nightclub next door.\n\nThe proposed rules would affect many sporting events in Scotland, particularly football matches, as well as concerts and music festivals.\n\nPeople over the age of 18 would need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to nightclubs and adult entertainment venues, unseated indoor events with more than 500 people in the audience, unseated outdoor events with more than 4,000 people, and any event which has more than 10,000 people in attendance.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - would be exempt from supplying a vaccine passport.\n\nFrance, Italy and Ireland are among the countries that have already introduced certification.", "Pat Hume with her late husband, John, after his election in 1998\n\nPat Hume, the widow of the late SDLP leader and Nobel prize winner John Hume, has died after a short illness.\n\nMrs Hume worked alongside her husband from the beginning of the civil rights movement in Londonderry in the 1960s.\n\nHer work continued during the Troubles, through to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.\n\nMrs Hume ran Mr Hume's Foyle constituency office dealing with community issues, housing and poverty in Derry.\n\nIn a statement, the Hume family said they were \"heartbroken\" to announce her death, adding that she \"died as she lived - surrounded by family, peacefully and generous to the end\".\n\n\"Pat spent some days in the hospital in the days preceding her death and she saw first-hand the outstanding work that healthcare workers do, and the pressures that they are facing due to Covid,\" the family statement said.\n\n\"She would prioritise public health at all times.\"\n\nThe family paid tribute to the medical staff who cared for their mother in her final days.\n\nHer death comes just over a year after the death of her husband.\n\nMrs Hume, a former teacher, was awarded the Irish Red Cross Lifetime Achievement award in 2018.\n\nPat Hume worked in her husband's Foyle constituency office dealing with community issues, housing and poverty in Derry\n\nA foundation honouring John and Pat Hume's peace and reconciliation work was launched in November last year.\n\nThe political tributes were led by Hillary Clinton, who said Mrs Hume was \"a gracious, determined force behind the achievement of peace in Ireland\".\n\nThe former US presidential candidate and first lady added that the Humes \"made the world a better place and set an example for us all\".\n\nIn a statement, Foyle MP and current SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, said: \"Pat's compassion, fortitude and strength of character was a driving force behind the peace process\".\n\n\"Without Pat Hume, there would have been no peace process in Ireland, that's the simple truth,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland First Minister Paul Givan said there was a \"real sense of loss\" following her death.\n\n\"Not just among her friends and family - and my thoughts and prayers are with them at this difficult time - but for the many lives she touched, both directly and indirectly.\n\n\"It is a testament to her legacy that people from all backgrounds, near and far, are tonight joined in sadness to mark her passing,\" he added.\n\nPat and John Hume meeting with former US President Bill Clinton in Londonderry in 2010\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she was a \"a strong and determined person whose immense contribution to our peace is recognised across this island and across the world\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with Pat and John's children, the entire Hume family, and the people of Derry who will feel her loss deeply,\" she added.\n\n\"No one who met John left the conversation without knowing Pat,\" he added.\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said she was \"deeply saddened\" by the news.\n\nFormer Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adam tweeted that \"Pat was John's best and most trusted adviser\".\n\n\"Her dedication to peace was total as was her dedication to John, especially in his latter years,\" said Alliance leader Naomi Long.\n\nDUP assembly member Gary Middleton described Mrs Hume as having a \"radiant passion\" for the city and said his thoughts were with the Hume family at this time.\n\nTributes were also paid by Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin who described Mrs Hume as her husband's \"partner in family life and in political life\".\n\n\"Pat and John worked side by side for decades, she was his trusted adviser at key political moments and his anchor in their beloved Derry,\" Mr Martin said.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins described Mrs Hume's life as one of \"total commitment to community and to the possibilities of peace\".\n\nHe said her work, like that of her husband's, \"will always have an indelible place in the minds of all Irish people\".\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said Pat Hume \"worked tirelessly and courageously\" for peace in Northern Ireland and said her partnership with John was \"crucial to the whole peace process\".\n\nShadow Northern Ireland Secretary Louise Haigh described her as \"an extraordinary woman, and a courageous peacemaker\".\n\nThe Bishop of Derry, Donal McKeown, paid tribute to Mrs Hume, adding: \"In the course of that long and challenging journey towards the peace we enjoy today Pat was brave, courageous and uncompromising.\n\n\"She was small in stature but a colossus,\" he said.\n\n\"In many ways she must have felt her job was done when John had died. She looked after him right up until the end.\n\n\"In many ways we thought - 'May you now enjoy the peace that you worked for so much in this life'.\"", "Strictly Come Dancing's Shirley Ballas has flicked the switch on Blackpool's famous illuminations at a glitzy bash marking the start of an extended run for the sparkling seaside spectacle.\n\nThe star-studded light-up ceremony at the resort's iconic tower ballroom was also graced by YouTube sensation KSI and Scouse indie rockers The Wombats.\n\nOrganisers opted for the indoor dancefloor venue after Covid put paid to a planned outdoor extravaganza.\n\nThe lights will stay on until January.\n\nIt is hoped the extra two months will bring more visitors to the seafront amusement mecca and give a boost to pandemic-hit tourism businesses.\n\nShirley Ballas followed in the footsteps of Red Rum and Kermit the Frog\n\nVisit Blackpool described the extension as a \"tonic\" for the gloom of lockdowns and Covid restrictions.\n\nA similar attempt last year to prolong the beloved display along Blackpool's world-famous Golden Mile was thwarted when the government announced a second national lockdown.\n\nAlthough the Illuminations are more than a century old, the first switch-on ceremony was held in 1934, when Lord Derby turned them on.\n\nAn eclectic series of celebrities have performed the task over the years, including Princess Diana's father, John Spencer, three-times Grand National winner Red Rum, Kermit The Frog and comedian Peter Kay.\n\nAbout 1,000 people attended this year's show at the ballroom, which was held indoors for the second year running.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Warming in the Arctic region is being linked to extreme winter weather in the US\n\nA new study shows that increases in extreme winter weather in parts of the US are linked to accelerated warming of the Arctic.\n\nThe scientists found that heating in the region ultimately disturbed the circular pattern of winds known as the polar vortex.\n\nThis allowed colder winter weather to flow down to the US, notably in the Texas cold wave in February.\n\nThe authors say that warming will see more cold winters in some locations.\n\nOver the past four decades, satellite records have shown how increasing global temperatures have had a profound effect on the Arctic.\n\nQueues form outside a grocery store in Austin, Texas, after the unexpected snow storm\n\nWarming in the region is far more pronounced than in the rest of the world, and has caused a rapid shrinkage of summer sea ice.\n\nScientists have long been concerned about the implications of this amplification of global change for the rest of the planet.\n\nThis new study indicates that the warming in the Arctic is having a significant impact on winter weather in both North America and East Asia.\n\nThe researchers detail a complex meteorological chain that connects this warmer region to a rotating pattern of cold air known as the polar vortex.\n\nThe authors show that the melting of ice in the Barents and Kara seas leads to increased snowfall over Siberia and a transfer of excess energy that impacts the swirling winds in the stratosphere above the North Pole.\n\nThe heat ultimately causes a stretching of the vortex which then enables extremely cold weather to flow down to the US.\n\nThere has been an increase in these stretching events since satellite observations began in 1979.\n\nThe scientists believe this vortex stretching process led to the deadly Texas cold wave in February this year.\n\nFuel pumps out of action during the electrical grid shutdown in Texas during this year's cold wave\n\n\"We're arguing that melting sea ice across Northwest Eurasia, coupled with increased snowfall across Siberia is leading to a strengthening of the temperature difference from west to east across the Eurasian continent,\" explained lead author Dr Judah Cohen, who's a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a director of Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a weather risk management company.\n\n\"We know when that temperature difference increases, that leads to more disruptions of the polar vortex. And when it's weakened, that leads to more extreme winter weather such as the Texas cold wave last February.\"\n\nThe researchers say that their findings are based on both observations and modelling and they show a physical link between climate change in the Arctic, the stretching of the polar vortex and the impacts on ground.\n\nThe authors believe their work could improve predictions about the onset of extreme cold winter events.\n\n\"One of the benefits of this study is that if you recognise these precursors and you know the conditions that are favourable for triggering such event, then you get to extend your forecast lead time,\" said Dr Cohen.\n\n\"In Texas, people could have certainly prepared better with better warnings, some people froze to death in their homes and perhaps they could have gone to seek shelter.\"\n\nLooking at the bigger picture, the research team believes that their findings will help people understand that global warming is complex and perhaps dispel the idea that colder winters mean climate change isn't happening.\n\n\"There has been a long-standing apparent contradiction between the warmer temperatures globally, however, an apparent increase in cold extremes for the United States and in northern Eurasia. And this study helps to resolve this contradiction,\" said fellow author, Prof Chaim Garfinkel from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\n\n\"In the past, these cold extremes over the US and Russia have been used to justify not reducing carbon, but there's no longer any excuse to not start reducing emissions right away.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Science.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab: \"We need to adjust to the new reality in Afghanistan.\"\n\nEvacuation flights from Afghanistan could resume \"in the near future\", the UK's foreign secretary says, after talks with leaders in Qatar.\n\nDominic Raab is in the country to discuss allowing more British nationals and Afghan allies to leave Afghanistan.\n\nAsked when Kabul airport could reopen, Mr Raab said: \"that's looking like it may happen at some point in the near future\".\n\nIt is currently out of action following the withdrawal of US troops last week.\n\nMr Raab's Qatari counterpart said he hoped for \"good news\" on its reopening \"in the next few days\".\n\nSheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani added that Qatar was working with the Taliban to ensure it was operational \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Gulf state, which has hosted the Taliban's political office for eight years, is seen as a key link between the West and the group.\n\nSpeaking after meetings with politicians in Doha, Mr Raab said the UK would not recognise the Taliban \"any time in the foreseeable future\".\n\nBut he said there was a need for \"direct engagement\" with the group, to ensure UK nationals and Afghan allies could leave Afghanistan.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later underlined that message, telling reporters that if the Taliban wanted to engage with the West \"then the first priority for them for us is safe passage for those who want to leave\".\n\nDominic Raab told a news conference that co-operation on border crossings would be an \"important first test\" of the Taliban's relationship with the West.\n\nAnd he admitted the UK must \"adjust to the new reality\" after their rapid takeover of Afghanistan after the US withdrawal.\n\nDominic Raab is in Qatar - an important link between the Taliban and the West\n\nAfter talks with Mr Raab, Sheikh Mohammed said there was not yet a \"clear indication\" of when Kabul airport would reopen.\n\nBut he told reporters: \"We are working very hard [and] we remain hopeful that we will be able to operate it as soon as possible.\n\nHe added that Qatar was also in discussions with Turkey, to see if it could provide \"any technical assistance on that front\".\n\nAt the start of a tour of the region, Mr Raab held talks with Sheikh Mohammed, along with the Emir of Qatar.\n\nBritish officials have been meeting senior Taliban leaders in Doha and they will brief the foreign secretary on the outcome of those talks.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the British embassy to Afghanistan, which moved out of Kabul last week, was now up and running in Doha.\n\nSpeaking to broadcasters, Mr Raab said the UK was working with neighbouring countries to ensure the \"basic logistics\" are in place to allow people to leave Afghanistan.\n\nThe last UK plane flying people out of Kabul took off on Saturday, with the US following on days later to stick to the 31 August deadline pledged by US President Joe Biden.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Raab said more than 17,000 people had been evacuated by the UK from Afghanistan so far, including over 5,000 UK nationals.\n\nBut it is feared hundreds eligible for relocation were left behind, although Mr Raab has estimated the number of UK nationals still in Afghanistan was in the \"low hundreds\".\n\nHe has said he cannot give a precise figure of the number of eligible Afghans who wanted to leave but were unable to get on evacuation flights.\n\nThese groups include Afghan nationals and their families who worked with British forces during their time in the country and asylum seekers who could be eligible to come to the UK under international law.\n\nThousands have been airlifted out of Kabul in recent weeks\n\nMr Raab's trip to Qatar came after he was grilled by MPs on the Commons foreign affairs committee on Wednesday about the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nThe foreign secretary defended his handling of the crisis, saying the UK was \"caught out\" by the speed of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, with intelligence at the time suggesting it would hold out until the end of the year.\n\nBut the committee's chairman, Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, said a Foreign Office risk report from 22 July predicted a \"very real danger of cities collapsing\" after US forces withdrew.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was a standard monthly report that did not contain intelligence assessments.\n\nIts statement added: \"The July document makes clear that our central planning assumption at the time was that the peace process in Afghanistan would run for up to a further six months.\"\n\nSpeaking later at a military base in Essex, Boris Johnson said: \"I think it's been clear for many months that the situation could be very fast and that has been part of the intelligence briefing. There have also been suggestions as you know that the Afghan National Defence force might hold on for longer, but logically you can see what happened.\"\n\nHe added that once the Afghan army felt they no longer had American air cover then \"things did go faster\".\n\nIn an interview in the Spectator published on Wednesday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said he had argued as early as July that the previous Afghan government would fall.\n\n'It was a bit of a shock when [regional city] Herat fell,\" he told the magazine.\n\n\"Some of these big places had historically been resistant to the Taliban. When they fell, literally without a fight, I think the game was up.\n\n\"I remember back in July arguing that whatever we think, the game is up and we have to do what we can to accelerate whatever we're doing.\"\n\nHe added: \"When the actual moment came in Afghanistan, intelligence hadn't failed. It was just limited, as it always is at the very end.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Raab insisted he and Mr Wallace had been \"taking the same assessment throughout until very late\".\n\n\"We were all working to the same set of assumptions,\" he added.", "Japan's prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has said he will not run for re-election as party leader this month, signalling the end of his tenure.\n\nMr Suga had been appointed to the role just a year ago following the resignation of Shinzo Abe.\n\nThe shock announcement comes as Mr Suga's approval ratings dropped to an all-time low.\n\nJapan - which is still under a state of emergency - is now grappling with its worst ever Covid wave.\n\nThe country, which has now seen more than 1.5 million virus cases, has also seen a slow vaccination roll out.\n\nThe decision to host the Olympics Games this year despite the worsening pandemic also proved to be hugely unpopular.\n\n\"Today at the executive meeting, [Mr] Suga said he wants to focus his efforts on anti-coronavirus measures and will not run in the leadership election,\" said the secretary general of Mr Suga's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), according to an AFP report.\n\n\"Honestly, I'm surprised. It's truly regrettable. He did his best but after careful consideration, he made this decision,\" he said.\n\nJapanese shares rose sharply on the news, with the broad Topix stock index closing up by 1.6% after hitting its highest level in three decades.\n\nTokyo's financial markets had made gains already this week on hopes for a stronger government ahead of the ruling party's leadership race and a general election later in the year.\n\nThe ruling LDP is due to hold an election on Sept 29 to pick its president. The winner of the leadership election is widely expected to be Japan's leader as the LDP holds a parliamentary majority.\n\nThe 72-year-old, who was born to a family of strawberry farmers, was first elected to the Yokohama City Council in 1987, and in 1996 he was elected to Japan's Diet for the first time.\n\nIn 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appointed him senior vice minister of internal affairs and communication.\n\nThe following year, Mr Koizumi's successor Shinzo Abe promoted him to minister with three cabinet posts, which he held until 2007.\n• None Yoshihide Suga: The 'right-hand man' who became PM", "Glasgow's Burrell Collection will reopen in March 2022, more than five years after it closed for refurbishment, it has been announced.\n\nThe museum closed in October 2016 for a £68m redevelopment and was supposed to have reopened last year.\n\nThe A-listed building was said to be no longer fit for purpose and needed a new roof as rain getting into the galleries threatened to damaged exhibits.\n\nThe Burrell first opened in the city's Pollok Park in 1983.\n\nIt housed the vast collection of artefacts donated to the city by collector Sir William Burrell in 1944.\n\nSir William had devoted more than 75 years of his life to amassing one of the world's greatest collections, renowned for its quality of Chinese art, exquisite stained glass, intricate tapestries and fine art.\n\nAs well as repairs to the roof, modern glazing has been installed to make the building more air-tight, reducing its overall energy consumption.\n\nA new entrance will bring visitors straight into the heart of the building and a newly-created central stairway will encourage people to explore all three floors.\n\nOn reopening, the museum's gallery space will have increased by 35%, allowing some items that have not been seen for decades to go on show.\n\nThe building in Pollok Park has had a £68m refurbishment\n\nSir Angus Grossart, chair of Burrell Renaissance, said: \"The Burrell Collection has a reputation as being one of the finest in the world.\n\n\"The wonderful new displays have enhanced and informed what visitors will see.\n\n\"They will find great cultural diversity, much beauty and wonder and the great achievement of one enquiring and questioning mind, that of Sir William Burrell.\"", "Christina Pagel said the JCVI's decision was \"out of step\" with most other high-income countries Image caption: Christina Pagel said the JCVI's decision was \"out of step\" with most other high-income countries\n\nThe decision by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation not to recommend Covid vaccines for all 12 to 15-year-olds is \"out of step\" with the stance taken by most other high-income countries, a scientist says.\n\nChristina Pagel, a professor of operational research at University College London, says the World Health Organization, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have all recommended vaccinating 12 to 15-year-olds.\n\nPagel, a member of the Independent Sage group set up to scrutinise decisions made by the government on coronavirus, says a recent ONS report estimated one in 1,000 children have had long Covid for more than a year.\n\nShe also pointed to a study that found the risk of myocarditis - an inflammation of the heart - was greater in people who were infected with Covid versus those who had been vaccinated.\n\n\"It doesn't really make any sense to me that we're not trying to protect children from Covid.\"\n\nThe US has vaccinated more than 10 million 12-15-year-olds and France, Italy, Canada and Israel are among other countries vaccinating children.", "There have been reports that pricing of Covid PCR tests were advertised incorrectly\n\nPCR travel test providers are facing a fresh crackdown amid concerns that consumers are being ripped off.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority said it had opened a probe into one firm, Expert Medicals, following complaints Covid test results had not been provided on time or at all.\n\nIt warned a further 19 firms about advertising misleading prices.\n\nIt comes after a review that found customers often faced poor service, hidden fees and refund issues.\n\nUK travellers must take PCR tests for Covid when they return from foreign destinations, choosing from a list of 400 or more authorised government providers.\n\nHowever, holidaymakers have complained of high prices and missing tests or results from many of the firms, prompting Health Secretary Sajid Javid to call for a review into \"excessive\" pricing and \"exploitative practices\".\n\nOn Friday, the CMA said it had begun investigating Expert Medicals, in Bradford, following a large number of complaints to Citizens Advice and the regulator directly.\n\nThe firm, which was one of the UK's largest PCR travel test providers this summer, allegedly failed to supply Covid tests or respond to customer complaints and has refused to issue refunds when due.\n\n\"It now no longer appears on the list of testing providers who self-declare that they meet the government's minimum standards for Covid-19 testing,\" the competition watchdog said.\n\nThe CMA said 19 other firms may be falsely advertising tests at very low prices when they are either not available at that cost or include hidden conditions, such as where the tests must be collected from.\n\nAndrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA, said: \"Millions of people have to buy PCR tests in order to travel. If we find that firms have been misleading customers and failing to provide the service that people have paid for, we stand ready to take action.\n\n\"Our actions today are the next steps in our work to ensure the PCR testing market works for consumers and we are preparing to take further action in this sector.\"\n\nTests cost about £75 per person on average in the UK, but there are reports of some being offered for as little as £20, and others more than £500.\n\nThere have also been reports that some government authorised providers have not got full accreditation.\n\nEarlier this week the government said it was warning 82 firms that they could be removed from its list of authorised providers if they advertise misleading prices.", "A security flaw which allows people to edit Covid vaccination status certificates has not been fixed - three months after it was first identified.\n\nBBC Scotland reported in May how vaccination status details could be altered using popular computer software programmes.\n\nA fix was implemented which meant people could only request the document be sent to them by post.\n\nThe certificates are available to download again and are still editable.\n\nThe development comes on the first day people can download a QR code showing their Covid vaccination status.\n\nThe Scottish government said that while the document can be changed, the security contained within the QR codes in the certificate cannot be edited.\n\nBBC Scotland was able to download a certificate and edit it to include a false name, date of birth and the address of the BBC's Glasgow headquarters.\n\nOn Wednesday, Nicola Sturgeon announced plans for vaccine passports to be required for entry to nightclubs and many large events in Scotland from the end of September.\n\nThe plans, which go before MSPs next week, would apply to indoor and outdoor events and would require people to present the QR code from their vaccine certificate.\n\nThe full details of how the plan will work have still to be announced.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"While the PDFs can be changed, the security contained within the QR codes cannot be edited and can only be scanned by recognised verifier apps that have been developed in line with the EU's Covid Green Pass scheme.\n\n\"The PDFs are designed for international travel purposes and are meant to be accompanied by your passport - border control will check the data on the QR code matches that of your passport, and will quickly identify those who have attempted to fraudulently claim a certificate as theirs when it is not.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the fact the glitch remained three months after it was first spotted \"casts further doubt on this government's ability to competently manage the vaccine passport scheme\".\n\nThe party's Murdo Fraser said: \"Not only is our system currently open to abuse, but these security issues have some very worrying implications for how the scheme will be applied in practice.\n\n\"Once again, the SNP government is pressing ahead with confusing and half-baked measures that do not work for the Scottish people.\n\n\"If the SNP cannot fix a technical flaw that they have known about for three months, how are we to trust that they will be able to roll out a functioning vaccine passport scheme in three weeks?\"\n\nA vaccination status record is a document showing proof of vaccination, but it is not yet legally required to gain access to venues within Scotland.\n\nIt is, however, already required for travel to some countries. Within the UK, it can be used to show Covid-19 status instead of providing a negative PCR or lateral flow test to enter some venues such as theatres.\n\nWhereas in England and Wales people have been able to use the NHS app to show their vaccination status, those in Scotland have to request a record of vaccination online or by phone. This can be sent in the post or downloaded as a PDF to be printed out or shown on a smartphone.\n\nOld copies of vaccination status records will still be valid at this stage unless they are to be used in a country that requires the QR codes.\n\nThe documents can be obtained by anyone over the age of 12 who has been vaccinated in Scotland, although under-16s cannot apply online.\n\nScottish residents who were vaccinated in other parts of the UK Common Travel area (including the Channel Islands and Ireland), will also be able to request the document.\n\nThose who moved to or from Scotland between doses will need to request proof of the other dose from the country they were vaccinated in, as they would if they had received two doses in another country.", "Lawrence Casey died saving the life of his daughter Jessica\n\nAn 86-year-old man died in a canal saving the life of his disabled daughter.\n\nLawrence Casey went into Bude Canal in north Cornwall to rescue his daughter Jessica on Wednesday when she lost control of her mobility scooter.\n\nThe family of Mr Casey said he was \"devoted\" to her care.\n\nMembers of the public also \"selflessly helped\" to save the life of Ms Casey, who is now recovering at home, the family said.\n\nMr Casey died in the canal at Bude on Wednesday\n\nIn a statement, Mr Casey's family said: \"He was devoted to the care of his disabled daughter and his final act of love as a father was to sacrifice his life to save hers.\n\n\"We extend our sincere gratitude to members of the public who also selflessly helped in the saving of her life.\"\n\nThe family said Ms Casey, who is in her 20s, suddenly lost control of her mobility scooter so that she and the scooter plunged into the canal.\n\nEmergency services were called to Bude Canal at 17:20 BST and Mr Casey was confirmed dead at the scene.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n• None Man in his 80s dies in Bude Canal", "The 70-year-old father of four from Somalia was killed at the Al Noor mosque.\n\nHis son Said arrived at the mosque as the attack was underway, saw the gunman in the street and drove off.\n\n\"This is devastating. My father survived through civil war. I never thought this kind of stuff would happen to him in New Zealand,\" he told the Washington Post.", "Accolade, the wine giant that makes Hardys, has warned that truck driver shortages could hit the busy festive season and push up costs.\n\nRobert Foye, its boss, said the firm was being hit by external staff shortages, especially among suppliers, in distribution and delivery.\n\nCompanies operating in the UK are having to deal with a shortage of lorry drivers.\n\nFirms including Wetherspoons and McDonald's have been affected.\n\nLorry driver shortages have also have been blamed on EU workers leaving the UK following Brexit as well as during the pandemic and tax changes making it more expensive for drivers from elsewhere in Europe to work or be employed in the UK.\n\nMr Foye said: \"These shortages, if they continue, could definitely impact Christmas. We are trying to get ahead of it, but it does depend on the situation for the entire transport and trucking industry in the UK.\"\n\nMr Foye also warned that shortages could push up costs. \"The only way we can mitigate this is if we work very closely with our trucking and transport suppliers and our customers. We have done some of that and are managing well so far, but ultimately costs will go up.\"\n\nAustralia's Accolade, the UK's largest wine firm and the world's fifth biggest, delivers 35 million cases to 143 countries every year.\n\n\"Staff shortages are definitely there and there's a whole new group of employees that need to be trained, from truck drivers to restaurant staff,\" Mr Foye added.\n\nConsumers are seeing the impact of driver shortages and supply chain strains, from McDonalds halting milkshake sales to supermarkets running out of Diet Coke.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) estimates there is a shortage of about 100,000 drivers.\n\nMarc Ostwald, chief economist at ADM ISI, said Western Europe and the US were experiencing similar shortages.\n\n\"All the anecdotal evidence suggests that the large pay rises and even signing-on bonuses have done little to alleviate the problem,\" he said.\n\n\"Christmas supply delivery problems are highly probable, above all due to the extensive lockdowns over the past two months in China and much of eastern Asia.\"\n\nAccolade's large £100m Park facility in Bristol is the largest wine distribution centre in Europe, with capacity to fill over a million bottles per year and distribute more than 180 million litres of wine annually.\n\nThe industry has felt the effect of global lockdowns that restricted large swathes of the hospitality industry.\n\nMr Foye said that despite the lifting of UK restrictions, business was taking longer to get back to pre-Covid levels.\n\n\"In the UK you're 100% opened up, but because of the effect of Covid, because people's habits have changed and some outlets gone out of business, you're really only at 65% of the level of 2019 levels. We think it's going to take two years to get back to 90-95% level in the UK.\"\n\nHe added: \"Jump over to US, they're opening extremely fast and are at the 90% level.\"\n\nThe firm, which pioneered wine blending back in 1853, predicts rising demand for low alcohol wine - defined as 9.9% alcohol content or less by Accolade - and is about to launch a zero-alcohol wine.\n\n\"No or low alcohol will grow 20% plus per year for the next five years and eventually be 15-20% of all wine,\" he said.\n\nAustralian wine makers are also weathering trade tensions with China after Beijing levied 200% tariffs on Australian wine in March.\n\nChina is the world's biggest red wine market and was the top buyer of Australian wine before the tariffs hit.\n\nYou can watch Robert Foye's full interview on Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst this weekend on BBC World News: Saturday 23:30 GMT, Sunday 05:30 and 16:30 GMT, Monday 0730 GMT & 1630 GMT and Thursday at 07:30 GMT.\n\nNote September 6 2021: This story was updated to include a broader context around lorry driver shortages after Brexit and the pandemic.", "Police in New Zealand have shot dead a man after he entered an Auckland supermarket and stabbed multiple people.\n\nSix people were injured, three of them seriously.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the attack was carried out by a person who was a \"known threat\".", "Mrs Warner and Vincent outside the UK Supreme Court in 2018\n\nThe nine-year-old son of a diver who died off Cape Wrath in 2012 has been awarded £290,000 compensation.\n\nA judge at the Court of Session in Edinburgh has ruled the captain of the Orkney-based dive boat did not do enough to minimise risks.\n\nVincent Warner's father, Lex, was injured in a fall before his dive.\n\nMr Warner's widow, Debbie, won a case at the UK Supreme Court in 2018 to be allowed to raise the civil court action on their son's behalf.\n\nIn a statement, the family from Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, said it had been a \"long, long road\" to get to Friday's ruling.\n\nLex Warner and Vincent, who is now nine\n\nMrs Warner said: \"We feel relieved, numb and happy all at the same time but also sad because at the end of the day we're without Lex - this has been about seeking justice for him.\n\n\"We're still trying to work out what today's judgement actually means for the case going forward so I don't want to say anything else just now but we'd like to thank our legal team for fighting this case all the way and also our friends, family and the community who have supported us for nearly a decade.\"\n\nMr Warner, 50, and a group of friends had been making a \"deep water\" technical dive of a wreck.\n\nHe was on board the MV Jean Elaine vessel, operated by Stromness-based Scapa Flow Charters, in the hours before his death.\n\nThe case - which had seen Mrs Warner and her son sue for £500,000 - centred on an incident on the boat.\n\nMr Warner suffered an abdominal injury in a fall while wearing heavy diving equipment and fins.\n\nThe diver later got into trouble when in the water.\n\nLawyers for the family claimed the ship's skipper, Andy Cuthbertson, did not do enough to minimise the risks which came from divers walking on board boats while wearing fins.\n\nScapa Flow Charters' lawyers claimed Mr Warner had a duty to walk across the deck carefully because he had fins on and was carrying heavy equipment.\n\nLex Warner died during a diving expedition off the north Highlands coast in 2012\n\nIn his judgment, Lord Sandison agreed with the submissions made by the Warner family's legal team.\n\nHe said the Marine Accident Investigation Branch had records of divers who had sustained accidents from walking in fins on board boats.\n\nThe judge wrote that Mr Cuthbertson was \"guilty of fault and neglect\" under the terms of the law and had \"failed to recognise\" that the arrangements on his boat \"permitted or even encouraged divers to walk on deck in fins\".\n\nLord Sandison said that was an \"inherently risky activity\" to the extent that consideration should have been given to putting in place mechanisms to prevent or control the situation.\n\nHe wrote: \"The risk of a technical diver falling while walking in fins on deck was, as I have noted, well-recognised by the time of Mr Warner's fall.\n\n\"The risk that such a fall might well cause injury ought also to have been appreciated, given that it would involve a diver laden with heavy and solid equipment coming into contact, quite possibly uncontrolled and hard contact, with an unyielding surface (be that the deck, the boat's superstructure, or the equipment itself) without the benefit of any protective garb.\n\n\"The injury he in fact sustained can therefore properly be said to have arisen from or in connection with the fault and neglect of the defenders previously identified.\"\n\nMr Warner's widow had previously sued on her own behalf but her claim was ruled to be time-barred.\n\nHowever, judges at the UK Supreme Court ruled that Vincent could bring a compensation case.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nDan Evans produced a gritty comeback from two sets down to beat Alexei Popyrin in a gruelling match and advance to the US Open fourth round for the first time.\n\nThe Briton somehow found a burst of energy in the final set tie-break to win 4-6 3-6 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-1) in four hours and seven minutes.\n\nEvans dropped to his haunches in disbelief as his victory was confirmed on a Popyrin double fault.\n\nHe will face Daniil Medvedev next.\n\nIt is the second time Evans has reached the fourth round at a Grand Slam after his run to the last 16 at the Australian Open in 2017.\n\nHe has got there with one of the most determined performances of his career, especially considering that his hard-court swing preparations were disrupted as he recovered from Covid-19.\n\nBoth players looked exhausted as the fifth set began but Evans was the stronger on serve and was able to step up at the key moments.\n\nHe dominated the eventual tie-break and comforted Popyrin at the net, with the Australian hiding his face in his towel after the final point of the match.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to relaxing,\" Evans said afterwards.\n\n\"Coming back from Wimbledon, when I was poor, it was difficult. I could have lost that match pretty easily.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nEvans has admitted his frustrations with his Grand Slam form this season - he fell in the first round of the Australian and French Opens, before reaching the third round at Wimbledon.\n\nHe started the year strongly, winning his first ATP Tour title in January, but has not played many matches since contracting Covid-19 in July.\n\nThe match could not have started better for him as he broke Popyrin to love in the opening game, but his 22-year-old opponent capitalised on a dip in Evans' form.\n\nEvans struggled for rhythm in the first two sets, although he was still able to create several break chances, but Popyrin's huge serve and follow-up forehand allowed him to take a two set lead.\n\nThe turning point came midway through the third set, Evans breaking for the first time since the opening game with a lobbed winner that drew applause from his opponent.\n\nThe Briton fought his way out of a 0-30 hole in his next service game and produced a huge service winner to close out the set.\n\nSupported by his team, who were on their feet after every major point, Evans came through a see-saw fourth set that saw five breaks of serve to force an unlikely decider.\n\nBoth players were clearly physically at their limit, with Evans calling for a tablet from the trainer, but they still approached the net and ran around the court with startling ease. Popyrin was given an ovation for a pick-up volley at the net that he somehow manged to flick over for a winner.\n\nPopyrin smashed down an ace to win the first point of the tie-break but Evans dominated it from there on in.\n\nIt felt almost cruel that the Australian should lose the match on a double fault, but he left court 17 to a standing ovation, while an exhausted Evans looked on in disbelief.\n\nEvans will face a hugely tough test against 2019 runner-up Medvedev, who has yet to drop a set in New York, but he can take confidence from a very fine third-round win.\n• None How do you start again when everyone remembers your past?\n• None Watch the deep and dark new thriller from the producers of Line of Duty", "A 31-year-old woman has died after falling from Arthur's Seat\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested after a woman fell to her death from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.\n\nThe alarm was raised about an incident in Holyrood Park at about 21:00 on Thursday.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed a woman died at the scene and the 31-year-old's death was being treated as suspicious.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Emergency services attended including the fire service and ambulance. The 31-year-old woman died at the scene a short time later.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's vaccine advisory body has refused to give the green light to vaccinating healthy children aged 12-15 years on health grounds alone.\n\nThe JCVI said children were at such a low risk from the virus that jabs would offer only a marginal benefit.\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have now been asked to have the final say, and to consider the wider impact on schools and society.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said a decision would be made shortly.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation did advise widening the existing vaccine programme to include an extra 200,000 teenagers with specific underlying conditions.\n\nDoctors identified that children with chronic heart, lung and liver conditions were at much higher risk of Covid than healthy children.\n\nThe decision not to recommend the vaccine to all healthy children was based on concern over an extremely rare side effect of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines which causes heart inflammation, and can lead to palpitations and chest pain.\n\nData from the US, where millions of young teenagers have been vaccinated, suggests there are 60 cases of the heart condition for every million second doses given to 12 to 17-year-old boys (compared to eight in one million girls).\n\nFrance, Italy, Israel and Ireland are also offering the vaccine to all children in this age group.\n\nBut as children are at such low risk from the virus, the JCVI decided that vaccination would offer only \"marginal gain\" and, therefore, there was \"insufficient\" evidence to offer mass vaccination to this age group.\n\nThe JCVI said it was difficult to factor in long Covid in its advice because of the uncertainty over how common it is in children, although it appears to be less prevalent than in adults.\n\nThe vaccine advisers have been under huge pressure.\n\nMinisters have let it be known they are very keen on getting this age group vaccinated - both through their public pronouncements and privately behind the scenes.\n\nThis has caused frustration among JCVI members - with some complaining about the habit of government officials sitting in on meetings.\n\nDespite this, the JCVI has stood firm. Taking into account the impact on school disruption might make a difference.\n\nBut even then it's not clear-cut. Vaccinating kids will cause disruption in itself, with children having to leave class to get jabbed and then maybe needing time off to recover from the common side effects, such as fever.\n\nAnother argument put forward is that it could help reduce the wider spread of the virus - although encouraging the 6 million adults who have not even taken up the offer a jab yet could arguably make more of a difference.\n\nClearly though it would have some impact - although the emergence of the Delta variant means the vaccines offer less protection against infection than they did previously.\n\nWhat's more, around half of children in this age group are thought to have had Covid, providing them with natural immunity anyway.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, chairman of Covid immunisation for the JCVI said it was \"taking a precautionary approach\".\n\n\"The margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal Covid-19 vaccination for this age group at this time.\n\n\"The committee will continue to review safety data as they emerge,\" he added.\n\nPaediatricians say that healthy children with Covid end up in intensive care at a rate of two in one million, but this rises to 100 in one million for children with certain health problems.\n\nAs a result, the JCVI's advice is that a larger group of at-risk children aged 12 to 15 should be offered a vaccine.\n\nThey include children with the following conditions:\n\nChildren with poorly-controlled asthma and other respiratory conditions which can result in severe illness from Covid should also be offered the vaccine, the JCVI said.\n\nA group of 150,000 children with conditions such as severe neurodisabilities, Down's syndrome and severely weakened immune systems as well as those living with vulnerable adults are already eligible.\n\nThere are three million children in total in this age group across the UK.\n\nMr Javid said he had written to the chief medical officers in the UK's four nations to ask them to consider the vaccination of all 12-15 year olds \"from a broader perspective\".\n\nThey will look at the effects of Covid on children's education and pupil absences from school, which the JCVI is not qualified to consider.\n\nSenior leaders in clinical and public health will be involved in the discussions and help to inform a final decision on a rollout to all 12-15 year olds.\n\n\"We will then consider the advice, building on the advice from the JCVI, before making a decision shortly,\" Mr Javid said.\n\nOn Friday, 42,076 cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and 121 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the decision not to recommend vaccination for healthy children aged 12-15 years on health grounds?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland condemned as \"completely unacceptable\" the racist abuse directed towards their players during Thursday's 4-0 win over Hungary in a World Cup qualifier in Budapest.\n\nManchester City forward Raheem Sterling and Borussia Dortmund midfielder Jude Bellingham were both targeted.\n\nUefa ordered Hungary to play three home games behind closed doors after fans' discriminatory behaviour at Euro 2020.\n\nCharges related to racism and other discriminatory conduct.\n\nBut home supporters were allowed in to the 67,000-capacity Puskas Arena in Budapest against England as this match falls under Fifa jurisdiction.\n\nThe tone was set at kick-off when England's players were booed loudly as they took a knee to protest against racism.\n\nHungary's players and their head coach Marco Rossi had asked supporters to respect England's gesture before the match but the message went unheeded.\n\nThe first half was otherwise uneventful on and off the field - but in the second half, Sterling was pelted with paper cups and bottles when he opened the scoring for England, while a flare was thrown on to the pitch after Harry Maguire put the visitors 3-0 ahead.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate had ice thrown at him by fans during his post-match interview with BBC Radio 5 Live. He said: \"I've heard reports of racism, which I hadn't heard during the game.\n\n\"Everyone knows what we stand for as a team, and that's completely unacceptable. It has been reported. Our head of security has spoken to the players and taken their statement. We will deal with it in the right channels.\n\n\"I believe that people have been filmed and we have to hope it's dealt with the right way.\n\n\"The world is modernising and although some people are stuck in their ways of thinking and their prejudices, they're going to be the dinosaurs in the end because the world is changing.\"\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane, one of the scorers in a dominant 4-0 win, said: \"I'll talk to the boys. We'll have to report it. If it's the case, then hopefully the authorities can come down strong.\"\n\nThe Football Association said in a statement: \"It is extremely disappointing to hear reports of discriminatory actions towards some of our England players.\n\n\"We will be asking Fifa to investigate the matter. We continue to support the players and staff in our collective determination to highlight and tackle discrimination in all its forms.\"\n\n'Grace and integrity' in the face of racism\n\nThis is the latest example of an England qualifier being affected by racism, following two incidents during matches en route to Euro 2020.\n\nIn October 2019, the Three Lions' game in Bulgaria was halted twice because of racist behaviour from fans. The previous March, racist chanting was directed at several England players during their match in Montenegro.\n\nTony Burnett, chief executive of Kick It Out, urged Fifa to investigate events in Budapest as a matter of urgency.\n\n\"Kick It Out was appalled to see the actions of some Hungary fans,\" he said.\n\n\"We stand proudly in support of the England players and staff, who once again acted with strength, grace and integrity in the face of racism that has no place in our game or our society.\n\n\"This is not the first incident like this in Hungary, so we urge Fifa to investigate this matter urgently.\n\n\"Those responsible need to be held to account and steps need to be taken to ensure scenes like this are not repeated.\"\n\nEngland's players, led by Sterling and manager Southgate, have become vocal figures in the fight against racism in football in recent seasons.\n\nAnd although most said afterwards they did not hear it during the game, they were quick to condemn the racism that eyewitnesses in the stadium reported to them.\n\nDefender John Stones, who won his 50th cap in Budapest, said: \"It is so sad to think that this happens at our games and I hope whoever needs to take care of it does and I'm sure they will.\n\n\"We stand together as a team and we will continue fighting for what we believe in as a team and what we believe is right.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter after the match, Manchester City midfielder Jack Grealish said: \"Brilliant win in an unacceptable atmosphere. Well done, though, boys.\"\n\nThere was a wall of noise as England players took a knee.\n\nLed largely by the ultras behind the goal, the fans booed throughout that moment, even though there were calls on them from the manager, players and leaders in the country not to overstep the mark.\n\nFor all the celebrations from England's performance, the disappointing side is that that then turned to racist chants from the ultras in the stand behind the goal that England were attacking.\n\nI definitely heard one aimed towards Jude Bellingham, when he was warming up. Raheem Sterling was also targeted after Harry Kane's goal.\n\nAfter the full-time whistle, the ultras were jumping and the Hungarian players were in the 18-yard box applauding them.\n\nAll week the manager was telling the fans to behave themselves - we know what happened at Euro 2020 and they got sanctioned. What I don't understand is that the players would have heard the noises and they are walking around and applauding? They spent at least five minutes taking the love and support they got from the ultras.\n\nNot very nice scenes towards the end.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there Image caption: A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there\n\nThe BBC is covering the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US, which led to the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan.\n\nThis is the story of Chris Cruz, who explains in an interview to BBC's OS programme why he decided to join the US army.\n\n\"My mother was heading to work on a normal 11 September day. As soon as she exited the subway, she was told to start running as the buildings were coming down. She literally saw them coming down and described people jumping out of the windows,\" says Chris.\n\n\"When she finally made it home, I - as an 11-year-old boy at the time - had to tell her that she had burn marks and blood spots on the back of her legs. She was in a state of shock.\n\n\"As I grew up, I realised... I had the ability to be part of an organisation that could defend and prevent these atrocities for all Americans.\n\n\"9/11 played a role, but not in a way of revenge. I didn't want to join out of bloodlust. I served two tours in Afghanistan. Both of those times I volunteered to go.\n\n\"I don't think our mission would have succeeded without our Afghan partners. I agree we couldn't be there forever, but we made a promise to keep our partners safe and that we wouldn't turn our backs on them, and that's exactly what we've done.\"\n\nChris adds: \"I do think the way we pulled out, the way we left it, was completely wrong. There needed to be a better exit strategy.\"", "Apple announced the new technology last month but has faced a lot of negative feedback\n\nApple has delayed plans to roll out detection technology which would have scanned US users' iPhones in search of child sexual abuse material.\n\nIt follows widespread criticism from privacy groups and others, worried that the on-device tracking set a dangerous precedent.\n\nApple said that it had listened to the negative feedback and was reconsidering.\n\nThere were concerns the system could be abused by authoritarian states.\n\nThe so-called NeuralHash technology would have scanned images just before they are uploaded to iCloud Photos. Then it would have matched them against known child sexual abuse material on a database maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.\n\nIf a match was found then it would have been manually reviewed by a human and, if required, steps taken to disable a user's account and report it to law enforcement.\n\nIt was due to launch later in the year.\n\nIn a statement, Apple said: \"Last month we announced plans for features intended to help protect children from predators who use communication tools to recruit and exploit them, and limit the spread of child sexual abuse material.\n\n\"Based on feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers and others, we have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features.\"\n\nPrivacy campaigners expressed concern that the technology could be expanded and used by authoritarian governments to spy on citizens.\n\nThe Electronic Frontiers Foundation has been one of the most vocal critics of the system, gathering a petition signed by 25,000 customers opposing the move.\n\nIts executive director Cindy Cohn told the BBC: \"The company must go further than just listening and drop its plans to put a backdoor into its encryption entirely.\"\n\n\"The enormous coalition that has spoken out will continue to demand that user phones - both their messages and their photos - be protected, and that the company maintains its promise to provide real privacy to its users.\"\n\nApple has been an exponent of privacy and end-to-end encryption in the past.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nManchester United opened the new Women's Super League season with victory over Reading in manager Marc Skinner's first game in charge.\n\nThe home fans, back at an unrestricted Leigh Sports Village, saw Kirsty Hanson slot home Ella Toone's pass.\n\nToone turned provider again after the break as Ona Batlle struck an exquisite long-range effort.\n\nEarlier, Reading's Brooke Chaplen hit the crossbar, with replays suggesting the ball had bounced over the line.\n• None Watch Everton v Manchester City in the WSL live on BBC One on Saturday\n• None Football Daily podcast - WSL season preview: Bigger and better than ever\n\nBut with no goalline technology or video assistant referee in the women's game, the officials were unable to take a closer look at whether it was a goal or not.\n\nIn the first WSL game to be screened by Sky Sports as part of a new broadcast deal alongside the BBC, United capitalised with Batlle firing in a second moments later, sending the home fans into delirium.\n\n\"Sky Sports slowed it down for me on the replay just to make it even more painful,\" said Reading manager Kelly Chambers afterwards.\n\n\"It was over the line but that's the difference. You have the top game of the women's game and the top game of the men's game which is so much more further advanced.\n\n\"Things will take time despite the speed the women's game is moving at. I know they are working heavily to improve the level of the officials in the game and you hope we can get those added additions in the not-so-near future.\"\n\nFurther chances fell for Leah Galton - who missed a glaring half-volley in the first half - as she nodded a header wide at the back post.\n\nSubstitute Martha Thomas, making her competitive debut, glanced an effort wide and saw a cross roll inches behind her as she waited unmarked in the centre, before curling a shot past the right post.\n\nThere were plenty of promising performances from Skinner's new signings, with Norwegian midfielder Vilde Boe Risa particularly impressive.\n\nBut aside from Chaplen's effort which hit the crossbar, Reading only had half chances - the midfielder herself striking over the bar from long range in the first half.\n\nVictory sets United on their way for a season where they are pursuing a Champions League qualification spot.\n\n'I will never turn down goalline technology'\n\nManchester United boss Marc Skinner: \"If you can use technology it would be brilliant. We can focus on that but there are other things we need to get right too to continue the growth of our game.\n\n\"Hopefully in our lifetime we see that growth and we get that support for these wonderful players. I will never turn that down.\"\n\nFormer Leicester City and England striker Emile Heskey on Sky Sports: \"If we all played in the same stadiums and all had the same facilities then fair enough, maybe you could use technology.\n\n\"But funds can be allocated to better places right now [in the women's game]. Maybe the next step is goalline technology.\"\n\nEx-Manchester United manager Casey Stoney on Sky Sports: \"It is an area that needs improving. It's a professional game with amateur officiating.\n\n\"We watched that in real time and couldn't say if it was a goal so it is a huge task. There are more improvements to be made.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Jackie Groenen (Manchester United Women) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Martha Thomas (Manchester United Women) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jackie Groenen.\n• None Offside, Manchester United Women. Alessia Russo tries a through ball, but Martha Thomas is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Martha Thomas (Manchester United Women) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Kirsty Hanson.\n• None Attempt missed. Jeon Ga-Eul (Reading Women) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Emma Harries with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Unity encountered unexpected winds as it soared 86km (53 miles) above New Mexico\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Virgin Galactic missions as it investigates how Sir Richard Branson's recent space flight drifted off course during its climb skyward.\n\nThe British billionaire fulfilled a lifetime ambition on 11 July by riding his rocket plane to 86km in altitude.\n\nBut the New Yorker magazine has revealed how the vehicle flew for a period outside its pre-agreed airspace.\n\nSir Richard's company has disputed the New Yorker's description of events.\n\nThe rocket plane, known as Unity or SpaceShipTwo, which carried Sir Richard aloft, landed safely.\n\nIn a short statement, the FAA said it was overseeing the investigation of the \"July 11 SpaceShipTwo mishap that occurred over Spaceport America, New Mexico.\n\n\"Virgin Galactic may not return the SpaceShipTwo vehicle to flight until the FAA approves the final mishap investigation report or determines the issues related to the mishap do not affect public safety,\" it added.\n\nIn response to the FAA announcement, Virgin Galactic told the BBC it was cooperating fully with the aviation administration.\n\nIt took such issues very seriously, it said, and was working to determine how to prevent trajectory deviations from occurring on future missions.\n\nThursday saw the company announce details of the next Unity flight - a research outing for the Italian Air Force.\n\nThis had been scheduled for the end of September or early October, but must now await the results of the FAA probe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Sir Richard Branson's flight to the edge of space (and back)\n\nThe New Yorker article was penned by Nicholas Schmidle, who's written a book about Sir Richard's near two-decade effort to develop a rocket plane capable of taking fare-paying passengers above Earth's atmosphere.\n\nMr Schmidle's magazine story said the pilots on the 11 July flight - with Sir Richard and three other company employees sitting behind them - received cockpit warnings about the off-course trajectory of their rocket-powered ascent.\n\nLeft uncorrected, this shallower than planned climb to altitude could have left Unity unable to reach its landing location on the glide back down to Earth. Mr Schmidle claims company protocols for the cockpit warnings would normally have led to the pilots aborting the ascent, but that they pressed on instead.\n\nVirgin Galactic had earlier on Thursday rejected what it described as \"mischaracterisations\" in the New Yorker's article.\n\nThe company said its pilots had encountered unexpected winds at high altitude and took the necessary actions to complete a safe climb to space and return to Earth.\n\n\"Although the flight's ultimate trajectory deviated from our initial plan, it was a controlled and intentional flight path that allowed Unity to successfully reach space and land safely at our spaceport in New Mexico,\" a company spokesperson told the BBC.\n\n\"At no time were passengers and crew put in any danger as a result of this change in trajectory, and at no time did the ship travel above any population centres or cause a hazard to the public.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said FAA representatives were present in the ground control room during the flight and in the post-flight debriefs.\n\nThe New Yorker magazine told the BBC it stood by its account of what happened on the day.\n\nWhen Unity's next mission will now occur is anyone's guess.\n\nThis is meant to take aloft three Italian nationals - Walter Villadei and Angelo Landolfi from the Italian Air Force; and Pantaleone Carlucci, an Italian national research council engineer.\n\nThe men plan to conduct 13 scientific experiments during the flight, and in particular during those few minutes of weightlessness they'll experience at the top of Unity's climb.\n\nUnder the plan, the Italians are to be supervised in the back of the rocket plane by Virgin Galactic's chief astronaut instructor, Beth Moses. If and when it happens, the flight will be her third to the edge of space.\n\nThe Virgin Galactic pilots up front in the rocket plane are designated to be Michael Masucci and CJ Sturckow. Masucci was also in the cockpit for the 11 July mission, along with the company's chief pilot, David Mackay.\n\nAfter this next mission, Virgin Galactic is expected to enter an extended period of maintenance and upgrades for both Unity and its carrier/launch plane, known as Eve.\n\nIf the schedule is not disrupted by the latest FAA ban, these vehicles are expected to resume space missions by the middle of next year. The company said one further test outing would be conducted before full commercial service began, probably in the second half of 2022.\n\nSome 600 individuals put down deposits a number of years ago to buy seat tickets costing $200,000-250,000. Tickets sales resumed last month with prices from $450,000 (£325,000) per seat.\n\nUnity and its carrier/launch plane, Eve, will undergo extended maintenance", "Mr Kerry has said China can do more to tackle global warming\n\nUS climate envoy John Kerry has told China that climate change is more important than politics as tensions between the two countries continue.\n\nHe made the remarks following two days of talks with Chinese leaders in the city of Tianjin.\n\nBut China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Wednesday that the worsening relationship could hamper future co-operation on climate issues.\n\nBoth countries have outlined steps to tackle climate change.\n\nBut Mr Kerry has called on China to increase its efforts to tackle carbon emissions.\n\nTensions between the two countries have worsened in recent months with disputes over China's human rights record, the South China Sea and the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Thursday, Mr Kerry said he had told the Chinese that \"climate is not ideological, not partisan and not a geostrategic weapon\".\n\n\"It is essential... no matter what differences we have, that we have to address the climate crisis,\" he said\n\nEarlier, Mr Wang called on the US to \"stop seeing China as a threat and an opponent\", accusing Washington of a \"major strategic miscalculation towards China\".\n\n\"It is impossible for China-US climate co-operation to be elevated above the overall environment of China-US relations,\" he said.\n\nChina became the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide in 2006 and is now responsible for more than a quarter of the world's overall greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping has said he will aim for China's emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for the country to be carbon neutral by 2060. But it is not yet clear how he plans to achieve this.\n\nMr Kerry said he aimed to meet Chinese leaders again ahead of the upcoming COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow this year and push for stronger emission reduction targets.\n\n\"We have consistently said to China and other countries... to do their best within their given capacity,\" he said on Thursday. \"We think that China can do more.\"\n\nIf there was to be any sign of progress between the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases you'd expect a nod to it now.\n\nThis is John Kerry's second trip to China in a matter of months.\n\nInstead China has refused to accept America's terms. It won't separate talks on climate change from the broader disagreements between Beijing and Washington DC; everything is on the table.\n\nWhich means John Kerry has - so far - failed in his bid to get just one thing on the table. One thing that's so important, he said, that it shouldn't be overshadowed by tariffs or sanctions or extradition.\n\nThe question now is will President Joe Biden - a man who has enhanced some of the punitive measures put in place by his predecessor - change tack?", "An Islamic State (IS) group suspect from the UK has pleaded guilty in a US court to multiple charges relating to the murder of four American hostages.\n\nAlexanda Kotey is accused of belonging to an IS cell dubbed \"The Beatles\" which was involved in kidnappings in Iraq and Syria.\n\nThe IS cell was allegedly responsible for the beheadings of a number of Western and Japanese hostages.\n\nKotey, 37, pleaded guilty to all eight charges and now faces life in prison.\n\nHe attended a change of plea hearing at a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia on Thursday, where he pleaded guilty to charges including hostage taking resulting in death and conspiracy to murder US citizens.\n\n\"Kotey has been afforded due process and in the face of overwhelming evidence, he made the independent decision to plead guilty to his crimes,\" lawyer Raj Parekh, a member of the prosecuting team, told reporters outside the court.\n\n\"He has agreed to spend the rest of his life in prison,\" he added.\n\nKotey and fellow \"Beatle\" El Shafee Elsheikh, 32, are on trial for their involvement in the murders of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and relief workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.\n\nBoth men are also suspected of involvement in the deaths of other hostages, including Alan Henning - a British taxi driver who was delivering aid - and Scottish aid worker David Haines, as well as two Japanese nationals.\n\nThe pair initially pleaded not guilty at a hearing in October.\n\nThe change of plea suggests Kotey may now co-operate with prosecutors. It is not yet clear whether Elsheikh has reached a plea deal with authorities.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\nThe two men were flown from US custody in Iraq last year to face the charges, which carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.\n\nOriginally from west London, their alleged IS gang was given its Beatles nickname by hostages due to their British accents. They were stripped of their UK nationality in 2018.\n\nSome of the victims were beheaded, with their deaths filmed and broadcast on social media. The high-profile killings triggered outrage around the world.\n\nThe group's alleged ringleader, Mohammed Emwazi, known as \"Jihadi John\", was killed in a drone strike in 2015.\n\nAnother gang member, Aine Davis, was arrested and imprisoned in Turkey.\n\nKotey and Elsheikh remained at large until they were captured in 2018 by Syrian Kurds fighting IS.\n\nThe US government had wanted to put them on trial but was lacking evidence.\n\nThe men were in a legal limbo for several months, held by the US military in Iraq where the US attorney general threatened to hand them over to local courts, known for their summary justice and executions.\n\nBut the US said it would not carry out the death penalty if the men were convicted in a US court.\n\nBritish counter-terrorism officials have since shared crucial evidence with US officials.\n\nElsheikh is scheduled to go on trial in January.\n\nKotey's plea deal, meanwhile, carries a minimum sentence of life without parole. But after 15 years he would be eligible to be transferred to the UK to face any possible charges there.\n\nHis sentencing is due to take place in March next year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nFifa has opened disciplinary proceedings after racist abuse was aimed at England players during Thursday's 4-0 win over Hungary in a World Cup qualifier in Budapest.\n\nRaheem Sterling and Jude Bellingham were both targeted.\n\nEngland players were also pelted with objects in the second half and a flare was thrown on the pitch by the home fans at Puskas Arena.\n\nBorussia Dortmund midfielder Bellingham, 18, tweeted on Friday: \"Part of the game and always will be until proper punishments are put in place by those with the power. We can't let hate win, keep smiling.\"\n\n\"It is a disgrace how it keeps on happening,\" said Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount.\n\n\"When these things happen, consequences need to take place and the FA will be speaking to Fifa about it and hopefully it keeps getting put to them and they hand out bans.\n\n\"But it needs to stop and we need to get this out of football.\"\n\nBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Fifa \"to take strong action against those responsible to ensure that this kind of disgraceful behaviour is eradicated from the game for good\".\n\nOn Friday afternoon, football's world governing body Fifa said disciplinary proceedings had been opened \"following analysis of the match reports\".\n\nIt added: \"Once again, Fifa would like to state that our position remains firm and resolute in rejecting any form of racism and violence as well as any other form of discrimination or abuse.\n\n\"We have a very clear zero tolerance stance against such abhorrent behaviours in football.\"\n\nDespite Uefa ordering Hungary to play three home games behind closed doors after their supporters' discriminatory behaviour, fans were allowed in on Thursday as the game came under Fifa's jurisdiction.\n\nThe Uefa ban relates to racism and other discriminatory conduct which took place during Euro 2020 in June.\n\nWhile Uefa manage World Cup qualifiers involving European teams, Fifa is able to take action because it is their competition.\n\n\"Fifa strongly rejects any form of racism and violence and has a very clear zero tolerance stance for such behaviour in football,\" the game's global governing body said.\n\nFifa and Uefa criticised for allowing fans to attend\n\nAnti-discrimination bodies Kick It Out, Show Racism the Red Card and Fare criticised Fifa and Uefa for their handling of Hungary's existing ban.\n\n\"The question for us is why Fifa didn't act to prevent this, and why the global football system didn't work together to prevent this,\" Kick It Out chief executive Tony Burnett said.\n\n\"All I'm hearing again thus far is excuses about who should file what paperwork and who should file permission for X, Y and Z.\"\n\nFare executive director Piara Powar said allowing fans to attend in Budapest was an example of the \"system falling apart\" as Uefa and Fifa try to deal with racism.\n\nPowar also confirmed that the The Fare Network - an organisation trying to fight inequality in football - would provide authorities with a report of their own from the game, including video footage.\n\nGed Grebby, chief executive of Show Racism the Red Card, told BBC Radio 5 Live that England manager Gareth Southgate was right to say England should \"get its own house in order\" before criticising others for their behaviour, following a numerous instances of racism in the game.\n\nGrebby also added that a \"long-term education programme\" should be put in place to help tackle racism in Hungarian football.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association said \"loopholes\" that meant the game was not behind closed doors must be addressed.\n\n\"Global football governing bodies need to demonstrate that these behaviours will never be tolerated in our game,\" the players' union said.\n\n\"We demand they issue the strongest sanctions possible, such as lifetime stadium bans.\"\n\nEngland's players were booed as they took the knee before the match at the 67,000-capacity Puskas Arena to protest against racism, with BBC Radio 5 Live reporter Juliette Ferrington describing the reaction from fans as a \"wall of noise\".\n\nShe also described how racist chants could be heard during the match and that Sterling and Bellingham were the targets of abuse.\n\nIn the second half, Sterling was pelted with paper cups and bottles when he opened the scoring for England.\n\nA flare was later thrown on to the pitch after Harry Maguire put the visitors 3-0 ahead.\n\nThe Hungarian Football Federation (MLSZ) said that those who disrupted the match \"need to be identified and severely punished\", but did not make any specific reference to discriminatory abuse.\n\n\"Fans entering the field, throwing light grenades and glasses, are being identified. The MLSZ has filed/will file a police report against them,\" the MLSZ said.\n\n\"Any fine will be passed on to the perpetrators in civil litigation, and they can expect a two-year disqualification from sporting events at the end of the trial.\"\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate had ice thrown at him by fans during his post-match interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, in which he said he hoped the abuse was \"dealt with the right way\".\n\n\"I've heard reports of racism, which I hadn't heard during the game,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone knows what we stand for as a team, and that's completely unacceptable. It has been reported. Our head of security has spoken to the players and taken their statement. We will deal with it in the right channels.\n\n\"The world is modernising and although some people are stuck in their ways of thinking and their prejudices, they're going to be the dinosaurs in the end because the world is changing.\"\n\nHungary's minister of foreign affairs, Peter Szijjarto, questioned English complaints about the boos in Budapest in a Facebook post that included a video of England supporters at Wembley jeering during the Italian national anthem before the Euro 2020 final.\n\nHungarians have reacted with a mixture of anger, shame and defiance to allegations of racist abuse. 'Fantastic atmosphere, 2nd half meltdown' read the headline in the main sports paper, Nemzeti Sport.\n\nThe right-wing Fidesz government has been in power for 11 years, and is proud of its open, nationalist stance. That has gone down well with fans, knows as the Ultras, in their uniform black T-shirts. Prime Minister Viktor Orban and some of his ministers end their speeches with the football slogan 'Go for it, Hungarians!'\n\n\"The Hungarian FA should complain to Fifa… that the England team is making political propaganda out of a sports event,\" read one comment on the pro-government Mandiner website.\n\nBut there was also disgust at the behaviour, especially the pelting of Raheem Sterling.\n\n\"Don't pretend that the darling Hungarian fans would never do such a thing, we have our share of brain-dead, hateful jerks. Ban them for life - if there is video or audio evidence,\" read another comment on the same site.", "The national shortage of lorry drivers could lead to a rise in food prices, wholesalers have warned.\n\nDarren Labbett, managing director of Woods Foodservice, told the BBC that his industry was facing a \"perfect storm\" of adverse effects.\n\n\"We've got the Brexit situation and the after-effects of the pandemic coming together at the same time,\" he added.\n\nMr Labbett said the cost of vegetable oil was at a 30-year high because of higher shipping costs and demand.\n\n\"As we came out of lockdown, the demand for everything went through the roof overnight,\" he said.\n\nMr Labbett added that wholesalers were \"trying our utmost\" to absorb the extra costs instead of passing them on, \"but we can't absorb those price increases forever\".\n\nJames Bielby, chief executive of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors, which represents about 600 firms in the wholesale sector, said there were \"chronic\" staff shortages throughout the food and drink supply chain, with up to half a million vacancies.\n\n\"That means all businesses - growers, processers, wholesalers and manufacturers - having to offer incentives to retain and recruit staff, and costs are rising as a result,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Under these circumstances, it is inevitable that some of these cost increases will be passed through the supply chain, which will lead to food price inflation.\"\n\nMany businesses have been complaining about the UK's shortage of lorry drivers, which continues to cause serious supply chain problems.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic, Brexit and tax changes have all contributed to a lack of qualified drivers. Industry bodies estimate there is a shortfall of about 100,000 workers.\n\nOn Thursday, Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability from the British Retail Consortium told the UK Trade and Business Commission food manufacturing was under severe strain because of shortages of HGV drivers and other supply chain staff, meaning that some production might have to move out of the UK.\n\nThe British Frozen Food Federation's chief executive, Richard Harrow, told the commission he was concerned that smaller food businesses like wholesalers and catering firms were missing out because haulage companies were having to prioritise bigger customers like supermarkets.\n\n\"Many wholesalers have seen their businesses close down during the pandemic with the restaurant industry closed, and so they had a very difficult period,\" he said. \"Now they're coming out of that and seeing strong demand, but they're struggling to get drivers and struggling to get deliveries.\n\n\"If you're a haulage company and you're restricted because of drivers, you're going to go where the work is easiest. If you're then being asked to drop a number of different pallets in different locations to smaller wholesalers, it ticks the 'too difficult to do' box', so I think they will be disproportionately impacted,\" Mr Harrow added.\n\nIndustry bodies estimate there is a shortfall of about 100,000 truck drivers\n\nHowever, wholesalers point to a number of other factors that are also threatening to push up prices.\n\nDavid Josephs, owner of All Greens Wholesale, a fruit and vegetable importer and wholesaler in London, said Brexit had been the biggest cause of additional costs for his business.\n\n\"We have an operation out of Milan, we ship twice a week, and just those two shipments a week coming out of Milan, the paperwork, purely the paperwork, is costing us an additional €52,000 (£44,650) a year,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But with Covid now as well, growers around Europe have been affected with labour shortages and therefore, goods haven't been picked out of the ground and therefore there is a shortage.\"\n\nBad weather had also reduced crop yields, he added.\n\nWeek to 27 August 2021, compared with week to 28 August 2020\n\nWhich have gone up in price?\n\nWhich have gone down in price?", "The stretch of the M4 to Junction 49 Pont Abraham was closed following the crash\n\nThe M4 has reopened after a three-hour closure between Swansea and Llanelli.\n\nThere were several miles of queues between Pont Abraham in the west and Morriston in the east, after what South Wales Police called a \"serious incident\" at 11:30 BST.\n\nAn air ambulance landed on the westbound carriageway between junction 47 at Penllergaer and junction 48 at Hendy.\n\nTraffic Wales said the motorway had fully reopened by 14:45.\n\nPolice had urged drivers to avoid the area and diversions were in place along the A48 through Pontarddulais and Penllergaer - with heavy congestion reported on alternative routes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adventure Travel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe closure affected holiday traffic returning from west Wales and people travelling to the ferry ports of Milford Haven, Pembroke and Fishguard.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed one air ambulance and four land vehicles were sent to help police with the incident.", "Pat Hume, pictured here with her husband in 2010, was the \"perfect partner\" for John\n\nPat Hume has been described as the most \"extraordinarily strong woman, with the softest, most gentle manner\".\n\nThe widow of the late SDLP leader and Nobel prize winner John Hume died on Thursday after a short illness, aged 83.\n\nFormer Irish President Mary McAleese paid tribute to Mrs Hume saying she was \"the perfect partner\" to John Hume.\n\nMrs Hume worked alongside her husband from the beginning of the civil rights movement in Londonderry in the 1960s.\n\nHer death comes just over a year after the death of her husband.\n\n\"She was a nurturer, she was a coper,\" said Dr McAleese, who recently spent a day with Mrs Hume.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, the Hume family said they were \"heartbroken\", adding that she \"died as she lived - surrounded by family, peacefully and generous to the end\".\n\nThe family paid tribute to the medical staff who cared for their mother in her final days.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster, Dr McAleese said John relied on Pat for her \"wisdom and advice\".\n\n\"Pat was an extravagantly wise woman, she had a huge wisdom,\" she added.\n\n\"I don't know anybody who I have met in my life who was more rounded and more grounded than Pat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"She was able to synthesise common sense, compassion, political nous in a way that was really, really special and absolutely essential to John.\"\n\nDr McAleese said Mrs Hume \"never looked for the limelight... but boy is she deserving of a mountain of praise.\"\n\nFoyle MP and current SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said Mrs Hume has left \"a tremendous legacy for everyone in Derry and across Ireland\".\n\n\"John always said: 'I'm the parcel and Pat delivers me.'\n\n\"That was true,\" he added.\n\n\"I genuinely don't believe any of the of the things John achieved would have been possible without Pat.\n\n\"She just had such strength and also belief in what they were doing, she was as driven to bring about a peaceful, and just Ireland as he was.\"\n\n\"The people of Derry and the people of Ireland owe them both a great debt.\"\n\nPat Hume was, according to her husband John, his rock and key adviser throughout his long political career.\n\nAs a journalist in the north west, you were always very keen to get Pat Hume's insight into current political developments.\n\nHer brain was so sharp and she was able to cut through a lot of the spin and nonsense - delivering lines you wouldn't hear from politicians.\n\nI always found her very frustrating, but very frustrating in a nice way.\n\nThe more I tried to question her, and get advice and a steer from her, the more she would ask me about my family, my career and how things were going for me.\n\nYou always came away from meeting her having unburdened yourself, without having gleaned the information you were hoping to get.\n\nLike her husband John, she was always interested in people and that cut to the core of what they were about as a couple.\n\nThey were very much rooted in the Derry community and were more interested in the people around them, than mixing with the great and the good.\n\nPat Hume's name never appeared on an election ballot paper, but her influence on the political path in Northern Ireland stretched far beyond many politicians.\n\nJohn and Pat Hume with David Trimble and Hillary Clinton in Belfast in 2012\n\nPaying tribute to Mrs Hume on Friday, former US President Bill Clinton said that she \"played an enormous role\" in helping to achieve peace in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"All of us who were blessed by the way she lived her life and advanced her cause with such grace and good humour will be forever grateful,\" he said.\n\nHillary Clinton, former US secretary of state and presidential candidate, described her as \"a gracious, determined force behind the achievement of peace in Ireland\".\n\nMrs Clinton added that the Humes \"made the world a better place and set an example for us all\".\n\nFormer Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker Mitchel McLaughlin said Pat Hume was \"one of the bedrocks of the peace process who kept her nerve at the worst of times\".\n\n\"She didn't flinch, John Hume didn't flinch and they prevailed in the end,\" the former Sinn Féin Foyle MLA said.\n\nWhen talks with the Sinn Féin leadership were held at the Humes' home in Derry, Pat \"set the atmosphere for constructive and calm conversation\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfailingly, no matter the circumstances, Pat Hume was always steady, steadfast, she clearly was across all the discussions.\n\n\"She was always focused on finding ways through the disagreements and I think John Hume was benefitting from her advice on an ongoing basis. I think republicans benefitted as well, I know I certainly did.\"\n\nJohn and Pat Hume pictured beside one of Mr Hume's election poster in 1999\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Mike Nesbitt, a trustee of the John and Pat Hume Foundation, said the Hume's shared a view of Northern Ireland politics that was ahead of its time.\n\n\"Everybody else was talking about a divided society and the negativity of that, John and Pat were talking in a very positive way about the benefits of the fact we have a very diverse society,\" he told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\nHe said she was \"more than just John's rock\" and along with Daphne Trimble, wife of former Ulster Unionist party leader Lord Trimble, had played a key role in supporting victims and survivors of the Troubles.\n\nLady Trimble said she shared a \"warm friendship\" with Mrs Hume.\n\n\"She was one of the best, simply one of the best people I have ever met,\" she said.\n\nHer friend will be sorely missed, she added.\n\nMrs Hume's work continued during the Troubles, through to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.\n\nShe ran her husband's Foyle constituency office dealing with community issues, housing and poverty in Derry.\n\nMrs Hume, a former teacher, was awarded the Irish Red Cross Lifetime Achievement award in 2018.\n\nA foundation honouring John and Pat Hume's peace and reconciliation work was launched in November last year.\n\nA book of condolence has opened in the main hall of Derry's Guildhall.\n\nThe city's Mayor Graham Warke said it would allow people to \"offer the people the chance to pay their respects and say thank you to a remarkable and courageous woman\".\n\nMrs Hume's funeral Mass will be held at St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry at 11:00 BST on Monday.\n\nMembers of the public are invited to watch the service live via webcam.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 27 August and 3 September.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nEasily spotted: A cold ladybird covered in dew captured on an early morning walk in Tentsmuir forest, Fife, by Liz Ross.\n\nFun guy: Spotted near Culbo on the Black Isle by Ian Dudgeon.\n\nEpic outline: \"From Foula's northern cliff edge above the Atlantic, the island's highest peak Da Sneug ... and in the distance Hamnafield,\" says Carol Christiansen.\n\nTo the fore: Golfers in North Berwick at sunset captured from West Bay beach in this image from Craig Smith.\n\nStanding tall: \"The world famous Glenfinnan Monument in all its glory,\" says Mark Reynolds.\n\nFeeling peckish: \"Hungry Laird and Ellis thinking hurry, hurry at the Wee Hurrie in Troon,\" says dad Scott Torbett.\n\nField of vision: Duncan Murdoch captured this view of harvest time at West Pilmore Farm, Invergowrie, looking across to the Tay.\n\nMane attraction: \"These are some very cheeky ponies on top of Traprain Law in East Lothian,\" says Zoe Alston. \"One even tried to eat our lunch!\"\n\nHowzat? Tom Neilson took this shot while walking through the Meadows in Edinburgh.\n\nStill waters: The Laggan dam, Spean Bridge in the Highlands, from Lindsay Munro.\n\nLorraine Allen, who is originally from Scotland but now lives in East Yorkshire, took this snap of her Border Terrier Erik at Braemar showground. \"He was intrigued after other members of our human family had a go so we thought he should join in,\" she said.\n\nHello there: \"Thought this was a nice picture of two Highland cattle staring at each other on a misty morning,\" says Neil Brown.\n\nSee for miles: A bench stop for lunch on a hike to the Devil's Beef Tub from Moffat for Gosia Tyma McCallum.\n\nOpen plan: An old building at St Magnus Bay, Shetland, by Stuart Collinson.\n\nNature wins: Linda Armstrong took this image on the outskirts of Cairneyhill on the Fife Pilgrim Way.\n\nPicture perfect: Eddie McMaihin captured the Japanese Gardens at Dollar on a sunny day.\n\nMilk race: \"Curious cows after riding through their field on the Isle of Bute,\" says David Sykes.\n\nStriking sky: Taken in Orkney just outside of Kirkwall in the garden of the holiday house where Chris Thomson was staying.\n\nHigh spot: \"The tower on the top of Kinpurnie Hill, in the Sidlaws north of Dundee was apparently an observatory,\" says Jen Low.\n\nWait for me: A cygnet battling to keep up with the family on the Forth and Clyde canal in this picture from Valerie Pegler.\n\nWorth the effort: The view from the top of Bracara Brae, Loch Morar during an evening bike ride from Bunacaimb for Julie Bagwell.\n\nColourful scene: A peace cranes installation at St John's Church Edinburgh, as part of the Just Festival 2021, snapped by Janina Dolny.\n\nTotal relaxation: Sue Watson sent in this image of a cat soaking up the September sun.\n\nCalm sea: A beautiful day at Portpatrick harbour captured in all its glory by David Carr.\n\nDay trip: David Granger and wife Carole went to Fort William and drove round to Corpach to see the shipwreck.\n\nLong hours: Late-night working at Longnewton Farm by St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, from Curtis Welsh.\n\nSupper time: Jayne Sayliss saw this sea otter in the bay at Laide in Wester Ross with a freshly-caught crab.\n\nRush hour: Stromness after nightfall on a \"calm evening\", says Nigel Heath.\n\nDog delight: \"Tess and Skye were having fun chasing a ball at the Loch of the Lowes in the Scottish Borders,\" says Walter Baxter.\n\nAye aye! An unusual angle on this gannet chick, snapped on Bass Rock by Jacki Gordon.\n\nAmazing vista: Derek McRonald took this picture at 8am at the top of Ben Nevis on a rare clear day.\n\nSpecial scene: A mirror image cast on the Lake of Menteith with the Port of Menteith Church reflected on the calm waters, from Ian Barnes.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Pet abduction is to be made a criminal offence in England after a rise in reported thefts during Covid lockdowns.\n\nTheft of a pet is currently treated as a loss of an owner's property, but ministers want a new law to acknowledge the emotional distress it can cause.\n\nThe proposal is one of a string of recommendations in a report by the pet theft taskforce - set up to tackle an increase in incidents during lockdown.\n\nIt found that around 2,000 dogs were reported stolen last year.\n\nThe taskforce - comprising government officials, police, prosecutors, and local authorities - received evidence from animal welfare groups, campaigners, academics and other experts.\n\nIts report found that seven in 10 pet thefts recorded by police involved dogs.\n\nAlthough offences under the Theft Act 1968 carry a maximum term of seven years, ministers say there is little evidence of that being used, because the severity of the sentence is partly determined by the monetary value of the item taken.\n\nIt is not known what the maximum sentence for a new offence of pet abduction might be.\n\nQuoting data from animal charity Dogs Trust, the report said the price for five of the UK's most desirable dog breeds grew \"significantly\" during the first nationwide lockdown, with some rising as high as 89%.\n\nThe taskforce suggested this potentially made dog theft more appealing to criminals seeking to profit from the spike in demand for pets.\n\nMeanwhile, Google searches for \"buy a puppy\" rose by over 160% in the months between March and August 2020 after England's first nationwide lockdown began.\n\nThe taskforce also looked at measures such as requiring proof of identification for all online pet adverts, and allowing owners to register their dogs with police, including photos and DNA as well as contact and microchip information.\n\nOfficials hope the proposals will make it more difficult for thieves to abduct and sell on pets, make it easier for police to apprehend offenders, and that sentences and penalties handed to offenders will reflect the impact on the animal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An organised crime expert on the rising number of dog thefts in the UK\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"Stealing a pet is an awful crime which can cause families great emotional distress whilst callous criminals line their pockets.\n\n\"The new offence of pet abduction acknowledges that animals are far more than just property and will give police an additional tool to bring these sickening individuals to justice.\"\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said reports of a rise in pet thefts had been worrying and that owners should not have to \"live in fear\".\n\nRSPCA chief executive Chris Sherwood said the new pet abduction offence would recognise the \"seriousness\" of the crime, adding: \"We hope this will encourage courts to hand out much tougher sentences to pet thieves.\"\n\nHe said simplifying the microchipping database would help tackle pet theft, animal welfare issues and \"irresponsible pet ownership\".\n\nDiane James, from the Blue Cross animal welfare charity, said the organisation hoped the new sentencing laws were brought in \"swiftly\", adding: \"[We] would still advise owners to continue to be vigilant and follow advice to prevent becoming a victim of this abhorrent crime.\"", "UK residents are hoarding an estimated £50m in loose change, with little sign of it all being spent as Covid restrictions ease.\n\nNearly six in 10 people are holding coins at home, according to a survey by banking trade body UK Finance.\n\nPeople tend to hold on to 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p coins.\n\nThe findings have prompted pleas for this money to be given to charity, as cash donations dropped during the Covid crisis.\n\nUK Finance data suggests that people have been holding on to cash three times longer than they used to owing, in part, to the coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nMany retailers and entertainment venues were shut, and some shops have encouraged the use of contactless payments over cash.\n\nThe research said that cash use had risen - notably among 35 to 54-year-olds - as restrictions were eased.\n\n\"It is clear that with the reopening of the economy there has been some degree of revival in cash transactions,\" it said.\n\nAdrian Buckle, head of research at UK Finance, told the BBC that when people received a high-value coin in change, such as a £1 or £2 coin, they tended to carry it with them and spend it.\n\nHowever, when it came to a low-value coin, \"seven out of 10 of us will drop it in a pot at home and we forget about them\".\n\nWith those coins disappearing from circulation, more had to be manufactured to replace them, with the cost reaching £50m last year, he said.\n\nPocket money is a popular reason to keep cash at home\n\nThe stash of low-value coins in people's homes still showed little chance of being spent in the next two or three months, the report suggested.\n\nAmong the 1,000 people surveyed, most tended to hoard cash primarily for security, but also to pay friends and neighbours for shopping, for gifts and for pocket money.\n\nAlthough the amounts held tended to be below £100, this could have an impact on the way cash flowed around the economy, the report said.\n\nUK Finance said this raised questions about the mix of coins in circulation in the UK. Two years ago, the Treasury said that 1p and 2p coins would continue to be used \"for years to come\".\n\n\"Industry and policymakers may need to actively encourage greater recycling of hoarded cash to avoid significant wastage to the UK economy,\" the report said.\n\nOne way to do that was by urging people to give loose change to charity, it said.\n\nThe Charities Aid Foundation found that more than half the charities they spoke to last year had seen a drop in donations. That coincided with four in 10 charities reporting increased demand for help from those in need.\n\n\"Cash donations to charities, normally the country's most popular way of giving, saw a substantial decline during 2020 and remain at very low levels compared to previous years,\" said Neil Heslop, chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation.\n\n\"As charities struggle to resume fundraising, while continuing to work on the frontlines of the response to the pandemic, donating spare loose change would be a huge show of much-needed support at a critical time.\"\n\nEric Leenders, managing director of personal finance at UK Finance said: \"Putting your pennies in a charity box is a great way to help those in need.\"", "Israel's booster vaccination programme - offering a third shot to over-40s - has begun to show signs of success.\n\nBut the country's recent spike in cases has ignited debate about the future of the vaccination programme and the ongoing pandemic.\n\nIt had virtually returned to normal life by this spring, cases stayed low and it looked like vaccination had more or less quashed Covid.\n\nFrom July, though, cases started to rise again.\n\nSince Israel surged ahead in immunising its population last winter, the rest of the vaccinated world has turned to it to understand what might be in store in the coming weeks and months.\n\nThe country's own health leaders will be keeping a watchful eye on cases after schools reopened on 1 September, while next week, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, will see groups gathering.\n\nAlthough the country rolled out jabs quickly and take-up was relatively high, there are still a million people out of its roughly nine million overall population who are eligible for the vaccine and haven't taken it up.\n\nIsrael is also a relatively young country, with about a third of its population under the age of 14. Under-12s are not eligible for the vaccine unless they have particular health conditions.\n\nThat means, despite high take-up, only 60% of the total population is fully vaccinated with two doses.\n\nBut even without these groups being vaccinated, back in spring the level of coverage appeared to be enough to keep a lid on cases - so what changed?\n\nThe more infectious Delta variant seems to have evaded part of the vaccine's protection against infection, although it is still highly effective against severe illness.\n\nBut scientists monitoring the data believe a major factor in the recent spike in cases is waning immunity from the Pfizer vaccine, which was initially the only one given in the country.\n\nProf Eran Segal, who advises the Israeli government on Covid matters, said by month five or six after vaccination, people are probably only 30-40% protected, compared with more than 90% when protection first kicks in.\n\n\"That's what was driving the wave,\" he said - a conclusion drawn from careful analysis of the rates of infection in people vaccinated in different months.\n\nDespite this fall, vaccination still prevents a substantial amount of sickness, with the unvaccinated becoming severely ill with Covid about nine times as often in over-60s, and twice as often in younger people.\n\nIsrael is responding to the dip in protection against infection by rolling out a booster programme, offering a third jab first to over-60s and more recently to the over-40s.\n\nThe boosters for older people began to be offered just over a month ago, and they appear to be now taking effect, with hospital admissions levelling off in that group.\n\n\"This is leading to a halt in the Delta wave,\" Prof Segal said.\n\nEarly data suggests a tenfold increase in protection from infection and severe disease after the third jab, compared with after two.\n\nDr Anat Ekka Zohar, who is leading the booster programme study, said three doses were \"highly protective, against both infection and severe illness\".\n\nShe added: \"The triple dose is the solution to curbing the current infection outbreak.\"\n\nThere are fierce debates over whether booster programmes should be rolled out when so many people around the world haven't even had one vaccine.\n\nAnd some have questioned whether it is sustainable to top up the vaccines every six months, or once a year as is the case with the flu jab.\n\nWhile we've built up a large amount of evidence to show the Covid vaccines are safe and effective for almost everyone, there are still areas where we need more information. One of those areas is exactly how long immunity lasts, and whether a third booster shot will provide much more durable protection.\n\nIt could be that a three-shot schedule is what's needed, as in the case of the hepatitis B vaccine, where three doses result in more or less lifelong protection for most.\n\nOr it could be that two jabs plus natural immunity will be enough.\n\nPeople can get good natural protection after catching the virus, but, without a vaccine, that comes with the risk of becoming very ill, developing long-term complications or dying.\n\nWith the vaccines now protecting against most of the worst disease, people may still catch milder versions of Covid and boost their vaccine-derived immunity that way.\n\nScientists have hypothesised that repeated exposure to the Covid infection, now with the protection of the vaccine and natural immunity from past infection rendering it less risky, could over time turn the virus into a potentially recurring, but relatively untroublesome illness.\n\nBut others fear there may be a high cost to this, as breakthrough infections can still reach the most vulnerable and the eventual toll of \"long Covid\" remains unknown.\n\nAt the least, Israel's booster programme might provide more answers to some of these remaining questions.", "A state of emergency has been declared in New York after it was hit by record rainfall and deadly flash floods as a result of Tropical Storm Ida.\n\nVideos showed floodwater pouring into a subway station, as well as passengers on a flooded bus and cars being swept away.\n\nMayor Bill de Blasio said the city was \"enduring an historic weather event\" with \"brutal flooding\" and \"dangerous conditions\" on the roads.\n\nNew Jersey also declared an emergency.", "Parts of Louisiana and Mississippi have been left devastated by Hurricane Ida, which flooded communities, knocked out power lines and littered roads with debris.\n\nSatellite images taken by Maxar on Tuesday show extensive damage along the Gulf Coast and southern Louisiana following the fifth strongest storm to ever hit the US mainland.\n\nCoastal areas have been particularly badly hit, including the small towns of Jean Lafitte, Barataria, and lower Lafitte.\n\nYour device may not be able to access the slider\n\nJean Lafitte Mayor Tim Kerner said the town - 20 miles (32 km) south of New Orleans and outside the city's levee protection system - had suffered \"catastrophic\" flooding. One estimate suggested 90% of homes had suffered serious damage.\n\nThe local police chief said at least 400 people had chosen not to leave ahead of the storm - and dozens needed rescuing from attics and rooftops.\n\nAerial images show whole neighbourhoods submerged. In other areas gardens and roads were littered with debris.\n\nGalliano, on the Gulf Coast, has also been badly affected.\n\nThe hurricane passed through the area, flattening trees and ripping apart smaller buildings.\n\nYour device does not support this visualisation\n\nThe roof of Lady of the Sea Hospital in the town was blown off in Ida's winds.\n\nMany homes and businesses have also been devastated and boats capsized.\n\nHomes in the town of Laplace, to the west of New Orleans, were also flooded.\n\nResidents told of hours of harsh winds and rising water as the storm blew through.\n\nYour device might not be able to access this slider\n\nImages showed streets under water and gardens submerged. Trees and power lines were also brought down.\n\nAcross the region, many continue to be without power, after the winds downed power lines and other infrastructure.\n\nNight-time imagery from Nasa captured the extent of blackouts across the affected area after the storm, with lights knocked out in many places, including New Orleans.\n\nEnergy companies say they are working to restore power, but residents are being warned it could take weeks in some areas.\n\nMuch of New Orleans has been plunged into darkness, with only emergency lighting seen in many areas.\n\nHurricane Ida lingered over southern Louisiana for most of 29 August, bringing rainfall and floods before moving north and east into Mississippi and Alabama the following day.\n\nThe storm arrived in New Orleans 16 years after Hurricane Katrina followed a similar path in 2005, killing 1,800 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA street thief was caught on CCTV using \"a bizarre dance\" to distract a victim before stealing her £9,000 Rolex watch.\n\nPolice said Abdelhadi Bahou Jabour approached a couple in Birmingham on 10 July and struck up banter.\n\nHe then broke out in a dance routine described by police as \"part Bruce Forsyth, part Artful Dodger\" as he slipped off the woman's watch.\n\nJabour, from Findern Green, Sneinton, Nottingham, admitted two robberies and an attempted robbery.\n\nAfter failing to steal the man's watch, when it snagged on his cuff, West Midlands Police said the 24-year-old jogged away from Colmore Row.\n\nHe soon stumbled across another woman wearing a £4,700 Rolex watch, which he also made off with.\n\nJabour is due to be sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on 6 October.\n\nPolice said the \"nimble-footed\" thief's dance moves, which included \"grinding up against the woman\" and flicking out his leg, proved an effective way of diverting the couple's attention.\n\nJabour is due to be sentenced on 6 October\n\n\"Normally pickpockets try to steal using stealth so you won't even feel it,\" PC Mat Evans said.\n\n\"But this technique uses the opposite approach, using excessive contact to misdirect your attention away from the sensation of having your pockets emptied or, in this case, your watch stolen.\"\n\nHe said it was a skill that took \"many hours of training\" to perfect.\n\n\"I've seen the 'Ronaldinho' technique used before, but this offender's particular dance moves were the most bizarre I've ever seen. Part Bruce Forsyth, part Artful Dodger,\" PC Evans added\n\nIn the second theft of the night, in St Phillip's Cathedral grounds, police said Jabour sang It's Coming Home in an attempt to divert the woman's attention, although she realised something was wrong and resisted.\n\nJabour then twisted her arm before slipping off her designer watch.\n\nHe was spotted in the city centre later in the month and arrested.\n\nHis mobile phone was examined and police said pictures of a house party showed Abdul Boychaala and Hussen Ehab, who were jailed for the same ruse.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The highway collapse came after intense rainfall as Hurricane Ida reached the US South\n\nNew Orleans officials have imposed a citywide curfew as large parts of Louisiana and Mississippi remain without power following Hurricane Ida.\n\nMayor LaToya Cantrell said the curfew would last from 20:00 to 06:00 and police said there had been \"several\" incidents of looting in the city.\n\nEnergy companies are working to restore power but residents are being warned it could take weeks in some areas.\n\nMeanwhile water services and infrastructure have also been hit.\n\nTwo people were killed and at least 10 injured after a section of highway collapsed near Lucedale, Mississippi on Monday.\n\nSeveral cars were reported to have fallen into a hole that was 50 to 60ft (15 to 18m) long and 20 to 30ft deep, according to highway police.\n\nLocal authorities believe that some of the drivers may not have been able to see the road properly because of the heavy rains. The highway remains closed.\n\nOver eight inches (20cm) of rain fell in the area during Ida, which reached the US mainland as a Category 4 storm on Sunday.\n\nWhile Ida's speed has slowed, authorities continue to warn of storm surges and heavy rains across the southern US.\n\nBy Tuesday afternoon, Ida was in Tennessee, soaking the area with intense rain and prompting flash flood warnings.\n\nNew Orleans and large parts of the region are without lights and power\n\nLocal officials have urged evacuated residents to delay their return home as more than one million homes and businesses remain without power, including most of New Orleans.\n\nMayor Cantrell said that she was hopeful \"that we should have some level of transmission\" by Wednesday but \"that does not mean we will immediately see all the lights on in the city.\"\n\nFederal officials say that some 441,000 people in 17 parishes across the region have no water, and a similar number may be without power for up to a month.\n\nIt comes as heat advisories have been issued, with some areas expected to reach 95F (35C), according to weather officials say.\n\nLouisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said some 25,000 line workers were working to restore power but admitted: \"There are an awful lot of unknowns right now.\"\n\nMeanwhile Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Bill Nungesser has warned the death toll from Ida will likely rise in the coming days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Wind gusts of up to 172mph and heavy rain pummelled Louisiana\n\nIn addition to the two killed during the highway collapse, at least two other people have been reported dead during the storm.\n\nIn Louisiana, a man died while attempting to drive across a flooded area of New Orleans. Another man died after being struck by a tree near Baton Rouge.\n\n\"Knowing that so many people stayed behind in places like Grande Isle and Lafitte where flood waters have devastated those areas, we expect there will be more people found who have passed,\" Mr Nungesser said.\n\nIda is expected to move next to the US northeast, with rain and threat of floods stretching from the Tennessee to the mid-Atlantic.\n\nWashington, DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia are among the cities now under flash flood watches.\n\nHow has Hurricane Ida affected you? Only if it's safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi (L) has been holding talks with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab says the UK and Pakistan have a \"shared interest\" in securing a \"stable and peaceful future for Afghanistan\".\n\nMr Raab has met his Pakistani counterpart and the country's prime minister as part of his regional tour.\n\nThe foreign secretary's visit is part of efforts to secure safe passage for Britons and others trying to leave Afghanistan.\n\nIt comes as the UK announced £30m in aid to bordering countries.\n\nThe funding will help provide shelter and sanitation for the tens of thousands of refugees expected to flee the Taliban regime.\n\nMr Raab promised the UK would be \"shouldering our humanitarian responsibilities\" to help Afghans, as well as neighbouring countries who are taking in the majority of refugees.\n\nMeanwhile, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee - which questioned Mr Raab earlier this week - has announced it will hold an inquiry on UK policy towards Afghanistan.\n\nIts chair, Tory MP Tom Tugendhat, said \"big questions remain\" over the UK's withdrawal from the country and its future approach to the region.\n\nHe added: \"The true extent of the damage done will only become clear in the coming months and years. However, it is already clear that the world has become more dangerous and unstable.\"\n\nIn his first visit to Pakistan as foreign secretary, Mr Raab met the country's foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, before holding talks with Prime Minister Imran Khan.\n\nIn a joint press conference with Mr Qureshi, the foreign secretary said the UK would be \"supporting those countries who face greatest demands from those who may be displaced in the weeks ahead\".\n\nPakistan, which shares a border with Afghanistan, is a key player in the crisis and already hosts about three million Afghan refugees.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dominic Raab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Raab said \"no-one wants to see the economic and social fabric of Afghanistan collapse\", but the UK wanted to work with humanitarian agencies to help, rather than the Taliban itself.\n\nThe two-days of discussions were also expected to focus on how to encourage the Taliban to allow safe passage for refugees and prevent Afghanistan becoming a hub for terrorist groups.\n\nThe Foreign Office has already sent officials to help process those crossing the border.\n\nBut Mr Raab has been criticised by MPs for not focusing more on the country.\n\nThis week, he has been visiting the region to build a coalition with neighbouring countries to \"exert the maximum moderating influence\" on the Taliban.\n\nAfter talks with leaders in Qatar on Thursday, the foreign secretary said evacuations may be able to resume from Kabul airport \"in the near future\".\n\nThe Afghan capital's airport is out of action following the withdrawal of US troops last week.\n\nAnd on Thursday evening he said he had spoken to Tajikistan foreign minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin about \"how our countries can help maintain stability in the region, and tackle the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan\".\n\nOf the £30m in aid offered to neighbouring countries, Mr Raab said £10m would be made available immediately to humanitarian organisations in order to get supplies to Afghanistan's borders.\n\nCountries predicted to experience a significant increase in refugees will also receive £20m to help with processing new arrivals and to provide essential services and supplies.\n\nUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has estimated a worst-case scenario of more than 500,000 refugees fleeing Afghanistan to Pakistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in the coming months.\n\nMr Raab said: \"It is vital that we help those fleeing Afghanistan and do not allow the crisis there to undermine regional stability.\"\n\nHe added that the aid showed the UK's \"commitment to shoulder our humanitarian responsibility\".\n\nAfghan refugees are expected to travel to countries including Pakistan\n\nMore than 15,000 people have been evacuated by the UK from Afghanistan so far, including more than 5,000 British nationals,.\n\nThe last British plane flying people out of Kabul took off on Saturday, as the remaining foreign troops withdrew from the country.\n\nIt is feared thousands of people eligible for relocation, including Afghans who worked for the British and their families, have been left behind.\n\nMr Raab has estimated the number of UK nationals still in the country is in the \"low hundreds\" but he was unable to give a precise figure of the number of eligible Afghans who were unable to get on evacuation flights.\n\nLast month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced an increase in aid to Afghanistan to £286m, amid a policy to cut spending on overseas assistance.\n\nThe UK sent £290m of aid to Afghanistan in 2019, according to a briefing from the House of Commons Library, and the government pledged £155m in aid for 2021 at the Afghanistan Conference in November 2020.\n\nAre you a British national in Afghanistan or did you work for the UK government in Afghanistan? If it is safe to do so please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Jordan has been chased by debt collection agencies after falling behind on payments for clothes.\n\nThe 23-year-old bought a winter coat using Buy Now Pay Later when employed, but then lost his job.\n\nAccording to Citizens Advice, one in 10 shoppers who use this type of credit end up being pursued by debt collectors.\n\nThe Treasury said it was \"stepping in and regulating\" the market so people \"are treated fairly\".\n\nJordan started using Buy Now Pay Later after seeing it advertised on social media apps and on the iPhone app store. He decided to use it to buy a coat for £200.\n\n\"It was quite cold, it was the winter, and at that point I didn't have a lot of clothes,\" he said. \"I was in a job, and I was able to pay it, but I ended up being quite unfortunate and losing that job.\"\n\nHe bought some other items including a hat, but fell behind with the payments to firms including Laybuy and Klarna.\n\n\"It was quite difficult for me to keep on top of it. I went through a lot of anxiety and depression,\" he said, and began to be chased by debt collection agencies.\n\n\"They don't give any leeway or ease with it at all,\" he says. \"They call up quite a bit [and email]. It does make me stressed when I'm being constantly called and badgered about it.\"\n\n\"I think [Buy Now Pay Later] is quite dangerous, to be honest,\" Jordan says. \"Especially on the advertising. They make it out to be such a good thing... but that's only condoning debt.\"\n\nJordan has recently moved to Bristol to start a new job, and will be in a position to pay off the debt.\n\nLaybuy said: \"Laybuy only refers a customer to a debt collector as a last resort, and only after other attempts to collect the outstanding payment have been exhausted.\n\n\"When a debt is referred to a debt collector, we only ever refer outstanding purchase price of the product.\n\n\"Late fees, which are limited to a maximum of £24 for a single order, are never passed to a debt collector. Laybuy also pays all the cost for debt collection.\"\n\nAlex Marsh, head of Klarna UK, said: \"At Klarna we only ever use debt collection agencies to help us contact customers we are unable to reach and we do this on fewer than 1% of orders.\n\n\"The debt collection agencies we work with are all Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)-authorised and will only contact customers by telephone or email and do not use bailiffs.\n\n\"We encourage any of our customers whose circumstances have changed, to please get in touch so we can help you with a plan to get back on track.\"\n\nBuy Now Pay Later options often appear at checkouts on retailers' websites, and can help spread the cost of purchases, interest-free, potentially avoiding expensive credit.\n\nBut Citizens Advice said that for many people Buy Now Pay Later can be \"a slippery slope into debt\".\n\nIt added that it \"fears shoppers have been left unprotected and ill-informed during the rapid expansion of the sector\".\n\n\"Not one of the BNPL checkouts on leading retailers' websites warned people they could be referred to debt collectors for missed payments,\" the advice service said.\n\nShoppers were charged £39m in late fees in the past year, it estimated.\n\nOf those who were referred to a debt collector for missed payments, 96% said there had been negative consequences.\n\nMillions of online shoppers have being clicking the buttons to spread the payments, but as the number of users has grown, so have the criticisms.\n\nBuy Now Pay Later arrangements aren't viewed as a normal loan by credit reference agencies and other lenders.\n\nIt becomes a kind of invisible debt to the safety net system, so people with lots of little Buy Now Pay Later debts can get in a mess trying to juggle those payments alongside other loans and interest at the same time.\n\nFears are growing that younger people are being saddled with unnecessary debt, and that those who are already vulnerable are slipping further down the debt spiral.\n\nAlthough the government said in February that they will regulate the sector, they haven't done so yet.\n\nThese included sleepless nights, ignoring texts, emails and letters in case they were about debts, avoiding answering the door, borrowing money to repay the debt, or deteriorating mental health.\n\nCitizens Advice said that a woman aged in her 60s was trying to buy plants online, but struggled to find the postage cost at the checkout and decided to abandon her purchase.\n\nThe keen gardener was surprised to receive an email saying she had signed up to a buy now pay later agreement, and tried to cancel her order.\n\nShe told Citizens Advice: \"I really don't understand how I ended up paying for my plants through buy now, pay later.\n\n\"I didn't understand what it was. Then I get these threatening emails saying they're going to contact debt collectors, and then I got a letter from a debt collector.\n\n\"I couldn't sleep, I lay awake worrying that someone was going to turn up to my house and start taking things. I have a number of health issues and I was worried this was going to make me ill again. It was eventually resolved, but at great stress to me.\"\n\nMillie Harris, a debt adviser at Citizens Advice East Devon, said: \"My concern is that people aren't processing the fact that buy now pay later is credit. They don't realise there are going to be consequences if they don't pay - it gives them a false sense of security.\n\n\"I've seen people using it for their kids' clothes and shoes that they would otherwise never be able to afford. They are taking out what is effectively a loan, but they don't see it as one.\n\n\"For example, I helped someone who has tens of thousands of pounds of debt, but they don't see buy now pay later as part of that total.\n\nDame Clare Moriarty, chief executive of Citizens Advice, agrees: \"A seamless buy now pay later checkout process should not mean shoppers have to dig around in the small print to find out they're taking out a credit agreement, and could be referred to debt collectors if they can't pay. The warnings should be unmissable.\"\n\nCitizens Advice is urging anyone who has been contacted by debt collectors to get free, independent debt advice.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"Buy Now Pay Later can be a helpful way to manage your finances but it's important that consumers are protected as these agreements become more popular.\n\n\"By stepping in and regulating, we're making sure people are treated fairly and only offered agreements they can afford.\"\n\nOn 2 February, the government announced it would to bring unregulated interest-free Buy Now Pay Later products into regulation.", "Lisa Brinkworth worked undercover as a model in a documentary for the BBC's Donal McIntyre Investigates series in 1998\n\nA former BBC reporter who claims she was sexually assaulted while working undercover to expose abuse in the fashion industry has given a statement to French police.\n\nLisa Brinkworth posed as a model in a documentary for the BBC's Donal McIntyre Investigates series in 1998.\n\nShe alleges she was sexually assaulted by one of the world's biggest model agents, Gerald Marie, during filming.\n\nAlong with 13 other former models, she is giving details of her alleged assault to French authorities who have begun a preliminary investigation.\n\n\"I would very much like to see justice for them. And particularly because they were just so young and powerless at the time.\n\n\"When it happened to me... I was much older, I was working as a journalist, but when I think about them, at 16 or 17 [years old] in some cases, and completely powerless on their own with him, that's what gives me the drive to carry on.\"\n\nGerald Marie, who was the former European head of Elite Models, through his lawyer, issued a statement saying he \"refutes with dismay these false and defamatory allegations\".\n\n\"He shall be withholding his eventual statements until speaking to the competent authorities.\"\n\nGerald Marie has denied the allegations, made by at least 14 women\n\nAccording to a report in the Guardian newspaper, the investigation is being led by a specialist child protection unit in France.\n\nLisa says that after a dinner with other models and Marie's business friends, she accompanied a small group, including Marie, to a club, where he pinned her down to a chair and sexually assaulted her. She said the incident was witnessed by a number of people, including her colleague Donal MacIntyre.\n\nAfterwards, she recorded her account of the assault on camera, but did not go to the police.\n\n\"I was directed not to at the time, because it would have cut short the investigation. At that time, we were working very intensively undercover. I was working 20 hour days, I think we were exhausted. We were so focused on the story. I didn't question that wisdom. And I know now I should have done.\n\n\"And then of course, in retrospect, I wish I had. It's only recently when I decided to look at this again, and I started to investigate and I started to revisit this, and women were prepared to speak out.\"\n\nLisa Brinkworth recorded her account of the assault on camera at the time\n\nAfter the documentary aired in November 1999, Elite Models sued the BBC alleging misrepresentation.\n\nThey reached a confidential settlement which included the BBC not airing the documentary ever again. The BBC also told Lisa that the settlement agreement prevented it providing footage to her.\n\n\"It just seems so, so wrong to me that these women have gone through some decades really carrying this trauma,\" Lisa says.\n\n\"I feel responsibility myself because I started doing that work. And I feel that the settlement with Elite sort of halted progress.\"\n\nUnder French law, all of the women have exhausted their statute of limitation - the time in which they could have pursued a criminal case against Gerald Marie.\n\nBut Anne-Claire Lejeune, Lisa's lawyer, says she argued with the Paris prosecutor that Lisa was prevented at the time from being able to seek criminal justice and therefore her statute of limitations should be paused in order for an investigation to begin.\n\nShe says that argument, combined with the number of women making similar accusations against Marie, ultimately convinced the prosecutor to give the go-ahead for a preliminary investigation.\n\n\"I had four victims who contacted me last September, who told me their stories, that they were raped - when they were a minor, for some of them, and for others when they were 20 or 22, and they wanted to press charges against Gerald Marie.\n\n\"So we submitted their testimonies to the French Prosecutor and he decided to open a preliminary investigation against Gerald Marie for rapes and sexual assault.\"\n\nAnne-Claire says she has so far spoken with 31 women who have detailed similar accusations against Gerald Marie. She confirms that 14 will be interviewed by French authorities, but the rest are \"not ready to talk officially right now\".\n\n\"For women who don't feel ready to talk, they can give their testimony without giving their names. They can stay anonymous during the investigation. They can write to me and I'll submit it to the prosecutor or they can write to the prosecutor directly.\"\n\nLisa believes the undercover recordings she gathered for the BBC documentary are evidence of her assault and has requested the footage from her former employer. So far, she says, they have refused to pass it on to her.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, ex model Carrie Otis has launched a separate legal action against Gerald Marie, accusing him of repeatedly raping her in Paris when she was 17.\n\nCatherine Donaldson is also going to Paris to give an account of her sexual assault accusation against Gerald Marie. She says in 1985, when she was an aspiring model, he invited her to his apartment after convincing her he was having a party. No-one else turned up, she claims, and Marie offered her drugs, which she declined, before he \"pounced on her\", sexually assaulting her.\n\n\"My agent in England knew that this could potentially happen to me in Paris, but as she said, she thought I could handle it,\" says Catherine.\n\n\"It was recognised, enough people knew he was doing that. He was allowed.\"\n\nShe later went on to make a film called Couch, which was a fictionalised version, she says of her experience with Gerald Marie.\n\nLaurie Marsden, who lives in Australia, claims in that 1982, Gerald Marie pushed her onto a bed and attempted to rape her after a party at his flat in Paris.\n\n\"One of the questions that people ask is, well, why didn't you report it at the time? And I say that is the wrong question. The question is, why did it take so long for women to be heard, for women to feel comfortable to come forward and tell their stories, for women to be believed and not to be victim blamed?\"\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it was \"doing everything\" it could to assist Lisa with her complaint.\n\n\"We take these matters very seriously and we know this is distressing for Lisa Brinkworth. We are doing everything we can to help Lisa pursue her complaint with the French authorities.\n\n\"Our lawyers have provided documents to the French investigators and to Lisa and we are in continuing discussions with Lisa and her lawyers on how we can help further as the legal process progresses.\"\n\nAnne-Claire says she believes there are potentially more women, within the statute of limitations, who can contribute to the investigation, but who are unaware that one is being conducted.\n\n\"That's why my clients want to send a message saying if you have been a victim then please come forward.\"\n\nHave you been personally affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "An anti-Taliban machine-gunner in Panjshir on Thursday\n\nHeavy fighting is reported between Taliban forces and resistance fighters in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley.\n\nThe Taliban said they had taken some territory and inflicted \"heavy\" losses on the National Resistance Front (NRF).\n\nBut the NRF said it had control of all entrances to the valley, and the Taliban had lost hundreds of fighters.\n\nPanjshir is the only province that has not fallen to the Islamist group and thousands of opposition fighters are believed to have massed there.\n\nThe resistance - which includes former Vice-President Amrullah Saleh, former Afghan security force members and local militias - is led by local tribal leader Ahmad Massoud. Massoud's father held off the Soviets in the 1980s and the Taliban in the 1990s.\n\nMeanwhile US President Joe Biden visited troops who were injured in a devastating bomb attack at Kabul airport as they helped to evacuate Americans and Afghans from the country. Thirteen US soldiers were among some 170 people killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Bodies of US troops returned to America\n\nHe made the visit four days after the last American soldiers left Afghanistan, where the Western-backed government had crumbled in the face of a Taliban offensive this summer.\n\nBiden is inside a military hospital here in Maryland, visiting the wounded. I travelled with him in the motorcade, along with about a dozen other journalists who are part of a press pool.\n\nNo-one was allowed to say where the president was going, and his visit remained a secret until until we arrived at the hospital. Now that he is here, the news of his visit can be disclosed.\n\nBiden has been criticised for his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and for the way that he has overseen the events of the past few weeks.\n\nHis visit to the hospital is a way for him to pay tribute to the sacrifices that people have made. It is also a reminder of the cost of war, and why he said the US should leave Afghanistan.\n\nWhite House officials carried big bouquets of flowers inside the hospital, to help brighten the rooms of the injured men and women.\n\nTaliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that fighters had moved into the Panjshir Valley after negotiations failed, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nTalks failed because the two sides held very different positions, BBC Persian quoted NRF spokesman Fahim Dashti as saying.\n\nHe said they were fighting the Taliban on two fronts and that 350 Taliban fighters had been killed and a number captured.\n\nClaims from either side are difficult to verify.\n\nReports of Taliban fighters searching for, and killing, people such as senior police officials and government officials contradict the more moderate image the group sought to portray when it took control of the country.\n\nAre you a British national in Afghanistan or did you work for the UK government in Afghanistan? If it is safe to do so please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "At least 18 councils across the UK confirmed on Thursday that they are experiencing ongoing disruptions to their bin collection services.\n\nIt is due to staff self-isolating and a lack of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers for bin lorries.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) told the BBC that the delays were primarily affecting garden waste.\n\nHowever, some councils are also delaying recycling collections in order to prioritise general waste.\n\nIt comes as three councils in Devon wrote to Home Secretary Priti Patel on Thursday, asking for the government to grant temporary visas for trained European HGV drivers to ease the shortage.\n\n\"At the time of writing, North Devon Council are attempting to fill seven [bin lorry driver] vacancies, Torbay Council eight vacancies, and Teignbridge Council 10 vacancies,\" wrote councillors Steve Darling, David Worden and Alistair Dewhirst.\n\n\"This equates to approximately 20% of the HGV workforce in driver vacancies and it is proving very challenging to fill this resourcing gap given the dynamics of this labour market.\"\n\nThe UK currently has a shortfall of about 100,000 HGV drivers, after many EU workers returned home following Brexit and during the pandemic.\n\nMinisters say UK employers should hire locally to fill the gap, but the councils said it would take time to train the next generation of drivers. They also highlighted delays in the current HGV driver recruitment process.\n\n\"With our efforts to 'grow our own' HGV drivers, we need their DVLA applications to be fast tracked, as for example in Teignbridge, there are five [bin lorry driver] applications in the system which if fast tracked could help partially tackle the challenges we face,\" the councillors stressed.\n\nThe BBC understands that the DVSA has already increased the number of vocational tests from 2,000 a week to 3,000, and the DVLA are prioritising HGV provisional licence applications and taking about two weeks to issue them.\n\nHaulage firms are offering sign-on bonuses and pay rises but councils say this is affecting them and their partners\n\nWaste management giants Biffa, Veolia and FCC Environment told the BBC they are \"doing everything\" they can to mitigate the driver shortage.\n\n\"We are working hard to recruit new drivers, offering great rates of pay alongside fantastic benefits, as well as full training,\" said Biffa's human resources director Jane Pateman.\n\nVeolia said it currently has 180 bin lorry driver vacancies in the UK. In August, it launched a campaign encouraging mothers to consider a new career in driving for the waste management industry.\n\n\"To meet the industry-wide shortage of drivers, Veolia are offering incentives such as a sign-on bonus for new staff, and a retention bonus for existing drivers in areas where we are most affected,\" said Veolia UK and Ireland's chief human resources officer Beth Whittaker.\n\n\"We are also up-skilling existing staff and utilising our extensive apprenticeship scheme.\"\n\nThe councils confirmed to be experiencing ongoing bin collection delays are:\n\nRecycling and waste management firm FCC Environment said it too was trying to attract more workers to the profession.\n\n\"We are focused on actively recruiting drivers across the country, offering local people local employment with job security in the waste and recycling sector, and an attractive package that includes flexible, part-time hours with no overnight stays, fitting around family life and helping work/life balance,\" said FCC Environment's operations director Steve Longdon.\n\n\"In the short-term in some areas, working in close agreement with our local authority partners, we have prioritised waste and recycling collections - enabling these to continue by temporarily suspending other services, such as garden waste collections, to allow us to reallocate drivers.\"\n\nHowever the LGA said that the haulage industry was causing part of the problem: \"Fast inflating HGV driver salaries in the private sector risks exacerbating issues in the public sector, with the rises potentially creating a retention as well as a recruitment problem for councils and their contractors.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the LGA released a report showing 46% of councils in England and Wales experienced disruptions to their bin collection services in July.\n\nDr Adam Read, director of external affairs at Suez Recycling & Recovery UK, told BBC Breakfast that chronic driver shortages had been going on for about 10 to 12 weeks.\n\nVeolia launched a campaign in August asking mothers to consider a new career in the waste management industry\n\nHe set out what he sees as the benefits to working as an HGV driver in waste management: \"You might start early, but you finish early and you get to pick the kids up.\n\n\"You're not working long shifts and certainly not driving long distances, a lot of it is close to where you live - so there are some upsides to the sector.\"\n\nHe did concede, however, that waste collection firms do not typically pay as well as delivery agencies or supermarkets.\n\n\"In some geographies, we've seen some staff start to have their head turned by slightly better pay conditions,\" he added.\n\nIn a bid to tackle the wider HGV driver shortage, supermarkets such as Tesco and Aldi have increased wages or started to offer sign-on bonuses for delivery drivers.\n\nFrance closing its border with the UK in December 2020 led to a huge tailback as more than 6,300 lorries\n\nBefore the pandemic, there was a shortage of an estimated 60,000 HGV drivers, according to the Road Haulage Association, but that's now risen to 100,000.\n\nSince Brexit, many European drivers who worked in the UK have returned to their home countries or decided to work elsewhere due to the additional paperwork required at borders. It slows them down and costs them money, as they are often paid by distance covered rather than per hour.\n\nPandemic travel restrictions and a lack of Covid tests for drivers have also played a part.\n\nThousands of lorry drivers were forced to spend Christmas in their cabs in December, after France closed its border with the UK due to a backlog in coronavirus testing.\n\nAbout 4,000 lorries had to park at Manston Airport in Kent, with another 2,300 held on the M20, creating a long tailback.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The diary of a former journalist records how Covid changed care home life\n\n\"I now have to get used to being alone all day, no-one to talk to.\"\n\nThose are the words of 94-year-old Bob Skinner, who has kept a diary of life at a care home during the pandemic.\n\nThe diary - which has been turned into a book - tells of the isolation felt by a \"forgotten army\" as they were forced to shield from the world, with visits banned.\n\nMr Skinner also revealed how he needed hospital treatment after catching Covid - but lived to tell the tale.\n\n\"I was unlucky - I thought it was coming because I had a cold, I really felt very ill,\" he said.\n\n\"I was in hospital for three weeks, I didn't think I was coming back, but I made it back.\"\n\nMr Skinner, a former journalist and PR executive, moved into Sunrise, a senior living home in Cardiff two years ago, not long before the outbreak began.\n\nHe said he started his diary to \"record my thoughts on the current coronavirus emergency\".\n\nBob wrote about not being able to see family members for a long period of time\n\nIn Pandemic! My Care Home Diary, Mr Skinner tells of his frustration at seeing society gradually going back to normal while he and his fellow residents at care homes across the country were still \"confined to our rooms\" and banned from seeing their loved ones.\n\n\"While the rest of the country starts to experience the pleasures of normal life, our freedom is still very limited and, worse, there seems little prospect of change,\" he wrote.\n\n\"And who is thinking of us, speaking up for us?\"\n\nThe misery of lockdown turned to joy as he was finally reunited with his son Robert, who drove for five hours for a one-hour visit.\n\n\"It was more than a happy reunion after those unreal months - proof that brighter days lie ahead,\" wrote Mr Skinner.\n\n\"I had been looking forward for so long to today and was standing by the window watching for him to arrive.\"\n\nBob Skinner wrote a diary throughout lockdown about living in a care home\n\nA former soldier, Mr Skinner likened the days after World War Two to the period emerging from the pandemic.\n\n\"Those were grim days, but you can see now there is hope coming,\" he said.\n\n\"But if people look after other people, things are going to get better.\n\n\"There are huge challenges ahead, vast changes, the pandemic won't disappear. I think it will get better, what it needs now is for an honest review of what can be done and how people can be kept safe.\"\n\nBob detailed his experiences - including being taken into hospital after contracting Covid\n\nThere have been 1,680 Covid-19 deaths in care homes up to 20 August, making up 21% of all coronavirus deaths in Wales.\n\nThere were no registered Covid deaths involving care home residents in the latest week, according to ONS.\n\nCare Inspectorate Wales said in the latest two weeks, up to 25 August, there had been four reported deaths of care home residents relating to suspected or confirmed Covid.\n\nIt said there were 80 care homes that have reported cases involving staff or residents in the past week, \"generally increasing\" since the start of June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The EU and UK-Swedish drug-maker AstraZeneca have settled a row over a shortfall in coronavirus vaccines that affected the European rollout earlier this year.\n\nAstraZeneca has agreed to deliver 200 million doses of its vaccine, which had been promised under a contract, to the EU by the end of March 2022.\n\nThe deal puts an end to the EU's pending action in the Belgian courts.\n\nThe EU said this week that 70% of adults had been double vaccinated.\n\nEarlier this year AstraZeneca angered European Commission officials when it said it could only deliver a fraction of the doses agreed for the first three months of 2021.\n\nThe bitter dispute overshadowed the initial weeks of the vaccine rollout across the EU's 27 countries. The Commission accused the company of breaking an August 2020 advanced purchase deal while AstraZeneca hit back arguing that the contract only required its \"best effort\" to deliver millions of vaccine doses on time.\n\nAstraZeneca's Covid vaccine, now known as Vaxzevria, has also been hit by age restrictions imposed by several EU countries because of very rare side effects. The EU's medicines agency made clear that the benefits outweighed the risks for all adult groups.\n\nThe delivery row was set to reach the Brussels courts at the end of September and Rudd Dobber of AstraZeneca said he was \"very pleased that we have been able to reach a common understanding\" with the Commission.\n\nEU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said there were still \"significant differences in vaccination rates between our member states, and the continued availability of vaccines, including AstraZeneca's, remains crucial\".\n\nUnder the settlement the two sides agreed that another 60 million doses would be delivered by the end of this month, a further 75 million by the end of December and a final 65 million by the end of March 2022.\n\nToday's agreement seems to resolve an acrimonious dispute that erupted at the start of the year just after the UK had fully and finally left the EU's rules and regulations.\n\nAt first, the row over the detailed legal contract wasn't directly linked to Brexit, but soon became part of it, with the European Commission seeking - for a time - to override part of the deal on Northern Ireland because of its perceived unlawful treatment.\n\nNow the language on both sides is constructive and conciliatory with AstraZeneca promising publicly a partial refund if its impending deliveries to EU countries are late. There will be a 10% rebate for a one-month delay, 25% for two months and 40% for three months.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There are fears wildlife will be harmed if a recycling faciity is developed at the site. Video: Connor Thomas\n\nCampaigners have hit out at plans to build a recycling facility at a quarry they say has become a haven for wildlife after 20 years of disuse.\n\nDolawen Cyf proposes to recycle building waste at Cilyrychen quarry, near Llandybie, Carmarthenshire.\n\nBut Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and local residents have raised concerns over protected species and pollution as a result of the plans.\n\nThe company said it had taken the concerns on board.\n\nWildlife has returned to Cilyrychen quarry since it stopped operating in 2002, with nearby land designated a Special Area of Conservation.\n\nIt includes the Pantllyn Turlough, the only known turlough lake on the UK mainland.\n\nThe area is also home to a nesting pair of peregrine falcons, bats, adders and dormice, according to local residents.\n\nThey said the proposals by Dolawen Cyf, a subsidiary of Ammanford-based TRJ, will not only damage wildlife, but increase pollution.\n\nDavid Harrold says he is concerned about the noise construction could cause and the damage to wildlife\n\n\"The application is ridiculous in this beautiful part of Wales with such a rich heritage and rich culture - to destroy that just doesn't make any sense,\" said David Harrold.\n\n\"It's not the product itself - we need crushed stone to build roads - but there's plenty of other brownfield sites in Wales.\"\n\nMr Harrold, who is also a member of the Save Cilyrychen Quarry group, added noise from lorries was also a concern.\n\nMore than 600 people have signed a petition objecting to the development.\n\nThe quarry has been unused since 2002 and has since become home to a number of protected species\n\nCampaigners have claimed water was already being pumped from the quarry, and say they have photos showing reduced water levels over recent weeks, prompting an investigation by Natural Resources Wales (NRW).\n\nThe environmental body said it could not comment on ongoing planning applications, but in a document submitted to Carmarthenshire council, it noted concerns with \"inadequate information provided regarding protected species, ornithology, protected sites and pollution prevention\".\n\nThe document also references a letter sent to the applicant by NRW stating it must have a licence to remove any water from the quarry.\n\nRuth Davies says she was not informed of the plans\n\nRuth Davies, who owns land adjacent to the quarry, said there had been no consultation with the local community.\n\n\"I discovered this as a result of spotting a planning notice on a public right of way pole,\" she said.\n\nThere is a \"strong feeling\" against the construction, Ms Davies added.\n\nIn its planning application, Dolawen Cyf said it was \"mindful of all comments or objections raised by either statutory consultees and/or third parties regarding its proposals and as such have taken them on board.\n\n\"In order to try and achieve a satisfactory outcome for all parties concerned, the company has requested that its advisors investigate these comments and present workable solutions acceptable to all.\"", "Love him or loathe him, Michael Gove has a reputation in government as a man who gets things done.\n\nOften described as a \"reformer\", he's been given a pretty hefty brief in Boris Johnson's latest cabinet reshuffle - running the department for housing, communities and local government with added responsibility for \"levelling up\" the UK and defending the union.\n\nWhile some have called it a sideways move, for others it's a clear sign of the prime minister's faith in his one-time adversary turned ally.\n\nBoris Johnson has put him in charge of delivering what was a key election promise - addressing regional inequalities and improving people's prospects regardless of where they live.\n\nThe \"levelling up\" agenda has been criticised for being too vague, lacking in definition or strategy and failing to set out how success might be measured.\n\nEarlier this year, Conservative MP Neil O'Brien was appointed as an adviser to give the idea direction, and I understand he's been working internally to try to bring coherence to a concept that spans several departments, with a white paper expected this autumn.\n\nNow he's been given a ministerial role working alongside Michael Gove, who it seems, has been brought in to boost its profile, give it political clout and put some meat on the bones - I'm told he's been 'itching' to get his hands on a department which allows him to get stuck into operational policy.\n\nAs Will Tanner, director of the Onward think-tank and former No 10 advisor put it, he is a '\"heavy hitter\" who is now in charge of a department that will be the \"engine\" for the levelling-up agenda.\n\nProtecting the Green Belt is a top priority in Surrey\n\nBut there are nerves among Tory councillors, who will inevitably be working closely with the new secretary of state.\n\nI understand the leaders of some of the largest Conservative-run councils were on a call on Thursday morning discussing what his appointment might mean, and there was a distinct sense of uncertainty.\n\nMichael Gove's radical ideas have not always proved popular.\n\nDuring his tenure as education secretary he incurred the wrath of many, with controversial reforms that have left him with a toxic reputation among plenty within a sector which he famously branded \"the Blob\".\n\nHis new brief has got some tricky sticking points, not least the government's highly controversial planning reforms. The government announced on Friday it was \"pausing\" the changes, so that Mr Gove could take stock of concerns.\n\nThere are some Conservatives who hope that as a Surrey MP Michael Gove will be particularly alive to the political tension around planning.\n\nThe prospect of what critics see as overdevelopment in Surrey was largely blamed for Tory losses at the local elections in May.\n\nBut while the government is widely thought to have softened its stance on some of the most controversial aspect of its proposals, Boris Johnson is committed to building more homes.\n\nIt's seen as a key element of \"levelling up\" - and some in the Conservative Party wonder whether Mr Gove has been given his new job to drive development.\n\nAs one Tory MP put it, Mr Gove will be \"formidable in that post\", adding: \"We can't tell whether he's been appointed to build any and everywhere regardless of the opposition, or whether he's been appointed to deliver some sort of compromise.\"\n\nMr Gove will also have to work with Labour-controlled councils.\n\nOn hearing the news of Michael Gove's appointment, I'm told jokes about his past speeches - and nightclub dance moves - started doing the rounds among Labour councillors.\n\nThere is real concern, though, that he will introduce radical reform and ride roughshod over opposition.\n\nOne Labour councillor referred to his \"bad reputation\", saying: \"The fear is he'll fly in, make his mark, and fly out like he did in education.\"\n\nSome in Labour do privately feel Mr Gove might boost the profile of local government, which has often felt overlooked - particularly in the debate over social care - but few believe his arrival will solve what they see as an unfair funding system.\n\nOne said the government was \"highly political\" when it came to funding, and though it \"can't get much worse\" they didn't hold out much hope of it getting better.\n\nI'm told Mr Gove has already responded to backbench Conservative MPs who are concerned about planning reforms, which suggests he's willing to engage, though few yet know his thinking.\n\nAnd while Mr Gove's supporters say he's a man of action, his critics point to a past willingness to override opposition to achieve his desired outcome.\n\nThat's proving a worry for some, given the contentious issues now under his charge - the long-running problem of shortfalls in council funding, the creaking social care system and the prospect of local government reorganisation to name a few.\n\nTim Oliver, the Conservative leader of Surrey County Council and chairman of the County Councils Network, said Mr Gove would be an advocate for local government, but suggested he would want reform.\n\n\"He (Mr Gove) understands local government,\" he said.\n\n\"But he will expect us to look at ways we can streamline services and perhaps deliver savings. I don't think he's going to be somebody who's going to provide large bailouts.\"\n\nMost agree the new secretary of state won't be content to simply oversee a department without implementing change.\n\nFor some that's an exciting prospect, for others the cause of nervous anticipation.", "Meat processors are in talks with the government over a shortage of carbon dioxide that could hit meat production.\n\nThe gas is used to stun pigs and chickens prior to slaughtering, and also in the packaging process.\n\nThe carbon dioxide used by the meat industry is a by-product of fertiliser production, but fertiliser factories have been halting production due to soaring natural gas prices.\n\nThe government said it was monitoring the situation \"closely\".\n\nIt has been holding emergency talks with industry groups and meat processors, as first reported by the Financial Times.\n\nFertiliser producers have been struggling with natural gas prices that are at record highs as economies around the world begin to recover from the Covid crisis.\n\nIn the UK, lower winds have meant less renewable energy is generated, there have been outages at some nuclear stations, and there have been lower flows into the UK of natural gas from Norway, pushing up the price of natural gas.\n\nThis week, two large UK fertiliser factories owned by US firm CF Industries Holdings suspended operations due to soaring gas prices, and on Friday Norwegian firm Yara said it would also cut production at a number of its European plants.\n\nNick Allen, the chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA), attended emergency talks with the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on Friday to discuss the issue.\n\n\"This crisis highlights the fact that the British food supply chain is at the mercy of a small number of major fertiliser producers - four or five companies - spread across northern Europe. We rely on a by-product from their production process to keep Britain's food chain moving,\" Mr Allen said.\n\nAbout 20 million birds per week are slaughtered, but abattoirs only hold a limited stock of carbon dioxide, British Poultry Council chief executive Richard Griffiths said.\n\n\"With fewer than 100 days to go until Christmas, and already facing mounting labour shortages, the last thing British poultry production needs is more pressure.\n\n\"If CO2 supplies become tighter and more unpredictable then supply chains will have to slow down. Ultimately, no CO2 means no throughput.\"\n\nHe said the industry group's members \"are on a knife-edge situation at the moment\".\n\nMeat processors are working with government to \"mitigate any major impact on a sustainable supply of food\", he added.\n\n\"This is incredibly serious,\" one supermarket executive told the BBC. \"Some suppliers are telling us they could run out of CO2 in less than two weeks.\"\n\nIndustry groups and processors also had a meeting with the government on Thursday.\n\nMeat processors have already been struggling with a shortage of lorry drivers and recruitment problems at abattoirs exacerbated by EU nationals leaving the UK after Brexit.\n\nCarbon dioxide is used when slaughtering pigs and chickens to stun them, and it is used during the packaging process for all meat to prolong shelf life.\n\nIt is widely used throughout the food industry, including in brewing.\n\nHowever, the closure of the two CF Industries plants has cut 60% of the UK's food-grade carbon dioxide supply, the BMPA spokesperson said.\n\nIt unclear how much carbon dioxide abattoirs and other food factories have stored.\n\nThe remaining UK carbon dioxide production is being prioritised for the NHS for medical uses, and for the nuclear industry, which uses it as a coolant.\n\nWithout carbon dioxide, the slaughtering process of pigs and chickens cannot go ahead, the spokesperson said.\n\nThe Cucumber Growers Association also warned of the effect of high natural gas prices on crops.\n\nGas is used to heat greenhouses and provide carbon dioxide \"which are both critical factors in growing and achieving the yields required to survive in the modern industry\", it said in an open letter.\n\nThe \"extreme rise\" in wholesale gas prices has piled costs on growers, it added.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are monitoring this situation closely and are in regular contact with the food and farming organisations and industry, to help them manage the current situation.\"", "The hit series focuses on the fictional chess player Beth Harmon, played by Anya Taylor-Joy\n\nGeorgian chess icon Nona Gaprindashvili has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix, saying she was incorrectly portrayed in the hit series The Queen's Gambit.\n\nThe case refers to a sequence in the drama's final episode which says Gaprindashvili, now 80, had never played competitive chess with men.\n\nThe document says that by 1968, the year in which the episode is set, she had faced at least 59 male players.\n\nNetflix said the claim had \"no merit\".\n\nThe company said it had \"only the utmost respect\" for Gaprindashvili and her \"illustrious career\" but that it would \"vigorously defend the case\".\n\nNona Gaprindashvili is pictured playing at the International Chess Congress in London in 1964\n\nThe Queen's Gambit is based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis and focuses on a fictional chess player called Beth Harmon, played by Anya Taylor-Joy. The series was released last year, becoming what Netflix described as its \"biggest limited scripted series ever\".\n\nIn the final episode, a commentator mentions Gaprindashvili when describing Harmon: \"The only unusual thing about her, really, is her sex. And even that's not unique in Russia. There's Nona Gaprindashvili, but she's the female world champion and has never faced men.\"\n\nThe 25-page case filed in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday said: \"Netflix brazenly and deliberately lied about Gaprindashvili's achievements for the cheap and cynical purpose of 'heightening the drama' by making it appear that its fictional hero had managed to do what no other woman, including Gaprindashvili, had done.\"\n\nIt added: \"The allegation that Gaprindashvili 'has never faced men' is manifestly false, as well as being grossly sexist and belittling.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Allan Scott: The Queen's Gambit streaming series is \"taken straight from Walter Tevis's imagination\"\n\nBorn in 1941 in the Georgian town of Zugdidi, Gaprindashvili began playing chess at the age of 13, became female World Championship at 20 and was the first woman to be awarded the title of grandmaster, according to the lawsuit.\n\n\"By 1968,\" the lawsuit says, Gaprindashvili \"had competed against at least 59 male chess players (28 of them simultaneously in one game), including at least 10 Grandmasters of that time.\"\n\nGaprindashvili, who lives in Tbilisi and continues to compete in chess tournaments, is seeking $5m (£3.6m) in compensation and the removal of the statement that she had never played against men. The lawsuit says the line had been changed from the book on which the series is based.\n\nThe Queen's Gambit was viewed in more than 62 million households in the first 28 days after its release, according to Netflix. It won two awards at this year's Golden Globes and has garnered 18 nominations at the Emmy Awards, which will take place this weekend.", "Forbes went missing in Aberdeen in 2011\n\nA cat missing for 10 years has been reunited with his owners.\n\nForbes had gone missing in Aberdeen in 2011, leaving Neil and Lucy Henderson \"distraught\".\n\nThe Scottish SPCA was called in after a thin cat was spotted in Aberdeen, and a microchip scan led to the owners. He was found less than two miles from where he went missing.\n\nNow living in Edinburgh, the owners are delighted to have 12-year-old Forbes back in their lives.\n\nThey had searched for their pet for months after he went missing.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited with Forbes\n\nMr Henderson said: \"When Forbes first went missing in March 2011, we were distraught. We'd had him from when he was a kitten and we had such a special bond. He was such a unique and friendly character, we absolutely adored him.\n\n\"Our friend made posters and we went door-to-door in the area we lived in Rosemount. We asked people to check garages and sheds as we thought he may have just been locked inside.\n\n\"After eight or nine months, we very sadly had to come to the realisation that the worst may have happened.\"\n\nHe said he was \"overcome with emotion\" when he learned that Forbes had been found.\n\n\"My wife phoned when I was on the motorway and she told me I had to pull over. I was completely unprepared for what I was about to be told and hearing that Forbes had been found left me completely astounded,\" said Mr Henderson.\n\nHe immediately turned the car round to go home.\n\n\"We travelled to Aberdeen the next day and when he was brought out, I recognised him immediately. Forbes did give me a big cuddle so I'm hopeful that he remembered us.\n\n\"At the moment, we are just gradually introducing him to our two dogs and two cats. This is just the best outcome for us.\n\n\"We never thought we would see him again. It's like a closed chapter has just opened up. It's a dream come true.\"\n\nAnimal rescue officer Greg Stevenson had been called out when Forbes was spotted and said he found the cat to be very friendly.\n\nHe contacted the phone number on the cat's microchip and got through to Forbes' owners.\n\nHe said: \"I was amazed to hear how long Forbes had been missing for.\n\n\"The owners couldn't believe it but were absolutely over the moon - they were just thrilled to hear that Forbes was coming back to them.\n\n\"We have no way of knowing where Forbes had been all this time or what adventures he might have been on.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson joked that there was only one other cabinet member who had seen more delivery rooms than him\n\nBoris Johnson's new cabinet has met for the first time since he fired a string of ministers and brought in new faces in a wide-ranging reshuffle.\n\nThe prime minister gave his new team what he called \"a half-time pep talk\".\n\n\"This is the moment when we spit out the orange peel, adjust our gum shields and get back on the pitch,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Johnson sacked three of his senior ministers including Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.\n\nBut there were promotions for Liz Truss who becomes foreign secretary, Nadhim Zahawi is the new education secretary and Nadine Dorries was given the role of culture secretary.\n\nMichael Gove replaced Robert Jenrick as the new communities secretary. His appointment comes as the government pauses its planning reforms, which have sparked concern among Conservative MPs.\n\nThe BBC has been told that Mr Gove wants to take stock and discuss concerns with his colleagues.\n\nIn the new Cabinet's first meeting, Mr Johnson praised his government as one \"that delivers things people previously thought was impossible\" citing Brexit and the vaccine programme.\n\nBoris Johnson told his new cabinet they were all there on \"merit\"\n\nHe also said the government was going to \"get social care done\" and enable \"our NHS to bounce back from the pandemic\" as well as fulfilling \"our fundamental project of uniting and levelling up the whole country\".\n\nAnd in a joke about the number of children he has, he said: \"I've been thinking about delivery, I've seen a few delivery rooms, probably more delivery rooms than anyone else in this room.\"\n\nHe added that delivery \"normally involves a superhuman effort by at least one person in this room... but plenty of other people in that room who are essential to the success.\"\n\nOliver Dowden moved from the culture department to become Conservative co-chair, telling staff at party HQ to start preparing for a general election that could be in 20 months time, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nAsked if Mr Dowden was putting the party on an \"election footing\", Environment Secretary George Eustice said \"I think what Oliver Dowden said is that we should be ready for an election whenever it might come.\n\n\"We've still got several years left of this Parliament and we've got a lot that we want to achieve.\"\n\nDominic Raab leaves behind his job as foreign secretary to take up both the justice secretary role and the position of deputy prime minister.\n\nAccording to the Times this has put him on a collision course with his foreign office successor Ms Truss as both ministers vie for access to the government's country residence, Chevening House in Kent.\n\nChevening House has been used since the 1980s as a country retreat and to host international visitors\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said there was a \"long process in place for nominating access\" to the house which would get under way after the reshuffle had been concluded.\n\nAs part of the reshuffle, a number of long-serving ministers lost their jobs including John Whittingdale at the culture department and education minister Nick Gibb, who had been in the role since 2014.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Whittingdale said he was sad to give up his job, adding: \"I quite recognise the prime minister is keen to have a front-facing cabinet that reflects modern Britain.\n\n\"Equally it's no bad thing to have a bit of experience around that table and people who have got a good grasp of the detail of the jobs they are being asked to do.\"\n\nOther ministers returning to the back bench include: Caroline Dinenage, James Duddridge, Luke Hall, Jesse Norman, Graham Stuart, Justin Tomlinson and Matt Warman.\n\nPenny Mordaunt lost her job as Paymaster General but was later made a minister in the Department for International Trade.\n\nConor Burns, a long-term ally of Mr Johnson, had resigned his government job in May 2020 after a report found he used his position as an MP to intimidate a member of the public.\n\nHowever he now returns to government taking on a ministerial role in the Northern Ireland Office.\n\nThere were also a promotion for Alex Chalk who moves from being a justice minister to the position of Solicitor General.\n\nVictoria Atkins becomes a justice minister but will continue to manage the Afghan resettlement scheme, which she took on while at the Home Office.\n\nThe appointment of Anne-Marie Trevelyan as International Trade Secretary was criticised by Labour who drew attention to the MP's previous tweets denying climate change.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said \"at least the last trade secretary only hired climate change deniers\", in an apparent reference to former Australian premier Tony Abbott, who is a trade adviser.", "The row began after a fellow student cut Jurnee Hoffmeyer's hair while on a school bus, her father said\n\nThe father of a seven-year-old girl whose hair was cut by a teacher without parental permission is suing the school district and two staff members for $1m.\n\nJimmy Hoffmeyer's lawsuit says the constitutional rights of his mixed-race daughter have been violated.\n\nHe has pulled his daughter out of the school.\n\nAn investigation by the school district concluded in July that while the teacher had broken school policy she had not acted with racial bias.\n\nShe was reprimanded but allowed to keep her job at Ganiard Elementary School in Mount Pleasant.\n\nJimmy Hoffmeyer told the Associated Press last April that his daughter Jurnee had returned home from school one day with much of the hair on one side of her head cut. A classmate had used scissors to cut Jurnee's long curly hair on a school bus, he said.\n\nTwo days later, Jurnee returned home from school with the hair on the other side of her head cut - even though she had been taken to a hairdresser who had given her an asymmetrical cut to make the different lengths less obvious.\n\nMr Hoffmeyer said he thought another child had done it but Jurnee told him it was a teacher. \"The teacher cut her hair to even it out,\" he told the AP.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children speak about their afro hair: \"My hair is unique, I feel really lucky'\"\n\nThe lawsuit was filed in a federal court in west Michigan against Mount Pleasant Public Schools and two teaching staff, MLive.com reports.\n\nAs well as violating the child's constitutional rights, the lawsuit also alleges racial discrimination, ethnic intimidation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and assault and battery.\n\nThe district \"failed to properly train, monitor, direct, discipline, and supervise their employees and knew or should have known that the employees would engage in the complained of behavior given the improper training, customs, procedures, and policies, and the lack of discipline that existed for employees,\" the lawsuit says.\n\nNo formal response has yet been filed by the defendants and there has been no public comment from the school district.", "The moment of touchdown for Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Honbo\n\nThree Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after completing the country's longest crewed space mission.\n\nThey spent 90 days at the Tianhe module on China's space station, some 380km (240 miles) above Earth.\n\nThe three men had on Thursday boarded the Shenzhou-12 crewed spacecraft and undocked from the space station.\n\nThe successful mission is another demonstration of China's growing confidence and capability in the space domain.\n\nNie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Honbo touched down in the Gobi desert in Inner Mongolia at around 13:35 local time (05:35 GMT) on Friday.\n\nThey had left for space on 17 June, and had lifted off from the same desert.\n\nFile photo of Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng, and Liu Boming at a departure ceremony\n\nThe Shenzhou-12 capsule bears the scorch marks from the heat of re-entry\n\nWhile in space, the three men completed various tasks including transmitting experiment data back to Earth and conducting hours-long spacewalks, according to China's Global Times.\n\nThe core module of the space station, where the astronauts lived, is said to have separate living spaces for each astronaut and a space gym equipped with a specifically designed treadmill and bicycle, the Global Times reported quoting China's Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.\n\nChina has made strides in its space ambitions in recent years. In 2019, it became the first country to send a robotic rover to the far side of the Moon.\n\nBut it had to develop its own space station, in part because it has been excluded from the International Space Station project.\n\nThe US, which leads that partnership with Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan, will not co-operate with China in orbit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The moment the Chinese crew docked with their new space station\n\nThe Tianhe module is the first of a cluster of station segments\n• None First crew blasts off to new China space station", "Lyra McKee was was shot dead in Londonderry in April 2019\n\nTwo men have been charged with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot dead while observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate in April 2019.\n\nThe men, aged 21 and 33, have also been charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life, riot, possession of petrol bombs, throwing petrol bombs and arson.\n\nThe 33-year-old has also been charged with robbery.\n\nA third man, aged 20, has been charged with riot, possession of petrol bombs and throwing petrol bombs.\n\nAll three are expected to appear before Londonderry Magistrates Court via video-link on Friday.\n\nA 19-year-old man, who was also arrested during the same police operation, has been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nA judge has ruled that Prince Andrew's US lawyer can be served with legal papers in a sexual assault case filed by Virginia Giuffre in New York.\n\nIt follows a dispute over whether the prince has been formally notified of the civil claim against him.\n\nNew York judge Lewis Kaplan ruled Ms Giuffre's lawyers could take the US route to serve papers on the prince.\n\nMs Giuffre, 38, claims she was sexually assaulted by the prince at three locations including New York City.\n\nPrince Andrew, the Queen's 61-year-old second son, has consistently denied the allegation.\n\nSeparately, the High Court in London has given the prince's lawyers until next Friday to appeal against its decision to serve papers on him in the UK.\n\nServing of documents is the critical first stage in any claim for damages - it means that a defendant has been made fully aware of the allegations against them by receiving all of the papers in the case.\n\nIf a defendant does not take part in the case after they have been served, they risk automatically losing.\n\nJudge Kaplan, whose ruling emerged in public court records overnight, said that given the dispute over whether the papers had been served in London, it was now entirely lawful for him to order that they should be sent to the prince's Los Angeles-based lawyer Andrew Brettler.\n\nMr Brettler spoke for the prince in a telephone hearing on the case earlier this week - but he was not formally designated as a lawyer who was authorised to accept service for him and pass the material on.\n\nBut Judge Kaplan ruled: \"Service on the defendant's US counsel is reasonably calculated to bring the papers served to the defendant's attention, regardless of whether his US counsel is 'authorised' to accept service on his behalf.\"\n\nThe judge noted that Ms Giuffre's lawyers had already proceeded with an attempt to serve the case on Prince Andrew in London under an international convention between the US and UK courts.\n\nThis request to intervene and assist in handing the documents to the prince was accepted earlier this week at the High Court.\n\nMaster Barbara Fontaine, a senior English judge who oversees requests from foreign courts for help, has authorised officials to begin the process of serving.\n\nShe has given the prince's legal team until next Friday to decide if they will challenge her decision to proceed with serving the papers in the UK.\n\nThe Judicial Office said in a previous statement: \"Lawyers for Prince Andrew have indicated that they may seek to challenge the decision of the High Court to recognise the validity of the Hague Convention request for service made by Ms Giuffre's lawyers.\n\n\"The High Court has directed that any challenge must be made by close of business on September 24.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the prince declined to comment.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the \"slightly arcane legal tussle\" had ended \"with a victory for Virginia Giuffre's lawyers [and] a defeat for Prince Andrew's lawyers\".\n\nThis, he said, had drawn Ms Giuffre's civil case \"one step closer to the courtroom - which is exactly where Prince Andrew and his lawyers don't want it to be\".\n\nMs Giuffre was an accuser of the billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who died in prison in 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre - then known as Virginia Roberts - says she was assaulted by the prince at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nHer case claims Prince Andrew engaged in sexual acts without Ms Giuffre's consent, including when she was 17, knowing how old she was, and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nThe prince has consistently denied the claims and, in 2019, told BBC Two's Newsnight programme: \"It didn't happen.\n\n\"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\n\n\"I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"", "Boris Johnson became prime minister in December 2019 and immediately faced the UK's looming exit from the EU and the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe health crisis has been described as perhaps the biggest challenge the country has faced since World War Two.\n\nMr Johnson’s election win secured him the largest Tory majority in Parliament since 1987.\n\nHe succeeded Theresa May as prime minister. His only previous cabinet post was foreign secretary, which he quit over differences with Mrs May over Brexit.\n\nSince being at 10 Downing Street, he married his fiancee Carrie Symonds and the couple have had two children.", "The government is pausing its controversial planning reforms in England amid an angry backlash from Conservative MPs, government sources have told the BBC.\n\nMichael Gove - who was given the role of housing secretary on Wednesday - is said to want to address MPs' concerns.\n\nThe government has pledged to build 300,000 new homes a year.\n\nAnd ministers had insisted the planning rules needed a radical shake-up to ensure more homes could be delivered.\n\nUnder their proposals, the current system - where local planning officials assess applications case-by-case - would be replaced with new rules based on zones.\n\nCouncils in England would have to classify all land in their area as \"protected\", for \"renewal\", or for \"growth\".\n\nIn protected areas, including areas of natural beauty, places at risk of flooding, and the green belt, development would generally remain restricted.\n\nBut councils would have to look favourably on development in \"renewal\" areas, whilst in \"growth\" zones, applications conforming to pre-agreed local plans would automatically gain initial approval.\n\nLocal residents would get a say on new 10-year plans underpinning the zones, but their ability to comment on individual applications would be curtailed.\n\nCouncils would have to plan for a share of homes from the government's 300,000 annual house building target for England.\n\nPoliticians have generally agreed on the need for more affordable homes in England.\n\nIn 2020 research conducted by the BBC found that the difference between the current housing stock and the number needed for everyone to have a decent home to live in is more than one million homes\n\nHowever, the plans had been met by resistance from the government's own MPs as well as the opposition.\n\nIn a Commons debate last year, former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May described the proposals as \"ill-conceived\" and warned that it would \"build up planning permissions, but not houses\".\n\nEarlier this year, the Conservatives lost their previously safe seat of Chesham and Amersham, in part due to local concerns over increased house building.\n\nLabour's shadow communities secretary Steve Reed said the reforms should be \"scrapped altogether\" adding that they risked \"selling out communities and gagging residents from having a say over development in their area\".\n\nAnother Conservative MP, Bob Seely, who had been highly critical of the changes welcomed the pause. He told the BBC he and other MPs would be meeting Mr Gove next week.\n\nHe said change was needed but expressed concern that the current proposals would give \"too much power to developers\".\n\nTheresa May has been a prominent critic of the government's planning proposals\n\nAnother critic, Conservative Sir Roger Gale, said: \"The zoning concept has got to go and I want a clear undertaking that there will be presumption that top quality agricultural land will not be developed on.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One, Gemma Burgess, a Cambridge University housing expert, said the pause would \"create a period of uncertainty\" and developers and house builders were likely to get \"nervous\" because \"we don't know what's coming next\".\n\nAndrew Whitaker, of The Home Builders Federation, said the \"very inefficient\" current system needed reform because it allowed people too many \"bites of the cherry\" when it came to objecting developments.\n\nHe added that there were \"too many local authorities, particularly in the south-east of England… who don't care about delivering the number of houses that they need in their local area\".\n\nThe appointment of Mr Gove to the housing department, has been met with apprehension in some quarters, given his reputation as a radical reformer.\n\nOne Conservative MP told the BBC: \"We can't tell whether he's been appointed to build any and everywhere regardless of the opposition, or whether he's been appointed to deliver some sort of compromise.\"\n\nA Labour councillor expressed concern Mr Gove would override any opposition to changes, adding \"the fear is he'll fly in, make his mark, and fly out like he did in education\" - a reference to his school reforms and battles with the teachers' unions.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Gove has faced calls to return £100,000 in donations from a property developer on 6 August to avoid any conflict of interest.\n\nParliamentary records show that he received two donations of £50,000 each from Zachariasz Gertler, a British/German developer.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"The Tories are much more interested in taking developers' cash than they are in building affordable and social housing.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Housing, Communities and Local Government said all donations made to Mr Gove \"have been declared publicly and the proper process followed\".", "Over the summer scientists advising the government said the biggest threat to our health security was a coronavirus variant which could spread faster or was resistant to our current vaccines.\n\nWe've been bitten by this before. In April the first cases of the Delta variant were spotted in travellers from India. It started spreading quickly and, by June, it had taken over as the dominant form of the virus in the UK. Later studies suggested it was more contagious and more likely to put those infected in hospital.\n\nDetecting new variants was a key reason why all vaccinated travellers had been told to pay for a private PCR test two days after they arrived back home. We were told that those expensive lab tests were needed to genetically sequence the sample and find out if the next potentially more dangerous variant had arrived.\n\nWe know that contracting Covid after two doses of a vaccine is still possible, so double jabbed travellers could still bring new variants into the UK.\n\nBut critics said that, in reality, the proportion of samples that could be analysed in this way was very low – partly because a certain level of virus was needed for the test to work properly. The latest figures suggest that between 12 August and 1 September only about 25% of positive cases in travellers arriving in the UK were successfully sequenced.\n\nUnder the new plans fully vaccinated travellers will instead be able to pay for a cheaper, but less sensitive, lateral flow test which can be taken quickly at home.\n\nLFTs cannot be sequenced so anyone who tests positive will be asked to take a second follow-up PCR lab test, which will be paid for by the NHS.\n\nBut there is a worry that without regular, automatic PCR testing of all samples, more variants could slip through the net and weaken our defences against coronavirus in the future.", "The aftermath of the drone strike in the Afghan capital, Kabul\n\nThe US has admitted that a drone strike in Kabul days before its military pullout killed 10 innocent people.\n\nA US Central Command investigation found that an aid worker and nine members of his family, including seven children, died in the 29 August strike.\n\nThe youngest child, Sumaya, was just two years old.\n\nThe deadly strike happened days after a terror attack at Kabul airport, amid a frenzied evacuation effort following the Taliban's sudden return to power.\n\nIt was one of the US military's final acts in Afghanistan, before ending its 20-year operation in the country.\n\nUS intelligence had tracked the aid worker's car for eight hours, believing it was linked to IS-K militants - a local branch of the Islamic State (IS) group, US Central Command Gen Kenneth McKenzie said.\n\nThe investigation found the man's car had been seen at a compound associated with IS-K, and its movements aligned with other intelligence about the terror group's plans for an attack on Kabul airport.\n\nAt one point, a surveillance drone saw men loading what appeared to be explosives into the boot of the car, but these turned out to be containers of water.\n\nGen McKenzie described the strike as a \"tragic mistake\", and added that the Taliban had not been involved in the intelligence that led to the strike.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emal Ahmadi: \"Ten people died here... including my daughter, she was two years old\"\n\nThe strike happened as the aid worker - named as Zamairi Ahmadi - pulled into the driveway of his home, 3km (1.8 miles) from the airport.\n\nThe explosion set off a secondary blast, which US officials initially said was proof that the car was indeed carrying explosives. However the investigation has found it was most likely caused by a propane tank in the driveway.\n\nOne of those killed, Ahmad Naser, had been a translator with US forces. Other victims had previously worked for international organisations and held visas allowing them entry to the US.\n\nRelatives of the victims told the BBC the day after the strike that they had applied to be evacuated, and had been waiting for a phone call telling them to go to the airport.\n\nIn a statement, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said: \"We now know that there was no connection between Mr Ahmadi and Isis-Khorasan, that his activities on that day were completely harmless and not at all related to the imminent threat we believed we faced.\n\n\"We apologise, and we will endeavour to learn from this horrible mistake.\"\n\nThe horrific consequences of the US military's miscalculation have drawn questions about the accuracy of future counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan with a US presence no longer on the ground.\n\nThis catastrophe exposed the dreadful human cost of a war that inflicted a lot of damage from the air for years.\n\nThat it should take place just as the Americans ended their 20-year occupation will cast an even darker stain on the chaotic US exit.\n\nBut for some in the region, it is a particularly stark example of the ongoing dangers of drone warfare.\n\nWhen the US started to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban managed to seize control of the country within about two weeks in a lightning-fast offensive.\n\nPresident Ashraf Ghani fled to the United Arab Emirates, and Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, fell on 15 August.\n\nIt sparked a mass evacuation effort from the US and its allies, as thousands of people tried to flee. Many were foreign nationals or Afghans who had worked for foreign governments.\n\nThere were scenes of panic and chaos at Kabul airport, and some people fell to their deaths after trying to cling to US military planes as they took off.\n\nThe security situation was further heightened after a suicide bomber killed up to 170 civilians and 13 US troops outside the airport on 26 August. IS-K said it had carried out the attack.\n\nMany of those killed had been hoping to board evacuation flights leaving the city.\n\nThe last US soldier left Afghanistan on 31 August - the deadline President Joe Biden had set for the US withdrawal.\n\nMore than 124,000 foreigners and Afghans were flown out of the country beforehand. But some people were unable to get out in time, and evacuation efforts are ongoing.", "It is understood Michael D Higgins was expected to attend\n\nThe leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has called for Irish President Michael D Higgins to reconsider his decision to turn down an invite to a church service to mark Northern Ireland's centenary.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said \"politics are at play\" in the decision.\n\nEarlier, the Alliance Party also said President Higgins should reconsider.\n\nThe Queen has been invited to the service, which has been organised by Christian church leaders.\n\nIt will take place at the Church of Ireland cathedral in Armagh city on 21 October.\n\nThe inter-denominational service is part of a programme of events to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland and the formation of Northern Ireland in 1921.\n\nOn Wednesday, a spokesperson for President Higgins said he was \"not in a position to attend the ceremony and this has been communicated to the organisers\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says \"there may be some politics\" in the president's decision not to attend the service\n\nIt is understood he had been expected to attend. He did not offer any further explanation of his decision.\n\nRTÉ reports that the Irish government said it did not advise President Higgins to decline an invitation to attend the church service.\n\nBut the Irish government told BBC News NI that \"the president's diary is a matter for the president and it would not be appropriate to comment\".\n\n\"Any invitation for a government representative to attend the ceremony will be considered,\" it added.\n\nSir Jeffrey, who has written to President Higgins about the matter, said it was a \"disappointing and retrograde step\" by the president.\n\n\"We hope he will rethink this decision - it is not conducive to the kind of respectful relationship with the head of state of our neighbouring jurisdiction,\" he said.\n\n\"In the absence of clarity around the reason for him not attending many may reach a conclusion that it is a decision based on politics.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey said the service was about \"marking the centenary\", which he added was a \"fairly neutral term\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Colum Eastwood defends President Michael D Higgins over his non-attendance at the centenary service\n\nFormer Presbyterian Moderator Dr John Dunlop said he was disappointed by the decision.\n\n\"This is a time when I think you have to consolidate bridges especially in a time like this when things between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland or between Ireland and Northern Ireland are a bit fraught and a bit fragile,\" he said.\n\nAlliance Party MP Stephen Farry also said President Higgins should reconsider his position.\n\n\"This event is very much in keeping with the reconciliation efforts of successive Irish presidents and the Queen over recent years and the inclusive approach to marking the decade of centenaries,\" he said.\n\nHowever independent assembly member Trevor Lunn, formerly of the Alliance Party, tweeted in support of the president's decision.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Trevor Lunn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I don't see it as a discourtesy to Her Majesty, just a correct if difficult decision,\" he wrote.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said people should take President Higgins \"at his word when he says he can not be there\".\n\nMr Eastwood said President Higgins had a track record of reconciliation.\n\nHe said: \"President Higgins' term has been marked by diversity and reaching out to all traditions across our island.\n\n\"He has been an advocate of bringing people together and I think people should not read too much into this given all that he has done for community relations and reconciliation across Ireland.\"\n\nUlster Unionist Party assembly member Mike Nesbitt described the move as \"surprising and uncharacteristic from someone who has shown a consistent willingness to reach out and promote reconciliation\".\n\n\"The reciprocal state visits were a high watermark in Anglo-Irish relations and until we know the reason why he is not in a position to attend, we cannot be critical,\" he said.\n\nThe leader of Aontú, Peadar Tóibín, said President Higgins had made \"the right decision not to attend the event\".\n\n\"There isn't a president in the world that would attend an event to mark, commemorate or celebrate the partition of his or her country,\" he said.\n\nThe Independent Group of Senators in the Republic of Ireland has expressed its concern at President Higgins' decision.\n\nSenator Gerard Craughwell, who is a member of the group, said he was \"deeply disappointed\".\n\n\"It is a commemoration service, not a celebration service, so there should be no political connotations whatsoever to the event,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nSo far the church leaders have made no comment about the issue.\n\nPresident Higgins is in Italy and has not yet responded to calls for him to reconsider his decision or give his reasons.", "David Gomoh was stabbed at least nine times\n\nFour gang members have received life sentences for the murder of a \"charismatic and intelligent\" NHS worker who died in front of his family.\n\nDavid Gomoh, 24, staggered home after being stabbed while on the phone to his girlfriend in Canning Town, east London, in April 2020.\n\nHe had no links to any gangs but was randomly targeted as part of a feud.\n\nHis death was part of a \"petty but fatal game of one-upmanship\" played out on the streets, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMuhammad Jalloh, 19, from Stratford, east London, and Vagnei Colubali, 23, from Cambridge, were jailed for a minimum of 27 years.\n\nDavid Ture, 19, of no fixed address, was given 26 years and Alex Melaku, 18, of Telford, 21 years.\n\nMelaku only became an adult one day before sentencing, meaning he has been identified for the first time.\n\n(L to R): Vagnei Colubali, David Ture, Mohammad Jalloh and Alex Melaku have been jailed for life\n\nAll four defendants were also sentenced to concurrent terms for conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm with intent to an unidentified man who escaped.\n\nJudge Mark Lucraft QC, the Recorder of London, said the killers had carried out a \"brutal murder\" which had involved a \"significant degree\" of planning.\n\nMr Gomoh, a marketing graduate, who worked in procurement for the health service, had been in the \"wrong place at the wrong time\", he added.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, his mother Marian said she was \"haunted\" by recurring nightmares about what happened, adding: \"I felt numb, paralysed by grief and pain. Why David?\"\n\nShe said the \"psychological and emotional torture escalated\" during the trial, as she listened to details of what happened to her \"beautiful son\".\n\nShe said her son's murderers had \"walked uninvited into our lives and destroyed David's life\".\n\nThe defendants have \"wrecked our family\", she said, adding: \"Their contempt for a human life is just beyond comprehension.\"\n\nHis sister Lizzie paid tribute to her \"fun-loving, amazing brother\", adding that his death had had a \"devastating impact on us all\".\n\nShe said: \"It still feels so raw and so fresh.\"\n\nReferring to her brother's killers, she said: \"I hope they will eventually show remorse.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Laurence Smith described it as a \"senseless attack on a completely innocent man\".\n\nHe said: \"Despite the significant evidence linking them to this crime, all four refused to admit to their actions, meaning David's family and friends had to sit through a trial and relive the worst night of their lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Wanted's Tom Parker: \"Live today like it's your last\"\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker says he refuses to let cancer dominate his life, almost a year after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.\n\n\"It's not that I'm ignoring cancer but I just don't want to pay it any attention,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"The more attention you pay it, the more it consumes your life and I don't want to consume my life.\n\n\"I've got kids, I've got family. So I just try and just ignore it as much as possible.\"\n\nThe star was speaking to the BBC ahead of a special charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday.\n\nAll proceeds will be split equally between Stand Up To Cancer and the National Brain Appeal.\n\nThe fundraiser will feature Ed Sheeran, Sigrid, Liam Payne and McFly as well as the first appearance for more than seven years by The Wanted.\n\n\"That came out of nowhere to be honest with you,\" said Parker, who thought the band would never return from the \"indefinite hiatus\" they announced in 2014.\n\nDiscussions about a reunion initially took place in 2020, but were put on hold by the pandemic and Parker's cancer diagnosis.\n\nBut after playing four songs at Monday's charity show, they will release a greatest hits album and embark on a 12-date UK tour next March.\n\n\"I'm pretty scared, to be honest, but at the same time very excited,\" said Parker. \"We've been together a little bit over the last few weeks and the chemistry's still the same.\"\n\nThe Wanted (L-R: Jay McGuinnes, Nathan Sykes, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran and Tom Parker) scored hits on both sides of the Atlantic\n\nAnd while playing for fans again has got him excited, another part of life on the road holds equal allure.\n\n\"Do you know what I'm looking forward to? Sleeping on the tour bus again,\" he laughs. \"It was all cosy and stuff. I loved it, I loved our time on the tour bus, probably just as much as being on stage.\"\n\nThings will be different this time around, though. Although Parker's tumour shrunk after six cycles of chemotherapy and 30 rounds of radiation, it is still very much there.\n\nOne of the side-effects is limited movement on his left-hand side.\n\n\"That's hard at times, when you've [got] stilted walking and you can't move your arm properly,\" he said.\n\n\"I was a bit of livewire on stage. So this time it's probably going to be a little calmer,\" he says. \"But The Wanted were never really known for their dancing.\"\n\nThe 33-year-old achieved fame in the early 2010s as one-fifth of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince they went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease, and made the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married actress Kelsey Hardwick in 2018. The couple have two children, Aurelia and Bodhi, who was born weeks after Parker discovered he had cancer last October.\n\nParker, his wife Kelsey and their newborn son Bodhi, in a picture posted to Instagram in March\n\nThe singer described those initial months of treatment as the loneliest time of his life.\n\n\"You feel like you want to curl up and die, to be quite honest with you,\" he told BBC entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson.\n\n\"It took me so long to not be able to be affected by things that I saw online. Every morning I would Google, or go on Twitter and type in glioblastoma, and it would just drag my day down.\n\n\"Now that I've kind of put that to bed, I'm not as obsessed with it. I'm just learning to live my life a little bit more.\"\n\nHe said he had struggled with his weight after losing appetite during chemotherapy.\n\n\"I lost about three-and-a-half stone in about three weeks,\" he recalled. \"That was actually the toughest part, trying to sustain the weight - because obviously you don't have an appetite.\n\n\"We were trying to stick to a diet, trying to eat as clean as possible - but then, you don't want to eat a salad.\n\n\"It was like, 'I'll order KFC,' but you don't really want to put stuff like that in your body. It's a bit of a catch 22.\"\n\nThe singer says he is \"buzzing\" at the prospect of playing live again\n\nParker said he survived the darkest days thanks to the support of his wife - \"she's a warrior\" - and paid tribute to the kindness of fans and strangers.\n\n\"People are just beautiful. They just want to help in any way they can, even just little things like people popping into the shop and bringing you some milk. Just beautiful.\"\n\nHis bandmates Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness and Nathan Sykes have also been \"a great support network,\" he added.\n\n\"I don't think I would have been able to get by to without their help.\"\n\nLooking to the future, he is concentrating on raising his young family and planning The Wanted's tour.\n\n\"It's getting closer by the day. I'm like, 'I probably need to go to the gym and do some work'. But I'm just excited - just buzzing about everyone's involvement in it.\"\n\nThe Wanted split in 2014 after a concert in Oklahoma, USA\n\nThe first step will be Monday's concert, dubbed Inside Your Head, where The Wanted will appear alongside Sigrid, KSI and a specially-recorded performance by Ed Sheeran.\n\n\"I'm genuinely over the moon about it. He's the biggest artist on the planet,\" Parker said.\n\n\"It means the world - not just to me personally but to our community, for the cancer community, for people who are going through glioblastoma.\"\n\nParker's hope is that the concert will not just offer encouragement to patients with brain tumours like his, but that it could change the course of their treatment.\n\n\"No one's been able to find a cure, no one's been able to find a treatment, so we want to focus on trying to get as much money and funding for charities as possible, so they can try and find new breakthroughs.\n\n\"It feels like they're on the cusp of doing it. So hopefully this concert can make a change.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Inventor Sir Clive Sinclair, who popularised the home computer and invented the pocket calculator, has died at his London home aged 81.\n\nHis daughter Belinda Sinclair said he passed away on Thursday morning after having cancer for more than a decade.\n\nSir Clive's products included the ZX series of computers and his ill-fated C5 electric vehicle.\n\nHe was still working on his inventions last week \"because that was what he loved doing\", said Ms Sinclair.\n\n\"He was inventive and imaginative and for him it was exciting and an adventure, it was his passion,\" she added.\n\nHis ZX Spectrum computers brought affordable personal computing to the masses - selling in their millions across the world.\n\nHowever, in a BBC interview in 2013, Sir Clive revealed he did not, at that time, use computers himself.\n\n\"If I had a computer, I'd start thinking I could change this and that, and I don't want to. My wife very kindly looks after that for me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnlike the ZX Spectrum, his attempt to launch an electric vehicle was not successful.\n\nThe C5 launched in 1985 and buyers were disappointed with its limited range, slow speed and inability to climb hills. It caused Sir Clive severe financial problems.\n\nHis daughter said: \"I think sometimes he was a bit too early [with his inventions].\n\n\"He was very good at imagining things that people might like or might need, even though they didn't know they wanted them.\"\n\nHe was a devoted father and grandfather who will be missed by her children Samuel, Henry and Florence, Ms Sinclair said.\n\n\"They were very close to him and cared for him in the last few years,\" she said.\n\nSir Clive leaves three children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.\n• None Sinclair C5 'was ahead of its time'", "Nadhim Zahawi has been sacked as Conservative Party chairman for \"serious breaches\" of the ministerial code after it emerged he paid a penalty to HMRC over unpaid tax.\n\nBelieved to be one of the richest politicians in the House of Commons, Mr Zahawi made his fortune after co-founding the online polling company YouGov.\n\nThe venture was a great success - but questions over the sale of shares in the company and whether this was taxed correctly prompted scrutiny of Mr Zahawi's financial affairs.\n\nMr Zahawi said he was confident he had \"acted properly\", but an inquiry by the prime minister's independent ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus was highly critical.\n\nBefore the issue hit the headlines, the 55-year-old was often relied upon as a solid media performer for the government and has held a number of high-profile roles, including vaccines minister and education secretary, as well as chancellor.\n\nDespite his rapid rise in politics, leading one of the great offices of state might have been unthinkable for Mr Zahawi as a child.\n\n\"I must be one of the luckiest human beings on earth,\" the Stratford-upon-Avon MP said reflecting on his early years.\n\nBorn in Iraq in 1967 he could easily have been sent to fight in the 1980s Iran-Iraq War.\n\n\"I would have been drafted in to the Iraqi army, had to go to front line and probably die,\" he told Nick Robinson on the Political Thinking podcast last year.\n\nInstead, he and his parents were forced to flee Iraq and he grew up in Britain.\n\nHis family had been influential in the country - his grandfather was the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq and his signature appeared on the country's banknotes.\n\nHowever, when Saddam Hussein came to power in the late 1970s, they came under threat.\n\nMr Zahawi's father, a businessman, got a tip-off that the authorities were coming for him and quickly arranged to fly out.\n\nHis son has recalled the anxiety of watching the plane preparing to take off from Baghdad Airport.\n\nAfter all the passengers had boarded, a military vehicle drove up to the plane. His mother was in tears as they saw a passenger being removed.\n\nThe passenger turned out not to be his father, but the man who had been sitting behind him on the aircraft.\n\nMr Zahawi described it as a \"traumatic\" childhood moment \"stamped on his memory\".\n\nSo instead of growing up in Iraq, Mr Zahawi grew up in Sussex. He was educated at private and comprehensive schools and became a keen equestrian.\n\nThe children's TV show Teletubbies provided the young Nadhim Zahawi with one of his early business ventures\n\nBut, as he was heading to university another disaster struck the family.\n\nA business venture of his father's fell through, and he, in Mr Zahawi's words, \"lost everything\" except a brown Vauxhall car.\n\nThe young Nadhim Zahawi decided he would use the Vauxhall to become a minicab driver in order to help put food on the table.\n\nHowever, his mother insisted on her son going to university and pawned her jewellery so he wouldn't have to worry about the finances.\n\nAfter studying chemical engineering at University College London, he followed in his father's entrepreneurial footsteps and set up a firm selling Teletubbies merchandise - a company which attracted investment from the then-Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Profile programme, Lord Archer remembered the young Nadhim Zahawi as \"a born organiser\".\n\n\"If you said, 'I need six taxis, three aeroplanes and a double decker bus, all in 30 minutes', he went and did it,\" he said.\n\nThrough Lord Archer's parties, Mr Zahawi met influential Conservative figures including the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.\n\nIn 1994 he became a Conservative councillor in Wandsworth, south London and three years later unsuccessfully stood for Parliament in Erith and Thamesmead.\n\nWhen Lord Archer launched his campaign to become London mayor, Mr Zahawi joined his team.\n\nBut the candidate was forced to pull out of the race, and Mr Zahawi had to look for alternative work.\n\nIn 2000 he founded YouGov, along with another ex-member of team Archer - Stephan Shakespeare.\n\nTen years later, after it had become a hugely successful global company, Mr Zahawi stood down from YouGov to run for Parliament.\n\nIn 2010 he was successful, winning the safe Conservative seat of Stratford-Upon-Avon.\n\nThe Warwickshire constituency of Stratford-Upon-Avon has been held by the Conservatives for over 100 years\n\nParliament was still reeling from the MPs expenses scandal, and Mr Zahawi soon became embroiled in his own transgression when it emerged he had claimed expenses to supply his stables with electricity.\n\nHe said he was \"mortified by this mistake\" and paid back the money.\n\nIt didn't hinder his political progress too much and in January 2018 then-PM Theresa May made him an education minister.\n\nHowever, Mr Zahawi again found himself in trouble, this time for attending a gala held by the men-only Presidents Club.\n\nAn undercover reporter for the Financial Times had revealed the hostesses had been subjected to groping and lewd comments. Mr Zahawi said the event made him \"extremely uncomfortable\" and he left early.\n\nNevertheless, his attendance at the event earned him a reprimand from Downing Street.\n\nMr Zahawi remained a minister when Boris Johnson came to power in July 2019, moving from the education to the business department.\n\nThen in November 2020, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, he was handed what he has called \"the most important job I'll ever do\" - the position of vaccines minister.\n\nFor almost 11 months he oversaw the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine programme, and was able to boast a fair amount of success, especially when the UK raced ahead of many other countries.\n\nSeen as a \"safe pair of hands\", he came to the education secretary role following the sacking of Gavin Williamson, who was unpopular with the public after the exams fiasco during the pandemic.\n\nAs the country's new man in charge of education he faced the unprecedented challenge of ensuring a whole generation of children caught up after having missed months of school as a result of the pandemic.\n\nWhen Rishi Sunak dramatically quit as chancellor in July 2022, Mr Zahawi was given the role - one of the most important positions in the government.\n\nMr Zahawi had been loyal to Mr Johnson, frequently defending him in media interviews.\n\nHowever, after days of turmoil and mass ministerial resignations, he called on Mr Johnson to leave. A few hours later Mr Johnson had announced his resignation.\n\nLiz Truss replaced him as prime minister and made Mr Zahawi minister for equalities and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.\n\nHe wasn't in the job for long. When Rishi Sunak took over as PM in October he moved Mr Zahawi to Conservative Party chairman and minister without portfolio, attending cabinet as part of his role.\n\nMedia reports about his tax affairs first emerged when he was appointed chancellor last July. But further revelations this month piled pressure on Mr Zahawi.\n\nNow, after Mr Sunak asked his independent ethics adviser to investigate, he is no longer party chairman.", "Tests similar to this one, showed the dangers of cladding as early as 2004, it has emerged\n\nLeaked test results suggest the government and construction industry had early evidence of the dangers posed by cladding, 13 years before the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nPanels, commonly used on buildings in the UK, failed fire tests carried out in 2004.\n\nThe results, marked \"Commercial in confidence\", were circulated within an industry advisory group.\n\nThey were recently passed to the BBC and, until now, never made public.\n\nHundreds of thousands of flat owners are now threatened with large bills because of construction materials which pose a risk in fires.\n\nThe 2004 results were among the first from a British test of full-scale building systems, developed in the late 1990s when there were growing concerns in Parliament about the risks of cladding.\n\nThe tests were part of research commissioned by the then Labour government to determine what standards building systems should have to meet.\n\nFive cladding systems were tested, including one with aluminium panels, although the primary aim was not to assess the risk of particular designs\n\nThe aluminium and plastic cladding at Grenfell has been blamed for spreading the fire.\n\nTwo were constructed from high pressure laminate (HPL) boards, formed from wood, or paper fibre, widely used on modern apartment blocks in the UK.\n\nIn the tests, all five cladding systems were judged to have failed against \"proposed performance criteria\".\n\nMost of the tests were carried out without using \"fire breaks\" - extra components which should be fitted to block the spread of flames.\n\nHowever, fire breaks were used in one high pressure laminate panel system, but it still failed.\n\nZoe Bartley bought a three-room flat in Chelmsford four years ago, and with her partner Ash, now has a baby.\n\nThey are desperate to move to a bigger home, but the cladding crisis means they cannot sell the flat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zoe Bartley bought a flat in Chelmsford four years ago but can't sell it due to safety concerns\n\nIt has HPL panels, as well as wooden balconies and missing fire breaks,\n\nZoe finds it \"disgusting\" that the test results were not circulated more widely.\n\nThe couple are anticipating a bill of tens of thousands of pounds to remove the dangerous materials, which could bankrupt them.\n\n\"There's no finish line, and it's all-consuming at times,\" Zoe says.\n\n\"We are very angry that we've been put in this situation.\n\n\"We've done everything right. Everything by the book: 'Buy a property and set yourself up for the future.'\n\n\"I might end up bankrupt by the time I'm in my 30s.\"\n\nHer building is lower than 18 metres, so does not qualify for government funding.\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group called the test results \"staggering new evidence which shows the government and its advisers knew these materials were dangerous, but simply stood back and allowed them to be installed on hundreds of thousands of buildings.\n\n\"The British state knew from this moment on that it was gambling with a disaster in a high-rise, but it chose not to act.\"\n\nJonathan Evans, director of Ash and Lacy, a major UK supplier of cladding systems, said he had never seen the results, and described them as \"really vital bits of information\" which would have helped assess fire risks after Grenfell.\n\nHe said that when poor test data is not made public, it creates a bias towards tests with successful outcomes.\n\n\"We all proceed along the route of thinking these systems are safer than they are, until there's a disaster.\"\n\nNot making poor test data public creates a bias towards tests with successful outcomes, argues Jonathan Evans\n\nHe said a lack of public information about cladding systems in the 2000s may have resulted in governments not abandoning a controversial British standard for building materials, known as Class 0.\n\nThe Grenfell Tower inquiry has heard evidence that this standard was much easier to meet than a stricter European classification, and that keeping it as an option in England and Wales allowed combustible materials to be installed on thousands of buildings.\n\nIf Class 0 had been abandoned and a ban on combustible materials introduced, Grenfell might not have happened, Dr Evans said.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) described the 2004 tests as \"experimental... for a different purpose\" than the rounds of testing ordered in the wake of the Grenfell disaster.\n\nThey were carried out to \"to check the criteria for testing\" rather than to assess the \"intrinsic safety of building materials\", officials said.\n\nThe findings fed into a review of technical standards used by building designers to assess the safety of cladding.\n\nAn MHCLG spokesman said: \"We are taking action to improve building safety where successive governments have failed, through our Building Safety Bill, which marks the biggest improvements to building safety in 40 years, with more rights and protections for residents and a £5bn investment to remove unsafe cladding.\n\n\"The new Building Safety Regulator will enforce a more stringent regulatory regime for buildings over 18m and oversee the safety and performance of all buildings, ensuring products are removed from the market if they do not meet regulation.\"\n\nThe Building Research Establishment, which carried out the tests and circulated them to the industry advisory group, refused to comment.\n\nNext month the Grenfell Tower public inquiry will begin examining evidence of what governments knew about the risks of cladding fires before the 2017 disaster, and what they did about it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nChina has criticised a historic security pact between the US, UK and Australia, describing it as \"extremely irresponsible\" and \"narrow-minded\".\n\nThe deal will see the US and UK give Australia the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time.\n\nIt is being widely viewed as an effort to counter China's influence in the contested South China Sea.\n\nThe region has been a flashpoint for years and tensions there remain high.\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the alliance risked \"severely damaging regional peace... and intensifying the arms race\".\n\nHe criticised what he called \"the obsolete Cold War... mentality\" and warned the three countries were \"hurting their own interests\".\n\nChinese state media carried similar editorials denouncing the pact, and one in the Global Times newspaper said Australia had now \"turned itself into an adversary of China\".\n\nThe US is sharing its submarine technology for the first time in 60 years, having previously only shared it with the UK.\n\nIt means Australia will be able to build nuclear-powered submarines that are faster and harder to detect than conventionally powered fleets. They can stay submerged for months and shoot missiles longer distances - although Australia says it has no intention of putting nuclear weapons on them.\n\nThe new partnership, under the name Aukus, was announced in a joint virtual press conference between US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.\n\nAnd while China was not mentioned directly, the three leaders referred repeatedly to regional security concerns which they said had \"grown significantly\".\n\n\"This is an historic opportunity for the three nations, with like-minded allies and partners, to protect shared values and promote security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region,\" a joint statement read.\n\nThe Aukus alliance is probably the most significant security arrangement between the three nations since World War Two, analysts say.\n\nIt means Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nWhile they are the big-ticket item in the deal, cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence and other undersea technologies will also be shared.\n\nAustralia will also acquire long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, and allow more US troops to be stationed in the country's north.\n\n\"This really shows that all three nations are drawing a line in the sand to start and counter [China's] aggressive moves,\" said Guy Boekenstein from the Asia Society Australia.\n\nBoris Johnson later said the pact would \"preserve security and stability around the world\" and generate \"hundreds of high-skilled jobs\".\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the BBC that China was \"embarking on one of the biggest military spends in history... Our partners in those regions want to be able to stand their own ground.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is everyone fighting over the South China Sea?\n\nIn recent years, Beijing has been accused of raising tensions in disputed territories such as the South China Sea.\n\nIt has been increasingly assertive over what it says are centuries-old rights to the contested region, and has been rapidly building up its military presence to back up those claims.\n\nThe US has bolstered its military presence too, and has been investing heavily in other partnerships in the region such as with Japan and South Korea.\n\nHaving the submarines stationed in Australia is critical to US influence in the region, analysts say.\n\nThe Western powers have also been wary of China's infrastructure investment on Pacific islands, although it remains below US and Australian spending there.\n\nChina is Australia's biggest trading partner, and in the past, the two have maintained good relations. But in recent years that has broken down.\n\nAustralia has accused Beijing of interfering in its domestic politics, blocked Chinese investment, and banned Chinese telecom giant Huawei from building Australian tech infrastructure.\n\nCanberra also echoed a call by the US last year for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus.\n\nBeijing's response was to deliver a series of trade punishments - sanctioning over a dozen Australian goods. It has slapped Australian wine with taxes of up to 200%.\n\nAustralia hopes the new alliance will also help cushion the economic blowback.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday: \"Beijing has seen over the past months that Australia will not back down and the threats of economic retaliation and pressure simply will not work.\"\n\nBut France has also reacted angrily to the new pact, because it means Australia will now abandon a $50bn (€31bn; £27bn) deal with it to build 12 submarines.\n\n\"It's really a stab in the back,\" France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Info radio. \"We had established a relationship of trust with Australia, this trust has been betrayed.\"\n\nThe European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell said he understood why France was disappointed by the deal, adding that the EU was not consulted about the new alliance.\n\n\"This forces us once again... to reflect on the need to make the issue of European strategic autonomy a priority. This shows that we must survive on our own,\" he said on Thursday.\n\nSecretary Blinken said the US cooperated \"incredibly closely\" with France and would continue to do so, adding that \"we place fundamental value on that relationship, on that partnership\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nThe US and UK are facing growing international criticism over a new security pact signed with Australia.\n\nThe deal - seen as an effort to counter China - will see the US and UK give Australia the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nBut the move angered France, which said it had been \"stabbed in the back\", while China accused the three powers of having a \"Cold War mentality\".\n\nAnd the pact has raised fears that it could provoke China into a war.\n\nThe alliance, known as Aukus, was announced by US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on Wednesday.\n\nWhile they did not mention China, Aukus is being widely viewed as an effort to counter Beijing's influence in the contested South China Sea.\n\nMr Johnson later told MPs that the agreement was \"not intended to be adversarial\" to China.\n\nBut the prime minister was questioned by his predecessor, Theresa May, about whether the deal could lead to Britain being dragged into war with China.\n\nShe asked the prime minister about the \"implications\" of the partnership in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"The United Kingdom remains determined to defend international law and that is the strong advice we would give to our friends across the world, and the strong advice that we would give to the government in Beijing.\"\n\nDemocratic Taiwan sees itself as a sovereign state, but Beijing has increased pressure on the island which it views as a breakaway province.\n\nMeanwhile Washington has sought to quell anger in Paris at the pact, which has scuppered a multibillion-dollar submarine deal France had signed with Australia.\n\nFrance's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called the announcement a \"stab in the back\".\n\nHe called it a \"brutal, unilateral and unpredictable decision\" that reminded him of former US President Donald Trump.\n\nFrench diplomats in Washington cancelled a gala to celebrate ties between the US and France in retaliation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is everyone fighting over the South China Sea?\n\n\"It's a very low moment,\" France's former ambassador to the US, Gérard Araud, told the BBC's World Tonight programme. \"The US knew that this contract and this strategic contract were essential French national interests, and the US didn't care.\"\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken called France \"a vital partner\" and said Washington would still work \"incredibly closely\" with Paris.\n\n\"There are a range of partnerships that include the French and some partnerships that don't, and they have partnerships with other countries that don't include us,\" she said. \"That is part of how global diplomacy works.\"\n\nThe pact, which will also see the allies share cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence and other undersea technologies, was described as showing \"profound strategic shifts\" by the UK's national security adviser Stephen Lovegrove.\n\nIt means Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nMr Lovegrove said the pact was \"perhaps the most significant capability collaboration in the world anywhere in the past six decades\".\n\nChina, meanwhile, has accused the allies of having a \"Cold War mentality\" that would hurt their own interests.\n\nThe Chinese state-run Global Times warned of an arms race for nuclear submarines, adding that Australian soldiers were likely to be the \"first to die\" in a Chinese \"counterattack\".\n\nAnd on Friday, China's President Xi Jinping said foreign powers should not be allowed to interfere in the country's affairs.\n\n\"The future of our country's development and progress should lie firmly in our own hands,\" he said, according to state media.\n\n\"This is not the first time that we've seen different outbursts from China in terms of Australia's position,\" he said.\n\n\"We are a proud democracy in our region. We stand with our neighbours in the Indo-Pacific to ensure enduring peace, and this collaboration makes it a safer region. That's the reality and no amount of propaganda can dismiss the facts.\"\n\nMeanwhile, China applied to join a key Asia-Pacific trade pact on Thursday as it attempts to strengthen its position in the region.\n\nThe country's foreign ministry, however, denied that the move to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) was a response to the UK-US-Australia pact.\n\nJoining the CPTPP, which was signed in 2018 by 11 countries including Australia and Japan, would mark a significant boost to China's trading power.", "Reid Steele's family said he was caring and was always asking everyone if they were OK\n\nA two-year-old boy was found unresponsive on a bathroom floor after being submerged in water, an inquest has heard.\n\nReid Steele could not be saved by doctors, with a post-mortem examination revealing he died from cardiac arrest.\n\nAn inquest into Reid's death has been opened at Pontypridd coroner's court and adjourned.\n\nCoroner's officer Robert Lewis said he was found unresponsive at his home by his grandmother.\n\nThis was at about 19:30 BST on 11 August after he had been \"submerged in bath water\", Mr Lewis added.\n\nThe coroner was told that the emergency services were called and Reid was taken to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, where a CT scan was carried out.\n\nPeople left flowers near to the house where Reid was found\n\nReid died the following day, on 12 August 2021.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as \"1a Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy 1b cardiac arrest\".\n\nCoroner Graeme Hughes adjourned the inquest until the conclusion of criminal proceedings.\n\nReid's mother, Natalie Steele, 31, of Broadlands, Bridgend, has been charged with murder.", "Despite all the promises to take action, the world is still on course to heat up to dangerous levels.\n\nThat's the latest blunt assessment of the United Nations.\n\nIts experts have studied the climate plans of more than 100 countries and concluded that we're heading in the wrong direction.\n\nScientists recently confirmed that to avoid the worst impacts of hotter conditions, global carbon emissions needed to be cut by 45% by 2030.\n\nBut this new analysis shows that those emissions are set to rise by 16% during this period.\n\nThat could eventually lead to a temperature rise of 2.7C (4.9F) above pre-industrial times - far above the limits set by the international community.\n\n\"The 16% increase is a huge cause for concern,\" according to Patricia Espinosa, the UN's chief climate negotiator.\n\n\"It is in sharp contrast with the calls by science for rapid, sustained and large-scale emission reductions to prevent the most severe climate consequences and suffering, especially of the most vulnerable, throughout the world.\"\n\nIt's a stark warning about the scale of the challenge faced at the COP26 climate conference, scheduled to take place in Glasgow in just over six weeks' time.\n\nThe central aim of the giant event is to keep alive hopes of limiting the rise in global temperatures by persuading nations to cut their emissions.\n\nUnder the rules of the Paris Agreement on climate change, countries are meant to update their carbon reduction plans every five years.\n\nBut the UN says that of 191 countries taking part in the agreement, only 113 have so far come up with improved pledges.\n\nAlok Sharma, the British minister who will chair the COP26 conference, said nations that had ambitious climate plans were \"already bending the curve of emissions downwards\".\n\n\"But without action from all countries, especially the biggest economies, these efforts risk being in vain.\"\n\nA study by Climate Action Tracker found that of the G20 group of leading industrial nations, only a handful including the UK and the US have strengthened their targets to cut emissions.\n\nIn another analysis, the World Resources Institute and Climate Analytics highlight how China, India, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - together responsible for 33% of greenhouse gases - have yet to submit updated plans.\n\nIt says that Australia and Indonesia have the same carbon reduction targets they did back in 2015 - while the Paris Agreement is meant to involve a \"ratchet mechanism\" of progressively deeper cuts.\n\nAnd the study finds that Brazil, Mexico and Russia all expect their emissions to grow rather than to shrink.\n\nFor the poorest countries - most vulnerable to rising sea levels and new extremes of heat and drought - seeing a rapid fall in the gases heating the planet is a priority.\n\nSonam P Wangdi, chair of the Least Developed Countries group, said: \"G20 countries must take the lead in quickly cutting emissions to mitigate climate change.\n\n\"These are the countries with the greatest capacity and responsibility, and it's well past time they step up and treat this crisis like a crisis.\"\n\nThere are hopes that China may revise its climate plans ahead of the Glasgow conference.\n\nAs the world's largest emitter, it has previously said it aims to peak its emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.\n\nAn announcement soon of more ambitious targets would give the talks a significant boost but there are no clues about when - or even whether - that might happen.", "Manchester United has revealed that broadcasting revenues helped to soften the financial hit from the pandemic.\n\nIn the 12 months to 30 June, the club made £254.8m from broadcasters, 81.7% up on the previous year's £140.2m.\n\nHowever, with games being played without fans due to Covid, matchday revenues fell from £89.8m to £7.1m.\n\nEd Woodward said he was \"more confident than ever\" that the club was \"on the right track\" having signed the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo over the summer.\n\nClub legend Ronaldo returned to United after first departing in 2009. Man Utd will pay the striker's previous club Juventus an initial €15m (£12.8m) for his services, as part of a deal which could rise to €23m over five years.\n\nMr Woodward, executive vice chairman, said the Ronaldo deal, along with the signings of Raphael Varane, Jadon Sancho and Tom Heaton, were \"made possible by the strength of our operating model, with sustained investment in the team underpinned by robust commercial revenues\".\n\n\"While the financial impact from the pandemic is visible, our continued underlying strength is also clear to see and everyone associated with the club can be proud of the resilience we have shown through these most testing of times,\" he said.\n\n\"These signings have demonstrated our continued ability to attract some of the world's best footballers to Old Trafford, and our firm commitment to helping Ole deliver success on the pitch.\"\n\nIn April, thousands of United supporters gathered outside Old Trafford to protest against the club's owners for their involvement in the short-lived European Super League (ESL).\n\nProtestors called for the Glazer family to leave the club, after United became one of the 12 founding members of the competition.\n\nCo-chairman Joel Glazer apologised and admitted the distant nature of the club's American ownership \"was not right\" when he spoke to 11 representatives on a virtual fans forum - the first time any representative of the family had engaged with supporters since the bought the club in 2005.\n\nThe club's total revenues for the year to June dropped from £509m to £494.1m.\n\nUnited reported a net loss of £92.2m for the period - up from £23.2m in 2020 - which was largely down to the accounting impact of a £66.6m tax charge.\n\nLast year, United said it suffered a £70m drop in expected revenue, from £627.1m to £509m, as a direct result of the pandemic.\n\nMr Woodward, will step down from his role at the end of 2021, said while Man Utd was \"confident\", it remained clear that \"football as a whole faces major financial challenges caused by years of material inflation in wages and transfer fees, exacerbated by the impact of the pandemic\".\n\n\"We are committed to working within the Premier League, the ECA and UEFA to promote greater financial sustainability at all levels of the game,\" he said.\n\n\"Global demand for live football is as strong as ever, as evidenced by the robust level of recent domestic and international broadcasting rights deals and record engagement with our own club content.\n\n\"But no club can succeed on its own. We want to be part of healthy, vibrant domestic and European football pyramids, working together with our governing bodies and, most importantly, the fans, to preserve and enhance the magic of our game.\"", "A fire in the Sequoia National Forest in August 2021. Now the fires in the area are threatening the state's sequoia trees\n\nFirefighters are wrapping fire-resistant blankets around ancient trees as blazes tear through California's world-famous Sequoia National Park.\n\nOfficials fear the fire could reach the Giant Forest, a grove of some of the world's biggest trees, within hours.\n\nThe forest hosts some 2,000 sequoias, including the 275ft (83m) General Sherman, the biggest tree by volume on Earth and about 2,200 years old.\n\nThe Colony and Paradise fires have been growing for a week.\n\nMore than 350 firefighters, along with helicopters and water-dropping planes, have been mobilised to battle the blazes.\n\nThey have wrapped several trees, including the General Sherman, with aluminium foil to protect them.\n\nThe Sequoia National Park is home to the biggest tree in the world\n\n\"It's a very significant area for many, many people, so a lot of special effort is going into protecting this grove,\" Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks spokesperson Rebecca Paterson told the LA Times.\n\nBy volume, the General Sherman is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth and is estimated to be at least 2,200 years old.\n\nExperts say sequoia trees are very fire-resistant and have evolved to survive flames.\n\nSparked by lightning, the Paradise and Colony fires have been growing across rugged shrubland in the Sierra Nevada.\n\nThe fires are the latest in a long summer of blazes in California.\n\nMore than 7,400 wildfires have burned in the state this year, scorching more than 2.2 million acres.\n\nThey have been driven by higher temperatures and extreme drought conditions. Climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe Dixie fire, the second-largest ever recorded in California, has now been largely contained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As ash pelts their vehicle, video shows firefighters in Northern California drive through the Tamarack Fire", "Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after a chaotic 45 days in Downing Street. But where did she come from and what makes her tick?\n\nA Remain supporter who became the darling of the Brexit-backing Conservative right wing.\n\nA former Liberal Democrat activist, who marched against Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, but claimed to be the keeper of the Thatcherite flame. It is fair to say that Mary Elizabeth Truss has been on a political journey.\n\nShe was not a household name, like her predecessor Boris Johnson, when she became PM. But she leaves having made history; serving the shortest tenure of any UK prime minister.\n\nDuring the leadership election this summer, her promise to return to fundamental Conservative values - cutting taxes and shrinking the state - proved to be exactly what party members, who got the final say over who took over from Mr Johnson, wanted to hear.\n\nAnd, crucially, as foreign secretary she had remained loyal to Mr Johnson until the bitter end, as other ministers deserted him. It won her favour with Johnson loyalists.\n\nGrassroots Tory supporters of Liz Truss saw in her the steadfast, tenacious and determined qualities they admired in Margaret Thatcher - an image Ms Truss herself has tried to cultivate.\n\nBut despite her shifting political positions and allegiances over the years, these words also come up frequently when friends and family are asked to describe her character - along with \"ambitious\".\n\nFamily: Married to accountant Hugh O'Leary with two teenage daughters\n\n\"She's a very opinionated person in terms of what she wants,\" said her brother Francis in 2017, when recalling his older sister's teenage dalliance with vegetarianism.\n\n\"When you go to a restaurant, you might be 14 but she was precocious about what she wants, what she didn't want.\"\n\nWhen the family played Cluedo or Monopoly, \"she was someone who had to win,\" added Francis in a BBC Radio 4 profile of Truss.\n\n\"She would create some special system to work out how she could win.\"\n\nMaurizio Giuliano, a university contemporary who first met her at a Liberal Democrat event, says she stood out from the other students.\n\n\"I remember her being very well-dressed compared to other 18 to 19-year-olds. She also had the demeanour of a real adult compared to what we were at that age.\n\n\"She was forceful and opinionated and she had very strong views.\"\n\nSerious political debate was the order of the day in the Truss household, according to Francis, the youngest of her three younger brothers.\n\n\"You didn't sit around talking about the latest Megadrive game at the dinner table, it was much more issues, political campaigns etc,\" he told Radio 4's Profile programme.\n\nIt must have felt inevitable that she would get involved in politics in some capacity when she grew up, but no-one in her family would have predicted the path she eventually took.\n\nBorn in Oxford in 1975, Ms Truss has described her father, a mathematics professor, and her mother, a nurse, as \"left-wing\".\n\nAs a young girl, her mother took her on marches for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, an organisation vehemently opposed to the Thatcher government's decision to allow US nuclear warheads to be installed at RAF Greenham Common, west of London.\n\nThough she is now proudly a Conservative from Leeds, back then she was a Scottish liberal.\n\nThe family moved to Paisley, just west of Glasgow, when Ms Truss was four-years-old.\n\nIn a BBC interview, she recalled shouting \"Maggie, Maggie, Maggie - oot, oot, oot,\" in a Scottish accent, as she took part in marches.\n\nThe Truss family later decamped to Leeds, where she attended Roundhay, a state secondary school. She has described seeing \"children who failed and were let down by low expectations\" during her time there.\n\nSome of Ms Truss's contemporaries at Roundhay have disputed her account of the school, including Guardian journalist Martin Pengelly, who wrote: \"Perhaps she is selectively deploying her upbringing, and casually traducing the school and teachers who nurtured her, for simple political gain.\"\n\nOne Roundhay school mate, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"It was a really good school, really supportive teachers. Quite a lot of us have gone on to good universities and good careers.\"\n\nAlthough not part of her friendship group, he has clear memories of the young Truss.\n\n\"She was quite studious, serious,\" he says, with a \"heavy social conscience\" and part of a group that were into environmentalism.\n\n\"I remember a school trip to Sellafield and her asking difficult questions and giving them a grilling. I remember that quite distinctly.\"\n\nAt Oxford University, Ms Truss read philosophy, politics and economics. Friends recall a well-liked, if frenetic student.\n\nThe teenage Truss caused a stir at the Lib Dem conference with her anti-monarchy stance\n\n\"I remember her determination which was very impressive for me,\" says Jamshid Derakhshan, who was studying for a postgrad degree in mathematics when Truss was an undergraduate.\n\n\"She was very quick with everything. Going around the college quickly, being everywhere.\"\n\nAs to what sort of prime minister his old friend will make, Dr Derakhshan says: \"My feeling is she's not going to be stuck with one particular idea, she's very flexible in her mind and what will be best for the time.\"\n\nMs Truss was involved in many campaigns and causes at Oxford but devoted much of her time to politics, becoming president of the university's Liberal Democrats.\n\nAt the party's 1994 conference, she spoke in favour of abolishing the monarchy, telling delegates in Brighton: \"We Liberal Democrats believe in opportunity for all. We do not believe people are born to rule.\"\n\nShe also campaigned for the decriminalisation of cannabis.\n\n\"Liz had a very strong radical liberal streak to her,\" said fellow Lib Dem student Alan Renwick in 2017.\n\n\"We were setting up the Freshers Fair stall, Liz was there with a pile of posters, saying 'Free the Weed' and she just wanted the whole stall to be covered with these posters.\n\n\"I was scurrying around after Liz trying to take these down and put up a variety of messages, rather than just this one message all over the stall.\"\n\nHer Instagram posts have seen a transformation, from candid shots posing with rhubarb... to striding out of high-level meetings flanked by assistants\n\nHer conversion to conservatism, towards the end of her time at Oxford is said to have shocked her left-leaning parents, but for Mark Littlewood, a fellow Oxford Lib Dem, it was a natural progression.\n\n\"She's been a market liberal all of her adult life,\" according to Mr Littlewood, who is now director general of the libertarian, free market think-tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs.\n\n\"Her political career reflects her ideology - she has always been highly sceptical of big government and privileged institutions who think they know best,\" Mr Littlewood said.\n\nShe clearly changed parties, but that \"was a judgement about what's the best and most likely vehicle for her to succeed in politics and get what she wants to get done,\" Mr Littlewood said.\n\nNevertheless, what she has described as her \"dubious past\" came back to haunt her as she tried to convince Tory members she was truly one of them.\n\nAt a leadership hustings in Eastbourne, some in the audience jeered, as she told them: \"We all make mistakes, we all had teenage misadventures, and that was mine.\n\n\"Some people have sex, drugs and rock and roll, I was in the Liberal Democrats. I'm sorry.\"\n\nShe had become a Conservative because she had met like-minded people who shared her commitment to \"personal freedom, the ability to shape your own life and shape your own destiny,\" she explained.\n\nAfter graduating from Oxford she worked as an accountant for Shell, and Cable & Wireless, and married fellow accountant Hugh O'Leary in 2000. The couple have two children.\n\nMs Truss stood as the Tory candidate for Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, in the 2001 general election, but lost. She suffered another defeat in Calder Valley, also in West Yorkshire, in 2005.\n\nBut, her political ambitions undimmed, she was elected as a councillor in Greenwich, south-east London, in 2006, and from 2008 also worked for the right-of-centre Reform think tank.\n\nLiz Truss became an MP in 2010\n\nConservative leader David Cameron put Ms Truss on his \"A-list\" of priority candidates for the 2010 election and she was selected to stand for the safe seat of South West Norfolk.\n\nBut she quickly faced a battle against de-selection by the constituency Tory association, after it was revealed she had had an affair with Tory MP Mark Field some years earlier.\n\nThe effort to oust her failed and Ms Truss went on to win the seat by more than 13,000 votes.\n\nShe co-authored a book, Britannia Unchained, with four other Conservative MPs elected in 2010, which recommended stripping back state regulation to boost the UK's position in the world, marking her out as a prominent advocate of free market policies on the Tory benches.\n\nDuring a BBC leadership debate, she was challenged about a comment in Britannia Unchained, describing British workers as \"among the worst idlers in the world\". She insisted she had not written it.\n\nIn 2012, just over two years after becoming an MP, she entered government as an education minister and in 2014 was promoted to environment secretary.\n\nAt the 2014 Conservative conference, she made a speech in which she said, in an impassioned voice: \"We import two-thirds of our cheese. That. Is. A. Disgrace.\"\n\nThe speech was little noticed at the time, but it has taken on a life of its own on social media, attracting much mockery and becoming widely shared.\n\nTwo years later came arguably the biggest political event in a generation - the EU referendum.\n\nMs Truss campaigned for Remain, writing in the Sun newspaper that Brexit would be \"a triple tragedy - more rules, more forms and more delays when selling to the EU\".\n\nHowever, after her side lost, she changed her mind, arguing that Brexit provided an opportunity to \"shake up the way things work\".\n\nBecoming the first female Lord Chancellor and justice secretary in 2016\n\nUnder Theresa May's premiership, she became the first female Lord Chancellor and justice secretary, but she had several high-profile clashes with the judiciary.\n\nHer initial failure to defend judges after they were branded \"enemies of the people\" by the Daily Mail, when they ruled Parliament had to be given a vote on triggering Brexit, upset the legal establishment.\n\nShe later issued a statement supporting the judges, but she was criticised by Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd as \"completely and absolutely wrong\" for not speaking out sooner.\n\nAfter 11 months as justice secretary, she was demoted to chief secretary to the Treasury.\n\nWhen Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019, Ms Truss was moved to international trade secretary - a job which meant meeting global political and business leaders to promote UK PLC.\n\nLiz Truss held a frosty joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in the weeks before the invasion of Ukraine\n\nIn 2021, aged 46, she moved to one of the most senior jobs in government, taking over from Dominic Raab as foreign secretary.\n\nIn this role she has sought to solve the knotty problem of the Northern Ireland Protocol, by scrapping parts of a post-Brexit EU-UK deal - a move the EU fiercely criticised.\n\nShe secured the release of two British-Iranian nationals who had both been arrested and detained in Iran.\n\nAnd when Russia invaded Ukraine in February she took a hard line, insisting all of Vladimir Putin's forces should be driven from the country.\n\nBut she faced criticism for backing people from the UK who wanted to fight in Ukraine.\n\nHer decision to pose for photographs in a tank while visiting British troops in Estonia, was seen as an attempt to emulate Margaret Thatcher, who had famously been pictured aboard a Challenger tank in 1986. It also fuelled speculation that she was on leadership manoeuvres.\n\nClaims she was deliberately trying to channel Thatcher grew even louder when she posed for a photograph in a white pussy bow collar of the kind favoured by the Iron Lady.\n\nBut she has always dismissed such criticism, telling GB News: \"It is quite frustrating that female politicians always get compared to Margaret Thatcher while male politicians don't get compared to Ted Heath.\"\n\nLiz Truss posed for official shots in a tank whilst visiting British troops in Estonia last year\n\nMs Truss's campaign for the party leadership was not free of controversy.\n\nPressed on how she would tackle the cost-of-living crisis, she said she would focus her efforts on \"lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts\".\n\nShe has been forced to scrap a plan to link public sector pay to regional living costs by a backlash from senior Tories who said it would mean lower pay for millions of workers outside London.\n\nAnd she called Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon an \"attention seeker\", adding it was best to \"ignore her\".\n\nShe also got into a spat with French President Emmanuel Macron, who accused her of \"playing to the gallery\" at a leadership hustings. Asked if Mr Macron was a \"friend or foe\", she had said the jury was still out.\n\nBut it was domestic issues, or rather one domestic issue, that dominated the sometimes fractious leadership contest with Rishi Sunak.\n\nMs Truss's response to the cost-of-living crisis was always likely to define her premiership. And ultimately her time in Downing Street began to rapidly unravel following her disastrous \"mini-budget\".\n\nLiz Truss now becomes the shortest-serving prime minister in UK history.", "The relaxation of travel restrictions in England will give airlines a \"shot in the arm\", an industry group has said.\n\nAirlines UK welcomed the government simplifying the traffic light system and reducing testing requirements.\n\nIt said it \"moves us much closer to the reopening of UK aviation\".\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the changes would enable more people to travel around the world.\n\nFrom 4 October the amber and green lists will be scrapped in England, leaving a single red list that has been downsized.\n\nPeople who have had both jabs will not need to take a pre-departure test before leaving any country not on the red list. They will also be able to replace the day two PCR test with a cheaper, rapid lateral flow test.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said: \"This is a positive step which moves us much closer to the reopening of UK aviation and provides greater reassurance to passengers desperate to travel.\n\n\"By reducing the number of red list destinations and scrapping PCR testing, ministers have paved the way for people to get away this October half-term and into the winter following 18 months of uncertainty.\n\n\"It will provide a real shot in the arm for a sector that until now has not been allowed to trade properly.\"\n\nThomas Cook said it expected the coming weekend to be its best for sales in 2021, adding that customers \"are booking in droves\".\n\n\"Based on our bookings already today, I would expect this weekend to be the biggest of the year so far as people take advantage of the great deals on offer, the new easier rules on testing and the simplified system for international travel,\" said David Child, head of PR and brand at the travel firm.\n\nThe travel and tourism sectors have been among the hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nGlobally they have lost 62 million jobs, the World Travel and Tourism Council says.\n\n\"We are pleased to see the back of an illogical traffic light system that caused confusion and distress for travellers,\" said Julia Simpson, its president and chief executive.\n\n\"While this is certainly a step in the right direction, for the UK to be real leaders, the government should adopt a system based on the risk of individuals, not countries.\"\n\nThe changes \"remove some of the layers of complexity and expense UK holidaymakers have faced this summer\", said Andrew Flintham, managing director of Tui UK.\n\nHe said Tui had already seen an increase in bookings for Turkey and destinations \"for those looking to enjoy some winter sun\" in October.\n\nHowever, the red list should be reduced further, he said.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said: \"We urge the UK Government to use the Prime Minister's upcoming visit to the USA to work with the Biden administration to remove transatlantic restrictions for UK citizens, just as the UK has done for US travellers.\"\n\nGrant Shapps said: \"Today's changes mean a simpler, more straightforward system.\n\n\"Public health has always been at the heart of our international travel policy and with more than eight in ten adults fully vaccinated in the UK, we are now able to introduce a proportionate updated structure that reflects the new landscape.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nSports fans will need to show a pass proving they have been fully vaccinated or had a negative Covid test to attend large-scale events in Wales from 11 October.\n\nSupporters will be able to use an NHS Covid Pass to show they are vaccinated, or had a negative lateral flow test in the 48 hours before the event.\n\nThe Principality Stadium will stage four autumn rugby internationals.\n\nWales have announced a 74,500 sell-out against New Zealand on 30 October.\n\nThis will be followed by matches against South Africa, Fiji and Australia.\n\nThe pass will be required for any event at which more than 10,000 people attend. It is also needed for nightclubs, indoor no-seating events with more than 500 people and outdoor no-seating events with more than 4,000 people.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford made the announcement as part of the latest review of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) confirmed proof would be required to attend the four international games this summer.\n\n\"Throughout the last 18 months, the Welsh Rugby Union and Principality Stadium have been working to the advice and guidance set out by Welsh Government and Public Health Wales,\" said a WRU spokesperson.\n\n\"The wellbeing of supporters and staff is our top priority and we want all supporters to have the best possible experience in the best rugby stadium in the world.\n\n\"Following the most recent announcement by Welsh Government, from 11 October 2021 the NHS Covid pass will become an entry requirement for all events scheduled at Principality Stadium.\"\n\nThe regulations could affect Welsh regional sides Cardiff, Ospreys, Scarlets and Dragons if they attract a five-figure crowd.\n\nThe new rules will also affect Championship football matches involving Cardiff City and Swansea City and Wales men's World Cup qualifiers against Belarus and Belgium in November.\n\nThe internationals will be staged at the Cardiff City Stadium which has a 33,280 capacity, while the Swansea.com Stadium can hold up to 21,088.\n\nSwansea and Cardiff City play in the English Football League (EFL) but there are currently no requirements set out for Covid passes in England so the regulations are set to affect away fans travelling to Welsh grounds.\n\nA statement from Swansea City said they were \"awaiting guidance\" to discover how Covid-19 passports would be administered.\n\n\"Once we have further detail we will communicate with supporters in advance of the planned rollout on October 11,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"In the meantime, supporters are reminded that this will not be in place for our home Championship fixture against Huddersfield Town on Saturday.\"\n\nNewport County play in League Two at Rodney Parade which has a capacity of 7,850 for football so would not be affected by the 10,000 limit.\n\nWrexham also play in the National League with the Racecourse being able to host just over 10,000 fans. The EFL are awaiting further clarity on the application of covid certification in Wales which they say will enable clubs to provide guidance to supporters ahead of matches.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) and Cardiff City have been contacted for comment.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrazil legend Pele says he is \"recovering very well\" after briefly being readmitted to intensive care following a recent operation.\n\nThe 80-year-old had surgery to remove a tumour from his colon this month and was initially released from intensive care on Wednesday.\n\nSao Paulo's Albert Einstein Hospital said he was readmitted \"as a preventative measure\".\n\n\"My friends, I am still recovering very well,\" Pele wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"Today I received visits from family members and I continue to smile every day. Thank you for all the love I get from you.\"\n\nPele had been having treatment at the hospital since 31 August after the tumour was detected in routine tests.\n\nMedia outlets in Brazil reported that he was readmitted to intensive care as a precautionary measure because of his age.\n\nThe hospital later released a statement confirming this and added: \"After stabilisation, the patient was transferred to semi-intensive care.\n\n\"He is currently stable from a cardiovascular and respiratory point of view.\"\n\nBefore the hospital statement was released, his daughter posted on Instagram: \"I don't know what is going on with the rumours out there but my DMs are booming!!!\n\n\"There's already a lot of anxiety roaming the world these days and we don't want to be the reason for more.\n\n\"The normal recovery scenario for a man of his age after an operation like this, is sometimes two steps forward and one step back. It's very normal.\n\n\"Yesterday he was tired and took a little step back. Today he took two forwards!\"\n\nPele's health has been a concern in recent years. He had prostate surgery in 2015 after he was admitted to hospital for the second time in six months, and he was admitted again for a urinary infection in 2019.\n\nPele is Brazil's all-time leading scorer with 77 goals in 92 games and one of only four players to have scored in four World Cup tournaments.\n\nLionel Messi recently passed him as the leading South American men's scorer in international matches with a hat-trick in Argentina's World Cup qualifying win against Bolivia.\n• None McMafia is streaming now on BBC iPlayer\n• None What is the long-term impact of taking so many hits?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Neil tells BBC Question Time he was a \"minority of one\" at GB News\n\nFormer BBC presenter Andrew Neil says he left GB News over the direction the channel was taking, saying he became a \"minority of one\" within management.\n\nThe journalist told BBC Question Time he would let people \"make up their own minds\" over whether his exit was because the channel was too right wing.\n\nHe also described the launch of the new station as not a \"startling success\".\n\nNeil resigned on Monday as lead presenter and chairman just three months after the channel went to air.\n\nIn a statement at the time, he said he had decided to \"reduce [his] commitments on a number of fronts\" - something he repeated on BBC One - and wished it well for the future.\n\nIn response, GB News said: \"Andrew is without doubt one of the finest journalists and interviewers in this country.\n\n\"GB News thanks him for his 12 months of leadership, wisdom and advice, and we wish him well.\"\n\nThe TV channel launched in June, promising to \"change the face of news and debate in the UK\".\n\nIt recruited a number of big names alongside Neil, including former BBC News presenter Simon McCoy, ITV veteran Alastair Stewart and ex-Sun journalist Dan Wootton.\n\nBut it has been troubled by low viewing figures and resignations from other staff members, including the former advisor to Boris Johnson and ex-BBC correspondent Guto Harri.\n\nNeil, 72, was on air for less than two weeks before announcing he was taking a break. amid reports that relations between him and chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos had broken down over the direction of the company.\n\nIn his first appearance since leaving the channel, Neil was asked by a Question Time audience member whether the recent resignations would lead GB News to become \"a new British Fox News\" - the US news channel popular with right-wing viewers.\n\nThe journalist said he had \"always made it clear it wouldn't be a British Fox News\", claiming the US channel \"deals in untruths, it deals in conspiracy theories, and it deals in fake news\".\n\nHe added: \"That is not my kind of journalism and I would never have set out to do that.\"\n\nBut pressed on whether the comparison was why he left, Neil said: \"I will let you draw your own conclusions as to why I am here tonight and not with GB News.\"\n\nHe added: \"In the run-up to the launch, through the launch and in the aftermath of the launch and I think most of you who know anything about it will know you couldn't file the launch under startling success, more and more differences emerged between myself and the other senior managers and the board of GB News.\n\n\"And rather than these differences narrowing, they got wider and wider and I felt it was best that if that's the route they wanted to take then that's up to them, it's their money.\"\n\nPushed again by presenter Fiona Bruce on whether the channel had gone \"too far to the right\", Neil said: \"People should make up their own minds on that.\n\n\"What I have told you is the differences were such, the direction they were going in was not the direction that I had outlined, it was not the direction that I had envisaged for the channel and I was in the minority of one.\n\n\"So it is doing what it is doing and it is up to them, good luck to them if that is what they want to do, but it wasn't going to be with me.\"", "Some pregnant women visiting the UK have been wrongly told they could be denied visas for future trips unless they pay maternity care bills while in the country, the BBC has learned.\n\nCharity Maternity Action says it has found significant failings in how debt collectors CCI Credit Management work.\n\nCCI says it represents more than 75% of trusts and health boards, and recoups money from visitors for NHS care.\n\nIt said it was reviewing all communications with overseas visitors.\n\nMigrants, visitors and former residents of the UK must pay for their care when they are in the UK.\n\nRules on charging are aimed in part at preventing people from overseas deliberately coming to the UK to give birth on the NHS for free. Government rules compel NHS trusts to chase up debts.\n\nHowever, NHS guidelines say debt should not be an automatic reason for refusal of visas - which may be needed to visit, work or stay in the UK - and only that officials \"may consider\" it.\n\nSafeguards are designed to be in place to ensure that those in need of urgent care always receive it, and there are exemptions from charges for some groups of people.\n\nJune (not her real name), who came to the UK from overseas, received a bill from CCI Credit Management for more than £4,600 for her maternity care while she was pregnant.\n\nShe had just fled a violent relationship, was destitute and her pregnancy was considered high risk because of a past stillbirth.\n\n\"I was really, really scared. I can't tell you how stressed I was. I kept going on the internet searching about this stuff,\" she says.\n\nHer letter from CCI contained the warnings about future visas. It also said debts would be taken into account for potential asylum applications. In fact, NHS debts are not considered when asylum applications are assessed.\n\nCCI said in a statement: \"For this error we unreservedly apologise.\n\n\"Please be assured that we are currently reviewing all communications with NHS overseas visitors in order to ensure that there can be no repetition of this mistake, and that further training is being provided to our teams.\"\n\nThe NHS trust dropped June's charges after Maternity Action contacted them.\n\nBut the charity says there are trusts who have refused to write off debts for those who are destitute or on very low incomes - despite guidance saying they can. They also say some trusts show poor understanding of the domestic violence provisions.\n\nChristine Benson, senior legal officer at Maternity Action, said NHS trusts needed to take safeguarding seriously.\n\n\"NHS trusts must take responsibility for the debt collection agencies and the messages that they're giving to women,\" she said.\n\nMaternity Action warns there is a growing body of evidence that charging for NHS maternity care deters women from coming forward for care.\n\nMary came to Britain to meet her husband - an EU national working here for seven years. But at immigration, the authorities said they believed she was involved in a sham marriage. She was allowed into the country but not given leave to remain. Her claim is still pending.\n\nShe said she did not access medical care throughout her pregnancy because she feared being charged until, at 21 weeks, she miscarried. She now owes £4,500.\n\nIt is not clear if going for scans earlier in her pregnancy would have resulted in a different outcome. But evidence suggests the kind of care someone receives can have an impact.\n\n\"It's really important that you have regular check-ups in pregnancy, and that's kind of a standard of care worldwide,\" says Andrew Shennan, professor of obstetrics at King's College London.\n\n\"There are many scenarios where acute management will make a big difference and turn around the outcome.\"\n\nThere is also evidence that some women turn to desperate measures to pay off their debts.\n\nMs Benson says: \"Women tell us that they engage in survival sex to support themselves and their families and to repay debts, that they stay in exploitative relationships.\"\n\nDr Edward Morris, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, says he was \"incredibly concerned\" that women are putting off seeking care during pregnancy and says \"urgent action was needed to break down barriers\".\n\nClare Livingstone, from the Royal College of Midwives, says that charging these women is \"not only wrong, it is dangerous\".\n\n\"There must be no barriers that prevent or make these women fearful of coming to our maternity services for the care they need.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nChanges to the rules on international travel are expected, with ministers considering simplifying the traffic light system by scrapping the amber list and removing the requirement for fully vaccinated people returning to the UK to take lab-processed PCR tests. The changes would apply to England, initially at least, as the UK's devolved administrations set travel rules for their nations.\n\nComprehensive analysis suggests long Covid is less common than previously thought, with one in 40 people in a survey reporting coronavirus symptoms lasting at least three months. The Office for National Statistics' previous analysis had suggested one in every 10 people were affected.\n\nMinisters will decide later whether proof of vaccination will be legally required to enter nightclubs and large events in Wales, as part of the latest review of coronavirus restrictions. However, a nightclub trade body warned the move may damage the industry, while Conservatives and Lib Dems in the Senedd oppose the idea.\n\nAs a charity says thousands of tenants fell into debt during the pandemic, one woman tells us about her constant fear of eviction. StepChange says 10% of private renters have fallen into arrears, owing nearly £800 each on average, and is calling for emergency support as the furlough scheme and Universal Credit uplift end. The government says unprecedented action has helped keep people in their homes and it's right for measures to be lifted as the economy reopens.\n\nA group that launched a £1m Covid-response fund to support the UK's sea-going community says it hopes interest generated by a photography prize will help ensure they have continued access to vital support. Some of the entries to the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society were stunning. Take a look.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nConfused about the guidance on working from home? Here's our explainer.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's University says its rooms are oversubscribed.\n\nQueen's University Belfast (QUB) has said it is \"unlikely\" to offer a room to any student living less than 40 miles from the university.\n\nThey have told students living within that radius to make \"alternative travel and accommodation arrangements\".\n\nBut students living more than 40 miles away have also been told they may not get a room until mid-October.\n\nIt was laid out in an email sent to some students who had applied for rooms in halls of residence.\n\nQUB had previously offered students a £1,500 deal to withdraw from its accommodation.\n\nIt said due to \"unprecedented\" demand, accommodation in its halls was oversubscribed.\n\nAbout 3,500 students each year live in halls of residence run by the university.\n\nQueen's previously offered students £1,500 to pull out of their accommodation offer\n\nOn Wednesday night, some students who had applied for QUB's rooms for the 2021/22 academic year received a further update by email.\n\nThe university apologised \"for the upset caused by the uncertainty of the past few weeks\" and said it was doing all it could \"to find solutions\".\n\nQueen's said the financial package to withdraw from accommodation had been accepted by \"several hundred students\" and they were still working to secure additional rooms, including at Ulster University's Jordanstown campus.\n\n\"In prior years, the 3,400 rooms provided by the university has been enough to meet all our requirements,\" QUB said.\n\n\"This year, despite securing an additional 770 rooms, we are still unable to meet demand which hopefully gives you some idea of the size of the challenge we have faced.\n\n\"We continue to work tirelessly to secure other options but it may be mid to late October before some of these become available.\n\n\"We will be allocating all available accommodation by distance lived from Queen's.\n\n\"Presently, it is unlikely we will be able to offer a room to anyone who lives within a 40 mile radius of the university.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. QUB offers students £1,500 deal not to take up halls of residence\n\nHowever, students living more than 40 miles from QUB were not guaranteed a room for the start of term.\n\n\"We strongly advise students who have not yet received an accommodation offer and who live outside the 40-mile radius, to make travel arrangements for the first three to four weeks of term as it is unlikely you will be able to move into your accommodation before mid-October,\" the university email said.\n\nOne QUB student from Londonderry who contacted BBC News NI said the move would mean they would have to take a bus to Belfast and back every day until then.\n\nThe university said it would start to make room offers by email from Monday 20 September.\n\nHowever, if students did not accept within 24 hours their room would be offered to another student.\n\nQUB also said, however, they were \"working with a range of local hotels\" to enable students to book rooms \"for one or two nights per week\" if necessary.", "\"If my landlord asks me to leave, I'll have to go into emergency accommodation\", said Sue, who's 61 and owes around £2000 in unpaid rent.\n\nShe's one of thousands of renters who fell into arrears during the pandemic, according to the debt charity StepChange.\n\nA poll they carried out with YouGov suggests 10% of private renters are now behind on rent.\n\nThe charity estimates they owe on average just under £800 each.\n\nStepChange is calling for emergency support from the government as things like the furlough scheme and the uplift to Universal Credit payments are phased out.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government said that unprecedented action was taken to keep people in their homes during the pandemic - and that it was right, as the economy reopened, for measures to be lifted.\n\nSue had recently left her job and was looking for a new one when the pandemic hit. With no furlough pay, she enrolled on Universal Credit while she looked for work. The benefits weren't enough to cover her rent, and as a result she underpaid for months.\n\n\"My landlord was initially understanding\" she explained, \"but when restrictions relaxed I was asked for full rent as well as payments towards my arrears, even though my situation hadn't changed.\"\n\nHelp from her local council means Sue is now back to paying full rent - but with no chance of paying off the debt she's accrued until she finds a job.\n\n\"I'm constantly worrying about the prospect of being evicted.\"\n\n\"I've also fallen behind on things like credit card payments so my credit rating is low - it could stop me getting something else.\"\n\nFor Sue, the impact has been significant: \"I try not to let it get to me, but there are often nights when I can't sleep. My blood pressure's been up - it's extremely stressful.\"\n\nAfter polling more than 8,600 adults around the UK, StepChange estimates that the debt accrued by renters now stands at around £360m - a figure they say hasn't changed since the beginning of the year.\n\n\"Renters have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic - they're likely to be working in sectors where jobs have gone, and less likely to have had the resources to weather the storm in the way others may have been able to do,\" StepChange's Head of Policy, Peter Tutton told the BBC.\n\nThe charity has welcomed the grant schemes recently launched by the Welsh and Scottish Governments to help those who have fallen behind on rent, but say that in England, many renters are facing an uncertain future.\n\nEmergency measures to protect renters were brought in in March last year - including a ban on evictions. This came to an end in England on 31st May, with the notice landlords had to give tenants they wanted to move out reduced from 6 months to 4 months. From next month, they return to what they were before the pandemic - 2 months.\n\n\"The pandemic help is now coming to an end, things like the furlough scheme, and the courts are reopening for evictions, so there's a perfect storm of worries\", said Mr Tutton, \"that's why thousands of people are concerned they're going to lose their home.\"\n\nStepChange is also calling on the government not to scrap the £20 a week uplift in Universal Credit, to further protect those on low incomes from falling into debt.\n\nCalls for emergency support for those in rent arrears are backed by the National Residential Landlords Association. Meera Chindooroy, their Deputy Director of Policy, Campaigns and Public Affairs, described the rent debt issue as a \"crisis.\"\n\n\"We know that the majority of landlords have responded flexibly when they've been asked for things like reductions in rent and deferrals in rent payments, but that can't continue indefinitely,\" she said.\n\nThe NRLA want to see a combination of grants and loans for tenants, depending on their circumstances, with Ms Chindooroy adding that she expects the end of furlough and reduction in Universal Credit payments will have a \"significant impact\" on private renters.\n\n\"Our statistics suggest that the amount of arrears that tenants are in is increasing, so it is an issue that will continue unless there is action taken,\" she said.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"Our £352 billion support package has helped renters throughout the pandemic and prevented a build-up of rent arrears.\"\n\n\"We also took unprecedented action to help keep people in their homes by extending notice periods and pausing evictions at the height of the pandemic,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nSue fears she may be waiting a while for her personal economic recovery. \"When I get a job I'll be obviously paying extra each month to pay off the debt,\" she said, but despite months of looking, she's still out of work.\n\n\"Until I get a job and I know what I'm earning, and what I can afford, I don't know when it will be paid off.\"", "People in Scotland will need proof they have been fully vaccinated before they can enter nightclubs and many large events from 1 October.\n\nThe vaccine passport plan was formally approved by Holyrood after the SNP and Greens voted in favour.\n\nSome businesses have complained of a lack of detail about how the scheme will work in practice.\n\nThe proposals were opposed by the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said the system would reduce the risk of transmission and help prevent venues - many of which have only recently reopened - from having to close again due to Covid.\n\nA paper published by the government on Thursday morning, just hours before the vote in the Scottish Parliament, said officials were still working to define what a nightclub actually is.\n\nAnd it said evidence was still being gathered about the effectiveness of similar schemes elsewhere in the world.\n\nPeople in England will need to have a \"Covid pass\" to access \"higher risk\" settings such as nightclubs from the end of this month.\n\nThere are no current plans to introduce a similar scheme in Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe new rules will mean people over the age of 18 in Scotland will need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to:\n\nIt means that many major sporting events - particularly football matches - will be affected, as will concerts and music festivals.\n\nPeople who have had two vaccines in Scotland can already download or get a paper copy of a certificate with a QR code.\n\nBy the end of the month, it is expected that this code will also be available on a new NHS Scotland Status app.\n\nThese codes can be scanned at a venue to confirm the user is fully vaccinated.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - will be exempt.\n\nPeople will need to show a QR code before they are allowed into some venues\n\nA major goal of the scheme is to encourage more younger people to be vaccinated - with the latest figures showing that uptake among those under the age of 40 in Scotland has been lower than older age groups.\n\nMany areas of Scotland have seen some of the highest Covid rates in Europe in recent weeks - although there are signs that the surge in cases is beginning to slow down.\n\nThe number of people in hospital and intensive care units has also been steadily rising, with health professionals warning that that NHS is coming under increasing strain.\n\nMr Swinney said Scotland was in a \"fragile position\" with Covid-19 case rates still high, telling MSPs that \"we all recognise the need to try all we can to protect the return to greater normality that we have experienced in recent weeks\".\n\nHe said the scheme would reduce the risk of transmission in some settings, allowing those venues to \"operate more safely when the potential alternative would be closure\".\n\nMr Swinney said it would also protect vulnerable people who cannot be vaccinated, and would encourage others to come forward for a jab.\n\nHe said: \"On balance - given the benefits to individuals, to the health of the population, and as a way to keep certain venues and events open - a certification scheme is a proportionate step to take.\"\n\nMr Swinney had been critical of vaccine passports when the proposals for England were unveiled by the prime minister, as had Health Secretary Humza Yousaf and the SNP's partners in government, the Scottish Greens.\n\nGreens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the facts on the ground had changed - and that the scheme was \"worth considering when cases are running at around 7,000 a day and once the entire adult population has had two doses\".\n\nHospitality groups have called for more details about how the system will work, while a football supporters association said it was \"concerned about inequalities\" shutting some fans out of games.\n\nLeon Thompson of the trade body UK Hospitality Scotland told BBC Scotland there had been \"very rushed and hurried conversations with officials\" in recent days, with members \"very concerned\" about the practicalities of the plans.\n\nDr Liz Cameron, chief executive of Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said it would \"directly impact on consumer confidence and risks creating further financial damage to those sectors who have already been hardest hit by Covid-19\".\n\nCBI Scotland director Tracy Black said vaccine passports had the potential to be \"a useful tool in managing risk in large venues\" - but that there needed to be \"close cooperation and coordination\" with businesses.\n\nThe Scottish Tories voted against the proposals despite the Conservative UK government planning to introduce a similar system.\n\nLeader Douglas Ross said not enough detail had been provided about the Scottish scheme, and that the government should not be asking MSPs to \"impose\" a vaccine certification scheme on establishments it was not able to define.\n\nHe said: \"A responsible government should bring forward proposals that are able to be enacted.\n\n\"We are in a really difficult position as politicians seeking to make a decision on an extremely difficult subject if the government cannot even give us simple information.\"\n\nScottish Labour also opposed the plans, with deputy leader Jackie Baillie saying there was a \"practical question about the government's ability to even implement this\".\n\nShe said people with a vaccination certificate could still have the virus and be infectious, saying ministers were in danger of giving people a false sense of confidence that they were \"invincible\".\n\nMs Baillie said the government should \"not simply reach for anything just to be seen to take action, and end up making things worse\".\n\nAnd Alex Cole-Hamilton said his Scottish Liberal Democrats were \"fundamentally opposed to the plans, which he said set the country on a \"disturbing and illiberal course\".\n\nHe added: \"Medical ID cards will be introduced by this coalition tonight and liberals will immediately begin the campaign to see their abolition.\"", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 10 and 17 September.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nJasmine Caulfield sent in husband Pardeep Chand's image of Glasgow's Barrowlands. Jasmine said: \"The photo was taken at an Arab Strap gig. I think it perfectly represents the return of Glasgwegian nightlife post-lockdown and captures the atmosphere brilliantly. The sign looks like it is bursting out of the night.\"\n\nLinsey Wright said: \"My daughter Harriet delighted to finally be on her first trip to Edinburgh Zoo, postponed because of Covid.\"\n\nAn image from Neil Brown's day exploring around the Isle of Arran.\n\nDerek Brown came across Star Wars' droids C-3PO and R2D2 on Orkney.\n\nSunrise at Kyleakin, Skye, in a picture from Gosia Karczewska.\n\nCarole McCarthy, from Bishopbriggs, took this image of Highland cattle on Skye.\n\nJanina Dolny said of this snap: \"I was lucky enough to capture this picture of the sunset over the Forth Road Bridge and Queensferry Crossing while crossing the Forth Bridge on a fast-moving train.\"\n\nRyan Hartley's shot of the ferry MV Loch Seaforth arriving at Ullapool on a misty morning.\n\nJoanne MacAskill took this image while on a trip to Skye. Joanne said: \"The evening light was beautiful. Our dogs are called Mara and Millie and they are with my wife Evonne.\"\n\nThe abandoned Little Cumbrae lighthouse on the Firth of Clyde in a picture from Gordon Stewart, from Irvine.\n\nBill Main, from Gourock, took his picture in Roseisle Forest, near Burghead. Bill said: \"Conditions were very damp with webs draped from everything that grew.\"\n\nFiona Daily's daughters Isla and Freya playing in the sea at Ayr while the sun set.\n\nWesties Martha, Mollie and Monty looking to see who is coming up the path in a picture from Heather Powell, from Lhanbryde.\n\nKevin Davidge took this shot on the West Highland Way. He said: \"Even a particularly long, wet and arduous scrabble along the shore of Loch Lomond didn’t detract from its beauty. We were, however, delighted to reach the end and look back on what we’d achieved.\"\n\nRhona Ferrier said she came across this \"ropey-looking\" figure overlooking Calgary Bay on Mull.\n\nA picture from Adam Smith's family holiday to Skye. Adam said: \"We took a boat trip into the Sound of Rasaay to look for wildlife and came up trumps. Pods of dolphins playing around the boat including a mother and baby, and sea eagles as well.\"\n\nDave Stewart said of his image: \"The three wrecks of Salen, Mull, just as the drenching rain started.\"\n\nDavid Meikle said of his image: \"When clearing the dead leaves from our strawberry hanging baskets, I found two vine weevil. I only managed to photograph this one - the other was too quick.\"\n\nJudith Cruikshank was impressed with the level of detail inside the Priory Doocot in Crail.\n\nBrian Scott, of Perth, said: \"I had a great morning walk with Ellen in part of Scotland's rain forests at Reelig Glen with its amazing tall trees.\"\n\nMargaret Howie, of Ayr, captured this kingfisher looking for its breakfast. She said: \"I was walking along the seafront near Doonfoot in Ayr and spotted it sitting on the rocks at the mouth of the River Doon looking for fish in the early-morning sunlight.\"\n\nCameron Pagan's photograph from Craig Notman and Joanna Main's wedding in Gatehouse of Fleet. The bride's dad arranged for the couple's dog, Winnie, to make a surprise guest appearance. She was wearing socks to ensure any excited jumping did not ruin any outfits.\n\nSlains Castle by Cruden Bay in a picture taken by Colin MacDougall from East Linton.\n\nStephen Lipton, of Glasgow, sent in a selection of images from his adventures around Scotland, including this one of a gannet which he took from a boat just off Troup Head in Aberdeenshire.\n\nJean McAllister, from Campbeltown, sent in this photo of a rainbow over Davaar Island while on a walk. She said: \" Was definitely worth getting a bit wet.\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Soldiers will be drafted in to drive ambulances in a bid to ease the \"unprecedented\" pressure on the NHS.\n\nScottish Ambulance Service chief executive Pauline Howie said logistical staff would also be made available to support paramedics and technicians.\n\nMs Howie said the impact of Covid had placed the service at its \"highest level of escalation\".\n\nOn Thursday, the Scottish government confirmed it had asked the MoD for military assistance.\n\nMs Howie was asked on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme if it would mean soldiers driving NHS ambulances or army ambulances.\n\nShe said: \"I would expect the former and we will be working through the details of that over the coming days.\"\n\nHer comments came after it emerged an 86-year-old woman had to wait eight hours for an ambulance after falling and breaking her hip at home.\n\nLillian Briggs, who has Parkinson's, skin cancer and has had two heart attacks, was left lying on her kitchen floor in agony after blacking out.\n\nHer son, Robert Ewing, and his sister rang for an ambulance a number of times only to be told their mother was in the system but was not a priority.\n\nMr Ewing told BBC Scotland: \"I thought she was going to die in front of us.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service apologised for the delay and confirmed it was investigating the circumstances.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said health services were dealing with the most challenging combination of circumstances in their history due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nOpposition politicians have highlighted a series of serious ambulance delays, including one where a man died after a 40-hour wait.\n\nMs Howie was asked on Good Morning Scotland if the two cases highlighted in the media were \"anomalies\".\n\nShe said: \"The vast majority of patients, for immediately life-threatening patients, will receive a response under 10 minutes and for other emergency patients, under 40 minutes.\"\n\nThe chief executive confirmed the service would apologise directly to the families and share the findings of its reviews into the circumstances.\n\nMs Howie also described the current pressures on the NHS as \"unprecedented\" and added staff face an \"extremely challenging\" winter.\n\nArmed forces personnel are already involved in the Covid vaccination programme\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane told the programme the problem was not new and recalled one of his patients waiting eight hours for an ambulance in 2018.\n\nHighlighting the stress on all parts of the health service, he said on Monday alone he had 80 patient contacts during his GP shift.\n\nDr Gulhane said: \"Ambulances queuing round the block. Record A&E waiting times. This is shining a light on a crumbling NHS that happened before Covid.\"\n\nHe also accused the Scottish government of using the pandemic as a \"smokescreen for everything\".\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie welcomed the involvement of the military.\n\nBut she told Good Morning Scotland: \"What it demonstrates is that the ambulance service and the NHS are absolutely in crisis, and this is all before the winter starts.\"\n\nMs Baillie also said ministers had \"taken their eye off the ball\" and failed to respond to delays which were reported in June.\n\nShe added efforts should now be made to bring back recently-retired staff and increase capacity.\n\nOne suggestion has been to reopen the NHS Louisa Jordan at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow.\n\nThe temporary facility, which closed in March, carried out outpatient and diagnostic appointments, hosted training and accepted blood donations.\n\nDr John Montgomery told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"Given that the critical problem that we face right now is lack of beds and the Louisa Jordan was set up effectively as a field hospital then, unfortunately, closing it because of the forthcoming COP26 may be one of the worst decisions we have made.\n\n\"The Louisa Jordan would have been a perfect place for the patients who might have required, not-necessarily high intervention levels of medicine, but perhaps required nursing care and would have been a perfect place for ambulances to take patients to.\"\n\nThe GP, who is based on the south side of Glasgow, added he is \"very, very fearful indeed\" for the winter ahead.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said the current problems were not about capacity alone.\n\nMs Howie added: \"I think the challenges are not just about facilities, they are about workforces as well.\n\n\"Across health and care services, there are workforce capacity challenges and those are being actively addressed by health boards.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Sturgeon said her government was looking at a range of plans to deal with the significant challenges facing the health services.\n\nShe told the Scottish Parliament: \"I'll be going back to my office to finalise the detail of the request for military assistance so we can submit that as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"Such military assistance is already being provided to ambulance services in England and of course we have had military assistance for other aspects of the pandemic over the past 18 months.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson later confirmed it was seeking military assistance to address acute services, and a separate request had been made to support mobile testing units.", "The woman covered her face as she arrived at a previous hearing in January 2020\n\nA British woman who reported being gang-raped in Cyprus has appealed against her conviction for lying about the attack.\n\nHer legal team told the Cypriot Supreme Court that her statement retracting the gang rape allegation was unreliable because of how it was obtained.\n\nShe was detained for more than six hours, they said, with no access to a lawyer or translator, and placed under extreme pressure.\n\nThe woman, who is 21 and from Derbyshire, originally told Cypriot police she had been raped by a group of 12 Israeli men and boys in Ayia Napa in July 2019.\n\nAfter retracting the allegation she was then tried and convicted of causing public mischief.\n\nShe was given a four-month suspended sentence in January 2020, which meant she could return to the UK.\n\nShe did not attend the two-hour appeal hearing, which was conducted in Greek in front of a panel of three judges.\n\nThere was no ruling on the appeal today, and it could take as long as six months.\n\nActivists held up banners as they demonstrated outside the Supreme Court in Nicosia\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the woman's English barrister, Lewis Power QC, said: \"This is the biggest case here in the last decade beyond a shadow of a doubt and the world is watching.\n\n\"It is so important for young women across the world. This case is a beacon.\"\n\nMr Power said he had spoken to the woman and her mother, who were \"back in the UK watching from afar\".\n\n\"She's bearing up really well. She is getting on with her life at university,\" he said.\n\n\"She is very anxious about the result but she is fairly upbeat and determined that this won't ruin her life.\"\n\nHer case has attracted widespread publicity and dozens of protesters gathered outside the court building for the appeal hearing.\n\nAs they banged drums, chanted and clapped their hands, some held up banners reading \"End rape culture\" and \"I believe her\".\n\nActivists chanted outside the Supreme Court as the appeal hearing was held\n\nAdamos Demosthenous, representing the Cyprus attorney general, had argued the appeal should not be heard because the woman had criticised the trial judge in an ITV documentary, but the court ruled against the submission and heard the arguments.\n\nThe woman's lawyers said the retraction statement, which formed the basis of the prosecution case, should never have been admitted into evidence.\n\nThey said as well as being placed under pressure with no lawyer or translator, she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder at the time as a result of the rape.\n\nThey also argued the retraction statement was not written by a native English speaker.\n\nHer Cypriot lawyer, Nicoletta Charalambidou, said the lower court started from the position that there was no rape and had misunderstood the offence of public mischief, which requires a false statement of a make-believe crime.\n\nShe said the trial judge, Michalis Papathanasiou, also did not allow the defendant to talk about the alleged rape, repeatedly saying: \"This is not a rape trial.\"\n\nLewis Power QC (left) and Michael Polak of Justice Abroad spoke to media outside court\n\nIf the conviction is not overturned her legal team intends to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.\n\nAfter the hearing, Mr Power said: \"I think it was a very fruitful hearing where the court asked very poignant questions, considered the legal arguments and identified the points which will ultimately decide this appeal.\n\n\"We cannot pre-empt the decision of the court, but we were glad to see the court had given much thought and considerable consideration to a very, very difficult case.\"\n\nMichael Polak from Justice Abroad, which has been helping the woman, added: \"Without wanting to pre-judge the decision of the Supreme Court, we feel we were happy with the way proceedings went today and the way the judges engaged with our arguments.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales' first minister says he could be persuaded of the need for vaccine passports.\n\nHis government is due to make a decision on the proposal this week.\n\nMark Drakeford told the Senedd he was sceptical but could be convinced of the need for them if public health benefits outweigh their disadvantages.\n\nIt comes as the UK government announced that a system of vaccine passports would be kept in \"reserve\" in England.\n\nPeople in Scotland will need proof they have been fully vaccinated before they can enter nightclubs and many large events from 1 October.\n\nMr Drakeford accused Conservative UK ministers of having told him they would be going ahead with vaccine certification \"as late as the end of last week\".\n\n\"I have lost count of the number of meetings I have sat through with UK ministers in which they have lectured me about the necessity of vaccine certification,\" he said.\n\n\"When I have raised with them the ethical, the legal and the practical issues that need to be resolved, I've generally been treated as though these were details that ought not to get in the way of this necessary course of action.\"\n\nMark Drakeford said he starts \"from a position of scepticism\" on vaccine passports\n\nWelsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies, who is opposed to the use of passports, asked Mr Drakeford for his views at the first minister's weekly question time in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPressed on the issue, Mr Drakeford said: \"I start from a position of scepticism about vaccine certification. That doesn't mean that I cannot be persuaded, if the evidence of public health benefits in September, in a different context than we faced in July, outweighs the disadvantages.\"\n\nUnder the UK government's winter plan, vaccine certification will be required for nightclubs and other large events in England if data suggests action is needed to \"prevent unsustainable pressure on the NHS\".", "The Dorman Long tower was built in the 1950s to store coal\n\nAn industrial tower is to be demolished after a last-minute conservation listing was quashed by the new culture secretary hours after her appointment.\n\nPlans to destroy the Dorman Long structure on the former Redcar steelworks site were revealed by Redcar and Cleveland Council a week ago.\n\nHistoric England then advised it should be granted Grade II-listed status.\n\nNow, in one of her first acts in the role, Nadine Dorries has revoked this saying it did not \"merit\" listing.\n\nNadine Dorries said the building was \"essentially a functional structure\"\n\nTees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) and the Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen had lodged an appeal against the listed status, alongside the request to the secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to intervene.\n\nMr Houchen said: \"I would like to send a message to those that think trying to stop these developments is the right thing to do - our heritage does not lie in a rotting coal bunker, our heritage lies in the people that built this great region.\n\n\"It lies in the structures that stand tall across the world, from The Shard, Sydney Harbour Bridge and One World Trade Centre.\"\n\nHe later claimed that, if the Brutalist-style concrete tower had been allowed to remain, it \"would have cost the taxpayer in excess of £9m\".\n\nThe South Tees Development Corporation, which has responsibility for developing the Teesworks site, said the 183ft (56m) tower would be demolished in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe coal bunker, which was built in the 1950s and could store 5,000 tonnes of fuel, will be razed along with other buildings on the site in a series of controlled explosions between 00:00 and 02:00 BST.\n\nThere are major plans to regenerate the former SSI site\n\nCampaigners against the destruction had argued the tower was a monument to Teesside's industrial past.\n\nTV architect George Clarke said it was \"heart-breaking news\", adding: \"We've lost way too many buildings in the North East that celebrate our incredible industrial past.\"\n\nHe said it was a \"unique building and should be saved\".\n\nWorkers were on site on Friday morning, priming the concrete bunker for demolition\n\nLabour's former candidate to be Tees Valley mayor, Jessie Joe Jacobs, accused Ms Dorries of \"cultural vandalism\".\n\n\"The Dorman Long tower is one of UK's best examples of brutalist architecture and a proud symbol of Teesside's industrial heritage. This is just tragic,\" she wrote.\n\nHowever, correspondence seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service showed the culture secretary had judged the building \"not of sufficient architectural or historic interest to merit listing\".\n\nShe ruled that the loss of fabric from the building reduced its architectural interest and made it \"essentially a functional structure\".\n\nThe tower sits near the South Bank coke oven battery on the former Redcar SSI steelworks site, which closed in 2015 with the loss of thousands of jobs.\n\nThe ovens will now make way for a new wind turbine manufacturing facility being built by LM Wind, a subsidiary of GE renewable energy.\n\nA statement from Historic England said: \"We recognise the importance of the public benefits that will come from the remediation and planned regeneration of the whole Teesworks site.\n\n\"We also accept, with regret, that demolition of the tower is now likely to proceed but we are keen to continue supporting local partners as works progress.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A PM is rarely as powerful as on a reshuffle day\n\n\"This is a mad way to run the country,\" confessed a member of the government.\n\nWhether prime ministers wield sharp knives or attack with blunt spoons, reshuffle days like this are indeed a strange mixture of bravado and farce.\n\nBravado when, earlier, one cabinet minister told me, \"I think I'm OK,\" as, ashen-faced, looking nauseous and clammy, they were en route to see the prime minister before promptly being sacked.\n\nAnd farce when, as legend has it, on several occasions, would-be ministers end up jobless, because the post-it notes with their name on fell off the board. Forgotten, their career plunged to the floor too.\n\nThe way the most senior government politicians are recruited and removed is bizarre and brutal. For weeks ministers have nervously inquired of journalists: \"Is it on?\" And inhabitants of the Westminster village who claim real knowledge of the plan are rarely those who truly know.\n\nBut, whatever the curious British traditions of how it's done, it is what is done that makes the difference. Prime ministers rarely wield as much power as on the day of the big hirings and firings.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson has used this occasion to make big changes to the cabinet. The most significant switch came in one of the chunkiest jobs of all.\n\nRemoving the foreign secretary is a big deal. Dominic Raab's always happy to let it be known that he holds a black belt in karate. And his conversation with the prime minister this reshuffle day took longer than expected, suggesting he fought his move pretty hard. Sources suggest he managed to wangle the ill-defined title of deputy prime minister out of Mr Johnson.\n\nBeing justice secretary, running prisons, courts, and the legal system, is of course a huge job. Downing Street insists it's not a demotion, and that it doesn't want this move to be seen as punishment after what looked, to many people, like a debacle in Afghanistan.\n\nBut even with the DPM bauble, Mr Raab, the now former foreign secretary, is a less senior figure in the government.\n\nThere are some other slightly puzzling aspects. Steve Barclay was, until the reshuffle, chief secretary to the Treasury, wielding the calculator on what is a hugely important Spending Review, when cash for departments for the next few years is fixed. That review is coming in just a few weeks' time, so you might wonder at the wisdom of moving Mr Barclay right now.\n\nHe's being replaced by Simon Clarke, a previous inhabitant of a Treasury role, a strong supporter of Mr Johnson and North East MP. He's also, at 6ft 7ins, around a foot taller than his new boss in Number 11 - cue the inevitable jokes about Number 10 wanting to make the chancellor feel small.\n\nAnne-Marie Trevelyan is back on the top team\n\nIn a similar vein Anne-Marie Trevelyan, also a strong Johnson backer, returns to cabinet as trade secretary. Irrespective of the merit of her move to that department, Ms Trevelyan had been part of the government's team preparing for COP26, a major international event that starts in about 50 days. If it's a true priority, unpicking a part of the team right now may raise a few eyebrows.\n\nThere are many more jobs to be allocated, more intrigue to come when middle-ranking and junior ministers get their P45s or offers. But the shape of the cabinet itself is clear.\n\nWhat's harder to divine is any one strong political ideology, or any radical guiding idea. Certainly, politicians popular with the Tory party like Truss seem to have prospered. Loyalty to the prime minister himself seems to have been rewarded.\n\nBut it's not a Brexit cabinet, or a small-state cabinet, or to use Tory verbiage, a \"one-nation\" cabinet for those more in the middle.\n\nIt's a Johnson cabinet, with no particular bent towards any one faction or tribe. For some of his backers, that is one of Mr Johnson's attributes - he's not wedded to principle, but staying on top. For other Tories, that's rather the problem - with no one strong ideology other than a desire to win, it begs the question of what it's all really for.\n\nFor Downing Street, though, this is a day for the doers. After the early traumas of Brexit, then the emergency and horror of the pandemic, the moves represent, they hope, a refreshed team that can get things done.\n\nWhether it's building houses without upsetting the Tory shires, sorting out school exams, pushing through tougher prison sentences, with new faces it's a government that Downing Street hopes will be more able to push reform forward, and make its case.\n\nNearly two years after the election, it's perhaps the start of Mr Johnson's third act as prime minister. And while the shuffling of his cabinet pack has passed, so far largely without incident, there is no doubt about the scale of the challenge, individual and collective, that they face.", "There have been reports of some people facing severe waits for an ambulance to arrive\n\nThe Scottish government has asked the MoD for military assistance for the country's ambulance service.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said health services were dealing with the most challenging combination of circumstances in their history due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nOpposition politicians have highlighted a series of serious ambulance delays, including one where a man died after a 40-hour wait.\n\nThey said this should not be happening in Scotland in 2021.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government was looking at a range of plans to deal with the significant challenges facing the health services, with the detail of a request for military assistance being considered.\n\nShe told the Scottish Parliament: \"I'll be going back to my office to finalise the detail of the request for military assistance so we can submit that as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"Such military assistance is already being provided to ambulance services in England and of course we have had military assistance for other aspects of the pandemic over the past 18 months.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson later confirmed it was seeking military assistance to address acute services, and a separate request had been made to support mobile testing units.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence confirmed it had received a request from the Scottish government, which it said related to support for Scottish Ambulance Service mobile testing units.\n\nA spokeswoman said the MoD was \"working hard to identify where we can most effectively assist other government departments and civil authorities.\"\n\nInvestigations are ongoing into several cases reported in the media on Thursday, including one where a Glasgow pensioner died after a 40-hour wait for an ambulance.\n\nThe Herald newspaper reported that the family of 65-year-old Gerard Brown were told that he could have survived had help arrived sooner.\n\nMr Brown's GP - who is said to have repeatedly warned 999 call handlers that the patient's status was critical - was quoted as describing the crisis engulfing the Scottish Ambulance Service as being like \"third world medicine\".\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service is investigating the circumstances of the case, and said it will be \"in contact with Mr Brown's family directly to apologise for the delay\".\n\nMr Brown's death has been reported to the procurator fiscal, who said an investigation was \"ongoing\".\n\nPressed on the case at her weekly question session at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon offered her condolences to Mr Brown's family, and said what had been reported was \"unacceptable\".\n\nShe said Scotland was \"experiencing probably the most challenging combination of circumstances that our health service has faced since its establishment\" due to the pandemic.\n\nEvelyn from Kilwinning told BBC Radio Scotland's Mornings with Stephen Jardine that her husband had been rushed to hospital three times in the last last few weeks due to concerns about his kidney function.\n\nTheir longest wait for an ambulance was 23 hours - and on an occasion where it had been called by their GP.\n\n\"He's an amputee and I wanted to take him in the car,\" said Evelyn. \"The doctor said no, it had to be an ambulance in case he deteriorated.\n\n\"Twenty-three hours was the longest wait, the time before was 11 and a half hours and the quickest was six hours. Both of us were very distressed. He's a very unwell man so this is going to be reoccurring - but one of these days our luck is just going to run out.\n\n\"The ambulance crew were absolutely amazing, but they were run ragged. When I went to the hospital there were nine ambulances outside the hospital waiting to admit people - that's nine crews that are off the road for hours.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon met emergency call handlers with the Scottish Ambulance Service in 2018\n\nBrian from Troon said he was proud of his daughter who is an emergency call handler - but often hears of frustrated people becoming \"abusive\" to staff when they are told their cases are not high priority.\n\n\"It's reducing them to tears,\" said Brian. \"The staff are coming home looking for someone to talk to about it.\n\n\"Luckily the ambulance service have got it covered - supervisors listen in to the calls and say that's not acceptable and will cut them off and take the call themselves. They also look at the welfare side of things, they are such a good service. Abuse is totally not acceptable.\n\n\"It's their professionalism that gets them through this - they have sympathy with their callers, they try to calm them and in some cases they save people's lives until the ambulance arrives, whether it be someone having a stroke or having a baby.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Scotland News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe head of the Scottish Ambulance Service has previously apologised to patients over increased waiting times, saying staff were working under \"unprecedented pressure\" due to a \"huge increase\" in both Covid and non-Covid cases.\n\nPauline Howie said the service was \"at full capacity\" and hospitals were too, meaning it takes longer to hand over patients at emergency departments - creating delays in responding to other calls.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the ambulance service was \"in crisis\", and said cases like that of Mr Brown \"shouldn't be happening in Scotland in 2021\".\n\nHe also called for Health Secretary Humza Yousaf to withdraw comments he made on BBC Radio Scotland on Wednesday, when he said people should \"think twice\" about whether they really needed an ambulance before calling for one.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the ambulance service was already \"operating at its highest level of escalation\" in response to current pressures, and said Mr Yousaf's comments reflected others made by services \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nLabour leader Anas Sarwar raised the same case, describing it as an \"avoidable human tragedy\".\n\nHe said Ms Sturgeon should not use the pandemic as an excuse, adding: \"There is a simple truth - nobody should be left to die on the floor while waiting 40 hours for an ambulance.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said governments across the world were dealing with similar problems at the moment, and that her administration was \"absolutely focused\" on providing solutions.\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton called for the military assistance to be deployed swiftly, saying the government had \"done too little, too late\".", "Keira Bell (centre) said she should have been challenged more when she decided to transition to male\n\nDoctors can judge if under-16s can give informed consent to puberty blocker use, the Court of Appeal has ruled.\n\nThe appeal was brought by the Tavistock Trust, which runs the UK's only youth gender identity clinic.\n\nThe decision reverses a 2020 ruling that under-16s lacked capacity to give informed consent to the treatment, which delays the onset of puberty.\n\nThe original case was brought by Keira Bell, who says the clinic should have challenged her more over transitioning.\n\nShe said she was disappointed by the decision, and will seek permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nCourt of Appeal judges said they recognised \"the difficulties and complexities\" of the issue, but that \"it is for the clinicians to exercise their judgement knowing how important it is that consent is properly obtained according to the particular individual circumstances\".\n\nPuberty blockers are drugs used to \"pause\" puberty by suppressing the release of hormones.\n\nThey are prescribed to some children who are experiencing gender dysphoria, which the NHS describes as \"a sense of unease that a person may have because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity\".\n\nMs Bell says she will seek permission to appeal to the Supreme Court\n\nThe Tavistock clinic said it welcomed the decision.\n\n\"The judgement upholds established legal principles which respect the ability of our clinicians to engage actively and thoughtfully with our patients in decisions about their care and futures,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"It affirms that it is for doctors, not judges, to decide on the capacity of under-16s to consent to medical treatment.\"\n\nThe Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) said that hormone treatment \"allows a young person time to consider their options and to continue to explore their developing gender identity before making decisions about irreversible forms of treatment\".\n\nIn December 2020, the High Court ruled under-13s were \"highly unlikely\" to be able to give informed consent to what it described as \"experimental\" treatment and it was \"very doubtful\" those aged 14 and 15 would have the sufficient understanding of the implications.\n\nKeira Bell, one of the claimants in the case, started taking puberty blockers at the age of 16 after being referred to Gids.\n\nShe was later prescribed the male hormone testosterone and had surgery to remove her breasts.\n\nNow in her mid-20s, she regrets the decision to transition to a male, and feels there wasn't enough investigation or therapy before she reached that stage.\n\nShe said she had \"no regrets\" about bringing the case, which she said \"shone a light into the dark corners of a medical scandal that is harming children and harmed me.\n\n\"I am obviously disappointed with the ruling of the court today, and especially that it did not grapple with the significant risk of harm that children are exposed to by being given powerful experimental drugs.\"\n\nThis a complex, controversial area, yet the Court of Appeal's ruling is very clear.\n\nIt is for doctors working with families and the children themselves to decide whether that young person can truly understand the implications of taking drugs that could change the course of their life.\n\nEffectively this ruling has removed the courts from the decision-making process in all but the most difficult cases.\n\nThis will be welcomed by many young people struggling with their gender identity, who believe the long wait for treatment that they already face is causing huge distress and harm.\n\nBut for those like Keira Bell, who believe they weren't challenged enough when they made decisions that shaped their futures, there will be real disappointment.\n\nHowever, the court cases have led to more discussion of the issues - and many will hope that they will also lead to greater understanding.\n\nIn March, a separate judgement from the court's Family Division had ruled parents could give consent for under-16s to access puberty blockers, with other safeguarding measures considered.\n\nThe Tavistock temporarily paused new referrals to its endocrinology service following the rulings.\n\nEligible under-16s who had already been referred for treatment, and have parental consent, are having their cases reviewed by Gids, with decisions overseen by an independent NHS England review group.\n\nThe NHS said the findings of Dr Hilary Cass's independent review into NHS gender identity services for children and young people would shed further light on the issue.\n\nThe review was announced in September 2020, when it was said it would take \"12 months or possibly longer\".\n\n\"The NHS commissioned Dr Hilary Cass to review gender identity services prior to the original High Court ruling to ensure the best model of safe and effective care is delivered - this will set out wide-ranging recommendations including on the use of puberty blockers and the many contested clinical issues identified by the court,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"An independent multi-professional review group will continue to confirm whether clinical decision making has followed a robust consent process now that the endocrine pathway has been reopened by the Tavistock.\"", "The disease attacks the central nervous system of cattle and is usually fatal\n\nA case of the cattle disease BSE has been confirmed on a farm in Somerset.\n\nThe Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) said that the infected animal has died and has been removed.\n\nAn investigation is under way to find the source of the infection and restrictions on the movement of cattle on the farm have been put in place.\n\n\"There is no risk to food safety or public health,\" said chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss.\n\nThe single case of classical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, was confirmed earlier today.\n\n\"We recognise this will be a traumatic time for the farmer and we are on hand to offer advice through this difficult period,\" said Ms Middlemiss.\n\n\"The UK's overall risk status for BSE remains at 'controlled',\" she added.\n\nAPHA will now investigate the herd, premises and potential sources of infection.\n\nIt said that there have been five confirmed cases of BSE in the UK since 2014 and all have been in animals which were not destined for the human food chain and posed no risk to the public.\n\nA spokesperson for the Food Standards Agency said there are \"strict controls in place\" to protect consumers from the risk of BSE.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n• None How BSE crisis shook our faith in food\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid PCR testing should be abandoned for most holidaymakers, says travel organisation Abta.\n\nFully vaccinated travellers should not need to be tested on their return from lower-risk countries, it said.\n\nIt also called for a \"significant overhaul\" of the traffic light system for travel destinations.\n\nAbta said the policies had \"choked off\" this summer's travel trade, with seven out of 10 travel firms planning to make redundancies after furlough ends.\n\nIt also called for the government to reduce the traffic light system to just a small number of \"red list\" countries, purely for the management of known Covid variants of concern.\n\nThe expense of PCR testing is widely blamed for discouraging people from travelling abroad.\n\nAt present, going on holiday abroad means taking Covid tests when you are returning to the UK.\n\nMost private providers charge above £60 for PCR tests and £30 for lateral flow devices. The government has warned more than 80 providers over misleading prices.\n\nThe next formal review of the government's travel policies is expected by 1 October, while the furlough scheme is due to end on 30 September.\n\nWith more than 80% of eligible UK adults already vaccinated against Covid, it was time for a \"stable framework\" for international travel, said Abta, which represents tour operators and travel agents.\n\nNew summer foreign holiday bookings for 2021 were down 83% on 2019, Abta said, while almost half of travel companies reported they had seen no increase in 2021 bookings compared with last year, despite the rollout of the vaccine programme.\n\nThe summer sun is fading, but the travel industry's fears are heating up as the end of furlough approaches.\n\nThe industry is disappointed that vaccination didn't open up international travel as they would have hoped. The government said it will review the way international travel works before October and many expect it will come this week. Voices in the industry are hoping to make themselves heard before ministers meet to discuss exactly what might change.\n\nA sticking point could be PCR testing. The government has argued so far that it's needed for all travellers to catch variants of concern as early as possible, but the industry say these expensive tests are putting off travellers.\n\nWinter is approaching and travel companies need to make decisions about their future operations: they are waiting anxiously to see which way the government will go.\n\nAbta chief executive Mark Tanzer said: \"The government's travel requirements have choked off this summer's travel trade - putting jobs, businesses and the UK's connectivity at risk.\n\n\"While our European neighbours have been travelling freely and safely, the British were subject to expensive measures which have stood in the way of people visiting family and friends, taking that much-needed foreign holiday and making important business connections.\n\n\"The government needs to wake up to the damage its policies are doing to the UK travel industry and the impact they will have on the wider economic recovery.\"\n\nAbta urged the government to extend the furlough scheme for travel businesses alongside a package of tailored financial support for the industry.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"Our top priority is to protect public health. Decisions on our traffic light system are kept under regular review and are informed by the latest risk assessment from the Joint Biosecurity Centre and wider public health factors.\n\n\"We recognise the challenging times facing the travel sector, which is why we have committed around £7bn of support by September 2021 and continue to work with industry to help them navigate this difficult period.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins has continued to defend his decision not to attend a church service to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Queen is among the guests due to attend the event in Armagh on 21 October, and Mr Higgins denied that his decision was a snub to the Queen.\n\nHe said he declined the invite because the event had become politicised.\n\nPresident Higgins said the title of the service made it \"inappropriate\" for him to attend as head of state.\n\nThe Armagh church service has been organised to \"mark the centenaries of the partition of Ireland and the formation of Northern Ireland\".\n\nSpeaking in Rome, where he met Pope Francis on Friday, President Higgins said he felt the title \"wasn't a neutral statement politically\".\n\nHe explained that he had been considering the invitation for about six months, and in the week before St Patrick's Day, he shared his concerns with the organisers of the event.\n\nPresident Higgins said he recalled saying: \"We must do everything we can to support each other's events, but if this event is titled as it is, and structured as it is, it would present difficulties.\"\n\nDuring an interview with the Irish Times on Thursday, President Higgins also said he had been incorrectly referred to as the president of the Republic of Ireland in the invitation rather than the president of Ireland.\n\nHowever, in the press conference in Rome, he corrected his earlier statement about how he had been titled.\n\n\"I do want to clarify one point in my interview yesterday with Harry [McGee], that I may be responsible for creating a small confusion, and that is - the organisers writing to my office have always referred to me as president of Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"The reference to the president of the Republic of Ireland is really the remark of the leadership of the DUP.\"\n\nPope Francis with Irish President Michael D Higgins during his visit to the Vatican on Friday morning\n\nPresident Higgins insisted that he had been a \"regular\" visitor to Northern Ireland and \"had no difficulties appearing in Northern Ireland with Her Majesty\".\n\nHe explained that his decision to decline the invitation was not a sudden one, saying he had given the matter proper consideration.\n\n\"When you are president, and you are responsible for the long vision you have to take all of the consequences into account and all of the interpretations, and I did that,\" he said.\n\nThe president also took issue with some commentators who had criticised his decision not to attend the Armagh event and those who were \"telling me what I have to do\".\n\nIn his newspaper interview on Thursday, the president said he was \"not snubbing anyone and I am not part of anyone's boycott or any other events in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"I wish their service well but they understand that I have the right to exercise discretion as to what I think is appropriate,\" he added.\n\nThe president's decision provoked criticism in Northern Ireland, with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson saying it was a \"disappointing and retrograde step\".\n\nHowever, President Higgins said criticism from the DUP was \"a bit much\".\n\n\"I have gone up to Northern Ireland to take part in events. There often has not been a great deal of traffic down from the DUP people who are criticising me now.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey said the president's comments were \"not conducive to reconciliation\" and added that he was disappointed by his remarks about the DUP.\n\nPresident Higgins with the Queen, who has also been invited to the service, during a state visit to the UK in 2014\n\nHe told BBC Radio UIster's Good Morning Ulster programme on Friday morning that the church service was intended to mark the event of the centenary and \"reflect where we are\".\n\n\"It is not just my party that has raised this as a concern. unionists will be disappointed,\" he said.\n\n\"Failing to recognise the existence of Northern Ireland does not help anybody.\"\n\nSinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald, however, tweeted that the partition of Ireland had been a \"catastrophe for our people and our country\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mary Lou McDonald This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe added: \"The partition of Ireland costs us to this day, holds us back, divides us. Uachtarán na hÉireann has made clear his decision not to attend a commemorative event. His decision is the correct one.\"\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Declan Kearney, speaking at another centenary event held in Belfast on Friday, said the party had not yet received an invitation to October's church service but added: \"If we do so, we too will be declining it.\"\n\nThe leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland said it would have been \"very special\" if President Higgins was able to attend the church service and said his absence was \"unexpected\".\n\nArchbishop Eamon Martin added that the event was \"completely non-political\" and was intended to provide a moment for prayer and reflection.\n\nNewly appointed Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns, also in attendance at the Union Theological College service, said it was \"a matter for the president of the Irish Republic to decide what diary commitments he accepts and what he doesn't\".\n\n\"We will carry on marking a very historic, inclusive event for all communities in Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood called for political leaders across the island to \"pause and reflect on the weight of their words\".\n\nHe said \"cynical criticism\" of President Higgins' decision not to attend the event would \"not advance the cause of reconciliation, particularly when it comes from quarters that have downplayed and degraded the importance of all-island cooperation for two decades\".\n\n\"I would respectfully ask that those for whom this is disappointing reflect on the honest remarks made by President Higgins last night and understand the views of those for whom partition is not a cause for celebration or commemoration,\" he added.\n\nOnce elected Irish presidents, like the Queen, are rarely criticised and are expected to be above daily politics.\n\nSo, it is no surprise there has been to date a largely muted reaction south of the border to President Higgins' decision not to attend the centenary event organised by the four main Christian churches.\n\nThose few voices that have asked him to reconsider his position have done so in the name of north-south reconciliation - a cause he would argue he has been to the forefront of with his first state visit to the UK by an Irish president.\n\nThose who support his decision say no head of state of any country could acquiesce to an event that marked the partitioning of his country and caused huge harm.\n\nIn past comments, President Higgins, who was a left-wing politician, has spoken about \"ethical remembrance\" and reminding the British of their role in colonialism and imperialism and the legacy of that for descendants.\n\nWhile his non-attendance at the event has been criticised by unionist and other politicians, it is unlikely to damage his reputation south of the border where the controversy is largely seen as - at least until now - a \"political bubble\" story.\n\nResponding to President Higgins' explanation for not attending the church service, Ulster Unionist MLA Mike Nesbitt said he had previously admired the president's outreach.\n\n\"If there was a problem with language then there is no reason why the presidential support staff could not have opened a quiet back channel to resolve all issues of language,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the issue had the potential to \"infect good relations and reconciliation\".\n\nAlliance MP Stephen Farry previously called on President Higgins to reconsider his decision, saying the event was \"very much in keeping with the reconciliation efforts of successive Irish presidents and the Queen\".\n\nSimon Coveney says the government did not give \"clear advice\" on whether or not President Higgins should attend\n\nIrish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney travelled to Belfast on Friday to continue talks with Stormont parties as the controversy over the service continues.\n\nSpeaking ahead of another event to mark the centenary organised by the Presbyterian church, he confirmed the Irish government had been consulted about the president's invitation to the church service.\n\nBut he said there was no \"clear advice\" given on whether or not he should attend.\n\nHe added President Higgins had made his own decision and that had to be respected.\n\nThe Irish government previously said the issue of attendance at the service was a matter for the president alone and any invitation for a government representative to attend would be considered.", "The UK's \"most vulnerable\" hospital patients, who are unable to build up an antibody response to Covid, will be offered new drug Ronapreve from Monday.\n\nThe new Covid treatment, approved just last month, uses a pair of laboratory-made antibodies to attack the virus.\n\nIt was famously used as part of the suite of experimental medicines given to US President Donald Trump last year.\n\nThe antibody cocktail has been shown to reduce hospital stays by four days and cut the risk of death by a fifth.\n\nThe government said it had secured sufficient supply of the new therapeutic for eligible NHS patients across the four nations to cover the forthcoming winter.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said he was \"thrilled it will be saving lives from as early as next week\".\n\n\"The UK is leading the world in identifying and rolling out life-saving medicines, particularly for Covid 19, and we will continue our vital work to find the best treatments available to save lives and protect the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe new treatment is expensive and priority will be given to those patients at greatest risk of becoming severely ill.\n\nIt will be offered to those over-50 without the necessary antibodies, and those aged 12-49 who are immuno-compromised - for example those with certain cancers - who struggle to mount an antibody response, either through being exposed to Covid, or from vaccination.\n\nThe government said guidance would be sent to clinicians imminently so they can begin prescribing the treatment as soon as possible.\n\nOf those eligible patients, antibody testing will initially be used to determine whether they are seronegative - meaning those who do not have an adequate existing antibody response - and will therefore be eligible for treatment.\n\nThe treatment antibodies - casirivimab and imdevimab - will then be administered to patients through a drip. The drug works by binding to the virus' spike protein, stopping it from being able to infect the body's cells.\n\nThe antibody therapy attacks the virus, unlike other Covid treatments such as the steroid dexamethasone that calm the body's overactive immune system.\n\nThere had been concern the idea was a dud after trials failed when antibodies were taken from patients who had recovered from Covid.\n\nHowever, the companies Regeneron and Roche tested monoclonal antibodies in the laboratory to find the two that were best able to stick to the virus.\n\nThis has proved far more effective, and the therapy continues to work against new variants.\n\n\"Ronapreve is the first dedicated medicine developed for Covid 19 to receive marketing authorisation from the MHRA, representing a significant milestone in how the NHS is able to fight this disease,\" said Paul McManus, Covid 19 lead at Roche Products Ltd.\n\n\"We're grateful for the collaboration of the vaccine taskforce and NHS England in helping to bring this important antibody cocktail to treat and prevent acute Covid 19 across the UK.\"", "The Duke of Edinburgh's will is to remain secret for at least 90 years to protect the \"dignity and standing\" of the Queen, the High Court has ruled.\n\nIt has been convention for over a century that, after the death of a senior member of the Royal Family, the courts are asked to seal their wills.\n\nIt means that, unlike most wills granted probate, it will not be open to public inspection.\n\nThere will be a private process in 90 years to decide if it can be unsealed.\n\nThe hearing into the application to seal the will was also held in private in July by Sir Andrew McFarlane, the most senior judge in the family courts.\n\nHe heard arguments from lawyers representing the duke's estate and the attorney general, the government's chief legal adviser, and published his ruling on Thursday.\n\nSir Andrew said that as president of the Family Division of the High Court, he is the custodian of a safe containing more than 30 envelopes, each containing the sealed will of a dead member of the Royal Family.\n\nAnd for the first time in more than 100 years, he set out a process by which those wills could be made public.\n\nSir Andrew said: \"I have held that, because of the constitutional position of the Sovereign, it is appropriate to have a special practice in relation to royal wills.\n\n\"There is a need to enhance the protection afforded to truly private aspects of the lives of this limited group of individuals in order to maintain the dignity of the Sovereign and close members of her family.\"\n\nThe judge said he had not seen Prince Philip's will or been told anything of its contents, other than the date of its execution and the identity of the appointed executor.\n\nHe said he decided to hold the hearing in private because it would be likely to generate \"very significant publicity and conjecture\" that would \"defeat the purpose of the application\".\n\n\"I accepted the submission that, whilst there may be public curiosity as to the private arrangements that a member of the Royal Family may choose to make in their will, there is no true public interest in the public knowing this wholly private information,\" he said.\n\nPrince Francis of Teck, brother of Queen Mary, was the first royal whose will was sealed on his death\n\nHe said there was no legal reason for any representations from media organisations because the public interest was represented by the attorney general.\n\nLawyers for Philip's estate argued that news of the hearing and the application \"might generate wholly unfounded conjecture\" which would be \"deeply intrusive\" for the Queen and the Royal Family.\n\nDetailing the history of previous decisions, Sir Andrew said the first family member whose will was sealed by the court was Prince Francis of Teck, the younger brother of Queen Mary, who died in 1910.\n\nAccording to the legal and royal expert Michael L Nash, author of Royal Wills in Britain from 1509 to 2008, the new legal mechanism was devised after Prince Francis left valuable emeralds prized by Queen Mary to his mistress, the Countess of Kilmorey.\n\nAn envelope containing Prince Francis's will resides in the safe held by Sir Andrew, with the most recent additions being those of the late Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister, who died in 2002.\n\nIn 2007, a man claiming to be the illegitimate child of Princess Margaret, Robert Andrew Brown, applied to unseal the wills of the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret but his claim was struck out as \"vexatious and an abuse of process\".\n\nHowever, Sir Andrew amended previous orders, which had sealed royal wills indefinitely, so that they can be inspected privately 90 years after probate was granted.\n\nThe \"grant of probate\" is an order that allows someone to distribute a deceased person's assets according to their wishes, and normally marks the point where person's will becomes a public document.\n\nWills by the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret are among those being held in a safe\n\nSir Andrew said after 90 years each royal will would be opened and examined by the monarch's private solicitor, the keeper of the Royal Archives, the attorney general and by any personal representatives of the dead person who may still be available.\n\nThey will decide whether the will may be made public at that stage, but Sir Andrew said some royal wills may never be published, even in part.\n\nThe unsealing should be conducted by a professional archivist to ensure the documents and seals are properly preserved. Further details of the process will be decided by the court before it begins to unseal the first of the wills.\n\nThe Queen's solicitor and the attorney general argued that the wills should be sealed for 125 years, but Sir Andrew said that 90 years was \"proportionate and sufficient\" and would mean the risk of publication intruding on the private lives of royals would be substantially reduced.\n\nSir Andrew said he intends to publish an annex listing the names on the 30 envelopes in his safe, but added that he will not do so until any potential appeal against his judgement has been able to run its course.\n\nOne name which will not feature is that of Diana, Princess of Wales. Unlike other members of the Royal Family, her will was published after her death in 1997, revealing that the majority of her fortune was being held in trust for her sons until they reached the age of 25.", "Lyra McKee was was shot while observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate in April 2019\n\nTwo men have appeared in Londonderry Magistrates' Court charged with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nPeter Gearóid Cavanagh, 33, of Elmwood Terrace in Derry is charged with murdering Ms McKee on 8 April 2019.\n\nJordan Devine, 21, of Synge Court in Derry is also charged with her murder.\n\nBoth men are further charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life, riot, possession of petrol bombs, throwing petrol bombs and arson.\n\nMr Cavanagh is also charged with robbery on the same date.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot dead while observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate on 8 April 2019.\n\nA prosecuting lawyer said the police case was that the two defendants were with the gunman who fired the shot on the night that Ms McKee was killed.\n\nA detective told the court that Mr Cavanagh \"escorted\" the gunman on the night of the killing.\n\nHe said Mr Cavanagh had been identified from images of the night, and was also linked to the scene through a burned zip fastener which was found nearby.\n\nA defence lawyer said it was \"absolutely beyond belief\" that Mr Cavanagh could be identified from the images.\n\nThe court heard that Jordan Devine \"encouraged\" the gunman by punching the air and cheering, and by lifting items from the scene.\n\nA defence barrister said there was \"simply zero sustainable evidence\" against Mr Devine and that \"in the old days\" the case would have been \"laughed out of court.\"\n\nA third man, Joe Campbell, 20, of Goshaden Cottages in the Ardmore area of Derry also appeared in court via video link on Friday.\n\nMr Campbell is charged with riot, possession of petrol bombs and throwing petrol bombs on the night Ms McKee was killed.\n\nThe District Judge Barney McElholm said there was \"nothing new in the case\" and that he was not going to comment on the evidence.\n\nHe granted all three men bail with conditions to appear again on 7 October.\n\nA lawyer for the prosecution said he would be lodging an appeal against the bail being granted to the men.\n\nBBC News NI understands the three men have been remanded in custody following the indication from the PPS that they will appeal bail.", "Elizabeth Estensen: \"Emmerdale will always remain special to me\"\n\nEmmerdale's Elizabeth Estensen, who has spent 22 years playing the ITV soap's matriarch Diane Sugden, is retiring from the hugely popular show.\n\nThe actress, whose character was the landlady of The Woolpack for 17 years, said she would \"miss everyone dearly\".\n\nFans of the show saw Diana Sugden being ripped off by her conman lover, stabbed and held at gunpoint, as well as having cancer treatment.\n\nEstensen has filmed her last scenes but will be on screen for a few weeks.\n\nShe said: \"For the past 22 years I have loved playing Diane Sugden - she's kind, reliable and fiercely loyal. However, I now feel the time has come to say goodbye.\n\n\"Emmerdale will always remain special to me. I've been treated with respect and kindness and I've had the very best friends and colleagues, both past and present. I'll miss everyone dearly.\"\n\nJohn Whiston, head of continuing drama and of ITV in the North, called the actress \"the natural heart and centre of the Sugden family\".\n\nHe added: \"It's a role she has made so totally her own, bringing compassion, humour and credibility to her portrayal of Diane. Whenever she's on screen, as a viewer, you just let out a contented sigh and say to yourself, 'The Queen is on her throne and all is well with the world.'\"\n\nHe added that actors don't \"get to stay in a soap that long\" unless they are \"truly professional\" and a really, really lovely person\".\n\nThe actress also appeared on ITV's Coronation Street from 1996 to 1998 as well as BBC comedy The Liver Birds from 1975 to 1979.\n\nAnd she played the character T Bag in the ITV children's shows about a witch-like character and her assistant T Shirt, during the late 1980s.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "\n• Everyone travelling to Spain (including children) must submit an online Health Control Form (in English), no more than 48 hours before departure. This will generate a QR code which needs to be presented (either digitally or as a hard copy) at the Spanish border. All travellers aged 12 and over must be able to prove they've been fully vaccinated (with both doses of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a one-dose vaccine) at least 14 days before arrival. Proof of a negative test or recovery from Covid is not accepted. From 23:00 GMT on 13 February children aged 12-17 do not need to be double-jabbed to enter the country. Instead, they must present a negative PCR test taken no more than 72 hours before arrival. You must have received your final vaccine dose no earlier than 270 days (about nine months) before travelling. If it was earlier than this, you must be able to show proof of having received a booster jab. There is no requirement for 14 days to have passed between receiving your booster and entering Spain. Spain (like all EU countries) will accept as proof the NHS Covid Pass, Scotland's NHS Covid Status Pass or Northern Ireland's COVIDCert NI app - these can be presented either in digital form on a phone, or printed (as long as it's dated after 1 November 2021). Fully vaccinated children aged 12 to 15 can now also use the NHS app to show their Covid status, or they can request an NHS Covid Pass letter for international travel. Children under the age of 12 do not need to show proof of vaccination. If you have not been fully vaccinated, you can only enter Spain if your journey is classed as \"essential\" by the Spanish Ministry of Health. If your journey qualifies, you will need to present either a negative PCR test taken within the previous 72 hours, or a negative antigen test/LFT taken within the previous 24 hours, or else a medical certificate to say that you have recovered from Covid in the previous six months. If you're travelling via Gibraltar, check the latest Foreign Office travel advice.\n• Wherever you are in Spain, you must observe social distancing of 1.5m (5ft). Everyone aged six and over must also wear a face mask in the following places (unless they have a medical exemption):\n• any enclosed space open to the public (eg shops, restaurants, hotels or hospitals)\n• any indoor space where people from different households mix\n• any outdoor space where it is not possible to observe social distancing (e.g. crowded streets, public demonstrations etc.)\n• all forms of public transport and all transport stations, platforms and airports Some regions may have additional restrictive measures, including:\n• restrictions on meeting people from other households indoors\n• capacity restrictions at beaches or other public areas (eg booking systems) You should check with local and regional authorities for more details. The Foreign Office has specific healthcare guidance for UK nationals visiting Spain. For more details about travelling in Spain, go to the UK Foreign Office travel advice for Spain\n• Everyone aged 12 and over travelling to the UK must fill in an online passenger locator form before they depart. Adults can complete the form for under-18s travelling with them. If you qualify as fully vaccinated, you do not need to take any tests either before or after you arrive in the UK, nor is there any need to quarantine. The same rules apply for travellers under the age of 18. If you are 18 or over, and not fully vaccinated:\n• you will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test, taken in the two days before you travel to the UK\n• you will need to book and pay for a PCR test, to be taken within two days of arrival in the UK. This must be booked with a private provider before you travel\n• you do not have to quarantine unless your PCR test is positive", "A law firm representing travellers is taking the government to court over the UK's quarantine hotel policy.\n\nPassengers must spend 11 nights in a quarantine hotel on returning from red list countries, even if fully vaccinated and testing negative for Covid.\n\nLondon-based firm PGMBM said it had called for a judicial review into the policy, but the government had refused.\n\nThe cost of staying in a quarantine hotel is now £2,285.\n\nMore than 60 locations including Turkey, Mexico, Kenya and many countries in Africa and Latin America are currently on the red list.\n\nThe other European countries with mandatory quarantine involving hotel detentions - Ireland and Norway - have amended their schemes so fully vaccinated travellers are exempt from needing to quarantine.\n\nIf PGMBM's claim was successful, not only would double-vaccinated travellers no longer have to quarantine at the hotels, but the government could also be forced to refund the fees of all those who were vaccinated and still had to stay there.\n\nIt is estimated more than 100,000 people have been forced to quarantine in hotels since the policy came into force in February this year.\n\nPGMBM said it was launching a legal case, representing \"multiple\" clients. It described the policy as an \"unlawful deprivation of liberty\" that violated fundamental human rights.\n\nIt is now asking anyone who was forced to stay in hotel quarantine to register their details and help form a class action aimed at forcing the government to reverse its policy.\n\nOne of the firm's clients, Ozgur Akyuz, a bus driver from Hackney, said his pregnant wife and three-year-old daughter caught Covid while staying in hotel quarantine two weeks ago.\n\n\"They were put in a hotel near Heathrow and it was filthy. She was crying all day long,\" he said.\n\n\"She saw a rat in her room and kept being served bacon and sausages, even though she told them she didn't eat pork.\n\n\"I ended up cooking food at home to take to her, and I also bought a rat trap from B&Q to give her peace of mind because the hotel did nothing.\"\n\nMr Akyuz said both his wife and daughter tested positive for Covid on the third day of quarantine, despite having tested negative when they left Turkey.\n\n\"They were allowed home after 10 days but I then caught Covid from them. So we have all had it. If she had come home to quarantine, chances are none of us would have got it.\"\n\nThe government has said it has taken \"decisive action\" to protect the country, including the quarantine system. Other countries around the world had taken equivalent action, it said.\n\nThis is the second case PGMBM has brought about quarantine hotels. The first was on the grounds of financial hardship and resulted in the government offering the option to pay in 12 monthly instalments for those facing financial hardship.", "Sharnie May Crooks wants to go clubbing when she heads back to uni but won't be allowed in as she hasn't had a Covid jab\n\nCovid made 2020 one of the worst years ever to be a uni student, so many can't wait to get back to normal when the new term starts - but it's going to be less fun if you've not had a Covid jab.\n\nFrom next month you'll only get into nightclubs in England and Scotland if you can prove you're fully vaccinated.\n\nThe aim of vaccine passports is to reduce Covid cases and avoid lockdowns.\n\nBut some people are angry about the rule, with one student saying it makes her even more reluctant to get a jab.\n\n\"When I turned 18 I went to one or two clubs with my friends and then Covid hit,\" Sharnie May Crooks tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"Now I'm 19, I'm going to be 20 in November - it's nearly two years of clubbing that I've just never had the chance to experience and now with vaccine passports it doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.\"\n\nSharnie's been working as a bartender and customer services assistant to make some extra cash before starting her second year studying psychology at the University of Warwick.\n\nShe says she'd \"happily\" take lateral flow tests to prove she's not carrying the virus ahead of big nights out, as we've all had to at gigs and festivals this summer.\n\nBut the idea of vaccine passports is \"outrageous, preposterous\" and \"too far to the extreme\".\n\n\"A vaccine should be a personal choice, and if you're restricting me from doing things, that's pushing me further away from making that decision because you're removing choice from it.\"\n\nSharnie doesn't plan on getting the vaccine for at least a couple of years, because she's concerned about the possibility of unknown long-term effects.\n\nScientists have repeatedly said the serious complications of Covid itself are a far greater risk to people than vaccines. The vaccines approved for use in the UK have met strict safety standards and reports of serious side-effects are very rare.\n\nSharnie says she's not going to change her mind, so freshers' week is \"not going to be as exciting as I would have hoped\" as a result of vaccine passports.\n\nBut she's \"definitely not going to be sitting at home\" while her peers have fun at uni - and says it's likely she'll end up going to illegal raves instead of legitimate clubs.\n\nSharnie (left) says she's likely to go to illegal raves if vaccine passports stop her from going clubbing\n\nShe says lots of her friends feel the same way and thinks an increase in the number of illegal raves will be a consequence of vaccine passports that the government hasn't considered.\n\n\"Staying at home, not partying, is definitely just not an option,\" she says.\n\nAnnie is 21 and we've agreed not to use her surname. She's also against the idea of vaccine passports - but for very different reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid passports: 'Illegal raves will be more popular'\n\nWhen Annie was 14 she overdosed on paracetamol in an attempt to take her own life. After that she had a \"bit of a fear of taking medication\" but when the UK went into lockdown in March last year, the fear developed into severe anxiety and panic attacks about medicine.\n\n\"Some panic attacks get to the point where I have to lie in bed and just not move because I can't breathe. I think I'm going to die, I think the side-effects are going to kill me. Obviously that's not going to happen but that's how it makes me feel.\"\n\nAt the moment Annie's anxiety is so bad that she can't take any medication - including any vaccines.\n\nScotland's vaccine passport rules apply to nightclubs, big gigs, and football matches with more than 10,000 people\n\n\"I am not against the vaccine in any way. I think anyone who can get it should get it - but me personally, I just am not comfortable taking it 'cos I know how it will make me feel. It's just the vaccine passports that I have a grievance with,\" she says.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - will be exempt from the vaccine passport restrictions. But Annie isn't sure if her condition will be covered by this.\n\nShe's looking forward to going to a McFly concert at the end of this month but doesn't think she'll be allowed into a JLS gig she has tickets for in October.\n\nShe's also worried she won't be able to use her football season ticket because stadiums with capacity of over 10,000 people are also subject to the vaccine passport rules in Scotland.\n\nJLS, pictured in 2013, are doing a comeback tour this autumn - but without a vaccine Annie won't be able to go\n\n\"Aspects of my mental health have vastly improved since I've been able to go back to events and stuff like that,\" she says.\n\n\"If I can't go to these events I'm going to be cooped up inside again, feeling all of these intense feelings of anxiety. But then if I get the vaccine, I will be feeling those intense feelings of anxiety - so it's a lose-lose situation for myself.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The rock slab known as Rochette with the two drill holes made by the rover\n\nUS space agency scientists were so excited by the Martian rock sampled by their Perseverance rover last week they got the robot to take a second sample.\n\nPerseverance drilled its first finger-sized core on 6 September, repeating the procedure a couple of days later.\n\nThe scientists believe the targeted rock is volcanic in origin, meaning it can be accurately dated.\n\nIt also contains salts, which are indicative of water alteration, and that raises the possibility of life.\n\nOr, at least, the potential for past life.\n\nBiology is not a given wherever there has been H₂O, but it's hard to see how organisms could have existed without it.\n\nNasa's Perseverance rover was sent to Jezero Crater on Mars precisely because it looks to have had a habitable environment billions of years ago.\n\nSatellite images suggest a lake was once present in the 45km-wide bowl.\n\nThere are what appear to be extensive river and delta sediments in the west of the crater.\n\nThe period in which this water environment existed could now be greatly narrowed by the rock samples just acquired.\n\nThe donor slab, nicknamed \"Rochette\", is sitting on the floor of Jezero and as such is expected to represent the oldest layers in the crater.\n\nIf the minerals in the samples can be dated, therefore, they will provide a \"no older than\" age for the lake.\n\nThe salts - likely calcium sulphate or calcium phosphate - are fascinating because they'll almost certainly host small inclusions, or bubbles, of water.\n\n\"Salts are great minerals for preserving signs of ancient life here on Earth, and we expect the same may be true for rocks on Mars,\" explained Perseverance deputy project scientist Dr Katie Stack Morgan.\n\nOf course, to do any of these investigations, the samples need to come back to Earth first.\n\nNasa's plan (in partnership with the European Space Agency) is for Perseverance to collect more than two dozen rock cores over the next two years and package them in sealed titanium tubes.\n\nThese will be left on the surface of Jezero for later missions to pick up before 2030 for transport back home.\n\n\"Because... of such high scientific potential, we decided to acquire two samples at Rochette,\" Dr Stack Morgan told reporters.\n\n\"The [Perseverance] science team has the plan to place down one or more sample caches. And so to ensure that each of these sample caches are as complete as they can be, we have a strategy to acquire two samples at each of our highest priority sampling locations.\"\n\nA close-up of the drill holes Montdenier (left) and Montagnac (right)\n\nTo get to Rochette, Perseverance rolled about 2.2km (1.4 miles) from its February landing site.\n\nIt's heading west at the moment along a slightly raised ridge to a location called \"South Séítah\" where further rock cores will be taken. All the while, the rover is being tracked by its mini helicopter, Ingenuity, which surveys the ground ahead.\n\nAt some point, scientists want the rover to move north to where the river and delta sediments are most obvious and where the chances of finding any traces of past life are greatest.\n\nMeenakshi Wadhwa is Nasa's Mars sample return principal scientist. She said the cores taken out of Rochette have their own names, too: \"Montdenier\" (6 September) and \"Montagnac\" (8 September).\n\n\"I cannot overstate the significance of these rock samples collected by Perseverance. This is a truly historic achievement - the very first rock cores collected on another terrestrial planet. It's amazing.\n\n\"These two rock cores represent now the beginning of Mars sample return.\n\n\"I've dreamed of having samples back from Mars to analyse in my lab since I was a graduate student. And now it's actually starting to feel real.\"\n\nClick here to see how Nasa and Esa will bring rocks from Mars to Earth.", "Heart inflammation is a \"very rare\" side-effect of the Covid vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, according to regulators in Europe.\n\nThe European Medicines Agency said the side-effects were more common in younger men.\n\nThe medicines safety body said the benefits of Covid vaccines continue to far outweigh any risks.\n\nBut doctors and patients have been advised to be aware of the symptoms of heart inflammation.\n\nThese include chest pain, a feeling of breathlessness and a pounding or fluttering heartbeat. Anyone with these symptoms should see a doctor.\n\nTwo conditions were linked to the vaccines - inflammation of the heart muscle itself, known as myocarditis, and inflammation of the fluid-filled sac the heart sits in, known as pericarditis.\n\nFive people died. The review said they were all either elderly or had other health conditions.\n\nThe UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has also been investigating the link.\n\nIt reported: \"A consistent pattern of cases occurring more frequently in young males and shortly after the second dose of the vaccines.\n\n\"These reports are extremely rare, and the events are typically mild with individuals usually recovering within a short time with standard treatment and rest,\" it added.\n\nMost cases are thought to be within 14 days of vaccination.\n\nWhile the risk is very rare, it is more likely to develop in young people - who are currently the focus on the vaccination campaign in the UK.\n\nConcerns about the side-effects have already played into the UK debate around vaccinating children, who are at lower risk of Covid.\n\nMyocarditis and pericarditis will be officially listed as side-effects in the UK and Europe, mirroring a move by the regulators in the US last month.\n\n\"The chance of these conditions occurring is very low, but you should be aware of the symptoms so that you can get prompt medical treatment to help recovery and avoid complications,\" the EMA said.\n\nThe link with heart inflammation was found only in the vaccines that rely on mRNA technology to train the immune system.\n\nThere was no link found for vaccines such as Oxford-AstraZeneca or Janssen, which use a genetically modified virus.\n\nHowever, the EMA has advised anyone with a history of capillary leak syndrome should not be given the Janssen vaccine. This is a rare but serious syndrome in which fluid leaks from blood vessels in the body.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This man, a shopkeeper, believed he would be safe from the Taliban, sources said\n\nThe BBC has found that at least 20 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, which has seen fighting between the Taliban and opposition forces. Communications have been cut in the valley, making reporting difficult, but the BBC has evidence of Taliban killings despite promises of restraint.\n\nFootage from a dusty roadside in Panjshir shows a man wearing military gear surrounded by Taliban fighters. Gunfire rings out and he slumps to the ground.\n\nIt is not clear if the man killed was an army member - combat uniforms are common in the region. In the video a bystander insisted he was a civilian.\n\nThe BBC has established there have been at least 20 such deaths in Panjshir.\n\nOne of the victims was a shopkeeper and father-of-two called Abdul Sami.\n\nLocal sources said the man would not flee when the Taliban advanced, telling them: \"I'm just a poor shop owner and have nothing to do with war.\"\n\nBut he was arrested, accused of selling sim cards to resistance fighters. Days later his body was dumped near his home. Witnesses who saw his body said it showed signs of torture.\n\nMoments later the man circled was shot dead\n\nWhen the Taliban swept to power last month, just one region held out.\n\nThe Panjshir Valley has long been a focal point for resistance in Afghanistan. Under the opposition commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, the region repelled both the Soviet forces and the Taliban. Mountain peaks surround the valley making it difficult for anyone trying to capture it.\n\nMassoud's son Ahmad led the resistance against the Taliban the second time they took control of Afghanistan, but last week the militant group declared victory, posting footage of their fighters raising their flag.\n\nThe resistance forces have vowed to fight on, with Ahmad Massoud calling for a \"national uprising\" against the Taliban.\n\nNow attention is turning to what happens next in Panjshir, as elsewhere in Afghanistan, with the Taliban back in charge.\n\nWhen the Taliban entered the valley, they encouraged residents to carry on as normal.\n\n\"They should come out, do their daily activities,\" said a spokesman, Malavi Abdullah Rahamani.\n\n\"If they are shopkeepers they can go to their shops. If they are farmers, they can go to their farms. We are here to protect them, their lives and their families.\"\n\nBut instead of this, footage from the ground shows once-busy marketplaces deserted. People have been trying to flee, with long lines of vehicles forming below the valley's craggy peaks.\n\nThere have been warnings of shortages of food and medicine.\n\nThe Taliban has denied targeting civilians. But coming after reports of a massacre of members of the Hazara minority and the killing of a policewoman, it is a further sign that the reality on the ground differs from the Taliban's promises of no revenge attacks.\n\n\"These kind of reports seem to fall in to a pattern that we've already documented throughout Afghanistan,\" said Patricia Grossman of Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"As the Taliban made their way towards Kabul through July and August we had similar reports and we were able to document summary executions of former security personnel, former members of the government and civilians often in revenge killings. This looks to very much be the same pattern.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA family who lost their teenage son a decade ago after he fell from a Spanish hotel balcony say they still need answers about his death.\n\nGlyn Summers, 17, died a week after the fall while on a college educational trip to Barcelona.\n\nColeg y Cymoedd said \"legal constraints\" prevented them from releasing an internal inquiry.\n\nThe family, from Hengoed, Caerphilly, has called for a full public inquiry in a petition to a Senedd committee.\n\n\"My memory of that week is just a blur,\" Glyn's elder brother Sion said, as he recalled how events unfolded in October 2011.\n\nThe student had gone abroad as part of his course at Ystrad Mynach College, which is now part of Coleg y Cymoedd.\n\nIt was in the months that followed that the family said they realised key information about what had happened to the teenager had been \"swept under the carpet\", according to Sion.\n\nThe teenager had been to a nightclub that evening, and had consumed alcohol during the night.\n\n\"We didn't know that he was given permission to go to this club, we didn't know that he wasn't supervised.\n\n\"While we were trying to be at Glyn's bedside, we were battling with his private insurance company who were refusing to pay out for his medical bills because of the circumstances that the tutors had regaled to them.\"\n\nSion said that included the suggestion Glyn had \"jumped\" from the balcony, leading the family to believe he might have taken his own life.\n\nEventually, the family obtained a Spanish police report, including eyewitnesses who said they had seen Glyn fall and try to climb back onto the balcony.\n\nA letter seen by BBC Wales from the former Ystrad Mynach College in 2012 revealed the college believed staff used \"professional judgment\" after the students - including Glyn - \"specifically asked \" to go to a particular club.\n\nGlyn Summers was 17 when he died after falling from a hotel balcony in Spain\n\nHis brother said it was now 10 years since the family had lost their \"happy boy\" and \"entertainer of the family\", who Sion described as his \"best friend\".\n\n\"We are nowhere near any kind of closure to find out what exactly happened with Glyn, but more so, to find out if any lessons have been learned,\" he said.\n\n\"Unfortunately all we have had over the last 10 years is brick walls and legal stipulations and confidentiality clauses.\"\n\nHe said his brother's death had been \"utterly devastating\" for the family, particularly his parents Sarah and Lee Summers.\n\n\"They will never stop fighting for Glyn. Until an apology is given for the failings and assurances and evidence is provided so they can rest easy that it's not going to happen to another family, I don't think they are going to move on from it.\"\n\nSion Summers has lodged a petition with a Senedd committee calling for a public inquiry and a change in the law\n\nIn the petition to the Welsh Parliament, the family has also called for legislation to \"ensure that no family has to fight public services to release information relating to fatal incidents\".\n\nThe principal of Coleg y Cymoedd Karen Phillips said Glyn Summers' death \"was a tragic accident that was deeply distressing for family and friends, as well as staff and fellow students, who continue to feel his loss\".\n\nShe said in a statement the college had \"always endeavoured to do as much as we are permitted to give Glyn's parents the information which they have requested\".\n\n\"However, legal constraints prevent us offering unrestricted access to the documents in this case.\"\n\nShe said she had offered to meet the family on three occasions \"in the hope that I might illustrate how the lessons learned from their tragic loss have resulted in significant enhancements regarding educational trips at all Welsh education providers\".\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of the students in our care is, and always will be, the over-riding priority for Coleg y Cymoedd.\"\n• None Bid for new law for education trips\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plans to raise National Insurance to fund health and social care could lead to the breakdown of struggling families, the UK's tax authority says.\n\nMinisters announced the tax hike this week to pay for an £86,000 personal cap on lifetime social care costs in England, and tackle NHS backlogs.\n\nHMRC analysis has predicted it will have a \"significant\" impact on wages, inflation, and company profits.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said it was the fairest way to fund investment.\n\nBut also speaking on Sunday, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth called the proposals a \"punishing unfair tax rise on working people\".\n\nThe 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance (NI), a tax paid by workers and employers, will begin next April, before becoming a separate Health and Social Care Levy from April 2023.\n\nAlong with a 1.25 percentage point hike in dividend tax from next April, it is expected to raise £12bn a year for the next three years.\n\nAnalysis prepared for the government by HMRC, published after MPs backed the changes last week, said in 2022-23 a worker on the median basic rate taxpayer's income of £24,100 would be expected to pay an additional £180 per year.\n\nEmployees on the median higher rate taxpayer's income of £67,100 would be expected to pay an additional £715, the document added.\n\nIt added: \"There may be an impact on family formation, stability or breakdown as individuals, who are currently just about managing financially, will see their disposable income reduce.\"\n\nThe analysis also forecast the increase would impact companies' decisions on hiring staff, and setting salaries.\n\nAnd it said turning the NI increase into a separate levy - meaning it would appear as a separate line on workers' pay slips - would mean extra staff costs for HMRC.\n\nThe majority of the £36bn fund raised by the rise over the next three years will go towards tackling the backlog of NHS cases, which has worsened during the Covid pandemic.\n\nA smaller portion of the money - £5.4bn over the next three years - will also go towards changes to the social care system.\n\nThe government has promised the share going to social care will increase after that, but has not specified exactly by how much.\n\nLabour has criticised the tax hike as unfair to working people, and said it would not do enough to improve care offered in the social care system.\n\nThe party said it backed more spending on health and social care - but has been coming under pressure to specify how they would pay for it instead.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer recently said the money could be raised through taxing landlords. He has also said it could be funded through \"wealth taxes\", but has not set out details.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Ashworth told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that improving care for people in their own homes, so that they did not have to move into a care home, could save £2.5bn a year that could be spent on \"the front line\".\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Mr Javid defended the tax hike, adding it would make government support for social care \"more generous\" and said paying for the changes through higher borrowing would be \"wrong\".\n\n\"The way this has been done, through a broad-based progressive tax, is the fairest way possible to support us all, for our health needs and our care needs,\" he added.\n\nAfter backing the proposals last week, MPs will vote on the legislation to set up the new health and social care levy next week.", "A barrister for victims of the Grenfell Tower fire has told the public inquiry that a \"total neglect of safety\" was at the heart of the disaster.\n\nStephanie Barwise QC said the refurbishment of the tower, which contributed to the 2017 fire, was \"hastily conceived by an inept design team led by hapless lead consultants\".\n\nShe said workers and contractors were \"reckless\" and some practised \"fraud\".\n\nThe inquiry is hearing final statements about Grenfell's refurbishment.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has admitted a further series of failures in the way it oversaw the body managing its houses and flats.\n\nMs Barwise represents some of the bereaved, and survivors of the fire at the 24-storey tower in north Kensington, west London, along with others living in the estate where it happened.\n\nShe strongly criticised all of the companies involved in the refurbishment, completed in 2016, to add a waterproof and insulating cladding system to Grenfell's exterior.\n\nArchitect Studio E was a \"hapless\" lead consultant, leading an \"inept\" design team, she said. Many of the professionals and contractors involved did not read government fire safety guidance, the inquiry heard.\n\n\"Grenfell demonstrates the existence of a culture of non-compliance within certain sectors of the construction industry. Put bluntly, there is a kind of recklessness, as to whether or not compliance is achieved,\" she said.\n\nPrashant Popat QC, acting for Studio E, which has since gone into administration, said it should not be judged in hindsight, because it had relied on the advice of experts.\n\nHe said hundreds of buildings, designed by a wide range of architects, had been identified with dangerous cladding and that Studio E had not \"departed from the norm\".\n\n\"The former Studio E employees are devastated that in spite of this, in spite of the way it carried out its duties, such a horrendous tragedy could happen,\" he said.\n\nContractor Rydon and cladding installers Harley saved £327,000 using a cheap combustible aluminium cladding panel in a form more likely to spread fire, it was said. Rydon \"secretly pocketed\" additional savings, the inquiry heard.\n\nHarley failed to warn about the fire risks the design posed, the inquiry was told.\n\nA fire safety consultant Exova incorrectly advised that the cladding would have no adverse effect in the event of a fire and \"bears significant responsibility\", Ms Barwise said.\n\nShe reserved particular criticism for Celotex and Kingspan which manufactured insulation used at Grenfell, and Arconic which made the cladding.\n\nTheir \"widespread lack of candour is an affront to the dead, to the bereaved, and to the former residents of Grenfell,\" she said\n\nSeventy-two people died as a result of the fire on 14 June 2017\n\nKingspan continued to sell its combustible K15 insulation boards until 2020 on the back of a discredited test which \"did not reflect the product being sold,\" she said.\n\nBuilding regulations guidance prohibits the use of combustible insulation at heights above 18m (59ft).\n\nWhen other professionals failed to realise that the product breached building regulations internal Kingspan emails were \"gleeful\", according to Ms Barwise.\n\n\"Kingspan's fingerprints are all over this disaster,\" she concluded.\n\nThe Irish manufacturer's insulation was one of two types installed on the building, making up about 5% of the total, although it claims it was never told its product would be used.\n\nCelotex, a second manufacturer, had \"admitted faults and taken action,\" Ms Barwise said.\n\nIt \"dishonestly\" branded its RS5000 insulation as safe for high rise buildings by using extra components to improve its performance in fire tests.\n\nThe process of testing products \"may properly be regarded as positively dangerous, since it creates a veneer of respectability, which in some cases, serves to conceal test results obtained by dishonest testing,\" she told the inquiry.\n\nArconic, the multinational metals manufacturer, failed to fully inform its customers that when its cladding was used in a folded box design, known as a 'cassette', that it would only achieve the second-worst European test classification for fire, the inquiry was told.\n\nThe company merited the \"strongest condemnation for its failure to inform customers of this safety critical fact,\" Ms Barwise concluded.\n\nThe British Board of Agrement (BBA) which certifies building products, was unaware of issues with the Arconic cladding until approached by a BBC News investigation in 2018.\n\nIt was severely criticised as a \"hopelessly weak institution, too willing to please commercial clients at the expense of ensuring appropriate safety standards\".\n\nThe Building Research Establishment, BRE, was \"complicit\" with fraudulent manufacturers, according to the victims' barrister.\n\nShe urged the inquiry to recommend a ban on the use of any material on tall buildings which can burn.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea admitted that there weren't enough council officers overseeing the independent Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO), which ran the council's flats and houses.\n\nThe council's barrister James Maxwell-Scott QC also said there was no staff training in this area, no document setting out the council's responsibilities, and insufficient consultation with residents.\n\nThe lawyer for KCTMO, James Ageros QC, told the inquiry the disaster could have happened at any other building clad in similar materials amid what he said was a national crisis.\n\nHe also argued the KCTMO relied on industry experts, such as the contractor Rydon, which claimed to have managed many cladding projects.\n\nThe KCTMO, he said, was not \"buck-passing\", but had delegated the responsibility for ensuring safety to its advisers.\n\nPolice are looking for evidence of possible corporate manslaughter, in a long-running investigation, which will not conclude until the end of the public inquiry.\n\nIf you want to find out more about the Grenfell Tower public inquiry you can find all episodes of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast on the BBC website.", "The NHS makes people proud to be British but one in five has been forced to go private, suggests a survey of more than 4,000 adults in the UK.\n\nSome complained of having to \"fight for treatment\", while others faced discrimination, the research by charity Engage Britain found.\n\nToo many are \"let down every day by our health and care services,\" said the charity's director, Julian McCrae.\n\nNHS England said hardworking staff were reducing the backlog from the pandemic.\n\nThe researchers found 77% of the people questioned were proud of the NHS.\n\nHowever, the nationally representative online survey also found:\n\nAmong people from ethnic minorities, 22% said they or a loved one had experienced racism when seeking treatment.\n\nOverall, more than a quarter of those questioned felt their problems were not taken seriously, rising to 45% of women aged 18-34.\n\nDee Montague had to go private for treatment for endometriosis\n\nDee Montague from Newport spent her life savings on private care for her endometriosis, because the NHS left her feeling \"dismissed, disrespected and desperate\".\n\nShe says she left a meeting with a consultant, feeling suicidal.\n\n\"I did not want to die, I just wanted it to be better, I wanted it to stop. You just feel like nobody believes you and nobody's listening to you,\" she told the BBC.\n\nFloss Salter, 20, from Leicestershire, who was born with cerebral palsy and needs regular care from a physiotherapist, found that despite years of NHS treatment as a child, she had to begin the process of finding the care she needed all over again, when she turned 18.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"It's just the time it takes to get everything you need, ringing receptionists and being on hold for hours, just to get a simple question answered... or waiting for five or six months just to get a chat with a physio. It's just really frustrating.\"\n\nFloss Salter says organising the physiotherapy she needs is 'really frustrating'\n\nThe vast majority (85%) of people acknowledged that NHS staff are overstretched, doing as much as they can with the resources available.\n\n\"Overworked staff are being pushed to breaking point,\" said Mr McCrae. He called for reforms to \"address the daily challenges that so many in Britain are facing\".\n\n\"Only answers rooted in real experiences can deliver health and care that works for us all.\"\n\nProf Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said: \"NHS staff have worked tirelessly over the pandemic, caring for 450,000 patients with the virus in hospital, which has inevitably had a knock-on effect on less urgent care and created a backlog, but staff are also now pulling out all the stops to recover services and help more people as they come forward for care.\"\n\nOfficials highlighted figures showing a big increase in patient treatments carried out this summer, compared to last, with 3.9m diagnostic tests and 2.6m patients beginning consultant-led treatment in June and July, compared with 2.7m tests and 1.6m treatments in June and July 2020.", "Sainsbury's says it will keep all its stores shut this Boxing Day.\n\nThe UK's second largest supermarket says it will keep all of its supermarket, convenience stores and petrol stations shut as a \"massive thank you to all our colleagues for everything they have done during the last challenging year\".\n\nArgos and Habitat stores will also remain shut for the day.\n\nSainsbury's is following in the footsteps of fellow grocers Morrisons, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer, who previously announced their intention to keep stores shut on 26 December.\n\n\"Christmas is a really special time for so many, but because of lockdown restrictions last year, lots of us weren't able to celebrate in the way we wanted,\" says Simon Roberts, chief executive of Sainsbury's.\n\nHe adds: \"I want to thank our customers in advance for their understanding, which will mean as many of our team as possible can have a well-deserved break to spend time with loved ones.\"\n\nPaddy Lillis, general secretary of the Usdaw trade union, welcomes the move.\n\n\"The pandemic showed just how important shopworkers are to our society and communities, as they stepped up and kept essential services running throughout.\n\n\"Key workers have done so much this year and we don't think it is too much to ask to give them the longest possible break over the festive season.\"", "South African environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase was shot dead in her own home\n\nA record number of activists working to protect the environment and land rights were murdered last year, according to a report by a campaign group.\n\n227 people were killed around the world in 2020, the highest number recorded for a second consecutive year, the report from Global Witness said.\n\nAlmost a third of the murders were reportedly linked to resource exploitation - logging, mining, large-scale agribusiness, hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure.\n\nThe report called the victims \"environmental defenders\" killed for protecting natural resources that need to be preserved, including forests, water supplies and oceans.\n\nSince the Paris Agreement on climate change was signed in 2015, the organisation says on average four activists have been killed each week.\n\nIt said this \"shocking figure\" was likely to be an underestimate because of growing restrictions on journalists and other civic freedoms.\n\nMining is one of the industries linked to violence against people trying to protect their land\n\nLogging was the industry linked to the most murders with 23 cases - with attacks in Brazil, Nicaragua, Peru and the Philippines.\n\nIndigenous peoples, most often on the frontline of climate change, accounted for a further one third of cases. Colombia had the highest recorded attacks, with 65 people killed last year.\n\nA senior campaigner for Global Witness, Chris Madden, called on governments to \"get serious about protecting defenders.\" He said companies must start \"putting people and planet before profit' or he warned that \"both climate breakdown and the killings\" would continue.\n\n\"This dataset is another stark reminder that fighting the climate crisis carries an unbearably heavy burden for some, who risk their lives to save the forests, rivers and biospheres that are essential to counteract unsustainable global warming. This must stop''.\n\nThe organisation called on governments to formally recognise the human right to a safe, healthy and sustainable environment, and ensure commitments made at November's UN climate change conference, COP26, integrate human rights protections.\n\nIn response, COP26 president Alok Sharma told the BBC he had \"prioritised meeting people on the front line of climate change,\" to ensure the voices of all are heard.\"\n\nThose murdered included South African Fikile Ntshangase, 65, who was involved in a legal dispute over the extension of an opencast mine operated by Tendele Coal near Somkhele in KwaZulu-Natal province. She was shot dead in her own living room.\n\nMalungelo Xhakaza, daughter of murdered human rights activist Fikile Ntshangase who was \"a leading force in the campaign against the Tendele coal mine\"\n\nHer daughter, Malungelo Xhakaza, 31, said her \"mother's struggle lives on.\" She said: \"To this day no arrests have been made in the investigation into my mother's murder. There has been no accountability. It seems to me that someone wants this mine expansion and the extraction to go ahead, no matter the cost.\"\n\nPetmin Limited, which owns the Somkhele mine through its subsidiary Tendele Coal Mining, told Global Witness that it \"acknowledges community tensions may have been a factor in Fikile's death.\" The company said it \"strongly condemns any form of violence or intimidation\" and has offered full co-operation with the police.\n\nÓscar Eyraud was killed in his home in Mexico in 2020\n\nThe killings also included Óscar Eyraud Adams, who was murdered in Mexico in September 2020. He was working to help the indigenous Kumiai community in Baja California have better access to water.\n\nGlobal Witness said activists still under threat included communities in Guapinol in Honduras, where dozens of people have been protesting against an iron oxide mining concession that was granted by the central government in a protected area. Campaigners believe the Guapinol river, a vital water source, is threatened. The organisation says \"many community members remain incarcerated.\"", "Stephen Gibbs was led into Cardiff Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to attempted murder on Monday\n\nA man has admitted trying to murder his £5.5m lottery-winner partner by stabbing her in the face, arms and stomach.\n\nStephen Gibbs, 45, was told he faces a lengthy prison sentence for the attack on Emma Brown who won the jackpot four years ago.\n\nHe was arrested at Ms Brown's home in Lakeside, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, at about 22:00 GMT on 30 January.\n\nFormer Cardiff Airport worker Ms Brown, 49, required surgery after the attack.\n\nShe has since made a full recovery.\n\nThe couple had been together for 11 years and previously owned a home in another part of Barry which they rented out after the lottery win.\n\nMs Brown has become known for donating to local causes after winning the sum in 2017.\n\nGibbs was due to go on trial but changed his plea.\n\nAppearing at at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday, he confirmed his name and details before admitting attempting to murder Ms Brown.\n\nJudge Richard Twomlow said he would sentence flooring worker Gibbs after a psychiatric report had been carried out.\n\nHe told the defendant: \"I need to consider the question of dangerousness.\n\n\"You face a very lengthy prison sentence, you must be aware of that.\"\n\nGibbs was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on 8 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cryptocurrency Litecoin saw a sudden surge in price on Monday over a press release about Walmart accepting it for payment - which turned out to be fake.\n\nThe release, published through a legitimate press channel, claimed that Walmart would accept the currency through all its digital stores.\n\nWalmart later told US media outlets the announcement was \"inauthentic\".\n\nBy that time, several major news websites and press agencies had spread the supposed news.\n\nThe announcement made it on to Globe Newswire, a service widely used to distribute press material from companies.\n\nThe faked release has since been deleted, and did not appear on Walmart's own website.\n\nA tweet from a verified Litecoin Twitter account linking to the release has also been deleted. Hours later, the Litecoin Foundation tweeted that it had no such partnership.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Litecoin Foundation This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut while it was being reported as fact, the price of Litecoin jumped from about £125 per token to close to £170, before falling back near its original price, at about £128.\n\nGlobe Newswire said \"a fraudulent user account was used to issue an illegitimate press release\".\n\n\"This has never happened before,\" the company said in a statement - adding that it was bringing in \"enhanced authentication\" to stop it happening again.\n\nIt did not detail exactly what went wrong or who was behind the fake release.\n\nBut so called \"pump and dump\" schemes are not uncommon in the cryptocurrency world - where bad actors attempt to raise hype around a coin, inflating its price, and quickly sell off their own stock before the market corrects itself.\n\nThe false press release suggested that Litecoin would be accepted on all Walmart ecommerce platforms from 1 October.\n\nIt contained quotes that appeared to come from both the Walmart chief executive and the founder of Litecoin.\n\nOne clue to its nature was that a press contact email address pointed to a web domain which had been registered only last month. Emails to that address bounced as undeliverable.\n\nThe fabrication was unmasked when CNBC reached representatives of Walmart by phone and were told the press release was fake. CNBC said it had been among the news organisations to publish the story before discovering it was not true.\n\nWalmart, the Litecoin Foundation, and Global Newswire have been contacted for comment.\n\nThe announcement raised eyebrows among some sceptical observers because of the volatility of cryptocurrency prices, which can be an obstacle in using them for retail purchases.\n\nOther companies which have accepted Bitcoin have drawn up terms to limit their exposure to large price swings.\n\nFor example, when Tesla briefly accepted Bitcoin as a payment option for its cars, it made clear that the price was in US dollars - and that any quote in equivalent Bitcoin was only valid for a limited time window.\n\nIt also said that if a refund was needed, Tesla would have the choice of whether to pay it back in US dollars or Bitcoin, which may work out as a lower cash value than what was paid.\n\nSimilarly, PayPal recently introduced the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin - but it cannot be used to make payment purchases. Instead, the cryptocurrency assets will be sold for the right amount of real money to make the purchase.", "Britain is lagging way behind its schedule for cutting carbon emissions in the run-up to November's climate summit in Glasgow, a report says.\n\nThink tank the Green Alliance says current plans will deliver less than a quarter of the cuts needed to meet the UK’s 2030 climate goal.\n\nLittle progress has been made in areas such as farming (a 7% improvement), power (12%), and waste (15%), it warns.\n\nThe government said the UK is committed to meeting future climate commitments.\n\nThe UK has vowed to cut emissions by 78% by 2035 - a world-leading target.\n\nMinisters promise that the coming Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) and net zero strategy - an over-arching plan to de-carbonise the whole economy - will deliver carbon-cutting policies in time for November's summit, known as COP26.\n\nBut Caterina Brandmayr, from the Green Alliance, said: “This is a make-or-break moment for the government.\n\n“COP26 will fail without the major emitters making genuine commitments in these final 50 days - and as president of COP, the UK has to lead the way to raise ambition globally.\n\n“Unless the net-zero strategy and CSR meet the scale of the challenge and opportunity, the UK will be headed into Glasgow with little to show by way of progress on cutting its emissions in this crucial decade.”\n\nIts report said over the past six months, transport has been the best performing government department.\n\nIt is now almost half way to hitting its departmental target, thanks largely to plans to electrify motoring.\n\nAs other departments lag behind, the report’s authors are urging swift government action in five areas:\n\nThe buildings strategy has been held up as ministers struggle with the practicalities of helping people to insulate their homes and install expensive low-carbon heating when their gas boiler packs up.\n\nMs Brandmayr said: “The delay has been very disappointing. We need a comprehensive set of measures that will insulate homes, install low-carbon heating and create jobs.”\n\nGreen Alliance’s net zero policy tracker reports on progress every three months.\n\nIt reinforces criticism by green groups that the UK is a leader in setting targets, but not in sticking to them.\n\nWhen approached for a comment, the government did not directly challenge the Green Alliance figures.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"We are a world leader in the fight against climate change and are absolutely committed to meeting our future climate commitments, having already cut emissions by 44% over the past three decades, and are on track to outperform our current carbon budget plans which takes us to 2022.\n\n\"We have clear plans to cut emissions further, having recently published our energy white paper, North Sea transition deal, transport decarbonisation plan, industrial decarbonisation and hydrogen strategies.\n\n\"We have also secured new investments in offshore wind, electric vehicles and battery manufacturing and supply chains, and rolled out schemes to decarbonise homes and buildings. Further details will be set out in our net zero strategy.\"\n\nThe government’s net zero ambitions have come under fire recently by right-wing Conservatives arguing that the cost of de-carbonisation would be too high.\n\nThe Treasury is reported to be worried about the final bill.\n\nAccording to the Office for Budget Responsibility, in an \"early action\" scenario the cost of the net zero transition between 2020 and 2050 could be as little as 0.4% of GDP annually.\n\nThese costs would increase significantly in scenarios where climate action is delayed or abandoned.", "Andrew Neil has resigned as chairman and lead presenter of GB News, just three months after helping to launch the channel.\n\nNeil, 72, was on air for less than two weeks before announcing he was taking a break.\n\nThe former BBC political presenter will continue to contribute to GB News as a regular guest commentator.\n\nIn a statement, he said he had decided to \"reduce my commitments on a number of fronts\".\n\nHe added: \"Over the summer I've had time to reflect on my extensive portfolio of interests and decided it was time to cut back.\"\n\n\"I wish GB News well in continuing to fulfil its founding promise and mission to reach audiences currently underserved by existing news broadcasters.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Neil This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA statement from GB News said: \"Andrew is without doubt one of the finest journalists and interviewers in this country.\n\n\"GB News thanks him for his 12 months of leadership, wisdom and advice, and we wish him well.\"\n\nAndrew Neil was more than just another presenter on GB News - he was the face of the channel, its chairman and the lead presenter of its flagship evening programme.\n\nTo go on a summer holiday after just eight programmes naturally attracted attention, and when that holiday continued for more than two months, it was clear something was going on.\n\nThe channel was launched with a strong editorial vision to cover stories that Neil said were neglected by other broadcasters and to counter a \"metropolitan mindset\".\n\nThere were a few technical problems at the start but early viewing figures were, for a news channel, good.\n\nIts desire to challenge the BBC and Sky looked a possibility, but since those early days much has changed.\n\nThe Andrew Neil slot - which has been covered by Colin Brazier during this long summer holiday - was at the beginning of September sometimes attracting fewer than ten thousand viewers. Some programmes were getting even lower ratings.\n\nThe line-up of presenters has also changed, most notably the arrival of Nigel Farage, who is drawing their biggest audience. The channel's direction, taking on what it calls \"woke\" and \"cancel\" culture, is clear.\n\nNeil may continue as an occasional commentator, but the face and character of the channel is now more Farage than Neil.\n\nNeil left the BBC after 25 years following the US presidential election last November.\n\nHe then turned his attention to launching GB News in mid-June, with the channel promising to \"change the face of news and debate in the UK\".\n\nHowever, he was said to have gone on leave at the end of June. He did not return, and earlier this month it was reported that relations between Neil and chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos had broken down over the direction of the company.\n\nThe network recruited former UKIP leader Nigel Farage in his absence, to join ex-Sun journalist Dan Wootton and experienced news anchors Simon McCoy, who was recruited from the BBC, and Alastair Stewart, who was previously a newsreader on ITV News.\n\nNeil appeared in a commentator capacity on Nigel Farage's show on the network on Monday evening, with Farage emphasising Neil's new role as a regular GB News contributor. Farage briefly alluded to the media coverage, but did not comment beyond saying he had \"enormous respect\" for Neil.\n\nThe journalist's departure comes two months after Guto Harri quit the network following a row over his decision to take the knee during a discussion about racism towards England's black footballers.\n\nNeil is next due to appear on BBC One's Question Time this Thursday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19 vaccination clinics are opening across education campuses in Northern Ireland\n\nWalk-in clinics have been set up in universities and further education colleges in a bid to get more students vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nThe first of 60 clinics will open on Monday as part of the Department of Health's \"jabbathon\" drive.\n\nThey will cover 30 campuses and offer first doses to students throughout September.\n\nAbout 72% of 18 to 29-year-olds in Northern Ireland have had at least one Covid vaccine dose.\n\nNearly 88% of adults have received one dose and about 82% have been fully vaccinated.\n\nThe push for a higher vaccination rate among the younger adult cohort included a pop-up clinic over the weekend at one of of Belfast's best-known music venues.\n\nA list of the walk-in clinics, run by health trust vaccinator teams, is available online.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann looks on as jabs take place\n\nThe new clinics are opening as mass vaccination centres begin to wind down.\n\nThe president of the National Union of Students and Union of Students in Ireland said having vaccine clinics on campus is \"incredibly helpful\".\n\nEllen Fearon told BBC News NI she hopes the clinics will give any students who have not yet been vaccinated the opportunity to do so.\n\n\"The message is to make getting vaccinated just a normal part of your freshers checklist this year,\" she said.\n\n\"This is one of the quickest way we have of seeing the social side of education returning and reducing the threat of further disruption.\"\n\nThe clinics will cover 30 campuses and offer first doses to students throughout September.\n\nThe head of Northern Ireland's vaccination programme Patricia Donnelly \"very strongly encouraged\" young people to use the clinics.\n\n\"Young healthy people are still getting ill and we shouldn't forget that,\" she told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster Programme.\n\n\"There are still high levels of the virus circulating - we encourage young people to take the vaccine for themselves, for the immediate future but also for the longer term future.\"\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann thanked the staff who had worked \"tirelessly\" to administer nearly 2.5 million doses of the vaccine.\n\nSeven mass vaccination centres operated by Northern Ireland's five health trusts have administered 1.5 million doses between them.\n\n\"We saw leisure and concert facilities converted to mass vaccination centres and there has been a monumental effort by health staff, students and volunteers who adapted at pace to deliver,\" the minister said.\n\n\"I commend each and every one for their involvement.\n\n\"Every vaccine given helps to protect that individual, those they come in contact with and will help ensure our health service can better cope with the forthcoming winter pressures.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eitan was the sole survivor of the crash in May\n\nThe grandfather of a six-year-old boy who was the sole survivor of a cable car crash in Italy has been placed under investigation for the alleged kidnapping of his grandson.\n\nShmulik Peleg is accused of taking Eitan Biran to Israel on Sunday.\n\nEitan had been staying with a paternal aunt in Italy.\n\nHis parents, younger brother and two great grandparents were among 14 people killed when their cable car plunged to the ground in northern Italy last May.\n\nEitan's family had lived in Italy for several years before the crash in the Mottarone mountain area.\n\nHis paternal aunt Aya Biran-Nirko was granted custody of Eitan in June after he was released from hospital.\n\nOn Saturday, Eitan was taken out for the day by Mr Peleg, his maternal grandfather who had moved to Italy after the crash and had visitation rights.\n\nHe reportedly then took Eitan out of the country on a private jet, using the child's Israeli passport. Israeli diplomats have since confirmed his arrival in the country.\n\n\"We did not kidnap Eitan... we brought him home,\" Eitan's maternal aunt Gali Peleg, who had filed for adoption in August, told Israel's Radio 103FM on Sunday. She claimed Eitan's parents had wanted to return to Israel prior to the crash and that the boy was being held hostage in Italy.\n\nAya Biran-Nirko called it \"another tragedy for Eitan\", saying he \"thought he was going out to buy toys with his grandfather\". She added: \"I'm sure the Israeli authorities will cooperate to bring him back\".\n\nProsecutors in the northern city of Pavia on Monday opened an investigation of aggravated kidnapping by Mr Peleg, and called for the boy's return under the Hague Convention on Children's Rights.\n\nLawyers for Mr Peleg were quoted as saying that their client had \"acted on impulse\" amid concerns that the maternal relatives were being denied access to the boy and he was receiving inadequate medical care.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of May's crash near the town of Stresa, on the shores of Lake Maggiore, is still under way, but prosecutors believe the car's emergency brakes had been intentionally disabled.\n\nWhen the main cable holding the car snapped, there was nothing to stop it reversing at over 100km/h (62mph) on a support cable, passing a support pylon and then plummeting to the ground and rolling down the mountain.\n\nThirteen people died at the scene, including a two-year-old child, while another child died later in hospital.\n\nA number of people from the company that operated the cable car are currently under investigation over the incident.\n\nA technician has admitted installing a fork-shaped bracket to deactivate the emergency brake, which had reportedly been malfunctioning, earlier this year.\n\nHowever, a cable car expert has alleged that earlier videos he took suggest the emergency brake was already disabled in 2014.", "Primark says the trend for \"comfort wear\" has continued through the summer, with strong sales of leisurewear such as leggings and cycle shorts.\n\nDemand also rose for seam-free matching separates for women, as many people stayed in the UK for their holidays.\n\nHowever, sales at Primark were lower than expected, with sales in June and July being affected by the \"pingdemic\".\n\nThe retailer also said it had seen some delays to stock because of \"port and container freight disruptions\".\n\nDespite this, Primark owner Associated British Foods said its profits were set to beat expectations.\n\nThe move to working from home during the coronavirus restrictions led to a surge in demand for casual clothing as people no longer had to wear smart outfits for the office.\n\nLoungewear, defined as being a hybrid between pyjamas and track suits, has been particularly popular, as well as athleisure goods such as matching sets of sports bras, leggings and hoodies.\n\nMany brands and fashion designers, including London's fashionable Saville Row tailors, have pivoted to creating gymwear and loungewear lines in order to generate sales during the lockdowns.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrimark said it had enjoyed very strong trade in the third quarter of its financial year, which coincided with the relaxation of Covid measures, but then conditions became tougher.\n\n\"In the UK our sales were affected by the rapid and significant increase in late June and early July in the number of people required to self-isolate following contact tracing alerts - the 'pingdemic'. Data shows that High Street footfall was impacted by the caution displayed by many consumers at that time.\"\n\nHowever, after self-isolation rules were eased in early August, Primark said it saw a \"consistent improvement through the period from a decline of 24% in the first four weeks of the quarter to a decline of 8% in the last four weeks\".\n\nPrimark's sales for the second half of its financial year are expected to reach £3.4bn. It said sales of its autumn/winter range were doing well, and it had seen strong demand for its back-to-school products.\n\nIt said disruption to ports and container freight meant it had suffered \"some delays\" to supplies, although John Bason, finance director of Associated British Foods, told the PA news agency the group had \"no worries\" about stock levels for Christmas.\n\n\"There has been supply chain disruption but our team has worked incredibly hard to mitigate this so I don't anticipate this being an issue for customers,\" he told PA.\n\n\"We are definitely seeing a lot of inflationary pressures in different parts of our supply chain, but there is absolutely no intention to put prices up in Primark because of it.\"\n\nGemma Boothroyd, an analyst at investment platform Freetrade, said: \"Even with dwindling in-store sales, Primark has managed to maintain its market share compared to the same period two years ago.\n\n\"That's a notable feat given the number of new digital entrants,\"\n\nPrimark was particularly hard hit during the Covid lockdowns as it does not sell its clothes online. By contrast, fast fashion retailers online enjoyed significant growth as consumers changed their shopping habits.\n\nIn its latest update, Primark said it would launch a \"new and improved customer-facing website\" in the next 12 months, which would allow it \"to showcase a much larger proportion of the Primark range and to provide customers with range availability by store\".\n\nBut Freetrade's Ms Boothroyd noted this was not a \"full-scale sales site\", but \"more of a tool for shoppers to check in-store inventory prior to hitting the shops\".\n\n\"If anything, this seems likely to result in decreased sales for the brand. After all, isn't it the uncertainty and thrill of hunting for a bargain that gets Primark shoppers in-store in the first place?\" she said.\n\n\"For now, Primark's proven it has staying power, but if it's finally going to go digital, it needs to do it right. Otherwise, it's going to find itself in an omnichannel no man's land.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We shouldn't be doing things for the sake of it\", Sajid Javid told the BBC's Nick Robinson\n\nPlans to introduce vaccine passports for access into nightclubs and large events in England will not go ahead, the health secretary has said.\n\nSajid Javid told the BBC: \"We shouldn't be doing things for the sake of it.\"\n\nIt was thought the plan, which came under criticism from venues and some MPs, would be introduced at the end of this month.\n\nJust a week ago, the vaccines minister had defended the scheme as the \"best way\" to keep the night industry open.\n\nNo 10 stressed the plan - which had been set to be introduced at the end of this month - would be kept \"in reserve\" should it be needed over autumn or winter.\n\nUnder the scheme, people would have been required to show proof - whether of double vaccination, a negative Covid test or finishing self-isolating after a positive PCR test - in order to gain entry to clubs and other crowded events.\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association had said the plans could have crippled the industry and led to nightclubs facing discrimination cases.\n\nThe industry body welcomed Sunday's announcement, saying it hoped businesses could now plan with some certainty and start to rebuild the sector.\n\nThe Music Venue Trust, which aims to protect grassroots venues, also said it was glad vaccine passports would not be going ahead, describing them as \"problematic\".\n\nThere had been opposition from Tory MPs on the Covid Recovery Group as well as the Liberal Democrats, whose leader Ed Davey called vaccine passports \"divisive, unworkable and expensive\".\n\nSpeaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Javid said: \"We just shouldn't be doing things for the sake of it or because others are doing, and we should look at every possible intervention properly.\"\n\nHe said he had \"never liked the idea of saying to people you must show your papers\" to \"do what is just an everyday activity\".\n\n\"We've looked at it properly and, whilst we should keep it in reserve as a potential option, I'm pleased to say that we will not be going ahead with plans for vaccine passports,\" he added.\n\nNightclubs were among the last places to reopen as restrictions were eased\n\nMr Javid denied the government was \"running scared\" on the policy after criticism from its own backbenchers. He said the passports were not needed because of other things in the \"wall of defence\" including high vaccine uptake, testing, surveillance and new treatments\n\nThe move to scrap vaccine passports appears to be a sharp U-turn by the government.\n\nOn the same TV programme last week, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said the end of September was the right time to start the vaccine passport scheme for sites with large crowds because all over-18s would have been offered two jabs by then and it was the \"best way\" to keep the night industry open.\n\nIn the interview, Mr Javid also said:\n\nScotland is taking a different approach to England - they will bring in a vaccine passport for over-18s for entry to nightclubs and many large events from October.\n\nIn Wales, ministers will decide next week whether to introduce the scheme. There are no current plans for a similar scheme in Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Sunday, the latest government figures showed there were 29,173 new cases of coronavirus in the UK and 56 further deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days.\n\nThe UK government had faced pressure from a number of its own Tory MPs, as well as from nightclubs and the events sector, to ditch plans for vaccine passports in England.\n\nFirst, there was a hint they were pushing ahead. Last week, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said they would be required in nightclubs and other indoor venues in England by the end of the month.\n\nThen came the row-back. On Friday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said they would \"almost certainly\" be necessary for nightclubs this autumn but said he'd prefer a more limited use of them.\n\nBy Sunday at 08:30 BST, the health secretary said on Sky News that the government hoped to avoid having them, and within the next hour told the BBC they will not be going ahead with plans.\n\nClearly there has been debate within government itself about their use but a decision has, for now, been made - even if the option will be kept in \"reserve\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said the government's approach to Covid passports had been \"shambolic from the start\" and lacked any clarity from ministers about the purpose of the passports and how they would work.\n\nLiberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael accused the Conservatives of needlessly sowing confusion among businesses for months and called for them to scrap the \"unnecessary and draconian Coronavirus Act altogether\".\n\nSome large venues such as football stadiums, live music venues and music festivals have already been asking people to prove their vaccination status to gain entry.\n\nAn Office for National Statistics survey, covering 25 August to 5 September, found about 1 in 10 adults across Great Britain reported that they had been asked to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative test to be allowed into a venue or event.\n\nFans had to show their Covid status to enter Sunday's Chelsea v Everton Women's Super League football match\n\nOn Saturday, Manchester United introduced Covid spot-checks on match days at Old Trafford, with the club saying it expected proof of full vaccination to become mandatory in the Premier League from 1 October.\n\nThe Premier League said at the start of the 2021-22 season that fans would face random spot-checks of their Covid-19 status at grounds over the first few match days. Brighton, Chelsea and Tottenham have introduced mandatory checks for fans at their stadiums.\n\nA series of key government announcements and decisions are expected in the coming days.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to outline plans for booster jabs soon. Mr Javid said that if the JCVI advised having a broad booster programme, he was \"confident\" it could start this month \"as planned all along\".\n\nAnd on Tuesday, the prime minister will set out his Covid Winter Plan for England, likely to include contingency measures that would be implemented if the NHS was at risk of becoming overwhelmed.", "All children aged 12 to 15 across the UK will be offered one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab.\n\nInvitations for jabs will begin soon - parental consent will be sought for the schools-based vaccination programme.\n\nIt follows advice from the UK's chief medical officers, who say the jab will help reduce disruption to education.\n\nIt is hoped the first jabs in England would take place by 22 September, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the Scottish government would \"move to implement the advice as quickly as possible\".\n\nShe said that drop-in clinics would open for any 12 to 15-year-old who had read information and, in discussion with parents and carers were able to make an informed decision, from next week.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Health Minister Robin Swann said the move will help to protect young people from catching the virus.\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan said parents will have to weigh up the \"risks and benefits\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK's four chief medical officers recommended the single dose for 12 to 15-year-olds - who are deemed at very low risk from the disease - saying factors such as disruption to education tipped the balance.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, the lead CMO for the UK, said it was a \"difficult decision\" and should not be seen as a \"silver bullet\".\n\nBut he said it could be an \"important and useful tool\" in reducing school disruption in the coming months - and when combined with the marginal health benefit identified by vaccine advisory body the JCVI, it meant offering a Covid vaccine to all children was appropriate.\n\nMr Zahawi said the School Age Immunisation Service would deliver the \"bulk\" of the programme, with separate vaccination sites used for schools where this was not possible.\n\nHe said clinicians would share information on the vaccine with parents and if there was a difference in opinion between a parent and child, a clinician would bring them together to try and reach a consensus.\n\nHowever, in the rare cases agreement is not reached, the child could give consent themselves if the clinician considered them \"competent\", he added.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said some of the union's members had already received letters from pressure groups threatening legal action if vaccination took place in schools.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme any advice to parents and children on the vaccine should come from health professionals rather than teachers to avoid any \"unpleasantness\" in schools.\n\nThere's a reason this decision-making process has been so long and, at times, seemingly painful - it's such a finely-balanced call.\n\nHealthy children aged 12 to 15 are at such low risk from Covid, that the benefit of vaccination on health grounds is only marginal - and not enough to warrant going ahead with a mass vaccination programme.\n\nAnd add in the benefit from limiting school disruption and you only just get there.\n\nThe emergence of the Delta variant means the vaccines are less effective at preventing infection than they once were.\n\nWhat is more, more than half of secondary school age children may have natural immunity after having been infected.\n\nThe assessment released by the CMOs suggests it may stop 30,000 infections between October and March in England.\n\nThis is based on a number of assumptions on uptake and spread of the virus in the coming months which could be wrong.\n\nBut if that is the case that would prevent 110,000 missed days of in-person schooling - or one day for every 20 children. The attention given to this issue is, perhaps, rather disproportionate.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said he accepted the recommendation from the chief medical officers aimed at protecting young people from catching Covid, reducing transmission in schools and keeping pupils in the classroom.\n\n\"Our outstanding NHS stands ready to move forward with rolling out the vaccine to this group with the same sense of urgency we've had at every point in our vaccination programme,\" he said.\n\nChildren with health conditions and those living with clinically vulnerable people have already been told they can have the vaccine - and are being offered two doses.\n\nThis accounts for around one in eight of the three million children in this age group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Whitty: The benefit of vaccinating younger people is an “important and potentially useful additional tool”\n\nHow do you feel about your 12 to 15-year-old child being vaccinated? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "Two rare Ferraris paying for the town's new boathouse sold for £8.5m at auction\n\nTwo rare classic Ferrari cars worth £8.5m have sped up the building of a new lifeboat boathouse in north Wales.\n\nThe 1960s cars were donated to lifeboat charity RNLI by footwear entrepreneur and classic car enthusiast Richard Colton after he died in 2015.\n\nThe red 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB was sold at auction for £6.6m and a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 raised £1.93m.\n\nSome £2.8m of the legacy helped fund a boathouse on the Gwynedd coast, which officially opened this weekend.\n\nPwllheli's crew, in fact, marked the \"proud day\" in their 130-year history with a triple celebration, which also saw the naming and dedication of their new Shannon class lifeboat and a new launch and recovery system.\n\nThe new boathouse on the Llyn Peninsula was officially opened by Charles Denton, godson of late Northamptonshire businessman Mr Colton, while its construction was also helped by a £100,000 community fundraising appeal.\n\nMr Colton, a partner in the footwear company Colton Brothers, died in 2015 aged 82. He was also a member of the V12 section of the Ferrari Owners' Club and had owned other Ferraris.\n\nThe new home for the RNLI's latest all-weather lifeboat in Pwllheli\n\nThe boathouse is now home to the latest Shannon class RNLI boat, which was named Smith Brothers in a dedication ceremony, and presented to the man who funded the lifeboat, Roger Smith from Tamworth in Staffordshire.\n\n\"During my sailing activities I have always had the greatest confidence in the RNLI facilities,\" said the keen sailor.\n\n\"Whilst I have never had to call upon their help myself, I have been part of teams who helped yachts that were then handed over to the RNLI\n\n\"Life has been very kind to me, and the RNLI has agreed that I fund a Shannon all-weather lifeboat for Pwllheli.\n\n\"The more I get to know the RNLI fundraisers and volunteer crews, the more admiration I have for them.\"\n\nTributes were paid to the generosity of Richard Colton, whose Ferraris helped pay for the boat's new home\n\nThe chairman of Pwllheli RNLI Lifeboat Management Group said it was \"a proud day for all at Pwllheli RNLI and the start of a new chapter in the station's 130-year history\".\n\n\"On behalf of all at Pwllheli RNLI I would like to thank everyone who has supported Pwllheli Lifeboat Station to help us get to where we are today and make sure that our volunteer crew will be here to save lives for many years to come,\" said Alan Jones.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jacob met Harvey Elliott when the two were in Leeds General Infirmary for X-rays\n\nA young footballer who injured himself while playing was \"shocked\" to find himself having an X-ray alongside one of his heroes, who had done the same.\n\nLiverpool fan Jacob was taken to Leeds General Infirmary after hurting his wrist in a juniors match on Sunday.\n\nReds midfielder Harvey Elliott was later injured against Leeds United and ended up at the same hospital.\n\nJacob said the midfielder, who gave the teenager his boot and shirt, had also given him a \"lot of helpful advice\".\n\nJacob's dad Imran, who is also a Liverpool fan, said his son was at a match with his mother when he was tackled and hurt his wrist.\n\nHe said he was at home watching his team's victory against Leeds United and saw Elliott get stretchered off, but it was \"unbelievable\" that his son then met the Liverpool star in hospital.\n\n\"It's been a mad 24 hours,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew my son was in hospital with his wrist and I knew Harvey Elliott was stretched off... but I had no idea they'd both end up in LGI X-ray department at the same time.\"\n\nImran said Elliott had started talking to Jacob's mother while the teenager had his X-ray and had then spoken to his son.\n\nJacob said meeting the Premier League star had been \"nerve-wracking\".\n\n\"I didn't know what to say,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm a big Liverpool fan so I told him he's a really good player and he gave me a lot of helpful advice.\"\n\nElliott, 18, faces surgery and a lengthy lay off after being injured against Leeds United\n\nHe said he would now frame Elliott's shirt and put the boot in pride of place in his bedroom.\n\nHis dad said the Liverpool player had told Jacob that he wanted to keep the other boot because it was \"lucky\".\n\nHe added that he was \"a bit gutted\" not to have been there, but said he was \"really proud\" of his son.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "IPhone owners should beware picking up bad vibrations from powerful motorbikes, as they may damage camera systems, Apple has said.\n\nThe technology giant published a warning iPhones should not be attached to powerful bikes, in a support document spotted by MacRumors.\n\nEngine vibrations can harm phones' optical-image stabilisation or closed-loop autofocus systems, it says.\n\nOwners of scooters and mopeds should also use \"vibration-dampening mounts\".\n\nOn social media, several users have said their phones have been damaged after being attached to a motorcycle.\n\nAnd Apple says several models of iPhone are susceptible to the damage.\n\nThe affected systems are designed to improve picture quality by counteracting movement, vibrations, and the effects of gravity.\n\nBut high-power or high-volume motorcycle engines generate \"intense high-amplitude vibrations\", the support page says, which can be transmitted through the frame and handlebars.\n\n\"Direct exposure to high-amplitude vibrations within certain frequency ranges may degrade the performance of these systems and lead to reduced image quality for photos and videos,\" it says.\n\nThe solution is to refrain from attaching iPhones to the bike in the first place - something commonly done for navigation.", "You might think that only in your 'Wildest Dreams' would you meet American pop star Taylor Swift on a night out in Belfast.\n\nBut that is exactly what happened for some lucky locals and hospitality staff last week.\n\nStaff in a Belfast bar posted on social media that the star had happily posed for selfies when she visited the city.\n\nWorkers at the bar said she was in the city with her boyfriend, the actor Joe Alwyn.\n\nHe is wrapping up filming on the Hulu/BBC Three adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel Conversations with Friends.\n\nAmong the venues Swift visited was the Tipsy Bird bar in the city centre.\n\nSwift asked local singer Tiernán Heffron for a selfie and he obliged\n\nThere she met singer Tiernán Heffron, 22, who plays at the bar every Friday night and is a huge fan of Swift.\n\n\"It was just like any other gig in Belfast until she turned up. No one there knew she would be there,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I was getting set up and someone came over to tell me Taylor Swift had just walked in.\n\n\"The back of my knees just dropped. I was excited because any other singer-songwriter would dream of this moment - so I just thought 'let's do it'.\n\n\"My heart was beating so fast. I just went for it and I had her up singing and dancing to 'Tell My Ma' - she was having a blast.\"\n\n\"She came up to me in the middle of it with a big smile and said: 'You're so good - how can I follow you?' Mr Heffron said.\n\n\"I told her my name and that I worked in a special needs school but I had been working hard on my music and she asked me for a selfie.\n\n\"She tipped me for playing, told me she enjoyed my music and said: 'You deserve this'.\"\n\nWhen he went to say goodbye to her and thank her for the tip she told him she had heard him singing Ed Sheeran songs and that the two were best friends.\n\n\"She said: 'Right now are putting in your 10,000 hours - this is not your first gig - you're confident and you're going to do great',\" Mr Heffron said.\n\nIn a Facebook post, the Tipsy Bird said: \"The one and only Taylor Swift graced us with her presence last Friday night.\n\n\"We can confirm she is just as lovely as you would expect and was kind enough to take a picture with our team.\n\n\"Taylor, if you fancy being a Tipsy Bird another night in the future, you know where to find us\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by The Tipsy Bird This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. End of facebook post by The Tipsy Bird\n\nShe was also spotted at Shu restaurant on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast, where she posed for photos with the team.\n\n\"On Thursday evening we had the pleasure of serving Taylor Swift,\" Shu said.\n\n\"Taylor was so lovely and really is a beautiful person inside and out and she kindly agreed to photos with all of our team,\" the restaurant added in a post on social media.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post 2 by Shu This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nSwift released the first re-recording of her back catalogue, Fearless (Taylor's Version) in April.", "US pop star Britney Spears has announced her engagement to her long-term boyfriend, Sam Asghari.\n\nThe singer posted a video of the couple showing off the ring on Instagram.\n\nThe 39-year-old is fighting a legal battle to end her 13-year conservatorship, which controls both her personal life and finances.\n\nSpears has revealed that the terms of the arrangement are preventing her from marrying Mr Asghari, 27, or having more children.\n\nThe conservatorship arrangement was imposed in 2008 when concerns were raised over her mental health.\n\nLast week, her father, Jamie Spears, filed papers in a Los Angeles court to end the conservatorship. A court hearing is scheduled for 29 September.\n\nSpears had sought to remove him from the role twice in the last two years.\n\nMr Asghari, an actor and fitness trainer, posted a separate photo of the ring and the couple kissing.\n\nHis manager, Brandon Cohen, confirmed news of the engagement to People magazine.\n\n\"The couple made their long-standing relationship official today and are deeply touched by the support, dedication and love expressed to them,\" he said.\n\nThe couple met on the set of a music video in 2016.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by samasghari This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Asghari was born in the Iranian capital Tehran but moved to Los Angeles at the age of 12 to live with his father, who was a truck driver.\n\nIn an interview with Forbes earlier this year, he described arriving in the US without speaking any English: \"It was definitely a culture shock, coming out here with a completely different language to speak.\"\n\nMr Asghari has three sisters, who have also emigrated to the US from Iran.\n\nIn Iran, not many appear to be pausing over Mr Asghari's Iranian roots when discussing the engagement announcement.\n\n\"This boy made Britney defeat depression, helped her to get back control over her life from her father and also helped her to exercise... And now is getting married to her!\" tweeted one social media user.\n\nAnother wrote: \"Sam is 27 and Britney is 39. The age difference in this marriage is not a problem!\"\n\nSpears has been married twice before. In 2004, she wed her childhood friend Jason Alexander in Las Vegas but the marriage was soon annulled.\n\nLater the same year, she married dancer Kevin Federline, with whom she has two children. The couple divorced in 2007.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What we can all learn from Britney Spears’ case\n\nSpears has previously referred to her father's treatment of her as \"cruelty\".\n\nIn explosive testimony in June, she asked a judge to end the \"abusive\" conservatorship so she could get married and have more children.\n\nA month later, she said she wished to file charges against her father.\n\nThe court-ordered conservatorship gave Jamie Spears control over his daughter's estate and other aspects of her life.\n\nMr Spears stepped down as the conservator of his daughter's personal affairs in 2019 due to health issues, and was replaced by Jodi Montgomery, the singer's long-time care manager.\n\nBut Mr Spears continues to oversee his daughter's business arrangements.\n• None Britney Spears: Everything she said in court", "Jamie began his medical transition when he was 18\n\nA transgender man has said confusion over his gender caused a delay in receiving a hospital appointment after an abnormal cervical screening result.\n\nJamie, 29, from Hull, began his medical transition aged 18, but opted to retain his cervix.\n\nWhen referred to hospital after the screening, it was questioned why a man needed an appointment, he said.\n\nThe NHS group responsible for screenings said it was sorry to hear about Jamie's recent experience.\n\nJamie said the nurse who referred him to hospital following the check in late 2020 wrote an accompanying paragraph explaining he was trans.\n\n\"I think the hospital had said 'Why have you sent us this guy?' and she said 'Haven't you read the paragraph that came with it? This is a trans man, he still has a vagina, he needs screening'.\n\n\"It had to go through multiple managers to accept and understand it,\" he said.\n\nJamie said the confusion over his gender led to a three-month wait for results - not the usual two weeks.\n\nHis results came back negative, despite the delay in receiving the appointment.\n\nThe Hull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which is responsible for cervical screening, said while it could not comment on individual cases it was sorry to hear about Jamie's experience and thanked him for bringing it to their attention.\n\n\"Trans men who still have a cervix should have cervical screening to help prevent cervical cancer,\" the CCG said.\n\n\"They may need to ask their GP practice for an appointment and ask that their preferences are recorded in their notes.\"\n\nHowever, NHS guidance says a trans man registered with a GP as male will not usually receive automatic invitations.\n\nOnly women aged over 25 are automatically sent reminders to book an appointment.\n\nJamie believes all those who need screening should receive an invitation routinely\n\nJamie said his case highlighted the issue that trans men and non-binary individuals who have a cervix were not routinely called for screening.\n\n\"There is no notification to tell me I need a screening, so it's something I need to manage myself,\" Jamie said.\n\nHe said because screening was normally done every three years \"it's really easy to forget\".\n\n\"That's why women are sent letters,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone that needs a screening needs that reminder and that will prompt more people to go.\"\n\nImogen Pinnell, from charity Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, said there was a need for healthcare professionals to be better educated about the issue \"so they are able to better support transgender and non-binary people with a cervix\".\n\n\"Because so often the experience someone has at an appointment will be what determines if they go back in future\", she added.\n\nPublic Health England said it had worked closely with the LGBT community to produce a guide to help trans people understand what screening is available.\n\n\"We have promoted the guide to LGBT groups to help trans people access the most appropriate screening for them,\" they added.\n\nJamie said he wanted screening invitations to be sent to everyone who required them.\n\n\"No-one is going to say cervical screening is nice, and there is that extra layer of why it is uncomfortable for a trans person.\n\n\"But, for a few minutes of being uncomfortable, that could save your life.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRussia's Daniil Medvedev won his first Grand Slam title by shattering Novak Djokovic's hopes of completing a calendar sweep of the majors in a one-sided US Open final.\n\nSecond seed Medvedev, 25, lost his two previous Grand Slam finals but was composed throughout a 6-4 6-4 6-4 win.\n\nWorld number one Djokovic had already won the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon titles this year.\n\nThe 34-year-old Serb was also chasing a record 21st Grand Slam men's title.\n\nVictory would have moved him clear of rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the battle to finish with the most men's majors, but it was the potential calendar Grand Slam which Djokovic had said would be the \"greatest achievement\" of his career.\n\nDjokovic was bidding to become just the sixth player to win a calendar Slam and the first man to do it since Rod Laver in 1969.\n\nPerhaps burdened by the weight of history, Djokovic looked subdued throughout as he made a high number of uncharacteristic errors and also became tearful towards the end.\n\nHe also looked way short of his usual physical capabilities.\n\nTo put those factors down as the sole reasons for Medvedev's success would be completely wrong.\n\nThe Russian played smartly and confidently, drawing the errors out of his opponent with strong serving, dominating Djokovic from the baseline and finishing points with precise winners, as he avenged a straight-set defeat by the Serb in February's Australian Open final.\n\nThere was a slight wobble as he tried to serve out for the title - three double faults helped Djokovic nick back a break for 5-3 - before Medvedev composed himself to take his third championship point.\n\nAfter sharing a warm hug with Djokovic at the net, Medvedev broke out in a broad smile before sitting back in his chair to contemplate finally winning the first Grand Slam title which he has long threatened.\n\n\"I want to thank my team, those who are here and watching. My parents, my family, my sisters. Some of my friends are here too,\" said Medvedev, who dropped only one set in the tournament.\n\n\"Thank you guys because it is not an easy journey to win a Slam. I'm really thankful to you for helping me throughout this journey.\"\n\nAddressing Medvedev, Djokovic said: \"If there is anyone who deserves a Grand Slam title right now, it is you. Well done. There will be many more titles to come, I'm sure.\"\n\nTwo years ago, Medvedev cut an emotional figure after the men's singles final in New York.\n\nIt was the Russian's first Grand Slam final and, after an exhilarating fightback from two sets down, he eventually lost an epic five-setter to Nadal.\n\nMesmerised by a video montage on the Ashe television screens showing all of Nadal's achievements - then standing at 19 Grand Slam titles - the Russian later said he wanted to use that as further inspiration in his own quest to land the sport's biggest prizes.\n\nFinally he has achieved that.\n\nIn Melbourne on his second attempt, Medvedev was overwhelmed by the intense pressure from Djokovic and his game broke down.\n\nThis time, it was a complete role reversal.\n\nMedvedev broke in the first game of the match and while Djokovic settled down in his service games in the rest of the set, the problem was he could make no impact on the Russian's serve.\n\nFiring them down with pace and precision meant even the best returner in the men's game had no answers.\n\nMedvedev only allowed Djokovic to win three receiving points in the opening set, winning 100% of his first-serve points as Djokovic made just 27% of his returns.\n\nDjokovic had lost the first set in his previous four matches - including wins over German fourth seed Alexander Zverev and Italian sixth seed Matteo Berrettini - and had five break opportunities at the start of the second set.\n\nBut he was unable to convert any of them as Medvedev rallied to hold both times, leaving Djokovic slapping his thighs in annoyance.\n\nThe Russian broke for 3-2 - enough to take the second set - and then raced 4-0 ahead in the third before clinching victory after his brief wobble.\n\nAfter producing double faults on his first two championship points, Medvedev composed himself to land a first serve on the third.\n\nDjokovic could not return it over the net and world number two Medvedev collapsed to the court in a celebration inspired by football video game Fifa.\n\n'I've never felt like this in New York' - Djokovic overcome by emotion\n\nWhile losing the opportunity to create further history will be hard for Djokovic to stomach, there was some comfort in the rousing reception he received from a New York crowd with whom he has not always had the warmest of relationships.\n\nThe Arthur Ashe Stadium has been somewhat of a hostile venue for Djokovic over the years, particularly in the 2015 final against Federer when fans were cheering misses from the Serb.\n\nFrom the start of the final against Medvedev, right through to the moment he walked off court, there was huge backing for the Serbian 20-time Grand Slam champion.\n\nAfter a comfortable hold for 5-4 in the third set, the crowd roared further support for Djokovic and it led to him becoming emotional in his chair.\n\nInitially he laughed and then thumped his heart as the noise became louder. That led to an overwhelmed Djokovic crying behind his towel on his chair and still tearful as he stood behind the baseline at the start of the next game.\n\nAfterwards, he told the crowd while also welling up: \"Even though I haven't won the match I am the happiest man alive because you guys made me very special on the court.\n\n\"You guys touched my soul. I've never felt like this in New York. Thank you for your support. I love you.\"\n\nNovak Djokovic said earlier in the fortnight that he now had a better idea how Serena Williams felt when she fell two matches short of the Grand Slam in 2015.\n\nThe emotional demands of the challenge, fatigue held over from earlier rounds and earlier months, and the magnificence of Daniil Medvedev ultimately proved too much.\n\nBut in defeat, there was consolation - as the New York crowed belatedly took the Serb to their hearts.\n\nDespite blowing two championships points with double faults, Medvedev has barely been troubled all week.\n\nHe has won more matches and titles on hard courts than any other ATP player in recent years, but this will be the one that means the most.\n• None How America's leadership grappled with the events of 9/11\n• None Loathed or adored but never ignored: The definitive story of Cristiano Ronaldo is streaming now", "Scotland's vaccine passport scheme may feature spot checks for large scale events such as football matches.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said such a move could \"potentially\" be introduced when the scheme goes live on 1 October.\n\nIt came after the head of Scotland's professional football league said it would be \"very difficult\" to check that all fans had a vaccine passport.\n\nPlans to introduce the scheme in England have been scrapped.\n\nScotland's vaccine certification scheme means people over the age of 18 will need to show they have had both doses of a Covid vaccine before they are allowed entry to nightclubs and major events.\n\nThis includes outdoor events of more than 10,000, which will cover football matches involving larger clubs.\n\nMr Yousaf was asked about the practical difficulties of vaccine passports on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme.\n\nThe health minister quoted from a paper published in advance of last week's Holyrood debate on the issue which stated: \"What is proportionate on entry to a nightclub of 200 people may not be proportionate, or possible, in an event crowd of 60,000.\"\n\nHe added: \"We acknowledged that for a different setting you are going to have to have, probably, different rules depending on that setting and you wouldn't want any adverse impacts, for example lots of people queuing and then potentially any crowd trouble that would follow on from there.\"\n\nQuestioned specifically about spot checks, he told the programme: \"That is absolutely an option that we are happy to consider.\"\n\nPeople will need to show a QR code before they are allowed into some venues\n\nThe health secretary said he was \"surprised\" by the decision to ditch the vaccine passport scheme in England and questioned whether it was taken on public health or political grounds.\n\nMr Yousaf also said ministers were \"still working\" on the definition of a nightclub.\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser welcomed the UK government's decision to abandon vaccine passports and said Scotland should now follow suit.\n\n\"The Scottish government have made a decision in the absence of evidence,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"Now it seems that they're considering spot checks, but only after football clubs made it clear their plan was unworkable.\n\n\"The scheme will come into force in a matter of weeks and the SNP still can't provide any clarity on key questions surrounding its implementation.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton welcomed the move to abandon vaccine passports south of the border.\n\nHe said: \"It's sad to see that the Conservative government in Westminster has more concern for medical privacy than the SNP-Green coalition in Scotland does.\n\n\"The solution to the current crisis is vaccinations and a functioning contact tracing system, not Covid ID cards.\n\n\"You shouldn't have to share your private medical information with someone who is not your clinician.\"\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, of the University of Edinburgh, told Good Morning Scotland that the country needed to rely on testing and vaccines to keep the NHS running and the economy open.\n\nShe said: \"We have seen internationally other places that have raced ahead with vaccine passports. Look at New York City. Look at France. Look at Denmark.\n\n\"And what they have found is that this is a way to keep businesses open, increase consumer confidence - so actually some of the big spenders in their 40s and 50s do go to these venues - and, in a way, increase uptake among young people.\"\n\nOn Sunday the SPFL's Neil Doncaster said the only way to make the scheme work would be to carry out spot checks to avoid lengthy queues and possible disorder.\n\nMr Doncaster told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show that the SPFL was \"hugely concerned\" about the practicalities of delivering the scheme.\n\nThe football executive said blanket inspections of vaccine certification would risk \"disorder\" as frustrated fans turned up for games ahead of kick-off.\n\nHe added: \"I think it can work, but I think spot-checking is frankly the only practical reality because if you are expecting football clubs to vaccine-passport-check 30,000 or 40,000 people in the minutes before kick-off, that's simply not going to happen.\n\nThe vaccine passport plan was formally approved by Holyrood last week after the SNP and Scottish Greens voted in favour.\n\nSome businesses have complained of a lack of detail about how the scheme will work in practice.\n\nThe proposals were opposed by the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats.", "Covid PCR testing should be abandoned for most holidaymakers, says travel organisation Abta.\n\nFully vaccinated travellers should not need to be tested on their return from lower-risk countries, it said.\n\nIt also called for a \"significant overhaul\" of the traffic light system for travel destinations.\n\nAbta said the policies had \"choked off\" this summer's travel trade, with seven out of 10 travel firms planning to make redundancies after furlough ends.\n\nIt also called for the government to reduce the traffic light system to just a small number of \"red list\" countries, purely for the management of known Covid variants of concern.\n\nThe expense of PCR testing is widely blamed for discouraging people from travelling abroad.\n\nAt present, going on holiday abroad means taking Covid tests when you are returning to the UK.\n\nMost private providers charge above £60 for PCR tests and £30 for lateral flow devices. The government has warned more than 80 providers over misleading prices.\n\nThe next formal review of the government's travel policies is expected by 1 October, while the furlough scheme is due to end on 30 September.\n\nWith more than 80% of eligible UK adults already vaccinated against Covid, it was time for a \"stable framework\" for international travel, said Abta, which represents tour operators and travel agents.\n\nNew summer foreign holiday bookings for 2021 were down 83% on 2019, Abta said, while almost half of travel companies reported they had seen no increase in 2021 bookings compared with last year, despite the rollout of the vaccine programme.\n\nThe summer sun is fading, but the travel industry's fears are heating up as the end of furlough approaches.\n\nThe industry is disappointed that vaccination didn't open up international travel as they would have hoped. The government said it will review the way international travel works before October and many expect it will come this week. Voices in the industry are hoping to make themselves heard before ministers meet to discuss exactly what might change.\n\nA sticking point could be PCR testing. The government has argued so far that it's needed for all travellers to catch variants of concern as early as possible, but the industry say these expensive tests are putting off travellers.\n\nWinter is approaching and travel companies need to make decisions about their future operations: they are waiting anxiously to see which way the government will go.\n\nAbta chief executive Mark Tanzer said: \"The government's travel requirements have choked off this summer's travel trade - putting jobs, businesses and the UK's connectivity at risk.\n\n\"While our European neighbours have been travelling freely and safely, the British were subject to expensive measures which have stood in the way of people visiting family and friends, taking that much-needed foreign holiday and making important business connections.\n\n\"The government needs to wake up to the damage its policies are doing to the UK travel industry and the impact they will have on the wider economic recovery.\"\n\nAbta urged the government to extend the furlough scheme for travel businesses alongside a package of tailored financial support for the industry.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"Our top priority is to protect public health. Decisions on our traffic light system are kept under regular review and are informed by the latest risk assessment from the Joint Biosecurity Centre and wider public health factors.\n\n\"We recognise the challenging times facing the travel sector, which is why we have committed around £7bn of support by September 2021 and continue to work with industry to help them navigate this difficult period.\"", "British actress Tanya Fear has been reported missing in Los Angeles.\n\nFear, 31, who appeared in a 2018 episode of BBC sci-fi drama Doctor Who, was last seen on Thursday, according to her friends and family.\n\nIn a statement on the @FindTanyaFear Twitter account, her uncle said the family were \"deeply worried\".\n\nHer mother said: \"I am devastated about this situation, and appeal to anyone with information to please come forward and bring our daughter home safely.\"\n\nThe statement said her family are urging Los Angeles police to investigate her disappearance. They also said they want to launch their own search and are applying for visas to travel from the UK.\n\nThe actress's manager, Alex Cole, told ABC News she was fine when he last saw her a week ago.\n\n\"Since she's been here, she's had a great career and this is just the beginning,\" he said.\n\n\"We're obviously concerned and [hope] we find out this is a simple mistake and we find her.\"\n\nFear appeared alongside Jodie Whittaker in 2018 Doctor Who episode Arachnids in the UK\n\nThe actress, whose real name is Tanyaradzwa Fear, has also appeared in TV's Spotless, Endeavour, DCI Banks and Midsomer Murders. She was seen in the movie Kick-Ass 2 and had recently started doing stand-up comedy.\n\nThe Los Angeles Police Department confirmed a missing persons report was filed for her on Thursday, 9 September.\n\nAccording to @FindTanyaFear, which is described as being run by her family, the actress left her Hollywood Bowl apartment without her phone or purse and was last seen at 22:00 local time that day.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Jodie Whittaker to leave Doctor Who in 2022", "The benefit of vaccinating younger people was an “important and potentially useful additional tool” England’s chief medical officer has announced.\n\nChris Whitty said it was not a “silver bullet” but would help reduce the impact on the disruption to education, and on their physical and mental health.\n\nHe was addressing a news conference with the devolved medical offers as they recommended a \"universal offer\" to give Covid vaccines to the 12 to 15-year-olds who have not been offered the jab so far.\n\nIt is up to the four nations to decide if they would follow this advice.", "North Korea has announced it fired a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend.\n\nDespite international condemnation, the East Asian country keeps testing missiles, some of which are in violation of UN Security Council resolutions and have resulted in tough sanctions.\n\nWhy does Pyongyang continue with these launches, if they come at such a hefty cost to its economy?\n\nThe BBC's Laura Bicker runs us through some of the reasons why North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is determined to develop his country's missile programme.", "Major misconceptions about the Holocaust are common among teachers, research suggests.\n\nMost teachers in England lack the knowledge to combat common myths and falsehoods about the atrocity, research by University College London's Centre for Holocaust Education suggests.\n\nThey said there had been improvements since a similar study in 2009.\n\nBut the researchers warned of \"real-world consequences\" from a lack of understanding.\n\nUCL associate professor Dr Andy Pearce said pupils could be developing \"skewed and fundamentally erroneous impressions of this period\".\n\n\"If one of the aims of teaching and learning about the Holocaust is to prevent the repetition of similar atrocities in the future, then we need to have secure knowledge and understanding of why this particular genocide happened,\" he said.\n\n\"As a society, we should have no tolerance for misunderstandings, myths and mythologies about the Holocaust.\n\n\"That can be a breeding ground for conspiracy theories and for revisionism and for denial and distortion.\n\n\"There are real-world consequences for these misconceptions and misunderstandings.\"\n\nThe study was based on in-depth focus groups and a survey of 1,077 teachers, 964 of whom had recently taught the Holocaust.\n\nWoking High School head teacher Maiken Walter said accurate Holocaust education was particularly important after the pandemic, when pupils had spent more time online, often unsupervised.\n\n\"We have seen some signs in our community of a rise in white-supremacy ideology and it is a concern for most schools to try to tackle that,\" she said.\n\n\"The Holocaust is not something that is irrelevant to the modern day.\n\n\"It is still very central to our lives and it is essential it is taught well.\"\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton was \"concerned\" at the findings.\n\n\"School leaders and teachers work very hard to combat a range of false information and myths on a range of subjects that are spread through the click of a button in a society which has undergone a rapid and poorly regulated digital revolution,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the reality is that schools and teachers face a huge number of pressures on their time in a crowded curriculum and constantly have to juggle many competing priorities.\n\n\"There is a wider need for the government to work with the education sector to review the many expectations on schools to make this situation more manageable.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClimate change protesters blocked five M25 junctions, causing long tailbacks and disruption for motorists.\n\nThere were protests at junctions 20 for Kings Langley, Herts, 14 for Heathrow terminal four, three for Swanley in Kent, six for Godstone, Surrey and 31 for Lakeside, Essex.\n\nThey have since been reopened but police said 42 people were arrested.\n\nProtest group Insulate Britain tweeted it was \"disrupting the M25\" to \"demand the government insulate Britain\".\n\nA government spokeswoman condemned the protests and said it was supporting people to install energy efficiency measures in their homes.\n\nHertfordshire Police said 18 people were arrested after officers were called to a protest near junction 20 at about 08:00 BST.\n\nSupt Adam Willmot said: \"Protesters ignored police requests to move location, so we took robust action to enable roads to be reopened and to remove the protesters causing obstructions.\"\n\nThe force closed the slip roads in both directions, which led to \"congestion and delays on both the M25 and the A41\", but the closures had lifted by 10:20 BST.\n\nThe group said action would go on until a \"meaningful commitment\" was made by the government\n\nA government spokeswoman said \"resulting traffic delays will only add to vehicle emissions\"\n\nEssex Police said 12 people were arrested after it was called to reports that a number of people were blocking the road near junction 31 just before 08:15 BST.\n\nIt said officers worked to resolve the situation \"quickly and safely\", which included shutting the slip road temporarily.\n\nCh Insp Paul Austin said the action caused \"significant disruption\" and thanked drivers for their \"patience and understanding.\"\n\nPolice made more than 40 arrests at the protests\n\nTraffic backed up near the exit for Heathrow\n\nKent Police has confirmed that 12 people were arrested at junction three where the B2173 and the M25 meet, near Swanley.\n\nIt said it was called at 08:10 BST to a group of people obstructing the roundabout.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by National Highways: South-East This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSurrey Police said it was called just before 08:00 BST to a protest at junction six, where the slip road had been closed with a diversion set up.\n\nIt tweeted that a number of people had been arrested following protests at junctions six and 14.\n\nEarlier, the exit slip road to Heathrow terminal four had been closed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Surrey Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome drivers were frustrated with the delays but others tweeted their support.\n\nClive Farnham from Crawley tweeted that they should \"have a protest on the side of the road \" and \"allow others to go about their business\", while Laura asked the group if they had \"thought about the pollution you are causing to the environment with the tailbacks of 15/20 miles on several sections of the m25 which makes it all a joke\".\n\nGreen Party member, Matt Hill, thanked the protesters and tweeted that while he was \"frustrated and concerned\" that his son was late for college, he was \"nowhere near as concerned as I am for his future if we don't act urgently to address our climate emergency\".\n\nIn a statement on its website, Insulate Britain said that Monday's disruption was \"just the start\".\n\n\"Actions will continue until the government makes a meaningful commitment to insulate Britain's 29 million leaky homes, some of the oldest and most energy inefficient in Europe,\" it said.\n\nIt added that its demands were delivered by hand to 10 Downing Street on 21 August, but so far no-one in government had responded.\n\nZoe Cohen from Insulate Britain told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We regret having to do this but we really have no other option. They're a group of ordinary people who've come together and put their bodies on the line.\n\n\"They're doing this because they're desperate for meaningful action from the government, and insulating our homes is the most efficient way to reduce our emissions and avoid climate catastrophe.\"\n\nSupporter Liam Norton, 36, from London, said he was \"shocked at the lack of significant action\" from the government.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer. Insulating Britain will reduce emissions, provide hundreds of thousands of jobs and stop our elderly dying in cold homes each winter,\" he said.\n\n\"So stop messing about, Boris, and get on with the job.\n\n\"As soon as a statement is made that we can trust and is meaningful, we will get off the roads.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"People's day-to-day lives should not be disrupted, especially on busy motorways where lives are put at risk and resulting traffic delays will only add to vehicle emissions.\n\n\"We are investing £1.3bn this year alone to support people to install energy efficiency measures, and our upcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy will set out how we decarbonise the nation's homes in a way that is fair, practical and affordable.\"\n\nThe protesters say their goal is to raise the profile of insulation as an issue. They say it's absolutely central to tackling carbon emissions. There's definitely truth in that - heating our homes is a big component of personal carbon emissions.\n\nThe AA say this is dangerous: they're blocking the road and could cause disruption to emergency vehicles. They say this backfires because it creates more delays and vehicles stuck in traffic create more emissions, so this is a \"lose\" for the protesters.\n\nThe protesters say how else do you raise issues like insulation - get you and me talking about them - without these kinds of protests? It's a really interesting dilemma and an interesting evolution of direct action around climate.\n\nDo they stop at motorways? Where else are they going to go - and what other single-issue direct action protest groups might we see form?\n\nWere you stuck in traffic because of the protests today? Please share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nThe Duke of York's lawyer has described allegations of sexual assault filed in a US court as \"baseless, non-viable [and] potentially unlawful\".\n\nAndrew Brettler told a pre-trial conference call in New York that a 2009 settlement between Virginia Giuffre and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released the duke from \"any and all liability\".\n\nHe also said the duke had not been properly served notice of proceedings.\n\nMr Brettler - a Los Angeles-based lawyer promoted as a \"media and entertainment litigation\" specialist - requested a copy of the 2009 agreement, which is not public.\n\n\"There has been a settlement agreement that the plaintiff [Ms Giuffre] has entered into in a prior action that releases the duke and others from any and all potential liability,\" he said.\n\nDuring the conference call on Monday, Mr Brettler denied that the prince had been given legal documents properly, a process known as \"service\" in US law.\n\nMr Brettler went on to argue it was for the High Court in London to decide whether the documents had been served correctly, but the judge, Lewis Kaplan, disagreed.\n\nJudge Kaplan told Ms Giuffre's lawyer, David Boise, he had a week to find an alternative method of serving legal documents to the duke in the UK.\n\nThe judge said the next meeting in the case would happen on 13 October.\n\nMs Giuffre, now 38, was an accuser of Epstein, the billionaire convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019, and claims she was sexually assaulted by the prince at three locations, including New York City.\n\nMs Giuffre - then known as Virginia Roberts - says she was assaulted at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nHer case claims Prince Andrew, 61, engaged in sexual acts without Ms Giuffre's consent, including when she was 17, knowing how old she was, and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nThe prince, the Queen's second son, has consistently denied the claims, and told BBC Two's Newsnight in 2019: \"It didn't happen. I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew said in 2019 that he could not recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nMs Giuffre's lawyers had claimed papers were left with a police officer at the gates of Prince Andrew's Windsor home last month - and that meant papers were successfully \"served\".\n\nThe duke does not face the prospect of an extradition hearing as this only applies to criminal charges and not civil cases.", "A BBC Panorama investigation has found evidence that suggests one of Britain's biggest companies paid a bribe to the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.\n\nDocuments show British American Tobacco (BAT) was involved in negotiations to pay between $300,000 and $500,000 to Mugabe's Zanu-PF party in 2013.\n\nThe documents also reveal BAT was paying bribes in South Africa and using illegal surveillance to damage rivals.\n\nBAT says it is committed to the highest standards of corporate conduct.\n\nPresident Mugabe's 37-year rule was secured through elections marred by allegations of fraud and violence.\n\nHe was ousted in 2017 and died in 2019. The ruling party Zanu PF is now under new leadership.\n\nIn a joint investigation with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the University of Bath, Panorama obtained thousands of leaked documents.\n\nThey show how BAT funded a network of almost 200 secret informants in southern Africa.\n\nWatch BBC Panorama: Dirty Secrets of the Cigarette Business on BBC One on Monday at 19:30 BST\n\nMost of this work was outsourced to a South African private security company called Forensic Security Services (FSS).\n\nFSS was officially tasked with fighting the black-market cigarette trade, however former employees have told the BBC that they broke the law to sabotage BAT's rivals.\n\nInternal documents show in one operation, FSS staff were instructed to close down three cigarette factories run by BAT's competitors in Zimbabwe.\n\nFSS paid a local firm to conduct surveillance on a Savanna Tobacco factory in 2012, but the company got caught.\n\nThree of its directors were charged in connection with illegal surveillance. The arrests prompted the then president, Robert Mugabe, to make a speech condemning the men's actions and BAT's suspected involvement.\n\nHowever, Panorama has found that behind the scenes, contractors working on behalf of BAT were talking to Zimbabwean officials.\n\nThe man who was sent in to negotiate a deal, who wishes to remain anonymous, told Panorama he bribed a number of government officials to secure a meeting to discuss the men's case.\n\nHe said: \"I had to make it clear that they're going to expect a nice thick envelope of notes.\"\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC confirm that the man was provided with the equivalent of US$12,000 in South African rand. They also suggest the money for the bribes was provided by BAT.\n\nAn internal memo outlines the deal that was proposed. The Zimbabwean official said that with the upcoming presidential elections, a donation to Mugabe's party - Zanu PF - would help.\n\nThe memo said: \"With this donation, they could then go back to the President\" to try to get the problem sorted out.\n\n\"The amount of the donation would have to be in the region of between USD300,000 to USD500,000 to Zanu PF,\" it said.\n\nThe documents do not show whether the bribe was in the end paid, but Panorama has spoken to three sources who have confirmed that BAT was aware of the terms of the deal on offer.\n\nWithin days of the deal being offered, all three directors were free.\n\nBAT declined to answer Panorama's questions about the Zimbabwe payments, but it did not deny paying a bribe to Robert Mugabe.\n\nIt is against UK law for a British company to pay bribes, no matter where the payment takes place.\n\nFSS worked for BAT in southern Africa between 2000 and 2016.\n\nEvidence strongly suggests they bribed customs officials and police officers, and that BAT secured access to information from the police camera network, which was used to spy on its rivals.\n\nFSS tapped the phones of BAT's competitors, placed tracking devices on their delivery vehicles and bribed staff to hand over information.\n\nDocuments show senior staff from BAT's London HQ personally recruited and paid some of the informants working at competitors' factories.\n\nBAT staff would also load cash onto currency cards in London and the informants could then withdraw the money anonymously in South Africa.\n\nIt is a payment system sometimes used by organised crime groups to evade detection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. British American Tobacco: I was a spy for cigarette giant, says whistleblower\n\nBAT's lawyers said the allegations are not new and that it was not unlawful to pay sources to gather information about criminal behaviour.\n\nThey said the company rejects the allegation that any steps were taken with the aim of impacting the lawful activities of legitimate competitors or for commercial advantage.\n\nBAT said: \"We emphatically reject the mischaracterisation of our conduct... Our efforts in combating illicit trade have been aimed at helping law enforcement agencies in the fight against the criminal trade in tobacco products.\n\n\"Acting responsibly and with integrity underpins the foundations of our culture.\"\n\nNinety per cent of South African-grown tobacco is bought by BAT\n\nThis is not the first time BAT has been accused of bribery. In 2015, Panorama found the company had secretly paid politicians and civil servants in countries in east Africa to undermine anti-smoking measures.\n\nThe revelations prompted a five-year investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Earlier this year, it concluded there was not enough evidence for prosecution.\n\nBAT says it fully cooperated with the SFO's investigation, which included allegations relating to South Africa and which resulted in no action being taken.\n\nWatch BBC Panorama: Dirty Secrets of the Cigarette Business on BBC One on Monday at 19:30 BST, or on BBC World on Saturday 18 September 02:30 GMT and 15:30 GMT, and Sunday 19 at 09:30 GMT and 21:30 GMT.", "Better pay and conditions for delivery drivers will help fix the supply chain crisis, TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady has said.\n\nShe also called for a rise in capital gains tax to fund an increase in pay for care workers.\n\n\"After decades of real wage cuts... no-one can seriously say working people don't deserve a pay rise.\"\n\nShe said pay rises were crucial for the government's \"levelling up\" agenda to boost poorer regions of the UK.\n\nSpeaking at the TUC Congress in London to an audience almost all attending online, Ms O'Grady called on the UK's unions to continue their fight for better pay and conditions across the economy.\n\nTo ministers wondering how to fix the widespread problems with the supply of goods, she said: \"Well, here's a novel idea - let's make that industry deliver decent conditions, direct employment and a proper pay rise.\"\n\nMs O'Grady listed Nando's chicken, Ikea mattresses and Wetherspoon's beer as items that had recently run out due to problems such as a lack of delivery drivers.\n\nShe told the story of a care worker called Carol, working a 24-hour shift for less than the minimum wage, and called for an increase in tax on wealth - through capital gains tax - to fund a pay rise for the sector.\n\n\"It can't be right that a dedicated care worker pays a bigger share of her hard-earned income to fund the social care system than the private equity magnate who profits from buying up and selling care homes,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme ahead of her speech, Ms O'Grady urged the government to reconsider recent rises to National Insurance contributions, describing the move as \"another hit\" to young people and low-paid workers.\n\n\"We saw far too much inequality before the crisis, it's got a lot worse. We know that working people have been subject to pay freezes and pay pauses for years.\"\n\nShe argued that shifting tax to wealth instead may offer a boost in demand for the economy.\n\n\"One thing you can guarantee about working people is that they spend their money locally and that's what will get the economy moving again.\"\n\nShe called for a furlough-style short working scheme to be permanently in place, \"to keep people in good jobs - and to make sure we bounce back fast.\"\n\n\"If levelling up means anything, it must mean levelling up at work and levelling up living standards.\"\n\nThe director-general of the employer's organisation is also giving a keynote speech later today. He is set to warn that a return to \"business as usual\" in economic policy would be a mistake, with the UK lagging behind some of its international competitors in driving investment in the industries of the future.\n\nHe will say: \"The lack of detail and pace from the government on some of the big economic choices we must make as a country are the biggest concerns for business.\"\n\nHe will call for a series of measures including:\n\n\"Investing by the UK: that must be our mantra now, so that the decade ahead does not repeat the low growth, zero productivity of the decade past, and government holds the key to unlocking it all,\" Mr Danker will say.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the government had shown it was committed to supporting business investment, extending the Annual Investment Allowance increase for another year and introducing the super-deduction, which it called \"the biggest two-year business tax cut in modern British history\".\n\n\"The impact of the pandemic means we have had to make the tough but responsible decision to raise taxes. We've asked both individuals and businesses to pay a bit more as we get our public finances back on a sustainable path,\" the spokesperson added.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers say healthy children aged 12 to 15 should be offered one dose of a Covid vaccine. It comes after the government's vaccine advisers said there was not enough benefit to warrant it on health grounds alone. The CMOs believe reducing disruption to education tips the balance, given the virus was going to keep on spreading over winter. Side effects are \"mild\", they say, but concede a jab is \"not a silver bullet\" for the age group. It will now be up to ministers whether to accept the recommendation.\n\nFrench vaccine maker Valneva says the UK government has scrapped a deal for its Covid-19 vaccine. The UK had about 100 million doses on order, after it increased its request by 40 million in February. The firm said the UK government served notice over allegations of a breach of the agreement, which it \"strenuously denies\". The government said the decision would have no impact on vaccine supply in the UK.\n\nScotland's vaccine passport scheme may feature spot checks for large-scale events such as football matches. Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf says such a move could \"potentially\" be introduced when the scheme goes live on 1 October. It comes after the head of Scotland's professional football league said it would be \"very difficult\" to check that all fans had a vaccine passport. Plans to introduce the scheme in England have been scrapped, Health Secretary Sajid Javid says. Find out more about vaccine passports.\n\nFully vaccinated people are much less likely to die with Covid-19 than those who aren't, or have had only one dose, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show. Out of more than 51,000 Covid deaths in England between January and July 2021, only 256 occurred after two doses. They were mostly people at very high risk from illness from Covid-19.\n\nWalk-in clinics have been set up in universities and further education colleges in a bid to get more students vaccinated against Covid-19. The first of 60 clinics opened on Monday as part of the Department of Health's \"jabbathon\" drive. They will cover 30 campuses and offer first doses to students throughout September. Meanwhile, as an NHS vaccination bus rolls on to campus in Essex, the BBC has spoken to students for their opinions on the jab.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAs the UK's chief medical officers recommend that children aged 12 to 15 should be offered a single dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, our health correspondent James Gallagher takes a look at which children are being vaccinated and why?.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nLess than three weeks ago, Emma Raducanu began battling for her place in the US Open main draw.\n\nOn Monday, she stumbled across a giant billboard of her face on the streets of New York as she squeezed some sightseeing between appearances on prime-time American breakfast television.\n\nIt is this unexpected, unpredictable change in circumstances that has made the 18-year-old's first Grand Slam title front-page news around the world.\n\nRaducanu has not only made British history as the country's first woman to win a Grand Slam singles title in 44 years, but becoming the first qualifier to win a major means she has made tennis history too.\n\nDespite the high stakes, the teenager has sailed through the past few weeks with a look of composed joy on her face and the fallout to the biggest win of her career has been no different.\n\nRaducanu looked as poised as ever when faced with the Good Morning America panel in the show's Times Square studio and there she explained how she reached such levels of resilience so young.\n\n\"From a young age I've always been brought up to have mental strength,\" she said on the ABC show.\n\n\"My parents played a huge part in my upbringing. They were pretty tough on me when I was young and it kind of shaped the way.\n\n\"I think now it is helping on the biggest stages in the world when you really need it.\"\n\nRaducanu described her Chinese mother Renee and Romanian father Ian as her \"toughest critics\" and \"very hard to please\".\n\n\"But I got them with this one,\" she joked. \"They couldn't resist.\n\n\"It was really nice to talk to them after I won. They were just so happy and proud of me.\"\n• None 'I don't want to let go of the trophy'\n\nGrounded Raducanu 'trying to enjoy the moment'\n\nAs well as her parents, it seems Raducanu's coaching team has had an important role to play in keeping her grounded.\n\nThe Canada-born player received a letter from the Queen after beating Leylah Fernandez in the final at Flushing Meadows and David Beckham and Lewis Hamilton were among the British sports stars to comment on her Instagram post with the trophy.\n\nRaducanu says she was \"honoured\" by the Queen's message and will be framing it and keeping it in her room, but it was only with those closest to her that she wanted to celebrate on the night.\n\n\"I haven't even checked my messages yet,\" she said.\n\n\"I've just been trying to enjoy the moment. With my team the night of the final we just had a really nice night reflecting.\n\n\"Everything has gone so fast. We were taking care of every single day and before you know it three weeks had gone.\n\n\"We just got to reflect and share a few stories and it was a really nice night to have with everyone.\"\n\nAs if further proof were needed that Raducanu is not getting ahead of herself, in one post-match interview the first use she could think of for her £1.8m prize money was a pair of headphones to replace some she lost in the changing rooms after her first-round qualifying win.\n\nNow ranked 23rd in the world - having climbed 127 places in two weeks - and the new British number one, Raducanu is eager to keep up the hard work.\n\nShe suggested her retirement during a fourth-round match at Wimbledon against Ajla Tomljanovic due to breathing difficulties was a fitness issue, but believes that adversity was an important step in her rise to the top.\n\n\"I took away that it was for me more of a physical issue,\" she said.\n\n\"To win a Grand Slam you need a lot of mental strength so I think the resilience part of it sort of speaks for itself.\n\n\"I needed to go through all of that to win a Slam. Physically I've still got a lot of work to do because I'm still new to the game and haven't had time to really develop.\n\n\"On tour for the last four or five weeks I think naturally with each match and tournament I've played I've just increased my endurance a bit.\"\n\nWhere will Raducanu play next?\n\nRaducanu may yet compete in the Indian Wells tournament which begins in California on 7 October, although she would have to enter the WTA event as a wildcard because the entry list has already been published.\n\nThe season-ending WTA Finals take place in Guadalajara, Mexico in November and the year's top-eight players will qualify.\n\nMaking the grade for that event is a big ask for Raducanu but, after the past few weeks, if anyone is up to the challenge it is surely the newly crowned US Open champion.\n• None How America's leadership grappled with the events of 9/11\n• None Loathed or adored but never ignored: The definitive story of Cristiano Ronaldo is streaming now", "The boss of budget airline Ryanair has warned holiday prices are likely to rise sharply next year as consumer demand for travel rebounds.\n\nMichael O'Leary told The Sunday Times fewer flights, inflation and more taxes would drive airfares up.\n\n\"I think there will be a dramatic recovery in holiday tourism within Europe next year,\" he said.\n\n\"And the reason why I think prices will be dramatically higher is that there's less capacity.\"\n\nRyanair's short-haul rivals had all had to reduce their fleets because of the pandemic, he added.\n\n\"Take out Thomas Cook (six million seats), Flybe (eight million seats), Norwegian (nearly 24 million seats)... Alitalia's reducing its fleet by 40%,\" said Mr O'Leary.\n\n\"There is going to be about 20% less short-haul capacity in Europe in 2022, with a dramatic recovery in demand.\"\n\nRyanair is planning to open a new base at Newcastle International Airport next year, creating at least 60 aviation jobs.\n\nIts rival EasyJet meanwhile has closed its bases at Stansted, London Southend and Newcastle airports, and from 1 November, Ryanair will cease all operations at Southend, meaning no passenger planes will use the airport.\n\nThis comes as economists predict inflation will continue to rise over the rest of the year, which Mr O'Leary said was a factor in increasing airfares, as well as the threat of increasing environmental taxes.\n\nAirlines say bookings have not recovered sufficiently, despite easing Covid restrictions\n\nHowever, to combat this he intended to cut prices for winter 2020 in order to \"grab market share from everywhere\".\n\nAirlines have been hit hard by lockdowns and travel restrictions around the world, with many announcing job cuts.\n\nEasyJet said in May that it planned up to 4,500 job cuts as it struggled with the collapse in air travel caused by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt has started to fly passengers again but does not expect 2019 levels of demand to be reached again until 2023.\n\nMultiple airlines have warned that thousands more jobs could be at risk if the government's furlough scheme was not extended after 30 September, as bookings have not recovered.\n\nThey have also criticised the government for its \"confusing\" traffic-light travel list system.\n\nCanada, Switzerland and Denmark were among the latest countries to join the UK's green travel list.\n\nMeanwhile, the government is planning to overhaul the traffic light system in the coming weeks, the BBC has been told.\n\nTim Alderslade from industry body Airlines UK said: \"There are over half a million direct jobs that rely on aviation and we're now entering the lean winter period. Something may have to give, without the furlough support that is coming to an end this month.\n\n\"This summer was such a missed opportunity - alone across Europe we insisted on expensive and complex PCR tests and it's no wonder demand remained weak. Until we stop being such an outlier it will be impossible to get back to anything like 2019 levels of trade.\"", "British actress Tanya Fear has been found in Los Angeles after being reported missing last week.\n\nA spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told the BBC that the 31-year-old was safe. They would not provide further details.\n\nA statement said the actress's family were \"relieved and extremely grateful\".\n\nFear appeared in a 2018 episode of BBC sci-fi drama Doctor Who. Friends and family said she had last been seen on Thursday.\n\nAccording to the @FindTanyaFear Twitter account, which is described as being run by her family, the actress left her Hollywood Bowl apartment without her phone or purse and was last seen at 22:00 local time that day.\n\nHer uncle had said the family were \"deeply worried\".\n\nA statement posted on @FindTanyaFear on Monday thanked police and members of the public for their efforts in locating the actress, and the \"outpouring of concern and support over the last several days\".\n\n\"We understand she is not physically harmed, but as a precaution, is being assessed at a local hospital,\" it said.\n\nThe actress, whose full name is Tanyaradzwa Fear, has also appeared in TV's Spotless, Endeavour, DCI Banks and Midsomer Murders. She was seen in the movie Kick-Ass 2 and had recently started doing stand-up comedy.", "Xander Graham could be seen flying ahead of professional cyclists during the Tour of Britain near Edinburgh\n\nA 12-year-old cyclist who outstripped professionals during a major British race on Saturday has been \"shocked and amazed\" at the reaction to his feat.\n\nXander Graham raced alongside riders on the Tour of Britain near Edinburgh before being handed a water bottle from Dutch cyclist Pascal Eenkhoorn.\n\nThe impromptu meeting was broadcast live to TV audiences around the world.\n\nA video posted on the race's social media accounts had more than a million views within 24 hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧\n\nAspiring cyclist Xander, from Bonnyrigg in Midlothian, had gone to watch riders on the seventh stage of the race near his home. He had been competing in a cycling event earlier in the day and so had his bike to hand.\n\nIn a spur of the moment decision, he began cycling along the pavement as a breakaway group quickly sped past them.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"We already knew they were going to be there because we had seen the route online.\n\n\"They were coming round the corner and people were clapping and that's when I decided to start riding up beside them.\n\n\"It was about one minute and I was just riding as fast as I could - about 25km an hour I think.\"\n\nAs a reward for his efforts, Eenkhorn, of Netherlands' Team Jumbo-Visma - part of a five-rider breakaway - could be seen passing Xander his water bottle, or bidon.\n\nCatching a bidon thrown by a rider is traditional in cycling, but was banned for a few months earlier this year by the sport's governing body in order to crack down on littering and as a safety precaution.\n\nThe water bottle is something Xander plans to treasure.\n\n\"I was just in shock,\" he said. \"I was so happy and amazed. I'm getting a shelf for it to put up in my room.\"\n\nThe Tour of Britain concluded on Sunday\n\nEven prior to his moment of fame, Xander had racked up a number of accolades with Scottish Cycling, including winning the 2019 and 2021 road bike series.\n\nHis dream is to go pro - and he was delighted when one of the Tour of Britain's sponsors, Eisberg, offered him VIP tickets to watch the final stage of the race in Aberdeen.\n\nHe said: \"I met Mark Cavendish, I met Wout van Aert - lots of people. They actually came over to me and were speaking to me, they knew who I was. They were all saying really nice things to me.\n\n\"Eenkhorn was really nice, he took me on a tour of the bus and I went on the stage with them.\n\n\"He's definitely one of my heroes now.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧", "Francesca Dimech says she would normally delay her period for a festival by taking medication\n\n\"I've always taken for granted that you can't have your period at a festival, but why can't you?\"\n\nMusician Francesca Dimech, 37, from Cardiff, said she was \"panicking\" when she realised her period would coincide with a festival this summer.\n\nShe said she would normally delay her period with medication, but this time a pharmacist refused to prescribe it.\n\nShe is among a growing number of people calling for facilities for those menstruating at live events.\n\nFrancesca said: \"It occurred to me, why am I changing my hormones... doing something drastic to my body just to go to a weekend festival?\n\n\"There should be facilities available and it's not like one festival... it's all of them.\"\n\nThe singer and actor said her period \"was all she could think about\" in the days leading up to Green Man Festival in Powys last month - she bought incontinence products and considered wearing nappies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olivia Thomas, 23, says menstruating at live events can be \"daunting\"\n\nShe described the portable loos as \"unpleasant\" with nowhere to dispose of used pads or tampons.\n\nFrancesca, who has been going to festivals since she was a teenager, now wants organisers to provide better facilities, including bins and running water nearby.\n\n\"I attempted to use my menstrual cup, which I always normally use, but you have to wash it and at the toilet there was no water nearby,\" she said.\n\n\"And the one which did have water was a communal space where people were cleaning their teeth.\"\n\nThe performer said it could be particularly difficult for people with fibroids and endometriosis like her, when they are faced with huge queues.\n\n\"I did consider using the disabled toilets and then I thought well why should I? I'm not disabled. I'm a woman, and this is a natural process that women go through, and we shouldn't have to use the disabled toilet.\"\n\nOlivia Thomas, from the charity Swansea Takes on Period Poverty (STOPP) said the experience could be \"dehumanising\" and \"daunting\".\n\nThe 23-year-old said, with more events being held outdoors because of Covid-19, organisers needed to think about the amenities on offer.\n\nOlivia Thomas, Amelia Reynolds and Oliwia Kaczmarek from period poverty charity STOPP say live events need better facilities for menstruation\n\n\"It's not a luxury, we just want an easy time,\" she said.\n\nThe Swansea University masters student said STOPP pushed for reusable products, but it was not feasible to use them and keep them clean with the facilities on offer.\n\n\"Clearly there isn't thought going into it... to provide safe and clean sinks, stalls people can use, we could provide products for people to make it a period-positive experience\", she added.\n\nJo Barker and Tabby Horsfall are part of a group that provides those facilities at Shambala Festival in Northamptonshire.\n\nThe Red Sea Travel Agency is the UK's first menstrual space at a festival and includes sinks to wash reusable cups, a \"squishy corner\" with hot water bottles to provide comfort and workshops to educate people about menstruation.\n\n\"What we would really like to aspire to is that this is just a normal thing,\" they said.\n\nThe pair, who fit the work around full-time jobs, said it was important people who were bleeding felt comfortable at festivals and were not pushed into \"dark, strange\" portable toilets, \"not really knowing what is going on\".\n\nThe Red Sea Travel Agency has provided a menstruation space at Shambala\n\nFilm-maker Ms Barker said the festival circuit was getting more diverse, but it \"doesn't matter if they're ready or not, they just need to get on board... it's nothing new\".\n\n\"Really simply, to have at least one or two toilets in every toilet block that is period-friendly in that it has a sink inside it with water, it had a light, and you can see what you're doing and that is the bare minimum that would change so much for menstruators \", she added.\n\nGreen Man festival said it was always looking at ways to improve facilities so everyone could feel comfortable.\n\n\"This was an unusual year due to Covid and infrastructure and logistics were hard to come by. We will be able to offer menstruation facilities for next year,\" it said.", "North Korean state media released these images of the new cruise missile\n\nNorth Korea has tested a new long-range cruise missile capable of hitting much of Japan, state media said on Monday.\n\nThe weekend tests saw missiles travelling up to 1,500km (930 miles), the official KCNA news agency said.\n\nIt suggests North Korea is still capable of developing weapons despite food shortages and an economic crisis.\n\nThe US military said the latest tests posed threats to the international community, and neighbouring Japan said it had \"significant concerns\".\n\nA picture in the North Korean Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed a missile being fired from a launch vehicle, while another could be seen in horizontal flight.\n\nThe missiles are a \"strategic weapon of great significance\", the KCNA agency said.\n\nThe tests were carried out on Saturday and Sunday, it added, with the missiles hitting their targets before falling into North Korea's territorial waters.\n\nIt is the country's first long-range cruise missile that could possibly carry a nuclear warhead, according to North Korea analyst Ankit Panda.\n\nUN Security Council sanctions forbid North Korea from testing ballistic missiles, but not cruise missiles such as these.\n\nThe council considers ballistic missiles to be more threatening than cruise missiles because they can carry bigger and more powerful payloads, have a much longer range, and can fly faster.\n\nA ballistic missile is powered by a rocket and follows an arc-like trajectory, while a cruise missile is powered by a jet engine and flies at a lower height.\n\nJoseph Dempsey, defence researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says the development of a cruise missile is still of concern.\n\n\"The development of a long-range cruise missile could pose additional challenges for South Korea's missile defences.\n\n\"A cruise missile doesn't have to follow a straight trajectory. Its flight plan may be programmed to avoid defences or use terrain to reduce detection, but we still don't know exactly how the North Korean version navigates.\"\n\nSo is this a big deal? Yes and no.\n\nThe reason some may shrug this missile test off is because it was a cruise missile. This type of missile isn't subject to UN Security Council sanctions which are in place to curb North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nSome may view this as a low-level provocation from Pyongyang - perhaps testing the waters to see what reaction it gets. It certainly didn't make the top headline in South Korea, nor did it make the front page of North Korea's state newspaper.\n\nThe problem is that North Korea is once again proving that it can develop new and dangerous weapons despite being subject to strict international sanctions.\n\nThese cruise missiles fly low and are difficult to detect, and a range of 1,500km would put much of Japan in range.\n\nState media also describe these missiles as \"strategic\" which usually means that the regime hopes to attach a nuclear warhead.\n\nAnalysts aren't sure yet if North Korea can miniaturise a nuclear warhead to fit on a cruise missile. However given how many advances the secretive state has made so far, no one would bet against it.\n\nPyongyang may have been quiet since talks between former US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un broke down in Hanoi in 2019.\n\nBut that doesn't mean their weapons developers have not been busy.\n\nJapan's chief cabinet secretary Katsunobu Kato said the country had \"significant concerns\" and was working with the US and South Korea to monitor the situation.\n\nThe US military said the test showed North Korea's \"continuing focus on developing its military programme\", adding that its commitment to defending allies South Korea and Japan remained \"ironclad\".\n\nTop-level officials from the three countries are due to meet this week to discuss North Korea's denuclearisation process.\n\nSouth Korea's military is also doing an in-depth analysis of the launches with US intelligence authorities, the news agency Yonhap reports.\n\nThe US has been calling for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, and Pyongyang's relationship with President Joe Biden's administration has so far been fraught with tension.\n\nJapan and North Korea also have enduring tensions rooted in Japan's 35-year colonisation of Korea, Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear and missile programmes, and the North's past abduction of Japanese citizens.\n\nThe latest launch comes just days after a scaled-down military parade was held in Pyongyang to mark the communist state's 73rd founding anniversary.\n\nIt did not display any major ballistic missiles, however it did feature workers in hazmat suits which may have been a sign that a special force has been created to help prevent the spread of Covid-19.\n\nNorth Korea has spent more than a year in isolation. It cut off most trade with its closest ally China during the pandemic, and its economy is thought to be in a dire state.\n\nIn March, the country defied sanctions and tested ballistic missiles, which triggered a strong rebuke from the US, Japan and South Korea.\n\nAnd last month the UN atomic agency said North Korea appeared to have restarted a reactor which could produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, calling it a \"deeply troubling\" development.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does North Korea keep launching missiles?", "French vaccine maker Valneva says the UK government has scrapped a deal for its Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe UK had about 100 million doses on order, after it increased its request by 40 million in February.\n\nThe firm said that the UK government served notice over allegations of a breach of the agreement, which it \"strenuously denies\".\n\nThe government said the decision would have no impact on vaccine supply in the UK.\n\n\"The comments from the company will not have any impact on our vaccine supply and did not form any part of our vaccine rollout in autumn and winter,\" a spokesperson for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nThe UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has not yet approved the Valneva vaccine.\n\nIn a statement on its website, Valneva said: \"Valneva SE, a specialty vaccine company, today announced that it has received a termination notice from the UK Government (HMG) in relation to the Supply Agreement for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001.\n\n\"The contract provides HMG with the right to terminate. HMG has alleged that the company is in breach of its obligations under the supply agreement, but the company strenuously denies this.\"\n\nThe firm said on Monday that results from its phase three trials were due later this year.\n\nIt added: \"Valneva has worked tirelessly, and to its best efforts, on the collaboration with HMG including investing significant resources and effort to respond to HMG's requests for variant-derived vaccines.\"\n\nThe company hopes that, dependent on the results of its continuing trials and sign-off from the UK's MHRA, initial approval could still be granted in 2021.\n\nIts vaccine is expected to be given as two doses and contains a dead version of coronavirus that cannot cause disease, but should teach the body's immune system how to fight it.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland, Scotland's Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"We have enough supply even for a booster programme. I want to give absolute confidence to anyone listening that we have the supplies necessary to continue to vaccinate and particularly with a booster programme on the horizon.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said that while the announcement would be a big set-back for the Livingston plant, he would speak to Valneva to discuss its future.\n\nThe Scottish Health Secretary added that he was waiting for further information from the UK government over Valneva's alleged failure to meet the terms of its contract.\n\nSNP MP Hannah Bardell, whose constituency contains the Valneva plant, said she was \"incredibly disappointed\" by the news.\n\nShe pledged she would be \"working with Valneva - who have worked tirelessly on this vaccine - and will raise this urgently with the UK government\".\n\nValneva is a French company but this was billed as the vaccine made in Scotland.\n\nI first visited the Livingston factory back in December 2020. At that point, the UK government had already pre-ordered 60 million doses of their inactivated whole virus vaccine.\n\nThe company has a background in making vaccines for other diseases and were hopeful their Covid-19 offering would have a good safety profile, perhaps making it suitable for children or those with compromised immune systems.\n\nGiven the early supply issues we experienced with some of the other vaccines, having one made here in the UK was also seen as a bonus.\n\nThe prime minister visited the factory earlier this year just as commercial production began and the order for Valneva's vaccine was increased to 100 million doses. Two hundred extra staff were brought in and additional production space was built.\n\nThe Valneva vaccine was already being trialled as a potential booster and three weeks ago the company announced they had begun a rolling submission to regulators the MHRA with approval expected later this year.\n\nSo what now? The company say they were told over the weekend that the UK government is terminating the deal because of an alleged breach in the supply agreement, something Valneva deny. They say work will continue to gain approval, but they may now look to other countries.\n\nValneva said on Monday that it would also look to other potential customers to ensure that the vaccines can still be used in the fight against the pandemic.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron faced criticism earlier this year after failing to secure doses from the company, which has its headquarters near Nantes.\n\nIn March, he pledged that France's vaccination roll-out would have caught up with the UK's \"in a few weeks\" amid tensions over the vaccine supplies, although the country has since reached more than 90 million doses given.\n\nThe Department for Health did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.", "Around 2,000 people have left their homes after wildfires broke out in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia.\n\nOne emergency worker has been killed in the blaze, which began on Wednesday on high ground above the popular resort town of Estepona on the Costa del Sol.\n\nThe Spanish government has deployed a military unit to help firefighters in the mountainous region.\n\nSix more towns and villages were evacuated on Sunday, and huge plumes of smoke could be seen from miles away.\n\nResidents of five other communities were told to leave their homes on Friday.\n\nThe wildfires have burned about 7,400 hectares (18,200 acres), according to Spanish media.\n\nAndalusia's regional forest fire agency said hundreds of firefighters were tackling the blaze, supported by 41 aircraft and 25 vehicles.\n\nJuan Sánchez, a senior official for the regional fire service, described it as the \"most complex\" fire seen there in recent times.\n\nHe said there had been ongoing discussions about the consequences of climate change, adding: \"Today we are living them.\"\n\n\"This is inhuman, nothing like this has ever been seen,\" one evacuee, Adriana Iacob told Reuters news agency. \"The flames of the fire as they ran through the mountains, it was amazing.\"\n\n\"Since the fire started, we haven't slept for days. It's awful,\" another local resident, Pepa Rubio, said.\n\nEurope has seen a number of wildfires this summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look at some of the fires spreading across Europe - and the rest of the globe\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "The Metropolitan Police commissioner has accused tech giants of making it harder to identify and stop terrorists.\n\nThe tech giants' focus on end-to-end encryption was making it \"impossible in some cases\" for the police to do their jobs, Dame Cressida Dick wrote in the Telegraph on Saturday.\n\nOn Wednesday, Home Secretary Priti Patel launched a new fund for technologies to keep children safe.\n\nShe also called on tech firms to put user safety before profits.\n\nBut cyber-security experts have told the BBC that they are not sure the solutions the government wants are possible to build.\n\nIn her piece marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Dame Cressida stressed that advances in communication technologies meant terrorists were now able to \"recruit anyone, anywhere and at any time\" through social media and the internet.\n\nIn response, the UK was needing to constantly develop its own digital capabilities to keep up with terrorists exploiting technology to their advantage.\n\nHer message echoes that of Ms Patel, who launched the Safety Tech Challenge Fund at a meeting of the G7 interior ministers earlier this week.\n\nThe fund, open to experts from across the world, is aimed at tackling child sexual abuse online.\n\nFive applicants will be awarded up to £85,000 each to develop new technologies that enable the detection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online, without breaking end-to-end encryption.\n\nEnd-to-end encryption is a privacy feature that makes it impossible for anyone except the sender and recipient to read messages sent online.\n\nWhile tech giants such as Facebook say using such technology will protect users' privacy, several governments including the US, UK and Australia have repeatedly objected to the idea since 2019.\n\nCyber-security and privacy experts believe that Ms Patel and Dame Cressida's views could be in response to Apple's decision to delay a plan to scan iPhones for CSAM earlier this month.\n\nMore than a billion people in the world now have an iPhone\n\nThe detection technology, first announced in August, compares images before they are uploaded to iCloud against unique \"digital fingerprints\", or hashes, of known CSAM material on a database maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.\n\nApple's technology was widely criticised by privacy groups and the cyber-security industry as setting a dangerous precedent, because it involved using an individual's own device to check if they could be a potential criminal.\n\n\"We already have end-to-end encryption in Apple's iMessage texting technology - it's strange that law enforcement and the government haven't hit out at Apple about that, but it's all about attacking Facebook and WhatsApp,\" Alec Muffett, who led the team that built end-to-end encryption technology for Facebook Messenger, told the BBC.\n\nMuch has been written about the wealth of data tech giants possess about the users of their services, particularly the fact they are constantly tracking user behaviour and interests in order to provide personalised ads.\n\nHe argues that tech firms already possess the technology they need to detect paedophiles and terrorists, simply by tracking their behaviour - they don't need to compromise a user's privacy by looking at all their personal files on their phone.\n\n\"If you've got an Facebook account of a middle-aged male who is randomly messaging a dozen teenagers out of the blue, then you have a potentially suspicious activity. It might be innocent, but it is certainly an issue worth delving into,\" said Mr Muffett, who has more than 30 years' experience in cyber-security and cryptography.\n\n\"The UK government is trying to detect CSAM by looking at the content, as in trying to snoop, rather than trying to observe behaviours.\"\n\nOn top of this, he says, multiple cyber-security researchers have tested Apple's NeuralHash algorithm and found that it is mistaking two completely different images, as being the same photo, so they fear Apple will falsely accuse users of having criminal content.\n\nOne leading cyber-security expert who did not wish to be named told the BBC that what the government wants is not technically feasible.\n\nCyber-security experts fear the government is asking for something that is technically impossible to achieve\n\n\"You can change the law of the land, but you can't change the law of science - there's no way of allowing the mass scanning of devices without undermining the protections of end-to-end encryption,\" the expert said.\n\n\"If somebody manages to viably protect end-to-end encryption while detecting child sexual abuse imagery, they're going to make a lot more than £85,000, so I just don't see what the economics are.\"\n\nAnother cyber-security boss agrees: \"It's almost like the government is making a statement to make Facebook and other social media organisations do more and give them more access.\n\n\"If you read between the lines, Ms Patel is essentially saying they want to recruit hackers.\"\n\nThen there's the privacy concerns. \"Can we trust those in power not to abuse these powers?\" questions online child safety expert Dr Rachel O'Connell, founder of a secure child age authentication tool TrustElevate.\n\nAs far as data protection expert Pat Walshe is concerned, Apple's solution is not legal. He says he has asked the tech giant to explain how it can be deployed in Europe, and has yet to receive an answer.\n\n\"The European Court of Justice (ECJ) says the mobile phone is an extension of our private sphere, and the courts have said that the device and any information on it is part of the private sphere of our lives, meaning it requires protection under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR),\" he said.\n\nMr Walshe, who led a team at the mobile operator Three that was responsible for dealing with the government and law enforcement, also has grave concerns about the tech fund proposal, saying it prompts too many questions about privacy.\n\nInstead, he says, there need to be better, more direct reporting channels to enable both citizens and communication providers to report CSAM to either the tech firms or law enforcement.\n\n\"And law enforcement needs to receive a huge boost in training, manpower and funding to deal with the reports,\" he stressed.\n\n\"I'd like to see a greater emphasis on that, than on breaking technology that keeps us safe every day.\"", "Aid organisations have warned there is an urgent need for food and medical supplies\n\nMore than $1bn (£720m) in aid has been pledged for Afghanistan, following warnings from the United Nations of a \"looming catastrophe\".\n\nThe plea for global support was made at a conference in Geneva, following the Taliban's takeover last month.\n\nThe UN said the country was facing a major humanitarian crisis.\n\nAfter decades of war and suffering, it was \"perhaps their most perilous hour\", Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.\n\nThe poverty rate was \"spiralling\" and public services were close to collapse, he told the conference.\n\n\"Many people could run out of food by the end of this month just as winter approaches,\" he warned.\n\nThe UN had called for $606m to be raised, saying this would bring \"vital relief\" to millions.\n\nMr Guterres said it was unclear how much of the more than $1bn promised would go towards the UN appeal.\n\nThe UN has urged the Taliban to give aid workers unimpeded access.\n\nEven before the Islamist militants retook control of Afghanistan in August, fighting had forced more than 550,000 people to flee their homes.\n\nAn estimated 3.5 million people are currently internally displaced within the country. Afghans have also had to deal with a severe drought.\n\nThe conference on Monday was attended by top UN officials as well as aid organisations including the Red Cross and various governments.\n\nThe UN said about a third of the money it was seeking to raise would be used by its World Food Programme (WFP), which earlier said many Afghans did not have access to cash to afford sufficient food.\n\n\"We are quite literally begging and borrowing to avoid food stocks running out,\" WFP deputy regional director Anthea Webb told Reuters news agency.\n\nAs well as pledging aid, officials told the conference of their concerns over Taliban abuses.\n\nUN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet accused the Taliban of contradicting their own public promises on human rights. She cited \"multiple\" allegations of Taliban forces conducting house-to-house searches for former officials, and said women had been \"progressively excluded\" from public life.\n\nThe BBC has found that at least 20 civilians were killed in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, which has seen fighting between the Taliban and opposition forces.\n\nIn a statement echoed by other officials, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said respecting basic rights would be a \"benchmark... in determining our future engagement with a new Afghan government - including for possible development assistance\".\n\nMeanwhile, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi tweeted that he had arrived in Kabul on Monday to \"assess the country's acute humanitarian needs\".\n\nThousands of people have fled Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of Kabul on 15 August following a rapid offensive.\n\nOn Monday, a special Pakistan International Airlines flight arrived in Kabul to take passengers to Islamabad.\n\n\"I will come back here only if the situation allows women to work and move freely,\" one 35-year-old evacuee told AFP news agency.\n\nIn a separate development, Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban co-founder and new deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, issued an apparent audio statement after reports that he had died spread on social media.\n\n\"I have been away on trips,\" he said in the clip. \"Wherever I am at the moment, we are all fine, all my brothers and friends.\"\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the recording, which was posted on a number of official Taliban websites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC catches up with Afghan journalist who gave emotional interview at Kabul airport", "Amy Winifred (right) with her sister Lilian, who is 102\n\nWales' oldest woman, who became a social media star earlier this year, has died at the age of 110.\n\nA clip of Amy Winifred Hawkins, from Monmouth, singing It's A Long Way to Tipperary reached more than 150,000 views on TikTok in January.\n\nThe footage showed her singing the wartime hit surrounded by her family as she celebrated her 110th birthday.\n\nHer daughter, Rosemary Morris, 73, said she was a \"lovely lady who dedicated her life to me as her daughter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Wales News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"She was the oldest woman in Wales and the sixth oldest in Great Britain,\" she added.\n\nMs Hawkins was born as Amy Evans in Cardiff on 24 January 1911 and was raised in Newport.\n\nShe was a keen dancer in her youth, touring the country with her troupe, before becoming a shop worker and later a fire-watcher for her neighbourhood during World War Two.\n\nAmy Winifred Hawkins was born in 1911 in Cardiff\n\nIn 1937, she married her husband George Hawkins. He died in 1996, almost 60 years after they wed.\n\nShe was a great-grandmother and lived with four generations of her family in Monmouth.\n\nPreviously, when she and her sister Lilian, 102, were asked about the secret of their long lives, she said: \"Never go to the doctors.\"\n• None The woman who can remember the 1919 race riots", "Gilboa Prison is a high-security facility known as \"the Safe\"\n\nIsraeli authorities have launched a manhunt after six Palestinian prisoners escaped from one of the country's most secure jails overnight.\n\nThe men are believed to have dug a hole in the floor of their cell at Gilboa prison, then crawled through a cavity and tunnelled beneath the outer wall.\n\nOfficials were alerted by farmers who noticed them running through fields.\n\nThe fugitives include a former leader of the militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade and five Islamic Jihad members.\n\nAn Israel Prison Service official described the escape as \"a major security and intelligence failure\". Palestinian militant groups hailed it as \"heroic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Josh Breiner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe alarm was raised at Gilboa Prison, a high-security facility in northern Israel known as \"The Safe\", when authorities received reports from local farmers about \"suspicious figures\" in nearby agricultural fields.\n\nWhen prison staff carried out a headcount at 04:00 (01:00 GMT), they found six inmates were missing.\n\nThe Palestinians are believed to have made their way out of the cell that they shared by digging a hole in the floor of their bathroom. The Jerusalem Post reported that they had used a rusty spoon that they hid behind a poster.\n\nThe hole in the cell's floor led to an existing cavity beneath the prison\n\nThe hole led to a hollow space underneath the prison that was created during the facility's construction, when piles were sunk into the ground. An Israeli police commander described it as a \"structural flaw\".\n\nThe inmates are believed to have moved through the space to reach the prison's outer wall, then dug a tunnel that emerged in the middle of a dirt road just outside.\n\nThe Shin Bet security service said it believed the prisoners had been in contact with people outside the prison using a smuggled mobile phone and that they had been picked up in a car.\n\nThe tunnel emerged in a rural strip of land near the prison's walls\n\nThe six fugitives include Zakaria Zubeidi, a former commander of the Palestinian militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade in the West Bank city of Jenin, as well as five members of Islamic Jihad.\n\nFour of the Islamic Jihad members were serving life sentences after being convicted of planning or carrying out attacks that killed Israelis, while the fifth had been held without charge for two years under a so-called administrative detention order, according to Israeli media.\n\nZubeidi was arrested by Israeli forces in 2019 on suspicion of involvement in a number of shooting attacks and is currently standing trial.\n\nIsraeli border police and army troops involved in the manhunt have reportedly set up roadblocks to stop the men reaching the nearby occupied West Bank or Jordan, which is about 14km (nine miles) to the east of Gilboa prison.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke to Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev and \"emphasised that this is a grave incident that requires an across-the-board effort by the security forces\" to find the fugitives.\n\nIslamic Jihad described the jailbreak as \"heroic\" and said it would \"shock the Israeli defence system\", while Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said it was a \"great victory\" that proves \"the will and determination of our brave soldiers inside the prisons of the enemy cannot be defeated\".", "This is a very significant tax rise, with little precedent outside of a Budget.\n\nIt doesn't just break a manifesto promise, it drives a JCB through it, with £11.4bn a year in extra taxes that were the subject of a guarantee that they would not go up.\n\nThe March Budget of this year was already the most significant tax-raising Budget since 1993.\n\nBut a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic recession and associated long-lasting damage to the NHS do give some rationale for thinking about how appropriate promises are made in very different circumstances.\n\nAmong workers, the money will be raised in a \"progressive fashion\" - unlike say a VAT rise - with the highest earners paying the most.\n\nHowever, some very low earners, including some on the cusp of losing £1,000 in annual universal credit payments, will face higher tax bills of £100.\n\nAnd it is pretty clear that one of the rationales here is to be able to present a National Insurance increase of 1.25% as lower than the 2% rise in income tax that would have been required to raise such funds.\n\nThe argument is almost entirely presentational and relies on a general public lack of familiarity with how National Insurance works.\n\nThe tax rise on working is effectively 2.5%, with the direct burden shared between workers and their bosses.\n\nAs the Treasury acknowledges, however, firms may reduce wages, or raise prices to pay the extra bill.\n\nSo this is the big choice the government has made.\n\nThe prize is that pensioners can have certainty about the cost of social care, and the least well off will have it paid for.\n\nTax could have been raised on, for example, the inflating value of homes, especially at the point of their being inherited.\n\nThe social care cost could have been spread more evenly on all forms of income, from savings to pensions, through income taxes.\n\nInstead, with some tweaks to apply it to those over the age of 66 from 2023, it will go on workers and work.\n\nIt used to be called a \"jobs tax\". The hope is by earmarking it for health and care and separating out this levy on all tax bills, that the public won't mind.", "With 41,192 people testing positive on Monday, the total number of Covid infections during the pandemic reached 7,018,927\n\nMore than seven million confirmed cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the UK since the pandemic began, official figures show.\n\nIt comes as another 41,192 positive tests were reported on Monday, along with 45 Covid-related deaths.\n\nBut the real number of people infected during the pandemic is likely to be much higher, partly due to the lack of testing in the early stages.\n\nCovid-19 has been named on the death certificate of 156,119 people.\n\nThe most recent figures show that there are 7,606 Covid-19 patients in hospital, with 1,034 on ventilators.\n\nMany cases during the pandemic have not shown up in the official daily count because testing only became available in summer 2020, with only people in hospital being tested before then.\n\nEven as testing became widespread, cases will have been missed as some people did not develop symptoms or had such a mild illness they did not realise they were infected.\n\nModelling by the University of Cambridge suggests 17 million people in England have been infected since the pandemic began - about 30% of the population.\n\nThe milestone of seven million confirmed cases came as the vaccine minister said a vaccine booster programme was \"ready to go\".\n\nNadhim Zahawi told MPs that third jabs were the \"most important piece of the jigsaw\" remaining to help end the pandemic.\n\nHe said the NHS was primed to roll out boosters - but the government was awaiting scientific advice for the scheme to be signed off.\n\nThe government had \"ambitious\" plans to give Covid and flu vaccines at the same time, he said.\n\nMr Zahawi said a hold-up with one of the UK's largest suppliers of seasonal flu vaccines would \"not delay the overall flu vaccination programme at all\".\n\nSeqirus has said there could be up to a fortnight's delay in jab deliveries to some GP surgeries in England and Wales due to a shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nBut Mr Zahawi told the House of Commons Seqirus had \"a border issue with their Spanish factory\".\n\nHe said: \"They are meeting with the Spanish regulator to see what is the issue. They are being very careful and estimating a one or two weeks delay.\n\n\"It will not delay the overall flu vaccination programme at all, their German and Belgian supply chain has been flowing normally and they are one supplier.\"\n\nMr Zahawi also refused to be drawn on whether all 12 to 15-year-olds would be offered a Covid jab.\n\nHe said he would not \"pre-empt\" the recommendations by the UK's chief medical officers expected in the coming days.\n\nIn response to questioning from Labour's Jonathan Ashworth, Mr Zahawi said the NHS was prepared to administer a vaccine within five working days of any recommendation.\n\nIt comes as pupils across the UK have returned to school, with many in England and Wales resuming classes on Monday.\n\nMany Covid measures have now been lifted in schools, including the requirement for face masks and isolation bubbles.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, more than half of pupils at one school could not attend because of close contact with someone who tested positive.\n\nMeanwhile, Monday was the busiest morning on the London Underground since March 2020, Transport for London said.\n\nTube passengers were up 20% and bus passengers up by 40% from the previous week, accounting for the bank holiday, but numbers were still less than half of pre-pandemic numbers on the Underground.", "Alice Thompson wanted to work shorter hours to pick her daughter up from nursery, but ended up resigning.\n\nThe former estate agent spent tens of thousands of pounds pursuing the case against her former employer.\n\nShe was awarded £185,000 by an employment tribunal and this week told the BBC it was \"a long, exhausting journey\".\n\nThe tribunal ruled she had suffered indirect sex discrimination when the firm refused to consider her request.\n\nMs Thompson was a successful sales manager at a small independent estate agents in central London before she became pregnant in 2018.\n\n\"I'd put my heart and soul into an estate agency career for more than a decade,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\n\"That's no mean feat, it's quite a male dominated environment to work in. And I'd worked really hard to build relationships with clients.\"\n\nWhen she wanted to return to work after maternity leave, she asked her employer if she could work shorter hours, a four day week, and leave at 5pm, rather than the normal end-of-day at 6pm, to pick her daughter up from nursery.\n\nHer manager said they couldn't afford for her to work part time.\n\n\"I made a request for flexible working that wasn't seriously considered,\" Ms Thompson says.\n\n\"I proposed what would have worked for me. If that didn't work for the company, I would have been more than happy to hear a counter offer, what might work for them.\n\n\"If they needed me for the full hours, maybe eight 'til five instead of nine 'til six, that's something I could have worked around.\n\n\"But it was shut down, every avenue, not listened to, not considered. And I was left with no other option but to resign.\n\n\"How are mums meant to have careers and families? It's 2021 not 1971.\"\n\nAre firms doing enough to support new mothers?\n\nShe said she was motivated to pursue the legal challenge in order to prompt change.\n\n\"I've got a daughter and I didn't want her to experience the same treatment in 20, 30 years' time, when she's in the workplace.\"\n\nShe said her effort was worth it to \"stand up for what is right\".\n\nThe tribunal found that the firm's failure to consider more flexible working put Ms Thompson at a disadvantage, and upheld her claim. The judge awarded her almost £185,000 for loss of earnings, loss of pension contributions, injury to feelings and interest.\n\n\"Losing a job unexpectedly is always a cause of unhappiness, shock, and sometimes anger, as shown by the way many employees react to redundancy, even when there has been proper consultation, and even when it is never suggested their performance was not good enough,\" the tribunal found.\n\n\"Here the claimant resented that flexible working appeared not to be considered properly - as in our finding it was not - and felt that this was an injustice because of her sex, which it was.\"\n\nHowever several other claims Ms Thompson made regarding her treatment, including discrimination because of pregnancy and maternity, and harassment, were denied by the tribunal.\n\nThe tribunal found that the director of the Manors estate agency, Paul Sellar, had moved a staff trip to New York from November to August so Ms Thompson could fly in when pregnant, and there were checks to see when the latest was that she could fly.\n\nWhen there, she did not join the other six for a boat trip.\n\n\"She did go shopping and then back to the hotel. In our finding she was upset that the others had had a good time drinking and were late back. She may have felt excluded, but it was not because of any action on the part of the respondent,\" the judges said.\n\nOn the return journey from New York, Mr Sellar commented that Ms Thompson did not seem to have enjoyed the trip, and she replied that she had felt isolated and became tearful.\n\nA few days later he suggested she should not have gone to New York.\n\n\"We can understand that Mr Sellar may have found her response ungrateful when the group trip had cost him £25,000,\" the judges said.\n\nWhile she was determined to pursue the legal action she told Woman's Hour it was challenging.\n\n\"It's a very emotional process once you've had a child. You have a new identity as a mum, you're trying to figure things out on that field, and then you're going back to work as well,\" said Ms Thompson.\n\nBut she said workplaces that didn't support returning mothers risked \"missing out on some fantastic women, who have been really successful, because they are short-sighted and don't want to be flexible\".\n\nShe said many women had reached out to her in the wake of the ruling, many of whom had similar experiences but didn't have the mental or financial capacity to pursue a claim.\n\n\"It did come at a huge financial cost... and obviously there's the risk you might not get that money back if you lose, but there's a greater picture to trying to make some small change in the world for the better.\"\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Cases of newly diagnosed sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are down by a third in England, data reveals.\n\nExperts say the drop is partly due to people changing their behaviour during the pandemic but also because fewer tests have been done.\n\nWith few Covid restrictions remaining, people are now being warned not to swap social distancing for an STI - and to get checked if they have risky sex.\n\nSTIs may be symptomless but can be avoided by using condoms.\n\nNearly 318,000 STIs were recorded in 2020 compared with 467,096 in 2019, the latest figures show.\n\nPublic Health England said infections requiring an in-person assessment, such as genital warts or herpes, saw a greater drop in diagnoses.\n\nBut cases of chlamydia and gonorrhoea - which can be diagnosed with self-sampling kits - were also down.\n\nAs in recent years, the highest rates of new STIs were recorded among people who were:\n\nDebbie Laycock, from the Terrence Higgins Trust, said the drop in new cases was good news but rates could creep up again.\n\n\"Sexually transmitted infections are still circulating,\" she said.\n\n\"That means it's as important as ever to regularly test for STIs if you're having sex and for everyone to know that sexual-health services are open for business - both face-to-face and online.\"\n\nPublic Health England sexually transmitted infections section head Dr Katy Sinka said: \"If you are having sex with new or casual partners, use a condom and get tested - STIs can pose serious consequences to your own health and that of your current or future sexual partners.\"\n• None Lockdown 'once in a lifetime chance' to cut STIs", "The emperor dragonfly is expanding north into Scotland and Ireland\n\nDragonflies are moving northwards across Britain and Ireland as temperatures rise.\n\nMore than 40% of species have increased their distribution since 1970, while only about 10% have declined, according to a new report.\n\nExperts from the British Dragonfly Society say it's an indicator of the effects of climate change.\n\nThere is concern over the loss of populations of insects due to factors such as pollution and habitat loss.\n\nConservation officer Eleanor Colver said while their data can determine where dragonflies are, it cannot determine exactly how many there are - and whether numbers have increased overall.\n\n\"Factors such as the use of pesticides (reducing their flying insect prey), water pollution and habitat loss continue to threaten the health of dragonfly populations within species' existing ranges,\" she said.\n\nThe small red-eyed damselfly: Now found from Cornwall to County Durham\n\nThe report, State of Dragonflies 2021, incorporates 1.4 million records from 17,000 recorders gathered from 1970 onwards.\n\nIt assesses the fortunes of 46 species of dragonflies and their close relative - the damselflies - across Britain and Ireland.\n\nSince 1995, several species have reached Britain from southern Europe for the first time - and at least two more have reappeared after long absences.\n\nSpecies expanding their range include the emperor dragonfly, migrant hawker, ruddy darter, black-tailed skimmer and small red-eyed damselfly.\n\nIn contrast, some upland and northern dragonflies are in retreat, including the common hawker and black darter, perhaps because of the loss of peatbogs or extreme droughts.\n\n\"The increase in many species, if not all, we can put down to a combination of climate warming and more or better wetland habitats such as an increase in the number of ponds, lakes, gravel-pits and reservoirs in recent decades,\" said Dave Smallshire, co-editor of the report.\n\nBut people should not get the message that all is \"tickety-boo with dragonflies\", he added.\n\n\"The overwhelming message is that global climate change - and in the case of Britain and Ireland - significant climate warming is likely to have had an over-riding effect on many of these changes,\" he said.\n\nBlack darter: With a home in upland bogs, this species is in decline\n\nDragonflies are fast-flying, four-winged insects with long bodies and large eyes. They were some of the first winged insects to evolve, some 300 million years ago.\n\nScientists are increasingly concerned about the decline of some populations of insects.\n\nOne scientific review of insect numbers in 2019 pointed to 40% of species undergoing \"dramatic rates of decline\" around the world.\n\nThe study said bees, ants and beetles were disappearing eight times faster than mammals, birds or reptiles, while other species, such as houseflies and cockroaches, were likely to boom.", "Lamara Bell and her partner John Yuill were found inside their car after it crashed down an embankment off the M9\n\nA young mother who lay trapped in a car for three days after it crashed on the M9 was trying to escape when rescuers arrived, her brother has said.\n\nLamara Bell, 25, was found conscious inside the car near Stirling on 5 July but died in hospital four days later.\n\nHer partner John Yuill, 28, died in the crash which was reported to police but not followed up.\n\nMs Bell's brother Martin said police investigations revealed she was able to speak to rescuers when they found her.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Mr Bell said: \"She was defo 100% conscious. She was able to tell them her name. She added 4 years on to her age and told them she was 29. She did also say she was only in the car for 20 mins.\n\nHe added: \"They also said she was still moving around trying to get out the car but was trapped.\n\n\"Proud of my sis for doing so well over those three days then the following days in hospital for not giving up the fight. Brave amazing girl. She gave it her all and fought until the end.\"\n\nMs Bell, a mother of two from Falkirk, was found beside Mr Yuill in the couple's blue Renault Clio on 8 July.\n\nThe car, which had left a slip road and gone down an embankment, was reported to police on the day of the accident by a member of the public.\n\nBut the details were not entered into the police system.\n\nIt was eventually located by officers following up another call from a member of the public who had seen the vehicle.\n\nScottish Justice Secretary Michael Matheson has ordered a review of all police call handling and the case is also the subject of an independent investigation by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc).\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment a car is driven down railway tracks\n\nA man has been jailed after driving a car down a railway track, causing eight-hour passenger delays.\n\nAaron O'Halloran was caught on CCTV driving down the line for half a mile between Duddeston and Aston stations in Birmingham on 9 May.\n\nPolice said the 32-year-old, of Proctor Street in the city, caused damage totalling more than £23,000.\n\nHe was jailed for 15 months and disqualified from driving for two years.\n\nA jury found him guilty of dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and endangering the safety of railway passengers.\n\nAaron O'Halloran denied he was behind the wheel but was found guilty by jurors\n\nO'Halloran was filmed driving a black Mitsubishi through a gate at Duddeston station although during his trial he denied he had been the one at the wheel.\n\nBritish Transport Police said the car was abandoned across the tracks while O'Halloran fled the scene, but he left a mobile phone that allowed detectives to trace him.\n\n\"We are thankful no one was injured as a result of O'Halloran's alarming behaviour,\" he said.\n\n\"He'll now have plenty of time to reflect on his idiotic actions in prison.\"\n\nO'Halloran was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on 23 August.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Taliban members were filmed firing shots into the air to disperse protesters\n\nThe Taliban have fired warning shots to disperse the crowd at a large protest in the Afghan capital, Kabul.\n\nVideo footage from the scene shows people running to safety, while heavy gunfire can be heard in the background.\n\nHundreds of protesters took to the streets on Tuesday to denounce Taliban rule and demand women's rights.\n\nProtesters also chanted anti-Pakistan slogans, as many believe neighbouring Pakistan supports the Taliban, which the country denies.\n\nA video sent to the BBC shows Taliban fighters firing their guns into the air - a move the group banned last week after several people were reported killed after celebratory aerial fire.\n\nGuards at a nearby bank opened its basement car park to dozens of women who sheltered from the gunfire for about 20 minutes, one of the protesters told the BBC.\n\nSome journalists, including the BBC's team, were prevented from filming at the rally. Afghanistan's Tolo news agency reported that its cameraman was arrested and detained by the Taliban for nearly three hours.\n\nA former government official, who asked to remain anonymous, told the BBC that Taliban members were taking close-up photos of leading protesters, possibly to help identify them later.\n\nWomen have been protesting for the past week, but on Tuesday men also joined their calls for equality and safety. Many observers had commented that there were few men at the previous women-led rallies.\n\nThe protesters were heard chanting \"long live the resistance\" and \"death to Pakistan\" as they marched.\n\n\"The Islamic government is shooting at our poor people,\" one woman at the protest told Reuters news agency.\n\nAnother protester, Sarah Fahim, told AFP news agency: \"Afghan women want their country to be free. They want their country to be rebuilt. We are tired... We want that all our people have normal lives. How long shall we live in this situation?\"\n\nThe demonstrations come one day after Ahmad Massoud, the leader of anti-Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, called for a \"national uprising\" by civilians against the militants.\n\nMany protesters showed support for the resistance forces, who say they are still fighting off the Taliban in Panjshir.\n\nThe Taliban on Monday claimed victory in the province - the final pocket of territory which has remained outside their rule.\n\nBy Secunder Kermani, BBC Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent in Kabul\n\nThe mood amongst the protesters was one of real anger, directed predominantly at Pakistan but also against the Taliban.\n\nLarge numbers of young women were among the crowd. One, chanting \"death to Pakistan\", alleged the country's air force had bombed Panjshir, the province where resistance forces have been holding out against the Taliban.\n\nPakistan has dismissed those claims, but is widely seen as having long supported the Taliban's insurgency. Many in Afghanistan have long deeply resented what they see as Pakistani interference - a feeling exacerbated recently by the visit to Kabul of the head of Pakistan's intelligence services, the ISI.\n\nTaliban members in police vehicles initially drove alongside the protesters, not preventing them from demonstrating. However, they later fired volleys of bullets into the air to disperse the crowd, and stopped us and other journalists from filming further.\n\nThese protests are the biggest challenge to the Taliban's authority we have seen so far in Kabul, and include bold and direct criticism of the group. One young woman said, \"We demand freedom of speech, democracy… I'm not afraid of death.\"", "As Westminster has been cranking up for a busy autumn, so too has frantic and fraught speculation about the government's first big move of the political season.\n\nAt around noon on Tuesday, Boris Johnson will unveil his plan to \"fix\" the system in England that looks after some of the most vulnerable people in society.\n\nIt will come more than two years, an election, and a pandemic after he first promised to do so.\n\nDespite thousands of column inches and hours and hours of earnest public debate already, there is a huge amount that we don't know about what will be on offer.\n\nAnd as I write on Monday evening, most of the cabinet is not fully in the loop. Let's start though with what we do expect.\n\nThe government is expected to announce an increase in National Insurance, the tax paid by workers and employers, likely of 1.25%, to raise billions of pounds to pay for helping the NHS catch up with lost time and treatment after the pandemic, and to help improve and pay for social care in England.\n\nI'm told the cash raised, potentially over £12 billion, will be ring-fenced somehow, targeted initially at the health service itself then will switch to social care after three years.\n\nExpect also promises of changes to how the system works, including limiting the amount that families have to pay for care if need it.\n\nAs I wrote before the summer, for months it's been likely that the plan would be based on reforms put forward by Sir Andrew Dilnot years ago, not least because the legislation required is also on the statute book.\n\nThe social care changes do relate to the system in England, because Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have different mechanisms when it comes to its provision.\n\nBut if extra National Insurance income is spent in the way we'd expect, there will be more money for every part of the UK too.\n\nIt's likely there would have to be a specific vote in Parliament to set the level of the limit, or \"cap\" for families in England.\n\nBut the Dilnot framework already exists, which reduces the need for months of wrangling or Commons complications.\n\nIndeed, whispers today suggest that ministers might push for a vote sooner rather than later on the increase to NI, potentially branded as the \"Health and Social Care Levy\".\n\nAnd by tying the long-term changes to the care system to extra cash the NHS says it needs because of the pandemic, it could make it harder for critics to oppose the plan.\n\nThe care system is facing growing demands as a result of an ageing UK population\n\nI'm told the proposals include increasing current hospital capacity to 110% of its current level, to help make up for lost time and treatments during the pandemic.\n\nIt's potentially one thing for an angry MP to argue against a costly and complicated change to the social care system. It's quite another to vote against extra money for the health service.\n\nWe also know that Boris Johnson is willing to break a manifesto pledge by raising National Insurance, and up for going ahead with a tax rise that proportionately hits the young and less wealthy harder than the richer and older generation.\n\nOne minister suggested that unfairness would be balanced out with the chancellor's expected ditching of the so-called triple lock that protects the level of pension payments.\n\nThat might help government ministers with their script, but it doesn't smooth the edges of what many see as a blunt increase to a tax paid by millions.\n\nAnd it is abundantly clear that many Conservatives, including Cabinet ministers, are very unhappy with the proposed tax increase.\n\nThat's not just because it breaks the promise in their 2019 election manifesto, once seen as politically sacred documents, not to raise NI.\n\nBut also because the details of the reforms that are meant to take place alongside it are sketchy.\n\nWhich takes us to what we don't know - a lot.\n\nFirst, we don't know what kind of changes will be made to the care sector yet.\n\nWhat about the workforce? What about local authorities' role? What will the limits be on what families have to pay for care?\n\nAnd what about so called \"hotel\" costs, for food and accommodation in residential care?\n\nCrucially, what kind of guarantee will there be that the huge amount of extra cash raised will actually go to the NHS and then on to social care, when it's a rise in general taxation?\n\nWhat will happen to the money due to social care in three years' time if the NHS comes to believe that it actually needs to keep the extra finances?\n\nHow much extra will the NHS itself, and social care providers, have to stump up in extra NI themselves? As a huge employer, the NHS could find itself on the hook for hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nWhen the details of the plan - named \"A Build Back Better Plan for the NHS and Social Care,\" I'm told (what else, I hear you cry) - emerge in black and white at lunchtime on Tuesday, it's likely more questions will emerge in response.\n\nThere will be noise. There are arguments ahead. The opposition parties are bristling.\n\nThe prime minister may receive only ragged support from his party for the plan.\n\nBut Boris Johnson has had enough of answering \"wait and see\" when asked for his plan on social care, and is unwilling to go into the next election with this long-running dilemma not resolved.\n• None Will the National Insurance cut leave me better off?", "An algorithm developed by Netflix and BBFC helps ascertain an appropriate age rating for films and TV shows\n\nNetflix will continue to provide age ratings on all its content following a successful trial in collaboration with the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).\n\nThe streaming service and the regulator jointly announced they would continue to have a long-term partnership.\n\nLast November, Netflix became the first UK streaming service to carry a BBFC age rating on 100% of its content.\n\nRatings on the platform are decided based on an algorithm.\n\nThe trial period saw Netflix staff manually tag things like violence, sex scenes and swearing in its films and TV shows.\n\nThat data was then fed into the algorithm using technology developed in collaboration with the BBFC to determine an appropriate age rating.\n\nNetflix applies BBFC standards to content, which the regulator sets based on its existing classification guidelines. The BBFC audits the content each month to ensure that the streamer is maintaining high levels of accuracy.\n\nThe BBFC, which has traditionally set ratings such as PG, 12 and 18 itself, encouraged other streaming services to follow Netflix's lead.\n\nThe long-term collaboration comes after the government announced a review into whether or not to strengthen the rules on age ratings for streaming services to bring them into line with traditional broadcasters.\n\nNetworks including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have to comply with regulator Ofcom's code covering issues like harm, offence, accuracy and impartiality. But most streaming platforms do not.\n\nStreaming services like Amazon Prime, Now and Disney+ could face tighter regulation in the UK in the future, the government said in June.\n\nCulture minister Caroline Dinenage welcomed the continued collaboration of Netflix and the BBFC, adding the government wanted parents and young people \"to be able to make informed choices about what content is appropriate for them to watch\".\n\n\"The BBFC's age ratings are well trusted and widely recognised, which is why I am pleased that this long-term agreement will see their ratings continue to be used across Netflix's content for years to come,\" she said.\n\nThe BBFC said a large majority of British viewers welcomed age ratings to help them choose appropriate content for themselves and their families.\n\nTV viewers, and families in particular, use age ratings to help them to choose appropriate content\n\nNetflix said it applied BBFC standards to films and television shows, which the regulator has set based on large-scale public opinion research and auditing ratings to ensure consistency.\n\nAll films and TV series on the platform now carry a BBFC age rating, along with a line of ratings information, to indicate to viewers that the content adheres to the existing BBFC standards.\n\nDavid Austin, chief executive of the BBFC, said: \"Parents have been very clear that they want and expect online content to carry the same age rating it would carry offline, in the cinema or on DVD.\n\n\"Crucially for child protection, BBFC ratings guarantee that age classifications reflect UK parental and child expectations on issues such as sexual violence and drugs use.\"\n\nJessica Stansfield, director of ratings at Netflix, said the company's members were their \"number one priority\", adding: \"We are proud to be the first and only streaming service to voluntarily carry BBFC age ratings on 100% of our catalogue.\"\n\nThe announcement comes amid an ongoing debate about differences in regulation between existing broadcasters and newer streaming services.\n\nCurrently, the broadcasting regulator Ofcom's website contains a statement explaining that \"Netflix is based in the Netherlands and therefore not within Ofcom's jurisdiction\".\n\nDespite that, Netflix announced in 2019 it would collaborate with the BBFC to assign accurate age ratings on the platform.", "Ministers have also agreed to remove table service rules indoors and outdoors\n\nA number of changes to Covid restrictions have been agreed by the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nUnder the new moves, the number of people allowed indoors at domestic settings will rise from 10 to 15.\n\nMinisters have also agreed to remove table service rules indoors and outdoors at pubs and restaurants.\n\nPeople will be allowed to play pool, darts and gaming machines while dancing will also be allowed at weddings and civil partnership receptions.\n\nThe requirement to purchase tickets in advance for live performances will be removed, as will the need for audience members to have allocated seats.\n\nThe changes are seen as \"limited moves\" and a \"stepping stone\" approach.\n\nThey will take effect from 17:00 BST on Friday, 10 September.\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan, of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), said: \"Today we made good progress and we met for nearly four hours in the executive and considered the current information around health, the economy, impacts on families and the community.\n\n\"We were able to reach decisions on a number of areas.\"\n\nHospitality Ulster said the moves were \"incremental changes\" and that it was time to provide indicative dates and a framework of action to move out of the remaining restrictions.\n\n\"A major strategic decision needs to be taken by the executive to bring forward a detailed and specific roadmap to address the problems that are gathering on the horizon - if not now, when?\" the organisation's Colin Neill said.\n\n\"Hospitality businesses are left hanging while restrictions continue to place a halt on viable trading. We need the best chance we can get to recover.\"\n\nHowever, Sinn Féin Junior Minister Declan Kearney said there was still a very high and dangerous infection level in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"So the executive I think has taken a very proportionate and measured and incremental approach towards the easements we have adopted today,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think we can underestimate the extent of the challenge we still face - a lot of pressure on our health workers, there's still a very high impact on the health service, high levels of hospital admissions and bed occupancy.\"\n\nThe executive will meet again on Thursday as it keeps the issue of Covid-19 in schools under review.\n\nThe DUP has been pushing for the executive to agree a plan - complete with dates - to remove all restrictions.\n\nLast week's meeting was cancelled after Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe legal requirement for social distancing outdoors no longer exists in Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, indoor premises such as restaurants and workplaces are still required to comply with at least 1m (3ft).\n\nThat rule has already been removed in the rest of the UK, but guidance remains that people should socially distance where possible, and in places like hospitals and schools, the rules differ again.\n\nSome hospitality businesses in Northern Ireland have urged the executive to scrap the requirement for social distancing, saying it continues to affect their trade.\n\nNightclubs in Northern Ireland remain closed, and dancing is not permitted at indoor venues where music is played.\n• None What are Northern Ireland's Covid-19 rules now?", "In the next 24 hours, three hugely important decisions will be made which will have consequences for how we live in older age, and who pays for the increase in any necessary care.\n\nThese decisions have been repeatedly delayed. Put bluntly, the British political system has lacked the capacity to make tough long-term decisions in this area. The inadequacies of the care system, partly a result of decades of political short-termism, were then cruelly exposed by the pandemic.\n\nSo, something around £10bn a year has been found to make the care system fit for purpose. Firstly, to increase standards, but also to allow for more people to access it for free. Lastly, there will be a cap on the overall costs an individual will pay for care.\n\nThis is the state stepping in to help individuals plan for something that it is currently not possible to plan for - how much should you save to finance for your own care?\n\nThis will be paid for by a rise in National Insurance, breaking the government's \"tax guarantee\" manifesto commitment \"not to raise the rates of income tax, National Insurance or VAT\".\n\nThe government looked at other sources of income, but ultimately, only these three big taxes offer the capacity to raise the significant sums needed.\n\nVAT would be a regressive rise, affecting the poor more. Income tax would have to go up by 2p in the pound and is not fully in the UK Government's control because of devolution.\n\nNational Insurance is viewed as the best way to raise significant sums of money as it also involves a considerable contribution from businesses.\n\nIt is also how the then chancellor Gordon Brown did it in 2003, and also the way chosen by similar nations, such as Germany and Japan.\n\nNational Insurance is also the least unpopular tax to rise.\n\nNational Insurance is, however, a tax on the working hours of those under the age of 66. It avoids property income, dividends and capital gains.\n\nAnd while, broadly speaking, higher earners pay more the very wealthiest will not contribute on large swathes of their income.\n\nSuccessive Conservative election campaigns have previously described a rise such as this as a \"jobs tax\" that will cost tens of thousands of roles.\n\nIf the government does announce a rise, it will create a generational debate about the whole package.\n\nThe first beneficiaries of it will be those in need of care, but ultimately it will be their descendants who inherit bigger estates after the government pays care bills.\n\nThe initial answer in Whitehall is that social care spending also benefits working people. But more specifically, that these significant extra tax revenues in the first three years will go on a temporary boost to NHS spending to deal with massive post-pandemic backlogs. This clearly benefits everybody.\n\nThe bulk of the social care boost will come in the next Parliament, while - over the next three years - the tax rise will fund the post-pandemic NHS rescue.\n\nThe pandemic will also be the explanation for a suspension of the triple lock pension guarantee, which determines by how much the state pension rises based on either the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation, increases in average earnings or 2.5% - whichever of the three is the highest.\n\nAll earnings figures are distorted by the pandemic, lockdowns and furlough scheme.\n\nSo a double lock will apply, which in practice means a 3% plus inflation rise in the state pension instead of 8% that would have followed if based on the rise in average earnings. That should save £4bn a year.\n\nThis package of measures, even in its broad contours, represents generationally significant change for a long-shirked challenge.\n\nAnd Number 10 and Number 11 are making significant judgements about who should pay the price.", "Supporters of the president have labelled the Supreme Court and Congress \"tyrants\"\n\nBrazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro struck a defiant note on the country's independence day on Tuesday.\n\nHe told tens of thousands of his supporters who had gathered in the city of São Paulo that only God would remove him from power.\n\nHe also launched fresh attacks on Congress and the Supreme Court, institutions he says are persecuting him and his political allies.\n\nThe court recently approved several investigations into Mr Bolsonaro.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has always been fond of giving impassioned speeches in which he not only lambasts his critics and calls them names but also portrays himself as the victim of concerted attacks by his rivals.\n\nSupporters of the president have embraced his disdain for the Supreme Court and its justices\n\nBut mounting pressure from several investigations and calls for his impeachment have led to the president's rhetoric becoming ever more belligerent.\n\nThe rallies he convened for independence day were seen as an attempt to demonstrate he can still draw huge crowds of supporters after recent polls had him trailing his left-wing rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by nine percentage points.\n\nOpponents of the president also turned out on independence day\n\nWhile elections are not due to be held until October 2022, Mr Bolsonaro's approval ratings have also dropped to an all-time low.\n\nA poll by the Atlas Institute suggested that 61% of Brazilians described his government's performance as bad or very bad, up from 23% when he first took office in January 2019.\n\nWhile an attempt to impeach the president over his handling of the Covid crisis was blocked by the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Mr Bolsonaro is portraying himself as under attack from Congress and the Supreme Court.\n\nLast week, he told evangelical leaders - who are among his staunchest backers - that \"I have three alternatives for my future: being arrested, killed or victory\".\n\nAnd he again took up that theme in his speech on independence day, saying that \"only God will oust me\".\n\nHe also used his speech to again cast doubts on Brazil's electronic voting system, telling his supporters he would not take part in an election \"farce\" in 2022.\n\nBolsonaro supporters back his calls for a change to the electronic voting system\n\nMr Bolsonaro has long tried to change the exclusively electronic system, which he alleges is open to fraud, to one which provides paper receipts for each vote cast.\n\nThe electoral tribunal has not only dismissed his attacks as \"disinformation\" but has also opened an investigation into the president's allegations that the system is fraudulent.\n\nHis critics say he is using the same tactics as former US President Donald Trump to allege widespread fraud in case he loses next year's presidential election.\n\nAn estimated 140,000 people, many of them waving the Brazilian flag, answered Mr Bolsonaro's call to rally in São Paulo, where they filled Paulista Avenue.\n\nThe president had earlier attended another rally in the capital, Brasilia, where tens of thousands gathered to express their support for the president.\n\nThere was a large police presence in Brasilia where threats made by some of the president's supporters to storm the Supreme Court had led to fears that Brazil could see similar scenes to those that played out on 6 January in Washington DC, when supporters of President Trump surged past barricades into the US Capitol.\n\nBut while some Bolsonaro supporters broke though a police cordon in the early hours of Tuesday, they did not manage to surround the Supreme Court building.\n\nMr Bolsonaro did again lash out at the Supreme Court justices, telling the crowd that \"I'm very happy to see that all of Brazil got together for a new independence against the communist dictatorship of the judicial authorities\".\n\nHe has frequently clashed with Supreme Court justices during his tenure and tried to have one of them impeached after the judge launched two investigations against him.\n\nMany of his supporters called for the closure of the Supreme Court and Congress, accusing them of abusing their powers and persecuting Mr Bolsonaro.\n\nMany left-wing and trade union groups which had originally called on their supporters to hold counter-on Tuesday, moved their events to Sunday to avoid clashes with Mr Bolsonaro's supporters.", "Nicola Sturgeon will outline her plans in a speech to MSPs at Holyrood\n\nNicola Sturgeon is to set out the Scottish government's plans for the year to come at Holyrood.\n\nThe first minister will announce her \"programme for government\" of upcoming legislation in a speech to MSPs.\n\nThis is likely to include new bills supporting the key themes of the SNP's power-sharing deal with the Greens.\n\nThat agreement includes pledges to reform the Gender Recognition Act, set up a National Care Service, and to hold a new referendum on independence.\n\nOpposition parties will also have a chance to set out their proposals for the year to come, with two days of debate scheduled at Holyrood.\n\nWith Holyrood back in session after its summer recess, the first minister will set out her legislative plans for the year ahead.\n\nIt will detail how she plans to deliver on the pledges made in May's Holyrood election campaign, and in the co-operation agreement signed between the SNP and the Greens over the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously highlighted the economic and social recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, tackling climate change and holding a fresh referendum on independence as the major challenges of the coming term.\n\nAnd she said on Tuesday that a \"new vision for health and social care services\" would be a central theme, including enhanced childcare provision.\n\nShe added: \"As we rebuild our society, we will ensure the sacrifices we have all made will find purpose in the fairer, more just, prosperous, and equal Scotland that we create in response.\"\n\nThe policy programme has been drawn up in conjunction with the Scottish Greens, who have joined the SNP government\n\nThe policy programme agreed by the SNP and Greens as part of their power-sharing deal offers a range of insights into the legislation likely to be announced by Ms Sturgeon on Tuesday.\n\nIt commits the government to bringing forward legislation to reform the Gender Recognition Act to make it easier for trans people to change their legally-recognised gender \"in the first year of this parliamentary session\".\n\nMinisters have already carried out a series of consultations on what has become a fiercely-debated topic, which means a bill could be tabled in short order.\n\nThe government has also already published a one-page draft bill seeking to pave the way for a new independence referendum, another \"key strand\" of the power-sharing arrangement.\n\nThis may also be put forward for debate at Holyrood inside the next year, with Ms Sturgeon hoping to hold a referendum in the first half of the five-year parliamentary term.\n\nThe SNP had already pledged to draw up legislation to establish a National Care Service within the first year of term, and have also promised to replace the Scottish Qualifications Authority with a new agency overseeing the schools curriculum.\n\nSupporters of independence held a rally outside Holyrood on the day MSPs returned from summer recess\n\nThe SNP-Green deal also commits the parties to a range of other measures, including:\n\nHowever, it is not known if these will be included in the legislative timetable for the year to come, or if some measures will be rolled out later in the term.\n\nThe power-sharing partners have also pledged to introduce a national system of rent controls, but legislation may be some way off as they have only committed to implementing this by the end of 2025.\n\nThey have said a Housing Bill will be brought forward in the second year of the parliamentary term, while a Natural Environment Bill aimed at protecting biodiversity and nature will follow in the third year of term.\n\nA Circular Economy Bill will be introduced \"later in this parliamentary session\", while a Land Reform Bill focused on land ownership will be tabled in 2023 - alongside legislation to replace the Common Agricultural Policy system of farm subsidies.\n\nThe key theme will be Covid recovery with new investment planned to help the NHS deal with the backlog and work to expand affordable childcare before and after school to help working parents.\n\nEfforts to cut carbon emissions towards net zero by 2045 are also likely to feature prominently and not just because Greens are now in government and COP26 is drawing near.\n\nMSPs will also be listening carefully to hear what steps the power-sharing government intends to take towards its aim of holding an independence referendum when the pandemic eases and preferably before the end of 2023.\n\nI suspect it may be too early for the government to introduce a referendum bill at Holyrood - legislation that may ultimately be challenged in the courts.\n\nHowever, with an SNP/Green majority at Holyrood for indyref2 and an SNP conference scheduled for this weekend: doing nothing is probably not an option.\n\nThe Scottish government paused work on independence at the start of the pandemic. I doubt that position will hold for much longer and certainly not for the full year covered by today's programme.\n\nThe move towards renewable energy is a key focus of the deal between the SNP and Greens\n\nOpposition parties will have a chance to set out their own proposals following Ms Sturgeon's statement, and in a two-day debate which will follow.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have called for the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic to be the key focus in the year ahead.\n\nLeader Douglas Ross said: \"Risking Scotland's economic recovery in pursuit of political goals could have disastrous consequences, now more than ever.\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon must avoid at all costs the uncertainty and damage that could stem from shunning the oil and gas industry, punishing car drivers or worst of all, seeking to break up the country in the middle of a crisis.\"\n\nScottish Labour called for the Scottish government to commit to a \"just transition\" from the oil and gas industry to a net-zero economy, with MSP Monica Lennon saying its record on this had been \"woeful\" to date.\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we transition to a net-zero carbon economy as quickly as possible - but it is every bit as important that we don't leave any people or communities behind in the process.\"", "Maura McGoldrick was vaccinated in England and in Scotland\n\nA woman who was vaccinated in England and Scotland says she cannot get an accurate vaccination certificate because of issues with data-sharing across health services.\n\nMaura McGoldrick, 21, received her first dose in London and her second in Glasgow, where she lives.\n\nHowever, her vaccination record only shows her having received one dose.\n\nThe fourth-year student at the University of Edinburgh is concerned others may be similarly affected.\n\nThe Scottish government said it had been working to \"align\" vaccination data from across the UK.\n\nThe certificates are necessary for travelling abroad and could be used as part of a passport scheme to allow people into nightclubs and large events.\n\nScotland's system has already seen problems including a recent security glitch and people being denied use of the pass in certain countries.\n\nIt has only recently been made available in the form of a QR code - despite a digital passport being widely used across Europe for months.\n\nWhile travelling to London over the summer, Ms McGoldrick said she heard news of the push for young people to visit drop-in vaccine clinics - and attended a local clinic the following day.\n\nShe said the medics at the centre were unable to find her NHS records, but took her name and address and gave her a card which stated the batch of the vaccine she had just received.\n\nTo be safe, Ms McGoldrick said she quickly phoned NHS Inform to let them know she had received her first jab outside of Scotland and was told her records would be updated.\n\nHowever, when she received her second dose in Glasgow in August, she was told the first dose was missing from her medical records.\n\nShe requested her vaccine certificate by post and, again, the document showed one dose issued in Glasgow.\n\n\"Because there have been other things going on, it's just compounded general stress and been emotionally draining,\" said Ms McGoldrick.\n\n\"I know rationally it's not the end of the world and I'm very privileged even to just have the vaccine.\n\n\"But I'm now at the stage where there is no-one else for me to call, no more leads for me to pursue - it's a bit of a hopeless situation.\"\n\nMs McGoldrick has spent more than two weeks calling NHS Inform and her GP in order to resolve the matter.\n\nShe said her GP managed to acquire information on her vaccination in London.\n\nHowever, she said NHS Inform staff told her there was no data-sharing mechanism between them and NHS England and they would need to request the information from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nThe Scottish government denied the claim about data sharing, saying it has worked to \"align\" vaccination records from different UK nations.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are aware some people have encountered problems but it's untrue to say there is no data-sharing and we are working closely with other nations to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We have a process in place for sharing data between England and Scotland and continue to work with international stakeholders to improve the transfer of data across borders.\n\n\"Updated NHS Inform guidance contains guidance on what to do if you have been vaccinated abroad or have been vaccinated in different parts of the UK.\"\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde gave the BBC contradictory information, saying that NHS Scotland certificates \"can only contain information on vaccines administered in Scotland\".\n\nIt has not responded to a further query.\n\nMs McGoldrick is currently trying to get the health board to share her GP's information with NHS Inform - but said other people in her position may not be able to chase it up.\n\nShe said: \"Selfishly speaking, I'm trying to sort this out for myself but I'm in the fortunate position where I have time to chase this up.\n\n\"But I know there are other people in the same position - NHS Inform said they had other people call about this but assumed they sorted it out. People have probably just given up as it will take more time and effort that they have to give right now.\"\n\nVaccine certificates with QR codes are widely used across European countries\n\nAs a result of her vaccine status issue, Ms McGoldrick has postponed her October plans to travel to Copenhagen - partly for leisure, but also to do work experience related to her university course in international relations.\n\nShe said she thought she was doing the right thing by getting her vaccine as quickly as possible, but the bureaucracy and cancelled plans that resulted had been a \"bit of a blow\".\n\n\"It's the fact that we've been cooped up for so long,\" she said. \"I felt when I got two doses I had done everything I was supposed to do.\"", "The government has confirmed a one-year suspension of the \"triple lock\" formula for annual state pension increases.\n\nThe move follows government concern that a big post-pandemic rise in average earnings would have meant pensions increasing by 8%.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said the average earnings component would be disregarded in the 2022-23 financial year.\n\nInstead, the rise will be the consumer inflation rate or 2.5%.\n\n\"Tomorrow, I will introduce a Social Security Uprating and Benefits Bill for 2022-23 only,\" she told the Commons.\n\n\"It will ensure the basic and new state pensions increase by 2.5% or in line with inflation, which is expected to be the higher figure this year, and as happened last year, it will again set aside the earnings element for 2022-23 before being restored for the remainder of this Parliament.\"\n\nMs Coffey said the figures had been \"skewed and distorted\" by the average earnings rise, which she described as a \"statistical anomaly\".\n\nShe said the change meant that pensions would still rise, but less quickly. The triple lock would return the following year, she added.\n\nUnder the triple lock, pensions increase by inflation, the increase in earnings between May and July or 2.5%, whichever is the greater.\n\nThe Work and Pensions secretary said she was \"anticipating an unusual change in earnings\" due to the pandemic.\n\nShe added that earnings between May and July were expected to rise by more than 8%, so a one-year adjustment was needed.\n\nLast month, the Bank of England said it was expecting inflation to peak at 4%.\n\nThe Conservatives promised in their 2019 election manifesto to maintain the triple lock formula.\n\nMs Coffey's announcement came just hours after Prime Minister Boris Johnson breached another manifesto commitment by increasing National Insurance to fund health and social care.\n\nAge UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said: \"If suspending the triple lock for a single year helps get a government deal on social care over the line, then I believe it's a price worth paying, but only if it really is just a one-off measure and not a sneaky way for ministers to ditch the triple lock altogether.\"\n\nMs Abrahams said that with more than two million pensioners currently living in poverty, there was \"a strong case\" for keeping the triple lock untouched.\n\nShe added that it was \"imperative that the triple lock reverts to normal next year, to help all those pensioners on low and modest incomes who desperately need it\".\n\nThe one-year break in the usual calculations for increases in the state pension was widely expected.\n\nThere is, after all, near-universal agreement that the average annual earnings rise (one leg of the so-called triple lock) will be an anomaly caused by the economic effect of Covid.\n\nCharities representing the elderly will hold the government to its commitment that this is just a temporary arrangement.\n\nTheir fear is that the government might be tempted to do the same again - potentially reducing rises in a state pension which is already low when compared with elsewhere in the Western world.\n\nOthers will consider this as a missed opportunity to reform the universal triple lock system, even though its existence is a Conservative manifesto promise for the rest of this Parliament.", "The Scottish NHS will receive £1.1bn a year from a new health and social care tax, the UK government has said.\n\nThe tax will be introduced across the UK to pay for reforms to the care sector and NHS funding in England.\n\nBut a proportion will also be ringfenced and given directly to the Scottish health service.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said health and social care in all parts of the UK would \"benefit from significant additional support\".\n\nAnd while Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said the tax rise was a \"blunt tool\" and called for clarity about the arrangements, he confirmed the extra funds would be spent on health and social care in Scotland.\n\nPlans for a new tax were announced by Mr Johnson on Tuesday, with the prime minister saying it would raise £36bn for the NHS and social care across the UK over the next three years.\n\nThe move breaks a Conservative manifesto pledge, but Mr Johnson said change was needed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and that the cash would fund \"the biggest catch-up programme in NHS history\".\n\nThe tax will begin as a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance Contributions from April 2022, before being established as a new levy on earned income from 2023.\n\nPapers setting out the plan said the new tax will operate UK-wide, and that \"there will be a legal requirement to allocate the levy revenues for spending on health and social care\".\n\nIt said Scotland would benefit from an additional £1.1bn of spending by 2024-25, which it said was more than would be raised in the country through the new tax.\n\nThe prime minister unveiled plans for the new tax alongside his Chancellor and health secretary\n\nIn a letter to the leaders of the devolved administrations - including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - Mr Johnson said there would be a \"significant and permanent increase\" to health spending.\n\nHe said the new UK-wide levy would be ring-fenced to provide this funding, and confirmed that the devolved administrations would benefit from extra cash via the Barnett formula due to increased spending in England.\n\nThe prime minister also called for a face-to face-meeting with the devolved leaders next month, which he said would be an opportunity to discuss responsibilities and roles ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was \"disappointing\" that the UK government did not discuss the announcement of an increase to national insurance contributions with the devolved administrations.\n\nIn a statement, it pointed out it had \"a long-standing commitment to pass on in full all health Barnett consequentials to fund health and social care services\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nScotland impressively revived their World Cup 2022 qualification hopes by climbing into a play-off place after a momentous victory in Austria.\n\nLyndon Dykes' penalty, awarded after a VAR check, gave Steve Clarke's men a lead they clung on to in Vienna.\n\nStephen O'Donnell - having survived an Austria penalty appeal - and Che Adams had chances to ease the Scots' nerves.\n\nBut the visitors stood firm amid intense second-half pressure to collect a priceless and deserved away win.\n\nCoupled with runaway leaders Denmark's 5-0 defeat of Israel, it moves Scotland up two places to second. Clarke's side are a point clear of the Israelis, who visit Hampden next, and four above Austria with four games remaining.\n• None How far are Scotland from World Cup?\n\nWith the three-way fight for the runners-up berth gathering pace, Scotland needed a big performance and to a man they delivered.\n\nTwo VAR calls ultimately made the difference in a frantic encounter as Scotland ended the first half having converted a disputed penalty while Austria were incensed they had been deprived one.\n\nThere was scarcely an appeal from Adams' team-mates when the striker went to ground while grappling with Martin Hinteregger.\n\nBut replays showed the Austrian had a fistful of his jersey, and Dykes rattled the penalty down the middle and under the body of former Kilmarnock goalkeeper Daniel Bachmann.\n\nHinteregger, already on a booking for clattering Callum McGregor, was fortunate not to be shown a second yellow.\n\nLuck was then on Scotland's side just before half-time when the ball struck O'Donnell's arm as he jostled for a header with Christophe Baumgartner. No penalty was forthcoming and Konrad Laimer skidded a shot wide in the ensuing melee.\n\nThe chaotic scene as the sides left the pitch was in keeping with a breathless opening half. The tempo was unrelenting, with Austria making an energetic start as Real Madrid superstar David Alaba marauded down the left and whipped over a succession of crosses.\n\nMarko Arnautovic and Baumgartner fired wide, with the former also botching a header after being picked out unmarked by another Alaba cross.\n\nIt was a direct approach that Scotland resisted manfully, with their three centre-backs of Grant Hanley, Jack Hendry and Kieran Tierney standing strong time and again.\n\nScotland had crafted the clearest opening, with Bachmann palming away a Dykes header from John McGinn's cross, but found themselves pinned back after the break as Austria poured forward fuelled by anger.\n\nScottish nerves were jangling again when Hanley was booked for grappling with Hinteregger at a corner, with no penalty given as the ball was out of play. The Norwich City defender will miss the Israel next game through suspension, though.\n\nBachmann almost gifted the visitors a second when he kicked the ground while attempting to clear but Scotland could not capitalise, with O'Donnell's shot blocked.\n\nThe keeper redeemed himself with a fantastic sprawling save from O'Donnell's shot after Adams' pass had sent the full-back clear.\n\nDespite dominating possession, Austria did not work Craig Gordon until the closing stages, when the Scotland number one brilliantly batted away a Baumgartner header.\n\nAdams dragged wide at the other end as the hosts went for broke but one goal was enough for Scotland to begin dreaming of a reaching a first World Cup finals since 1998.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nThis has the potential to be a campaign-defining result for Scotland against a side who had lost just four of their previous 25 home games and took Italy to extra time in the last 16 of Euro 2020.\n\nScotland's high point of that tournament - the draw with England at Wembley - was evoked in an another away performance full of quality and sheer dogged spirit.\n\nAfter a sobering defeat in Denmark and laboured 1-0 win against Moldova, it was the uplifting end to this World Cup triple-header that the nation craved.\n\nBilly Gilmour, at just 20 years old, bossed the midfield and were there stand-outs all over the pitch as Scotland savoured a rare away triumph.\n• None Clarke's side have won consecutive matches for the first time since beating Slovakia and Czech Republic in October 2020 - all four games in their two-game winning runs have ended 1-0.\n• None Scotland are unbeaten across their last five competitive matches against Austria (W2 D3), winning a competitive away game against them for the first time on Tuesday.\n• None Dykes has scored five goals in his last six games for club and country (2 in 3 for Scotland, 3 in 3 for QPR). He has scored in consecutive Scotland games for the first time.\n• None Aged 38 years and 250 days, Gordon became the fifth oldest player to feature for the Scotland men's national team - the oldest is David Weir against Spain in October 2010 (40 years and 155 days).\n• None Austria have lost consecutive home World Cup qualifiers for the first time, and have failed to score in three successive home matches in all competitions for the first time since February 2008.\n\nScotland complete the campaign with two double-headers. First up is Israel at Hampden and the Faroe Islands away on 9 and 12 October.\n\nThen comes a trip to Moldova on 12 November, followed by a Hampden meeting with Denmark three days later.\n• None It's almost impossible not to play along...\n• None Do you have bizarre dreams? Scarlett investigates if they really have any meaning", "Demand for university places continues to rise despite all the disruption of the pandemic\n\nRecord numbers of 18-year-olds in the UK have accepted university places this year, according to updated figures from the Ucas admissions service.\n\nThere will be 272,500 of this age cohort starting at UK universities - up by 7% on last year.\n\nBut a sharp fall in EU students coming to the UK means overall university numbers are slightly down this year.\n\nUcas head Clare Marchant said students had worked hard for places despite \"incredibly trying circumstances\".\n\nThese latest figures show rising numbers of UK students of all ages getting university places, up to 448,000, along with more overseas students coming to the UK from countries such as China and Nigeria.\n\nThe \"resilience\" of rising demand for university places has confounded earlier warnings about the impact of Covid, says the admission service's head of data, Richard O'Kelly.\n\nDespite the switch to online learning, lack of access to social activities, Covid outbreaks and complaints about value for money, more UK students have accepted places than before the pandemic.\n\nBut the overall figure of almost 508,000 new students is slightly down on this point last year, after a 56% fall in students from EU countries such as France, Germany and Italy.\n\nIt means there will be more students from Peru than Denmark, more from Kuwait than the Netherlands - and more from China than all the EU countries combined.\n\nApplications are still open for this year's courses, but the trends show record numbers of UK school-leavers heading to university.\n\nAlmost 38% of 18-year-olds have so far decided to go to university, the highest ever proportion. Although entry numbers for those aged 19 and over are slightly down on last year.\n\nNick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said the continuing rise in UK student numbers showed \"young people are voting with their feet and behaving entirely rationally\".\n\n\"They are not snowflakes who melt under heat. They are rational, ambitious and full of aspiration.\"\n\nMr Hillman said university was still an ambition for families and that \"when the labour market is in flux and the world is in crisis, getting more education is a very sensible response\".\n\nOn the fall in EU student numbers, he said it reflected the higher fees they would be charged after the UK left the EU.\n\nThe update on university admissions, a month after exam results, shows a relatively high number of applicants still to decide on whether to take a place - with the suggestion they might have narrowly missed out on a preference and are considering whether to reapply next year.\n\nFigures for England show the regional divide is getting wider, with increasing numbers of students coming from London, the South and the Midlands, while numbers have fallen in the North East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber.\n\nCompared with 2012, the number of students from London has risen by 26%, while in the North East, numbers have slightly fallen.\n\nClare Marchant said she expected numbers of acceptances to continue increasing over the next few weeks.\n\n\"We know that some students, particularly mature applicants looking to study at their local university or college, often make a late decision through clearing, so we expect numbers to rise before the end of the cycle,\" she said.\n\nA spokesman for the Russell Group said its universities \"made more offers this year to UK 18-year-olds, including those from the most deprived areas, reflecting their determination to be fair and flexible so students were not disadvantaged by this year's changes to the assessment system\".\n\nA Universities UK spokeswoman said: \"It's brilliant to see record numbers of students recognising the benefits of a university degree.\n\n\"Embarking on a degree is a uniquely exciting time, with the skills and experience students set to gain lasting a lifetime, giving them an edge in the employment market and generating significant benefits for the UK as we rebuild from the pandemic.\"", "Unsworth has worked in a number of senior roles during her 40-year BBC career\n\nThe BBC's director of news Fran Unsworth is to leave the corporation early next year, it has been announced.\n\nA lifelong BBC employee, she took charge of the BBC's news and current affairs division in 2018.\n\nShe is also one of the 12 people who sit on the BBC board, which sets the broadcaster's overall strategy.\n\nUnsworth, who will leave in January, said it had been \"a great privilege\" to work for the BBC for more than 40 years.\n\n\"I have had a ringside seat at some momentous events, including the Falklands War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, wars in the Middle East, the death of Princess Diana, 9/11 and countless general elections,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"The jobs I've done have not always been easy. Undoubtedly, some were more fun than others. But I am proud to have done all of them - and to work for an organisation which has such a vital and precious role in the UK and around the world.\n\n\"The BBC is free of commercial and proprietorial pressure. Our bosses are the audiences we serve. I am honoured to have been part of it.\"\n\nThe 63-year-old's resignation comes at a time of upheaval for the BBC's news division. The department is undergoing a major restructure, which will result in about 250 job cuts, with many jobs moving out of London.\n\nUnsworth, who earned £340,000 last year, has also been caught up in a row over the proposed appointment of Jess Brammar - a former deputy editor of Newsnight and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post - to a senior role in BBC News.\n\nIn July, The Financial Times reported that Sir Robbie Gibb, Theresa May's former communications director who now also sits on the BBC board, had texted Unsworth to voice concerns about the appointment, saying Brammar's past criticism of the government could damage the BBC's reputation for impartiality.\n\nThe exchange has not been officially confirmed, but when asked about the row in a recent interview, Unsworth stressed that the BBC recruitment process was \"independent\" and \"free from any corporate interest\".\n\nIn 2013, Unsworth showed the Queen around the BBC's newly-constructed newsroom in central London\n\n\"Obviously, there are some people who feel we are subject to influence one way or the other,\" she told the Westminster Media Forum.\n\n\"But it comes back to the robustness of our editorial processes, people who understand their role as a public service provider, and the need for absolute independence and impartiality in what they do.\n\n\"We have to withstand any pressure that comes from anywhere, and I think we do that pretty well in general.\"\n\nUnsworth weathered criticisms of BBC bias from both the Labour and Conservative parties during Brexit, and steered the BBC's coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"Fran has taken BBC News through one of the most testing periods in its history, providing a vital service during the Covid-19 pandemic, when record audiences turned to BBC News,\" director general Tim Davie said.\n\n\"She has led BBC coverage during a period of momentous events at home and abroad, alongside leading a huge modernisation programme to reshape BBC News. She will be greatly missed by everyone at the BBC.\"\n\nShe has also had to deal with several BBC crises, such as when BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty was found to have breached editorial guidelines for criticising Donald Trump's tweets in 2019.\n\nAfter the BBC editorial complaints unit ruled against Munchetty, Unsworth - along with director general Tony Hall and the rest of the executive board - described the ruling as deeply flawed.\n\nThey said the BBC was \"not impartial on racism\" and that she was \"completely justified\" in making her comments.\n\nUnsworth also dealt with the fallout from revelations about equal pay, including the resignation of BBC China editor Carrie Gracie. And while deputy director of BBC News in 2014, she was ultimately responsible for the decision to film a police raid on the home of Sir Cliff Richard.\n\nThe BBC was later forced to pay the star £2m after he won a privacy case over the reports.\n\nUnsworth apologised to Sir Cliff and said: \"In retrospect, there are things we would have done differently.\"\n\nShe began her broadcasting career in local radio in Bristol and Leicester, before becoming a producer on BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat.\n\nShe moved to BBC Radio 4's The World At One and PM, and worked as a radio producer in Washington during the Gulf War.\n\nShe spent periods working on both the One O'Clock and Six O'Clock News as a producer and editor, and was head of the BBC's political programming and the first female director of the BBC World Service.\n\nThe process to appoint her successor as head of news will begin shortly, the BBC said.", "Heavy rainfall in central Mexico has sparked flash floods in Ecatepec and Nezahualcóyotl municipalities, sweeping away vehicles and turning this street into a river.\n\nLocal media, citing the director of Civil Protection of Ecatepec, reported that at least two people have died and rescue teams were searching for at least one missing person.", "The UK fired up an old coal power plant on Monday to meet its electricity needs.\n\nWarm, still, autumn weather has meant wind farms have not generated as much power as normal, while soaring prices have made it too costly to rely on gas.\n\nAs a result, National Grid ESO - which is responsible for balancing the UK's electricity supply - confirmed coal was providing 3% of national power.\n\nIt said it asked EDF to fire up West Burton A, which had been on standby.\n\nOn Tuesday, the use of coal returned to 2.2% of the UK's electricity generation.\n\nA National Grid ESO spokesman said there had been a three-day coal-free run in mid-August, but the country had relied on some coal power every day since then.\n\nLast year, coal contributed 1.6% of the country's electricity mix. That was down from 25% five years ago.\n\nBoth the government and National Grid ESO have committed to phasing out coal power completely by 2024 to cut carbon emissions. However, coal is still used when it is better value than gas.\n\nA small temporary uptick in the use of coal should be kept in perspective, said Dave Jones, electricity analyst at Ember, a think tank promoting the shift away from fossil fuels.\n\n\"No-one thought we'd use zero coal this year,\" he said.\n\n\"We're going through a process where year-on-year you're relying on coal less and less. As long as you know you can make it to that fixed date, which is still three years away, it's OK. We're well on track for that journey, probably ahead of schedule.\"\n\nBut higher gas prices could help accelerate the shift from gas to renewables over the next few years, he added.\n\nThe UK government has made commitments to reducing the use of gas for power generation, but has not set a fixed deadline.\n\nMore coal has been burnt this summer in particular, due to soaring prices for natural gas.\n\nAcross Europe, shortages and increased demand from Asia have seen the cost of gas increase to the highest level on record, according to Reuters.\n\nA cold start to the year meant countries across the continent dipped into their gas reserves, which would normally be replenished in the summer months when demand tends to be weaker.\n\nBut the economic rebound, as countries reopen from Covid-19 lockdowns, meant higher-than-expected demand led to a shortage of gas.\n\nBritain's use of coal power on a warm September day raises two big issues.\n\nThe first, is that this jars with an environmental commitment to reduce fossil fuel use. The second, is the huge impact global gas prices have on our domestic energy.\n\nOver the coming months, those sky-high gas prices are expected to remain volatile. So, as well as forcing National Grid to make some tough choices about where we get our electricity from, it could also have a big knock-on on what we pay.\n\nThe cap on regulated prices will be raised in October, adding £139 to the bills of 15 million households. But that could be just the start.\n\nNow would be a good time for consumers to check what they're paying - and shop around for the best deal - before the winter weather makes this issue more acute.\n\n\"In balancing the electricity system, we take actions in economical order and not on the basis of generation type,\" a National Grid spokesman said.\n\n\"Depending on system conditions, some power sources may be better at meeting a balancing requirement than others - so the most cost-effective solution to ensure safe, secure system operation will be sought.\"\n\nThe Nuclear Industry Association said the decision to fire up another coal power plant highlighted the urgent need to invest in new nuclear plants.\n\n\"Otherwise, we will continue to burn coal as a fall-back and fall well short of our net zero ambitions,\" said the trade body's chief executive, Tom Greatrex.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Jim Henson's Muppets were popular in more than 100 countries\n\nA blue plaque has been installed at the former home of the Muppets creator Jim Henson.\n\nHenson, who died in 1990 aged 53 from septic shock, lived on Downshire Hill in Hampstead, north London, from 1979.\n\nEnglish Heritage has unveiled the plaque ahead of what would have been the puppeteer's 85th birthday.\n\nHis son Brian said: \"It's an honour to have his British home recognised with a blue plaque, knowing that he so admired and respected the talent in London.\"\n\nThe plaque can be seen at 50 Downshire Hill...\n\n\"My father moved to London to make The Muppet Show, and then chose to stay because he was so impressed by the UK's many gifted artists and performers,\" he added.\n\nThe Muppet Show, starring Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, was a huge hit in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nEarlier this year, Disney added a content warning to 18 episodes of The Muppet Show over what it described as \"negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Taliban fighters raise their flag in front of Panjshir's provincial governor's office\n\nThe Taliban have declared victory over the province of Panjshir northeast of the capital Kabul, the final pocket of territory which has remained outside their rule.\n\nThe group posted footage online of their fighters raising their flag there on Monday.\n\nResistance fighters however said they were still present in \"all strategic positions\" and \"continue to fight\".\n\nTheir leader has called for a \"national uprising\" against the Taliban.\n\nIn an audio recording posted on social media Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), blamed the international community for legitimising the Taliban and giving them military and political confidence.\n\n\"Wherever you are, inside or outside, I call on you to begin a national uprising for the dignity, freedom and prosperity of our country,\" he said.\n\nThe Taliban took control of the rest of Afghanistan three weeks ago, seizing the capital Kabul on 15 August following the collapse of the Western-backed government.\n\nIt comes nearly 20 years after US forces led an invasion to topple the Taliban.\n\nPanjshir, a rugged mountain valley, is home to between 150,000 and 200,000 people. It was a centre of resistance when Afghanistan was under Soviet occupation in the 1980s and during the Taliban's previous period of rule, between 1996 and 2001.\n\n\"The Taliban haven't captured Panjshir,\" Ali Maisam, spokesman for the NRF, earlier told the BBC, saying he was \"rejecting Taliban claims\".\n\nA tweet from the group's Twitter handle also said: \"The struggle against the Taliban & their partners will continue until justice & freedom prevails.\"\n\nBut Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement that \"with this victory, our country is completely taken out of the quagmire of war\".\n\nThe stunning Panjshir Valley is one of the smallest Afghan provinces, steeped in the biggest of legends.\n\nIts rugged mountain terrain - with its maze of valleys, crevices and caves - has been its greatest weapon in repelling invaders. The Soviet army never managed to conquer it in the 1980s; the Taliban didn't control it the first time round in the 1990s.\n\nSo in this battle of opposing narratives, it's possible that the Taliban control the Panjshir's principal public arteries and areas, and a landscape known intimately only by its own inhabitants may now be sheltering the most defiant of resistance fighters. But the Taliban advance, however deep, is of great significance - both in symbolic and strategic terms. It's a sparkling jewel in the new Taliban crown as they embark on re-establishing their Islamic Emirate.\n\nBut resistance leaders including Ahmad Massoud, son of the legendary commander, and Amrullah Saleh, the vehement Taliban critic, won't go quietly into the night.\n\nThe National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) has been resisting Taliban rule\n\nSince taking power the Taliban have sought to portray themselves as more tolerant, but incidents of brutality and repression are still being reported in parts of Afghanistan.\n\nAlthough the group has promised to respect the rights of women, many fear a return to the way they were treated when the Taliban were previously in power. Women were forced to cover their faces outside, and suffered harsh punishments for minor transgressions.\n\nWitnesses have told the BBC that Taliban militants shot and killed pregnant policewoman Banu Negar on Saturday.\n\nThe Taliban told the BBC they had no involvement in Negar's death and are investigating the incident.\n\nThere have also been several protests calling for respect for women's rights across Afghanistan.\n\nOn Monday, a group of women demonstrating in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif told BBC Persian that Taliban fighters had threatened them.\n\n\"They swore at us and insulted us, and said that we should disperse quickly or else they would beat us to death,\" she said, adding that the militants had also threatened anyone who tried to film them.\n\nWomen have taken part in protests demanding respect for their rights across Afghanistan\n\nHuman rights groups have also documented revenge killings, detentions and persecution of religious minorities. The Taliban have said officially that they will not seek retribution against those who worked for the former government.\n\nAs yet the Taliban have not announced the final make up of their new regime.\n\nSpokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters on Monday morning that all the important decisions have already been made, and that they are now working on the \"technical issues\".\n\nHe also said an interim government would be announced first, allowing for changes later.\n\nLater on Monday, US President Joe Biden was asked by a reporter at the White House if he would recognise a Taliban government. \"That's a long way off,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travelled to Qatar on Monday for talks with the government about the situation in Afghanistan, and to thank them for their part in helping the US evacuations from Kabul.\n\nMore than 120,000 people were air-lifted from the Afghan capital in a US-led operation before their forces fully withdrew from the country on 31 August.\n\nA state department official travelling with Mr Blinken on Monday announced the US had helped evacuate four of its citizens over land - the first US citizens the government has helped leave the country since the withdrawal.\n\nThe Taliban were aware of the evacuation, the official said, but no details were given about their identity or which country they crossed into from Afghanistan.\n\nUS Republican congressman Ronny Jackson tweeted after the announcement that the four evacuees came from his district in Texas.\n\nAre you in Panjshir? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A 33-year-old man has been charged after a lorry crashed into a house in East Kilbride.\n\nThe building in Lancaster Crescent suffered extensive damage and local residents were evacuated as a precaution.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident, which took place at about 23:25 on Monday.\n\nThe man who has been charged is expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Thursday.\n\nResidents in the houses surrounding the damaged building were evacuated from their homes.\n\nThe damaged lorry was found later in a supermarket car park\n\nDemolition crews were at the scene on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nOne neighbour told the BBC: \"I heard a crash and looked out of the window to see a huge Eddie Stobart truck driving forwards up the street and then reverse back again.\n\n\"The boys in the house were rescued from the upstairs bedrooms with ladders.\n\n\"It was terrifying. Thank goodness no-one was hurt. It could have been so much worse.\"\n\nAnother neighbour said that they had been asked to leave their homes until they could be checked over for structural damage and did not know when they could return.\n\nThe damaged lorry was found later in the car park of a Lidl store near East Kilbride town centre, and was removed by police on Tuesday afternoon.", "Before the trial judges inspected the reconstructed wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines plane\n\nThe families of those killed in the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 have begun to testify at the trial of four suspects.\n\nAbout 90 relatives will speak at the high-security court in Schiphol over the next three weeks.\n\nInternational investigators say the plane was shot down with a missile fired by pro-Russian rebels.\n\nThree Russians and a Ukrainian are on trial but none will appear in court. All four have denied involvement.\n\nThe Malaysian Airlines flight was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on 17 July 2014 when it was downed. It crashed in the Donetsk region, about 50km (30 miles) from the Russia-Ukraine border.\n\nAll 298 people on board the Boeing 777 airliner were killed - including 283 passengers and 15 crew members. The victims were from 10 different countries, but most were Dutch nationals.\n\nDutch prosecutors have said the suspects had a role in bringing down the flight with a Russian ground-to-air missile over a combat zone in eastern Ukraine. Russia has denied responsibility.\n\nThe trial of the four suspects, Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky, Leonid Kharchenko and Oleg Pulatov, opened in the Netherlands last year after a case was brought by Dutch prosecutors following an international investigation.\n\nAll four are suspected of being pro-Russian separatists helping rebels fight Ukrainian government troops in eastern Ukraine. Only one suspect, Mr Pulatov, has employed a team of Dutch lawyers to represent him.\n\nOn Monday, judge Hendrik Steenhuis said the trial had been \"highly emotional for the relatives\", as he gave them the opportunity to testify in court for the first time.\n\nThe first relative to speak in court was Ria van der Steen, whose father and stepmother were among the victims.\n\nMs van der Steen told the court of a recurring nightmare in which she searched for her father in the blazing wreckage to tell him he was dead.\n\nThe trial is taking place in a high-security court near Schiphol airport\n\n\"It smelt of fire, it smelt of death,\" she said. \"I kept yelling, 'Dad, where are you now?'.\"\n\nShe said her father was identified by a tiny fragment of bone from his hand, as that was all that was left of his body.\n\nSecond to testify was Australian Vanessa Fizk, whose parents died in the crash.\n\nAppearing via video link from Australia, Ms Fizk said the perpetrators \"deserved punishment for their heinous actions\".\n\nRia van der Steen, whose father was killed, said she still has nightmares about the crash\n\nHer brother James expressed similar sentiments, saying his parents were the victims of a conflict they had no role in.\n\n\"The misinformation from Russia, the lack of involvement from Russia, and their denials baffles me,\" he said.\n\nFamilies from eight nations, including the UK, will testify at the trial. A verdict is expected late next year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MH17 disaster: My nephew's body came back in 80 pieces", "Tributes have been paid to US actor Michael K Williams, best known for starring in HBO drama series The Wire, following his death at the age of 54.\n\nThe Wire co-star Clarke Peters told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"He was a generous actor. It wasn't me, me, me. It was us, us, us.\"\n\nFilm-maker Spike Lee described Williams on Instagram as \"his brother\" and said he \"was shook\" at the news.\n\nThe Wire creator David Simon said he was \"a fine man and a rare talent\".\n\nAlongside a picture of Williams, Simon wrote that he was \"too gutted right now to say all that ought to be said\", adding: \"On our journey together he always deserved the best words. And today those words won't come.\"\n\nThe star was found dead in his New York apartment on Monday. US media quoted law enforcement sources as saying he died from a suspected drug overdose, but that has not been confirmed.\n\nWilliams, who was nominated for three Emmys, had openly discussed his struggles with drugs over the years.\n\nIn The Wire, he played Omar Little, a gay, streetwise robber of drug gangs.\n\nHe was also known for playing gangster Albert \"Chalky\" White in the Prohibition period TV series Boardwalk Empire. Other TV credits included Lovecraft Country, The Night Of, Bessie and When They See Us.\n\nPeters, who played Lester Freamon in The Wire, said he \"didn't know whether to be sad or angry\" about the death of his co-star.\n\n\"I'm sad that Michael is no longer with us because there was a very promising personality that could have done so much more. I'm angry because I feel he's let us down by going back when he could have reached out,\" he told the Today programme.\n\n\"Once a person is on that path, maybe it is very difficult for them to get off. So we, as a society, have to pull our socks up so we can help people like this.\"\n\nSpike Lee said: \"Whew lawd, dis is a tough day -1st we lose the great French actor Jean Paul Belmondo and now my brother Michael K Williams.\n\n\"Our greats are leaving us left and right. God bless,\" he added alongside a photograph of himself with Williams at a basketball game.\n\nOther tributes from the world of entertainment came from the likes of his The Wire co-star Wendell Pierce.\n\n\"The depth of my love for this brother, can only be matched by the depth of my pain learning of his loss,\" Pierce tweeted.\n\n\"A immensely talented man with the ability to give voice to the human condition portraying the lives of those whose humanity is seldom elevated until he sings their truth,\" Pierce added.\n\nIdris Elba, who played Stringer Bell in The Wire, simply posted a black square with the initials MKW.\n\nSonja Sohn, who played Detective Kima Greggs, posted \"Always & Forever\" with a broken heart.\n\nSinger Mariah Carey shared a picture of herself with Williams, describing him as \"a beautiful soul, a beautiful person\". She added: \"I'll miss you always. Thank you for blessing us with your talent.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mariah Carey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOscar-nominated actress Taraji P Henson posted on Instagram: \"Rest well my friend. Jesus, you will be deeply missed.\"\n\n\"If he was in a scene he was the best thing about it. Period,\" wrote actor Edward Norton, who worked with Williams on the 2019 film Motherless Brooklyn.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Edward Norton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOscar winner Viola Davis simply wrote: \"No! So sad. Man do I wish this were a different ending. Rest well. Praying for your loved ones.\"\n\nFellow actress Kerry Washington posted on Twitter: \"So heartbroken. Thank you for the beauty and joy you brought to the world. Sending love and prayers to your friends, family and everyone who adored you me included. We adore you Sir.\"\n\nShe also retweeted a video of Pierce with Williams as the former praised the latter's acting ability on the red carpet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by kerry washington This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This is heartbreaking to learn. We have lost an enormous talent in Michael K Williams,\" tweeted Star Trek actor George Takei.\n\nDirector James Gunn described Williams as one of the \"most gentle souls I've ever met\".\n\nIn a statement, the HBO TV network, which aired 60 episodes of The Wire between 2002 and 2008, said: \"We are devastated to learn of the passing of Michael Kenneth Williams, a member of the HBO family for more than 20 years.\n\n\"While the world is aware of his immense talents as an artist, we knew Michael as a dear friend who was beloved by all who had the privilege to work with him. We send our deepest condolences to his family for this immeasurable loss.\"\n\nMichael K Williams' complex portrayal of Omar Little, a gay, shotgun-toting robber of drug dealers, helped cement The Wire's game-changing depiction of life in the projects of Baltimore.\n\nOmar represented the duality of a black experience never before given such honest screen time. Nowhere was that better represented than his exchanges with Wendell Pierce's detective Bunk, a black schoolfriend who reminded him of the different paths life afforded them.\n\nInterviewed together years before Williams' death, Pierce said his co-star's performance gave voice and flesh to characters \"that most people would have never given the same humanity to… opening a window to a world of men that we pass by or don't know about\".\n\nPierce described the scenes they shared as the \"greatest of my career\", performed by a man who contributed two of the \"most iconic characters in the history of American television\" in Omar Little and Chalky White, and no doubt could have given many more.\n\nWilliams with co-star Tristan Wilds at a 2006 premiere for The Wire\n\nBorn in 1966, Williams had a turbulent upbringing in Brooklyn, New York. Despite trying to avoid confrontation, he later said he \"had a way of always finding myself in trouble - like, big trouble, you know what I'm saying?\"\n\nHe began his career as a dancer and performed with Madonna and George Michael before moving into acting with companies including the prestigious National Black Theatre Company.\n\nHe got the distinctive scar on his forehead and right cheek after being slashed by a razor on his 25th birthday - but that inadvertently led to his first acting job after Tupac Shakur saw a photo of him and decided he looked \"thugged out enough\" to play his brother in the 1996 film Bullet.\n\nIn a BBC interview in 2018, Williams explained why The Wire was such a success. \"I think it has just stayed with people because it's still relevant now, because of the climate of what's going on in the United States. I think it's actually a little sad,\" he said.\n\n\"It was the first show I saw that was created as what I call 'edutainment'. It dived so honestly into what was wrong in our society, from the police department to our lawmakers to our school system, and the media. It represented what was happening in our community.\"\n\nBut in 2011, he told The Hollywood Reporter he was \"overwhelmed\" by the success of season one and went \"into an emotional tailspin\" during season two.\n\n\"I wasted a lot of money, I started drinking and drugging again, and, at the end of season two, I was forced to move back to my projects and slept on a mattress on the floor.\"\n\nSpeaking about his drug use while filming The Wire, he told news website NJ.com in 2012: \"I was playing with fire.\n\n\"It was just a matter of time before I got caught and my business ended up on the cover of a tabloid or I went to jail - or worse.\"", "Mr Bolsonaro and his supporters have frequently had posts removed from social media\n\nBrazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree aimed at restricting the powers of social media companies to remove accounts and content.\n\nMr Bolsonaro said a change of regulations was needed to combat the \"arbitrary removal\" of profiles.\n\nHe said the new legislation would help protect freedom of speech.\n\nThroughout the coronavirus pandemic, Twitter and Facebook have removed many posts shared by the president and his supporters that were deemed misleading.\n\nThe new decree aims to provide clarity on the powers of social media companies to police content on their platforms, the president's office said.\n\nDetails of the decree released so far simply state that tech giants will have to provide \"just cause and motivation\" before removing an account or content.\n\nIt is unclear, however, exactly how the order will be enforced.\n\nThe announcement comes on the eve of what are expected to be large pro-Bolsonaro demonstrations across Brazil.\n\nSupporters of the president will be protesting against the country's Congress and Supreme Court, which last month added Mr Bolsonaro's name to a list of people being investigated over the alleged production of misinformation.\n\nCritics have said the marches, which coincide with the country's Independence Day celebrations, represent a danger to democracy.\n\nMr Bolsonaro and his allies have frequently had posts on social media removed since the start of the pandemic.\n\nIn July, YouTube removed around 15 videos from a channel belonging to Mr Bolsonaro for spreading misinformation about Covid-19.\n\nSome of the posts removed included videos that promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug, and the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin as treatments against the coronavirus - neither has been proven to be an effective treatment against the virus.\n\nLast year, Facebook complied with an order by the Brazilian Supreme Court to block the accounts of dozens of Mr Bolsonaro's top allies accused of promoting misinformation against federal judges.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has since encouraged supporters to engage with him on alternative platforms such as Telegram and Parler.", "The prime minister visited a London care home ahead of his big announcement on Tuesday\n\nBoris Johnson has long believed that conventions are there to be broken. He's certainly done that.\n\nA pair of election promises have been torn up. The Treasury's shaken off its traditional allergy to new specific taxes.\n\nHighly significant changes are being made to the tax and health system without wide debate among ministers or the governing party.\n\nPensioners who keep working will pay national insurance for the first time.\n\nAnd again, today's decisions confirm Boris Johnson's credo includes being a big spender, if he deems the moment requires it.\n\nIt's provided yet more evidence that his government believes the public is willing to accept heavy price tags, and broken political vows, as long as the label is marked \"NHS\".\n\nBefore the announcement, there was loud belly aching among backbenchers and Tory party grandees.\n\nThere's unease about trust, as manifesto promises evaporate.\n\nOthers wonder where the Tories' fiscal soul has gone, as the moves confirm Boris Johnson's seeming affection for big government, and big expensive interventions, driven in part - but not entirely - by the pandemic.\n\nThe opposition parties don't like it one bit, arguing the tax will unfairly hit working people, and wondering aloud where the real guarantees for improving care are.\n\nThe ultimate test though probably won't be in the Commons tomorrow, or even in the next few months, but in the years to come.\n\nToday is first and foremost a huge tax increase that will be spent by the NHS.\n\nDowning Street can't take for granted that patients will feel a big difference, or that the creaking care system will be better in a few years, or indeed that many thousands of families won't still face terrible heartaches.\n\nBut No 10 hopes that taking action will ease public anxiety.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson wants to avoid laying himself open to the charge of starving the NHS of the funds it needs after the battering of the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister has chosen the risk of an imperfect solution over the political risk of doing nothing at all.\n\nAnd that is a bet that he believes he can win.", "Ms Davies, here with her grandchildren, said foster parents need to go on a journey with the children\n\nA woman has said that being a foster parent has allowed her to give children \"the chance to have a childhood\".\n\nBridget Davies, from Ceredigion, has had three long-term foster children over the past 12 years, with them staying up to 10 years and still calling her mum.\n\nShe said: \"They give more than they take and it makes such a difference.\"\n\nIt comes as charity Barnardo's has seen fostering referrals go up by 36% over the past 12 months.\n\nFor Ms Davies, 64, the secret to being a successful foster carer is never losing the sense of fun and wonder of being a child.\n\nThe retired nurse and grandmother said being a foster carer incorporated both those roles.\n\nThe mother-of-three has always loved filling her home with children and said it was nursing colleagues who suggested fostering.\n\nShe said: \"I think it was the fact that I was able to relive all those wonderful memories again, but now I was doing it or hoping to do it with young people who didn't have a childhood and I think what spurred me on was to give it to them.\n\n\"I absolutely love it. The children I've had have been awesome and seeing the changes in them has been so rewarding.\n\n\"In fact, rewarding doesn't begin to describe the feeling when you witness those special moments.\"\n\nBarnardo's found a rise in referrals to fostering service since the pandemic began - the number of sibling groups referred to it in the past 12 months rose by 31%.\n\nNew research shows 14% of adults in the UK would consider fostering a child aged 18 or under in the next five years, but that figure drops to just 6% when asked the same question about fostering siblings.\n\nMs Davies, here riding with her daughter, says being outdoors is a big part of her relationship with the children\n\nMs Davies said her foster children have become family and are close to her own children.\n\n\"My son is a brilliant role model,\" said Ms Davies. \"The boys all fist pump when they come into the house.\"\n\n\"We all respect their family so we're not replacing them, we're just adding hopefully to their family environment.\"\n\nMs Davies said a lot of children in foster care have had a difficult time leading up to it and patience and understanding was needed.\n\nShe said: \"I think it's an awesome experience. I don't like to call it a job as give you far more than you could give them, really.\"\n\n\"I think it's extremely important to foster because when the children come to me, within a matter of weeks they've already changed.\n\n\"They had to protect themselves, they had to survive for different reasons so when you take them on and you allow them to be themselves you allow them to grow up.\n\n\"And if you allow them to do that, then you are allowing this little person who's got so much to give to be a part of the brilliant community.\n\n\"You don't need to be perfect to be a foster carer, you don't need to be a brilliant teacher or speak five languages, you just need to help a child feel safe and noticed, that's all it takes. They just want you.\"\n\nMartin Kaid, head of fostering and adoption services at Barnardo's Cymru, said the average age of foster parents was 55, but applications were welcomed from people of all walks of life.\n\n\"Your love and support can allow brothers and sisters to stay together and make a huge difference to their lives - and to yours,\" he said.\n\n\"If you are over 21, have a spare room and the time and commitment to support a child - you could be the special person they need.\"", "Father-of-two Jamil Rehman was confronted by two men when he thought he was meeting a teenage girl\n\nA doctor has been jailed after being caught by a paedophile-hunter group when he travelled four hours to try to meet a 15-year-old girl.\n\nJamil Rehman, 35, from Derby, messaged a fake social media profile and went to Carmarthen to meet the girl in 2019.\n\nWhen he got there, the father-of-two was confronted by two men from the group, who called the police.\n\nHe was sentenced to 20 months in prison after being found guilty of attempting to meet a child following grooming.\n\nJudge Paul Thomas QC told Swansea Crown Court Rehman made the more than four-hour journey in April 2019 \"for one purpose\", to have \"full sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl\".\n\nA subsequent investigation revealed he had contacted another 13-year-old girl, suggesting a meeting.\n\nDuring his trial, Rehman, who was training to become a GP at the time, had claimed he was \"seeking to help vulnerable girls\" and he wanted the 15-year-old to be his \"tour guide to the beaches of south-west Wales\".\n\nHe claimed he had confused the word restaurant with hotel, when arranging to meet her.\n\nThe pills were found in the doctor's car when he was arrested by police\n\nHowever, police discovered orgasm prevention tablets in his car, and roses. Rehman had claimed the pills been obtained for his wife, who is expecting her third child this year.\n\nAt his sentencing Judge Thomas said he had put forward \"a series of frankly ludicrous explanations to try and persuade the jury that your motivations weren't sexual lust but were positively altruistic\".\n\nHe said Rehman, who is a Pakistani citizen in the UK on a work visa, had \"clearly targeted\" girls he believed to be vulnerable.\n\n\"As a man who was training to be a general practitioner, who as you revealed at trial had teenage girls as patients, you would have known full well the potential impact of what you intended to do,\" the judge said.\n\n\"You did not intend any romantic relationship as you were a married man. You simply wanted to use these girls for your own sexual gratification.\"\n\nDr Jamil Rehman was snared by a paedophile hunter group after arranging to meet a teenager\n\nJudge Thomas, who ordered Rehman to placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years, said: \"I cannot conceive of a reason where you will be allowed to continue being a doctor and as such you are unlikely to be allowed to stay.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Rehman had arranged to meet the girl and had booked a hotel room nearby after making comments about kissing and hugging.\n\nJulie Jones, of the CPS, said it was fortunate he had not met any children.\n\n\"It serves as a stark reminder to everyone of the dangers that children can face on social media,\" she said.\n\nThe General Medical Council said Rehman remained suspended while it carried out a fitness to practise investigation.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We treat criminal convictions extremely seriously and any doctor who receives a custodial sentence will be referred for a public hearing at the medical practitioners tribunal service.\"", "Fans of BTS star Jimin were among those who had their accounts banned\n\nA group of K-pop fans in China have become the latest victims of a crackdown on celebrity culture.\n\nTwenty-two fan accounts have been suspended by Chinese social media site Sina Weibo for what it called \"irrational star-chasing behaviour\".\n\nThey include fans of Korean pop band BTS who crowdfunded on the platform to customise an aeroplane for singer Park Ji-Min's 26th birthday.\n\nWeibo accused one fan account of \"illegal fundraising\" for the stunt.\n\nIn a statement, the company said it \"firmly opposes such irrational star-chasing behaviour and will deal with it seriously\".\n\nIt also pledged to \"purify\" online discussions and \"regulate community order\" on its platform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PARKJIMINBAR👑 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BTS account was suspended from posting for 60 days. Other accounts supporting K-pop acts Blackpink, GOT7 and EXO - who have Chinese members - were given 30-day bans.\n\nThe move comes amid a wider clampdown on the entertainment industry in China, and fan culture in particular.\n\nLast week, two government agencies published guidelines saying they would ban broadcasts by \"vulgar internet celebrities\" and \"feminine-looking men\" because they do not portray the values the country wants to promote.\n\nIn June, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) also announced 10 measures to \"clean up\" what it called the \"chaos\" of celebrity fan clubs.\n\nIt said it would prohibit activities that persuade children to contribute money to their idols, and disband social media groups that are deemed a \"bad influence\". Attempts to rank celebrities based on popularity will also be banned.\n\nEarlier this year, media analyst Kerry Allen told the BBC that Beijing was increasingly concerned that \"fan clubs can mobilise, either in person or online, to stage protests for their favourite stars\".\n\nActress Zhao Wei also fell foul of China's censors last week\n\nK-pop fans are known for their ability to organise impressive stunts - frequently raising thousands of dollars to promote their idols on billboards in New York's Times Square, for example.\n\nBut they have also turned to political activism, using the sheer weight of their numbers to overload social media hashtags used by opponents of the Black Lives Matter movement last summer, and disrupting one of Donald Trump's campaign rallies by reserving tickets they had no intention of using.\n\nChina's Communist Party has encouraged the growth of its entertainment industry in recent years, but is worried about the influence of celebrities on the country's values.\n\nStars - and now, it seems, their fan clubs - increasingly face stringent censorship, and serious consequences if they fall foul of the authorities.\n\nEarlier this month, one of China's most prominent actresses, Zhao Wei, was all-but deleted from China's internet, with her films and TV shows taken off streaming platforms and her fan page deleted from Weibo.\n\nSocial media users were also censored when trying to discuss Zhao, who starred in films like My Fair Princess and Shaolin Soccer and served on the jury at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.\n\nChinese state newspaper The Global Times said no official reason had been given, but referenced historical allegations of financial impropriety against Zhao and her husband.\n\nWeeks earlier, a similar fate befell one of Zhao's former colleagues - the actor Zhang Zhehan - who was scrubbed from the internet after pictures surfaced of him at Japan's controversial Yasukuni Shrine to war dead.\n\nActress Zheng Shuang also found herself castigated at the start of September after being fined $46m for tax evasion.\n\nA household name who starred in the TV series Meteor Shower, she posted a lengthy statement on social media apologising for the \"negative impact\" of her actions on society.\n\nNonetheless, China's broadcasting authority banned TV stations from airing Zheng's shows or hiring her for future productions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has published her government's plans for the year ahead.\n\nThe programme for government includes establishing a National Care Service, reforms to the Gender Recognition Act and plans to extend childcare.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said the Scottish government would restart work on a \"detailed prospectus\" in advance of its goal of holding a referendum on independence by the end of 2023.\n\nThe opposition parties urged her to focus on recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic rather than independence.\n\nThe main points of the programme include:\n• A National Care Service Bill to implement reforms to the care service and a pledge that funding for social care will rise by at least £800m over the lifetime of the parliament\n• A new system of \"wraparound\" childcare before and after school and during the holidays\n• A collective pardon for miners convicted of various offences during strikes in the 1980s\n• A fox control bill to strengthen the law on the use of dogs in hunts\n• A new law for stronger regulation of the sale of fireworks\n\nThat's all from the live page team today. Thanks for reading.", "Coverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu put in another devastating performance to reach the US Open quarter-finals as her dream New York debut continued.\n\nThe 18-year-old qualifier, yet to drop a set here, won 11 games in a row in a 6-2 6-1 win over Shelby Rogers.\n\nIn the biggest match of her life, on the biggest tennis court in the world, Raducanu recovered from a break in the opening game to dominate in style.\n\nShe will face Olympic champion Belinda Bencic for a place in the semi-finals.\n• None Olympic champion Bencic through to US Open quarter-finals\n\nThe Briton dropped to her knees on Arthur Ashe Stadium after sealing victory when home favourite Shelby netted a service return on her fourth match point.\n\nRaducanu, who captured the British public's imagination with a run to the Wimbledon fourth round as a wildcard in July, has now gone one better after a series of accomplished displays that have had pundits predicting big things ahead for the world number 150.\n\n\"It feels absolutely amazing. Shelby is a great opponent, she's done so well in the US Open and she's had a great week so I knew it was going to be a tough match,\" the Briton said in her on-court interview.\n\n\"But I'm so happy to have come through and have managed to overcome some of the nerves at the beginning.\"\n\nRaducanu shakes off nerves on the big stage\n\nRaducanu arrived on court with a huge smile, waving to the crowd and looking relaxed, but early nerves kicked in on a court that can house 24,000 people and where greats of the game including American Billie Jean King and Britain's Virginia Wade were watching on.\n\nShe was broken in the first game and was in danger of going 3-0 down before digging deep for a gritty hold in her second service game, where she saved two break points.\n\nThat hold seemed to calm her nerves and she swiftly moved up the gears to take complete control of the match against the world number 43, who had upset world number one Ashleigh Barty in the previous round.\n\nRogers got a consolation game on the board in the second set and held off three match points but in the end it was the American who looked shell-shocked by the occasion as Raducanu reached a maiden Grand Slam quarter-final.\n\nThe last British woman to win a Grand Slam singles trophy was Wade at Wimbledon in 1977 and Raducanu told her: \"Thank you so much for watching my match. I really appreciate it, you're an absolute legend so I'm really honoured to have you here. I will just do my best and see how it goes.\"\n\nMaths is adding up for Raducanu\n\nRaducanu's run at Wimbledon had come to a premature end when she had to retire from her last-16 match against Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic because she was suffering dizziness and struggling with her breathing.\n\nAfterwards she said the whole experience of the Wimbledon run \"caught up\" with her.\n\nJust weeks later she reached her maiden WTA final and also received her A Level results - an A* in maths and an A in economics.\n\nShe did not need those qualifications to work out how the numbers added up against Rogers, where the Briton hit only 14 unforced errors compared to Rogers' 29, as well as unleashing 18 winners in a 66-minute encounter.\n\nRaducanu, who was ranked 338th before she arrived at Wimbledon in June, will break into the world's top 100 when the rankings are next released after the US Open.\n\nThat would mean she would gain automatic entry into Grand Slams and depending on how far she goes in New York she could even jump above Heather Watson and Johanna Konta to become British number one.\n\nShe will also earn at least $425,000 (£307,000) for reaching the quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows to add to the £181,000 she took home in prize money from Wimbledon.\n\nDespite facing an American at their home major, Raducanu enjoyed strong support from the crowd on the main show court, with her brilliant form having also attracted local fans to pack out her earlier matches on smaller courts.\n\nShe may have been expecting to face Wimbledon champion Barty in this match but Rogers had put paid to that and the American said her exertions in the previous round had told in a \"pretty embarrassing\" performance against Raducanu.\n\n\"It took everything I had to beat Barty. I guess that was a little apparent today,\" Rogers, 28, told a news conference.\n\n\"The tank was a little bit empty. She [Raducanu] has been doing a lot of great stuff but I don't think she had much of a challenge today.\n\n\"It was a tough day at the office.\"\n\nRaducanu, who has dropped only 15 games across her four main-draw matches, will take on 11th seed Bencic on Wednesday and with her last three victories coming against players ranked in the 40s, facing the Swiss will be a big step up just a few weeks after the 24-year-old took gold at Tokyo 2020.\n\n\"Belinda's a great player who's in great form so I know I'm going to have to bring it on Wednesday,\" said Raducanu, who will be seeking to become the first British woman to reach a Grand Slam singles semi-final since Konta at the 2019 French Open.\n\n'It's impossible not to get excited' - reaction\n\nMiles Maclagan, former British Davis Cup player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"There is something special about Raducanu and the way she takes it all in. My first encounter with Andy Murray was when he was 16 at Roland Garros and he wasn't overawed by being there, and she reminds me of that. Where is the limit? We just don't know quite yet.\"\n\nDavid Law, commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"It's impossible not to be excited. I'm scared to be too full of it over a young player for fear of pulling her into the final before she's even got to the semis, but what it feels like watching this is what it felt like watching Iga Swiatek go all the way at the French Open [in 2020].\n\n\"Raducanu has just won a Grand Slam's worth of tennis matches to get to this point, with qualifying and four matches, and she hasn't dropped a set. Bencic will be a really tough match but Raducanu is making this look easy.\"\n\nNaomi Broady, British player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"After speaking to Emma before Wimbledon, what struck me was the foresight and the belief that she could already get through.\n\n\"She's got that self-belief before she's even gone into her first Grand Slam and it's why I'm not surprised or shocked that she's got here. It's right to be excited - not just necessarily about the future, but about what she is doing right here, right now. The composure and mentality Raducanu shows in these situations is way beyond her years.\"\n• None It's almost impossible not to play along...\n• None Do you have bizarre dreams? Scarlett investigates if they really have any meaning", "The move means Bitcoin will be accepted everywhere for goods and services alongside the US dollar\n\nEl Salvador has become the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender in a move that has got the nation and the world debating the opportunities and dangers of cryptocurrency.\n\nFrom today, businesses will be obliged where possible to accept the controversial digital coins as payment.\n\nMillions of people are expected to download the government's new digital wallet app which gives away $30 (£22) in Bitcoin to every citizen.\n\nBitcoin fans around the world have been buying $30 worth of the digital coins as a show of support and to help boost the value of the volatile currency.\n\nSalvadorian taxi driver Daniel Hercules, who's 26, is excited by the move, but also worried about how stable his earnings will be.\n\nTaxi driver Daniel Hercules has been accepting Bitcoin for weeks but is worried about its stability\n\n\"I've accepted Bitcoin for about two months since I knew this was coming. I just had someone pay me $40 in Bitcoin for a fare to the airport but it's rare. Only around 10% of customers prefer to pay with Bitcoin.\"\n\nDaniel says the cost of converting Bitcoin into the local currency - the US dollar - is high at 10%, so he is using the money like a savings account.\n\nHe hopes to grow his wallet to around $1,000 in Bitcoin but is scared about the currency crashing.\n\n\"It is one of the things that worries me the most. Losing money from long days of work would not be OK.\"\n\nThe value of Bitcoin has risen and fallen dramatically in the last year.\n\nIt went from about $10,000 for a single coin in September 2020 to a high of $63,000 in April 2021 then falling to $30,000 in July this year.\n\nThe value of Bitcoin has risen in recent weeks to $51,000 which some analysts have linked to the El Salvador news.\n\nOn Monday, a viral post on the three-million-strong Bitcoin page on Reddit read: \"So… We all buying $30 worth of Bitcoin on Tuesday?\"\n\nHowever, a survey by the Central American University (UCA) found that only 4.8% of the 1,281 people who took part understood what Bitcoin was and how it was used.\n\nMore than 68% of those questioned said they disagreed with using cryptocurrency as a legal tender.\n\nJeanette Sandoval, 70, sells groceries for home delivery with her son. She says she will not be getting involved.\n\nBusinesswoman Jeanette Sandoval is sceptical about her country's adoption of Bitcoin\n\n\"I have always been open to change, but this time I do not agree. Our customers says they will not be paying in Bitcoin.\n\n\"In my country there are many people who are illiterate and hardly have a cell phone, not an intelligent one, but one of the old ones. They will not use it.\n\n\"At the moment, I am not going to download the application, but one day I will have to. I am not interested in those$30 that they will give away, I prefer, and I have always done, with the sweat of my shirt to earn my money.\"\n\nMore than 200 new cash machines are being installed across the country to enable dollars to be converted into Bitcoin.\n\nRecent protests in the capital, San Salvador, have demonstrated a lack of confidence among citizens who feel the measure is a distraction from the government's controversial rule.\n\nMany governments around the world, such as China, are going in the opposite direction and attempting to restrict the adoption of cryptocurrency with increased regulations.\n\nHowever, former El Salvadorian resident and now US-based Bitcoin enthusiast Gerson Martinez thinks El Salvador won't be the last country to adopt Bitcoin.\n\n\"It's hard to describe the hope and joy it makes me feel that our country is the first domino to fall in this inevitable transition. What a time to be a Salvadoran,\" he said.", "Lamara Bell and John Yuill were found inside their car after it crashed down an embankment off the M9\n\nPolice Scotland has been fined £100,000 after admitting that failures in its call-handling system \"materially contributed\" to a woman's death following a car crash in 2015.\n\nIt took officers three days to arrive at the scene after the accident on the M9 was reported by a farmer.\n\nBy then, driver John Yuill had died and his girlfriend Lamara Bell was seriously hurt. She died in hospital.\n\nMs Bell's mother, Diane, said her daughter now \"has justice\".\n\nThe High Court in Edinburgh was told that the mother-of-two would probably have survived if she had been found sooner.\n\nDiane Bell said it was a relief that Police Scotland had admitted being at fault\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone said he apologised \"unreservedly\" on behalf of policing in Scotland.\n\nPolice Scotland pled guilty to a charge under the Health and Safety Act on Tuesday and admitted \"corporate criminal liability\".\n\nThe force admitted that between 1 April 2013 and 1 March 2016 it:\n\nAs a result, on 5 July 2015 a police officer at the Bilston Glen call-handling centre failed to record on an IT system the report from a farmer that a car was at the bottom of an embankment off the M9 near Stirling.\n\nThat led to Ms Bell and her boyfriend Mr Yuill lying in the car for three days, \"unaided and exposed to the elements\".\n\nThe force admitted that the delay \"materially contributed\" to Ms Bell's death in hospital on 12 July.\n\nThe court heard that she had suffered serious injuries to her skull and brain and developed acute meningitis.\n\nThe car had skidded down a steep embankment into a field\n\nThe judge, Lord Beckett, said it was \"unprecedented\" for the police service of Scotland to have been accused and convicted in the High Court.\n\n\"This case arose from terrible events in which two relatively young people died, one of them after days of severe physical suffering when she must have been in an almost unimaginable state of anxiety,\" he said.\n\n\"As days and hours went by she must have been in a state of disbelief that no help arose.\"\n\nProsecutor Ashley Edwards QC said: \"Various experts from a range of specialisms agreed that had Lamara Bell been admitted to hospital within six to eight hours of her primary injury, the secondary complications of the injury leading to her death would have been easier to manage and would have been substantially avoided.\n\n\"This would in all probability have led to her survival, albeit with some long-term neurological disability.\"\n\nMs Bell's mother Diane said it was a \"huge relief\" that Police Scotland had \"finally admitted being at fault for Lamara's death\".\n\nShe said: \"The absence of answers and recognition has been the biggest strain because it is the not knowing that has made everything worse.\n\n\"But the important thing now is that today we have the conviction.\n\n\"Finally, we can say - Lamara has justice.\"\n\nIain Livingstone, who became chief constable in 2018, said Police Scotland had \"failed Lamara and John\" in its duty to keep people safe.\n\nHe said: \"On behalf of policing in Scotland, I apologise unreservedly to their families.\n\n\"And if the families agree to do so, I would welcome the opportunity to meet with them, when they are ready, to personally convey my apology.\"\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone attended the hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh\n\nThe court heard Mr Yuill and Ms Bell went on a camping trip to Loch Earn with friends on Saturday 4 July 2015.\n\nMr Yuill, who held a provisional licence, was driving his car, supervised by a friend with a full licence.\n\nThe following morning he drove off with Ms Bell, leaving the others sleeping.\n\nWhen they failed to return home by evening, their parents called police to report them missing.\n\nMs Edwards told the court a member of the public noticed a blue car partly obscured by bushes off the M9 motorway and called police at 11:29 on 5 July to report it.\n\nShe said: \"The call handler did not create an incident for this call on the Storm system. He made a note of it in his book but the information was not transferred to Storm.\n\n\"The M9 call handler said an incident should have been created in Storm.\"\n\nThe court heard that on 8 July another member of the public noticed a blue car at the bottom of the embankment and went to investigate.\n\nMs Edwards said: \"On closer inspection, he saw it was a blue car with two occupants.\n\n\"He saw a female moving her arms and moaning.\n\n\"She said: 'Help me, get me out'. He tried to reassure her and called 999.\"\n\nJohn Yuill's father Gordon was in court to hear the guilty plea\n\nEmergency services attended and Ms Bell, who was in the passenger seat, was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries, while Mr Yuill was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe court heard there had been no previous concerns about the call handler's work and that the incident was due to \"human error\".\n\nIn the early part of 2015, police control centres in Glenrothes and Stirling were closed and their work transferred to Bilston Glen.\n\nA report later that year said there had been concerns about insufficient staffing, which had led to low levels of performance.\n\nSir Stephen House, who was chief constable at the time, stood down from his post later in 2015.\n\nMurdo Macleod QC, representing Police Scotland, said that reviews of the call-handling system were carried out in the wake of the tragedy and that the 38 recommendations had been implemented in full.\n\nHe said: \"Through significant investment in time and resources, concerted efforts have been made to ensure robust measures are in place to mitigate the risks and lessen the risk that something else might happen again.\"\n\nThe Scottish government noted that Police Scotland had now admitted \"criminal liability for failings in relation to its call-handling service and apologised to the families\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Ministers acted swiftly following the tragic events in 2015 to direct Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary to undertake an independent review of call handling in Police Scotland's Contact, Command and Control Division.\n\n\"The review resulted in 30 recommendations for improvement and since then the Inspectorate has worked closely with Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority to implement wide-ranging changes, including the introduction of a single national command and control system.\n\n\"The Inspectorate noted the considerable priority Police Scotland attached to its work in implementing all 30 of the recommendations.\"", "While today's announcement have been being made, we've been speaking to people about what they think should change.\n\nJeanie Chalmers’s grandmother has been living in a care home since February, after she fell ill with Covid.\n\nHer grandmother’s savings meant she did not qualify for support in paying for social care and the monthly fees are about £5,000. They have sold her home to pay the costs so far.\n\nJeanie, 44, says the system urgently needs addressing as the costs are unsustainable.\n\nShe supports the idea that the amount someone pays for care over their lifetime should be capped - but suggests the cap should be about £35,000 as suggested in a review 10 years ago.\n\nThe government has announced today that there will be a cap of £86,000.\n\nJeanie says: \"If she was aware of how much [her social care] cost her, she would be horrified.\n\n\"The costs are around £5,000 a month. How is this sustainable? She could live another 10 years.\n\n\"We are happy to pay the food and accommodation costs of course, but it’s the care side that needs paying by the government.\n\n\"I’m hopeful that something positive comes out of the announcement today.\n\n\"For us, it’s so much on our mind at the moment. Everything seems to be stacked against us which is why I’m so glad they’re reviewing things to do.”", "Temperatures hit 27C on Monday in Wales - and are set to go higher\n\nWales is set to bask in sunshine as temperatures soar on Tuesday - but enjoy it while it lasts.\n\nParts of south-east Wales will hit 28C (82.4F) - with Monmouthshire tipped to be the warmest area.\n\nAmbulance crews have urged the public to take care in the heat after more than 4,000 emergency calls over the last weekend - one every 40 seconds.\n\nBut forecasters said the weather will break on Wednesday, with a warning issued for thunderstorms.\n\nTemperatures reached 27C (81F) on Monday in Cardiff, Monmouthshire and Powys, making it the warmest day in Wales since late July.\n\nIt followed a cool and cloudy August, with average temperatures of 16.5C (61.7F).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sue Charles This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it needed the public's help to \"ensure that the pressures we face are not exacerbated by the weather\".\n\n\"Hot weather means your body has to work harder to keep its core temperature to normal levels, and this puts extra strain on your heart, lungs and kidneys,\" said Lee Brooks, the ambulance trust's director of operations.\n\n\"This means that you can be at greater risk if you have a pre-existing heart or respiratory condition, like asthma or angina.\n\n\"It's really important to keep cool and stay hydrated, and if you're out and about, please look after yourself and those with you.\"\n\nThe mini-heatwave has also prompted the RNLI to ask people to \"keep safe\" if they were heading out on the coast.\n\n'Many of us will be looking forward to enjoying some late summer sun before we head into autumn but it's so important we know how to keep ourselves and our families safe,\" said one of the lifesaving charity's officials.\n\n'We urge people to be aware of the dangers of the coast and what to do in an emergency.\"\n\nMeteorologist Claire Nasir said she expected temperatures to be higher in Wales on Tuesday and Wednesday, before slowly waning as the week progresses.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Cardiff & Vale UHB This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Temperature today could be higher than yesterday,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's a blessing really, because the kids have gone back to school, the beaches will be a bit emptier, and those of us who can step out, can enjoy some beautiful blue sky and high temperatures - which is not a bad thing.\"\n\nWith a temperature of 27.1C (80.8F) on Monday - Monmouthshire was one of the warmest places in Wales\n\nAcross other parts of the UK, temperatures could be even higher, with Met Office forecasters predicting highs of up to 30C (86F) for some parts of central and eastern England.\n\nBut despite the glorious weather, no-one is expecting records to be broken.\n\nThe highest temperature so far this year in Wales was 31.2C (88.1F) at Gogerddan, near Aberystwyth on 22 July.\n\nWales record temperature recorded was 35.2C (95.4F) back in August 1990 at Hawarden Bridge in Flintshire, while the top temperature for September in Wales was 32.3C (90F) in the same spot - but you have to go back to 1906 for that - one of the UK's most exceptional heatwaves on record.\n\nA yellow weather alert is in force for parts of Wales from 10:00 BST on Wednesday\n\nSun lovers are being urged to make the most of the conditions, with a weather warning for thunderstorms issued by the Met Office for Wednesday.\n\nAn area of showers is expected to mover north across south-west England and into south Wales during the morning.\n\nForecasters said while many areas will see little rainfall, there is a chance of some heavy and thundery downpours developing, with lightning, particularly in the afternoon.\n\nIn those areas hit, there could be up to 50mm (2in) of rain, though the Met Office said \"only a few spots\" would see that much.\n\nThe warning is in force from 10:00 BST on Wednesday until 20:00, covering south and south-west Wales.\n\nA second thunderstorm warning has also been issued for the whole of Wales on Thursday, between 11:00 and 20:00.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows lorry clipping the kiosk as it passed\n\nThree ferry staff members had a lucky escape when the kiosk they were working in was flattened by a passing HGV.\n\nPassengers and other staff members rushed to help when the lorry struck the kiosk at Town Quay in Southampton shortly before 13:00 BST.\n\nRed Funnel said three staff members were inside at the time. One woman was taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nIt warned of disruption to road traffic and sailings to and from the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe crash was captured on a webcam located in a nearby building.\n\nThe check-in kiosk was completely demolished by the impact\n\nIt showed other staff members and members of the public running towards the kiosk when it was demolished by the lorry, which was apparently attempting to park.\n\nA Red Funnel statement said: \"Three Red Funnel colleagues were inside a check in kiosk which was struck by a HGV this afternoon.\n\n\"Our priority is the safety of our team members and passengers, and although there are no significant injuries, both police and ambulance services are in attendance as a precaution.\n\n\"The incident area has now been secured and we are currently operating a shuttle service to clear traffic as quickly as possible.\"\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said three people were treated at the scene for non-life threatening injuries, with one then taken to hospital for further treatment.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said no arrests had been made.\n\nSailings to and from the Isle of Wight were disrupted as work was carried out to clear the debris\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) has confirmed Wales fans will be allowed to travel to October's World Cup qualifiers in Czech Republic and Estonia.\n\nThe FAW has had confirmation from Fifa after Uefa lifted a ban on away fans attending European club matches.\n\nTravel and numbers allowed to attend games will be subject to restrictions by local and national authorities.\n\nBoth Czech Republic and Estonia are on the UK government's amber list.\n\nThe Welsh government has its own Covid-19 related requirements for people travelling to and from Wales.\n\nTravel advice for both Estonia and Czech Republic is that anyone arriving from the UK is exempt from self-isolation rules on entry if they have had two vaccinations.\n\nWales manager Rob Page welcomed the easing of travel restrictions for their fans.\n\n\"It's not just that they go and see the game, it's an experience for them, they go for the weekend some of them and make a thing of it,\" he said.\n\n\"For them its nice, for us as a team it's nice to have the supporters with you all the way - they are the extra man that you need sometimes when you have to dig deep, certainly away from home.\"\n\nEuropean football's governing body Uefa and global counterparts Fifa had ruled that no away fans were permitted at this month's international matches in Europe because of a \"spike\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nThis included Wales' friendly against Finland in Helsinki, while the World Cup qualifier against Belarus was played behind closed doors after being switched to the Russian city of Kazan.\n\nWhile a small number of Wales fans were able to find ways to attend games in Amsterdam, Baku and Rome, they were largely restricted from travelling to games at the summer's Euro 2020 Championship.\n• None Reversing the trend of girls in Wales dropping out of sport\n• None Vicki Blight investigates the impact of social media in sport", "August saw the lowest figure for proposed job cuts for seven years, despite the imminent end of the government's furlough scheme.\n\nFigures published by the Insolvency Service show that British employers planned 12,687 job cuts in August, a fall of 11% since July.\n\nThe data suggests that the predicted surge in unemployment this autumn may be smaller than expected.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, firms proposed over 150,000 job cuts a month.\n\nEmployers planning to make 20 or more staff redundant have to notify the Insolvency Service when they start the process.\n\nThe number of cuts they propose gives an early indication of where the job market is heading, long before official unemployment data, which is several months behind.\n\nAugust was the first month in which firms with staff on furlough were required to pay 20% of their wages, as well as pension and National Insurance contributions.\n\nThe scheme ends altogether at the end of September - at this point employers will have to decide whether to pay all their workers' wages themselves, or let them go.\n\nThe latest available data shows that 1.9 million workers were still on furlough at the end of June, and experts had predicted that many of them would end up being made redundant.\n\nBut just 12,687 job cuts were proposed in August - the lowest number for seven years.\n\nSo an autumn surge seems less likely now, said Tony Wilson, director of the Institute for Employment Studies.\n\n\"Given the exceptionally high labour demand and fewer people in the labour market due to the crisis and Brexit, unemployment is going to keep falling back over the next few months even as the furlough scheme winds up,\" he said.\n\n\"The end of furlough may well slow or reverse that decline, but the biggest issues in the labour market now are that there's not enough workers rather than not enough jobs.\"\n\nA number of companies have been reporting problems finding enough workers, with the employers' organisation the CBI warning that staff shortages could last another two years.\n\nVacancies are at record highs as employers struggle to find workers\n\nThe number of vacancies is at a record high, according to recent figures.\n\nThe low number of redundancies being proposed is yet another piece of evidence that the UK jobs market is rebounding much more strongly than experts had dared to hope a year ago.\n\nIn total, 201 forms notifying redundancies were filed by 143 different employers. Both are among the lowest figures on record.\n\nUntil recently, figures for proposed redundancies were not routinely published in the UK, except in Northern Ireland.\n\nLast year the BBC began requesting these figures through the Freedom of Information Act, revealing the extraordinary increase in redundancy plans through the spring and summer of 2020.\n\nThis year, the Insolvency Service has started to publish these figures every month on its website.\n\nThe data only covers firms proposing 20 or more job cuts, so smaller firms are not picked up by these figures. Employers sometimes end up making fewer redundancies than they initially propose, but they cannot make more than they propose.\n\nThe figures are not classified as Official Statistics, which are subject to rigorous quality control procedures.\n\nData for Northern Ireland is published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency as part of its monthly Labour Market Report.", "The BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has asked the prime minister if the Conservatives are still a low tax party.\n\nThe question came at a press conference after the government announced increases to taxation, which will take the UK's tax burden on workers to the highest for 40 years.\n\nThe government is raising taxes to pay give the NHS and social care sector an additional £36bn.\n\nLabour's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, said that the plans amounted to a \"sticking plaster\".", "The ruling could pave the way for the decriminalisation of abortions across the country\n\nMexico's Supreme Court has ruled that criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies are unconstitutional.\n\nThe ruling, for the northern state of Coahuila, prevents women from being prosecuted for getting an abortion.\n\nAbortion is currently severely restricted in all but four of the country's states.\n\nSupreme Court Justice Luis Maria Aguilar described the move as a \"historic step for the rights of women\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the court ordered the state of Coahuila to remove sanctions for abortion from its criminal code.\n\nThe decision could pave the way for the decriminalisation of abortions across the country.\n\nCurrently, abortion is only legal in a handful of states, except in cases of rape or where the mother's life is in danger.\n\nA judicial source said the ruling will affect the whole of Mexico, allowing women in states where abortion is criminalised to undergo the procedure with a judge's order.\n\nThe Information Group on Reproductive Choice (GIRE), which campaigns for abortion rights, described the decision as \"historic\".\n\n\"We hope that throughout the country women and people with the ability to carry a child have the conditions and freedom to determine their reproductive destiny,\" it said.\n\nCoahuila borders the US state of Texas, where the Supreme Court allowed a state law banning all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.\n\nThe ruling could open up avenues for people from Texas seeking legal abortions.\n\nThe decision to decriminalise abortion in what is Latin America's second largest Catholic nation might appear surprising.\n\nHowever, the debate in Mexico has been gradually moving towards removing the illegality for some time.\n\nHigh profile protests by feminist and women's rights campaigners have underlined the need for greater reproductive rights in Mexico.\n\nSpecifically, the Supreme Court was asked to rule on a law in the northern state of Coahuila which punishes women who have illegal abortions with jail terms of up to three years.\n\nThe 11 Supreme Court judges unanimously voted to decriminalise abortion in that state, and under Mexican law, it will now apply to all the other states in the country.\n\nIt is likely to take some time to be applied across the nation, but in effect the decision provides each state with a roadmap towards new legislation.\n\nFurthermore, it should mean that women who were jailed for having abortions will be immediately released.\n\nThe decision is likely to anger more conservative politicians in Mexico and the Catholic Church. However, the church's influence has been waning in recent years and the government considers itself staunchly secular.", "A packed RNLI lifeboat arrived on the beach in Dungeness earlier\n\nSeveral young children were among a large group of migrants seen being brought ashore after trying to cross the English Channel.\n\nA packed lifeboat was pictured arriving on the beach in Dungeness, Kent, before officials led the passengers away.\n\nA steady stream of crossings was thought to be have taken place amid calm waters and sunny skies.\n\nThe Home Office would not confirm the number of migrants picked up on Monday \"until all events were concluded\".\n\nDan O'Mahoney, Clandestine Channel Threat Commander, said: \"This unacceptable rise in dangerous crossings is being driven by criminal gangs and a surge in illegal migration across Europe.\n\n\"We're determined to target the criminals at every level.\"\n\nOn Sunday, 158 people were picked up in four boats, four days after another seven people were \"intercepted\".\n\nA long line of people made their way along the beach at Dungeness\n\nThat brought the total of people arriving in small boats so far in 2021 to more than 12,500. Just over 8,400 arrived in 2020.\n\nHowever, the UK continues to see far fewer boat arrivals and asylum claims than many of its European counterparts.\n\nEarlier in Parliament, answering a question from Conservative MP Jacob Young, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our friends across the Channel in France are faced with a very difficult problem.\n\n\"A large number of people want to come to this country, and we are doing everything we can to encourage the French to do the necessary and impede their passage.\n\n\"But I know the Home Secretary is working right around the clock to ensure that we not only encourage the French to stiffen their sinews and stop people making the journey, but we use every possible tactic available to us as well.\"\n\nA man carried a child on his shoulders as he was led away by officials\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drivers use CCTV to check the sides of the trains before they move off\n\nA man who fell into the gap between the train and platform while getting off a London Underground service was not seen by two drivers, a report has found.\n\nHe was crushed by the Tube train he had been on and then hit by another one. He died at the scene.\n\nThe curve of the track meant the passenger was difficult to detect on the drivers' CCTV, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) found.\n\nIt happened on the Bakerloo line at Waterloo station in May 2020.\n\nThe RAIB has made several safety recommendations to London Underground.\n\nThe accident, which happened mid-morning during the first coronavirus lockdown, took place when there were no staff or other passengers to help. When the man was unable to free himself the train left with him still in the gap, crushing him as it moved off.\n\nHe had been trapped for more than a minute before the train departed. Only his head and arm had been above platform level, and so the passenger was difficult to detect using monitors.\n\nHe then lay motionless for a further minute and a half before being hit by the second train as it entered the station, the report said.\n\nThe driver of that train was unaware of the passenger because their attention was focused on the platform and the train's stopping point, the report said.\n\nCurved platforms can make it difficult for drivers to see passengers getting on or off trains\n\nThe RAIB found that London Underground's risk assessments did not identify extra risks caused by curved platforms at certain stops.\n\nThe investigation found that the model used by London Underground to assess safety issues relating to what the RAIB calls the \"platform-train interface\" did not take into account non-fatal injuries. Therefore, the model understated the risk to passengers in such scenarios and presented an \"incomplete picture\" of it.\n\nThe three recommendations made by the branch:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's information commissioner is to ask some of the most powerful countries in the world to join forces against cookie pop-ups online.\n\nElizabeth Denham will meet with her counterparts in the G7 (Group of Seven) nations on Tuesday.\n\nEach country will raise a technology problem they believe can be solved with closer co-operation, with Ms Denham taking aim at cookie banners.\n\n\"No single country can tackle this issue alone,\" Ms Denham said.\n\n\"That is why I am calling on my G7 colleagues to use our convening power. Together we can engage with technology firms and standards organisations to develop a co-ordinated approach to this challenge.\"\n\nCookie pop-ups are widely disliked by internet users and businesses - who see them as an annoying obstacle - and by privacy advocates, who believe so-called \"dark patterns\" trick people into accepting privacy invasions, rather than read through pages of settings on every website.\n\n\"I often hear people say they are tired of having to engage with so many cookie pop-ups,\" Ms Denham said. \"That fatigue is leading to people giving more personal data than they would like.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - the UK's national data watchdog - said it would pitch a \"vision for the future\".\n\nIn it, web browsers or even device-wide settings will \"allow people to set lasting privacy preferences of their choosing, rather than having to do that through pop-ups every time they visit a website\".\n\nThat would \"ensure people's privacy preferences are respected\" while improving the experience, it said.\n\nThe ICO said it believes such an approach is \"already technologically possible and compliant with data protection law\".\n\nHowever, achieving it would require co-operation among different technology firms or standards organisations.\n\nThere is already a considerable amount of debate over the future of tracking cookies, with Apple limiting them by default in its software and Google pursuing a new standard that does not have the buy-in of other software makers.\n\nThe ICO said it believes that the combined weight of the G7 authorities \"could have a major impact\" in steering big tech firms to develop a solution.\n\nJim Killock, the executive director of Open Rights Group, said that even though the ICO's proposal was something he supported, \"most\" cookie banners were already breaking UK law.\n\n\"If the ICO wants to sort out cookie banners then it should follow its own conclusions and enforce the law,\" he said.\n\n\"We have waited for over two years now for the ICO to deal with this, and now they are asking the G7 to do their job for them. That is simply outrageous.\"\n\nMs Denham is now the outgoing commissioner.\n\nIn late August, the government announced plans to replace her with current New Zealand Privacy Commissioner John Edwards - while Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden fired an opening salvo in the war on cookie pop-ups.\n\nHe told the Telegraph that the new commissioner would \"shake up\" data rules, including promising to do something about cookies.\n\nMr Dowden suggested that \"high risk\" sites would still need similar notices, but that many of them are \"pointless\" - and said that such changes are a \"prize\" of leaving the EU.\n\nPrivacy expert Pat Walshe said: \"It increasingly seems to me that the ICO is captured by government.\"\n\n\"So called 'cookie pop ups'... are a manifestation of an underlying business model based on the intrusion and erosion of privacy online. That underlying privacy eroding model and technology should be the focus.\"\n\n\"The ICO conducted a study on ad-tech - it's not made one bit of difference and has not enhanced privacy online at all,\" he said.\n\nThe UK is expected to adhere to similar privacy standards as the EU as part of an agreement over \"data adequacy\" - a complex area governing how private information is stored and shared across borders.\n\nBut the G7, as a collection of some of the world's wealthiest liberal democracies, has members both inside and outside the EU.\n\nMs Denham will be making her pitch to the privacy regulators in Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and Germany.\n\nAny co-ordinated solution would probably take a long time to be rolled out, because new internet standards usually have a long formal process.\n\nUntil then, Ms Denham said she - as the regulator, \"expect[s] businesses to comply with current laws\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says SNP-Green deal is 'a leap of faith'\n\nThe power-sharing deal between the SNP and Scottish Greens is a \"leap of faith\" for both parties, Nicola Sturgeon has told MSPs.\n\nThe first minister was speaking as Holyrood approved the appointment of Green politicians to ministerial office for the first time anywhere in the UK.\n\nShe said the pact could represent \"a new and better way of doing politics\".\n\nHolyrood's other parties hit out at the deal, saying it was more about pursuing independence than the environment.\n\nHowever the SNP-Green majority in parliament was able to vote through the appointment of Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater as junior ministers in the Scottish government.\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that the Greens will no longer have a leaders question at First Minister's Questions or an automatic speaking slot at the start and end of Holyrood debates.\n\nThe co-operation agreement between the SNP and Scottish Greens was hammered out during the parliament's summer recess.\n\nIt technically falls short of a full coalition arrangement, with a range of areas set aside where the parties will be allowed to disagree over the coming years.\n\nHowever, it does see Green MSPs enter government, with co-leaders Mr Harvie and Ms Slater taking up posts focused on zero-carbon homes and green jobs.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that the deal was \"a milestone in this parliament's progress\", and a \"commitment to a new and better way of doing politics\".\n\nShe said it was \"the product of much negotiation and some compromise, and also a leap of faith for both parties\" - but \"one we are taking willingly and for the common good\".\n\nThe first minister said the deal would \"provide the strong platform needed to deliver the transformative policies that will build a greener, fairer country and make people's lives better\".\n\nAnd she said delivering an independence referendum inside the current parliamentary term would be a \"key strand\" of the pact, saying there was an \"undeniable\" mandate for this.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the deal was a \"leap of faith\" for the SNP and Greens, but one taken \"for the common good\"\n\nOne consequence of the deal has been that the Greens will have fewer opportunities to ask questions and table debates at Holyrood.\n\nThey will no longer have a regular place in the weekly session of First Minister's Questions or the right to respond to ministerial statements, and will have their allocation of \"short money\" funds cut.\n\nHowever the remaining five Green MSPs on the back benches will still be able to table questions - with Mark Ruskell demonstrating this after Ms Sturgeon's statement by intervening to praise the deal.\n\nOpposition parties were critical of the power-sharing arrangement, with Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross calling it a \"nationalist coalition with one overriding goal - separating Scotland from the UK\".\n\nHe said the SNP had needed to do the deal as they \"failed to get a majority\" in May's election, and said it would \"hammer everyone who works hard, everyone who runs a business and everyone who owns a vehicle\".\n\nScottish Labour's Anas Sarwar said the move was \"more about the constitution than the climate\".\n\nHe said the pact was \"not about delivering accountability and transparency\", but about \"greater control for Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP\".\n\nAnd Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the agreement was \"thin gruel for the Green Party\", claiming the \"SNP have barely had to budge\" on key policies such as education.\n• None Who are the new Scottish Green ministers?", "Fawziyah Javed died after falling from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman who fell from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.\n\nKashif Anwar, 27, made no plea as he appeared in private during a short hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.\n\nMr Anwar, of West Yorkshire, was remanded in custody and the case was continued for further examination.\n\nEmergency services were called to the landmark at about 21:00 but Ms Javed died at the scene.\n\nMs Javed worked at a charity which provided food and help for homeless people\n\nColleagues at a Yorkshire charity where Ms Javed had worked to help homeless people since 2015 described her as a \"genuine and very kind-hearted person\".\n\nOsman Gondal, chief executive of the InTouch Foundation, said: \"We have lost a community champion - somebody who had a passion and drive to help people that were in need.\"\n\nHe said Ms Javed volunteered at a number of other charities as well as InTouch, and that made her a \"very unique type of person\".\n\nMr Gondal said: \"You can have people who volunteer for, maybe, a day once a month.\n\n\"But whenever we needed her, she would always get involved.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Yuill and Lamara Bell were found in the car three days after the crash was first reported\n\nPolice Scotland is to change the way it handles calls to 101 and 999 services.\n\nIt follows a report from HM Inspector of Constabulary which recommended improvements to the way risk and vulnerability of callers was assessed.\n\nIndependent watchdogs have also highlighted failures in a number of cases in which vulnerable people have been found dead despite calls for help.\n\nPolice chiefs said the new approach would improve the force's ability to despatch officers to urgent incidents.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable John Hawkins said all calls would be dealt with individually after assessing the risk and vulnerability posed to the caller.\n\nAn inquiry into police call-handling was ordered in the wake of a crash on the M9 in 2015 in which two people died after police call handlers failed to pass on an accident report.\n\nLamara Bell was discovered critically injured in the crashed car and had been in the vehicle next to her dead partner John Yuill for three days. She died later in hospital.\n\nThe inspector's report highlighted weaknesses in the roll-out of Police Scotland's new call handling system and made 30 recommendations for improvement.\n\nCall-handling officers will carry out an enhanced risk assessment\n\nPolice Scotland has now said officers in its service centre will undergo specialist training to make an \"enhanced assessment of threat, risk, harm and vulnerability\" for every caller.\n\nThey said the information from the \"enhanced assessment\" would determine the most appropriate and proportionate police response.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Hawkins said: \"Every caller is different and our response should be too.\n\n\"The new approach will ensure we can provide better service to the public by taking more information from the caller so that we can make a more robust assessment of risk, threat and harm and vulnerability.\n\n\"The new model will also increase our ability to despatch police officers to urgent incidents, which means we can get to the people who need us most, when they need us most.\"\n\nThe assistant chief constable said the current response to calls to the 101 and 999 service was based on \"pre-determined policies, procedures and system grading\".\n\nHe said he wanted to get away from having a 'one size fits all' approach to certain types of calls.\n\n\"This means that we might deal with the same type of call differently depending on the needs of the caller, after assessing their vulnerability and the risk posed to them,\" he said.\n\n\"For example, we might send officers if an elderly person calls to report that their garden shed has been broken into, but someone who is in a less vulnerable situation may actually request that we set up an appointment at their convenience or that an officer calls them back.\"\n\nThe new approach will be introduced in phases, starting with Lanarkshire, and Dumfries and Galloway in summer 2019, prior to a proposed roll out across Scotland.", "The next Budget, along with the conclusions of the 2021 Spending Review, will be held on 27 October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe review will set out how much money government departments can expect to get over the next three years.\n\nAs part of the review, the Treasury has asked departments to identify \"at least 5% of savings and efficiencies from their day-to-day budgets\".\n\nMr Sunak said the review would keep finances on \"a sustainable path\".\n\nGovernments usually use the Budget to outline the state of the country's finances and propose tax changes.\n\nIt will be Mr Sunak's third Budget since he became chancellor and comes as the UK continues to deal with the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt also comes as the government announces what Institute for Fiscal Studies director Paul Johnson called \"the biggest tax rising year in many decades\" after the prime minister set out tax changes to raise £12bn a year for social care.\n\nThe Treasury said that, including the recent health and social care spending announcements, core department spending would grow in real terms \"at nearly 4% per year on average\" between 2021-2024.\n\nHowever, the Treasury also said that, due to coronavirus, it wanted to ensure taxpayers' money is well-spent and is therefore asking departments to identify 5% of potential savings.\n\nAnnouncing the date for the Budget, Mr Sunak said: \"Despite the worst economic recession in 300 years, we have not only got people back into work through the Plan for Jobs but continued to deliver on the priorities of the British people.\n\n\"At the Spending Review later this year, I will set out how we will continue to invest in public services and drive growth while keeping the public finances on a sustainable path.\"", "Almost 388,000 people have been waiting more than a year for an operation compared with 1,600 before the pandemic\n\nThe NHS in England will get an extra £5.4bn over the next six months to respond to Covid-19 and tackle the backlog caused by the pandemic, the government has announced.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the money would go \"straight to the front line\" and provide treatments people were not getting quickly enough.\n\nMore than 5 million people are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England.\n\nThe rest of the UK will get an extra £1bn in total, ministers said.\n\nThe £5.4bn, which is for England only, is broken down into:\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The NHS was there for us during the pandemic but treating Covid patients has created huge backlogs.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said the way the health service dealt with \"one of the biggest challenges in its history\" had been \"phenomenal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Sajid Javid says there will be £5.4bn extra for the NHS\n\nHe said the extra £5.4bn in England was critical to ensure the health service had what it needed to manage the ongoing pandemic and help tackle waiting lists.\n\nBut he warned waiting lists would get worse before they got better as people came forward for help, adding: \"I want to reassure you the NHS is open, and we are doing what we can to support the NHS to deliver routine operations and treatment to patients across the country.\"\n\nThe NHS is under sustained pressure as it grapples with a huge backlog of procedures put on hold due to Covid, with hundreds of thousands of people waiting more than a year.\n\nStaff shortages combined with infection-control measures that mean hospitals have fewer beds at their disposal have led to calls for a long-term funding settlement.\n\nLast month, Mr Javid predicted \"a huge increase in demand\" with patients who had stayed away during lockdown returning to the health service for overdue treatment.\n\nIn a report in August, the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimated up to 14 million people could be on waiting lists in England by next autumn.\n\nThe cash boost once again illustrates just what impact Covid has had. The NHS has already had close to an extra £10bn this year on top of the £136bn it was due to get.\n\nMinisters hope this will help the NHS get through what promises to be a difficult winter.\n\nNot only are hospitals having to cope with Covid, there are signs that the normal winter viruses will return with a bang.\n\nLast winter there was very little flu, while other viruses such as RSV, which hospitalises thousands of young children every year, were kept largely at bay by lockdowns and social distancing.\n\nThe result is that people's immunity to these viruses will have waned - or for the very young not had a chance to develop at all.\n\nThere is also the need to tackle the growing backlog in non-emergency care, such as knee and hip operations. The waiting list is already at record levels and the NHS still has not been able to get back to pre-pandemic levels of treatment.\n\nIt is why the extra money is being welcomed but some in the NHS are still wondering whether it will be enough.\n\nNHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said the money provided welcome certainty for the NHS, which had \"pulled out all the stops\" to restore services, while caring for thousands of seriously ill Covid patients requiring hospital treatment during the toughest summer on record.\n\n\"This additional investment will enable the NHS to deliver more checks, scans and procedures as well as helping to deal with the ongoing costs and pressures of the pandemic as the NHS heads in to winter,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Without the vaccine we would have been on our knees\"\n\n\"Bodies would start piling up\" if more people do not get vaccinated, a senior doctor has warned.\n\nDr George Gardiner said \"they would have been piling up already without the vaccine\".\n\n\"We are now facing winter pressures, Respiratory Syncytial Virus for children, the next wave of flu and Covid. We cannot do all,\" he added.\n\nSeven Covid patients were battling the virus - six of the men and women in their 20s, 40s and early 60s were unvaccinated.\n\nOne of them was double-jabbed.\n\n\"Without the vaccine we would have been on our knees weeks ago,\" Dr Gardiner said.\n\nDr George Gardiner has spoken candidly of the challenges faced by medical staff\n\n\"We would have cancelled surgery, like we had to the last time.\n\n\"We are now facing winter pressures, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) for children, the next wave of flu and a wave of Covid. We cannot do all.\n\n\"The bodies would start piling up, and they'd be piling up already without the vaccine.\"\n\nDr Gardiner has called for an end to \"tribal politics\" in Northern Ireland to allow transformation of the health service, so that cancer and coronavirus can be tackled in tandem.\n\nThe director of intensive care at Belfast City Hospital said the system was currently \"one step from chaos\" and warned hospitals will not cope with winter if Covid numbers continue to rise.\n\nNorthern Ireland has the highest infection rate of anywhere in the UK, but vaccine uptake is the lowest.\n\nA total of 2,465,965 jabs have been given out in Northern Ireland, with 86.1% of people aged 16 and over having had at least one jab.\n\nStaff are already under pressure, doctors say, even before the onslaught of winter illnesses\n\n\"We need to get everyone who can take a vaccine to take it now before the winter pressures are on us,\" Dr Gardiner added.\n\n\"The cancer surgery that we are doing at the minute is life saving. A few more Covid admissions, which could be prevented, will cause us to stop operating because we simply haven't got the capacity to do both.\"\n\nDuring this latest surge, the hospital's 14-bed ICU was divided in two.\n\nOn one side, doctors and nurses battled to help save the lives of those who have had serious surgery or major trauma.\n\nJust a few metres away, on the other side of a wall, they were battling Covid and Dr Gardiner said beds were \"at a premium\".\n\nIndeed, there was just one spare ICU bed for the patient whose surgery went ahead.\n\nOther operations were also cancelled.\n\nA number of members of staff can be involved in turning one Covid patient, to improve oxygen levels\n\nAccording to Dr Gardiner, chronic staff shortages meant specialist staff could not be spread across the Belfast Trust's three separate hospital sites.\n\nAnd one-to-one nursing care, the gold standard for ICU, was no longer possible.\n\nDr Gardiner said they were at \"the very limit with what we can achieve\".\n\n\"My biggest fear is that we won't be able to keep going with cancer surgery; that we will be overwhelmed with Covid admissions; with routine winter admissions and that we will have to stop routine cancer surgery.\n\n\"We do not want to be faced with having to ask or decide who is going to get their operation and who is not; who is going to get an ICU bed and who is not.\"\n\nIn Covid ICU - the hospital's \"red zone\" - the battle to save lives is constant.\n\nIt's hideously bright, stiflingly hot and the cacophony of hissing ventilators, beeping alarms and buzzing machinery bombard the senses.\n\nWhile the atmosphere is almost oppressive, each alert is a sign that the fight is not lost.\n\nAll patients are heavily sedated and hooked up to numerous pieces of medical equipment.\n\nNone are capable of speaking.\n\nOne-to-one nursing is the gold standard for intensive care treatment\n\nAt one point, it took seven staff to prone [turn] a woman in her 60s.\n\n\"That helps us to improve the oxygen level,\" explained consultant Martin Duffy.\n\n\"We have been doing it very frequently during the last 18 months.\"\n\nAt other beds, physiotherapists pumped chests, moved feet or arms while nurses dabbed ice lollies around the mouths of patients.\n\nNaomi Dalzell, a specialist respiratory ICU physio, said: \"These patients are often ventilated for four, five or six weeks or even more than that.\n\n\"They lose a significant amount of muscle strength while they are here. We start the rehab as early as we can [but] there's a long road ahead.\"\n\nJanette Ancog was among dozens who have been re-deployed to ICU, having usually worked as a nurse at Musgrave Park Hospital.\n\n\"It will be scary thinking ahead if the surge will go high again,\" she said, \"but we will just get through with it - we are here for each other.\"\n\nThe onslaught of another gruelling winter was also at the forefront of Emma Cody's mind.\n\nShe had just finished another challenging 12-hour nursing night shift and described the anxiety as \"immense\".\n\n\"I don't know how we are going to keep going at this level,\" she said. \"It's not sustainable. The burnout is immense.\n\n\"Everybody hits a breaking point and a lot of people have, and a lot of people will, still hit that. It is a worry.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in a high-dependency unit, cancer patient Michael McAliskey was grateful that the struggling system was still able to cope.\n\n\"I am in a lucky position where I got some treatment before I passed the point of no return,\" he said.\n\nDr Gardiner has appealed for political unity on the contentious issue of transforming the health service.\n\n\"I don't think there has been politics in the treatment of Covid or the way we have responded to it. Everyone has been behind that,\" he said.\n\n\"But now we need to move on and accept that in order to get cancer surgery done, to treat Covid, to treat emergencies, to treat all the things that we are expected to treat we need political support.\n\n\"We need public co-operation in their behaviour, their actions and understanding of what we are actually up against.\"", "A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there Image caption: A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there\n\nThe BBC is covering the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US, which led to the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan.\n\nThis is the story of Chris Cruz, who explains in an interview to BBC's OS programme why he decided to join the US army.\n\n\"My mother was heading to work on a normal 11 September day. As soon as she exited the subway, she was told to start running as the buildings were coming down. She literally saw them coming down and described people jumping out of the windows,\" says Chris.\n\n\"When she finally made it home, I - as an 11-year-old boy at the time - had to tell her that she had burn marks and blood spots on the back of her legs. She was in a state of shock.\n\n\"As I grew up, I realised... I had the ability to be part of an organisation that could defend and prevent these atrocities for all Americans.\n\n\"9/11 played a role, but not in a way of revenge. I didn't want to join out of bloodlust. I served two tours in Afghanistan. Both of those times I volunteered to go.\n\n\"I don't think our mission would have succeeded without our Afghan partners. I agree we couldn't be there forever, but we made a promise to keep our partners safe and that we wouldn't turn our backs on them, and that's exactly what we've done.\"\n\nChris adds: \"I do think the way we pulled out, the way we left it, was completely wrong. There needed to be a better exit strategy.\"", "Scientists reported that hermit crabs appeared to confuse the plastic additive with a food source\n\nHermit crabs could be mistaking pollution for food because of an additive released by waste plastics, researchers say.\n\nA University of Hull study of crabs off the Yorkshire coast revealed that a plastic additive called oleamide causes hyperactivity in the creatures.\n\nResearchers found the compound could be mistaken for the chemical released by food sources during decomposition.\n\nIt may mean crabs travel in search of food but find only plastic waste.\n\nPhD candidate Paula Schirrmacher, who was part of the research team, said: \"Respiration rate increases significantly in response to low concentrations of oleamide, and hermit crabs show a behavioural attraction comparable to their response to a feeding stimulant.\n\n\"Oleamide also has a striking resemblance to oleic acid, a chemical released by arthropods during decomposition.\"\n\nThe study, which took place off Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, suggested \"additive leaching\" may play a significant role in attracting marine life to plastic, added Ms Schirrmacher.\n\nOleamide has previously been identified as a major constituent in the sex pheromone of cleaner shrimp - a distant relative of the hermit crab - and could be used for chemical signalling in other species, the report found.\n\nTraces were found in the waters around Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire\n\nThe creatures can also detect smells in acidified oceans, and were attracted to a chemical cue known as PEA (2-phenylethylamine), according to the study.\n\nPEA is known to warn mammals and sea creatures of predators and its effectiveness may be increased in an acidified ocean, researchers said.\n\nRising sea temperatures, combined with increased plastic pollution, may also confuse the breeding cycles of blue mussels and affect reproduction rates, the study found.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Prince of Wales has \"no knowledge\" of an alleged offer from his former aide to help a Saudi businessman secure an honour, Clarence House has said.\n\nHis former valet Michael Fawcett has temporarily stepped down from his role as chief executive of the Prince's Foundation amid the claims.\n\nThe charity is carrying out an investigation into the allegations.\n\nPressure group Republic has reported both the heir to the throne and his former aide to the police.\n\nClaims about Mr Fawcett's conduct were published in the Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday and relate to major donor to the Prince's Foundation - Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Mr Mahfouz, who denies any wrongdoing, donated large sums to restoration projects of particular interest to Prince Charles.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said: \"The Prince of Wales has no knowledge of the alleged offer of honours or British citizenship on the basis of donation to his charities and fully supports the investigation now under way by The Prince's Foundation.\"\n\nA spokesman for Scotland Yard said: \"We are aware of the media reports and await further contact in relation to this matter.\"\n\nGraham Smith, chief executive of Republic, which campaigns for an elected head of state, said that a failure to properly investigate the matter would \"damage public trust in the police, the royals and the honours system\".\n\nThe Prince's Foundation, an educational charity which encompasses a number of Prince Charles' charitable interests, has said Mr Fawcett fully supported the ongoing investigation and had confirmed he would assist it in every way.", "The Scottish government is to resume making the case for independence - with the goal of holding a referendum by the end of 2023.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a vote would only be held \"when the Covid crisis has passed\".\n\nBut she said work would restart on a \"detailed prospectus\" so that voters can make a \"fully informed\" choice.\n\nThe Scottish government had previously paused work on its indyref2 plans because of Covid.\n\nMs Sturgeon was speaking to MSPs as she set out her plans for the year ahead at Holyrood - including work to establish a National Care Service, reforms to the Gender Recognition Act and tighter regulation of fireworks.\n\nThe opposition Conservatives urged her to focus on recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic rather than independence.\n\nWith Holyrood's summer recess over, Ms Sturgeon was addressing MSPs in the wake of the SNP's election victory in May and the party's power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens.\n\nThe two parties form a pro-independence majority at Holyrood, and Ms Sturgeon said the government's \"democratic mandate\" to hold a fresh referendum was \"beyond question\".\n\nShe said this would only happen \"when the Covid crisis has passed\", but added that she wanted it to be \"before the end of 2023\".\n\nAnd she said civil servants would now resume work on a \"detailed prospectus\" for independence so that voters could make a \"fully informed\" choice.\n\nThe first minister has previously said she wants the agreement of the UK government to hold an independence referendum so that the result is put beyond any legal question.\n\nHowever Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said he is not willing to agree to this in the immediacy, saying the focus should instead be on recovering from the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Scottish government has already published draft legislation for a new independence referendum.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon set out plans for a range of other new bills in her speech to MSPs, saying her plans would \"meet head on the key challenges Scotland faces\".\n\nThese include work to establish a National Care Service, which Ms Sturgeon said should be up and running within five years.\n\nShe also confirmed that a Gender Recognition Reform Bill would be tabled to make it easier for trans people to change their legally recognised gender.\n\nThe issue has caused deep divisions within the SNP, with the first minister acknowledging that \"some have sincerely held concerns about this legislation\", but insisting that \"it will make life easier for one of the most stigmatised minorities in our society\".\n\nThe government will also consult on changes to the justice system, including potentially scrapping the \"not proven\" verdict and separating the dual roles of Scottish law officers.\n\nOther proposals in the Programme for Government include:\n\nMs Sturgeon also nodded to her party's power-sharing deal with the Greens, telling MSPs that \"tackling the climate emergency is a moral and economic imperative\".\n\nThe Greens meanwhile claimed that the government's agenda was heavily influenced by their own policies, with co-leader Patrick Harvie saying they would \"lead efforts to lower emissions\".\n\nWhat Nicola Sturgeon has not done is announce plans to legislate for a referendum at Holyrood.\n\nTogether with their power-sharing partners in the Greens, the SNP has a majority to pass the bill — although without UK government agreement it would probably face a legal challenge.\n\nThe first minister is not, at this stage, formally requesting from Boris Johnson the explicit power to hold a referendum, knowing he's likely to refuse.\n\nInstead, she is restarting work by civil servants on the prospectus for independence. Work that was put on hold when coronavirus struck.\n\nShe will hope that will assuage her critics in the independence movement who don't think she's pushing hard enough for indyref2, with her party conference due this weekend.\n\nIt has also angered Conservatives and other supporters of the UK who think she is putting nationalist politics ahead of Covid recovery - a recovery the first minister insists remains her top priority.\n\nThe policy programme has been drawn up in conjunction with the Scottish Greens, who have joined the Scottish government\n\nThe Conservatives were critical of the plans, with leader Douglas Ross saying Ms Sturgeon's priorities were all wrong.\n\nHe said: \"Another independence referendum is front and centre of the first minster's plans for the year ahead.\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon is giving us a new white paper for independence instead of a plan for jobs, a plan to tackle drug deaths or a plan for NHS recovery.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Anas Sarwar said the government was \"short on big ideas\", saying: \"This isn't good enough, it isn't bold enough and it won't do enough.\"\n\nHe added: \"Barely a week goes by without someone from the government front bench declaring something mundane, rebadged or self-serving as historic.\n\n\"But the drier truth is that despite the SNP's rhetoric, the only historic thing today is levels of poverty in our streets, the numbers waiting for treatment in our hospitals and the depth of the economic crisis facing our country.\"\n\nAnd Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said there was \"little in the way of new hope\" in the programme, saying there was merely \"old hype, reheated and rebatched\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Social care must be paid for by taxes, not borrowing\n\nA new health and social care tax will be introduced across the UK to pay for reforms to the care sector and NHS funding in England.\n\nBoris Johnson said it would raise £12bn a year, designed to tackle the health backlog caused by the Covid pandemic and to bolster social care.\n\nHe accepted the tax broke a manifesto pledge, but said the \"global pandemic was in no-one's manifesto\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the plan was a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nLeaders in social care also warned the money was \"nowhere near enough\" and would not address current problems.\n\nThe tax will begin as a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance from April 2022, paid by both employers and workers, and will then become a separate tax on earned income from 2023 - calculated in the same way as National Insurance and appearing on an employee's payslip.\n\nThis will be paid by all working adults, including older workers, and the government says it will be \"legally ring-fenced\" to go only towards health and social care costs.\n\nIncome from share dividends - earned by those who own shares in companies - will also see a 1.25% tax rate increase.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies said the latest tax increases amounted to £14bn. Together with those announced in the March Budget, it said, 2022 had seen the highest tax rises in 40 years.\n\nThe UK-wide tax will be focused on funding health and social care in England, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive an additional £2.2bn to spend on their services.\n\nThe SNP said the tax would \"unfairly penalise Scottish families - and leave the poorest in society subsidising the wealthy\".\n\nMPs will vote on the new proposals in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson said the proceeds from the tax would lead to £12bn a year being raised, with the majority going into catching up on the backlog in the NHS created by Covid - increasing hospital capacity and creating space for nine million more appointments, scans and operations.\n\nA portion of the money - £5.4bn over the next three years - will also go towards changes to the social care system, with more promised after that.\n\nA cap will be introduced on care costs in England from October 2023 of £86,000 over a person's lifetime.\n\nAll people with assets worth less than £20,000 will then have their care fully covered by the state, and those who have between £20,000 and £100,000 in assets will see their care costs subsidised.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sharon told the BBC that she feared her mum 'would be auctioned off to the lowest bidder'\n\nJune Clay, 92, from Hornchurch, had to go into a nursing home four years ago.\n\nAs a property owner, June had to \"self-fund\", so sold her house to afford fees which over four years have risen to nearly £1,200 a week.\n\nHer capital is almost all gone. The local authority will help, but only up to £640 a week - while the cheapest homes locally charge £900.\n\nNow her children, in their 60s, are considering re-mortgaging their own homes and using their pension savings to pay for her care.\n\n\"I made a promise to my mum, that she would stay in that home... I'm worried sick about it,\" says daughter Sharon.\n\nBut she fears the reforms will be \"smoke and mirrors\" that will not meet the full costs of care.\n\nMr Johnson insisted that with the new tax, \"everyone will contribute according to their means\", adding: \"You can't fix the Covid backlogs without giving the NHS the money it needs.\n\n\"You can't fix the NHS without fixing social care. You can't fix social care without removing the fear of losing everything to pay for social care, and you can't fix health and social care without long-term reform.\"\n\nBut Labour's Sir Keir said the new tax broke the Conservatives' pledge at the last election not to raise National Insurance, income tax or VAT.\n\nHe also said the rise would target young people, supermarket workers and nurses, rather than those with the \"broadest shoulders\" who should pay more.\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"Read my lips - the Tories can never again claim to be the party of low tax.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says the Conservatives can “never again claim to be the party of low tax\"\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey - who is a carer himself - also said the tax was \"unfair\", and that the government's plan missed out solutions for staffing shortages, care for working age adults and unpaid family carers.\n\nMr Johnson said no Conservative government wanted to raise taxes - but he defended the move as \"the right, reasonable and fair approach\" in light of the pandemic, which saw the government spend upwards of £407bn on support.\n\nLater, during a press conference, the prime minister said he didn't want to raise taxes further but did not promise there would be no further rises before the next election - despite being asked repeatedly to rule it out.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has also announced it will suspend the so-called \"triple lock\" on pensions for one year following concerns that a big post-pandemic rise in average earnings would have led to pensions increasing by 8%.\n\nThe government is raising about £12bn a year for three years with these tax rises.\n\nJust over £2bn of that goes to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland under rules on how UK government spending is split.\n\nThat leaves £10bn a year for health and social care in England. Most, but not all, of that has been earmarked against particular parts of health and social care.\n\nAbout £6bn a year has been earmarked for the NHS.\n\nAnother nearly £2bn a year will go to social care.\n\nA bit less than half of that will go towards the new funding model (helping people to pay for care) and a bit more than half going on delivering care - training for staff, support for councils and work on making the care and health services work better together.\n\nSome of the remainder will be spent on tax. The Department of Health and Social Care, and the NHS, are big employers and so a tax rise for employers will mean they have to pay more.\n\nBut there's still at least a £1bn increase in the DHSC budget that goes into \"other\", with the government saying they'll announce further details in the coming weeks.\n\nAhead of the announcement, there was a backlash from number of Tory MPs, who said they were against a rise in National Insurance.\n\nBut questioning the PM after his statement in the Commons, many backbenchers instead sought reassurance that the money raised from the new tax would definitely go towards social care.\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 4's World At One that he thought the government had listened to concerns about only making changes to National Insurance, especially as it would \"disproportionately target younger people\" and not pensioners.\n\nHe said: \"This new tax is more broadly based and the 10% of pensioners who work will pay it as well.\"\n\nHowever, there was anger from the social care sector over the amount they had been promised as a result of the tax.\n\nChief executive of the UK Home Care Association, Dr Jane Townson, said: \"This is nowhere near enough. It will not address current issues and some measures may create new risks.\"\n\nChairman of the Independent Care Group, Mike Padgham, said it was a \"huge opportunity missed for radical, once-in-a-generation reform of the social care system\", adding it would not address the staffing crisis which was \"sending the sector into meltdown on a daily basis as care providers struggle to cover shifts\".\n\nAnd the general secretary of the Unison union, Christina McAnea, said: \"A detailed plan is needed first to mend and future-proof a sector broken by years of neglect.\n\n\"Only then will the cost of making good the damage become clear.\"\n\nThe sums are eye-watering, but they've still left health and care bosses disappointed.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has had a huge toll on the NHS, requiring an overhaul of how services are run and creating a growing backlog in care.\n\nEven with this money, it will take the health service years to catch up.\n\nPart of the reason for that is that despite the headline figure of £36bn over three years, by the time the money is shared out across the four UK nations and social care takes a chunk, the frontline of the NHS in England is left with little more than half the £10bn a year health bosses were asking for.\n\nCouncils are perhaps even more disappointed.\n\nThe case for social care predates the pandemic. Governments have been dodging it since the late 1990s so the fact that changes are on the way is being welcomed.\n\nBut the cap only solves one part of the problem - protecting people's assets when they face catastrophic costs.\n\nYou will still need to be eligible for care to benefit from the cap. Access is rationed so only the most frail qualify - currently half of requests for help are turned down.\n\nCouncils say the money will do little to help them tackle this.", "Channel 5 went off air on Saturday for some viewers\n\nA number of TV channels went off air on Saturday evening following a fire alarm at a broadcast centre.\n\nViewers of Channel 4 reported seeing a still screen for about 25 minutes, while Channel 5 was also off air for about 30 minutes.\n\nWelsh broadcaster S4C, another affected channel, said the BBC, ITV, Paramount Network and E Music were also affected.\n\nRed Bee Media blamed an \"activation of the fire suppression systems\" at its broadcast centre in west London.\n\nChannel 4 confirmed two of its channels, Channel 4 and More 4, were temporarily off air on Saturday.\n\nIt has continued to experience some disruption, with cookery show Sunday Brunch briefly interrupted as viewers' screens went blank.\n\nThe broadcaster said it was \"working hard to resume our normal services\" following \"technical issues\".\n\nOn Saturday evening Red Bee Media, which handles playout services - broadcasting technology - for a number of channels, said: \"As a result of this incident and the automatic safety measures set in motion at the time, several services originating from the broadcast centre have been disrupted.\"\n\nStaff were evacuated safely, the spokesperson added, with people allowed to return to the building after firefighters said it was safe.\n\n\"We are continuing to work to restore all services and remedy any issues caused by this incident,\" the spokesperson added.\n\n\"To avoid speculation, we will not make any further statements until all services have been fully restored and we have concluded a full investigation of the cause.\"\n\nA spokesman for S4C, the Welsh language public service TV broadcaster, said: \"As a result of a fire alarm at a television distribution centre in London on Saturday night, S4C's transmissions were lost on the Freeview platform for most of the evening.\n\n\"S4C's broadcasts on Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media, S4C Clic or BBC iPlayer were not affected.\n\n\"S4C apologises to all those who failed to see their favourite programmes on Saturday evening.\"\n\nChannel 5 went off air for some viewers at 19:00 BST, with a message on the channel saying: \"We apologise for the interruption. We'll be back with you as soon as we can.\"", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nPrince Andrew's US lawyers have accepted he has been served with legal papers which allege he sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre in 2001.\n\nIt follows a dispute over whether the prince had been formally notified of the civil claim against him.\n\nMs Giuffre, 38, claims she was sexually assaulted by the prince at three locations including New York City.\n\nPrince Andrew, the Queen's 61-year-old second son, has consistently denied the allegation.\n\nCourt documents show that lawyers for both sides spoke on 21 September and the time for the duke to respond was extended.\n\nThat response must now be filed to a court in New York by 29 October.\n\nA judge ruled last week that Prince Andrew's US lawyer could be served with legal papers.\n\nServing of documents is the critical first stage in any claim for damages - it means that a defendant has been made fully aware of the allegations against them by receiving all of the papers in the case.\n\nIf a defendant does not take part in the case after they have been served, they risk automatically losing.\n\nMs Giuffre was an accuser of the billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre - then known as Virginia Roberts - says she was assaulted by the prince at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nHer case claims Prince Andrew engaged in sexual acts without Ms Giuffre's consent, including when she was 17, knowing how old she was, and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nThe prince has consistently denied the claims and, in 2019, told BBC Two's Newsnight programme: \"It didn't happen.\n\n\"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\n\n\"I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"", "Lost in translation: The Welsh wording points to the Scottish Highlands rather than The Highlands in Skewen\n\nVisitors to a south Wales street could be forgiven for thinking they had taken a wrong turn en route.\n\nThe bilingual sign in The Highlands, Skewen, was labelled Ucheldiroedd yr Alban, which translates as the Scottish Highlands.\n\nBut it is actually nearly 500 miles from Skewen in Neath Port Talbot to the edge of the Highlands, a journey which would take about nine hours.\n\nTranslators have apologised and the sign would be replaced, officials said.\n\nThe Highlands in Skewen - not the Scottish Highlands\n\n\"It's incredible that no-one spotted the problem. It's actually quite neglectful,\" said Angela Jones, who volunteers at The Tea Shed, a community hub which highlighted the sign.\n\nA spokesman for Neath Port Talbot council said it was removed as soon as the mistake was spotted and a replacement was being ordered.\n\n\"The translation was carried out by translators who work regularly for the council. They have apologised for the error,\" said the spokesperson.", "Taliban fighters - pictured here in Herat on 10 September - have been patrolling the centre of the city\n\nThe Taliban say they have shot dead four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies in public squares in the Afghan city of Herat.\n\nThe gruesome display came a day after a notorious Taliban official warned that extreme punishments such as executions and amputations would resume.\n\nThe men were killed in a gun battle after allegedly seizing a businessman and his son, a local official said.\n\nLocal residents said a body was hung from a crane in the city centre.\n\nWazir Ahmad Seddiqi, a local shopkeeper, told the Associated Press news agency that four bodies were brought to the square, one was hung there and the three other bodies were moved to other squares in the city to be displayed.\n\nThe deputy governor of Herat, Maulwai Shair, said displaying the bodies was done to deter further abductions. He said the men were killed in a gun battle after the Taliban learnt that they had kidnapped a businessman and his son - who were both freed.\n\nThe BBC has not independently confirmed the circumstances under which the men were killed.\n\nHowever, graphic images shared on social media appeared to show bloody bodies on the back of a pick-up truck with a crane hoisting one man up.\n\nAnother video showed a man suspended from a crane with a sign on his chest reading: \"Abductors will be punished like this.\"\n\nSince taking power in Afghanistan on 15 August, the Taliban have been promising a milder form of rule than in their previous tenure.\n\nBut there have already been numerous reports of human rights abuses carried out across the country.\n\nThe Taliban's notorious former head of religious police Mullah Nooruddin Turabi - now in charge of prisons - said on Thursday that extreme punishments such as executions and amputations would resume in Afghanistan as they were \"necessary for security\".\n\nIn an interview with AP, he said these punishments may not be meted out in public, as they were under previous Taliban rule in the 1990s. Public executions were frequently held in Kabul's sports stadium or on the vast grounds of the Eid Gah mosque during the group's five year rule.\n\nBut he dismissed outrage over their past public executions: \"No-one will tell us what our laws should be.\"\n\nTurabi - who is on a UN sanctions list for his past actions - added that \"everyone criticised us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and punishments\".\n\nIn August, Amnesty International said that Taliban fighters were behind the massacre of nine members of the persecuted Hazara minority.\n\nAmnesty's Secretary-General Agnès Callamard said at the time that the \"cold-blooded brutality\" of the killings was \"a reminder of the Taliban's past record, and a horrifying indicator of what Taliban rule may bring\".", "Faulty lifts, flooding and intolerable noises are just some of the woes that the billionaire residents of one of New York's poshest buildings say they face daily.\n\nNow, the occupants of 432 Park Avenue are suing its developers for failing to address some1,500 alleged defects.\n\nThe lawsuit claims that the building's problems have \"endangered and inconvenienced\" residents and guests.\n\nThe skyscraper opened in 2015 on Manhattan's so-called Billionaire Row.\n\nBuyers have included Jennifer Lopez and former fiancé Alex Rodriguez, Saudi retail magnate Fawaz Alhokair and a member of the family that owns the Jose Cuervo Tequila brand, according to the New York Times. Individual units sold for tens of millions of dollars each, the paper said.\n\nThe $250m lawsuit filed to New York's Supreme Court on Thursday said issues in the building have included an electrical explosion in June that left residents without power and \"horrible\" inexplicable noises and vibrations.\n\nThe figure does not include punitive damages or individual lawsuits that may come later.\n\nA total of 1,500 construction and design flaws were identified by engineers hired by the building's condo board.\n\nThe New York Times quoted one resident as describing the tower's rubbish chute as sounding \"like a bomb\" when used.\n\nMany of the issues are described in the lawsuit as \"life safety issues\". The suit alleges the building's lifts, for example, have left residents stranded for hours at a time on several occasions.\n\n\"Unit owners paid tens of millions of dollars to acquire units. Far from the ultra-luxury spaces that they were promised, however, unit owners were sold a building plagued by breakdowns and failures,\" the complaint said.\n\nThe building's sponsor - a company formed by developers CIM Group and Macklowe Properties to build the tower - said in a statement to local media that 432 Park is \"Manhattan's premier resident\" and an \"iconic addition\" to the skyline.\n\nThe statement also claims that the condo board \"has restricted access\" to the property to address the issues, and that the homeowner's association and \"certain vocal residents\" misunderstand its obligations as sponsor.\n\nCIM and Macklowe Properties did not respond to requests for comment from the BBC.", "Up to 10,500 lorry drivers and poultry workers can receive temporary UK visas as the government seeks to limit disruption in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nThe government confirmed that 5,000 fuel tanker and food lorry drivers will be eligible to work in the UK for three months, until Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scheme is also being extended to 5,500 poultry workers.\n\nThe transport secretary said he did not want to \"undercut\" British workers but could not stand by while queues formed.\n\nBut the British Chambers of Commerce said the measures were the equivalent of \"throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire\".\n\nAnd the Road Haulage Association said the announcement \"barely scratches the surface\", adding that only offering visas until Christmas Eve \"will not be enough for companies or the drivers themselves to be attractive\".\n\nMarc Fels, director of the HGV Recruitment Centre, said visas for lorry drivers were \"too little\" and \"too late\".\n\nHowever, the news was welcomed by freight industry group Logistics UK, which called the policy \"a huge step forward in solving the disruption to supply chains\".\n\nA shortage of lorry drivers has caused problems for a range of industries in recent months, from supermarkets to fast food chains.\n\nIn recent days, some fuel deliveries have been affected, leading to lengthy queues at petrol stations - despite ministers insisting the UK has plenty of fuel.\n\nThere are reports of dozens of cars queuing in London by 07:00 BST on Sunday morning, while many filling stations had signs up saying they had no fuel.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC's Andrew Marr that there was enough fuel in the country and that if people were \"sensible\" and only filled up when they needed to there would not be shortages.\n\nAs well as allowing more foreign workers, other measures include using Ministry of Defence examiners to increase HGV (heavy goods vehicle) testing capacity, and sending nearly one million letters to drivers who hold an HGV licence, encouraging them back into the industry.\n\nOfficials said the loan of MoD examiners would help put on \"thousands of extra tests\" over the next 12 weeks.\n\nRecruitment for additional short-term HGV drivers and poultry workers will begin in October.\n\nMr Shapps said: \"We are acting now, but the industries must also play their part with working conditions continuing to improve and the deserved salary increases continuing to be maintained in order for companies to retain new drivers.\"\n\nA survey from earlier this year suggests a number of reasons for the driver shortage\n\nLogistics UK estimates that the UK is in need of about 90,000 HGV drivers - with existing shortages made worse by the pandemic, tax changes, Brexit, an ageing workforce, and low wages and poor working conditions.\n\nThe British Poultry Council has previously warned it may not have the workforce to process as many turkeys as normal this Christmas because it has historically relied on EU labour - but after Brexit it is now more difficult and expensive to use non-UK workers.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it recognised that importing foreign labour \"will not be the long-term solution\" to the problem and that it wanted to see employers invest to build a \"high-wage, high-skill economy\".\n\nIt said up to 4,000 people would soon be able to take advantage of training courses to become HGV drivers.\n\nThis includes free, short, intensive courses, funded by the Department for Education, to train up to 3,000 new HGV drivers.\n\nThese new \"skills bootcamps\" will train drivers to be road ready and gain a Cat C or Cat C&E license, helping to tackle the current HGV driver shortage.\n\nThe remaining 1,000 drivers will be trained through courses accessed locally and funded by the government's adult education budget, the DfT said.\n\nFuel tanker drivers need additional safety qualifications and the government said it was working with the industry to ensure drivers can access these as quickly as possible.\n\nMr Fels said many young people were \"desperate\" to get into the industry but couldn't afford the thousands of pounds it costs to get a HGV license.\n\nHe called for the government to recognise the industry as a \"vocation\" and offer student loans to help fund training.\n\nSue Terpilowski, from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, said conditions for drivers also needed to improve, pointing out that facilities such as overnight lorry parks were much better on the continent.\n\nRichard Walker, managing director at supermarket Iceland, said it was \"about time\" ministers relaxed immigration rules in a bid to solve the HGV driver shortage and called for key workers, including food retail workers, to be prioritised at the pumps.\n\nOn Saturday the BBC spoke to a number of drivers who had queued or struggled to get fuel.\n\nJennifer Ward, a student paramedic of three years for Medicare EMS, which provides 999 frontline support to the East of England Ambulance Service, said she had to travel to five stations to get diesel for her ambulance.\n\nMatt McDonnell, chief executive of Medicare EMS, said a member of staff cancelled their shift because they had been unable to get fuel and said he was waiting to see if the government would introduce measures to prioritise key workers, like they had for shopping during the pandemic.\n\nIndustry groups the Food and Drink Federation and Logistics UK both welcomed the visa changes, with federation chief Ian Wright calling the measures \"pragmatic\".\n\nBut the British Retail Consortium said the number of visas being offered would \"do little to alleviate the current shortfall\".\n\nIt said supermarkets alone needed an additional 15,000 HGV drivers to operate at full capacity ahead of Christmas.\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the changes were needed but described them as \"a sticking plaster at the eleventh hour\".\n\n\"Once again the government has been caught asleep at the wheel when they should have been planning for months for this scenario,\" she told the BBC.\n\nAre you an HGV driver? Or have you been unable to buy fuel? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sabina Nessa's sister, Jebina Yasmin Islam: \"We have lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister\"\n\nHundreds of people have joined a vigil for teacher Sabina Nessa who was killed as she walked to a pub in south-east London.\n\nThe 28-year-old was discovered in Cator Park in Kidbrooke by a member of the public last Saturday.\n\nShe had been walking to meet a friend at The Depot bar last Friday, a journey which \"should have taken five minutes\".\n\nMore than 500 people gathered at Pegler Square, not far from where a wanted suspect was captured on CCTV.\n\nJebina Yasmin Islam, Sabina Nessa's sister, broke down as she addressed crowds at the vigil.\n\nShe said: \"I just want to say thank you to everyone who came today to show support for my sister.\n\n\"We have lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister, who left this world far too early.\"\n\nMembers of the public light candles in memory of Sabina Nessa\n\nShe told the crowd how Sabina had loved her family.\n\nShe said: \"Words cannot describe how we are feeling, this feels like we are stuck in a bad dream and can't get out of it - our world is shattered, we are simply lost for words.\n\n\"No family should go through what we are going through.\"\n\nSabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nMs Nessa's uncle, Shahin Miah, described his niece as \"a kind and a open-minded person\", who was \"always smiling and helping others\".\n\nHe said Ms Nessa's death has \"once again brought to the fore the question of women's safety on the streets\".\n\nIn his statement, he said: \"We don't want what happened to Sabina to happen to anyone else.\n\n\"We don't want any other mother's chest to be empty or filled with deep sorrow, or to see the tears in the eyes of any father.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police want to speak to this man\n\nAs the police investigation continues officers want to identify a balding man, who was seen with something in his hands, who could be \"vital\" to the case.\n\nThe wanted man, who was wearing grey jeans and a black jacket, can be seen looking over his shoulder and pulling up his hood as he walks along the pavement.\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe urged anyone who may know the man to contact them.\n\nTwo men arrested on suspicion of Ms Nessa's murder have now been released pending further investigation.\n\nMembers of the public lay flowers at Pegler Square in Kidbrooke, south London\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's official Twitter account shared a photo of a candle lit outside the front door of No 10 Downing Street with the caption \"Tonight we remember Sabina Nessa\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge said she was \"saddened by the loss of another innocent young woman on our streets\" as police continued the hunt for Ms Nessa's killer.\n\nIn March, the duchess privately visited the memorial to murdered marketing executive Sarah Everard in Clapham Common, south-west London, after the 33-year-old was killed by off-duty police officer Wayne Couzens.\n\nA candle was also lit outside No 10 Downing Street in memory of Ms Nessa.\n\nCrowds gathered not far from the crime scene where forensic officers are still working\n\n\"Say her name. Sabina Nessa. We will never forget,\" was the request from the leaders of the vigil.\n\nHundreds gathered here in Pegler Square all said her name. Sabina Nessa.\n\nThis is the square the 28-year-old teacher was walking to this time last week. She never made it.\n\nNow Londoners from across the city, many of them holding candles and laying flowers, are listening on this quiet, still autumn evening to the vigil speakers.\n\nDozens more silhouetted figures observe from the tower blocks overlooking Pegler Square.\n\nMany observers are crying, listening to the speakers including Sabina Nessa's sister who says her family's world has been shattered.\n\nBut while a community joins together in grief, just behind the vigil, police have sealed off an area. Yellow evidence markers dot the road.\n\nAs one person spoke emotionally of Sabina Nessa, a forensics officer combed the bushes, a reminder that this is still very much an ongoing investigation.\n\nCrowds also gathered in Hackney, Newham, Bristol and in Brighton, to pay tribute to Ms Nessa.\n\nThere was a large turnout at a vigil for Sabina Nessa in Brighton\n\nA spokesperson for Brighton and Hove Council said: \"Every woman and girl should feel safe in their streets, in their parks and open spaces and in their homes.\n\n\"We have today lowered the flags at Hove Town Hall and Brighton Town Hall in memory of Sabina Nessa and to raise awareness of violence against women and girls.\"\n\nAre you taking part in a vigil for Sabina Nessa? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Many competitors donned Elvis outfits and training shoes for the park run\n\nFans of The King donned their blue suede shoes to take part in a run to mark the start of Porthcawl Elvis Festival.\n\nThe annual two-day event which features gigs and other events in tribute to Elvis Presley was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOrganisers reckon it is worth about £5m to the local economy, and say it usually attracts about 40,000 visitors.\n\nVisitors have been urged to take lateral flow tests before attending.\n\nMore than 340 people completed the run, with many wearing outfits in tribute to Elvis.\n\nSome really dressed up for the occasions\n\nThere are Elvis lookalikes everywhere in Porthcawl this weekend\n\nBridgend council said capacity would be reduced at festival events in Porthcawl on Saturday and Sunday to comply with Covid safety rules.\n\n\"We urge people to enjoy the event safely and responsibly,\" it said.\n\n\"The festival is not run by any single organisation, but by a number of different venues who put on Elvis-themed events.\n\n\"This year's attendees should expect changes with risk assessments in place and Covid-safe measures such as those reducing capacity to ticket holders only and carrying out random temperature checks.\"\n\nAn Elvis fan takes part in the run on Saturday", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading\n\nThree teenagers who killed a 13-year-old boy over a social media row have been sentenced to custody in young offenders institutions.\n\nA girl lured Olly Stephens to a field in Reading, Berkshire, where two boys lying in wait stabbed him to death.\n\nThe boys, aged 14, were found guilty of murder following a trial at Reading Crown Court. One was sentenced to 13 years and the other to 12 years.\n\nThe girl, 14, admitted manslaughter and was given three years and two months.\n\nNone of them can be identified for legal reasons.\n\nOlly's dad Stuart Stephens said his son \"had such a big heart\"\n\nThe two boys were given life sentences, meaning they will serve minimum terms of 12 and 13 years respectively.\n\nJudge Heather Norton told the three teenagers: \"Whatever part each of you played - great or small - what you did that day was utterly cruel and totally pointless.\n\n\"You have taken one life, damaged your own futures and you have caused so much pain to so many people.\n\n\"The effects of what you did will stay with you and with Olly's family forever.\"\n\nThe judge said the sentences would seem \"unbearably short\" to Olly's family, but \"unbearably long\" for the defendants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly's parents have described their \"disbelief\" after the fatal attack\n\nOlly's killers believed he \"grassed\" on them to the brother of a boy they had mocked in a social media group chat, the trial heard.\n\nVoice notes and text messages were presented to the jury in which the boys talked about taking revenge.\n\n\"He's actually getting banged when I see him,\" one message said.\n\nAnother added: \"I actually hate the kid with a passion, like if I was to see him right now I'll probably end up killing him or something.\"\n\nThe girl was recruited to lure Olly to Bugs Bottom fields, near his home in Emmer Green, as part of a \"set-up\", the jury was told.\n\nShe suggested in messages exchanged before the killing that he deserved what was coming, describing it as \"karma\", the court heard.\n\nOlly was filmed on a doorbell camera leaving his family home for the last time, looking at his phone as he walked to meet the girl.\n\nHe was stabbed twice when he arrived - one blade penetrated 17cm (6.5in) into his back, and another wound in his chest was 9cm (3.5in) deep, the jury heard.\n\nVideos of the defendants showing off knives were found on their phones\n\nOlly's parents have described receiving a knock on the door to tell them Olly had been stabbed.\n\nThey both rushed to the fields where they found their fatally injured son receiving CPR.\n\n\"The thing that sticks in my mind is when I went up to the field and everybody turned round - the horror was just written all over their faces,\" said Stuart Stephens, Olly's father.\n\nMr Stephens said he believed \"social media has a lot to answer for\" and claimed \"it played a massive part in Olly's death\".\n\nHe also criticised the \"gangster mentality\" of the killers who he said must have felt like they \"were in a video game\".\n\nStuart Stephens read a statement outside Reading Crown Court after the hearing\n\nPaying tribute to Olly, he said: \"He had such a big heart - he was very generous, very loving, very caring.\"\n\nSpeaking on the steps of the court after sentencing, Mr Stephens said: \"We relaxed for a few moments, preoccupied with getting on with life, and took our eyes of him for just a moment.\n\n\"It cost us and him dearly.\"\n\nMr Stephens added that he would like to see laws changed \"to protect our children to empower the investigative police and to help parents and support them to navigate the dangers of online victimisation\".\n\n\"If it was up to me no child under 16 would have a mobile phone,\" he said.\n\nBoth boys were also convicted of perverting the course of justice.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The United States look set to regain the Ryder Cup after another dominant display on day two at Whistling Straits saw them open a record six-point lead over Europe.\n\nThe home side, who led 6-2 overnight, extended their advantage to 11-5 and need to win just 3½ out of the 12 points on offer in Sunday's singles to take the title. As defending champions, Europe need to reach 14 points to retain the cup.\n\nThe biggest final-day comeback is four points, achieved by the US at Brookline in 1999 and Europe in 2012 at Medinah, when both sides came from 10-6 down to win.\n\nHowever, Europe captain Padraig Harrington remains defiant. \"It's still possible,\" said the Irishman.\n\n\"It's only half a point more than we won in the singles at Medinah. There's no doubt that is going to be strong in our minds.\n\n\"They have to just go out there and win their own individual match. They have to focus on that and not look at that bigger picture and focus on their individual self.\"\n\nUS skipper Steve Stricker is trying to eliminate Europe's 'Miracle at Medinah' from his thinking but also said \"it's not over yet\".\n\n\"Going into Sunday 11-5 versus 10-6, that's a big difference in my book,\" he added. \"I'm not going to bring up Medinah.\"\n\nHarrington has picked the mis-firing Rory McIlroy to lead off the singles on Sunday, despite the Northern Irishman having suffered three heavy defeats so far this week.\n\nTrish Johnson, an eight-time Solheim Cup player, said on BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage: \"It's horrible watching Rory. He seems so out of sorts.\"\n\nEurope needed a fast start on Saturday if they were to eat into the record four-point advantage opened up by their hosts on day one.\n\nBut the morning foursomes was another session in which Europe were as poor on the greens as the Americans were dominant.\n\nEleven of the 12 American players contributed at least a half-point on Friday, with only Jordan Spieth missing out. However, he and his good friend Justin Thomas were victorious as the US won the session 3-1 to open a 9-3 lead.\n\nThomas then suddenly appeared on the first tee and gulped down a beer before spraying the rest into the air and slamming the can into the ground, to the delight of the already exuberant American fans in the stands.\n\nIt was an extraordinary display from Thomas, despite knowing he would be sitting out the afternoon fourballs session.\n\nRahm and Garcia shine again for Europe\n\nThat Europe are not further behind is chiefly down to the efforts of world number one Jon Rahm, who partnered his fellow Spaniard Sergio Garcia to victories in both their matches on Saturday and has now won 3½ points this week.\n\nThey followed their 3&1 win in the foursomes with a 2&1 triumph in the fourballs, as Garcia, playing in his 10th Ryder Cup, further extended his records of most matches won to 25 and his individual points tally to 28½.\n\nAs with the morning session, it was imperative that Europe got off to a fast start in the afternoon.\n\nThey did just that and were leading in each of the top three matches after nine holes on an afternoon of tense drama on the shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin.\n\nRahm holed putts of 45 and 27 feet to put Europe three ahead after seven holes but Brooks Koepka pegged them back with birdies on the eighth and 10th.\n\nAnother Koepka birdie on the 13th levelled the match but Jordan Spieth, who missed several putts of around 10 feet, was again wayward on the 15th, allowing Rahm to put Europe into a lead they would not relinquish and he rammed in a 29-footer to also win the 16th.\n\nThat point came moments after Shane Lowry showed immense courage to hole a 10-foot putt on the 18th to win Europe's fourth point of the contest.\n\nThe Irishman, playing with Tyrrell Hatton, eventually triumphed in a tight contest with Tony Finau and Harris English that became just the fourth to go down the last.\n\nBy this point though, Dustin Johnson and Collin Morikawa, the world numbers two and three, had easily seen off the challenge of McIlroy and Ian Poulter, winning 4&3 in the bottom match.\n\nIt was the third heavy defeat of the week for McIlroy, who missed his first Ryder Cup session since making his debut in 2010 when he was left out of the morning foursomes.\n\nFor Johnson though, it was a fourth victory of the week from the first four matches - the first American to achieve that feat since 1975.\n\nThat left just one match out on the course, Tommy Fleetwood and Viktor Hovland's titanic battle against Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau. Europe badly needed a win to go into Sunday trailing 10-6 and conjure memories of Medinah.\n\nThere was never more than one hole in it over the first 13 as the momentum swung from Europe to the US and back again.\n\nBut DeChambeau rolled in a birdie putt from seven feet to take the 14th, after Fleetwood had missed from 10. Scheffler then knocked in another from 16 feet and a third successive birdie followed on the 16th as the US took Saturday's final point.\n\nRahm and Garcia had lost the first three holes to Koepka and Berger in Saturday morning's opening match but the younger Spaniard holed a birdie on the sixth and the former Masters champion chipped in from off the front of the ninth green to spark a turnaround in fortunes.\n\nJohnson and Morikawa were always in charge of their match against Paul Casey and Hatton, winning the first three holes and moving four clear on the eighth.\n\nThe English pair rallied to get back to one down when Casey sensationally holed his second shot on the par-four 14th from 107 yards, but Hatton missed a five-footer on the 15th to hand the advantage back to the Americans, who won 2&1.\n\nHovland and Bernd Wiesberger, who raced three ahead after six holes, were all square after 10 against Spieth and Thomas. The rookies then missed par putts on the 14th and 15th holes as the Americans went from one down to one up and although the match went down the last, another European error - the Austrian hit into a stream - gave the point away.\n\nXander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay holed lengthy birdie putts on the seventh and ninth and they took further control of their match against Matt Fitzpatrick and Lee Westwood when the English pair bogeyed the 10th and 11th holes.\n\nA Westwood birdie on the 16th proved in vain as the Americans wrapped up a 2&1 win on the next.\n• None Will it be sink or swim for this poolside romance? Stream now on BBC iPlayer\n• None One of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice", "Michael Kovrig (r) and Michael Spavor have been held since 2018\n\nA diplomatic row between China and the West appears to be ending, after the release of two Canadians held in China and a Chinese tech executive in Canada.\n\nHuawei executive Meng Wanzhou, arrested on a US warrant in 2018, left Canada on Friday in a deal with US prosecutors.\n\nHours later it was announced that Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, accused of espionage by China in the same year, were flying home to Canada.\n\nBeijing denies detaining the Canadians in retaliation for Ms Meng's arrest.\n\nBut critics have accused China of using them as political bargaining chips.\n\nThe two men had maintained their innocence throughout. At a news conference, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said they had been through \"an unbelievably difficult ordeal\".\n\n\"It is good news for all of us that they are on their way home to their families,\" he added. \"For the past 1,000 days, they have shown strength, perseverance, resilience and grace.\"\n\nThe prime minister said both men will arrive in Canada early on Saturday. They are being accompanied by Dominic Barton, Canada's ambassador to China.\n\nBefore her release, Ms Meng - the daughter of Ren Zhengfei, the billionaire founder of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei - admitted misleading US investigators about Huawei's business dealings in Iran.\n\nShe spent three years under house arrest in Canada while fighting extradition to the United States.\n\nSpeaking after the executive's release, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said the charges against Ms Meng were fabricated.\n\nState media quoted Hua Chunying as saying the case was \"act of political persecution against Chinese citizens\".\n\nMeng Wanzhou is on her way back here full of praise and thanks for what she called \"the motherland\" and China's ruling Communist Party, a party that her employer Huawei has gone to extraordinary lengths to try to distance itself from.\n\nShe admitted misleading US investigators about her involvement in payments over business in Iran.\n\nAs soon as her freedom was assured, China released the two Canadians it's held since days after her arrest.\n\nWhether it's a deal or a domino effect is not clear, but only weeks ago the Chinese government insisted yet again the two cases were not linked. \"Different in nature,\" it said.\n\nThe decision to release and send home Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig almost instantly after Meng Wanzhou was free to go appears to show that pretence has been abandoned.\n\nMr Kovrig is a former diplomat employed by International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank.\n\nMr Spavor is a founding member of an organisation that facilitates international business and cultural ties with North Korea.\n\nIn August this year a Chinese court sentenced Mr Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage. There had been no decision in Mr Kovrig's case.\n\nIn a statement, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said his country was \"pleased\" by the Chinese move, but added that the men had suffered \"more than two-and-a-half years of arbitrary detention\".\n\nEarlier on Friday, a Canadian judge ordered the release of Ms Meng, Huawei's chief financial officer, after she reached a deal with US prosecutors over fraud charges against her.\n\n\"Over the past three years my life has been turned upside down,\" she told reporters outside the Vancouver courthouse.\n\n\"Every cloud has a silver lining,\" she continued. \"I will never forget all the good wishes I received from people around the world.\"\n\nLater in a post on social media she thanked the Communist Party, the Chinese government and the \"motherland\".\n\nMeanwhile Huawei released a statement, in which it said it looked forward to seeing Ms Meng reunited with her family and saying it would continue to defend itself in court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My life has been turned upside down,\" Ms Meng tells reporters after being freed from Canadian detention\n\nBefore her arrest, US prosecutors accused Ms Meng of fraud, alleging that she misled banks into processing transactions for Huawei that broke US sanctions against Iran.\n\nAs part of a deferred prosecution agreement, Ms Meng admitted to misleading HSBC about Huawei's relationship with Skycom, a Hong-Kong based company that operated in Iran.\n\nThe US justice department said in a statement that it was continuing to prepare for trial against Huawei, which is still on a trade blacklist.\n\nMs Meng is the elder daughter of billionaire Ren Zhengfei, who set up Huawei in 1987. He also served in the Chinese army for nine years, until 1983, and is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nHuawei itself is now the largest telecom equipment maker in the world. It has faced accusations that Chinese authorities could use its equipment for espionage - allegations it denies.\n\nIn 2019, the US imposed sanctions on Huawei and placed it on an export blacklist, cutting it off from key technologies.\n\nThe UK, Sweden, Australia and Japan have also banned Huawei, while other countries including France and India have adopted measures stopping short of an outright ban.", "Michael K. Williams died of an accidental drug overdose, authorities have said\n\nUS actor Michael K Williams died after overdosing on a combination of heroin, cocaine, fentanyl and p-fluorofentanyl, the New York Chief Medical Examiner has confirmed.\n\nWilliams, 54, was found unconscious and unresponsive by his nephew at his home in New York on 6 September.\n\nThe Chief Medical Examiner's office confirmed to BBC News that it had determined his death was accidental.\n\nWilliams shot to fame for his role as Omar Little in HBO's The Wire.\n\nHe won plaudits for his portrayal of the gay hit man, with President Obama once describing The Wire as his favourite programme and Little as his favourite character.\n\nThe programme, which was a gritty and sometimes harrowing look at the intersection of crime, politics and law and order in the US city of Baltimore, is widely considered one of the greatest television series of all time.\n\nWilliams had spoken frankly about his past drug use. He recounted in 2012 that while starring in The Wire he found himself doing drugs \"in scary places with scary people\". However, he added that he had taken \"nothing stronger\" than cocaine and marijuana.\n\n\"I was playing with fire,\" he told the New Jersey Star-Ledger. \"It was just a matter of time before I got caught and my business ended up on the cover of a tabloid or I went to jail or, worse, I ended up dead.\"\n\nIn addition to his role in The Wire, Williams won praise for his portrayal of the gang boss Albert \"Chalky\" White in the hit series Boardwalk Empire and received an Emmy nomination this year for a role in Lovecraft Country.\n\nHis death saw an outpouring of emotion and tributes from a host of famous faces, including the film director Spike Lee and author Stephen King, who described Williams as \"fantastically talented\". The Wire creator David Simon said he was \"a fine man and a rare talent\".\n\nA mural commemorating Williams is due to be unveiled this weekend in his home town of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.", "The United States opened their biggest lead after day one of a Ryder Cup against Europe by winning both of Friday's sessions 3-1 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.\n\nBryson DeChambeau delighted the 40,000 home fans by pummelling a drive 417 yards down the par-five fifth, as the Americans lived up to their favourite tag.\n\nIt was a chastening day for the defending champions with Jon Rahm and Sergio Garcia Europe's only winners, beating much-fancied home pairing Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas 3&1 in the opening foursomes match.\n\nEurope's other point came from two halved matches in the afternoon fourballs as the wind strengthened, gusting up to 30mph.\n\nTyrrell Hatton holed a 10-foot birdie putt to win the 18th and his half-point, while Tommy Fleetwood and Viktor Hovland also picked up a half-point after being pegged back from three up after eight by Patrick Cantlay and Thomas.\n• None McIlroy to sit out Ryder Cup session for first time\n\nBut those were the only highlights on a miserable day for Europe, who largely struggled on the greens.\n\n\"Our ball striking was good, we just didn't hole the putts,\" conceded Europe captain Padraig Harrington.\n\n\"No doubt it was a tough day. It isn't a good start, but there's still 20 points to play for.\"\n\nIn contrast, the Americans holed putt after putt after putt, with Dustin Johnson and Tony Finau in particular excelling, to take a tight grip on the match.\n\nHowever, US captain Steve Stricker warned his side against complacency.\n\n\"We've had some things that came up and bit us in the rear in other Ryder Cups,\" he said. \"These guys know that, and they are focused on coming out strong again.\n\n\"My message to the guys before I left was to try to win that first session again and pretend [Friday] never happened,\"\n\nAfter dominating the early foursomes, with the highlight being Cantlay and Xander Schauffele crushing Rory McIlroy and Ian Poulter 5&3, the fourballs went the same way for the Americans, with McIlroy again on the end of a heavy defeat - this time with Shane Lowry - beaten 4&3 by Finau and Harris English.\n\nEurope did lead in the bottom three matches at various stages of the fourballs but the momentum shifted to the US in a 30-minute spell midway through the session.\n\nWorld number two Johnson holed successive birdie putts of more than 15 feet on the 10th and 11th holes to put the US three up in the top match against Paul Casey and Bernd Wiesberger, while English and Finau combined for three birdies from the eighth to also lead by three holes.\n\nFinau, who also rolled in a 15-foot putt on 13 to go four up, then holed a par putt to close out his match on the 15th. Moments later, Olympic champion Schauffele, playing with Johnson, did likewise on the 17th to put the US team 5-1 ahead.\n\nThe match that drew the most interest though was Scottie Scheffler and DeChambeau's game with Rahm and Hatton.\n\nThousands lined the first fairway as DeChambeau's wayward opener struck a woman on the leg. But Scheffler proved to be an excellent foil; his solid ball striking allowing big-hitting DeChambeau to play his natural game.\n\nIndeed, DeChambeau hit a 417-yard drive down the par-five fifth to huge whoops and hollers from the fans, leaving himself a 75-yard wedge for his second shot, which resulted in a hole-winning eagle.\n\n\"I knew if it was a little downwind, I could take a unique line,\" said DeChambeau.\n\n\"[The wind] was 20-plus [mph] and I said to myself, 'I have to aim at the green,' so I did. I just aimed at the green and bombs away.\"\n\nBut there was never more than one hole in it, with Rahm birdies on the ninth and 11th holes levelling the match after US birdies on eight and 10. A DeChambeau par on the 15th was enough to edge the US ahead again in what was becoming an increasingly important match for the visitors.\n\nThe players knew it too, with several Europeans gathering round round the 17th green. Hatton, who cut a disconsolate figure after missing several putts, saw a 25-footer to win the hole slide inches by but he atoned with a solid putt to win the last and halve the match.\n\nThe bottom match was a missed opportunity for Europe. Fleetwood and Hovland were two up after nine but the Englishman was wayward with two putts of under five feet on the 10th and 11th, which would have seen them go four up.\n\nCantlay then almost holed his tee shot to win the 12th and the lead was down to one hole.\n\nThomas then eagled the par-five 16th to level the match but Fleetwood and Hovland held their nerve to halve a tense final two holes.\n\nThe opening foursomes matches had set off on a still, but chilly morning, on the iconic course beside Lake Michigan that has staged the US PGA Championship on three occasions.\n\nThere were the expected pantomime boos on the first tee for Rahm and Sergio Garcia, drowning out the meagre support for the Europeans, with the tough Covid-19 travel rules stopping away fans from travelling to the US.\n\nWorld number one Rahm, who spoke on Thursday about wanting to build on the \"Spanish legacy\" in the Ryder Cup, holed three birdies in five holes to put Europe two ahead at the turn against Spieth and Thomas in the top match.\n\nGarcia then rolled in a 20-footer on the 15th to put Europe three holes ahead with three to play in the alternate shot format and guarantee at least half a point.\n\nThe match was closed out on the 17th despite a quite sensational shot from Spieth, who smashed his ball 80 feet into the air and landed it five feet from the hole from deep greenside rough before overbalancing and skipping down a steep bank towards the lake, pulling up just a yard or two short of the water.\n\nThe victory meant Garcia, already the competition's record points scorer, equalled Sir Nick Faldo's Ryder Cup record of 23 match wins.\n\nBut rookies Cantlay and Schauffele stunned experienced Europeans Poulter and McIlroy by winning the first five holes of their match.\n\nBrooks Koepka and Daniel Berger likewise never trailed against Lee Westwood and Matt Fitzpatrick, eventually triumphing 2&1, while Johnson and Collin Morikawa pulled clear on the back nine to win 3&2 against Casey and Hovland.\n\nHow the US earned their lead at-a-glance - Friday's results\n• None Will it be sink or swim for this poolside romance? Stream now on BBC iPlayer\n• None One of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nOleksandr Usyk is the new unified heavyweight world champion after dethroning Anthony Joshua with an incredible performance in London.\n\nThe Ukrainian put on a masterclass in front of 65,000 fans inside Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, outclassing Joshua over 12 rounds, and hurting the defending champion on numerous occasions.\n\nThe scorecards - 117-112, 116-112, 115-113 - were all for Usyk and there was a mere shrug of the shoulders from Joshua as the second defeat of his professional career was confirmed.\n\nHaving seen a fight with fellow Briton Tyson Fury collapse last summer, Joshua opted to face his WBO mandatory challenger and former undisputed cruiserweight champion Usyk instead.\n\nIt appeared the easier fight for Joshua, but boxing's triumphant return to stadium nights was soured for the home crowd by a truly exceptional performance from the challenger.\n• None How the boxing world reacted to the fight\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn suggested his fighter may have suffered a broken eye socket and would need to go to hospital.\n\n\"I don't know if he has broken his eye socket, it doesn't look great,\" he said. \"He said he couldn't see after the ninth round, obviously he was getting tagged a lot as well.\"\n\nA devastated Joshua left the ring immediately after the decision but later posted a short message on Twitter, saying: \"Keep positive even if the world's crumbling in front of you! London I love you & thank you each and every time!\"\n• None I'm not a sulker - I will bounce back, says defeated Joshua\n• None 'Why didn't he have a go?' Pundits bemused by 'negative' Joshua\n• None Joshua v Usyk - fight as it unfolded, and reaction\n\nJoshua was relaxed and cheerful as he approached the ring, but concentration was etched on his face from the first bell.\n\nUsyk's abilities quickly became apparent, the 34-year-old full of feints and pace from the off, moving Joshua around the ring at will as the defending champion settled into a surprisingly passive role.\n\nA few warning shots from Joshua fell short in the early rounds, Usyk either catching them with a glove or spinning away. It would become the pattern of the fight as Usyk made Joshua miss and executed a perfect gameplan of his own.\n\nA left cross from Usyk rattled Joshua in the third round, and prompted a noisy response from the crowd.\n\nJoshua rode the danger, failing to respond, but making it to the bell safely. Usyk was now brimming with confidence and the London crowd tried in vain to rouse their man into life.\n\nA low shot from Joshua brought a complaint from Usyk and Joshua fired off another, perhaps sensing a weakness in his opponent. Round five was Joshua's best to that point, but Usyk remained in control and the Briton continued to miss his attempts to land any meaningful shots.\n\nFinally, in the sixth round, Joshua landed his right hand, sparking a response form Usyk, who widened his stance and appeared ready to trade. Joshua backed off, wary of a firefight.\n\nAnd Joshua's fears were realised in the seventh as Usyk responded brilliantly to stun him with a left hook to the chin and send him stumbling backwards. Joshua stayed on his feet, surviving the round but now in a dire predicament.\n\nUsyk was comfortably ahead on the scorecards and Joshua struggled to close the gap. The huge weight advantage was nowhere in evidence, with Usyk keeping the fight at range and urgings from Joshua's corner to move forward appearing to fall on deaf ears.\n\nJoshua had Usyk briefly on the ropes in the ninth but returned to his corner with a bloody nose having caught a hard shot to the face in the closing seconds of the round.\n\nThere was blood on the faces of both men in the 11th round. Joshua had a cut and swelling on his eye; Usyk had a gash on his left eye. But while Usyk's mouth was open, he was by far the busier fighter in the penultimate round, outclassing Joshua with ease once again.\n\nThe crowd desperately tried to inspire the defending champion, who needed a knockout in the final round. But it was the challenger who almost found the decisive punch, pushing a dazed Joshua on to the ropes.\n\nThe bell saved Joshua from suffering another knockout defeat and there was a nervous wait for Usyk's team for the scorecards.\n\nThere were to be no more shocks, however, as all three judges gave it to the challenger and ended Joshua's short second reign as world champion after just one fight.\n\nIt is unclear where Joshua goes from here. There is a rematch clause, one that the two-time world champion is likely to exercise.\n\nHe now has two losses to his name and on both occasions the Briton was dominated by a smaller man. Usyk did not find the knockout punch, but he exposed Joshua's frailties and somewhat light attacking arsenal.\n\nJoshua had no answer to Usyk and while his opponent glided across the ring, the champion appeared to be dragging his feet through mud. There was no attempt to bully Usyk, wear him down or go to the body.\n\nIt was a strange, almost hapless display from Joshua which leaves his legacy as one of the heavyweight greats in ruins.\n\nAside from the Briton's long-term career prospects, Joshua versus Fury now appears to be dead.\n\nFury fights Deontay Wilder next month in Las Vegas and every fight fan's greatest fear has been realised after the unification bout collapsed last summer.\n\nTo begin with, Joshua will have to win his rematch with Usyk which, after Saturday night's meeting, appears a near impossible prospect.\n\nJoshua's promoter Eddie Hearn said his fighter had given Usyk too much respect and would have to make \"fundamental changes\" to regain his titles.\n\n\"We knew it [defeat] could happen if he didn't get it right, and he didn't get it right,\" Hearn told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"He took too many shots early and Usyk was more aggressive than I thought he would be and he was the deserved winner.\n\n\"Tony Bellew's comments about overthinking, and it fatiguing you, were right. It is like these last three or four days you get spellbound by Usyk and you end up giving him too much respect and that becomes a problem.\"\n\nHearn said Joshua was already thinking about how to beat Usyk next time.\n\n\"He is going to go away and all he will do is think about Oleksandr Usyk. He will be thinking 'how can I beat him, how can I improve?' He is obsessed with improving,\" said Hearn.\n\n\"I just feel there is so much more Anthony Joshua in that fight but he will have to do a lot more in the rematch to be victorious.\"\n• None Will it be sink or swim for this poolside romance? Stream now on BBC iPlayer\n• None One of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice", "As many as 300 people in NI are diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) every year\n\nAbout 1,200 people are living with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut not everyone who is diagnosed can get access to the same support and treatment.\n\nBagpiping competitions were where he first met his wife. And when he moved on from piping, he took up squash and played for Ulster.\n\n\"Two years ago, I started feeling a bit breathless walking up hills, slight cough - persistent cough actually - very dry,\" the 52-year-old father-of-two recalled.\n\n\"And in showers, I would have coughed with the steam.\"\n\nJim Balmer says it was a \"complete life change\" when he was diagnosed with IPF\n\nHe went to his GP and was sent for an x-ray. Initially, shadows on his lungs were treated as pneumonia.\n\nBut when a follow-up x-ray showed no improvement, a CT scan was ordered, which the pandemic delayed until July 2020.\n\nHe was diagnosed with IPF, a condition that causes scarring of the lungs and has no cure.\n\n\"Not only for me, but for my wife, my sons. I can't really do anything, go anywhere.\n\n\"I had to sell my company last week, I've worked for myself for 21 years and I can't do anything.\"\n\nOn top of the roughly 1,200 people who live with the condition in Northern Ireland, as many as 300 more are diagnosed every year.\n\n\"Data over the past 20 years shows that more and more people appear to be developing fibrosis in the lungs,\" said Northern Trust respiratory consultant Dr Eoin Murtagh.\n\n\"It is important that we now change the type of health service we provide, to make sure patients have access to the services they need for early diagnosis and an accurate diagnosis, and then availability for appropriate treatment.\"\n\nDr Eoin Murtagh says he would like to see \"co-ordinated, dedicated services\" available to patients across NI\n\nAccording to a British Lung Foundation report in 2016, Northern Ireland has the highest prevalence of IPF of any region in the UK.\n\nBut after diagnosis, not everyone here can get access to the same support and treatment, according to Dr. Murtagh.\n\n\"There's great variability depending on where you live, which trust you're in, as to which services you may have access to and the waiting time to avail of assessment and investigations,\" he said.\n\n\"So we would like to see co-ordinated, dedicated services available to patients across Northern Ireland.\"\n\nCurrently, only the Northern Trust has a dedicated multi-disciplinary lung disease team with five consultant and nursing staff.\n\nBelfast Trust says it has a consultant and a specialist nurse, the Western Trust has a dedicated pulmonary fibrosis nurse, and the South Eastern has a nurse specialist and a part-consultant who lead their unit.\n\nAnti-fibrotic drugs can prolong and improve the quality of life for sufferers. In Europe, the US, Canada and New Zealand, they are prescribed on diagnosis.\n\nBut current guidance in the UK says they should only be prescribed when a patient's lung function is within a certain range and they may be stopped if lung function drops below that range.\n\nThe guidance is currently under review.\n\nJim Balmer says more funding and research into what causes the condition is needed\n\n\"Although they don't cure the condition, we know that they slow down the progression of the disease,\" said Dr. Murtagh.\n\n\"On average, they extend life by an additional three years for patients who are on those medications.\n\n\"So if we identify patients earlier in the course of their illness, we could have a bigger impact with that medication.\"\n\nJim Balmer got information and help from the Northern Trust Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group.\n\nHis hope is that awareness of the condition is raised and that sufferers in Northern Ireland can get help, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"More funding, more research into what causes it [is needed],\" Mr Balmer said.\n\n\"Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - the 'idio' is 'idiot'. They don't know.\n\n\"They don't know what causes it.\"", "Chloe Clem's disapproving look has become an internet sensation\n\nAn image of a popular internet meme, featuring a two-year-old girl, has been sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) for about $74,000 (£54,000).\n\nThe picture, dubbed Side Eyeing Chloe, shows young Chloe Clem giving a disapproving look after her mother reveals a surprise trip to Disneyland.\n\nNFTs are digital tokens which demonstrate ownership of electronic art.\n\nThe Clem family auctioned their NFT for 25 Ethereum - a form of cryptocurrency.\n\nIt was bought by 3F Music, a Dubai-based music production company. The firm has not responded to BBC enquiries.\n\nNFTs are typically bought and sold for cryptocurrency. Despite owning the digital certificate, buyers do not control the copyright for the image it represents.\n\nChloe's mother, Katie, told the BBC she and her family watched the auction from their home in Utah, and were delighted with the sale.\n\n\"If we're going based off meme sales before, it's a bit lower, but we're so grateful for what it sold for,\" said Katie. \"The money is awesome but it's just the fact that we get to do this as a family is so much fun.\"\n\nNFTs of internet memes have attracted millions of dollars in sales this year. In February an NFT of Nyan Cat, another storied internet sensation, was sold by the image's creator for 300 Ethereum, worth more than $880,000.\n\nThe NFT of Side Eyeing Chloe was taken from the original video, posted on YouTube by Chloe's mother Katie in 2013.\n\nThe video shows Chloe announcing that the family are going to Disneyland. One of the girls, Lily, starts crying, and the camera pans to Chloe as she pulls a reproachful face.\n\nChloe Clem, now 10, and her mother Katie\n\nThe video of Chloe, who's now aged 10, has been watched more than 20 million times.\n\nChloe has also amassed over 500,000 followers on Instagram, and has been featured in a Google advert in Brazil.\n\nMs Clem said that for now, they're planning to save the Ethereum from the sale.\n\n\"In an ever-changing world, it may be worth more next week,\" she said, referring to the cryptocurrency's volatile price.\n\nBut the family have plans for some of it in the near future.\n\n\"We'll definitely get a Walt Disney holiday out of this next year!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDemand for NFTs has recently boomed, with some selling for millions of dollars in high-profile auctions.\n\nIn March, a collection of NFTs by artist Beeple was sold at auction house Christie's for $69m ($50m).\n\nThe same month, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sold an NFT of his first-ever tweet for more than $2.9m.\n\nCritics say the digital tokens have a huge environmental impact. Others have suggested their current popularity is an investment bubble.", "Matiu Ratana moved to the UK in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later\n\nA minute's silence has been held in London for Met police sergeant Matiu Ratana, who was shot on duty one year ago.\n\nThe 54-year-old was killed as a handcuffed suspect was being taken into custody in Croydon.\n\nA celebration of Mr Ratana's life was held on Saturday at East Grinstead RFC, in West Sussex, where he was the head coach.\n\nOfficers will also gather at another London memorial event on 29 November.\n\nLouis De Zoysa, 23, who also suffered a gunshot wound, is due in court on 23 December charged with murder.\n\nEast Grinstead RFC marked the anniversary of Mr Ratana's death with a day of rugby matches, a Māori concert and a performance by classical singer Joanna Forest.\n\nA special Māori welcome began the memorial day at East Grinstead earlier\n\nLast year the soprano helped to adapt and release the rugby anthem, 'World In Union, 2020', to support Mr Ratana's BBC's Sports Personality of the Year, 'Unsung Hero' award nomination.\n\nPresident of the club, Andy Poole, said: \"It's a hard day for me.\n\n\"Grief is the last show of love you can give to somebody.\n\n\"Please grieve for Matt, but grieve with a smile on your face and love in your heart.\"\n\nIn previous tributes by his fellow players, Mr Ratana, of Goring-by-Sea, was said to be an \"irreplaceable figure\" who had an \"enormous impact\".\n\nThe November memorial service comes as the force was unable to hold a full funeral at the time of Mr Ratana's death, due to Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nPolice Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said the service would \"allow us to come together in Matt's memory\".\n\nShe added: \"Matt has very much been in our thoughts over the last year, both as we grieve for him but also as we celebrate his life. His legacy lives on with his family and friends from the Met, rugby, and beyond.\"\n\nThe anniversary of Mr Ratana's death and National Police Memorial Day on Sunday meant it was \"a time of particular sadness and reflection\", she added.", "A BP garage showing out of use signs today in Sherborne\n\nBP has warned it has had to \"temporarily\" close some of its petrol stations due to a shortage of lorry drivers.\n\nThe oil firm said only \"a handful\" of sites were affected by the fuel supply issues, which have led to a lack of unleaded and diesel fuel.\n\nThere are around 1,200 BP branded petrol stations around the UK, of which 300 are operated by BP themselves.\n\nThe company said it was working hard to address the issues.\n\nSupply chain delays had been \"impacted by industry wide driver shortages across the UK\" and that the company was working hard to address the issues, BP said in a statement.\n\n\"We continue to work with our haulier supplier to minimise disruption and to ensure efficient and effective deliveries,\" the company added.\n\nOther petrol station operators have been approached by the BBC for comment.\n\nEsso said that a \"small number\" of its 200 Tesco Alliance retail sites have been affected.\n\n\"We are working closely with all parties in our distribution network to optimise supplies and minimise any inconvenience to customers. We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience,\" a spokesperson from Esso added.\n\nHowever, supermarket Morrisons, which operates 338 petrol stations across the UK, said it was not seeing any similar issues at the moment.\n\nCo-op runs 130 petrol stations in the country, and said it has a \"full complement\" of fuel delivery drivers.\n\nTesco also said that they have a \"good availability of fuel\" and both Sainsbury's and Asda said there are no current issues in their fuel supplies.\n\nA BP petrol station in Worcester was closed due a lack of fuel\n\nDowning Street has said people should continue buying fuel as normal.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was no shortage of fuel in the UK, adding: \"We obviously recognise the challenges faced by the industry and we're taking steps to support them.\"\n\nHe pointed to changes made by the Department for Transport to make it quicker for HGV drivers to get their licences and said that this is a problem several countries are facing.\n\nGrant Shapps also told the BBC's Question Time on Thursday that he believed the shortages had also been caused because of working conditions that \"hadn't been pleasant\" and that higher salaries offered to drivers was something the government was \"happy to see\".\n\nHe also said that improvements in the availability of tests were \"coming in prior to Christmas… so these are things that will resolve the issues in the lead up to Christmas\".\n\nThe temporary closures come just months after BP had to close a \"handful\" of its UK sites in July because of lorry driver shortages. At the time, BP said its supply chain issues had also been exacerbated by the closure of a distribution terminal due to staff being told to isolate.\n\nPaul Cheema's petrol station is just about to run out of unleaded petrol\n\nPaul Cheema has run a petrol station in Coventry since 2013, and says he's never experienced a situation like this before.\n\n\"We used to be able to put orders in for next day delivery. Now we have to do it a week in advance, but we're ordering blind. We don't know how much fuel we're going to sell in that time. If we'll have enough, or even too much,\" says Paul.\n\n\"Last week we put in an order for a delivery to arrive today. That was pushed back until tomorrow, and now we've been told it won't arrive until Saturday.\"\n\n\"So that means we won't have any unleaded petrol to sell tomorrow,\" he said.\n\nPaul says that fuel delivery delays have been happening all summer, but it's been particularly bad in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"We're a petrol station. We should have availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I'm not blaming our fuel supplier. It's not their fault. It's the bigger driver shortage problem behind it.\"\n\nHe sells thousands of litres of unleaded every day, so the cost implications for him are huge.\n\n\"There could be a 40% impact on sales with this week's delivery problems. If I haven't got any liquid in the ground, I'm not making money. I can't operate the site at a loss.\"\n\n\"If I haven't got fuel to sell, that customer isn't coming into my petrol station shop either, so I'm losing money there too,\" says Paul.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), which represents petrol station operators across the UK, said that some sites across the UK were seeing delivery delays, but that they were largely confined to London and the South East, and were \"temporary by nature\".\n\nGordon Balmer from the PRA said that petrol station closures were rare, and that the fuel supply chain was resilient enough to cope.\n\n\"Fuel demand is still only at 92% of pre-pandemic levels so we believe there should be ample stock available at refineries and delivery terminals throughout the UK.\"\n\nMany businesses have been complaining about the UK's shortage of lorry drivers, which is still causing serious supply chain problems.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic, Brexit and tax changes have all contributed to a lack of qualified drivers. Industry bodies estimate there is a shortfall of about 100,000 workers.\n\nLogistics UK, which represents the haulage industry, said it was \"aware of reports that petrol supplies are currently being affected\" by the lack of drivers.\n\n\"The driver shortage is a very serious issue that needs urgent government and industry action to resolve, however, we urge people not to panic buy; the logistics industry is resilient and has proven capable of supporting shops, families and businesses during Covid-19, border closures and the first stages of Brexit, and will continue to serve the needs of the nation,\" the industry body said.", "A 12-year-old boy has died after being seriously hurt at an indoor ski centre.\n\nOfficers were called to the SnowDome in Tamworth on Friday evening to reports a child had been injured during an activity.\n\nThe ambulance service said its workers tried to save the boy who died \"after an incident on the slope\".\n\nSnowDome Limited chairman Martin Smith said: \"For an evening's activity to end so tragically is almost beyond belief and our sorrow is deeply felt.\"\n\nStaffordshire Police said a man was also injured and asked people not to speculate about the incident.\n\nOfficers also asked the public not to share any images or footage.\n\nThe centre, which offers skiing and snowboarding facilities, will be closed over the weekend.\n\nMr Smith said on-site first aid responders also attended to the boy who \"could not be saved and tragically died at the scene\".\n\n\"The directors and all of the employees extend their heartfelt thoughts and prayers and condolences to the family and friends of the young boy.\"\n\nHe added the company was in \"full co-operation with the investigating authorities\" and was \"providing complete and absolute assistance\".\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service sent two ambulances, two paramedic officers and an air ambulance to the centre in River Drive.\n\nThe SnowDome will remain closed over the weekend\n\n\"On arrival crews found a boy who had suffered very serious injuries,\" a service spokesman said.\n\n\"Staff worked on him providing advanced life support but, sadly, despite all of the efforts it was not possible to save him and he was confirmed dead at the scene.\"\n\nThe man who was injured was not treated by paramedics, he added.\n\nIn a statement the company said it was sorry the SnowDome, which also offers an ice rink, swimming pool and climbing walls, is shut.\n\n\"When it is possible and appropriate to make further comment then we will surely do so.\n\n\"We are truly sorry for the disappointment that this may cause.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been informed and anyone with information about what happened has been asked to come forward.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Stroud says \"you can be doing all the right things... and still be really struggling in the UK\"\n\nConservative peer Baroness Stroud intends to force a vote in the Commons on government plans to scrap the £20-a-week top-up to the universal credit benefit, she has told the BBC.\n\nThe extra money, introduced at the start of the Covid pandemic, is officially due to end on 6 October.\n\nMinisters have said the rise was always intended to be a temporary measure to help those hit by lockdown measures.\n\nBut a number of senior Conservative MPs have argued it should stay in place.\n\nPhilippa Stroud - who helped design the universal credit system - said it was a \"tragedy\" MPs had not had a \"meaningful vote\" on the planned cut.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Week in Westminster programme, she said she intended to table an amendment to the Social Security Bill in the House of Lords next month that would force MPs to vote on plans to scrap the £20 weekly top-up.\n\nSeparately, senior Conservative MPs have claimed that ministers are considering proposals to reduce the \"taper rate\" of universal credit - the amount people have taken off their benefits for every pound they earn.\n\nArguing that the £20 rise should be made permanent, Baroness Stroud said low-income families faced higher energy bills, rising inflation and the planned increase in National Insurance contributions.\n\n\"When the welfare state was first created it was actually designed to be at 20% of median income; it's now at about 12%, which is very, very low,\" she said.\n\n\"What we haven't really understood is just that you can be doing all the right things and you can still be really struggling in the UK, which is why I would argue that the £20 uplift is really important.\"\n\nBusiness minister Paul Scully said keeping the increase would require income tax and fuel duty rises\n\nAsked how it should be paid for, Baroness Stroud said \"where we can find £300bn for the whole of society to go through a crisis together, can we not find a fraction of that amount of money to care for our most vulnerable people in society?\n\n\"And it is true to say that the character of a nation is how it cares for its most vulnerable people.\"\n\nEarlier in the week, business minister Paul Scully said keeping the increase in place would require income tax and fuel duty rises.\n\n\"These things have to be paid for,\" he told Politics Live, adding: \"We have got to get that balance right, we are trying to do it in the round with getting people into work, working more hours and raising their wages.\"\n\nThe government has estimated that more than £9bn will have been spent on the uplift by the time it comes to an end.", "The volcano has been filling the sky with ash and a thick plume of smoke\n\nIntensifying volcanic explosions have forced the airport on the Spanish island of La Palma to be closed.\n\nThe Cumbre Vieja volcano started erupting last Sunday with thousands evacuated and more than 350 homes destroyed.\n\nA thick plume of smoke now extends four kilometres (2.4 miles) into the air.\n\nClouds of thick ash have made flights out of the airport impossible, authorities said on Saturday.\n\nThe closure has prevented some leaving the island's airport, which mostly handles many tourist flights and connections to other islands in the Canaries.\n\nLong queues formed at the terminal as flights were cancelled, and some travellers tried to get ferries off the island.\n\nThe volcano is entering a fresh explosive phase, spewing lava from a newly opened vent, officials say.\n\nAirport operators say ash accumulation has made the airport \"inoperative\", but that a clean-up operation is underway. Workers are sweeping volcanic ash from the runway.\n\nOn Friday, firefighters said they were withdrawing from the area \"due to the intensification of explosive phenomena\".\n\nNo fatalities have been reported.\n\nVolcanic eruptions of fire and lava have intensified in recent days\n\nSome 1,000 people in Tajuya, Tacande de Abajo and Tacande de Arriba were told to evacuate on Friday due to the intensifying volcanic activity.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Friday that the cabinet would next week declare the island a \"catastrophe zone\".\n\nThe Canary Islands government has already announced a first round of financial aid for people who have lost their homes.\n\nThe volcano lies in the south of La Palma island, which is home to around 80,000 people.\n\nIt last erupted 50 years ago, in 1971. Scientists are unsure how long this eruption will last.\n\nA spokesperson for Spain's National Geographic Institute told the BBC that past eruptions on La Palma have lasted between 24 and 84 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Security officers patrol on the site of a car-bomb attack in Mogadishu.\n\nA suicide car bomb which exploded near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday has killed at least seven people.\n\nDistrict police chief Mucawiye Ahmed Mudey told reporters that at least eight others had been injured.\n\nIn a short statement, the Islamist militant group Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.\n\nThe attack targeted a convoy heading towards the presidential palace as it waited at a busy checkpoint.\n\nA witness told AFP that the bomb was detonated when police stopped the driver to carry out a security check.\n\n\"They normally stop to check and clear vehicles before they can pass by the checkpoint. This car was stopped by the security guards and it went off while there were several other cars and people passing by the nearby road. I saw wounded and dead people being carried,\" Mohamed Hassan told the news agency.\n\nEyewitnesses told the BBC that seven cars and three rickshaws were destroyed.\n\nThe blast comes just hours after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive near Somali military headquarters in the capital, leaving no casualties.\n\nMany in the country have criticised Somali politicians for the country's deteriorating security situation, claiming that they are distracted by a much-delayed election process and a mounting dispute between the president and the prime minister.\n\nAl-Shabab, which means The Youth in Arabic, is an extreme Islamist group which has been battling UN-backed government troops for more than a decade.\n\nThe jihadists controlled the capital Mogadishu until 2011 when it was pushed out by African Union troops, but it still holds territory in the countryside and launches frequent attacks against government and civilian targets in Mogadishu and elsewhere.\n\nIt advocates the strict Saudi-inspired Wahhabi version of Islam, while most Somalis are Sufis. It has imposed a harsh version of Sharia in areas under its control, including stoning to death women accused of adultery and amputating the hands of thieves.\n\nGovernment officials have blamed the group for some of Somalia's deadliest terror attacks. Last year analysts at the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project estimated that Al-Shabab had been responsible for the deaths of over 4,000 people since 2010.", "A Normandy veteran's son feels \"insulted\" by the Ministry of Defence after it told his mother to repay £66 of a war pension.\n\nChris Edwards' late father, David, of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, was shot during World War Two but returned to the front line to fight on.\n\nMr Edwards claimed his father only found he was owed the pension more than 40 years after the war.\n\nThe MoD said it was looking into the details of the case.\n\nMr Edwards, of Aberthaw, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said the request was \"beyond belief\".\n\nChris Edwards says he felt insulted by the demand\n\nIn a letter to Mr Edwards' widow Diane in August, the MoD said it had a \"duty to protect public funds and all overpayments are treated as recoverable\".\n\nMr Edwards, 63, said he understood the need to protect public money but questioned why a letter was sent to a 91-year-old grieving widow.\n\n\"Dad went to the front line, was shot, came back and recovered, returned to the front line and then served for 30 years as a police officer after the war,\" he said.\n\nDavid Edwards was shot on the front line but later returned to fight\n\nHis father, who had a school in France named after him, only discovered he could claim money after Diane read a magazine article on the topic more than 40 years after the war.\n\nMr Edwards said: \"I came up with this figure. If it was 220-odd pounds over a 44-year period, it's over £100,000.\n\n\"That wasn't given, so why ask my dad for 60-odd pounds when perhaps he should have been getting his war disablement pension a long time before?\"\n\nThe MoD was asked what attempts were made to contact those wounded during service.\n\nIt said no records existed that show the numbers disabled during World War Two.\n\nThe MoD said it offered bereaved families support through numerous services.\n\nChris Edwards believes his father missed out on tens of thousands of pounds of war pensions\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are looking into the details of this particular case and will engage directly with those concerned.\"\n\nMr Edwards said he hoped raising the matter publicly would encourage other veterans to claim what they were owed.\n\n\"My dad would say, 'it's not about the money, it's about the morality of the fact that you send young people to go and do a very difficult, dirty, horrible job',\" he said.\n\n\"This is a dying generation. There are not many of them left.\n\n\"I wonder how many others missed out on these payments after the war, or how many other families have been pursued.\"", "The travel rules will change from 4 October\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive will change rules on Covid-19 testing for international travel, bringing rules in line with the rest of the UK.\n\nMinisters agreed to remove the requirement for pre-departure testing for fully vaccinated arrivals from non-red list countries from 4 October.\n\nMeanwhile, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has agreed to send up to 100 armed service medics to Northern Ireland to ease hospital pressure.\n\nRobin Swann said it was an \"important practical step to support our health and care staff\".\n\nThey could be deployed between Belfast City Hospital and the Ulster Hospital in October.\n\nThe request for assistance had been made by the Department of Health.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robin Swann MLA #StopCovidNI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe travels changes will come into force at 04:00 BST on 4 October.\n\nJet2 chief executive Steve Heapy said: \"The news that Northern Ireland holidaymakers will no longer have to take a pre-departure test in resort is another welcome step towards normality, and we applaud the Northern Ireland Executive for this decision.\n\n\"There has been enormous demand from holidaymakers in Northern Ireland following the announcement that the traffic light system will be scrapped, and today's news will give customers even more confidence.\n\n\"As a result of these recent positive steps, customers are really taking advantage of the opportunity to book some much-needed late summer and winter sunshine and we cannot wait to take them away.\"\n\nBut he added that further changes are needed in order to help the travel industry.\n\n\"There is still a long way to go to reopen international properly, and we trust the Northern Ireland Executive will replace expensive PCR arrival tests with lateral flow tests before the end of October,\" he said.", "Théoneste Bagosora was serving a 35-year sentence for his role in the 1994 genocide (file photo)\n\nA former Rwandan army colonel convicted for his role in the massacre of some 800,000 people in the 1994 genocide has died in Mali, where he was in prison.\n\nThéoneste Bagosora, 80, was a senior figure in Rwanda's ministry of defence at the time of the killings.\n\nA UN-backed criminal tribunal sentenced him to life in prison, but this was later reduced to 35 years.\n\nHis son Achille told the BBC he died at a hospital in Bamako, where he was being treated for heart issues.\n\nAround 800,000 people - mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group - were killed in 100 days during the genocide.\n\nThe massacres began after a plane carrying Rwanda's then-President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down on 6 April 1994, killing everyone on board.\n\nBagosora was arrested two years later in Cameroon, where he had fled to after Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front seized power.\n\nIn 2008, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found him guilty of crimes against humanity, and for orchestrating the murder of several political figures, including Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Between April and July 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.\n\nAt his trial, Bagosora maintained he was a victim of propaganda by Rwanda's current Tutsi-dominated government.\n\nCanadian General Romeo Dallaire, head of the UN's peacekeeping force during the genocide, described Bagosora as the \"kingpin\" behind the killings, and alleged that the former colonel had threatened to kill him.\n\nBagosora was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, but three years later some charges were overturned and his term was reduced to 35 years.\n\nEarlier this year he was denied a request for early release, and was due to finish his sentence at the age of 89.\n\nHe was serving his sentence in Mali's Koulikoro prison, along with many others convicted for roles in the Rwandan genocide.", "Mohammed Ali said there were queues at his petrol pumps before 08:00 on Saturday\n\nA petrol station boss has appealed for calm amid continued high demand for fuel after panic buying hit Wales.\n\nMohammed Ali, who runs the Murco garage in Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said \"chaos\" continued on Saturday despite insisting there was no fuel shortage.\n\nA tanker has already resupplied his station after he ran out on Friday despite rationing fuel to £15 per car.\n\nSeveral supermarkets closed their petrol stations in Wales and beyond on Friday due to demand.\n\nDisruption continued on Saturday, including at Tesco Extra, Bridgend, Asda stores in Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff north, along with Sainsbury's in Wrexham and at the well-known \"Black Cat\" garage at the junction of the A55 and A470 in Conwy.\n\nNorth Wales Police urged people not to form long queues and \"unnecessary obstructions\" in roads and said petrol stations in the area had reported \"no disruption to deliveries at the majority of sites and fuel deliveries are expected to continue as usual\".\n\nA shortage of drivers has hit deliveries but ministers and industry leaders insist there is no shortage and they have urged people not to panic buy.\n\nThe UK government is planning a temporary scheme to make it easier for foreign lorry drivers to work in the UK.\n\nMr Ali said the rush on fuel started after the media had \"blown things out of proportion\".\n\n\"We had a delivery at six o'clock in the morning and we opened at seven... and it's already chaos over there,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Saturday.\n\n\"There is no need for this. There is no such thing as a fuel shortage,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People should carry on buying petrol as normal, the UK government says\n\nThe Road Haulage Association estimates the UK is short of about 100,000 HGV drivers with existing shortages made worse by the pandemic and Brexit.\n\nJason Edwards, boss of Edwards Coaches in Llantrisant, said he was receiving daily calls from other companies asking for help to cover school bus contracts due to a shortage of drivers.\n\nHe said the problem had arisen due to a rise in drivers' pay while companies were running fixed-term school bus contracts with an agreed cost.\n\nMr Edwards also said drivers and vehicles had to leave an hour early to get to schools on Friday due to the traffic outside petrol stations.\n\nMotorists were seen queuing for a petrol station in Treforest\n\n\"Unless the Department of Transport... allow European travellers temporary work permits, this is not going to go away - it's going to get worse,\" he said.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"We have ample fuel stocks in this country and the public should be reassured there are no shortages.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the UK government was looking at introducing temporary, time-limited measures.\n\n\"We are moving to a high wage, high skilled economy and businesses will need to adapt with more investment in recruitment and training to provide long-term resilience,\" the spokesperson said.", "US sportswear giant Nike and US retail giant Costco both say they are facing product shortages and delays due to global supply chain problems.\n\nNike said production and delivery of its shoes would impacted until next spring, as it struggles with shipping issues and a worker shortage in Asia.\n\nMeanwhile, Costco has re-imposed limits on items like toilet paper.\n\nIt says customers are stockpiling again amid Covid fears, but it is also struggling to ship goods to its shops.\n\nOn Thursday, Nike said it had cut its sales outlook for the year due to the ongoing disruption.\n\n\"We are not immune to the global supply chain headwinds that are challenging the [manufacturing] and movement of product around the world,\" chief financial officer Matthew Friend said.\n\n\"We expect all geographies to be impacted by these factors.\"\n\nThe firm's factories in Vietnam and Indonesia, which make three quarters of its shoes, have been hit by local lockdowns. In Vietnam alone it has cost the firm 10 weeks of production this year.\n\nMeanwhile, the time it takes to get its products from Asia to North America has doubled, from around 40 to 80 days. Nike has also seen transit times rise in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa due to \"port and rail congestion and labour shortages\".\n\nCostco - a membership only retailer - said on Thursday it was reinstating limits on purchases of key items including toilet rolls, bottled water and some cleaning products.\n\nIt said it was partly due to a resurgence in panic buying, but it is also struggling to find trucks, drivers and shipping containers to get goods to its stores.\n\nThe retailer has even chartered three of its own ocean liners to move products between Asia and North America over the coming year.\n\n\"The factors pressuring supply chains and inflation include port delays, container shortages, Covid disruptions, shortages on various components, raw materials and ingredients, labour cost pressures and truck and driver shortages,\" said Costco's chief financial officer, Richard Galanti.\n\n\"Various major brands are requesting longer lead times, and in some cases, difficulty in finding drivers and trucks on short notice\".\n\nSince economies have reopened, retailers around the world have faced widespread disruption amid a surge in demand for imports.\n\nIn the US it's contributed to shortages of children's toys, timber, new clothes and pet food, while also pushing up consumer prices.\n\nBrands including toymaker Hasbro and sportswear giant Adidas have warned of potential supply bottlenecks going into the crucial holiday season.\n\nAnd last week, a record 73 ships were forced to queue outside two major US ports, Long Beach and Los Angeles, as port staff scrambled to clear the backlog. Before Covid, it was unusual for more than one to wait for a berth.", "The lasting memorial was unveiled by the artist who created it, Tom Murphy\n\nA bronze frieze in memory of band Viola Beach and their manager who were killed in a crash has been unveiled in their home town.\n\nKris Leonard, River Reeves, and Jack Dakin - all aged 20 - Tomas Lowe, 27, and their manager Craig Tarry, 33, died outside Stockholm in 2016.\n\nMore than £30,000 was raised for the memorial near Parr Hall in Warrington.\n\nReeves's brother Fin said he was \"blown away\" with it and looking forward \"to giving him a nod\" whenever he passes.\n\n\"I'm a little bit blown away and lost for words,\" he said.\n\n\"I'll be able to walk past and give him a quick nod every time I walk down the street so it is such a nice thing.\"\n\nHe said he thought it was \"important\" for the town, too, \"to come together and remember Viola Beach and celebrate their lives\".\n\nTom Murphy, who created the frieze, unveiled the artwork.\n\nWarrington Council leader councillor Russ Bowden described the memorial as a fitting tribute.\n\n\"The frieze is a celebration of Jack, River, Kris, Tom and Craig, their achievements, and their iconic music,\" he said.\n\nThe brother of band member River Reeves says he was \"blown away\" by the permanent memorial\n\nThe band's car plunged more than 25m (82ft) from a highway into Södertälje Canal, about 18 miles (29km) from Stockholm, as they travelled back to their hotel after their first international gig.\n\nThe bridge had been raised to allow a boat to pass underneath.\n\nCheshire Coroner Nicholas Rheinberg described the incident as \"the most awful tragedy\".\n\nThe band were on the cusp of stardom when the tragedy happened.\n\nIn the wake of their deaths, the band's first single Swings & Waterslides reached number 11 in the UK chart, while their song Boys That Sing was performed by Coldplay in a tribute at Glastonbury.\n\nSix months after the fatal crash, the band posthumously scored a number one album.\n\nThe self-titled debut was compiled by the band's families, using live sessions and studio recordings, many of which were originally bound for an EP.\n\nMr Murphy's previous work includes the John Lennon statue at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, works of Ken Dodd and Bessie Braddock, as well as memorials to people who died in the Hillsborough disaster, and the Liverpool Pals in World War One.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer: \"We will not unfairly hit working families\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has not ruled out tax rises if Labour wins power, but he promised they would \"not unfairly hit working families\".\n\nThe party leader told the BBC's Andrew Marr: \"We want those with the broadest shoulders to pay.\"\n\nBut he said it was too far from an election to make firm tax commitments.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said she did not have \"any plans to increase the rates of income tax\" if Labour wins the next election.\n\nAsked about her comments by Andrew Marr, Sir Keir said: \"We are looking at tax, nothing is off the table, but we don't know what state of finances will be as we go into the election and nor does anybody else.\"\n\nHe accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of \"whacking working people\" with a tax hike, with his plan to increase National Insurance to pay for the NHS and social care.\n\nIn his Marr interview, the Labour leader revealed he would not nationalise the big six energy companies if he were to become prime minister - despite a pledge to support \"common ownership\" of the sector in his party leadership campaign last year.\n\nRachel Reeves will give her first speech to conference as shadow chancellor on Monday\n\nHe said he would be \"pragmatic\" and not \"ideological\" when it came to nationalisation, saying: \"Where common ownership is value for money for the tax payer and delivers better services then there should be common ownership.\"\n\nBut the former leader of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, called on Sir Keir to stick to his pledge and show more \"radicalism\", claiming the result would be \"the opinion polls [starting] to move upwards.\"\n\nThe Labour conference, in Brighton, backed a motion, put forward by Unite and the CWU union, calling for the nationalisation of energy companies.\n\nThe Labour leader also promised children in England an \"education fit for the future\", paid for by a tax on private schools, if he wins power, in an interview with The Sunday Mirror.\n\nMs Reeves will unveil more details in her conference speech on Monday, but a number of Labour's tax and spending policies have already been confirmed:\n\nWho are the people with \"the broadest shoulders\" who will pay more tax under a Labour government?\n\nThe party has given two specific examples recently. Removing the charitable status of private schools would make them pay an estimated £1.5bn a year in tax.\n\nMaking private equity fund managers pay full income tax on a type of earning called \"carried interest\" would raise about £440m.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Times, Rachel Reeves suggested a few more: income from stocks and shares and buy-to-let properties.\n\nWhat the general public would really notice, though, are changes to the rates of the big things we all pay: income tax and national insurance.\n\nAnd Starmer and Reeves have kept their options open on a potential rise in the former or whether they'd scrap the government's increase of the second.\n\nBut the \"broadest shoulders\" rhetoric suggests any increase would be targeted at the wealthy.\n\nWhich means we really need to know how Labour would apply their tape measure to the nation's shoulders to separate the broad from the narrow.\n\nElsewhere at the conference, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband set out plans to \"green\" the UK steel industry by investing £3bn over 10 years in decarbonisation.\n\nThe former Labour leader also accused the Conservatives failing to protect steelmakers from being undercut by cheap steel imports, as well as spending tens of millions on imported steel to build schools and hospitals.\n\nMr Miliband also describe the current gas prices crisis as a \"disaster made in Downing Street\" because of \"inaction\" from the government, adding: \"As we respond to the climate crisis with all the transformation that entails, we have a fateful choice to make.\n\n\"We can try and put a green coat of paint on an unfair, unequal, unjust Britain, or we can make a different choice.\"", "Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to drop changes to the way Labour elects its leaders after they were rejected by the party's left wing.\n\nHe had wanted to scrap one-member-one vote - but opponents said that would give Labour MPs too much say over who gets the top job.\n\nSir Keir is now hoping to get members to back a watered-down package of reforms in a conference vote on Sunday.\n\nHe says they will help the party win the next general election.\n\nThe row over Labour's constitution began earlier this week, when the leader proposed changing the way his successors would be chosen.\n\nHe had wanted to replace the current one-member-one-vote system with an \"electoral college\" system - abolished by predecessor Ed Miliband - under which Labour members would only account for a third of the votes in a future leadership contest.\n\nMPs and unions would also each have made up a third of the votes.\n\nBut Sir Keir had to drop his proposals after he failed to persuade the big Labour-backing unions to support them.\n\nActivist group Momentum called the proposed rule change \"an MP veto by the backdoor\", adding: \"Handing this much power to a Westminster elite is the opposite of democracy.\"\n\nLabour's National Executive Committee (NEC) approved a diluted package of reforms earlier on Saturday, but they will also need to be agreed by party members.\n\nThese new plans were agreed by 22 votes to 12.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting at the party's conference in Brighton, Sir Keir said: \"I'm very pleased these party reforms have got the backing of our NEC.\n\n\"These proposals put us in a better position to win the next general election and I hope constituency and trade union delegates will support them when they come to conference floor.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has got to project himself to sceptical voters outside the conference hall, but it looks as though internal rows will dominate this weekend.\n\nHe got the backing of his ruling national executive for a watered down package of reforms. But it is still a very significant package of reforms.\n\nFor example, in future leadership contests, in order to get onto the ballot in the first place, candidates will need the backing of 20% of MPs instead of 10%.\n\nThat may sound like a boring procedural change, but to put it into context, it would have meant last time round that Sir Keir would have been the only candidate and it would have prevented Jeremy Corbyn getting on the ballot in the first place.\n\nLabour's left are absolutely infuriated by this and when it is debated on the conference floor, they will resist it.\n\nSo, while Sir Keir may want the story of the conference to focus on his efforts to be in touch with working people, it could be overshadowed by this row.\n\nSir Keir and predecessor Jeremy Corbyn were both elected under the one-member-one vote system - but plans to scrap it were seen on the left as an attempt to stop another radical left-wing candidate, like Mr Corbyn, winning the leadership again.\n\nAnd unions seen as sympathetic to the party leader failed to back the proposals on Friday, meaning they could not go to a full vote at conference.\n\nA source close to Sir Keir said that the leadership election reforms had not been presented to the party as \"a take-it-or-leave-it deal\", adding: \"That's how we've approached it and we're pleased with where we've ended up.\"\n\nConference also voted by 59% 41% to keep David Evans, an ally of Sir Keir, as Labour's general secretary.\n\nMany on the left had wanted to remove him and there were chants of \"Oh, Jeremy Corbyn\" within the hall as Mr Evans addressed delegates before the ballot was held.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Angela Rayner is calling for \"a fair day's pay for a fair day's work\"\n\nNew laws to boost fairness at work would be brought in within 100 days of Labour winning a general election, Angela Rayner has promised.\n\nLabour's deputy leader said \"common decency\" had to be restored to the workplace, in a conference speech.\n\nPlans include bringing workers and employers together to negotiate pay and conditions in every sector.\n\nLabour says it would also increase statutory sick pay, as well as bring in the right to flexible working for all.\n\nMs Rayner told Labour's annual conference: \"Let's make this real and show every worker in every workplace in every corner of our country that with their support, their lives, their jobs and their communities can and will be better.\"\n\nUnder the \"fair pay agreements\" proposal, representatives of workers and employers would negotiate minimum standards - or a floor - for pay and terms and conditions for their particular sector.\n\nOnce agreed, the terms would be binding on employers and staff.\n\nSir Keir sat on the stage next to Ms rayner as she delivered her speech\n\nLabour argues this would prevent \"exploitative employers from undercutting the many good employers\" - pointing to the introduction of such agreements in New Zealand and some European countries.\n\nThe idea of fair pay agreements is one policy included in Labour's green paper on employment rights. Other proposals include:\n\nLabour's deputy leader also confirmed social care would be the first sector to go through the fair pay process.\n\nMs Rayner - who is also Labour's shadow secretary for the future of work - argued that fair pay agreements would \"stop bad bosses from exploiting their workers and driving down pay\".\n\nShe also told BBC Breakfast that better pay and working conditions would ease pressure on employers by boosting staff retention and cutting the number of working days lost to sickness.\n\n\"Having good employment practices... means that you have good staff retention (and) those skills are retained within the organisation,\" she said.\n\nIn her speech, she also said the fair pay agreements would \"drive up pay, improve conditions in the workplace and stop bad bosses from exploiting their workers\", and that that ending \"poverty wages and insecure work\" would be the \"driving mission of the next Labour government\".\n\nWelcoming the proposal, TUC leader Frances O'Grady said: \"Giving workers and their unions more power to bargain collectively is the best way to improve pay and working conditions across Britain.\"\n\nMs Rayner's speech marked the beginning of Labour's annual conference - Sir Keir's first in-person conference since he became leader in 2020.", "A Chinese technology executive held in Canada on US fraud charges has left the country after a deal with prosecutors, following years of diplomatic tensions over her fate.\n\nMeng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, was detained on fraud charges in December 2018 at the request of the US.\n\nOn Friday, the US Department of Justice dropped an extradition request for her.\n\nThe case infuriated China and strained relations with the US and Canada.\n\nIt also prompted accusations that China had detained Canadian citizens in retaliation, which China denied.\n\n\"My life has been turned upside down. It was a disruptive time for me,\" Ms Meng told reporters after being freed from Canadian detention.\n\n\"Every cloud has a silver lining,\" she continued, adding: \"I will never forget all the good wishes I received from people around the world.\"\n\nShortly afterwards she boarded an Air China flight bound for the Chinese city of Shenzhen, AFP news agency reports.\n\nMeng Wanzhou is believed to have left Vancouver International Airport on this Air China flight bound for Shenzhen\n\nDetails of a possible deal for Ms Meng's release have been the subject of intense negotiations between US and Chinese diplomats.\n\nThe US alleged Ms Meng misled the bank HSBC over the true nature of Huawei's relationship with a company called Skycom, putting the bank at risk of violating US sanctions against Iran.\n\nOn Friday the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said it had reached a deferred prosecution agreement.\n\nThis means the DOJ would hold off from prosecuting Ms Meng until December 2022. If she complied with conditions set by court, the case would eventually be dropped.\n\nThe deal, which recommended she be released, allowed her to formally deny guilt for key charges while also acknowledging the allegations laid out by the Americans.\n\nLater on Friday, Canadian prosecutors told a court in Vancouver that they had withdrawn efforts to extradite her to the US and that she should be discharged from detention.\n\nShe had been under house arrest in her multimillion-dollar Vancouver home for nearly three years.\n\nAhead of the court appearance, Ms Meng was seen entering the building accompanied by Chinese consular officials.\n\nThe judge subsequently ordered that she go free.\n\nAs part of the deal, Ms Meng agreed to a \"statement of facts\" admitting that she knowingly made false statements to HSBC.\n\nThe DOJ said Ms Meng had \"taken responsibility for her principal role in perpetrating a scheme to defraud a global financial institution\".\n\nThe DOJ also said said it was continuing to prepare for trial against Huawei.\n\nFor months there have been extensive behind-the-scenes contacts, with senior Huawei executives sent to Washington by the company to try to resolve a case which has fuelled international tension.\n\nFor Huawei's boss, the issue has been deeply personal, with his daughter being held, but for the whole of China it has also turned into a major cause of anger. It has also poisoned relations between China and Canada, with the latter believing two of its citizens, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, have been held as pawns in the negotiations.\n\nA deal has the ability to reduce some of the tensions that have emerged. But there will still be questions - what does the US gain out of it? And what kind of link might there be between events in North America and the status of the two Michaels in China?\n\nMs Meng is the elder daughter of billionaire Ren Zhengfei, who set up Huawei in 1987. The company is now the largest telecom equipment maker in the world.\n\nHe served in the Chinese army for nine years, until 1983, and is also a member of the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nHuawei has faced accusations that the Chinese authorities could use its equipment for espionage - allegations it denies.\n\nIn 2019, the US imposed sanctions on Huawei and placed it on an export blacklist, cutting it off from key technologies.\n\nThe UK, Sweden, Australia and Japan have also banned Huawei, while other countries including France and India have adopted measures stopping short of an outright ban.\n\nA few days after Ms Meng was arrested, China detained two Canadian citizens, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, on suspicion of spying.\n\nCritics have accused China of treating them as political bargaining chips, held as part of what is known as \"hostage diplomacy\". China denies this.\n\nLast month, a Chinese court convicted Michael Spavor, a businessman, of espionage and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.\n\nCanada condemned the sentence, saying his trial did not satisfy even the minimum standards required by international law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ren Zhengfei described the arrest of his daughter Meng Wanzhou as politically motivated\n\nMs Meng's agreement with the US may pave the way for the two Canadians' release, but tensions in China-Canada relations will not quickly dissipate, experts say.\n\nThe bilateral relationship has plunged to historic lows since Meng's arrest.\n\nThe US charges against Huawei remain, and the company is still on a trade blacklist. Other Chinese tech companies with operations in the US, such as social media company TikTok, are also facing scrutiny.\n\nChinese tech sector analyst Rui Ma told the BBC that many Chinese companies were hopeful that Ms Meng's deal with the US might mean no further deterioration of US-China relations, \"but no one is taking it to mean that there is a reversal in tensions\".", "Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party's candidate to replace her, Armin Laschet, spoke at a rally on Saturday\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed her centre-right party's candidate Armin Laschet to succeed her, in an unusually tight poll campaign.\n\nAt the final CDU rally, in Mr Laschet's home town of Aachen, Mrs Merkel praised him as a \"bridge-builder who will get people on board\".\n\nThe election is too close to call, with polls putting the centre-right almost neck and neck with the centre-left SPD.\n\nMrs Merkel has dominated German politics for 16 years as chancellor.\n\nMrs Merkel had vowed to avoid the campaign for Sunday's election, but her CDU-CSU alliance has lost what was a comfortable lead in the polls and is now trailing just behind the SPD (Social Democrats) - the junior partners in the current coalition government.\n\nThe Green Party is on course to come third, but could still feature in government; analysts say a wide range of coalitions could be technically possible, if politically tricky, to negotiate.\n\nThe SPD's success is largely attributed to its candidate, current Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who exudes the same understated calm many have admired in Angela Merkel, says the BBC's Jenny Hill in the capital, Berlin.\n\nMr Scholz, making his last appeal to voters in the Potsdam constituency, near Berlin, where he is standing, said a coalition with the Greens might be possible.\n\n\"The stronger the SPD is, the easier it will be to build a government,\" he told voters.\n\nIt's impossible to predict whether Angela Merkel's successor will be the conservative Armin Laschet or the centre-left Olaf Scholz.\n\nFour months ago the Greens were leading the polls. Then the conservatives pulled ahead. Today the centre-left are favourites but their lead has almost disappeared.\n\nParty loyalties have broken down and record numbers are undecided, in some polls around 40%.\n\nA safer bet is that Mr Scholz or Mr Laschet could end up leading a three-way coalition with the Greens and the business-friendly, liberal FDP. The two kingmaker parties are traditionally suspicious of each other: high-taxing moralising killjoys versus car-loving neoliberal climate-killers are the cliches.\n\nBut they are also surprisingly similar, with young, energetic, socially liberal MPs pushing to modernise Germany - and crucially they are keen for power.\n\nBut there are a range of issues at the forefront of voters' minds, including climate change.\n\nOn Friday, tens of thousands of young activists marched throughout the country to demand greater action to tackle global warming. Climate change has been a central theme in the election campaign.\n\nSwedish climate activist Greta Thunberg told crowds in Berlin that no political party was doing nearly enough to fight the climate crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olaf Scholz: EU and UK will have to work together as friends\n\nThe vote in Europe's biggest economy, which stands at the heart of the European Union, is being closely watched by allies on the continent and around the world.\n\nGermans are set to elect members of the lower house of the federal parliament, the Bundestag, made up of at least 598 seats, and usually more. Some 60.4 million Germans over the age of 18 are eligible to vote.\n\nAlthough the winning party becomes clear on the night, the make-up of the next government is only known once a candidate for chancellor is able to form an absolute majority in parliament with one or two other parties, meaning Germany's new leader will not be known immediately.", "Soldiers met paramedics at a clinical education centre in Hamilton on Friday\n\nSoldiers will begin driving ambulances in parts of Scotland this weekend in a bid to alleviate pressure on the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said he expected the help, along with other measures, would produce a \"significant improvement\" in waiting times.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it was providing 114 personnel to carry out non-emergency driving work from Sunday and expects this to last two months.\n\nAn additional 111 personnel will help to run mobile Covid testing units.\n\nThe military support was announced following a request from the Scottish government.\n\nIt came amid warnings from health professionals and opposition politicians of a crisis within the Scottish Ambulance Service in recent weeks, with reports of some patients facing extremely long waits for help to arrive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Col Anthony Phillips on the Army's role supporting the Scottish Ambulance Service\n\nFurther drivers will also be provided by the fire service, the British Red Cross and taxi firms.\n\nDuring a visit to a training facility in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Mr Yousaf thanked the military and warned the health service was facing its toughest winter yet.\n\nHe added: \"There's no silver bullet, we have to be upfront about that.\n\n\"I announced a range of actions, including asking for military assistance but, with that whole package put together, I would expect there to be a significant improvement.\n\n\"But I would be upfront with people too, this is going to be the most challenging winter I think the NHS has ever faced.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf has thanked the military for supporting the Scottish Ambulance Service\n\nCol Anthony Phillips, deputy joint military commander in Scotland, said two thirds of his soldiers working with the ambulance service would be based in the Glasgow area, with the rest about Edinburgh.\n\nLiaison officers and military planners will also be placed in the Scottish Ambulance Service's regional hubs, he added.\n\n\"This group of individuals from 68 Squadron from 7 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps have been doing this task in the east of England and north-east of England already,\" he said.\n\n\"So there's a good degree of experience of this pandemic in amongst this bunch now who are going to support the Scottish Ambulance Service.\"\n\nCol Phillips said they planned to support the service for two months - until the end of November - but that could change, depending on conditions.\n\nMany other parts of the NHS also remain under severe strain and on Friday non-urgent operations and procedures have been postponed at the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital due to pressures on beds and staff.\n\nThe latest figures show about 1,500 people are in hospital in Scotland who do not need to be there but can't leave as an appropriate social care package is not in place.\n\nMr Yousaf has said the government is \"working urgently\" to free up bed space in the NHS and to move more people into social care.\n\nPauline Howie, chief executive of the Scottish Ambulance Service, said pressure has been \"mounting for a few months\" but the request for additional support was only made two weeks ago.\n\nMs Howie said: \"As we've seen lockdown restrictions ease, we've seen demand start to rise.\n\n\"In the latest wave, unfortunately more of our staff have contracted Covid-19 again so we've lost some internal capability and that's been the case across all health and social care staff.\"", "Milly Main died after contracting an infection at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow\n\nPolice have launched a criminal investigation into a number of deaths at a Glasgow hospital, including that of 10-year-old Milly Main.\n\nIt comes as a separate public inquiry into the building of several Scottish hospitals is being held.\n\nMilly's mother recently told the inquiry her child's death was \"murder\".\n\nA review in May found an infection which contributed to Milly's death was probably caused by the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital environment.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has now instructed police to investigate the deaths of Milly, two other children and 73-year-old Gail Armstrong at the Glasgow campus.\n\nIt is understood the probe could lead to criminal charges or a fatal accident inquiry.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The investigation into the deaths is ongoing and the families will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe Crown Office added that it was committed to supporting the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry and \"contributing positively\" to its work.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating the construction of the QEUH and Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh.\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow opened in 2015\n\nMilly's mother, Kimberly Darroch, told the inquiry this week that she wants the QEUH campus to close.\n\nMilly was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2012, and she died in 2017 after contracting stenotrophomonas - an infection found in water, the inquiry heard.\n\nMs Darroch had said she was unaware of the infection which contributed to her daughter's death until after she died.\n\nLabour leader Anas Sarwar has been supporting Ms Darroch and her family since 2019, when a whistleblower came forward to reveal a link between infections and the hospital water supply.\n\nMr Sarwar said the new investigation was \"a very welcome and overdue development\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said Milly Main's family welcomed news of the police investigation\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"The family has welcomed the investigation, they recognise it as good progress but it's painful - let's not forget that at the heart of this tragedy is children that were already unwell, made more unwell.\n\n\"In some circumstances children lost their lives because of design faults and individual failures at the hospital by management.\n\n\"What the families need now is answers, closure and confidence that this is never going to happen to a family again in the future.\"\n\nThe investigation is also looking into the death of Gail Armstrong in January 2019. She was treated for blood cancer at QEUH before she contracted the fungal infection Cryptococcus.\n\nPigeon excrement at a hospital plant room was at first thought to be the \"likely source\" of her infection.\n\nBut an independent review last year said there was \"not a sound evidential basis\" to link Cryptococcus and the presence of pigeon excrement at the hospital.\n\nMrs Armstrong was treated at the hospital for blood cancer\n\nCryptococcus is widely present in the environment but can be lethal to patients with compromised immune systems.\n\nMrs Armstrong's daughter Beth Armstrong told BBC Scotland the last two years have been \"absolutely awful\" and the family do not feel their voice has been heard.\n\nShe said: \"We feel as we've been looking for answers and ever since my mum died, a huge PR machine kicked in at the hospital. We've found it very difficult to get straight answers and it has felt to us like a cover up.\n\n\"That's not just of concern to us in terms of my mother, it's a concern in terms of citizens - we need to know that our hospital is safe and the management will own up to any problems and resolve them.\n\nBeth Armstrong said the family had been waiting for the current police investigation \"for a very long time\" and said they would be \"watching very closely\" for the outcome.\n\nA spokesperson for Police Scotland said: \"Our investigation is at a very early stage, it would be inappropriate to comment further.\"\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it was aware of the police probe and it would be \"inappropriate for us to comment further\".", "The light aircraft is said to have \"taken off then come back down again very quickly\"\n\nA pilot and two passengers have been taken to hospital following an incident involving a light aircraft at Teesside International Airport.\n\nThose onboard were taken to James Cook University Hospital following the incident at 09:39 BST on Saturday.\n\nOne patient suffered serious injuries and was flown to the hospital by the Great North Air Ambulance Service.\n\nThe airport said it will remain closed for the weekend for the Air Accident Investigation Branch to investigate.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are hopeful the airport will reopen on Monday 27 September.\n\n\"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank all of our passengers who have been very understanding today.\n\n\"All of our thoughts and prayers are with the three people onboard at the time of the incident and their families.\"\n\nCounty Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service general manager Rob Cherrie, said the light aircraft \"had taken off then come back down again very quickly\" and fire crews had been \"forced to cut the three people out of the plane\".\n\nThe North East Ambulance Service said: \"We sent two ambulances, a specialist paramedic, an officer and requested support from the Great North Air Ambulance.\n\n\"In total, three patients were taken to James Cook hospital, one with serious injuries. One patient was taken by air and the two other patients were transported by road.\"\n\nIn a statement the airport said: \"We would like to thank the emergency services, on site staff for their quick response.\"\n\nThere were passengers at the airport waiting to board flights at the time.\n\nMr Cherrie added: \"I wouldn't say it's the busiest airport but there were passengers present - by the time we went on to the runway it was closed and flights had been diverted.\"\n\nSeveral flights have been diverted to Newcastle International Airport.\n\nThe airport said arrangements were in place for passengers due to travel inbound and outbound on Ryanair flights.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Meng, pictured on arrival in China, had been accused of fraud by US prosecutors\n\nA Chinese tech executive released after being detained in Canada for nearly three years has returned home.\n\nHuawei's Meng Wanzhou flew to Shenzhen on Saturday evening, hours after two Canadians freed by China had gone back.\n\nIn 2018 China accused Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig of espionage, denying detaining them was in retaliation for Ms Meng's arrest.\n\nThe apparent swap brings to an end a damaging diplomatic row between Beijing and the West.\n\nMr Spavor and Mr Kovrig arrived in the western city of Calgary just before 06:00 local time (12:00 GMT) and were met by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nA couple of hours later Ms Meng touched down in Shenzhen, China, to applauds from a crowd gathered at the airport.\n\n\"I'm finally back home!,\" said Ms Meng, according to the Global Times, a Chinese tabloid backed by the ruling Communist Party.\n\n\"Where there is a Chinese flag, there is a beacon of faith,\" she added. \"If faith has a colour, it must be China red.\"\n\nMs Meng was wanted on charges in the US but was released after a deal between Canada and US prosecutors.\n\nMichael Kovrig (r) and Michael Spavor had been held since 2018\n\nBefore her release, Ms Meng admitted misleading US investigators about Huawei's business dealings in Iran.\n\nShe spent three years under house arrest in Canada while fighting extradition to the United States.\n\nChina had earlier insisted that her case was not related to the sudden arrest of Mr Kovrig and Mr Spavor in 2018. But China's the decision to free them after Ms Meng's release appears to show that pretence has been abandoned, reports Robin Brant, the BBC's Shanghai correspondent.\n\nMr Kovrig and Mr Spavor have maintained their innocence throughout, and critics have accused China of using them as political bargaining chips.\n\nAfter they arrived in Calgary, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared images on Twitter of him welcoming the pair.\n\n\"You've shown incredible strength, resilience, and perseverance,\" he wrote in the tweet. \"Know that Canadians across the country will continue to be here for you, just as they have been.\"\n\nMr Kovrig is a former diplomat employed by International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank.\n\nMr Spavor is a founding member of an organisation that facilitates international business and cultural ties with North Korea.\n\nIn August this year a Chinese court sentenced Mr Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage. There had been no decision in Mr Kovrig's case.\n\nOn Friday, a Canadian judge ordered the release of Ms Meng, Huawei's chief financial officer, after she reached a deal with US prosecutors over fraud charges against her.\n\nHuawei said in a statement that it would continue to defend itself in court, and looked forward to seeing Ms Meng reunited with her family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My life has been turned upside down,\" Ms Meng tells reporters after being freed from Canadian detention\n\nBefore her arrest, US prosecutors accused Ms Meng of fraud, alleging that she misled banks into processing transactions for Huawei that broke US sanctions against Iran.\n\nAs part of a deferred prosecution agreement, Ms Meng admitted to misleading HSBC about Huawei's relationship with Skycom, a Hong-Kong based company that operated in Iran.\n\nChina's foreign ministry said the charges against her had been \"fabricated\" to suppress the country's high-tech industries, according to state media.\n\nBut in a statement the US justice department insisted it would continue to prepare for trial against Huawei, which is still on a trade blacklist.\n\nMs Meng is the elder daughter of Ren Zhengfei, who set up Huawei in 1987. He also served in the Chinese army for nine years, until 1983, and is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nHuawei itself is now the largest telecom equipment maker in the world. It has faced accusations that Chinese authorities could use its equipment for espionage - allegations it denies.\n\nIn 2019, the US imposed sanctions on Huawei and placed it on an export blacklist, cutting it off from key technologies.\n\nThe UK, Sweden, Australia and Japan have also banned Huawei, while other countries including France and India have adopted measures stopping short of an outright ban.", "The government has confirmed plans to speed up the process of obtaining an HGV driver licence, amid a nationwide shortage of drivers.\n\nUp to 50,000 more HGV driving tests will be made available each year by shortening the application process and the tests themselves, it said.\n\nThe UK faces a shortfall of around 90,000 drivers, which has hit the supply of food, petrol and other goods.\n\nHowever, industry groups said the new plans did not go far enough.\n\nLorry driver shortages have been blamed on EU workers leaving the UK following Brexit as well as during the pandemic and tax changes making it more expensive for drivers from elsewhere in Europe to work or be employed in the UK.\n\nThere have also been complaints about a backlog of driver tests.\n\nIn a written statement to the House of Commons, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the government would now overhaul regulations to boost capacity, meaning:\n\nMr Shapps said the changes, which still need to be approved by parliament, will generate additional test capacity \"very rapidly\".\n\nHe added: \"These changes will not change the standard of driving required to drive an HGV, with road safety continuing to be of paramount importance.\"\n\nIndustry groups are sceptical about the plans - elements of which were published earlier this week - warning that they could affect safety.\n\nThey also reiterated calls for temporary work visas to woo back around 20,000 EU drivers who have left the industry - something the government has rejected.\n\nMore than 6,300 lorry drivers spent Christmas 2020 queuing to enter the Port of Dover when France closed its border with the UK\n\n\"This is a sensible move but it's not enough to fix the problem,\" Paul Jackson, managing director of Peterborough-based cold and chilled food logistics firm Chiltern Distribution told the BBC on Thursday.\n\n\"We don't put newly-qualified drivers straight behind the wheel on their own. We buddy them up with experienced drivers for the first eight to 10 weeks and the insurance costs for new drivers are also much higher.\n\n\"We desperately need to put HGV drivers on the list of skilled workers we can bring in from abroad.\"\n\nRichard Burnett of the Road Haulage Association said the industry was losing 600 drivers a week and it would take nearly two years to fill the net shortfall.\n\nA host of companies have been hit by the driver shortage, while some are offering higher wages and retention bonuses to woo recruits.\n\nAnd BP temporarily closed a \"handful\" of its UK sites, due to not being able to get petrol and diesel to them.", "Hundreds of people have joined a vigil for teacher Sabina Nessa, who was killed as she walked to a pub in south-east London.\n\nThe 28-year-old was discovered in Cator Park in Kidbrooke by a member of the public last Saturday.\n\nShe had been walking to meet a friend at The Depot bar the night before, a journey which \"should have taken five minutes\".\n\nMore than 500 people gathered at Pegler Square, not far from where a wanted suspect was captured on CCTV.", "Elon Musk says he has \"semi-separated\" from his partner, the Canadian pop artist Grimes.\n\nThe SpaceX and Tesla CEO told Page Six that while they \"still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms\", their careers often keep them apart for long periods of time.\n\nGrimes has yet to comment on the status of her relationship with Mr Musk.\n\nThe couple began dating in 2018 and welcomed their first child, named X Æ A-Xii, in May last year.\n\nMr Musk said the pair intend to continue co-parenting their child.\n\n\"It's mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or travelling overseas and her work is primarily in LA,\" Mr Musk told Page Six. \"She's staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room.\"\n\nThe pair were last seen together leaving the Met Gala earlier this month. Grimes had walked the red carpet alone but was joined by her billionaire partner inside the event.\n\nMr Musk was previously married to Canadian author Justine Wilson, with whom he has five sons: twins Griffin and Xavier, 17, and triplets Damian, Saxon and Kai, 15.\n\nHe was also twice married to Westworld actress Talulah Riley. They first wed in 2010 but divorced in 2012. They reconciled a year later and remarried in 2013, before divorcing again in 2016.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: More than 500 people attend vigil for Sabina Nessa\n\nA book of condolence has been opened for people to pay respects to teacher Sabina Nessa, who was killed as she walked to a pub in south-east London.\n\nThe book is in a community centre near Cator Park in Kidbrooke, close to where the 28-year-old's body was discovered.\n\nOn Friday, more than 500 people joined a vigil in Pegler Square, near to where a wanted suspect was seen on CCTV.\n\nHe was filmed in Pegler Square on the night of the killing carrying what is thought to be \"a reflective red item\".\n\nDetectives said they \"retain an open mind as to whether this was used in the attack on Sabina\".\n\nSabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nAppealing for further help to identify the man, Det Ch Insp Neil John said he may have been \"trying to conceal it [the red item] up his sleeve\".\n\n\"Please share the CCTV footage on social media and... show the image to family members and friends who may not have seen it.\n\n\"He must be traced,\" he added.\n\nTwo men who were arrested on suspicion of murder have both since been released pending further investigations.\n\nPolice said they were \"content that neither of them is the man shown in the CCTV footage\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police want to speak to a man shown walking in Pegler Square\n\nMs Nessa was attacked as she was walking to meet a friend at The Depot bar on 17 September, shortly after leaving her home in Astell Road.\n\nHer body was found the following day by a member of the public near a walkway in the park.\n\nThe book of condolence has been opened at the OpenSpace community centre.\n\nThe centre's manager Kathryn Gosden said they planned to give the book to Ms Nessa's family \"to show that Sabina was part of this community... and we are sorry and will remember her\".\n\nShe added that those living in the area were still \"very, very scared\" about what had happened.\n\n\"Even today, people are out in twos and threes, they're not out on their own,\" she said.\n\nPolice have also released an image of a car they believe the wanted man had access to\n\nMore candles and tributes have also been left in Pegler Square, where hundreds of people gathered for Friday evening's vigil.\n\nAddressing the crowd on Friday evening, Ms Nessa's sister Jebina Yasmin Islam said she had \"lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister, who left this world far too early\".\n\nOthers members of her family spoke at a separate rally earlier that evening at East London Mosque.\n\nA candle was also lit outside No 10 Downing Street in memory of Ms Nessa, while the Duchess of Cambridge said she was \"saddened by the loss of another innocent young woman on our streets\".\n\nWith every hour that passes the number of flowers, cards and candles left near where Sabina Nessa's body was found continues to grow.\n\nThere are letters from friends and colleagues, and many more from people who didn't know Sabina Nessa but want to pay tribute to her.\n\nThree heart shaped red balloons float beside the pathway she would have taken on her way to meet a friend last Friday, near the place where she was attacked.\n\nHaving been closed behind the police cordon all week, the OpenSpace Community Centre has opened its doors today, offering people the chance to sign a book of condolence.\n\nA space normally used for dance lessons, football training and coffee mornings is now a focus for a grieving community.\n\nMeanwhile, Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales Dame Vera Baird said police needed to better protect the public, rather than women being asked to take precautions.\n\nCrowds gathered not far from the crime scene where forensic officers are still working\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Dame Vera said: \"Apparently the police have been giving out rape alarms to women and giving leaflets out saying how to stay safe in a public place.\n\n\"It is less, isn't it, about giving women leaflets on keeping themselves safe in dangerous places and more about the police making the streets safe for women?\"\n\nCandles have been lit in Pegler Square where Friday's vigil was held\n\nShe added: \"Three-quarters of women over 16 have been harassed in a public place and don't feel safe.\n\n\"They need to know that the police understand that and will use all the powers they have got to keep the streets safe.\"\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe previously said the force was not asking women to change their behaviour when going out at night.\n\n\"Violence against women and girls is a priority for police across the UK but we're really conscious that women should be free to go about their lives without fear of abuse.\"\n\nShe added violence against women was \"something that is tolerated far too much in society and we the police are determined to bring offenders to justice and to prevent these offences where we can\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margaret Keenan: First UK person to get the Pfizer jab gets booster\n\nA woman who became the first person in the world to get the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine has had her booster.\n\nMargaret Keenan, 91, from Coventry, got her third injection at University Hospital in the city on Friday, the same place she was first vaccinated.\n\nAlso getting the booster was Matron May Parsons, who administered Ms Keenan's first jab back in December.\n\nMs Keenan said she felt happy she had got it done and that it meant she felt free.\n\nThe UK has administered more than 48 million first doses of coronavirus vaccine so far.\n\nBooster jabs are being offered to the over-50s, younger adults with health conditions and frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe recommendation came from the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation) amid concern about waning immunity\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen Ms Keenan, originally from Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, received her first injection it prompted headlines across the world and attention on social media, also tripling sales of the charity t-shirt she was wearing,\n\nMs Keenan caused sales of a charity t-shirt to triple when she wore it for her first vaccine\n\nAsked what advice she would give to people who are worried about getting vaccinated, Ms Keenan said: \"For the few seconds it takes, go and have the injection, it saves their lives and it saves their families' lives\".\n\nShe said she felt \"really good\" after having the booster and urged people to \"just go for it\".\n\n\"When you have it done you feel a different person… because you feel it's going to help you and help others,\" she said.\n\nMs Parsons added it was \"lovely\" to see Ms Keenan again and \"heart warming\" to see her doing so well.\n\nMatron May Parsons, who gave Ms Keenan her first jab, received her booster at the same time\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The girl swallowed 23 magnets over a few days while she was using them to make jewellery for her doll\n\nA mother has issued a stark warning to parents about dangers of children swallowing magnets after her daughter had to undergo bowel surgery.\n\nThe six-year-old had been playing with magnets at school before taking them home to make jewellery for a doll.\n\nOver the course of a few days, she swallowed 23 of the strong magnets which ripped through her bowel.\n\nThe NHS surgeon who performed the operation said the magnets were \"potentially fatal\".\n\nHer girl's mother, Tanith, said the magnets were shown being used to imitate tongue piercings in TikTok videos.\n\nTanith, from Lewes in East Sussex, said her daughter told her the magnets \"felt nice\" in her mouth as she played with them.\n\nThe magnets were so strong they clumped together in her intestine after she swallowed them, Tanith said.\n\nThe girl had used the small ball-shaped magnets to make jewellery for her doll\n\nHer daughter first started having stomach pains on 12 September, and had been vomiting for two days when they took her to see their GP.\n\nWhen she did not improve they took her to the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital where she was diagnosed with appendicitis.\n\nHowever, when surgeons began the operation to remove her appendix they found a string of magnets in her bowel.\n\nConsultant paediatric surgeon Costa Healy, who performed the operation, said the magnets \"can cause life-changing injuries\" and are \"potentially fatal\".\n\n\"The vast majority of time we get there in time to save them, but if I was a parent with [this type of] magnets in the house, I'd be getting rid of them,\" he said.\n\nThe swallowed magnets clumped together in the girl's bowel, her mother said\n\nThe girl was discharged on Monday and is now recovering at home.\n\n\"She's been through major surgery and it's been overwhelming for her, and she's got a scar about 10cm long,\" her mother said.\n\n\"It could have been much worse - there's no permanent damage. We were looking at the possibility of her needing to have a stoma.\"\n\nShe said the family had found more magnets in her daughter's bedroom.\n\n\"I want to warn parents about the dangers of their children playing with magnets.\n\n\"I want to reinforce how dangerous these magnets really are.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "EVCL Chill Ltd delivered food to retailers including Asda and Sainsbury's\n\nMore than 400 jobs are at risk as a firm which delivers chilled food to major supermarkets across the UK called in administrators.\n\nEVCL Chill Ltd, which has headquarters in Alfreton, Derbyshire, delivers food to retailers including Asda and Sainsbury's.\n\nAdministrators PwC said acute driver shortages had added to its challenges.\n\nThe firm said 650 employees had been transferred \"to key customers\" but the remaining staff's future was \"unclear\".\n\nIt comes as the government prepares to bring in a temporary visa scheme to make it easier for foreign lorry drivers to work in the UK to address a HGV driver shortage.\n\nPrivately-owned EVCL Chill has sites across the UK including Daventry, Rochdale, Crick and Penrith, and employed more than 1,000 staff in warehousing and HGV driving roles.\n\nIt said it would be arranging meetings with those staff affected on Monday.\n\nPwC said all operations including transportation have \"successfully been transferred or ceased\".\n\nThe administration does not affect the wider EV Cargo Group which continues to trade as before, PwC said.\n\nIn the period up to December 2020 turnover exceeded £167m but EVCL Chill said it has struggled with a loss of key customers and acute driver shortages this year, PwC said.\n\nIt said a \"number of sale options were explored but generated limited interest\" and management decided to enter into administration.\n\n\"This has been a very difficult situation. As businesses move from survival mode to recovery, the financial climate is still very volatile,\" Eddie Williams, joint administrator, said.\n\n\"I am pleased at least 658 roles will continue in a sector that is already facing many difficulties and challenges.\n\n\"We will continue to fully support all affected staff members during this difficult time.\"\n\nHelen Wheeler Jones, joint administrator, added they would liaise closely with customers to fulfil orders, alongside other priority stakeholders including HMRC.\n\nUnite union said it would \"be providing support to help the affected workers find new work\".\n\n\"EVCL Chill workers have lost their jobs without warning, through no fault of their own, and Unite will be assisting its members in every way possible in coping at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Singer Lizzo performed in New York's Central Park for Global Citizen Live\n\nEd Sheeran, Lizzo and Billie Eilish were among stars to take part in a 24-hour gig to raise awareness of climate change, vaccine inequality and famine.\n\nOver 60 artists performed in The Global Citizen festival in cities including New York, London and Seoul.\n\nTens of thousands of people attended concerts around the world, and millions more tuned in to the broadcast.\n\nThe event kicked off on Saturday in Paris, where Elton John performed in front of the Eiffel Tower.\n\nHe took to the stage following a pre-recorded performance by the K-pop band BTS.\n\nThe show, believed to be one of the biggest-ever international charity events, was organised by Global Citizen - a charity working to end extreme poverty by 2030.\n\nUnlike most events of this nature, organisers were not aiming to raise cash, but to use participation as evidence for world leaders that people support bold action on the issues.\n\n\"Across six continents, artists will help rally citizens in demanding that governments, major corporations and philanthropists work together to defend the planet and defeat poverty,\" Global Citizen said in a statement.\n\nTaboo, will.i.am and J. Rey Soul of the Black Eyed Peas took to the stage in Paris\n\nIt called on international governments to plant one billion trees, deliver one billion vaccines to the poorest countries and donate meals for 41 million people on the brink of famine.\n\nJennifer Lopez was among those who performed in New York, along with Billie Eilish and Coldplay.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle called for the Covid-19 vaccine to be treated as a basic human right\n\nEarlier, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, took to the stage calling for access to Covid-19 vaccines to be treated \"as a basic human right.\"\n\n\"The way you're born should not dictate your ability to survive,\" the Duke of Sussex told crowds in the city's Central Park.\n\nThey were followed performances by singer Alessia Cara and pop veteran Cyndi Lauper, who sang a rendition of Girls Just Want To Have Fun, dedicated to Afghan women.\n\nThousands of people filled The Great Lawn in New York's Central Park for a concert in the city\n\nEd Sheeran performed in Paris alongside the Black Eyed Peas and Stormzy, while Stevie Wonder played in Los Angeles.\n\nThere were also pre-recorded performances from a huge number of stars, including Green Day, Kylie Minogue and Andrea Bocelli.\n\nIn a recorded message, USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced that the US would contribute more than $295m (£215m) \"to stave off famine and extreme hunger, confront gender-based violence and address the urgent humanitarian needs the Covid-19 pandemic is leaving in its wake.\"\n\nKylie Minogue is one of many stars to have pre-recorded a performance\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron also pledged to double the number of coronavirus vaccines his country will send to poorer nations, to 120 million.\n\nMeanwhile, a host of international companies like Lego, Cisco and Verizon promised charitable donations.\n\nThe head of the World Health Organization has backed Saturday's concerts, calling on the leaders of the developed world to unite and bring an end to vaccine inequality.\n\n\"We now face a two-track pandemic of haves and have-nots,\" Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. \"We cannot disregard this gross inequity or become complacent.\"\n\nGrime star Stormzy also took to the stage in the French capital\n\nThose attending the concerts were required to produce either proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test.\n\nTickets to the shows were distributed free of charge to randomly selected people who signed up for the Global Citizen app and shared its petitions on social media.\n\nThe Global Citizen organisation has been behind other high-profile charity events, including Vax Live: The Concert To Reunite The World earlier this year in Los Angeles.\n\nThat event brought together musicians, actors, celebrities and world leaders in a united call for global vaccinations to fight Covid-19.\n\nThe Global Citizen: Live concert is being shown on BBC One and iPlayer for audiences in the UK", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is a very important trip for us\": Boris Johnson and Joe Biden hold face-to-face talks\n\nJoe Biden has played down the chances of a post-Brexit free trade deal between the US and UK, as he held talks with Boris Johnson at the White House.\n\nThe US president said he would discuss the issue \"a little bit\" with the UK prime minister, adding: \"We're going to have to work that through.\"\n\nDowning Street said a direct deal with the US remained the \"priority\".\n\nBut UK ministers are pondering joining an existing North American trade pact instead, the BBC understands.\n\nMr Biden and Mr Johnson also discussed Northern Ireland, climate change and Afghanistan during the 90-minute meeting.\n\nThe UK is keen to strike free trade deals around the world in the wake of leaving the European Union's single market - including with the US, with which annual trade was worth an estimated $273bn (£200bn) in 2019.\n\nA deal would encourage more business between the two countries by making it cheaper, usually by reducing or eliminating taxes called tariffs.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, echoing Mr Biden, downplayed chances of securing agreement with the US before the next general election, saying: \"The Americans do negotiate very hard.\"\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told Sky News: \"We still very much hope to be able to put together an agreement with the United States. We are not putting timescales on it.\"\n\n\"It's just not a priority for the US administration,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson highlighted the decision to lift the ban on British beef, and Downing Street is increasingly confident that there could soon be a favourable decision lifting the export ban on lamb.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in the Oval Office before the talks, Mr Biden said: \"We're going to talk a little bit about trade today and we're going to have to work that through.\"\n\nHe did not counter the assertion from his predecessor Barack Obama that the UK would have to join \"the back of the queue\" in seeking a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nIt's really clear from both sides that there is no rapid path to a trade deal - the opportunity that used to be lauded by Brexiteers and by President Trump.\n\nMr Johnson hinted at that realism in his curtain-raiser conversations on his way over here.\n\nAnd the president pretty much confirmed that in the meeting in the Oval Office.\n\nThe UK seems no longer to want to believe, or pretend, that doing business in a major deal is top of their list.\n\nInstead, while the government is still officially pursuing a stand-alone deal with the US there's a twin track with a more incremental approach - there have already been changes to whisky tariffs and British beef. But No 10 is now hopeful that the Americans are seriously considering changing tack on British lamb.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nA source familiar with the government's thinking told the BBC the UK could negotiate entry into an existing trade arrangement between the US, Canada and Mexico - the USMCA - set up after former US President Donald Trump tore up its predecessor, NAFTA.\n\n\"There are a variety of different ways to do this,\" the source said. \"The question is whether the US administration is ready. The ball is in the US's court. It takes two to tango.\"\n\nElsewhere, Downing Street said Mr Johnson and Mr Biden agreed all diplomatic and humanitarian methods must be used to stop conditions getting worse in Afghanistan.\n\nThe leaders said any international recognition of the Taliban must be contingent on the group respecting human rights.\n\nThis followed a request by the Taliban to address world leaders at the United Nations summit in New York this week.\n\nBrexit gave the UK the freedom to strike its own trade deals - and accounting for £1 in every £6 of British trade, a pact with the US was the ultimate prize.\n\nBut Whitehall officials have for months been scrabbling for an alternative after the Biden administration indicated it was in no hurry to resume talks.\n\nJoining the USMCA arrangement already agreed by the US, Canada and Mexico could give the UK deeper benefits on some goods and digital trade with North American economies.\n\nBut it has limited coverage of the UK's biggest strength when it comes to selling to America, namely services. Economists say the overall gains from joining USMCA may be very limited, perhaps less than 0.1% of GDP\n\nAmerica's price of admission may include a hurdle already encountered: standards surrounding food and agricultural goods. For President Biden is explicit that his priority is US workers, not least its farmers.\n\nHe is also clear that domestic issues take precedence. Even if the UK does want to sign up to USMCA, it may still be at the back of a queue - simply to get its application considered.\n\nBefore the meeting, Mr Biden also issued a fresh warning to the UK that peace in Northern Ireland must not be jeopardised as a result of complications caused by Brexit.\n\nHe made it clear he had concerns about the Irish border, amid continuing issues with Northern Ireland Protocol - the arrangement which helps prevent checks along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe pair also discussed the new UK, US and Australia security pact in the Asia-Pacific region, with No 10 describing it as an example of \"shared values and approach to the world\".\n\nThe meeting, taking place on the sidelines of the UN summit, involved the traditional exchange of gifts.\n\nMr Biden gave the prime minister a framed photo of their first meeting in Cornwall at the G7 summit in June, and a White House-branded watch.\n\nMr Johnson presented the president with a signed copy of a book written by British astronaut Tim Peake, with an inscription expressing hopes that it \"provides a reminder of what we're fighting to save as our countries tackle climate change together\".\n\nThe prime minister's gift comes weeks ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, which is seen as a crucial moment to bring climate change under control.\n\nEarlier, Mr Biden announced the US would double its climate finance pledge and increase funding for developing countries to $11.4bn (£8.3bn) by 2024.\n\nMr Johnson said the US had \"stepped up to the plate\" with what he called a \"massive contribution\" towards the $100bn (£73bn) goal for countries to raise.", "Strachan wrote songs, musicals and novels as well as music for TV programmes\n\nMatthew Strachan, the composer who co-wrote the theme music for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, has died at the age of 50.\n\nHe wrote the quiz show's theme and dramatic incidental music with his father Keith.\n\nIt became well-known around the world thanks to the programme's many international versions.\n\nStrachan also composed for The National Lottery and EastEnders, and created a series of fake 1970s porn soundtracks.\n\n\"Matthew was loved by his family and he will be sadly missed,\" Keith Strachan told the BBC.\n\n\"He was a warm, funny and talented human being.\"\n\nThe father-and-son team wrote a total of 95 pieces of music for the show over eight days in 1998.\n\nThey went on to win them the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' award for the the most-broadcast piece of music on US TV for 10 years in a row, earning them a place in the organisation's hall of fame.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio London in 2014, Strachan recalled the \"unusual circumstances\" in which he was called in to write the iconic score.\n\nHe said: \"... A non-broadcast pilot had been made of the show and it was very unsuccessful, it just didn't work.\n\nThe Strachans' Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? music has been heard around the world\n\n\"The executive producer of the show pulled into a lay-by one morning and called the entire creative team and said 'we're going to have to throw the entire thing out and start again from scratch because if we don't ITV are just going to turn their back on this'\".\n\nStrachan said he and his father were called into a meeting, and after watching the show and talking to the director, it was \"eventually decided that there needed to be 95 pieces of music... to cover every eventuality of what happens in the show\".\n\nHe added: \"There's a piece of music for every event, there's a piece of music for when the lights go down, then there's an underscore for the questions…[it's] the idea that it should be quite subliminal.\n\n\"And then we came up with the bright idea - which made a rod for our own backs - of putting up the music a semi-tone every time there was a new question, to sort of raise the stakes a bit - but that increased our workload... we were working 24 hours a day to get this thing done.\"\n\nReflecting on why the programme was a \"particularly good piece of television\", he said: \"The format is great, it's very simple, it's very intimate and there's inherent tension in the thing which is why I think all that lighting and the music works for it.\"\n\nCleverly, the father and son recorded every piece of music in multiple keys - so that every time a new question was posed, the music would move up a semi-tone, subconsciously raising the stakes.\n\nStrachan's other works included the music for BBC Radio 4's Home Front and for some of Jasper Carrott's BBC comedy shows, including police spoof The Detectives.\n\nHe also created the alter-ego Klaus Harmony, \"the Mozart of Porn\", who released several albums of \"erotic masterpieces\" that had supposedly soundtracked cheap 1970s exploitation films.\n\nWith song titles like Cream The Oink, Kosmik Ladywave, Rempenmeister and Jesus, You Really Do Mean Diamonds, Don't You, the albums gained a cult following.\n\n\"He could have done anything [after Millionaire] but he did that,\" wrote his friend and fellow composer Daniel Pemberton on Twitter. \"Matthew made records called things like Wundercrotchen and Funky Sexy Shop. That's what he wanted from life.\n\n\"I loved it. It says a lot about being a composer that money is rarely the goal - deep down, all most of us really want to do is just make music.\"\n\nWriter Dirk Maggs also paid tribute, remembering Strachan on Twitter as a \"dear friend and massive talent\" who had been \"gentle, kind, talented and wickedly funny\".\n\nComposer Kevin Sargent added that Strachan had been \"a talented, clever, funny man whose most famous work redefined the genre of the TV game show\".\n\nAccording to his company biography, Strachan also wrote scores for musicals and penned two mystery novels with wife Bernadette under the pseudonym MB Vincent.\n\nEarlier this year he was charged with arson after setting fire to his home.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "John Paul and Lacey's father Jason Bennett said \"life will never be the same again\"\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murders of three children and a woman in Derbyshire.\n\nTerri Harris, 35, was found dead along with her children John Paul, 13, Lacey, 11, and friend Connie Gent, also 11, at a house in Killamarsh on Sunday.\n\nDamien Bendall, of Chandos Crescent, has been charged with four counts of murder.\n\nThe 31-year-old appeared via video link at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on Wednesday morning.\n\nHe spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth and was remanded into custody.\n\nHe is due to appear at Derby Crown Court on Friday.\n\nLacey and John Paul's mother Terri Harris was also found dead at the house\n\nDerbyshire Police said they were called to the house in Chandos Crescent at 07:26 BST on Sunday after concerns were raised about the safety of those inside.\n\nThere they found the bodies of Ms Harris and the three children.\n\nIt is believed Connie, from Sheffield, was Lacey's friend and was visiting for a sleepover.\n\nThe deaths have shocked the community, and seen an outpouring of grief and tributes.\n\nDamien Bendall has been charged with four counts of murder\n\nOutwood Academy City, where the three children studied, said their memories would \"live on forever\".\n\nIn a statement, the Sheffield school said: \"The children had bright futures ahead of them but sadly none of us will get to see this.\"\n\nJason Bennett, father of Lacey and John Paul, previously told Sky News: \"I'm broken, I just want to kiss my babies.\n\n\"I just want to kiss them and hold them. TikTok Queen and my beautiful boy, they were beautiful.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson tells the French to \"donnez-moi un break\" over the new military pact\n\nBoris Johnson has told the French president to \"donnez-moi un break\" and get over his anger about a new military pact between the UK, US and Australia.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Washington, he said it was time for \"some of our dearest friends\" to \"prenez un grip\".\n\nParis is angry after Australia signed the Aukus pact to build nuclear-powered submarines, pulling out of a major contract with France in the process.\n\nMr Johnson insisted they were \"not trying to shoulder anybody out\".\n\nThe Aukus agreement, announced last week, is widely seen as an effort to counter China's influence in the contested South China Sea.\n\nFrance has expressed anger at the pact, which ends a $37bn (£27bn) deal signed by Australia in 2016 for France to build it 12 conventional submarines.\n\nSpeaking later on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said he and other leaders had been a \"bit taken aback by the strength of the French reaction\".\n\n\"We all want to reach out, everyone wants to reach out to Paris and try to sort something out,\" he told reporters on a flight to New York ahead of a speech later at the UN General Assembly.\n\nThe BBC has been told that the prime minister and US President Joe Biden both expressed \"astonishment\" at France's reaction during their meeting at the White House on Tuesday.\n\nThe pair discussed how to reassure the French side, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said, but decided not to invite France or any other country to join the pact - but to look at ways of increasing collaboration in the Indo-Pacific region.\n\nBoth the UK and the US believed, she added, that Australian leader Scott Morrison had warned France ahead of the announcement, but were unsure of the exact manner of those conversations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nIn the days after the deal was announced, French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the move as a \"stab in the back\".\n\nFrance's defence minister then called off talks with her UK counterpart, Ben Wallace, who tried to reassure France saying that there had been no intent to \"upset or drive a wedge between us and France\".\n\nAnd in a rare step among allies, French President Emmanuel Macron ordered the recall of the French ambassadors to Washington and Canberra.\n\nHowever, France's ambassador will now return to the US following a call between Mr Macron and US President Joe Biden on Wednesday.\n\nDuring the call, the two leaders agreed that the situation \"would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to France and our European partners, \" a joint statement said.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the half-hour call was \"friendly\", and Mr Biden hoped it was a step towards \"returning to normal\".\n\nThe White House said Joe Biden had requested the call with Emmanuel Macron\n\nOn his visit to the US this week, Mr Johnson said the deal was \"fundamentally a great step forward for global security. It's three very like-minded allies standing shoulder to shoulder creating a new partnership for the sharing of technology.\n\n\"It's not exclusive. It's not trying to shoulder anybody out,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts have described the Aukus alliance as probably the most significant security arrangement between the three nations since World War Two.\n\nThe pact will focus on military capability, separating it from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance which also includes New Zealand and Canada.\n\nWhile Australia's submarines is the big-ticket item, Aukus will also involve the sharing of cyber capabilities and other undersea technologies.\n\nMr Johnson is understood to have learned French while attending school in Brussels and, during his time as foreign secretary, he was known to venture into French during press conferences.\n\nHe has deployed the \"donnez-moi un break\" phrase previously on several other issues, including over his 2019 decision to suspend Parliament, and a 2016 warning from a French minister that Brexit could lead to border controls in Calais.", "More than £4m on average was stolen by fraudsters every day in the UK during the first half of the year as losses skyrocketed during the pandemic.\n\nFraud committed when individuals are tricked into handing over money and personal details surged by 71% compared with the first six months of last year.\n\nLess than half of the money lost in these cases was refunded by banks.\n\nBanking trade body UK Finance said teenage criminals buying fraud kits online were among the con-artists.\n\nIn total, £754m was stolen through fraud in the first half of the year, an increase of 30% compared with the same period last year.\n\nWithin this total, so-called authorised push payment (APP) fraud - when victims think they are paying a genuine organisation - rose by 71% to £355m.\n\nThose scams can range from fake delivery texts asking for payment, which were common during the pandemic, to higher-value losses when fraudsters pretend to be solicitors during a house purchase.\n\nAPP fraud losses have now outstripped fraud losses on bank and credit cards for the first time. Impersonation scams more than doubled (up 123%), investment scams rose by 95% and romance scams were up 62%.\n\nNegotiations between banks to create a permanent, central pot of money to refund these scam victims collapsed earlier this year.\n\nKaty Worobec, managing director of economic crime at UK Finance, said: \"We are calling for coordinated action and increased efforts from government and other sectors to tackle what is now a national security threat.\"\n\nRudy is worried about being able to pay his rent after his money was stolen\n\nRudy D'Souza, aged 18, lost the £700 left over from his government-backed Child Trust Fund to fraudsters.\n\n\"This money was the most important money I could have had,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd just moved out and got a new job. But my pay is due after my rent, so I felt really tense and like an idiot for falling for this scam.\n\n\"I never even heard of push payment fraud until I became a victim.\"\n\nBanks and police have discovered that fraudsters range from organised criminals to teenage thieves without any previous convictions operating in their bedrooms.\n\nChildren as young as 14 have been hired as money mules to launder stolen funds. Cryptocurrency wallets have also been used to shift money out of sight of the authorities, UK Finance said.\n\nIt estimated that 70% of fraud originated via online platforms, including social media, and technology bosses are being questioned by MPs on the Treasury Committee later about their efforts to prevent economic crime.\n\nMs Worobec said that co-ordination was needed between banks and a range of technology providers to tackle the issue, as well as raising awareness among consumers.\n\nHowever, the banks' and police's own efforts in stopping the rising tide of fraud will also come under the microscope, with ministers promising an overhaul in the fight against fraud.", "Students will examine how the player uses social medial to make an impact\n\nPupils starting media studies GCSEs this year will study Marcus Rashford's role as an influencer.\n\nThe footballer and food campaigner's media impact will be included in the syllabus of the AQA exam board.\n\nIt will focus on his use of social media to speak out on issues such as free school meals and racism in sport.\n\nThe Manchester United and England player was awarded an MBE last year for services to vulnerable children during the pandemic.\n\nRashford has used his public profile to reduce the stigma surrounding free school meals.\n\nHe talked frankly of his own experience of relying on free lunches at school.\n\nIn an open letter to MPs last year, he wrote: \"My mum worked full time, earning the minimum wage, to make sure we always had a good evening meal on the table - but it was not enough.\n\n\"The system was not built for families like mine to succeed, regardless of how hard my mum worked.\"\n\nThe footballer's high-profile interventions, often on social media, put pressure on ministers to extend food support through school holidays.\n\nBut as well as allowing him to campaign, his celebrity profile has also exposed him to racist abuse, such as after missing a penalty during the Euro 2020 shootout at Wembley.\n\nRashford was widely praised for dealing with the pressure, however.\n\nAnd after a mural was defaced in his hometown, of Withington, Greater Manchester, there was an outpouring of support.\n\nFans of his social campaigning made a pilgrimage to what became a shrine of tributes, shared one photo at a time on social media.\n\nAnd Rashford responded on Twitter \"At one of my lowest points, the outpouring of support around this mural really lifted me and I am truly grateful for that.\"\n\nHundreds of messages were left on the mural in Manchester\n\nWhen the former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson recently muddled meeting him with the rugby player Maro Itoje, Rashford commented with restrained irony, tweeting: \"Accent could have been a giveaway.\"\n\nNow, his media presence could form the basis of questions in GCSE exams in 2023.\n\nAQA head of curriculum for creative arts Sandra Allen said students would learn how social media could make an impact.\n\n\"It's not just an opportunity for them to learn about social media - it's also a great way to learn about important social and race issues as part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in the curriculum,\" she added.\n\nGCSE media studies courses are often a barometer of social trends.\n\nAnd AQA has chosen Rashford to replace the influencer and businesswoman Zoe Sugg, know to millions as Zoella.\n\nShe was among the first influencers to break through from posting from her teenage bedroom to a large and lucrative following.\n\nBut now, at the age of 31, she appeals more to young mothers than teenagers studying for GCSE exams.\n\nSteff Hutchinson, assistant head teacher at Caludon Castle School, in Coventry, said her pupils were very excited to hear they were going to be studying Rashford's use of the media.\n\n\"He is very, very relevant to all of my students, particularly those who are of colour themselves and the lads who are into football seeing someone who is a massive role model,\" she said.\n\n\"It will make sense to them, as they're also using social media to brand themselves and I think they'll understand how they could possibly be more careful and more accurate about what they do.\"\n\nAlso included in the updated syllabus is the BBC TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's novels, His Dark Materials, as well as commercial radio shows and magazines.", "The reality TV programme I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! is facing criticism after a crew member contracted Covid-19, sending thousands of Australians into lockdown.\n\nThe make-up artist allegedly visited a number of establishments in the state of New South Wales (NSW) without checking-in or using a QR code.\n\nShe has been charged with multiple breaches of public health orders.\n\nThe incident has raised questions over the filming of shows in the area.\n\nThe 31-year-old woman, who has not been identified, flew to Ballina from Sydney on Saturday under an exemption, according to ABC News. She then visited a number of locations in the north of the state over the weekend.\n\nITV Studios, which makes the programme, told the news outlet that the crew member was \"fully vaccinated and was wearing PPE while at work\". It added that all of her close contacts were now in isolation.\n\nIt said it was \"disappointed and sympathetic\" to the impact this has had on the region.\n\nBut police said that by attending several businesses and venues in Byron Bay and Kingscliff she had breached the conditions of her work-related travel exemption.\n\nAccording to the rules, people who have travelled from Sydney, which is still in lockdown, must stay at home when they are not working.\n\nThe positive result forced some 135,000 people into a seven-day lockdown which came into effect on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Queensland has closed its border to the affected areas.\n\nAustralia has strict border restrictions, even between states, with many people cut-off from seeing loved ones.\n\n\"I can't see my parents but 'essential' workers can travel to a region to film,\" one person wrote on Twitter.\n\nCatherine Cusack, a member of the NSW legislative council, said on the social media site that she was \"devastated\" by the lockdown and called on the state's health minister to resign.\n\nAnd the Mayor of Byron Shire, Michael Lyon, said he was looking into rescinding permission for the reality TV show Love Island to be filmed in the area. The show is also produced by ITV Studios.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Heartless\" Queensland bars US couple from seeing dying father\n\nAccording to local media, northern NSW has relatively low vaccine rates when compared with other regions. Bryon Shire's vaccine rate in people over 16 has just passed 60%, compared to other Sydney councils that have recorded rates of more than 95%.\n\nThe Australian version of I'm a Celebrity is being filmed in the country for the first time due to coronavirus travel restrictions. It is usually filmed in South Africa.\n\nThe UK version, meanwhile, is to be filmed in Wales for the second successive series.", "That PMQs felt different - that is partly down to Angela Rayner's presentation style in the House of Commons.\n\nLet's be honest, she is much funnier than Keir Starmer.\n\nAnd I hope Dominic Raab had a good time on his holiday in Crete because that holiday is going to potentially follow him around for the rest of his political career.\n\nOn the serious stuff, we are getting quite use to the battle lines between the parties.\n\nLabour is talking about the increase in energy bills, the removal of the £20 a week rise to universal credit, then from next April the rise in National Insurance to pay for the health and social care levy.\n\nLabour are bundling all that together saying there is going to be a cost of living crisis.\n\nThe government is responding by saying we are protecting you with the energy price cap and when it comes to jobs and wages, the economy is booming for some people.\n\nBoth those things might be true at the same time, but by the end of the winter which one of those narratives will have won out?", "Tenants are being evicted due to rent arrears built up during the Covid pandemic, despite the government saying no-one should lose their home as a result of the crisis.\n\nOne-third of hearings monitored in England and Wales over the summer explicitly cited the pandemic as the reason for the arrears, an investigation has found. The average hearing lasted just 10 minutes.\n\n\"We had a few safety nets, but they weren't enough for Covid,\" says Marshall Kinder-Maiss, 27.\n\nThree weeks before the UK went into lockdown in March 2020, he and his partner Joanne thought their dreams had come true. After 18 months of trying to conceive a child, Joanne had just given birth to a baby boy, Roman. To support his growing family, Marshall, a chef, decided to leave his job at a Nando's restaurant in Liverpool to take a better-paid role with a city-centre cafe.\n\nMarshall had a week off between his old job and his new one. And that was the week when Covid restrictions were introduced. Marshall's new job offer was withdrawn. And as he had left his former employer, he wasn't eligible for the government's furlough scheme.\n\nThe couple's income plummeted. Until their claim for Universal Credit was processed, their only money was Joanne's maternity pay of £150 a week. When the couple were both working full-time, they used to take home around £2,000 a month. Their £450-a-month rent quickly became unaffordable as overdrafts were maximised to pay for living expenses. They've struggled to pay rent ever since.\n\n\"It was not how it was supposed to be,\" says Joanne, 24. \"It makes me feel a bit sick. We both grew up coming from poverty so we tried our best to get out of that. We've always been working people, and now I just feel like our son has been born into the exact same situation.\n\n\"All of our peers - they're not in this position. So it's a bit humiliating to be honest.\"\n\nThey are now £4,000 in rent arrears and have been served with an eviction notice. They must leave the house by 11 October.\n\nIn March 2020, former Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick tweeted that \"no-one should lose their home as a result of the coronavirus epidemic\". A ban on bailiff evictions was introduced in England and Wales. This ended in England in May this year, and in Wales the following month.\n\nTo investigate the impact of this, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) sent reporters to 30 county courts in England and Wales throughout July and August.\n\nOf the 555 cases involving either private or social housing landlords, 270 ended in a possession order. A third of those, 88 cases, explicitly mentioned the impact that Covid had had on their finances.\n\nCourt bailiffs were \"swamped\" following the end of the eviction ban, lawyers told the BBC.\n\nSource: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (July and August 2021)\n\nMarshall and Joanne have decided not to go to Liverpool County Court to challenge their landlord's legal action. They have been advised by their legal representative that it would be \"pointless\".\n\nThey have been served with a Section Eight order, used when a tenant breaks the terms of the rental agreement. This acts as a mandatory ground for repossession if the landlord can prove that the tenant has arrears of at least two months.\n\nLast year, MPs on the Housing, Communities and Local Government committee recommended changes in the law to give judges discretion in deciding each individual case. The government chose to ignore the recommendation.\n\nOn Monday, the BBC visited Wandsworth County Court - a crumbling three-storey building in south London - to witness possession orders being rapidly handed down, some within just five minutes.\n\nThe individuals or families in question will be forced out of their homes in just two weeks' time.\n\nOnly one tenant appeared in person during the session. She told the court she had been unable, during the pandemic, to find her usual agency work as an executive PA. This left her unable to afford the £1,600 a month rent on her one-bedroom flat in Hammersmith, west London.\n\nShe had racked up £24,000 in rent arrears. The court ordered her to leave her property by 4 October. In addition to her rent arrears, she must pay £604 in interest, and the landlord's £3,000 legal costs.\n\nThe woman, who did not want to be named, told the BBC she would stay with a friend for the first two weeks. She has no idea where she will live after that.\n\n\"I don't know what to do. I've found a job, but my credit history is so bad, I doubt I'll find a place,\" she said.\n\nMarshall and Joanne say they have the same problem.\n\nMarshall found a new job three months ago, working for a food delivery firm, and is now looking for a second job to supplement his wage. But they don't have any savings to pay a deposit, and their credit rating is now poor.\n\nAnd they face fierce competition for a new home, says Joanne.\n\n\"They're really sought after because there are a lot of evictions, so people are desperate to get a house.\"\n\nMarshall says he phones the council an average of once a week to enquire about social housing, but has been told there are others whose need is greater.\n\nThe couple say they definitely plan to pay back their arrears once they are able to.\n\nThe average tenant in the cases analysed by the TBIJ had £6,500 worth of rent arrears. But a judge at another London court told the BBC he had come across one set of tenants with arrears of £190,000 in recent weeks. Some tenants had \"undoubtedly taken advantage\" of the evictions ban, he said, in effect to live rent-free.\n\nLandlady Michelle Dighton, 41, believes this is the case with a tenant in one of her rental properties.\n\nShe is owed more than £25,000 in rent arrears as she says her tenant - in Croydon, south London - hasn't paid rent since October 2019. She says that she delayed serving an eviction notice, hoping to resolve the situation amicably.\n\nBut when the government introduced the eviction ban, Michelle found herself stuck. Legal delays have further prevented the mother-of-two from sending round the bailiffs.\n\n\"I have to pay a mortgage and service fee for the flat, but I'm not getting any income from it.\"\n\nAdvice for tenants from the Citizen's Advice Bureau:\n\nMichelle says, as a tenant herself, she understands why the government introduced the eviction ban, \"but the courts can't distinguish between those who can't pay and those who won't pay\".\n\n\"My tenant's arrears have nothing to do with Covid,\" she thinks.\n\nAlthough the majority of tenants whose cases were monitored by TBIJ were served a Section Eight eviction notice, a fifth were served a Section 21 notice. Section 21 is a controversial part of the 1988 Housing Act which allows landlords to evict people without giving a specific reason. Often called \"no fault\" or \"revenge\" evictions, the Conservatives promised to scrap them in their 2019 manifesto.\n\nMinisters said they will outline their proposals \"in due course\".\n\nIn a statement, the new Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: \"Our £352bn support package has helped renters throughout the pandemic, and prevented a build-up of rent arrears. We also took unprecedented action to help keep people in their homes by extending notice periods and pausing evictions at the height of the pandemic.\n\n\"As the economy re-opens, it is right that these measures are now being lifted and we are delivering a fairer and more effective private rental sector that works for both landlords and tenants.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"Here in Wales, we have made significant additional help available for tenants, including additional funding for Discretionary Housing Payments and grants to clear Covid-related rent arrears. This support goes far beyond any support UK government have provided.\"", "A former Marine's mission to bring rescue animals back to the UK as the Taliban took over Afghanistan is being examined by the Charity Commission.\n\nThe regulator has told the BBC it is looking into the funding arrangements of Operation Ark, which raised more than £200,000 from supporters in days.\n\nOperation Ark was launched by Pen Farthing's charity Nowzad to evacuate staff members and their immediate families, plus the animals in its care.\n\nThe charity says it acted correctly.\n\nNowzad, which reported income of close to £1m last year, told the BBC: \"The trustees are wholly confident that Nowzad's life-saving work in incredibly difficult circumstances was both the right and only thing to do and was absolutely in furtherance of the charity's purpose.\"\n\nThe Charity Commission has contacted Nowzad for further information after receiving reports around the governance and financial arrangements of Operation Ark.\n\nIt is examining the use of charity funds for the evacuation and whether it is in line with the charity's purpose.\n\n\"We will assess the information provided by the trustees to determine whether or not there is a role for the Commission,\" it said in a statement provided to the BBC.\n\nLeading charities lawyer Edwina Turner at Anthony Collins solicitors says this can be \"a crisis point\" in the life of a charity.\n\n\"It's very serious if the regulator gathers information from you. The charity will want to clear up any concerns,\" Mrs Turner said.\n\n\"One question they [Nowzad] would need an answer to is have they spent money raised in furtherance of their objects? Secondly, have they spent the money in the best way possible to achieve their charitable purposes. Thirdly, has the money raised through Operation Ark been spent in accordance with the terms of the fundraising campaign?\"\n\nNowzad operated an animal clinic, dog and cat shelter and donkey sanctuary in Afghanistan. It trained and employed local Afghans - including women - as vets.\n\nAs the Taliban takeover progressed last month it said its staff were in danger due to their work with foreign organisations, such as embassies, and \"the animals were at risk because the Taliban considers companion animals, particularly dogs, unclean.\"\n\nThe former Royal Marine and his supporters led a vociferous evacuation campaign which garnered a lot of public attention. It received huge public support but also came in for criticism, including from Defence Secretary Ben Wallace who complained it distracted from focusing on evacuating the most vulnerable.\n\nThe charity says an \"extremely fraught but ultimately successful\" evacuation ensued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pen Farthing This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt says \"all staff and their families, including young children and two newborns, and 162 dogs and cats have been delivered to safety.\"\n\nNowzad confirmed the Charity Commission is asking for their trustees' comments on Operation Ark including, specifically, how it furthered the charity's purpose.\n\n\"The trustees of course recognise that it is entirely proper for the Commission to gather more information regarding this high-profile and unprecedented operation and are very happy to provide the information requested,\" it added.\n\nNowzad is a registered charity in England and Wales and is regulated by the Charity Commission.\n\nAt this stage, the Charity Commission has made clear they are gathering information and no findings have so far been made.\n\nAccording to Mrs Turner, the Charity Commission has a range of powers, including \"removing trustees, putting in an interim manager to run a charity or certain aspects of a charity\" or, in extreme circumstances, \"they can bring a charity to a close.\"\n\nMr Farthing, the founder of the animal shelter, who is originally from Dovercourt in Essex, is now working to find new homes in the UK for both his airlifted staff and rescued animals.\n\nHe is also considering expanding his charity's work abroad, in countries he deems safer than Afghanistan, though he does not rule out a return to Kabul if conditions one day improve.", "Boris Johnson and Joe Biden have held face-to-face talks in the White House.\n\nPresident Biden thanked Mr Johnson for \"making the effort to be here\".\n\nMr Johnson responded by thanking him for making it possible for people from the UK with two jabs to travel to the US from November.", "People caught with Class A drugs in Scotland could be given a police warning instead of facing prosecution.\n\nOfficers can already issue a formal warning for possession of lower category drugs.\n\nLord Advocate Dorothy Bain told MSPs this would now include Class A drugs in a bid to address the underlying causes of Scotland's drugs death crisis.\n\nThe Conservatives said the move amounts to \"de facto decriminalisation\" of deadly substances.\n\nMs Bain insisted this was not the case, adding that there is \"no one size fits all\" response to drug addiction and that every case should be judged individually.\n\nShe stressed that the scheme would not extend to drug dealing and that officers would still have the ability to report certain cases to prosecutors.\n\nScotland logged a record 1,339 drug-related deaths in 2020 - by far the highest rate in Europe - with the Scottish government pledging to make it a \"national mission\" to cut fatalities.\n\nMs Bain told MSPs that the mounting death toll represented a \"public health emergency\", and that steps could be taken via the prosecution system to help.\n\nAt present, police officers are able to issue a Recorded Police Warning to people who commit low-level offences, rather than refer them to the prosecution service.\n\nWhich offences are covered by this scheme is kept confidential, but Ms Bain told MSPs that it had applied to Class B and Class C drugs.\n\nThe Lord Advocate said she had decided that it should be expanded to include possession offences for Class A drugs, meaning \"officers may choose to issue a warning for simple possession offences for all classes of drugs\".\n\nProsecutors can also refer people accused of drugs offences for \"diversion\", where they are dealt with by social work teams or other agencies rather than the criminal justice system.\n\nMs Bain said: \"There is no one size fits all response to an individual found in possession of a controlled substance, or an individual dependent on drugs.\n\n\"The most appropriate response, the smartest response in any drugs case must be tailored to the facts and circumstances of both the alleged offence and the offender.\n\n\"Scotland's police and prosecutors are using the powers available to them to both uphold the law and help tackle the drug death emergency.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said it took a health-led approach to addressing drug deaths, saying the change \"gives officers another tool to support those at risk of becoming vulnerable in our communities\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Gary Ritchie - the force's head of drug strategy - said formal warnings would still appear on criminal records, and that persistent and serious offenders would still be reported to prosecutors.\n\nAnd he said the force was \"steadfastly committed to tackling those who bring misery to our communities by dealing drugs and taking advantage of those who are at their most vulnerable\".\n\nPolice Scotland said persistent offenders would still be referred to prosecution services\n\nAddiction charity Faces and Voices of Recovery UK said the move was welcome, but would not be a \"silver bullet\" for the country's drug deaths crisis.\n\nChief executive Annemarie Ward said: \"Diversion from prosecution will prevent many people who really need help and support from being forced through our criminal justice system.\n\n\"It should allow people who are caught in addiction to get into treatment, instead of being sent to jail.\"\n\nHowever the Scottish Conservatives hit out at the plan, calling for the policy to be debated and voted on at Holyrood.\n\nMSP Jamie Greene said: \"Scotland's drug death crisis is our national shame. But surely the way to tackle is by improving access to treatment and rehab not to dilute how seriously we treat the possession of deadly drugs like heroin, crystal meth and crack cocaine, the scourges of our streets and of our society.\n\n\"The answer to our drug death crisis is treatment, not de facto decriminalisation by the back door.\"\n\nHowever other parties backed the move, with Labour's Claire Baker saying the statement was \"very welcome\".\n\nShe added: \"Scotland's drugs death crisis is a scandal of national proportions and it is only right that a public health approach is taken to tackle it.\"", "Food industry bodies have warned of panic-buying this Christmas unless action is taken to address labour shortages.\n\nThe National Farmers' Union (NFU) called for an emergency visa to allow firms to recruit from outside the UK.\n\nUK farmers, hauliers and shops have been struggling with shortages that have been made worse by Covid and Brexit.\n\nThe government said that the UK has a \"highly resilient food supply chain\".\n\nThe head of the NFU, Minette Batters, wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday warning that the food and farming sector is on a \"knife edge\" due to a shortage of workers across the entire supply chain.\n\nThe letter, signed on behalf of a number of food and drink trade bodies, urged the government to introduce a Covid-19 recovery visa to open up new recruitment opportunities as a matter of urgency.\n\n\"Without it, more shelves will go empty and consumers will panic buy to try to get through the winter,\" Ms Batters wrote.\n\n\"That is why we must have an urgent commitment from you to enable the industry to recruit from outside the UK over the next 12 months to get us through the winter and to help us save Christmas.\"\n\nShe said it is \"a travesty that this is happening in parallel with UK food producers disposing of perfectly edible food as it either cannot be picked, packed, processed or transported to the end customer\".\n\n\"Every day there are new examples of food waste across the industry, from chicken to pork, fruit and vegetables, dairy and many other products. The food is there, but it needs people to get it to the consumers,\" Ms Batters said.\n\nThe letter was signed on behalf of other groups such as the British Frozen Food Federation, the British Meat Processors Association, Dairy UK and the Food and Drink Federation.\n\nThere was a report in The Grocer that Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain, had warned the government that panic-buying this Christmas could be worse than during lockdown.\n\nHowever, Tesco later said: \"We have good availability, with deliveries arriving at our stores and distribution centres across the UK every day.\n\n\"While the industry-wide shortage of HGV drivers has led to some distribution challenges, we're working hard to address these and to plan for the months ahead, so that customers can get everything they need.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he does “not believe people will be short of food” amid reports of some empty supermarket shelves.\n\nSome farmers have resorted to giving fruit and vegetables away rather than let it rot in their fields.\n\nThe NFU has said that only 11% of seasonal workers in the 2020 season were UK residents.\n\nRobert Newbery from NFU East Midlands said earlier this month: \"Brexit is certainly having an impact. The people that could move freely within Europe before now can't.\"\n\nIn response to the NFU's call for support, the government increased the number of visas available under the Seasonal Worker Pilot (SWP) from 10,000 in 2020 to 30,000 this year.\n\nThere are also labour shortages in meat production, with a shortfall of abattoir workers and butchers.\n\nThe Association of Independent Meat Suppliers told the BBC in August the industry had about 14,000 job vacancies.\n\nIt said Covid, the UK's exit from the European Union (EU) and perceptions over career paths had caused a looming \"recruitment crisis\".\n\nHauliers and food firms have also been warning of a chronic shortage of lorry drivers, which they also ascribe to the pandemic and Brexit.\n\nA government spokesperson said that the UK's supply chain is \"highly resilient\" and has coped well when faced with recent pressures.\n\nThey pointed out that the government earlier this year expanded its Seasonal Workers Pilot to 30,000 visas for workers to come to the UK for up to six months.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with industry to understand labour demand and supply, including both permanent and seasonal workforce requirements,\" they said.\n\nSeparately, the government has said it has taken action to prevent supermarket shortages with a deal to restart production at CF Industries, the UK's biggest producer of carbon dioxide.\n\nThe gas is widely used by the food industry to prolong shelf life.\n\nRestarting production at the carbon dioxide plants is set to cost taxpayers tens of millions of pounds, after the government agreed to meet the full operating costs for three weeks.", "A New York Times article in 2018 alleged Mr Trump had \"participated in dubious tax schemes\" in the 1990s\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump is suing his niece and the New York Times over a 2018 article that alleged he was involved in \"dubious tax schemes\".\n\nThe lawsuit, filed in New York, accuses Mary Trump and newspaper reporters of being \"engaged in an insidious plot\" to obtain confidential documents.\n\nIt alleges that Ms Trump, 56, breached a settlement agreement barring her from disclosing the documents.\n\nIn response, Ms Trump said the lawsuit was a sign of \"desperation\".\n\n\"The walls are closing in and he is throwing anything against the wall that will stick,\" she told the Daily Beast. \"As is always the case with Donald, he'll try and change the subject.\"\n\nMs Trump revealed herself as the source of the story in a tell-all memoir in 2020.\n\nMr Trump has consistently rejected the claims made in his niece's book - Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man - and unsuccessfully sued to try to block its publication.\n\nOn Tuesday, a lawsuit filed in a state court accused New York Times journalists Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner of contacting and working with Mr Trump's niece as part of a \"personal vendetta\" against him.\n\n\"A group of journalists with the New York Times, in the middle of an extensive crusade to obtain Donald J Trump's confidential tax records, relentlessly sought out his niece Mary... and convinced her to smuggle the records out of her attorney's office,\" the lawsuit reads.\n\nIt alleges that Mr Trump \"suffered significant damages\" and states that he is seeking compensation of no less than $100m (£73m).\n\nIn her book, Ms Trump describes how she supplied tax documents to the New York Times, which were used to form part of a 14,000 word investigative article into Mr Trump's \"dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents\".\n\nOne of the reporters named in the lawsuit, Ms Craig, tweeted in response to the allegations: \"I knocked on Mary Trump's door. She opened it. I think they call that journalism.\"\n\nA New York Times spokeswoman, Danielle Rhoades Ha, said the newspaper's coverage of Mr Trump's taxes \"helped inform citizens through meticulous reporting on a subject of overriding public interest\", and that the lawsuit was \"an attempt to silence independent news organisations\".\n\nLast year, Ms Trump filed her own lawsuit accusing Mr Trump and two family members of fraud and conspiracy, alleging that the then-president, his sister Maryanne Trump Barry and brother Robert Trump - who died last August - cheated her out of an inheritance.\n\nThat case is still pending.", "The US is to donate 500 million more doses of the Pfizer vaccine to developing nations from next year.\n\nPresident Joe Biden made the pledge at a virtual Covid-19 summit on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, promising an \"arsenal of vaccines\".\n\nThe additional jabs will see the total US commitment on vaccine sharing exceed one billion jabs.\n\nExperts say some 11 billion doses are required to vaccinate at least 70% of the global population.\n\nThe World Health Organisation has set a minimum target of 40% vaccine coverage in every country by the end of 2021.\n\nBut the goal is unlikely to be met.\n\nWhile many high-income countries have now given at least one shot to more than half their populations, only 2% of people in low-income countries have had their first dose, according to data from the University of Oxford.\n\nIt's a big pledge but it'll be met with a fair share of scepticism from countries still waiting to vaccinate even 2% of their population.\n\nThe US had already pledged 580m doses but delivered only 160m of those so far.\n\nSo what's different now? Well, global production has picked up in the past few months and there are doses available.\n\nRich countries could have 1.2bn spare doses by the end of the year, even if they run booster campaigns, according to science analytics firm Airfinity. 241m of those could go to waste if they're not donated. But these need to be sent very soon.\n\nCovax, the WHO-backed scheme to help distribute vaccines fairly, has told the BBC that too many of the donations it's receiving have come in small quantities, at the last minute and with little time left before they expire.\n\nThat makes their job of getting them to where they are needed very hard. If Biden want to meet this ambitious goal of vaccinating the world by this time next year, that will have to change.\n\nThe White House's Covid summit comes as research shows rich countries are still holding surpluses of vaccines, many of which could soon be thrown out.\n\nIn June, members of the G7 - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US - pledged to donate one billion doses to poor countries over the next year.\n\nPresident Biden pledged 580m at the time, of which the US has delivered only 160m so far.\n\nThe donated vaccines are routed through Covax, the global scheme supported by the WHO to get doses where they're needed most.\n\nCovax purchases and then sells vaccines at low-cost to middle income countries and donates to poor countries.\n\nIn the US - where more than 76% of adults have received at least one dose - criticism that the country is doing too little to help the rest of the world has grown.\n\nOn Friday, a panel advising the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended booster shots - third doses - of the Pfizer vaccine for people 65 and over.\n\nThe WHO has previously called on wealthier nations to hold off on providing boosters until vaccination rates go up in lesser developed countries.\n\nLast week, in a letter to Mr Biden, eight lawmakers of his own party wrote: \"Clearly, there is an inequitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccine doses, and it is getting worse.\"", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nHarry Dunn's family said they could now \"forge ahead\" with the criminal case into his death after a civil claim with the woman alleged to have killed him was resolved.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike was hit by a car driven by US citizen Anne Sacoolas near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in 2019.\n\nAn agreement over damages was reached on Tuesday.\n\nHis mother, Charlotte Charles, said she was \"relieved\" that part was resolved.\n\nDetails of the agreement reached between the parties involved in the civil case have not been disclosed.\n\nIn England and Wales, civil cases are brought when one private individual or body is in dispute with another and they can relate to questions of liability and damages, whereas criminal cases are when someone is charged with breaking the law of the land, which could result in sentences such as jail or a fine.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, the parents of Harry Dunn, flew out to the US for parts of the civil case\n\nMrs Sacoolas's car collided with the teenager's motorbike moments after she left the US base, where her husband Jonathan worked for a US intelligence agency.\n\nShe later left the country, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe civil claim against Mrs Sacoolas was brought in the US state of Virginia.\n\nThe Alexandria District Court heard Mr and Mrs Sacoolas' work in intelligence was a \"factor\" in their departure from the UK, as they left for \"security reasons\".\n\nIn December 2020, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorised Northamptonshire Police to charge Mrs Sacoolas with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nAn extradition request for Mrs Sacoolas to be brought to the UK was rejected by the US government.\n\nHowever, the UK authorities are continuing to press for her to return to the UK to face the criminal charge.\n\nForeign secretary Liz Truss raised the matter with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week.\n\nMs Charles told BBC Breakfast the civil claim agreement was \"another step in the process\".\n\n\"It's been a really hard slog the last couple of years, having both the civil case and the criminal case almost running parallel to one another,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a big relief that one part of it is done and we can now forge ahead and work with the CPS and trust the CPS to bring the criminal case to a resolution too.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the death of teenager Harry Dunn became a diplomatic struggle between the UK and US\n\nSpokesman Radd Seiger said the family were \"very confident\" the criminal case would be brought soon.\n\nAsked about the possibility of an extradition, he said: \"Whether she comes back physically or attends a trial remotely from the US we simply don't know at this stage, but it's time for this family to let the CPS do its work.\"\n\nMs Charles said the family was not opposed to a virtual trial.\n\n\"We're just very much looking forward to the day the CPS can bring this prosecution in whatever form that may be,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to try to move forward with our lives at some point soon. It's been extremely tough.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "MPs are concerned that delays at Euston Station could lead to more costs\n\nThere is \"no clear end in sight\" to HS2 costs and delays, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have said.\n\nThe committee is \"increasingly alarmed\" about key parts of the project, including a lack of progress at Euston Station.\n\nWithout a government decision on the station, the project \"will literally run out of time\", the committee fears.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said it was making significant progress delivering HS2.\n\nEuston Station is an important part of the first phase of the rail project, both as a London terminus and as a link to other infrastructure such as the London Underground.\n\nBut the DfT \"is yet to make key decisions on the design and approach to construction there\" despite having the necessary planning consents.\n\nThis could \"lead to yet more costs, delays and uncertainty over the promised benefits of the programme\", the committee said.\n\nDame Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said: \"HS2 is already one of the single most expensive taxpayer-funded programmes in the UK but there's actually no clear end in sight in terms of the final cost, or even the final route.\n\n\"The project was plagued by a lack of planning and transparency from the start and there are many difficulties ahead.\n\n\"This project cannot simply keep sinking more taxpayer funds without greater clarity on the later phases. The development of Euston is a real challenge that must be resolved swiftly now.\"\n\nThe current estimated cost of completing HS2 is between £72bn and £98bn at 2019 prices, compared with an original budget of £55.7bn in 2015 at 2015 prices.\n\nThe DfT said: \"We are making significant progress delivering HS2, a key part of our promise to build back better from Covid-19.\n\n\"We will continue to rigorously control pressures, and as our latest update to Parliament confirmed, Phase One remains within budget and schedule.\"\n\nThe Integrated Rail Plan would soon outline how major rail projects, including HS2 Phase 2b, would work together to \"deliver the reliable train services that passengers across the North and Midlands need and deserve\", it added.\n\nHS2 Ltd, the firm behind the project, said: \"HS2 Phases One and 2a have received parliamentary approval and have very clear cost ranges.\n\n\"Although there have been challenges - particularly relating to the pandemic - the project remains on budget.\"\n\nThe company said the HS2 was supporting more than 20,000 jobs.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee has been critical of the rail project in the past, and in May 2020 said HS2 was \"badly off course\" and that bosses had been \"blindsided by contact with reality\".\n\nThe committee accused HS2 Ltd and the DfT of lacking transparency and undermining public confidence.\n\nFollowing this criticism, the government was now providing \"a clearer explanation of costs than we have previously seen in its reporting to Parliament\", the MPs said on Wednesday.\n\nAs tunnelling machines bore into the earth below the Chilterns, intense scrutiny of HS2 continues above ground.\n\nHS2's huge budget, environmental impact and community disruption are making lots of MPs and their constituents angry. But last week the government's high speed minister recommitted to the project \"going full steam ahead\".\n\nBut there is still a major political issue for the government on HS2 - will it all get built?\n\nThe prime minister still hasn't confirmed if the Eastern leg from the West Midlands to Leeds will happen, and Northern politicians are starting to express their frustration.\n\nConservative and Labour MPs in Yorkshire see it as crucial for \"levelling-up\" the region, alongside other major rail investment they want too.\n\nBut the government's cheque book is under pressure after a huge year of Covid spending. And with inflation rising and costs growing, we wait to see if the chancellor and prime minister push the button for it in full - or if HS2 will be slimmed down.", "We've got a bit more detail now on Transport Secretary Grant Shapps's comments to the Transport Committee.\n\nEarlier, he said the government was working as \"quickly as possible\" to remove PCR Covid testing for international travellers and to replace the PCR test taken two days after arrival with a cheaper and simpler lateral flow test.\n\nThe expense of paying for private PCR testing is widely blamed for discouraging people from travelling abroad - with most private providers charging above £60 for PCR tests and £30 for lateral flow tests.\n\nThe government has warned more than 80 providers over misleading prices.\n\nAsked why the switch from PCR to lateral flow tests for arrivals into England would not happen until the end of October, Shapps said it would take several weeks to implement because private testing firms did not have enough lateral flow tests to meet demand.\n\n“This is a Department of Health [and Social Care] responsibility rather than mine, but my understanding is that the ramp up of supply of lateral flow through the private testing sector has some way to go in as much as they have been almost entirely involved in providing PCRs currently,” he says.\n\nWhen questioned by Ben Bradshaw MP about why this was an issue as many test providers also offered lateral flow tests, Shapps responded that he thought it was a question of scale.\n\n“We go from a situation where they are providing low number of thousands to probably millions of tests very quickly and need a few weeks to scale up on it,” he said.\n\nThe transport secretary could not provide a more specific date for the switch but said his Department of Health colleagues were aware of the upcoming October half-term school holidays and understood the speed required to bring in the changes.", "Jamie Cannon went to college with a broken phone on 20 May and has not been seen since\n\nJamie Cannon was on his way to college when he went missing in North Ayrshire 125 days ago.\n\nThe 19-year-old's phone was broken and he has not been in contact with his family since - something police said was \"very out of character\".\n\nOfficers have spent the last four months combing his home town Saltcoats, including the golf course where he was last seen.\n\nBut with a small number of police dogs available for the case, Jamie's family have taken up the search themselves.\n\nHis cousin, Leanne Graham, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime with John Beattie programme that Jamie's \"devastated\" parents and brothers are \"praying he walks through the door\".\n\nMeanwhile they have been out every day looking for some sign of him as well as telling his story in the local newspaper, the Ardrossan Herald.\n\nFamily and members of the community have assisted with the search efforts\n\nTheir efforts have been bolstered a specialist search team from Northern Ireland - K9 Search and Rescue.\n\nLeanne said: \"We've actually been fundraising to support them to come over because they're a charity.\n\n\"They've got more dogs than Police Scotland - they've only got one or two which they obviously can't use every single day. Whereas the team brought over five or six and they're able to cover large areas.\"\n\nLeanne said the charity have been able to search abandoned factory buildings in the area where the public are not permitted to go.\n\n\"There was one time we went in but we got asked to leave because it was dangerous,\" she said.\n\nJamie was last seen at on Thursday 20 May wearing grey jogging bottoms, grey trainers, a blue jacket and was carrying a camouflage backpack.\n\nPolice have thanked the community who have helped the search for Jamie\n\nSo far, this is what little information the family have to go on.\n\n\"There's been nothing since, nothing picked up on cameras,\" said Leanne. \"Down at the bottom you've got Aldi, Lidl and a garage - by the time the police went to them they had all looped over, so we'll never know if he got into a car or anything.\n\n\"He's not touched his bank cards, his phone was broken and his SIM card hasn't been put into another phone and been pinged.\"\n\nAs well as studying brick laying in college, Jamie worked at a local Italian restaurant. Leanne described him as a \"typical young man\" who loved life and relaxing with his friends.\n\nAs for his mother Lynn, Leanne said she is \"putting on a brave face, but she's crumbling inside\" without her son. \"He's not in any trouble, we just want him home,\" Leanne added.\n\nAnyone with information on his whereabouts has been urged to contact Police Scotland via their non-emergency line.\n\nCh Insp Alan Paterson said the force remains \"committed\" to searching for him and are using all specialist resources available.\n\nHe said: \"We are extremely grateful to the local community who continue to help us locate him. Officers have received a number of calls regarding Jamie since he was reported missing and all information received is investigated fully.\n\n\"We are in regular contact with his family and we are keeping them informed at every stage of our inquiries.\n\n\"This has been an incredibly difficult few months for them having to deal with not knowing where Jamie is and we are committed to following every line of inquiry available to us in order to find him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The British food industry will be forced to pay five times more for carbon dioxide as part of a government deal with a US company to restart production in the UK.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said carbon dioxide prices would rise from £200 per tonne to £1,000.\n\nThe government has agreed to pay out tens of millions of pounds to CF Industries to reopen a plant in the UK.\n\nThe closure had raised fears over food supplies and the nuclear industry.\n\nUS-owned CF Industries recently shut two UK sites that produce 60% of the country's commercial carbon dioxide supplies, because of a sharp rise in gas prices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFarms, food producers and supermarkets have warned that a shortage of carbon dioxide will lead to significant disruption to the manufacture and supply of fresh produce.\n\nThe Times also reported that ministers were concerned that the UK might have to close its six advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactors, which also use CO2.\n\nThe government announced late on Tuesday night that it would meet the full operating costs to run CF Industries' Billingham plant in Teesside for three weeks. The costs are expected to be in the \"low tens of millions\" and will be below £50m.\n\nMr Eustice said that the deal with CF Industries \"will be not a loan, it will be a payment to underwrite some of their fixed costs\".\n\nAt the end of the three-week period, it is hoped that the price of carbon dioxide will have risen sufficiently to make it economically viable for CF Industries to keep production running.\n\nMr Eustice said the food industry would have to accept \"a big, sharp rise\" carbon dioxide prices from £200 to £1,000 a tonne.\n\n\"The critical thing was to get the production up and running expeditiously. That's why we've needed this government intervention,\" he said.\n\n\"But we've had meetings with the food industry. They all recognise that the price of carbon dioxide is going to increase substantially and when that price increases, then the market signal will be then for these plants to continue producing.\"\n\nMr Eustice insisted that the rise in cost would not have a \"significant impact\" on food prices.\n\nHe said that while food prices were increasing \"due to global commodity prices, oil prices and also other factors such as labour shortages\", carbon dioxide was \"a tiny proportion\" of the industry's overall costs.\n\nCF Industries had halted two of its fertiliser factories - which produce carbon dioxide as a by-product - because of gas prices.\n\nCarbon dioxide is used in the slaughter of animals such as chickens\n\nCF Industries' Billingham plant will need up to three days to start producing new CO2.\n\nThe company told the BBC it had \"no estimate\" on when its second UK plant at Ince in Cheshire would resume production.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association said the deal to open CF Industries' Teesside plant was a \"huge relief\" and said it was now \"focused on re-establishing supplies before Friday this week, which is when around 25% of pork production was in danger of shutting down\".\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, welcomed the decision, but said the timetable to restart CF Industries' factory and begin producing carbon dioxide \"will still be tight\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"Our understanding is that provided that carbon dioxide starts to get through to food producers by the end of the week, then we can avert major and significant disruption in our stores.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the \"exceptional short-term arrangement\" would ensure industries that rely on a stable supply of CO2 \"have the resources they require to avoid disruption\".\n\nHe said: \"With regards to the CO2 situation, it was abundant, it was very cheap and I think a lot of people were surprised at what happened.\"\n\nThe government intends to publish the letter from Mr Kwarteng to Tony Will, chief executive of CF Industries, which sets out the terms of the taxpayer support.\n\nCommenting on the three-week deal, Mr Kwarteng said: \"In a critical intervention you have to have a way of exiting the arrangement.\n\n\"It is not a case of just trying to nationalise it or supporting it indefinitely, and that is why in the critical period we needed to have a short term arrangement I am confident that we can get other sources of CO2 in that period.\n\nMr Eustice said that the shortage of carbon dioxide had been caused by a \"perfect storm\" of circumstances where CF Industries had shut its two plants because \"an increase in gas price means they are not profitable\", while two other providers had closed their sites for maintenance.\n\nBut the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said the current difficulties showed how exposed the UK is, because of its reliance on such a small number of carbon dioxide producers.\n\n\"Over many years, we have had a major consolidation of the industry resulting in sectors like food and drink, nuclear and health being reliant on a very small number of very large suppliers,\" the BMPA said.\n\n\"If a market-based solution is to be found, it will likely involve longer-term higher prices for CO2, which will be sustainable for some, but not all users of the gas.\"\n\nIan Wright, the chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, also called on the government to support other fertiliser producers and help food producers to look for alternatives to CO2.\n\nMr Will, who flew from the US to the UK on Sunday to meet Mr Kwarteng, said: \"We look forward to working with Secretary Kwarteng and the UK government on developing a longer-term solution, including the development of alternative suppliers of CO2 for the UK market.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that the deal with CF Industries has been drafted so that other companies who stop production because of high commodity prices will not be able to ask the government for similar help.\n\nNorwegian firm Yara has also cut production at a number of European factories, including one in Hull.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he does “not believe people will be short of food” amid reports of some empty supermarket shelves.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson urged people not to worry about putting food on the table this winter, amid rising energy and food bills and a cut to universal credit.\n\nWholesale prices for gas have surged 250% since January, with a 70% rise since August alone, leading to calls for support from the industry and the collapse of some smaller energy firms.\n\nMr Opie added that the government should also take action on other issues affecting food retailers in recent weeks, such as the shortage of HGV drivers, which has been exacerbated by the pandemic and many drivers returning to the European Union after Brexit.\n\nThe government has been keen to stress that this is very much an emergency measure, time-limited, and with a cap on the amount it is prepared to pay.\n\nIt had to do something. Food producers were warning that shortages would become apparent within days, at a time when supply chains have already been disrupted by other issues, such as a lack of lorry drivers.\n\nBut the fact remains that it has agreed to give a large US-owned company tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money, just to operate one of its own plants. That isn't a particularly good look - and it has cast a glaring spotlight on the vulnerability of a key part of the economy.\n\nNow there is a three-week window for government, supermarkets and food producers to come up with a \"sustainable market-based solution\". In practice, that's likely to mean users paying more for their CO2, a cost which will ultimately be borne by consumers.", "Many patients are being prescribed unnecessary and even harmful treatments, a report warns.\n\nThe review, in England, suggests one-tenth of items dispensed by primary care are inappropriate or could be changed.\n\nAround 15% of people take five or more medicines a day - some are to deal with the side-effects of the others.\n\nThe government is appointing a prescribing tsar to help with the issue and stop waste.\n\nThe more medicines a person takes, the higher the chance that one or more of them will have an unwanted or harmful effect.\n\nChief pharmaceutical officer for England, Dr Keith Ridge, said: \"Medicines do people a lot of good and this report is absolutely not about taking treatment or services away from people where they are effective. But medicines can also cause harm and can be wasted.\"\n\nThe number of items dispensed by GPs and other primary care providers has doubled in recent years, from an average of 10 per person in 1996 to around 20 per person now, according to the report.\n\nRepeat prescriptions make up around three-quarters of all prescription items.\n\nAnd around 6.5% of hospital admissions are caused by adverse effects of medicines. This rises to up to 20% in the over-65 age group.\n\nImproved patient records and handovers between hospitals and GP surgeries are among the recommendations made in the report.\n\nClinical pharmacists working with GPs to review medication and a move to more personalised care is already helping, say experts.\n\nProf Martin Marshall, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, said: \"Prescribing is a core skill for GPs and many of our nurse and pharmacist colleagues in primary care and doing whatever we can to prescribe the most appropriate medicine for our patients, in an evidence-based way is something we strive to do on a daily basis - and in the vast majority of cases, this review shows this is happening.\n\n\"With our growing and ageing population, with more patients living with multiple, chronic conditions, many people are taking several medications in order to manage their various health illnesses, and the interaction between various medicines is something prescribers will take into account.\n\n\"In most cases, these medicines are necessary, appropriate and of benefit for the patient - but the aspiration to reduce the number of medications a patient is taking, where safe and possible, is a good one.\n\n\"GPs will only ever prescribe medication to patients in conversation with them,and after a frank discussion about the risks and benefits of the treatment - and when alternative options have been explored.\n\n\"What GPs and other members of the practice team often need, however, is better access for their patients to alternative, non-pharmacological treatments, which can be patchy across the country.\"", "A second data breach by the Ministry of Defence, potentially compromising the safety of Afghans who may be eligible to relocate to the UK, has been uncovered by the BBC.\n\nDozens of people were mistakenly copied in to an email earlier this month, with their email addresses visible to all recipients.\n\nIt is the second such breach to come to light. An investigation is under way.\n\nThe MoD has apologised and said extra support was being offered to them.\n\nIn the latest data breach to be uncovered, defence officials sent an email that had the email addresses and some names of 55 people which could be seen by everyone who was sent the message.\n\nThe recipients - at least one of whom is from the Afghan National Army - were told UK relocation officials had been unable to contact them and they were asked to update their details.\n\nAn MoD spokeswoman said: \"We have been made aware of a data breach that occurred earlier this month by the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (Arap) team.\n\n\"This week, the defence secretary instigated an investigation into data handling within that team.\n\n\"Steps have now been taken to ensure this does not happen in the future.\"\n\nIt comes just a day after the defence secretary apologised for a separate breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said it had been \"an unacceptable level of service\" that had let down thousands of members of the armed forces and veterans.\n\nMore than 250 people seeking relocation to the UK - many of whom are in hiding - were mistakenly copied into the email.\n\nTheir email addresses could be seen by all recipients, showing people's names and some associated profile pictures.\n\nMr Wallace said an investigation had been launched and one official suspended.\n\nDefence sources told the BBC that Mr Wallace did not know about this second breach when he spoke in the Commons on Tuesday.\n\nFormer Conservative defence minister Johnny Mercer, who served in Afghanistan, said he feared there may be more to come.\n\n\"I've been concerned from the start as to how these individuals have been treated - the whole thing was such a rush to the door when Kabul fell that these mistakes were inevitable,\" he said.\n\n\"I personally think we've taken out people we really shouldn't have, and failed to bring out the majority of those we should - I think we are only beginning to learn the scale of what has gone on here.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour shadow defence secretary John Healey welcomed the defence secretary's apology but told the Commons that action now mattered most.", "Rescuers used 50 hay bales to build a pathway to safety\n\nA herd of amorous goats have been saved after rescuers built a stairway made of hay bales from the bottom of a cliff.\n\nTwo in-season female goats were chased off the Great Orme headland in Llandudno, Conwy county, by 18 frisky billy goats, the RSPCA said.\n\nA kid goat also became stranded until the charity and council workers built a tiered walk-way of 50 hay bales.\n\nRSPCA inspector Mike Pugh said: \"Had a rescue plan not been hatched, these goats would have starved or drowned.\"\n\nThe wild herd of about 122 Kashmiri goats spend most of their time on the cliffs of the Great Orme, a county park and nature reserve in Conwy county, but have been known to frequent the town during bad weather.\n\nThe goats were spotted on the unstable rocks near the sea, known locally as Austin's Rock, before the weekend.\n\nBut all 21 have now walked back to safety thanks to the \"innovative rescue mission\".\n\nThe last of the goats have now walked to safety\n\n\"These goats were in real trouble as there was no grazing or palatable water and they were at risk from the tide at the next spring tide later this week,\" said Mr Pugh.\n\n\"The plan was hatched to create a walk-way off the rocks for the goats and back to safety - so we made a tiered path and, fortunately, the goats gradually made their way back.\n\n\"It's a huge relief as the alternative for these animals was unthinkable.\n\n\"We're delighted we have been able to help in what was an innovative rescue mission and a really good example of what can be achieved together for animal welfare.\"\n\nSome goats have been sent to Bristol and Bournemouth to control their numbers\n\nThe Kashmiri goats have roamed the Great Orme for more than a century but made headlines after venturing from into the seaside town of Llandudno at the start of lockdown.\n\nHowever some have been moved to other towns amid concerns their numbers will grow out of control after not getting contraception injections due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Derby County have entered administration and been deducted 12 points by the English Football League.\n\nThe Championship club announced their intention to call in administrators on Friday, with owner Mel Morris saying the coronavirus pandemic had cost them about £20m in lost revenue.\n\nMorris has spent the past two days talking to players and staff, whose jobs are now uncertain.\n\nWayne Rooney's Rams drop to the foot of the table, on minus two points.\n\nAndrew Hosking, Carl Jackson and Andrew Andronikou, managing directors at business advisory firm Quantuma, have been appointed joint administrators.\n\n\"We are in the early stages of assessing the options available to the club and would invite any interested parties to come forward,\" said Hosking.\n\n\"Our immediate objectives are to ensure the club completes all its fixtures in the Championship this season and finding interested parties to safeguard the club and its employees.\"\n\nThe EFL said it had already had \"constructive discussions\" with Quantuma and would remain in \"regular dialogue\" about the situation.\n\nEFL chief executive Trevor Birch said: \"I appreciate that this is a challenging and concerning period for everyone associated with the club, particularly the staff and supporters, and it is our intention to work proactively with the administrators and all relevant parties with the objective of securing a long-term and viable future for Derby County.\"\n• None Derby Q&A - the debt, the mess, the timeline, the future\n\nMorris became Derby's sole owner in 2015 but has actively been looking to sell since June 2019 following their Championship play-off final defeat by Aston Villa under Frank Lampard. Morris says the club has lost him \"in excess of £200m\" to date.\n\nA first takeover deal is said to have collapsed in the aftermath of an EFL charge in January 2020 relating to the sale of Derby's Pride Park to Morris for £80m, despite it previously being listed as worth £41m.\n\nThe stadium sale allowed the club to post a pre-tax profit of £14.6m in 2017-18 and therefore meet the EFL's spending rules.\n\nThe charge was dismissed in August 2020 but the Rams face a possible separate points deduction, speculated to be nine points, over their accounting policies - with no decision yet made on the punishment.\n\nIn March of this year Derventio Holdings, who were backed by the Abu Dhabi-based Bin Zayed Group, saw their takeover bid end while another from Spanish businessman Erik Alonso was called off in May.\n\n'Serious enquiries' for the Rams\n\nDerby have been under a transfer embargo since before the summer window opened, meaning the Rams have only been allowed to sign free agents with strict conditions on salaries.\n\nMorris told BBC Radio Derby on Sunday that there had been \"something in the region\" of 15 enquiries for the club over the weekend, two or three of which he said were \"very serious\".\n\nOn the pitch, Derby had been 12th in the Championship under the management of England's record goalscorer Rooney, who has been in permanent charge since he officially retired as a player in January.\n\nHowever the automatic penalty for going into administration will put the Rams six points adrift of second-bottom Nottingham Forest, their East Midlands rivals.\n\nDerby were also in serious financial trouble in 1984 - less than a decade after the second of their Division One title wins - when former chairman Stuart Webb was a member of the board, and he criticised Morris' decision to \"walk away\" from the current situation.\n\n\"We worked relentlessly to keep the club alive which in the end we were able to do,\" Webb told BBC Radio Derby.\n\n\"We all worked together to keep it going but at this point it looks as though it's come to the end, and that really is worrying for everyone. Once the administrator is appointed, then we'll really find out what the extent of the problems is and how it's going to be dealt with, and that's not going to be pleasant.\"\n\nUnder Morris, the only other board members were company secretary Stephen Pearce and former Derby captain and manager Roy McFarland.\n\nWebb added: \"Mel Morris came in as a highly successful businessman but was clueless about the running of a football club. You need experienced people who can manage a huge business. You need to get the club on an even footing and if you go deeper down into a financial mire, take advice but don't walk away.\"\n\nDerby are now facing the prospect of relegation to League One and insolvency expert, and former Leeds United chairman, Gerald Krasner, told BBC Derby: \"If they don't sell the club, then it's liquidation and expulsion like Bury and clubs before them. That would be a great shame with a history like Derby's.\"\n\n'Rooney is the man to lead the battle'\n\nDisbelief, tears, anger and frustration. The emotions of supporters of Derby County since Friday evening.\n\nSaturday's win over Stoke City and the atmosphere at Pride Park was a stopgap to the eventual reality that the Rams would be placed bottom of the Championship, which is now where they are.\n\nQuestions surrounding chairman Mel Morris' 'cut and run', as it has been called by many supporters, still need to be answered and perhaps we will only find out now what state the football club is in.\n\nA debt of more than £50m is not going to be turned around by the likes of a Lionel Pickering, the Rams' former chairman who spent his entire local newspaper fortune on the club. It will need to be a global multi-millionaire who can run a business and a football club, but be happy to wipe out the debt owed in one fell swoop.\n\nThe worry for supporters is not only the immediate 12-point deduction, it is the next move by the EFL regarding the unsubmitted accounts. Morris told me exclusively on Sunday that there is a failure of profit and sustainability rules in the recalculated documents following the amortisation saga, which in turn could lead to more points being taken off.\n\nThe one thing that is obvious around Derby right now is the togetherness of the fans and support for Wayne Rooney. Every battle needs a leader and Rooney is that man. He is unlikely to keep Derby in the Championship, but he told me on Saturday he is committed to the club and to navigate this journey. Whether that will be up to him and his price, rather than his ability, we will have to wait.\n\nThe club nearly went bust in 1984 in their centenary season, while the 2021-22 season marks 50 years since Brian Clough's side won their first old First Division title. A penny for his thoughts.\n• None Movies With Ali Plumb reveals all about Shang-Chi\n• None How to eat well at university: BBC Food has top tips for budgeting, planning and keeping things tasty", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that the UK-US relationship is \"indestructible\"\n\nThe alliance between the US and the UK should be known as the \"indestructible relationship\", Boris Johnson has told the BBC after meeting US President Joe Biden for the first time.\n\nHe said he had \"terrific\" talks with Mr Biden, who has travelled to Cornwall for the G7 summit of world leaders.\n\nThe summit begins later, with vaccines and climate change on the agenda.\n\nMr Johnson insisted the US president had not rebuked him over post-Brexit tensions in Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, Mr Biden is said to have \"deep concern\" over the situation.\n\nThe prime minister was speaking to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg, after meeting Mr Biden in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, on Thursday ahead of the G7 summit.\n\nThe summit will see the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and UK gathering in person for the first time since the pandemic.\n\nAhead of the meeting, Mr Johnson pledged the UK would donate more than 100 million vaccines to poorer countries in the next year, while Mr Biden promised 500 million doses of Pfizer vaccines to 92 low and middle-income countries and the African Union.\n\nThe G7 nations are expected to collectively agree to provide a billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine in an effort to end the pandemic in 2022.\n\nMr Johnson told the BBC the UK and US shared a belief in human rights, the rules-based international order and the transatlantic alliance.\n\nHe said he thought of the association as \"an indestructible relationship\" or the \"deep and meaningful relationship\".\n\n\"It's a relationship that has endured for a very long time, and has been an important part of peace and prosperity both in Europe and around the world,\" he said.\n\nThe PM had previously let it be known that he preferred a new term for the so-called \"special relationship\" between the UK and US after decades of use.\n\nThe first real-life meeting between Boris Johnson and Joe Biden clearly went well.\n\nMr Johnson and his team believe chemistry between leaders matters, and that the simple fact of gathering in person sends an important message.\n\nBut the issues the prime minister wants to confront this week can't be solved by just bonhomie at the beach.\n\nOne area which could cause friction between the two men is the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit deal that prevents checks along the Irish border.\n\nMr Biden has previously warned that the new arrangements should not jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement, a peace deal signed in 1998 that helped end decades of violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nAsked if Mr Biden had expressed his concerns, Mr Johnson said: \"No, the president didn't say anything of the kind.\"\n\nBoris Johnson and Joe Biden met in Cornwall on Thursday ahead of the start of the G7 summit\n\nBoris Johnson's wife Carrie and their son Wilfred were joined on the beach by US First Lady, Dr Jill Biden\n\nThe prime minister did suggest the way the EU was implementing the agreed arrangement was \"excessively burdensome\" and said while the UK, the US and the EU wanted to preserve the balance in Northern Ireland, a resolution to the issue was unlikely to be found in the coming days.\n\nHowever, he added that the different sides would be able to \"work it out\".\n\nThe arrangements were set down in the 2019 Brexit withdrawal deal, but the UK has since sought more flexibility.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the protocol was the \"only solution\" and should be implemented fully.\n\nAnd French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"I think it's not serious to want to review in July what we finalised after years of debate and work in December.\n\n\"We have a trade deal - it has been painfully discussed for years... if six months later, they say: 'What we negotiated with you, we don't know how to respect it', then that means that nothing is respectable anymore.\"\n\nMr Johnson also defended his decision to reduce overseas aid spending from 0.7% to 0.5% of national income, despite a manifesto promise to maintain the higher level.\n\nEarlier in the week, Mr Johnson faced strong criticism from some of his own MPs, one of whom said the cuts would lead to \"hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths\".\n\nThe prime minister said his government's aid spending as a percentage of GDP exceeded the amount spent by the last two Labour prime ministers.\n\nHe argued the public understood the financial strain caused by the pandemic, adding: \"I think people in this country, in spite of the constant running down of this country's efforts are incredibly proud of what we're doing in spite of the difficulties that were facing.\"\n\nHe also pointed to the UK's commitment to donate 100 million surplus vaccine doses to poorer countries in the next year, as well as previous doses contributed to Covax - the scheme that distributes vaccines to the world's poorest nations.\n\n\"We will have a colossal sum of vaccines that we'll be distributing - the fight against Covid would not be possible without the UK's efforts on vaccines,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson also said he had discussed the case of Harry Dunn with the US president and that Mr Biden was \"extremely sympathetic\" and \"actively engaged\".\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arriving for the G7 summit at Cornwall airport in Newquay\n\nThe G7 brings together seven leading industrialised nations.\n\nThey will spend the day discussing issues including the pandemic before a reception attended by the Queen.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will also take part in their first G7 events.\n\nPrince William and Catherine will join the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at the G7 leaders' reception.\n\nAfterwards, Prince Charles will host a reception for the G7 leaders and heads of the world's largest companies to discuss how the private sector can work with governments to tackle the climate emergency.", "Boris Johnson met Joe Biden at the Oval Office in the White House\n\nWith Joe Biden and the Democrats back in charge in Washington, the US was expected to strengthen ties with Europe and put the UK, to paraphrase Barack Obama, toward the back of the queue.\n\nDonald Trump's focus on transactional diplomacy and penchant for one-on-one deals was out; multilateralism was again in vogue.\n\nThat's not exactly how things have played out, however.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, Biden gave a speech at the United Nations emphasising the need for collective action by the community of nations.\n\nBut by the evening, he was back at the White House for a one-on-one meeting with Boris Johnson, talking up a US-UK relationship that has taken on greater relevance for the Biden administration in the past few weeks.\n\nThe location conveyed as much about the importance of the meeting for the Americans as the brief opening statements and two quickly answered questions (both from British reporters chosen by Johnson, much to the consternation of US journalists).\n\nThis sit-down could have been held in a New York conference room; instead it was in the Oval Office, surrounded by the trappings of US power. That sends a message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough Johnson earlier spoke of US-UK relations that are \"as good as they have been in decades\", there are still a few bumps in the road.\n\nThe US seems uninterested in prioritising a new trade deal. Biden's \"we'll have to work that through\" comment on Tuesday wasn't exactly an enthusiastic response.\n\nThe president, who regularly boasts of his Irish heritage, has also warned of what he sees as the danger Brexit poses to stability in Northern Ireland - a point he again alluded to on Tuesday.\n\nShared priorities, however, seem to have prevailed. With Johnson, Biden has found a welcome partner in tackling climate change.\n\nAnd the two nations appear headed toward an even closer security relationship following the US-UK-Australia pledge to share military and intelligence assets - a development Johnson said \"has great potential\" to benefit the world.\n\nThat Aukus triumvirate is almost Trumpian in its nature; an Anglophone alliance that sidelines continental Europe and positions itself to face off against Chinese territorial ambitions.\n\nChina scoffs at a \"cold war mentality\". The French fume at a diplomatic snub that cost them billions in their nixed Australian submarine deal. But Biden has a plan for his foreign policy, and it appears the UK has a prominent part in it.\n\nTuesday's Oval Office meeting was further evidence of that.", "Extremists are using mainstream video games and gaming chat platforms to spread hate, BBC Click has found.\n\nOver three months, researchers found anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia on platforms, including DLive and Odysee, where users stream and chat about games such as Call of Duty and Minecraft.\n\nCampaigners say including extremist narratives among everyday conversations can be a pathway to radicalisation.\n\nThese conversations then move to spaces such as private Telegram channels.\n\n\"Once you're in that world, then the radicalisation starts to happen,\" Joe Mulhall, of anti-fascist organisation Hope Not Hate, said.\n\n\"That's when you start to go to other meetings, to smaller groups that aren't necessarily playing games, talking about politics more explicitly.\"\n\nIn response, Telegram told BBC News it used a \"combination of proactive monitoring of public spaces and user reports\" to remove content breaching its terms of service.\n\nDLive and Odysee have not responded to BBC News's requests for comment.\n\nTheir policies cite zero tolerance against hate and violent extremism and both say they are proactive at removing any content violating guidelines.\n\nExtreme view were slipped into chats on DLive and Odysee\n\nCall of Duty said: \"The actions we have taken to confront racist behaviour include banning players for racist and hate-oriented names, implementing new technology and making it easier for players to report offensive in-game behaviour.\"\n\nBut the researchers also found extremist \"roleplay\" scenarios within games on various platforms that let players create and share their own custom maps and environments.\n\nThese included Nazi concentration camps and a Uyghur detainment camp in games such as Roblox and Minecraft.\n\nOne Roblox driving game invited players to \"become a racist\" and simulate the murder of people belonging to ethnic minorities by running them over in a car.\n\nA user-generated game in Roblox let players run over non-white characters\n\n\"These are small and not played by a huge amount of people but what they do is allow extremists to create role-playing experiences... to live out radicalised fantasies online,\" Jacob Davey, from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, said.\n\nRoblox said: \"We work relentlessly to ensure our platform remains a safe and civil space, and with a combination of machine learning and a team of over 2,000 moderators, we monitor for safety 24-7 to detect and swiftly act on any inappropriate content or behaviour.\"\n\nMinecraft said: \"Terrorist or violent extremist content is strictly forbidden by our community standards and we take action to remove such content if it appears on our systems.\"\n\nBut extremists may have turned to gaming spaces after the social-media giants increased enforcement of their rules, according to the researchers.\n\nMr Davey said: \"The extreme right-wing have potentially found safe harbours to broadcast their ideology or to engage in more traditional propagandising - the sorts of things that they would have done a few years ago on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.\n\n\"Online gaming basically forms a means for people to connect over a shared hobby online, and this includes extremists.\n\n\"It's a way for them to connect with like-minded individuals, to socialise and ultimately form firmer social bonds, which can be really important in terms of advancing and furthering extremist movements globally.\"\n\nMr Mulhall said: \"You sit at home after school and play games, so the gaming element can create a sense that it's normal, not extremist, not dangerous.\"\n\nThe Royal United Services Institute is part of a team of counter-extremism experts launching a large-scale investigation into online gaming.\n\nThe defence think tank' s Dr Jessica White said: \"The online and chat space where moderation tends to be poor is being increasingly encroached upon by extremists but we need to get widespread evidence of its scale.\"\n\nThe government is also in talks with industry bodies to discuss steps to tackle the exploitation of gaming spaces by extremists.\n\nA representative of Ukie, the UK's gaming trade body, said: \"We use sophisticated AI [artificial-intelligence] moderation tools and trained community managers to build safe spaces.\n\n\"We also work closely with government and law enforcement to further protect players.\n\n\"We know the challenges we face are shared by other forms of digital entertainment and we continue to adopt a positive and proactive approach to protecting players.\"", "The Taliban's Foreign Minster Amir Khan Muttaqi made the request in a letter to the UN on Monday\n\nThe Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York City.\n\nA UN committee will rule on the request but it is unlikely to happen during the current session of the body.\n\nThe Taliban also nominated their Doha-based spokesperson, Suhail Shaheen, as Afghanistan's UN ambassador.\n\nThe group, which seized control of Afghanistan last month, said the envoy for the ousted government no longer represented the country.\n\nThe request to participate in the high-level debate is being considered by a credentials committee, whose nine members include the US, China and Russia, according to a UN spokesperson.\n\nBut they are unlikely to meet before the end of the General Assembly session next Monday. Until then, under UN rules, Ghulam Isaczai will remain Afghanistan's ambassador to the global body.\n\nHe is expected to make a speech on the final day. However the Taliban said his mission \"no longer represents Afghanistan\".\n\nNo government has formally recognised the Taliban as Afghanistan's new government and for the UN to agree to its nominee for ambassador would be an important step towards international acceptance.\n\nThe Taliban also said that several countries no longer recognised former President Ashraf Ghani as leader.\n\nMr Ghani abruptly left Afghanistan as Taliban militants advanced on the capital, Kabul, on 15 August. He has since taken refuge in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nIn Afghanistan itself, the last minister from the deposed government, Wahid Majrooh, has left office as public health minister after hearing that he had been replaced.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Yalda Hakim This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen the Taliban last controlled Afghanistan, between 1996 and 2001, the ambassador of the government they overthrew stayed on as a UN representative, after the credentials committee deferred its decision on competing claims for the position.\n\nAt the UN meeting on Tuesday, Qatar urged world leaders to stay engaged with the Taliban.\n\n\"Boycotting them would only lead to polarisation and reactions, whereas dialogue could be fruitful,\" said Qatar's ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.\n\nQatar has become a key broker in Afghanistan. It hosted talks between the Taliban and US which culminated in a 2020 agreement to withdraw US-led Nato forces.\n\nThe country has helped Afghans and foreign nationals to evacuate the country since the Taliban takeover, and has facilitated recent intra-Afghan peace talks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pakistan's prime minster suggests that women can \"assert their rights\" in Afghanistan", "Willie Garson was best-known as Stanford Blatch in Sex and the City\n\nStars from Sex and the City have paid tribute to the late Willie Garson, who appeared with them in the HBO series as talent agent Stanford Blatch.\n\nKim Cattrall said the actor's death at the age of 57 was \"a terribly sad loss to the SATC family\".\n\nCattrall's former co-star Cynthia Nixon also paid tribute, remembering him on Twitter as \"a source of light, friendship and show business lore\".\n\n\"We are bereft without him,\" added Kristin Davis, who played Charlotte.\n\n\"He was smarter and funnier than you ever would have imagined,\" continued the actress.\n\nBen Stiller, Jason Alexander and other actors have also posted messages.\n\nStiller said Garson had been \"strong and respected in his community of fellow actors\", while Seinfeld star Alexander remembered him as \"a dear, funny, kind man and delightful actor\".\n\nIn Sex and the City, Garson played a close friend and confidante of Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw, a role he had recently been reprising in the spin-off series And Just Like That.\n\nHe also appeared in the show's two feature films, while his other roles included the conman Mozzie in the TV series White Collar.\n\nNixon - Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City - said she was \"deeply, deeply sad\" to have lost such \"a consummate professional\".\n\n\"We all loved him and adored working with him,\" she wrote on Twitter. \"He was endlessly funny on-screen and in real life.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cynthia Nixon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCattrall, who appeared in the Sex and the City series and films as Samantha Jones, posted a photo of herself with \"dear Willie\" in her Twitter tribute.\n\nThe actor was described as \"a gift from the gods\" by Mario Cantone, who played Garson's on-screen partner Anthony Marentino in the show.\n\nHe was also remembered by Evan Handler, aka Harry Goldenblatt, as \"a prince, the Mayor of every group he existed within [and] a consummate funny man.\"\n\nBorn William Garson Paszamant in New Jersey in 1964, Garson studied theatre and received a masters of fine arts from Yale School of Drama.\n\nHe then took on small roles in several popular television series in the 1980s, including Cheers, Family Ties and LA Law.\n\nGarson went on to appear in such 1990s shows as The X-Files, Boy Meets World and Friends before making his Sex and the City debut in 1998.\n\nHis film credits include Groundhog Day, There's Something About Mary and Fever Pitch, the 2005 US adaptation of Nick Hornby's football-based novel.\n\nThe cause of his death has not been disclosed.\n\nSarah Jessica Parker and Willie Garson on the set of Sex and the City in 2007\n\nMichael Patrick King, the executive producer of Sex and the City and its spin-off, said Garson had been working \"even while he was sick\".\n\n\"His spirit and his dedication to his craft was present every day,\" he said in a statement. \"His multitude of gifts as an actor and person will be missed by everyone.\"\n\nActor Matt Bomer, who appeared with Garson in White Collar, said he would love his former co-star forever, adding: \"Rest in peace my friend.\"\n\nWriter and producer Bryan Fuller also paid tribute, saying it had been \"a delight\" to work with the actor on his 2000s TV series Pushing Daisies.\n\nGarson was a strong advocate for adoption. His son Nathen, whom he adopted in 2009, said he had been \"so proud\" of his father on Instagram.\n\n\"I'm so glad you got to share all your adventures with me and were able to accomplish so much,\" he said. \"I will always love you, but I think it's time for you to go on an adventure of your own.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by nathen_garson This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn her tribute, Davis said she first met Garson in 1995 \"on the spooky night-time set of The X-Files\" and remembered how he had \"immediately\" made her laugh.\n\n\"But I really want to pay tribute to his fearless commitment to single fatherhood,\" she continued. \"We spoke about being single parents through adoption often. And nothing gave him more joy and pride than his son Nathen.\n\n\"I am thankful for all of the time we had and grateful that so much of your bright light is on film forever.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Xi Jinping made his address in a video recording at the annual summit\n\nChina will not build new coal-fire projects abroad, a move that could be pivotal in tackling global emissions.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping made the announcement in his address at the United Nations General Assembly.\n\nChina has been funding coal projects in countries like Indonesia and Vietnam under a massive infrastructure project known as the Belt and Road initiative.\n\nBut it has been under pressure to end the financing, as the world tries to meet Paris climate agreement targets.\n\n\"China will step up support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy, and will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad,\" Mr Xi said in a video recording at the annual summit.\n\nNo further details were provided, but the move could limit the expansion of coal plants in many developing countries under China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).\n\nThe BRI has seen China fund trains, roads, ports and coal plants in numerous countries, many of them developing nations. For the first time in several years however, it did not fund any coal projects in the first half of 2021.\n\nChina is also the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter and is heavily reliant on coal for domestic energy needs.\n\nMr Xi mentioned promises made last year about China achieving peak emissions before 2030 and then transitioning to carbon neutrality by 2060.\n\nThe US Climate Envoy John Kerry welcomed the announcement, saying in a statement that he was \"absolutely delighted to hear that President Xi has made this important decision\".\n\nThe head of the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference due to be held in Scotland next month also applauded the news.\n\n\"It is clear the writing is on the wall for coal power. I welcome President Xi's commitment to stop building new coal projects abroad - a key topic of my discussions during my visit to China,\" Alok Sharma said on Twitter.\n\nThis is the announcement that China has increasingly been expected to make.\n\nFor nearly a decade now coal fired power stations have been a key feature of Xi Jinping's awkwardly named Belt and Road Initiative of foreign investment.\n\nHowever, the reality is that the number of these projects has fallen significantly.\n\nCrucial details will need to be cleared up; when will this take effect? Will it cover new power plants approved but not yet built? Will China also stop financing new coal fired power stations abroad?\n\nThis is progress, but it's the low hanging fruit in terms of China's addiction to coal.\n\nHalf the coal burned in the world is burned in China. It is still adding numerous new coal power plants at home, with a lifespan of 40 to 50 years.\n\nThe biggest question remains: When will this country start to cut the overall number within its borders and substantially reduce its dependency on the most polluting form of power generation?\n\nMr Xi's address came after US President Joe Biden gave his maiden speech at the United Nations during which he urged countries to work together as never before to tackle global problems such as climate change and the pandemic.\n\nMr Biden also said that democracy would not be defeated by authoritarianism, but refrained from mentioning China by name.\n\n\"The future will belong to those who give their people the ability to breathe free, not those who seek to suffocate their people with an iron hand,\" Mr Biden said.\n\n\"We all must call out and condemn the targeting and oppression of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, whether it occurs in Xinjiang or northern Ethiopia, or anywhere in the world,\" he added, referring to the western Chinese region where China is accused of using forced labour.\n\nRelations between the US and China are at an all time low over issues including trade, human rights and the origins of Covid-19.\n\nIn his address, Mr Xi said that China had peaceful intentions in international relations.\n\nBut he also seemed to address the tensions and the formation of alliances in the region like the \"Quad\" grouping, made up of Australia, the US, India and Japan, saying there was a need to \"reject the practice of forming small circles or zero-sum games\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sir Mick Jagger paid an emotional tribute to the band's late drummer\n\nThe Rolling Stones have played their first concert since the death of their drummer Charlie Watts last month.\n\nThe small warm-up show took place in Massachusetts Gillette Stadium, to an audience of about 300 people.\n\nSinger Sir Mick Jagger dedicated the show to Watts, who died of an unspecified illness at the age of 80.\n\n\"It's a bit of a poignant night for us because its the first tour in 59 years that we've done without our lovely Charlie Watts,\" he said.\n\n\"We all miss Charlie so much. We miss him as a band, we miss him as friends - on and off the stage.\n\n\"We've got so many memories of Charlie, and I'm sure some of you that have seen us before have got memories of Charlie as well. And I hope you remember him like we do.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by EdBmusic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe star led the crowd in a chant of Watts' name before taking a celebratory swig of beer. Guitarist Ronnie Wood then took the microphone and declared: \"Charlie, we're praying for you and playing for you.\"\n\nThe Stones were joined on drums by Steve Jordan, a session musician who has worked with the band since the 1980s. He had been announced as a stand-in for Watts for their forthcoming US tour before his death, as the drummer recovered from a medical procedure.\n\nMonday's invitation-only show featured 15 songs, opening with Let's Spend the Night Together before running through hits like Tumbling Dice, 19th Nervous Breakdown and (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.\n\nThey also covered the Chi-Lites' Troubles A-Comin' and played their 2020 single Living In A Ghost Town live for the first time.\n\nThe show was held in a tent-like structure set up on the stadium field, which is normally home to The New England Patriots.\n\nIt was organised by Patriots' owner Robert Kraft, and the guest list included Governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker, J Geils Band singer Peter Wolf and Moderna chairman Noubar Afeyan - all of whom had to show proof of vaccination to attend.\n\nThe Stones had been rehearsing in Boston over the summer and, due to pandemic-related travel restrictions, were unable to attend Watts' funeral in England, The Sun reported earlier this month.\n\nThey paid tribute to the musician online, with guitarist Keith Richards calling him \"the coolest guy I know\". Mick Jagger simply shared a photograph of Watts smiling while seated behind his drum kit.\n\nWatts had been a member of the Stones since 1963, and helped them become one of rock's biggest bands, scoring hits like Jumpin' Jack Flash, Get Off My Cloud and Sympathy for the Devil.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The woman gave birth to the baby at HMP Bronzefield\n\nAn 18-year-old inmate who lost her baby at Europe's largest women's prison should never have given birth alone in her cell, according to a critical report from inspectors.\n\nThe baby died in September 2019 at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey.\n\nThe Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report found a series of failings in the teenager's treatment.\n\nThe prison said it was \"deeply sorry\" and that it would implement recommendations from the report.\n\nThe investigation, which was commissioned by the Justice Secretary, found the mother, known as Ms A, pressed her cell bell twice and asked for a nurse, but nobody came.\n\nAn hour later, at 21:30 BST, a prison officer shone a torch in her cell and said she did not see anything out of the ordinary.\n\nMs A told investigators she was on all fours at the time.\n\nShe described being in constant pain and unable to reach the cell bell.\n\nThe teenager then passed out and said when she awoke her daughter had been born but she was not breathing.\n\nA pathologist was unable to determine whether her baby girl was born alive or was stillborn, the report said.\n\n\"Ms A gave birth alone in her cell overnight without medical assistance,\" said the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, Sue McAllister.\n\n\"Overall the healthcare offered to her was not equivalent to that she could have expected in the community.\"\n\nThe report found staff working on her block weren't aware that Ms A was due to give birth imminently, and information sharing between Bronzefield and health agencies was poor.\n\nNo-one had a full history of Ms A's pregnancy.\n\nThe ombudsman set out a raft of recommendations for all the agencies involved, including the prison and Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which dealt with Ms A during her pregnancy.\n\nMs A, who was in prison for the first time on a robbery charge, had a troubled childhood, the report stated.\n\nShe had refused to engage with most ante-natal care and feared her baby would be taken away.\n\nMs McAllister said: \"We consider that all pregnancies in prison should be treated as high risk.\n\n\"There is likely to be a higher percentage of 'avoidant' mothers who have experienced trauma and who are fearful of engaging with maternity care.\"\n\nVicky Robinson, the director of the prison, which is operated by Sodexo Justice Services, said: \"This was tragic and extremely sad. We are deeply sorry that this has happened and our thoughts throughout have been with the family.\n\n\"A number of recommendations have been made and we have been absolutely dedicated to working closely with all agencies to collectively address these and ensure the actions needed to be taken have been taken.\"\n\nFollowing the baby's death, The Ministry of Justice said additional welfare observations for women in their third trimester have been implemented, along with free phone access to NHS pregnancy advice services.\n\nThe Deputy Prime Minister and the newly appointed Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, said improvements had been put in place to ensure that women in custody received the same level of support.\n\n\"These events are harrowing, unacceptable and should never happen to any woman or child. My deepest condolences remain with those affected,\" he said.\n\nSuzanne Rankin, the chief executive of Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, apologised and said further action would be taken following the report.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Insulate Britain climate change protesters blocked the exit slip road of the M25 at junction 18\n\nA court ruling won by the government warns climate change protesters that they could be jailed if they continue their campaign of blocking the M25.\n\nMinisters hope the High Court injunction can prevent further disruption around London.\n\nInsulate Britain has blocked parts of the M25 five times in the last fortnight.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that activists faced \"possible imprisonment if they flout\".\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said more than 200 Insulate Britain campaigners had been arrested at the protests, the first of which affected Essex, Hertfordshire and Kent on 13 September.\n\nProtesters have also targeted other motorways, including the M11 near Stansted Airport in Essex and the M3 in Surrey.\n\nThe civil court action was taken by National Highways - the government body which runs motorways.\n\nCampaigners glued themselves to the motorway in some of the protests that began at the start of last week\n\nThe protest group has been calling for the installation of heat-saving measures in social housing by 2025, and all homes by 2030.\n\nInsulate Britain spokeswoman Zoe Cohen told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that protesters \"understand the risks they are taking are because we have tried everything else to make the government protect us from the predicted impacts of climate chaos\".\n\n\"That involves the loss of all that we cherish, our society, our way of life and law and order,\" she said.\n\nIn a reply to Mr Shapps' tweet, Insulate Britain said the government \"is reckless and is putting lives at risk with its inaction on #insulation\".\n\nMr Shapps told MPs he believed the injunction would bring an end to the demonstrations.\n\n\"It barely goes without saying, it's irresponsible, dangerous and completely counterproductive,\" he said.\n\n\"Earlier in the process there was a somewhat different approach being taken.\n\n\"Yesterday the police were on the scene much more quickly. The injunction will greatly strengthen their hand.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel, who last week described protesters' actions as \"selfish\", said the injunction would mean \"people can get moving again\" on the London orbital motorway.\n\n\"We will not tolerate lives being put at risk,\" she said.\n\nInsulate Britain campaigners protested on the M25 near Cobham in Surrey on Tuesday\n\nMr Shapps added the government would be reviewing the powers, but it was \"unacceptable for people to be able to walk on to not just a major highway but a motorway, stop traffic, be released the next day and do the same thing again\".\n\n\"An injunction may just be an interim way of doing [stopping] that,\" he said.\n\nPolice chiefs have warned that the protests are putting officers in danger\n\nAssistant Chief Constable for Humberside Police, Chris Noble, who is the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for policing protests, told the Today programme police \"aren't anti-protest but we are pro-responsibility\".\n\n\"This is not a benign supermarket car park that this is taking place on,\" he said.\n\nHe said police officers were most likely to come to harm as a result of the protests because they were having to run across motorways to try to remove the campaigners.\n\nIn his High Court order, Mr Justice Lavender ruled it should last until 21 March, but there would be a hearing to review the situation on 5 October.\n\nThe order covers every part of the M25 and the Dartford Crossing, including slip roads and bridges, and states that demonstrators are banned from \"causing damage to the surface of or to any apparatus on or around the M25 including but not limited to painting, damaging by fire, or affixing any item or structure thereto\".\n\nThe order means that breaching it could lead to a civil court hearing.\n\nIn a statement, Insulate Britain said it would continue its protests and \"as soon as the government makes a meaningful statement that we can trust, we will leave the motorway\".\n\nDuring the recent protests, the government said it was \"investing £1.3bn this year alone to support people to install energy efficiency measures, and our upcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy will set out how we decarbonise the nation's homes in a way that is fair, practical and affordable\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Milly Main died after contracting an infection at the Royal Hospital for Children\n\nA mother whose daughter died at a children's cancer ward after contracting an infection has described her child's death as \"murder\".\n\nKimberly Darroch told the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry she wants the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow to close.\n\nHer daughter, Milly Main, was 10 when she died at the hospital in 2017.\n\nA review later found an infection which contributed to her death was probably caused by the hospital environment.\n\nThe child's death is one of two which has been linked to the QEUH campus.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating the construction of the QEUH and Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh.\n\nOn the third day of evidence, a statement from Ms Darroch was read out to the inquiry.\n\nShe said she believed NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board should be punished.\n\n\"My view is that the hospital should be closed. I don't think it's safe,\" Ms Darroch said.\n\n\"I feel like the health board need to be punished for all of this. In my eyes, what happened to my daughter is murder.\n\n\"She should still be here and I am trying to come to terms with that, after coming to terms with losing her initially.\n\n\"I don't know that I'll ever be able to. I would never go back to the hospital, never.\"\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow opened in 2015\n\nIn her statement she claimed staff covered up the true cause of Milly's death and she only found out what happened about two years later in the media.\n\nShe also claimed hospital reports about her meeting with doctors to discuss the infection were false.\n\nMilly was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in 2012, and she died in 2017 after contracting stenotrophomonas - an infection found in water, the inquiry heard.\n\nMs Darroch and her family claim they were unaware of this infection which contributed to her daughter's death until after she died.\n\nChristine Horne, Ms Darroch's mother, also had her statement read out at the inquiry.\n\nShe said: \"We were never told what it (the infection) was and there was never any indication that it was related to the water in the hospital.\n\n\"Nobody said anything about what had caused the infection.\"\n\nMilly was 10 years old when she died in August 2017\n\nEarlier, Lynn Kearns told the inquiry her son was unable to shower for about two weeks while being treated for a rare disease.\n\nShe said this was despite vomiting on his own face during \"harrowing\" treatment.\n\nMrs Kearns said she understood the water supply was cut off due to a certain type of bacteria being found in the system.\n\nHer son was 11 when he was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening blood disorder.\n\nHe was treated in the Glasgow children's hospital between December 2017 and March 2018.\n\nMrs Kearns told the inquiry her son was treated in his room in Ward 2A, where there were issues with running water. Children had to wash and drink using bottled water.\n\nShe described the hospital ward as a \"prison\" with no working entertainment facilities and \"horrendous and unhealthy\" food.\n\nMrs Kearns told of a moment on 10 March where staff had to remove a medical tube from her son's throat which resulted in him vomiting and there being no hot water to wash him for days after.\n\nShe said: \"This was a harrowing event and also left him with vomit on his face. The first thing he wanted to do was have a proper wash or shower and freshen up.\n\n\"This was impossible due to the lack of hot water and showering facilities being out of bounds.\n\n\"The whole experience was so unpleasant for him. Even months after, he was having panic attacks and flashbacks to his time in hospital.\"\n\nMrs Kearns said that after pressing staff for better washing facilities, she was given a basin the size of a dinner plate and some warm water two days after her son had vomited on his face.\n\nShe said: \"My 11-year-old son, just hitting puberty, had to stand in the bathroom on a towel and I had to use a plastic cup to try and wash him.\n\n\"It was a case of me scooping up the water and pouring it over him. He was at the age where changes were happening and he was becoming more conscious about his body, so standing naked while his mum washed him was humiliating for him.\"\n\nMrs Kearns said she could not fault staff at the unit, as they too were \"kept in the dark\" about the water supply issues, but was concerned about ward hygiene levels.\n\nShe said: \"The staff were great and it was clear that the problems were out of their control.\"\n\nDespite sharing her concerns with the media at the time, Mrs Kearns said water supply issues at the hospital remained a problem today.\n\nAfter taking her son into the same hospital on Monday, she said she spoke to two maintenance workers who are still changing filters on the sink taps every two months, the inquiry heard.\n\nEarlier this year, an independent review found the deaths of two children at the QEUH campus were at least in part the result of infections linked to the hospital environment.\n\nThe review investigated 118 episodes of serious bacterial infection in 84 children and young people who received treatment for blood disease, cancer or related conditions at the Royal Hospital for Children at the campus.\n\nIt found a third of these infections were \"most likely\" to have been linked to the hospital environment.\n\nTwo of 22 deaths were \"at least in part\" the result of their infection, it said.\n\nThe inquiry in Edinburgh, chaired by Lord Brodie, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says there's \"every chance\" of a UK-US trade deal – just not \"right now\"\n\nThe United States is lifting its decades-old ban on imports of British lamb, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe PM, who is in the US for talks with UN leaders and President Joe Biden, said the ban was \"unjustified\".\n\nBut he admitted the UK was now focused on making \"incremental steps\" on US trade access, rather than aiming for a full agreement.\n\nMr Biden appeared to play down the chances of a wider deal during a meeting with Mr Johnson on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said the Biden administration \"is not doing free trade deals around the world right now\".\n\nBut he added he had \"every confidence that a great deal is there to be done\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner mocked the lack of movement, saying the PM had made \"absolutely zero progress\" on a trade deal during his US trip.\n\nThe United States has banned British lamb imports since 1989, following the first outbreaks of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease.\n\nA similar ban on British beef imports, imposed in 1996, was lifted in September last year.\n\nThere is no indication yet of when the US will start accepting lamb and lamb products from the UK, and an official announcement has not been made.\n\nThe US Department for Agriculture has been consulting on lifting the ban since 2016 - and there were originally hopes it would be lifted the following year.\n\nAt the time, the UK government estimated the change would be worth an extra £35m a year to the UK economy.\n\nWhen it comes to trade, the big deal that's emerged from Boris Johnson's visit to Washington is that there's to be no deal happening any time soon.\n\nThat's significant, and a setback for Boris Johnson's government.\n\nIn March 2020, just a few weeks after the UK had left the EU, the then-Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the day marked a \"crucial step in beginning the formal negotiations for a free-trade agreement with our largest bilateral trading partner, the United States.\"\n\nToday it all looks different. The United States, Boris Johnson told us, is not doing deals.\n\nSo whilst Ms Truss predicted a \"£3.4 billion lift to the economy\" from a US-UK deal, today we had an \"incremental step\" but a tiny one by comparison - a possible opening for lamb exports.\n\nA US deal was by far the biggest prize when it came to the promise of post-Brexit trade deals. But under this US administration, it's not happening any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson said the ban was \"totally unjustified\" and \"discriminating on British farmers and British lamb\".\n\nThe National Sheep Association industry group welcomed the news, adding it had always seen the US as a \"potentially important market\".\n\nIts chief executive Phil Stocker cautioned, however, that \"we shouldn't expect to see any sudden surge in volumes going to the US\".\n\nHe added that Brexit had made it more difficult to sell into the EU - the UK's lamb largest export market - and it was \"important to work on any market that gives us future potential\".\n\nBoris Johnson and Joe Biden held face-to-face talks in the White House on Tuesday\n\nMr Johnson cited the lifting of the ban as an example of \"practical steps to help our exports\" the UK was taking, pending progress on wider trade talks.\n\nDowning Street has pointed to the resolution of the Airbus-Boeing trade dispute, as well as the lowering of whisky tariffs and the decision to lift the ban on British beef.\n\nSecuring a trade deal with the United States has been a priority for many Brexit-backing politicians, following the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr Biden appeared to downplay the chances of an agreement soon, adding he would discuss the issue \"a little bit\" with Mr Johnson during his trip to the White House.\n\n\"We're going to have to work that through,\" the US president added.\n\nThe US is already a significant UK trading partner, accounting for £1 in every £6 of British trade.\n\nThe BBC understands the government is considering whether to join an existing trade arrangement between the US, Canada and Mexico - known as the USMCA.\n\nHowever, Downing Street denies this and says it focus remains on a UK-US trade deal.\n\nIf a USMCA arrangement was pursued, it would limit the UK's ability to sell services.\n\nEconomists say the overall gains from joining it could be less than 0.1% of the UK's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - a measurement of the size of the economy.", "The number of parents having a baby using a surrogate in England and Wales has almost quadrupled in the last 10 years, new figures show.\n\nParental orders, which transfer legal parentage from the surrogate, rose from 117 in 2011 to 413 in 2020.\n\nTwo-thirds of applicants are now mixed-sex couples often in their 30s or 40s.\n\nThe report is by the University of Kent and My Surrogacy Journey, a non-profit organisation which supports surrogates and intended parents.\n\nSurrogacy is when a woman carries a pregnancy for another couple or individual. In most cases it is because someone cannot carry a pregnancy themselves for health reasons or because they are men in a same-sex relationship.\n\nAs it becomes more common, experts say the UK law on surrogacy - in place since 1985 - is outdated and leaves both surrogates and intended parents vulnerable.\n\nThe law states a surrogate is deemed the legal mother when the baby is born - irrespective of genetics or any agreements that have been made.\n\nA parental order must be made to transfer legal parentage to the intended or biological parents.\n\nAnd it is illegal to advertise for a surrogate - meaning unless family or friends offer, intended parents can struggle to find a match.\n\nFran and her surrogate Gina, shortly after giving birth\n\nNon-profit organisations and social media sites say they are seeing more people using their services to help match surrogates and would-be parents.\n\nTwo women who met on a Facebook group were Fran and her surrogate Gina.\n\nFran, 39, from Stockton-on-Tees, needed a surrogate to carry her two daughters, Evelyn and Grace, after cervical cancer treatment meant she could not carry a pregnancy herself.\n\n\"My consultant told me about a woman like me who was now a mum and she was my goal,\" said Fran. \"I want to put my story out there to show others that normal real-life women get through this and take their own baby home.\n\n\"I can't think of a better way of women empowering women.\"\n\nShe said those using surrogates in order to have a family are \"just normal people, teachers, people who re-mortgage their houses to do this\".\n\n\"When you're given a cancer diagnosis your whole life changes in a second and you fall into this hole, and the fog just descends,\" Fran told the BBC.\n\n\"And then when Evelyn was born it felt like for the first time since that diagnosis this weight had been lifted and I could start to think about life again.\"\n\nGina, 45, Fran's surrogate, runs one of the many Facebook groups where surrogates and intended parents match.\n\nShe believes more people are considering surrogacy, in part down to celebrities such as Robbie Williams and Kim Kardashian talking so openly about their own experiences.\n\n\"We have over 1,000 members currently,\" she said. \"Across independent groups there have been over 40 babies born in 2019 alone.\"\n\nGina backs changing the law so that those who have a baby with a surrogate become the legal parents \"from the minute that baby is born\".\n\n\"I don't want the parental rights to someone else's child. I never went into this to have another baby of my own. I've got three beautiful children of my own. It was all about creating a family for someone else. I don't want to be a mum to someone else's child,\" she said.\n\nNatalie with her own two children - she is now pregnant as a surrogate for the first time\n\nNatalie is mum to two children and is now 30 weeks pregnant with her first surrogate baby.\n\nThe 34-year-old, from Bath, said: \"We struggled starting our own family - we had a miscarriage and a still birth.\n\n\"My daughter Sophie was born at 37 weeks but tragically she died. A friend had had breast cancer and I'd offered to be a surrogate for her if she needed. She didn't, but it was always in the back of my mind.\"\n\nShe added she was driven to help others who wanted to have a child but could not.\n\n\"I was watching The Nest [a TV drama featuring surrogacy] during lockdown and I felt so sorry for them,\" she said. \"I spoke to my husband and we talked about if I could deal with being a surrogate after losing our daughter, so I spoke to my GP and a bereavement nurse who were supportive.\n\n\"I met my intended parents on the Facebook groups and we chatted for a year before matching.\"\n\nNatalie - seen here at an ultrasound scan - said she wanted to help others become parents\n\nDepartment of Health guidance said it does not generally recommend that those considering surrogacy do so independently on sites like Facebook, instead pointing to one of the four UK non-profit organisations.\n\nThe trouble is those organisations have long waiting lists.\n\nNatalie Gamble is director of Brilliant Beginnings - another non-profit organisation in the UK which matches surrogates and intended parents.\n\n\"We get around 100 enquiries a month from women who want to be surrogates and that's risen considerably in the past few years,\" she said. \"Unfortunately, there are still more intended parents looking for a match than we can help.\"\n\nMegan says she and partner Ed have never wanted their own children\n\nMegan, 25, from Ipswich looked into becoming a surrogate when she was furloughed during lockdown. She is currently getting to know two sets of intended parents she met through a surrogacy organisation.\n\n\"Me and my fiancé Ed are childless by choice - we've always known we don't want children,\" she said. \"But if I have the ability why wouldn't I help someone else?\n\n\"My best friends totally get it - my parents and older family members not so much. My mum's main concern was she wanted me to have my own kids but they're both really supportive. I've donated eggs twice and this is absolutely what I want to do.\"\n\nThe legislation relating to surrogacy is UK-wide, but there are different judicial systems in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Department of Health guidance only applies to England and Wales.\n\nIn the US where surrogacy is more common and highly regulated, intended parents can go on to the birth certificate as soon as the baby is born - and payments of tens of thousands of pounds to surrogates are common.\n\nCommercial surrogacy is illegal in the UK, so a third party cannot profit from matching people. But it is not illegal for a surrogate to be paid expenses - non-profit organisations say between £12,000 and £20,000 is the average for such expenses, but there is no limit.\n\nThe government agrees the surrogacy law in the UK needs to change and has asked the Law Commission of England and Wales along with the Scottish Law Commission to review it.\n\nProfessor Nick Hopkins is the Law Commissioner for family law, and is one of the proponents leading the consultation.\n\n\"When we asked whether surrogacy law needed review we received one of our largest volume of responses. The law does need updating.\n\n\"We're looking at the idea that legal parentage would start not with a parental order but at birth. But it is fundamental to our review that the surrogate must retain her bodily autonomy throughout and a surrogacy agreement would not be enforceable if a surrogate withdrew her consent - which is extremely rare.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We know surrogacy is an important option for families and we remain committed to reforming legislation to ensure more certainty for surrogates and intended parents.\"\n\nThe Law Commission will publish its recommendations for reform of the law and a draft bill towards the end of 2022.", "Some 250,000 school pupils will be supported to tell their own stories in a BBC scheme to improve their well-being and story-telling skills.\n\nThe BBC 100 Share Your Story project will see BBC stars and staff visiting secondary schools across the UK, targeting recovery from the pandemic.\n\nIt aims to build pupils' confidence and resilience and improve learning as well as relationships within schools.\n\nDirector general Tim Davie said the BBC had a history of supporting education.\n\n\"The BBC has played a vital role in education throughout the last century - from Children's Hour broadcasts in 1922, introducing the BBC Micro computer to schools in the 1980s, to supporting an entire nation of home learners during the coronavirus pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"In 2022 - our centenary year - we will harness the unique power of the BBC to provide educational support to inspire millions of children and students across the UK.\n\n\"Hundreds of thousands of school children will be visited by BBC stars and staff, and all educators and students will gain access to cultural treasures in our digitised archive to aid their studies.\"\n\nBBC Radio 1's Breakfast programme host Greg James said: \"Telling stories is what humans are best at.\n\n\"Whether it's brilliant novels, hilarious comedies or just a good old gossip, stories make the world go round.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to sharing my own story with young people and helping them develop the skills and confidence to tell their own, because storytelling is one of the most enjoyable things you can do with your brain.\"\n\nThe BBC has teamed up with the National Literacy Trust, oracy charity Voice 21 and the British Film Institute's Into Film programme.\n\nPupils will be supported to tell their own stories in class, in the form of a poem, a rap, a film or a speech.\n\nThen BBC hosts will conduct a series of interactive assemblies in which BBC stars and staff reveal how they have overcome challenges.\n\nAnd some of pupil's stories will be showcased at BBC Share Your Story events, to inspire other young people.\n\nTeacher Sarah Reardon said personal storytelling helped students understand each other better\n\nOne teacher involved in a pilot at a school in Runcorn, Cheshire, Sarah Reardon, said: \"It's just been such a great way to build relationships between the students and the teachers.\n\n\"A student has shared their story with you, and you've built a completely different type of relationship with them, and suddenly they're working very hard in their lessons.\"\n\nEmily Kasriel, who is leading the initiative, said: \"Stories help us make meaning of the world around us, our past and where we might go in the future.\n\n\"Sharing stories helps us to build connections and fosters trust between us - and allows us to discover ways we are similar and different from others, as well as helping us all develop greater resilience.\n\n\"Plus, of course, storytelling is at the heart of the BBC.\n\n\"So it feels exciting and fitting to be rolling out the project to schools across all four nations to mark the BBC's centenary.\"\n\nThroughout 2022 more than 100 student stories will be featured across the BBC via BBC Young Reporter.\n\nAs part of the centenary celebrations, the entire digitised BBC broadcast archive is being made available to students in formal education in the UK.\n\nThe millions of TV and radio programmes - from Planet Earth and Tomorrow's World to BBC Radio 4's The History of the World in 100 Objects - include interviews and features with almost every major cultural, artistic, political and sporting figure of the last century, as well as influential dramas and landmark comedy programmes.", "Pret posted a 58% fall in sales to £299m in 2020, compared to £708m the year before\n\nPret A Manger says it is seeing a return of workers to the office in busy city centres.\n\nTuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were now the busiest for the sandwich chain, Pret boss Pano Christou told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nPret has announced plans to hire 3,000 staff by the end of 2022 after cutting the same number of jobs last year.\n\nMr Christou said the chain hoped to open 200 more shops in the UK over the next two years.\n\nHe added that Pret hoped to expand into five markets overseas by the end of 2023, with many of the new outlets placed in train stations, bus stations and motorway services.\n\nThe expansion proposals come as demand from commuters and office workers - a key market for the chain - has started to pick up again after plunging during the Covid lockdowns.\n\nThe business is now looking to turn that around, despite having to tackle supply chain and heavy goods vehicle (HGV) lorry driver shortages, like many other businesses across the country.\n\n\"A couple of weeks ago, we ran out of some prepared fruit for two or three days [and] we were short of a couple of our bread lines for a couple of days,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we will see [the driver shortages] until the end of this year and into next year - there's a real challenge for the industry to navigate through.\"\n\nThe impact of the first lockdown led to Pret cutting 3,000 jobs, which represented a third of its workforce. Most of the jobs axed were from its shops, but 90 roles were also lost at its support centre.\n\nThe chain posted a 58% fall in revenue to £299m in 2020, compared with £708m the year before.\n\nMr Christou told the BBC the \"most difficult period\" over the last year was having to make people redundant.\n\n\"You have so many people's lives in your hands and making those decisions was the most difficult thing I had to do in my entire career,\" he said.\n\n\"When you have to make a call on thousands of people's jobs, that is something you spend a lot of time thinking through. But it was about how we could ensure that the business would survive and come through Covid.\"\n\nAs part of its recruitment drive, Pret said it had received a £100m investment from JAB and Pret founder Sinclair Beecham to accelerate the expansion.\n\n\"Last year we were in the eye of the storm during the height of the pandemic. Now we have the chance to build a bright new future for Pret,\" Mr Christou said.\n\n\"It's been an incredibly tough two years, but we have a big opportunity ahead.\"\n\nMr Christou said he was \"definitely seeing our Pret stores getting busier\" since coronavirus restrictions were lifted on 19 July.\n\nThe number of employees working across the Pret has grown 28% since the start of the year, with more than 6,000 employees in the UK. About 30% of those employed this year had worked for Pret previously.\n\n\"Clearly recruitment is a challenge at the moment, and we're putting everything behind ensuring that we are an employer of choice; that we pay well, that we've got the right benefits, and then we've got the right bonus available to attract new staff,\" Mr Christou said.\n\nLast week Pret announced that it was increasing pay by at least 5% for its cafe workers, weeks after ditching paid breaks and attempting to slash bonuses.\n\nThe move means that starting pay for store workers will now rise to a minimum of £9.40 an hour, up from the legal minimum of £8.91, but all team members, including managers will get a raise.", "The FBI has confirmed that a body found inside a Wyoming national park on Sunday belongs to the missing \"van life\" blogger Gabby Petito.\n\nA coroner made an initial finding that her death was homicide but gave no indication as to how she died.\n\nMs Petito, 22, was visiting Grand Teton National Park with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, 23.\n\nPolice are currently searching for Mr Laundrie, whose whereabouts are unknown.\n\nHe is considered a \"person of interest\" in the case, but has not been charged with any crime.\n\nNo details from the post-mortem have been released.\n\n\"Teton County Coroner Dr Brent Blue confirmed the remains are those of Gabrielle Venora Petito... Coroner Blue's initial determination for the manner of death is homicide,\" the FBI's Denver office tweeted.\n\nThe couple had been travelling for several weeks before Mr Laundrie returned home to Florida alone with their white van on 1 September. He did not contact police or the Petito family on his return.\n\nSeveral weeks earlier, police in the Utah town of Moab were called to a possible domestic violence incident.\n\nBodycam footage showed Ms Petito crying and complaining about her mental health. A police report later said Mr Laundrie claimed Ms Petito had struck him during an argument.\n\nNo charges were filed, with officers recommending that the couple spend the night apart. What happened next is unclear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police stopped Gabby Petito more than two weeks ago\n\nMr Laundrie's family reported him missing over the weekend. They claim he left for a hike on 14 September and never returned. He had refused to speak with investigators before disappearing.\n\nThe search for Mr Laundrie has focused on a 24,000-acre nature reserve near his home in North Port, Florida.\n\nPolice are using dogs, drones, and all-terrain vehicles for the search, which officers say is complicated by difficult, swampy terrain.\n\nAdditionally, police are investigating hundreds of reported sightings of Mr Laundrie, including more than a dozen from Alabama, which borders Florida to the west.\n\nOn Monday, investigators searched the Laundrie family home. Agents were then seen removing several boxes from the house and towing away a silver Ford Mustang.\n\nThe case has captivated the public, with each new development becoming the focus of web sleuths on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Twitter.\n\nAs of Tuesday, the hashtag #GabbyPetito had received more than 650 million views on TikTok alone, according to the Associated Press.\n• None What do we know about case?", "The first and deputy first ministers visited the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast\n\nNorthern Ireland's health service is \"about to topple over\" if immediate action is not taken, the deputy first minister has said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said staff were \"facing into a very difficult winter\" under current pressures.\n\nShe met staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast on Tuesday along with First Minister Paul Givan.\n\nThey both said they wanted to avoid any further lockdowns or \"circuit breakers\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill says Northern Ireland health staff \"are begging for support\".\n\nSinn Féin vice-president Ms O'Neill said the healthcare system was facing increased staff absences with workers feeling \"burnt out\".\n\n\"They're begging for our support. They are physically and mentally exhausted,\" she said.\n\nMr Givan of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said the Northern Ireland Executive would take a \"measured approach\" when ministers meet on Thursday to discuss future Covid-19 plans.\n\nHe said ministers would take into consideration the current transmission rates and hospitalisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: Paul Givan says there needs to be 'balanced decisions'\n\nHe said politicians needed to be honest with people \"about the realities in what we're facing\".\n\nHe added that he was concerned about other issues linked to lockdowns, saying: \"People are presenting with severe mental health issues as a result of the lockdown and delayed treatments and some couldn't access services.\"\n\nMr Givan said healthcare staff were working \"more hours than they've worked before\" and there was \"a need for us all to take the personal responsibility very seriously, whether that's through regulation or through guidance\".\n\nMichelle O'Neill said health staff were feeling burnt out due to pressures on the system\n\nMs O'Neill said she \"would not rule out anything\" and would \"keep everything on the table - it's the prudent and honest way to proceed\".\n\n\"We need a very cautious approach in the time ahead.\"\n\nShe added that Health Minister Robin Swann would bring forward a winter surge plan for the health service in due course and that further details for how the executive would respond to winter pressures should be announced on Thursday afternoon.\n\nFrom the 11 of November, anyone working or volunteering in a care home in England will need to be fully vaccinated against coronavirus, unless they are exempt.\n\nThere is also a consultation on whether it should be made mandatory for all frontline workers in health and care settings.\n\nVisiting professor of public health at Bristol University, Gabriel Scally, said while he did not like the thought of compulsory vaccinations there was a \"particular duty of care\" in health care settings.\n\n\"People in hospitals or care homes are already ill and the burden of infectious disease really can be avoided largely by vaccination so I think I am in favour of it,\" he told BBC News NI's Talkback programme.\n\nBut professor of social policy at Ulster University, Deirdre Heenan, told the programme she was opposed to vaccines becoming compulsory for health and social care staff in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We have to take account of the needs of health care workers and it's important to see both sides,\" she told Talkback.\n\n\"When we are talking about social care workers I'm not comfortable with forcing people to have vaccinations, in fact scapegoating the lowest paid part of the social care workforce, often young women who have real issue about vaccination,\" she said.\n\n\"I would rather we have a programme of talking to people and understanding why people are vaccine hesitant.\"\n\nFive more deaths and 1,020 cases of coronavirus were reported on Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThere were 379 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals on Monday, compared to 419 on Friday.\n\nThere were 33 patients with Covid-19 in hospital intensive care units on Monday, down from 38 on Friday.", "The White House meeting is, for any British prime minister, the big ticket.\n\nAnd because of Covid, Boris Johnson has had to wait for his - the two years since he moved in to Downing Street means a new president here too. Imagine how different today could have been if Donald Trump was still in charge.\n\nThe two leaders are intensely different, but when the big moment came, both appeared to be content.\n\nMr Johnson and President Joe Biden met for 90 minutes after smiles for the cameras in the Oval Office.\n\nTheir talks ranged from security, to climate change, Russia and China, and the possibility of closer trade ties.\n\nBut on the trade deal issue, the president said they needed to \"work through\" it and \"talk a little\" - confirming Downing Street's assumption that the prospect of a major pact is a long way off.\n\nNumber 10 didn't deny the UK could join an existing agreement between the US, Mexico and Canada - which the BBC understands has been considered - but said the priority was still pursuing a deal with America alone.\n\nIt's really clear from both sides that there is no rapid path to a trade deal - the opportunity that used to be lauded by Brexiteers and by President Trump.\n\nMr Johnson hinted at that realism in his curtain raiser conversations on his way over here. And the president pretty much confirmed that here in their meeting in the Oval Office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden and Boris Johnson met on the sidelines of a UN summit in New York\n\nThe UK seems no longer to want to believe, or pretend, that doing business in a major deal is top of their list.\n\nInstead, while the government is still officially pursuing a standalone deal with the US there's a twin track with a more incremental approach - there have already been changes to whisky tariffs and British beef. But Number 10 is now hopeful that the Americans are seriously considering changing tack on British lamb.\n\nA Downing Street source said the relationship between the two countries had made \"great strides forward\", hailing the ending of the US travel ban and especially President Biden's extra promises of cash to tackle climate change.\n\nMr Johnson will call for other countries to do the same back in New York, before returning home later today.\n\nThere aren't perfect outcomes to any relationship as crucial, or as complicated, as the pairing of the US and the UK.\n\nThere's plenty more that could yet unfold between the two sides before wheels-up late tomorrow. But Mr Johnson's team is pleased and relieved to chalk up their first Oval Office meeting more than unscathed.", "Robert Fyfe as Howard with wife Pearl, played by Juliette Kaplan\n\nActor Robert Fyfe, best known for playing Howard in sitcom Last of the Summer Wine for 25 years, has died at the age of 90.\n\nFyfe joined the long-running BBC show in 1985 and remained until its final episode in 2010.\n\nHoward Sibshaw was Pearl's henpecked husband who was always trying to hide his passionate affair with Marina.\n\nFyfe's manager Maxine Hoffman said the Scottish actor was \"the most delightful client anyone could wish for\".\n\nHe was \"a truly talented and versatile actor and much loved by everyone he worked with\", she added.\n\nHoward was continually sneaking off to be with Marina, played by Jean Fergusson\n\nFyfe appeared in the first episode of Dr Finlay's Casebook in 1962 and was also seen in Coronation Street, Z Cars, Angels, The Onedin Line, Survivors, The Gentle Touch and Monarch of the Glen.\n\nHis film credits included The 51st State, Cloud Atlas and Babel.\n\nHis wife Diana died a few weeks before him, leaving sons Timothy, Nicholas and Dominic.\n\nJuliette Kaplan, who played Pearl, and Jean Fergusson, who played Marina, both died in 2019.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pig farmers fear they may soon have to start killing their animals because of a carbon dioxide shortage at abattoirs caused by soaring gas prices.\n\nCO2 is widely used in the food and drinks industry, including for stunning animals at abattoirs before slaughter.\n\nBut some CO2 suppliers have halted production due to rising energy costs, creating a huge backlog of pigs that at some point will have to be killed.\n\nA food and drink trade body says the UK might need to subsidise CO2 production.\n\nFarmer Kate Morgan told the BBC on Monday \"thousands of pigs are backlogged on farms. If we can't kill our pigs in an abattoir, then unfortunately we will be resorting to killing them on farms\".\n\nCarbon dioxide used by the meat industry is a by-product of fertiliser production. The gas is also used to keep food fresh as well as in dry ice and fizzy drinks.\n\nCF Industries, the US-based business which produces about 60% of the UK's food grade CO2, has suspended production at two UK fertiliser plants. Norwegian firm Yara has also cut production at a number of European factories.\n\nMs Morgan, who runs a pig farm near Driffield, east Yorkshire, told BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme the situation for the industry was already \"pretty dire\" because of labour shortages. Now, meat shortages at supermarkets are a real possibility, she said.\n\n\"Abattoirs have about a week's supply of gas. It's a chain: We have constantly got pigs coming out of the breeding herd that need to go in homes. Those homes need to be emptied.\"\n\nHer farm sends about 1,500 pigs each week to abattoirs.\n\nKilling her own animals is not something she can bear thinking about. \"I can't even begin to think how we would do it. I don't want to put people who work for us in that situation,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\nOn-farm killing means the meat is not something that would be able to enter the food supply chain. \"It would be wasted,\" she said.\n\nIt is estimated there are about 100,000 pigs left on farms that would otherwise have been sent for slaughter, with the backlog having started building up weeks ago because of staff shortages.\n\nAndrew Saunders, a director at the UK's biggest pig producer, Pilgrims Pride, said there is no alternative to stunning with CO2. \"It is an essential part of the process,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Saunders, also chairman of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"80% of pigs in the UK are slaughtered in about 10 abattoirs, and those abattoirs all use CO2 stunning systems. We already face some challenges regarding keeping those abattoirs operational - some shortage of labour in those plants.\"\n\nHe said pigs can be kept on farms for only \"a very short period of time. They go beyond their target slaughter weight, they're then unsuitable for size of packets we have for our customers\".\n\nHe added: \"We hope the government can turn around to intervene to get these CO2 plants up and running again. The particular plants in question supply about 60% of all UK needs and something's required here to get this going pretty quickly.\"\n\nIt is not just the pig industry facing problems, however. On Monday, the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) warned the whole sector faces disruption.\n\nIn a letter to Environment Secretary George Eustice, the FDF's chief executive, Ian Wright, said: \"Important parts of the food and drink supply chain - already under significant pressure from the impacts of labour shortages, particularly HGV drivers - are now seriously compromised by disruptions in the supply of CO2.\n\n\"Across industry, there is a united view that the situation is worsening with little prospect of additional CO2 supply unless the UK government intervenes.\"\n\nIf ministers are considering financial help to support the energy sector, Mr Wright said then \"any subsidies made available must also be considered for the manufacturers of fertiliser to ensure there is no further deterioration across the UK food and drink supply, and production can be restored\".\n\nThere are worries that food and drink shortages are starting to appear on supermarket shelves, with the problem expected to worsen in the run-up to Christmas without action.\n\nRichard Walker, managing director of Iceland, said his supermarket is building up stocks and while there is no immediate shortage problem, he told the BBC the CO2 situation needed to be sorted quickly.\n\n\"The thing that has shocked me is that 60% of [CO2] production is concentrated in two factories which are both owned by a foreign business.\n\n\"This is something that's clearly critical to national security - not just food but also healthcare as well. So it seems quite perplexing that it's at the whim of a private enterprise in terms of whether it's profitable or not and therefore whether they produce the stuff or not.\"\n\nThe British Soft Drinks Association said if manufacturers could not get hold of CO2 supplies, \"after their reserves have run out, production of certain products will have to cease\".\n\nTony Will, chief executive of CF Industries, has held talks with the government over production at its two fertiliser plants, but the outcome is not clear.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted that he had met Mr Will and \"discussed the pressures the business is facing and explored possible ways forward to secure vital supplies, including to our food and energy industries\".\n\nWholesale prices for gas have surged 250% since January, with a 70% rise since August alone, leading to calls for support from the industry and the collapse of some smaller energy firms.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who is in New York for a UN General Assembly meeting, said the problem with wholesale prices was \"temporary\".\n\nHe added that he was \"very confident\" in the UK's supply chains and that market forces should be \"very, very swift\" in fixing the issues but that government would help where it could.\n\nA statement from the government said: \"We continue to monitor supplies across critical sectors and are in regular contact with industry on their CO2 supplies.\n\n\"The UK benefits from having a diverse range of gas supply sources and we have sufficient capacity to more than meet demand. We do not expect gas supply emergencies this winter.\"", "Bjorn Ulvaeus said there was \"no excuse\" for record labels not to credit writers properly\n\nAbba star Bjorn Ulvaeus has launched a campaign to ensure musicians don't miss out on millions of pounds in royalties.\n\nCalled Credits Due, the scheme aims to ensure all songwriters and musicians are correctly identified when a song is recorded.\n\nAt present, missing and incomplete data means that about £500m is unallocated or misallocated globally every year.\n\n\"It happens frequently,\" Ulvaeus told the BBC. \"Which means that streaming services don't know who to pay.\"\n\nThe scheme will also ensure fans see the correct credits for songs - from the writers and producers to the session musicians and engineers.\n\n\"We want to get back to that experience we had when we opened a double-sleeved LP and listened to the songs while reading the liner notes,\" Ulvaeus explained. \"I think that's a very valuable experience that young listeners today are missing.\"\n\nThe scheme will ensure that every person who is involved in the creation of a song will be \"clickable in the digital liner notes\", allowing you to look up every other record they have worked on.\n\n\"Every new person that walks into the recording studio will be registered,\" Ulvaeus said. \"So, even in a symphony orchestra, every member will be clickable.\"\n\nPop star Alison Goldfrapp was among the artists who supported the initiative\n\nThe Abba star launched the scheme at Tuesday's Ivor Novello Awards in London - which recognise the contribution of songwriters. Among the attendees, there was widespread support for the idea.\n\n\"I think it's really important because there's lots of people behind the scenes that don't get the credit they deserve,\" said singer Emeli Sande.\n\n\"You've got musicians that have practised and refined their art for their whole lives - so yeah, I'm very happy to support Bjorn.\"\n\nSongwriter MNEK, who has penned hits for Little Mix and Beyoncé and scored his own number one single last year with Head and Heart, said: \"I think it highlights that more that goes into making music, than just being a pop star.\"\n\nThe Credits Due campaign tackles one of the most boring, broken, complex and crucial problems facing the music industry: metadata.\n\nWhen a song is released, either on CD and vinyl or on a streaming service like Spotify, it includes a huge amount of underlying information, including titles, alternative titles, featured artists, songwriter and producer names, publishers, and much more.\n\nThat information needs to be synchronised with databases around the world to make sure the right people get paid when a song is streamed, bought or played.\n\nOften, that doesn't happen - and with 60,000 new songs uploaded to Spotify every day, the problem is growing. \"Can you imagine what a mess it is?\" asked Ulvaeus.\n\nThe new scheme is backed by The Ivors Academy for songwriters and The Music Rights Awareness Foundation, which Ulvaeus founded with songwriters Max Martin and Niclas Molinder in 2016.\n\nTogether they are launching an app to help songwriters, producers and record labels gather all the necessary data before a song is released.\n\n\"It's in the interest of all these people to get it right,\" said Ulvaeus. \"Today, in 2021, there's really no excuse.\"\n\nAbba have filmed performances in motion capture suits, enabling the digital avatars to mimic their movements\n\nThe star was speaking three weeks after Abba unveiled their comeback - with a new album and a virtual tour that will launch in the UK next May.\n\nTheir return, after a 39-year break, was met with a rapturous reception around the world. Two new singles, Don't Shut Me Down and I Still Have Faith In You, entered the UK top 20, while the Abba Voyage album broke pre-sale records.\n\n\"I didn't anticipate it being so global,\" said Ulvaeus. \"How that happened, I don't know. But I'm very grateful.\"\n\nHe explained that the concert will feature a mixture of live music and pre-recorded elements, with a live band augmenting the \"Abba avatars\" on stage.\n\nSome of the songs may sound different - singers Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad now sing \"one tone lower than they used to\" - but he said the group \"laughed all the time\" during rehearsals.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Global chemicals firm Ineos has announced it will invest £1bn in cutting greenhouse emissions at its petrochemical plant in Grangemouth.\n\nThe plan is to power the plant with hydrogen made from natural gas, while capturing carbon dioxide.\n\nThe CO2 could then be pumped via a pipeline to St Fergus in Aberdeenshire and stored beneath the North Sea.\n\nThe industrial site at Grangemouth is currently one of Scotland's biggest polluters.\n\nThe announcement is the next phase of the company's road map to deliver emissions savings of more than 60% across the site by 2030, as Scotland works towards becoming net zero by 2045.\n\nIneos says it has already achieved a 37% reduction in net CO2 emissions since acquiring the site in 2005.\n\nThe £1bn investment is in addition to more than £500m spent on projects currently being implemented at Grangemouth.\n\nOne of those is a new energy plant due to be completed in late 2023 which will supply energy to all site operations and drive down emissions by at least 150,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.\n\nThe Grangemouth refinery is a joint venture formed between Ineos and PetroChina in 2011.\n\nAs Scotland's only crude oil refinery, Petroineos is the primary supplier of aviation fuel for Scotland's main airports and the major supplier of petrol and diesel across Scotland's central belt, as well as in Northern Ireland and Northern England.\n\nCarbon capture and storage has been in development in Scotland for some considerable time.\n\nAfter the failed plan to attach it to Peterhead power station, the \"acorn project\" was born. It's been examining other uses to which the technology can be put.\n\nUsing St Fergus in north east Scotland as a base, they have been looking around for partners.\n\nAs one of Scotland's most polluting sites, Grangemouth has seemed one of the most obvious.\n\nThe National Grid is already looking at using existing pipelines which transport gas from St Fergus to the industrial heartlands of central Scotland and putting them into reverse.\n\nAll it has needed is money and today's announcement provides just that.\n\nThe announcement comes just over a month before world leaders arrive in Scotland for the COP26 climate change summit.\n\nSome environmental groups are sceptical about carbon capture as part of a strategy for tackling the global climate emergency.\n\nFriends of the Earth Scotland campaigner Alex Lee described it as \"just another distraction tactic\", adding there was an \"urgent need\" to end fossil fuel production, scale-up renewable energy and invest in green jobs.\n\n\"Hydrogen technology enthusiasts fail to mention that it is wildly expensive, inefficient and is not zero carbon,\" they added.\n\nIneos, however, says its road map highlights its commitment to supporting the goals of the Paris Accord and helping the Scottish government in its drive for a \"just transition\" to a net zero economy.\n\nThe Scottish government's net zero secretary, Michael Matheson, welcomed the investment.\n\n\"This will not only drive forward innovation and diversification to tackle emissions at Grangemouth, but will also support the decarbonisation of other sectors, sites and regions across Scotland,\" he said.\n\nThe UK government has promised support for four carbon capture and storage projects by the end of the decade, and Mr Matheson said he hoped the Ineos investment would secure some of this funding.\n\n\"Grangemouth, and Ineos itself, already holds a wealth of experience in engineering solutions and hydrogen production, and this new investment holds great potential for the future of Grangemouth, as well as the vital jobs that are located there, as part of our just transition to net zero,\" he said.\n\nStuart Collings, the CEO of Ineos O&P UK added: \"Hydrogen will play a very important role in the decarbonisation of our manufacturing plants. Building the infrastructure for large scale utilisation of hydrogen creates a foundation to achieve net zero by 2045 and enables wider use of hydrogen by Ineos and others in and around Grangemouth.\"\n\nFive Ineos sites at Grangemouth released around 3.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2019, making it the largest climate polluter in the country, according to figures from the Scottish Environment and Protection Agency (Sepa).\n\nThe power company SSE ranked as second-worst, with its gas power station at Peterhead emitting around 1.6 million tonnes that year.\n\nTerry A'Hearn, chief executive of Sepa, said: \"As Scotland's environmental watchdog, Sepa has an active and ongoing programme of engagement with Ineos.\n\n\"We remain focused on both addressing environmental compliance and in supporting and welcoming transformational innovation and investment wherever it occurs to help Scotland to continue its journey towards net zero.\"", "Roald Dahl's books include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Matilda\n\nNetflix has bought the rights to Roald Dahl's classic children's books from the author's family.\n\nThe deal means the streaming giant will own creations like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG.\n\nNetflix will control what happens to them in publishing as well as TV and film - and receive the royalties.\n\nIt will also create numerous spin-off games, stage shows and other live experiences. Neither side would reveal how much the deal is worth.\n\nThe takeover means The Roald Dahl Story Company - which is run by Dahl's grandson Luke Kelly and was previously owned by the family and other employees - will now become a division of Netflix.\n\nIt earned £26m revenue from the author's work in 2019, according to its latest accounts.\n\nIn a joint statement, Mr Kelly and Netflix boss Ted Sarandos said they were \"joining forces to bring some of the world's most loved stories to current and future fans in creative new ways\".\n\nNetflix is making a screen adaptation of Matilda The Musical\n\nThe move builds on a deal between the streaming giant and the estate in 2018, allowing it to make animated series based on his books.\n\nUnder that agreement, Oscar winner Taika Waititi is currently working on a series based on the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Sony and Working Title are making an adaptation of Matilda The Musical.\n\nIn total, 19 TV shows, films, stage shows and live experiences are already in the works.\n\n\"These projects opened our eyes to a much more ambitious venture - the creation of a unique universe across animated and live action films and TV, publishing, games, immersive experiences, live theatre, consumer products and more,\" Mr Kelly and Mr Sarandos said.\n\nNetflix made the announcement by revealing its name on golden ticket hidden inside a Willy Wonka chocolate bar wrapper.\n\nThe back of the ticket had the words \"There is no knowing what we shall see\" - a line from James and the Giant Peach.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Netflix UK & Ireland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"As we bring these timeless tales to more audiences in new formats, we're committed to maintaining their unique spirit and their universal themes of surprise and kindness, while also sprinkling some fresh magic into the mix,\" Mr Kelly and Mr Sarandos added.\n\nAfter working as a fighter pilot in the Second World War and then as a diplomat, the Welshman turned his hand to writing novels, short stories, poems and film scripts.\n\nThroughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s he became known for best-selling children's books - many of which were later turned into films.\n\nGene Wilder as Willy Wonka and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\n\nThe writer, who died at the age of 74 in 1990, has sold 300 million books around the world, printed in 65 languages.\n\nThe Dahl catalogue also includes the likes of Fantastic Mr Fox, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches and The Twits.\n\nMr Sarandos and Mr Kelly said his stories contain \"messages of the power and possibility of young people\" and have \"never felt more pertinent\".\n\nA \"significant part\" of the proceeds from the sale of the company will go towards setting up a new charity involved with children's health, anti-hate and anti-racism, they said.\n\nIn December, Dahl's family apologised for anti-Semitic comments made by the author in interviews in 1983 and 1990.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has rattled southeast Australia, damaging buildings in the city of Melbourne.\n\nThe earthquake happened about 09:15 local time (23:15 GMT) on Wednesday at Mansfield, not far from the Victorian state capital.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said \"we have had no reports of serious injuries and that is very good news\".\n\nThe earthquake was also felt in neighbouring South Australia and New South Wales (NSW).\n\nIt was followed by two aftershocks of 4.0 and 3.1 magnitude.\n\nWhile this is one of Australia's largest earthquakes in recent years, it has not caused significant damage.\n\nSpeaking from the US, Mr Morrison noted earthquakes were uncommon in Australia and they \"can be a very, very disturbing event\".\n\nMelbourne is home to about five million people\n\nVictoria's State Emergency Service warned residents to be alert for possible aftershocks.\n\n\"If you are located in Victoria, you are in danger. Expect aftershocks, stay away from damaged buildings and other hazards. Avoid driving, except for emergencies,\" the authority said.\n\nSurgeon Sameer Thakur said he had been performing a heart bypass operation in Geelong, near Melbourne, when the quake hit.\n\n\"We're sort of in the crux of the operation and we just felt the whole operating table move,\" he told BBC Newsday.\n\n\"Looking around the room, all the IV poles were moving and some of the clamps that we have, they were all shaking.\"\n\nHe said \"fortunately we were at a stage where we could come to a halt\" until the shaking stopped, allowing them to complete the surgery.\n\nThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation shared a clip of its breakfast TV presenters reacting in the studio as the earthquake hit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Is it an earthquake or a structural thing?\" presenter Michael Rowland was later shown asking producers. \"Let's go… that was a big one.\"\n\nSeveral high-rise towers and a city hospital were also briefly evacuated, residents reported. Some city tram lines had been suspended due to damage.\n\nSouth Australia Premier Stephen Marshall said his state had felt aftershocks.\n\nOne federal MP, Michael McCormack, said the \"ground [was] shaking violently\" in Wagga Wagga, NSW.\n\nLarge earthquakes are uncommon in Australia because the continent lies centrally on a tectonic plate.\n\nThis quake struck at a shallow depth of 10km (6.5 miles), according to Geosciences Australia. It was initially measured at 6.0 magnitude before being revised to 5.9.\n\nThe geoscience agency says Australia experiences a potentially damaging earthquake - defined as above 6.0 magnitude - about every 10 years.\n\nMelbourne, the country's second largest city, is home to about five million people.\n\nThe city is currently in lockdown due to a recent wave of coronavirus cases.", "Fifi the 'Franklin llama' lives at a farm facility at the University of Reading\n\nA Covid therapy derived from a llama named Fifi has shown \"significant potential\" in early trials.\n\nIt is a treatment made of \"nanobodies\", small, simpler versions of antibodies, which llamas and camels produce naturally in response to infection.\n\nOnce the therapy has been tested in humans, scientists say, it could be given as a simple nasal spray - to treat and even prevent early infection.\n\nLlamas, alpacas, camels and sharks have evolved to produce nanobodies in response to infection\n\nProf Naismith, who is one of the lead researchers and director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute in Oxfordshire, explained that coronavirus-infected rodents treated with the new nanobody nasal spray fully recovered within six days.\n\nThe treatment has, so far, been tested only in those lab animals, but Public Health England said it was among the \"most effective SARS-CoV-2 neutralising agents\" it had ever tested.\n\nThis apparent covid-fighting potency comes from the strength with which nanobodies bind to the virus.\n\nJust like our own antibodies, virus-specific nanobodies latch on to and bind to viruses and bacteria that invade our bodies. This binding essentially tags an invading virus with an immune \"red flag\", to allow the rest of the body's immune armoury to target it for destruction.\n\nThe nanobodies that these researchers produced - with the help of a llama's immune system - bind particularly tightly.\n\n\"That's where we had some help from Fifi the 'Franklin [Institute] llama',\" explained Prof Naismith.\n\nBy vaccinating Fifi with a tiny, non-infectious piece of the viral protein, the scientists stimulated her immune system to make the special molecules. The scientists then carefully picked out and purified the most potent nanobodies in a sample of Fifi's blood; those that matched the viral protein most closely, like the key that best fits a specific lock.\n\nThe team was then able to grow large quantities of the specially selected, most potent molecules.\n\nProf Naismith told BBC News: \"The immune system is so marvellous that it still does better than we can - evolution is hard to beat.\"\n\nProfessor Sheena Cruickshank, an immunologist from the University of Manchester said the new development was \"exciting but still quite early\".\n\n\"We need more data on efficacy and safety before we move to human trials,\" she added. \"However it's very promising nonetheless and the fact it may be cheaper and easier to administer is a plus. Covid-19 will be, unfortunately, with us for a while yet, so more treatments will be needed.\"\n\nProfessor Naismith and his collaborators, who published their research in the journal Nature Communications agreed that, even with the success of the Covid vaccines, having effective treatments in the future would be very important.\n\n\"Not all of the world is being vaccinated at the same speed,\" he said, \"and there remains a risk of new variants capable of bypassing vaccine immunity emerging.\"", "Police examine the car that was targeted while carrying presidential aide Serhiy Shefir\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has promised a strong response after one of his top aides survived an apparent assassination attempt.\n\nSerhiy Shefir's car was struck with a volley of bullets as he left his home south of the capital Kyiv on Wednesday morning. His driver was wounded.\n\nIt is not known who carried out the shooting, but Mr Zelensky said it could have been a foreign or domestic attack.\n\nThe Kremlin has categorically denied any Russian involvement.\n\nDescribing the moment that bullets struck his vehicle, Mr Shefir said \"we had to speed up a little, it was scary\".\n\nHe praised his driver, who he said managed to continue to drive after the \"shots rang out\".\n\nMr Shefir suggested he was targeted in a bid to intimidate the \"highest echelon of power\" and that such an attempt would not work.\n\n\"One has to understand that our president [Zelensky] is very strong-willed, he has a spine and cannot be intimidated,\" he added.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) with his aide Serhiy Shefir in Kyiv earlier this year\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said any suggestion of a link with Moscow bore \"the signs of an excessively excited emotional state\".\n\n\"Unfortunately nowadays, whatever happens in Ukraine, none of the current politicians is able to rule out the Russian trace,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking from New York, where he is participating in the United Nations General Assembly, Mr Zelensky said: \"Saying 'hello' to me by shooting out of the forest at my friend's car is weak. The response will be strong.\"\n\nPolice investigating the shooting, near the village of Lisnyky, said they were exploring the possibility that Mr Shefir may have been targeted for his work, or as part of a bid to destabilise the government.\n\nThe attack comes a few days before Mr Zelensky's bill to rein in Ukraine's powerful oligarchs is debated in parliament.\n\nUkraine's oligarchs are a small group of super-rich businessmen who dominate the country's economic and political life.", "Dua Lipa is one of the UK's most streamed artists - but less popular acts struggle to make a living, MPs say\n\nThe UK's major record labels could face an inquiry into whether their practices are distorting the music market.\n\nThe government has written to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) asking it to consider an investigation into Sony, Warner and Universal Music.\n\nIt has also asked the watchdog to consider YouTube's dominance over the streaming market.\n\nThe move comes after MPs demanded a \"complete reset\" of the music industry, amid \"pitiful returns\" for artists.\n\nThe Culture Select Committee issued the call in a damning report this summer, after hearing evidence from musicians such as Nile Rodgers, Elbow and Radiohead in a six-month inquiry into music streaming.\n\nJulian Knight, who chairs the committee, said while streaming had \"brought significant profits to the recorded-music industry, the talent behind it - performers, songwriters and composers - are losing out\".\n\nHe called for the CMA to investigate the commercial power wielded by major record labels, expressing concern they receive beneficial placement on playlists and storefronts at the expense of independent labels and self-releasing artists.\n\nIn an official response, the government said there \"may be value\" in such a market study but it was up to the CMA to decide whether to pursue it.\n\nA spokesperson for the watchdog told the BBC that \"initial proposals\" for an investigation would be considered at its board meeting next month.\n\nThe British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which represents the UK's recorded-music industry, said it would comply with any resulting inquiry.\n\n\"Should the CMA conduct a study, we look forward to detailing labels' role in supercharging the careers of British talent within a complex and dynamic ecosystem,\" it said.\n\nThe culture committee's report, issued in July, was ultimately critical of the UK music industry.\n\nWhile streaming had helped save the music industry, after two decades of illegal downloads, record labels and streaming companies had subsequently \"leveraged structural advantages to achieve seemingly unassailable positions\" in their markets, it said.\n\nIn its response, the government said the select committee's inquiry had provided \"invaluable insights\" into music streaming but \"there is still work to be done to understand the problems musicians are facing\".\n\nIt called for more research into the way musicians were paid and royalties shared, saying it would \"assess different models\" to see how they would affect the industry, including \"equitable remuneration\" - where labels and artists receive an equal share of streaming royalties, in contrast to the current arrangement, where artists receive about 16%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nile Rodgers says streaming numbers are meaningless when it comes to being paid\n\nThe government also said it wanted to \"explore ways in which new and upcoming songwriters [and] composers\" could be paid more fairly.\n\nThe MPs' report noted writers received particularly poor revenues from streaming services, after pop composer Fiona Bevan revealed she had earned just £100 for a track on Kylie Minogue's number-one album Disco.\n\n\"Right now, hit songwriters are driving Ubers,\" she told the inquiry. \"It's quite shameful\"\n\nIn its response, the government said it would work with Credit's Due - an initiative launched by Abba's Bjorn Ulvaeus - to ensure writers receive proper credit and remuneration for songs they worked on.\n\nIt also agreed that the role of curators who make playlists on services such as Spotify and Apple Music warranted further investigation.\n\nWhile the select committee recommended intro using a \"code of conduct\" to avoid bribes and favouritism, the government said it would gather more evidence to decide \"the case for further intervention\".\n\nMr Knight welcomed the government's response, saying: \"Our inquiry into music streaming exposed fundamental problems within the structure of the music industry itself.\n\n\"It is testimony to all those who gave evidence to our inquiry that the government has acknowledged our report as a 'key moment' for the music industry.\n\n\"Within days we expect to see the government's own research published into the pitiful earning of creators in this digital age and hope it will corroborate what artists and musicians told us.\n\n\"We will be monitoring the outcome and what tangible steps the government pledges to take to redress this unfairness and reward the talent behind the music.\"\n\nThe BPI said: \"We welcome government's recognition of the need for a better understanding of the complexity of the music-streaming market\".\n\nWorking together to address areas of concern was \"preferable to legislative intervention\", it said, warning new regulations could jeopardise the industry's \"hard won return to growth after years of decline\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion, email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Thousands of people have been evacuated from Afghanistan - but some of those left behind say they feel \"betrayed\"\n\nUK nationals and former interpreters stranded after British forces pulled out of Afghanistan have told the BBC they feel abandoned. Now hundreds are fearing for their safety following a UK government data breach.\n\nAhmad, not his real name, is in hiding in Afghanistan. He is one of more than 250 Afghan interpreters and local staff whose names and some profile pictures were mistakenly shared in a Ministry of Defence data breach.\n\nHe is eligible for relocation under the UK government's Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (Arap) but he is still in the country.\n\nWhen Ahmad received the MoD email he says he initially \"felt good\". \"I thought, they're still chasing our cases.\"\n\nThen he realised the error. The email addresses and names of all the recipients could be seen by everyone on the email. Many of those who got the email, like Ahmad, remain in hiding, fearful their lives could be in danger.\n\nThe government has apologised to those affected and an investigation has been launched. But Ahmad says the error could put him in danger.\n\n\"I'm sure that it will have a negative impact on our safety\", he says. \"We are already displaced from our home town.\"\n\nAhmad was shot by the Taliban while on patrol as an interpreter with British troops in Helmand, in 2011.\n\nBefore the airport in Kabul closed last month, officials told him to take his family there to be evacuated. But the crush to get on flights was too much for his baby daughter.\n\nLeft behind in Kabul, he now lives apart from his wife and child to try to keep them from danger. \"I feel betrayed and we feel left behind,\" he says. \"We were the people deserving to be relocated.\"\n\n\"I am living from place-to-place, going door-to-door. It is very difficult for me financially and from the security perspective - and also mentally.\"\n\n\"Just when you think it can't get worse than this, along comes [the email],\" he told the BBC.\n\nSince mid-August, when the Afghan government fell, the UK says more than 15,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan.\n\nThe BBC understands this includes more than 8,000 UK nationals, while a few hundred more have made it out under their own steam. Two flights out of Kabul to Doha in the past week have carried a further 26 British nationals and four Afghan spouses.\n\nOfficials will not say how many British citizens have still to make it out of the country but chat among the community left behind in Afghanistan gives a sense of the scale of the problem facing Liz Truss, the UK's new foreign secretary.\n\nZiad travelled to Afghanistan in July and says other UK nationals are stuck there\n\n\"There are loads of people waiting,\" says Ziad, who travelled from Newport to Afghanistan in July to visit his sick mother. His name has been changed to protect his identity.\n\n\"My cousin is also a British citizen, he's also waiting. Lots of my school mates are here as well. My driving instructor, he's stuck here as well. So imagine how many more would be here.\"\n\nThe government says it has advised against travel to Afghanistan for many years. But those who did make the trip and are now stuck feel abandoned.\n\n\"They are not serious about their citizens,\" Ziad says. \"Until now, I did not receive any help.\" He is not alone.\n\nEarlier this month, BBC News reported on a seven-month-old baby left behind in Afghanistan because of a delay in processing her passport.\n\nThree weeks later, her family in London say they are still waiting for news about what can be done to help them.\n\nZahra, not her real name, told the BBC about her fears for her family in Afghanistan whose details she had registered with the UK government for assistance. She says they still have not had any good news. Her family is now making plans to travel to a third country.\n\nSayyid, also not his real name, said he was worried about his brother who had previously worked for a British charity in Afghanistan because he had been threatened by the Taliban.\n\nThis week he updated the BBC to say that his brother remained in hiding.\n\nMujeeb Ashraf, a former interpreter for UK forces, might appear to be one of the lucky ones.\n\nAfter getting confirmation he was eligible for relocation under Arap, he managed to get himself on a commercial flight out of Kabul before the airport closed. He took the flight rather than wait for the UK to evacuate him.\n\nNow in Dubai, Mujeeb has sent repeated pleas to officials about what to do next but says he has so far not had any information about relocation to the UK.\n\nMujeeb Ashraf, a former interpreter for UK forces, in currently stuck in Dubai\n\n\"It seems they have no plan for third countries,\" he says. \"Every day I'm checking my email to have some good news from the UK government. I don't know what to do next and I have no idea where to go.\"\n\nWith only handouts from voluntary groups to get by, and having to pay around £300 a month in rent to share a small house with 21 people, Mujeeb fears for what will happen after his visa expires.\n\nHe pleaded with the UK government to \"help those people who helped you in your operations\".\n\nThe BBC asked the government how it intended to help evacuate people like Mujeeb who are stranded in third countries.\n\nA spokesperson said they could not comment on individual cases but work was under way to support the logistics of relocation of those accepted as eligible who are already in third countries.\n\nWhere possible, the government would contact those identified for relocation who are not yet in the UK, the spokesperson added.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The UK's evacuation operation helped over 15,000 people to safety including British nationals, Afghan interpreters, and other vulnerable people.\n\n\"Whilst the success of that operation exceeded our assumptions, we know that there are many left in difficult circumstances.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government's \"utmost priority is to continue to work with allies and partners in the region to ensure safe passage for those who want to leave Afghanistan\".\n\nAre you a UK national in Afghanistan or eligible for relocation to the UK and unable to leave? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nThe family of a primary school teacher who was killed in a south-east London park say they have been left \"devastated\" by her death.\n\nThe body of Sabina Nessa was found by a member of the public in Cator Park, Kidbrooke, on Saturday morning.\n\nMs Nessa's cousin Zubel Ahmed said the 28-year-old was a \"beautiful soul\" and appealed for help to find whoever was responsible for the \"horrific crime\".\n\nA vigil is due to be held in her memory on Friday evening.\n\nOfficers searching near where the 28-year-old teacher was found\n\nThe Met Police believe Ms Nessa was attacked and died the previous evening, at a time when the park would have been busy.\n\nMr Ahmed said the family understood she had been on her way home \"when she was attacked from behind.\"\n\nHe said her parents were \"absolutely shocked\" and \"inconsolable still, understandably so, to hear of their daughter being taken away from them by some cowardly man\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are all truly devastated,\" says Sabina Nessa's cousin Zubel Ahmed\n\nDescribing his cousin, Mr Ahmed said she \"was the most caring person - kindest, sweetest girl you could meet\".\n\n\"She's been teaching for two years. Loves teaching, loves kids, she's got a couple of cats at home. She was just a beautiful soul.\"\n\nThe area where she was found remains cordoned off and flowers have been left at the site.\n\nCards, candles and flowers have been left at the site of Ms Nessa's death\n\nA vigil will be held in Kidbrooke on Friday\n\nInformation sheets advising women on how to stay safe at night have been handed out by a community group in response to the death.\n\nThe handout suggests pedestrians stick to busy places with good lighting.\n\nAdvice on the sheet, printed from the Met Police website, also includes the suggestions that pedestrians should face oncoming traffic and conceal their jewellery.\n\nFriday's vigil has been organised by Reclaim the Streets who said they were \"angry and heartbroken\" by the killing and called on the government to do something about \"an epidemic of violence unfolding in front of our eyes.\"\n\nThe information leaflet suggests pedestrians should stick to busy places with good lighting\n\nMiss Nessa, who was originally from Sandy in Bedfordshire, lived in Lewisham, south-east London.\n\nShe had been a year one teacher at Rushey Green Primary school in Catford for about a year.\n\nA post-mortem examination into the cause of the 28-year-old's death was inconclusive, the Met said.\n\nA man in his 40s who was arrested on suspicion of murder has been released under further investigation.\n\nOfficers have asked for any potential witnesses to contact them, and for drivers to check dash-cam footage they might have.\n\nThe Met believe the attack happened around 20:30 BST on 17 September at a time where the park \"was likely being used by many people.\"\n\nDet Supt Luke Marks said: \"This did not happen in the middle of the night - people would have been in and around the park at the time.\n\n\"We have extra officers in the area conducting high-visibility patrols, and anybody in London, regardless of gender, should be able to go out in an evening and not be concerned about being the victim of violent crime.\"\n\nMs Nessa was described by colleagues as \"kind, caring and dedicated\". The school's headteacher Lisa Williams said: \"She had so much life ahead of her and so much more to give and her loss is desperately sad.\n\n\"As a school we are supporting each other through this very difficult time, and we will be providing specialist support to those who need it.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan also paid tribute, saying he had been left \"heartbroken\" by her death.\n\n\"The perpetrator of this despicable crime must be caught and brought to justice which is why I want to encourage anyone who may have been in the park around the time of the incident, and may have relevant information, to contact the police,\" he added.\n\nSafeguarding minister Rachel Maclean told the House of Commons: \"Every woman who loses their life is one woman too much and we are devastated to hear of the loss of the life of Sabina Nessa. Our hearts go out to the family.\n\nShe added that the government was \"passing legislation, setting out actions and tackling these horrific crimes and we are determined to see a reduction in them\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has published an 11,500 word essay on what he stands for and how he wants to change the UK, ahead of his party's conference.\n\nThe Labour leader says the country is at a crossroads after the pandemic and is \"crying out for change\".\n\nIf elected prime minister, he says he would create \"a society built on everyone's contribution\".\n\nSir Keir has faced criticism from some in Labour that he lacks vision and voters don't know what his values are.\n\nHe is due to deliver his first in-person conference speech to party members since becoming leader last year, in Brighton next week.\n\nIn his essay The Road Ahead, published by the Fabian Society think tank, he sketches out many of the themes that are likely to feature in his speech, saying he wants Labour to be \"Britain's bricks and mortar\".\n\n\"People want to emerge from lockdown into something better,\" writes the Labour leader.\n\n\"They want to see a contribution society: one where people who work hard and play by the rules can expect to get something back.\n\n\"Where you can expect fair pay for fair work, where we capture the spirit that saw us through the worst ravages of the pandemic and celebrate the idea of community and society; where we understand that we are stronger together.\"\n\nSpeaking about his own background, as the son of parents who \"worked with their hands\" who was able to go to university and reach the top of the legal profession, Sir Keir writes: \"There are two fundamental things we need to fix in this country: insecurity and inequality of opportunity.\n\n\"Does a working-class child in Britain today have the same opportunities my generation did? It is hard to think they do.\"\n\nHe wants to silence critics who accuse him of lacking vision or direction, to create dividing lines with his political opponents - and to suggest that his values are in touch with those of the majority of voters.\n\nHe sets out 10 \"simple key principles\" for a future Labour government, which would \"always put hard-working families and their priorities first\".\n\nThe pamphlet is peppered with the phrase \"security and opportunity\".\n\nThis is, in part, to convince voters that a future Labour government would tackle the insecurity many people feel at work.\n\nBut it is also designed to play to his perceived strengths and his life story.\n\nLabour's target voters are unlikely to devour the entire tract.\n\nBut the forthcoming conference will provide Sir Keir with both the opportunity - and the challenge - of distilling his message.\n\nIn the pamphlet, Sir Keir attacks Prime Minister Boris Johnson as \"utterly unserious and completely unprepared for the great challenges of our time\".\n\nAnd he accuses both the Conservatives and the SNP of being in thrall to nationalism.\n\nBy contrast, he argues, Labour should be \"proudly patriotic\" but \"reject the divisiveness of nationalism\".\n\nHe repeats his call for the party to embrace the achievements of the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown governments - but says Labour has to change to stand a chance of returning to power.\n\n\"The Labour Party at its best does not wait around for the public to decide we are right. Instead, it adapts and updates. It does not look backwards - it marches forwards,\" he writes.\n\nConservative party co-chairman Oliver Dowden said: \"If this is Starmer's 'big vision' then he should have gone to Specsavers.\n\n\"Labour are talking to themselves about themselves. They're all essays and no action.\"\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Robert Peston, former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the document \"looks like the sermon on the mount written by a focus group\".\n\n\"I can't see anything in this document that is going to inspire,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Liam Byrne - who failed to unseat Conservative Andy Street as West Midlands mayor in May's elections - has set out his own plan to return his party to power.\n\nIn an article for Prospect magazine, the former minister says Sir Keir needs to target Tory voters with \"an evocative tale of how we build our future with pride in our past, fed by roots in industry and community\".\n• None Party conferences: What to expect this year", "Health Secretary Humza Yousaf says he is \"working urgently\" to free up bed space in Scotland's NHS.\n\nThe Scottish government has enlisted the help of the Army, fire service, British Red Cross and taxi firms to ease pressure on the ambulance service.\n\nMr Yousaf told BBC Scotland that efforts are also under way to move more people into social care.\n\nNursing and social care groups say more help is needed - and that reintroducing some restrictions should be considered.\n\nDonald Macaskill, the chief executive of Scottish Care, which represents care homes in Scotland, claimed his sector was in \"dire straits\" and needed an \"emergency intervention\".\n\nHe added: \"With all the focus on the NHS the crisis in the care system has gone largely unnoticed.\n\n\"This is an ecosystem. To free up capacity in hospitals, you have to attend to social care. The NHS will collapse next week if social care collapses today.\n\n\"We need an immediate injection of cash into the sector. If we can increase the salary of lorry drivers we should be able to do it for frontline social care workers who fought their way through this pandemic.\"\n\nThe warning comes as the Royal College of Nursing Scotland said ministers need to consider reintroducing Covid restrictions in order to alleviate the pressure on the NHS.\n\nNorman Provan, the trade union's associate director, said: \"The government have to consider whether further restrictions have to be put back in place.\n\n\"I know that that is really unpopular with the general public, who are just beginning to think that things are getting back to normal, but it's not for people who work providing care.\n\n\"It is absolutely desperate out there and if their relatives were seeking care just now they would approach that quite differently.\"\n\nSoldiers will be drafted in to drive ambulances from this weekend following reports that some patients have faced very long waits for emergency help to arrive.\n\nThey include a pensioner who died in Glasgow after having to wait 40 hours for an ambulance, and an 86-year-old woman who had to lie on her kitchen for eight hours after falling and breaking her hip.\n\nIn some cases the problem is caused by ambulances queuing for hours before being are able to hand over their patients to accident and emergency, due to the volume of patients in the hospital.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland he was aware a \"whole systems approach\" was required address the current problems.\n\nHe said: \"I can give absolute assurance that we are working urgently, and hopefully I can give some detail of this very imminently, in terms of a winter plan to free up beds back into social care.\n\n\"We know that there's about 1,500 people who are delayed discharge - they're clinically safe to discharge from hospital - but a portion of them don't have a care package in their local communities and we're working really hard to quickly try to resolve that to free up bed space.\"\n\nMr Yousaf described the situation as \"the biggest crisis that anybody has ever faced in our lifetime and certainly in the NHS' existence\".\n\nJust over 100 military personnel will be brought in to help the ambulance service\n\nHe refused to rule out setting up field hospitals to cope with patient numbers but stressed they would present challenges.\n\n\"The difficulty is you could easily set up beds - we have beds and equipment to do that - what we don't have is the workforce,\" the health secretary added.\n\n\"And the Army don't have a huge pool of doctors that are just sitting there not doing anything. In fact the full-time doctors are very much based in the NHS and then if they have to go to deployment in armed service they get permission from the NHS to go and join army personnel overseas.\"\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"I definitely wouldn't rule it out entirely but we have to look at whether or not we would end up pulling people out of acute sites at the moment to staff those beds.\"\n\nThe Scottish government also said it was continuing to work with health and social care partnerships to provide support around the current challenges facing the sector.\n\nDr Daniel Beckett, of the Society for Acute Medicine, said many patients could not leave hospital as they do not have a package of care in place.\n\nThe acute care consultant said the main challenge was not Covid patients, who are generally younger and unvaccinated, but those suffering from conditions such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes.\n\n\"The numbers of patients that are coming through the front door and being admitted into acute medical units are high, certainly high even for winter, and much higher than we would expect at this time of year,\" Dr Beckett said.\n\n\"And those patients are sicker and more complex than normal and that's as a result of chronic disease management being different over the past 18 months.\"\n\nDr Beckett added patients are spending longer in hospital as a result and when they are medically fit for discharge, staff are struggling to access packages of care.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe parents of Harry Dunn have reached a \"resolution\" in a civil claim for damages with the woman alleged to have killed him, the family's spokesman has said.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike was hit by a car driven by US citizen Anne Sacoolas near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in 2019.\n\nShe later left the country, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nDunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said the outcome was \"a real milestone\".\n\nDetails of the agreement reached between the parties involved in the civil case have not been disclosed.\n\nMrs Sacoolas's car collided with the teenager's motorbike moments after she left the US base, where her husband Jonathan worked for a US intelligence agency.\n\nThe teenager's parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, brought the civil claim against Mrs Sacoolas in the US state of Virginia.\n\nHarry Dunn's family began the damages case against Anne Sacoolas to force her to give evidence about what happened, because it appeared to be the only way to get her into court.\n\nBut that was before the Biden administration assured London that it would not stand in the way of some kind of alternative process of achieving justice for Harry, providing Ms Sacoolas and British prosecutors could agree.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service is not downplaying what it says are the \"challenges and complexity\" of that proposal - but nor is it suggesting that it's hopeless.\n\n\"Restorative justice\", in which someone accounts for their actions, is a feature of both the British and American criminal justice systems.\n\nWe don't know what prosecutors are considering - but Harry Dunn's family are clear: justice and truth must lie at the heart of whatever happens.\n\nThe Alexandria District Court in Virginia heard Mr and Mrs Sacoolas' work in intelligence was a \"factor\" in their departure from the UK, as they left for \"security reasons\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 44, and her husband were due to give evidence last month but it was postponed.\n\nMr Seiger said Mr Dunn's parents would now be able to \"put this part of the campaign behind them\".\n\nHe said: \"The family's courage and determination to see this through has been incredible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the death of teenager Harry Dunn became a diplomatic struggle between the UK and US\n\nIn December 2020, the Crown Prosecution Service authorised Northamptonshire Police to charge Mrs Sacoolas with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nAn extradition request for Mrs Sacoolas to be brought to the UK was rejected by the US government.\n\nHowever, the UK authorities are continuing to press for her to return to the UK to face the criminal charge.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, the parents of Harry Dunn, flew out to the US for parts of the civil case\n\nMr Seiger said the family would now turn its \"attention to the criminal case and the long-awaited inquest into Harry's death which will follow the criminal case\".\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss raised Mr Dunn's case with the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.\n\nSpeaking on the train to Washington where she will meet with Joe Biden, Ms Truss said the resolution of the civil case was \"absolutely not\" the end of efforts to get Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK.\n\n\"We continue to press for justice for Harry,\" she said.\n\nLegal representatives for Mrs Sacoolas have been approached for comment.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Sharon Graham was elected Unite leader on a promise to take the union \"back to the workplace\" and spend less time on Westminster politics.\n\nShe insisted that \"wasn't just an electoral chant\", and has argued that she was \"all about action\".\n\nBut one of her earliest decisions is about not doing something.\n\nShe is the first leader of Unite - Labour's biggest trade union funder - to decide not to attend the party's annual conference this weekend.\n\nIt is in stark contrast to her predecessor Len McCluskey, who was an influential and ever-present figure in Labour circles.\n\nBut she has told the BBC that her time can be better spent elsewhere.\n\nMs Graham said: \"We shouldn't always do what we have always done just because we have always done it.\n\n\"I am days into my leadership - we currently have 16 industrial disputes going on, from Tesco drivers to Weetabix to locksmiths in Scunthorpe and Wolverhampton.\n\n\"What I need to do is be with those workers in dispute and personally take leadership.\"\n\nShe denied she was snubbing Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, adding: \"We are in a crisis - workers are going to have a really rough ride.\n\n\"I am showing I am with them, and the Labour Party needs to do the same, and show it is with workers and communities too\".\n\n\"It's definitely not a snub - I have made a priority decision.\"\n\nIn fact, she met Sir Keir on Monday for an hour, describing the meeting as \"cordial\".\n\nBut Ms Graham said he hadn't raised his proposed changes to Labour's leadership rules with her.\n\nThe Labour leader is meeting representatives of key unions on Wednesday to discuss that controversial move.\n\nShe said the row over rule changes is like \"white noise\" to her members.\n\nAnd she gave the Labour leader the following advice: \"I made it really clear that I really want Labour to focus on the issues workers have - it has to be a continuous programme.\"\n\nSharon Graham said her decision not to go to the Labour Party conference was not a snub to Sir Keir Starmer\n\nThe union gave Labour £3m in the run up to the last election, but party funding wasn't on the meeting's agenda.\n\nMs Graham told me the union will continue to pay an affiliation fee to Labour, but she would want a lot more in return for optional donations.\n\n\"For those additional payments, it'd be wrong of us to say there is a blank cheque,\" she said.\n\n\"I have to be able to say, head held high, 'this money has gone into [opposing] fire and rehire' or 'this was put in to research and development'. It's about workers' issues.\n\n\"If Labour doesn't talk about that agenda, people are quite rightly going to question why we are giving those additional funds.\"\n\nMs Graham also confirmed her union delegates would vote to oust Labour's most senior official, general secretary David Evans if - as expected - Labour conference votes on whether to endorse him this weekend.\n\nHe is carrying out a programme of voluntary redundancies at Labour's head office.\n\nShe said: \"David Evans engaged in all essence in a fire and rehire practice - any CEO who did that would not get our support.\"\n\nBut a Labour spokesperson rejected the criticism, saying the party was undertaking a \"voluntary severance scheme\", which was \"nothing like fire and rehire\".\n\nUnite under Len McCluskey financed a range of legal challenges against Labour when the party tried to discipline or expel left-wing members.\n\nIf Ms Graham wanted to be involved in less intra-party wrangling, would that continue?\n\nShe said: \"I am doing a review of every single area of the union, including legal. The most important thing about our legal services is whether they support the members.\n\n\"I will make decisions with the [union] executive. I don't know all the details [of the legal actions].\n\n\"But on a broader level, my focus is jobs, pay and conditions of workers - therefore the resources of the union are going to be on that.\"\n\nFormer Unite leader Len McCluskey was heavily involved in the political side\n\nMore generally, she would be reorganising the country's second largest union - bringing together members in each sector of industry.\n\nShe intended to go through the books of big companies \"forensically\" if they attempted to cut pay and conditions, to find out if they were genuinely struggling or if they were using the Covid crisis to reduce her members' rights.\n\nAnd she will draw up a \"workers' manifesto\" that she will push with whoever is in power.\n\nMs Graham said she resisted pressure on her to stand aside in the contest for her union's top job to give another left-winger a clear run.\n\nShe described some of that pressure as \"toxic\" and \"vile\".\n\nShe added: \"I have a 12-year-old son and I didn't think it was a good moral for him to capitulate. It made me more determined.\"\n\nAnd now that she has succeeded, she is clearly just as determined to do things differently.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: It's time for humanity to grow up\n\nA climate summit of world leaders in 40 days' time will be the \"turning point for humanity\", PM Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations.\n\nHe warned that global temperature rises were already inevitable, but called on his fellow leaders to commit to major changes to curb further warming.\n\nFour areas needed tackling - \"coal, cars, cash and trees\", he said.\n\nCountries must take responsibility for \"the destruction we are inflicting, not just upon our planet but ourselves\".\n\n\"It's time for humanity to grow up,\" he added ahead of the UK hosting the COP26 summit in Glasgow.\n\nThe prime minister also said it was time to listen to the warnings of scientists. \"Look at Covid if you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right.\"\n\nSetting the tone for November's meeting, he said countries must make \"substantial changes\" by the end of the decade if the world is to stave off further temperature rises.\n\n\"I passionately believe that we can do it by making commitments in four areas - coal, cars, cash and trees,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson praised China's President Xi Jinping for his recent pledge to stop building new coal-fire energy plants abroad.\n\nBut he called on the country - which produces 28% of global greenhouse gas emissions - to go further and end its domestic use of coal, saying the UK was proof that it could be done.\n\nThe UK used coal to generate 25% of its electricity five years ago - but that is now down to 2%. Mr Johnson said it would be \"gone altogether\" by 2024.\n\nBut Labour's shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband accused the UK government of \"facing both ways\" on climate change, urging other nations to take action while it considered plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria and cut money for improving home insulation.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One that a UK trade deal had also allowed Australia to renege on their climate commitments.\n\n\"It undermines our moral standing as the host. I want the prime minister to succeed, but I'm afraid he's left it very late and he's not handled this presidency well,\" he said.\n\nIn his speech, the prime minister also said he did not see a conflict between the green movement and capitalism, saying: \"The whole experience of the Covid pandemic is that the way to fix the problem is through science and innovation, the breakthroughs and the investment that are made possible by capitalism and by free markets.\"\n\n\"We have the tools for a green industrial revolution but time is desperately short,\" he added.\n\nElsewhere, the prime minister made a series of calls for action to his fellow leaders, including:\n\nAmid the serious warnings, Mr Johnson also attempted to strike a humorous note at points, including saying Kermit the Frog had been wrong when he sang It's Not Easy Bein' Green.\n\nThe prime minister reiterated that the world must curb the rise in global average temperatures to 1.5C - the stricter of the two targets set by the UN in the 2015 Paris agreement.\n\nHowever, the world is already 1C hotter compared with pre-industrial levels.\n\n\"If we keep on the current track then the temperatures will go up by 2.7 degrees or more by the end of the century,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"And never mind what that will do to the ice floes... we will see desertification, drought, crop failure, and mass movements of humanity on a scale not seen before, not because of some unforeseen natural event or disaster but because of us, because of what we are doing now.\n\n\"And our grandchildren will know that we are the culprits and... that we were warned and they will know that it was this generation that came centre stage to speak and act on behalf of posterity and that we missed our cue and they will ask themselves what kind of people we were to be so selfish and so short sighted.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is fashioning himself as a leader on climate change.\n\nHe has set a benchmark by phasing out sales of most new conventional vehicles by 2030.\n\nThe international alliance he's formed to get rid of coal power is gathering support - though not yet enough.\n\nAnd by setting aggressive targets to cut carbon emissions overall (78% by 2035) he is encouraging others to follow.\n\nYet, in his own backyard, the prime minister is stumbling.\n\nHe previously pledged \"never to be lagging on lagging\". But his plan for insulating homes is badly delayed - along with other vital initiatives on issues including aviation, farming and financing the low carbon revolution.\n\nRecent research showed his government had imposed less than a quarter of the policies needed to clean up the economy.\n\nAt COP26, leaders from 196 countries will be asked to agree action to limit climate change and its effects, like rising sea levels and extreme weather.\n\nA recent report from UN scientists warned that global temperatures have risen faster since 1970 than at any point in the past 2,000 years.", "The woman was trapped inside the property on Tyntyla Road in Llwynypia\n\nA man has been arrested following a house fire that left a woman with serious injuries.\n\nThe woman, 28, had to be rescued by firefighters from the property on Tyntyla Road, Llwynypia, Rhondda Cynon Taf, at 16:45 BST on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said she remained in a critical condition in hospital, while three children were among other people who were also treated for smoke inhalation.\n\nA 26-year-old man has been arrested and remains in police custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Sarah Lewis, of South Wales Police, said detectives were keeping an open mind about the cause of the fire but \"could not rule anything out\".\n\nThe force has appealed for information.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lava pouring from a volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma has damaged hundreds of homes, as the molten rock heads to the sea.\n\nThousands of people have been forced to flee the path of the lava that has been spewing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano since Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Love Islander Amy Hart: \"I delete things... I have probably stopped reporting them now because I know there is no point\"\n\nFormer Love Island contestant Amy Hart has said she has discovered she has been abused online by nurses and even had a death threat from a 13-year-old.\n\nThe 29-year-old influencer, who appeared on the 2019 series, told a committee of MPs that Instagram users should have to verify their identities.\n\n\"Everyone's got a national insurance number,\" she said. \"And if you're under 16 and don't have one, then your parents should have to put theirs, because one of my death threats was traced back to a 13-year-old.\"\n\nShe added: \"You think, if that's what they're doing at 13 in their bedroom at their mum and dad's house, what are they going to do when they're 18 and they're out on their own?\"\n\nMuch abuse comes from anonymous accounts, but if someone posts under their real identity, Hart often looks up who they are, she told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee.\n\n\"If someone messages me horrible things and they do it from their own account, I'm straight on Facebook to look at who they are,\" Hart said.\n\n\"I was being trolled by nurses and people that have got husbands and children. I think, do you go to dinner parties and tell your friends that you're trolling random 29-year-old girls that you don't know? Are you proud? I don't understand it.\"\n\nHart told the committee's inquiry into influencer culture that she went into Love Island with 3,000 Instagram followers and had more than a million by the time she left.\n\nShe told the committee: \"The [social media] networks are not supportive enough when it comes to trolling. I've reported some messages before, and they come back saying, 'We've looked at it and it doesn't break community guidelines'.\n\n\"And I'm like, look at this barrage of messages someone's sent me before seven o'clock in the morning, telling me how much they hate me, how awful I am, why everyone hates me, how ugly I am - from a fake account, a trolling account, a burner account.\n\n\"And you're telling me that doesn't break the policy?\"\n\nHart added that she has come to realise there's little use in reporting abuse to the platforms. \"I delete things, but you see those messages and actually I have probably stopped reporting them now because I know there is no point,\" she said.\n\n\"Because the time it takes me, the process of doing, 'Why are you reporting this message?' and then it comes back a few hours later with a notification saying, 'We have checked it and it doesn't break community guidelines'.\"\n\nHart said she received \"amazing\" support from ITV after appearing on Love Island\n\nA spokeswoman for Facebook, the parent company of Instagram, said: \"We understand how upsetting it is for Amy to receive hurtful comments and we don't want this to happen on Instagram or Facebook.\n\n\"We have strict guidelines against bullying and harassment and have introduced a number of safety tools including Limits, which prevents comments and DMs from people who don't follow you for a period of time, and Hidden Words, which allows you to filter abusive words, phrases and emojis from your comments and DMs, so you never have to see them.\n\n\"We'll continue to work with partners, including ITV, and the wider industry to help protect people from abuse.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Hart also said she received \"amazing\" support from ITV and the Love Island producers, with \"welfare girls\" regularly calling her for 18 months after leaving the show, and therapy that remains on offer.\n\n\"Any time you need therapy, it will always be there from ITV, and I am still friends with producers, they always check in on me,\" she said.", "Over half of those surveyed said they thought humanity was doomed and that governments were failing to respond adequately\n\nA new global survey illustrates the depth of anxiety many young people are feeling about climate change.\n\nNearly 60% of young people approached said they felt very worried or extremely worried.\n\nMore than 45% of those questioned said feelings about the climate affected their daily lives.\n\nThree-quarters of them said they thought the future was frightening. Over half (56%) say they think humanity is doomed.\n\nTwo-thirds reported feeling sad, afraid and anxious. Many felt fear, anger, despair, grief and shame - as well as hope.\n\nOne 16-year-old said: \"It's different for young people - for us, the destruction of the planet is personal.\"\n\nThe survey across 10 countries was led by Bath University in collaboration with five universities. It's funded by the campaign and research group Avaaz. It claims to be the biggest of its kind, with responses from 10,000 people aged between 16 and 25.\n\nMany of those questioned perceive that they have no future, that humanity is doomed, and that governments are failing to respond adequately.\n\nMany feel betrayed, ignored and abandoned by politicians and adults.\n\nThe authors say the young are confused by governments' failure to act. They say environmental fears are \"profoundly affecting huge numbers of young people\".\n\nChronic stress over climate change, they maintain, is increasing the risk of mental and physical problems. And if severe weather events worsen, mental health impacts will follow.\n\nThe report says young people are especially affected by climate fears because they are developing psychologically, socially and physically.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe lead author, Caroline Hickman from Bath University, told BBC News: \"This shows eco-anxiety is not just for environmental destruction alone, but inextricably linked to government inaction on climate change. The young feel abandoned and betrayed by governments.\n\n\"We're not just measuring how they feel, but what they think. Four out of 10 are hesitant to have children.\n\n\"Governments need to listen to the science and not pathologise young people who feel anxious.\"\n\nThe authors of the report, to be published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health, say levels of anxiety appear to be greatest in nations where government climate policies are considered weakest.\n\nThere was most concern in the global south. The most worried rich nation was Portugal, which has seen repeated wildfires.\n\nTom Burke from the think tank e3g told BBC News: \"It's rational for young people to be anxious. They're not just reading about climate change in the media - they're watching it unfold in front of their own eyes.\"\n\nI don't want to die, but I don't want to live in a world that doesn't care for children and animals\n\nThe authors believe the failure of governments on climate change may be defined as cruelty under human rights legislation. Six young people are already taking the Portuguese government to court to argue this case.\n\nThe survey was carried out by the data analytics firm Kantar in the UK, Finland, France, the US, Australia, Portugal, Brazil, India, the Philippines and Nigeria. It's under peer review on open access.\n\nYoung people were asked their views on the following statements:\n\nThe researchers said they were moved by the scale of distress. One young person said: \"I don't want to die, but I don't want to live in a world that doesn't care for children and animals.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The climate change scheme getting rare birds breeding in Wales\n\nSome of Wales' rarest birds have made a remarkable comeback after work designed to fight climate change and flooding in Snowdonia, conservationists say.\n\nFor the first time in decades, curlews and golden plovers have been breeding on an area of blanket bog restored by farmers.\n\nWales hosts 4% of the world's blanket bog habitat, which is highly effective at storing carbon dioxide.\n\nNow conservationists want a major restoration programme funded here.\n\nWork started to fix degraded peatland at Blaen y Coed, an upland farm near Ysbyty Ifan in Conwy county, which lies within the Migneint Special Area of Conservation, in 2017.\n\nBeneath the marshland's spongy surface are deep layers of black peat, built up over millennia as plants decayed in boggy conditions.\n\nThese landscapes are now seen as vital in the fight against climate change as they are even better than rainforests at absorbing carbon dioxide and locking it away.\n\nBut most are in a pretty bad state after being drained and damaged in the past so the peat could be extracted for fuel.\n\nThe Ritchie family say it is great to see the birds return to the area\n\nThe Ritchie family, who are tenants of Blaen y Coed farm, worked with RSPB Cymru and the National Trust to block old drainage ditches and deep gulleys in the peat.\n\nThey created mini dams which allowed pools to form so the landscape could become boggy again.\n\nFour years on, and four breeding pairs of curlew and two breeding pairs of golden plover have returned to the area.\n\nThe critically threatened birds had not been seen in the area since the 1990s.\n\nConservationists hope more schemes can be funded across Wales\n\nThe site is also buzzing with large, colourful dragonflies, while the pools are filled with specialist bog plants such as sphagnum mosses, cotton grasses and sundews.\n\nDavid Smith, senior conservation officer for RSPB Cymru, said he hoped the scheme's success would show the kind of work which could be funded through the overhaul of farming subsidies.\n\n\"This is a demonstration of what public money for public goods and state support for agriculture could look like,\" he said.\n\n\"It's absolutely pivotal to our efforts to tackle climate change and a lot could be done in these uplands - but it's all about government investment and policy, prioritising these areas and embedding that into the future agricultural model for rural Wales.\"\n\nEdward Ritchie said it was \"great to hear the curlew back at Blaen y Coed\".\n\nThe birds are thriving after not being seen in the area for decades\n\nAs well as capturing carbon dioxide, the rewetted landscape will also help the area adapt to the challenges of global warming, including lowering the risk of wildfires while soaking up heavy rain to avoid flooding lower down the valley.\n\nDewi Davies, who manages the National Trust's Upper Conwy Catchment Project, said the area now provided \"a whole suite of vital ecosystem services like carbon storage, water filtration, flood protection and a home for wildlife\".\n\n\"We can do this across Migneint and other places as well,\" he said, adding that \"funding is key\".\n\n\"We, as partnership organisations, know what needs to be done, we just need the money and for it to be accessible and easy.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokeswoman said bringing peatland into favourable condition had \"an important role in the urgent need to mitigate climate change and reverse habitat loss\".\n\nShe said the National Peatland Action Programme (NPAP) was launched in November 2020, and had an annual budget of £1m.\n\n\"We welcome the opportunity to learn from existing projects as we design future support,\" she added.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritish sprinter CJ Ujah's 'B' sample has tested positive, confirming the result of his initial test from the Tokyo Olympics.\n\nUjah, 27, was part of the British men's 4x100m relay team which won silver at the rearranged 2020 Olympics.\n\nThey will now almost certainly lose those medals.\n\nUjah was provisionally suspended when a test taken at the Games - his 'A' sample - tested positive for banned substances Ostarine and S-23.\n\nAthletes have the right to request that a back-up sample, taken at the same time as the A-sample, be tested to confirm the initial result.\n\nOstarine is listed as an anabolic agent - banned at all times - in the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) list of prohibited substances.\n\nThe UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) website said it has \"similar effects to testosterone\".\n\nS23 is a Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator (Sarm), which, according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) has \"similar anabolic properties to anabolic steroids\".\n\nThe International Testing Agency said the case has now been referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport Anti-Doping Division, which will rule on whether the British relay team - also including Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake - should be disqualified.\n\nOlympic and World Athletics' rules state \"where the athlete who has committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation competed as a member of a relay team, the relay team shall be automatically disqualified from the event in question... including the forfeiture of all titles, awards, medals, points and prize and appearance money\".", "Matteo Messina Denaro has been on the run since 1993\n\nA Formula 1 fan from Liverpool was arrested at gunpoint in the Netherlands after being mistaken for a mafia boss.\n\nPolice believed the 54-year-old, known as Mark L, was Sicilian crime lord Matteo Messina Denaro and he was blindfolded and led away by officers in The Hague on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutors said the man, who was in the country to watch the Dutch Grand Prix on 5 September, was later freed.\n\nDenaro, 59, is wanted over bombings in 1993 which killed 10 and injured 93.\n\nMark L had been eating at a restaurant with his son when police burst in, carrying a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Italian authorities.\n\nHis lawyer Leon van Kleef said it was \"like a bad movie, a nightmare that my client has found himself in\".\n\nHe continued: \"Imagine one moment you are having a bite to eat and the next you are sat in a maximum-security Dutch prison.\"\n\nHe said his client \"had anger and disbelief and laughter because it is ludicrous\".\n\n\"He is a normal Formula One fan. I was always convinced he was not [Denaro].\n\n\"It would have been a genius of an Italian to have such a strong Liverpool accent.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Dutch Public Prosecutor's Office said Mark L stated he was an English citizen and protested his innocence.\n\nShe added the outcome of the investigation, which was conducted via an accelerated procedure, \"turned out to be negative\".\n\n\"The public prosecutor then issued an immediate release order at the beginning of the evening,\" she said.\n\nThe arrested man had travelled to the Netherlands to enjoy the Dutch Grand Prix\n\nDenaro, who has been in hiding since 1993, is Italy's most wanted mafioso and once boasted he could \"fill a cemetery\" with his victims.\n\nHe is also known as Diabolik - a nickname he took from an uncatchable thief in a comic book - and is seen as the successor to two jailed Mafia godfathers.\n\nHe is wanted for 50 murders and is the \"capo di tutti capi\" - the boss of all bosses - of the Sicilian Mafia.\n\nMr van Kleef said Mark L did not wish to be identified and would not comment further on the case.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None The secret lives of the Mafia hunters\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pontypridd RFC Minis held a minute’s silence for Tomos during games over the weekend\n\nA nine-year-old boy died in a field after being crushed by a vehicle, an inquest has heard.\n\nTomos Rhys Bunford died in Ferndale, close to his home in Ynysybwl, Rhondda Cynon Taf, on 6 September.\n\nEmergency services were called but he died at the scene, an inquest in Pontypridd heard.\n\nThe cause of death was given as blunt force injury to the chest, the coroner told the hearing. The inquest was adjourned until 14 March 2023.\n\nAssistant coroner Sarah Richards said the circumstances surrounding Tomos's death would be investigated.", "Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda\"s 1994 genocide, is escorted in handcuffs into a courtroom, in Kigali\n\nDominic Raab has been urged to block the appointment of a Rwandan diplomat in London for his alleged role in detaining a government critic.\n\nPaul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda, used his Kigali hotel to save hundreds of ethnic Tutsis during the 1994 genocide.\n\nLast year he was tricked into flying to Rwanda to face terrorism offences.\n\nRwanda's proposed new high commissioner has insisted his role in getting Mr Rusesabagina to the country was legal.\n\nA spokesman for the Rwandan government said Mr Busingye had \"served with distinction\" in his former roles\" and added that Mr Rusesabagina's arrest for terrorism offences \"complied with all domestic and international law\".\n\nIn August 2020, Mr Rusesabagina - who had been living in exile in the United States - got on a private jet in Dubai thinking it was heading for Burundi.\n\nInstead the flight actually landed in Rwanda - something his supporters have described as a kidnapping.\n\nIn an interview with Al Jazeera in February 2021, Mr Busingye said \"the government paid\" for the flight taking Mr Rusesabagina to Kigali and paid for the individual who tricked him onto the plane:\n\n\"The payment was to facilitate the transportation of that man… to facilitate the plan of this man to transport Rusesabagina to Rwanda,\" he said.\n\nAsked if this was legal, Mr Busingye replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nAfter spending eight years at the Justice ministry, Mr Busingye was abruptly removed from his post earlier this month by Rwandan President Paul Kagame, only weeks before a court in Rwanda is expected to rule on the charges against Mr Rusesabagina.\n\nUS President George Bush awarded Mr Rusesabagina for his role in sheltering people during the Rwandan genocide\n\nMr Rusesabagina, a Belgian citizen now but with US residency, has been a vocal critic of Rwanda's authoritarian president.\n\nThe 66-year-old former hotel manager, who is reportedly in ill health, faces various charges of terrorism and founding an armed group responsible for terror attacks in Rwanda.\n\nProsecutors have asked for a life sentence, but Mr Rusesabagina supporters dismiss the proceedings as a \"sham trial\".\n\nThe Lantos Foundation, a prominent human rights organisation in the US, has already urged the US authorities to impose so-called Magnitsky sanctions against Mr Busingye for the \"significant role\" they claim he played in \"grave human rights violations\".\n\nBut now the foundation - set up by the late Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to become a US Congressman - has also written to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab urging him to reject the credentials presented by Mr Busingye and impose UK sanctions on the former minister.\n\nDr Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the foundation, said: \"President Paul Kagame may believe that by sending Johnston Busingye to London, he can divert the focus from the former justice minister's shameful actions and the way he brazenly violated the basic human rights of a humanitarian hero.\n\n\"But nations who respect human rights cannot allow Kagame to try and sweep these violations under the rug by simply assigning Mr Busingye elsewhere.\"\n\nShe said the foundation called on Mr Raab to refuse to accept Mr Busingye as Rwandan ambassador.\n\n\"Furthermore, the British government should seriously and thoroughly investigate the circumstances of Mr. Rusesabagina's kidnapping and Mr Busingye's involvement in these events,\" she added.\n\nUnder the Vienna Convention, ambassadors and high commissioners can take up their posts at the Court of St James only if the Foreign Office formally gives what is called its \"agrément\".\n\nOnly then can the appointment be approved by the Queen.\n\nAll applications are considered on a case-by-case basis and a number of factors are taken into account before a decision is made.\n\nThe Foreign Office refused to comment but it is understood that it has yet to grant its agrément to Mr Busingye.\n\nYolande Makolo, a spokesperson for the government of Rwanda, said: \"Johnston Busingye, Rwanda's high commissioner-designate to the United Kingdom, has served with distinction as justice minister and attorney-general since 2013, and previously as a president/judge of the high court and principal judge of the East African Court of Justice.\n\n\"Paul Rusesabagina's arrest on an outstanding warrant for terrorism and related offences complied with all domestic and international laws, and he has since received a fair and transparent trial along with 20 co-accused of the FLN armed group which he led.\"", "This man, a shopkeeper, believed he would be safe from the Taliban, sources said\n\nThe BBC has found that at least 20 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, which has seen fighting between the Taliban and opposition forces. Communications have been cut in the valley, making reporting difficult, but the BBC has evidence of Taliban killings despite promises of restraint.\n\nFootage from a dusty roadside in Panjshir shows a man wearing military gear surrounded by Taliban fighters. Gunfire rings out and he slumps to the ground.\n\nIt is not clear if the man killed was an army member - combat uniforms are common in the region. In the video a bystander insisted he was a civilian.\n\nThe BBC has established there have been at least 20 such deaths in Panjshir.\n\nOne of the victims was a shopkeeper and father-of-two called Abdul Sami.\n\nLocal sources said the man would not flee when the Taliban advanced, telling them: \"I'm just a poor shop owner and have nothing to do with war.\"\n\nBut he was arrested, accused of selling sim cards to resistance fighters. Days later his body was dumped near his home. Witnesses who saw his body said it showed signs of torture.\n\nMoments later the man circled was shot dead\n\nWhen the Taliban swept to power last month, just one region held out.\n\nThe Panjshir Valley has long been a focal point for resistance in Afghanistan. Under the opposition commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, the region repelled both the Soviet forces and the Taliban. Mountain peaks surround the valley making it difficult for anyone trying to capture it.\n\nMassoud's son Ahmad led the resistance against the Taliban the second time they took control of Afghanistan, but last week the militant group declared victory, posting footage of their fighters raising their flag.\n\nThe resistance forces have vowed to fight on, with Ahmad Massoud calling for a \"national uprising\" against the Taliban.\n\nNow attention is turning to what happens next in Panjshir, as elsewhere in Afghanistan, with the Taliban back in charge.\n\nWhen the Taliban entered the valley, they encouraged residents to carry on as normal.\n\n\"They should come out, do their daily activities,\" said a spokesman, Malavi Abdullah Rahamani.\n\n\"If they are shopkeepers they can go to their shops. If they are farmers, they can go to their farms. We are here to protect them, their lives and their families.\"\n\nBut instead of this, footage from the ground shows once-busy marketplaces deserted. People have been trying to flee, with long lines of vehicles forming below the valley's craggy peaks.\n\nThere have been warnings of shortages of food and medicine.\n\nThe Taliban has denied targeting civilians. But coming after reports of a massacre of members of the Hazara minority and the killing of a policewoman, it is a further sign that the reality on the ground differs from the Taliban's promises of no revenge attacks.\n\n\"These kind of reports seem to fall in to a pattern that we've already documented throughout Afghanistan,\" said Patricia Grossman of Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"As the Taliban made their way towards Kabul through July and August we had similar reports and we were able to document summary executions of former security personnel, former members of the government and civilians often in revenge killings. This looks to very much be the same pattern.\"", "Customers have been advised not to panic after two energy suppliers announced they had ceased trading.\n\nOne of the firms is Edinburgh-based People's Energy, which supplies gas and electricity to about 350,000 homes and 1,000 businesses.\n\nThe other is Dorset-based Utility Point, which has 220,000 domestic customers.\n\nNational advice service Advice Direct Scotland said energy supplies would continue for those affected.\n\nIt also said customers would not lose any money owed to them.\n\nConsumers have also been advised not to immediately switch to a new supplier as a new company will be chosen by regulator Ofgem.\n\nPeople's Energy was formed in 2017 by East Lothian couple David Pike and Karin Sode following a crowdfunding campaign.\n\nThe firm promised to return profits to its customers in a transparent, ethical way of working.\n\nIn August last year, it announced plans to create 100 new jobs with an expansion into the Borders.\n\nPeople's Energy was co-founded in 2017 by Karin Sode and David Pike\n\nIn a statement on its website, People's Energy said: \"Please rest assured that your energy supply is secure and all account credit balances are protected for our domestic customers.\n\n\"This includes any recent top-ups that were made as part of the seasonal weighting initiative.\"\n\nIt added: \"We are truly sad that we weren't able to make this community-focused approach to energy supply work.\n\n\"Thank you to those of you who supported our mission from early on. We are very sorry about the inconvenience and disruption this will cause our customers.\"\n\nIn a similar announcement on its website, Utility Point said customers \"need not worry, their supplies are secure and domestic credit balances are protected\".\n\nAdvice Direct Scotland, which runs the national energyadvice.scot service, said customers affected \"should not panic\".\n\nSpokesman Colin Mathieson said: \"While this news can be worrying for consumers, it's important to remember that you won't be cut off if your energy supplier has gone out of business - so you don't need to do anything right now.\n\n\"The gas and electricity regulator Ofgem will arrange for your account to be transferred to a new supplier.\n\n\"There won't be a break in your supply when it's transferred over, although the price you pay for your energy might go up - and that's when you can consider switching supplier, and you won't be charged an exit fee to do so.\"\n\nFurther information about the collapse of the energy firms can be found on the Ofgem website.", "Insulate Britain said there had been a lack of action from the government over insulating homes\n\nThe number of people arrested over climate change protests that blocked five M25 junctions has reached 77.\n\nActivists from a group called Insulate Britain caused long tailbacks and disruption with the action on Monday.\n\nFiona Atkinson from the group said it was \"fed up with the lack of action\" on the issue, but the government said it was supporting people to install energy efficiency measures in their homes.\n\nPolice thanked drivers for their \"patience and understanding\".\n\nThere were protests at junctions 20 for Kings Langley, Herts, 14 for Heathrow terminal four, three for Swanley in Kent, six for Godstone, Surrey and 31 for Lakeside, Essex, on Monday.\n\nPolice were first called at about 08:00 BST and junctions were fully reopened by lunchtime.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHertfordshire Police said it arrested 18 people, while Kent Police and Essex Police arrested 12 each.\n\nThe Essex force said nine had been released under investigation, while three were released on conditional bail.\n\nSurrey Police said it arrested 35 people with 15 released on conditional bail and the rest released under investigation pending further inquiries.\n\nArrests were made for various offences, including public nuisance, obstructing the highway and conspiracy to cause danger to road users.\n\nA total of 77 people have been arrested\n\nDet Insp Chris Friday from the Surrey force said: \"Protesters ignored police requests to move on, so we took robust action to enable the motorway to be reopened.\n\n\"A number of people were taken into custody and enquiries are progressing.\"\n\nHe also thanked \"all those motorists who got caught up in the delays\".\n\nMs Atkinson from Insulate Britain said there was \"not enough progress\" on insulating homes.\n\nShe told BBC Three Counties Radio the protesters had acted to generate discussion and media coverage of the issue.\n\n\"What we haven't been able to do, pressure groups, is get the government to act,\" she said.\n\n\"As soon as the government say they are going act we'll get off the road.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"People's day-to-day lives should not be disrupted, especially on busy motorways where lives are put at risk and resulting traffic delays will only add to vehicle emissions.\n\n\"We are investing £1.3bn this year alone to support people to install energy efficiency measures, and our upcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy will set out how we decarbonise the nation's homes in a way that is fair, practical and affordable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales' first minister says he could be persuaded of the need for vaccine passports.\n\nHis government is due to make a decision on the proposal this week.\n\nMark Drakeford told the Senedd he was sceptical but could be convinced of the need for them if public health benefits outweigh their disadvantages.\n\nIt comes as the UK government announced that a system of vaccine passports would be kept in \"reserve\" in England.\n\nPeople in Scotland will need proof they have been fully vaccinated before they can enter nightclubs and many large events from 1 October.\n\nMr Drakeford accused Conservative UK ministers of having told him they would be going ahead with vaccine certification \"as late as the end of last week\".\n\n\"I have lost count of the number of meetings I have sat through with UK ministers in which they have lectured me about the necessity of vaccine certification,\" he said.\n\n\"When I have raised with them the ethical, the legal and the practical issues that need to be resolved, I've generally been treated as though these were details that ought not to get in the way of this necessary course of action.\"\n\nMark Drakeford said he starts \"from a position of scepticism\" on vaccine passports\n\nWelsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies, who is opposed to the use of passports, asked Mr Drakeford for his views at the first minister's weekly question time in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPressed on the issue, Mr Drakeford said: \"I start from a position of scepticism about vaccine certification. That doesn't mean that I cannot be persuaded, if the evidence of public health benefits in September, in a different context than we faced in July, outweighs the disadvantages.\"\n\nUnder the UK government's winter plan, vaccine certification will be required for nightclubs and other large events in England if data suggests action is needed to \"prevent unsustainable pressure on the NHS\".", "Andrew Neil has resigned as chairman and lead presenter of GB News, just three months after helping to launch the channel.\n\nNeil, 72, was on air for less than two weeks before announcing he was taking a break.\n\nThe former BBC political presenter will continue to contribute to GB News as a regular guest commentator.\n\nIn a statement, he said he had decided to \"reduce my commitments on a number of fronts\".\n\nHe added: \"Over the summer I've had time to reflect on my extensive portfolio of interests and decided it was time to cut back.\"\n\n\"I wish GB News well in continuing to fulfil its founding promise and mission to reach audiences currently underserved by existing news broadcasters.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Neil This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA statement from GB News said: \"Andrew is without doubt one of the finest journalists and interviewers in this country.\n\n\"GB News thanks him for his 12 months of leadership, wisdom and advice, and we wish him well.\"\n\nAndrew Neil was more than just another presenter on GB News - he was the face of the channel, its chairman and the lead presenter of its flagship evening programme.\n\nTo go on a summer holiday after just eight programmes naturally attracted attention, and when that holiday continued for more than two months, it was clear something was going on.\n\nThe channel was launched with a strong editorial vision to cover stories that Neil said were neglected by other broadcasters and to counter a \"metropolitan mindset\".\n\nThere were a few technical problems at the start but early viewing figures were, for a news channel, good.\n\nIts desire to challenge the BBC and Sky looked a possibility, but since those early days much has changed.\n\nThe Andrew Neil slot - which has been covered by Colin Brazier during this long summer holiday - was at the beginning of September sometimes attracting fewer than ten thousand viewers. Some programmes were getting even lower ratings.\n\nThe line-up of presenters has also changed, most notably the arrival of Nigel Farage, who is drawing their biggest audience. The channel's direction, taking on what it calls \"woke\" and \"cancel\" culture, is clear.\n\nNeil may continue as an occasional commentator, but the face and character of the channel is now more Farage than Neil.\n\nNeil left the BBC after 25 years following the US presidential election last November.\n\nHe then turned his attention to launching GB News in mid-June, with the channel promising to \"change the face of news and debate in the UK\".\n\nHowever, he was said to have gone on leave at the end of June. He did not return, and earlier this month it was reported that relations between Neil and chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos had broken down over the direction of the company.\n\nThe network recruited former UKIP leader Nigel Farage in his absence, to join ex-Sun journalist Dan Wootton and experienced news anchors Simon McCoy, who was recruited from the BBC, and Alastair Stewart, who was previously a newsreader on ITV News.\n\nNeil appeared in a commentator capacity on Nigel Farage's show on the network on Monday evening, with Farage emphasising Neil's new role as a regular GB News contributor. Farage briefly alluded to the media coverage, but did not comment beyond saying he had \"enormous respect\" for Neil.\n\nThe journalist's departure comes two months after Guto Harri quit the network following a row over his decision to take the knee during a discussion about racism towards England's black footballers.\n\nNeil is next due to appear on BBC One's Question Time this Thursday.", "Cryptocurrency Litecoin saw a sudden surge in price on Monday over a press release about Walmart accepting it for payment - which turned out to be fake.\n\nThe release, published through a legitimate press channel, claimed that Walmart would accept the currency through all its digital stores.\n\nWalmart later told US media outlets the announcement was \"inauthentic\".\n\nBy that time, several major news websites and press agencies had spread the supposed news.\n\nThe announcement made it on to Globe Newswire, a service widely used to distribute press material from companies.\n\nThe faked release has since been deleted, and did not appear on Walmart's own website.\n\nA tweet from a verified Litecoin Twitter account linking to the release has also been deleted. Hours later, the Litecoin Foundation tweeted that it had no such partnership.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Litecoin Foundation This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut while it was being reported as fact, the price of Litecoin jumped from about £125 per token to close to £170, before falling back near its original price, at about £128.\n\nGlobe Newswire said \"a fraudulent user account was used to issue an illegitimate press release\".\n\n\"This has never happened before,\" the company said in a statement - adding that it was bringing in \"enhanced authentication\" to stop it happening again.\n\nIt did not detail exactly what went wrong or who was behind the fake release.\n\nBut so called \"pump and dump\" schemes are not uncommon in the cryptocurrency world - where bad actors attempt to raise hype around a coin, inflating its price, and quickly sell off their own stock before the market corrects itself.\n\nThe false press release suggested that Litecoin would be accepted on all Walmart ecommerce platforms from 1 October.\n\nIt contained quotes that appeared to come from both the Walmart chief executive and the founder of Litecoin.\n\nOne clue to its nature was that a press contact email address pointed to a web domain which had been registered only last month. Emails to that address bounced as undeliverable.\n\nThe fabrication was unmasked when CNBC reached representatives of Walmart by phone and were told the press release was fake. CNBC said it had been among the news organisations to publish the story before discovering it was not true.\n\nWalmart, the Litecoin Foundation, and Global Newswire have been contacted for comment.\n\nThe announcement raised eyebrows among some sceptical observers because of the volatility of cryptocurrency prices, which can be an obstacle in using them for retail purchases.\n\nOther companies which have accepted Bitcoin have drawn up terms to limit their exposure to large price swings.\n\nFor example, when Tesla briefly accepted Bitcoin as a payment option for its cars, it made clear that the price was in US dollars - and that any quote in equivalent Bitcoin was only valid for a limited time window.\n\nIt also said that if a refund was needed, Tesla would have the choice of whether to pay it back in US dollars or Bitcoin, which may work out as a lower cash value than what was paid.\n\nSimilarly, PayPal recently introduced the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin - but it cannot be used to make payment purchases. Instead, the cryptocurrency assets will be sold for the right amount of real money to make the purchase.", "Charles Breslin, David Powell, Philip Hill and Garry Jenkins (l-r) died after water rushed into the Gleision colliery a decade ago\n\nThe families of four miners who died in a south Wales colliery disaster 10 years ago are calling for an inquest.\n\nCharles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, Phillip Hill, 44, and Garry Jenkins, 39, died when water flooded the Gleision drift mine in September 2011.\n\nThe mine's manager and owners were cleared of manslaughter charges in 2014.\n\nCharles Breslin's widow, Mavis, said she felt \"cheated\" of a husband and an inquest.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said it could not comment because the investigation into the inrush and subsequent trial were led by the police and Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe mine shaft flooded after a controlled explosion on 15 September 2011\n\nLynette Powell, whose husband David celebrated his 50th birthday in the weeks before he died, said all she had was a temporary death certificate.\n\n\"That is no closure for me,\" she said. \"I haven't got an inquest. Not only for me, for all the families.\"\n\nIt comes as two survivors of the Gleision mine tragedy told the Wales Investigates programme they felt their colleagues' deaths in 2011 had been \"swept under the carpet\".\n\nNigel Evans and Jake Wyatt were two of only three survivors of the Gleision mine disaster\n\nIn their first media interview since the tragedy, Jake Wyatt, 68, and Nigel Evans, 49, spoke of alleged illegal workings in the mine, and said they felt authorities had failed to get to the bottom of what might have caused the four miners' deaths.\n\nWhile it's not known what, if any, impact these alleged illegal workings had on the inrush, Lee Reynolds, a former surveyor for Gleision mine who gave evidence in the trial, questioned whether they had been noticed or acted on by the HSE.\n\nMr Reynolds has been working with Maria Seage, the co-owner of Gleision mine, to get more information on the HSE's role over the years and its subsequent investigation.\n\nHe called on authorities to look into whether opportunities to improve safety at the mine prior to the inrush had been missed.\n\nHe said: \"When you get a major incident - and I believe four people getting killed tragically is a major incident - they have a prior role investigation. It should be undertaken independently.\n\n\"With what we're finding in our investigation, a prior role investigation should have been undertaken, but wasn't.\"\n\nLee Reynolds, a former surveyor for Gleision mine, has called on authorities to consider whether opportunities had been missed\n\nThe water inrush at the Gleision drift mine, near Cilybebyll, Neath Port Talbot, on 15 September 2011, happened after the men blasted through to old, disused workings in an effort to improve air circulation in the mine.\n\nThe mine manager Malcolm Fyfield said he had checked the old workings for water prior to the accident and found none, but in court he was accused of gross negligence manslaughter for failing to notify the HSE of his intentions to knock through to the old workings, which was a legal requirement.\n\nMr Fyfield, 58, and owners MNS Mining were found not guilty of manslaughter charges [gross negligence manslaughter and corporate manslaughter, respectively] following a three-month trial in 2014.\n\nThe jury in the multimillion-pound trial reached not guilty verdicts after just 30 minutes of deliberation.\n\nFollowing the trial, the acting coroner for Swansea decided not to not to hold full inquests for the four men.\n\nThe water inrush at the Gleision drift mine happened after the men blasted through to old, disused workings\n\nA subsequent factual report, published by the HSE in 2015, gave details of the underground investigation undertaken by its inspectors after the tragedy, but was unable to explore issues that had not been raised in court.\n\nAn HSE spokesman said it would be inappropriate to comment on the points raised by Mr Reynolds and the families because it did not lead the investigation into the tragedy.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"Our thoughts are with the families on this poignant anniversary. We supported the South Wales Police investigation at the time which ended in a manslaughter trial, but HSE did not bring any charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 in addition to their prosecution.\"", "All children aged 12 to 15 across the UK will be offered one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab.\n\nInvitations for jabs will begin soon - parental consent will be sought for the schools-based vaccination programme.\n\nIt follows advice from the UK's chief medical officers, who say the jab will help reduce disruption to education.\n\nIt is hoped the first jabs in England would take place by 22 September, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the Scottish government would \"move to implement the advice as quickly as possible\".\n\nShe said that drop-in clinics would open for any 12 to 15-year-old who had read information and, in discussion with parents and carers were able to make an informed decision, from next week.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Health Minister Robin Swann said the move will help to protect young people from catching the virus.\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan said parents will have to weigh up the \"risks and benefits\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK's four chief medical officers recommended the single dose for 12 to 15-year-olds - who are deemed at very low risk from the disease - saying factors such as disruption to education tipped the balance.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, the lead CMO for the UK, said it was a \"difficult decision\" and should not be seen as a \"silver bullet\".\n\nBut he said it could be an \"important and useful tool\" in reducing school disruption in the coming months - and when combined with the marginal health benefit identified by vaccine advisory body the JCVI, it meant offering a Covid vaccine to all children was appropriate.\n\nMr Zahawi said the School Age Immunisation Service would deliver the \"bulk\" of the programme, with separate vaccination sites used for schools where this was not possible.\n\nHe said clinicians would share information on the vaccine with parents and if there was a difference in opinion between a parent and child, a clinician would bring them together to try and reach a consensus.\n\nHowever, in the rare cases agreement is not reached, the child could give consent themselves if the clinician considered them \"competent\", he added.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said some of the union's members had already received letters from pressure groups threatening legal action if vaccination took place in schools.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme any advice to parents and children on the vaccine should come from health professionals rather than teachers to avoid any \"unpleasantness\" in schools.\n\nThere's a reason this decision-making process has been so long and, at times, seemingly painful - it's such a finely-balanced call.\n\nHealthy children aged 12 to 15 are at such low risk from Covid, that the benefit of vaccination on health grounds is only marginal - and not enough to warrant going ahead with a mass vaccination programme.\n\nAnd add in the benefit from limiting school disruption and you only just get there.\n\nThe emergence of the Delta variant means the vaccines are less effective at preventing infection than they once were.\n\nWhat is more, more than half of secondary school age children may have natural immunity after having been infected.\n\nThe assessment released by the CMOs suggests it may stop 30,000 infections between October and March in England.\n\nThis is based on a number of assumptions on uptake and spread of the virus in the coming months which could be wrong.\n\nBut if that is the case that would prevent 110,000 missed days of in-person schooling - or one day for every 20 children. The attention given to this issue is, perhaps, rather disproportionate.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said he accepted the recommendation from the chief medical officers aimed at protecting young people from catching Covid, reducing transmission in schools and keeping pupils in the classroom.\n\n\"Our outstanding NHS stands ready to move forward with rolling out the vaccine to this group with the same sense of urgency we've had at every point in our vaccination programme,\" he said.\n\nChildren with health conditions and those living with clinically vulnerable people have already been told they can have the vaccine - and are being offered two doses.\n\nThis accounts for around one in eight of the three million children in this age group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Whitty: The benefit of vaccinating younger people is an “important and potentially useful additional tool”\n\nHow do you feel about your 12 to 15-year-old child being vaccinated? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The UK is to delay introducing post-Brexit checks on food and farming imports to England, Scotland and Wales, blaming Covid disruption and pressure on global supply chains.\n\nMeasures which were expected to come in next month will now be introduced in January and July next year.\n\nLabour said the government did not have a \"sustainable answer to tackling delays and red tape at the border\".\n\nThe move comes amid shortages of some products in shops and supermarkets.\n\nMany large companies have blamed a lack of lorry drivers for the problems experienced, with M&S chairman Archie Norman, a former Conservative MP, predicting a \"bumpy ride\" for retailers in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nThe EU has implemented full checks on UK goods since the start of this year.\n\nChecks on goods going the other way were also due to come into force in full after the post-Brexit transition ended in January.\n\nBut they were delayed and, in March, the government announced a timetable to get changes for the food and agriculture sectors done by 1 October.\n\nPaymaster General Penny Mordaunt has told MPs another postponement is now needed.\n\n\"The government's own preparations, in terms of systems, infrastructure and resourcing, remain on track to meet that timetable,\" she said, in a written Commons statement.\n\n\"However, the pandemic has had longer-lasting impacts on businesses, both in the UK and in the European Union, than many observers expected in March.\n\n\"There are also pressures on global supply chains, caused by a wide range of factors including the pandemic and the increased costs of global freight transport.\"\n\nMs Mordaunt announced that the requirement to pre-notify British officials about agricultural and food imports from the EU would now start on 1 January next year, rather than on 1 October this year.\n\nThe requirement for EU firms to get export health certificates before sending live animals and animal products to Britain would be put back to 1 July, she said.\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Baroness Chapman said: \"This announcement shows what we have all known for months - that the government do not have a workable, sustainable answer to tackling delays and red tape at the border...\n\n\"We cannot have another year of stop-gap solutions, meaningless deadlines, and threats of even greater disruption and economic damage.\"\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce called the latest delays \"sensible given the ongoing issues with ensuring trader readiness, the need to build more border control posts and the skills shortages crisis\".\n\nBut the Food and Drink Federation criticised the government for \"the lateness\" of its announcement.\n\n\"Businesses have invested very significant time and money in preparing for the new import regime on 1 October 2021. Now, with just 17 days to go, the rug has been pulled,\" said chief executive Ian Wright.\n\n\"We welcome the government's acknowledgement that supply chains are under extreme pressure but this is to a large extent caused by labour and skills shortages in every part of the food chain,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The £100 cards aimed at boosting the retail and hospitality sectors will be issued from next month\n\nNorthern Ireland's High Street voucher scheme will open for registration on 27 September with the first cards being issued on 4 October.\n\nThe £145m programme will offer pre-paid cards worth £100 to all over-18s.\n\nIt aims to help those businesses in retail and hospitality which were hit by the pandemic.\n\nThe £100 cards will have to be spent by 30 November, with registration happening primarily through an online portal.\n\nPeople without online access can register by phone from 11 October.\n\nTo be eligible for a card you must have registered by either method by 25 October.\n\nSmall business owners have welcomed the scheme but wonder just how much trade it will bring their way\n\n\"Now is the time to get ready to spend local,\" said Economy Minister Gordon Lyons.\n\n\"The objective of the scheme is to boost local businesses following the drop in footfall brought about by the pandemic.\"\n\nHe has urged people to be patient when registration opens as there will likely be high demand.\n\nThe minister made the announcement on the Ormeau Road in south Belfast where traders welcomed the news.\n\nBusiness owner Sinead Cashman said the money would be a boost at a time when there was a \"natural lull\" and \"people have a few less pounds in their pocket to spend\".\n\nEconomy Minister Gordon Lyons visited businesspeople on Belfast's Ormeau Road - including florist Milana Surova - to announce the start of the scheme\n\nJenni Doherty, from Little Acorns bookstore in Londonderry, said it would be great if the voucher brought more visitors to her shop but for those on the bread line, this voucher was \"a real gift\".\n\n\"Yes, it will give a lovely little boost but I'm not relying on it,\" she told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra.\n\n\"Individually, as a citizen of the city, I will be spending it locally in other walk-in shops.\n\n\"I don't think myself and a lot of other independent businesses would have survived the various lockdowns without the local community.\"\n\nTheresa Murray, who runs Linen and Latte in Glengormley, said she felt overjoyed initially at the idea of the voucher but now feels flatter.\n\n\"It's a very positive thing to do but when you have a small business, there are various challenges,\" she said.\n\nVouchers must be spent in an actual physical shop\n\n\"It has been an extremely tough year for everybody.\n\n\"People will use it for things they haven't been able to get... that leaves us in limbo.\"\n\nThere will be few limits on how the card can be used - it must be spent in a physical premises and cannot be used for gambling.\n\nIt is based on similar schemes in Jersey and Malta.\n\nJersey's scheme saw more than £10m spent with a 98% take up rate among the eligible population.\n\nThe sectors which benefitted the most from the scheme were:\n\nThe final £1.4m was spent in a variety of industries ranging from agriculture and fishing, transport and storage, and construction and quarrying.\n\nConfirmation of dates for the scheme comes after a number of young people submitted complaints to the Department for the Economy about their exclusion from it.\n\nThe under-18s who have complained about being excluded are being assisted by the Children's Law Centre (CLC).\n\nIt said their complaints were made on the basis of the department overseeing its roll out not publicly consulting on the policy and failing to carry out an Equality Impact Assessment before making a decision to exclude under-18s.\n\nA spokesperson for Department for the Economy said it had carried out an equality impact assessment.\n\nThe assessment, which was published online on 10 September, stated that \"the impact regarding age is judged to be minor\".\n\nThe pre-paid card cannot be used for online shopping\n\nPolicy officer at the Children's Law Centre, Claire Kemp, said equality screening was carried out \"only after we lodged a complaint with the department\", and that it was completed just days before the scheme was scheduled to go live.\n\n\"This policy has not been rushed, yet fundamental steps to avoid discriminating against protected groups, including young people, have been ignored or delayed to the extent of rendering them meaningless,\" she said.\n\nThe department's assessment stated that there were regulatory and financial concerns around issuing cards to minors, child-specific data protection issues and verification problems as no datasets currently exist which could be used to confirm the identity of 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\nHospitality Ulster's Colin Neill said the scheme would give a real boost to the Northern Ireland economy, including the hospitality sector\n\n\"We would encourage all those eligible to receive the £100 voucher to apply as soon as possible and, where they can, spend it with local hospitality businesses, supporting not just their local bars, restaurants, hotels and coffee shops, but their friends and family that work in them,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, SDLP assembly member Mark H Durkan expressed concern that some older and vulnerable people without internet access \"could end up missing out\".\n\nThe Department for the Economy said a phone line would be available for those unable to apply online.\n\nPeople will also be able to register to complete an application on behalf of a \"limited number\" of other people.", "During a press conference earlier today, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, England's deputy chief medical officer, claimed that vaccines have “averted around 112,000 deaths” in England.\n\nAnd the same figure was repeated by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at this afternoon's Covid briefing.\n\nBut this figure takes as its starting point a comparison with a situation without vaccines but also without any new lockdowns.\n\nIf we’d seen anything close to that many deaths, we almost certainly would have changed our behaviours and the government would have put us back into lockdown. That in turn would have reduced deaths significantly.\n\nSo it is arguably fairer to say that vaccines have saved us a choice between endless lockdowns and terrible numbers of deaths.\n\nBut it shouldn’t be surprising that a comparison against a world without more lockdowns gives this figure for England alone.\n\nIf the cases we’ve seen this year were still killing people at the rate they did in 2020, we would have seen many thousands of deaths.\n\nAnd vaccines also slow the spread of the virus, preventing even more.", "A police detective, a retired midwife, a psychology student and a software developer will be among the contestants on this year's Great British Bake Off.\n\nThe show will return for its 12th series on 21 September. Once again, the 12 bakers have been filmed in a bubble because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nPaul Hollywood, Prue Leith, Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding will all return.\n\nHollywood has said the standard of baking was \"certainly the highest I've ever encountered\" in the new series.\n\nLast year, Peter Sawkins, 20, became the youngest Bake Off winner. An average of 9.2 million viewers watched the final live - Channel 4's biggest overnight ratings for at least 18 years.\n\nSpeaking ahead of this series, Hollywood criticised the \"disgusting behaviour\" of trolls who targeted some of last year's contestants including finalist Laura Adlington.\n\nThe judge said he still gets upset by online abuse but has become used to it, whereas the amateur bakers are \"raw, they're new, they're not used to this\".\n\nHe said: \"I had to come out last year in support of Laura, because it was out of order.\n\n\"It had gone out of control, and it is so easy in lockdown when people have got nothing else to do, and all they're going to do is bombard someone they're not particularly happy with, and you can't feed into people like that, you've got to be really careful - and so I had to say something.\n\n\"I think ultimately, you're always going to get sides, you know, it's like football - you're always going to get one side against another, but I think ultimately as long as you support them, and Bake Off do, I saw what was happening and I had to say something.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Protecting the NHS from being overwhelmed \"has to remain the objective\" and there are \"all sorts of data\" being looked at the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said he was “confident we can proceed with 'Plan A' and any changes could be done in a “gradual way”.\n\nThe BBC's Vicki Young had asked what would have to happen for the UK government to move to its 'Plan B' over the winter.\n\n'Plan A' promotes vaccines with continuing testing and isolation rules, while 'Plan B' would see tighter rules over face masks and larger gatherings.", "Ferguson went into administration following a dispute over the last major order for CalMac ferries\n\nThe nationalised Ferguson shipyard has missed out on an order to build two new CalMac ferries.\n\nThe Inverclyde yard was among 11 bidders for the order to replace ships on the Islay route, but failed to make the shortlist.\n\nThe four shipyards which will now submit detailed tenders are based in Poland, Romania and Turkey.\n\nFerguson Marine said it was \"disappointed\" but would learn lessons as it looks for future work.\n\nThe new ships will be the first major order by CMAL, which procures vessels for CalMac, since Glen Sannox and an as-yet unnamed ship, known as Hull 802, which are still under construction at the Ferguson shipyard.\n\nGlen Sannox is currently due to be delivered in the second half of next year, more than four years late, with the two ships costing the taxpayer more than double the original contract price.\n\nProblems with the order dragged the yard back into administration in 2019 and since then it has been wholly-owned by the Scottish government, which also owns CMAL and CalMac.\n\nThe new ships will replace MV Hebridean Isles and allow MV Finlaggan (pictured) to be re-deployed to another route\n\nThe new order for the Islay route will be for two 94.8m long vessels to replace MV Hebridean Isles - which is 36 years old - and MV Finlaggan which was launched in 2011. MV Finlaggan would then be redeployed to a different route.\n\nThe new ships will be larger but more fuel efficient than the current vessels and will have greater vehicle capacity.\n\nUnlike the order for Glen Sannox and Hull 802, they will not use liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the engines but will instead have diesel-electric propulsion systems, making use of lithium batteries where possible, for instance when manoeuvring in port.\n\nThe four shortlisted shipyards which will now submit more detailed bids are Damen Shipyard in Romania, Remontowa Shipbuilding in Poland, and Turkish shipyards Sefine Denizcilik Tersanecilik Turizm, and Cemre Marin Endustri.\n\nJim Anderson, director of vessels at CMAL, said: \"We received interest from many shipyards across the world, and carried out robust assessment of their technical and financial suitability to take on this project.\n\n\"Four shipyards scored the highest across both criteria and have now been issued an ITT (invitation to tender) for the contract.\n\n\"This stage of the procurement process will take around six months, and we hope to award the contract to the winning shipyard at the end of March 2022.\"\n\nThe GMB union, which represents the Ferguson workforce, said Scotland's commercial shipbuilding sector was \"mirroring the failure of our offshore wind sector\".\n\n\"Ferries paid for by the public purse will be manufactured in Eastern Europe or Turkey, that's jobs and value that should be coming to Inverclyde going abroad,\" said GMB Scotland organiser Gary Cook.\n\nScottish Labour's transport spokesman Neil Bibby said it was \"hammer blow\" to Scottish shipbulding, adding: \"This announcement means more jobs and more money going overseas at a time of economic crisis.\"\n\nScottish Conservative transport spokesman Graham Simpson said: \"It's humiliating for the SNP that ships which could be built in the west coast of Scotland are instead going to be welded together in Eastern Europe.\n\n\"The SNP let down our shipyards so badly that they are missing out on work to Romania, Poland and Turkey.\"\n\nFor the Liberal Democrats, economy spokesman Willie Rennie said: \"It is a damning indictment of the Scottish government's utter failure to secure high tech, high wage jobs that there is no shipyard in Scotland on this shortlist.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"While it is disappointing that Ferguson Marine have been unsuccessful on this occasion, we are fully committed to supporting the yard to secure a sustainable future, including a pipeline of future work, to help protect jobs and commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde.\"\n\nThe bulbous bow section is fitted to Hull 802 at Ferguson Marine as work continues on the previous big order for CalMac ferries\n\nFerguson Marine said it had put forward a \"robust bid\" for the new order but it respected CMAL's decision.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Scotland's public sector ferries will, of course, continue to be future business targets for the shipyard, but they are not the sole focus.\n\n\"We believe there is a significant opportunity for contracts and business growth in the build of complex vessels in the 40 to 100m range, which includes offshore patrol vessels and service operation vessels.\n\n\"We are actively pursuing opportunities of this nature, which exist in Scotland and around the world, and we remain highly focused on completion of the dual fuel ferry project, which is a top priority.\"\n\nThe Port Glasgow shipyard has been extensively modernised since it first went into administration in 2014 and was taken over by businessman Jim McColl. Its workforce has risen to more than 450.\n\nMr McColl and CMAL have blamed each other for problems with the previous ferry order which led to the yard going into administration again five years later.\n\nThe \"turnaround director\" appointed by the Scottish government, Tim Hair, recently told the BBC that investment was continuing at Ferguson Marine and he was confident the yard would be competitive by the time it wins its next major order.", "Scotland will announce a decision on jabs for 12 to 15 year olds \"as soon as possible\" after it was recommended by the UK's chief medical officers.\n\nThe UK government's vaccine committee said there was not enough benefit to warrant it on health grounds alone.\n\nBut the CMOs said vaccination would help reduce disruption to education.\n\nScotland's health secretary, Humza Yousaf, said their conclusion was that the additional likely benefits were sufficient to justify vaccination.\n\nHe added: \"Health ministers are now considering this advice and we will make a decision as soon as possible.\"\n\nIf they agree, children will be offered the Pfizer jab.\n\nChildren with health conditions or living with clinically vulnerable people have already been told they can get the vaccine.\n\nThis accounts for around one in 10 of the three million UK children in this age group.\n\nMr Yousaf thanked Scotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith and his three UK counterparts for their \"careful consideration\" of the issue.\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is ready to begin vaccinating 12-15-year-olds immediately\n\nDr Smith joined the UK government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Witty, at a Downing Street briefing to outline the process that would be taken to offer the jabs.\n\nHe said that parents and children needed to understand that although the benefit was \"marginal\", it was still better to have the jab.\n\nHe said: \"Informed consent in this context is really important, particularly when there is a marginal benefit.\n\n\"We should not mistake that for no benefit at all, that's the first really important point in this.\"\n\nDr Smith, a GP himself, said that it was important to use \"straightforward language\" in order to set out \"in very child-friendly terms\" the advantages of vaccination.\n\n\"That is something that GPs across the country are used to doing on a regular basis\", he said.\n\nScotland's largest teaching union has been calling for the vaccination of 12-15-year-olds since the JCVI said ministers could take into account other factors in deciding to approve it.\n\nEIS general secretary, Larry Flanagan, told the BBC he welcomed the development as Scotland was in the midst of \"record levels\" of teacher and pupil absences.\n\nHe said: \"The very high level of pupil infection at the moment is a cause for concern, because in secondary schools teachers will be in contact with over a hundred pupils in the course of a normal day.\n\n\"And if there are high infection levels amongst those pupils there is a greater risk to teachers and to other support staff, so reducing that risk through the vaccination of 12-15 year-olds is a very welcome step.\"\n\nProfessor of public health Linda Bauld said that clear information was imperative for parents and young people\n\nScotland's children and young people's commissioner, Bruce Adamson, also welcomed the CMOs' guidance, but stressed that children must have a choice.\n\n\"It is important that children are supported to make informed decisions about their own health. Children of this age group have told me over the last few months that they are in favour of having the choice to be vaccinated,\" he said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously said that Scotland would be ready to move as quickly as possible if the recommendation came.\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of public health at Edinburgh University, and soon to become the Scottish government's chief social policy adviser, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme that preparations had been started.\n\nShe said: \"They will also be looking at to what extent the schools are involved. We know the supply is here. It will be more about the logistics.\n\n\"The other thing I would emphasise is all the comms to parents and young people will need to be clear, there need to be frequently asked questions prepared so that people can make an informed choice.\"\n\nProf Bauld said that she herself had witnessed a level of confusion from parents and said that messaging should reflect what people were genuinely concerned about.\n\nShe said: \"What is the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, what are the potential benefits of vaccinating and what's the risk of Covid-19 to young people?\n\n\"That needs to be spelled out and available in simple plain language and to the young people themselves - using voices young people trust like Young Scot.\"\n\nShe added that there was good evidence that the more people immunised in a population - including young people - the better the \"wall of population immunity\".\n\nShe said that the vaccines cannot prevent transmission but they do reduce the risk of transmission and that more young people being vaccinated would \"help achieve that\".\n\nDr Mairi Stark, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Scotland officer, said the vaccine would have \"marginal benefit\" for children as very few end up in hospital with the virus or suffer severe complications.\n\nBut she told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"A lot of children are getting Covid so that disrupts school.\n\n\"A lot of children are having to spend time off school self-isolating and they are having to self-isolate on a recurrent basis at the moment. So keeping children in school is the big thing.\"\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The prime minister alongside his mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl, and sister Rachel in 2014\n\nA notice published in the Times newspaper said she died \"suddenly and peacefully\" at St Mary's Hospital in west London.\n\nBoris Johnson once described his mother, who was a painter, as the \"supreme authority\" in the family.\n\nSenior figures from across the political spectrum, including Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, have sent their condolences to Mr Johnson.\n\nSir Keir tweeted: \"I'm very sorry to learn of the prime minister's loss. My condolences to him and his family.\"\n\nConservative party chairwoman, Amanda Milling, said she was \"thinking of Boris Johnson and his family this evening\", adding, \"Our thoughts and prayers are with you.\"\n\nTory MP, Conor Burns, who is a friend of the prime minister, tweeted: \"So sad to hear of the death of Boris Johnson's mum. Thoughts and prayers are with him and the whole of the Johnson clan.\"\n\nMrs Johnson Wahl, whose father was president of the European Commission for Human Rights in the 1970s, married Stanley Johnson in 1963 before completing her degree at Oxford University as the first married female undergraduate at her college.\n\nThe couple had four children - Boris, journalist Rachel, former minister Jo and environmentalist Leo. They divorced in 1979.\n\nAs an artist, Mrs Johnson Wahl made her name as a portrait painter, with actress Joanna Lumley and author Jilly Cooper among her subjects.\n\nIn 1988, she married American professor Nicholas Wahl and moved to New York - where she began painting cityscapes. She returned to London in 1996 following his death.\n\nAt the age of 40, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease but continued painting, steadying herself with a walking frame as she worked.", "Jacob met Harvey Elliott when the two were in Leeds General Infirmary for X-rays\n\nA young footballer who injured himself while playing was \"shocked\" to find himself having an X-ray alongside one of his heroes, who had done the same.\n\nLiverpool fan Jacob was taken to Leeds General Infirmary after hurting his wrist in a juniors match on Sunday.\n\nReds midfielder Harvey Elliott was later injured against Leeds United and ended up at the same hospital.\n\nJacob said the midfielder, who gave the teenager his boot and shirt, had also given him a \"lot of helpful advice\".\n\nJacob's dad Imran, who is also a Liverpool fan, said his son was at a match with his mother when he was tackled and hurt his wrist.\n\nHe said he was at home watching his team's victory against Leeds United and saw Elliott get stretchered off, but it was \"unbelievable\" that his son then met the Liverpool star in hospital.\n\n\"It's been a mad 24 hours,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew my son was in hospital with his wrist and I knew Harvey Elliott was stretched off... but I had no idea they'd both end up in LGI X-ray department at the same time.\"\n\nImran said Elliott had started talking to Jacob's mother while the teenager had his X-ray and had then spoken to his son.\n\nJacob said meeting the Premier League star had been \"nerve-wracking\".\n\n\"I didn't know what to say,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm a big Liverpool fan so I told him he's a really good player and he gave me a lot of helpful advice.\"\n\nElliott, 18, faces surgery and a lengthy lay off after being injured against Leeds United\n\nHe said he would now frame Elliott's shirt and put the boot in pride of place in his bedroom.\n\nHis dad said the Liverpool player had told Jacob that he wanted to keep the other boot because it was \"lucky\".\n\nHe added that he was \"a bit gutted\" not to have been there, but said he was \"really proud\" of his son.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "There were 20 calls to the London Fire Brigade\n\nThree people have died after a car crashed into a block of flats and caught fire in west London.\n\nPolice were called at 04:50 BST after the vehicle collided with a sheltered accommodation building on Great Western Road in Notting Hill.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade put out the blaze but three people were pronounced dead at the scene. Nine people were led to safety from the flats.\n\nWork to identify the victims and inform their families is ongoing.\n\nFour fire engines and two rescue units attended the fire\n\nOne witness who lives on the road told LBC they saw a neighbour run out to try to help the people in the car.\n\nThey said: \"It's a shock - you don't expect something like that to happen. There's no words. It'll stay with us for a while.\"\n\nA nearby coffee shop owner said some of the first witnesses on the scene were visibly shaken.\n\nNo other vehicles are thought to have been involved\n\nGoao Santos, who runs the BICA coffee shop in Westbourne Park station, said: \"The guy cleaning the street, the cleaner, he came to get an espresso. They said it's a really bad car crash.\n\n\"They went there, they said the car was on fire, they tried to rescue but they could not rescue.\"\n\nMr Santos added that someone in the man's group then called the police.\n\n\"He was a bit shaken, you know,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "You might think that only in your 'Wildest Dreams' would you meet American pop star Taylor Swift on a night out in Belfast.\n\nBut that is exactly what happened for some lucky locals and hospitality staff last week.\n\nStaff in a Belfast bar posted on social media that the star had happily posed for selfies when she visited the city.\n\nWorkers at the bar said she was in the city with her boyfriend, the actor Joe Alwyn.\n\nHe is wrapping up filming on the Hulu/BBC Three adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel Conversations with Friends.\n\nAmong the venues Swift visited was the Tipsy Bird bar in the city centre.\n\nSwift asked local singer Tiernán Heffron for a selfie and he obliged\n\nThere she met singer Tiernán Heffron, 22, who plays at the bar every Friday night and is a huge fan of Swift.\n\n\"It was just like any other gig in Belfast until she turned up. No one there knew she would be there,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I was getting set up and someone came over to tell me Taylor Swift had just walked in.\n\n\"The back of my knees just dropped. I was excited because any other singer-songwriter would dream of this moment - so I just thought 'let's do it'.\n\n\"My heart was beating so fast. I just went for it and I had her up singing and dancing to 'Tell My Ma' - she was having a blast.\"\n\n\"She came up to me in the middle of it with a big smile and said: 'You're so good - how can I follow you?' Mr Heffron said.\n\n\"I told her my name and that I worked in a special needs school but I had been working hard on my music and she asked me for a selfie.\n\n\"She tipped me for playing, told me she enjoyed my music and said: 'You deserve this'.\"\n\nWhen he went to say goodbye to her and thank her for the tip she told him she had heard him singing Ed Sheeran songs and that the two were best friends.\n\n\"She said: 'Right now are putting in your 10,000 hours - this is not your first gig - you're confident and you're going to do great',\" Mr Heffron said.\n\nIn a Facebook post, the Tipsy Bird said: \"The one and only Taylor Swift graced us with her presence last Friday night.\n\n\"We can confirm she is just as lovely as you would expect and was kind enough to take a picture with our team.\n\n\"Taylor, if you fancy being a Tipsy Bird another night in the future, you know where to find us\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by The Tipsy Bird This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. End of facebook post by The Tipsy Bird\n\nShe was also spotted at Shu restaurant on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast, where she posed for photos with the team.\n\n\"On Thursday evening we had the pleasure of serving Taylor Swift,\" Shu said.\n\n\"Taylor was so lovely and really is a beautiful person inside and out and she kindly agreed to photos with all of our team,\" the restaurant added in a post on social media.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post 2 by Shu This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nSwift released the first re-recording of her back catalogue, Fearless (Taylor's Version) in April.", "Anderson, pictured here with his mum, spent months in hospital waiting for appropriate housing\n\nFor mum Princess Bell, the one time each week her children spend together is very special.\n\nBut the siblings don't live separately. They're in the same house - but they can't spend more time together because a combination of their disabilities and unsuitable accommodation means they have to stay on different floors.\n\nThey are one of the 4,100 families who responded to a survey by the charity Contact surveyed in June and July of this year.\n\nParents of disabled children reported worries that inappropriate housing was having a negative impact on their health.\n\nMore than 40% who took part in the poll said their home didn't meet their child's needs.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsnight, some parents even said they struggled to even get their children in and out of their property.\n\nPrincess lives in temporary accommodation in south London with her 13-year-old son, 11-year-old daughter and a baby.\n\nThe older children both have a rare genetic condition that means they are unable to walk or speak and have breathing problems.\n\nThe family are living in a three-bedroom house - every inch of each room packed with specialist equipment - while they wait for the council to find them a new home.\n\nDue to a lack of space, the two older children with disabilities sleep on different floors. Once a week, Princess takes one child up to see the other. She says she doesn't feel safe doing this more often.\n\n\"They've always been very, very close. And they're in the same house and they don't see each other... so when it's then time for her to go back to her room, she cries and they lay together on the mat entwined because they're best friends and they don't see each other and they're in the same house. And it is heartbreaking to see that because we're already housebound.\"\n\nLambeth Council said it had been working hard to meet the very complex housing medical needs of the family and apologised for delays in resolving the issue.\n\n\"However, we face a real shortage of available homes,\" said a spokesman.\n\nData from Contact's survey, shared with Newsnight, suggested 27% of respondents said they felt their home made their child's condition worse or put them at risk.\n\n\"We were really taken aback by the proportion of families who weren't only saying that the housing was unsuitable, but that their home environment was actually having a negative effect on their child's disability,\" said Amanda Batten, Contact's chief executive.\n\n\"There's no doubt that poor and inappropriate housing is having a hugely detrimental impact on the health and the lives of many disabled children and their families,\" she said.\n\nWhile the majority of the respondents lived in private or privately rented accommodation, 31% lived in social housing.\n\nThe government has been consulting on improving access to accessible housing. The report is due in December.\n\nCampaigners say this is a vital opportunity to drive up standards of housing and potentially transform the lives of some of our most vulnerable children.\n\nAmanda Batten says there's a window of opportunity for change.\n\n\"Fundamentally, the problem is that there is not enough social and affordable housing full stop and, in particular, not enough social and affordable housing that is accessible to disabled children and their families,\" she says.\n\nAnd the lack of housing is costly to other sectors.\n\nThe government's own data shows that delayed hospital discharges cost the NHS about £285m per year and the evidence suggests that up to 14% of these delayed discharges could be reduced by accessible housing.\n\nMany disabled children need extra space for equipment such as wheelchairs\n\nBertille Chuipa's son Anderson, now 16, had a head injury while go-karting. He uses a wheelchair and needs a lot of space for his medical equipment.\n\nBertille gave up her job as a teacher and translator in Manchester to look after Anderson. \"He needs somebody all the time at his side to keep an eye on him,\" she says.\n\nAnderson's former home wasn't suitable for a wheelchair and he spent more than a year in hospital while the council looked for an appropriate property.\n\nTara Parker, a paediatric nurse who works for the charity WellChild, says its research shows Anderson's experience isn't that unusual.\n\n\"Some young people will be delayed in an intensive care unit for approximately 12 months. And the cost of that is eye-watering. You could have bought and built them three houses by the time you've done that,\" she says.\n\nLocal authority money is available to make improvements to properties, but the charity says it has more than 700 families on its waiting list for property improvements, 90% of whom live in social housing.\n\nManchester City Council said that occupational therapists searched for some months to find an appropriate home for Anderson due to the size of the wheelchair in question.\n\nThe family's current bungalow has been extensively adapted.\n\nAt its starkest, inadequate housing can play a part in the circumstances surrounding a child's death.\n\nNewsnight has been investigating the reasons behind the deaths of young people, using evidence generated by the country's first national database of child deaths, the National Child Mortality Database, which was published in May.\n\nPoor housing was identified as a contributing modifiable factor in child deaths in this country.\n\nIn 2016, Mollie Wells's son Harlie was born with a brain injury and cerebral palsy. Mollie, who lives in Ipswich, was only 17 at the time and was responsible for the majority of his care.\n\n\"He needed round-the-clock care. He couldn't walk, talk, couldn't sit up,\" she says.\n\nHarlie's mum wasn't able to fit his wheelchair inside the flat where they lived\n\nIn 2017, Harlie and Mollie had to move after her private landlord gave her notice. The council found them a flat but the wheelchair wouldn't fit through the door and had to be left outside in a communal area.\n\n\"I had to lift him everywhere. I had to do ground lifts. I had to do everything because he had no equipment,\" Mollie says.\n\nThe lack of space and equipment in the flat meant Mollie couldn't follow his care plan or medical advice properly.\n\n\"He couldn't do physio, which possibly could have strengthened his legs, his back, his posture,\" she says.\n\nHarlie's doctors and occupational therapists wrote to the council to say he needed to be rehoused urgently.\n\n\"They [the council] said that they'd look into it and it went on for two-and-a-half years,\" Mollie says.\n\nIn October 2019, Harlie died unexpectedly. Mollie found him in his bed. She tried, in vain, to resuscitate him. Harlie was five years old.\n\nThe conditions surrounding his death fed into an analysis by experts on the national child mortality database.\n\nJacquelyn Wood is an NHS child death review nurse who looked at the circumstances around Harlie's death to see what lessons could be learned.\n\nMs Wood says they looked at the impact that the pressure of being carried throughout the property might have had on his body. \"And I think it's really about asking that question. Does that then affect kind of life expectancy and mortality?\"\n\nShe says Mollie fought to give Harlie the best care that she could afford and could access.\n\n\"When it came down to housing, there wasn't anything else that she could do,\" she says.\n\n\"It really isn't an isolated incident.\n\n\"Ultimately the problem we have across the whole of the UK is there isn't enough suitable disabled housing to meet the needs of these cohorts of children,\" she says.\n\nMollie also believes his housing affected Harlie. \"He wasn't given a chance,\" she says.\n\nIpswich Borough Council said it had provided the best accommodation it could for Harlie Beau-Wells.\n\nBut \"it was acknowledged by all… that the property did not meet all of Harlie's needs\".\n\nIt said it was building a specifically adapted bungalow for the family when Harlie died.\n\n\"Like all councils with housing, we have a large shortfall of suitable adapted property to meet demand from people with needs due to their disability,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government told Newsnight: \"We recognise the importance of improving accessibility, and the number of accessible homes has nearly doubled in a decade.\n\n\"Since 2010, we have invested over £4bn into the Disabled Facilities Grant, providing adaptations to almost 450,000 homes, including stairlifts, wet rooms and ramps. Councils are best placed to decide how much accessible housing is needed in their area, and set these requirements in their local plans.\"\n\nWatch the full report on BBC Newsnight on BBC Two or catch-up later on iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Met Gala 2021: Which celeb shone brightest on the red carpet?\n\nThe Met Gala - one of fashion's biggest and starriest events - has rolled out its red carpet in New York for some of the planet's best-known celebrities.\n\nHeld to raise funds for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, the Gala returns after being cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnd although its famous guests must follow Covid-19 rules, including wearing masks indoors, that hasn't stopped many going for all-out glamour.\n\nThis year's costume theme is In America: A Lexicon of Fashion\" - and the looks were inspired by everything from the Matrix film franchise to the Statue of Liberty.\n\nThe ball was co-hosted by pop star Billie Eilish, tennis player Naomi Osaka, actor Timothée Chalamet and poet Amanda Gorman.\n\nEilish was accompanied by her brother, Finneas O'Connell, who chose an all-red suit and sequined face covering\n\nActor Timothée Chalamet donned a white silk suit by Haider Ackermann - a look described as \"formal sweatpants\"\n\nCo-host Naomi Osaka showed off a colourful Louis Vuitton dress and elaborate hairstyle - said to be a nod to her Haitian and Japanese heritage\n\nTennis's newest star, 18-year-old Emma Raducanu, was fresh from winning the US Open just days ago\n\n23-year-old poet Amanda Gorman, who read a work at President Biden's inauguration, was another co-host. She chose her Vera Wang dress and crystal headpiece to channel \"a re-imagined Statue of Liberty\"\n\nBlondie singer Debbie Harry embraced the theme in denim and a voluminous stars-and-stripes skirt\n\n...which he whipped off to reveal a golden suit of Versace armour...\n\n...which he shed for a sequined bodysuit\n\nOne of the most talked-about looks of the night came from the publicity machine that is Kim Kardashian - who covered her face and body in an all-enveloping black outfit.\n\nThe custom design was devised by Demna Gvasalia, the creative director of fashion house Balenciaga.\n\nKim Kardashian's look spawned a series of memes on social media\n\nThe entrepreneur was accompanied by a man, believed to be designer Demna Gvasalia, who was also clad in all-black\n\nThe 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams made a statement of a more colourful kind, wearing a star-spangled bodysuit beneath a feather-laden pink cape.\n\nGame of Thrones actress Maisie Williams wore a Matrix-inspired dress she designed herself\n\nVogue chief Dame Anna Wintour, who oversees the event, wore an Oscar de la Renta dress in tribute to the late designer\n\nOther attendees, meanwhile, brought along props to accompany their outfits.\n\nGrimes brought along a sword to the festivities\n\nAmong the last to arrive at the Gala was Rihanna - who has stolen the show at past events, with outfits including a Pope-inspired costume in 2018.\n\nThe singer and businesswoman turned heads once again as she posed in an all-black Balenciaga overcoat, while her boyfriend, rapper A$AP Rocky, swathed himself in a multicoloured quilt.\n\nOne celebrity who wasn't there was rapper Nicki Minaj, who said she hadn't yet had a Covid vaccine, which was a requirement of entry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicki Minaj This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe has also been criticised for a post saying people shouldn't be \"bullied\" into having the vaccine, telling the story of a cousin's friend who allegedly became impotent after being vaccinated, leading his fiancée to call off their wedding.\n\nThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says: \"Currently no evidence shows that any vaccines, including Covid-19 vaccines, cause male fertility problems.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid says booster vaccines will \"protect the most vulnerable through the winter months\"\n\nCovid booster jabs will begin to be offered across the UK from next week.\n\nIt follows a recommendation from the government's vaccine advisers, the JCVI, who said about 30m people should be offered a third dose.\n\nThey said the booster should be given at least six months after a person had their second dose - with the Pfizer-BioNTech jab recommended.\n\nThose eligible include over-50s, younger adults with health conditions and frontline health and care workers.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid made the announcement in the Commons as part of an autumn and winter plan for managing Covid in England.\n\nScotland will begin offering booster jabs for the broader group from Monday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nShe said the programme \"was intended to prolong the protection\" of vaccines and will run alongside the flu vaccination programme.\n\nThe go-ahead was also confirmed in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe recommendation from the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation) comes amid concern about waning immunity.\n\nThere are some signs protection offered by the vaccine may start dropping off several months after the second dose - with the most vulnerable groups most at risk of this.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Javid told MPs: \"There is evidence that the protection offered by Covid-19 vaccines reduces over time, particularly older people who are at greater risk, so booster doses are an important way of keeping the virus under control for the long term.\"\n\nThe JCVI said it was still unclear exactly how much protection does slip, but it wanted to take a precautionary approach and ensure the most vulnerable people maintain high levels of protection.\n\nThe advice is separate to the recent recommendation of third doses for people with severely weakened immune systems - something that is already being rolled out.\n\nThere is a huge amount of uncertainty about what winter will bring. In fact, it's not even clear what the next month will bring.\n\nIt was feared September could see Covid cases rise, but there are no signs of that happening yet.\n\nBig surges in infection levels are probably behind us, given the amount of immunity built up in the population.\n\nBut if current levels are sustained throughout winter, the NHS will struggle. And even a small dip in vaccine effectiveness could make a big difference to admissions - hence the booster announcement.\n\nThen there is the concern about the return of other respiratory viruses. They were kept at bay last year by lockdowns and social distancing, but that has meant immunity to them has waned.\n\nA virus called RSV - the leading cause of respiratory illness in young children - is already circulating at very high levels. Flu could also take off.\n\nIt is why the NHS is having to prepare for the worst, while hoping for the best.\n\nTrials have been carried out in the UK looking at the use of booster jabs.\n\nThe JCVI said these showed Pfizer was well-tolerated and provoked a good immune response, including against new variants of the virus, such as Delta, regardless of which Covid vaccine had been given for the first two doses.\n\nIt said where Pfizer was not available a half-dose of Moderna could also be used.\n\nFor people who cannot have the Pfizer or Moderna because of issues like allergies, the AstraZeneca vaccine can be used as a booster.\n\nA gap of six months between the second dose and the booster shot was considered the most effective for boosting protection.\n\nThe trials also showed the flu vaccine can also be given at the same time as the booster jab where that is practical - some people will be offered a flu jab before they become eligible for a Covid booster.\n\nJCVI chairman Prof Wei Shen Lim said: \"The UK's Covid vaccination programme has been hugely successful in protecting people against hospitalisation and death, and the main aim of the booster programme is to prolong that protection and reduce serious disease as we head towards the colder months.\"\n\nHe said even a small tip in vaccine effectiveness could have a big impact on hospital admission numbers given the size of the population.\n\nHe said those under 50 were likely to have a more long-lasting immune response to the first two doses of vaccine so may not need a booster - although he did not rule it out happening completely.\n\nThere are some signs protection offered by the vaccine may start dropping off several months.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van Tam said the UK was likely to be in for a \"bumpy winter\" with Covid, coupled with other respiratory viruses, such as flu, returning - previously lockdowns and social distancing meant these were kept at very low levels.\n\nHe said the booster programme was about \"staying on top of Covid\" and could make a \"very substantial impact\" on hospitalisations and deaths.\n\nAbout 85% of deaths in recent weeks have been among the over 60s.\n\nBut Prof Van Tam added it was also important that those who had not yet come forward for jab did so - more than five million adults have not yet had their first dose yet.\n\nThe announcement comes after the government confirmed on Monday that all children aged 12 to 15 in England would be offered one dose of the Pfizer jab, with invitations going out from next week.\n\nIt follows advice from the UK's chief medical officers, who say the jab will help reduce disruption to education.\n\nA rollout is yet to be confirmed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a statement before the announcement on the booster programme, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said while the pandemic \"is far from over\", the \"phenomenal vaccine programme, new treatments and testing\" mean the UK is \"able to live with the virus without significant restrictions on our freedoms\".\n\nThe PM, who is holding a coronavirus press conference later, said he would lay out a strategy for the months ahead \"when the virus has a natural advantage, to protect the gains we have made\".", "Covid PCR testing should be abandoned for most holidaymakers, says travel organisation Abta.\n\nFully vaccinated travellers should not need to be tested on their return from lower-risk countries, it said.\n\nIt also called for a \"significant overhaul\" of the traffic light system for travel destinations.\n\nAbta said the policies had \"choked off\" this summer's travel trade, with seven out of 10 travel firms planning to make redundancies after furlough ends.\n\nIt also called for the government to reduce the traffic light system to just a small number of \"red list\" countries, purely for the management of known Covid variants of concern.\n\nThe expense of PCR testing is widely blamed for discouraging people from travelling abroad.\n\nAt present, going on holiday abroad means taking Covid tests when you are returning to the UK.\n\nMost private providers charge above £60 for PCR tests and £30 for lateral flow devices. The government has warned more than 80 providers over misleading prices.\n\nThe next formal review of the government's travel policies is expected by 1 October, while the furlough scheme is due to end on 30 September.\n\nWith more than 80% of eligible UK adults already vaccinated against Covid, it was time for a \"stable framework\" for international travel, said Abta, which represents tour operators and travel agents.\n\nNew summer foreign holiday bookings for 2021 were down 83% on 2019, Abta said, while almost half of travel companies reported they had seen no increase in 2021 bookings compared with last year, despite the rollout of the vaccine programme.\n\nThe summer sun is fading, but the travel industry's fears are heating up as the end of furlough approaches.\n\nThe industry is disappointed that vaccination didn't open up international travel as they would have hoped. The government said it will review the way international travel works before October and many expect it will come this week. Voices in the industry are hoping to make themselves heard before ministers meet to discuss exactly what might change.\n\nA sticking point could be PCR testing. The government has argued so far that it's needed for all travellers to catch variants of concern as early as possible, but the industry say these expensive tests are putting off travellers.\n\nWinter is approaching and travel companies need to make decisions about their future operations: they are waiting anxiously to see which way the government will go.\n\nAbta chief executive Mark Tanzer said: \"The government's travel requirements have choked off this summer's travel trade - putting jobs, businesses and the UK's connectivity at risk.\n\n\"While our European neighbours have been travelling freely and safely, the British were subject to expensive measures which have stood in the way of people visiting family and friends, taking that much-needed foreign holiday and making important business connections.\n\n\"The government needs to wake up to the damage its policies are doing to the UK travel industry and the impact they will have on the wider economic recovery.\"\n\nAbta urged the government to extend the furlough scheme for travel businesses alongside a package of tailored financial support for the industry.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"Our top priority is to protect public health. Decisions on our traffic light system are kept under regular review and are informed by the latest risk assessment from the Joint Biosecurity Centre and wider public health factors.\n\n\"We recognise the challenging times facing the travel sector, which is why we have committed around £7bn of support by September 2021 and continue to work with industry to help them navigate this difficult period.\"", "Plans for tackling Covid during autumn and winter in England have been unveiled, with Boris Johnson warning the disease \"remains a risk\".\n\nThey include booster jabs for millions - but hold in reserve measures like vaccine passports for certain settings.\n\n\"Plan A\" is designed to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed, and promotes vaccines and testing.\n\n\"Plan B\", to be used if the NHS is coming under \"unsustainable pressure\", includes measures such as face masks.\n\nUnder Plan A of the autumn and winter plan, announced by Health Secretary Sajid Javid, ministers will:\n\nThe plan will also include continuing testing, tracing of cases and self-isolation for those who catch the virus.\n\nBusinesses will also be encouraged to consider using the NHS Covid Pass to check the vaccination or test status of customers.\n\nUnder Plan B - which ministers say would only be enacted if further measures are needed to protect the NHS:\n\nGuidance on working from home may also be issued under this plan.\n\nMr Johnson, discussing the plan at a Downing Street news conference, said he was confident vaccinations could protect the gains made so far.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped the vaccination programme meant the UK could remain \"one of the most free societies\" in Europe, with only limited restrictions to keep the disease in check.\n\nAsked in what circumstances he would consider moving from Plan A to the stricter Plan B, Mr Johnson said he would consider the risks, the state of the disease and factors like hospital pressure.\n\nPlan B made use of \"a number of different shots in the locker\", he said.\n\n\"You wouldn't necessarily play them all at once, far from it, you would want to do things in a graduated way,\" he said.\n\n\"Because so many of the population have some degree of immunity, smaller changes in the way we're asking people to behave can have a bigger impact.\"\n\nHe added that this would \"give us the confidence that we don't have to go back to the lockdowns of the past\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protecting the NHS from being overwhelmed \"has to remain the objective\" says the PM\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser, said that if the country had gone into last winter with the current level of restrictions, cases would have gone \"through the roof\".\n\nHe said it underlined the importance of getting the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"There are five million or so people who are eligible for vaccines now who haven't been vaccinated,\" he said.\n\n\"Trying to persuade those people it is the right thing to do to get vaccinated would make a significant difference.\"\n\nProf Chris Whitty, chief medical adviser, warned that \"winter is coming\" and that respiratory viruses such as flu and others would be \"hugely advantaged\".\n\n\"If you've not had your vaccination, now is a very good time to do so,\" he said.\n\nThe government wants to avoid bringing back restrictions in England.\n\nNot just the big ones - like closing down shops or pubs. But the smaller ones too - like telling people they must wear face coverings in certain venues or that they should work from home.\n\nThe autumn and winter plan keeps the latter on the table. The prime minister gave us an idea of why. He doesn't want Covid vaccine passports, he says, but if it prevents having to close certain venues in future, he's prepared to keep the prospect alive.\n\nThe plan also says \"more harmful economic and social restrictions\" are a last resort - ministers are desperate to avoid them.\n\nBut the uncertainties of the next few weeks and months mean they cannot be taken off the table completely.\n\nEarlier, Mr Javid told MPs it was highly likely frontline NHS staff and those in wider social care settings will need to have Covid-19 and flu vaccinations so they can be deployed.\n\nThe health secretary said the government would be \"keeping an open mind\" and waiting for the results of a consultation but he believed this would be \"an important step in protecting those at greatest risk\".\n\nHe described Plan B measures as those \"that we can call upon only if they are needed and supported by the data to prevent unsustainable pressure on the NHS\".\n\nUnder that plan, the government expects proof of vaccination would be mandatory for nightclubs, crowded indoor venues with more than 500 attendees, crowded outdoor events with more than 4,000 people, such as festivals, as well as any settings with more than 10,000 people.\n\nMr Javid said the government would remove more of its powers in the Coronavirus Act, including those directing the temporary closure of schools.\n\nHowever, those that are \"critical\" to the pandemic response, such as supporting statutory sick pay for those self-isolating, will remain.\n\nMr Javid suggested PCR tests for fully vaccinated travellers would be scrapped in favour of cheaper lateral flow tests - with a review of rules around international travel due by 1 October.\n\nA further 26,628 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK on Tuesday, alongside another 185 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe message from ministers in England is clear - we are going to try to rely almost entirely on the vaccines to protect us this winter.\n\nBut what is not spelt out is how bad it will have to get before we need to change course and move to Plan B.\n\nThe winter plan talks about \"unsustainable pressure\" on the NHS as the trigger, rather than too many deaths.\n\nSo what can the NHS cope with? The document does not spell that out.\n\nCurrently 7% of hospital beds are filled by Covid patients. That may not sound a lot, but hospitals are run close to capacity so Covid cases quickly impact on other care that can be provided.\n\nThe amount of non-emergency treatment being done is already nearly a fifth down on normal levels.\n\nIf Covid admissions keep growing or other respiratory illnesses take off, it will mean more rationing - from knee and hip replacements being delayed to people waiting longer for an ambulance.\n\nNone of this, though, is unusual - it happens every winter. But the scale of it could be very different.", "Schools in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot have been advised to reintroduce masks in communal areas, but not in classrooms\n\nSchools in one Welsh health board area have been advised to reintroduce some Covid measures after a large number of positive cases.\n\nSecondary pupils in the Swansea Bay area have been encouraged to take lateral flow tests twice weekly.\n\nFace masks should also be worn on school transport and in communal areas, while one-way systems in corridors should return, the health board said.\n\nWelsh government guidance said schools should alter rules based on cases.\n\nKeith Reid, director of public health for the Swansea Bay area said: \"Levels of infection are now as high as last December.\n\n\"Schools are not themselves a high risk, but we are asking them to take steps to help prevent the continuing spread of the virus in the wider community.\n\n\"The current and sustained high level of Covid-19 infections in Swansea means we are asking schools to take action which is in line with the Welsh government framework for education 'high' rating,\" he said.\n\nKeith Reid says infection levels in the area are as high as last December\n\nFace masks are advised for some areas in schools but not in classrooms.\n\nAll desks will have to face the front of the room and there will not be full school assemblies.\n\nThe health board area covers Swansea county and Neath Port Talbot, which has some of the worst case rates of all local authorities in Wales, according to the latest Public Health Wales figures.\n\nNeath Port Talbot's rate was 713.3 cases per 100,000 people over the most recent seven-day period, behind only Merthyr Tydfil and Carmarthenshire, while Swansea had the fourth-highest rate at 653.3.\n\nThe overall case rate for Wales is 510.8 per 100,000 people.\n\nSwansea county has recorded the highest number of new infections in each of the past four weeks.\n\nSimon Davies of Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bryn Tawe says more pupils have been showing symptoms in school\n\nSimon Davies, head teacher of Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bryn Tawe in Swansea, said the school was seeing more pupils with symptoms.\n\nHe said: \"We are seeing numbers [of cases] increasing. We're up over 30, 35 in school and that's increasing daily.\n\n\"We're seeing more pupils showing symptoms in school also and we are having to send them home and it's having an impact on staff also.\n\n\"There's a natural concern when people come from homes where someone has the virus but comes in to school but we're sure that the policies are based on solid data.\n\n\"We're fortunate that a lot of our parents that have had cases at home have been very sensible and insisted that brothers and sisters went for their tests before they came back,\" he said.\n\nSchools have been advised to reintroduce masks in communal areas\n\nLaura Doel, of the NAHT head teachers' union, said: \"As the risk level starts to rise in Wales, now is the time to revisit some of the mitigation measures that had little or no impact on the delivery of education, like staggered start times and grouping of learners.\n\n\"Our aim is to keep learners in school and to have as little disruption to the delivery of education as possible.\n\n\"For that to happen, those discussions must take place and clear mitigations must be set out to school leaders,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"The framework enables schools to put additional measures in place if local risks differ from the national risk rating.\n\n\"In discussion with their health board, local authorities will work with schools to decide how any measures should be tailored.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson will announce his Covid winter plan for England on Tuesday, including contingency measures that would be implemented if the NHS was at risk of becoming overwhelmed.\n\nThe PM will outline plans for booster jabs after the UK's vaccine advisory body unveils its guidance on Monday.\n\nOfficials are looking at measures that could be needed if cases rose steeply.\n\nBut government sources have said further lockdowns are not being considered.\n\nMr Johnson's Covid plan is set to follow an announcement by the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisation (JCVI) on who should receive booster jabs.\n\nThe JCVI said last week that a third vaccine dose should be offered to people over the age of 12 with severely weakened immune systems - which accounts for up to half a million people in the UK.\n\nIt came after research showing about 40% of people with weakened immune systems had a low antibody response, and potentially less protection, after two vaccine doses.\n\nThe advice means the most vulnerable - less than 1% of the population - will be offered a third dose, rather than all those on the original list of clinically extremely vulnerable people.\n\nThe JCVI has yet to announce if a separate booster programme is needed and who would be eligible.\n\nA government source stressed the Covid winter plan would emphasise how society planned to continue \"living with\" the virus throughout the winter and promote Covid and flu jabs.\n\nThe Times reports that mandatory face coverings and working from home will be brought back in if there is a winter surge in infections.\n\nThere is growing concern among ministers that the NHS could come under severe strain if Covid infections surged alongside a bad flu season, the paper says.\n\nSources have told the Times the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has devised a series of options to limit the spread of Covid-19 without the use of lockdowns.\n\nThe legal requirement to wear a face covering ended on 19 July, but people have been advised to continue to wear them in crowded indoor spaces.\n\nThe UK reported a further 29,547 new infections on Saturday, alongside another 156 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nMeanwhile, 89% of the population over the age of 16 have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while almost 81% have had both doses.\n\nThe Coronavirus Act - emergency legislation introduced to give the government new powers to tackle coronavirus - is also coming up to its six-month review by MPs.\n\nMr Johnson is set to repeal regulations in England that are no longer necessary, including the powers to close down parts of the economy, such as businesses, or the placing of restrictions on events and gatherings.\n\nAlso set to be repealed are regulations that enable the temporary closure or limiting of access to schools, colleges and childcare; those that extend time limits for urgent warrants; and powers to detain infectious people.\n\nHowever, certain measures from the Act will be kept - including the requirement to self-isolate on receiving a positive PCR test; giving sick pay to those isolating from day one rather than day seven; and the power to keep schools open if they close against government guidance.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Thanks to the efforts of the public, the NHS and our phenomenal vaccination programme, we reached step four in our roadmap and life has returned to a sense of normality.\n\n\"These extraordinary times required necessary but intrusive measures. But I'm determined to get of rid of any powers we no longer need because of our vaccine defences.\"\n\nThe PM is expected to hold a Downing Street press conference next week to set out the next steps in the government's pandemic response.", "Over on the BBC Coronavirus update programme, Prof Sian Griffiths from the Chinese University of Hong Kong gives her reaction to today's announcements.\n\nShe says it is a focus on a broader public health perspective for the 12-15 age group.\n\nShe says there are so many \"disbenefits\" of closing schools and says vaccinating will enable children to stay in school.\n\nShe adds that it is about a more general health benefit rather than seeing it in terms of the clinical need for a vaccine.\n\nProf Griffiths says it is very important that the young people in this eligible age group have a say in deciding to have the jabs.\n\nShe is interested in the fact that the vaccines will be given at drop-in centres with a specific view to draw parents and carers in to have conversations.", "Apple has announced its new iPhone 13, which can film \"portrait mode\" videos with a depth of field effect.\n\nThe new cinematic mode \"anticipates when someone is about to enter the frame\" and shifts focus to them, Apple said - something known as \"pull focus\".\n\nIt is the only smartphone that lets users edit this effect after shooting, Apple boss Tim Cook said.\n\nHowever, most other features on the new model were incremental updates over previous versions.\n\nThe event was also overshadowed by news of a new security flaw in Apple devices which could expose users' messages.\n\nApple released a security patch on Monday for the previously-unknown flaw, which could let attackers access its iMessage service without the user clicking on a malicious link or file.\n\nThe new iPhone includes a faster A15 chip, a brighter display, and a battery life of up to 2.5 hours longer, and comes in new colours including pink, blue, midnight, starlight and red.\n\nThe new iPhone will also have up to 500GB of storage with its lowest available storage rising to 128GB from previous models' 64GB.\n\nApple was also keen to stress its green credentials, saying the phone used many recycled materials - including antenna lines made from plastic water bottles, it said.\n\nThe launch comes as buyers are keeping their phones for longer before upgrading. Investment firm Wedbush Securities estimates that around 250 million iPhone users have not upgraded their phones in 3.5 years.\n\nPaolo Pescatore, an analyst at PP Foresight, said many have yet to experience modern features.\n\n\"While many will see some upgrades as incremental, there are millions of users who have yet to upgrade to 5G. Therefore, this so called 'supercycle' moment is still relevant,\" he said.\n\nThe 5G connectivity is only available on the iPhone 12, released last year, and the newly-announced models.\n\nIn the second quarter of this year, Apple shipped 25.9% of all 5G handsets in the world, according to analyst firm IDC.\n\nMarta Pinto, senior research manager at IDC, said: \"With the new portfolio, this number will grow and consolidate the dominance of Apple in that space.\"\n\n\"Not being the first [to launch a 5G phone] paid off.\"\n\nApple also launched an iPhone 13 Mini, Pro and Pro Max.\n\nThe iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max contain three cameras and what Apple calls \"its most advanced camera system yet\".\n\nIts premium models include a Super Retina XDR display and ProMotion - which delivers adaptive refresh rates of up to 120Hz.\n\nThis allows for smoother scrolling, animations, and gameplay.\n\nThe iPhone 13 mini starts at £679, with the iPhone 13 starting at £779. The iPhone 13 Pro starts at £949, and the larger Pro Max £1,049.\n\nApple has a reputation for innovation. But if this launch was anything to go by, that reputation is outdated.\n\nNothing especially new or visionary was announced here. The updates to its iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad feel conservative, uninspired, safe.\n\nBarring a new improved cinematic camera (which to be fair looks good) these are iterative updates. Even the presentation, though slick, had no particularly memorable or creative moments. Rumours of more interesting updates, iPhones with satellite capabilities for example, turned out to be false.\n\n\"What a spectacular set of announcements,\" said Apple's Tim Cook - referring to products like the new iPhone 13, which looks almost identical to the iPhone 12.\n\nSome had speculated that maybe Apple would stop numbering the new iPhone (13 being an unlucky number for some) - but no such radical move.\n\nStill, Apple will sell a lot of these gadgets - they always do.\n\nBut look past the bombastic marketing and this was a pretty uninteresting launch - particularly from a company that likes to describe itself as innovative.\n\nApple also announced a new version of its wearable Apple Watch.\n\nThe Series 7 brings the first redesign to the watch since 2018, and will be slightly larger.\n\nThe new size can fit almost 50% more text on screen, and has a keyboard to input text. It is also dust-resistant for the first time.\n\nApple Watch iOS 8 will also be able to automatically detect bicycle rides, including e-bikes.\n\nBut manufacture of the Apple Watch Series 7 could face production delays, reported Bloomberg.\n\nApple said the new model would be available \"later this fall\", whereas other products such as the new iPad and iPhone - announced at the same event - are available from next week.\n\nApple accounts for 47% of the global smartwatch market, according to research from CCS Insight.\n\n\"At first glance the latest Apple Watch is another iterative update, but the larger screen allowing bigger virtual buttons and a full qwerty keyboard should certainly improve usability,\" Leo Gebbie, principal analyst at CCS Insight said.\n\nHe said he had expected to see a longer battery life, as \"owners continue to clamour for smartwatches to last longer\", but that was not announced - even if faster charging was.\n\n\"Despite these concerns, the Apple Watch continues to sell in record numbers and dominates the smartwatch market by a distance,\" he added.\n\nApple has also launched a new version of its iPad. Tim Cook said its iPad sales had grown by 40% in the past year.\n\nIt will be powered by the A13 chip, with 20% faster performance from its previous iteration. Apple said this was up to \"three times faster than the Chromebook\".\n\nThose cheap styles of laptop exploded in popularity last year as schools shut down during the pandemic.\n\nThe new iPad starts at $329 (£319) and has a discounted price of $299 for schools.\n\nA new iPad mini was also launched, with USB-C functionality, Apple pencil support and no home button - using a lock button on the top for Touch ID instead. Prices start at £479.", "The queue outside Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital's A&E was described by one visitor as \"frightening\"\n\nPatients attending a hospital's emergency department were forced to queue outside due to \"high demand for services\", a trust has said.\n\nNorthern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust said the queue at its Grimsby hospital on Monday was due to a lack of \"physical space\" for walk-in patients because of social distancing.\n\nOne witness has described it as a \"frightening experience\".\n\nStaff had regularly assessed patients waiting in the queue, the trust said.\n\nKay Parrish, a former NHS worker, said she was faced with the line of patients outside Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital's A&E department when she took her friend, who was having a suspected heart attack.\n\nMs Parrish said: \"I really couldn't believe what I was seeing. There were no chairs for anybody to sit down on. There was a lady that was pregnant, there were people with children, a lady with a baby. Everybody was just waiting very, very patiently.\n\n\"Nobody was given any explanations as to why people were waiting outside. Forty minutes later we'd probably moved six yards.\"\n\nKay Parrish said she \"felt terrible\" for all those waiting in the queue at the hospital\n\nMs Parrish said they were told there were \"no beds\" at the hospital and she had felt sorry for the staff.\n\n\"It really did frighten me. Something terrible's going to happen to somebody if that is a regular occurrence.\"\n\nIn a statement, the trust said: \"We are experiencing a high demand for services - both in terms of A&E attendances and demand for beds.\n\n\"Yesterday afternoon there was a queue outside the department, not due to any delays in checking patients in, but due to there not being enough physical space in the department to allow all those who 'walked in' to be able to adhere to social distancing rules.\"\n\nA trust spokeswoman added that the hospital was \"still very busy\" and advised people to seek alternative help such as their GP, pharmacy or the NHS 111 service when possible.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nThe Duke of York's lawyer has described allegations of sexual assault filed in a US court as \"baseless, non-viable [and] potentially unlawful\".\n\nAndrew Brettler told a pre-trial conference call in New York that a 2009 settlement between Virginia Giuffre and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released the duke from \"any and all liability\".\n\nHe also said the duke had not been properly served notice of proceedings.\n\nMr Brettler - a Los Angeles-based lawyer promoted as a \"media and entertainment litigation\" specialist - requested a copy of the 2009 agreement, which is not public.\n\n\"There has been a settlement agreement that the plaintiff [Ms Giuffre] has entered into in a prior action that releases the duke and others from any and all potential liability,\" he said.\n\nDuring the conference call on Monday, Mr Brettler denied that the prince had been given legal documents properly, a process known as \"service\" in US law.\n\nMr Brettler went on to argue it was for the High Court in London to decide whether the documents had been served correctly, but the judge, Lewis Kaplan, disagreed.\n\nJudge Kaplan told Ms Giuffre's lawyer, David Boise, he had a week to find an alternative method of serving legal documents to the duke in the UK.\n\nThe judge said the next meeting in the case would happen on 13 October.\n\nMs Giuffre, now 38, was an accuser of Epstein, the billionaire convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019, and claims she was sexually assaulted by the prince at three locations, including New York City.\n\nMs Giuffre - then known as Virginia Roberts - says she was assaulted at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nHer case claims Prince Andrew, 61, engaged in sexual acts without Ms Giuffre's consent, including when she was 17, knowing how old she was, and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nThe prince, the Queen's second son, has consistently denied the claims, and told BBC Two's Newsnight in 2019: \"It didn't happen. I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew said in 2019 that he could not recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nMs Giuffre's lawyers had claimed papers were left with a police officer at the gates of Prince Andrew's Windsor home last month - and that meant papers were successfully \"served\".\n\nThe duke does not face the prospect of an extradition hearing as this only applies to criminal charges and not civil cases.", "Goats enjoyed the run of Llandudno during lockdown\n\nTourists have been warned against taking selfies with goats on cliffs in a Welsh seaside town.\n\nLlandudno Coastguard said it had received reports of people putting themselves in danger on the Great Orme headland to view the goats up close.\n\nThe goats attracted attention worldwide when they roamed freely through the town in lockdown, but have returned to explore the area's rocky outcrops.\n\nThe coastguard said the goats are safe and urged people to stay away.\n\nThe wild herd of about 122 Kashmiri goats spend most of their time on the cliffs of the Great Orme, a county park and nature reserve in Conwy county, but have been known to frequent the town during bad weather.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The curious goats have been spotted eating flowers and hedges in gardens\n\n\"The goats are safe, they aren't trapped and are just exploring a new part of the Great Orme,\" said the coastguard.\n\n\"We urge you not to place yourselves in danger to view the goats and to stay on Marine Drive where it is safe and a great vantage point to see the goats.\"\n\nThe goats have been spotted all around Llandudno town, even lying in the road\n\nNo guests, just goats at this hotel in Llandudno during lockdown\n\nThe goats are safe and are not trapped, said the coastguard\n\nAndrew Murgatroyd from Llandudno's coastguard team told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast there were around 120 of the \"very famous\" goats across the Orme and a small group have made their way onto a rocky ledge just above the sea.\n\n\"It's been causing some people concern and they've been going down trying to move them on and some people going down to take pictures and putting themselves at risk,\" he said.", "One penny coins were back in production last year after none were minted for general circulation in the previous two years, Royal Mint figures show.\n\nCovid lockdowns meant that many coins were hoarded at home requiring some to be produced for use in the economy.\n\nBanks recently called on people to donate unused loose change to charities after the pandemic hit fundraising.\n\nSome 88 million new 1p coins were minted in 2020 - still well below the levels seen before the two-year pause.\n\nThe figures show that no new £2 coins have been minted for four consecutive years, and no new 2p coins have been produced for three years.\n\nThe Royal Mint has previously stated that it had no plans to resume production of these coins for 10 years, owing to a coin mountain that exists while demand has dropped.\n\nMany more one penny coins have been produced over the years than 2p coins, for practical reasons. The general trend is a fall, owing in part to the rise in use of contactless cards for low-value purchases.\n\nThe limit for a single purchase on a contactless card will increase from £45 to £100 in October.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Royal Mint said: \"The volume and variety of coins which enter circulation is determined by demand from UK banks and Post Offices. When demand rises we consult with HM Treasury before manufacturing more coins.\"\n\nThe Mint has published full details of the variety of coins produced during 2020.\n\nIt said that 330 million coins were released into circulation, which is well down on production levels seen in recent history.\n\nAmong them were new 50p designs commemorating \"Diversity Built Britain\" and the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. Ten million of each of those designs entered circulation, making them relatively widely accessible.\n\nThe most desirable coin for collectors is still the 2009 Kew Gardens 50p.\n\nThe design was created by Christopher Le Brun and features the famous Chinese Pagoda at Kew with a decorative leafy climber twining in and around the tower.\n\nOnly 210,000 were released into circulation.\n\nAlmost all of them are now in collectors' hands, so the chances of coming across one in your change are slim.", "Scotland is to begin vaccinating children aged between 12 and 15 from Monday of next week.\n\nThe jabs will initially be available at drop-in centres, with parents and carers being asked to accompany their children.\n\nLetters will be sent everyone in the age group the following week, inviting them to an appointment.\n\nThere will also be a vaccination programme in schools after the scheduled appointments.\n\nThis will allow anyone who has not yet been vaccinated to have a further opportunity to do so.\n\nIt comes after the Chief Medical Officers of each of the four UK nations concluded that the additional benefits were sufficient to justify vaccination of children over the age of 12.\n\nThey said it would help to reduce disruption to their schooling this winter and benefit those growing up in the poorest areas.\n\nScotland is also to join the other UK nations in offering a booster shot of the Pfizer vaccine to all adults over 50, frontline health and care workers, younger adults with health conditions that put them at higher risk, and adult household contacts of people with suppressed immune systems.\n\nThe JCVI advisory group said the move was needed amid concern about waning immunity ahead of winter.\n\nThe boosters programme will also begin next Monday, when frontline health and social care workers will be able to book their appointment online through NHS Inform.\n\nResidents in care homes for older people will be offered both flu and Covid booster vaccines from next week.\n\nAnd adults aged 70 years or over, and everyone aged over 16 on the highest risk list, will be contacted shortly either by letter or by their GP.\n\nOther eligible groups - all adults over 50, all those aged 16 to 49 with underlying health conditions, adult carers, unpaid and young carers, and adult household contacts of people who are immunosuppressed - will be able to book online from October.\n\nVaccine take up has been lower among younger age groups in Scotland\n\nAnnouncing the expansion of the vaccination programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said both measures would \"help us considerably in our ongoing efforts against this virus\".\n\nAnd she stressed the importance of \"informed consent\" for young people considering whether to have the jab.\n\nChildren able to overrule the decision of their parents on whether or not they should have the vaccine if they are deemed to be competent and understand the health implications.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I know that these are important decisions for young people and their parents, and that many will have questions.\n\n\"I would encourage everyone to read the information that will be provided, and do not hesitate to visit a drop in clinic to ask any questions or raise any concerns.\n\n\"Vaccination is a vital part of our overall protection against this virus. That is why it is important to support people - especially young people - to make informed choices that they feel comfortable with\".\n\nSecondary pupils will have to continue wearing masks in the classroom until at least the October holidays\n\nMs Sturgeon also confirmed that secondary schools pupils will continue to have to wear face coverings in class until at least the October holidays, when the measure will be reviewed again.\n\nShe acknowledged that this would be unpopular with many pupils, but said it remained a \"prudent and necessary precaution\".\n\nAnd with university terms now starting, she said no large in-person lectures will be held for now.\n\nInstead, there will be a mix of online and in-person learning - with universities and colleges deciding themselves the level of in-person teaching that they will offer during this term.\n\nIn addition, physical distancing will remain in place on campuses and face coverings will be required in indoor public spaces.\n\nNearly 70% of Scotland's population has now had two jabs. But almost a quarter are still completely unvaccinated. That includes around 230,000 people aged 12-15. Experts say opening up vaccination to this group will help increase population coverage and slow the spread of the virus.\n\nBut ministers still want the rest of the highly sociable 18-29 age group to get vaccinated too, with drop-in clinics for students during freshers' weeks.\n\nOf course, young people remain unlikely to become seriously unwell with Covid. But widespread community infection is having knock-on effects causing wider harm, for example in schools and hospitals.\n\nBoosters will also go ahead for health and care workers, and adults over 50 and with some health conditions.\n\nHopefully this will head off further pressure over the winter - if the NHS can keep its head above water for the next few weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said vaccinating 12 to 15-year-olds and offering booster shots had the potential to be \"game-changing in halting the spread of Covid this winter\".\n\nBut he said more answers were needed on how the schemes would be delivered, and called for mobile vaccination units at every school to encourage uptake - particularly those in areas where vaccination rates are low.\n\nMr Ross added: \"We have seen almost every year, like clockwork, the SNP's flu jag programme descends into chaos. They cannot let the country down by allowing Covid booster jags to go the same way.\"\n\nScotland has seen a surge in the number of cases in recent weeks, with the country having the highest infection rate of any UK nation last week and the number of people being hospitalised with the virus also increasing dramatically.\n\nBut there are signs that the sharp increase has levelled off and may be starting to fall slightly, with the country recording an average of 5,506 new cases in the week to 11 September - lower than the figure of 6,290 a day for the previous week.\n\nMore than 70% of all cases last week were among those under the age of 45.\n\nThe latest daily figures showed that 3,375 positive cases were reported on Monday - 11.4% of all tests carried out.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus has increased by 16 to 1,064, with 89 patients in intensive care - one fewer than yesterday.\n\nThe deaths of a further 21 people who had recently tested positive for the virus have also been recorded, taking the total by that definition to 8,263.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nLess than three weeks ago, Emma Raducanu began battling for her place in the US Open main draw.\n\nOn Monday, she stumbled across a giant billboard of her face on the streets of New York as she squeezed some sightseeing between appearances on prime-time American breakfast television.\n\nIt is this unexpected, unpredictable change in circumstances that has made the 18-year-old's first Grand Slam title front-page news around the world.\n\nRaducanu has not only made British history as the country's first woman to win a Grand Slam singles title in 44 years, but becoming the first qualifier to win a major means she has made tennis history too.\n\nDespite the high stakes, the teenager has sailed through the past few weeks with a look of composed joy on her face and the fallout to the biggest win of her career has been no different.\n\nRaducanu looked as poised as ever when faced with the Good Morning America panel in the show's Times Square studio and there she explained how she reached such levels of resilience so young.\n\n\"From a young age I've always been brought up to have mental strength,\" she said on the ABC show.\n\n\"My parents played a huge part in my upbringing. They were pretty tough on me when I was young and it kind of shaped the way.\n\n\"I think now it is helping on the biggest stages in the world when you really need it.\"\n\nRaducanu described her Chinese mother Renee and Romanian father Ian as her \"toughest critics\" and \"very hard to please\".\n\n\"But I got them with this one,\" she joked. \"They couldn't resist.\n\n\"It was really nice to talk to them after I won. They were just so happy and proud of me.\"\n• None 'I don't want to let go of the trophy'\n\nGrounded Raducanu 'trying to enjoy the moment'\n\nAs well as her parents, it seems Raducanu's coaching team has had an important role to play in keeping her grounded.\n\nThe Canada-born player received a letter from the Queen after beating Leylah Fernandez in the final at Flushing Meadows and David Beckham and Lewis Hamilton were among the British sports stars to comment on her Instagram post with the trophy.\n\nRaducanu says she was \"honoured\" by the Queen's message and will be framing it and keeping it in her room, but it was only with those closest to her that she wanted to celebrate on the night.\n\n\"I haven't even checked my messages yet,\" she said.\n\n\"I've just been trying to enjoy the moment. With my team the night of the final we just had a really nice night reflecting.\n\n\"Everything has gone so fast. We were taking care of every single day and before you know it three weeks had gone.\n\n\"We just got to reflect and share a few stories and it was a really nice night to have with everyone.\"\n\nAs if further proof were needed that Raducanu is not getting ahead of herself, in one post-match interview the first use she could think of for her £1.8m prize money was a pair of headphones to replace some she lost in the changing rooms after her first-round qualifying win.\n\nNow ranked 23rd in the world - having climbed 127 places in two weeks - and the new British number one, Raducanu is eager to keep up the hard work.\n\nShe suggested her retirement during a fourth-round match at Wimbledon against Ajla Tomljanovic due to breathing difficulties was a fitness issue, but believes that adversity was an important step in her rise to the top.\n\n\"I took away that it was for me more of a physical issue,\" she said.\n\n\"To win a Grand Slam you need a lot of mental strength so I think the resilience part of it sort of speaks for itself.\n\n\"I needed to go through all of that to win a Slam. Physically I've still got a lot of work to do because I'm still new to the game and haven't had time to really develop.\n\n\"On tour for the last four or five weeks I think naturally with each match and tournament I've played I've just increased my endurance a bit.\"\n\nWhere will Raducanu play next?\n\nRaducanu may yet compete in the Indian Wells tournament which begins in California on 7 October, although she would have to enter the WTA event as a wildcard because the entry list has already been published.\n\nThe season-ending WTA Finals take place in Guadalajara, Mexico in November and the year's top-eight players will qualify.\n\nMaking the grade for that event is a big ask for Raducanu but, after the past few weeks, if anyone is up to the challenge it is surely the newly crowned US Open champion.\n• None How America's leadership grappled with the events of 9/11\n• None Loathed or adored but never ignored: The definitive story of Cristiano Ronaldo is streaming now", "Nicholas is carrying maximum sustained winds of 75 miles (120 km) per hour\n\nTropical storm Nicholas has been downgraded from a hurricane after making landfall on the Texas coast in the US, bringing heavy rain and the risk of life-threatening flooding.\n\nThe storm was upgraded to a hurricane after reaching land at 00:30 (05:30 GMT), but has now weakened.\n\nMore than 500,000 power outages have been reported in Texas, according to PowerOutage.us.\n\nIt comes just weeks after Hurricane Ida - the fifth strongest to ever hit the US mainland - killed dozens and left more than a million Louisiana residents without power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Nicholas to bring further heavy rain to Texas and Louisiana\n\nNicholas is carrying maximum sustained winds of 70mph (110km/h), weather officials said, and is expected to hit the Texas coast and upper Louisiana with five to 10 inches of rain.\n\nThere could be rainfall of up to 20 inches across central to southern Louisiana, they said.\n\nThe US National Hurricane Centre said that Nicholas \"has continued to move slowly inland and has weakened during the past few hours\".\n\nBut it warned that \"life-threatening flash flooding impacts, especially in highly urbanised metropolitan areas, are possible\", and the National Weather Service called it a \"life-threatening situation\".\n\n\"We want to make sure that no one is caught off guard by this storm,\" Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards told a news conference.\n\nHe warned that drainage systems still clogged from Ida could trigger flash floods.\n\nMore than 119,000 homes and businesses remain without power in Louisiana due to Ida, he added.\n\nTexas Governor Greg Abbott declared states of emergency in 17 counties and three cities.\n\nHouston Mayor Sylvester Turner warned of flooding and urged the city's roughly 2.3 million residents to stay off streets and motorways.\n\n\"Take things seriously and prepare,\" Mr Turner said at a news conference. \"This is primarily a rain event and we don't know how much rain we will be getting.\"\n\nDozens of schools across the two states have been closed, and hundreds of flights have been cancelled or delayed at airports in the Texas cities of Corpus Christi and Houston.\n• None Restoring power after Ida 'may take weeks'", "Parent groups are warning of a \"tsunami\" of crippling school-anxiety cases leading to persistent and debilitating absence from education.\n\nThere is no official data on absence due to school anxiety and many affected pupils are labelled truants but support groups are being flooded with calls.\n\nAnd an education lawyer in north-west England says the pandemic has made an \"unprecedented crisis\" even worse.\n\nThe education department said it was investing £17m in school mental health.\n\nChildren with school anxiety may experience physical symptoms such as stomach pain, nausea and headaches before school or have immobilising anxiety, panic attacks or something that seems like a tantrum.\n\nThey may even threaten to harm themselves if parents make them go to school, and yet their parents can still be threatened with fines and court action.\n\nFran Morgan, whose daughter experienced school anxiety, set up support organisation Square Peg to help other families in similar situations.\n\n\"We are seeing a tsunami on the horizon,\" she says.\n\nThe issue is poorly understood and often incorrectly labelled \"school refusal\".\n\n\"It's not about refusal - it's not a child that won't do something. It's about a child that physically can't,\" Fran says.\n\n\"It's a debilitating level of anxiety which prevents attendance and the consequences to families are catastrophic.\"\n\nMany parents are being prosecuted and fined under legislation put in place to stop parents taking children on holiday in term time.\n\n\"But it's penalising all those parents whose children are stuck in the system,\" Fran says.\n\n\"We know all the problems with the special educational needs and disability system, we know the problem accessing children mental health services - a lot of those children are the ones who are struggling to attend and parents are being penalised for that.\"\n\nMatty, 16, from West Yorkshire, missed 18 months of schooling, after struggling with his mental health and having panic attacks.\n\n\"I don't think people understand it,\" he says.\n\n\"If I broke my leg, people would understand it - but they don't understand it because it's not visible.\n\n\"I just didn't want to go in - just like dread, almost, of going in.\"\n\nMatty's mother, Heidi Mavir, says: \"It was really tough for both of us, all of us really.\n\n\"He was desperate to go to school - he really wanted to be in school.\n\n\"He kept saying, 'I'll try again Mum. I'll try really hard.'\n\n\"But I think what people don't understand about mental health and anxiety in particular is, like any health problem, if you can't do something, you can't do something.\n\n\"No amount of trying to think yourself out of it will make any difference to that.\"\n\nMatty is now at a specialist school.\n\nSinclairs Law chief executive Mike Charles, a specialist solicitor in education law, says he is dealing with about 50 requests for help with the issue a week.\n\n\"We are facing an unprecedented crisis of proportions we have never seen in certainly my experience, spanning 30 years,\" he says.\n\n\"School anxiety and generally the mental health of our children has been a massive issue for many years but it's particularly more pronounced since the pandemic, because the impact this has had on children has undoubtedly affected their mental health in a very substantial way.\"\n\nBeth Bodycote founded the support group Not Fine In School nearly four years ago.\n\nBut over the year to September 2021, coinciding with school lockdowns and the pandemic, its membership grew by nearly 50% - to 17,924.\n\nIncreasing numbers of children and young people are struggling with mental-health issues, including anxiety, stress, and depression, but many schools are adopting a stricter approach to attendance, Beth says.\n\n\"For instance, we have seen families who had organised a temporary part-time timetable being told it is now no longer possible,\" she says.\n\n\"Fines and court action remain a threat for many parents even though these punitive actions do nothing to resolve the underlying causes of absence from school.\n\n\"There needs to be a move away from strict blanket policies about attendance and behaviour, to adopt a much more flexible and child-led approach, especially for children and young people who are struggling.\"\n\nParents are often asked to provide evidence of mental ill health causing absence - but a GP's letter is often insufficient.\n\nAnd many families may still be waiting for mental-health support or have had it refused.\n\nA Department for Education official said: \"In exceptional circumstances, head teachers have discretion to authorise absence - and fines should only be used as a last resort.\n\n\"Where a pupil does not attend, the school, family and council should work together to agree a plan for attendance, because the classroom is the best place for their education, development and wellbeing.\"", "There were 722 suspected drug deaths in the first half of 2021, the latest official figures show.\n\nThat is a small decrease of nine deaths on the same period last year.\n\nThe latest figures for drug overdoses come just two months after those for 2020 showed a record 1,339 deaths.\n\nThe new report is an attempt to give more up-to-date data after criticism that figures lagged too far behind. The stats for 2019 were only released at the end of the following year.\n\nThe latest data shows the deaths that the police suspect involve illicit drugs based on reports of attending officers' observations and initial inquiries at the scene of death.\n\nThe figures are different from the annual National Records of Scotland (NRS) statistics which use data from death registration records and forensic examination.\n\nHowever, the Scottish government, which will release the figures quarterly, hopes they will give a more \"timely\" picture of what is happening.\n\nScotland continues to have by far the highest drug death rate recorded by any country in Europe.\n\nAnd its rate is more than three-and-a-half times that of England and Wales.\n\nThe number of drug-related deaths has increased substantially over the past 20 years and is now almost three times higher than it was a decade ago, with the upward trend accelerating since 2013.\n\nThe new statistics show that in the first six months of 2021:\n\nDrugs Policy Minister Angela Constance said: \"Once again these figures are appalling. We are taking a vast range of actions to tackle this public health emergency, and we recognise the hard work and challenges ahead.\n\n\"More regular reporting of data on drug death trends in Scotland will ensure everyone involved in our national mission remains focussed on the work we must do to get more people into the treatment that is best suited for them as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives described the death figures as \"heartbreaking\" and accused the first minister of being \"out of touch\" with what is happening on Scotland's streets.\n\nThe party's drug policy spokesperson Sue Webber said: \"Nicola Sturgeon has to start listening to frontline experts and tackle the wider drug death crisis by backing our Right to Recovery Bill, which would finally guarantee everyone who needs treatment can get it.\n\n\"It is on her watch that the drug death crisis has spiralled out of control. She took her eye off the ball and left vulnerable people with nowhere to turn to for help. These new figures show she's still not focused on this crisis.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Claire Baker said: \"For years now, figures have been getting worse and the government have been promising action. It is shameful that after all this, we are still not making meaningful progress.\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats said \"there will never be any excuse\" for the Scottish government cutting drugs policy funding by what it claimed was a figure of 22%.\n\nParty leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said: \"We urgently need specialist drug and alcohol commissions...and for people caught in possession to be diverted to treatment instead of being propelled towards prison.\"", "British actress Tanya Fear has been found in Los Angeles after being reported missing last week.\n\nA spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told the BBC that the 31-year-old was safe. They would not provide further details.\n\nA statement said the actress's family were \"relieved and extremely grateful\".\n\nFear appeared in a 2018 episode of BBC sci-fi drama Doctor Who. Friends and family said she had last been seen on Thursday.\n\nAccording to the @FindTanyaFear Twitter account, which is described as being run by her family, the actress left her Hollywood Bowl apartment without her phone or purse and was last seen at 22:00 local time that day.\n\nHer uncle had said the family were \"deeply worried\".\n\nA statement posted on @FindTanyaFear on Monday thanked police and members of the public for their efforts in locating the actress, and the \"outpouring of concern and support over the last several days\".\n\n\"We understand she is not physically harmed, but as a precaution, is being assessed at a local hospital,\" it said.\n\nThe actress, whose full name is Tanyaradzwa Fear, has also appeared in TV's Spotless, Endeavour, DCI Banks and Midsomer Murders. She was seen in the movie Kick-Ass 2 and had recently started doing stand-up comedy.", "Most children are expected to receive their jab in school\n\nYoung people aged 12 to 15 in Northern Ireland will be offered Covid vaccines, while all over-50s and healthcare staff will be offered booster jabs.\n\nThe changes to the vaccine programme were announced by Stormont's Department of Health, with the first boosters to be given within 10 to 15 days.\n\nPeople aged 16 to 49 with underlying health issues can also have boosters.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said it would protect young people and prolong protection for those most at risk.\n\nAn estimated 900,000 people will be eligible to receive a booster jab in Northern Ireland.\n\nCare home residents will be first on the list when the booster roll-out begins in late September, according to the head of Northern Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination programme, Patricia Donnelly.\n\nMs Donnelly also said 12 to 15-year-olds were likely to be offered their vaccines in October.\n\nThere are about 98,000 young people aged from 12 to 15 in Northern Ireland and the decision to vaccine that cohort comes after the UK's four chief medical officers recommended the step.\n\nThese young people will be offered a single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine with parental consent sought prior to vaccination.\n\nMost school-aged children aged 12 to 15 are expected to primarily receive their Covid-19 vaccination in school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patricia Donnelly believes 12 to 15-year-olds will be offered jabs next month\n\nA schools-based vaccination programme is the model used for vaccinations including for human papillomavirus (HPV) and the annual flu programme.\n\nThey will be supported by GPs where necessary.\n\nConsent forms for vaccination will begin to be distributed via schools shortly, the department said.\n\nThere will be alternative provision for those who are home-schooled or in secure services.\n\nYoung people aged 12 to 15 who are part of an at-risk group will receive two doses, eight weeks apart, in line with advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\n\"This move will help protect young people from catching Covid-19 and is expected to prevent disruption in schools by reducing transmission,\" the health minister said.\n\nVaccinations for children aged between 12 and 15 in the Republic of Ireland began in August.\n\nThe Covid-19 booster vaccine announcement followed advice from the JCVI.\n\nThey advised booster jabs should be offered to people who are more at-risk from serious disease and were vaccinated as priority groups during the first phase of the vaccination programme early this year.\n\nCare home residents will be the first to be offered booster vaccines\n\nThe Department of Health said this meant the booster jabs will be offered to:\n\nMr Swann said care home residents and front-line health and social care workers would be first on the list.\n\n\"By early October we expect to see GPs starting to invite their oldest patients in to receive their booster dose as they pass the six-month mark from receiving their second dose,\" he said.\n\nRegardless of which vaccine brand these patients received in the earlier stages of the programme, the JCVI has advised a \"preference\" for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the booster programme.\n\n\"This follows data from the Cov-Boost trial that indicates the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is well tolerated as a third dose and provides a strong booster response,\" the department said.\n\nIt added that a half dose of the Moderna vaccine may be offered as an alternative, and in cases where patients have certain allergies, an AstraZeneca vaccine may be considered for booster protection.\n\nAs many younger adults have only recently received their second vaccine jab, the benefits of boosters for under-50s who are at less risk from Covid-19 are to be considered at a later date.", "Zheng Zeguang had a virtual audience with the Queen on his appointment as ambassador in July\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK has been told he cannot come to Parliament while sanctions remain in place against a number of MPs and peers.\n\nZheng Zeguang was due to attend a Commons reception on Wednesday, hosted by the all-party group on China.\n\nBut after protests, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Lord Speaker Lord McFall ruled this out.\n\nThe Chinese embassy said it was a \"despicable and cowardly\" decision that would harm both countries' interests.\n\nThe ban, which was first reported by the Daily Telegraph, comes at a time when tensions between the two governments are high.\n\nIn March, China imposed travel bans and asset freezes on five MPs and two peers whom it accused of spreading lies about the country.\n\nThis was in response to the UK's decision to impose its first sanctions against Chinese officials for human rights abuses in Xinjiang.\n\nDespite this, the China parliamentary group still decided to invite Mr Zheng to its summer party on the Commons terrace pavilion overlooking the Thames.\n\nLast week, the five Conservative MPs who were sanctioned - Sir Iain Duncan-Smith, Tom Tugendhat, Nusrat Ghani, Neil O'Brien and Tim Loughton - wrote to the Speaker voicing their concerns.\n\nThe two sanctioned peers - crossbencher Lord Alton and Labour's Baroness Kennedy - wrote to the Lord Speaker.\n\nThey said: \"The sanctions imposed by the Chinese government represent an attack not just on members directly targeted but on Parliament, all parliamentarians, select committees, and parliamentary privilege.\n\n\"We should never allow our place of work to become a platform to validate and promote such sanctions.\n\n\"We know that this is a view shared by a great many Right Honourable and Honourable Members who will wish their protests to be heard if this visit is to go ahead.\"\n\nThey added: \"It is unthinkable therefore that parliamentarians should have to suffer this infringement on our liberties whilst the prime representative of the Chinese government in the UK is still apparently free to come to Westminster and to use facilities here as a mouthpiece for his regime.\"\n\nNusrat Ghani welcomed the \"unprecedented\" ban on the ambassador, telling BBC News: \"Sanctioning MPs is a direct threat to Parliament and our democracy.\n\n\"We will not be silenced nor intimidated by any regime, and our Parliament will not be become a tool of propaganda for Chinese Communist Party absurd sanctions.\"\n\nAnother sanctioned MP, Tim Loughton, tweeted: \"If the genocidal Chinese regime think they can shut down free speech by parliamentarians in a democracy there are consequences and in this case it is that the Chinese regime must not have a platform in the Mother of Parliaments.\"\n\nIn a statement, Sir Lindsay said he held regular meetings with ambassadors to \"establish enduring ties between countries and parliamentarians\".\n\nBut he added: \"I do not feel it's appropriate for the ambassador for China to meet on the Commons estate and in our place of work when his country has imposed sanctions against some of our members.\n\n\"If those sanctions were lifted, then of course this would not be an issue.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador Liu Xiaoming: \"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang\"\n\nLord McFall's spokeswoman said the \"meeting should take place elsewhere, considering the current sanctions against members including two members of the Lords\".\n\nA Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson said: \"Parliament is independent of government. It is for the Speaker to decide who is allowed on the parliamentary estate.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Chinese embassy said: \"The despicable and cowardly action of certain individuals of the UK Parliament to obstruct normal exchanges and cooperation between China and the UK for personal political gains is against the wishes and harmful to the interests of the peoples of both countries.\"", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 3 and 10 September.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nNut today: Raymond McMillan caught this scene in the woodland adjacent to his garden in Tomatin. He said: 'The squirrel was a bit possessive so the chaffinch stayed for only a few seconds.'\n\nHillbilly: Nick Hocking said he took this picture while scrambling along the Anonach Eagach ridge in Glencoe on a fantastic day.\n\nPier into the darkness: William Brown enjoyed the night time at Oban Harbour.\n\nBusy bee: Jim Boyd took this pic in his garden in Arrochar.\n\nThanks a bunch to Kirsty Cleland who sent in this colourful picture of flowers in Skipness looking across to the Isle of Arran.\n\nBridge the light fantastic: Neil McRobie said it was a cloudy but warm morning at South Queensferry.\n\nAnimated: Angus Moyse took this picture of his friend Annie Mac queuing at the Dens Road market in Dundee.\n\nJeana Anderson caught the last of the light in Dunfermline, Fife.\n\nPost uplift: Liz Meyer caught this post van being loaded onto the Graemsay Ferry at Stromness while on holiday in Orkney.\n\nThis picture gives me butterflies: Helen Sadie said this Common Blue Butterfly was basking on the banks of the Clyde in Helensburgh.\n\nStag party: Emma Flack's view from her window of Loch Kishorn.\n\nI cirrusly love this picture: Mike More said he saw this amazing cloud inversion heading over the Forcan Ridge at sunrise.\n\nWheelie nice scene: Colin Martin enjoyed his cycle ride to Benglass on the Isle of Skye.\n\nJohn McGuinness said this swan was carefully picking his way through the green algae at Lochore Meadows Country Park in Fife.\n\nRock n' roll: Anne Cameron was looking at the Bass Rock, from the East Lothian coast just outside North Berwick.\n\nLooking from Ornsey on Skye directly toward Loch Hourn in Knoydart.\n\nNo train no gain: John Ireland loved seeing this Jacobite steam train passing through Corpach in Fort William.\n\nCatch of the day: Robin Blythe found this TomPot Blenny when diving Trail Island at Wee Cumbrae on the Clyde.\n\nFlower power: Mirren Sneddon photographed her son wandering through the field of hope sunflower maze at Ardross farm near Elie.\n\nForest reclaims house: Simon Dunsmore took this picture of Dunmore House near Falkirk saying he thought it was spooky.\n\nNo strings attached: Carole Graham enjoyed seeing this giant puppet of Storm, goddess of the sea, at Anstruther Harbour Festival.\n\nOther worldly: Katy Anderson said she thought this jellyfish on Ayr beach looked like a UFO.\n\nEagle-eyed: Elizabeth Scott took this photo of a white-tailed eagle perched on a rocky island while on a boat trip from Port Ellen, Islay.\n\nHorsing around: Nicola Sutherland said her daughter Murren enjoyed getting a kiss from one of the horses at the Riding School for the disabled in West Lothian.\n\nThistle cheer you up: Ian Marshall said this unusual artichoke flower in his St Andrews garden took him completely by surprise.\n\nGo with the flow-er: Ann McMillan took this shot looking up to Edinburgh Castle after browsing the markets in the Grassmarket.\n\nJib Cameron spent the most incredible day on the banks of Loch Vaa.\n\nBalancing act: Mark Ewing managed to catch a wonder of nature as this crane fly (daddy long legs) emerged at Comrie golf course.\n\nWinging it: Clare Smart caught this rare shot of an owl while in Skye for her son's wedding.\n\nSun down: Craig Bradshaw enjoyed the sunset at Ailsa Craig in the south west of Scotland.\n\nAre you robin my name? A robin in John Brown's shot of Dunrobin Castle.\n\nAerial view: Eric Brawley wondered if this was a fantastic or sad picture of a derelict Haghill Primary school in Glasgow.\n\nRed sky at night: Mary Meldrum could not believe how beautiful Oban harbour looked in the evening light.\n\nMoove over: The Highland Cow got in the way of Britta Schmitz's shot of Iona Abbey.\n\nWave goodbye: Arthur Campbell was looking at the Isles of Eigg and Rum from a sunset cruise boat\n\nPeak a boo: William Brown caught the early morning in Bonawe near Oban.\n\nWhale hello there: Bill Wright said he was approached by this very curious Minke whale while on a boat trip off the Isle of Mull.\n\nRed Sea: John Young captured this view looking from Glenbarr as the sun went down over Islay from the shoreline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Dr Lewis Morrison said doctors were washed out physically and mentally\n\nScotland's doctors are \"exhausted\" and many are cutting working hours or leaving the health service altogether, according to a senior doctors' leader.\n\nBMA Scotland chairman Dr Lewis Morrison told BBC Scotland that doctors were \"washed out physically and mentally\" after 18 months of the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe said action was needed to stop doctors leaving the profession and to boost recruitment of new medics.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working to manage the pressures.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the BMA's annual representative meeting, Dr Morrison said the \"workforce crisis\" had its roots in the number of senior doctor vacancies before the pandemic.\n\nBut he said that the NHS \"being run at 110% capacity\" during Covid had deepened the crisis.\n\nThe pressures across the NHS had been \"immense\" in the past few weeks, he said.\n\nDr Morrison said doctors traditionally had low levels of sickness but it was starting to rise.\n\n\"I think the cumulative effect of the pandemic is now starting to show,\" he said.\n\n\"The main other thing is to look after people, to give people the space to have rest and recuperation as best they can, to not pressurise people to do more and more.\n\n\"The message needs to go to the public to still be patient with the NHS because it cannot meet the needs of everybody right now.\"\n\nThe BMA says the pandemic has deepened a \"workforce crisis\" that existed before the current pressures\n\nDr Morrison said that in the medium term, over the next few months, efforts must be made to stop staff leaving the NHS.\n\n\"There are lots of factors at play that could lead people to make a decision to either retire, or potentially leave for other parts of the world to work, or indeed to reduce the amount of work they do to protect themselves from physical and mental burnout,\" he said.\n\n\"So anything we can do to support the existing medical workforce until we get a clear plan for recruiting and increasing the number of doctors that is going to be how we get through this.\"\n\nDr Morrison said the problem was not an issue of \"morale\".\n\n\"This is sheer out-and-out exhaustion we are looking at and that's more worrying,\" he said.\n\nThe Scottish government said the health secretary met BMA representatives earlier this week to hear about the challenges facing doctors.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are also working proactively with health boards to manage pressures and take rapid action to support increased capacity, including expedited recruitment, flexible deployment of existing staffing and supporting mutual aid across the system.\n\n\"Our NHS Recovery Plan commits more than £1bn of targeted investment in Scotland's health service and sets out key actions for the next five years, putting staff at the very heart of our recovery with an increased budget of £8m to provide ongoing support for their mental health and wellbeing.\n\n\"This includes targeted support to the primary care and social care workforce of £2m. We have record staffing levels and the best paid staff in UK, recently giving doctors a 3% pay rise.\"\n\nSupporting the physical and psychological wellbeing of NHS staff was a \"fundamental priority\", the spokesperson added.", "Conservative Party co-chair Ben Elliot has been warned to maintain a \"clear distinction\" between his public duties and his private business interests.\n\nThe lobbying watchdog investigated after reports suggested Mr Elliot's firm Quintessentially had arranged access to top politicians for clients.\n\nIt found it \"had not been engaging in consultant lobbying activity\".\n\nBut it urged Mr Elliot to be \"cautious\" and ensure his two roles remain separate.\n\nMr Elliot's spokesman said: \"The registrar has made clear that Quintessentially does not lobby government and therefore does not need to register as a lobbyist.\"\n\nLabour said Prime Minister Boris Johnson should sack him from his role in the Conservative Party.\n\nLobbying is the widely used term for individuals, businesses, trade unions, groups or charities trying to persuade a government to change its policies.\n\nThe Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (ORCL) began an investigation last month into whether Quintessentially - which provides art, travel services and property for wealthy clients - had become an \"unregistered consultant lobbyist\".\n\nIt found the company had given \"substantive assurances that no consultant lobbying is undertaken\" on behalf of customers.\n\nBut the ORCL also said Mr Elliot should be careful \"about the possibility of engaging in consultant lobbying activity (perhaps unintentionally) by not making a clear enough distinction between his role as a director of Quintessentially and his other activities connected to government\".\n\nLabour Party chair Anneliese Dodds said: \"The lobbying regulator is sending a clear message to Boris Johnson about the actions of the co-chair of the Conservative Party.\"\n\nShe added: \"Boris Johnson appointed this man to his post, so the prime minister must take responsibility and remove him immediately.\"", "England v India: Fifth Test at Old Trafford cancelled amid Covid-19 concerns Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia won the fourth Test by 157 runs on Monday to take a 2-1 series lead England's fifth Test against India at Emirates Old Trafford was cancelled after some of the tourists' backroom staff tested positive for Covid-19. India said they were unable to field a team because they fear further cases spreading through the squad. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said: \"We send our sincere apologies to fans and partners. \"We know it will cause immense disappointment and inconvenience to many.\"\n• None Was it right to cancel the fifth Test? And what happens now? The ECB statement initially said India, who lead the series 2-1, forfeited the final Test and the series was drawn 2-2. The statement was later amended to say: \"India are regrettably unable to field a team.\" The result of the series is unclear. \"The result is not one for today,\" ECB chief executive Tom Harrison told BBC Test Match Special. \"Thoughts will turn to that soon. \"It's a decision for the International Cricket Council, in the context of the World Test Championship. \"It's about making the right decision, given what has taken place, and about being fair to each side. That process will take place over the coming weeks. It is not something that concerns us unduly.\" The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) says it has made an offer to the ECB to reschedule the match. \"Both the boards will work towards finding a window to reschedule this Test match,\" read a BCCI statement. \"The BCCI and ECB held several rounds of discussion to find a way to play the Test match. However, the outbreak of Covid-19 in the Indian team contingent forced the decision of calling off the Old Trafford Test match. \"The BCCI has always maintained that the safety and well-being of the players is of paramount importance and there will be no comprise on that aspect.\" India are due to travel to England to play three Twenty20 and three one-day internationals in July next year, presenting one opportunity for a Test to be played. \"Hopefully we can get it on at some other time,\" said Harrison. \"Clearly it's not going to be the same as having a fifth Test after four brilliant matches.\" India head coach Ravi Shastri tested positive during their fourth-Test win, forcing bowling coach Bharat Arun, fielding coach Ramakrishnan Sridhar and physiotherapist Nitin Pate to isolate. Another member of the backroom staff tested positive on Thursday. India cancelled Thursday's training session, but a subsequent round of testing showed no positive results among players and it was declared that the Test would go ahead as planned. However, the announcement to cancel the match was made just over two hours before it was due to begin at 11:00 BST on Friday. Old Trafford was a sell-out for the first three days, with 22,000 tickets sold for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Another 13,000 had been sold for Monday's fourth day. Lancashire chief executive Daniel Gidney said: \"As a club, we are absolutely devastated about the late cancellation. \"We'd like to unreservedly apologise to ticket holders and all those that have or are due to travel to Emirates Old Trafford. A full refund will be issued, but we appreciate for many supporters, attending this Test match is more than just the monetary worth.\" Although England rescheduled all their home fixtures in 2020, this is the first home men's international to be cancelled since the beginning of the pandemic. England postponed three one-day internationals in South Africa in December because of coronavirus fears. Any attempt to reschedule the fifth Test during the current tour would have been complicated by the Indian Premier League, which will resume on 19 September. The tournament, originally played in India, was postponed in May and begins again in the United Arab Emirates. 'The IPL would have a lot to do with this' - analysis This is quite bizarre because last night the players all passed their PCR tests. We went to bed thinking the match would go ahead. I suspect the IPL would have a lot to do with this. It starts in 10 days' time. The players are on huge contacts. The IPL is worth £300m to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). They are desperate to protect their product and the players protect their contracts. This stands to cost the ECB £20m, one assumes there would be some negotiations about that with the BCCI. It is a shame Covid has interfered with a brilliant series.\n• None How has the Premier League succeeded?: Fever Pitch tells the origin story via the stars that made it\n• None Listen to the best tracks from nominees and winners of the prestigious prize", "Amazon has offered to cover the cost of college tuition of all 750,000 of its frontline workers in the US.\n\nIt comes as the online shopping giant struggles to attract and retain staff amid an industry wide labour shortage.\n\nThe firm said it would invest $1.2bn in the scheme, with workers able to access the annual funding for as long as they remain at Amazon.\n\nIt is the latest big firm to offer to fund workers' education after similar moves by Walmart and Target.\n\nIn a blog post, Amazon said its college tuition offer would apply at \"hundreds of education partners across the country\" without stating which ones.\n\nThe shopping giant said it would also cover other types of education including high school diplomas and English language courses, as well as extending on-the-job career training to 300,000.\n\n\"Amazon is now the largest job creator in the US, and we know that investing in free skills training for our teams can have a huge impact for hundreds of thousands of families across the country,\" said Dave Clark, head of worldwide consumer at Amazon.\n\nUS firms are offering a range of benefits and incentives to lure employees back to the workforce as restrictions ease.\n\nAccording to the US Labor Department, job openings hit a fresh record high of 10.9 million in July, surpassing the number of unemployed people by more than two million.\n\nExperts say a mixture of people leaving the workforce during the pandemic, lingering concerns about Covid and a lack of childcare have prolonged the shortage.\n\nLast month Walmart said it would pay the costs of tuition and books for its hourly staffers, with about 1.5 million people eligible.\n\nAnd Target said it would offer free undergraduate degrees to more than 340,000 employees at its US stores.\n\nFirms have also raised starting wages or offered bonuses to win workers, with some even urging 14 and 15 year-olds to apply to tackle the shortage.", "The decision by Betsi Cadwaladr health board to postpone some operations was not made lightly, it said\n\nA Welsh health board has cancelled some surgical operations due to a rise in Covid-19 cases in hospitals.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board, which covers north Wales, said the decision was not taken lightly but was necessary to \"safely care for patients\".\n\nAnd the health board has also decided to significantly restrict hospital visits as it battles outbreaks at four of its hospitals.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said cases are \"likely to get worse\".\n\nIt comes after Hywel Dda health board suspended some planned orthopaedic surgery, and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board banned most hospital visiting.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's executive medical director, Dr Nick Lyons, said: \"Due to the rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in our hospitals we are having to postpone some planned surgery in the short term so we can safely care for patients.\n\n\"This difficult decision has been made to ensure we can safely provide extra capacity on our sites, due to the number of people being treated for Covid-19 infection at the hospitals.\n\n\"Postponing elective operations is not a decision that we have taken lightly and we would like to apologise for any distress and disappointment that this will cause.\"\n\nMark Drakeford said at a briefing in Cardiff on Friday cases are \"likely to get worse\"\n\nIn a later announcement, Gill Harris, executive director of nursing and midwifery, said people would only be able to visit hospitals in the area if \"absolutely necessary\", such as to attend an outpatient appointment or if they were in need of emergency treatment.\n\nThe new visiting rules apply to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Ysbyty Eryri in Caernarfon, Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan and Ysbyty Llandudno.\n\nMs Harris said risk assessments would need to be carried out to allow people to visit hospitals in \"exceptional\" circumstances, such as to visit a patient who was at the end of their life.\n\n\"We understand how difficult not being able to visit loved ones can be and we are sorry that we have had to take this step,\" she added.\n\nSwansea Bay health board also said it was \"under severe pressure\" due to high demand.\n\nIt said unscheduled care was still available but that waiting times may be longer than usual.\n\nThe health board urged people not head to emergency departments unless they had a serious or life-threatening illness or injury.\n\nIt comes as the Welsh NHS Confederation warned the suspension of some routine hospital services was \"looking likely\" to deal with an \"enormous peak of pressure\" of growing Covid admissions.\n\nConfederation director Darren Hughes claimed the NHS was dealing with greater pressure than it normally had mid-winter.\n\nHe said: \"No options are off the table. We will do everything we can to treat those people who are in hospitals.\"\n\nThose needing urgent and emergency care \"will always be treated\", he added.\n\nLast week Covid cases led to the closure of a ward at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen, while some orthopaedic surgery was suspended in Llanelli and Haverfordwest.\n\nOn Thursday Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board suspended most hospital visiting as growing Covid cases led to a spike in admissions.\n\nDarren Hughes warned the NHS in Wales was facing greater pressure than it normally would in winter\n\nMark Drakeford said on Friday the NHS was \"under intense pressure\".\n\nHe said it was \"experiencing staffing pressures, through a combination of annual leave, staff working in other areas, sickness and isolation\".\n\n\"The modelling suggests there could be 100 new Covid-19 hospital admissions every day as the Delta wave peaks,\" Mr Drakeford added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Russell's bra was the perfect place for the lingerie-loving lizard to enjoy the trip from Barbados to Rotherham\n\nA lingerie-loving lizard was found lounging in a bra after travelling all the way from Barbados to sunny Yorkshire on a transatlantic flight.\n\nThe tiny gecko, now called Barbie, was spotted by Lisa Russell as she unpacked her suitcase after arriving back at her home near Rotherham, South Yorkshire.\n\nMs Russell said: \"When it moved, I started screaming. It is not what you expect to find in your bra after a 4,000-mile journey.\"\n\nBarbie is now safe in the RSPCA's care.\n\nThe returning holidaymaker, who lives in Thrybergh, arrived home on Tuesday and started to unpack her suitcase after holidaying in the Caribbean.\n\nMs Russell, 47, saw what she thought was a speck on her bra and shook the underwear and it was then she spotted the female lizard moving.\n\nLisa Russell said she screamed when the \"speck\" moved as she was unpacking her suitcase\n\n\"The tiny lizard was lucky as the bra was on top of my suitcase on my clean pile. As it was so hot out there, I didn't bother wearing one,\" the beautician said.\n\nMs Russell revealed that the gecko remained unharmed in its lacy lair despite her sitting on the full suitcase in order to zip it up before her return journey to Yorkshire.\n\nBarbie the lizard, named after the famous doll and the lizard's island home, had survived 24 hours in the garment uninjured.\n\nThe tiny female gecko survived the flight but would not last outside in the UK, said the RSPCA\n\nAn RSPCA inspector was dispatched to deal with the tiny survivor, which appeared unscathed after its underwear odyssey.\n\nSandra Dransfield, of the RSPCA, said releasing the lizard in the UK would be illegal as it was a non-native species and it \"would not survive in our climate\".\n\nThe gecko was taken in by a specialist reptile keeper where she is said to be doing well.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Houseparty, the video-calling app owned by Fortnite-maker Epic Games, will close down in October.\n\nFirst launched in 2016, the app was acquired by Epic in 2019 as part of a multi-million dollar deal.\n\nIn November 2020 it was integrated with Fortnite to let players see one another during multiplayer gaming sessions.\n\nHowever, the developers said their work on other Epic Games products meant they could not give Houseparty \"the attention that it deserves\".\n\nIn a statement, the team said it would instead develop \"new ways to have meaningful and authentic social interactions\" in other Epic Games software.\n\nWhile the app will continue to work until October, it has already been removed from the Google Play store and Apple's App Store.\n\nHouseparty gained popularity at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as national lockdowns were introduced around the world.\n\nThe software let people \"drop in\" to video chat rooms hosted by friends, and it offered games for groups to play together.\n\nHowever, its reputation was damaged in March 2020 when a false rumour suggested downloading the app could lead to Netflix and Spotify accounts being \"hacked\".\n\nThe BBC's cyber reporter Joe Tidy can now reveal that, at the time, a Houseparty insider told him the viral misinformation had made one million users delete the app.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joe Tidy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHouseparty said it had found no evidence that its service had been compromised.\n\nThe company later offered a $1m (£720,000) bounty to anybody who could prove it had been the target of a deliberate smear campaign. The reward has not been claimed.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport website and app. Live text commentary and in-depth coverage on the website and app\n\nEmma Raducanu says it is a \"weird feeling\" to have reached the US Open semi-finals and be one of the last few remaining players in the locker room.\n\nThe 18-year-old Briton continues her dream run when she meets Greek 17th seed Maria Sakkari on Thursday.\n\nThe pair play on Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York at about 21:00 local time (02:00 BST, Friday).\n\n\"I didn't think I'd be here. But now I am, I'm so excited to get out there,\" said Raducanu.\n\nRaducanu has exceeded expectations in her first overseas Grand Slam - and only her fourth tour-level event - by becoming the first qualifier to reach the US Open last four.\n• None Raducanu's fairytale run continues as she reaches US Open semi-finals\n• None 'I didn't expect to be here' - Raducanu had return flight booked a fortnight ago\n\nAfter coming through three qualifying matches to reach the main draw, the Kent teenager is yet to drop a set in her eight matches at Flushing Meadows.\n\nThe latest triumph came against Swiss 11th seed Belinda Bencic on Wednesday and set up the last-four meeting with Sakkari, who also reached the semi-finals at the French Open in June.\n\nRaducanu joked that the fewer players there were left in the tournament the \"easier to get a practice court at a decent time\".\n\n\"To be in the semi-finals with so few people left in the tournament, it is a weird feeling and I haven't quite wrapped my head around it,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm excited though, for sure.\"\n\nAfter beating Czech fourth seed Karolina Pliskova in her quarter-final, Sakkari said: \"Emma is having a great run but I trust myself and trust my game. I believe a lot in myself.\"\n\nRaducanu ready to star under the New York lights\n\nRaducanu has continued to break new ground at Flushing Meadows and there will be another new experience when she plays in the night session on Ashe for the first time.\n\nPlaying underneath the lights on the biggest tennis court on the world - which has a capacity of nearly 24,000 - is an experience like no other.\n\nWith exuberant fans enjoying the mid-match entertainment - which usually includes music, dancing fans, celebrities being introduced to the crowd and 'Kiss Cam' at the changeovers - there is always a din of background noise in a crackling atmosphere.\n\n\"It'll be my first night match here in New York and it will be a cool atmosphere,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"Playing in the evening I have a bit more time to recover and prepare as much as possible, then we will see what happens.\"\n\nRaducanu has long been tipped as a future star by those who know her, but nobody would have predicted the ease with which she has breezed through the US Open main draw.\n\nShe has not even been taken to a tie-break, conceding just 22 games to her five opponents in the main draw.\n\nBeating Bencic means Raducanu will rise to the cusp of the world's top 50, in the process overhauling Johanna Konta and Heather Watson to become the British women's number one.\n\nOne more victory will lift her into the top 30 - moving her above American veteran Serena Williams, who did not play in this year's US Open because of injury.\n\nWhat Raducanu has achieved in her fairytale in New York Raducanu is the first qualifier to reach the last four at Flushing Meadows The 18-year-old is the fourth female qualifier to reach any Grand Slam semi-final She is the first British woman to reach a US Open semi-final since Jo Durie in 1983 Only the third woman ranked outside the top 100 to reach a US Open semi-final\n\nReaching the last four also guarantees $675,000 (£490,000) in prize money. Having only played three tour-level events before the US Open - including the last-16 run at Wimbledon - Raducanu had previously earned $303,376 (£220,380) in her career.\n\nWhatever happens on Thursday at Flushing Meadows, British doubles player Naomi Broady says she is convinced Raducanu will become a star in British tennis for many years to come.\n\n\"It is so exciting. Everyone can say we need to calm down, we've seen it before and nothing has come of it, but with what we've seen in this run, let us live in this moment of excitement,\" said Broady, who revealed she was texting Raducanu a few hours before Wednesday's quarter-final.\n\n\"I wasn't sure if she would be responding because I thought she might be off her phone.\n\n\"She was super relaxed - it was a totally normal conversation.\n\n\"You wouldn't have thought she was about to go on for her first Grand Slam quarter-final.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Think you know your sport?: Paddy McGuinness hosts brand new Question of Sport with Sam Quek and Ugo Monye\n• None Two bodies and one brutally authentic Swedish crime drama", "A fire risk assessor for Grenfell Tower was \"professionally reckless\" for signing off its cladding as safe without evidence, an inquiry has heard.\n\nExpert witness Dr Barbara Lane said Carl Stokes was not qualified to say the cladding complied with regulations.\n\nShe disagreed with another witness who had suggested it was reasonable for Mr Stokes to assume the cladding met fire safety regulations.\n\nThe deadly fire in June 2017 has been partly blamed on dangerous cladding.\n\nSeventy-two people died in the disaster in west London.\n\nThe second phase of the public inquiry is looking into the cause of the fire, including how the 24-storey tower came to be in a condition which allowed the fire to spread.\n\nFormer firefighter Mr Stokes won the contract to conduct fire risk assessments for the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (TMO) in September 2010.\n\nWhen he gave evidence to the inquiry in June, he admitted he based his fire risk assessment on an informal conversation with someone working for the main contractor at Grenfell Tower.\n\nDr Lane, a fire engineering and safety specialist, said this was \"professionally reckless behaviour\" and Mr Stokes' conclusion should have been supported by evidence.\n\nShe said he wrongly concluded in a report that the cladding was \"fire-rated\".\n\nIn April 2017, a few months before the fire, Mr Stokes also told the TMO which ran Grenfell Tower that \"the cladding complied with the requirements of the building regulations\".\n\nDr Lane said Mr Stokes was not qualified to make this statement and that in doing so he departed from the acceptable standards of a person providing safety advice.\n\nThe inquiry has already concluded that the aluminium cladding breached building regulations because it allowed the flames to spread.\n\nThe building control department of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has admitted failings in its assessment of the Grenfell Tower refurbishment. A police investigation is ongoing.\n\nHowever, Mr Stokes was employed to do regular risk assessments for the tower, and could have checked with others that a safe cladding system had been installed.\n\nA question for the inquiry will be whether that was his job.\n\nWhen he gave evidence Mr Stokes was adamant it was not. He said he did not even know Grenfell was being fitted with cladding until he walked past in 2014 and saw a sample for residents to assess.\n\nAn earlier expert witness, fire engineer Colin Todd, told the inquiry in July that assessing the cladding was beyond the expertise of risk assessors.\n\nHe said it was reasonable to assume the cladding complied with building regulations because the council's building control was involved.\n\nBut Dr Lane, who has been giving a week of evidence, said Mr Stokes should have checked whether the newly renovated walls of the tower complied with safety rules, as part of his inspection.\n\nIf you want to find out more about the Grenfell Tower public inquiry you can find all episodes of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast on the BBC website.", "The Covid infection rate in Scotland has again risen to its highest level since estimates began, with about one in 45 thought to have had it last week.\n\nThe latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection survey estimated 117,300 people had Covid in the week ending 3 September.\n\nIt was the highest rate of any of the UK nations and the most ever recorded.\n\nEngland was estimated to be one in 70, Wales was one in 65 and Northern Ireland was one in 60, the ONS said.\n\nThe figure for Scotland was a large increase on the previous week when it was one in 75.\n\nSarah Crofts, head of analytical outputs for the Covid-19 infection survey, said: \"Scotland now has the highest rates across the UK countries where infections have continued to increase sharply, reaching a new highest recorded level.\"\n\nThe ONS report also shows a breakdown of the age groups most affected by Covid, with those under 30 accounting for a large majority of the cases.\n\nPeople under 20 have a consistently high rate of infection.\n\nDuring the week of the latest survey the number of cases reported daily was very high, including a record 7,113 new cases confirmed by tests on 29 August.\n\nScotland's National Clinical Director Prof Jason Leitch said the ONS survey corresponded to the peak of infection 10 to 14 days ago and it was seen at the time in the daily numbers.\n\nHe said: \"Our daily numbers are still very concerning. It has been stuck at 6,000 or 7,000 for a couple of weeks now but it has not gone to 14,000 which is where I feared it might.\"\n\nOn Friday, the Scottish government said there were 6,815 new cases and 22 reported deaths of people who had tested positive.\n\nThere were 82 people in intensive care and 977 in hospital, more than double the number of a fortnight ago.\n\nProf Leitch told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme that almost 1,000 people were in hospital being harmed by the disease and that was a \"real concern\".\n\nHealth boards covering the Highlands, Grampian and Fife are the latest to warn of severe pressure on their services.\n\nThere is so little give in the system that most health boards have had to cancel all but emergency and urgent care.\n\nDoctors are having difficult conversations with patients as they have to delay surgery, knowing that something treatable now, might not be in a few months; ambulances are taking too long to get to patients because they are stuck for hours outside emergency departments waiting for a bed to become available; and GPs are unable to cope with the influx of patients who become sicker as they sit on waiting lists.\n\nEven if there are early signs that the growth in infections is starting to slow down, there are no signs the pressure on the NHS is beginning ease.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest Scottish government estimate suggests the average number of contacts people had increased by about 14% in the past two weeks.\n\nIt said contacts within a work setting had increased by 63%, while contacts in the home had remained the same.\n\nThe report also said the proportion of people using public transport had decreased in the past two weeks - down from 25% to 21%.\n\nAnd those visiting a pub or restaurant went down from 49% to 46%.\n\nOn Thursday the Scottish Parliament formally approved the introduction of vaccine passport measures for nightclubs and many large events from 1 October.\n\nThe SNP and Greens voted in favour while the proposals were opposed by the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats.", "Coverage: Radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live/BBC Sport website and app, with live text commentary on the website and app\n\nMy first sight of Emma Raducanu at this US Open came on one of those typical late summer New York days: oppressively hot and uncomfortably humid.\n\nThe 18-year-old was playing in the final round of qualifying, against Mayar Sherif of Egypt. And within minutes of sitting down to watch on court five, a colleague and I had turned to each other with the same thought: she really is an exceptional talent.\n\nRaducanu had secured some excellent wins since reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon in July, most notably in her run to the final of the WTA Challenger event in Chicago the previous week.\n\nBut having only arrived in New York on the Monday, and due to play three qualifying matches in three days from the Wednesday, there was some concern among the coaching team that fatigue may be an issue.\n\nA flight home had been booked for the following weekend, but that would prove an unnecessary precaution as the longest trip of Raducanu's life had plenty of miles left to run.\n\nThe first qualifier in history to reach a Grand Slam final takes the view you should try and live like a local when on the road. She tries to do her own shopping and likes to make her own breakfast. A lox bagel (of salmon and cream cheese) would be her first choice, and on the odd trip around Manhattan frozen yoghurt in Times Square does not go amiss.\n• None Emma Raducanu says reaching final is 'crazy, cool and absolutely mind-blowing'\n• None The making of Great Britain's US Open finalist Emma Raducanu\n\nRaducanu is here with coach Andrew Richardson, LTA physio Will Herbert and her IMG agent Chris Helliar. Iain Bates, the LTA's head of women's tennis, is also in New York and because Richardson is left-handed, he has been the nominated right-handed server in practice.\n\nHe has not seen so much of her in the evenings, though.\n\n\"It's not been a huge amount. She's very much kept herself to herself,\" he says.\n\n\"I had dinner with Andrew a couple of times, and her agent a couple of times, but not with Emma - she's just been doing whatever she's been doing in her hotel room and keeping herself to herself.\"\n\nSupport has also been provided by Tim Henman, who is working for television in New York, and Andy Murray, who has been watching avidly from the UK. Raducanu also spoke backstage to Virginia Wade after her fourth round victory.\n\nLittle did she know then that she would soon become the first British woman to reach a Grand Slam final since Wade at Wimbledon in 1977.\n\nThe list of media demands has grown as the fortnight has progressed. We have been granted among our first, in-person (masked) radio interviews since the pandemic began, and there has been interest from the New York Times, Fox Asia, the Japanese broadcaster Wowow, and even Der Spiegel magazine from Germany.\n\nAs well, naturally, as ESPN - the host broadcasters in the United States. Raducanu has been engaging and charming throughout, and won a new fan on her regular visits to the ESPN set.\n\n\"She has the same grace that she has on court,\" host Chris McKendry told me.\n\n\"She's very calm, she's very collected. She's composed, very well spoken. I love her story of going to traditional school and having her friends outside tennis who have kept her very grounded.\n\n\"She seems to be very interested in other topics. The other day we were talking about her studies and she has a very good brain for numbers. She told me on her bucket list is a visit to Wall Street.\n\n\"I don't want to get her hopes up but often if you win this tournament they have you ring the opening bell for the exchange. It's not often an 18-year-old champion tennis player wants to sit down and talk about Wall Street.\"\n• None BBC TV to show highlights of US Open final\n• None How Emma Raducanu became the first qualifier to reach a Grand Slam final\n\nAll Raducanu's challenges have been met head on. She fell asleep at 9pm on the night the torrential rain and tornado warning brought so much flooding and destruction to the region.\n\nThe following morning, she was due to play her second-round match against Zhang Shuai at 11am local time. The journey in from Manhattan took a full 90 minutes. Raducanu missed her initial practice session, but seemed totally unperturbed.\n\nPlaying in the Arthur Ashe Stadium is also not to be taken lightly. There are seats for 24,000 people, 360 LED lights shining down from the roof during the night session, and 10 metre-high digital billboards which spell out the names of the players in large, bold, flashing lettering.\n\nAnd then there is the time away from home. The trip is now in its seventh week, a stark contrast to the 15 months spent at home studying and training during the pandemic.\n\nBut that is perhaps where Emma Raducanu has more in common with any other teenager.\n\n'Are you missing your parents, and missing home?' I asked her once, in reference to the weeks spent in San Jose, Pennsylvania, Chicago and now New York.\n\n\"Isn't it every 18-year-old's dream?\" was her nicely-timed reply.", "The government has confirmed plans to speed up the process of obtaining an HGV driver licence, amid a nationwide shortage of drivers.\n\nUp to 50,000 more HGV driving tests will be made available each year by shortening the application process and the tests themselves, it said.\n\nThe UK faces a shortfall of around 90,000 drivers, which has hit the supply of food, petrol and other goods.\n\nHowever, industry groups said the new plans did not go far enough.\n\nLorry driver shortages have been blamed on EU workers leaving the UK following Brexit as well as during the pandemic and tax changes making it more expensive for drivers from elsewhere in Europe to work or be employed in the UK.\n\nThere have also been complaints about a backlog of driver tests.\n\nIn a written statement to the House of Commons, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the government would now overhaul regulations to boost capacity, meaning:\n\nMr Shapps said the changes, which still need to be approved by parliament, will generate additional test capacity \"very rapidly\".\n\nHe added: \"These changes will not change the standard of driving required to drive an HGV, with road safety continuing to be of paramount importance.\"\n\nIndustry groups are sceptical about the plans - elements of which were published earlier this week - warning that they could affect safety.\n\nThey also reiterated calls for temporary work visas to woo back around 20,000 EU drivers who have left the industry - something the government has rejected.\n\nMore than 6,300 lorry drivers spent Christmas 2020 queuing to enter the Port of Dover when France closed its border with the UK\n\n\"This is a sensible move but it's not enough to fix the problem,\" Paul Jackson, managing director of Peterborough-based cold and chilled food logistics firm Chiltern Distribution told the BBC on Thursday.\n\n\"We don't put newly-qualified drivers straight behind the wheel on their own. We buddy them up with experienced drivers for the first eight to 10 weeks and the insurance costs for new drivers are also much higher.\n\n\"We desperately need to put HGV drivers on the list of skilled workers we can bring in from abroad.\"\n\nRichard Burnett of the Road Haulage Association said the industry was losing 600 drivers a week and it would take nearly two years to fill the net shortfall.\n\nA host of companies have been hit by the driver shortage, while some are offering higher wages and retention bonuses to woo recruits.\n\nAnd BP temporarily closed a \"handful\" of its UK sites, due to not being able to get petrol and diesel to them.", "Activists from far-right groups protested in London during Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020\n\nThe \"toxic\" issue of racism is fuelling a growing threat from the far right, the head of MI5 has warned.\n\nKen McCallum said MI5 was seeing teenagers as young as 13 drawn into extremist activity, often online.\n\nBut there was no sign of foreign states trying to sow divisions over race and the UK had to look closer to home to understand the problem, he said.\n\nHe also urged the public to be as vigilant about threats from \"hostile states\" as from terrorism.\n\nBut he said MI5 was alert to the possible return of terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.\n\nGiving an overview of of threats facing the UK, Mr McCallum said extreme right wing terrorism was \"sadly here to stay\", with 10 of 29 attack plots disrupted in the last fours years linked to it.\n\nAnd it was a threat fuelled, in part, by racism, he said.\n\n\"Racism is a toxic issue that MI5 confronts every day, most visibly in our work to deal with extreme right-wing terrorism. Racism is not the sole and only fuel of that threat, but it is strongly there.\"\n\nHe said in the past there had sometimes been disinformation campaigns from states abroad seeking to drive wedges on issues such as race but this was not common. \"We don't currently see particular bits of state-generated misinformation as being a major slice of the problem.\"\n\n\"If we were to find ourselves overly looking to blame abroad for this phenomenon of racism, we might risk not owning a portion of the problem that is ours within our own country,\" he added.\n\nHe said teenagers were a growing part of counter-terrorist case work, especially with the far right. This was most likely because of the strong online element of the problem, with the youngest person MI5 had come across aged 13.\n\nMI5 has been focused primarily on Islamist-linked terrorism for the past 20 years since the attacks of 11 September 2001, launched by al-Qaeda from its base in Afghanistan.\n\nAnd with Western troops now leaving Afghanistan, he acknowledged the potential danger of Islamist terrorist groups trying to rebuild their capabilities there.\n\n\"If pockets of ungoverned space open up, some terrorist groups might, for example, try to re-establish some training facilities there as we've seen in the past. It doesn't automatically follow that they would then build from there to try to direct terrorist attacks against the UK, for example, [but] that is clearly a possibility to which we must be alert,\" he said.\n\nHe said terrorists would be starting from a low base after 20 years of efforts against them but MI5 would now have to shift to a different mode of operation to deal with the threat, similar to the way it dealt with threats from Somalia.\n\nMembers of \"The Base\" far-right group have tried to groom teenagers in the UK\n\nThe MI5 chief also attacked Facebook and other tech companies for planning to roll out end-to-end encryption for some of its platforms, such as Messenger. This would make it impossible for the companies to hand over the content of users' messages to the authorities because they would no longer have access themselves.\n\n\"End-to end-encryption done in the way Facebook is currently proposing will hand a gift to the terrorists MI5 has to find and tackle - and a gift to the child abusers our colleagues in the National Crime Agency need to find and tackle,\" he said.\n\nHe said the tech companies had lived up to their responsibility to remove terrorist content from their platforms. But he said he wanted to make a public plea for them to engage seriously with governments - or him personally - to design in public safety alongside privacy in the future.\n\nMI5 is doubling the amount of resources it is putting into countering the threats from hostile states, Mr McCallum revealed. These could include disruptive cyber-attacks, misinformation, espionage and interference in politics - and were usually linked to Russia, China and Iran.\n\nHe said these \"less visible threats\" had \"the potential to affect us all\" by impacting jobs and public services and could even lead to loss of life.\n\nHe said MI5 had disrupted plans since the Salisbury poisoning of 2018 which might possibly have involved attacking or killing individuals in the UK - but would not provide further details.\n\nHe confirmed reports that last autumn there had been an episode of Russian generated misinformation or disinformation in respect to the Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Attempts to interfere in public life were increasing, he said, although they were not always successful.\n\nHe talked about the need for new legislation, which is currently being consulted on, to deal with such hostile state activity.\n\nMr McCallum also extended deepest sympathies to those who lost loved ones in terrorist attacks or state aggression and said MI5 was committed to learning any lessons necessary from events like the attack on Fishmongers' Hall and on the Manchester Arena.\n\nSpeaking at MI5 headquarters in Thames House, Mr McCallum also said he had cheered on the England football team - apart from for the 90 minutes when they played against Scotland - saying: \"Even for a Scotsman, there was a great deal to like in this England team.\"\n\nHe said as he watched the penalty shoot-out on Sunday night he felt a parallel with his staff of \"capable, brave young people of all races giving their all for the country\". But he added: \"You don't always win.\"", "Brothers Rhys and Llyr Ifans rekindle their on-screen relationship 24 years on from Twin Town\n\nThe stars of 1990s film Twin Town have reunited for a new work written in the pandemic and filmed on smartphones.\n\nRhys Ifans, Dougray Scott and Keith Allen all star in the romantic comedy La Cha Cha, set in Wales, which premiered in a rugby stadium on Friday.\n\nThe all-star cast had to create a bubble during filming on a 23-acre set on the Gower Peninsula near Swansea.\n\n\"We got to escape the bleak monotony of a pandemic to bring some joy, lunacy and liberty to the world,\" said Ifans.\n\nThe Notting Hill and Harry Potter star hailed director Kevin Allen, the mastermind behind Twin Town, for \"boosting a nation's mental health with the little piece of heaven that is La Cha Cha\".\n\nThe film describes itself as a \"companion piece\" to Twin Town, the dark-comedy set in Swansea centred around the Lewis twins - played by real-life brothers Rhys and Llyr Ifans - which was released in 1997.\n\nFor legal reasons, the new movie cannot be classified as a sequel to Twin Town, and returning actors will not be playing the same characters.\n\nMelanie Walters, who played Gwen Shipman in hit BBC TV series Gavin and Stacey, also stars alongside guest appearances from rugby greats Alun Wyn Jones, James Hook, Scott Quinnell and Sean Fitzpatrick.\n\nRhys Ifans starred in Twin Town alongside his brother Llyr and Dougray Scott\n\n\"There's lots of references to Twin Town in it and Alun's one of them,\" Allen told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nThe rugby influence continues as the Scarlets rugby team were \"heavily involved\" during filming, providing a fireworks display for the finale and hosted their premiere at their Parc Y Scarlets Stadium in Llanelli on Friday.\n\nWales rugby greats Alun Wyn Jones and James Hook star in the film alongside MMA fighter John Phillips\n\nThe independent film, which producers describe as a \"counterculture romantic comedy with a big heart\", is about a road-tripper who goes to scatter his grandfather's ashes stumbles on a rural campsite full of retired characters living off-grid.\n\nThe director came up with the idea during the Covid lockdown after his film course shut and he had a \"huge hole in my world\".\n\nDougray Scott returned to Wales to join the remainder of the Twin Town cast for a \"companion piece\"\n\n\"I was stuck on this farm in the Gower not really knowing what lockdown was going to bring,\" said Allen.\n\n\"So I thought I'd write a movie, which I did. Then thought, 'why not get the Twin Town cast back for a laugh?'\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by BBC Wales News This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\n\"I think lockdown was responsible for getting everyone back together as we just found so many people at loose ends.\n\n\"We made the movie on peanuts, it kind of came out of thin air as most the cast was available.\n\n\"It was just a collective happening really… something that just evolved into a huge amount of fun.\"\n\nLiam Hourican plays the film's lead Solti Buttering who arrives in the Gower to scatter his grandfather's ashes\n\nLlyr Ifans felt the \"only connection\" with Twin Town was that most of the cast were in the 1997 Brit flick as the storylines are very different.\n\n\"Over the years, Kevin Allen has been very loyal of his cast in the original film casting us parts in other things,\" he told BBC Radio Cymru.\n\n\"This was an opportunity for us to pay him back because he was planning to open a film school and then he lost the money during Covid so everyone did it for free.\"\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic complicated filming arrangements as crew created an isolated bubble, living in caravans and tents on a farm.\n\n\"It was a real joy to be back in Wales filming with a lot of naked Welsh people,\" said Dougray Scott, the Mission: Impossible 2 and Ever After star.\n\n\"I loved filming with the Twin Town crew. I was honoured to be part of this, I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather film.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is Twin Town's follow-up about?\n\nThe film was made in \"extraordinary circumstances\", shot entirely on smartphones, using anamorphic lenses to create a film fit for the cinema - and on a \"shoestring budget\" ahead of its Welsh release on Friday 17 September.\n\n\"I'm amazed at the brilliant cast, crew and local suppliers who came together to creatively collaborate on what I hope is a very special film,\" added Allen.\n\n\"It's really important to me that the film was made in Wales. I think we need more stuff based in Wales coming out of Wales.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ant and Dec, Line of Duty, Corrie and more - watch the highlights of the National Television Awards 2021\n\nAnt and Dec have underlined their status as the nation's favourite TV hosts after their 20th consecutive win at the National Television Awards.\n\nThe pair, whose full names are Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, have won the best TV presenter trophy at every NTAs ceremony since 2001.\n\nDonnelly described their win as \"overwhelming\", while McPartlin said: \"You've no idea how special this is.\"\n\nThe night's other winners included Line of Duty, Gogglebox and It's A Sin.\n\nThe BBC, ITV and Channel 4 dominated the top categories - with the Ricky Gervais's Netflix comedy After Life marking the only prize for a streaming service.\n\nAccepting their 20th award for best TV presenter, McPartlin said: \"Thank you very much indeed.\n\n\"We were talking in the car on the way here and the first year we won a NTA, Tony Blair was the prime minster and Newcastle United qualified for the Champions league. That just goes to show how long ago that was.\n\n\"But this one means the most - 20 years, I'm shaking.\"\n\nMcPartlin and Donnelly celebrated their first TV presenting prize at the NTAs in 2001 alongside boyband Blue\n\nDonnelly added: \"It's pretty overwhelming to be honest with you. So much has changed in both of our lives since 2001, but one thing that hasn't changed is how unbelievably grateful we are that you take time, year after year, to vote for us and put us up here.\"\n\n\"We are so honoured and humbled and grateful. It means the absolute world.\"\n\nLine of Duty received a special recognition award and was also named best returning drama, despite complaints from some viewers who were disappointed by the conclusion of the sixth series.\n\n\"This means so much,\" said star Martin Compston as he thanked viewers and paid tribute to creator Jed Mercurio.\n\n\"We started as a wee show on Wednesday night on BBC Two, and now we're the biggest drama on TV. And it's all because of the fans, we owe everything to you,\"\n\n\"We genuinely don't take this for granted, thank you and who knows - maybe we'll be back again.\"\n\nLine of Duty star Martin Compston (third left) teased that the police drama could return in the future\n\nAccepting the prize for best factual programme, Gogglebox star Julie Malone paid tribute to the four stars of the show who have died since the last NTAs ceremony - Andrew Michael,Pete McGarry,Mary Cook and June Bernicoff.\n\n\"I'd like to dedicate this award to all the people we've lost sadly over the past 18 months,\" Malone said. \"Andy, Pete, Mary and everybody's favourite grandma, June, who's now reunited with Leon.\"\n\nKate Garraway won the new authored documentary category for Finding Derek, which followed her husband Derek Draper's long battle with Covid-19.\n\nDraper battled with the virus which had ravaged his body for more than a year before finally returning home in April.\n\n\"Thank you so much for voting,\" Garraway said. \"I wonder if the reason why you did is that our story is your story. I think we've all been touched by the pandemic, whether it's livelihoods, mental health, all the other extraordinary documentaries that have been highlighted and nominated tonight, they've also been affected by the pandemic.\"\n\nShe told families still suffering the effects of coronavirus: \"Whatever you're going through, you're not forgotten. We want the joy back. We want it to be over, but if you're still living with the scars, the fight goes on.\n\n\"But most of all, Derek, who should be here and should have had the chance to tell his own story - Derek, you're going to get the chance, believe. The hope is real.\"\n\nKate Garraway became the first winner of a new award for authored documentary for her programme Finding Derek\n\nChannel 4 drama It's a Sin, which followed a group of friends in the 1980s during the Aids crisis, was named best new drama.\n\n\"Honestly this show is so brilliant from everybody in the cast to the crew, production, behind the scenes. It was the hugest privilege of my life to be a part of it,\" said the show's star Olly Alexander.\n\nWriter Russell T Davies added: \"This is a story in which many people lost their lives, so it's nice to dedicate this to those we lost, those who lived, those who learned, and those we loved.\"\n\nA video montage introduced by Sir Trevor McDonald reflected on the impact Covid-19 had on the UK, as well as rounding up other major news events since the last NTAs ceremony aired in January 2020.\n\nThe death of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prime Minister Boris Johnson being admitted into intensive care after contracting Covid-19, the announcement of the vaccine and England making it to the Euro 2020 final were all highlighted in the montage which reflected an eventful 18 months for the UK.\n\nPhillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby accepted This Morning's award for best daytime programme\n\nBruce Forsyth entertainment award - I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!\n\nI'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! won the Bruce Forsyth entertainment award for a series which switched the Australian jungle for a Welsh castle due to travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.\n\n\"It was a real change to do it in Wales last year but it was absolutely brilliant,\" said McPartlin. \"We loved it, we loved doing it there, and we can't wait to go back and do it again this year.\"\n\n\"I can't tell you what a joyous show it was to work on, every single person we encountered was amazing, my campmates were incredible, and the reception when we left was just beyond. It was amazing to know we were a part of a strange time. Thank you very much!\"\n\nBake Off winner Peter Sawkins made a speech, while the show's judges and presenters dialled in virtually\n\nThis Morning was named best daytime programme, with host Philip Schofield telling the audience: \"The last 18 months have been amazing for all of us.\"\n\nReferring to the disruption caused by the pandemic, he said: \"Because of the brilliance of ITV and our team, we could stay on air. We felt like we were everyone's comfort blanket, and you [the viewers] were our comfort blanket, and we were all in it together.\"\n\nThe Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood also acknowledged the impact of the pandemic while accepting the award for best challenge show.\n\n\"A big thank you for this award, it means a lot to everybody,\" said Hollywood. \"Last year was particularly difficult during Covid, but we had to do the show because we wanted to put a smile on your faces.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A private service of remembrance has been held in the September 11 Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square, London\n\nThe Queen has sent a message to US President Biden marking 20 years since the 11 September attacks, saying her thoughts and prayers are with the victims, survivors and their families.\n\nIn her message, she also paid tribute to the resilience of the communities who joined together to rebuild.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the terrorists had failed to \"shake our belief in freedom and democracy\".\n\nAfter sunset, 67 candles were lit to remember the British victims.\n\nCommemorations have been taking place at a memorial garden in Grosvenor Square, London, where a private service of remembrance was held earlier, organised by a support group for victims' families.\n\nOther events have been held around the world to remember the 2,977 people killed.\n\nThe attacks, which were planned by al-Qaeda from Afghanistan, saw four US passenger jets seized by suicide attackers - two of which were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York.\n\nAnother plane crashed into the Pentagon, just outside US capital Washington DC, and a fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back.\n\nCandles have been put out in the September 11 Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square, London, to remember British victims\n\nPeople comforted each other after attending the Memorial Garden\n\nFlowers have been laid in Grosvenor Square\n\nIn her message to President Biden, the Queen said: \"As we mark the 20th anniversary of the terrible attacks on September 11 2001, my thoughts and prayers, and those of my family and the entire nation, remain with the victims, survivors and families affected, as well as the first responders and rescue workers called to duty.\n\n\"My visit to the site of the World Trade Center in 2010 is held fast in my memory.\n\n\"It reminds me that as we honour those from many nations, faiths and backgrounds who lost their lives, we also pay tribute to the resilience and determination of the communities who joined together to rebuild.\"\n\nAnd in a defiant message to mark the anniversary, the prime minister said while the terror threat remained, people refused \"to live in permanent fear\".\n\n\"That we are coming together today - in sorrow but also in faith and resolve - demonstrates the failure of terrorism.\"\n\nThe Queen laid a wreath at Ground Zero during her 2010 visit\n\nEvents have also been taking place at Windsor Castle, where a special changing of the guard ceremony took place, during which the US national anthem was played. It was an echo of the playing of the Star Spangled Banner at Buckingham Palace 20 years ago on the day after the atrocity, as a gesture of solidarity.\n\nThere was a minute's silence after the Band of the Welsh Guards performed the anthem, watched by hundreds who had gathered at the castle.\n\nActing US ambassador Philip T Reeker said the events were a reminder that the US had \"no closer ally and no closer friend in good times and in bad times\" than the UK.\n\nHe said: \"This has shown the special relationship remains so crucial to all of us.\"\n\nMr Reeker was among those attending another event at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, organised by education charity Since 9/11 for survivors of the attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says terrorism failed to drive US and UK apart\n\nDuring the commemoration, the message from the PM was played, in which he said recent events in Afghanistan had only strengthened people's belief in freedom and democracy.\n\n\"Twenty years ago, September 11 2001 became, in President Roosevelt's words after Pearl Harbor, a 'date which will live in infamy',\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"On a crystal clear morning, terrorists attacked the United States with the simple goal of killing or maiming as many human beings as possible, and by inflicting such bloodshed in the world's greatest democracy, they tried to destroy the faith of free peoples everywhere in the open societies which terrorists despise and which we cherish.\"\n\nFlowers left by Boris Johnson at the garden in Grosvenor Square, bearing a message \"in defiance of those who would have us live in fear\"\n\nMr Johnson said that \"precisely because of the openness and tolerance of the United States\", people of almost every nationality and religion were among those murdered that day.\n\n\"But while the terrorists imposed their burden of grief and suffering, and while the threat persists today, we can now say with the perspective of 20 years that they failed to shake our belief in freedom and democracy; they failed to drive our nations apart, or cause us to abandon our values, or to live in permanent fear.\"\n\nThe US national anthem was played during the Changing of the Guard at Windsor Castle on Saturday\n\nA minute's silence was also held at Windsor Castle earlier\n\nTony Blair, who was prime minister at the time, also recorded a message for the event, saying the thinking of the 9/11 terrorists was \"filled with hatred, an ideology at violent odds with a world seeking to flourish across boundaries of faith and culture\".\n\nIt is as \"flawed and irrational\" today as it was 20 years ago, he said.\n\nOn 11 September, 2001, Andrew Cullen - originally from Motherwell in North Lanarkshire - arrived at work on the 89th floor of the South Tower. Soon afterwards, he heard an explosion in the North Tower.\n\n\"Myself and three colleagues made the decision to get out of the building, so we headed towards the stairwell and began descending from the 89th floor down to the Sky Lobby at the 44th floor,\" he said.\n\n\"It was at that point that the port authority instructed us to go back to our offices, so they sort of shuffled us into one of the freight elevators.\n\n\"At that point the button for 78 was lit but we decided we wanted to go down, so I was the one who pounded the lobby button just a few moments before the second plane hit the tower above us.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the anniversary was about remembering and honouring those who were killed and showing \"support to our American friends as they mark this difficult time in their history\".\n\nHe said the tragedy was \"still so raw\", with the consequences of the attacks \"still being felt to this day\".\n\n\"But as we mark this anniversary, I'm convinced our resolve has never been stronger,\" he said. \"We will continue to fight terror and violence, by promoting our values of justice and peace.\"\n\nThe Labour leader laid flowers in the September 11 Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square, London\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the lives of innocent people, including the 67 Britons, would be remembered, adding: \"Our values of freedom, tolerance and respect will always, always prevail. Hate will never win.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury said 20 years on it was still hard to articulate the sense of \"shock and horror\" felt around the world after the attacks - including \"the devastating loss experienced by so many people, and the fear and uncertainty that terrible day brought\".\n\nJustin Welby added: \"9/11 was a sharp reminder to us of the fragility of the privilege many of us have of living free of the threat of violence, while many in our world continue to wake to war or the fear of war.\"\n\nHe urged his followers to follow the example of the first responders to the Twin Towers and be willing \"to make sacrifices for the wellbeing of others\".", "Hundreds of new pensioners could face anxiety and stress owing to delays in payments of their state pension, campaigners have said.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions admitted that the pandemic and staffing issues had caused backlogs in payments to those reaching the age of 66.\n\nIt is understood that the number affected is in the low thousands, and officials have apologised to them.\n\nOne charity said that the problem could have a big impact on poorer claimants.\n\n\"For people who rely on the state pension as a relatively high proportion of their income it could be a bit of a disaster,\" said David Sinclair, director at the International Longevity Centre UK.\n\n\"The potential for anxiety and stress is huge.\"\n\nPensions Minister Guy Opperman told MPs that hundreds of department staff were being redeployed to deal with the backlog in payments.\n\nA DWP spokesman said: \"We are sorry that some new state pension customers have faced delays receiving payment.\n\n\"All those affected have been identified and we have deployed extra resources to process these as a priority. Any claims made today should not be subject to delay.\"\n\nThose without their money should be paid automatically, and Mr Opperman said that the system would be back to normal by the end of October.\n\nMr Sinclair said the episode shed a light on wider issues, and called on the DWP to ensure that the pension system was more automated. Those reaching state pension age are required to make a claim before payments start.\n\nHe said older people could be confused easily by the various requirements needed in the pension, tax and benefits systems.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: \"For many people living on the breadline it can be difficult to make ends meet, and so we urge the government to resolve this problem as soon as possible to ensure people who have reached their state pension age can access their money.\"\n\nThe DWP is already facing criticism and a heavy workload after it emerged that an estimated 200,000 female pensioners are collectively owed up to £2.7bn after the under-payment of state pensions owing to historic errors at the department.\n\nPensioners were also told earlier this week that the \"triple lock\" formula for annual state pension increases would be suspended for a year.\n\nThe move follows government concern that a big post-pandemic rise in average earnings would have meant pensions increasing by 8%.\n\nNow, the average earnings component will be disregarded in the 2022-23 financial year, with the rise based only on the higher of the consumer inflation rate or 2.5%.", "The pendant was discovered on farmland in Shropshire\n\nA gold Bronze Age pendant, described as one of the most important finds of the last 100 years, has gone on display for the first time.\n\nIt was discovered on farmland in Shropshire by metal detectorist Bob Greenaway in May 2018.\n\n\"I knew it was something special, but I didn't know it was going to be as special as it was,\" he said.\n\nMr Greenaway said he loved history since he was at school and began metal detecting nearly 25 years ago.\n\nHe said he had already made a \"good selection of bronze age finds\" before discovering the pendant.\n\n\"On this particular day, I just looked up and saw this raised area of the field and I thought I'll give that a go and then within an hour I'd discovered the sun pendant,\" he said.\n\nThe find has gone on display at the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, where it will stay until 12 December, before being moved to the British Museum.\n\nMr Greenaway said he found the pendant buried about eight inches (20 cm) under the soil.\n\n\"I held it in my hand and looked at it and thought 'it's perfect', and I was reluctant to turn it over.\n\n\"I thought it would have a big scrape across it, or a hole or something and I paused and then I turned it over and the other side was better.\n\n\"They'll still be talking about it in 1,000 years when I'm long gone.\"\n\nJill Cook, head of the department of Britain, Europe and pre-history at the British Museum, said it was the \"most wonderful thing\" found in Britain since she started working for the museum in 1986.\n\nShe said it was \"one of the most important finds of the last 100 years\".\n\nThey were able to carry out follow-up excavations at the site following Mr Greenaway's find.\n\nMs Cook said in February 2022 the pendant would become \"a big star\" of its Stonehenge exhibition.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu was not even a teenager when she had to make a big decision about her future.\n\nIt was a choice she made reluctantly.\n\nHaving been encouraged to take up a variety of sports by her father Ian - including horse riding, swimming and basketball - she was particularly enamoured with motocross.\n\n\"I was racing go-karts for a year or two when I was younger - about eight - and then at 10 I transitioned into motocross,\" she told Amazon Prime earlier this week.\n\n\"I'm into motor sports but I couldn't carry on with it as my tennis career progressed. It turned out pretty well.\"\n\nThat has proved to be an understatement. Little more than five years later, the 18-year-old has reached a Grand Slam final.\n\nWith a steely composure in executing her skills, and an effervescent personality endearing her to fans across the globe, Raducanu has emerged as a star.\n\nHaving burst on to the professional scene by reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon in July, she has surpassed that by winning the US Open in only her fourth tour-level event.\n\n\"She has a great attitude, she is smart and is doing extremely well - I'm sure she will continue along the right path,\" said Britain's former world number one Andy Murray.\n\nThe sporting prodigy shaped by her parents\n\nRaducanu's rise has been heavily influenced by her Chinese mother Renee and Romanian father Ian, who both work in the finance sector and moved to London from Canada when their Toronto-born daughter was two.\n\nFirst grabbing a tennis racquet at the age of five, Raducanu went on to join the Bromley Tennis Academy before her potential was spotted by the Lawn Tennis Association.\n\nThe governing body took Raducanu under its wing from an early age, with the youngster taking part in camps and trips abroad before progressing through the age groups.\n\nWhile that support has clearly been crucial, her parents' influence also continues to be evident in the way Raducanu remains composed on court and grounded off it.\n\n\"I think that the calmness and the mental strength definitely comes from my upbringing,\" she said this week.\n\n\"I think my parents have both instilled in me from a very young age to definitely have a positive attitude on court.\n\n\"When I was younger, it was definitely an absolute no-go if I had any sort of bad attitude. So from a young age, I definitely learned that and it's followed me until now.\"\n\nRaducanu's surprise run in New York has had a downside - her parents have been unable to see any of her matches in person.\n\nNor were they able to see the final - against another teenager in Canada's Leylah Fernandez - because of the strict travel restrictions to the United States.\n\n\"It's not possible, because you need a waiver and it takes a couple weeks for approval. It's too late and they won't be able to get one,\" said Raducanu, whose love of motorsport has remained strong.\n\nWhile she had long been tipped for stardom by those within British tennis, Raducanu was untested at the highest level before being given a wildcard for Wimbledon.\n\nRanked 336 in the world as she faced only her second tour-level event, Raducanu took everything in her stride on the way to the last 16.\n\nBut, then came a worrying moment. Having beaten two top-50 players at the All England Club, she had to retire from the fourth-round match with breathing difficulties and dizziness when trailing 6-4 3-0 against Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic.\n\nSpeaking after her first practice session in New York, Raducanu explained to BBC Sport how the experience had illustrated the physical improvements she had to make.\n\n\"I haven't done much work relative to these other girls who have been on tour for 10 years,\" she said almost three weeks ago.\n\n\"Then to be playing the intensity I was at for a couple of weeks in a row, it was something completely new to me.\"\n\nThat was achieved by playing more matches leading up to the US Open - reaching the quarter-finals of an ITF Tour event in Pennsylvania and the final of a WTA Challenger event in Chicago - and then coming through three rounds of qualifying at Flushing Meadows.\n\nHaving four days without a match between qualifying and her first-round match benefited Raducanu, as has having a day off to recover between the main-draw matches.\n\nAnother key element to her physical improvements has been the decision to bring physio Will Herbert into her team. Herbert is a former trainer with German men's world number four Alexander Zverev and former British number one Kyle Edmund - and according to Raducanu, he is her \"mechanic\".\n\nIdentifying what she needs to change to be more successful is a key part of Raducanu's make-up.\n\nFollowing her breakout Wimbledon exploits, Raducanu returned to being coached by Andrew Richardson - a former British tour player who she also worked with before she was a teenager - having been guided by the experienced Nigel Sears at the All-England Club.\n\nDiscussing the switch with BBC Sport before US Open qualifying, she spoke about the need for \"fresh eyes and a fresh voice\", saying Sears - who is best known for coaching former top-five ranked players Ana Ivanovic and Daniela Hantuchova - brought the most value at \"the top of the game\".\n\nIt is a move which has paid dividends.\n\nWorking with a variety of coaches has enabled Raducanu to \"take nuggets of information\" as she looks to build her own identity, says Anne Keothavong, captain of Britain's Billie Jean King Cup team.\n\n\"Emma is a sponge. She learns so quickly,\" said British doubles player Naomi Broady, who has been exchanging texts with Raducanu before her matches this week. \"She does all her match scouting as well, she loves it. She enjoys the educational side of tennis.\"\n\nKeothavong, speaking on Amazon Prime, added: \"Emma has got her own mind and builds her own picture of how she wants to play and perform.\"\n\nNaomi Cavaday, a former British tour player who also coached Raducanu when she was younger, backs up that view.\n\n\"She's a phenomenal worker, the best worker I've ever met and always has been,\" said Cavaday.\n\n\"Her demand of herself and her demand of her team has also been something incredible. You have to be on it when you're on court with Emma.\n\n\"Every single shot, she will be looking for analysis and asking questions - it has always been that way.\"\n\nThose close to Raducanu are cautious about heaping too much expectation on the teenager's shoulders.\n\nIain Bates, the head of British women's tennis, says it is important to \"live in the moment\" and leave predictions about her career trajectory until further down the line.\n\nThere are no guarantees for young players with talent. The story of Britain's Laura Robson - who reached the US Open fourth round as an 18-year-old in 2012 before her career was derailed by injury - is an example of that.\n\nBut if Raducanu does stay healthy, former Grand Slam champions Martina Navratilova and Virginia Wade predict she will win multiple Grand Slam titles.\n\n\"When you see that kind of talent, that won't be denied. The only thing that could deny is her body,\" said Czech-American Navratilova, who won 18 major singles titles.\n\n\"She is almost like a finished product when she is just getting started.\"\n\nBritish legend Wade, the last British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title, agrees.\n\n\"No question - I'm sure she will win majors,\" Wade said. \"But she will be sharing them with a handful who will be dominating the game.\"\n\nMurray, who won his first major aged 25 at the 2012 US Open, knows Raducanu's ability well - as he has practised with her at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton, while her former coach Sears is his father-in-law.\n\n\"Her attitude is fantastic, she trains hard, she practises well and I've not heard anyone around say a bad word about her,\" said the Scot.\n\nThe mature, engaging teenager ready to carry the mantle\n\nIn sport, fans and media are constantly on the lookout for the next talents who will break out - and British tennis has long been searching for a female star.\n\nChatty, bubbly and unfailingly polite, Raducanu is comfortable in the spotlight, as her interviews have proved. So too have the scenes of her interacting with fans in New York after her victories, enjoyment etched across her face as she poses for every selfie asked.\n\nThis week, she was presented to a new audience with a photoshoot and interview for fashion magazine Vogue.\n\nMaking quips about not missing her parents because it is every teenager's dream to be without them in New York, along with her natural giggles in post-match interviews, have also demonstrated how she possesses a sense of fun and is relaxed off court.\n\n\"One of the things I've been hugely impressed with is how calm she is and how she is taking it all in her stride,\" added the Lawn Tennis Association's Bates.\n\n\"On court, her level gets better and better as each match goes on. It is hugely exciting for British sport and British women's tennis.\"\n\nWhile Johanna Konta has reached two Grand Slam semi-finals in recent years, the buzz around Raducanu has been notably elevated.\n\n\"I can't explain how important it is,\" Wade said. \"It is the absolute thrill of someone who you can hopefully depend on and enjoying watching. She has been an inspiration.\n\n\"Girls are very mature really at 18. She is smart she thinks very well, she talks very well.\n\n\"I think she is going to be able to handle it, but there is an awful lot she will have to handle.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None How has the Premier League succeeded?: Fever Pitch tells the origin story via the stars that made it\n• None Listen to the best tracks from nominees and winners of the prestigious prize", "Charles and Katherine had been together since 1988\n\nThe husband of a Welsh person who died in the 9/11 attacks has recalled the last moment he saw his wife alive.\n\nCharles Wolf had been married to Katherine Wolf, from Swansea, for 13 years prior to the attacks.\n\nHis fight for compensation for the victim's families is told in the new Netflix film Worth and Mr Wolf is portrayed by Emmy winner Stanley Tucci.\n\n\"She went to work, I kissed her goodbye at 8:06, and I never heard from her again,\" Mr Wolf told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nKatherine started work on the 97th floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center just two weeks before the attacks.\n\nThe last time Charles saw her was as she left for work - 40 minutes later, the first plane would hit the north tower.\n\nKatherine Wolf's name is etched onto the 9/11 memorial in New York, where Charles Wolf will mark the 20th anniversary of the event this Saturday\n\n\"At 8:46 the first plane had hit her office directly, flew right over our apartment at less than 1,000ft above the ground.\n\n\"Someone on the street yelled that a plane had gone into the World Trade Center and I said 'are you kidding, my wife works there'.\"\n\nThree days after the attacks, Mr Wolf still had not received any confirmation about what had happened to Katherine, so he went to her company's headquarters, elsewhere in Manhattan.\n\n\"I walked in and I couldn't even say my name, I just froze, I tried to tell them who I was and I couldn't even get my name out.\"\n\nKatherine Wolf worked on the 97th floor of the north tower, for insurance firm Marsh & McLennan\n\nHe was then taken to meeting held by the company for families of those who worked in the north tower office.\n\nAn executive of the company told the group that the highest floor anyone had managed to escape from was the 91st, six floors below Katherine's office.\n\n\"When I heard that I said 'well that's it, no way, she's gone' I came to that conclusion myself.\n\n\"It was a relief, what's worse is not knowing.\"\n\nMr Wolf spent the years following the attacks campaigning for fairer compensation for the families of victims\n\nAfter the attacks Mr Wolf led a campaign to ensure the families and dependants of victims of the attacks were fairly compensated.\n\nHe was unhappy with the US-government run September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and the man who had been assigned to run it, attorney Ken Feinberg.\n\n\"I decided I was going to do something and the press would be my megaphone, and I was going to do it for the widows, and that's what I did,\" Mr Wolf said.\n\nHe set up the website fixthefund.org to pressure those in charge to allocate funds more fairly, and to more people, and it worked.\n\nAfter adequate changes were made Mr Wolf renamed his website The Fund is Fixed!\n\nHe applied for it himself in 2003.\n\nOscar-nominated actor Stanley Tucci portrays Charles Wolf in a new film, which also stars Michael Keaton and Amy Ryan\n\nHis story in Worth, which stars Oscar nominees Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci as Ken Feinberg and Mr Wolf respectively.\n\n\"The movie is actually very very good, I'm very pleased with it, as is Ken Feinberg,\" Mr Wolf said, but admitted he was not aware of who Tucci was before he was cast in the film.\n\nThe par met at Sundance Film Festival in Utah and Mr Wolf said: \"He knew who I was, I stood up to introduce myself, I said 'I'm Charles Wolf' he said 'I recognise you', we had a lovely personal talk afterwards, just alone, face-to-face.\n\n\"He said 'you know I lost my wife', I looked at him and asked if that was why he chose to do the film, he said it was a big part of it.\n\n\"We looked at each other, as only two men who had lost the love of their life can, we just about burst into tears the both of us, and we just grabbed and hugged each other, and just hugged and hugged and hugged.\"\n\nMr Wolf said it has been too emotional for him to make a return to Wales\n\nMr Wolf said he has not been to Wales since 2002, adding: \"I miss it, it's so beautiful and I really want to get back.\n\n\"Once 2003 happened and the [9/11] British memorial at Grosvenor Square opened up I knew I had to make the break, it was just too emotional to go back there.\"\n\nHe said he would always miss and love Katherine, but made a vow he would not let the terrorists take the rest of his life away.\n\n\"You have to be able to move along, moving on does not mean you've forgotten the person, moving on does not mean you don't love the person anymore.\n\n\"That person will look down upon you and say 'I want you to live the rest of your life happily', she was in my life for 13 years, and I am very very grateful for that, very grateful.\"", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nLawyers for the woman who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse claim they have successfully served him with legal papers.\n\nVirginia Giuffre has launched a civil case against the prince in New York - and legal papers have to be \"served\" before the case can proceed.\n\nHer lawyers say they were served on 27 August, being left with a police officer at Windsor's Royal Lodge.\n\nPrince Andrew denies all the claims made by Ms Giuffre.\n\nA spokeswoman representing the Duke of York has declined to comment on the latest development.\n\nA US judge must determine whether the papers were in fact \"served\" before any case can proceed.\n\nA video conference on the next stages of the case is scheduled for a New York court on Monday.\n\nAccording to court documents, an answer is due from Prince Andrew to the affidavit by 17 September and \"if you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint\".\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said it was still not clear yet whether Prince Andrew's legal team would accept that legal papers have been served.\n\nThe prince is currently at Balmoral, the Queen's Scottish estate.\n\nLegal papers say a process server working for Ms Giuffre's team arrived at the Royal Lodge on Thursday 26 August at 09:30 BST.\n\nThe man met security staff, left a business card, and was asked to wait.\n\nThe papers say he then spoke to police, including the head of security, who could not locate Prince Andrew's private secretary \"or anyone senior\".\n\nThe agent was told the security team \"had been told not to accept service of any court process\".\n\nHe was then given a solicitor's name and number, phoning him at 10:40, but did not get a response.\n\nOn Friday 27 August, the same process server returned to the Royal Lodge in Windsor and spoke to the \"head of security\".\n\nHe was advised the papers could be left with police at the main gates, which would be forwarded to the legal team.\n\nThe papers state: \"The deponent did enquire whether it was possible to meet personally with the defendant, but the deponent was told that this was not possible.\"\n\nMs Giuffre's legal team claim that by leaving the papers with the officer, the service was successfully completed.\n\nOur correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the tactics of Prince Andrew's legal team appeared to be just not to respond at all.\n\n\"We should keep in mind that shortly after he did withdraw from public life, Prince Andrew did say he would co-operate with any legitimate inquiries by the US authorities,\" he told BBC's Radio 5 live.\n\n\"I think it is fair to say the Americans would say that there has been little or indeed no evidence of any such co-operation by Prince Andrew.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew said in 2019 that he could not recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nMs Giuffre - an accuser of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who died in jail in 2019 - claims she was brought to the UK at the age of 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nShe filed a case against him last month in New York. It is a civil rather than criminal case - meaning Ms Giuffre wants the court to decide whether her allegations are true, and whether the duke should pay her damages.\n\nThe case alleges the prince sexually abused Ms Giuffre at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and the US Virgin Islands.\n\nIt claims the prince engaged in sexual acts without her consent, knowing how old she was and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC about Ms Giuffre's allegations in 2019, Prince Andrew said they \"never happened\".\n\n\"It didn't happen. I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever,\" he told BBC Newsnight.", "Pro-choice protesters outside the Texas State Capitol this month\n\nThe US Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit challenging Texas' controversial abortion law.\n\n\"The act is clearly unconstitutional,\" Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a briefing on Thursday.\n\nIt bans abortions from as early as six weeks into pregnancy and allows anyone to sue those involved in the procedure.\n\nDoctors and women's rights groups have strongly condemned the law, which took effect last week after the Supreme Court failed to block it.\n\nSB8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, came into effect last week after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal filed by abortion providers.\n\nIn an unsigned opinion, the court said that although the appeals had raised \"serious questions\" about the constitutionality of the law, it could not block it due to complex and \"novel\" procedural questions.\n\nThe lawsuit says: \"It takes little imagination to discern Texas's goal - to make it too risky for an abortion clinic to operate in the State, thereby preventing women throughout Texas from exercising their constitutional rights, while simultaneously thwarting judicial review.\"\n\nAt the briefing, Mr Garland said a \"scheme to nullify the Constitution of the United States is one that all Americans, whatever their politics or party, should fear\".\n\nHe said the greater risk was that other states might follow Texas' example with regards to any such rights, warning that his department would then bring similar lawsuits against them.\n\nDemocratic President Joe Biden has been under increasing pressure to act after the law went into effect on 1 September.\n\nLast week, Mr Biden vowed a \"whole-of-government\" response. He called the Supreme Court's decision to not block the law \"an unprecedented assault\" on women's rights.\n\nEarlier this week, the justice department announced it would protect Texas clinics that performed abortions.\n\nSB8 bans abortions following the detection of what anti-abortion activists call a foetal heartbeat.\n\nThe American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has said the term is misleading and what is being detected at such an early stage of pregnancy is a portion of foetal tissue \"that will become the heart as the embryo develops\".\n\nThe law also gives individuals the right to sue anyone who provides or facilitates access to an abortion past the six-week point. It does not allow the women who get the procedure to be sued.\n\nPeople who successfully sue under the law will be awarded at least $10,000 (£7,200), in addition to any legal fees incurred.\n\nCritics, like the American Civil Liberties Union, have said that this leaves the responsibility for enforcing it on individuals, rather than local or state officials, and could give rise to abortion \"bounty hunters\".\n\nTexas' Republican Governor Greg Abbott has defended the law, vowing that his state will \"always defend the right to life\".\n\nOfficials in several other US states have said they are considering similar laws.\n\nIn Florida, state Senate leader Wilton Simpson told reporters that the ban has \"encouraged\" local politicians, who are \"already working\" on a similar bill. South Dakota's governor Kristi Noem said she has directed her office's \"unborn child advocate\" to make sure the state has anti-abortion laws \"on the books\".", "The UK economy grew by just 0.1% in July as the last Covid restrictions were lifted in England.\n\nIt was the economy's sixth consecutive month of growth, but the increase was much lower than in the previous month, which saw 1% growth.\n\nArts, entertainment and recreation activities helped the rise, but the \"pingdemic\" kept many workers at home.\n\nThe UK economy is still 2.1% below its pre-pandemic peak, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe ONS said there had been a boost from outdoor events such as sports clubs, amusement parks and festivals following the easing of restrictions on social distancing on 19 July in England.\n\nHowever, the main contributor to growth was a 1.2% rise in production output, boosted by the reopening of an oil field production site, which was previously temporarily closed for planned maintenance.\n\nJonathan Athow, deputy statistician of the ONS, said: \"Oil and gas provided the strongest boost, having partially bounced back after summer maintenance. Car production also continued to recover from recent component shortages.\"\n\nMany firms suffered from a lack of staff during July as workers were forced to self-isolate at home after being alerted by the NHS Test and Trace app, giving rise to what was dubbed the \"pingdemic\".\n\nServices output was largely unchanged in July, but the construction sector contracted for a fourth consecutive month, with output down by 1.6%.\n\nConstruction has been affected by a shortage of building materials as prices have soared and supply has failed to match demand.\n\nOverall, GDP grew by 3.6% in the three months to July, the ONS said.\n\nThe latest figures will weigh on the minds of Bank of England policymakers, who must ponder the implications for UK monetary policy.\n\nOn Wednesday, Bank governor Andrew Bailey said the UK's economic bounce-back from the pandemic was showing signs of \"levelling off\", but he maintained the view that rising inflation would not turn out to be persistent.\n\nNatalie Bamford at Colleague Box's head office, known as the Smile Factory\n\nDerby-based firm Colleague Box has seen its fortunes intimately linked to the health of the economy during the pandemic.\n\nThe company allows both companies and individuals to send out gift boxes to friends, colleagues and relatives.\n\nWith remote working having become standard practice at many firms, its service has allowed them to show their staff they are still appreciated.\n\n\"The idea is that we stay connected even though we're apart,\" managing director Natalie Bamford told the BBC. \"It's a way of putting smiles on people's faces.\"\n\nHowever, the economic slowdown has not gone unnoticed at the firm.\n\n\"We did notice for the first time a slump in sales over August,\" Natalie says. \"We're assuming it was due to the summer holidays, but it makes you concerned as a small business owner.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic, Colleague Box has seen some companies send out gift boxes to their entire staff, \"particularly those working from home or on furlough\".\n\nAnd now that more people are returning to work, some firms are putting gift boxes on their desks to welcome them back.\n\n\"Returning to the office can be stressful and cause anxiety,\" says Natalie. \"It's going back to the work life that's become alien over the past year.\"\n\nColleague Box is now hoping that sales will pick up again in time for Christmas.\n\n\"I think we're still very much a nation that wants to celebrate things,\" says Natalie. \"We're clinging to these hallmark holidays, so I think Christmas is going to be big and that will be huge for the economy.\"\n\nProf Jagjit Chadha, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, told the BBC's Today programme that the increase for July was \"lower than most people expected\".\n\nBut he added: \"The economy is slowly getting back to its pre-pandemic level. There were always going to be potholes along the way.\"\n\nJuly's figures, showing the bounce-back in the economy stalling, make clear the recovery cannot be taken for granted. The cause, primarily, was the upsurge in cases across the UK, tempering the impact of the full reopening of the economy. But the impact of the supply chain crisis is also in these figures.\n\nWhile August should have been better, these figures are consistent with the now slow decline in furlough numbers. Monthly data is always volatile, but the pattern seems to be that the UK saw a very rapid initial bounce-back from the mere act of economic reopening.\n\nRecovery is going to be trickier as pandemic support is phased out and the impact of labour shortages and trade problems start to be seen in the figures. Talk of a \"boom\" was rather premature.\n\nSamuel Tombs of Pantheon Macroeconomics said the economic recovery had been \"stopped in its tracks\" by a surge in Covid cases in July.\n\nHe added that there were signs that the economy had regained momentum in August.\n\n\"Nonetheless, surveys continue to show that a large minority of households remain fearful of contracting Covid-19, even though they have been double-vaccinated.\n\n\"This suggests that the recovery in consumer-facing sectors might run out of steam again in the autumn if, as we expect, Covid-19 cases and hospital admissions remain on their current upward trend,\" he said.\n\nKitty Ussher, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said it appeared that \"England's thrilling run\" in the Euro 2020 tournament had boosted growth in June, leading to \"a bit of fall-back\" in July.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures showed the recovery was \"well under way\". But Labour's Bridget Phillipson, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said \"Conservative complacency\" was \"holding our country back\".", "The family of a 34-year-old domestic abuse victim have received a public apology following failings by police both before and after her death.\n\nThe body of Suzanne Van Hagen, from Birmingham, was found along with her partner's John Worton, by her nine-year-old daughter in February 2013.\n\nPrior to her death, incidents of domestic abuse were reported to West Midlands Police, yet no effective action was taken to protect her.\n\nDuring the subsequent investigation into her death, the force said it believed her death was an accidental overdose.\n\nHer family have fought for more than eight years to get to the truth and spoke exclusively to BBC Correspondent Sian Lloyd.\n\nInformation and support on domestic abuse can be found here.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Unless workers start taking the train again, there could be long-term adverse effects on city centres and High Streets, the rail industry has warned.\n\nTrain commuting is still just 33% of its pre-Covid rate, while car journeys have reached pre-pandemic levels, said the Rail Delivery Group (RDG).\n\nIf workers continued to go by road rather than rail, there would be more pollution, it added.\n\nCities could be hit by a double whammy of traffic jams and business closures.\n\nA 20% shift from rail to road would lead to 300 million extra hours of traffic congestion, the RDG said.\n\n\"With more workers set to return to offices this month, encouraging people to take the train for their commute will be vital to avoid empty shop fronts and polluting traffic jams in cities across the country,\" it added.\n\nThe RDG said rail journeys to and from work were expected to increase during September, but could take years to return to numbers seen in 2019.\n\nIt added that train commuters were vital to city centres and High Streets. Research carried out by WPI Economics for the RDG indicated that these commuters spent a total of £30bn a year on food and drink, shopping, entertainment and culture, boosting local businesses.\n\nAndy Bagnall, director general of the Rail Delivery Group, said that for many commuters, the future would undoubtedly involve a mix of home and office working.\n\nHowever, he added the extent to which people returned to the workplace, and whether or not they took the train to get there, would be crucial.\n\n\"When people take the train, it's more than a journey - it will impact the future of thousands of small businesses, local air quality and the government's net zero ambitions,\" he said.\n\nThe RDG said that although commuting and business journeys by rail were still well below pre-pandemic levels, leisure journeys were recovering more quickly, suggesting that many people felt confident travelling by train.\n\nTo encourage more people to take the train, the rail industry is running a national marketing campaign with the slogan, \"Let's get back on track\".\n\nRail companies have also introduced new Flexi Season tickets that provide a discount for commuters travelling into the office two or three days a week.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu is the first player in the Open era to reach the semi-finals of the US Open after starting in qualifying Coverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport website and app. Live text commentary and in-depth coverage on the website and app Emma Raducanu's US Open exploits are transcending tennis and capturing the public's imagination with the 18-year-old trending on Twitter and being congratulated by a rock star for reaching the semi-finals on her debut in New York. Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher , ex-England striker Gary Lineker and London mayor Sadiq Khan were among those queuing up to praise the British number-one-in-waiting following a quarter-final win over Swiss 11th seed Belinda Bencic. And that support was echoed on both sides of the Atlantic as Raducanu became the first player in the Open era to reach the last four of the American Grand Slam having started her campaign in qualifying. The Toronto-born sensation, who moved to Britain aged two, has powered her way to the semi-finals without dropping a set, with her ruthless groundstrokes complemented by a beaming grin and a sense that Raducanu is determined to soak up every moment of this dream run. Virginia Wade, the last British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title in 1977 at Wimbledon, says there is not a box the teenager's game does not tick, while Czech-American 18-time Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova says Raducanu boasts a \"really high tennis IQ and mental IQ\". She has demonstrated that with impressive shot selection, composure and an ability to adjust and adapt to combat her opponent's strengths, something Raducanu displayed in her impressive victory against Bencic.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone The teenager has also endeared herself to the Big Apple crowd - despite knocking out home hope Shelby Rogers in the last 16 - with applause rippling around the Arthur Ashe Stadium following every point she won against the Olympic champion on Wednesday. But that is nothing compared to the support Raducanu is garnering back home as British tennis fans continue to search for someone to grasp the Grand Slam-winning baton from Andy Murray. Raducanu 'in that handful who will be dominating tennis' - Wade \"Yes Emma\" and \"Go Emma\" were trending in the UK, while fans on social media waded in with suggestions to rebrand the SW19 slope known as Henman Hill: Raducanu Rise, anyone? But just 10 weeks ago, before her surge to the Wimbledon last 16, only the most ardent tennis fans knew the name of a teenager ranked outside the world's top 300. She had not played in the previous 15 months as the coronavirus pandemic wiped out the development tours underneath the main WTA Tour. Last month, Raducanu was collecting her A-level results - an A* in maths and an A in economics - and come Monday she will officially replace Johanna Konta as Great Britain's highest-ranked female player as she climbs to the cusp of the world's top 50. Judging by the articulate and considered post-match interviews the 18-year-old has delivered throughout this major, it is a mantle she will take in her stride. Alan Blount, the teenager's former headteacher at Newstead Wood School - also sprinter Dina Asher-Smith's old school - said despite playing elite sport and facing multiple lockdowns during her final years as a student, she kept her school work up to a high standard. \"We've watched her coming up through the ranks, and competing abroad then coming back into school has been her norm,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast. \"She's an amazing sports star but she is an amazing academic as well and I think that is part of the mindset we are seeing. She is thinking; she is outwitting her opponents. \"What you see is the Emma that we know. Seeing the enjoyment on her face is infectious. She is genuine and a really nice person and that comes across in her interviews.\" She will also have boosted her bank balance considerably, earning $675,000 (£490,000) for reaching the last four here and having taken home £181,000 in Wimbledon prize money. It has been a staggering ascent and one Raducanu says she did not expect - in fact, her flight home was booked for after the qualifying rounds, though she admits having to reschedule it is \"a nice problem to have\". Meanwhile, when her coaches were fretting about missing practice after being caught up in bad traffic because of Hurricane Ida, Raducanu was completely relaxed about the situation, raising her eyebrows and telling them \"it's OK if we miss it\". \"I don't really stress out over many things,\" she said. \"I trust myself and it's all mental at the end of the day.\" But while Raducanu may be merciless on court, she explains that any sort of \"bad attitude\" was \"an absolute no-go\" with her parents when she was growing up. \"I think that the calmness and the mental strength definitely comes from my upbringing,\" she said. \"I think my parents have both instilled in me from a very young age to definitely have a positive attitude on court. \"Out there on the court today, I was saying to myself, 'This could be the last time you play on Ashe, so might as well just go for it and enjoy everything'.\" The teenager, more than likely wearing her favourite red outfit once more as she is \"not going to change absolutely anything\" at this stage, will get another outing at the iconic New York venue when she takes on Greek 17th seed Maria Sakkari on Thursday (02:00 BST - Friday, 10 September - live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live). Despite entering the tie as the underdog, few will be writing off Raducanu this time, nor will she be putting any extra pressure on herself. \"To compare yourself and your results against anyone is probably like the thief of happiness,\" she said. \"I mean, I didn't compete for 18 months, but here I am, and it just shows that if you believe in yourself, then anything is possible.\"\n• None \"Sport can be an uncomfortable place\": Why are so many girls dropping out of sport?", "Car use in Britain is now up to or higher than before the first lockdown, while the number of people using public transport has lagged behind, data from the Department for Transport shows.\n\nThe data for cars compares the levels now as a percentage of the traffic on the first week of February 2020.\n\nThe figures for buses compares to the third week of January, and the data for national rail services is compared to the equivalent week in 2019.\n\nIt comes as the debate about getting more people on to public transport intensifies.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown - the end of March and start of April 2020 - there was between a quarter and a third of car traffic than there had been in the first week of February.\n\nNational rail use dropped to as low as 4% as the same week in 2019, and bus use outside London to as low as 10%.\n\nDuring the summer 2020, car traffic returned to around 90%-100% of February 2020 figures and didn't drop as low as levels in the first lockdown during subsequent lockdowns.\n\nBy this summer, car traffic on weekends has consistently been more than 100% of February 2020 levels, reaching as high as 111% on 15 August.\n\nBus and train use has increased since the first lockdown and during this summer, but is still far from the levels seen before the pandemic.\n\nBus use outside London this summer is about or below 60% during the week and under 80% on weekends. Meanwhile national rail use is still less than 60%.\n\nAlthough the statistics are released every week, they are of particular interest at the moment. As the end of the summer approaches, and with the COP 26 climate change conference approaching, arguments about car use are intensifying.\n\nPoliticians are facing more questions about how to get travellers out of cars and on to public transport. The annual decision on whether to raise rail ticket prices from next year has still to be made.\n\nPaul Tuohy, chief executive of Campaign for Better Transport, said: \"If this shift towards car use becomes entrenched, we will see increased carbon emissions, air pollution and traffic-clogged streets.\"\n\n\"With the effects of climate change being felt around the world, it's more important than ever that the government encourages people back onto public transport.\"\n\nFreezing rail fares for next year would be a good start, he said, but added: \"We really need to rebalance pricing towards greener modes: it makes no sense that bus and rail fares continue to rise while fuel duty for drivers has been frozen for a decade and the government is considering cutting air passenger duty.\"\n\nThe fact that car traffic is now at up to 111% of the comparable week in February 2020 does not mean this is an all time high, however. The analysis of the data says that traffic can vary by plus or minus by 20% over the course of a year.\n\nTrain companies are operating around 85% of services at the moment.\n\nA spokesperson for the Rail Delivery Group, which represents the industry, said: \"Since the relaxation of restrictions last month we have seen a 10% increase in rail journeys, driven by leisure travel, as more people take the train to see friends and family or to go on holiday.\n\n\"This is good news because when people travel by train it's more than just a journey, it's part of a clean, fair recovery as leisure travellers by train spending over £100 with local businesses while on their travels.\"\n\nA DfT spokesperson said: \"Our Safer Travel guidance is helping people to return confidently to all forms of transport, as we build back better and greener from the pandemic.\n\n\"We are working with industry experts to make all options of travel sustainable as we strive towards decarbonising our transport network and delivering net zero by 2050.\"", "Dame Cressida Dick is set to lead the Metropolitan Police until 2024\n\nDame Cressida Dick will serve an extra two years as Metropolitan Police commissioner, it has been confirmed.\n\nShe became the first woman to lead the London's force when she was appointed in 2017 and will remain until 2024.\n\nOn Wednesday, a number of high-profile signatories wrote an open letter accusing her of \"presiding over a culture of incompetence and cover-up\".\n\nDame Cressida, 60, said she was \"honoured and humbled\" to have her contract extended.\n\nAmong those who signed the letter calling for her to go were Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack, and Lady Brittan, whose home was raided when her husband Lord Brittan was falsely accused of child abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"Her extension will provide continuity and stability as we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic and recruit 20,000 additional police officers.\n\n\"Londoners know there is more to do to keep our capital safe, including by driving down violent crime, and I look forward to continuing to work with the commissioner and mayor of London to protect the public.\"\n\nHowever, former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor - whose home was raided during the flawed investigation into false claims of a VIP paedophile ring - said he was \"bitterly disappointed\".\n\nMr Proctor, who was one of the seven people who signed the letter calling for Dame Cressida to be replaced, said: \"I believe the government will rue the day of this terribly bad and wrong decision. It is obscene.\"\n\nProtesters demonstrate outside Scotland Yard over the treatment of people by police at the Sarah Everard vigil\n\nSince her appointment in 2017, Dame Cressida has been involved in several controversies.\n\nThe Met commissioner resisted pressure on her to resign in March when the force came under scrutiny over the handling of a vigil held in memory of Sarah Everard, the marketing executive murdered by then-Met Police constable Wayne Couzens.\n\nThree months ago she was personally criticised in a report examining police failings in the 1987 murder of the private investigator Daniel Morgan.\n\nDame Cressida was accused of obstructing access to documents and her force was denounced as \"institutionally corrupt\" - something she denied.\n\nThe Met has faced repeated accusations of racial bias in its use of stop-and-search powers and was hit with criticism over the security of Wembley stadium during the final of the Euro 2020 championships.\n\nSpeaking about the decision to extend her five-year contract, Dame Cressida said: \"I am immensely honoured and humbled to have been asked to extend my time as commissioner for a further two years.\n\n\"In the last four and a half years Met teams have dealt with some extraordinary challenges, including most recently in the pandemic, and delivered some fantastic results - critically, in reducing violent crimes.\n\n\"I'd like to thank the mayor, the home secretary and the prime minister for the confidence they have shown in me. I am acutely aware that there are many excellent leaders in policing.\"\n\nDame Cressida has the backing of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the prime minister and the home secretary\n\nIn a statement released before the contract extension was announced, the Metropolitan Police Federation said Dame Cressida had the \"full support of the rank and file\".\n\nThe federation, which represents more than 30,000 officers in London, said: \"It is easy to comment and criticise from the side-lines.\n\n\"We know her to be an ethical, courageous and highly competent police leader who genuinely cares about London, its citizens and her officers.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"This will provide the experienced and strong leadership we need as our city emerges from the pandemic.\n\n\"The Met commissioner has the most difficult policing job in the country, overseeing the safety of more than 10 million people living, working and visiting our global city.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "No-one had done the basic investigation to determine how this would affect the animal\n\nAn experiment that hung rhinoceroses upside down to see what effect it had on the animals has been awarded one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes.\n\nOther recipients included teams that studied the bacteria in chewing gum stuck to pavements, and how to control cockroaches on submarines.\n\nThe spoof prizes are not as famous as the \"real\" Nobels - not quite.\n\nThe ceremony couldn't take place at its usual home of Harvard University in the US because of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll the fun occurred online instead.\n\nThe science humour magazine, Annals of Improbable Research, says its Ig Nobel awards should first make you laugh but then make you think.\n\nAnd the rhino study, which this year wins the award for transportation research, does exactly this. What could seem more daft than hanging 12 rhinos upside down for 10 minutes?\n\nBut wildlife veterinarian Robin Radcliffe, from Cornell University, and colleagues did exactly this in Namibia because they wanted to know if the health of the animals might be compromised when slung by their legs beneath a helicopter.\n\nEndangered black rhinos are moved to ensure genetic diversity in breeding\n\nIt's an activity that increasingly has been used in African conservation work to shift rhinos between areas of fragmented habitat.\n\nHowever, no-one had done the basic investigation to check that the tranquillised animals' heart and lung function coped with upside-down flying, said Robin.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Namibia was the first country to take a step back and say, 'hey, let's study this and figure out, you know, is this a safe thing to do for rhinos?\"\n\nAnd so, his team, in collaboration with the Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism, suspended 12 tranquillised black rhinoceroses by their feet from a crane, and measured their physical responses.\n\nIt's actually better for the rhino to be held by its ankles than put on its side\n\nIt turns out, the animals coped very well. In fact, there was evidence the rhinos did better in this unusual position than simply lying chest down or on their side.\n\n\"I think the reason for that is, when a rhino is on its side, you have positional effects of blood flow. So in other words, the lower parts of the lung are getting lots of blood flow for gas exchange, but the upper part of the lung, just because of gravity, is not getting perfused well, so when a rhino is hanging upside down, it's basically like it's standing upside up; the lung is equally perfused.\n\n\"We've also seen that rhinos that are on their side too long, or on their sternum, especially - they get muscle damage, they get myopathy, because they're so heavy. And there's no pressure on their legs, other than the sense of the strap around their ankle,\" Robin explained.\n\nThe rhino team received their prize from chemistry Nobel Laureate Rich Roberts (bottom-left)\n\nAs has become customary with the Ig Nobels, the prizes on the night were handed out by real Nobel laureates, including Frances Arnold (chemistry, 2018), Carl Weiman (physics, 2001), and Eric Maskin (economics, 2007).\n\nThe winners got a trophy they had to assemble themselves from a PDF print-out and a cash prize in the form of a counterfeit 10 trillion dollar Zimbabwean banknote.\n\nAsked what he'd do with his \"cash\" payout, Robin Radcliffe said with a chuckle: \"We are always looking for grant funding.\n\n\"When I first heard about the Ig Nobel, I wasn't sure if this was good or bad. But I think that message that 'it makes you laugh and then think' - this is what it's about for us. More and more people should understand what efforts are going on to try to help save these amazing animals that live here on Planet Earth with us.\"\n\nTeam-member and wildlife doctor Pete Morkel added: \"This has really changed rhino translocation, and even more so elephant translocation. Picking these big animals up by their feet - it's now accepted. The next thing we've got to do is some research on other species like buffalo, hippo, and maybe even giraffe.\"\n\nBiology Prize: Susanne Schötz, for analysing variations in purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat-human communication.\n\nEcology Prize: Leila Satari and colleagues, for using genetic analysis to identify the different species of bacteria that reside in wads of discarded chewing gum stuck on pavements in various countries.\n\nChemistry Prize: Jörg Wicker and colleagues, for chemically analysing the air inside movie theatres, to test whether the odours produced by an audience reliably indicate the levels of violence, sex, antisocial behaviour, drug use, and bad language in the movie the audience is watching.\n\nEconomics Prize: Pavlo Blavatskyy, for discovering that the obesity of a country's politicians may be a good indicator of that country's corruption.\n\nMedicine Prize: Olcay Cem Bulut and colleagues, for demonstrating that sexual orgasms can be as effective as decongestant medicines at improving nasal breathing.\n\nPeace Prize: Ethan Beseris and colleagues, for testing the hypothesis that humans evolved beards to protect themselves from punches to the face.\n\nPhysics Prize: Alessandro Corbetta and colleagues, for conducting experiments to learn why pedestrians do not constantly collide with other pedestrians.\n\nKinetics Prize: Hisashi Murakami and colleagues, for conducting experiments to learn why pedestrians do sometimes collide with other pedestrians.\n\nEntomology Prize: John Mulrennan Jr and colleagues, for their research study \"A New Method of Cockroach Control on Submarines\".\n\nTransportation Prize: Robin Radcliffe and colleagues, for determining by experiment whether it is safer to transport an airborne rhinoceros upside down.", "Police said the suspect had confessed\n\nA man kept the mummified corpse of his mother in a basement for over a year while continuing to receive her pension payments, Austrian police say.\n\nThe 89-year-old woman, who reportedly had dementia, is thought to have died of natural causes in June last year.\n\nHer son, 66, is said to have put her body in his cellar and used ice packs and bandages to mask the smell.\n\nPolice believe he may have illegally received about €50,000 (£42,000) in payments.\n\nThe suspected fraud only came to light after a new postman delivering the woman's benefits in the western Tyrol region was refused a request to see her, police said in a statement.\n\nThat sparked an investigation, and led to the subsequent grisly discovery.\n\nPolice told Austria's public broadcaster ORF that the suspect had also covered his mother with cat litter. \"Ultimately, the corpse was mummified,\" officer Helmuth Gufler said, adding that the man had confessed.\n\nMr Gufler said the man had no other income, and had told them that the payments would have stopped immediately if he had reported the death, leaving him unable to afford to pay for his mother's funeral or to keep the house they had shared.\n\nThe suspect also said he had told his brother that their mother was receiving care at a hospital, and that it was not worth visiting as her condition meant it was unlikely she would recognise him, ORF reported.", "Northern Ireland primary pupils are only behind students in the east Asian countries Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan\n\nSchools are safe places for children and staff, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer has said.\n\nProfessor Sir Michael McBride made the comments in a detailed letter about schools to pupils, parents and staff.\n\nHe added, though, that it was \"inevitable\" there would be Covid cases in schools.\n\nBut he said there was a \"certainty of long-term harm to many children and young people\" from not attending school.\n\n\"The public health grounds for keeping and supporting children at school are extremely strong,\" he wrote.\n\nHis letter comes as the Public Health Authority (PHA) takes over responsibility for contact tracing in schools on Friday.\n\nIn his letter Sir Michael said that the Covid pandemic had damaged children's wellbeing, mental health and education.\n\n\"Children from more disadvantaged backgrounds have been particularly negatively impacted,\" he said.\n\n\"As we progress through the pandemic response, we must continue to strike a balance between safeguarding children's education and wellbeing and measures to contain Covid.\"\n\nSir Michael said that now was the right time to take a more targeted approach to contact tracing in schools and said he was writing to explain why that was the case.\n\n\"Multiple sources of evidence show that a lack of schooling increases inequalities, reduces the life chances of children and can exacerbate physical and mental health issues,\" he said.\n\n\"School improves health, learning, socialisation and opportunities throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood.\"\n\nHe wrote that it was \"no longer necessary\" to close schools as had happened earlier in the pandemic.\n\nSir Michael McBride said there is a \"certainty of long-term harm to many children\" from not attending school\n\nHe also cited large-scale studies from England and Scotland which showed \"the vast majority of those identified as school close contacts and sent home to isolate during the last academic year did not go on to develop Covid\".\n\nThe chief medical officer said that the overall risk of children becoming severely ill from Covid was extremely low.\n\nHe also said all school staff had the chance to be fully vaccinated, and that many other safety measures remained in place in schools.\n\n\"It is my professional opinion, which is shared by my chief medical officer colleagues across the UK, that very few, if any, children or teenagers will come to long-term harm from Covid due solely to attending school,\" he said.\n\n\"This has to be set against a certainty of long-term harm to many children and young people from not attending school.\"\n\nSir Michael said the contact tracing taken on by the PHA would bring Northern Ireland into line with England, Scotland and Wales and identify children with the \"closest contact\" to a positive case.\n\nHe also said it would free principals and teachers to get back to \"doing what they do best - teaching and inspiring our children and young people.\"", "Lilly, aged four, and Smaller, aged 10, were killed in a crash with a lorry on the M1 near Milton Keynes\n\nA judge has issued an arrest warrant for a woman accused of killing two of her children in a crash on the M1.\n\nMary McCann, 35, of Bamford Avenue, Derby, failed to appear at Aylesbury Crown Court to answer two charges of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nHer 10-year-old son Smaller and four-year-old daughter Lilly died after a collision with an HGV near Milton Keynes on 9 August.\n\nJudge Francis Sheridan said he wanted ports and airports on alert for her.\n\n\"It is most likely she will flee to Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a sad case, but by absconding to avoid the indictment being put is in my view tactical.\"\n\nMary McCann (right) failed to appear at court charged with killing her son Smaller (pictured) and daughter Lilly\n\nThe family's white Vauxhall Astra collided with an HGV between junctions 14 and 15 of the northbound carriageway at about 23:10 BST.\n\nMs McCann and another child passenger were injured.\n\nA family member said they were on their way back from a party in London and Ms McCann's 13-year-old daughter had stayed in the city.\n\nProsecutor Heather Stangoe told the court: \"Unfortunately, we do not know where she is. We were informed through her solicitor that they had failed to make contact with the defendant. Her bail address was her sister's and she is not there.\n\n\"It was the funeral of her children this week. Her one-year-old child is with the grandmother and is safe.\"\n\nDefence barrister Laban Leake said: \"The funerals were on Monday and Tuesday.\n\n\"She gave a telephone number, an attempt was made to contact that number, but there was no response.\n\n\"We know nothing of her state of mind.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Woman charged over crash which killed two children\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly 620,000 Americans have died from Covid-19, and over 32 million have been infected.\n\nHealthcare workers have been at the forefront of the pandemic battle. And for many, the last few months have felt like déjà vu.\n\nA rise in the number of Covid patients in hospital, a surge in deaths, and rampant misinformation about the disease have made some feel like it's \"summer 2020 all over again\".\n\nBut has the vaccine changed anything? Do medical professionals have hope for the fall?\n\nWe went back to several healthcare professionals - doctors, nurses, and medical staff - who we spoke to last summer, to ask how they are faring nearly 18 months into the Covid pandemic.\n\nHere's what they told us.\n\nA lot has changed in the last year and a lot hasn't. Last year each day I went to work, there was always the fear of getting sick myself or spreading Covid to my family.\n\nFrom about April to June 2021, things felt better. We got seeing families back in the hospitals, patients were optimistic, and we were looking forward to the summer. Unfortunately, the Delta variant and our policy missteps with regards to it has made it feel like August 2020 all over again.\n\nI am simply frustrated. Last year we had no vaccine and there was a feeling of inevitability when it came to surges in cases.\n\nThis time around we have a vaccine that can prevent a majority of Covid hospital cases, yet our ICUs in certain states are fuller than ever. Fewer people are wearing masks and I am worried for a particularly brutal flu season combined with continued Covid Delta spread.\n\nWhat concerns me is that last year when we were seeing our hospitals get full, our political leaders reacted to those challenges with policy measures. But this time around we are simply not doing that. Our governor in Texas has issued mask mandate bans and we are lagging behind in vaccines.\n\nI truly hope we can find a way to depoliticise the pandemic, masks, and the vaccine. If we can do that, Covid can become a minor nuisance rather than a death sentence for thousands more Americans.\n\nWe've not yet contained the pandemic. We have not been able to control it, and now we are probably headed into another surge, at least in the United States.\n\nIn Massachusetts, we are preparing our hospitals for this after seeing the rise of patients in other states.\n\nI think this is primarily because vaccinations have not been where we want them to be. This was a race and we lost, because with the Delta variant the vaccine is not as effective. It's lower - but we don't know by how much.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEven vaccinated people are getting infected with Covid. This new strain was not incorporated into the vaccine studies initially. That's why companies like Pfizer and Moderna are now thinking of getting the booster with the Delta variant.\n\nOne of the worst things we're seeing is infected pregnant people - it's a heart-breaking situation.\n\nEven though it's not mandated, as a doctor I'd recommend the vaccine. We anticipate that this won't be slowing down for a little while. We hope that if people get vaccinated and socially distance as we have done before, we can minimise the peak of this surge.\n\nA lot has happened since 2020 April. After working as an ICU nurse in the peak of the pandemic in New York City, I was burnt out. Thankfully, by the summer Covid numbers dropped and work life settled a little bit. As the dust settled, New York felt different.\n\nI could feel myself itching to get away, desperately wanting a change of scenery. So, I picked a city in Texas that I'd never been to, and accepted a travel nurse contract in El Paso at the end of summer 2020.\n\nWhat started off as a cool experience quickly turned into another Covid nightmare. El Paso soon became a Covid epicentre as the virus infected entire households.\n\nInstead of returning back to the acute care hospital setting in 2021, I took a nurse practitioner job working in vaccine clinics across New York City.\n\nFor nearly four months I was on the other side, the side that felt less stressful and more hopeful. Instead of witnessing the tragic stories of Covid, I was met with the smiles of people excited to get vaccinated, who had hopes of moving toward a new kind of normal.\n\nDespite our efforts, it breaks my heart to hear about what is happening in hospitals across the country as Covid cases rise. Hospitals are short staffed and healthcare workers are burnt out - again.\n\nEveryone in healthcare is bracing for a hard fall and winter this year. It's a bit unnerving to see hospitals overwhelmed at the end of summer before flu season even starts.\n\nI am most concerned about the misinformation, conspiracies and propaganda circulating across the internet on the vaccine and the virus. I know that in the end it will only hurt our country and stifle efforts to curb the continued spread of Covid.\n\nOver the past year I have been inundated with Covid patients. Last year, my primary fear as a doctor was spreading the disease to my kids and wife as I intubated and cared for thousands of patients.\n\nThe vaccine has given many of us a bit more peace of mind in protection from acquisition of disease. It doesn't mean that people won't get the disease, but it means that they will likely avoid getting hospitalised and potentially dying. That gives me hope on a personal level every day.\n\nThat said, I'm sad over recent hospitalisations and I'm worried about the immuno-compromised and patients that wished they would have been vaccinated but couldn't be due to other conditions.\n\nI'm sad that political parties are blaming one another. I'm frustrated when medical professionals provide inaccurate information that diminishes the trust between our profession and the public.\n\nCombating false and misinformation that may be factually inaccurate is our biggest challenge.\n\nWe need to understand fears about masking, vaccines, the disease, and then partner with those that hold these fears to find ways to work through improved informed decisions.", "Maros Sefcovic is in Northern Ireland to meet political, business and civic leaders\n\nEuropean Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic has urged politicians to \"dial down the rhetoric\" on the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nHe was responding to Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's warning that his party may quit Stormont \"within weeks\" if its protocol demands are not met.\n\nMr Sefcovic is in Northern Ireland to meet political, business and civic leaders.\n\nThe UK wants the protocol, which puts a trade border in the Irish Sea, changed.\n\nUnionists believe it undermines their place in the United Kingdom and want it to be scrapped.\n\nMr Sefcovic said he had already spoken to Sir Jeffrey \"a couple of weeks ago\".\n\n\"I will see him this afternoon as I will see also the other political leaders,\" he said on Thursday.\n\n\"We will have the opportunity to discuss this face to face and my message will be 'let's work on the concrete problems'.\n\n\"Let's focus on the issues which are the most important for the people of Northern Ireland, let's be constructive, let's dial down the political rhetoric, let's bring calm and focus on what is our task to accomplish.\"\n\nMr Sefcovic, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, described Sir Jeffrey as a \"very experienced politician\" who wants the best for Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I can assure him that is my intention as well,\" Mr Sefcovic added.\n\nMr Sefcovic (centre) met First Minister Paul Givan (left) and Declan Kearney, junior minister at the Executive Office during a visit to Stormont\n\nMr Sefcovic said the purpose of his trip to Northern Ireland was to find out \"face-to-face\" what the problems were with the implementation of the protocol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maroš Šefčovič🇪🇺 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I came here to listen, to learn what are the concrete problems that the people of Northern Ireland are facing with the implementation of the protocol.\n\n\"But I am also here to talk about opportunities the protocol is bringing, especially to the economy and of course the people of Northern Ireland, and I am starting with the business representatives.\"\n\nOn Monday, the UK delayed new checks on goods from Great Britain entering Northern Ireland as required by the protocol.\n\nLord Frost, the Brexit minister, said the move was necessary to \"provide space for further potential discussions\" with the EU.\n\nMr Sefcovic said the EU had taken note of the decision.\n\n\"We are talking over the last few weeks constructively on solving the issues linked with the protocol and I hope that also the way that we handled Monday's announcement coming from London just proves that we are ready to do our utmost to look for every possible solution within the protocol to resolve the problems.\"\n\nHowever the EU has repeatedly said the sort of fundamental renegotiation Lord Frost wants is not on offer.\n\nTechnical discussions between the UK and EU on an agri-food agreement have reached a stalemate.\n\nThe EU has offered the UK a Swiss-style deal which would involve the UK following EU rules.\n\nThe UK has rejected that and instead asked for a deal in which the EU would recognise UK standards as equivalent to its own.\n\nAn EU official has suggested that the issue could be unlocked with a bespoke arrangement which recognises Northern Ireland's unique circumstances.\n\nIt is not yet clear what such an arrangement might involve and the EU is wary that the UK would demand the same deal for GB-EU agri-food trade.", "The flight took more than 100 people from Kabul to Doha, the capital of Qatar\n\nDozens of international passengers - including UK citizens - have flown out of Kabul in the first such flight since US forces left the country.\n\nThe Qatar Airways charter flight landed in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday, with a second flight due on Friday.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged help with evacuations during a recent visit to Qatar.\n\nHundreds of Afghan citizens who had helped the US military were unable to get out in last month's US airlift.\n\nReuters news agency reports that 113 people were on the plane.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said 13 British citizens had arrived in Doha, and thanked Qatar for facilitating the flight.\n\nThe White House released a statement confirming that US citizens had flown, and also thanked Qatar, saying the flight was the result of \"careful and hard diplomacy and engagement\".\n\nIt said the Taliban had been \"businesslike and professional\" in helping the US citizens fly out.\n\nIn a press conference held at the airport, Qatari special envoy Mutlaq bin Majed Al Qahtani described Kabul international airport as operational and said it was a historic day for Afghanistan.\n\nThe flights are the first to leave since the rushed US military-led evacuations finished last month, following the Taliban takeover of the country on 15 August.\n\nMore than 124,000 foreigners and Afghans fearful of Taliban retribution were flown out of the country.\n\nAround 100 US citizens were thought to be left in Afghanistan before the flight.\n\nPhotos have also emerged showing injuries inflicted on two journalists who covered protests on Wednesday.\n\nThey are reported to have been badly beaten after being arrested by the Taliban in Kabul.\n\nThe two journalists say they were badly beaten in Taliban custody\n\n\"One of the Taliban put his foot on my head, crushed my face against the concrete,\" photographer Nematullah Naqdi told AFP news agency. \"They kicked me in the head... I thought they were going to kill me.\"\n\nMr Naqdi was covering a protest by women in front of a police station with his colleague at the local Etilaatroz newspaper, Taqi Darybai.\n\nThe Taliban have banned protests unless authorised by the justice ministry.\n\nBut dozens of demonstrators chanting \"we want freedom\" gathered near the Pakistan embassy in Kabul and Taliban gunmen opened fire to disperse them, protesters said.\n\nLocal media have also reported another protest by women in Kapisa province, north-east of Kabul. Sources told Aamaj news that several women had been arrested.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aamaj News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC Dari heard from a number of Afghans about the demonstrations.\n\n\"It is our right to protest,\" said Haseeneh from Kabul. \"Now that we know what the Taliban meant by their new cabinet, we will protest. They kept saying that women should wait till the Taliban announce their new cabinet. There is no single woman in the cabinet.\"\n\nBut Alazay from the southern province of Helmand called for other countries to recognise the Taliban government.\n\n\"If that happens, our lives are going to be much easier. If the protests continue and the Taliban suppress them, the international community will not recognise the Taliban's new government and do you know who will suffer? We, the people.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, dozens of women in Kabul and the north-eastern province of Badakhshan protested against the formation of the all-male interim Taliban government.\n\nSome women, calling for the inclusion of female ministers in the government, were reportedly beaten before the demonstrations were broken up.\n\nThree people were killed during a demonstration in the western city of Herat on Tuesday. The Taliban have denied that they were behind the violence.\n\nMeanwhile, there are reports that the internet was temporarily taken down in parts of Kabul.\n\nAfghan journalist Bilal Sarwary tweeted that several sources in the telecom sector had confirmed to him that the Taliban had ordered mobile phone internet coverage to be turned off temporarily in several districts.\n\nJournalist Habib Khan later tweeted that the internet had been restored in the city.\n\nAnd separately, social media footage has emerged from the Panjshir valley said to show the desecration of the mausoleum of the well-known former anti-Taliban alliance leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud.\n\nThe Taliban said on Tuesday they had taken the valley - the last region of Afghanistan holding out against their rule - from the Afghanistan National Resistance Front. The NRF, led by Ahmed Shah Massoud's son, said they would continue to fight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Taliban fighters raise their flag in front of Panjshir's provincial governor's office", "Dr Lynn McCallum said health services were busier than during the busiest winter\n\nThe medical director of NHS Borders has urged the public to \"be kind\" to staff facing \"unprecedented challenges\".\n\nDr Lynn McCallum said they were currently busier than in the \"busiest winter\".\n\nShe added that there had also been an increase in abuse of staff recently - both face-to-face and on social media.\n\nShe said she recognised some delays for treatment were \"far from ideal\" but she urged people to show understanding.\n\nDr McCallum said the challenges being faced by health workers were greater than they had seen at any point in their careers.\n\nDr McCallum said the emergency department was facing significant pressure\n\n\"Unfortunately, the last 18 months have had such a significant impact on staff that we are seeing significant problems both with vacancies and staff absence due to illness,\" she said.\n\n\"As a result it is proving very, very challenging to provide services across the organisation.\"\n\nShe said it translated to very low morale among workers.\n\n\"I think the staff have absolutely put their heart and soul into working and providing high quality healthcare over the last 18 months,\" said Dr McCallum.\n\n\"But the pressures continue relentlessly both in relation to Covid but also in relation to non-Covid illness.\"\n\nShe said she recognised a lot of people were still waiting for operations - non-urgent surgery is currently suspended - and said that was a source of frustration for staff as well.\n\nThe hospital is currently said to be operating at full capacity\n\nHowever, Dr McCallum said that was no excuse for abusing workers.\n\n\"Sadly, we have seen a significant increase in poor behaviour from the public,\" she said.\n\n\"We have seen quite a lot of abuse to staff face-to-face - and even more on social media.\n\n\"I suppose what I would request of the public is please be kind.\n\n\"Please remember where all of these individuals have been for the last 18 months and how hard they have been working.\"\n\nShe said health workers were looking towards winter \"with some dread\".\n\n\"As things stand currently we are busier than we have seen at any of the busiest winters in any of our working careers,\" she said.\n\nDr McCallum said the Borders General was operating at full capacity which was creating problems for the emergency department which could not be closed.\n\n\"What we are finding is that patients are unfortunately having to stay for prolonged periods of time in the emergency department which we know is far from ideal for either them or our staff,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Watch the best shots as British teenager Emma Raducanu reaches the US Open final with a stunning straight-set win over Greek 17th seed Maria Sakkari in New York.\n\nListen to live commentary of the US Open final on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds on Saturday evening.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People will not need vaccine passports to access public services in Wales, the first minister says\n\nMinisters will decide next week if vaccine passports should be used to gain entry to some events in Wales, the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford also said there could be as many as 100 new Covid hospital admissions a day in Wales as the Delta wave peaks at the end of this month.\n\nPeople will need passports for some events in Scotland from 1 October and in England from the end of this month.\n\nMr Drakeford said rising rates meant it would be irresponsible not to consider.\n\n\"There are a number of practical and ethical issues that need to be considered in relation to vaccine certification, and we continue to work through those,\" said Mr Drakeford.\n\n\"We will not do that in any setting where people have no choice but to go, so there will be no vaccine passports for people who need to go to use crucial public services.\"\n\nA decision will be made ahead of a planned three-weekly review of the Coronavirus regulations next Friday.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives said \"we have got to learn to live with Covid\" as their health spokesperson Russell George said he was \"absolutely against Covid passports for domestic use\".\n\nHowever, Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said Covid passports should not be totally dismissed and he would be prepared to support their use in \"very, very limited places\".\n\nIt comes as Mr Drakeford warns daily hospital admissions - currently 40 Covid patients a day - could more than double by the end of the month, based on modelling work carried out by Swansea University.\n\nA decision will be made ahead of a planned three-weekly review of the Coronavirus regulations next Friday\n\nHe said patients would include many who need to be in hospital for a long time and need intensive care.\n\nHe said the position in Wales was a \"serious\" one and the number of cases was \"likely to get worse over the coming weeks\".\n\nHe said: \"We now have very high rates of coronavirus in all our communities - rates, which our modelling says are likely to get worse over the next few weeks\".\n\nIf the virus continues to spread at its current rate, there will be about 3,200 cases confirmed every day towards the end of the month, he said.\n\n\"Until now, this rise has been manageable, because our fantastic vaccination programme has helped to weaken the link between infection and serious illness but with the rapid spread of coronavirus in our communities, pandemic pressure on the NHS is increasing once again,\" he said.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) reported 2,467 more coronavirus cases on Friday with five more Covid-related deaths.\n\nPHW said 522.7 per 100,000 population had tested positive for the virus in the past seven days - the highest Covid cases rates since the second wave in December.\n\nThe number of daily cases is almost 50% higher at this point in the third wave than it was at this point in the second wave, back in December, according to PHW.\n\nDespite that, the number of patients in hospital, with confirmed Covid, was three times higher then.\n\nPHW's figures also show in this wave there is a noticeable difference in the proportion of young people - those 19 and under - testing positive.\n\nThey are now the largest age group, making up 31% of positive tests.\n\nAt a similar point in the second wave, also the day that the vaccine programme began, it was only 16%.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the average number of daily deaths in the second wave was eight times higher.\n\nThe daily average is currently four a day - it was 32 deaths a day at this point in the second wave, under the most reliable ONS measure.\n\nIf we only take the PHW measure, it was averaging 24 deaths a day, still six times higher.", "Lucy-Anne Rushton was murdered by her estranged husband in 2019\n\nA former detective has been jailed for eight months for forging a witness's signature during a murder inquiry.\n\nRobert Ferrow, 50, from Gosport, Hampshire, let the witness sign blank pages on a statement and go home, but added more signatures when he ran out of pre-signed sheets.\n\nHe had been investigating the murder of Lucy-Anne Rushton in 2019.\n\nThe judge said Hampshire police was reviewing other cases involving the ex-officer.\n\nShaun Dyson was jailed for a minimum of 17 years for the murder\n\nMother-of-five Ms Rushton, 30, was killed by her estranged husband Shaun Dyson in the early hours of 23 June 2019.\n\nDyson then absconded from police and was found several hours later hiding in a cupboard at the murder scene in Andover.\n\nWitness Ashley Grace-O'Neill gave a police statement shortly after his friend, Dyson, was arrested, Winchester Crown Court previously heard.\n\nFerrow, who had 18 years' experience as a police officer, allowed the witness to sign blank pages and go home, his trial was told.\n\nHe then signed more pages himself when he ran out of sheets, prosecutors said.\n\nFerrow accurately transcribed text conversations on to the new sheets to complete the statement, the jury heard.\n\nRobert Bryan, prosecuting, previously told the court the conduct \"strikes right at the heart of justice\".\n\nRecorder Watson said: \"It's shocking that an experienced police officer such as you should commit such an act of dishonesty. It was laziness to a criminal degree.\"\n\nThe judge said the forgery could have damaged the witness's evidence at the murder trial.\n\nHe ordered the former detective constable to pay prosecution costs of £3,000 and a £140 victim surcharge.\n\nFiona Ryan, defending, said Ferrow was a former police Probationer of the Year, who had won police commendations in 2016 and 2019.\n\nShe said the officer had resigned from the force and would eventually move away from the area.\n\nHowever, in a statement, Hampshire Constabulary said Ferrow was merely suspended from service.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Ben Snuggs said: \"The actions of Det Con Ferrow have undermined the trust and confidence our communities have in us.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with Lucy's family... It is completely unacceptable that the actions of a police officer have caused them extra distress.\"\n\nThe case against Ferrow was brought following an 11-month investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nIn December 2019, Dyson was jailed for life with a minimum of 17 years after pleading guilty to the murder.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport website and app, with live text commentary and match report on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu says reaching her first Grand Sam final at the US Open feels \"crazy, cool and absolutely mind-blowing\".\n\nThe 18-year-old stunned Greek 17th seed Maria Sakkari 6-1 6-4 to become the first qualifier to reach a major final.\n\nShe faces Canadian world number 73 Leylah Fernandez, 19, for the title in New York on Saturday.\n\n\"I never thought it would come this early to be in a Grand Slam final,\" Raducanu told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"I'm really enjoying my time in New York and that's showing in my tennis. Tonight, being under the lights on Arthur Ashe Stadium, it's so iconic and I think I was just thriving in the moment.\"\n\nHer dream run in New York has captured the public's imagination, with many fans writing on social media that they had set their alarms for the middle-of-the-night match and might be a bit tired or late for work. Pundits have gushed with superlatives and Prime Minister Boris Johnson was among those to congratulate her on her \"brilliant win\".\n• None Raducanu's semi-final victory over Maria Sakkari as it happened\n• None Raducanu set to be best paid British sportswoman\n\nRaducanu, currently ranked 150th in the world, will become the British number one on Monday. Following her latest triumph, she is projected to rise to 32 in the rankings.\n\nThursday's victory over world number 18 Sakkari, by far the most significant of her career, also means Raducanu is the first British woman to reach a Grand Slam singles final since Virginia Wade at Wimbledon in 1977.\n\n\"I had no idea of this record,\" Raducanu said. \"It obviously means a lot to be the first in the final for so long.\n\n\"Crazy, cool. To be here in New York for three weeks is just absolutely mind-blowing for me.\"\n\nHer final against Fernandez, who herself shocked Belarusian second seed Aryna Sabalenka on Thursday, will be the first all-teen US Open final since Serena Williams against Martina Hingis in 1999.\n\nRaducanu and Fernandez have met before in junior competition - crossing paths at the prestigious junior Orange Bowl tournament, while the Briton won in straight sets when the pair met in the 2018 girls tournament at Wimbledon.\n\n\"We go back a long way,\" Raducanu said. \"I remember speaking to her in Under-12 Orange Bowl. We played each other at junior Wimbledon. We've both come so far since we last played each other. I'm excited to see what sort of match-up it will be.\"\n\nIs youth the key to Raducanu's success?\n\nBecoming only the fourth British woman to reach a major final in the Open Era, an even more remarkable aspect of Raducanu's run to the final is that she is yet to lose a single set in nine matches at the 2021 US Open - including six main-draw ties on her overseas Grand Slam debut.\n\nHaving only played her first WTA event in June, Raducanu has conceded just 27 games across her 18 sets of tennis in New York - that despite coming up against Sakkari, Olympic champion Belinda Bencic, plus three other top-50 players.\n\n\"I think honestly being young, there is an element of you do play completely free,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"But I'm sure that when I'm older or have more experience the same will happen to me. I think the tables will turn. Some younger players will come through.\n\n\"Honestly, right now I'm just thinking of the game plan, how to execute. That's what's landed me in this situation. It hasn't been focusing on who's expected to win this match or that one. I think it's just taking care of the day. That's what I'm doing quite well at the moment.\n\n\"I don't feel any pressure to win. Any pressure is self-inflicted. I have expectations of my level and how I want to perform but there's no pressure in terms of results.\"\n\nFormer British number one Tim Henman described Raducanu's semi-final display as \"simply stunning\" and \"absolutely staggering\".\n\nSpeaking on Amazon Prime, Henman said: \"She was so resilient. She never flinched. She never let up. It was relentless. And then you've got to throw in the scenario of being a qualifier, an 18-year-old, with all the legends who have ever played this game at Grand Slam level.\n\n\"She deserves all the credit in the world. On the biggest stage in our sport at every opportunity she plays on her terms. It's incredible to watch.\"\n\nFormer US Open finalist Greg Rusedski said he was \"dumbfounded\" by Raducanu's performance - one that he believes \"was worthy of a world number one, a US Open champion, a multiple Grand Slam champion\".\n\n\"The composure, the belief, the handling of the big points. This is her first Grand Slam semi-final and it was like she was playing in the first round. It was astonishing,\" Rusedski added.\n\nJudy Murray said on Twitter that Raducanu's victory was an \"incredible achievement\", while fellow British player Laura Robson described her win as \"unbelievable\" and Prime Minister Johnson said: \"The whole country will be cheering you on in the final\".\n• None How has the Premier League succeeded?: Fever Pitch tells the origin story via the stars that made it\n• None Listen to the best tracks from nominees and winners of the prestigious prize", "Money to pay for social care could have been raised through taxing landlords, Sir Keir Starmer was expected to tell a conference.\n\nIt comes after Boris Johnson announced plans to raise National Insurance tax on workers and employers in order to pay for the NHS backlog and social care\n\nSir Keir was to describe the rise as \"unfair\" and \"poorly thought through\".\n\nBut the Labour leader has come under pressure in recent days to detail his own plan to fund social care.\n\nAddressing the House of Commons earlier this week, Mr Johnson acknowledged his tax rise broke a manifesto commitment not to raise taxes, but defended the move as \"the right, reasonable and fair approach\" in light of the pandemic.\n\nHe criticised calls for a rise in capital gains tax - the levy you pay on the profits when you sell an asset - arguing that it would not raise enough money to \"even begin to deal with this problem\".\n\nSpeaking to the Local Government Association which represents councils in England and Wales, Sir Keir was expected to attack the Conservatives' plans, arguing that: \"Working people will pay more tax now, but might still have to sell their home to pay even more later.\"\n\n\"This is an unfair plan that doesn't work. And who is left with the bill? It's working people. It's especially low earners and young people who have already borne the brunt of the economic impact of the pandemic,\" he was to say.\n\nInstead he was to argue that \"the money could have been raised by taxing the incomes of landlords, and those who buy and sell large quantities of financial assets, stocks shares\".\n\nMr Johnson's plans, he was to say, leave \"a private landlord renting out multiple properties not paying a penny more in tax, and their hard-working tenants to pick up the burden\".\n\nHe was to add it sees \"an Amazon worker's taxes raised, but Amazon itself able to squirrel profits away in tax havens and only pay a fraction of what high street shops do\".\n\nEarlier this week, Sir Keir told Sky News he would back \"wealth taxes\" to fund social care but did not set out further details.\n\nGiving shape to a future Labour policy, Sir Keir was also expected to say that his party would introduce a principle of \"home first\" care, shift the focus to prevention and early intervention, and introduce a \"new deal\" for care workers.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's proposals there will be a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance from next April for workers and employers.\n\nIt means that someone earning £30,000 will pay an extra £255 a year, while someone on a £50,000 salary will pay £505.\n\nIncome from share dividends - earned by those who own shares in companies - will also see a 1.25% tax rate increase.\n\nIn 2023, National Insurance will return to its previous level and the tax increase will become a separate health and social care levy on earnings.\n\nThe majority of the £36bn fund raised by the rise will go towards tackling the backlog of NHS cases created by the pandemic.\n\nA smaller portion of the money - £5.4bn over the next three years - will also go towards changes to the social care system, with more promised after that.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir was to warn that the government plans would not provide any money for councils in the short term and would force them to put up council tax in order to meet demand.", "A paper model of the Goddess of Democracy was removed from the museum\n\nA museum commemorating the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has been raided by Hong Kong police.\n\nOfficers were later seen carrying exhibits out of the June 4 Museum.\n\nFour members of the group that ran the museum, the Hong Kong Alliance, were detained on Wednesday - including prominent pro-democracy activist and barrister Chow Hang Tung.\n\nThe arrests were made under the national security law, which has a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nPolice have accused Ms Chow of inciting subversion, her lawyers said.\n\nThe group, known for organising the city's famed annual vigil for Tiananmen Square victims, denies accusations of being a foreign agent.\n\nThe museum was closed down by officials in June. Thursday's raid was carried out by the newly created national security unit.\n\nAmong the exhibits seen being removed was a paper model of the Goddess of Democracy - a symbol of the 1989 pro-democracy student movement in Beijing.\n\nOfficers were also seen carrying out photos of the large candlelit vigils for Tiananmen victims.\n\nThe national security unit had earlier requested that the Hong Kong Alliance hand over information, reportedly including personal details of all members since the group's founding and financial records.\n\nOn Tuesday, the deadline for the request, the alliance members handed over a letter explaining their refusal to co-operate.\n\nThe next morning, police officers arrested members of the alliance's standing committee at their homes or offices.\n\nMs Chow, a human rights lawyer, was arrested earlier this year and charged with promoting unauthorised assembly. She was later released on bail.\n\nShe had been due on Wednesday to represent an opposition politician charged under the national security law at a bail hearing but was arrested at her office before she could appear in court.\n\nChina recently imposed a broadly worded national security law in Hong Kong that criminalises secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces.\n\nCritics say it is aimed at crushing dissent but China says it is meant to maintain stability.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June, Chow Hang Tung spoke to BBC Chinese explaining why she was encouraging those in Hong Kong to remember the Tiananmen crackdown", "Indie-soul singer Arlo Parks has won the 2021 Mercury Prize for her debut album, Collapsed In Sunbeams.\n\nA tender, intimate record, it draws on painful subjects like depression and anxiety but maintains a sense of hope.\n\nThe 21-year-old beat the likes of Wolf Alice, Celeste and Mogwai to scoop the £25,000 prize at a ceremony in Hammersmith, London, where she grew up.\n\nJudges called her a \"singular voice\" who \"demonstrates how to be quietly strong in a world of extrovert noise\".\n\nParks, who was left \"completely speechless\" by her victory, is the first Mercury Prize winner to be born in the 21st Century.\n\n\"It took a lot of sacrifice and hard work to get here,\" she said, after regaining her composure on stage. \"There were moments where I wasn't sure whether I would make it through - but I am here today, so thank you very much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arlo Parks accepts her Mercury Prize for album of the year.\n\nCollapsed In Sunbeams, which was released in January, reaching number three in the charts, and selling 43,000 copies to date.\n\nCritics praised its compassion and insight into topics like mental health and sexuality.\n\n\"There's no doubt that this is a universal collection of stories that'll provide solace for listeners of all ages and backgrounds for decades to come,\" wrote the NME in a five star review.\n\n\"Parks' seemingly effortless lyricism and laidback melodies make her songs cosy in winter, and chilled in summer [and] always uplifting and comforting,\" added The Line Of Best Fit.\n\nParks told the BBC she had written the album \"about the things I was scared to talk about or the things that moved me\" as she grew up in West London - and composedethe first song, Eugene, \"sitting on the floor eating pasta\" while she was still at school.\n\n\"The fact that people have connected to it, and feel strengthened and held by it, makes me really happy.\"\n\nThe Mercury Prize, given to the best British or Irish album of the past 12 months, is now in its 30th year.\n\nPrevious winners include era-defining records such as Primal Scream's Screamadelica, Pulp's Different Class and Dave's Psychodrama.\n\nThis year's list of nominees was typically eclectic, including chart-topping records by Celeste and Wolf Alice alongside singer-songwriter Laura Mvula and more left-field albums by jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia and electronic composer Hannah Peel.\n\nMvula, whose three albums have all been nominated without winning, expressed her disappointment after Thursday's ceremony. \"I get robbed. A lot,\" she wrote, adding: \"Mercury Prize can lose my number.\"\n\nOn Friday, she posted again.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by LAURA MVULA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTen of this year's 12 shortlisted albums were debuts, while four were instrumental or partly instrumental - reflecting changing listening habits during the pandemic.\n\nJudge Annie Mac said the list showed \"how remarkably creative and diverse British music is at the moment\".\n\nRadio 2's head of music, Jeff Smith, who chaired the judging panel, said selecting the winner \"is always difficult, but it was especially difficult this year\".\n\nThe full list of nominees was:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Cinema-goers watch the premiere of Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\n\nHollywood giant Walt Disney Co said the rest of its 2021 films will screen exclusively in cinemas before being made available for streaming.\n\nThe decision is a boost to struggling entertainment venues, with major films during the pandemic debuting online at the same time as in theatres.\n\nMarvel's Eternals is among the films that will get a theatrical debut.\n\nIt comes after Disney's successful theatrical release this month of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.\n\nTen Rings - which tells the story of a former assassin forced to confront his power-hungry, warlord father - took in $127.6m (£92m) globally in its first weekend in cinemas.\n\nThe sum is second only to Marvel's $158m (£114m) takings for Black Widow in July.\n\nLast month, Disney CEO Bob Chapek referred to the Ten Rings rollout as \"an interesting experiment for us\", given how all earlier films had been released online simultaneously with cinemas since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe film is being made available exclusively in cinemas for its first 45 days, before becoming watchable on the subscription Disney+ streaming platform.\n\nEternals, directed by Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao, will use the same release schedule, as will Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story.\n\nAnimated musical Encanto will be in theatres for 30 days, starting around the Thanksgiving holiday in November, before moving online.\n\nOther major studios have been closely watching Disney to determine whether they should also resume in-theatre debuts.\n\nThe decision also comes after actress Scarlett Johansson sued Disney over their decision not to theatrically release Black Widow exclusively in cinemas.\n\nAfter an initial strong opening weekend, box office sales fell sharply, leading Johansson's team to claim Disney's decision had led to a loss in income for her.", "Why Don't We have had two US top 10 albums\n\nUS boy band Why Don't We have accused one of their managers of \"mental, emotional and financial abuse\" by making them \"hostages in our own home\" and restricting their food.\n\nThe five-piece's latest album went to number five in the UK in January.\n\nThey claimed the manager, who they didn't name, \"controlled us 24/7\", verbally berated them and led members to develop eating disorders.\n\nDavid Loeffler, one of their managers, rejected the \"untrue, hurtful\" claims.\n\nWhy Don't We said they were aged between 15 and 18, and \"young, impressionable and trusting\" when they formed and started living in the same house.\n\n\"Little did we know that we would eventually become prisoners in the 'Why Don't We compound' under the supervision of one of our managers at Signature Entertainment Partners,\" they wrote on social media.\n\n\"He would not only live with us during the day, but controlled us 24/7, setting an alarm that would go off if any door or window was opened. Needless to say, we were not given the security code to the alarm, essentially making us hostages in our own home.\"\n\nThey added that their food was \"restricted to the point that some band members developed eating disorders\", and they were forced to sneak food into the house.\n\n\"We were verbally berated almost every day and alienated from our friends and families,\" they added. \"We had no support system except for each other and were made to believe that this was 'normal', that every artist had to pay their dues.\"\n\nThe group have had two US top 10 albums, and their statement comes after two former partners of Signature Entertainment sued each other.\n\nMr Loeffler and music industry veteran Randy Phillips had launched the band's career, but split up and took legal action against each other last month over the group's management and control of Signature and another company.\n\nAt the time, Mr Phillips' lawyer Howard King alleged that Mr Loeffler had subjected the group to \"years of mental and financial abuse\".\n\nAccording to Billboard in late August, the group were refusing to sign a recording agreement with Atlantic Records or perform as a group, until Mr Phillips was reinstated as their sole manager.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the group's lawyer Alan Gutman said they \"support Randy Phillips the same way he has supported us from the start of our careers\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Loeffler's lawyer Michael Levin said Signature had profit share agreements with the members of Why Won't We, which had been \"very beneficial for the individual members of WDW\", earning them approximately $10m (£7.2m) in total.\n\nHe added: \"Recent comments attributed to WDW members are untrue, hurtful, and apparently designed to be part of an ill-advised strategy to evade their obligations under these agreements.\n\n\"Signature would certainly welcome a reasonable and amicable resolution of this matter that preserves the mutually beneficial relationship that has helped WDW achieve their great success to date.\"", "Anthony Walker said the family made allegations about Scott Walker before he was arrested on suspicion of killing Bernadette\n\nThe brother of a teenage girl murdered by their stepdad said the family \"kept going to the police\" about his violent behaviour.\n\nScott Walker of Peterborough has been jailed for life for murdering Bernadette Walker, 17, after she accused him of years of sexual abuse.\n\nAnthony Walker said their father \"didn't deserve to get out of prison\".\n\nPolice said none of his previous convictions raised safeguarding concerns.\n\nScott Walker, 51, was not Bernadette's biological parent, although his trial heard she called him her dad.\n\nHe has been told he must serve at least 32 years in jail.\n\nCambridge Crown Court heard that he probably strangled Bernadette, then conspired with her mother, Sarah Walker, to dispose of the remains and cover up her death.\n\nThe pair hacked into the photography student's email accounts and used her phone to send a string of messages to try to make police and others think she was still alive.\n\nBernadette Walker was killed by the man she called \"Dad\", prosecutors said\n\nAnthony, 21, said his stepfather had a history of attacking family members.\n\n\"He punched me in the stomach when I was like 18 or 19, but he used to only go for the younger ones because they couldn't open up about it properly,\" he said.\n\n\"He used to hit them and do all sorts - it was crazy.\n\n\"He'd try and emotionally abuse us and I hate to say this 'cos it makes me seem weak, but it did work on me a lot of the time.\n\n\"We were working as hard as we could to get him out of the house, but he was very persistent on staying and wouldn't leave.\"\n\nScott Walker was convicted in 2002 for harassment and received a caution in 2008 for breach of a non-molestation order relating to a previous partner.\n\nThe BBC understands that in 2012 he was arrested for assaulting a boy, prompting an investigation by social services.\n\nPeterborough City Council confirmed it had involvement with the family between 2010 and 2013 but \"could not comment further\".\n\nPolice have searched for Bernadette Walker in the Fens ditches and waterways around Peterborough\n\nJust two days before she was last seen, Bernadette claimed Scott Walker had sexually abused her for years\n\nHe also attacked his partner Sarah according to Anthony.\n\n\"One time when I was younger, I walked in on him with a knife on my mum's arm and it was cut all the way down. I called the police, but he took the phone off me,\" he said.\n\nIn court, the jury heard that Sarah Walker told detectives Scott Walker had raped her, but it was understood there had been reports of such attacks much earlier.\n\n\"It never really went any further because every time the police came round, [Scott] would be in the room or around the corner, and she couldn't really say anything in case they took him away and brought him back because there wasn't enough proof,\" Anthony said.\n\nCambridgeshire Police said in May last year that a third party reported domestic abuse and historical rape, but the alleged victim did not disclose any offences.\n\nAnthony Walker said family members tried to get Scott Walker out of the house\n\nThe force said none of Scott Walker's convictions suggested it \"needed to put any safeguarding measures in place from a policing perspective\".\n\nBernadette Walker's body has never been found, and the police said the investigation remained open.\n\nThe BBC can reveal detectives recently visited Scott Walker in prison, but that he refused to speak to them.\n\nAnthony said: \"I won't stop until I know the answer... I will still keep searching because she's out there and doesn't deserve to be lying in a ditch somewhere.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, Darren Hughes, believes Covid is one of many pressures facing health providers and also called for a clear plan for social care.\n\n“As cases rise, so too do the numbers of Covid patients in hospital and for some, intensive care, adding to the already extreme pressure on the NHS and its staff.\n\n\"Taking up the offer of a vaccine remains the best form of defence and we strongly encourage all those who have not yet taken up the offer to come forward.\"\n\nHowever, he says pressures on the NHS are not just from Covid, but dealing with a backlog of patients while experiencing unprecedented levels of demand on ambulance services and emergency departments.\n\n“These pressures are being compounded by the inability to discharge many medically fit patients into social care settings due to extreme pressures faced by the sector,\" he added.\n\n“Now that the government has more information on future funding for social care, we need a clear, sustainable, long-term plan for the sector, as well as short-term solutions to stabilise what is a very challenging and untenable situation.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wales' Afghan community have been collecting clothes, shoes, toys and nappies for children\n\nThe first Afghan refugees, who were airlifted from Kabul following the Taliban seizure of power last month, have arrived in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government said 50 families are being resettled across the country.\n\nMost of those who have arrived directly supported Welsh-based armed forces in the country over the past 20 years.\n\nThe Urdd youth organisation is helping to provide accommodation, with 230 Afghans being resettled in Wales in total.\n\nThis is after the UK government pledged to rehome 20,000 Afghans over the next five years after the Taliban seized back control of the country.\n\nWali Mohammad says many refugees have the skills to contribute to society if given a chance\n\nWali Mohammad knows all too well the journey recent refugees have faced after he fled from Afghanistan in 2015.\n\n\"It's one of the hardest journeys one can go through,\" he said.\n\n\"You leave everything behind and you have to start everything from scratch. But Afghans are hard working. I'm sure these people that have arrived here will soon start living and contribute to Wales' economy.\n\n\"They already have skills, it's just opportunity that needs to be provided for them.\"\n\nMr Mohammad worked in a high-level government role before seeking asylum, but volunteered for Public Health Wales when he arrived in the UK.\n\nHe urged organisations to offer simple jobs so arrivals have the opportunity to \"start somewhere\".\n\nMr Ahmed Shirzai also escaped the Taliban when they were in power about 20 years ago\n\nNazir Ahmad Shirzai and his family fled the Taliban in 2001, leaving his life as a vet to seek asylum in the UK.\n\nMr Shirzai, who now owns his own furniture business in Cardiff, knows exactly what the new arrivals will be going through and said he wanted refugees to know \"we can help and support them\".\n\n\"If they have problems, we can contact the MP or the passport office,\" he said.\n\n\"Or if there are social things they need, for example halal shops, a GP, school, language help - we can discuss with members and other channels to sort it out.\"\n\nWales' Social Justice Minister Jane Hutt said: \"Today we welcome the families and individuals that have served our country in Afghanistan.\n\n\"We have made clear our pledge of Wales being a nation of sanctuary and we're committed to do all that is possible to ensure Afghan interpreters, refugees and their families are welcomed.\"\n\nShe added: \"All local authorities in Wales are participating in these schemes and have offered their support and assistance to the Afghan citizens who are being resettled in the UK.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Alchikh family give advice on Wales and the Welsh language to Afghan refugees\n\nThe Urdd youth organisation is providing initial accommodation before other properties are found.\n\nIts chief executive, Sian Lewis, said: \"As an organisation, we are proud to help and continue to share with our members the importance of loyalty to country and culture but also to humanity and a higher good.\n\n\"We have a moral obligation as a national youth organisation to support humanitarian projects and offer a hand of friendship and support to the Afghan community in their time of need.\"\n\nColonel Sion Walker from the 160th (Welsh) Brigade said: \"There are direct historical links with Wales-based and Wales-facing units and members of many of those families coming to Wales.\n\n\"They will have worked alongside each other during very difficult times in Afghanistan; our involvement is recognition of the support given and comradeships developed during those times and we are proud to have played a part in making Wales a nation of sanctuary.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the UK government said it was \"working urgently to ensure thousands of Afghans who were evacuated to the UK receive the support they need to rebuild their lives, find work, pursue education and integrate into their local communities\".\n\n\"Every day we work closely with local authorities and charities in Wales and the rest of the UK to ensure suitable accommodation and support is in place for those seeking asylum or resettlement.\"\n\n\"We owe a great deal to those who worked alongside British forces and the UK government over the past two decades.\"", "Janey Godley went viral with voice-overs of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's daily briefings\n\nComedian Janey Godley has been dropped from a Scottish government health campaign over \"unacceptable\" tweets.\n\nThe Glasgow performer was paid for a campaign to encourage face coverings and lateral flow testing.\n\nShe admitted the tweets, from a number of years ago, had \"terrible, horrific undertones\" after they were published by several newspapers.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said trust in its public health messages was \"paramount\".\n\nMs Godley, 60, gained a large online following for her viral voice-overs of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's daily briefings during the lockdowns.\n\nShe has apologised \"without reservation\" to \"everyone I hurt\" and offered to donate the fee for the advert to the STV Children's Appeal.\n\nA number of posts, the most recent of which was from 2017, were highlighted by the Scottish Sun.\n\nThe Daily Beast followed up by publishing several tweets from 2011 and 2012 about black performers.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Godley said: \"There are tweets from my past social media that are horridly offensive, I believe in progress not perfection and I am far from perfect.\n\n\"People have every right to go through my social media and see what values I hold and to find hurtful phrases and statements is shocking, I am deeply sorry to everyone I offended.\n\n\"Comedy is no excuse to use disgusting and hurtful words that affect people and I know many of you expected better of me. I apologise for every single word that upset people.\"\n\nMs Godley's #StopTheSpike adverts ran on TV and social media. She previously appeared in government-funded Zero Waste Scotland promotions.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"A series of unacceptable tweets by Janey Godley have been brought to our attention and, while she has rightly apologised, trust in our public health messages at this time is paramount.\n\n\"We have therefore taken the decision to withdraw any further campaign material in which Ms Godley features.\n\n\"The material will be discontinued immediately on our own channels and withdrawn as soon as possible from external media.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Janey Godley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Godley was brought up in the east end of Glasgow, and has spoken candidly of her traumatic early life which included poverty and sexual abuse, before beginning a comedy career later in life.\n\nShe has appeared on the BBC as panellist on shows such as BBC Radio Scotland's Breaking the News and BBC One's Have I Got News for You, and as an actor in Traces.\n\nShe has also performed with The National Theatre of Scotland and was a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe.\n\nHigh profile comedians, including David Baddiel and Dawn French, offered their support on Twitter on Wednesday and Aberdeen Performing Arts stood by their decision to cast her in their pantomime Beauty and the Beast this winter.\n\nOn Thursday, following the Daily Beast article, Ms Godley tweeted: \"I am not asking people who like me to defend the offensive things I said, I appreciate many people who enjoy my work are horrified and upset at my tweets, that's how it should be, I am not the victim here, the people I hurt and offended are and I take that responsibility.\"\n• None Janey Godley - I lived with the stench of threat everywhere", "Up to 50,000 people are descending on Glasgow Green for the first day of the TRNSMT festival.\n\nThe three-day event will see performances from artists including Liam Gallagher, Snow Patrol, Amy Macdonald and The Chemical Brothers.\n\nVaccine passports are not being introduced until 1 October but ticket holders will be refused entry without proof of a negative lateral flow test.\n\nThe organisers said precautions were in place to prevent Covid spreading.\n\nIn addition to needing a negative lateral flow test to enter - which must have been taken no more than 48 hours before arrival - those fans attending on multiple days must take a second test 48 hours after the first one.\n\nRapper Berwyn was one of the first acts to kick off the TRNSMT weekend\n\nLateral flow tests can be ordered for free online, and arrive in the post. They can also be collected from pharmacies.\n\nFestival goers will need to take a test in advance and register the result online.\n\nThey will then receive a text message or email confirmation which can be shown to festival stewards.\n\nTRNSMT is also asking fans to avoid sharing cars with people outside their household and to wear masks if travelling on public transport.\n\nIt also recommends that face coverings are worn in any queues on entry, as well as at toilets or bar areas.\n\nThe festival is operating as a completely cashless site for the first time, with all vendors taking contactless payments.\n\nAs a result of the pandemic, last year's festival was cancelled. This year's event was meant to take place in July, but was rescheduled to this weekend.\n\nOver the course of the weekend, The Courteeners, Twin Atlantic, Primal Scream and Keane will also perform.\n\nScottish indie band The Snuts cancelled their appearance after one of the band and a crew member tested positive for the virus.\n\nPulling out on Friday morning, the day of their gig, they said on Twitter that they were \"beyond devastated\".\n\nEach day, up to 50,000 fans will be allowed on site - the same capacity as in previous years.\n\nOne reveller arriving on Friday afternoon said it felt great to be back - having originally purchased his ticket for the cancelled 2020 event.\n\n\"It's great acts this weekend, I'm really excited,\" he added.\n\nAnother said: \"It means a lot [to be here]. It will be good to not just be at home anymore. Missed it last year, it's good that it's back.\"\n\n\"I've definitely missed live music,\" said another.\n\nAsked how the testing went, one attendee said: \"It's not too bad, once your test is done that's you sorted. If it means you can get in you'll do anything!\"\n\nGeoff Ellis, festival director of TRNSMT, previously said: \"For lots of people, this will be the first big weekend out they've had in over a year - long overdue and extremely well-deserved after some really tough months.\n\n\"But we all need to work together and we're reaching out to fans to make sure they order and take lateral flow tests 48 hours prior to entry and upload the result, use the on-site hygiene points and wear a mask when queuing.\n\n\"It's impossible to completely eliminate the risk of Covid, but we're doing our best to reduce it as much as possible.\"\n\nDespite the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area having the worst Covid rate in Europe, second only to the NHS Lanarkshire area - according to WHO data - the Scottish government said it was safe for the festival to go ahead.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said the organisers had been \"very responsible\" to make the event as safe as they could.\n\nHe added: \"What I would say to people is please use your judgement, you know the good behaviours that can help to reduce transmission so please make sure you are co-operating in that respect using your best judgement.\"\n\nTRNSMT is not the first big event to take place on Glasgow Green during the pandemic - earlier this summer, the site was used as a fanzone for the Euro 2020 tournament.\n\nAnd on Thursday night, Scottish band Biffy Clyro played there.\n\nFestivals around the UK have reported Covid outbreaks over the summer.\n\nIn August, more than 4,700 Covid cases were linked to a festival in Cornwall.\n\nAnd more than 1,000 attendees of the Latitude festival - which was held in July as a \"test\" event - later tested positive for Covid.\n\nSome 70 cases of Covid have been linked to Wales' largest music festival, the Green Man festival, which took place last week with 25,000 people in attendance.", "Ms Godley admitted her posts had been offensive\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said comedian Janey Godley made a \"dignified\" apology over tweets which have been branded racist.\n\nThe first minister said the tweets by Ms Godley, who had fronted a public health campaign, were \"completely out of order and unacceptable\".\n\nBut she said Ms Godley had believed her status as a comedian gave her a licence to say what she had said.\n\nAsked why the government did not spot the tweets before hiring Ms Godley, she responded: \"These things happen.\"\n\nAnd she said it was important that the row did not get in the way of public health messaging around Covid.\n\nMs Godley, a prominent independence supporter, has admitted the tweets - which were sent between 2011 and 2017 - had \"terrible, horrific undertones\" after they were published by the Daily Beast website and several newspapers.\n\nSeveral were about black performers including Kelly Rowland, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg.\n\nThe comedian gained a large online following for her viral voice-overs of Ms Sturgeon's daily briefings during the lockdowns.\n\nShe had been paid £12,000 by the Scottish government to front its #stopthespike campaign to encourage face coverings and lateral flow testing.\n\nMs Godley has previously appeared in government-funded Zero Waste Scotland promotions.\n\nThe government announced on Thursday it was dropping the adverts, with Ms Godley saying she would donate her fee to the STV Children's Appeal.\n\nMs Godley has also pulled out of her role in the Beauty and the Beast pantomime at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen this winter.\n\nA statement from Aberdeen Performing Arts, which is putting on the production, said: \"We do not condone any form of discrimination, nor do we condone online bullying, trolling or abuse.\n\n\"We recognise that the only appropriate course of action in these circumstances was for her to step down.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Ms Sturgeon was asked whether she was angry her government had not done its due diligence on Ms Godley before hiring her to front the campaign.\n\nShe replied: \"Look, these things happen. The important thing is that action is taken.\n\n\"The most important thing to me from the start of this pandemic has been the integrity of our public health message.\n\n\"Janey has apologised and she has been pretty straightforward and dignified in her apology.\n\n\"She is a comedian and as she said herself she thought that gave her licence to say things that she accepts were completely out of order and unacceptable.\"\n\nThe first minister said Ms Godley's posts had been indefensible\n\nCritics of the government have accused it of double standards over its response to Ms Godley's tweets, questioning whether it would have been more critical of her if she was not an independence supporter.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would have been a legitimate question if the government had not decided to drop Ms Godley's advertising campaign, which ran on TV and social media.\n\nShe added: \"I get a lot of abuse on social media and I know that when people make mistakes the climate that we live in, the culture we live in these days, is pretty unforgiving.\n\n\"Therefore I'm a great believer that when people make mistakes - and I apply this to myself as well - it is really important to hold your hands up to that and apologise where that is required.\"\n\nBut she stressed that the tweets she had seen from Ms Godley were \"completely unacceptable, completely beyond the pale and I would not in any way, shape or form seek to defend them\".\n\nMs Godley was brought up in the east end of Glasgow, and has spoken candidly of her traumatic early life which included poverty and sexual abuse, before beginning a comedy career later in life.\n\nShe has appeared on the BBC as panellist on shows such as BBC Radio Scotland's Breaking the News and BBC One's Have I Got News for You, and as an actor in Traces.\n\nShe has also performed with The National Theatre of Scotland and was a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe.\n\nHigh-profile comedians, including David Baddiel and Dawn French, offered their support on Twitter on Wednesday. Aberdeen Performing Arts had said they stood by their decision to cast her in their pantomime Beauty and the Beast this winter. However, they announced on Friday afternoon that Ms Godley had withdrawn from the show.\n\nMs Godley said in a statement that there were tweets from her past social media which were \"horridly offensive\".\n\nShe added: \"People have every right to go through my social media and see what values I hold and to find hurtful phrases and statements is shocking.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry to everyone I offended.\n\n\"Comedy is no excuse to use disgusting and hurtful words that affect people and I know many of you expected better of me. I apologise for every single word that upset people.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Russell Findlay said: \"It's jaw-dropping to hear a first minister of Scotland dismiss racist tweets so casually.\n\n\"You would expect Nicola Sturgeon to be appalled by this kind of language but when asked about it, her flippant response was: 'These things happen'.\n\n\"It's starting to look like nationalist and SNP supporters get special treatment from this government. This contract should never have been awarded in the first place and the first minister should be a lot more contrite now that these shameful tweets have emerged.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MI5 boss: \"Recent events in Afghanistan will have emboldened extremists\"\n\nA total of 31 late-stage terror plots have been foiled in the UK in the past four years, the head of MI5 has said.\n\nDirector general Ken McCallum, who revealed in October there had been 27 attacks thwarted since 2017, said there had been six during the pandemic.\n\nHe said they were largely Islamic extremist plots, but a \"growing number\" were planned by right-wing terrorists.\n\nHe also warned that the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban was likely to have \"emboldened\" UK terrorists.\n\nThe terror threat would not change overnight but there could be a \"morale boost\" for extremists, he said. \"The terrorist threat to the UK, I am sorry to say, is a real and enduring thing.\"\n\n\"Of course there are likely to be terrorist attacks on UK soil on my watch,\" he said, saying MI5 works as hard as it can to stop them happening but \"to our horror, we know that won't be possible on every single occasion\".\n\nThe head of the security service added that MI5 had \"saved thousands of lives across the last 20 years\" but it \"cannot always succeed\".\n\nMr McCallum, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the US, said that smaller-scale terrorist acts by those already in the UK made up the largest number of threats faced by MI5.\n\n\"There is no doubt that events in Afghanistan will have heartened and emboldened some of those extremists and so being vigilant to precisely those kinds of risks is what my organisation is focused on along with a range of other threats,\" he said.\n\nBut there is still also a risk of an increase in larger plots directed by terrorism groups like al-Qaeda, he warned.\n\n\"The big concern flowing from Afghanistan alongside the immediate inspirational effect is the risk that terrorists reconstitute and once again pose us more in the way of well-developed, sophisticated plots of the sort that we faced in 9/11 and the years thereafter,\" Mr McCallum said.\n\nMore risk \"may flow our way\" in light of the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan, said Mr McCallum\n\nWhile the government says it will judge the Taliban by their actions, the UK security service would plan for the possibility \"more risk, progressively, may flow our way\", Mr McCallum said.\n\n\"Terrorist threats tend not to change overnight in the sense of directed plotting or training camps or infrastructure - the sorts of things that al-Qaeda enjoyed in Afghanistan at the time of 9/11,\" he said.\n\n\"These things do inherently take time to build, and the 20-year effort to reduce the terrorist threat from Afghanistan has been largely successful.\n\n\"But what does happen overnight, even though those directed plots and centrally organised bits of terrorism take a bit longer to rebuild... overnight, you can have a psychological boost, a morale boost to extremists already here, or in other countries.\"\n\nIt is difficult to say if the UK is safer, or less safe, now than it was at the time of the September 11 attacks, said Mr McCallum.\n\nSo-called Islamic State had \"managed to do something that al-Qaeda did not\" in inspiring lots of people to attempt smaller scale acts of terrorism, he explained.\n\nHe added: \"We need to be vigilant both for the increase in inspired terrorism which has become a real trend for us to deal with over the last five to 10 years, alongside the potential regrowth of al Qaeda-style directed plots.\"\n\nFor the past two decades, terrorism has dominated MI5's work. But with significant shifts over time.\n\nIt took the attacks of 7 July 2005 for it to fully understand the threat came from within as well as abroad. By the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the sense was that the threat from al-Qaeda might be receding and MI5 could turn to other issues of concern, such as state espionage.\n\nBut then the Islamic State group emerged out of Iraq and Syria and a new wave started - less sophisticated and organised but still deadly.\n\nOnce again, in the last couple of years, there was a hope that this jihadist threat might be slowing as MI5 took on extreme-right wing activity and focused more on Russia and China.\n\nBut recent events have raised concerns that the jihadist threat could evolve once again, with Afghanistan inspiring people to act, or by the Western withdrawal creating a new safe haven for groups to operate in and plan more sophisticated attacks, as they did in the years around 9/11.\n\nFormer chief of the UK defence staff General Lord Richards said he believes we are closer to \"another 9/11\" following the US and UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\n\"I fear the Taliban and some extremist jihadist groups are, whatever they like to say, in each other's pockets,\" he told LBC. \"Scores will be settled, debts will have to be repaid and there will be ungoverned space opened up in Afghanistan which those groups will exploit and the ability of the Taliban to actually manage them will be minimal.\"\n\nTony Blair, Labour prime minister at the time of the 9/11 attacks, told Today: \"We need to decide whether this radical Islamist threat is a real first-order security threat or not. If it is, we need to combine the leading powers of the world and we've got to construct a long-term strategy where we have the staying power to see it through and to defeat them.\"\n\nHe said the Taliban \"need to know they're going to be held to account - they need to know that if they go back to sheltering terrorist groups that are coming after us then we are prepared to act against them\".", "Mr Clarkson posed for selfies with fans as he arrived for the village meeting\n\nTV personality Jeremy Clarkson said he sympathises with people in his village after it was overwhelmed with visitors as a result of his latest TV series.\n\nThe presenter called a meeting for residents of Chadlington, Oxfordshire, on Thursday to quell \"gossip\" about his Diddly Squat farm shop.\n\nVillagers had complained of traffic delays caused by visiting fans.\n\nMr Clarkson admitted the village had been \"swamped\" but said it had led to increased trade for local businesses.\n\nSpeaking on the Jeremy Vine radio show, he said: \"I absolutely sympathise with people in the village.\n\n\"There is more traffic, yes, but there is more business - the village shop is doing better, the cafe in the village, the pub in the village - they are all doing better.\n\n\"They are swamped with people but they are swamped with people spending money.\"\n\nJeremy Clarkson said \"someone gave me the finger\" as he arrived at the meeting\n\nThe farm, which he bought in 2008, is the subject of an Amazon Studios series, entitled Clarkson's Farm.\n\nMr Clarkson said: \"I had no idea that the show was going to be as successful as it was.\n\n\"Then thousands and thousands of people descended - we weren't ready for it, the village wasn't ready for it.\"\n\nResident Maggie Jackman, who called into the Radio 2 show, said Mr Clarkson had been \"very affable, disarming and amusing\" at the meeting.\n\n\"In 10 minutes, he had won over many of the audience,\" she said, but added the village was \"split into three\".\n\n\"There's a very hard-line opposition who would like to see it shut, there's a middle ground, then there are the younger people who quite welcome him.\"\n\nPeople leaving the meeting on Thursday said Mr Clarkson had announced plans to convert a lambing shed into a restaurant and would attempt to curb the number of visitors to his shop.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Bray uploaded the exchange between the two men to Twitter\n\nA minister has been filmed swearing at a veteran pro-EU campaigner who approached him outside the Houses of Parliament.\n\nSteve Bray, known as Mr Stop Brexit, uploaded the clip of his exchange with Foreign Office minister Nigel Adams.\n\nThe footage shows Mr Adams give the four-letter response at least twice as Mr Bray attempts to question him.\n\nA spokesperson for the MP said his remarks \"no doubt reflect those of many democratic representatives\".\n\nThe video, shared on social media by Mr Bray, shows the pair talking in the street on Wednesday evening following the Commons vote on a tax increase to help fund health and social care.\n\nSteve Bray became known for his shouts of \"Stop Brexit\" and waving placards in the background of live TV broadcasts near Parliament\n\nAfter questioning Mr Adams about the tax increase, the MP responds: \"I'm really not interested in talking to an odd bloke with a top hat on chasing me down the street\".\n\nHe then tells Mr Bray, from Port Talbot in Wales, to \"talk to your own MP\" and swears at him.\n\nThe 52-year-old campaigner became a regular sight outside Parliament following the EU referendum, with Mr Bray repeatedly interrupting live TV broadcasts with his cries of \"stop Brexit\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio York, he said: \"You should be able to ask an MP a question without being told where to go.\n\n\"This is at Parliament, it's not as if I'm on his doorstep at his house, this is the seat of power - if you write to these MPs, half of them don't reply.\n\n\"I don't harass MPs, I ask them questions and I like to think I'm speaking for other people who can't be there to ask those questions.\"\n\nMr Adams is the minister for Asia at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for Selby and Ainsty MP Mr Adams said: \"Mr Bray has spent the last few years harassing, following and hurling abuse at elected Parliamentarians as well as interrupting journalists, preventing some from doing their job of reporting the news and conducting interviews.\n\n\"Mr Adams' remarks no doubt reflect those of many democratic representatives trying to deliver on the will of the people and others seeking to go about their business who have been harassed or had their work disrupted by this individual and his handful of followers.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "More people are considering giving up their dogs for adoption since coronavirus restrictions were lifted, according to a dog welfare charity.\n\nThe Dogs Trust said it had seen a 35% increase in calls related to giving up dogs in the last few weeks.\n\nIt said that people were reconsidering owning a pet as their circumstances changed post-lockdown.\n\nThe sales of pets in the UK has soared since the start of the pandemic, when more people spent time at home.\n\nThe price of puppies more than doubled during lockdown, with dogs costing almost £1,900 on average.\n\nThe Dogs Trust said it had witnessed a significant spike in pet owners considering adoption following the announcement that most Covid measures were being lifted in England on 19 July.\n\nIt said traffic to the \"giving up your dog\" pages of their website had increased more than 180% in July compared to pre-pandemic visits in February 2021.\n\nThere was also an 100% increase in traffic in July compared to what it had seen six months earlier in February.\n\nOwen Sharp, the charity's chief executive, said: \"Following the boom in pet ownership during the pandemic which saw millions of us delighting in the companionship of a dog, today's figures have sadly come as no surprise to us.\n\n\"As owners' circumstances change, puppies grow into boisterous 'teenagers' and the country unlocks, many owners are being forced to reconsider the place in their lives for their pet.\"\n\nThe charity, which has launched a National Dog Survey - a census of dog owners - said it expected to see an increase in the number of dogs it receives in the months to come, describing it as a \"looming crisis\".\n\nMore than half of new pet owners are aged 16 to 34\n\nEarlier this year, the Pet Food Manufacturers' Association said a total of 3.2 million households in the UK had acquired a pet since the start of the pandemic.\n\nYoung people were the main drivers of this trend, it said, with more than half of new owners aged 16 to 34.\n\nThere are now about 34 million pets in the UK, including 12 million dogs, the association said.\n\nThe RSPCA previously warned the boom in pet ownership could turn into a \"crisis\" for those animals once their owners returned to work after lockdown and could no longer give their pets so much attention.\n\nHave you had to give up a pet during this pandemic? Or do you work in an animal welfare centre? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bernadette Walker's body has never been found\n\nA man who murdered the teenage girl who called him dad amid claims of sexual assault has been jailed for life.\n\nBernadette Walker, 17, told her mother that Scott Walker, 51, had been abusing her \"over a number of years\".\n\nBernadette, from Peterborough, disappeared days later in July 2020, and is presumed dead as her body has never been found.\n\nDuring sentencing at Cambridge Crown Court, Scott Walker was told he must serve a minimum of 32 years in jail.\n\nBernadette's mother has been jailed for six years after being found guilty of two counts of perverting the course of justice \"knowing or believing\" Bernadette to be dead, having already admitted two counts of perverting the course of justice.\n\nScott Walker was found guilty of murder and perverting the course of justice at the same trial.\n\nJudge Mrs Justice McGowan said his refusal to tell police where Bernadette's body was \"means she can't be shown the respect she deserves\".\n\nJust two days before she was last seen, Bernadette claimed Scott Walker had sexually abused her for years\n\nBernadette was last seen when Scott Walker, who was not her biological father, collected her from his parents' home in Peterborough on 18 July last year.\n\nThe trial heard he and Sarah Walker, who were still living together despite being separated, formed an \"unholy alliance\" to cover up her death.\n\nProsecutor Lisa Wilding QC said on 16 July last year, Bernadette, also known as Bee, told her mother that Scott Walker \"had been sexually abusing her over a number of years\".\n\n\"Sarah Walker told Bernadette that she did not believe her,\" said Ms Wilding.\n\nThe trial heard Bernadette had written in a diary: \"Told my mum about my dad and the abuse.\n\n\"She called me a liar and threatened to kill me if I told the police... What kind of parent wouldn't believe their daughter?\"\n\nScott Walker told his trial that Bernadette ran away from his car when he stopped the vehicle on the way back from his parents' house in Peterborough\n\nThe court heard Sarah Walker sent messages from Bernadette's phone to give the impression she was still alive after she disappeared.\n\nShe and Scott Walker \"hacked\" into Bernadette's social media accounts and posted messages purporting to be from her.\n\nThe judge said Sarah Walker \"was the guiding mind behind the detail of [the] plan\" to cover up Bernadette's death.\n\nBernadette's rucksack was found in a lock-up frequently visited by Scott Walker\n\nAfter telling her mother about the alleged abuse, Bernadette was sent to stay with Scott Walker's parents.\n\nWhen he collected Bernadette, his phone was switched off between 11:23 and 12:54 BST, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors said it was during these 91 minutes that he killed his stepdaughter.\n\nWhen his phone reconnected to the network, the first call he made was to Sarah Walker, which lasted nine minutes.\n\nThe pair \"concocted\" a story during this time to cover up her death, the prosecution said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The arrest of Scott Walker was filmed on police bodycam\n\nDet Insp Justine Jenkins said: \"We may never know the truth about what Scott did and why, but we do know Bee had made allegations of abuse against him.\n\n\"I still hope we may get the answers we need to be able to find her and lay her to rest.\"\n\nShe encouraged anyone who may have been subjected to abuse to speak to police.\n\n\"Bee thought she could confide in her own mother, who should have been able to protect her, but instead she met a tragic end,\" she said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct investigated Cambridgeshire Police's handling of the missing person inquiry and found it \"could have been handled better\".\n\n\"There were opportunities missed to progress the investigation and to have earlier taken it in the direction of looking at Bernadette's mother and stepfather,\" regional director Graham Beesley said.\n\n\"However, there is no way this could have prevented her death.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Iain Anderson has been appointed as the first LGBT business champion\n\nThe UK's first LGBT business champion has pledged to build a bridge between the government and the LGBT community.\n\nIain Anderson, executive chairman of public relations firm Cicero, will focus on improving workplace equality at a small business level.\n\nOne CIPD report suggested 40% of LGB employees had experienced conflict at work, rising to 55% of trans employees.\n\nEarlier this year, the government's LGBT advisory panel was disbanded after several members quit.\n\nOne, Jayne Ozanne, accused the government of creating a \"hostile environment\" for LGBT people.\n\nThe members left over the government's handling of LGBT rights and amid claims it was \"dragging its feet\" on a pledge to ban so-called conversion therapy.\n\n\"I definitely see my role as a link between the LGBT community, government and business and I want to build a bridge between the three parties,\" Mr Anderson said.\n\n\"If businesses see me, and in turn government, putting in place tangible ways to allow LGBT people to be themselves, they'll understand that this is a priority area and do more about it.\"\n\nMr Anderson, a Stonewall ambassador, was appointed to the new unpaid position by equalities minister Liz Truss.\n\nHe told the BBC that the UK had \"come a long way\" on LGBT issues, but there was \"still a lot of prejudice and discrimination out there\".\n\nHe added that large firms had put in a lot of work on improving conditions for LGBT workers and he wanted to help small firms \"buddy up\" with bigger companies to learn from their experiences.\n\n\"I don't want this to be a burden, I want this to be an opportunity,\" he added.\n\nStonewall's Robbie de Santos described the appointment as a \"really important move\" and said it was the government's responsibility to \"set the tone and culture\" for what was happening in the UK.\n\n\"Where 35% of LGBT+ people hide who they are at work for fear of discrimination - and two in five haven't told anyone about being bi at work - we are in a situation where the government does need to step in.\n\n\"It's just not on that huge sections of the LGBT population can have that experience at work, so it's a welcome sign the government has appointed someone specifically to look at this. If you think about how much of time we spend at work, it's really key.\"\n\nFor his part, Mr Anderson said that coming out as gay at work helped his business to thrive.\n\n\"I've been in business 30 years and I didn't feel able to be myself at work for about half that time,\" he said.\n\nLGBT people faced an average pay gap of 16% compared to heterosexual people, a 2019 YouGov survey for LinkedIn suggested - roughly double the UK's gender pay gap.\n\nWhile gender pay gap reporting has become compulsory for large businesses - suspended during the pandemic - Mr Anderson is not pushing for mandatory reporting of LGBT pay gaps.\n\n\"I'm open to conversations with businesses and organisations about any suggestions they have to improve the workplace for LGBT people. If pay gap reporting is one of those suggestions, then I'm more than happy to look at this as an option.\"\n\nHe also acknowledges that LGBT pay gap reporting is more \"tricky\" as not all employees wish to be out at work.\n\nIn the role, he will also help British businesses to advocate LGBT equality in their international trading partners ahead of the UK's first global LGBT conference next summer.\n\nSmall business owner Jose Franca urged the government not to use the appointment as a 'tick-box' exercise.\n\nMike Cherry, national chair of the Federation of Small Business (FSB), welcomed Mr Anderson's appointment.\n\n\"We hope this will instil a new clear focus on LGBT+ individuals who run small businesses right across the country who are so often overlooked compared to others.\n\n\"All too often, it is only larger companies and corporates that offered serious engagement with these issues, it's vital that small business owners and the self-employed are also considered and involved.\n\n\"The government must lead the way on this, by offering mentoring opportunities, role models and an expanded business network\".\n\nMatthew Percival, skills and inclusion director at the Confederation of British Industry said: \"Employers need to be thinking about all groups of society, taking steps to understand and respond to the experiences of LGBT employees.\n\n\"Forums or networks that help LGBT colleagues put forward their views and priorities to management are one of many practical ways in which this can be done.\"\n\nHe added that the government could \"send a powerful signal\" by ratifying the International Labour Organization's Violence and Harassment Convention, described as the first international treaty to recognise the right of everyone to a world of work free from violence and harassment.\n\nJose Franca, who runs an LGBT business group, urged the government not to make the role a \"tick-box\" exercise.\n\n\"We feel that small business LGBT+ members aren't being represented and we say to the government, don't use us as tick-box exercise, engage with us - what are our challenges? Give us the spotlight,\" says Mr Franca, a developmental consultant who helps lead an LGBTQ+ support group for the FSB.\n\n\"Is this going to be different or is it just another PR exercise - what action will they take?\"", "People in Scotland will need proof they have been fully vaccinated before they can enter nightclubs and many large events from 1 October.\n\nThe vaccine passport plan was formally approved by Holyrood after the SNP and Greens voted in favour.\n\nSome businesses have complained of a lack of detail about how the scheme will work in practice.\n\nThe proposals were opposed by the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said the system would reduce the risk of transmission and help prevent venues - many of which have only recently reopened - from having to close again due to Covid.\n\nA paper published by the government on Thursday morning, just hours before the vote in the Scottish Parliament, said officials were still working to define what a nightclub actually is.\n\nAnd it said evidence was still being gathered about the effectiveness of similar schemes elsewhere in the world.\n\nPeople in England will need to have a \"Covid pass\" to access \"higher risk\" settings such as nightclubs from the end of this month.\n\nThere are no current plans to introduce a similar scheme in Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe new rules will mean people over the age of 18 in Scotland will need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to:\n\nIt means that many major sporting events - particularly football matches - will be affected, as will concerts and music festivals.\n\nPeople who have had two vaccines in Scotland can already download or get a paper copy of a certificate with a QR code.\n\nBy the end of the month, it is expected that this code will also be available on a new NHS Scotland Status app.\n\nThese codes can be scanned at a venue to confirm the user is fully vaccinated.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - will be exempt.\n\nPeople will need to show a QR code before they are allowed into some venues\n\nA major goal of the scheme is to encourage more younger people to be vaccinated - with the latest figures showing that uptake among those under the age of 40 in Scotland has been lower than older age groups.\n\nMany areas of Scotland have seen some of the highest Covid rates in Europe in recent weeks - although there are signs that the surge in cases is beginning to slow down.\n\nThe number of people in hospital and intensive care units has also been steadily rising, with health professionals warning that that NHS is coming under increasing strain.\n\nMr Swinney said Scotland was in a \"fragile position\" with Covid-19 case rates still high, telling MSPs that \"we all recognise the need to try all we can to protect the return to greater normality that we have experienced in recent weeks\".\n\nHe said the scheme would reduce the risk of transmission in some settings, allowing those venues to \"operate more safely when the potential alternative would be closure\".\n\nMr Swinney said it would also protect vulnerable people who cannot be vaccinated, and would encourage others to come forward for a jab.\n\nHe said: \"On balance - given the benefits to individuals, to the health of the population, and as a way to keep certain venues and events open - a certification scheme is a proportionate step to take.\"\n\nMr Swinney had been critical of vaccine passports when the proposals for England were unveiled by the prime minister, as had Health Secretary Humza Yousaf and the SNP's partners in government, the Scottish Greens.\n\nGreens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the facts on the ground had changed - and that the scheme was \"worth considering when cases are running at around 7,000 a day and once the entire adult population has had two doses\".\n\nHospitality groups have called for more details about how the system will work, while a football supporters association said it was \"concerned about inequalities\" shutting some fans out of games.\n\nLeon Thompson of the trade body UK Hospitality Scotland told BBC Scotland there had been \"very rushed and hurried conversations with officials\" in recent days, with members \"very concerned\" about the practicalities of the plans.\n\nDr Liz Cameron, chief executive of Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said it would \"directly impact on consumer confidence and risks creating further financial damage to those sectors who have already been hardest hit by Covid-19\".\n\nCBI Scotland director Tracy Black said vaccine passports had the potential to be \"a useful tool in managing risk in large venues\" - but that there needed to be \"close cooperation and coordination\" with businesses.\n\nThe Scottish Tories voted against the proposals despite the Conservative UK government planning to introduce a similar system.\n\nLeader Douglas Ross said not enough detail had been provided about the Scottish scheme, and that the government should not be asking MSPs to \"impose\" a vaccine certification scheme on establishments it was not able to define.\n\nHe said: \"A responsible government should bring forward proposals that are able to be enacted.\n\n\"We are in a really difficult position as politicians seeking to make a decision on an extremely difficult subject if the government cannot even give us simple information.\"\n\nScottish Labour also opposed the plans, with deputy leader Jackie Baillie saying there was a \"practical question about the government's ability to even implement this\".\n\nShe said people with a vaccination certificate could still have the virus and be infectious, saying ministers were in danger of giving people a false sense of confidence that they were \"invincible\".\n\nMs Baillie said the government should \"not simply reach for anything just to be seen to take action, and end up making things worse\".\n\nAnd Alex Cole-Hamilton said his Scottish Liberal Democrats were \"fundamentally opposed to the plans, which he said set the country on a \"disturbing and illiberal course\".\n\nHe added: \"Medical ID cards will be introduced by this coalition tonight and liberals will immediately begin the campaign to see their abolition.\"", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 3 and 10 September.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nNut today: Raymond McMillan caught this scene in the woodland adjacent to his garden in Tomatin. He said: 'The squirrel was a bit possessive so the chaffinch stayed for only a few seconds.'\n\nHillbilly: Nick Hocking said he took this picture while scrambling along the Anonach Eagach ridge in Glencoe on a fantastic day.\n\nPier into the darkness: William Brown enjoyed the night time at Oban Harbour.\n\nBusy bee: Jim Boyd took this pic in his garden in Arrochar.\n\nThanks a bunch to Kirsty Cleland who sent in this colourful picture of flowers in Skipness looking across to the Isle of Arran.\n\nBridge the light fantastic: Neil McRobie said it was a cloudy but warm morning at South Queensferry.\n\nAnimated: Angus Moyse took this picture of his friend Annie Mac queuing at the Dens Road market in Dundee.\n\nJeana Anderson caught the last of the light in Dunfermline, Fife.\n\nPost uplift: Liz Meyer caught this post van being loaded onto the Graemsay Ferry at Stromness while on holiday in Orkney.\n\nThis picture gives me butterflies: Helen Sadie said this Common Blue Butterfly was basking on the banks of the Clyde in Helensburgh.\n\nStag party: Emma Flack's view from her window of Loch Kishorn.\n\nI cirrusly love this picture: Mike More said he saw this amazing cloud inversion heading over the Forcan Ridge at sunrise.\n\nWheelie nice scene: Colin Martin enjoyed his cycle ride to Benglass on the Isle of Skye.\n\nJohn McGuinness said this swan was carefully picking his way through the green algae at Lochore Meadows Country Park in Fife.\n\nRock n' roll: Anne Cameron was looking at the Bass Rock, from the East Lothian coast just outside North Berwick.\n\nLooking from Ornsey on Skye directly toward Loch Hourn in Knoydart.\n\nNo train no gain: John Ireland loved seeing this Jacobite steam train passing through Corpach in Fort William.\n\nCatch of the day: Robin Blythe found this TomPot Blenny when diving Trail Island at Wee Cumbrae on the Clyde.\n\nFlower power: Mirren Sneddon photographed her son wandering through the field of hope sunflower maze at Ardross farm near Elie.\n\nForest reclaims house: Simon Dunsmore took this picture of Dunmore House near Falkirk saying he thought it was spooky.\n\nNo strings attached: Carole Graham enjoyed seeing this giant puppet of Storm, goddess of the sea, at Anstruther Harbour Festival.\n\nOther worldly: Katy Anderson said she thought this jellyfish on Ayr beach looked like a UFO.\n\nEagle-eyed: Elizabeth Scott took this photo of a white-tailed eagle perched on a rocky island while on a boat trip from Port Ellen, Islay.\n\nHorsing around: Nicola Sutherland said her daughter Murren enjoyed getting a kiss from one of the horses at the Riding School for the disabled in West Lothian.\n\nThistle cheer you up: Ian Marshall said this unusual artichoke flower in his St Andrews garden took him completely by surprise.\n\nGo with the flow-er: Ann McMillan took this shot looking up to Edinburgh Castle after browsing the markets in the Grassmarket.\n\nJib Cameron spent the most incredible day on the banks of Loch Vaa.\n\nBalancing act: Mark Ewing managed to catch a wonder of nature as this crane fly (daddy long legs) emerged at Comrie golf course.\n\nWinging it: Clare Smart caught this rare shot of an owl while in Skye for her son's wedding.\n\nSun down: Craig Bradshaw enjoyed the sunset at Ailsa Craig in the south west of Scotland.\n\nAre you robin my name? A robin in John Brown's shot of Dunrobin Castle.\n\nAerial view: Eric Brawley wondered if this was a fantastic or sad picture of a derelict Haghill Primary school in Glasgow.\n\nRed sky at night: Mary Meldrum could not believe how beautiful Oban harbour looked in the evening light.\n\nMoove over: The Highland Cow got in the way of Britta Schmitz's shot of Iona Abbey.\n\nWave goodbye: Arthur Campbell was looking at the Isles of Eigg and Rum from a sunset cruise boat\n\nPeak a boo: William Brown caught the early morning in Bonawe near Oban.\n\nWhale hello there: Bill Wright said he was approached by this very curious Minke whale while on a boat trip off the Isle of Mull.\n\nRed Sea: John Young captured this view looking from Glenbarr as the sun went down over Islay from the shoreline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport website and app, with live text commentary and match report on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu reached the US Open final as her meteoric rise continued with a stunning straight-set win over Greek 17th seed Maria Sakkari in New York.\n\nRaducanu, 18, extended her dream run with a 6-1 6-4 victory in which her dominance again almost defied belief.\n\nShe is the first qualifier to reach a Grand Slam final and will play another teenager Leylah Fernandez on Saturday.\n\nRaducanu is the first British woman in a major singles final in 44 years.\n\nWatched on by Virginia Wade - the last woman to achieve that feat at Wimbledon in 1977 - Raducanu produced another fearless and ruthless victory that stunned those watching on Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\nAfter confidently swatting away a volley on her first match point, Raducanu immediately dropped her racquet on the court and covered her mouth with both hands.\n\nQuickly she broke out into a beaming smile before lapping up the acclaim of a rapturous crowd on the world's biggest tennis court.\n\n\"The time in New York has gone so quickly, I've been taking care of each day and three weeks later I'm in the final. I actually can't believe it,\" Raducanu said.\n• None Reaction to brilliant Raducanu reaching the US Open final\n• None Raducanu set to be best paid British sportswoman\n\nAfter coming through three qualifying matches to reach the main draw, she has not dropped a set in any of her nine matches at Flushing Meadows.\n\nIt is only Raducanu's second Grand Slam tournament and the fourth tour-level event of her career.\n• None the youngest British Grand Slam finalist in 62 years, since Christine Truman reached the French Open final aged 18 in 1959\n• None the first British woman to reach a US Open final in 53 years, following Wade in 1968\n• None only the fourth British woman to reach a Grand Slam final in the Open era\n\nBefore her run to the Wimbledon last 16 earlier this summer, Raducanu was ranked 336th in the world.\n\nThis win puts her on the verge of the top 30 after already being assured of becoming the British women's number one by reaching the last four at Flushing Meadows.\n\nMost pertinently, it gives the London teenager - who also passed her A Levels this summer - the opportunity to win one of tennis' most prestigious titles when she faces Canadian 19-year-old world number 73 Fernandez at 21:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nGiven the one-sided nature of the victory against Sakkari - and those before it - Raducanu will not be fazed by the occasion.\n\nReaching the last 16 at Wimbledon on her Grand Slam debut catapulted Raducanu into stardom, yet somehow she has managed to surpass what she achieved there with the extraordinary exploits in New York.\n\nYet again she dismantled a much more experienced opponent with such ease that it breathtakingly belied her age and experience.\n\nFormer British number one Greg Rusedski said her performance against Sakkari was \"worthy of a world number one\".\n\nFrench Open semi-finalist Sakkari, like those opponents before her, was left befuddled by Raducanu's poise and execution. The Greek, who was also aiming to reach her maiden Grand Slam final, was unable to cope with Raducanu's intensity and could not find a solution to negate it.\n\nRaducanu faced seven break points in her opening two service games, seeing them all off to hold both and move into a 3-0 lead with a break sandwiched in-between.\n\nSakkari became frustrated with her inability to take her opportunities, chuntering at her box and complaining to the umpire before running off to swap her skirt at the first changeover.\n\nIn contrast to Sakkari's anxious demeanour, Raducanu seemed completely unflustered by the occasion.\n\nThat continued as the Briton, backed by a few fans dressed in Union Jack colours and waving flags, won all the decisive points on the way to clinching the opening set in 36 minutes.\n\nBeing the frontrunner is a position Raducanu has become accustomed to at Flushing Meadows and once she broke for a 2-1 lead in the second set, there looked to be little way back for Sakkari.\n\nPressure continued to be applied in each of the Greek's next two service games - but she managed to hold and maintain hope by remaining a single break down.\n\nWith the Greek player's family looking increasingly tense as they watched on, Sakkari saved five break points in a momentous hold lasting almost 10 minutes for 4-3.\n\nAfter exchanging holds, Raducanu then had the opportunity to serve for the match.\n\nA wayward forehand put Sakkari 15-0 ahead, before Raducanu found a first serve that could not be returned and led to a loud roar of 'Come on!', which signalled the Briton's relief.\n\nA nerveless forehand down the line was timed to perfection for 30-15 and another penetrating baseline return set up a match point.\n\nWith a place in the US Open final beckoning, there were no signs of nerves as she sealed victory with a forehand volley.\n\nAfterwards Raducanu said she had looked to former British number one Tim Henman, standing at the side of the court in his role as a television analyst, for reassuring support before serving on match point.\n\n\"Tim is honestly such a big inspiration, he was telling me to treat it one point at a time,\" she said.\n\n\"In moments like this you definitely can't get ahead of yourself and you need stay present.\n\n\"I'm grateful to Tim for everything he has done for British tennis and for me.\"\n\nNew York's teenage kicks signals a changing of the guard\n\nEarlier in Thursday's night session, Canadian teenager Fernandez sealed her place in the final by shocking Belarusian second seed Aryna Sabalenka.\n\nUnseeded Fernandez, who turned 19 on Monday, won 7-6 (7-3) 4-6 6-4 to edge a tense semi-final.\n\nRaducanu's victory then set up the eighth Grand Slam final in the Open Era between teenagers.\n\nIt is the first since the 1999 US Open when American hope Serena Williams beat Switzerland's Martina Hingis.\n\nThe success of Raducanu and Fernandez caps a tournament where a host of young stars have filled the void of several big names - in particular Williams, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal - with superb performances.\n\nMartina Navratilova, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, said Raducanu and Fernandez's success was a \"changing of the guard\" moment.\n\nWhat Raducanu has achieved 'does not seem real' - reaction\n\nNaomi Broady, British player on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I am just speechless, I am so so happy for her. It wasn't Maria Sakkari's night but it was the sheer pressure put on her by Emma Raducanu right from the start.\n\n\"She had those seven break points, Maria Sakkari, and she couldn't take one. From that moment Raducanu ran away with the match.\n\n\"How exciting is this? We're allowed to be excited about this, we're not being British and ahead of ourselves - this is amazing!\"\n\nRussell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent in New York: \"Emma Raducanu is making reaching a Grand Slam final look incredibly easy.\n\n\"You think about the players who since Virginia Wade in 1977 have been trying to reach a Grand Slam final for Britain in the women's game - Johanna Konta came very close at the French Open in 2019 and Jo Durie too, a semi-finalist at the US Open among other appearances at that stage of a Grand Slam.\n\n\"Yet Emma Raducanu has done it at the second attempt at her Grand Slam and has taken all of our breath away with the way she has played throughout this summer. It doesn't seem real.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Dame Cressida Dick became the first woman to lead the Metropolitan Police when she was appointed in 2017\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Federation has backed Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick following calls for her to be replaced.\n\nA number of high-profile signatories wrote an open letter accusing her of \"presiding over a culture of incompetence and cover-up\".\n\nThis came after reports Dame Cressida, 60, had been offered a two-year extension to her contract.\n\nIn a statement, the federation said it \"fully supports\" the contract extension.\n\nSince her appointment in 2017, Dame Cressida has been involved in several controversies.\n\nAmong those who signed the letter calling for Dame Cressida to go were Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack, and Lady Brittan, whose home was raided when her husband Lord Brittan was falsely accused of child abuse.\n\nThe federation, which represents more than 30,000 officers in London, is the staff association to which every constable, sergeant, inspector and chief inspector in the Metropolitan Police Service belongs.\n\nIn its statement backing Dame Cressida, it said: \"It is easy to comment and criticise from the side-lines.\"\n\nKen Marsh chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation said Dame Cressida had the \"full support of the rank and file\".\n\nHe said he understood \"fully\" the position of the letter signatories and that his \"heart goes out to them\".\n\nAsked about criticism of Dame Cressida, he said: \"From what I've seen she's done everything she can to answer all comments that are put to her and everything that's put in front of her.\"\n\nProtesters demonstrate outside Scotland Yard over the treatment of people by police at the Sarah Everard vigil\n\nA full statement from the Police Federation said: \"Whilst the federation does not always agree with the commissioner - the same goes for anyone who holds that post - we think she is doing a good job in difficult circumstances.\n\n\"Many of the voices we hear calling for the commissioner to go are the same ones who, following the Clapham Common vigil earlier this year, rounded on our colleagues criticising their work.\n\n\"They were, of course, proven to be completely wrong when Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary looked at the policing of the event.\n\n\"We have worked with this commissioner for a number of years now and believe she is still the best candidate for the role.\n\n\"We know her to be an ethical, courageous and highly competent police leader who genuinely cares about London, its citizens and her officers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland's first minister has said that holding an independence referendum in the next two years is realistic despite Covid making \"everything harder\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon announced this week that her government was resuming work on its plans to hold indyref2 by the end of 2023.\n\nShe told the BBC it was important not to underplay the challenges caused by the pandemic.\n\nBut she said remaining in the UK would not \"magic away\" those difficulties.\n\nThe first minister said that regardless of whether or not Scotland becomes independent, the next few years would be difficult for Scotland - as it will for the UK and countries across the world.\n\nAsked about the financial case for independence, and whether setting up a new country after the pandemic would be harder, she replied: \"I think everything is harder after the pandemic.\n\n\"There are always challenges, big challenges, and I think it's important we do not underplay them.\n\n\"Everything has become harder, but the point I'm making is if we decide not to become independent and stay in the UK that doesn't magic away these difficulties and challenges.\"\n\nThe SNP leader was speaking as her party's four-day virtual conference - which was postponed earlier in the year - got under way, with her speech due on Monday.\n\nShe said the Scottish government would have a \"small team\" of civil servants working on its preparations for a possible referendum.\n\nThe UK government has said it intends to block indyref2, but Ms Sturgeon said it was realistic to plan for one by the end of 2023.\n\nWhile she said Covid \"continued to be the priority\", the SNP leader argued it was right that the country's future would be \"decided by people in Scotland\" once the crisis is over.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that decision should be \"an informed one\".\n\nShe said that regardless of whether or not Scotland becomes independent, the next few years would be difficult for Scotland - as it will for the UK and countries across the world - as it recovers from the pandemic.\n\nShe said there were \"big decisions\" to be taken as Scotland emerges from the pandemic about what kind of country, society and economy it wants to be.\n\nThis weekend's SNP conference will see the party recommit to another referendum - Nicola Sturgeon wants it by the end of 2023.\n\nBut it's impossible to say with certainty that will happen. The UK government isn't budging - and the pro-independence side are still working on their updated case for a post-Brexit, post-Covid vision.\n\nNicola Sturgeon told me that the Scottish government team working on independence would be small - and consist of civil servants already focused on intergovernmental issues.\n\nShe doesn't want it to look like taxpayer-funded staff are being taken away from Covid - but some in the SNP want the government to move much faster.\n\nThen there's the case for independence itself. Ms Sturgeon admits that the financial arguments for independence have been harder by the pandemic. Scotland's deficit doubled in the latest figures.\n\nShe still believes Scotland should control its recovery - but it's a sign of the challenge ahead for her side of the independence debate. That challenge becomes all the more acute if there's just two years to provide the answers.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"Every country is facing those, so for Scotland it's about who drives those decisions and what values guide those decisions.\n\n\"Is it Boris Johnson and his government or is it the government we elect here in Scotland? That is the fundamental issue.\"\n\nThe UK government has repeatedly dismissed calls for a fresh vote on independence, saying that such referendums should be once in a generation and that the current priority was to recover from Covid.\n\nIn her interview, Ms Sturgeon also said that Scotland's NHS was under more pressure now than ever before due the recent surge in the number of Covid cases.\n\nAnd she said the controversial new vaccine passport rules, which are due to come into force on 1 October and will only allow fully vaccinated people to go into nightclubs and many other major events, were not a \"magic wand\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the passports would instead be a measure that might \"help tip the balance that will allow events to go ahead, nightclubs to stay open, when otherwise we may as we go into the winter face difficult choices about closing them\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have described the vaccine passport scheme as \"a shambles waiting to happen\".\n\nAnd the party's constitution spokesman, Donald Cameron, said the economic case for independence \"has never been weaker\".\n\n\"The pandemic has shown the strength of being part of our UK during a time of crisis,\" he said.\n\n\"The SNP/Green government's full focus should be on our recovery from Covid. No vital resources should be diverted by this nationalist coalition of chaos away from tackling the true priorities of the people of Scotland.\"", "A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there Image caption: A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there\n\nThe BBC is covering the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US, which led to the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan.\n\nThis is the story of Chris Cruz, who explains in an interview to BBC's OS programme why he decided to join the US army.\n\n\"My mother was heading to work on a normal 11 September day. As soon as she exited the subway, she was told to start running as the buildings were coming down. She literally saw them coming down and described people jumping out of the windows,\" says Chris.\n\n\"When she finally made it home, I - as an 11-year-old boy at the time - had to tell her that she had burn marks and blood spots on the back of her legs. She was in a state of shock.\n\n\"As I grew up, I realised... I had the ability to be part of an organisation that could defend and prevent these atrocities for all Americans.\n\n\"9/11 played a role, but not in a way of revenge. I didn't want to join out of bloodlust. I served two tours in Afghanistan. Both of those times I volunteered to go.\n\n\"I don't think our mission would have succeeded without our Afghan partners. I agree we couldn't be there forever, but we made a promise to keep our partners safe and that we wouldn't turn our backs on them, and that's exactly what we've done.\"\n\nChris adds: \"I do think the way we pulled out, the way we left it, was completely wrong. There needed to be a better exit strategy.\"", "Apple has been dealt a major blow in its ongoing trial against Fortnite-maker Epic Games.\n\nA court in Oakland, California, has ruled that Apple cannot stop app developers directing users to third-party payment options.\n\nApple had argued that all apps should use Apple's own in-app payment options.\n\nIn a high profile trial, Epic Games had challenged the up-to-30% cut Apple takes from purchases - and argued that the App Store was monopolistic.\n\nOn Friday, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers ruled that \"the court cannot ultimately conclude that Apple is a monopolist\".\n\nHowever she also issued a permanent injunction, stating that Apple could no longer prohibit developers linking to their own purchasing mechanisms.\n\nFor example, a movie-streaming service will now be able to tell customers to subscribe via its own website, without using Apple's in-app purchasing mechanism.\n\nEpic has also taken legal action against Google over its Play Store.\n\nApple's closed payments system is hugely lucrative for the tech giant, although the company says it does not know exactly how much it makes.\n\nThe ruling effectively states that Apple cannot ban developers from communicating with customers. Often there are cheaper options for consumers away from the App Store, however Apple did not allow companies to tell consumers this.\n\nEpic had argued that this was unreasonable and that developers should be able to inform users that they could make purchases away from the App Store.\n\nHowever in a win for Apple, the judge also ruled Epic failed to demonstrate Apple was operating an illegal monopoly.\n\nJudge Yvonne Gonzales-Rogers said: \"Apple enjoys considerable market share of over 55% and extraordinary high profit margins.\"\n\nBut added: \"These factors alone do not show antitrust conduct. Success is not illegal.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Apple said: \"Today the Court has affirmed what we've known all along: the App Store is not in violation of antitrust law.\n\n\"Apple faces rigorous competition in every segment in which we do business, and we believe customers and developers choose us because our products and services are the best in the world.\"\n\nEpic Games' chief Tim Sweeney said the ruling was \"not a win for developers or consumers\" and vowed to \"fight on\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tim Sweeney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMusic streaming site Spotify said: \"We are pleased with [the decision that] Apple engaged in anti-competitive conduct and has permanently prohibited their anti-steering provisions.\"\n\nThe ruling also revealed that gaming apps account for 70% of App Store revenue.\n\nIt's likely the decision will be appealed, perhaps by both sides.\n\nApple's share price has fallen by 3% since the decision, wiping billions of dollars from its valuation.\n\nApple has been quick to claim victory - calling it a \"resounding win\".\n\nIt is true that the judge mainly sided with Apple on Epic's major contention, stating it is not a monopoly.\n\nHowever the characterisation that Apple has \"won\" here is misleading.\n\nEpic's case against Apple was speculative. Many believed they didn't stand a chance.\n\nThat the court has moved to allow in app purchases to be redirected away from the App Store could be a major blow to Apple's business model.\n\nIt was revealed that 70% of Apple's App Store revenue comes from gaming apps - an astonishing figure.\n\nI say \"could be\" because it's unclear how many people would choose to purchase away from the App Store, or to what extent that would dent Apple's profits.\n\nDuring the trial, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said he didn't know how much the company generates from the App Store. That makes trying to assess the damage this ruling could have on the company difficult.\n\nEpic is saying it is disappointed in the ruling, and certainly the judge could have given them more.\n\nBut the decision has been welcomed by anti-trust campaigners, who believe Apple use their market dominance to bully developers.\n• None Epic v Apple: What have we learned?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert: \"We need more doses so we're not talking about choices\"\n\nThe vaccines are still providing strong protection, a year on from the initial two doses, says the scientist who developed the Oxford-AZ vaccine.\n\nThe UK's vaccine advisory body is set to decide whether booster doses against Covid-19 are needed this autumn.\n\nProf Dame Sarah Gilbert told the BBC that offering a third booster dose to millions of people was \"a complex decision\".\n\nAnd she called for more vaccines to be licensed to increase supplies.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has already said a third top-up dose should be offered to people with severely weakened immune systems, which accounts for up to half a million people in the UK.\n\nBut it has not decided if booster doses are needed to extend protection in larger numbers of people at high risk from Covid-19, including those normally eligible for a flu jab.\n\nThe UK reported a further 37,622 coronavirus cases on Friday, according to the latest government figures.\n\nThere have also been another 147 deaths of people who tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days.\n\nProf Gilbert, who began designing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in early 2020 when Covid first emerged in China, said there were no signs of immunity waning in ongoing trials of the vaccine, which started in April 2020.\n\nBlood tests on volunteers who had been vaccinated more than a year ago, showed they had signs of good protection.\n\n\"It's the first dose of the vaccine that has the most impact, whoever you give that vaccine too,\" she said.\n\n\"We get good protection after a single dose and then it's improved by a second dose and we would expect to see it being maintained or possibly slightly improved then by third dose.\n\n\"As we would expect, with any other vaccine, we are seeing strong maintenance of the [immune] response.\"\n\nProf Gilbert also said the world needed more doses and more vaccine supplies, so there didn't need to be a choice between vaccinating one country over another.\n\n\"More doses are becoming available and we need to focus on getting those doses to countries that really need them,\" she said, adding that many African countries had only vaccinated 2% of their population.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said on Thursday he was awaiting \"final advice\" from the JCVI, but was \"confident\" a booster programme would start later this month.\n\nInterim advice issued by the JCVI in July suggested more than 30 million people should receive a booster dose, including all adults over 50.\n\nThe UK medicines regulator (MHRA) has approved the use of Pfizer and AstraZeneca as Covid booster vaccines, paving the way for a rollout ahead of the winter.\n\nProf Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, agreed there is a \"fire raging all around the world with huge pressure on health systems in many, many countries\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the UK had a \"moral obligation\" to help other countries, adding: \"There is such a big risk, morally from our perspective - there's a risk to trade, there's a risk to economies, but also these are our friends and colleagues who need to be protected, and we are losing them every day that goes by.\"\n\nSir Andrew also said the UK still had high levels of protection from the virus, despite the fall in levels of people's immune response after having had the vaccine. The JCVI needs to look at the issue of who is ending up in hospital after being infected as part of its considerations, he added.\n\nMore than 48.3 million people in the UK - 88.8% of the population aged over 16 - have had a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 43.7 million have had both doses.\n\nThe UK has ordered more than 540 million doses of seven of the most promising vaccines, including the four so far approved for use - Pfizer, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Moderna and Janssen.\n\nHowever, there are vast differences in the pace of progress in different parts of the world, and the government has pledged to donate 100 million surplus jabs to poorer countries before the middle of 2022.", "This is only the second call between the leaders since President Biden took office\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping has spoken with his US counterpart Joe Biden for the first time in seven months.\n\nA White House Statement said both leaders had \"discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict\".\n\nThis is only the second call between them since President Biden took office.\n\nUS- China relations have been tense, with clashes over issues like trade, espionage and the pandemic.\n\n\"The two leaders had a broad, strategic discussion in which they discussed areas where our interests converge, and areas where our interests, values, and perspectives diverge,\" the White House Statement added.\n\n\"This discussion, as President Biden made clear, was part of the United States' ongoing effort to responsibly manage the competition between the United States and the PRC.\"\n\nChinese state broadcaster CCTV said the phone call was \"candid [and] in-depth\", adding that it had covered \"extensive strategic communication and... issues of mutual concern\".\n\n\"Whether China and the US can properly handle their relations... is critical for the future and destiny of the world,\" said Mr Xi, according to the CCTV report.\n\nMr Biden's predecessor Donald Trump had interacted more frequently with Mr Xi when he first took office.\n\nWithin the first six months of his administration, Mr Trump spoke to Mr Xi twice over the phone, and also invited the Chinese President to Mar-a-Lago, Mr Trump's private club, where the two held talks in person.\n\nA senior White House official on Friday said the call came at the request of President Biden, who had become \"exasperated\" by the unwillingness of lower level Chinese officials to hold substantive talks with his administration.\n\nEarlier this year, high-level talks between the Biden administration and China were fraught with tension - with officials on both sides exchanging sharp rebukes.\n\nChinese officials had accused the US of inciting countries \"to attack China\", while the US said China had \"arrived intent on grandstanding\".\n\nThere are quite a few major issues the two economic giants clash on - with human rights and democracy a major sticking point.\n\nThe US accuses China of genocide against the Uighur population in the province of Xinjiang. It also says Beijing is trampling on democratic rights in Hong Kong with a recently introduced security law that critics say is being used to crack down on dissent.\n\nMeanwhile, China has repeatedly told the US to stop interfering in what Beijing considers its internal affairs and accuses Washington of \"smearing\" the ruling Communist Party.\n\nThere's also the issue of trade. Both countries have been locked in a trade battle that began in 2018 under then President Donald Trump.\n\nThe US had imposed tariffs on more than $360bn (£268bn) of Chinese goods, and China has retaliated with tariffs on more than $110bn of US products.\n\nMr Biden has not pulled back on the tough trade messaging to Beijing of his predecessor - something that has angered China.\n\nThen there's the South China Sea.\n\nIn recent years it has become a flashpoint between China and other nations in the region which claim sovereignty over two largely uninhabited island chains, the Paracels and the Spratlys.\n\nChina claims most of the sea, but neighbouring countries which have competing claims and the US disagree. Despite the opposition, Beijing has continued to expand its military presence in the area while maintaining that its intentions are peaceful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is everyone fighting over the South China Sea?\n\nWe could also be seeing tensions over Afghanistan. China has repeatedly criticised the US for its withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nEarlier this week, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin once again slammed the US, saying their troops had \"wreaked havoc\".\n\nHe also accused the US of inflicting \"serious damage on the Afghan people\".", "Thieves cut through a locked compound in Stallingborough using an angle grinder\n\nThieves who made a clean getaway after stealing more than £25,000 worth of mouthwash and chewing gum are being sought by police.\n\nThe trio took a haulage container filled with 48 pallets of the dental products in a raid on a locked compound in Stallingborough, Lincolnshire.\n\nCCTV footage shows two men breaking through a gate before driving away with their hygienic haul.\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nVideo of the raid, on 16 April, shows two men emerge from a truck driven by a third suspect.\n\nThey approach the gate before using an angle grinder to get through, and the tractor unit is then used to ram through an inner barrier.\n\nIt is later seen pulling out of the compound with the haulage container attached.\n\nDet Con Wayne Martin, of Humberside Police, said the trailer, fitted with false plates, was found on Sheffield's Yarra industrial estate on 29 June without the container.\n\nThe CCTV has been shown on the BBC Crimewatch programme as part of a police appeal\n\nOf the two men visible on the footage, he said one, wearing a high-vis waistcoat \"appears not to be able to use his right arm\".\n\nThose with information can also contact Crimestoppers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only fully vaccinated people will be allowed into nightclubs, major sporting events and many concerts and festivals in Scotland from October.\n\nIf you've had two doses you can already download or get a paper copy of a certificate with a QR code to prove your vaccination status. It is expected that this code will soon be available on a new NHS Scotland Status app.\n\nIn a new development in Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford says ministers will decide next week if vaccine passports should be used to gain entry to some events.\n\nWales already has an NHS Covid Pass to show your vaccination status\n\nIn England, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi says people will need to prove their Covid status to get into nightclubs and some other venues from the end of September.\n\nThe plans were first announced in July and have been opposed by some Tory MPs and the Liberal Democrats. Nightclubs have described them as \"chaotic and surreal\".\n\nIn England, as long as you are registered with a GP, you can prove your Covid status using the NHS Covid Pass , via the NHS App.\n\nNorthern Ireland has not yet proposed Covid passport rules for venues and events, but residents can apply for a Covid status certificate online .\n\nRead more about the plans for vaccine passports across the UK here.", "The Taliban have used live ammunition, batons and whips against protesters, the UN has said\n\nThe UN has condemned the Taliban for their \"increasingly violent response\" to dissent, weeks after the group's rapid takeover of Afghanistan.\n\nTaliban fighters killed four people during recent protests, the UN said.\n\nDemonstrations have taken place across Afghanistan since the fall of Kabul on 15 August, demanding respect for women's rights and greater freedoms.\n\nTaliban fighters have used batons, whips, and live ammunition against protesters, the UN said in its report.\n\n\"We call on the Taliban to immediately cease the use of force towards, and the arbitrary detention of, those exercising their right to peaceful assembly and the journalists covering the protests,\" a spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a press statement.\n\nTaliban fighters swept across Afghanistan in August, capturing provincial centres and eventually the capital Kabul itself in less than two weeks.\n\nThe US then led an airlift from the capital's international airport, evacuating more than 120,000 people before pulling out its own forces on 31 August.\n\nThe Taliban takeover follows two decades of US military operations in Afghanistan, after American and allied forces ousted the group from power in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks.\n\nThe US will mark the 20th anniversary of those attacks on Saturday.\n\nUN spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani criticised the Taliban's crackdown on demonstrations in a press briefing on Friday.\n\nDemonstrations have grown since 15 August, she said. But on Wednesday the Taliban banned unauthorised gatherings, and on Thursday they ordered telecommunications companies to shut off mobile internet in Kabul.\n\nIt is crucial the group listen to Afghan women and men on the streets \"during this time of great uncertainty\", she said.\n\nThe press statement also noted the deaths of at least four people - including a boy - and the violent dispersal of demonstrators in recent weeks.\n\nIt also criticised violence against journalists. Reporters told the BBC this week they had been beaten, detained and flogged by the Taliban when they tried to cover the protests.\n\nThe journalists said they were badly beaten in Taliban custody\n\nThe UN report comes amid growing concerns about Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover.\n\nOn Friday, the UN's World Food Programme said 93% of households in the country were not eating enough food. A drought has exacerbated supply problems, causing the loss of some 40% of the wheat crop.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal reports that aid workers fear the entire population could fall into poverty within months.\n\nAnd UN body Unesco warns that the country faces a \"generational catastrophe\" in education, after two decades of progress for children - especially girls.\n\nUnconfirmed reports suggest the Taliban plan to hold a ceremony to inaugurate their new government on Saturday, after announcing its leadership this week.\n\nIt is the day the US will hold events to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.\n\nClose to 3,000 people died that day. Islamist militant group al-Qaeda masterminded the attack, led by Osama Bin Laden - who was at the time in Afghanistan under the protection of the Taliban.\n\nKen McCallum, director general of the UK intelligence agency MI5, has told the BBC that the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has likely \"emboldened\" UK terrorists.\n\nPresident Joe Biden had initially set 11 September as the deadline for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, before the Taliban takeover forced the US to speed up its withdrawal.\n\nOn Thursday the first foreigners flew out of Kabul since the US pull-out. Around 100 people - among them UK, US, Canadian and Dutch nationals - took a Qatar Airways charter flight to Doha.\n\nA second Qatar Airways flight from the Afghan capital landed in Doha on Friday, reportedly carrying some 150 people. France has confirmed that 49 of its nationals were on board.\n\nThe White House said 19 US nationals were on board the aircraft. It added that on Friday another two American nationals and 11 permanent residents left Afghanistan overland to a third country with Washington's assistance.\n\nHowever, press secretary Jen Psaki said that the US has temporarily halted flights of Afghan refugees into the country after the discovery of four cases of measles among those who have recently arrived.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former member of Afghan parliament: 'The Taliban would've killed me if they found me'", "Benjamin Mendy is accused of four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault\n\nManchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has appeared in court charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.\n\nThe 27-year-old is accused of attacking three women at his home in Cheshire between October 2020 and August 2021.\n\nLouis Saha Matturie, 40, of Salford, also appeared at Chester Crown Court charged with four counts of rape.\n\nNeither of the men were asked to enter a plea and both were remanded in custody.\n\nThey will next appear at court on 18 November and a trial date has been fixed for 24 January.\n\nEleanor Laws QC, defending Mr Mendy, said there would be an application to dismiss the charges at the November hearing.\n\nThe alleged attacks, on three different women including one under 18, are said to have happened at his home address in Prestbury.\n\nMr Mendy only spoke to confirm his name during the 45-minute hearing and winked to a man in the public gallery as he was led back down to the cells.\n\nHe was refused bail last month and is currently on remand at HMP Altcourse in Liverpool.\n\nThe France international has played for last season's Premier League champions Manchester City since 2017, when he joined from Monaco for a reported £52m.\n\nHe was suspended by the club after being charged by police, pending an investigation.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twitter has announced a new feature allowing accounts to self-identify as bots, by adding a label to their profile.\n\nTwitter said the update was based on research that found that people wanted more context about non-human accounts.\n\nThe company gives several examples of \"good bots\" including accounts that share vaccination updates, information about seismic activity or material from public museums.\n\nThe move will not be mandatory.\n\nThe company will continue to remove inauthentic accounts it deems to break the company's platform rules.\n\nExample of Twitter's new label\n\nBots are often associated with misinformation on social media platforms - and have caused a major headache for the company.\n\nA study by Carnegie Mellon University last year found that nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic were likely automated accounts.\n\nTwitter has removed tens of millions of suspected bot accounts in recent years.\n\nYet some automated accounts are seen by Twitter as having a positive impact on the platform.\n\nOne account Twitter highlighted as a \"good bot\" live tweets every time there is an earthquake in San Francisco.\n\nAnother tweets public domain works from the Drawings & Prints department at New York's Metropolitan Museum.\n\nTwitter had previewed the system in May, in an attempt to give people more information to differentiate automated from human-run accounts.\n\nThe company believes the labels will increase the legitimacy of such accounts and build trust and transparency with their audiences.\n\nTwitter said they were launching it to a small number of developer accounts, and was planning to roll it out all developers by the end of the year.\n\nHowever it's not clear how many automated accounts will take up the offer, or whether the owners of many of these accounts would want to advertise that they are not run by humans.", "A prominent supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon has accepted a plea deal in federal court for his involvement in the US Capitol riots.\n\nJacob Anthony Chansley was one of thousands of Trump supporters who attempted to prevent the US Congress from certifying the 2020 election.\n\nChansley pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony count of obstruction in an official proceeding.\n\nNearly 600 people have been charged in the federal investigation of the riot.\n\nAt least 36 defendants have to date pleaded guilty, eight of whom have pleaded guilty to felonies, according to CBS News.\n\nChansley became the de facto face of the siege, pictured amid the unrest in horns and a bearskin headdress, with the American flag painted on his face. He called himself the \"QAnon Shaman\".\n\nQAnon is a wide-ranging conspiracy theory whose followers believe former President Donald Trump was waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media.\n\nChansley told the FBI he came to DC \"at the request of the president that all 'patriots' come to DC\".\n\nHe has been in custody for eight months.\n\nHis attorney Albert Watkins told the court on Friday his client was \"non-violent, peaceful and possessed of genuine mental health issues\".\n\nChansley - who has made several request for his release - now claims to disavow both QAnon and Mr Trump.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced in November and could face up to 51 months in prison.\n\nSupporters of the Capitol riot defendants are reportedly planning a large demonstration in DC later this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In 2021, Jake Angeli spoke from jail about his role in the Capitol riots", "Kev said he had built his own music studio during lockdown\n\nA plumber has landed himself a recording deal after singing while he worked on a job fitting bathrooms for the owner of a record label.\n\nKev Crane, from Quorn, Leicestershire, spent six weeks fitting three bathrooms at the home of Paul Conneally, owner of New Reality Records in Loughborough.\n\nMr Conneally said he noticed his bathroom fitter had a \"good voice\" as he sang along to the radio.\n\nMr Crane has now released an 80s-influenced album under the label.\n\nMr Conneally, 62, who launched the label during the first lockdown in 2020, said: \"I heard Kev singing as he worked.\n\n\"He sings along to the radio all day as he tiles and plumbs in bathrooms. I told him he had a good voice and he mentioned he'd been writing and recording songs in his home studio.\n\n\"He sent me some songs and I was blown away by his songwriting and his attention to detail in producing a sound that is so 80s but so now at the same time.\"\n\nKev is now writing new material\n\nMr Crane, who has been a bathroom fitter for eight years, said he was blown away by his discovery.\n\n\"It just feels surreal. I never expected anything like this to happen. I love writing music. It's my hobby,\" he said.\n\n\"When I went round to give Paul a quote, he mentioned he owned a record label but I didn't really think much of it.\"\n\nMr Crane said he had built his own studio and taught himself how to mix music and use a mic for recording by watching YouTube videos during lockdown.\n\n\"I've always been into music. I used to be in a few bands when I was younger and have written a lot of my own music,\" he said.\n\nHe has now written and produced his debut album \"Why Can't I Be You?\"\n\nThe 49-year-old, who is now writing new material, added: \"I'm just seeing where it leads. I don't have any expectations. I would love to be able to write songs for other artists but if nothing else happens, then it was fun while it lasted.\"\n\nMr Conneally said he started the label to bring together artists in the way early independent labels did in punk and new wave to try to create a local sound.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Storm Ida has unleashed flash flooding and tornadoes across the north-east of the US, killing dozens and causing devastation in a number of states.\n\nNew York City and New Jersey have been hit by unprecedented levels of rainfall, with residents left trapped in flooded basements and cars. Tornadoes, spawned by the storm, ripped off roofs and sent debris thousands of feet into the air.\n\nSatellite images taken by Maxar on Thursday showed large areas of New Jersey submerged - with business and homes devastated by floodwater.\n\nThe rising waters reached a baseball stadium in Bridgewater, home to the Somerset Patriots.\n\nIf you cannot see the images, please try a different browser\n\nThe city of New Brunswick in New Jersey was also badly hit.\n\nMemorial Parkway and key roads on the banks of the Raritan River were completely inundated.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nLarge areas of Manville, New Jersey, were also completely inaccessible.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nA tornado ripped apart homes in the New Jersey neighbourhood of Mullica Hill, with high winds tearing off roofs and walls.\n\nResidents described how it took just seconds for homes to be destroyed.\n\nThe latest destruction caused by the storm - the fifth strongest to ever hit the US mainland - follows widespread flooding of communities in Louisiana and Mississippi earlier this week.\n\nIda's remnants brought 6-8ins (15-20cm) of rain to large areas or the north east - including New York, the National Weather Service said.\n\nIt set an hourly rainfall record of 3.15ins (8cm) for Manhattan, breaking one set by Tropical Storm Henri less than two weeks ago.\n\nWeather mapping from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the wide band of heavy rain, which hit the area between 1 and 2 September.\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul described a \"Niagara Falls level of water\".\n\nUS president Joe Biden has now declared an emergency in both New Jersey and New York, enabling both states to receive federal funding to support local disaster relief efforts.\n\nIda arrived in New Orleans on 29 August, 16 years after Hurricane Katrina followed a similar path in 2005, killing 1,800 people.", "High numbers of workers in restaurants and hotels have been furloughed but many are now returning to work\n\nJob creation looks set to remain strong after the furlough scheme ends, but a fresh rise in unemployment is still likely, a think tank has said.\n\nThanks to the success of furlough, an expected pandemic-driven surge in joblessness has not materialised, said the Resolution Foundation.\n\nBut it warned that about 900,000 people are still expected to be on the scheme when it finishes on 30 September.\n\nAs a result, \"huge uncertainty\" surrounds what might happen next.\n\n\"The Foundation expects many of these employees to return to their previous role - especially those on partial furlough - upon the scheme's closure,\" it said in its latest labour market report.\n\n\"But with the number of people starting new jobs already at record highs - and potentially hitting two million for the time ever this autumn - firms are unlikely to have the capacity to immediately take on all previously furloughed staff who do lose their job.\"\n\nFurlough was introduced in spring 2020, to stop people being laid off by their employers during lockdown. It applies across the UK.\n\nThe government initially paid 80% of the wages of people who could not work, or whose employers could no longer afford to pay them, up to a monthly limit of £2,500.\n\nIn July 2021, employers were required to pay 10% of salaries - with the government's contribution falling to 70%.\n\nIn August and September, the government's contribution reduced further: it now pays 60% and employers pay 20%.\n\nThe government says 11.6 million jobs have been supported since the scheme began.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation said it was possible that unemployment would rise from its current level of 4.4% to about 4.9% in the autumn, with another 150,000 workers unemployed.\n\n\"Faced with this uncertainly,\" it said, \"employment support schemes, such as Kickstart and Restart, will prove particularly important in protecting vulnerable groups.\n\n\"Restart will be particularly important for older workers, who are now the most likely age group to be on furlough, and who are most likely to have been on the scheme for at least six months.\"\n\nIt added that there would be a need to maintain wider economic support, including keeping the £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit that is set to end at the same time as the furlough scheme.\n\nHannah Slaughter, economist at the Resolution Foundation, said the furlough scheme had \"prevented an unemployment catastrophe\".\n\n\"But with the scheme ending in less than four weeks' time, there is huge uncertainty about what will happen next to the jobs market,\" she said.\n\nMs Slaughter added: \"With firms already reporting 'hiring bottlenecks', even a fresh surge in job starts is unlikely to be enough to prevent unemployment rising this autumn.\n\n\"Given the uncertainty surrounding the labour market, the chancellor should maintain the £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit. Cutting support while unemployment is rising is bad politics, bad economics, and bad for living standards.\"\n\nThe government has declined to extend furlough again or reverse the Universal Credit cut, saying that as the economy opens up, the focus needs to shift to getting people back to work.", "A married Church of England bishop has resigned from his position in order to join the Roman Catholic Church.\n\nThe Anglican Bishop of Ebbsfleet, Jonathan Goodall, said he made the decision following a long period of prayer \"which has been among the most testing periods of my life\".\n\nBishop of Ebbsfleet for eight years, he will now seek full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury said he accepted the resignation \"with regret\".\n\nBishop Goodall served as a provincial episcopal visitor, also known as a \"flying bishop\", ministering various parishes which decline to be overseen by a woman bishop.\n\nHe was a member of The Society, which seeks to promote and maintain catholic teaching and practice within the Church of England.\n\nHe has a wife, Sarah, and two children. Although Catholic priests are not permitted to marry, the Roman Catholic Church has in the past accepted married Anglican priests who convert.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Bishop Goodall said: \"Life in the communion of the Church of England has shaped and nourished my discipleship as a Catholic Christian for many decades.\"\n\nHe added: \"I trust you all to believe that I have made my decision as a way of saying yes to God's present call and invitation, and not of saying no to what I have known and experienced in the Church of England, to which I owe such a deep debt.\"\n\nThe Archbishop, Justin Welby, said he was \"deeply grateful\" for the years of service, adding: \"My prayers are with him and Sarah, both for his future ministry and for the direction in which they are being called in their continuing journey of dedicated service to Christ.\"\n\nSeveral bishops converted in 2010 over the Church of England's ordination of women.\n\nOne of those to move was the serving Bishop of Ebbsfleet - the role Bishop Goodall is now vacating.\n\nThe Rt Rev Andrew Burnham went on to be ordained as a Catholic priest at the start of 2011. He is now the monsignor for the Hendred parish which covers two churches - St Mary's in East Hendred, Oxfordshire, and St Patrick's in East Ilsley, Berkshire.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nNaomi Osaka's US Open title defence is over as she fell in the third round to a stunning performance by Canadian teenager Leylah Fernandez.\n\nThe 18-year-old Fernandez capitalised as Osaka lost her cool to craft a remarkable 5-7 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 victory.\n\nOsaka was broken as she served for the match in the second set, and a poor tie-break handed Fernandez the initiative under the New York lights.\n\nThe teenager could not contain her smile as she secured a fantastic win.\n\nOsaka never regained her composure after she was broken in the second set, twice throwing her racquet to the floor as the tie-break flew away from her.\n\nFernandez broke her in the opening game of the third set and used her powerful forehand to muscle her way to victory.\n\nShe will face another Grand Slam champion in Angelique Kerber in the fourth round.\n\n\"From the very beginning I knew I was able to win,\" Fernandez said.\n\n\"I wasn't focusing on Naomi, I was just focusing on what I needed to do. The crowd made a huge difference - they helped me get the win.\"\n\nFernandez keeps cool - as Osaka loses hers\n\nOsaka has had a difficult past few months and took an eight-week break to protect her mental health after speaking openly about her struggles with depression.\n\nShe has had limited time on court, playing just five matches in the past two months, and received a walkover into the third round in New York after her opponent withdrew.\n\nFor the first set and for the majority of the second, Osaka looked in control, despite Fernandez matching her with her forehand and strong serving.\n\nServing for the match at 6-5, Osaka lost her rhythm, handing Fernandez a crucial break as she sent a forehand long.\n\nThe tie-break quickly went away from the two-time US Open champion, Osaka gesturing at herself and the court as the crowd rallied behind her opponent.\n\nWorld number 70 Fernandez was a complete contrast to Osaka, celebrating her strong shot play and pumping the air as a miss down the line from Osaka sent the match to a decider.\n\nOsaka spent the third set changeovers with a towel over her head, trying to regain her composure, but her frustration was still evident as she went down an early break and had to stave off two break points to avoid going 3-0 down.\n\nWhile she showed glimpses of her best form, she could not force a break point on the Fernandez serve, with the teenager feeding off the crowd.\n\nOsaka was booed as she made Fernandez wait with the teenager 30-0 up and serving for the match, but the Canadian responded with a drop shot winner to garner three match points. She needed just one, turning and celebrating as Osaka sent a cross-court forehand wide.\n\nJust hours after 18-year-old Carlos Alcaraz knocked out Stefanos Tsitsipas, another teenager thrilled Arthur Ashe Stadium with a daring and composed performance.\n\nA tight and high quality match looked to be heading Osaka's way when she stepped up to serve for a straight-set victory at 6-5. But at that point the defending champion's forehand deserted her, and her frustration bubbled over.\n\nOsaka is short of matches - having taken a break from the sport to preserve her mental health - but started to look threatening again after losing her serve early in the deciding set.\n\nBut it proved to be too late. Fernandez's lefty serve had caused Osaka problems all night, and helped by some thumping returns, the Canadian did not pass up her opportunity.\n\nRomanian 12th seed Simona Halep rediscovered some of her pre-calf injury form with a battling 7-6 (13-11) 4-6 6-3 win over Elena Rybakina of Kazhakstan.\n\nPlaying with her right thigh heavily strapped, Halep saved three set points in the first set tie-break and had to fight back from a break down in each set.\n\n\"Before the match, I was super stressed and I told [her coach] Darren Cahill that my forehand is lost. So I cannot feel it anymore,\" Halep said.\n\n\"I had emotions. I was nervous. And I was crazy a little bit on court, as well, the frustrations got me a little bit.\n\n\"But I fought, and this victory gives me a lot of confidence that my game is coming back and also the fighting spirit is there.\"\n\nShe will face fifth seed Elina Svitolina next after the Ukrainian beat Russia's Daria Kasatkina 6-4 6-2.\n\nGarbine Muguruza earlier won the battle of Grand Slam champions as she beat Victoria Azarenka to reach the fourth round.\n\nBoth players have won Slam titles and are former world number ones but it was Spaniard Muguruza who edged out Belarus' Azarenka 6-4 3-6 6-2.\n\nIt is the first time Muguruza, who will play French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova next, has reached the fourth round at Flushing Meadows.\n\nRoland Garros champion Krejcikova continued her astonishing season with a 6-4 6-2 win over Kamilla Rakhimova of Russia.\n\nBelgian Elise Mertens beat Tunisia's Wimbledon quarter-finalist Ons Jabeur 6-3 7-5 to set up a meeting with either second seed Aryna Sabalenka or home favourite Danielle Collins.\n• None How do you start again when everyone remembers your past?\n• None Watch the deep and dark new thriller from the producers of Line of Duty", "The senior British commander on the ground in Kabul has been speaking for the first time about the UK's evacuation operation from Afghanistan.\n\nBrigadier James Martin spoke of his soldiers' resilience in the face of seeing children and women dying in front of them.\n\nThe last British troops returned from the country at the weekend after helping to rescue more than 15,000 people.", "Heart inflammation is a \"very rare\" side-effect of the Covid vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, according to regulators in Europe.\n\nThe European Medicines Agency said the side-effects were more common in younger men.\n\nThe medicines safety body said the benefits of Covid vaccines continue to far outweigh any risks.\n\nBut doctors and patients have been advised to be aware of the symptoms of heart inflammation.\n\nThese include chest pain, a feeling of breathlessness and a pounding or fluttering heartbeat. Anyone with these symptoms should see a doctor.\n\nTwo conditions were linked to the vaccines - inflammation of the heart muscle itself, known as myocarditis, and inflammation of the fluid-filled sac the heart sits in, known as pericarditis.\n\nFive people died. The review said they were all either elderly or had other health conditions.\n\nThe UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has also been investigating the link.\n\nIt reported: \"A consistent pattern of cases occurring more frequently in young males and shortly after the second dose of the vaccines.\n\n\"These reports are extremely rare, and the events are typically mild with individuals usually recovering within a short time with standard treatment and rest,\" it added.\n\nMost cases are thought to be within 14 days of vaccination.\n\nWhile the risk is very rare, it is more likely to develop in young people - who are currently the focus on the vaccination campaign in the UK.\n\nConcerns about the side-effects have already played into the UK debate around vaccinating children, who are at lower risk of Covid.\n\nMyocarditis and pericarditis will be officially listed as side-effects in the UK and Europe, mirroring a move by the regulators in the US last month.\n\n\"The chance of these conditions occurring is very low, but you should be aware of the symptoms so that you can get prompt medical treatment to help recovery and avoid complications,\" the EMA said.\n\nThe link with heart inflammation was found only in the vaccines that rely on mRNA technology to train the immune system.\n\nThere was no link found for vaccines such as Oxford-AstraZeneca or Janssen, which use a genetically modified virus.\n\nHowever, the EMA has advised anyone with a history of capillary leak syndrome should not be given the Janssen vaccine. This is a rare but serious syndrome in which fluid leaks from blood vessels in the body.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPride celebrations have returned to Glasgow following its cancellation last year due to Covid.\n\nThousands of people turned out for the Pride Mardi Gla march from Festival Park to George Square.\n\nParticipants, who were dressed in bright colours, were asked to take a lateral flow test before the event and wear masks.\n\nAbout 10,000 people joined the Glasgow march in 2019.\n\nGlasgow, Birmingham and Nottingham are among the only major cities hosting marches this year with most other events being cancelled.", "One of the UK's largest suppliers of seasonal flu vaccines has said there will be a delay in jab deliveries to some GP surgeries due to issues related to a shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nSeqirus, one of the world's largest flu vaccine companies, said it had told customers about delays of up to a fortnight.\n\nThe company said it was \"working hard to resolve the delay\".\n\nNHS England says patients who are affected will be contacted by their GP.\n\nSeqirus, which supplies vaccines to GP practices and pharmacies in England and Wales, said: \"Due to unforeseen challenges linked with road freight delays, we have informed all our customers of a consequent delay to their scheduled vaccine delivery by a maximum of one to two weeks.\n\nThe company, which is one of a number of suppliers, said customers would be able to reschedule their flu vaccination clinics.\n\nThe professional body representing GPs said it would hit practices.\n\n\"This is news we really didn't want to hear\", said Dr Gary Howsam, vice chairman of the Royal College of GPs.\n\n\"With more than 36 million people eligible for the flu vaccine on the NHS this year, GPs need the supply chain to run like clockwork.\n\nDr Howsam said GPs are \"already under enormous pressure and still waiting for details of how the Covid booster campaign will align with everything else they need to do this winter\".\n\nDoctors meticulously plan jabs each year, he said, adding that it is \"essential that as many people as possible in at-risk groups get their vaccination as early into the flu season as possible\".\n\n\"A delay of even a couple of weeks is going to have a big impact on practices and their patients, especially when GPs are already dealing with the fallout caused by the shortage of blood test bottles and the anxiety this is causing.\"\n\n\"General practice and the entire NHS is dependent on the smooth roll-out of the winter flu vaccination programme. It cannot fail,\" he said.\n\nDoctors are already dealing with a shortage of blood test tube vials due to supply chain issues.\n\nDr Richard Vautrey, British Medical Association GP committee chairman, said the delay is likely to affect a \"significant proportion\" of practices - and have a \"serious impact\" on practice workloads and patients.\n\nHe said: \"Many practices will have spent the last few days and weeks meticulously planning for their flu vaccination programme, inviting and booking patients in for their jabs, only now to have to contact them all again to cancel or reschedule appointments.\n\n\"This causes a huge increase in staff's already unsustainable workloads, and inconvenience and unneeded anxiety for patients who will be keen to be protected ahead of winter.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said: \"GPs are at their wits' end, first forced to cancel blood tests because of bottle shortages and now we learn flu vaccines will be delayed.\n\n\"This has been a summer of crisis for the NHS with patients paying the price.\n\n\"With winter coming and flu resurgence a huge risk, ministers must urgently get a grip.\"", "The woman covered her face as she arrived at court in January 2020\n\nA British woman who reported being gang-raped in Cyprus hopes to have her conviction for lying about the attack overturned.\n\nThe woman, then 19, told Cypriot police she had been raped by a group of 12 Israeli men in Ayia Napa in July 2019.\n\nThe Derbyshire teenager retracted the allegation after being held without a lawyer, and was then tried and convicted of causing public mischief.\n\nHer appeal will now be heard by the Cypriot Supreme Court on 16 September.\n\nIf the conviction is not overturned her legal team intends to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.\n\n\"She wants to get on with life, but for her to get on with life she needs to get this conviction overturned,\" said barrister Michael Polak, who is helping the woman in his role as director of the law firm Justice Abroad.\n\n\"This will be on her record. It means any time she applies to join an association or for a job she will be thinking back to this and what's happened to her.\n\n\"So it's very important to her, even though she's not in prison now, she's back in the United Kingdom, it's very important for her to overturn the conviction for that reason.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters say they believe the British woman's rape claim\n\nHer case outraged women's rights groups, who protested outside court ahead of the sentencing in January 2020.\n\nJudge Michalis Papathanasiou gave the teenager a four-month suspended sentence, which meant she could return to the UK.\n\nShe will not have to return to Cyprus for the appeal hearing.\n\n\"We will be arguing that the conviction is unsafe for a number of reasons and we are hoping the Supreme Court will set aside the conviction,\" said Mr Polak.\n\nOne of these arguments will be that the judge did not consider evidence the woman really was raped.\n\n\"For public mischief you need to be making a false allegation and every time we brought forward evidence that the rape took place he would shout at our female Cypriot lawyers and say 'this is not a rape trial, this is not a rape trial',\" said Mr Polak.\n\n\"He did it about seven times during the trial process, so in effect he shut out any consideration that the rape had taken place, which meant he didn't properly consider all the elements of the offence.\"\n\nThe woman's mother (left), shown leaving court in December 2019, said her daughter was prevented from defending the case properly\n\nThe woman's mother said getting the conviction overturned would be \"the first step for my daughter reclaiming her life\".\n\n\"Imagine being raped then imprisoned because the authorities say you lied, after refusing to hear evidence to the contrary, then having to relive this each time you apply for a job or training course,\" she said.\n\n\"This is a terrible burden for my daughter, having such a terrible thing happen to her and then carrying a conviction against her name for life.\"\n\nShe said it was \"difficult to be optimistic about the outcome of the appeal\" given their experience of the courts in Cyprus.\n\n\"Our daughter was prevented from defending the case properly because of the trial court's unwillingness to hear evidence of the serious sexual offences that she was subjected to,\" she said.\n\n\"If this is understood then we have some hope that the legal minds in the Cypriot Supreme Court should acquit.\"\n\nIf that does not happen, she said they would \"take this matter to the European Court where we are certain that the justice will ultimately prevail\".\n\nBarrister Michael Polak, director of Justice Abroad, said he would take the case to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary\n\nAnother argument relates to the woman retracting the rape claim, which her lawyers say she did under pressure from police.\n\n\"She was there for almost seven hours without a lawyer, without her parents,\" said Mr Polak.\n\n\"European law is particularly strong on this. There's a case against Cyprus where a young teenager was taken into a police station in Limassol and a confession was taken from him with no lawyer.\n\n\"So in European law, the European Court of Human Rights has already decided that issue against Cyprus, and so we hope the Supreme Court will take account of that.\"\n\nMr Polak said the woman would ultimately like the men involved to be prosecuted, but for now her legal team is concentrating on getting her conviction overturned.\n\n\"It was a really horrendous experience for her and she, of course, would like to see justice done in this case,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing for the moment is to get the conviction overturned so she doesn't have to carry it around for the rest of her life.\n\n\"We hope the Cypriot Supreme Court will make the right decision when we go there in a few weeks, and we hope we don't have to take it all the way up to the European Court of Human Rights.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have been told to smarten up their clothing when they return from summer recess to the Commons next week.\n\nWith the age of the virtual Commons now over, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has updated the \"Rules of behaviour and courtesies\" in the House.\n\nHe has alerted MPs to required dress standards, insisting clothing such as jeans and chinos are not allowed.\n\nIt represents a toughening of the advice from his predecessor, who said there was \"no exact dress code\".\n\nJohn Bercow's last set of rules said typical business clothing was merely a suggestion.\n\nThe crackdown follows a number of moments when parliamentary fashion made headlines.\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt was rebuked by Sir Lindsay in December for not dressing smartly enough during a Commons debate on Covid-19.\n\nAnd prior to the pandemic, the then Labour MP Tracy Brabin - who is now Mayor of West Yorkshire - attracted attention when her dress slipped off her shoulder at the dispatch box.\n\nMs Brabin later auctioned the black garment and raised £20,000 for charity.\n\nTracy Brabin caused controversy for wearing a black dress that slipped off her shoulder\n\nSir Lindsay's new guide states MPs should remember \"the way in which you dress should demonstrate respect for your constituents, for the House and for the institution of Parliament in the life of the nation\".\n\n\"Members are expected to wear business attire in and around the Chamber,\" it says.\n\n\"Jeans, chinos, sportswear or any other casual trousers are not appropriate. T-shirts and sleeveless tops are not business attire.\n\n\"Smart/business shoes are expected to be worn. Casual shoes and trainers are not appropriate. Men are encouraged to wear a tie, and jackets must be worn.\n\n\"It is a privilege to serve as a Member of Parliament and your dress, language and conduct should reflect this.\"\n\nSir Lindsay has also moved to clamp down on rowdiness in the Commons.\n\nSinging is to be banned, potentially averting a repeat of the scenes from Prime Minister Boris Johnson's proroguing of Parliament in September, 2019, when Labour MPs protested by singing songs including the Red Flag and Scots Wha Hae.\n\nThe new rules state that \"singing and chanting are not permitted in the chamber\" and that \"clapping is also not allowed as it eats into the time available for debate\".\n\nMPs have also been told to pay attention: \"When listening to a debate you should not read books or newspapers or obviously devote yourself to your phone or other electronic device.\"\n\nLast month, MPs packed the Commons for the first time in person in more than a year after Parliament was recalled to debate the situation in Afghanistan.", "Michelle Partington now helps other veterans to cope with PTSD\n\nA former paramedic diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Afghanistan says she is trying to focus on the lives she helped to save.\n\nMichelle Partington was the first female paramedic with the RAF to be deployed to the conflict in 2009.\n\nShe said she was devastated by the current crisis and was trying not to focus on it as it could be detrimental to her recovery.\n\n\"I was in such a dark place I can't afford to go back there,\" she said.\n\nThe last UK plane flying people out of Kabul took off last Saturday, with the US following on days later to stick to the 31 August deadline pledged by US President Joe Biden.\n\nOn Tuesday, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said more than 17,000 people had been evacuated by the UK from Afghanistan so far, including more than 5,000 UK nationals.\n\nBut it is feared hundreds eligible for relocation were left behind after the Taliban took control.\n\nMeanwhile, calls to veterans' charity Combat Stress have doubled since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, as ex-service personnel seek mental health support.\n\nSome veterans have said they are questioning their sacrifice made in Afghanistan, while others say their efforts were not in vain.\n\nMs Partington said she had treated insurgents who had come on to her helicopter with live grenades on them\n\nMs Partington, a former Flight Lieutenant who joined the RAF in 1991 after seeing a stall at a careers fair, has worked with many interpreters in Afghanistan and said she had been unable to check if they had made it to safety.\n\n\"It would break my heart if I knew they were stuck there,\" she said. \"Some of them wouldn't acknowledge me because I was a female, others used me to help their kids and wives.\"\n\nThe 49-year-old, who was medically discharged from the RAF after 23 years of service and three tours of Afghanistan, said she had tried to avoid coverage of the current crisis as it could be damaging to her recovery.\n\n\"At the worst part of it, I was having panic attacks, nightmares, I wasn't leaving the house, and I was having suicidal thoughts,\" said Ms Partington, who used to live in Preston, Lancashire, but now lives in Abergele, Conwy county.\n\nMs Partington said they would give sweets to children who would come and see them in the villages where she was treating residents\n\nShe helped save the lives of civilians, colleagues and insurgents, treating people who'd had their legs blown off or who had shrapnel embedded in them, from the military helicopter.\n\nThe helicopter was drafted into conflict zones, where they were shot at while picking people up.\n\n\"It was horrific,\" she said.\n\nBack in the UK, Ms Partington said she had to quit her job as a paramedic for the NHS in the north-west of England, because waiting to see what call she was going to be sent out on next was triggering her PTSD.\n\nShe said that while she was working for 111 in the triage clinic it was hard to deal with people calling for an ambulance who did not need it, including for a dislocated finger.\n\n\"You get some really random calls, some people call because they are lonely, and I understand that,\" she said.\n\nBut she added: \"I have seen people with their legs blown off... someone phoned me at 11 o'clock at night because they had burnt their mouth on a pizza.\n\n\"Some people phone pretending they have an emergency, because they think if they get an ambulance they will be seen quicker at A&E, but that doesn't work.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Welsh Ambulance This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast bank holiday weekend the Welsh Ambulance Service warned non-urgent 999 calls were taking up valuable resources, with people calling for paramedics after losing a toenail and gashing their shin.\n\n\"My tolerance was really low,\" said Ms Partington.\n\nMs Partington said her hearing had become acute due to having to focus on all the different noises while in the helicopter and she now struggled in certain situations\n\nMs Partington, who now helps people with mental health issues, said she still lived with anxiety attacks, struggled to be in crowded places, and was triggered by some noises, like helicopters and fire alarms.\n\n\"It completely transformed my life, I still cannot work a full week,\" she said, \"but not every day is a bad day.\"\n\nShe said she had since met up with former soldiers she had treated in the helicopter, including Paralympians, and she felt embarrassed when their families thanked her for saving their children.\n\n\"It is hard, there are a lot who had injuries and lives that are going to be changed, some people that we saved did not want to live, they said 'do not let me live like this'. To know they realise they still have a life, is amazing,\" she said.\n\nMs Partington said she had spoken to other veterans about Afghanistan\n\nShe said, while it was not surprising that the area had fallen back under the Taliban's control, it was shocking to see the speed at which it had happened.\n\n\"[The women] had about 20 years of relative freedom, to be who they wanted to be, to go to school and work, and now they are going to go back, it's really, really sad,\" she said.\n\nWhile some veterans and families who have lost loved ones during tours of Afghanistan have spoken of their anger, Ms Partington, said she had to focus on the good things she and her colleagues had achieved during their tours, rather than the crisis.\n\n\"We saved so many lives, and it's people that wouldn't have necessarily survived if we didn't have medical expertise out on the ground,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if I get too involved in what's happening now it could be detrimental to my own personal recovery. If I focus on the problems, I could go into a dark spiral.\"", "\"Why are you travelling without a mahram?\" the Taliban guard asks a young Afghan woman about her missing male escort.\n\nShe sits on her own in the back of a beat-up Kabul yellow taxi as it pulls up to the checkpoint marked, like all the others, by the white Taliban flag with black script.\n\nWhat is allowed now in Kabul, and what is not?\n\nThe turbaned Talib, rifle slung over shoulder, tells her to call her husband. When she explains she doesn't have a phone, he instructs another taxi driver to take her home to get her husband and bring them back. Once completed, all is resolved.\n\nKabul is still a city of a grinding traffic gridlock, wooden market carts groaning with Afghan green grapes and deep purple plums, and street kids in tattered tunics threading through the melee.\n\nOn the surface, the city seems much the same. It's not.\n\nIt's a capital governed by Taliban statements, and some Taliban on the streets.\n\n\"Be careful in how you deal with your people. This nation has suffered a lot. Be gentle,\" urged spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid in an impromptu press conference, flanked by fighters in full combat gear, the first day after the last US soldier flew home.\n\nSome things don't need saying. As soon as the Taliban swept, with surprising speed, into Kabul last month, Afghans knew what to do during Taliban rule 2.0. Men stopped shaving to allow beards to grow; women switched bright scarves to black ones and checked the length of their dresses and cloaks.\n\nSo much else is uncertain, unnerving.\n\n\"What should I do?\" many Afghans ask in urgent cries for advice, and assistance to escape, tumbling by the hour onto my phone and computer, and those of countless others around the world.\n\nMaryam Rajaee knew what to do when Kabul collapsed.\n\nOn 15 August, as Taliban fighters surged into the streets, she was conducting a long- awaited workshop for female prosecutors in the attorney general's office.\n\n\"We must continue,\" her eager students implored her when she flagged the looming threat.\n\nBut her class soon resigned itself to this sudden reversal. Since then, Rajaee has been moving from one safe house to the next with her family including two young children.\n\nMaryam Rajaee was leading a workshop on female prosecutors when the Taliban took power\n\nHer three-year-old daughter, Nilofar, already says she wants to be an engineer; her multi-coloured plastic building blocks sit in the corner of a mud-brick room, a late summer sun streams through the windows.\n\nNo one is quite sure yet what Taliban leaders mean when they say women and girls will be given \"all their rights within Islam\".\n\nMany women, including Rajaee, were told in no uncertain terms, \"don't come back to the office\". Many fear they'll never be allowed to return to the life they lived in a city they no longer feel is their own.\n\n\"It is my right to be educated, to have a good job, to participate in society at a high level,\" Rajaee tells us as she sits next to a pile of textbooks for her university degree, and her work heading a unit on gender and human rights awareness.\n\n\"All my dreams have been destroyed,\" she reflects, her voice breaking.\n\nTwo decades of international engagement created a space for new ideas, new identities. Now some lives lived are a liability.\n\n\"I have good memories of our Christmas parties, of times we cooked delicious food and we were all so happy,\" reminisces Hameed, who'd been a head chef at the British embassy in Kabul for 13 years. We sit cross-legged on a carpet with his five young children, and a pile of faded photographs and certificates of appreciation for his work.\n\nHameed worked at the British embassy but feels betrayed\n\nBut Hameed, and some 60 other employees at the embassy were hired through a private contractor. Sources say almost all of the staff directly employed by Britain's foreign office managed to fly out of Kabul before Taliban moved in; contractors were left behind.\n\n\"We worked so hard, even during the Covid lockdown. If they don't take us out of here, it is a big betrayal,\" laments Hameed. Britain, like some other Western countries, is promising to find ways to help, in third countries, but for many it's a daunting and dangerous prospect to find new routes out.\n\nSome have already fled from this city in haste; some now happily rush in.\n\nTaliban fighters stream into Kabul from the provinces. A group from Uruzgan, in central Afghanistan, invite us for a chat as we approach the entrance to Kabul airport.\n\n\"I haven't been able to visit Kabul for years,\" says 25-year-old Rafiullah, effusive about his \"great happiness\". Asked about the many educated Afghans his own age who feel their future has disappeared, he waves an olive branch. \"We are all Afghans and the country is now moving toward a good path of peace and prosperity.\"\n\n\"We are all Afghans,\" the Taliban says\n\nIn some neighbourhoods, Taliban fighters go house-to-house. There's a knock on the door, a demand to hand over government phones and cars, anything of value from their old job. Sometimes even private cars are seized by Taliban who doubt it could have been afforded without some kind of corruption.\n\nIn western Kabul, in neighbourhoods like Dasht-e-Barchi, populated largely by members of the minority Hazara community, residents whisper of house searches, of men being taken away.\n\n\"I'm scared,\" says one woman who travels into the centre of the city for her job. \"We are telling the Taliban we are our family's only source of income and we have to go to work.\"\n\nIn the heart of Kabul, the queues in front of the banks stretch all the way down the street. Most branches are shut; most have no money.\n\n\"It's been a week I have been coming every day to get some money,\" declares one man in the bulging crowd. \"This is a new start just to go backwards.\"\n\nFrom rural areas, far from this city in so many ways, come comments of relief that American warplanes have finally left the skies, that fighting has gone. For millions of Afghans who live with deepening hunger and hardship, life hasn't changed one jot in their struggle just to survive.\n\nCrowds have been forming outside banks\n\nIn this time between the collapse of the old order and the creation of the new, many take each day, as it comes.\n\n\"Is this history, is this real, I can't believe my eyes what I am seeing,\" says freelance Afghan journalist Ahmed Mangli when we meet by Kabul airport.\n\nWe talk in a district strewn with rubbish and luggage abandoned during the scramble to board the last military flights during the unprecedented international airlift. Mangli first started working in Kabul when the Taliban were ousted 20 years ago.\n\n\"The Taliban spokesman is trying to co-ordinate media but everyone has a weapon, everyone feels they are king,\" he reflects. \"I don't know how long I can take this risk but I want to be part of this history.\"\n\nA historic moment unfolds; a historic past is being undone. Billboards with beaming brides in glittering white gowns and racy red lipstick are now being blacked out. The sweeping street murals of the Art Lords team - which told stories of courageous journalists, committed doctors, a yearning for peace after so much war - are being painted over. The first to go was an image, starkly painted in black and white, to mark the signing of a deal last year in Doha between the Taliban and the United States.\n\nA people of poets now struggles to find words.\n\nAn old friend, Masood Khalili, who's fought on so many fronts over so many years, sends me some verse.\n\n\"Last night the Writer of Fate whispered in my ear, Our Book of Destiny is filled with smiles and tears.\"", "The rapper will appear again at Croydon Magistrates' Court next year\n\nRapper Dizzee Rascal has denied headbutting his ex-girlfriend at a home in south London this summer.\n\nThe 36-year-old, of Sevenoaks in Kent, pleaded not guilty to \"pushing his head into the complainant's head and pushing her to the floor\" at an address in Streatham on 8 June.\n\nA woman reported minor injuries in the alleged attack, police previously said.\n\nThe grime artist is due to go on trial at Croydon Magistrates' Court on 18 February 2022.\n\nHe was charged with assault by beating on 2 August.\n\nDizzee Rascal's tour manager, who \"received a phone call when the altercation took place\", will give evidence at the trial, along with his ex-girlfriend's mother, the court heard.\n\nThe rapper, whose real name is Dylan Kwabena Mills, was awarded an MBE in the Queen's birthday honours in 2020 for his services to music and has performed at various festivals throughout August.\n\nHe was released on conditional bail following the hearing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former vice-president of Afghanistan has sent a video to the BBC to deny reports that he's fled the country.\n\nAmrullah Saleh says he's in the Panjshir Valey, the last Afghan province not under Taliban control, where both sides have claimed they're winning in heavy fighting.", "Strictly Come Dancing's Shirley Ballas has flicked the switch on Blackpool's famous illuminations at a glitzy bash marking the start of an extended run for the sparkling seaside spectacle.\n\nThe star-studded light-up ceremony at the resort's iconic tower ballroom was also graced by YouTube sensation KSI and Scouse indie rockers The Wombats.\n\nOrganisers opted for the indoor dancefloor venue after Covid put paid to a planned outdoor extravaganza.\n\nThe lights will stay on until January.\n\nIt is hoped the extra two months will bring more visitors to the seafront amusement mecca and give a boost to pandemic-hit tourism businesses.\n\nShirley Ballas followed in the footsteps of Red Rum and Kermit the Frog\n\nVisit Blackpool described the extension as a \"tonic\" for the gloom of lockdowns and Covid restrictions.\n\nA similar attempt last year to prolong the beloved display along Blackpool's world-famous Golden Mile was thwarted when the government announced a second national lockdown.\n\nAlthough the Illuminations are more than a century old, the first switch-on ceremony was held in 1934, when Lord Derby turned them on.\n\nAn eclectic series of celebrities have performed the task over the years, including Princess Diana's father, John Spencer, three-times Grand National winner Red Rum, Kermit The Frog and comedian Peter Kay.\n\nAbout 1,000 people attended this year's show at the ballroom, which was held indoors for the second year running.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lee Cain with the prime minister during the 2019 election campaign\n\nGovernment communications are \"failing in many of its most basic functions\" and need to be overhauled, a former No 10 communications director has said.\n\nLee Cain - who worked for Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2020 - says inexperienced staff and \"endemic\" leaking damaged the government's Covid response.\n\nThis, he argues in a paper, led to the public receiving mixed messages \"at a critical time\".\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"These claims are misleading\".\n\nIn a statement they said: \"[The] Government Communication Service is internationally recognised as a world leader in public communications demonstrated by our work across the globe in over 25 countries.\"\n\nMr Cain previously worked on communications for the Vote Leave team during the Brexit referendum and as a special adviser at the Department for Food and Rural Affairs and the Foreign Office.\n\nHe quit his Downing Street role in December 2020 amid reports of internal tensions.\n\nUnlike his ally and former No 10 colleague Dominic Cummings, Mr Cain has been less vocal in his condemnation of how government is run since stepping down.\n\nHowever, his paper for the Institute for Government is strongly critical of the way Whitehall handles media relations and its publicity campaigns.\n\nHe says the pandemic put the structure under \"increasing pressure\" and that the initial Covid campaigns were \"poor\" because staff did not have an \"adequate understanding of strategic communications or campaigns\".\n\nWhile praising the efforts of many civil servants, he also accuses some press officers of being \"afraid\" to pick up the phone to journalists.\n\nResponding to these claims, the government said it had \"set out clear, targeted and effective communications to help the public protect themselves, directly preventing millions of infections and saving thousands of lives\".\n\nIt said its Covid campaigns were \"reaching an estimated 95% of adults on average 17 times per week at the peak, using every means possible including social media, influencers, radio, TV and widespread digital marketing\".\n\nPrior to entering No 10, Lee Cain spent time as a journalist which included a stint following David Cameron around dressed as a chicken\n\nMr Cain proposes cutting the number of communications officers in Whitehall from 8,000 to 2,000, but also suggests improving the training available.\n\nSpecifically he says staff need to be trained so they can produce video clips, use social media and design graphics.\n\nHe noted that in the early days of the pandemic, \"put starkly, there was nobody with the ability to create slides for the daily press conference\" and that often the slides were only sent \"moments before press conferences were due to begin\".\n\nThe daily press conferences were introduced at the start of the pandemic, and the government had planned to implement daily televised briefings covering all its business.\n\nIn April the plan was scrapped, but Mr Cain argues there is an \"increased demand\" for content and that \"change is inevitable\".\n\nHe says the PM should continue doing televised news briefings after the end of the pandemic in a bid to improve improve transparency and accountability.\n\nMr Cain also expresses concern about the \"millions of pounds of public money\" being \"squandered annually\".\n\nHe notes that in 2020/21, £600m was spent on 160 campaigns that have \"little impact on the public and simply weren't needed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nCoverage: Follow on Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website\n\nHannah Cockroft and Aled Sion Davies retained their Paralympic titles as Great Britain enjoyed a successful final day in the track and field events at the Tokyo Paralympics.\n\nCockroft secured her seventh Paralympic gold with a dominant win in the T34 800m, ahead of team-mate Kare Adenegan.\n\nDavies landed his third Paralympic title with success in the F63 shot put.\n\nIn another British one-two, Charlotte Henshaw won KL2 200m Para-canoe gold, with Emma Wiggs clinching silver.\n\nAnother gold soon followed in Para-canoe, with Laura Sugar becoming KL3 champion.\n\nIt means GB have now won 41 golds at the Games and a total of 122 medals as they stay in second place in the medal table going into Sunday's final day.\n\nThere was disappointment for Kadeena Cox, who was bidding to win gold in two different sports for the second Games in a row but finished fourth in the T38 400m.\n\nBadminton player Dan Bethell became Britain's first medallist in the sport on its Games debut, taking silver in the SL3 singles final where he lost 21-14 21-17 to India's world champion Pramod Bhagat.\n\nThe 25-year-old's silver means Britain have now won medals in 17 of the 19 sports they took part in with chances in the two others, shooting and wheelchair basketball, to come on Sunday before the closing ceremony (12:00 BST).\n\nJordanne Whiley and Lucy Shuker were left with silver in the wheelchair tennis women's doubles after they were beaten 6-0 6-1 by Dutch top seeds Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot in the final.\n• None Reid says facing partner Hewett was 'the most difficult match' he has played\n\nThere was also bronze for Amy Truesdale, who lost in her taekwondo semi-final but recovered well to come through the repechage, and for Para-canoeist Stuart Wood in the VL3 200m final.\n• None Para-athletes should get equal pay, says sprinter Peacock\n\nCockroft and Davies were named as co-captains of the British athletics team for Tokyo and the pair led by example.\n\nThe 29-year-old from Leeds broke her own world record to retain her 100m crown on Sunday but just missed out on a second record over the longer distance.\n\nHer new Paralympic record of one minute 48.99 seconds was almost 12 seconds inside her own previous Games best.\n\nAdenegan clocked a personal best of 1:59.85, meaning she upgraded on the bronze she won in the event in Rio five years ago.\n\nCockroft revealed afterwards that she had an accident while warming up for the final, causing her concern before the race.\n\n\"I put my hand through the wheel while the chair was moving,\" she said. \"I've never ever done that but I decided to do it today. It was pretty bloody but it's fine.\"\n\nDavies, who won discus gold and shot put bronze in London before the discus was dropped from the Rio programme, led from the second round of his event and although his winning effort of 15.33m was well off his best, the torrential rain made throwing very difficult.\n\n\"It's surreal, it really is. It's been such hard work to get here,\" the 30-year-old said.\n\n\"I've learnt so much over the last 18 months and had to evolve and adapt and become self-sufficient almost.\n\n\"It's so hard to win medals - the conditions, everything was against me out there.\n\n\"I'm still young and I feel great. I feel like I've got a lot to give. Paris is definitely the next stop, even LA (the 2028 Paralympic Games). We're just getting started.\"\n\nSport switches pay off for Henshaw and Sugar\n\nAs a swimmer, Henshaw won silver at London 2012 and bronze in Rio, but finally got the colour she wanted after switching to Para-canoe.\n\nThe 34-year-old retired from the pool in 2017 in order to change sports, winning the KL2 World Championship title the following year - a title she retained in 2019.\n\nIn Tokyo, she faced tough competition from team-mate Wiggs, who won the Paralympic title in the event five years ago.\n\nThe pair looked set for gold and silver from the start of Saturday's race, pulling away from the rest of the field early on before Henshaw then edged ahead, setting a new Paralympic best time of 50.76 seconds.\n\nWiggs, 41, who won VL2 gold on Friday, finished 0.649secs behind Henshaw.\n\n\"It's amazing. I feel a real sense of gratitude that I got the opportunity that I was able to race for this medal,\" said Henshaw.\n\n\"It was a fantastic race and incredible that Emma and I were able to again get the top two steps on the podium. It just shows the strength that we have in British canoeing, and I'm very proud to be a part of it.\"\n\nA change of sport also paid off for Sugar, who competed in athletics in Rio.\n\nShe was spotted by Para-canoe through the talent ID process in 2018, and sealed Paralympic gold three years later in some style, clocking a Paralympic best of 49.582.\n\n\"It was a bit of a blur really. I knew I had to nail my start and then the racer in me comes out halfway through the race,\" she said.\n\n\"I only think about nailing the start and it paid off. I am just glad it has all gone to plan.\"\n\nGB's canoeists finish the Games with seven medals, including three golds, putting them top of the sport's medal table.\n• None The story of how the Nazis most notorious war criminals were caught\n• None What are the 6 stages of ghosting?: From denial to thirst traps, find out why dating is exhausting", "Our Yorkshire Farm is Channel 5's most successful factual programme ever\n\nA yearning for stunning scenery, traditional lifestyles and down-to-earth personalities has made Scotland and Yorkshire the top destinations for UK TV programmes over the past year.\n\nScotland featured in more show titles on the main five channels than any other place name - appearing 14 times, excluding news, sport and true crime.\n\nIt was followed closely by Yorkshire, which has had series made about its farmers, firefighters and vets.\n\nCornwall is next on the list.\n\nDuring the pandemic, more than ever, viewers have wanted to be transported from the realities of their daily lives - but TV crews have found it hard to go to more exotic places.\n\nMany such programmes showcase beautiful landscapes and country life, while the Yorkshire-set series are more varied.\n\nJenni Steele, film and creative industries manager for Visit Scotland, says there has been \"a real boom\" in production there in recent years.\n\n\"Quite similar things attract film-makers and visitors,\" she says. \"The top things that attract visitors to Scotland are the landscapes, the scenery and the heritage. And you can see how that then translates quite easily over to production and crews.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic, she says, UK-based crews \"couldn't go abroad to film, and they were looking for something a little bit different, maybe a little bit less seen in the UK, and places like the Hebrides provided a really different type of landscape and opportunity\".\n\nDarcey Bussell recently fronted a programme about the Wild Coasts of Scotland\n\nAndrew Sheldon, who has made shows like Darcey Bussell's Wild Coasts of Scotland, The Yorkshire Dales and Lakes, Devon & Cornwall and Epic Wales, says the British TV industry has helped people through the past couple of years by letting them see different places without leaving their homes.\n\n\"There was a practical level during the first lockdown - 'If I can't visit those places, I'd like to look at them',\" said Mr Sheldon, who is creative director of Leeds-based production company True North.\n\n\"But underneath that, there is an undercurrent of, we live in quite dark, very complex times and people yearn for more straightforward existence.\n\n\"People connect to the idea that there is a life out there that is simple, that is straightforward, and has clarity to it, where you can see the start and the end and it's not some dystopian nightmare.\"\n\nChannel 5 controller Ben Frow recently said Our Yorkshire Farm, which follows North Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen and her family, was the broadcaster's most successful factual programme ever.\n\nMr Sheldon says: \"I think Yorkshire is so popular because there's a sense that people from that part of the world are straightforward and can be trusted, and there's a generosity of spirit around them. I'm sure it's not quite that simple, but the viewing figures suggest that's certainly part of it.\"\n\nJay's Yorkshire Workshop is currently on BBC Two\n\nYorkshire is also popular for other forms of programming - Channel 5's new series of the rebooted All Creatures Great and Small will launch on 16 September.\n\nThis Monday, Channel 4 will open a new office for about 250 staff in the former Majestic nightclub in Leeds, to go with smaller hubs in Glasgow and Bristol. Channel 4 News will be co-hosted from Leeds and other locations for the first time from later this month.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC has just announced two new series - Yorkshire Born, featuring midwives and new families in Bradford; and Highland Blues, about \"a police force where traditional community policing meets modern cutting edge crime fighting\".\n\nHowever, executives may be tiring of some locations. Channel 5 commissioning editor Daniel Pearl reportedly told the Edinburgh TV Festival he did not want to make \"another programme about Yorkshire, another programme about a large family in Yorkshire\".\n\nAndrew Sheldon has been looking for new destinations, but says places that resonate sufficiently with the whole population are \"few and far between\".\n\nHe has considered places like North Norfolk and the South Downs, and has made a new series fronted by Pam Ayres in The Cotswolds for Channel 5.\n\n\"I'm really looking forward to see how that does,\" he says. \"The Cotswolds is a rightly loved place but I'm interested to see if it appeals to a wide audience.\n\n\"There are some really beautiful parts of the UK, but they don't quite get the same exposure and for some reason they don't quite appeal to as many as those three big ones do.\"", "Dorset Police said the plane crashed into water at Poole Harbour near Sandbanks\n\nTwo people have been injured after a plane crashed into the water at the Bournemouth Air Festival.\n\nIt involved a small wing-walker aircraft and took place away from the main display area off Bournemouth beach.\n\nDorset Police said the pair had been rescued from Poole harbour at about 15:30 BST and were reported to have suffered only minor injuries.\n\nEyewitnesses described the biplane flipping as it hit the water.\n\nPolice said an investigation was under way.\n\nAlex Cason, 30, told the BBC he was fishing when he saw the plane come down in front of him.\n\n\"Just above the rocks I see this plane very low and I just sort of stood there in shock really - it was descending,\" he said.\n\n\"I couldn't stop looking at the pilot's face - he looked in real shock... a few seconds later 10 metres in front of me the plane crashes.\n\n\"The plane's nose hit the water, it flipped over, and then the pilot and passenger were under water for 10 seconds and luckily there was a rib [boat] nearby and they came over.\n\n\"It was very terrifying to watch, the lady [passenger] was screaming... I didn't know what to do, I just stood there in shock.\"\n\nBournemouth Air Festival said the aircraft would be recovered and it expected to resume display flights on Sunday\n\nOwain Hughes, who was sailing in Poole Harbour at the time of the crash, captured the moment of impact on his phone.\n\n\"It was flying low for a while and then it landed before doing a front flip,\" he said.\n\n\"We were sailing into the harbour. I honestly thought it was going to crash into us.\"\n\nThe rescue team was soon on hand and involved two lifeboats and the coastguard helicopter, the RNLI said.\n\nOwain Hughes said he thought the plane was going to crash into his boat\n\nBBC Radio Solent's Ian Ramsdale, who was at the festival on Saturday, said spectators on the beach had been told a pilot had reported a fault and had flown off to try and rectify it.\n\n\"They just didn't return,\" he said.\n\nBournemouth Air Festival said the aircraft would be recovered in due course and thanked those who took part in the rescue.\n\nIt said: \"It is a huge relief for all those involved in the Air Festival that the incident has resulted in the display crew being removed from the water safe and well.\"\n\nIt added it expected display flights to resume on Sunday.\n\nSpectators on the beach were told a plane had reported a fault\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tuna are starting to recover after being fished to the edge of extinction, scientists have revealed.\n\nNumbers are bouncing back following a decade of conservation efforts, according to the official tally of threatened species.\n\nBut some tuna stocks remain in severe decline, said the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which compiles the extinction Red List.\n\nIt said pressures on marine life are continuing to grow.\n\nAnd almost four in ten sharks and rays are now threatened with extinction.\n\nMeanwhile, on land, the Komodo dragon is moving closer to oblivion. The heaviest lizard on Earth faces threats from climate change, with fears its habitat could be affected by rising sea levels.\n\nKomodo dragons are rapidly losing range in the wild\n\nThe revised list of the world's endangered plants and animals was released at the start of the world's leading conservation congress, which is taking place in the French city of Marseille from 3 to11 September.\n\nThe news is a \"powerful sign\" that despite increasing pressure on our oceans, species can recover, if states commit to sustainable practices, said IUCN Director General, Dr Bruno Oberle.\n\nThose gathered for the IUCN World Conservation Congress \"must seize the opportunity to boost ambition on biodiversity conservation\", he said.\n\nThe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the \"gold standard\" for measuring how close animal and plant species are to dying out. Some 139,000 species have been assessed over the last half-century, with nearly 39,000 now threatened with extinction, while 902 have gone extinct.\n\nThe latest update - the second this year - revealed encouraging signs for four of seven tuna species:\n\nTuna stocks in some areas remain of concern, such as bluefin tuna in western parts of the Atlantic and yellowfin in the Indian Ocean.\n\n\"The take home message for the general public is that things like albacore tuna - which is the one that is widely on supermarket shelves - is of least concern now - it means that what they're eating has been sustainably caught and is well managed,\" Craig Hilton-Taylor, who heads the IUCN Red List, told BBC News.\n\nBut he said while some marine species are recovering many others are under huge pressure. \"We can't sit back - this is a wake-up call to the world that we need to do much more about our oceans and the biodiversity in them.\"\n\nTuna have been at the forefront of efforts to make fishing practices more sustainable. The likes of skipjack, yellowfin, bigeye and albacore tuna are consumed by millions of people across the world and one of the most commercially valuable fish.\n\nMost types of tuna were deemed at threat of extinction in 2011. After a decade of efforts from conservationists and industry, including strict fishing quotas and a crack-down on illegal fishing, populations in some parts of the ocean appear to be recovering.\n\nHowever, populations of sharks and rays are continuing to plummet. When the group was assessed in 2014, around a third were deemed threatened, but this has risen to 37%, due to pressures from fishing for meat and fins, climate change and pollution.\n\n\"The alarm bells couldn't be ringing louder for sharks and rays,\" said Dr Andy Cornish, shark programme leader at the conservation group, WWF. \"We are losing this ancient group of creatures - starting to lose it species by species right here, right now - we desperately need urgent action.\"\n\nThe World Conservation Congress is being held for the first time in five years after being postponed last year due to the pandemic.\n\nOver nine days, government ministries, NGOs and indigenous peoples, backed by a network of 16,000 scientists, will hammer out conservation proposals that could set the agenda for upcoming UN summits on biodiversity and climate change.\n\nIssues in the spotlight include wildlife trafficking, plastic pollution and protection of the Amazon. A new council will be elected that will set the future direction of the IUCN.\n\nSusan Lieberman, vice president of the Wildlife Conservation Society, who is a conference veteran, said the release of the latest update would drive government and multi-lateral action to save threatened and endangered species.\n\nShe said the meeting, postponed since 2020 and taking place both online and in-person, was crucial for determining the future direction of conservation policy amid the crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and the pandemic.", "Accolade, the wine giant that makes Hardys, has warned that truck driver shortages could hit the busy festive season and push up costs.\n\nRobert Foye, its boss, said the firm was being hit by external staff shortages, especially among suppliers, in distribution and delivery.\n\nCompanies operating in the UK are having to deal with a shortage of lorry drivers.\n\nFirms including Wetherspoons and McDonald's have been affected.\n\nLorry driver shortages have also have been blamed on EU workers leaving the UK following Brexit as well as during the pandemic and tax changes making it more expensive for drivers from elsewhere in Europe to work or be employed in the UK.\n\nMr Foye said: \"These shortages, if they continue, could definitely impact Christmas. We are trying to get ahead of it, but it does depend on the situation for the entire transport and trucking industry in the UK.\"\n\nMr Foye also warned that shortages could push up costs. \"The only way we can mitigate this is if we work very closely with our trucking and transport suppliers and our customers. We have done some of that and are managing well so far, but ultimately costs will go up.\"\n\nAustralia's Accolade, the UK's largest wine firm and the world's fifth biggest, delivers 35 million cases to 143 countries every year.\n\n\"Staff shortages are definitely there and there's a whole new group of employees that need to be trained, from truck drivers to restaurant staff,\" Mr Foye added.\n\nConsumers are seeing the impact of driver shortages and supply chain strains, from McDonalds halting milkshake sales to supermarkets running out of Diet Coke.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) estimates there is a shortage of about 100,000 drivers.\n\nMarc Ostwald, chief economist at ADM ISI, said Western Europe and the US were experiencing similar shortages.\n\n\"All the anecdotal evidence suggests that the large pay rises and even signing-on bonuses have done little to alleviate the problem,\" he said.\n\n\"Christmas supply delivery problems are highly probable, above all due to the extensive lockdowns over the past two months in China and much of eastern Asia.\"\n\nAccolade's large £100m Park facility in Bristol is the largest wine distribution centre in Europe, with capacity to fill over a million bottles per year and distribute more than 180 million litres of wine annually.\n\nThe industry has felt the effect of global lockdowns that restricted large swathes of the hospitality industry.\n\nMr Foye said that despite the lifting of UK restrictions, business was taking longer to get back to pre-Covid levels.\n\n\"In the UK you're 100% opened up, but because of the effect of Covid, because people's habits have changed and some outlets gone out of business, you're really only at 65% of the level of 2019 levels. We think it's going to take two years to get back to 90-95% level in the UK.\"\n\nHe added: \"Jump over to US, they're opening extremely fast and are at the 90% level.\"\n\nThe firm, which pioneered wine blending back in 1853, predicts rising demand for low alcohol wine - defined as 9.9% alcohol content or less by Accolade - and is about to launch a zero-alcohol wine.\n\n\"No or low alcohol will grow 20% plus per year for the next five years and eventually be 15-20% of all wine,\" he said.\n\nAustralian wine makers are also weathering trade tensions with China after Beijing levied 200% tariffs on Australian wine in March.\n\nChina is the world's biggest red wine market and was the top buyer of Australian wine before the tariffs hit.\n\nYou can watch Robert Foye's full interview on Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst this weekend on BBC World News: Saturday 23:30 GMT, Sunday 05:30 and 16:30 GMT, Monday 0730 GMT & 1630 GMT and Thursday at 07:30 GMT.\n\nNote September 6 2021: This story was updated to include a broader context around lorry driver shortages after Brexit and the pandemic.", "Coverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru, plus live text and score updates on the BBC Sport website and app. Highlights on Match of the Day Wales on BBC One Wales from 22:30 BST.\n\nGareth Bale says he \"never planned\" to retire as he aims to put doubts about his future to one side and lead Wales to a first World Cup since 1958.\n\nBale was evasive when he was asked before Euro 2020 about speculation he would retire after the tournament.\n\nThe 32-year-old walked away when he was asked about his Wales future following the round of 16 defeat by Denmark.\n\n\"For me it was better not to say anything and concentrate on the job in hand,\" said Bale.\n\n\"I never planned to finish. Like I said before, I just wanted to concentrate on the Euros and didn't want to explain myself. I didn't feel like I needed to. I still don't feel like I need to.\n\n\"No matter what I said I was going to do whether I was going to stay, leave, retire or whatever, I think it would have caused a big and annoying story and a distracting story.\"\n\nBale is accustomed to questions about his future, having been the subject of much scrutiny during his eight years with club side Real Madrid.\n\nHis time at the Bernabeu looked to be at an end last season when, out of favour under then manager Zinedine Zidane, he was loaned back to Tottenham Hotspur.\n\nBut now his first boss in Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti, has returned for a second spell in charge, Bale has found himself back in favour.\n\nHe has started all three of Real's La Liga games so far this season and scored in last month's draw at Levante.\n\n\"I've always had a great relationship with Carlo, but it's always the same - you have to perform to get in the team,\" said Bale.\n\n\"I had a good pre-season and start to the season. It's one of those things in football. You have to play well and perceptions change quickly.\"\n\nBale has enjoyed a glittering career with Real Madrid, winning four Champions League and two La Liga titles among many other honours.\n\nHe also played a leading role in Wales' historic run to the Euro 2016 semi-finals before helping his country qualify for what was only their third appearance at a major tournament at this summer's delayed Euro 2020.\n\nOne significant thing missing in Bale's list of career achievements is playing at a World Cup, while he is also only three appearances away from reaching 100 caps for Wales.\n\n\"Of course I want to play in a World Cup for Wales, not just for myself but for the country as a whole,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it would be an incredible experience for the nation. We're obviously fully focused on trying to do that.\n\n\"We've got another important game tomorrow [against Belarus] and in terms of the caps, every player would like to get to 100 caps. I know I'm very close and it will be nice if I can get it done.\"", "Images on social media showed packed queues at the west London airport on Friday night, with travellers complaining of waits of several hours.\n\nA Heathrow spokesman apologised for the delays, but blamed Border Force for not providing enough staff at immigration.\n\nThe Home Office, which has responsibility for Border Force, said the wait times were \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt said Border Force was \"rapidly reviewing its rosters and capacity and flexibly deploying our staff across the airport to improve waiting times\".\n\nTravellers at Heathrow used social media to complain about lengthy queues with inadequate ventilation, while some claimed people had fainted while they were waiting.\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"There are people collapsing in Terminal 5 Arrivals due to overcrowding and no ventilation. Some Covid secure measures…\"\n\nAnother said: \"Horrendous kettling at Heathrow Terminal 5 arrivals tonight. No Border Force. No ventilation. No fire exits. No explanation. Held there for over an hour. People fainting. Panicked skeleton Heathrow ground team not knowing what to do.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adina Chirodea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Heathrow Airport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Saturday morning, Heathrow Airport tweeted that it was unable to say how long travellers would have to queue for immigration.\n\nIn a subsequent statement, the airport said it had \"escalated\" the issue with Border Force and expected it to provide a better service over the weekend.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson said: \"We are very sorry that passengers faced unacceptable queuing times in immigration due to too few Border Force officers on duty.\n\n\"Border Force were aware of the extra demand from families and we are very disappointed that they did not provide sufficient resource.\n\n\"We have additional Heathrow colleagues to support in managing queues and to hand out passenger welfare including water, but we need every immigration desk to be staffed at peak times.\n\n\"We have escalated this with Border Force and expect them to provide a better service over the remainder of the weekend.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was the busiest weekend of the year for returning passengers, with particularly high numbers of families with children under the age of 12 who cannot use e-gates.\n\nE-gates allow travellers with biometric passports to bypass manual inspections when they cross border control.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Throughout the pandemic we have been clear that queue times may be longer as we ensure all passengers are compliant with the health measures put in place to keep the UK public safe. However, the very long wait times we saw at Heathrow last night are unacceptable...\n\n\"Border Force is rapidly reviewing its rosters and capacity and flexibly deploying our staff across the airport to improve waiting times.\"\n\nThe Home Office added that Border Force was working closely with Heathrow Airport and its airlines and was committed to ensuring passengers had \"a safe and hassle-free journey\".\n\nThe ISU union, which represents borders, immigration and customs staff, said Border Force had been \"chronically under-funded for years\" at major airports, with new recruits directed to inland and international trade to address issues arising from Brexit.\n\nSpeaking about the scenes on Friday, an ISU spokeswoman said: \"It will happen again. Not just at Terminal 5 but potentially at any large airport.\"\n\nMore people have travelled overseas after the government relaxed some travel restrictions\n\nThe UK's travelling restrictions were eased for many on 19 July, when the government dropped the requirement to quarantine after returning from amber list destinations for children and fully vaccinated adults.\n\nMost countries - including the UK's most popular holiday destinations - are on the amber list.\n\nTravellers coming from green list countries do not need to quarantine when they come back to the UK - whether or not they have had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nHowever, travellers from green and amber destinations must have one test before returning to Britain and another two days after they get back.\n\nOnly British nationals can enter the UK directly from a red list country, and they must pay to quarantine in government-approved hotels and be tested.\n\nThe travel industry has criticised the UK's changing travel rules, with airlines saying the system risked making international travel \"more expensive, burdensome and uncertain compared to other countries\".\n\nTravel lists are currently updated every three weeks and the system is similar for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nDan Evans produced a gritty comeback from two sets down to beat Alexei Popyrin in a gruelling match and advance to the US Open fourth round for the first time.\n\nThe Briton somehow found a burst of energy in the final set tie-break to win 4-6 3-6 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-1) in four hours and seven minutes.\n\nEvans dropped to his haunches in disbelief as his victory was confirmed on a Popyrin double fault.\n\nHe will face Daniil Medvedev next.\n\nIt is the second time Evans has reached the fourth round at a Grand Slam after his run to the last 16 at the Australian Open in 2017.\n\nHe has got there with one of the most determined performances of his career, especially considering that his hard-court swing preparations were disrupted as he recovered from Covid-19.\n\nBoth players looked exhausted as the fifth set began but Evans was the stronger on serve and was able to step up at the key moments.\n\nHe dominated the eventual tie-break and comforted Popyrin at the net, with the Australian hiding his face in his towel after the final point of the match.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to relaxing,\" Evans said afterwards.\n\n\"Coming back from Wimbledon, when I was poor, it was difficult. I could have lost that match pretty easily.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nEvans has admitted his frustrations with his Grand Slam form this season - he fell in the first round of the Australian and French Opens, before reaching the third round at Wimbledon.\n\nHe started the year strongly, winning his first ATP Tour title in January, but has not played many matches since contracting Covid-19 in July.\n\nThe match could not have started better for him as he broke Popyrin to love in the opening game, but his 22-year-old opponent capitalised on a dip in Evans' form.\n\nEvans struggled for rhythm in the first two sets, although he was still able to create several break chances, but Popyrin's huge serve and follow-up forehand allowed him to take a two set lead.\n\nThe turning point came midway through the third set, Evans breaking for the first time since the opening game with a lobbed winner that drew applause from his opponent.\n\nThe Briton fought his way out of a 0-30 hole in his next service game and produced a huge service winner to close out the set.\n\nSupported by his team, who were on their feet after every major point, Evans came through a see-saw fourth set that saw five breaks of serve to force an unlikely decider.\n\nBoth players were clearly physically at their limit, with Evans calling for a tablet from the trainer, but they still approached the net and ran around the court with startling ease. Popyrin was given an ovation for a pick-up volley at the net that he somehow manged to flick over for a winner.\n\nPopyrin smashed down an ace to win the first point of the tie-break but Evans dominated it from there on in.\n\nIt felt almost cruel that the Australian should lose the match on a double fault, but he left court 17 to a standing ovation, while an exhausted Evans looked on in disbelief.\n\nEvans will face a hugely tough test against 2019 runner-up Medvedev, who has yet to drop a set in New York, but he can take confidence from a very fine third-round win.\n• None How do you start again when everyone remembers your past?\n• None Watch the deep and dark new thriller from the producers of Line of Duty", "The UK's vaccine advisory body has refused to give the green light to vaccinating healthy children aged 12-15 years on health grounds alone.\n\nThe JCVI said children were at such a low risk from the virus that jabs would offer only a marginal benefit.\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have now been asked to have the final say, and to consider the wider impact on schools and society.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said a decision would be made shortly.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation did advise widening the existing vaccine programme to include an extra 200,000 teenagers with specific underlying conditions.\n\nDoctors identified that children with chronic heart, lung and liver conditions were at much higher risk of Covid than healthy children.\n\nThe decision not to recommend the vaccine to all healthy children was based on concern over an extremely rare side effect of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines which causes heart inflammation, and can lead to palpitations and chest pain.\n\nData from the US, where millions of young teenagers have been vaccinated, suggests there are 60 cases of the heart condition for every million second doses given to 12 to 17-year-old boys (compared to eight in one million girls).\n\nFrance, Italy, Israel and Ireland are also offering the vaccine to all children in this age group.\n\nBut as children are at such low risk from the virus, the JCVI decided that vaccination would offer only \"marginal gain\" and, therefore, there was \"insufficient\" evidence to offer mass vaccination to this age group.\n\nThe JCVI said it was difficult to factor in long Covid in its advice because of the uncertainty over how common it is in children, although it appears to be less prevalent than in adults.\n\nThe vaccine advisers have been under huge pressure.\n\nMinisters have let it be known they are very keen on getting this age group vaccinated - both through their public pronouncements and privately behind the scenes.\n\nThis has caused frustration among JCVI members - with some complaining about the habit of government officials sitting in on meetings.\n\nDespite this, the JCVI has stood firm. Taking into account the impact on school disruption might make a difference.\n\nBut even then it's not clear-cut. Vaccinating kids will cause disruption in itself, with children having to leave class to get jabbed and then maybe needing time off to recover from the common side effects, such as fever.\n\nAnother argument put forward is that it could help reduce the wider spread of the virus - although encouraging the 6 million adults who have not even taken up the offer a jab yet could arguably make more of a difference.\n\nClearly though it would have some impact - although the emergence of the Delta variant means the vaccines offer less protection against infection than they did previously.\n\nWhat's more, around half of children in this age group are thought to have had Covid, providing them with natural immunity anyway.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, chairman of Covid immunisation for the JCVI said it was \"taking a precautionary approach\".\n\n\"The margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal Covid-19 vaccination for this age group at this time.\n\n\"The committee will continue to review safety data as they emerge,\" he added.\n\nPaediatricians say that healthy children with Covid end up in intensive care at a rate of two in one million, but this rises to 100 in one million for children with certain health problems.\n\nAs a result, the JCVI's advice is that a larger group of at-risk children aged 12 to 15 should be offered a vaccine.\n\nThey include children with the following conditions:\n\nChildren with poorly-controlled asthma and other respiratory conditions which can result in severe illness from Covid should also be offered the vaccine, the JCVI said.\n\nA group of 150,000 children with conditions such as severe neurodisabilities, Down's syndrome and severely weakened immune systems as well as those living with vulnerable adults are already eligible.\n\nThere are three million children in total in this age group across the UK.\n\nMr Javid said he had written to the chief medical officers in the UK's four nations to ask them to consider the vaccination of all 12-15 year olds \"from a broader perspective\".\n\nThey will look at the effects of Covid on children's education and pupil absences from school, which the JCVI is not qualified to consider.\n\nSenior leaders in clinical and public health will be involved in the discussions and help to inform a final decision on a rollout to all 12-15 year olds.\n\n\"We will then consider the advice, building on the advice from the JCVI, before making a decision shortly,\" Mr Javid said.\n\nOn Friday, 42,076 cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and 121 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the decision not to recommend vaccination for healthy children aged 12-15 years on health grounds?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu wins and plays Shelby Rogers next in New York Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu has reached the last 16 in back-to-back Grand Slams Coverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app British teenager Emma Raducanu thrashed Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo in a one-sided US Open encounter and will face American Shelby Rogers in the last 16. Raducanu, 18, won 6-0 6-1 against world number 41 Sorribes Tormo as her overseas Grand Slam debut continued with an extraordinary win in New York. She will play Rogers on Monday after the world number 43 stunned Australian top seed Ashleigh Barty. \"My game is just getting better with each match,\" said Raducanu. After bursting on to the Grand Slam scene with a stunning run to the Wimbledon last 16 as a wildcard, the world number 150 has now matched that breakout display at Flushing Meadows. Sorribes Tormo is the highest-ranked player Raducanu has beaten in her fledgling professional career. \"I was playing very well and I know Sara is a tough opponent so I had to be on my game and worked so hard,\" said Raducanu, who won in one hour nine minutes.\n• None Andreescu and Sakkari through to fourth round\n• None Salisbury & Skupski both reach doubles last eight The manner of the teenager's victory was scarcely believable, overwhelming an industrious opponent who has reached a career-high ranking after winning 29 tour matches this year. Raducanu's power and precision was too much for Sorribes Tormo to handle. The Briton walloped 23 winners and served solidly throughout, too. Fittingly she sealed victory with another thunderous forehand winner before taking the acclaim of a New York crowd which appears to realise they are watching a star in the making. \"I had to hit through her and hit the corners,\" said Raducanu, whose number of winners outweighed 16 unforced errors. \"If you trade against her you come second best and I took the game to her and I hit more winners than errors.\" Raducanu has been a popular attraction for US Open fans on the outside courts Three months ago, few outside British tennis knew Raducanu. Then she was ranked 361 in the world. After her stunning run at Wimbledon she became a household name in the UK and is now attracting plenty of attention from the New York crowd, many of whom who wanted selfies and autographs after she beat Sorribes Tormo. Victory also means the Kent teenager is on the verge of climbing into the world's top 100. Raducanu qualified for her first major last week and, unfazed by the magnitude of playing in her first overseas Grand Slam, has continued to create a buzz at Flushing Meadows. In three qualifying matches and three main-draw matches, she has not dropped a set. \"It was an unbelievably impressive performance from such a young player. She has absolutely nothing to lose,\" former British number one Laura Robson said on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. \"We kept bigging this match up as a tough opponent - and it is a tough opponent. Sorribes Tormo has won so many matches against top players and has the game to really get you in trouble. \"But she was never in it. She didn't have the chance to play her game because Emma hit her off the court.\" Raducanu quickly stamped her authority in the opening stages, breaking 24-year-old Sorribes Tormo's serve at the third attempt in a lengthy second game. From then on it was one-way traffic as the Briton won 29 of the 42 points played in the first set. She continued to press in the second set, breaking serve at the first opportunity for a 2-0 lead. With her head in her hands, Sorribes Tormo looks shell-shocked as she trailed 3-0 at the changeover. Raducanu refused to ease off as she chased a second set to love, maintaining her intensity as the Spaniard battled to get on the scoreboard. There was a huge cheer as Sorribes Tormo did hold serve for 5-1, after fighting off a match point, but could not further delay the inevitable as Raducanu maintained her composure to serve out a one-sided victory. \"The level was silly,\" added Robson, who also reached the US Open fourth round as an 18-year-old in 2012. \"A lot of young players can hit the ball hard, but to be this consistent and be able to back yourself is unbelievable.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None The story of how the Nazis' most notorious war criminals were caught\n• None What are the six stages of ghosting? From denial to thirst traps, find out why dating is exhausting", "More than 8,700 chain stores closed in British High Streets, shopping centres and retail parks in the first six months of this year, research suggests.\n\nThat is an average of nearly 50 outlets a day as the impact of the pandemic and changing shopping habits continue to hit many towns and city centres.\n\nBut despite some high-profile retail failures, the number of closures has fallen compared with a year earlier.\n\nCity centres have suffered the worst, while retail parks are faring better.\n\nThe store closure figures were collected by the Local Data Company on behalf of accountancy firm PwC.\n\n\"After an acceleration in store closures last year couple with last minute Christmas tier restrictions and lockdowns extending into 2021, we might have expected a higher number of store closures this year,\" says Lisa Hooker, consumer markets lead at PwC.\n\nShe believes continued government support combined with resilient consumer spending has helped many operators weather the storm and survive the pandemic.\n\nThe Local Data Company tracked more than 200,000 stores operated by businesses with more five outlets across Great Britain. These include everything from retail and restaurants, to cafes, banks and gyms.\n\nAs the chart below shows, although 3,488 stores opened in the first six months of 2021 the closures were far greater. A total of 8,739 shops shut creating a net decline of 5,251 outlets - a huge number, but 750 less than this time last year.\n\nFashion retailers recorded the biggest decline reflecting the collapse of Sir Philip Green's retail empire which saw his brands, including TopShop and Dorothy Perkins, disappear from the High Street.\n\nMore than 120 department stores also shut for good.\n\nThere was also a decline in car showrooms, betting shops and banks, providing yet more evidence of changing shopping behaviour and the shift to online.\n\nData also shows that store openings were at their lowest level for six years. Leisure dominated the growth with takeaway chains leading the way.\n\nAnd it is city centres that are still suffering the most, declining faster than suburban areas which are being supported by people working from home.\n\nLondon, for instance, has gone from being the best performing region in 2016 to the worst for two years running.\n\nRetail parks have fared best of all. Many are anchored by supermarkets, DIY and furniture retailers which have all done well during the pandemic.\n\nFootfall at these sites is almost back to pre-pandemic levels, showing how shoppers seem happier to drive to bigger shops than visit High Streets and shopping centres in towns.\n\nHowever, there is still an appetite for new space on the High Street.\n\nGail's Bakery has just opened a new outlet in Kew, a suburb in south west London, in what was once a branch of Barclays bank. The chain has opened four bakeries during the pandemic, seizing the opportunity to take advantage of cheaper rents and a change in consumer behaviour.\n\n\"I definitely think people are eating better food more often and more often at home and I think that's a great trend for us,\" says co-founder and chief executive, Tom Molnar. \"Instead of using Gail's as a treat, they're using it more as a staple,\n\n\"When rents go down, more creative-based businesses can survive... I do have some confidence that new ideas will come in [to the High Street],\" he says.\n\nSo is the worst now over from the turmoil of the last few years?\n\nThese latest closures follows the loss of more than 17,500 chain outlets last year.\n\n\"There are promising signs that the speed of the decline we were tracking across the worst of the pandemic is slowing,\" says Lucy Stainton, head of retail and strategic partnerships at the Local Data Company.\n\n\"That being said, the compound impact of multiple lockdowns can't be ignored and whilst a slowdown in store closures is certainly welcome, the volume of empty units across Great Britain is at a record high with no sign that the demand will ever be there to meet the supply.\"\n\nThe next six months will be make or break for many chains, according to PwC's Lisa Hooker.\n\n\"Operators are far from out of the woods... particularly with the reinstatement of full business rates for all but the smallest operators, the winding-down of furlough support and agreement yet to be reached between many operators and landlords on rent arrears, \" she says.\n\n\"But the good news is that there are some green shoots of optimism. Consumers still want a shopping experience and a number of chain stores and restaurants are opening.\"", "Last year saw the highest ever uptake of the flu vaccine in the over-65s\n\nDoctors have queried why the government did not plan for a delay to flu vaccine deliveries in England and Wales.\n\nSeqirus, one of the UK's largest suppliers of seasonal flu vaccines, has said the delay of up to two weeks is due to a shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nBritish Medical Association vice-chairman David Wrigley urged MPs to \"to take some action and say why are there were no contingency plans in place\".\n\nThe Department of Health said it was \"untrue\" to say there was a shortage.\n\n\"The delivery from one supplier is delayed by one or two weeks and this should have no impact on the flu vaccination programme overall,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nNHS England says patients who are affected will be contacted by their GP.\n\nDr Wrigley told BBC Breakfast his practice was expecting 5,500 flu vaccines to be delivered.\n\nHe said some members of staff were \"physically shaken\" at the news that all those appointments would have to be rescheduled.\n\nHe said: \"We know there's difficulties with HGV drivers so why are we not getting these flu jabs to the practices so we can get them into our patients' arms and protect them? \"We're hearing nothing from our politicians and the BMA is actually calling for the government to have a Cobra meeting because within the space of two weeks we've seen two major crises of cancellation of blood tests and now flu jabs.\"\n\nSeqirus, which supplies vaccines to GP practices and pharmacies in England and Wales, said: \"Due to unforeseen challenges linked with road freight delays, we have informed all our customers of a consequent delay to their scheduled vaccine delivery by a maximum of one to two weeks.\n\nThe company, which is one of a number of suppliers, said it was it was \"working hard to resolve the delay\" and customers would be able to reschedule their flu vaccination clinics.\n\nProfessor Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the JCVI, said there could be a surge in flu cases this year so delays to jabs were concerning.\n\nCoronavirus lockdowns meant flu levels had been very low last winter, he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We do know when there are low circulating influenza levels the year before often we get high infection rates in the following year,\" he said.\n\n\"So it's quite possible that we will have a high instance of influenza this year.\"\n\nHe said it was important to get the flu jab \"as soon as possible\" and that he hoped the delay would be corrected soon.\n\nMeanwhile, the professional body representing GPs said it would hit practices.\n\n\"This is news we really didn't want to hear\", said Dr Gary Howsam, vice chairman of the Royal College of GPs.\n\n\"With more than 36 million people eligible for the flu vaccine on the NHS this year, GPs need the supply chain to run like clockwork.\n\nDr Howsam said GPs are \"already under enormous pressure and still waiting for details of how the Covid booster campaign will align with everything else they need to do this winter\".\n\nDoctors meticulously plan jabs each year, he said, adding that it is \"essential that as many people as possible in at-risk groups get their vaccination as early into the flu season as possible\".\n\n\"A delay of even a couple of weeks is going to have a big impact on practices and their patients, especially when GPs are already dealing with the fallout caused by the shortage of blood test bottles and the anxiety this is causing.\"\n\n\"General practice and the entire NHS is dependent on the smooth roll-out of the winter flu vaccination programme. It cannot fail,\" he said.\n\nDoctors are already dealing with a shortage of blood test tube vials due to supply chain issues.\n\nDr Richard Vautrey, British Medical Association GP committee chairman, said the delay is likely to affect a \"significant proportion\" of practices - and have a \"serious impact\" on practice workloads and patients.\n\nHe said: \"Many practices will have spent the last few days and weeks meticulously planning for their flu vaccination programme, inviting and booking patients in for their jabs, only now to have to contact them all again to cancel or reschedule appointments.\n\n\"This causes a huge increase in staff's already unsustainable workloads, and inconvenience and unneeded anxiety for patients who will be keen to be protected ahead of winter.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said: \"GPs are at their wits' end, first forced to cancel blood tests because of bottle shortages and now we learn flu vaccines will be delayed.\n\n\"This has been a summer of crisis for the NHS with patients paying the price.\n\n\"With winter coming and flu resurgence a huge risk, ministers must urgently get a grip.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nNaomi Osaka says she will take another break from tennis after her US Open title defence ended in the third round.\n\nThe world number three lost 5-7 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 to 18-year-old Leylah Fernandez.\n\nOsaka withdrew from this year's French Open after revealing she has struggled with her mental health since first becoming a Grand Slam champion in 2018.\n\nThe 23-year-old also missed Wimbledon before returning to the sport at the Tokyo Olympics, where she lit the flame at the opening ceremony.\n\n\"I feel like I'm kind of at this point where I'm trying to figure out what I want to do,\" Osaka said in a post-match news conference, in which she became increasingly tearful.\n\n\"I honestly don't know when I'm going to play my next tennis match. I think I'm going to take a break from playing for a while.\n\n\"I feel like for me recently, when I win I don't feel happy. I feel more like a relief. And then when I lose, I feel very sad. I don't think that's normal.\"\n\nOsaka was on course for a straight-sets victory when she broke Fernandez's serve for a 6-5 second set lead.\n\nBut a string of forehand errors cost her her serve and the ensuing tiebreak, during which she uncharacteristically threw her racquet on the floor.\n\n\"I'm really sorry about that,\" she said later.\n\n\"I'm not really sure why. Normally I feel like I like challenges. But recently I feel very anxious when things don't go my way, and I feel like you can feel that. I was kind of like a little kid.\"\n\nOsaka is the first woman in the top 20 to have lost a match at this year's US Open.\n\nFernandez, who turns 19 on Monday, will now face the 2016 champion Angelique Kerber for a place in the quarter-finals.\n• None The story of how the Nazis most notorious war criminals were caught\n• None What are the 6 stages of ghosting?: From denial to thirst traps, find out why dating is exhausting", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nManchester United opened the new Women's Super League season with victory over Reading in manager Marc Skinner's first game in charge.\n\nThe home fans, back at an unrestricted Leigh Sports Village, saw Kirsty Hanson slot home Ella Toone's pass.\n\nToone turned provider again after the break as Ona Batlle struck an exquisite long-range effort.\n\nEarlier, Reading's Brooke Chaplen hit the crossbar, with replays suggesting the ball had bounced over the line.\n• None Watch Everton v Manchester City in the WSL live on BBC One on Saturday\n• None Football Daily podcast - WSL season preview: Bigger and better than ever\n\nBut with no goalline technology or video assistant referee in the women's game, the officials were unable to take a closer look at whether it was a goal or not.\n\nIn the first WSL game to be screened by Sky Sports as part of a new broadcast deal alongside the BBC, United capitalised with Batlle firing in a second moments later, sending the home fans into delirium.\n\n\"Sky Sports slowed it down for me on the replay just to make it even more painful,\" said Reading manager Kelly Chambers afterwards.\n\n\"It was over the line but that's the difference. You have the top game of the women's game and the top game of the men's game which is so much more further advanced.\n\n\"Things will take time despite the speed the women's game is moving at. I know they are working heavily to improve the level of the officials in the game and you hope we can get those added additions in the not-so-near future.\"\n\nFurther chances fell for Leah Galton - who missed a glaring half-volley in the first half - as she nodded a header wide at the back post.\n\nSubstitute Martha Thomas, making her competitive debut, glanced an effort wide and saw a cross roll inches behind her as she waited unmarked in the centre, before curling a shot past the right post.\n\nThere were plenty of promising performances from Skinner's new signings, with Norwegian midfielder Vilde Boe Risa particularly impressive.\n\nBut aside from Chaplen's effort which hit the crossbar, Reading only had half chances - the midfielder herself striking over the bar from long range in the first half.\n\nVictory sets United on their way for a season where they are pursuing a Champions League qualification spot.\n\n'I will never turn down goalline technology'\n\nManchester United boss Marc Skinner: \"If you can use technology it would be brilliant. We can focus on that but there are other things we need to get right too to continue the growth of our game.\n\n\"Hopefully in our lifetime we see that growth and we get that support for these wonderful players. I will never turn that down.\"\n\nFormer Leicester City and England striker Emile Heskey on Sky Sports: \"If we all played in the same stadiums and all had the same facilities then fair enough, maybe you could use technology.\n\n\"But funds can be allocated to better places right now [in the women's game]. Maybe the next step is goalline technology.\"\n\nEx-Manchester United manager Casey Stoney on Sky Sports: \"It is an area that needs improving. It's a professional game with amateur officiating.\n\n\"We watched that in real time and couldn't say if it was a goal so it is a huge task. There are more improvements to be made.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Jackie Groenen (Manchester United Women) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Martha Thomas (Manchester United Women) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jackie Groenen.\n• None Offside, Manchester United Women. Alessia Russo tries a through ball, but Martha Thomas is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Martha Thomas (Manchester United Women) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Kirsty Hanson.\n• None Attempt missed. Jeon Ga-Eul (Reading Women) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Emma Harries with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Two people failed to resurface from a dive off Whitsand Bay\n\nTwo men are presumed to have died after they failed to return to the surface while exploring a wreck off the Cornwall coast.\n\nThe pair were diving around the HMS Scylla which was sunk in 2004 to create an offshore reef.\n\nA major search operation off Whitsand Bay continued into the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nJames Instance from Falmouth Coastguard said the pair were suspected to have died, but that had not been confirmed.\n\nHM Coastguard said it received a call at about 19:45 BST on Friday after two divers were reported trapped on a diving wreck at Whitsand Bay.\n\nMr Instance said: \"Three people had been undertaking a dive yesterday afternoon into the early hours of yesterday evening.\n\n\"There had been an issue below surface while they were exploring the wreck.\"\n\nOne of the three divers was able to return to the surface and raise the alarm, HM Coastguard said.\n\nThey are currently being treated for decompression at DDRC Healthcare in Plymouth.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said: \"Two male divers were part of a planned dive at HMS Scylla site and failed to return to the surface.\n\n\"Police are currently assessing the situation and next of kin have been informed.\"\n\nHM Coastguard said its helicopter from Newquay was joined in the search by RNLI Lifeboats from Plymouth and Looe, as well as the police.\n\n\"We were unable to locate or find anybody,\" Mr Instance said.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the people who were in the dive party who are dealing with what is a very traumatic experience.\"\n\nA couple staying in the Whitsands Bay area saw the search teams launching on Friday\n\nEmily Hadfield and Tom Gardiner witnessed the rescue efforts while staying at a nearby chalet on Friday evening.\n\n\"There was a helicopter just searching round the bay here and then half an hour later we saw the boats start to come out with search lights in the pitch black,\" Mr Gardiner said.\n\n\"It's sad, we're sat there watching TV, going to bed, and you've got that feeling that someone's in trouble or something's happening. It's not very pleasant.\"\n\nMr Instance said leisure divers were being asked to stay away from the wreck while a recovery effort was under way.\n\nProfessional dive units are being brought in to assist, the coastguard said.\n\nTwo divers from Gloucestershire died while exploring the Scylla wreck in 2007.\n\nIn 2014 divers were warned not to enter the wreck due to hazardous conditions identified by the National Marine Aquarium.\n\nIt is not clear if the two divers who went missing on Friday went inside the Scylla.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The romantic moment that won over so many people online\n\nA passing photographer who captured a man's proposal to his girlfriend has tracked down the couple after they melted hearts online.\n\nOff-duty soldier Rhian Goddard snapped the moment at a north Wales beauty spot when Daniel Doran asked girlfriend Debbie Walker to marry him.\n\nShowing Daniel on bended knee with ring in hand, the romantic image at Conwy castle was a hit on social media.\n\nThe couple have now asked Rhian to be the photographer at their wedding.\n\nRhian was on leave from the Army Air Corps (AAC) over the bank holiday weekend when she was taking photos of her dog near the castle at sunset.\n\n\"I was changing lenses at the time and, as I turned, I saw him [Daniel] getting on one knee and producing the ring box,\" said Rhian.\n\n\"I thought, 'Oh my God' I need to be really quick. By the time I got the lens on and lifted the camera I got that one shot before he got back up and hugged Debbie.\"\n\nEager to share the snap with the couple while not spoiling any announcements, Rhian waited a few days before taking to social media with the faint hope of finding them.\n\n\"With it being a bank holiday weekend, there were so many tourists around and I thought they could be from anywhere so the chances of reaching them were really slim,\" she said.\n\n\"But I guess it tugged on the heartstrings of so many people that it was shared thousands of times.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Rhian This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nAs it turned out, the couple were also from north Wales and had recently celebrated their first anniversary of dating.\n\n\"We'd just been to a spa in Conwy and Dan asked if I wanted to go for a meal, but I said I'd rather go for a walk,\" said Debbie, 38.\n\n\"He was acting strange, dragging me around trying to go up the wall around the castle, even though I was knackered\n\n\"Then we sat on a bench and he got on one knee.\"\n\nDaniel and Debbie are busy planning their engagement party\n\nShe added: \"I'm still blown away by the reaction. I've had so many messages and the last week has been a whirlwind.\n\n\"The photo is lovely. It really captures the moment of what Dan did. It was a beautiful night.\"\n\nNow the couple, from Deeside in Flintshire, have invited Rhian to their engagement party next month and are even hoping she will be their wedding photographer, when they set a date.\n\nDebbie said: \"We've spoken about it. It all depends on whether she can get the time off to do it and hopefully they can come to the party.\"", "Gordon Newton posed a \"serious risk of harm to children\", the court heard\n\nA vicar who sexually abused a three-year-old has been jailed for the \"extremely wicked series of acts\".\n\nGordon Newton, 40, who worked in Batley, West Yorkshire, abused the girl on a number of occasions.\n\nLeeds Crown Court heard he had confessed to having a sexual interest in children for a number of years.\n\nA judge branded Newton a \"hypocrite\" and said he had committed \"a gross abuse of trust\" as he sentenced him to nine years and seven months.\n\nProsecutor Julian Jones told the court Newton's wife, Julie, had handed her husband's old mobile phone to police, who found 276 indecent images of children.\n\nOf those, 70 discovered on the device were deemed to be in the most serious category of abuse images.\n\nA further trawl of Newton's browsing history revealed at least one search which \"suggested a search for images for children aged under three\", Mr Jones said.\n\nIn a statement read in court, Newton's wife said she had been left unable to work full-time and suffers depression as a result of his crimes.\n\nPreviously a dedicated churchgoer, she said her husband's arrest and the subsequent charges had shattered her faith, which was now \"non-existent\".\n\nJudge Tom Bayliss said Newton, of Cross Church Street, Huddersfield, had ruined the child's life, as well as his own and his wife's.\n\n\"You held yourself out as a man of God but you're nothing. You're a hypocrite,\" he said.\n\n\"For a man in your position, what you've done amounts not only to an extremely wicked series of acts, but to a gross abuse of a position of trust.\n\n\"You abused the trust of so many others in so many ways. You abused the trust of your parishioners and of the Church of England authorities.\"\n\nNewton pleaded guilty to 12 offences, including six counts of sexually assaulting a girl under 13.\n\nHe will be placed on the sex offenders'' register for life and a sexual prevention order was also made.\n\nKitty Colley, defending, said Newton knew his crimes were \"disgusting and vile\" and had \"genuine remorse\" for his actions.\n\nA spokesperson for the Diocese of Leeds said Newton's \"deeply shocking\" actions were \"a matter of deep shame and regret\".\n\nThey said he would be \"subject to the disciplinary processes of the church, which will remove him from his office as vicar and prohibit him from exercising his holy orders\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Diocese of Leeds, Church of England The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nScotland kept their World Cup qualification dream alive with a nervy but deserved win over Moldova thanks to Lyndon Dykes' tap-in at Hampden.\n\nThe Scots missed chances and endured uneasy moments in equal measure after Nathan Patterson created Dykes' goal.\n\nHead coach Steve Clarke had suggested Group F had reached a \"pivotal\" moment and so it could prove after this and Israel's win over Austria.\n\nIsrael sit second, with Scotland up to third before Tuesday's trip to Vienna.\n\nClarke had wanted an improved performance as well as the three points against the group's bottom side but said he would settle for a first win in five outings.\n\nIn the end, he got the latter and half a performance, with a first 45 minutes full of vigour before a disjointed second that nevertheless keeps Scotland in the hunt for reaching their first World Cup finals since 1998 at the group's halfway stage.\n\nClarke's team selection reflected his pre-match warning that this was a \"must-win\" game.\n\nThe six changes from Wednesday's defeat in Denmark added speed and an attacking threat that had the visitors pinned back in their own half for an opening spell in which Moldova head coach Roberto Bordin had promised to frustrate the Scots.\n\nJust as Clarke's decision to start captain Andy Robertson at right-back in Denmark appeared to backfire, handing Patterson a first start in that position, and likewise Kevin Nisbet up front, proved the undoing of Bordin's plan.\n\nCaptain Igor Armas had returned from suspension for Moldova, but the towering centre-half's pass was intercepted by Patterson, the Rangers right-back played a one-two with Nisbet and, when his low shot could only be palmed clear by goalkeeper Cristian Avram, Dykes was presented with a simple tap-in at the back post.\n\nA wave of blue was now flowing towards the visiting goal and Kieran Tierney ought to have done better than have a downward close-range header touched over by Avram and likewise Robertson fired wastefully over.\n\nScotland were almost made to pay for those misses when midfielder Mihail Ghecev fired a yard wide and defender Maxim Potirniche's header threatened the back post.\n\nThere were further tense moments for the home side early in the second half before Billy Gilmour, who was otherwise excellently marshalling the midfield, somehow fired wide with only Avram to beat.\n\nRyan Christie did likewise, shooting over after being set up by substitute David Turnbull before a busy Hampden Park breathed a collective sigh of relief as their team survived a late flurry of desperate pressure from visitors ranked a lowly 175th in the world.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nScotland had scored once in four games without a victory before defeating Moldova and goals remain the Achilles heel for Clarke's side.\n\nHowever, they have given themselves a fighting chance of finishing runners-up behind a Denmark side who now appear out of sight, five points clear at the top.\n\nPatterson shook off early nerves to give Clarke food for thought at right-back even once Stephen O'Donnell is fully fit, while Nisbet proved himself at this level with his part in the goal.\n\nDykes at times was anonymous, but with four goals in his last five games for club and country, the Queens Park Rangers striker is the match winner Scotland might need in Austria.\n\nWhat they said\n\nScotland head coach Steve Clarke: \"It was important we played on the front foot. I think we did that. It was important to get a clean sheet. We did that as well. So a good night for us.\n\n\"We had to win the game tonight otherwise Tuesday would probably be a dead rubber. You always need that second to avoid that nervy five minutes at the end.\n\n\"If you are not creating chances, you are more worried than if you are creating chances and not scoring, but we created a lot of good chances and 1-0 is enough to get the three points.\"\n• None Scotland gained just their second victory in their last 11 competitive matches under Steve Clarke, losing five, having won six of their previous eight and drawing two.\n• None Moldova have lost 14 of their last 17 away matches in qualifying for major tournaments, losing their last 10 in a row by an aggregate score of 28-1.\n• None Scotland have won six of their last nine home World Cup qualifiers, drawing three, and keeping clean sheets in all six victories.\n• None Lyndon Dykes netted his first international goal since October 2020, ending a run of 12 matches without one for Scotland.\n• None Scotland defender Kieran Tierney three attempts on goal - all on target - were more than any other player in the match.\n• None Captain Andrew Robertson became the 33rd player to reach 50 caps for Scotland, with only Paul McStay, Kenny Dalglish and Darren Fletcher reaching the milestone at a younger age than the 27-year-old.\n\nScotland travel to face an Austria side in Vienna on Wednesday (19:45 BST) who will be smarting from their 5-2 humbling in Israel.\n• None Offside, Scotland. Craig Gordon tries a through ball, but Che Adams is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Ryan Christie (Scotland) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by David Turnbull.\n• None Offside, Scotland. Liam Cooper tries a through ball, but Che Adams is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Grant Hanley (Scotland) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Kenny McLean with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The partner of a professional footballer who killed himself is backing calls for welfare officers for players.\n\nYeovil Town captain Lee Collins was found dead in a hotel room on 31 March.\n\nHis partner Rachel Gibbon said he was nearing the end of his 14-year career and was worried over what to do next.\n\nThe Professional Footballers Association (PFA) says it is committed to continually improving its education and wellbeing support for players.\n\nThe idea of welfare officers was first suggested by a former teammate of Mr Collins from his time at Port Vale, Adam Yates, who wrote an open letter to the PFA on the matter.\n\nMr Yates explained: \"It's somebody who can be there for a conversation, a little bit of guidance and who can escalate it to a someone more professional outside of football.\"\n\nMs Gibbon said there had been \"no support\" for her partner, who had three children.\n\nRecalling the period before his death, she said: \"Towards the end he was a different Lee. He was down, he was insecure, he was shy, he was broken.\n\n\"Football is all he's ever known from coming through the academies at [Wolverhampton Wanderers] - he's never had a 'proper job' per se.\n\n\"He didn't want to go into coaching or management of the game, that wasn't Lee, so what to do next was a real worry.\"\n\nLee was a fantastic dad, his partner Rachel Gibbon said\n\nMs Gibbon said the welfare officer role could be fulfilled by ex-footballers.\n\n\"It also gives past players who aren't too sure what they want to do in the future the opportunity of a role to stay within the football community but not be attached to coaching or management.\"\n\nShe said: \"We now have to live with the consequences of no support, not being enough opportunity for players to speak to somebody. If this helps just one player, then it's 100% worth it.\"\n\nA PFA spokesperson said: \"We have identified a wide range of football-specific areas that can adversely impact a player's mental health.\n\n\"We are committed to continually improving our education and wellbeing support, which also includes evaluating the way football as a whole supports players.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Welsh government spokesperson said it \"takes data protection obligations seriously\"\n\nThe Welsh government has broken data protection laws more than 300 times in less than three years.\n\nBreaches since the start of 2019 involved documents which included criminal allegations and \"personal sensitive data\".\n\nSome breaches were made from a \"secure\" government site, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request found.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said people should expect personal data to be handled securely.\n\nThe Welsh government said it \"takes data protection obligations seriously and carries out an internal reporting process\".\n\nIt added: \"Once each breach is reported, processes are reviewed and where necessary, remedial action is agreed with management.\"\n\nOf the 300 breaches, 11 were referred to the ICO, including:\n\nIn three cases, the subject of the data was offered protection under the fraud prevention service Cifas.\n\nCifas then flags the subject's details in the National Fraud Database, allowing companies to see that person is at risk of impersonation and take extra steps to ensure they are protected.\n\nThe Welsh government has about 5,500 full-time equivalent staff\n\nThirty-three Welsh government staff members were referred to the human resources department, with disciplinary action or the \"underperformance procedure\" used with some and \"informal action\" taken against others.\n\nIn addition, about 60 staff have had to repeat mandatory data protection training.\n\nDesk instructions, relevant policy documents and guidelines have been reviewed and updated in response to the cases.\n\nSome staff were asked to turn off the email auto-fill facility in Outlook, which automatically fills in names and email addresses based on the characters you start to enter.\n\nThe Welsh government - which has about 5,500 full-time equivalent staff - added all breaches were \"reported, recorded and acted upon, no matter how small, with very few meeting the criteria for reporting to the ICO despite the level of personal data processing undertaken by the Welsh government.\"\n\nThe ICO said: \"Not all data breaches need to be reported to the ICO. The organisation must assess the seriousness of the incident and whether it poses any risk to the rights and freedoms of people. If they decide not to report it, they must be able to say why.\n\n\"People have the right to expect that organisations will handle their personal information securely, when that doesn't happen, they should contact the organisation first, if they are still not satisfied, they can come to us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US Open: Novak Djokovic fights back to beat Kei Nishikori and reach fourth round Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic has won the US Open three times, most recently in 2018 Coverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app Novak Djokovic had to come from behind to beat Kei Nishikori and keep his bid for a calendar Grand Slam alive as he advanced to the US Open fourth round. The world number one overcame a loose first set to win 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 6-3 6-2 and beat the Japanese for the 17th time in a row. The Serb, 34, is aiming for a men's record 21st Grand Slam title. He will face American Jenson Brooksby next, after the wildcard beat Russian 21st seed Aslan Karatsev in five sets. Brooksby, the world number 99, came from behind to win 6-2 3-6 2-6 6-3 6-3 and become the youngest man from the USA to reach the US Open fourth round since Andy Roddick in 2002. Top seed Djokovic has received a mixed reception from the New York crowd but appeared to have won them over by the final point. He asked them to give him more noise several times, cupping his ear toward the fans, and did not do his traditional 'show of love' celebration to the stands. He did, however, spend some time after his post-match interview signing autographs and giving several young fans items from his kit bag.\n• None World number one Barty stunned by Rogers in third round\n• None Salisbury & Skupski both reach doubles last eight Djokovic looked out of sorts in the opening set, although he battled back from an early break down to force a tie-break. However, he struggled with his serve, and Nishikori took full advantage to take just his fourth set off Djokovic out of the past 33 they have played. Nishikori fought hard but was only able to convert two of the 13 break-point opportunities he created. One of those breaks came as Djokovic served for a 5-3 lead in the third set, but the Serb instantly hit back and cruised through a routine fourth to close out the match. \"I don't think I started off very well but he surprised me with his level today,\" Djokovic said. \"It took me a little bit of time to adjust to his game.\" German qualifier Oscar Otte reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time with victory over Italy's Andrea Seppi. World number 114 Otte, who was match point down in his first two qualifying matches, won 6-3 6-4 2-6 7-5. He will face Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini, who had to work hard to see off Belarusian Ilya Ivashka. The Italian sixth seed hit 69 winners as he came through 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 6-4 2-6 6-3. Italian 13th seed Jannik Sinner overcame Gael Monfils in five sets, weathering a fightback from the Frenchman to win 7-6 (7-1) 6-2 4-6 4-6 6-4. Sinner will meet German fourth seed Alexander Zverev who advanced after opponent Jack Sock retired with a thigh injury trailing 3-6 6-2 6-3 2-1. The American had convincingly won the first set but began to suffer injury problems from the beginning of the second. After being broken in the fourth set he eventually gave up, knowing there was no way back. South Africa's Lloyd Harris continued his good form with a 6-4 6-4 6-4 win over Canada's Wimbledon semi-finalist Denis Shapovalov. He will play Reilly Opelka next after the American beat Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 6-4.\n• None The story of how the Nazis' most notorious war criminals were caught\n• None What are the six stages of ghosting? From denial to thirst traps, find out why dating is exhausting", "Firefighters rescued two of the four men who were in the red Seat Ibiza\n\nA police officer has been seriously injured in a crash as officers tried to stop a car on the M62.\n\nThe collision involved two police vehicles and a Seat Ibiza on the eastbound carriageway between Snaith and Goole, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nThe officer, who suffered serious leg injuries, had to be cut free of his vehicle by firefighters. His injuries are not life-threatening.\n\nFour men in the Seat Ibiza have been arrested and remain in custody.\n\nThree of the four were injured, with one suffering neck and back injuries and two suffering minor injuries, police confirmed.\n\nThe M62 was closed overnight between junctions 34 and 35, causing queues for up to seven hours.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the incident happened at 23:25 BST as its officers attempted to stop the car as it entered the neighbouring Humberside Police force area.\n\n\"One of the police vehicles left the carriageway and was in collision with a bridge stanchion,\" a force spokesperson said.\n\nHe said due to the nature of the incident the Independent Office for Police Conduct had been notified.\n\nThe police vehicle left the carriageway and hit a bridge stanchion\n\nNorth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said crews from Selby had responded to the incident along with an appliance from Goole.\n\nA spokesperson said crews used cutting equipment to extract the injured police officer.\n\nThey added two of the men in the Seat had left the car when the brigade arrived, but crews had to cut the other two men free.\n\nHighways England was able to open the westbound carriageway early on Saturday, however the eastbound carriageway remained closed until about 16:00 BST.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fawziyah Javed died after falling from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh\n\nPolice have named a woman who fell to her death from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.\n\nFawziyah Javed died at the scene shortly after the fall in Holyrood Park at about 21:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe 31-year-old was from Pudsey in West Yorkshire.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that a 27-year-old man had been charged in connection with her death and was expected to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday.\n\nDet Insp Bob Williamson said: \"Fawziyah's family ask for their privacy to be respected during this extremely difficult time.\n\n\"I'd like to thank the officers and partners who attended the scene on Thursday evening and have assisted with our ongoing inquiries.\"\n\nPolice confirmed that Fawziyah Javed was from Pudsey in Leeds\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Channel 5 went off air on Saturday for some viewers\n\nA number of TV channels went off air on Saturday evening following a fire alarm at a broadcast centre.\n\nViewers of Channel 4 reported seeing a still screen for about 25 minutes, while Channel 5 was also off air for about 30 minutes.\n\nWelsh broadcaster S4C, another affected channel, said the BBC, ITV, Paramount Network and E Music were also affected.\n\nRed Bee Media blamed an \"activation of the fire suppression systems\" at its broadcast centre in west London.\n\nChannel 4 confirmed two of its channels, Channel 4 and More 4, were temporarily off air on Saturday.\n\nIt has continued to experience some disruption, with cookery show Sunday Brunch briefly interrupted as viewers' screens went blank.\n\nThe broadcaster said it was \"working hard to resume our normal services\" following \"technical issues\".\n\nOn Saturday evening Red Bee Media, which handles playout services - broadcasting technology - for a number of channels, said: \"As a result of this incident and the automatic safety measures set in motion at the time, several services originating from the broadcast centre have been disrupted.\"\n\nStaff were evacuated safely, the spokesperson added, with people allowed to return to the building after firefighters said it was safe.\n\n\"We are continuing to work to restore all services and remedy any issues caused by this incident,\" the spokesperson added.\n\n\"To avoid speculation, we will not make any further statements until all services have been fully restored and we have concluded a full investigation of the cause.\"\n\nA spokesman for S4C, the Welsh language public service TV broadcaster, said: \"As a result of a fire alarm at a television distribution centre in London on Saturday night, S4C's transmissions were lost on the Freeview platform for most of the evening.\n\n\"S4C's broadcasts on Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media, S4C Clic or BBC iPlayer were not affected.\n\n\"S4C apologises to all those who failed to see their favourite programmes on Saturday evening.\"\n\nChannel 5 went off air for some viewers at 19:00 BST, with a message on the channel saying: \"We apologise for the interruption. We'll be back with you as soon as we can.\"", "Abdirahim Mohamed was found with multiple stab wounds in Leicester\n\nA seventh man has been charged with murder after an 18-year-old was stabbed to death.\n\nAbdirahim Mohamed died after he was found with multiple stab wounds in Melbourne Street, Leicester, on 8 September.\n\nRizwan Gul, 25, of no fixed address, was charged on Sunday and will appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nTen people have been charged in connection with Mr Mohamed's death.\n\nOn Saturday, Zakir Brant, 25, of Bale Road, was charged with murdering the 18-year-old and will also appear at the magistrates' court on Monday.\n\nMohammed Israfeel Gul, 27, of New Way Road, Daniel Pollard, 29, of Calder Road, Mohammed Hansrod, 29, of Dulverton Road, Abdul Hemid Suleman, 58, of Jupiter Close, Bhavic Parmar, 25, of Bowling Green Street have also been charged with murder and will appear at Leicester Crown Court in November.\n\nEarlier this week, Fahad Ali Saleem, 25, of Frederick Street, Leicester, was charged with assisting an offender.\n\nMuhamad Firoz Khan, 32, and Khatib Gul, 57, both of Apollo Court, Leicester, have been charged with same offence and will appear at the same court next month.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Taliban fighters - pictured here in Herat on 10 September - have been patrolling the centre of the city\n\nThe Taliban say they have shot dead four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies in public squares in the Afghan city of Herat.\n\nThe gruesome display came a day after a notorious Taliban official warned that extreme punishments such as executions and amputations would resume.\n\nThe men were killed in a gun battle after allegedly seizing a businessman and his son, a local official said.\n\nLocal residents said a body was hung from a crane in the city centre.\n\nWazir Ahmad Seddiqi, a local shopkeeper, told the Associated Press news agency that four bodies were brought to the square, one was hung there and the three other bodies were moved to other squares in the city to be displayed.\n\nThe deputy governor of Herat, Maulwai Shair, said displaying the bodies was done to deter further abductions. He said the men were killed in a gun battle after the Taliban learnt that they had kidnapped a businessman and his son - who were both freed.\n\nThe BBC has not independently confirmed the circumstances under which the men were killed.\n\nHowever, graphic images shared on social media appeared to show bloody bodies on the back of a pick-up truck with a crane hoisting one man up.\n\nAnother video showed a man suspended from a crane with a sign on his chest reading: \"Abductors will be punished like this.\"\n\nSince taking power in Afghanistan on 15 August, the Taliban have been promising a milder form of rule than in their previous tenure.\n\nBut there have already been numerous reports of human rights abuses carried out across the country.\n\nThe Taliban's notorious former head of religious police Mullah Nooruddin Turabi - now in charge of prisons - said on Thursday that extreme punishments such as executions and amputations would resume in Afghanistan as they were \"necessary for security\".\n\nIn an interview with AP, he said these punishments may not be meted out in public, as they were under previous Taliban rule in the 1990s. Public executions were frequently held in Kabul's sports stadium or on the vast grounds of the Eid Gah mosque during the group's five year rule.\n\nBut he dismissed outrage over their past public executions: \"No-one will tell us what our laws should be.\"\n\nTurabi - who is on a UN sanctions list for his past actions - added that \"everyone criticised us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and punishments\".\n\nIn August, Amnesty International said that Taliban fighters were behind the massacre of nine members of the persecuted Hazara minority.\n\nAmnesty's Secretary-General Agnès Callamard said at the time that the \"cold-blooded brutality\" of the killings was \"a reminder of the Taliban's past record, and a horrifying indicator of what Taliban rule may bring\".", "Status Quo founding member and bassist Alan Lancaster has died aged 72, the band's manager has confirmed.\n\nLancaster had several international hits with the group during the 60s and 70s including Rockin' All Over The World and Whatever You Want.\n\nManager Simon Porter said: \"This is such sad news.\"\n\nLead singer Francis Rossi said: \"Alan was an integral part of the sound and the enormous success of Status Quo during the 60s and 70s.\"\n\nRossi and Lancaster began performing together in the 1960s under a number of different band names before settling on Status Quo.\n\nThe group went on to have four UK number one albums, according to the Official Charts Company.\n\nHe said in a statement: \"We were friends and colleagues for many years and achieved fantastic success together as the Frantic Four alongside Rick Parfitt and John Coghlan.\n\n\"Although it is well documented that we were estranged in recent years, I will always have very fond memories of our early days together and my condolences go to Dayle and Alan's family.\"\n\nMr Porter gave his \"sincere condolences\" to Lancaster's wife Dayle and the family.\n\n\"It was an absolute pleasure to be able to reunite the original line-up for two sell-out tours in 2013-14 and to give Status Quo Frantic Four fans a final legacy and such a lasting memory,\" he said.\n\n\"Although Alan was not in the best of health even then, he got through the tours with determination and grit and was a pleasure to work with.\"\n\nLancaster (front) was photographed with the band backstage at Top of the Pops in 1968", "Neath Port Talbot has the highest Covid case rate in Wales, followed by Merthyr Tydfil\n\nThe Covid-19 case rate continues to rise in Wales, according to latest figures from health officials.\n\nThe seven-day average stands at 593.9 per 100,000 people, up from 582 when last reported, on Friday.\n\nA further 13 deaths with coronavirus and 3,303 new cases have also been reported by Public Health Wales (PHW).\n\nThe rolling case rate remains highest in Neath Port Talbot at 909.9 cases, followed by 867 in Merthyr Tydfil and 793.3 in Rhondda Cynon Taff.\n\nMonmouthshire continues to have the lowest Covid case rate with 309.8, compared with 366.4 in Pembrokeshire, 367.8 in Wrexham, 400.3 in Ceredigion and 425.5 at Anglesey.\n\nData published on Sunday covers 24 hours to 09:00 on Friday.\n\nNew cases include 344 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 333 in Swansea, 322 in Cardiff, 258 in Caerphilly and 221 in Neath Port Talbot.\n\nThe data shows the positivity rate across Wales - the percentage of tests which come back positive - is down slightly to 15%.\n\nThe total number of deaths with Covid in Wales now stands at 5,852.\n\nOn average, 5.5 people died with Covid each day in the seven days to 23 September.\n\nUpdated figures now show 15 people died on 17 September, the highest number in a single day in Wales since 21 February.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nThe United States have regained the Ryder Cup with a record 19-9 victory over Europe at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.\n\nOpen champion Collin Morikawa claimed the winning half point in the fifth of Sunday's 12 singles matches as the home side raced to the 14½ points they needed.\n\nRory McIlroy, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter - Europe's only winners in the singles - were in tears as they showed the emotion of what will be a chastening defeat.\n\nAround them, American players celebrated, with Brooks Koepka downing a beer thrown to him from the fans after he completed a 2&1 victory on the 17th green to booming chants of \"U-S-A\" from a 40,000-strong home crowd.\n\nThere had already been big wins for Patrick Cantlay, Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau amid a carnival atmosphere by Lake Michigan, while Dustin Johnson became the first American to win all five matches at a Ryder Cup since 1979.\n\nSuch was the headiness of the celebrations that Koepka and DeChambeau, who have been involved in a long-running feud, briefly embraced in the post-match media conference, with US captain Steve Stricker saying they had \"wanted to play together\".\n\n\"This is a special day for everyone here involved,\" added Stricker, who struggled to keep his emotions in check as a Wisconsinite.\n\n\"The Ryder Cup means a lot to everybody, your side and our side. We finally put in a dominant performance.\n\n\"This is a new era right here, they are young, motivated, they came here determined to win.\n\n\"I never won a major. But this is my major.\"\n• None Tearful McIlroy says he 'should have done more'\n• None DeChambeau and Koepka hug twice after win\n• None How Europe were crushed at Whistling Straits\n\nEurope captain Harrington conceded: \"It's a tough loss, but they were better than us. They were a strong team and played on their best form. They had momentum the whole time.\"\n\nThe margin of victory eclipses the 18½-9½ successes enjoyed by Europe in 2004 and 2006 and America's own triumph in 1981.\n\nThis was a thoroughly deserved win, built on a dominant opening two days for the hosts.\n\nThey led 6-2 after Friday's foursomes and fourballs sessions, and extended that to a record 11-5 on Saturday to leave themselves needing to win just 3½ points out of the 12 available in the singles.\n\nHarrington spoke on Saturday evening of using the spirit of 2012, when the visitors came from 10-6 down to win the 'Miracle of Medinah' - the only away victory in the past eight editions - to inspire his side.\n\nHe put McIlroy, who had lost all three of his matches, out first and the Northern Irishman immediately put European blue on the scoreboard by winning the first hole against Olympic champion Xander Schauffele.\n\nAnd when Harrington's fellow Irishman Shane Lowry went ahead on the second in the second match, the few European fans who had managed to make it to Whistling Straits this week started to believe.\n\nHowever, Cantlay, who won the PGA Tour's season-long FedEx Cup and its $15m prize earlier this month, won the next four holes to take control of that match.\n\nBehind him, Scheffler birdied the first four holes as he put world number one Jon Rahm under early pressure.\n\nAnd then the big-hitting DeChambeau hit his tee shot on the par-four first onto the green and holed the 40-foot eagle putt to stun Sergio Garcia.\n\nThey were leads the Americans would keep throughout their matches against the Spaniards, who had combined for three points from three matches in Friday and Saturday's fourballs and foursomes.\n\n\"Unfortunately they were a little better than we were,\" said Garcia, who extended his points record to 28½ at his 10th Ryder Cup.\n\n\"We've got to accept that and we've got to get ready for Rome and try to get it back.\"\n\nThe victory was clinched with seven matches still out on the course, underlining the vast superiority of the home side.\n\nJustin Thomas crushed Tyrrell Hatton 4&3, Koepka saw off Bernd Wiesberger 2&1 and Daniel Berger beat Matt Fitzpatrick on the last as the US won seven of the singles matches.\n\nThis may now be the start of a dynasty for the US, who had lost seven of the previous nine editions of the biennial contest, but have now won successive Ryder Cups on home soil for the first time in 38 years.\n\nThe 12-strong team featured eight of the top 10 in the world rankings and eight of their team are in their 20s, with the oldest being 37-year-old world number two Johnson, who rounded off a terrific week with a one-hole victory over Paul Casey.\n\nThree of the six rookies in the team, Cantlay, Morikawa and Scheffler, remained unbeaten throughout the week as every US player contributed at least one point.\n\nBy contrast, several of the European players must be close to the end of their Ryder Cup careers, although 48-year-old Westwood, who qualified for the team, and 45-year-old Poulter, one of Harrington's three wildcard selections, were victorious in singles.\n\nBoth of their triumphs came long after the cup had been lost, but both won their opening holes when European blue was lacking on the scoreboards.\n\nWestwood, who trailed by two holes with five to play, eventually beat Harris English on the 18th, while Poulter, a captain's pick for the fifth time in seven appearances, never trailed against Tony Finau, winning 3&2.\n\n\"Sticking a point on the board is nice from a personal feeling, but it's no consolation,\" said Poulter on BBC Radio 5 Live after keeping up his fine record of having never lost a singles match, winning six and halving the other.\n\n\"We'll saddle up and see if we can go again in Italy.\n\n\"You don't think it's a complete runaway like this. When you look at the scoreboard it looks extremely lopsided, but it didn't feel that way.\"\n\nThe next Ryder Cup is scheduled to be held in Rome in 2023, which will be 30 years since the US last won an away match.\n• None Who is New York named after and why? Go on a fact-finding journey about famous places that have changed names\n• None Meet the women taking the wheel in a male-dominated car industry", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: \"There is plenty of petrol in the country\"\n\nThere is \"no shortage of fuel\" and people should be \"sensible\" and fill up only when they need to, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.\n\nIt comes as there are long queues and closed pumps at some filling stations.\n\nMr Shapps blamed the Road Haulage Association for triggering a \"rush on petrol stations\".\n\nHe said he was introducing a \"big package\" of measures, including temporary visas for lorry drivers, to help the situation.\n\nThe transport secretary said there was \"plenty of fuel\" and that he had checked with the six refineries and 47 storage centres in the country.\n\nBut the Petrol Retailers Association said that \"between 50% and 90%\" of its members' forecourts are dry.\n\nMr Shapps told the BBC's Andrew Marr said that a shortage of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers was \"not anything new\" but said \"irresponsible briefing\" to the press following a meeting with road haulage groups had sparked a reaction from people.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday reported that someone from the Road Haulage Association had selectively leaked comments about HGV driver shortages at fuel firms.\n\nBut spokesman Rod McKenzie told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House that it was \"absolute nonsense\" and said he had not been at the meeting.\n\nA shortage of lorry drivers has caused problems for a range of industries in recent months, from supermarkets to fast food chains.\n\nIn recent days, some fuel deliveries have been affected, leading to lengthy queues at petrol stations - with reports of dozens of cars queuing in London by 07:00 BST on Sunday morning.\n\nSupermarket Sainsbury's said it was experiencing \"very high demand for fuel\", while Morrisons said it was a \"rapidly moving situation\" and it was working hard to keep its pumps open.\n\nAsda said it had put a £30 limit on fuel transactions and said that it had good levels of fuel supply.\n\nBrian Madderson, chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend that the forecourts which were not dry were \"partly dry and running out soon\".\n\n\"That is something which the government obviously are loathe to recognise,\" he said. \"There is plenty of fuel in this country but it is in the wrong place for the motorist.\"\n\nFreight industry group Logistics UK estimates that the UK needs about 90,000 HGV drivers - with existing shortages made worse by the pandemic, tax changes, Brexit, an ageing workforce, and low wages and poor working conditions.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the situation showed a \"complete lack of planning\" from the government.\n\nHe said the situation had been known about for years and said \"we knew in particular that when we exited the EU there would be a need for a back-up plan to deal with the situation.\"\n\nHe said Prime Minister Boris Johnson needed to say what he was going to do about the situation on Sunday.\n\nAsked if he would bring in 100,000 foreign drivers, Sir Keir said: \"We have to issue enough visas to cover the number of drivers that we need.\"\n\nUnder plans to limit supply disruption in the run up to Christmas up to 5,000 lorry drivers and 5,500 poultry workers could receive UK visas, the government announced on Saturday.\n\nLogistics UK welcomed the policy calling it \"a huge step forward in solving the disruption to supply chains\".\n\nBut the British Chambers of Commerce said the measures were the equivalent of \"throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire\", while the Road Haulage Association said the announcement \"barely scratches the surface\".\n\nA survey from earlier this year suggests a number of reasons for the driver shortage\n\nMr Shapps said the Covid pandemic had created a problem by preventing tests for new HGV drivers and Ministry of Defence examiners were being drafted in to help increase testing capacity.\n\nHe said he did not want to \"undercut\" British workers by bringing in foreign workers but could not \"stand by and watch while queues are forming\".\n\nMr Shapps said the government did not want to be reliant on overseas labour in the long term but said he had acted to reassure people in the short term.\n\n\"I'm doing some things we wouldn't necessarily have wanted to do because we believe in fixing this market for the long term so the drivers are paid better, and we welcome that - we think it is a good idea for drivers to be paid more and for conditions to be better,\" he said.\n\nWhile 5,000 temporary visas are being assigned for lorry drivers this is for supplying the food industry as well as fuel tankers.\n\nMr Shapps said there was not a \"dramatic shortage in drivers\" for the fuel industry with only \"one, two, three hundred drivers\" needed for distribution to petrol stations.\n\nOne of those who struggled to refill their car was Adrienne Kenny, from Cambridge, who needed to drive to Leeds for work on Monday.\n\nShe said she had tried three petrol stations on Saturday but \"couldn't get diesel anywhere\" before trying another six without success on Sunday, leading her to postpone her meeting.\n\nRecruitment for additional short-term HGV drivers and poultry workers will begin in October, with the visas valid until Christmas Eve.\n\nOther measures include sending nearly one million letters to drivers who hold an HGV licence, seeking to encourage them back into the industry.\n\nPoultry workers have also been included in the temporary visa scheme and turkey farmer Kate Martin has warned supermarkets could run out of birds before Christmas.\n\nShe said there were fewer turkeys being produced because because the big processors \"know they will not get them processed\".\n\n\"Come Christmas, if you leave ordering your turkey from your local farm supplier, you are going to be out of luck,\" she added.", "Up to 10,500 lorry drivers and poultry workers can receive temporary UK visas as the government seeks to limit disruption in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nThe government confirmed that 5,000 fuel tanker and food lorry drivers will be eligible to work in the UK for three months, until Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scheme is also being extended to 5,500 poultry workers.\n\nThe transport secretary said he did not want to \"undercut\" British workers but could not stand by while queues formed.\n\nBut the British Chambers of Commerce said the measures were the equivalent of \"throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire\".\n\nAnd the Road Haulage Association said the announcement \"barely scratches the surface\", adding that only offering visas until Christmas Eve \"will not be enough for companies or the drivers themselves to be attractive\".\n\nMarc Fels, director of the HGV Recruitment Centre, said visas for lorry drivers were \"too little\" and \"too late\".\n\nHowever, the news was welcomed by freight industry group Logistics UK, which called the policy \"a huge step forward in solving the disruption to supply chains\".\n\nA shortage of lorry drivers has caused problems for a range of industries in recent months, from supermarkets to fast food chains.\n\nIn recent days, some fuel deliveries have been affected, leading to lengthy queues at petrol stations - despite ministers insisting the UK has plenty of fuel.\n\nThere are reports of dozens of cars queuing in London by 07:00 BST on Sunday morning, while many filling stations had signs up saying they had no fuel.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC's Andrew Marr that there was enough fuel in the country and that if people were \"sensible\" and only filled up when they needed to there would not be shortages.\n\nAs well as allowing more foreign workers, other measures include using Ministry of Defence examiners to increase HGV (heavy goods vehicle) testing capacity, and sending nearly one million letters to drivers who hold an HGV licence, encouraging them back into the industry.\n\nOfficials said the loan of MoD examiners would help put on \"thousands of extra tests\" over the next 12 weeks.\n\nRecruitment for additional short-term HGV drivers and poultry workers will begin in October.\n\nMr Shapps said: \"We are acting now, but the industries must also play their part with working conditions continuing to improve and the deserved salary increases continuing to be maintained in order for companies to retain new drivers.\"\n\nA survey from earlier this year suggests a number of reasons for the driver shortage\n\nLogistics UK estimates that the UK is in need of about 90,000 HGV drivers - with existing shortages made worse by the pandemic, tax changes, Brexit, an ageing workforce, and low wages and poor working conditions.\n\nThe British Poultry Council has previously warned it may not have the workforce to process as many turkeys as normal this Christmas because it has historically relied on EU labour - but after Brexit it is now more difficult and expensive to use non-UK workers.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it recognised that importing foreign labour \"will not be the long-term solution\" to the problem and that it wanted to see employers invest to build a \"high-wage, high-skill economy\".\n\nIt said up to 4,000 people would soon be able to take advantage of training courses to become HGV drivers.\n\nThis includes free, short, intensive courses, funded by the Department for Education, to train up to 3,000 new HGV drivers.\n\nThese new \"skills bootcamps\" will train drivers to be road ready and gain a Cat C or Cat C&E license, helping to tackle the current HGV driver shortage.\n\nThe remaining 1,000 drivers will be trained through courses accessed locally and funded by the government's adult education budget, the DfT said.\n\nFuel tanker drivers need additional safety qualifications and the government said it was working with the industry to ensure drivers can access these as quickly as possible.\n\nMr Fels said many young people were \"desperate\" to get into the industry but couldn't afford the thousands of pounds it costs to get a HGV license.\n\nHe called for the government to recognise the industry as a \"vocation\" and offer student loans to help fund training.\n\nSue Terpilowski, from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, said conditions for drivers also needed to improve, pointing out that facilities such as overnight lorry parks were much better on the continent.\n\nRichard Walker, managing director at supermarket Iceland, said it was \"about time\" ministers relaxed immigration rules in a bid to solve the HGV driver shortage and called for key workers, including food retail workers, to be prioritised at the pumps.\n\nOn Saturday the BBC spoke to a number of drivers who had queued or struggled to get fuel.\n\nJennifer Ward, a student paramedic of three years for Medicare EMS, which provides 999 frontline support to the East of England Ambulance Service, said she had to travel to five stations to get diesel for her ambulance.\n\nMatt McDonnell, chief executive of Medicare EMS, said a member of staff cancelled their shift because they had been unable to get fuel and said he was waiting to see if the government would introduce measures to prioritise key workers, like they had for shopping during the pandemic.\n\nIndustry groups the Food and Drink Federation and Logistics UK both welcomed the visa changes, with federation chief Ian Wright calling the measures \"pragmatic\".\n\nBut the British Retail Consortium said the number of visas being offered would \"do little to alleviate the current shortfall\".\n\nIt said supermarkets alone needed an additional 15,000 HGV drivers to operate at full capacity ahead of Christmas.\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the changes were needed but described them as \"a sticking plaster at the eleventh hour\".\n\n\"Once again the government has been caught asleep at the wheel when they should have been planning for months for this scenario,\" she told the BBC.\n\nAre you an HGV driver? Or have you been unable to buy fuel? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police are appealing for information after a teenage girl was sexually assaulted in Belfast.\n\nIt happened at about 22:30 BST at an outdoor event in the Ormeau Park area and close to a fast-food van.\n\n\"The girl was sexually assaulted by an unknown male, who is described as being around 17 years old, with dark-blonde, wavy hair,\" said a police spokesperson.\n\nThe youth is also thought to be approximately 5' 8\" (173cm) in height and of slim build.\n\n\"We are very grateful to two girls who came to the assistance of the victim, and would ask them to get in touch as we believe they can assist with our enquiries,\" the police statement added.\n\nAnyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the PSNI.", "The Labour Party conference has voted to nationalise all UK energy companies, despite leader Sir Keir Starmer ruling this out.\n\nDelegates in Brighton backed a motion which argued this would make the industry greener and fairer for customers.\n\nSir Keir earlier said nationalisation should happen only where it gave customers \"better value for money\",\n\nThe vote comes at a time when global gas prices are soaring.\n\nCompanies are complaining that, with caps on tariffs which are in place for many customers, they are unable to pass on their full costs to customers.\n\nSeveral smaller operators have gone out of business in the last few weeks and millions of households are facing higher bills this winter.\n\nLabour's 2019 general election manifesto promised to bring \"energy into public ownership to end the great privatisation rip-off and save you money on your fares and bills\".\n\nAnd, when he ran successfully for party leader the following year, Sir Keir pledged to bring in \"common ownership of rail, mail, energy and water\".\n\nLast month, Shadow business secretary Ed Miliband backed the public ownership of energy, water and transport.\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight: \"We are in favour of common ownership absolutely... Starmer said this in the leadership campaign - we haven't changed that commitment.\"\n\nLabour is currently carrying out a national policy forum, where it is asking members and affiliated organisations for ideas for the next election manifesto.\n\nAsked on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show whether he would nationalise the big six energy companies - British Gas, EDF, E.ON, npower, Scottish Power and SSE - if he became prime minister, Sir Keir replied: \"No.\"\n\nHe said he would be \"pragmatic\" and not \"ideological\", adding: \"Where common ownership is value for money for the taxpayer and delivers better services, then there should be common ownership.\"\n\nHowever, the motion passed by the Labour conference - and proposed by the FBU and the Edinburgh Central Labour Party - called for \"public ownership of energy including energy companies, creating an integrated, democratic system\".\n\nLabour MP Diane Abbott, a former shadow home secretary, tweeted that \"everyone\" had assumed Sir Keir \"meant nationalisation\" when he wrote of common ownership in his leadership manifesto, but he had now \"denied supporting any such thing\".\n\nThe government has said it is considering emergency state-backed loans to encourage surviving energy firms to take on customers from defunct rivals.\n\nBut it has ruled out nationalisations, with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng saying last week: \"The taxpayer should not be expected to prop up companies which have poor business models and are not resilient to fluctuations in price.\"\n\nOn Saturday he said the UK's gas system \"continues to operate reliably and we do not expect supply emergencies this winter\".", "The Labour leader told the BBC there needed to be a \"mature, respectful debate\" around trans rights.\n\nSir Keir Starmer says it is \"not right\" to say only women have a cervix amid a row involving one of his MPs.\n\nRosie Duffield came under fire after supporting online criticism of a tweet, which referred to \"individuals with a cervix\" to be inclusive of trans men.\n\nThe incident was called transphobic by trans rights supporters - but Labour MP Ms Duffield rejects the claim.\n\nAsked about the row, Sir Keir said claiming only women have cervixes was \"something that shouldn't be said\".\n\nBut Health Secretary Sajid Javid attacked the Labour leader, saying his remarks were a \"total denial of scientific fact\".\n\nCanterbury MP Ms Duffield has regularly used social media to outline her own position on transgender issues - especially around the debate on the Gender Recognition Act.\n\nSome groups are calling for the medical diagnosis element of the process to change gender to be scrapped in England and Wales, allowing people to self-identify.\n\nBut Ms Duffield believes that biological females should have protected spaces where biological males are not allowed to go - such as domestic violence refuges and prisons - and she is against people being able to self-identify as trans to gain access to those spaces.\n\nThe Labour MP has said she is \"completely supportive of trans rights\".\n\nBut she has been condemned by some LGBT+ groups - who say trans men and women should be treated the same as biological men and women - and two of her staff members resigned from her office over her views.\n\nLabour MP Rosie Duffield is not attending Labour's party conference this week\n\nIn August, Ms Duffield liked a tweet by broadcaster Piers Morgan, who criticised a news story from CNN about cancer screening for \"individuals with a cervix\", responding: \"Do you mean women?\"\n\nWhen the MP was called transphobic for appearing to endorse the tweet, she replied: \"I'm a 'transphobe' for knowing that only women have a cervix… ?!\".\n\nShe later acknowledged that some trans men have a cervix.\n\nAppearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, Sir Keir Starmer was asked if it was transphobic to say only women have a cervix.\n\nThe Labour leader replied: \"Well, it is something that shouldn't be said. It is not right.\"\n\nSir Keir added: \"We need to have a mature, respectful debate about trans rights and we need to... bear in mind that the trans community are amongst the most marginalised and abused communities.\n\n\"Wherever we've got to on the law, we need to go further.\"\n\nMs Duffield is not attending this week's party conference in Brighton, having said there were concerns for her safety after threats from activists.\n\nBut Sir Keir said he had spoken to Ms Duffield and \"she didn't want to come because it would cause a distraction from the ideas that we're putting forward\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour’s shadow chancellor says she would invest in \"good jobs in the green industries of the future\"\n\nLabour has promised to spend an extra £28bn a year on making the UK economy more \"green\" if it wins power.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the money would go on offshore wind farms, planting trees and developing batteries.\n\nIn her speech to Labour's annual conference in Brighton, she also pledged to phase out business rates to help the Covid-damaged High Street.\n\nAnd she said giant tech firms would pay more tax in future.\n\nAn aide to Ms Reeves told the BBC the £28bn would come from government borrowing and the investment should \"have a positive impact\" on the wider economy.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Reeves said: \"I will be a responsible chancellor. I will be Britain's first green chancellor.\"\n\nShe added: \"I will invest in good jobs in the green industries of the future, giga-factories to build batteries for electric vehicles, a thriving hydrogen industry, offshore wind with turbines made in Britain, planting trees and building flood defences, keeping homes warm and getting energy bills down, good new jobs in communities throughout Britain.\"\n\nRachel Reeves is the shadow chancellor with something for everyone.\n\nFor the Labour Party activists crying out for ambitious pledges following a series of lukewarm announcements there was £28bn a year of investment to help the UK reach its climate targets.\n\nShe also went after some of the most potent symbols for party members: private schools and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon (\"if you can afford to fly to the moon, you can afford to pay your taxes here on earth!\")\n\nFor the business community there was a promise to axe business rates and replace the £30bn of revenue with… something.\n\nFor those who thought it was all a bit too much she unveiled some fiscal rules that could lightly limit her room to spend and borrow, and a new value for money \"hit squad\" that would scrutinise government spending.\n\nShe has also upped her speech game significantly, introducing a group of keyworkers in the front row to rapturous applause and lowering her voice dramatically to deliver her soundbites.\n\nMs Reeves said the annual £28bn investment - which would continue until 2030 - would help \"protect our planet for future generations\".\n\nIt would include the £3bn shadow business secretary Ed Miliband promised to help make the UK steel industry carbon-neutral in his conference speech on Sunday.\n\nLabour is expected to make a series of announcements on where the rest of the money would go.\n\nGreenpeace UK welcomed the overall spending pledge, with its head of politics, Rebecca Newsom, saying: \"Tackling the climate crisis has to be at the heart of what the Treasury does.\"\n\nThe independent Climate Change Committee estimates the cost of making the UK carbon-neutral will be between 1% and 2% of GDP until 2050. Based on last year's figures, that would equate to between £19.6bn and £39.2bn a year.\n\nDuring her half-hour speech, Ms Reeves said a Labour government would freeze business rates in England until 2023 and make rates relief for smaller firms more generous.\n\nIt would eventually scrap rates completely, she said, replacing them with a new \"modern\" business tax, which the party is yet to define.\n\nLabour is also proposing a new tax on commercial property.\n\nAnd it is proposing to increase the digital services tax - paid by search engines and social media firms - from 2% to 12%, when it is replaced by a higher global corporation tax rate agreed as part of an international scheme.\n\nMs Reeves told the conference the party would bring in the \"biggest overhaul of business taxation in a generation\", allowing businesses to \"lead the pack, not watch opportunities go elsewhere.\"\n\nShe announced plans to scrap \"hundreds\" of tax breaks and set up an Office of Value for Money, which aides describe as a \"hit squad\" to scrutinise government spending and ensure tax is used wisely.\n\nMs Reeves said a Labour government would tell firms which have received contracts to deal with the Covid pandemic but under-delivered to repay the money given to them by the government.\n\n\"We will set up a team to go through every line of every failed contract where value was not delivered, and claw back every penny of taxpayers' money we possibly can,\" she added, \"because that money belongs in our police, it belongs in our schools and it belongs in our NHS.\"\n\nThe policies announced by Ms Reeves were welcomed by the Federation for Small Businesses, whose national chair Mike Cherry said: \"The shadow chancellor is right to propose concrete reform of a business rates tax which disproportionately burdens the small businesses and sole traders at the heart of local communities.\"\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Oliver Dowden said: \"Successive Labour leaders have threatened businesses with tax hikes, higher bills, and more red tape.\n\n\"Only the Conservatives can be trusted to support our businesses and help our economy thrive as we build back better.\"", "Temporary working visas have been introduced for hauliers to tackle labour shortages.\n\nScottish ministers have called for urgent action from the UK government on immigration as the system is \"not meeting\" the needs of Scotland.\n\nTemporary working visas have been introduced for hauliers and poultry workers to tackle labour shortages.\n\nHowever, Scottish External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson said the measure does not help all UK sectors.\n\nThe UK's transport secretary said long term changes prevent sectors from standing \"on their own two feet\".\n\nThe UK government confirmed that 5,000 HGV drivers and 5,500 poultry workers will be eligible to work in the UK for three months, until Christmas Eve.\n\nHowever Mr Robertson has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel saying: \"The current immigration system is not meeting the needs of Scotland. At the moment it is not meeting the needs of sectors across the UK.\"\n\nHe called for an \"immediate discussion\" with the home secretary - and said the UK government \"needs to urgently address the immigration challenges\".\n\nMr Robertson has called for urgent talks with the home secretary\n\nWorker shortages have been linked to both the coronavirus crisis and a lack of European labour after Brexit.\n\nA shortage of lorry drivers has caused problems for a range of industries, from supermarkets to fast food chains.\n\nIn recent days, some fuel deliveries have been affected, leading to lengthy queues at petrol stations - despite ministers insisting the UK has plenty of fuel.\n\nThere are also concerns that Christmas shopping could be hindered without action.\n\nMr Robertson also said the shortage occupation list used for immigration must be reviewed - arguing that Scottish ministers should be given a formal role in determining what categories of workers are on this.\n\nThe UK government also has to reduce immigration fees, he said, claiming the costs involved in this were a barrier for both workers and employers.\n\nDrivers queued at petrol stations on Friday, despite assurances of no fuel shortage\n\nIndustry body, Scotland Food & Drink, has accused the UK Government of using temporary visas \"to fix bad headlines than fix the actual problem\".\n\nChief executive, James Withers, said: \"We have been calling for emergency visas for weeks, to avoid the collapse of some food supply chains.\n\n\"I seriously doubt that 10,000 three-month visas are going to cut it. It may help the driver situation a little but it won't address the chronic staff shortage in food production.\"\n\nIn addition to temporary visas, Ministry of Defence examiners will be used to help increase immediate HGV testing capacity by thousands.\n\nNearly one million letters will also be sent to all drivers who currently hold an HGV driving licence, encouraging them back into the industry.\n\nAnd the UK Department for Education is investing up to £10m to create new \"skills bootcamps\" to train up to 3,000 more HGV drivers.\n\nAppearing on BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he wanted to support British people, but also make sure they can \"train up for work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Shapps appeared on The Sunday Show to discuss problems as a result of labour shortages\n\nHe said his government wanted to avoid \"going back to what has consistently happened\" - that British workers are \"undercut\" by foreign workers prepared to enter the UK for lower salaries.\n\n\"In the longer term [this] prevents us from having a sustainable UK haulage sector because it could never stand on its own two feet,\" he said.\n\nPressed on how public sector jobs have also been affected by Brexit, Mr Shapps argued there would be a potential workforce in the form of people coming off the furlough scheme who may be unemployed.\n\nHe said: \"We're coming out of the coronavirus crisis where all of those millions of people were on furlough. Indeed this month 1.6 million are due to come off furlough and sadly not all will be going back to their old jobs.\n\n\"Economists tell us we're likely see influx of people out of work and looking for other jobs. Across sectors and in Scotland there is the opportunity for people to be retraining into other jobs.\"\n• None Hauliers and poultry workers to get temporary visas", "The United States look set to regain the Ryder Cup after another dominant display on day two at Whistling Straits saw them open a record six-point lead over Europe.\n\nThe home side, who led 6-2 overnight, extended their advantage to 11-5 and need to win just 3½ out of the 12 points on offer in Sunday's singles to take the title. As defending champions, Europe need to reach 14 points to retain the cup.\n\nThe biggest final-day comeback is four points, achieved by the US at Brookline in 1999 and Europe in 2012 at Medinah, when both sides came from 10-6 down to win.\n\nHowever, Europe captain Padraig Harrington remains defiant. \"It's still possible,\" said the Irishman.\n\n\"It's only half a point more than we won in the singles at Medinah. There's no doubt that is going to be strong in our minds.\n\n\"They have to just go out there and win their own individual match. They have to focus on that and not look at that bigger picture and focus on their individual self.\"\n\nUS skipper Steve Stricker is trying to eliminate Europe's 'Miracle at Medinah' from his thinking but also said \"it's not over yet\".\n\n\"Going into Sunday 11-5 versus 10-6, that's a big difference in my book,\" he added. \"I'm not going to bring up Medinah.\"\n\nHarrington has picked the mis-firing Rory McIlroy to lead off the singles on Sunday, despite the Northern Irishman having suffered three heavy defeats so far this week.\n\nTrish Johnson, an eight-time Solheim Cup player, said on BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage: \"It's horrible watching Rory. He seems so out of sorts.\"\n\nEurope needed a fast start on Saturday if they were to eat into the record four-point advantage opened up by their hosts on day one.\n\nBut the morning foursomes was another session in which Europe were as poor on the greens as the Americans were dominant.\n\nEleven of the 12 American players contributed at least a half-point on Friday, with only Jordan Spieth missing out. However, he and his good friend Justin Thomas were victorious as the US won the session 3-1 to open a 9-3 lead.\n\nThomas then suddenly appeared on the first tee and gulped down a beer before spraying the rest into the air and slamming the can into the ground, to the delight of the already exuberant American fans in the stands.\n\nIt was an extraordinary display from Thomas, despite knowing he would be sitting out the afternoon fourballs session.\n\nRahm and Garcia shine again for Europe\n\nThat Europe are not further behind is chiefly down to the efforts of world number one Jon Rahm, who partnered his fellow Spaniard Sergio Garcia to victories in both their matches on Saturday and has now won 3½ points this week.\n\nThey followed their 3&1 win in the foursomes with a 2&1 triumph in the fourballs, as Garcia, playing in his 10th Ryder Cup, further extended his records of most matches won to 25 and his individual points tally to 28½.\n\nAs with the morning session, it was imperative that Europe got off to a fast start in the afternoon.\n\nThey did just that and were leading in each of the top three matches after nine holes on an afternoon of tense drama on the shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin.\n\nRahm holed putts of 45 and 27 feet to put Europe three ahead after seven holes but Brooks Koepka pegged them back with birdies on the eighth and 10th.\n\nAnother Koepka birdie on the 13th levelled the match but Jordan Spieth, who missed several putts of around 10 feet, was again wayward on the 15th, allowing Rahm to put Europe into a lead they would not relinquish and he rammed in a 29-footer to also win the 16th.\n\nThat point came moments after Shane Lowry showed immense courage to hole a 10-foot putt on the 18th to win Europe's fourth point of the contest.\n\nThe Irishman, playing with Tyrrell Hatton, eventually triumphed in a tight contest with Tony Finau and Harris English that became just the fourth to go down the last.\n\nBy this point though, Dustin Johnson and Collin Morikawa, the world numbers two and three, had easily seen off the challenge of McIlroy and Ian Poulter, winning 4&3 in the bottom match.\n\nIt was the third heavy defeat of the week for McIlroy, who missed his first Ryder Cup session since making his debut in 2010 when he was left out of the morning foursomes.\n\nFor Johnson though, it was a fourth victory of the week from the first four matches - the first American to achieve that feat since 1975.\n\nThat left just one match out on the course, Tommy Fleetwood and Viktor Hovland's titanic battle against Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau. Europe badly needed a win to go into Sunday trailing 10-6 and conjure memories of Medinah.\n\nThere was never more than one hole in it over the first 13 as the momentum swung from Europe to the US and back again.\n\nBut DeChambeau rolled in a birdie putt from seven feet to take the 14th, after Fleetwood had missed from 10. Scheffler then knocked in another from 16 feet and a third successive birdie followed on the 16th as the US took Saturday's final point.\n\nRahm and Garcia had lost the first three holes to Koepka and Berger in Saturday morning's opening match but the younger Spaniard holed a birdie on the sixth and the former Masters champion chipped in from off the front of the ninth green to spark a turnaround in fortunes.\n\nJohnson and Morikawa were always in charge of their match against Paul Casey and Hatton, winning the first three holes and moving four clear on the eighth.\n\nThe English pair rallied to get back to one down when Casey sensationally holed his second shot on the par-four 14th from 107 yards, but Hatton missed a five-footer on the 15th to hand the advantage back to the Americans, who won 2&1.\n\nHovland and Bernd Wiesberger, who raced three ahead after six holes, were all square after 10 against Spieth and Thomas. The rookies then missed par putts on the 14th and 15th holes as the Americans went from one down to one up and although the match went down the last, another European error - the Austrian hit into a stream - gave the point away.\n\nXander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay holed lengthy birdie putts on the seventh and ninth and they took further control of their match against Matt Fitzpatrick and Lee Westwood when the English pair bogeyed the 10th and 11th holes.\n\nA Westwood birdie on the 16th proved in vain as the Americans wrapped up a 2&1 win on the next.\n• None Will it be sink or swim for this poolside romance? Stream now on BBC iPlayer\n• None One of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nOleksandr Usyk is the new unified heavyweight world champion after dethroning Anthony Joshua with an incredible performance in London.\n\nThe Ukrainian put on a masterclass in front of 65,000 fans inside Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, outclassing Joshua over 12 rounds, and hurting the defending champion on numerous occasions.\n\nThe scorecards - 117-112, 116-112, 115-113 - were all for Usyk and there was a mere shrug of the shoulders from Joshua as the second defeat of his professional career was confirmed.\n\nHaving seen a fight with fellow Briton Tyson Fury collapse last summer, Joshua opted to face his WBO mandatory challenger and former undisputed cruiserweight champion Usyk instead.\n\nIt appeared the easier fight for Joshua, but boxing's triumphant return to stadium nights was soured for the home crowd by a truly exceptional performance from the challenger.\n• None How the boxing world reacted to the fight\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn suggested his fighter may have suffered a broken eye socket and would need to go to hospital.\n\n\"I don't know if he has broken his eye socket, it doesn't look great,\" he said. \"He said he couldn't see after the ninth round, obviously he was getting tagged a lot as well.\"\n\nA devastated Joshua left the ring immediately after the decision but later posted a short message on Twitter, saying: \"Keep positive even if the world's crumbling in front of you! London I love you & thank you each and every time!\"\n• None I'm not a sulker - I will bounce back, says defeated Joshua\n• None 'Why didn't he have a go?' Pundits bemused by 'negative' Joshua\n• None Joshua v Usyk - fight as it unfolded, and reaction\n\nJoshua was relaxed and cheerful as he approached the ring, but concentration was etched on his face from the first bell.\n\nUsyk's abilities quickly became apparent, the 34-year-old full of feints and pace from the off, moving Joshua around the ring at will as the defending champion settled into a surprisingly passive role.\n\nA few warning shots from Joshua fell short in the early rounds, Usyk either catching them with a glove or spinning away. It would become the pattern of the fight as Usyk made Joshua miss and executed a perfect gameplan of his own.\n\nA left cross from Usyk rattled Joshua in the third round, and prompted a noisy response from the crowd.\n\nJoshua rode the danger, failing to respond, but making it to the bell safely. Usyk was now brimming with confidence and the London crowd tried in vain to rouse their man into life.\n\nA low shot from Joshua brought a complaint from Usyk and Joshua fired off another, perhaps sensing a weakness in his opponent. Round five was Joshua's best to that point, but Usyk remained in control and the Briton continued to miss his attempts to land any meaningful shots.\n\nFinally, in the sixth round, Joshua landed his right hand, sparking a response form Usyk, who widened his stance and appeared ready to trade. Joshua backed off, wary of a firefight.\n\nAnd Joshua's fears were realised in the seventh as Usyk responded brilliantly to stun him with a left hook to the chin and send him stumbling backwards. Joshua stayed on his feet, surviving the round but now in a dire predicament.\n\nUsyk was comfortably ahead on the scorecards and Joshua struggled to close the gap. The huge weight advantage was nowhere in evidence, with Usyk keeping the fight at range and urgings from Joshua's corner to move forward appearing to fall on deaf ears.\n\nJoshua had Usyk briefly on the ropes in the ninth but returned to his corner with a bloody nose having caught a hard shot to the face in the closing seconds of the round.\n\nThere was blood on the faces of both men in the 11th round. Joshua had a cut and swelling on his eye; Usyk had a gash on his left eye. But while Usyk's mouth was open, he was by far the busier fighter in the penultimate round, outclassing Joshua with ease once again.\n\nThe crowd desperately tried to inspire the defending champion, who needed a knockout in the final round. But it was the challenger who almost found the decisive punch, pushing a dazed Joshua on to the ropes.\n\nThe bell saved Joshua from suffering another knockout defeat and there was a nervous wait for Usyk's team for the scorecards.\n\nThere were to be no more shocks, however, as all three judges gave it to the challenger and ended Joshua's short second reign as world champion after just one fight.\n\nIt is unclear where Joshua goes from here. There is a rematch clause, one that the two-time world champion is likely to exercise.\n\nHe now has two losses to his name and on both occasions the Briton was dominated by a smaller man. Usyk did not find the knockout punch, but he exposed Joshua's frailties and somewhat light attacking arsenal.\n\nJoshua had no answer to Usyk and while his opponent glided across the ring, the champion appeared to be dragging his feet through mud. There was no attempt to bully Usyk, wear him down or go to the body.\n\nIt was a strange, almost hapless display from Joshua which leaves his legacy as one of the heavyweight greats in ruins.\n\nAside from the Briton's long-term career prospects, Joshua versus Fury now appears to be dead.\n\nFury fights Deontay Wilder next month in Las Vegas and every fight fan's greatest fear has been realised after the unification bout collapsed last summer.\n\nTo begin with, Joshua will have to win his rematch with Usyk which, after Saturday night's meeting, appears a near impossible prospect.\n\nJoshua's promoter Eddie Hearn said his fighter had given Usyk too much respect and would have to make \"fundamental changes\" to regain his titles.\n\n\"We knew it [defeat] could happen if he didn't get it right, and he didn't get it right,\" Hearn told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"He took too many shots early and Usyk was more aggressive than I thought he would be and he was the deserved winner.\n\n\"Tony Bellew's comments about overthinking, and it fatiguing you, were right. It is like these last three or four days you get spellbound by Usyk and you end up giving him too much respect and that becomes a problem.\"\n\nHearn said Joshua was already thinking about how to beat Usyk next time.\n\n\"He is going to go away and all he will do is think about Oleksandr Usyk. He will be thinking 'how can I beat him, how can I improve?' He is obsessed with improving,\" said Hearn.\n\n\"I just feel there is so much more Anthony Joshua in that fight but he will have to do a lot more in the rematch to be victorious.\"\n• None Will it be sink or swim for this poolside romance? Stream now on BBC iPlayer\n• None One of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice", "Labour's annual conference has voted in favour of Sir Keir Starmer's plans to overhaul the party's rules.\n\nThe changes give MPs more of a say in choosing its future leaders and make it harder for members to deselect MPs.\n\nThe party also backed setting up an independent complaints process for claims of racism, following the controversy over anti-Semitism.\n\nSir Keir called the changes a \"major step\" towards Labour winning a general election, having lost four in a row.\n\nHis party-rule changes mean that, in future, leadership candidates will need the support of 20% of Labour MPs - rather than the current 10% - to get on to a party-wide ballot.\n\nThey also make it harder for local parties to deselect sitting MPs, while the rule allowing \"registered supporters\", who pay a one-off fee to vote in leadership elections, is scrapped.\n\nThe left-wing Momentum group called these changes a \"self-inflicted blow to democracy in our party\".\n\nThe reforms followed an afternoon of impassioned debate at the Brighton Centre.\n\nOpposing these plans, James McAsh, from Camberwell and Peckham, south London, told Labour delegates the higher MPs' support threshold for leadership candidates would make contests \"maler and staler\" and prevent \"informed debate\".\n\nAgnes Tolmie, of the Unite union, said: \"Most people out there do not understand [the plans] and are not interested in them. They want to know what we are doing for them.\"\n\nBut there were also heartfelt speeches in favour of Sir Keir's plans, with supporters arguing they would allow the party to become less inward-looking and focus on winning elections.\n\nHelena Dollimore, a councillor in Mitcham, south London, said: \"We are at our best as a Labour movement when we are out in our communities, listening to residents and getting stuff done.\"\n\nShe added: \"I was at primary school the last time Labour won an election and I don't want to be drawing my pension the next time.\"\n\nShabana Mahmood, MP for Birmingham Small Heath, argued: \"If you can't persuade 20% of your Parliamentary colleagues to back you, you will struggle to persuade the people of this country to make you their prime minister.\"\n\nOn Friday, Sir Keir was forced to drop more thorough constitutional reform proposals - including the replacement of the one-member-one-vote system for choosing leaders with more say for MPs and unions - amid widespread opposition from the party's left wing.\n\nThe Labour conference also backed creating an independent complaints process to tackle racism, as recommended by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in its report last year saying the party was not doing enough to tackle anti-Semitism.\n\nMike Katz, national chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, said: \"Passing this rule change is a moral, legal and political imperative for Labour.\"\n\nMany party members spoke in favour, including Susan Teddern, from Hove, whose father survived a World War Two concentration camp.\n\nShe said it was \"vital to have an independent process, so people believe there is real change\".\n\nSir Keir said: \"This is a decisive and important day in the history of the Labour Party.\n\n\"I promised to tackle anti-Semitism in our party. We've now closed the door on a shameful chapter in our history.\"", "Images from the scene showed some carriages on their sides\n\nAt least three people have been killed and 50 others hurt after a train came off the tracks in the state of Montana.\n\nSeveral carriages from the Amtrak Empire Builder passenger service derailed at about 16:00 local time (22:00 GMT) near the town of Joplin.\n\nImages on social media show train cars on their sides and luggage strewn on the ground with people standing nearby.\n\nAmtrak said there were some 141 passengers and 16 crew aboard the Chicago to Seattle service.\n\nPassenger Megan Vandervest, who was heading to see a friend in Seattle, told the New York Times she was woken up by the derailment, which felt like \"extreme turbulence on a plane.\"\n\nWayne Freed said that he was in the lounge car, one of those that flipped on its side, but was able to grab hold of a coffee table bolted to the floor.\n\n\"I just held onto that, and my legs were dangling down below and the windows broke out down below and which is how we eventually escaped after the train stopped,\" he told CBS.\n\n\"But I'd hate to think what would happen if I hadn't been able to hold onto my table.\"\n\nRescuers have been working to evacuate passengers, Amtrak said.\n\nIn a tweet, state Senator Steve Daines said he was \"closely monitoring this situation\".\n\n\"I am thankful for the first responders already on the scene and praying for the safety of all involved,\" he added.\n\nThe US National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the incident.\n\nThough derailments of Amtrak trains are rare, there have been several in recent years.\n\nIn 2018, three people were killed when an Amtrak train travelled on to the wrong track and hit a parked freight train.", "\"Labour is changing in front of our eyes,\" says one of Keir Starmer's allies. That, for the Labour leadership, is the point.\n\nIt's only a few days since they took the powerful unions and the left of the Labour Party by surprise in revealing their intention to sweep away rules that were the framework for the Jeremy Corbyn era.\n\nThose were the rules that encouraged thousands upon thousands of new members into the party, who then chose Mr Corybn. Those were the rules that gave power to members to try to get rid of their MPs.\n\nAnd suggesting getting rid of those rules created huge upset, provoking the ire of union leaders, who felt they'd been cut out of the loop, and anger among some on the left who felt the leadership was trying to wrestle power away from them.\n\nOne senior party figure told me: \"There was a lot of swearing on both sides.\"\n\nConfronted by accusations that he'd failed to do the groundwork, amid warnings that he would not be able to ram the overhaul through in a matter of days, Sir Keir dropped one of the big ideas - changing the electoral college, the party's voting system. You can read about what happened here.\n\nBy Sunday night, however, Starmer's team was delighted by what happened - after what they see as that temporary humiliation.\n\nAfter discussions on the conference floor, the leadership was able to change a significant number of the rules, making it harder for members to get rid of MPs they weren't happy with, in so called \"trigger ballots\", giving MPs more power in selecting the party's leader, and cracking down on anti-Semitism.\n\nThey are pleased and relieved for three big reasons.\n\nOne shadow cabinet member said the changes were \"the right thing to do and the right time to do it\". Removing trigger ballots should, in theory, mean that Labour MPs can spend more time talking to constituents than having to worry that every move might lead to their local party trying to oust them.\n\nAnd for Starmer's team it cuts down on the risk of \"entryists\" to the party, who could join for a few pounds to install their favoured candidate, even if they have no long-term commitment to the Labour Party.\n\nInevitably, it's outraged many of former leader Jeremy Corbyn's backers, and those who believe that activists should have that power.\n\nIt's worth noting, too, that the plans passed because of the backing of the unions and MPs, not existing members. But the hope in the leader's office is of a party that becomes more manageable and more disciplined.\n\nSimilarly for Starmer's team, cracking down on anti-Semitism was the first promise he made on becoming leader, and a promise that he had to keep.\n\nBeyond the technical impact of the changes, party top brass feel too that their decision in pushing for the changes, and to do so quickly, is a vindication of Starmer's judgement.\n\nHe was warned against picking the fight, was embarrassed when he ditched some of his plans, but pushed on with a watered-down programme and won.\n\nOne of those behind the strategy told me: \"If we had to take three days of pain so we could spend the next 18 months facing outwards and talking to the public, it was worth it.\"\n\nKeir Starmer's critics often portray him as too safe, too cautious. This time he's secured changes \"in six days that could have turned into six months of arguments\".\n\nLastly, a highly visible vote, a highly significant (in Brighton at least!) change also gives evidence Starmer desperately wants to show the public that Labour is changing.\n\nInside the party, Jeremy Corbyn was wildly popular in some sections, and excited a new generation of activists who hadn't been previously reached. But his leadership was toxic to many, and the party crashed to its worst defeat in decades with him in charge.\n\nKeir Starmer - who don't forget was part of Mr Corbyn's top team throughout - has long believed that he has to show to the country, not just that it has a new boss, but that it is turning into a different party altogether.\n\nSir Keir was pictured having a shandy, celebrating the Arsenal result, and perhaps tonight's results too.\n\nBut the win for the leadership does not sweep away all of their problems. Far from it. There is intense pressure on Sir Keir to say more about what he would want to do in government, to put forward more convincing policies, and to communicate them better.\n\nThere are people in the party like Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham willing to say that out loud, too, as he did speaking to us on Sunday in pretty bold terms.\n\nAnd there are also plenty of activists, and some MPs on the left, who are not on board with these changes, and may never be.\n\nThe left's sway is clearly fading here, but it hasn't disappeared. One senior party figure told me \"they are still alive and kicking\", and it's not clear how hard they will be willing to kick.\n\nBut the internal wrangling came out in Sir Keir's favour on Sunday. He hopes it will clear this vital week for other conversations.", "Sabina Nessa was found dead near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder by police investigating the death of south-east London primary school teacher Sabina Nessa.\n\nA 36-year-old man was arrested in East Sussex at about 03:00 BST, in what Scotland Yard described as a \"significant development\".\n\nMs Nessa's family has been informed of the development, the Met Police said.\n\nThe 28-year-old was attacked while walking to meet a friend at The Depot bar, Kidbrooke, on 17 September.\n\nShe had earlier left her home in nearby Astell Road and her body was found the next day in Cator Park by a member of the public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sabina Nessa's sister, Jebina Yasmin Islam: \"We have lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister\"\n\nScotland Yard previously released CCTV footage of a man filmed walking close to the park, through Pegler Square, on the night Ms Nessa was attacked.\n\nTwo other men arrested last week on suspicion of murder were later released pending further investigation.\n\nPeople have continued to leave tributes and candles in Pegler Square, while a book of condolence was opened on Saturday in the One Space community centre, near to where Ms Nessa's body was found.\n\nPeople have continued to lay tributes in Pegler Square\n\nOn Friday, more than 500 people joined a vigil in Pegler Square during which the teacher's sibling Jebina Yasmin Islam told the crowd she had \"lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister, who left this world far too early\".\n\nShe said her family's \"world is shattered, we are simply lost for words\".\n\nMembers of Ms Nessa's family also spoke at a rally at East London Mosque, while a candle was lit outside No 10 Downing Street in her memory.\n\nA post-mortem examination into the cause of Ms Nessa's death was inconclusive.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As many as 300 people in NI are diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) every year\n\nAbout 1,200 people are living with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut not everyone who is diagnosed can get access to the same support and treatment.\n\nBagpiping competitions were where he first met his wife. And when he moved on from piping, he took up squash and played for Ulster.\n\n\"Two years ago, I started feeling a bit breathless walking up hills, slight cough - persistent cough actually - very dry,\" the 52-year-old father-of-two recalled.\n\n\"And in showers, I would have coughed with the steam.\"\n\nJim Balmer says it was a \"complete life change\" when he was diagnosed with IPF\n\nHe went to his GP and was sent for an x-ray. Initially, shadows on his lungs were treated as pneumonia.\n\nBut when a follow-up x-ray showed no improvement, a CT scan was ordered, which the pandemic delayed until July 2020.\n\nHe was diagnosed with IPF, a condition that causes scarring of the lungs and has no cure.\n\n\"Not only for me, but for my wife, my sons. I can't really do anything, go anywhere.\n\n\"I had to sell my company last week, I've worked for myself for 21 years and I can't do anything.\"\n\nOn top of the roughly 1,200 people who live with the condition in Northern Ireland, as many as 300 more are diagnosed every year.\n\n\"Data over the past 20 years shows that more and more people appear to be developing fibrosis in the lungs,\" said Northern Trust respiratory consultant Dr Eoin Murtagh.\n\n\"It is important that we now change the type of health service we provide, to make sure patients have access to the services they need for early diagnosis and an accurate diagnosis, and then availability for appropriate treatment.\"\n\nDr Eoin Murtagh says he would like to see \"co-ordinated, dedicated services\" available to patients across NI\n\nAccording to a British Lung Foundation report in 2016, Northern Ireland has the highest prevalence of IPF of any region in the UK.\n\nBut after diagnosis, not everyone here can get access to the same support and treatment, according to Dr. Murtagh.\n\n\"There's great variability depending on where you live, which trust you're in, as to which services you may have access to and the waiting time to avail of assessment and investigations,\" he said.\n\n\"So we would like to see co-ordinated, dedicated services available to patients across Northern Ireland.\"\n\nCurrently, only the Northern Trust has a dedicated multi-disciplinary lung disease team with five consultant and nursing staff.\n\nBelfast Trust says it has a consultant and a specialist nurse, the Western Trust has a dedicated pulmonary fibrosis nurse, and the South Eastern has a nurse specialist and a part-consultant who lead their unit.\n\nAnti-fibrotic drugs can prolong and improve the quality of life for sufferers. In Europe, the US, Canada and New Zealand, they are prescribed on diagnosis.\n\nBut current guidance in the UK says they should only be prescribed when a patient's lung function is within a certain range and they may be stopped if lung function drops below that range.\n\nThe guidance is currently under review.\n\nJim Balmer says more funding and research into what causes the condition is needed\n\n\"Although they don't cure the condition, we know that they slow down the progression of the disease,\" said Dr. Murtagh.\n\n\"On average, they extend life by an additional three years for patients who are on those medications.\n\n\"So if we identify patients earlier in the course of their illness, we could have a bigger impact with that medication.\"\n\nJim Balmer got information and help from the Northern Trust Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group.\n\nHis hope is that awareness of the condition is raised and that sufferers in Northern Ireland can get help, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"More funding, more research into what causes it [is needed],\" Mr Balmer said.\n\n\"Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - the 'idio' is 'idiot'. They don't know.\n\n\"They don't know what causes it.\"", "The driver shortage has sparked panic-buying of fuel despite there being no petrol shortage\n\nThere will be \"very little benefit\" from a temporary scheme to make it easier for lorry drivers to work in the UK, a Welsh haulier has said.\n\nDriver shortages have seen deliveries disrupted, with some petrol stations closing as people rushed to buy fuel.\n\nThe UK government said 5,000 fuel tanker and food lorry drivers would be eligible to work in the UK for three months, until Christmas Eve.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is short of about 100,000 HGV drivers.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association has said existing shortages were made worse by a number of factors, including Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt said Sunday's announcement \"barely scratches the surface... validity to Christmas Eve is not long enough from where we are now\".\n\nDoug Jeffery, of the Llanelli-based Owens Group, normally employs between 600 to 650 drivers, but is down 110, and said he had \"never seen anything like\" the shortages before.\n\nHe said: \"We have a driver trainee scheme which has had about 300 applicants, but that is a medium-to-long-term solution.\n\n\"Between now and Christmas I think it will get much worse before it gets better.\"\n\nHis firm normally increased capacity from October but was currently \"struggling to meet normal day-to-day capacity\".\n\nDoug Jeffery was unsure show effective the UK government's plan would be\n\n\"We are about 110 drivers short, we have have had trucks parked up because we have not been able to get drivers,\" Mr Jeffery said.\n\n\"I have been in this industry all my working life and I have never see this before.\"\n\nHe said some drivers were leaving haulage businesses, having accrued 30 or 40 days of holiday during the pandemic.\n\nThey were then taking jobs with big retailers offering starting bonuses worth as much as £2,000, he said.\n\nHe added: \"We just need to open up the UK to make it easier for drivers to drive our trucks.\"\n\nChris Bird, managing director of Llantrisant's CJ Bird in Rhondda Cynon Taf, thought the visa scheme would have \"very little benefit.\"\n\nHe said he did not think thousands of drivers would come to the UK to work as a result of the visa scheme.\n\n\"Drivers can go and work in France where there is a shorter working week and they get paid in euros,\" Mr Bird said.\n\n\"I don't see them flocking here because we are not the golden goose anymore.\n\n\"Previously every pound was worth one-and-a-half euros but that benefit is not there anymore.\"\n\nOne group says the changes are like \"throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire\"\n\nIn addition to extra visas for drivers, the scheme will allow 5,500 poultry workers to work in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nOther measures include using Ministry of Defence examiners to increase lorry testing capacity, and sending nearly one million letters to drivers who hold an HGV licence, encouraging them back into the industry.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"We are acting now, but the industries must also play their part with working conditions continuing to improve and the deserved salary increases continuing to be maintained in order for companies to retain new drivers.\n\n\"After a very difficult 18 months, I know how important this Christmas is for all of us and that's why we're taking these steps at the earliest opportunity to ensure preparations remain on track.\"\n\nBut British Chambers of Commerce president Baroness McGregor-Smith said the changes were the \"equivalent of throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire\", as it would \"not be enough to address the scale of the problem\".\n\nThere were queues for petrol in Cardiff again on Sunday\n\nNorth Wales Police said on Saturday there was no disruption to fuel deliveries at most sites and they were expected to continue as usual.\n\n\"We urge the public not to form long queues at petrol stations and cause unnecessary obstructions in roads,\" a spokesman said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's revival gathered pace as Tottenham's recent decline continued in an entertaining north London derby at Emirates Stadium.\n\nThe Gunners propped up the table after three games while Spurs were top under new manager Nuno Espirito Santo - how things have changed as a rampant Arsenal ripped their shambolic rivals to shreds in a brilliant first half.\n\nEmile Smith Rowe started the celebrations for the Arsenal fans when he arrived unmarked to sweep home Bukayo Saka's cross after 12 minutes before the scorer turned provider as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang got the second midway through the half.\n\nSpurs were producing a horror show and nothing summed it up better than Arsenal's third after 34 minutes. Harry Kane fell over the ball in a Spurs attack then missed two tackles on Saka as he raced back into his own penalty area to try to rescue the situation. Saka compounded the agony with a calm finish.\n\nInevitably, Spurs improved after the break, Kane bringing a good save from Aaron Ramsdale and wasting a good chance, before Son Heung-min pulled one back.\n\nRamsdale spared Arsenal any late anxiety with another superb stop, touching Lucas Moura's shot on to the bar as Mikel Arteta's side closed out a richly deserved win.\n• None 'Arsenal have had false dawns before but maybe there's something different this time'\n• None Arsenal v Tottenham reaction and analysis, plus Sunday's other Premier League game\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta has staked his Arsenal future on a long-term plan but admits he will not get quick results and has called for patience.\n\nBut there was evidence for optimism here despite those three opening league defeats.\n\nThe Gunners' latest win was based on the brilliance and exuberance of Saka, Smith Rowe and Martin Odegaard, aged 20, 21 and 22 respectively.\n\nThe talented trio were all involved in the goal that got the hosts on their way, Odegaard bursting through Spurs' non-existent midfield before feeding Saka, whose inviting cross was turned in by Smith Rowe.\n\nSmith Rowe set up the second and Saka got the third, showing an energy, invention and commitment that shamed Spurs' efforts in an embarrassingly one-sided first 45 minutes.\n\nSaka tormented Sergio Reguilon on Arsenal's right flank, Smith Rowe's rapier runs and creativity carved Spurs wide open and Odegaard took full advantage of the gaping holes in the visitors' midfield.\n\nAubameyang, whose own form and commitment have been questioned as he struggled, set the tone and lit the fuse on an explosive atmosphere inside the Emirates by chasing down Spurs' defenders in the opening moments.\n\nIt was the signal for a magnificent first 45 minutes from Arsenal, who were unrecognisable from the timid and flimsy side that opened the season.\n\nArteta will point to the fact that he now has Ben White and Gabriel Magalhaes starting to form a defensive partnership, while Ramsdale offers presence in goal and is now surely undisputed Arsenal number one ahead of Bernd Leno.\n\nWhen Spurs did raise a gallop in the second half, Ramsdale dived low to turn Kane's shot wide then showed ability and technique to thwart Moura.\n\nArteta was all smiles as he took the acclaim of Arsenal's elated fans after the final whistle - and who can blame him? This was as convincing as the Gunners have looked for a long time under his stewardship.\n\nProblems pile up for Spurs and Nuno\n\nSpurs manager Nuno cut a brooding, powerless figure in his technical area as he watched his side taken to the cleaners by Arsenal in that dismal first 45 minutes.\n\nThe early promise of taking Spurs top of the Premier League, starting with the opening weekend victory over Manchester City, seemed an age away as they were sunk without trace before half-time.\n\nIt was as bad as it gets, with Spurs' body language betraying a lack of belief and no discernible tactical plan. They were pinned on the ropes for the entire half, not helping their cause by being second to pretty much every ball and wasting possession on the rare occasions they had it.\n\nNuno has watched his side concede three goals in three successive league games, a worrying sign for a manager renowned for establishing a solid defensive platform.\n\nThe manager himself looked a beaten man at times, a motionless presence as the full scale of Spurs' capitulation unfolded in front of him.\n\nThe second half introduction of Oliver Skipp and Emerson Royal for Dele Alli and Japhet Tanganga - and presumably some very harsh words from Nuno and the simple fact that Spurs could not get any worse - prompted an improvement of sorts after the break.\n\nIt was all far too little too late and Spurs did not deserve anything from this performance. It was, particularly in the first half, an insult to their fans, gathered in one corner of the Emirates and forced to endure the taunts and celebrations of their Arsenal counterparts.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Eric Dier tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Albert Sambi Lokonga (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Bryan Gil (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Paul Kelly says the damage has already been done for the turkey business this Christmas\n\nFarmers are warning of a Christmas turkey shortage because visa changes to allow labour recruitment from abroad have come too late.\n\nA poultry association said big producers have already scaled back because they assumed they would not have enough staff to process birds.\n\nAnd turkey farmer Paul Kelly told the BBC the damage had already been done.\n\nThe government has announced a visa scheme to allow 5,500 poultry workers into the UK on three-month contracts.\n\nAs part of the changes, 5,000 HGV drivers will be allowed into the UK on similar contracts in an attempt to keep supermarket shelves stocked and petrol stations supplied with fuel.\n\nKate Martin, chairwoman of the Traditional Farm Fresh Turkey Association, said: \"This year it's looking like there is a national shortage of turkeys when we're talking about supermarket shelves, rather than buying direct from your farm.\n\n\"It is the supermarket shelves that will be emptier of turkeys this year than they have been before, only because there have been less turkeys placed on the ground; only because the big processers know that they will not get them processed.\"\n\nShe said some members of her association had already seen a rise in orders, with one reportedly seeing a 400% increase on last year.\n\nMs Martin said farms \"are now missing a whole host of their workforce that they have been training and investing in over the last however many years. Those workers are no longer available for us to use on a seasonal basis - they will go find work in mainland Europe instead.\"\n\nPaul Kelly, who runs the KellyBronze farm, said the major producers were resigned to producing fewer birds for Christmas.\n\n\"The damage has already been done for the bigger processors because they have not put the turkeys on the farm,\" he said.\n\nSmaller producers, however, might be better prepared as they tended to recruit local labour rather than draft in large numbers of migrant staff, he added.\n\nOne supermarket group told the BBC it was far too early to speculate about Christmas stocks.\n\nThe British Poultry Council has estimated there are nearly 7,000 vacancies across the sector, leading some chicken producers to cut their output, and sparking shortages at restaurant chains Nando's and KFC.\n\nMr Kelly said: \"There are chickens being killed on farms at the moment. There are pigs being shot in fields, because there are not enough people there to do the jobs.\"\n\nA temporary visa scheme \"is definitely not an answer\" for the long term, he added.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the package of visa measures would help the food and haulage industries cope in the run-up to Christmas.\n\n\"After a very difficult 18 months, I know how important this Christmas is for all of us and that's why we're taking these steps at the earliest opportunity to ensure preparations remain on track.\"\n\nHowever, some business leaders said the measures did not go far enough, with the British Chambers of Commerce saying they were the equivalent of \"throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire\".", "Coogan said he had not taken the decision to play Savile \"lightly\"\n\nComedian and actor Steve Coogan is to play the disgraced late TV personality Jimmy Savile in a new BBC One drama.\n\nThe Reckoning, a mini-series, will tell the story of the presenter's rise and the sexual abuse scandal that emerged after his death.\n\nThe BBC said the team behind the drama had worked closely with those impacted by Savile to ensure their stories were told with \"sensitivity and respect\".\n\nCoogan said he had not taken the decision to play Savile \"lightly\".\n\nSavile was one of the UK's top entertainers in the 1970s and 80s, known for TV shows like Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It, as well as stints on BBC Radio 1.\n\nAfter his death in 2011, an ITV documentary investigated claims of sexual abuse against him, leading to further allegations of abuse and a string of public inquiries.\n\nThese found that the broadcaster had used his involvement in organisations, such as charities, hospitals, prisons and the BBC, to prey on hundreds of people - mostly vulnerable young females.\n\nCoogan is best known for playing comedy roles, especially the part of hapless presenter Alan Partridge, but has also taken on dramatic roles in films such as Stan and Ollie and Philomena.\n\nHe said: \"To play Jimmy Savile was not a decision I took lightly. Neil McKay has written an intelligent script tackling sensitively an horrific story which - however harrowing - needs to be told.\"\n\nIn 2016, an independent investigation found that the BBC missed opportunities to stop \"monstrous\" abuse by the presenter and DJ because of a \"culture of fear\".\n\nThe Dame Janet Smith review identified 72 victims of Savile in connection with his work at the BBC, including eight who were raped. Eleven of his victims were younger than 12 years old.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former colleagues explain why they think Savile was not exposed\n\nThe BBC was also criticised for dropping a Newsnight investigation into the sexual abuse claims - which was then picked up by ITV. The corporation's former director general, George Entwistle, later admitted to MPs this had been the wrong decision.\n\nThe Reckoning will be written by Neil McKay, who was also behind Appropriate Adult - the Bafta-winning drama about serial killer Fred West.\n\nHe and executive producer Jeff Pope also worked on Moorside, about the disappearance of Shannon Matthews; and the forthcoming Four Lives, on the murders of four young gay men by Stephen Port.\n\nThe drama will be directed by Sandra Goldbacher and produced by ITV Studios.\n\nPope said: \"The purpose of this drama is to explore how Savile's offending went unchecked for so long, and in shining a light on this, to ensure such crimes never happen again. Steve Coogan has a unique ability to inhabit complex characters and will approach this role with the greatest care and integrity.\"", "The volcano has been filling the sky with ash and a thick plume of smoke\n\nIntensifying volcanic explosions have forced the airport on the Spanish island of La Palma to be closed.\n\nThe Cumbre Vieja volcano started erupting last Sunday with thousands evacuated and more than 350 homes destroyed.\n\nA thick plume of smoke now extends four kilometres (2.4 miles) into the air.\n\nClouds of thick ash have made flights out of the airport impossible, authorities said on Saturday.\n\nThe closure has prevented some leaving the island's airport, which mostly handles many tourist flights and connections to other islands in the Canaries.\n\nLong queues formed at the terminal as flights were cancelled, and some travellers tried to get ferries off the island.\n\nThe volcano is entering a fresh explosive phase, spewing lava from a newly opened vent, officials say.\n\nAirport operators say ash accumulation has made the airport \"inoperative\", but that a clean-up operation is underway. Workers are sweeping volcanic ash from the runway.\n\nOn Friday, firefighters said they were withdrawing from the area \"due to the intensification of explosive phenomena\".\n\nNo fatalities have been reported.\n\nVolcanic eruptions of fire and lava have intensified in recent days\n\nSome 1,000 people in Tajuya, Tacande de Abajo and Tacande de Arriba were told to evacuate on Friday due to the intensifying volcanic activity.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Friday that the cabinet would next week declare the island a \"catastrophe zone\".\n\nThe Canary Islands government has already announced a first round of financial aid for people who have lost their homes.\n\nThe volcano lies in the south of La Palma island, which is home to around 80,000 people.\n\nIt last erupted 50 years ago, in 1971. Scientists are unsure how long this eruption will last.\n\nA spokesperson for Spain's National Geographic Institute told the BBC that past eruptions on La Palma have lasted between 24 and 84 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Théoneste Bagosora was serving a 35-year sentence for his role in the 1994 genocide (file photo)\n\nA former Rwandan army colonel convicted for his role in the massacre of some 800,000 people in the 1994 genocide has died in Mali, where he was in prison.\n\nThéoneste Bagosora, 80, was a senior figure in Rwanda's ministry of defence at the time of the killings.\n\nA UN-backed criminal tribunal sentenced him to life in prison, but this was later reduced to 35 years.\n\nHis son Achille told the BBC he died at a hospital in Bamako, where he was being treated for heart issues.\n\nAround 800,000 people - mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group - were killed in 100 days during the genocide.\n\nThe massacres began after a plane carrying Rwanda's then-President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down on 6 April 1994, killing everyone on board.\n\nBagosora was arrested two years later in Cameroon, where he had fled to after Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front seized power.\n\nIn 2008, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found him guilty of crimes against humanity, and for orchestrating the murder of several political figures, including Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Between April and July 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.\n\nAt his trial, Bagosora maintained he was a victim of propaganda by Rwanda's current Tutsi-dominated government.\n\nCanadian General Romeo Dallaire, head of the UN's peacekeeping force during the genocide, described Bagosora as the \"kingpin\" behind the killings, and alleged that the former colonel had threatened to kill him.\n\nBagosora was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, but three years later some charges were overturned and his term was reduced to 35 years.\n\nEarlier this year he was denied a request for early release, and was due to finish his sentence at the age of 89.\n\nHe was serving his sentence in Mali's Koulikoro prison, along with many others convicted for roles in the Rwandan genocide.", "The head of Ofgem has rejected claims from the industry the current energy crisis represents a failure to adequately regulate the market.\n\nSix suppliers have gone bust recently, leaving about 1.5 million customers facing higher bills, with more firms expected to fold.\n\nOfgem boss Jonathan Brearley, told the BBC: \"No-one could have predicted the kind of gas price rises we have seen.\n\n\"In a situation like that any market would be under strain.\"\n\nGas prices are up four-fold, Mr Brearley said.\n\nHowever, his view has little support from senior executives in the industry who have told the BBC the regulator knew full well that many smaller suppliers would not be resilient in the face of rises that should have been part of the regulator's stress testing of the sector.\n\nThe boss of the UK's fifth largest energy provider, Scottish Power, said the government was essentially asking larger providers to weaken their own financial position by shouldering billions in additional cost to provide these customers with energy that costs more to buy than they are allowed to sell it for under a government-imposed retail price cap.\n\nOfgem insists its primary concern has been protecting consumers, but that promise sounds slightly hollow when millions of customers face being moved to higher tariffs from bigger suppliers and the cost those larger companies incur from taking on new customers will be added to all consumers bills through an industry wide levy.\n\nLarger suppliers, including Centrica owned-British Gas, have agreed to take on hundreds of thousands of marooned customers, but expect the cost of doing so to be recouped in a mechanism that Ofgem described as \"tried and tested\" but which bigger companies say is not designed for the mass failures we are now seeing.\n\nThe Ofgem boss admits that the energy cap (£1,277 for a dual fuel household with average energy consumption) which limits the ability of companies to pass on higher wholesale costs to retail customers, is likely to rise again when it is reset in April 2022 after a 12% rise due to take effect at the end of this month.\n\nIndustry sources also agree that many of the larger companies may be prepared to take on new customers not only because the retail price cap will inevitably rise, but also because the new customers they acquire will be \"stickier\". This means they will be less likely to switch in future given a lack of confidence that cheaper suppliers can be relied upon in the future,\n\nThe received wisdom and advice of the last ten years to continually switch suppliers now looks less persuasive.\n\nOfgem's Mr Brearley insists he wants a competitive market in the future. Critics argue that it presided over a market that it knew would collapse in a gas crunch - resulting in fewer companies and meaning a less competitive market.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Activists say people in Switzerland are now ready for same-sex marriage\n\nAlmost two-thirds of Swiss voters have backed same-sex marriage in a referendum.\n\nSome 64% supported the measure, making it one of the last countries in western Europe to legalise same-sex marriage.\n\nCampaigners have hailed the vote as a historic moment for LGBT rights in the country.\n\nIn the build up to the vote, church groups and conservative political parties opposed the idea, saying it would undermine the traditional family.\n\nSwitzerland has allowed same-sex couples to register partnerships since 2007, but some rights are restricted.\n\nThe measure will make it possible for same-sex couples to adopt unrelated children and for married lesbian couples to have children through sperm donation.\n\nIt makes Switzerland the 30th country in the world to adopt same-sex marriage.\n\n\"It is a historic day for Switzerland, a historic day when it comes to equality for same-sex couples, and it is also an important day for the whole LGBT community,\" Jan Muller, of the \"yes\" campaign committee, told AFP news agency.\n\nJustice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said the first same-sex marriages would take place in July next year.\n\n\"Whoever loves each other and wants to get married will be able to do so, regardless of whether it is two men, two women, or a man and a woman,\" she said.\n\nBut Monika Rueegger, a politician with the right-wing Swiss People's Party and an opponent of the measure, said children and fathers were the losers.\n\n\"This was not about love and feelings,\" she told Reuters. \"It was about children's welfare.\"\n\nOver the last 20 years, most countries in western Europe have recognised same-sex marriage. However, in Switzerland many big decisions go to a nationwide ballot, and this can slow down major changes to social legislation.\n\nThe new law, which had the backing of the Swiss government and all major political parties except the People's Party, was passed by parliament in December.\n\nHowever, it was then challenged by opponents, who gathered enough signatures to force a referendum.", "Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) top candidate Alice Weidel said her party had done well Image caption: Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) top candidate Alice Weidel said her party had done well\n\nThe far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is on course to win the largest share of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony, according to preliminary results.\n\nSo far, the party has won more than 28% of second votes (which show voters' party preference) in the state, well ahead of the SPD with 19%.\n\nThe AfD has also performed well in the neighbouring state of Thuringia, with 24% of the second votes (slightly ahead of the SPD on 23%).\n\nIn recent years the AfD has tended to do well in eastern Germany.\n\nThe AfD has managed to woo voters from the centre-right and even the centre-left with its emphasis on Islam and migration. Those issues have galvanised some voters, especially men with nationalist attitudes.\n\nBut on a national level, the party's share of the vote in this election is projected to be lower than the last one in 2017, when it received almost 13%.\n\nEarlier Alice Weidel, one of the party's top candidates, said considering the negative media treatment of the AfD, the party had done well.\n\n\"We are in the double figures, we have been able to assert ourselves,\" she said.\n\nAll the other parties likely to be represented in the Bundestag have long ruled out forming a coalition with the AfD.", "The medals are being made at a workshop in Birmingham\n\nAbout 400,000 medals commemorating the Queen's 70-year reign will be given out to frontline workers.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the medals, for the Platinum Jubilee, was a fitting tribute to emergency workers and other recipients.\n\nThe medals will be awarded to living recipients of the Victoria and George Crosses and also members of the prison services and Armed Forces.\n\nWorcestershire Medal Service said the commission has helped create jobs.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the medals would be people who had \"served us throughout the years\"\n\nMs Dorries saw the coin-shaped pieces of metal called \"blanks\" being stamped with the design by Timothy Noad from the College of Arms when she visited the firm's Birmingham workshop.\n\n\"We've been through such a lot as a nation, it's been a really torrid time everyone's been through over the past 20 months,\" she said.\n\n\"I think looking forward, 2022 is going to be a year when everyone can put that behind us and we can celebrate the Commonwealth Games, Festival UK, the Queen's Jubilee and the extended bank holiday weekend to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee.\"\n\nPhil McDermott, head of the firm making the medals, said the order was a welcome boost.\n\n\"It means a lot of job security for people, we're actually creating jobs as well, which is a terrific story having come through the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nHe submitted a few ribbon designs and felt fortunate one had been picked.\n\nHe said the chosen design was \"a nod\" to the Coronation medal but also had silver and blue stripes for the Queen's Silver and Golden Jubilees and red for her diamond one.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Beth Winter criticised Sir Keir Starmer for \"shifting\" from pledges made in Labour's leadership contest\n\nThe Labour Party is lacking \"radical, progressive policies\" needed to win the next general election, a Welsh MP has said.\n\nBeth Winter criticised leader Sir Keir Starmer for \"shifting\" from pledges made in Labour's leadership contest.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Kinnock said the annual conference was about showing the party was serious about winning power.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would focus on economy, jobs, the NHS, and climate change.\n\nBut a row over Labour's rulebook has seen the leader clash with the party's left wing.\n\nPlans to replace the one-member-one-vote system with an electoral college voting system for future leadership contests have been dropped.\n\nOn Sunday members voted to approve a package of watered-down reforms, which included making it harder for Labour constituency members to deselect their MP.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme, UK Labour leader Sir Keir said: \"My central purpose in the issue on the rules is simply to make sure that our Labour party is facing those working families, facing outwards rather than talking to ourselves.\"\n\nCynon Valley MP Beth Winter, part of Labour's Socialist Campaign Group found it \"really troubling\" internal wrangling was \"overshadowing\" the conference, which is being held in Brighton.\n\nSir Keir said he wanted Labour to face outwards rather than be \"talking to ourselves\"\n\nShe said she feared attempts were being made to push through \"undemocratic\" rule changes during a time of \"crisis\".\n\n\"We should be taking the fight to the Tories not having an internal fight, and I really hope in the conference, moving forward, we will be focusing on those transformative, progressive policies that need to happen,\" Ms Winter said.\n\n\"We must unite together as a party, which I know we can, and develop those progressive policies.\"\n\nIn the conference run-up Sir Keir published an essay, outlining what he stands for and how he wants to change the UK.\n\nBut Ms Winter said she was \"concerned\" Labour would struggle to win the next general election, as there was a \"lack of radical, progressive policies\" in Sir Keir's essay.\n\nShe said: \"There has been a shift away from the pledges that he made when he was elected - a progressive tax system, raising a wealth tax, raising corporation tax, renationalisation of utilities, radical devolution of power throughout the UK nations.\"\n\nStephen Kinnock said the annual conference was about showing Labour was serious about winning power\n\nOn BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement, Stephen Kinnock denied the row over the party's rules was self-indulgent.\n\nThis was because the way Labour functions \"sends a really important message to the country about the party that we want to be\".\n\nThe Aberavon MP added: \"This conference is all about showing that Labour is serious about being a party of government and every aspect of our rulebook should reflect that.\n\n\"It should show that we're reaching out to the country.\"\n\nEmerging from the conference, he said, were \"meaty\" policy proposals which would \"change the face of our country\".", "Darren Hughes says things will be tough for the NHS in Wales for years\n\nPatients have been warned it could take years to clear the backlog of those on NHS waiting lists.\n\nWelsh NHS Confederation director Darren Hughes gave the bleak outlook, saying a return to pre-pandemic levels is unlikely for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe group represents the seven local health boards and three NHS trusts, among other health care services.\n\nHe said auditors had predicted it could cost up to £300m per year to deal with the backlog.\n\nThis is without new cases and this week the worst waiting performances were recorded by Welsh hospital A&E units.\n\n\"I think if we look forward, Audit Wales this week has estimated it is going to cost anything between £150m and £300m per year for the foreseeable future to deal with the backlog, created by all the things that we couldn't do during the pandemic, as well as being able to treat people who are getting ill every day,\" Mr Hughes told Sunday Supplement on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"Pressure is immense, it's a whole system issue.\n\n\"There's the front door that has people arriving with needs of urgent care.\n\n\"There are people in hospitals, and a capacity in hospitals is greatly reduced because of all the infection prevention and control measures we're having to use.\n\n\"Exactly the same for the ambulance service, it's not like it was pre-Covid. Ambulances needed to be thoroughly disinfected between calls.\n\n\"So capacity is actually down - the number of people we can see everyday is down in primary care, in hospitals.\n\n\"Things are really tough, and I think we need to be honest with the public, it's going to continue to be tough for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"And what I would say to politicians is, we are seeing recognition from the health minister of how serious things are, we're speaking to politicians of all parties... things are going to be incredibly tough, not just the this month, this year, but for a few years to come.\"\n\nHis warning was echoed by Health Minister Eluned Morgan in June when she said it would \"probably will take the whole length of this Senedd term [five years] to get us back to pre pandemic levels\".\n\nIn an interview on Friday, she said: \"The system is under huge pressure at the moment. That pressure is worse than anything we have seen at any point in the pandemic.\n\n\"And of course we are determined to try and work through the enormous backlog that has been built up during the pandemic.\n\n\"But it is very difficult to do that when the pressure on the system is coming at us from so many directions.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer: \"We will not unfairly hit working families\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has not ruled out tax rises if Labour wins power, but he promised they would \"not unfairly hit working families\".\n\nThe party leader told the BBC's Andrew Marr: \"We want those with the broadest shoulders to pay.\"\n\nBut he said it was too far from an election to make firm tax commitments.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said she did not have \"any plans to increase the rates of income tax\" if Labour wins the next election.\n\nAsked about her comments by Andrew Marr, Sir Keir said: \"We are looking at tax, nothing is off the table, but we don't know what state of finances will be as we go into the election and nor does anybody else.\"\n\nHe accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of \"whacking working people\" with a tax hike, with his plan to increase National Insurance to pay for the NHS and social care.\n\nIn his Marr interview, the Labour leader revealed he would not nationalise the big six energy companies if he were to become prime minister - despite a pledge to support \"common ownership\" of the sector in his party leadership campaign last year.\n\nRachel Reeves will give her first speech to conference as shadow chancellor on Monday\n\nHe said he would be \"pragmatic\" and not \"ideological\" when it came to nationalisation, saying: \"Where common ownership is value for money for the tax payer and delivers better services then there should be common ownership.\"\n\nBut the former leader of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, called on Sir Keir to stick to his pledge and show more \"radicalism\", claiming the result would be \"the opinion polls [starting] to move upwards.\"\n\nThe Labour conference, in Brighton, backed a motion, put forward by Unite and the CWU union, calling for the nationalisation of energy companies.\n\nThe Labour leader also promised children in England an \"education fit for the future\", paid for by a tax on private schools, if he wins power, in an interview with The Sunday Mirror.\n\nMs Reeves will unveil more details in her conference speech on Monday, but a number of Labour's tax and spending policies have already been confirmed:\n\nWho are the people with \"the broadest shoulders\" who will pay more tax under a Labour government?\n\nThe party has given two specific examples recently. Removing the charitable status of private schools would make them pay an estimated £1.5bn a year in tax.\n\nMaking private equity fund managers pay full income tax on a type of earning called \"carried interest\" would raise about £440m.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Times, Rachel Reeves suggested a few more: income from stocks and shares and buy-to-let properties.\n\nWhat the general public would really notice, though, are changes to the rates of the big things we all pay: income tax and national insurance.\n\nAnd Starmer and Reeves have kept their options open on a potential rise in the former or whether they'd scrap the government's increase of the second.\n\nBut the \"broadest shoulders\" rhetoric suggests any increase would be targeted at the wealthy.\n\nWhich means we really need to know how Labour would apply their tape measure to the nation's shoulders to separate the broad from the narrow.\n\nElsewhere at the conference, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband set out plans to \"green\" the UK steel industry by investing £3bn over 10 years in decarbonisation.\n\nThe former Labour leader also accused the Conservatives failing to protect steelmakers from being undercut by cheap steel imports, as well as spending tens of millions on imported steel to build schools and hospitals.\n\nMr Miliband also describe the current gas prices crisis as a \"disaster made in Downing Street\" because of \"inaction\" from the government, adding: \"As we respond to the climate crisis with all the transformation that entails, we have a fateful choice to make.\n\n\"We can try and put a green coat of paint on an unfair, unequal, unjust Britain, or we can make a different choice.\"", "US sportswear giant Nike and US retail giant Costco both say they are facing product shortages and delays due to global supply chain problems.\n\nNike said production and delivery of its shoes would impacted until next spring, as it struggles with shipping issues and a worker shortage in Asia.\n\nMeanwhile, Costco has re-imposed limits on items like toilet paper.\n\nIt says customers are stockpiling again amid Covid fears, but it is also struggling to ship goods to its shops.\n\nOn Thursday, Nike said it had cut its sales outlook for the year due to the ongoing disruption.\n\n\"We are not immune to the global supply chain headwinds that are challenging the [manufacturing] and movement of product around the world,\" chief financial officer Matthew Friend said.\n\n\"We expect all geographies to be impacted by these factors.\"\n\nThe firm's factories in Vietnam and Indonesia, which make three quarters of its shoes, have been hit by local lockdowns. In Vietnam alone it has cost the firm 10 weeks of production this year.\n\nMeanwhile, the time it takes to get its products from Asia to North America has doubled, from around 40 to 80 days. Nike has also seen transit times rise in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa due to \"port and rail congestion and labour shortages\".\n\nCostco - a membership only retailer - said on Thursday it was reinstating limits on purchases of key items including toilet rolls, bottled water and some cleaning products.\n\nIt said it was partly due to a resurgence in panic buying, but it is also struggling to find trucks, drivers and shipping containers to get goods to its stores.\n\nThe retailer has even chartered three of its own ocean liners to move products between Asia and North America over the coming year.\n\n\"The factors pressuring supply chains and inflation include port delays, container shortages, Covid disruptions, shortages on various components, raw materials and ingredients, labour cost pressures and truck and driver shortages,\" said Costco's chief financial officer, Richard Galanti.\n\n\"Various major brands are requesting longer lead times, and in some cases, difficulty in finding drivers and trucks on short notice\".\n\nSince economies have reopened, retailers around the world have faced widespread disruption amid a surge in demand for imports.\n\nIn the US it's contributed to shortages of children's toys, timber, new clothes and pet food, while also pushing up consumer prices.\n\nBrands including toymaker Hasbro and sportswear giant Adidas have warned of potential supply bottlenecks going into the crucial holiday season.\n\nAnd last week, a record 73 ships were forced to queue outside two major US ports, Long Beach and Los Angeles, as port staff scrambled to clear the backlog. Before Covid, it was unusual for more than one to wait for a berth.", "The SeaMonitor project is tracking the movement of five species in the Irish Sea\n\nMarine researchers working on a project to protect the Irish Sea's most vulnerable species have returned to the waters off Northern Ireland for the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nIt is part of the SeaMonitor project that's tracking a number of species, including Atlantic salmon, basking sharks, harbour seals, flapper skate and cetaceans.\n\nSeaMonitor, led by the Loughs Agency which refers to it as \"Europe's largest fish counter\", uses acoustic telemetry technology to listen to life under the sea.\n\nOver the last week, fieldworkers from Canada's Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) have been servicing the project's underwater technology.\n\n\"This is the first time that the Ocean Tracking Network team has travelled internationally since the beginning of the pandemic,\" OTN's Cassandra Hartery tells BBC News NI.\n\n\"It has truly been an unforgettable experience.\"\n\nThe OTN researchers have been working to maintain SeaMonitor's underwater infrastructure\n\nSeaMonitor's sub aqua listening stations stretch from Malin Head in Ireland to the island of Islay in Scotland.\n\nThey record transmissions from a variety of marine species tagged by scientists.\n\nLaunched in 2019, SeaMonitor involves eight international research partners, including OTN, based at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.\n\nCassandra and her OTN colleague Caitlin Bate have been based in Londonderry and Ballycastle in recent weeks.\n\nThe acoustic technology allows researchers to listen to life under the sea\n\nCaitlin says the \"globally important\" project will help develop a better understanding of life in the Irish Sea.\n\n\"Acoustic monitoring is helping fill gaps in the biology and movements of species in decline, and to inform marine management strategies, such as the establishment of marine protected areas,\" she says.\n\nThe project's research \"will be used to protect these populations in the near future and also for generations to come\".\n\nResearchers from Northern Ireland, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, the USA and Canada are all involved.\n\n\"It not only demonstrates the impact of multi-national marine tracking through the creation of a shared infrastructure, but it's also allowing scientists from partner countries to conduct much larger-scale studies than they were able to do before.\"\n\nThe project's principal officer, Ross McGill of the Loughs Agency, says little is still known about many of the species' sub aquatic movements.\n\n\"Having all this high quality, robust data allows us to create management plans and tools that are dynamic and effective,\" he says.\n\n\"The data collected will allow us to understand the pressures vulnerable species like Atlantic salmon and basking sharks face so that we can then translate that knowledge into management plans and policies to better protect them.\"\n\nSeaMontior's findings - including specific management plans for the Foyle and Clyde rivers' salmon populations - are due to be published in early 2023.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Angela Rayner is calling for \"a fair day's pay for a fair day's work\"\n\nNew laws to boost fairness at work would be brought in within 100 days of Labour winning a general election, Angela Rayner has promised.\n\nLabour's deputy leader said \"common decency\" had to be restored to the workplace, in a conference speech.\n\nPlans include bringing workers and employers together to negotiate pay and conditions in every sector.\n\nLabour says it would also increase statutory sick pay, as well as bring in the right to flexible working for all.\n\nMs Rayner told Labour's annual conference: \"Let's make this real and show every worker in every workplace in every corner of our country that with their support, their lives, their jobs and their communities can and will be better.\"\n\nUnder the \"fair pay agreements\" proposal, representatives of workers and employers would negotiate minimum standards - or a floor - for pay and terms and conditions for their particular sector.\n\nOnce agreed, the terms would be binding on employers and staff.\n\nSir Keir sat on the stage next to Ms rayner as she delivered her speech\n\nLabour argues this would prevent \"exploitative employers from undercutting the many good employers\" - pointing to the introduction of such agreements in New Zealand and some European countries.\n\nThe idea of fair pay agreements is one policy included in Labour's green paper on employment rights. Other proposals include:\n\nLabour's deputy leader also confirmed social care would be the first sector to go through the fair pay process.\n\nMs Rayner - who is also Labour's shadow secretary for the future of work - argued that fair pay agreements would \"stop bad bosses from exploiting their workers and driving down pay\".\n\nShe also told BBC Breakfast that better pay and working conditions would ease pressure on employers by boosting staff retention and cutting the number of working days lost to sickness.\n\n\"Having good employment practices... means that you have good staff retention (and) those skills are retained within the organisation,\" she said.\n\nIn her speech, she also said the fair pay agreements would \"drive up pay, improve conditions in the workplace and stop bad bosses from exploiting their workers\", and that that ending \"poverty wages and insecure work\" would be the \"driving mission of the next Labour government\".\n\nWelcoming the proposal, TUC leader Frances O'Grady said: \"Giving workers and their unions more power to bargain collectively is the best way to improve pay and working conditions across Britain.\"\n\nMs Rayner's speech marked the beginning of Labour's annual conference - Sir Keir's first in-person conference since he became leader in 2020.", "Strictly Come Dancing's Tom Fletcher and dance partner Amy Dowden have tested positive for Covid, a day after the first live show in the series.\n\nThe pair will miss next week's live show and are now self-isolating separately, the broadcaster said.\n\nThe BBC added \"that all being well, they will return the following week\".\n\nFletcher, a singer, songwriter and author, is best known for being one of the lead vocalists of pop rock band McFly.\n\nOn Sunday, the band's Twitter account and his own personal account said he was unwell and would not be onstage for their performance in Glasgow tonight.\n\n\"He sends huge and heartfelt apologies to all the fans he won't see tonight. The show will still be going ahead, we're looking forward to seeing you all and need you guys to sing extra loud for us tonight.\"\n\nDowden said in an Instagram post that she had tested positive for Covid-19 but did not have any symptoms.\n\nShe added: \"I have no doubt that over the next 10 days my mind will be going crazy with choreography ideas, ready to get back on the Strictly dancefloor for the live show in week three.\"\n\nIt comes after an unnamed professional dancer tested positive for Covid earlier this month, in the run-up to the show's launch last Saturday.\n\nThere have been reports that some of the pro dancers on Strictly have refused to be vaccinated, although there is no suggestion Dowden is among them.\n\nAnd on 3 February, the dancer, who has spoken publicly about living with the chronic bowel condition Crohn's disease, shared a post on Instagram in which she said she was \"incredibly grateful\" to be having her Covid vaccine the following day.\n\nEarlier this week, Strictly pro Gorka Márquez told ITV's This Morning stories about dancers' vaccine status were \"just speculation\" and the dance show was \"taking big responsibility to keep everyone safe\".\n\nFletcher and Dowden tackled a cha-cha-cha to September by Earth, Wind and Fire in Strictly Come Dancing's first live show of the 2021 series, the night before testing positive.", "About 50 people were in mandatory hotel quarantine at the time of the announcement\n\nMandatory hotel quarantine in the Republic of Ireland for those travelling from designated countries has ended.\n\nThe country's health minister made an announcement on Saturday saying it was to end \"immediately\".\n\nAll countries have now been removed from the list of designated states.\n\nThere were about 50 people in mandatory quarantine at the time of the announcement, and they are now being released, RTÉ has reported.\n\nThe requirement was halted on the advice of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan.\n\nThose arriving in Ireland without proof of being vaccinated or a negative PCR test will be instructed to quarantine at home.\n\n\"The Mandatory Hotel Quarantine system was introduced as an exceptional public health measure at a time that our country was contending with the very serious risk of importation of variants of concern that had the potential to overwhelm our health service and, in particular, to undermine Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination programme,\" said Health Minister Stephen Donnelly.\n\n\"The successful operation of [mandatory hotel quarantine] has played a central role in protecting the population, maintaining control of the disease and enabling the safe relaxation of restrictions on our economy and society,\" he added.\n\nThe Irish Defence Forces helped to oversee the process when it was first introduced\n\nAbout 10,300 people are understood to have entered mandatory hotel quarantine in Ireland since the requirement was introduced in March.\n\nPassengers arriving in Ireland from high-risk countries had to book and pay for a 12-night stay from a selection of dedicated hotels across the country.\n\nThe stay could be reduced if a negative Covid-19 test was received on day 10 of quarantine.\n\nThe cost of a 12-night stay was €1,875 (£1,614) for one person,\n\nAt the height of the scheme, 60 countries were on the list of designated states.", "Hayden's mum Shauna raised enough money to get her son's surgery carried out in Turkey\n\n\"To be put in a position where you're basically begging off people, it's infuriating.\"\n\nLast October, 12-year-old Hayden Kildea was diagnosed with severe scoliosis, a condition where the spine twists and curves to the side. Left untreated, it can become a dangerous and life-limiting condition.\n\nThe Kildeas, who live in Strabane, Northern Ireland, say they were told Hayden would need urgent surgery - but that because of the backlog caused by the pandemic, he would have to wait more than two years.\n\nHis mum Shauna found a clinic in Turkey that was able to carry out the operation immediately, but it would cost £50,000 - money the family didn't have.\n\nSo in the summer, they turned to crowdfunding and campaigning to raise the money.\n\nShe says: \"It's really, really frustrating that we're in our own country and we can't get Hayden the surgery he needs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMillions of people across the UK are currently on NHS waiting lists - in Northern Ireland there are over 465,000 people, while in England, 5.6m are queuing for treatment.\n\nData shared with BBC Panorama shows that on average, waiting lists have grown by 50% in the most deprived parts of England since the start of the pandemic, compared with nearly 35% in the most affluent areas.\n\nThe research, conducted by the King's Fund, also shows that people on waiting lists in poorer areas are nearly twice as likely as those in wealthier areas to wait more than one year for treatment.\n\nThe data looks at waiting lists from April 2020 to July 2021 (the latest available data) and includes planned hospital treatments such as knee and hip replacements, cataract surgery and other common procedures.\n\nHayden Kildea's family reached their target. He has now had the operation in Turkey and is recovering back at home.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board in Northern Ireland said patient demand continued \"to exceed capacity across a range of specialties\". It added: \"As a result, even before the pandemic, the number of people waiting longer than the target waiting times was increasing.\"\n\nSofia felt she couldn't wait for an NHS procedure\n\nSofia Jones, 36, has endometriosis - a gynaecological condition that leads to severe pelvic pain. Some days she could barely walk, having to stay in bed all day.\n\nSofia, who lives near Dundee, says she was told she'd have to wait two years for an NHS operation. But that felt too long to wait, so she and her partner decided to take out a £7,000 loan to pay to have the surgery in a private hospital.\n\n'It was a really tough decision to go private,\" she says, \"because we were having to put ourselves into debt. And that's a lot of money. But you have to have some quality of life.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"We're sorry the unprecedented impact of the pandemic has lengthened waiting times for some patients. The pandemic has been the most significant challenge the NHS has faced in its 73-year history, and as in many health care systems across the world, the unavoidable pausing of non-urgent elective procedures has resulted in some delays.\"\n\nAccording to Anita Charlesworth, chief economist at the Health Foundation think tank: \"The big worry about long waits leading people to have to go private is that it will increase inequalities, but also that many people will be forced to make awful trade-offs over their finances in order to be able to get access to the care that they need when they need it.\n\n\"And that goes against every grain of why we set up the health service,\" she said.\n\nBrenda Pugh, 61, from Petersfield in Hampshire, had to give up work in a law firm in 2019 after being diagnosed with arthritis. She was unable to work due to the pain caused by her arthritis which was first diagnosed five years ago.\n\nAs the pandemic began, she was told she needed a double hip replacement and now has to use crutches. When she moves she says it's like \"walking on jagged glass\".\n\nThe pain is so severe she has written to her consultant, begging him for the operation. She says: \"I can't carry on like this. My life just isn't worth living.\"\n\nBrenda Pugh, 61, had to give up work because of arthritis\n\nThe cost to have the surgery privately would be about £10,000 per hip - and she says there's no way she can afford that.\n\nBrenda is one of 62,000 patients who've been waiting more than 12 months to get joint replacement surgery.\n\nNew research conducted by charity Versus Arthritis and given exclusively to BBC Panorama reveals that half (54%) of people with arthritis who are currently waiting for surgery are facing an average cost of £1,739 a year to keep their pain at bay, through things like private physio appointments and over-the-counter painkillers.\n\nInevitably, GPs are the ones patients turn to for help managing their pain as they wait. One of them, Dr Leora Harverd, from a practice in north London, says she's overwhelmed by her current caseload.\n\nSome of her patients are anxious about long delays for treatment, and says it's not unusual that people go private, but \"it's not how it should be\".\n\nThis month the government announced they would be investing £36bn in NHS and social care for all four home nations up to 2025.\n\nAnalysis of their plans by the Health Foundation shows that £10bn has been committed to address the backlog in England over the next three years.\n\nMs Charlesworth says it's a lot of money but won't necessarily be enough: 'If we want the waiting list to come down by the next election, we would need to spend at least £13bn; if we wanted to meet the target to treat people within 18 weeks, we need to be spending £17bn - and the government has committed £10bn.\"\n\nBut even the prime minister has admitted that \"waiting lists will get worse before they get better\".\n\nNHS England said: \"Caring for more than 450,000 seriously ill Covid patients has inevitably had a knock-on effect on non-urgent care.\n\n\"NHS staff have stepped up and made effective use of additional resources helping carry out millions more tests, checks, treatments and operations this summer compared to last.\"\n\nBBC Panorama - NHS: Wait or Pay is on BBC One on Monday 27 September at 19:35 BST, and available afterwards on BBC iPlayer.", "These are the three main candidates for chancellor: Olaf Scholz (L), Annalena Baerbock and Armin Laschet\n\nGermany faces a period of political uncertainty after the Social Democrats (SPD) won a tight general election, paving the way for talks to form a new coalition government.\n\nThe centre-left SPD came first with 25.7% of the vote, followed by the conservative alliance (CDU) of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel on 24.1% - its worst result ever.\n\nThe two main rivals to succeed Merkel, the SPD's Olaf Scholz and CDU leader Armin Laschet, have both claimed a mandate to lead the next coalition government.\n\nThe leaders of Germany's political parties met on Monday to kick off coalition negotiations that could take months.\n\nHere is a quick guide to who they are, with an assessment of the chances they have of taking power.\n\nLike Armin Laschet, Olaf Scholz, 62, has had a succession of senior posts in German politics. He is currently German finance minister and Chancellor Merkel's deputy.\n\nUnlike Mr Laschet, his chances of becoming chancellor soared during the election campaign. He is seen as a safe pair of hands, having first served as an MP from 1998 to 2011.\n\nAfter a successful stint as mayor of Hamburg (2011-2018), when he rebalanced the city's troubled finances, he returned to the Bundestag.\n\nHe hails from Osnabrück in north-western Germany and entered politics as a Socialist Youth leader, having studied labour law. In SPD ranks he is seen as a conservative. He and his wife, Britta Ernst, do not have children.\n\nHe has overseen the emergency €750bn (£647bn; $904bn) funding package put together by the federal government to help German businesses and workers survive the pandemic.\n\n\"This is the bazooka that's needed to get the job done,\" he said. He is generally seen to have performed well in the pandemic, which has strained German finances and businesses.\n\nHis stolid, unflashy demeanour gave rise to the unflattering nickname \"Scholz-o-mat\" - but that image of reliability has struck a chord with risk-averse Germans seeking a continuation of the stability of the Merkel era.\n\nMr Scholz and his SPD party are in pole position to lead the next government. As the party with the largest share of the vote (25.7%), it argues that it has the biggest mandate.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Scholz said the results showed voters wanted a change. \"I think that the people in Germany want the Christian Democratic Union in opposition,\" he said.\n\nConvincing his favoured coalition partners - the Greens and the FDP - won't be easy though. While they're aligned on some issues, they both have different policy priorities that will need addressing in coalition talks.\n\nHe was the front runner but then his campaign faltered, mostly as a result of his own unforced errors.\n\nMr Laschet, 60, is the leader of Chancellor Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and premier of heavily industrial North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany's most populous state.\n\nHe only narrowly secured the nomination to be the candidate for chancellor, defeating his Bavarian rival, Markus Söder, after the party leadership rallied behind him.\n\nSupport for the CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU, was already waning because of the pandemic. Mr Laschet himself was accused of inconsistencies and poor management of Covid-19 in NRW.\n\nAnd then in July Mr Laschet was caught on camera laughing as the president of Germany made a speech in a town which had been largely destroyed by catastrophic flooding. His reputation was badly damaged and he struggled to recover in the opinion polls.\n\nThe son of a miner, and a lawyer by training, for years Mr Laschet defended Germany's powerful coal industry. He has stood by the decision not to bring forward the end of using coal for energy from 2038.\n\nHe is well-connected internationally and is firmly pro-EU: he served as a Euro MP and hails from Aachen, a border city with strong French ties.\n\nIn 2005 he became minister for integration in his home region, the first such post in Germany, and forged strong ties with its large ethnic Turkish community. He firmly backed Mrs Merkel's lenient but controversial policy on immigration in 2015, when more than a million migrants reached Germany.\n\nThe Catholic Church was a strong influence on him as a boy, through his devout parents and his Church-run school. He is married, with three adult children.\n\nThe disappointing result has left Mr Laschet fighting for his political life. In the coming days, expect fiery debate about who or what is to blame for the CDU/CSU's worst result in history.\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Laschet has vowed to remain leader of the conservatives and \"do everything we can\" to lead the next government. In theory, he could still become the next chancellor if he persuades smaller parties to partner with him.\n\nA government led by a party that does not have the most seats in the Bundestag - Germany's lower house of parliament - is not without precedent. It has happened before - but by convention, the biggest party has right of way.\n\nFor now, Mr Laschet's future hinges on the outcome of coalition talks.\n\nThe only woman in the race to succeed Angela Merkel, she is the Greens' first-ever candidate for chancellor.\n\nA former trampoline champion from a village outside the northern city of Hanover, Ms Baerbock, 40, studied law and politics in Hamburg and London and worked for the Greens in the European Parliament.\n\nEarlier this year, the Greens surged in the polls, with support rising above 25% and a focus on Ms Baerbock. However, her reputation was tarnished when she was accused of plagiarism and padding her CV.\n\nShe has been an MP in the Bundestag since 2013, and as a mother of two young daughters has campaigned strongly on family issues as well as the environment. She advocates a tougher stance towards both China and Russia than either the CDU/CSU or the Social Democrats.\n\nMs Baerbock has never held a ministerial post, but argues that she is therefore untainted by German \"status quo\" politics, which she wants to transform.\n\nMs Baerbock and her co-leader Robert Habeck have a reputation for enforcing discipline in a party with a history of splits between centrists and radicals.\n\nPreliminary results showed the Greens won considerably fewer votes than the SPD or the CDU/CSU alliance, which have stronger mandates to govern.\n\nFor that reason, Ms Baerbock probably won't be the next chancellor, but her party is well on track to enter the next coalition government.\n\nThe results suggested climate change was a key issue for German voters, giving a clear boost to the Greens.\n\nIn a post-election debate on Sunday, Ms Baerbock said she had a clear mandate to push a climate agenda in the next government. The Greens said they would be open to talks with all parties with a stake.\n\nWhile the result of Sunday's election was not decisive, we know Germany's next government will be a coalition. It will involve either the CDU/CSU or the Social Democrats, and very possibly the Greens, but there are three other parties in the mix.\n\nAlthough the Social Democrats won the most votes, they will seek the support of the pro-business FDP to govern.\n\nIn 2017, the FDP walked out of coalition talks with the CDU/CSU and Greens, saying \"it is better not to rule than to rule badly\".\n\nThis time, the FDP won 11.5% of the vote in preliminary results. Its candidate for chancellor is Christian Lindner, 42.\n\nHe joined the party in 1995 and became an MP in 2009. He studied political science at Bonn University and is a reserve officer in the armed forces.\n\nIn the pandemic he has sharply criticised the lockdown restrictions, saying they ought to be more tightly targeted, accompanied by more efficient testing. Poor crisis management, he said, had changed Germany's image from \"efficiency superstar\" to \"bureaucratic monster\".\n\nHis slogan is to make Germany \"more modern, more digital and freer\". The FDP wants lower taxes and more emphasis on individual initiative.\n\nWhat are its chances? The FDP feels its moment may have come. The self-confident Mr Lindner overplayed his hand four years ago, and was accused of shirking responsibility when he flounced out of coalition talks.\n\nSince then he has managed to re-establish the FDP's traditional reputation as a modernising force, keen to rein in Germany's ever-expanding bureaucracy. As such, the party potentially has the ability to work with either centre-left or centre-right parties. If Mr Lindner manages to keep his cool this time, the party could rediscover its long-standing role as coalition kingmaker.\n\nThe anti-immigration AfD was elected to the Bundestag for the first time in 2017, winning almost 13% of the vote. Riding a wave of voter frustration and anger over the migrant crisis, it became the main opposition party and now has 91 seats.\n\nIts share of the vote sagged to 10.3% in Sunday's election. Its two leading candidates were Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla.\n\nThe AfD is hostile to the EU and sees Islam as a threat to German culture and traditions. Even before Covid, the party's support was shrinking, as voter concerns about immigration receded.\n\nThe AfD has been in the news for rejecting Covid restrictions and holding a party conference face to face, not remotely. Many in the party see the restrictions as a gross violation of personal liberty. Party leaders have called for an end to lockdown measures and compulsory masking.\n\nIt is also calling for Germany to leave the EU and for the return of border controls, including physical measures such as fences.\n\nThe AfD won't enter government, that's for sure. Its nativist rhetoric makes the party toxic to most Germans - its election slogan, \"Germany, but normal\", implies minorities don't belong.\n\nAll other parties have ruled out going into coalition with the AfD.\n\nThe party was formed out of the remnants of the old East German socialist party and disaffected left-wingers who left the SPD in the mid-noughties.\n\nIts main candidates were Janine Wissler and Dietmar Bartsch.\n\nThe party campaigned for increases in pensions and the minimum wage and an end to the system that cuts benefits for the long-term unemployed. It also wants to withdraw all German soldiers from international military missions.\n\nAlthough Die Linke has its share of anti-capitalist radicals, it also leads a state government in Thuringia. Bodo Ramelow has been premier of the eastern state since 2014.\n\nDie Linke was being talked about as part of a possible coalition. But the party performed poorly in this election, winning only 4.9% of the vote nationally.\n\nDie Linke has no chance of putting forward a chancellor, nor is it likely to feature in coalition talks. The party only just managed to enter parliament by winning three constituency seats, even though its vote share was below the 5% threshold required to enter parliament.\n\nThe party's anti-Nato stance would also be a major stumbling block in coalition talks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner: \"I will apologise when Boris apologises for saying the comments he has made.\"\n\nAngela Rayner says she will apologise for calling Boris Johnson \"scum\" when he retracts past comments she described as homophobic, racist and misogynistic.\n\nLabour's deputy leader was reported to have called Tory ministers \"a bunch of scum\" at a Labour conference event.\n\nOne Conservative minister accused Ms Rayner of \"talking crap\", while another urged her to apologise.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would not have used that language and would \"talk to her later\".\n\nMs Rayner was reported to have made her remarks about Mr Johnson at a reception on Saturday evening.\n\nAsked on Sunday morning if she would retract the remarks, she said she believed the prime minister was a \"racist, homophobic misogynist\".\n\n\"I think he needs to apologise for comments he has made in the past,\" Ms Rayner told the BBC, adding: \"I will apologise when Boris apologises for saying the comments he has made, I will retract that he is scum.\"\n\nThe prime minister has often faced criticism from his opponents over his comments on race and sexuality while working as a journalist.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: \"Angela and I take a different approach and that is not the language I would have used.\"\n\nPressed on whether he would be asking her to apologise, he said it was a matter for her.\n\nWhy won't Sir Keir Starmer be telling Angela Rayner to apologise for her comments even though he says he wouldn't have used that language?\n\nMaybe he just does not want to help the story to live longer?\n\nOr perhaps he finds it useful to have a wing-woman who can say the stuff he can't. John Prescott arguably played a similar role for Tony Blair.\n\nOr is it because Labour's deputy leader has her own direct relationship with the members who elected her and she was speaking at a party event, so he thinks it's not really his turf?\n\nOr perhaps he has already learned - after this year's shadow cabinet reshuffle - that, when pushed, Ms Rayner fights back - hard and in public.\n\nAnd like the tussle over the changes to the party's internal rulebook, it's another reminder that at Labour conference the leader is in charge but also at the mercy of a vast and noisy machine.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy distanced herself from Ms Rayner's comments, telling BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House, it was \"not the way that I would choose to articulate my anger\".\n\nBut former Unite union leader Len McCluskey called Ms Rayner's comments \"pretty accurate\", adding: \"There is an angry mood out there. I think Angie captures it.\"\n\nA Tory MP apologised for his WhatsApp comments about Labour chair Anneliese Dodds\n\nConservative chairman Oliver Dowden said: \"At a time when the country is trying to pull together to recover from Covid, the last thing we need is the deputy leader of the Labour Party calling people 'scum' and yelling insults.\n\n\"We need to make politics better, not drag it into the gutter. Let's see if we get an apology.\"\n\nForeign Office minister James Cleverly said the Conservative Party had had two female prime ministers, that two of the most senior cabinet ministers were women and two were from minority ethnic backgrounds, and that the public knew Ms Rayner was \"talking crap\".\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative MP James Gray has apologised for joking on WhatsApp that \"a bomb\" should be delivered to the House of Commons office of Labour Party chairman Anneliese Dodds.\n\n\"It was a foolish remark,\" he told the Mail on Sunday, adding: \"I meant no offence and hope none was taken.\"\n\nIn October last year, Ms Rayner apologised for calling a Conservative MP \"scum\" in the House of Commons.\n\nThe controversy over her remarks on the PM comes ahead of the Labour conference, in Brighton, voting on leader Sir Keir's proposed changes to the party's rules.\n\nThese include future leadership candidates needing the backing of 20% of Labour MPs - rather than the current 10% - to get on to a party-wide ballot.\n\nSir Keir also wants to make it harder for local parties to deselect sitting MPs and scrap the rule allowing \"registered supporters\", who pay a one-off fee, to vote in leadership elections.\n\nLen McCluskey, a supporter of Sir Keir's more left-wing predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, told the BBC News Channel the planned rule changes were \"disgraceful\" and \"right-wing manoeuvring\".\n\n\"It's not what the British people are interested in talking about,\" he added. \"They want to know about what's happening at petrol stations, electricity and gas charges, what's happening to universal credit.\"", "Milly Main died after contracting an infection at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow\n\nPolice have launched a criminal investigation into a number of deaths at a Glasgow hospital, including that of 10-year-old Milly Main.\n\nIt comes as a separate public inquiry into the building of several Scottish hospitals is being held.\n\nMilly's mother recently told the inquiry her child's death was \"murder\".\n\nA review in May found an infection which contributed to Milly's death was probably caused by the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital environment.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has now instructed police to investigate the deaths of Milly, two other children and 73-year-old Gail Armstrong at the Glasgow campus.\n\nIt is understood the probe could lead to criminal charges or a fatal accident inquiry.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The investigation into the deaths is ongoing and the families will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe Crown Office added that it was committed to supporting the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry and \"contributing positively\" to its work.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating the construction of the QEUH and Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh.\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow opened in 2015\n\nMilly's mother, Kimberly Darroch, told the inquiry this week that she wants the QEUH campus to close.\n\nMilly was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2012, and she died in 2017 after contracting stenotrophomonas - an infection found in water, the inquiry heard.\n\nMs Darroch had said she was unaware of the infection which contributed to her daughter's death until after she died.\n\nLabour leader Anas Sarwar has been supporting Ms Darroch and her family since 2019, when a whistleblower came forward to reveal a link between infections and the hospital water supply.\n\nMr Sarwar said the new investigation was \"a very welcome and overdue development\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said Milly Main's family welcomed news of the police investigation\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"The family has welcomed the investigation, they recognise it as good progress but it's painful - let's not forget that at the heart of this tragedy is children that were already unwell, made more unwell.\n\n\"In some circumstances children lost their lives because of design faults and individual failures at the hospital by management.\n\n\"What the families need now is answers, closure and confidence that this is never going to happen to a family again in the future.\"\n\nThe investigation is also looking into the death of Gail Armstrong in January 2019. She was treated for blood cancer at QEUH before she contracted the fungal infection Cryptococcus.\n\nPigeon excrement at a hospital plant room was at first thought to be the \"likely source\" of her infection.\n\nBut an independent review last year said there was \"not a sound evidential basis\" to link Cryptococcus and the presence of pigeon excrement at the hospital.\n\nMrs Armstrong was treated at the hospital for blood cancer\n\nCryptococcus is widely present in the environment but can be lethal to patients with compromised immune systems.\n\nMrs Armstrong's daughter Beth Armstrong told BBC Scotland the last two years have been \"absolutely awful\" and the family do not feel their voice has been heard.\n\nShe said: \"We feel as we've been looking for answers and ever since my mum died, a huge PR machine kicked in at the hospital. We've found it very difficult to get straight answers and it has felt to us like a cover up.\n\n\"That's not just of concern to us in terms of my mother, it's a concern in terms of citizens - we need to know that our hospital is safe and the management will own up to any problems and resolve them.\n\nBeth Armstrong said the family had been waiting for the current police investigation \"for a very long time\" and said they would be \"watching very closely\" for the outcome.\n\nA spokesperson for Police Scotland said: \"Our investigation is at a very early stage, it would be inappropriate to comment further.\"\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it was aware of the police probe and it would be \"inappropriate for us to comment further\".", "Ms Meng, pictured on arrival in China, had been accused of fraud by US prosecutors\n\nA Chinese tech executive released after being detained in Canada for nearly three years has returned home.\n\nHuawei's Meng Wanzhou flew to Shenzhen on Saturday evening, hours after two Canadians freed by China had gone back.\n\nIn 2018 China accused Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig of espionage, denying detaining them was in retaliation for Ms Meng's arrest.\n\nThe apparent swap brings to an end a damaging diplomatic row between Beijing and the West.\n\nMr Spavor and Mr Kovrig arrived in the western city of Calgary just before 06:00 local time (12:00 GMT) and were met by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nA couple of hours later Ms Meng touched down in Shenzhen, China, to applauds from a crowd gathered at the airport.\n\n\"I'm finally back home!,\" said Ms Meng, according to the Global Times, a Chinese tabloid backed by the ruling Communist Party.\n\n\"Where there is a Chinese flag, there is a beacon of faith,\" she added. \"If faith has a colour, it must be China red.\"\n\nMs Meng was wanted on charges in the US but was released after a deal between Canada and US prosecutors.\n\nMichael Kovrig (r) and Michael Spavor had been held since 2018\n\nBefore her release, Ms Meng admitted misleading US investigators about Huawei's business dealings in Iran.\n\nShe spent three years under house arrest in Canada while fighting extradition to the United States.\n\nChina had earlier insisted that her case was not related to the sudden arrest of Mr Kovrig and Mr Spavor in 2018. But China's the decision to free them after Ms Meng's release appears to show that pretence has been abandoned, reports Robin Brant, the BBC's Shanghai correspondent.\n\nMr Kovrig and Mr Spavor have maintained their innocence throughout, and critics have accused China of using them as political bargaining chips.\n\nAfter they arrived in Calgary, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared images on Twitter of him welcoming the pair.\n\n\"You've shown incredible strength, resilience, and perseverance,\" he wrote in the tweet. \"Know that Canadians across the country will continue to be here for you, just as they have been.\"\n\nMr Kovrig is a former diplomat employed by International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank.\n\nMr Spavor is a founding member of an organisation that facilitates international business and cultural ties with North Korea.\n\nIn August this year a Chinese court sentenced Mr Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage. There had been no decision in Mr Kovrig's case.\n\nOn Friday, a Canadian judge ordered the release of Ms Meng, Huawei's chief financial officer, after she reached a deal with US prosecutors over fraud charges against her.\n\nHuawei said in a statement that it would continue to defend itself in court, and looked forward to seeing Ms Meng reunited with her family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My life has been turned upside down,\" Ms Meng tells reporters after being freed from Canadian detention\n\nBefore her arrest, US prosecutors accused Ms Meng of fraud, alleging that she misled banks into processing transactions for Huawei that broke US sanctions against Iran.\n\nAs part of a deferred prosecution agreement, Ms Meng admitted to misleading HSBC about Huawei's relationship with Skycom, a Hong-Kong based company that operated in Iran.\n\nChina's foreign ministry said the charges against her had been \"fabricated\" to suppress the country's high-tech industries, according to state media.\n\nBut in a statement the US justice department insisted it would continue to prepare for trial against Huawei, which is still on a trade blacklist.\n\nMs Meng is the elder daughter of Ren Zhengfei, who set up Huawei in 1987. He also served in the Chinese army for nine years, until 1983, and is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nHuawei itself is now the largest telecom equipment maker in the world. It has faced accusations that Chinese authorities could use its equipment for espionage - allegations it denies.\n\nIn 2019, the US imposed sanctions on Huawei and placed it on an export blacklist, cutting it off from key technologies.\n\nThe UK, Sweden, Australia and Japan have also banned Huawei, while other countries including France and India have adopted measures stopping short of an outright ban.", "Anthony Joshua says he is \"a different animal, not a sulker\" and \"will bounce back\" from losing his world heavyweight titles to Oleksandr Usyk.\n\nJoshua said he \"couldn't see in round nine\" after an eye injury sustained in Saturday's 12-round fight with the Ukrainian at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\nHis promoter Eddie Hearn suggested his fighter may have suffered a broken eye socket.\n\n\"I can't go back and sulk - that's wasting time,\" Joshua, 31, said.\n• None How the boxing world reacted to Usyk's stunning victory\n\nAsked after the fight about what went wrong, the defeated Briton said: \"I couldn't see in the ninth round, couldn't see anything really because my eye was shut.\n\n\"It was a good experience because in adversity you've just got to learn to control yourself, stay on top of things, so when I couldn't see anything - it's the first time that it's happened in a fight.\"\n\nHearn had said Joshua had given Usyk, 34, too much respect and would have to make \"fundamental changes\" to regain the WBA, WBO and IBF titles he lost in the fight.\n\nThe Briton has a rematch clause in his contract with Usyk, and later confirmed he would take it.\n• None 'Why didn't he have a go?' Pundits bemused by 'negative' Joshua\n• None Joshua v Usyk - fight as it unfolded, and reaction\n\nJoshua added: \"When I was walking back through the tunnel, I just said to myself, 'I'm ready to get back to the gym, I'm ready to just put that work in'.\n\n\"I just want to get back to the gym, get back on the grind and improve, so when I fight these good guys and see that they are hurt I can capitalise on the opportunity.\n\n\"It was a great lesson today. I know we can look at it from a negative point of view but, for me, I've got to take it as a great lesson and build on that situation.\n\n\"I never tend to look at the opponent. I just tend to look at myself and realise where I went wrong. So it's not so much what he done, it's the opportunities that I gave him. It's not so much him. I'm just going to go back and look at myself and correct my wrongs.\n\n\"I'm a different kind of animal. I'm not a sulker. This is a blessed opportunity, to be able to fight for the heavyweight title of the world, fight good fighters time and time again and for people to come out.\n\n\"I'm not going to be going home and be crying about it, because this is war. It's a long process. This isn't just one fight and then I'm done.\n\n\"I'm going back to look at way that I can improve. Straight away, I've already been watching the fight and thinking 'I could've done that better'.\"\n\nTyson Fury's co-promoter Frank Warren is now doubtful a long-awaited all-British fight with Joshua will happen after a dominant Usyk became the unified heavyweight champion.\n\n\"I don't see it happening now,\" Warren told BBC Sport.\n\n\"If it did happen, what would Tyson have done to him? It wouldn't have gone 12 rounds. Tyson would have destroyed him. Absolutely. The unification fight was there, such a big fight. Heartbreaking.\n\n\"What would Tyson Fury had done to Joshua? A better chin, bigger puncher.\"\n\nWarren said Joshua \"didn't have any tactics\" and compared Saturday's fight with his June 2019 shock defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr.\n\n\"Usyk is a good fighter, he boxed extremely well,\" Warren said.\n\n\"But that was my thing about this fight - Joshua is so vulnerable. He's been like that for ages.\n\n\"I thought Joshua would be too big for Usyk, but I knew if he was there at the end, then he's been outboxed. Usyk nearly had him over at the end.\"\n\n\"He was gun shy. Never let his hands go. They can talk all they want about rematches. He's just been totally exposed, like he was against Ruiz. How can he be getting outjabbed by Usyk, who was taking the fight to him? I was shocked at that.\n\n\"Even if he was to beat Usyk, what is Tyson Fury going to do to Joshua? You'd have your house on Tyson beating him.\"\n\nAsked about any future fight with WBC champion Fury, Joshua said: \"The road to undisputed is marketing. When I pulled up today, it just reminds me that it's a big circus. This is the greatest show on Earth.\n\n\"I'll fight Tyson Fury and Wilder without the belts. The belts are fun, it's great, it's legacy - but with or without the belts, I'll fight whoever. The road to undisputed [champion] is a nice title to have and chase but would you still watch it without the belts?\n\n\"The main thing is that you have got two competitive fighters in the ring from UK soil that just want to go toe-to-toe.\"\n\nMatchroom boss Eddie Hearn admitted he was \"gutted\" about the defeat.\n\n\"He will have to make fundamental changes, he will have to box differently,\" Hearn told BBC Radio 5 Live after the fight.\n\n\"I can't see AJ taking a 10-round fight, he boxes twice a year and maybe that is something we will have to look at.\n\n\"He is going to go away and all he will do is think about Oleksandr Usyk. He will be thinking: 'How can I beat him, how can I improve?' He is obsessed with improving.\n\n\"I just feel there is so much more Anthony Joshua in that fight but he will have to do a lot more in the rematch to be victorious.\"\n\nEven in defeat, Joshua is a classy fighter.\n\nThe word after the fight was that the heavyweight would be heading straight to the hospital to treat a nasty eye injury. But just as he did when he was defeated by Andy Ruiz Jr in New York, Joshua faced the media.\n\nHours after the 65,000-plus crowd had left the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, a bruised Joshua sat down and made no excuses for his performance. It's a rare trait in the boxing world to accept defeat by the better fighter.\n\nThere were no flashes of anger as Joshua calmly answered questions about what went wrong. There was almost an air of excitement from the two-time world champion at the prospect of overcoming what can only be described as a heavy loss to an exceptional opponent.\n\nJoshua was still confident, and it remains to be seen if that bravado will see him through another dark chapter in his career.\n\nJoshua was able to reinvent himself to beat Ruiz. It will be an even tougher task to do the same to defeat Usyk.\n• None Will it be sink or swim for this poolside romance? Stream now on BBC iPlayer\n• None One of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice", "The government has confirmed plans to speed up the process of obtaining an HGV driver licence, amid a nationwide shortage of drivers.\n\nUp to 50,000 more HGV driving tests will be made available each year by shortening the application process and the tests themselves, it said.\n\nThe UK faces a shortfall of around 90,000 drivers, which has hit the supply of food, petrol and other goods.\n\nHowever, industry groups said the new plans did not go far enough.\n\nLorry driver shortages have been blamed on EU workers leaving the UK following Brexit as well as during the pandemic and tax changes making it more expensive for drivers from elsewhere in Europe to work or be employed in the UK.\n\nThere have also been complaints about a backlog of driver tests.\n\nIn a written statement to the House of Commons, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the government would now overhaul regulations to boost capacity, meaning:\n\nMr Shapps said the changes, which still need to be approved by parliament, will generate additional test capacity \"very rapidly\".\n\nHe added: \"These changes will not change the standard of driving required to drive an HGV, with road safety continuing to be of paramount importance.\"\n\nIndustry groups are sceptical about the plans - elements of which were published earlier this week - warning that they could affect safety.\n\nThey also reiterated calls for temporary work visas to woo back around 20,000 EU drivers who have left the industry - something the government has rejected.\n\nMore than 6,300 lorry drivers spent Christmas 2020 queuing to enter the Port of Dover when France closed its border with the UK\n\n\"This is a sensible move but it's not enough to fix the problem,\" Paul Jackson, managing director of Peterborough-based cold and chilled food logistics firm Chiltern Distribution told the BBC on Thursday.\n\n\"We don't put newly-qualified drivers straight behind the wheel on their own. We buddy them up with experienced drivers for the first eight to 10 weeks and the insurance costs for new drivers are also much higher.\n\n\"We desperately need to put HGV drivers on the list of skilled workers we can bring in from abroad.\"\n\nRichard Burnett of the Road Haulage Association said the industry was losing 600 drivers a week and it would take nearly two years to fill the net shortfall.\n\nA host of companies have been hit by the driver shortage, while some are offering higher wages and retention bonuses to woo recruits.\n\nAnd BP temporarily closed a \"handful\" of its UK sites, due to not being able to get petrol and diesel to them.", "Ms Mallon said the introduction of vaccine passports could act as an incentive for younger people to get vaccinated\n\nThe introduction of vaccine passports in Northern Ireland is a \"no brainer\", the infrastructure minister has said.\n\nSDLP MLA Nichola Mallon said she has raised the issue at Stormont executive meetings on \"a number of occasions\".\n\nIt comes after her party leader Colum Eastwood called for the introduction of vaccine passports earlier this week.\n\n\"It's frustrating that we're still sitting having this discussion,\" Ms Mallon told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme.\n\nSince July, the EU Digital Covid Certificate system has been in operation in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt is being used as a form of passport to give members of the public access to international travel and hospitality industries.\n\nThe Republic has been using the EU Digital Covid Certificate system since July\n\nMs Mallon said she believed the introduction of a similar scheme in Northern Ireland would act as an incentive for more young people to be vaccinated.\n\n\"We know that the level of uptake in vaccines from people aged 18 to 35 is lower here and we know when we look at the south that the introduction of Covid passports acts as an incentive for that age group,\" she said.\n\n\"So, for me it's a no brainer.\n\n\"We have to be honest with ourselves. If we want to have a sustainable pathway out of the remaining restrictions, if we want to avoid further lockdown, if we want to protect our health service from unprecedented pressures as it goes into winter, then we need to look to introduce Covid passports.\"\n\nNew Covid passport rules will begin in Scotland and Wales in October.\n\nSimilar plans in England have been scrapped but will be kept in reserve in case they are needed this winter.\n\nIn a wide ranging interview, the infrastructure minister also said the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) was \"back to full testing capacity\", in terms of MoTs.\n\nThere were \"clearly technical difficulties\" moving to the new MoT booking system, the infrastructure minister said\n\nLast week, the DVA apologised after a delay in rolling out a new MoT booking system left drivers unable to get a test slot.\n\n\"DVA has introduced a modern, up-to-date booking system which will make it much easier and a much more improved experience for customers,\" said Ms Mallon.\n\nHowever, she added that there \"were clearly technical difficulties moving to the new system\".\n\n\"There was monumental amounts of data that had to be switched over and there were technical issues and difficulties and the DVA has apologised for that, and I apologise for any inconvenience that was caused to people.\"\n\nThe PSNI will not penalise the driver of a vehicle whose MoT has expired, so long as it is in roadworthy condition, the vehicle is properly insured, and the driver can provide proof that a test appointment has been booked for the vehicle, according to the DVA.\n\nThe booking system was fully operational again by Friday, with 20,000 people able to successfully book an MoT, Ms Mallon added.\n\nHowever, for those whose MoT certificate expires before their next test date, Ms Mallon said: \"I would encourage people to keep checking the booking system because cancellations allow other people to come forward.\"", "Soldiers deployed to help with non-emergency driving this weekend\n\nSoldiers will be available to drive ambulances \"for the long run\", Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has said.\n\nMilitary personnel began non-emergency driving in Scotland this weekend, in a bid to alleviate pressure on the NHS.\n\nMr Jack said soldiers were on standby to deploy \"at the drop of a hat\" if needed beyond the initial two months requested by the Scottish government.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said it was expected to produce a \"significant improvement\" in waiting times.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence provided 114 drivers for the Scottish Ambulance Service and a further 111 personnel to help staff coronavirus testing centres.\n\nIt came after warnings from health professionals and opposition politicians of an ambulance crisis, with reports of some patients facing extremely long waits for help to arrive.\n\nMr Jack said that while two months of support had initially been requested, military help would remain in place if needed.\n\nSoldiers from 68 Squadron from 7 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps arrived for training on Friday\n\nHe told the Mail on Sunday: \"The British military is always ready to deploy at the drop of a hat - but they are also here for the long run.\n\n\"The UK's Forces are not in any way restricting the amount of time available.\"\n\nHe added: \"If our NHS here in Scotland continues to struggle as winter bites, the military stands ready with much more help, which they can deliver in a heartbeat.\"\n\nSoldiers from 68 Squadron from 7 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps have been deployed, with about two-thirds based in the Glasgow area and a third in Edinburgh. Troops can be deployed elsewhere as required by the ambulance service.\n\nFurther drivers have also be provided by the fire service, the British Red Cross and taxi firms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Col Anthony Phillips on the Army's role supporting the Scottish Ambulance Service\n\nColonel Anthony Phillips, the commander of joint military command for Scotland, previously said deployment \"will be in the region of about two months\" but it could be extended.\n\nDuring a visit to a training facility in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, on Friday, Mr Yousaf thanked the military for the additional support.\n\nHe said: \"I announced a range of actions, including asking for military assistance but, with that whole package put together, I would expect there to be a significant improvement.\n\n\"But I would be upfront with people too, this is going to be the most challenging winter I think the NHS has ever faced.\"", "The casualty was transported to Altnagelvin Hospital\n\nOne person has been airlifted to Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry after being injured in a jet ski incident in the River Foyle.\n\nIt happened at Lisahally, near Foyle Port, on Saturday night.\n\nThe casualty was transported to the hospital by Irish Coast Guard rescue helicopter 118, based in County Sligo.\n\nA second person was also taken to hospital, following what is thought to have been a crash onto a river bank. Their conditions are not yet known.\n\nThe helicopter was dispatched by the Irish Coast Guard in Malin Head, County Donegal.\n\nFoyle Search and Rescue was also involved in the operation, sending its volunteers to the scene shortly after 20:00 BST.", "Lewis Hamilton takes 100th win in Russian Grand Prix as Lando Norris spins in rain Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton won his 100th Formula 1 race as a frantic last few laps in the Russian Grand Prix caused by heavy rain dashed Lando Norris' hopes of a maiden victory. And the rain helped Hamilton's title rival Max Verstappen vault from seventh to second in his Red Bull after timing his change to wet tyres perfectly. The Briton's win puts him back into the title lead but Verstappen's drive from the back of the grid in Sochi means Hamilton's advantage is only two points. Hamilton already held the record for most F1 wins with Michael Schumacher next in the all-time list with 91 victories.\n• None Hamilton will 'not bail out' of on-track battles any more The late downpour turned the race on its head and while it gave the Mercedes driver a victory, it helped Verstappen even more. Norris, who took his maiden pole position on Saturday, was leading with five laps to go in his McLaren when it started to rain. It was light initially and only over a few corners, but Verstappen, who was at that point struggling in seventh place, was one of the first drivers to pit for treaded intermediate tyres. Norris also lost the lead on the first lap It was the making of his afternoon as Norris and Hamilton - more than 30 seconds up the road in their battle for the lead - initially stayed out. A similar decision briefly vaulted Alpine's Fernando Alonso, who was leading Verstappen in sixth place before the rain, to third. Halfway around the lap following Verstappen's stop, Norris was asked if he wanted to stop for intermediate tyres and he said: \"No.\" Hamilton was also saying it was not raining that heavily, but was ordered to come in because more rain was coming. He stopped a lap after Verstappen, with four to go, leaving Norris out in front on his slick tyres as the rain fell increasingly heavily. Hamilton was 14.9 seconds behind Norris a lap after he had stopped, but the rain was by now so bad that the seven-time champion caught the McLaren within five more corners and swept by into the lead. Norris finally stopped after tip-toeing around the rest of the lap but the delay in coming in for tyres dropped him down to seventh place at the end. Ferrari's Carlos Sainz, who stopped for tyres at the same time as Verstappen, took third, while McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo and Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas also benefited from early stops for treaded tyres to take fourth and fifth ahead of Alonso. Norris' gamble to stay on slick tyres cost him a first race win The error of judgement by team and driver in the late rain was a bitter blow for Norris after appearing on course for an impressive maiden victory for so long. The 21-year-old lost the lead to Sainz at the start and tracked the Ferrari for 13 laps before re-passing for the lead. Hamilton, meanwhile, had dropped from fourth on the grid to seventh on the first lap and he spent the first part of the race stuck in a train behind Williams driver George Russell in third, who was ahead of Aston Martin's Lance Stroll and Ricciardo. When Russell and Stroll pitted out of the way, Ricciardo appeared to be holding Hamilton back to give Norris some breathing space at the front. At the same time Verstappen had made excellent progress from his place on the back row of the grid following an engine penalty and was only two seconds behind Hamilton - with team-mate Sergio Perez and Alonso between them - after just 20 laps. After both Norris and Hamilton had pitted, Norris had a 10-second lead, which the Mercedes driver remorselessly closed. But with 10 laps to go, Norris appeared to be in control, with Hamilton not able to get within a second of him, only for the rain to change everything. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was another to suffer for a late decision to change tyres. Starting from the back of the grid, he was ninth heading into the closing laps, two spots behind Verstappen, and was briefly up to fourth as the rain threw everything up in the air. But stopping late on the same lap as Norris meant he dropped down out of the points into 15th. Max Verstappen came from last on the grid for a second place finished A decision to stop for fresh tyres on lap 26 - about half-distance - appeared to have been damaging for Verstappen. It dropped him behind a slow-moving pack of cars and he lost ground to the leaders. And things went from bad to worse when Alonso - who had also started on hards, but stopped 10 laps later for fresh tyres - passed him into Turn Two, Verstappen seemingly unable to do anything about reclaiming sixth place. Verstappen said that both situations were caused by the fact his tyres were worn out after spending so long in traffic. But the rain came to his rescue. He made the call to stop for intermediate tyres at exactly the right time and was able to vault up into second, in what could be a critical move in a championship battle that is so close. Really hard to call this one. Norris, Hamilton, Verstappen and Alonso were probably the picks of the field, but let's give it to Norris for controlling the race so well for so long after re-passing Sainz, even if he and McLaren did bungle the late tyre choice What happens next? A two-week gap until the Turkish Grand Prix. Last year's race was a chaotic rain-hit affair in which Hamilton put in one of his greatest drives to win the title. But this year, it is far too close to make any pre-race predictions.\n• None Who is New York named after and why? Go on a fact-finding journey about famous places that have changed names\n• None Meet the women taking the wheel in a male-dominated car industry", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: More than 500 people attend vigil for Sabina Nessa\n\nA book of condolence has been opened for people to pay respects to teacher Sabina Nessa, who was killed as she walked to a pub in south-east London.\n\nThe book is in a community centre near Cator Park in Kidbrooke, close to where the 28-year-old's body was discovered.\n\nOn Friday, more than 500 people joined a vigil in Pegler Square, near to where a wanted suspect was seen on CCTV.\n\nHe was filmed in Pegler Square on the night of the killing carrying what is thought to be \"a reflective red item\".\n\nDetectives said they \"retain an open mind as to whether this was used in the attack on Sabina\".\n\nSabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nAppealing for further help to identify the man, Det Ch Insp Neil John said he may have been \"trying to conceal it [the red item] up his sleeve\".\n\n\"Please share the CCTV footage on social media and... show the image to family members and friends who may not have seen it.\n\n\"He must be traced,\" he added.\n\nTwo men who were arrested on suspicion of murder have both since been released pending further investigations.\n\nPolice said they were \"content that neither of them is the man shown in the CCTV footage\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police want to speak to a man shown walking in Pegler Square\n\nMs Nessa was attacked as she was walking to meet a friend at The Depot bar on 17 September, shortly after leaving her home in Astell Road.\n\nHer body was found the following day by a member of the public near a walkway in the park.\n\nThe book of condolence has been opened at the OpenSpace community centre.\n\nThe centre's manager Kathryn Gosden said they planned to give the book to Ms Nessa's family \"to show that Sabina was part of this community... and we are sorry and will remember her\".\n\nShe added that those living in the area were still \"very, very scared\" about what had happened.\n\n\"Even today, people are out in twos and threes, they're not out on their own,\" she said.\n\nPolice have also released an image of a car they believe the wanted man had access to\n\nMore candles and tributes have also been left in Pegler Square, where hundreds of people gathered for Friday evening's vigil.\n\nAddressing the crowd on Friday evening, Ms Nessa's sister Jebina Yasmin Islam said she had \"lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister, who left this world far too early\".\n\nOthers members of her family spoke at a separate rally earlier that evening at East London Mosque.\n\nA candle was also lit outside No 10 Downing Street in memory of Ms Nessa, while the Duchess of Cambridge said she was \"saddened by the loss of another innocent young woman on our streets\".\n\nWith every hour that passes the number of flowers, cards and candles left near where Sabina Nessa's body was found continues to grow.\n\nThere are letters from friends and colleagues, and many more from people who didn't know Sabina Nessa but want to pay tribute to her.\n\nThree heart shaped red balloons float beside the pathway she would have taken on her way to meet a friend last Friday, near the place where she was attacked.\n\nHaving been closed behind the police cordon all week, the OpenSpace Community Centre has opened its doors today, offering people the chance to sign a book of condolence.\n\nA space normally used for dance lessons, football training and coffee mornings is now a focus for a grieving community.\n\nMeanwhile, Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales Dame Vera Baird said police needed to better protect the public, rather than women being asked to take precautions.\n\nCrowds gathered not far from the crime scene where forensic officers are still working\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Dame Vera said: \"Apparently the police have been giving out rape alarms to women and giving leaflets out saying how to stay safe in a public place.\n\n\"It is less, isn't it, about giving women leaflets on keeping themselves safe in dangerous places and more about the police making the streets safe for women?\"\n\nCandles have been lit in Pegler Square where Friday's vigil was held\n\nShe added: \"Three-quarters of women over 16 have been harassed in a public place and don't feel safe.\n\n\"They need to know that the police understand that and will use all the powers they have got to keep the streets safe.\"\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe previously said the force was not asking women to change their behaviour when going out at night.\n\n\"Violence against women and girls is a priority for police across the UK but we're really conscious that women should be free to go about their lives without fear of abuse.\"\n\nShe added violence against women was \"something that is tolerated far too much in society and we the police are determined to bring offenders to justice and to prevent these offences where we can\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Singer Lizzo performed in New York's Central Park for Global Citizen Live\n\nEd Sheeran, Lizzo and Billie Eilish were among stars to take part in a 24-hour gig to raise awareness of climate change, vaccine inequality and famine.\n\nOver 60 artists performed in The Global Citizen festival in cities including New York, London and Seoul.\n\nTens of thousands of people attended concerts around the world, and millions more tuned in to the broadcast.\n\nThe event kicked off on Saturday in Paris, where Elton John performed in front of the Eiffel Tower.\n\nHe took to the stage following a pre-recorded performance by the K-pop band BTS.\n\nThe show, believed to be one of the biggest-ever international charity events, was organised by Global Citizen - a charity working to end extreme poverty by 2030.\n\nUnlike most events of this nature, organisers were not aiming to raise cash, but to use participation as evidence for world leaders that people support bold action on the issues.\n\n\"Across six continents, artists will help rally citizens in demanding that governments, major corporations and philanthropists work together to defend the planet and defeat poverty,\" Global Citizen said in a statement.\n\nTaboo, will.i.am and J. Rey Soul of the Black Eyed Peas took to the stage in Paris\n\nIt called on international governments to plant one billion trees, deliver one billion vaccines to the poorest countries and donate meals for 41 million people on the brink of famine.\n\nJennifer Lopez was among those who performed in New York, along with Billie Eilish and Coldplay.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle called for the Covid-19 vaccine to be treated as a basic human right\n\nEarlier, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, took to the stage calling for access to Covid-19 vaccines to be treated \"as a basic human right.\"\n\n\"The way you're born should not dictate your ability to survive,\" the Duke of Sussex told crowds in the city's Central Park.\n\nThey were followed performances by singer Alessia Cara and pop veteran Cyndi Lauper, who sang a rendition of Girls Just Want To Have Fun, dedicated to Afghan women.\n\nThousands of people filled The Great Lawn in New York's Central Park for a concert in the city\n\nEd Sheeran performed in Paris alongside the Black Eyed Peas and Stormzy, while Stevie Wonder played in Los Angeles.\n\nThere were also pre-recorded performances from a huge number of stars, including Green Day, Kylie Minogue and Andrea Bocelli.\n\nIn a recorded message, USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced that the US would contribute more than $295m (£215m) \"to stave off famine and extreme hunger, confront gender-based violence and address the urgent humanitarian needs the Covid-19 pandemic is leaving in its wake.\"\n\nKylie Minogue is one of many stars to have pre-recorded a performance\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron also pledged to double the number of coronavirus vaccines his country will send to poorer nations, to 120 million.\n\nMeanwhile, a host of international companies like Lego, Cisco and Verizon promised charitable donations.\n\nThe head of the World Health Organization has backed Saturday's concerts, calling on the leaders of the developed world to unite and bring an end to vaccine inequality.\n\n\"We now face a two-track pandemic of haves and have-nots,\" Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. \"We cannot disregard this gross inequity or become complacent.\"\n\nGrime star Stormzy also took to the stage in the French capital\n\nThose attending the concerts were required to produce either proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test.\n\nTickets to the shows were distributed free of charge to randomly selected people who signed up for the Global Citizen app and shared its petitions on social media.\n\nThe Global Citizen organisation has been behind other high-profile charity events, including Vax Live: The Concert To Reunite The World earlier this year in Los Angeles.\n\nThat event brought together musicians, actors, celebrities and world leaders in a united call for global vaccinations to fight Covid-19.\n\nThe Global Citizen: Live concert is being shown on BBC One and iPlayer for audiences in the UK", "Christine Shawcroft qualified for her pension in the middle of July\n\nPensioners who have just turned 66 have spoken of their stress and anger after failing to be paid their state pension.\n\nBacklogs in processing applications at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) mean thousands of people have not received their entitlement on time.\n\nOne told the BBC she \"wanted to cry\" and \"felt like she didn't count\" after her payments were not made.\n\nThe department has apologised, blaming the pandemic and staffing issues for the delays.\n\nOver the course of the summer, thousands of people reaching the state pension age of 66 have applied for their state pension, but have not received any money.\n\nThey include Christine Shawcroft, who turned 66 in the middle of July, and - like many others - has made numerous calls to the DWP, spending at least 45 minutes on hold before getting through.\n\n\"I'm pretty disgusted and, to be honest, I am beginning to lose patience,\" she said. \"I have failed to get a reasonable answer as to why I am still waiting.\n\n\"I understand there is Covid, but I'm sure it is not responsible for everything.\"\n\nLinda Higgins, pictured in happier times, says she is now stressed and scared\n\nRecently retired probation service receptionist Linda Higgins echoes that view - saying there have been \"a lot of Covid excuses\".\n\nShe, too, has yet to be paid any of her state pension after turning 66 in July. She said her personal pension was not enough to live on.\n\n\"I've not received a penny. It makes me stressed and scared that I'm not going to get it,\" she said. \"I paid my taxes for 45 years so it is just not fair,\"\n\nConcerns have been raised that some of those affected face a significant gap between receiving any working income, or working-age benefits, which have already stopped, and their state pension.\n\nGrandmother-of-three Maria Bellamy said she was enduring weeks of delays for her new state pension. As a cleaner, she had not been able to build up any significant savings and was relying on her husband's pension.\n\n\"They say I am a priority, but nothing happens. I feel very down about it as it makes me feel like it is my own fault,\" she said. \"I have always worked and been independent with money.\n\n\"Now sometimes I want to cry. We are good citizens, made to feel that you don't count. We put people into government who are supposed to look after us.\"\n\nFormer pensions minister Ros Altmann, who sits in the House of Lords, said that many thousands of people reach state pension age every year, and that there was \"clearly a major problem with administration\" at the DWP.\n\nShe said it would not be a surprise if the department had been stretched by the increase in claims for universal credit caused by the pandemic, but that the whole system should be more automated.\n\nPensions Minister Guy Opperman told MPs that hundreds of department staff were being redeployed to deal with the backlog in state pension payments.\n\nA DWP spokesman said: \"We are sorry that some new state pension customers have faced delays receiving payment.\n\n\"All those affected have been identified and we have deployed extra resources to process these as a priority. Any claims made today should not be subject to delay.\"\n\nThose without their money should be paid automatically, and Mr Opperman said that the system would be back to normal by the end of October.\n\nThe DWP is already facing criticism and a heavy workload after it emerged that an estimated 200,000 female pensioners are collectively owed up to £2.7bn after the under-payment of state pensions owing to historic errors at the department.", "The hotel's owner said he had been spending more time dealing with \"other people's guests\" than his own\n\nHotel owners have defended introducing a £200 membership fee after being overrun by people taking sunset snaps for social media from its clifftop bar.\n\nThe Druidstone Hotel, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, has been criticised as \"elitist\" after starting the members-only club.\n\nOwner Angus Bell said the hotel had been inundated by tourists after images were shared on Instagram.\n\n\"It just got too much,\" Mr Bell said.\n\nWith more people choosing to go on holiday in the UK this year due to Covid rules, visitors have flocked to beauty spots across Wales, with queues seen on mountains and packed beaches.\n\nPeople flock to the area to witness the sun setting over St Brides Bay\n\nMr Bell said he had been left struggling to cope after the bar, overlooking St Brides Bay, was swamped with visitors from nearby pop-up campsites and Airbnbs.\n\n\"It just got too much,\" he said.\n\n\"My guests were having to wait 45 minutes at the bar to get a drink and a lot of the local people would avoid us in the summer because we were too busy.\"\n\nMr Bell, who took over the hotel after his parents died, said the membership, which can increase to £400 a year with additional benefits such as an increased bar tab facility, was rolled out to try and \"control numbers\" and make it a nicer place to live and stay.\n\n\"We could have gone down the route of having a second bar, but we don't want to be a pub and I didn't like walking into my garden to find 60 people there that I didn't know,\" he said.\n\nThe former Victorian home, along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, was transformed into a 10-bedroom hotel in 1972 by his parents Rod and Jane Bell.\n\nThe hotel has been a popular site for people watching the sunset over the Bay for years\n\nMr Bell, who now runs the hotel with his partner Beth Wilshaw, said his parents had previously run the hotel as a members-only club, and the new fee was value for money.\n\n\"Non-members can still book rooms or a table in the restaurant - membership is really about the bar,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the new fee sparked backlash on Tripadvisor, with some saying the move was \"barring\" visitors and locals from visiting the hotel.\n\nOne reviewer wrote they would no longer be able to go to the Druidstone after going there for food and drinks for over 40 years.\n\nAnother, who described the move as \"utterly elitist and backward\", wrote: \"So disappointing to have such a lovely place turned into an elitist members-only clique where you can only drink if you're staying there or pay £200+ a year.\"\n\nMr Bell said that the criticism had not changed his mind, and he now had time for his staff and guests after introducing the system.\n\n\"I've made my life better - even though someone might be a bit upset that they can't pop in for a cup of tea,\" he said.\n\nIn a note on the hotel website, the owners say they \"know there are people who really love this place but for whom £200 annually just will not be possible, adding: \"We don't want to price people out of The Druidstone. So talk to Angus and Beth.\"\n• None Warning on the dangers of goat selfies", "Despite all the promises to take action, the world is still on course to heat up to dangerous levels.\n\nThat's the latest blunt assessment of the United Nations.\n\nIts experts have studied the climate plans of more than 100 countries and concluded that we're heading in the wrong direction.\n\nScientists recently confirmed that to avoid the worst impacts of hotter conditions, global carbon emissions needed to be cut by 45% by 2030.\n\nBut this new analysis shows that those emissions are set to rise by 16% during this period.\n\nThat could eventually lead to a temperature rise of 2.7C (4.9F) above pre-industrial times - far above the limits set by the international community.\n\n\"The 16% increase is a huge cause for concern,\" according to Patricia Espinosa, the UN's chief climate negotiator.\n\n\"It is in sharp contrast with the calls by science for rapid, sustained and large-scale emission reductions to prevent the most severe climate consequences and suffering, especially of the most vulnerable, throughout the world.\"\n\nIt's a stark warning about the scale of the challenge faced at the COP26 climate conference, scheduled to take place in Glasgow in just over six weeks' time.\n\nThe central aim of the giant event is to keep alive hopes of limiting the rise in global temperatures by persuading nations to cut their emissions.\n\nUnder the rules of the Paris Agreement on climate change, countries are meant to update their carbon reduction plans every five years.\n\nBut the UN says that of 191 countries taking part in the agreement, only 113 have so far come up with improved pledges.\n\nAlok Sharma, the British minister who will chair the COP26 conference, said nations that had ambitious climate plans were \"already bending the curve of emissions downwards\".\n\n\"But without action from all countries, especially the biggest economies, these efforts risk being in vain.\"\n\nA study by Climate Action Tracker found that of the G20 group of leading industrial nations, only a handful including the UK and the US have strengthened their targets to cut emissions.\n\nIn another analysis, the World Resources Institute and Climate Analytics highlight how China, India, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - together responsible for 33% of greenhouse gases - have yet to submit updated plans.\n\nIt says that Australia and Indonesia have the same carbon reduction targets they did back in 2015 - while the Paris Agreement is meant to involve a \"ratchet mechanism\" of progressively deeper cuts.\n\nAnd the study finds that Brazil, Mexico and Russia all expect their emissions to grow rather than to shrink.\n\nFor the poorest countries - most vulnerable to rising sea levels and new extremes of heat and drought - seeing a rapid fall in the gases heating the planet is a priority.\n\nSonam P Wangdi, chair of the Least Developed Countries group, said: \"G20 countries must take the lead in quickly cutting emissions to mitigate climate change.\n\n\"These are the countries with the greatest capacity and responsibility, and it's well past time they step up and treat this crisis like a crisis.\"\n\nThere are hopes that China may revise its climate plans ahead of the Glasgow conference.\n\nAs the world's largest emitter, it has previously said it aims to peak its emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.\n\nAn announcement soon of more ambitious targets would give the talks a significant boost but there are no clues about when - or even whether - that might happen.", "Holiday bookings have surged since the government announced foreign travel rules were being simplified in England.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the travel traffic light system was being replaced with a single red list.\n\nAnd fully vaccinated people will no longer need a pre-departure test before returning from non-red list areas.\n\nTravel firms said they had already seen an uptick in bookings and expected a busy weekend.\n\nAs part of the changes announced by Mr Shapps on Friday, eight countries - Turkey, Pakistan, the Maldives, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Oman, Bangladesh and Kenya - are being removed from the red list from Wednesday.\n\nIt means people returning from these destinations will no longer have to stay in hotel quarantine.\n\nMr Shapps also announced that from October travellers returning to England will no longer have to take a PCR test two days after arrival. Instead, they can take the quicker and cheaper lateral flow tests.\n\nHuw Merriman, chairman of the Commons transport select committee and who previously criticised PCR tests for being too expensive, welcomed the rule change.\n\nThe Conservative MP told BBC Breakfast it would make foreign travel simpler, more cost-effective and reflected the UK's high vaccination rate.\n\nHe also said it would be \"interesting\" to see if there would be some form of registration requirement for lateral flow tests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel experts explain the changes to travel rules in England\n\nTravel bosses welcomed the changes and reported an increase in holiday bookings since the announcement.\n\nSteve Heapy, chief executive of tour operator Jet2, said there had been a \"phenomenal\" consumer reaction since the announcement, with \"huge\" demand for holidays in the next few weeks.\n\nHe added that destinations across the board were \"selling well\" across late summer, winter and summer 2022 dates, and the firm had seen a \"surge in bookings\" for family holidays during October half-term.\n\nThomas Cook said October half-term bookings were three times higher than in August and it expected this weekend to be the biggest of the year.\n\nTui also said it had seen \"an uptick in bookings\" for Turkey for next month, while online travel agency Skyscanner saw a spike in traffic in the 30 minutes following Mr Shapps's announcement.\n\nChris Parker, director of capacity and passenger performance at DFDS ferries, said the rule changes were \"better late than never\" but it was a \"shame\" that the summer season had been lost.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there was a real collapse in bookings this year, at about 20% of 2019 bookings.\n\nBut following Friday's announcement, there was an \"immediate spike\" in visits to their website and an uptick in bookings for October onwards.\n\nThe travel rule changes will see families and loved ones reunited.\n\nSafina Hameed said she was \"over the moon\" Pakistan will be removed from the travel red list, as it means she will be able to hug her daughter for the first time in two years.\n\nMrs Hameed, who lives in Karachi, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that being separated from her daughter Shahana Minhas and her only grandson was \"horrible\".\n\nMrs Minhas, who lives in London, said she and her husband had been cautious about Covid and wanted to wait until they and their parents were vaccinated before they considered travelling to see each other.\n\n\"But then as soon as we got vaccinated and our parents got vaccinated, Pakistan went on the red list so there went any hope of actually being able to see them finally.\"\n\nSince the announcement, she has been looking at flights to Pakistan.\n\n\"It's literally been counting the days until we can finally see each other and things can go back to the way that they were,\" she said.\n\nLabour has raised concerns over how the monitoring for coronavirus variants will continue amid the plans to scrap the PCR test requirements.\n\nShadow transport secretary Jim McMahon urged ministers to explain how it would continue and whether they planned to increase sequencing of tests.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would also drop the traffic light system but would not follow England in removing the pre-departure test requirement for fully vaccinated people returning from non-red list countries.\n\nThe country's Transport Secretary, Michael Matheson, said there were \"concerns\" this would \"weaken our ability to protect the public health of Scotland's communities\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps outlines a new travel system, which he says will be \"easier, simpler and cheaper\"\n\nScotland will also not copy England in using lateral flow tests on day two at this stage.\n\nThe decision to diverge from England's rules has been criticised by Edinburgh Airport, which said the move would \"further curtail Scotland's aviation and travel industries in their recovery\".\n\nThe Welsh government said it would consider the UK government's proposed changes, but health and social services minister Eluned Morgan warned they could \"weaken the line of defence on importing infection and increase opportunities for new infections and new variants to enter the UK and Wales\".\n\nBoth administrations said they would mirror the changes to the red list destinations.\n\nNorthern Ireland's executive said it will follow other UK nations in dropping the traffic light system, but the proposed changes on pre-departure and post-arrival testing were still under consideration and would be discussed by ministers next week.\n\nMr Shapps said the measures were intended to strike the \"right balance\" between simplifying the system while managing the public health risk \"as the number one priority\".\n\nAirport Operators Association chief executive Karen Dee said the easing of restrictions should encourage more people to travel over the winter, but urged ministers to put support into the industry as furlough ends.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said it was a \"welcome step forward\" which would make travel to Europe significantly easier although more needed to be done.", "The UK government department overseeing the phasing out of diesel cars still relies on them for its own fleet.\n\nFigures obtained by the BBC show the Department for Transport operates 1,234 cars - 672 run on diesel, 63 on petrol, with the rest electric or hybrid.\n\nThe sale of new diesel and petrol cars is to be banned from 2030, under plans to tackle climate change.\n\nThe department said it was committed to switching to greener vehicles.\n\nA spokesperson added it had \"already exceeded\" a government-wide target to electrify more than a quarter of its fleet by next year.\n\nBut a campaign group said the government should lead by example - and the figures would make it harder to persuade the public to switch vehicles.\n\nFigures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show the DfT and the four executive agencies it oversees had 1,234 vehicles as of last month.\n\nIn total 54% of the fleet run on diesel, with a further five per cent powered by petrol.\n\nThe figures show 29% of the vehicles were plug-in electric hybrids, a further 9% were so-called mild hybrids, and 3% were electric-only.\n\nMost of the vehicles - 970 - were operated by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, responsible for driving tests and lorry and bus safety.\n\nThe highest proportion of diesel vehicles was owned by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, where 84% run on the fuel.\n\nThe department itself operates 112 cars, including 96 to transport ministers and civil servants from across government on official duties.\n\nAmong this central pool of ministerial motors, just 15% were diesel, with about 30% petrol, 27% hybrid and 29% fully electric.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps arrived in Downing Street by official car during Wednesday's cabinet reshuffle\n\nAlongside the business department, the DfT is responsible for the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles, a unit that promotes greener vehicles.\n\nMinisters' driving habits were thrust into the spotlight recently, after Alok Sharma, who is in charge of November's COP 26 climate summit, admitted he was yet to swap his own diesel car for an electric alternative.\n\nThe government is under pressure to burnish its green credentials ahead of the conference, which is being hosted in Glasgow.\n\nIt has set a target to make all its 40,000 or so cars and vans electric by 2027, and electrify at least a quarter of the central government fleet by next year.\n\nA DfT spokesperson said its combined 31% figure for plug-in hybrids and electric-only cars showed it had \"already exceeded\" the 2022 target.\n\nThey added the department was \"committed to transitioning to cleaner, greener vehicles\" in line with government targets.\n\nBut the Campaign for Better Transport said the figures obtained by the BBC showed an \"obvious inconsistency\" with its drive to phase out diesel and petrol cars more widely.\n\nFormer Lib Dem transport minister Norman Baker, who is part of the group, said: \"The government needs to lead by example - this makes it difficult to persuade others.\"\n• None What was agreed at COP26?", "The aftermath of the drone strike in the Afghan capital, Kabul\n\nThe US has admitted that a drone strike in Kabul days before its military pullout killed 10 innocent people.\n\nA US Central Command investigation found that an aid worker and nine members of his family, including seven children, died in the 29 August strike.\n\nThe youngest child, Sumaya, was just two years old.\n\nThe deadly strike happened days after a terror attack at Kabul airport, amid a frenzied evacuation effort following the Taliban's sudden return to power.\n\nIt was one of the US military's final acts in Afghanistan, before ending its 20-year operation in the country.\n\nUS intelligence had tracked the aid worker's car for eight hours, believing it was linked to IS-K militants - a local branch of the Islamic State (IS) group, US Central Command Gen Kenneth McKenzie said.\n\nThe investigation found the man's car had been seen at a compound associated with IS-K, and its movements aligned with other intelligence about the terror group's plans for an attack on Kabul airport.\n\nAt one point, a surveillance drone saw men loading what appeared to be explosives into the boot of the car, but these turned out to be containers of water.\n\nGen McKenzie described the strike as a \"tragic mistake\", and added that the Taliban had not been involved in the intelligence that led to the strike.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emal Ahmadi: \"Ten people died here... including my daughter, she was two years old\"\n\nThe strike happened as the aid worker - named as Zamairi Ahmadi - pulled into the driveway of his home, 3km (1.8 miles) from the airport.\n\nThe explosion set off a secondary blast, which US officials initially said was proof that the car was indeed carrying explosives. However the investigation has found it was most likely caused by a propane tank in the driveway.\n\nOne of those killed, Ahmad Naser, had been a translator with US forces. Other victims had previously worked for international organisations and held visas allowing them entry to the US.\n\nRelatives of the victims told the BBC the day after the strike that they had applied to be evacuated, and had been waiting for a phone call telling them to go to the airport.\n\nIn a statement, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said: \"We now know that there was no connection between Mr Ahmadi and Isis-Khorasan, that his activities on that day were completely harmless and not at all related to the imminent threat we believed we faced.\n\n\"We apologise, and we will endeavour to learn from this horrible mistake.\"\n\nThe horrific consequences of the US military's miscalculation have drawn questions about the accuracy of future counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan with a US presence no longer on the ground.\n\nThis catastrophe exposed the dreadful human cost of a war that inflicted a lot of damage from the air for years.\n\nThat it should take place just as the Americans ended their 20-year occupation will cast an even darker stain on the chaotic US exit.\n\nBut for some in the region, it is a particularly stark example of the ongoing dangers of drone warfare.\n\nWhen the US started to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban managed to seize control of the country within about two weeks in a lightning-fast offensive.\n\nPresident Ashraf Ghani fled to the United Arab Emirates, and Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, fell on 15 August.\n\nIt sparked a mass evacuation effort from the US and its allies, as thousands of people tried to flee. Many were foreign nationals or Afghans who had worked for foreign governments.\n\nThere were scenes of panic and chaos at Kabul airport, and some people fell to their deaths after trying to cling to US military planes as they took off.\n\nThe security situation was further heightened after a suicide bomber killed up to 170 civilians and 13 US troops outside the airport on 26 August. IS-K said it had carried out the attack.\n\nMany of those killed had been hoping to board evacuation flights leaving the city.\n\nThe last US soldier left Afghanistan on 31 August - the deadline President Joe Biden had set for the US withdrawal.\n\nMore than 124,000 foreigners and Afghans were flown out of the country beforehand. But some people were unable to get out in time, and evacuation efforts are ongoing.", "Meat processors are in talks with the government over a shortage of carbon dioxide that could hit meat production.\n\nThe gas is used to stun pigs and chickens prior to slaughtering, and also in the packaging process.\n\nThe carbon dioxide used by the meat industry is a by-product of fertiliser production, but fertiliser factories have been halting production due to soaring natural gas prices.\n\nThe government said it was monitoring the situation \"closely\".\n\nIt has been holding emergency talks with industry groups and meat processors, as first reported by the Financial Times.\n\nFertiliser producers have been struggling with natural gas prices that are at record highs as economies around the world begin to recover from the Covid crisis.\n\nIn the UK, lower winds have meant less renewable energy is generated, there have been outages at some nuclear stations, and there have been lower flows into the UK of natural gas from Norway, pushing up the price of natural gas.\n\nThis week, two large UK fertiliser factories owned by US firm CF Industries Holdings suspended operations due to soaring gas prices, and on Friday Norwegian firm Yara said it would also cut production at a number of its European plants.\n\nNick Allen, the chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA), attended emergency talks with the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on Friday to discuss the issue.\n\n\"This crisis highlights the fact that the British food supply chain is at the mercy of a small number of major fertiliser producers - four or five companies - spread across northern Europe. We rely on a by-product from their production process to keep Britain's food chain moving,\" Mr Allen said.\n\nAbout 20 million birds per week are slaughtered, but abattoirs only hold a limited stock of carbon dioxide, British Poultry Council chief executive Richard Griffiths said.\n\n\"With fewer than 100 days to go until Christmas, and already facing mounting labour shortages, the last thing British poultry production needs is more pressure.\n\n\"If CO2 supplies become tighter and more unpredictable then supply chains will have to slow down. Ultimately, no CO2 means no throughput.\"\n\nHe said the industry group's members \"are on a knife-edge situation at the moment\".\n\nMeat processors are working with government to \"mitigate any major impact on a sustainable supply of food\", he added.\n\n\"This is incredibly serious,\" one supermarket executive told the BBC. \"Some suppliers are telling us they could run out of CO2 in less than two weeks.\"\n\nIndustry groups and processors also had a meeting with the government on Thursday.\n\nMeat processors have already been struggling with a shortage of lorry drivers and recruitment problems at abattoirs exacerbated by EU nationals leaving the UK after Brexit.\n\nCarbon dioxide is used when slaughtering pigs and chickens to stun them, and it is used during the packaging process for all meat to prolong shelf life.\n\nIt is widely used throughout the food industry, including in brewing.\n\nHowever, the closure of the two CF Industries plants has cut 60% of the UK's food-grade carbon dioxide supply, the BMPA spokesperson said.\n\nIt unclear how much carbon dioxide abattoirs and other food factories have stored.\n\nThe remaining UK carbon dioxide production is being prioritised for the NHS for medical uses, and for the nuclear industry, which uses it as a coolant.\n\nWithout carbon dioxide, the slaughtering process of pigs and chickens cannot go ahead, the spokesperson said.\n\nThe Cucumber Growers Association also warned of the effect of high natural gas prices on crops.\n\nGas is used to heat greenhouses and provide carbon dioxide \"which are both critical factors in growing and achieving the yields required to survive in the modern industry\", it said in an open letter.\n\nThe \"extreme rise\" in wholesale gas prices has piled costs on growers, it added.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are monitoring this situation closely and are in regular contact with the food and farming organisations and industry, to help them manage the current situation.\"", "Customers have been advised not to panic after two energy suppliers announced they had ceased trading.\n\nOne of the firms is Edinburgh-based People's Energy, which supplies gas and electricity to about 350,000 homes and 1,000 businesses.\n\nThe other is Dorset-based Utility Point, which has 220,000 domestic customers.\n\nNational advice service Advice Direct Scotland said energy supplies would continue for those affected.\n\nIt also said customers would not lose any money owed to them.\n\nConsumers have also been advised not to immediately switch to a new supplier as a new company will be chosen by regulator Ofgem.\n\nPeople's Energy was formed in 2017 by East Lothian couple David Pike and Karin Sode following a crowdfunding campaign.\n\nThe firm promised to return profits to its customers in a transparent, ethical way of working.\n\nIn August last year, it announced plans to create 100 new jobs with an expansion into the Borders.\n\nPeople's Energy was co-founded in 2017 by Karin Sode and David Pike\n\nIn a statement on its website, People's Energy said: \"Please rest assured that your energy supply is secure and all account credit balances are protected for our domestic customers.\n\n\"This includes any recent top-ups that were made as part of the seasonal weighting initiative.\"\n\nIt added: \"We are truly sad that we weren't able to make this community-focused approach to energy supply work.\n\n\"Thank you to those of you who supported our mission from early on. We are very sorry about the inconvenience and disruption this will cause our customers.\"\n\nIn a similar announcement on its website, Utility Point said customers \"need not worry, their supplies are secure and domestic credit balances are protected\".\n\nAdvice Direct Scotland, which runs the national energyadvice.scot service, said customers affected \"should not panic\".\n\nSpokesman Colin Mathieson said: \"While this news can be worrying for consumers, it's important to remember that you won't be cut off if your energy supplier has gone out of business - so you don't need to do anything right now.\n\n\"The gas and electricity regulator Ofgem will arrange for your account to be transferred to a new supplier.\n\n\"There won't be a break in your supply when it's transferred over, although the price you pay for your energy might go up - and that's when you can consider switching supplier, and you won't be charged an exit fee to do so.\"\n\nFurther information about the collapse of the energy firms can be found on the Ofgem website.", "Strictly Come Dancing's Oti Mabuse has been teamed with rugby star Ugo Monye in her bid for a third consecutive win.\n\nThe professional partners of this year's 15 celebrity contestants were revealed in Saturday's launch show.\n\nBake Off winner John Whaite will dance with Johannes Radebe in the show's first all-male partnership. Whaite called it \"a great step forward\".\n\nComedian Robert Webb will dance with Dianne Buswell, while pop star Tom Fletcher is teamed with Amy Dowden.\n\nThis year's launch episode of Strictly was watched by an average of seven million viewers, according to overnight ratings.\n\nIt marks a drop in viewing figures from 2020's opening episode which was watched by an average of 8.6 million, while 7.8 million tuned in to watch the contestants meet their partners in 2019.\n\nThe cast announcements came after one, unnamed, professional dancer tested positive for Covid last week.\n\nA Strictly spokeswoman told the BBC that the show was following government guidelines, which \"change all the time\".\n\n\"A professional dancer has tested positive for Covid 19. However, this didn't affect recording of the launch show,\" she said.\n\nAll those taking part in the show are being regularly tested and no partners have been swapped as a result of the positive test.\n\nThis year's celebrities and their partners\n\nSaturday's launch programme was pre-recorded a week ago, with the positive case discovered the next day. The first live show takes place on 25 September, leaving sufficient time for self-isolation in between.\n\nThe spokeswoman refused to comment on reports in Saturday's Sun that two of the show's professional dancers had refused to be vaccinated.\n\n\"We do not comment on speculation of somebody's Covid vaccination status,\" she said\n\n\"Strictly Come Dancing production has, and will, continue to follow strict government guidelines to ensure the safety of all on the show.\"\n\nHosts Claudia Winkelman and Tess Daly kicked off proceedings in Saturday's pre-recorded show, which featured returning judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse and new arrival Anton Du Beke.\n\nDu Beke, the show's long-serving professional dancer, replaces Bruno Tonioli on the judging panel after Tonioli, who lives in the US and is a judge on American series Dancing With The Stars, was unable to take part because of ongoing Covid travel restrictions.\n\nBest known for Peep Show opposite David Mitchell, Webb described his dance partner as having \"slightly less conservative hair\"\n\nReigning champion Bill Bailey also returned to perform with his former professional partner Oti Mabuse. Bailey, who was 55 when he won, became the oldest celebrity to lift the glitterball. Actor Greg Wise, partnered with Karen Hauer in this series, is also 55.\n\nMabuse is the only professional dancer to have won two years in a row, following her triumph with Emmerdale's Kelvin Fletcher in 2019.\n\nFormer Strictly dancer Aliona Vilani is the only other person to have two of the show's winning glitterballs, dancing to victory with McFly's Harry Judd in 2011 and, four years later with The Wanted's Jay McGuinness.\n\nMonye - Mabuse's partner for the 19th series - revealed he would be simultaneously filming nine episodes of A Question of Sport during the second week of Strictly.\n\n\"I've got some big shoes to fill,\" said Monye, but he added: \"She definitely knows how to win.\"\n\nChef John Whaite and Johannes Radebe will perform a tango as their first dance\n\nCelebrity chef John Whaite and South African pro dancer Johannes Radebe follow in the footsteps of boxer Nicola Adams and dancer Katya Jones, who became the first same-sex pairing last year.\n\nWhaite told Daly he had been surprised and delighted by the positive reaction to his same sex pairing with Radebe adding that he had been \"expecting a little hate, a bit of trolling\".\n\nHe said it was a \"a privilege and an honour to be in this position because I think if I had seen two lads or lasses in this position when I was a little lad, life would have been that little bit easier\".\n\nTwo years ago, Radebe - who has been one of the professionals on the programme since 2018 - said he felt accepted for the first time in his life after he made history on the show by dancing with another man, out of competition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Strictly Come Dancing professionals Johannes and Graziano dance together\n\nHe and fellow professional Graziano di Prima performed together to Emeli Sande's Shine on one of the Strictly results shows.\n\nThis time around di Prima will partner Loose Women panellist Judi Love.\n\nThe show's first deaf contestant, Rose Ayling-Ellis, who will dance with Giovanni Pernice, said the response from the deaf community to her appearance on Strictly had been \"her proudest moment\".\n\nEastEnders actress Rose Ayling-Ellis was introduced to her dance partner, Giovanni Pernice, in a square in the London's East End, where Giovanni showed off his sign language skills.", "The government is holding urgent talks with representatives from the energy industry amid growing concern about a spike in wholesale gas prices.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is talking to suppliers to hear how wide-reaching the impact of surging prices could be on companies and households.\n\nHigh global demand, maintenance issues at some gas sites and lower solar and wind output are blamed for the rise.\n\nThe high prices have already led two large fertiliser plants to close.\n\nThis has resulted in a cut in the supply of carbon dioxide (CO2) - a by-product of fertiliser production - to the food industry and other manufacturers.\n\nGovernment sources have said there is no threat to gas supplies and the impacts on small energy companies that might be the most exposed are being monitored.\n\nBut the BBC has been told that officials are looking at whether products that could end up being in short supply, such as fertiliser, could be imported from abroad.\n\nMeanwhile, the British Soft Drinks Association said some producers are facing a shortage but have plans in place to help maintain their businesses.\n\nNatural gas prices are at record highs as economies around the world begin to recover from the Covid crisis.\n\nIn the UK, lower winds have meant less renewable energy is generated. There have also been outages at some nuclear stations and lower flows into the UK of natural gas from Norway, pushing up the price of natural gas.\n\nIndustry group Oil & Gas UK said wholesale prices for gas are up 250% since January - with a 70% rise since August.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) reported that in 2020, 60% of the UK's natural gas supply was imported.\n\nMr Kwarteng is talking to chief executives from gas producers, the National Grid, suppliers including Scottish Power, EON and EDF, and the regulator Ofgem.\n\nThe business secretary said energy security was \"an absolute priority\".\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy said on its website: \"While we are not complacent, we do not expect supply emergencies this winter.\"\n\nDermot Nolan, director at Fingleton Strategic Consultancy and former chief executive of Ofgem, told the BBC gas prices have increased not just in Britain but all over the world, with \"Germany and Spain experiencing similar types of increases\".\n\nHe said \"high gas and high electricity prices will be sustained for the next three to four months\", adding that it was difficult to see what the government could do about it.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said the government must \"ensure security of supply and take the long-term action to put in place a much more robust, resilient and diverse energy infrastructure\".\n\nHe said: \"It is a fundamental failure of long-term government planning over the last decade that we are so exposed and vulnerable as a country and it is businesses and consumers that are paying the price.\"\n\nUK consumers are already facing a big hike in bills this winter as higher wholesale prices have led to a recalculation of the energy price cap, but perhaps the more immediate threat is a shortage of carbon dioxide used in the food industry.\n\nThe energy-intensive fertiliser industry has seen two huge plants in Teesside closed down as the gas price has made them uneconomic - which has caused knock-on shortages of CO2 - a by-product of fertilisation production.\n\nCO2 is used to stun animals before slaughter, as a coolant agent in transport and as a shelf life extending agent in food packaging.\n\nNick Allen from the British Meat Processors Association described it as a 'black swan event' - meaning a rare but potentially destructive set of circumstances.\n\nHe said supply already stretched from shortages of labour in abattoirs and shortages of HGV drivers may break with this additional stress.\n\nMeanwhile, Richard Griffiths, CEO of the British Poultry Council, has said the current situation felt more serious than previous CO2 shortages and that ministers would need to act quickly to ensure the government delivers on its promise to 'save Christmas'.\n\nMeat processors are also in talks with the government over shortages of carbon dioxide because of its use in meat production. The government source said CO2 supplies for nuclear power and hospitals would be prioritised.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, said this \"could not come at a worse time\".\n\nHe wants government to work with industry to find a solution quickly so problems \"don't escalate further\".\n\nThe government pointed out that the energy price cap will limit the impact on household bills, although that cap is due to rise next month.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The UK benefits from having access to highly diverse sources of gas supply to ensure households, businesses and heavy industry get the energy they need at a fair price.\n\n\"We are monitoring this situation closely and are in regular contact with the food and farming organisations and industry, to help them manage the current situation.\"", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 10 and 17 September.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nJasmine Caulfield sent in husband Pardeep Chand's image of Glasgow's Barrowlands. Jasmine said: \"The photo was taken at an Arab Strap gig. I think it perfectly represents the return of Glasgwegian nightlife post-lockdown and captures the atmosphere brilliantly. The sign looks like it is bursting out of the night.\"\n\nLinsey Wright said: \"My daughter Harriet delighted to finally be on her first trip to Edinburgh Zoo, postponed because of Covid.\"\n\nAn image from Neil Brown's day exploring around the Isle of Arran.\n\nDerek Brown came across Star Wars' droids C-3PO and R2D2 on Orkney.\n\nSunrise at Kyleakin, Skye, in a picture from Gosia Karczewska.\n\nCarole McCarthy, from Bishopbriggs, took this image of Highland cattle on Skye.\n\nJanina Dolny said of this snap: \"I was lucky enough to capture this picture of the sunset over the Forth Road Bridge and Queensferry Crossing while crossing the Forth Bridge on a fast-moving train.\"\n\nRyan Hartley's shot of the ferry MV Loch Seaforth arriving at Ullapool on a misty morning.\n\nJoanne MacAskill took this image while on a trip to Skye. Joanne said: \"The evening light was beautiful. Our dogs are called Mara and Millie and they are with my wife Evonne.\"\n\nThe abandoned Little Cumbrae lighthouse on the Firth of Clyde in a picture from Gordon Stewart, from Irvine.\n\nBill Main, from Gourock, took his picture in Roseisle Forest, near Burghead. Bill said: \"Conditions were very damp with webs draped from everything that grew.\"\n\nFiona Daily's daughters Isla and Freya playing in the sea at Ayr while the sun set.\n\nWesties Martha, Mollie and Monty looking to see who is coming up the path in a picture from Heather Powell, from Lhanbryde.\n\nKevin Davidge took this shot on the West Highland Way. He said: \"Even a particularly long, wet and arduous scrabble along the shore of Loch Lomond didn’t detract from its beauty. We were, however, delighted to reach the end and look back on what we’d achieved.\"\n\nRhona Ferrier said she came across this \"ropey-looking\" figure overlooking Calgary Bay on Mull.\n\nA picture from Adam Smith's family holiday to Skye. Adam said: \"We took a boat trip into the Sound of Rasaay to look for wildlife and came up trumps. Pods of dolphins playing around the boat including a mother and baby, and sea eagles as well.\"\n\nDave Stewart said of his image: \"The three wrecks of Salen, Mull, just as the drenching rain started.\"\n\nDavid Meikle said of his image: \"When clearing the dead leaves from our strawberry hanging baskets, I found two vine weevil. I only managed to photograph this one - the other was too quick.\"\n\nJudith Cruikshank was impressed with the level of detail inside the Priory Doocot in Crail.\n\nBrian Scott, of Perth, said: \"I had a great morning walk with Ellen in part of Scotland's rain forests at Reelig Glen with its amazing tall trees.\"\n\nMargaret Howie, of Ayr, captured this kingfisher looking for its breakfast. She said: \"I was walking along the seafront near Doonfoot in Ayr and spotted it sitting on the rocks at the mouth of the River Doon looking for fish in the early-morning sunlight.\"\n\nCameron Pagan's photograph from Craig Notman and Joanna Main's wedding in Gatehouse of Fleet. The bride's dad arranged for the couple's dog, Winnie, to make a surprise guest appearance. She was wearing socks to ensure any excited jumping did not ruin any outfits.\n\nSlains Castle by Cruden Bay in a picture taken by Colin MacDougall from East Linton.\n\nStephen Lipton, of Glasgow, sent in a selection of images from his adventures around Scotland, including this one of a gannet which he took from a boat just off Troup Head in Aberdeenshire.\n\nJean McAllister, from Campbeltown, sent in this photo of a rainbow over Davaar Island while on a walk. She said: \" Was definitely worth getting a bit wet.\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "British boxer Amir Khan has been removed from a flight in the US after a reported row over face coverings.\n\nMr Khan, 34, said he had been taken off the American Airlines plane along with a colleague by police when someone complained his friend's mask \"was not high enough\".\n\nThe airline said the flight from Newark Airport to Dallas-Fort Worth returned to the gate after two people reportedly \"refused to comply with crew requests\".\n\nIt denied that police had intervened.\n\nA spokesman for the airline said: \"Our customer relations team is reaching out to Mr Khan to learn more about his experience and reinforce the importance of policies implemented for the safety of our customers and crew.\"\n\nIn a video posted to Twitter, Mr Khan said he was flying to a training camp in Colorado after a stay in New York and was left \"disgusted\" by his treatment.\n\nThe former light-welterweight world champion, from Bolton, said: \"I was taken off the plane today when I was going to training camp to Colorado Springs, by the police.\n\n\"Obviously a complaint was made by American Airlines staff, they said that my colleague's mask was not high enough and not up, that they had to stop the plane and take me and my friend off when I did nothing wrong.\"\n\nHe added: \"Now I have to reschedule another airplane to travel back to training camp which is really upsetting, for no reason this was and I'm just so disgusted that American Airlines would do this to us and ban me from travelling.\"\n\nAmerican Airlines said Flight 700 returned to the gate at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after two customers \"reportedly refused to comply with repeated crew member requests to stow luggage, place cell phones in airplane mode and adhere to federal face covering requirements\".\n\nIt said \"per protocol\" police were present when the aircraft returned to the gate but were not involved in asking either passenger to leave the plane and did not intervene.\n\nNeither Mr Khan nor his colleague had been banned from the airline, it added.", "The Taliban's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced the new government in a press conference on Tuesday\n\nThe phrases have tripped off the tongues of Taliban for quite some time.\n\n\"We're working to establish an inclusive government that represents all the people of Afghanistan,\" promised Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar when he recently arrived in Kabul to start talks aimed at forming a leadership to move the movement from guns to government.\n\n\"We would like to live peacefully,\" vowed Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid at the first press conference in the capital after the Taliban suddenly swept into power on 15 August. \"We don't want any internal enemies and any external enemies.\"\n\nJudge them by their actions, not their words, has become the mantra of a fast-expanding league of Taliban watchers including Afghans, foreign governments, humanitarian chiefs and political pundits the world over.\n\nBut Afghans are watching most closely of all. They have to.\n\nOn a day when brave protesters with bold banners spilled into the streets of Kabul and other cities - Afghan women leading the charge to demand their rights, their representation, their roles in society - the new Taliban government was unveiled.\n\nWas this more evidence of the media-savvy Taliban? It temporarily knocked news of Taliban firing guns in the air, wielding rifle butts and sticks to disperse protesters, out of the world's headlines.\n\nBut it was a modest ceremony, in the mundane setting of a press conference, for such a momentous, much-anticipated message. It electrified social media, and delivered a gut punch to those who had held fast to Taliban promises.\n\nFar from being inclusive, it is exclusively Taliban. The old organigram of the Taliban movement, with its commissions, deputies, and the all-powerful Emir Hibatullah Akhundzada, has been transplanted into a cabinet with the same political architecture of governments everywhere.\n\nIts makeup is overwhelmingly drawn from Pashtun tribes, with only one Tajik and one Uzbek, both Talibs. There's not a single woman, not even in deputy minister positions.\n\nThe reviled Ministry of Vice and Virtue is back; the Women's Affairs Ministry is out.\n\nIt's a government of the old guard, and the new generation of mullahs and military commanders: men in charge when the Taliban ruled in the 1990s who return, beards much lighter and longer; former Guantanamo Bay prisoners; current members of US and UN black lists; battle-hardened fighters who pressed forward on every front in recent months; self-styled peacemakers who sat around negotiating tables, and shuttled around regional capitals with promises of a new Taliban 2.0.\n\nTaliban fighters stand in front of protesters during an anti-Pakistan protest in Kabul\n\nSome names stick out - some so far they can seem provocative.\n\nThe caretaker head of cabinet is the white-bearded Mullah Hasan Akhund, a founding member of the Taliban who's on the UN's sanctions list.\n\nThe caretaker Minister of the Interior is Sirajuddin Haqqani. His face has rarely been seen except in a photograph, partially obscured by a caramel-coloured shawl, in a FBI wanted poster announcing a big bounty of $5m that's also on his head. His more recent claim to fame was an op-ed in the New York Times in 2020 calling for peace which failed to mention that the Haqqani Network named after his family is held responsible for some of the worst attacks on Afghan civilians. The Haqqanis insist there's no such network; they say they're part of the Taliban now.\n\nThe caretaker Minister of Defence, Mullah Yaqoob, represented by a black silhouette, is the eldest son of the founding Emir of the Taliban, Mullah Omar.\n\nBut, wait, this is just a caretaker cabinet.\n\nAt the press conference in Kabul, as a raucous chorus of questions rose from journalists in the room, it was said more posts might be announced in time. \"We haven't announced all the ministries and deputies yet so it's possible this list could be extended,\" Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputy head of the cultural commission, told my colleague Secunder Kermani.\n\nThis may be the opening political salvo to reward and reassure their rank and file fighters, many of whom have been streaming into Kabul, to welcome the return of a \"pure Islamic system\".\n\nIt also appears as a carefully constructed compromise. Mullah Akhund suddenly emerged at the top, fixing in place rival political and military heavyweights including Mullah Baradar whom many predicted would take a leading role, instead of a deputy position.\n\nTaliban leaders are said to have pushed back against calls to include political leaders from the past, especially those tainted by corruption, arguing they've already had their time at the top.\n\nA phrase still rings in my ears from Taliban negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who's now been appointed as deputy foreign minister, the same role he held the last time round.\n\nWhen I asked him in February 2020, after the signing of the landmark US-Taliban deal, what he would say to Afghans who feared their return, he replied with great gusto: \"I tell them we will have a government acceptable to the majority.\" The word majority was punctuated by a loud emphasis.\n\nIn other words, a government dominated by traditional values, not what they mock as Western ideas.\n\nThose were heady days when Afghans dared to hope the worst of the war was over. Later that year, on the first day of formal Afghan talks in the Gulf state of Qatar, a buzz shot through the room when the Taliban hinted they would no longer be demanding an Islamic Emirate; they said they understood its sensitivity.\n\nIn talks with female negotiators, they reassured them women could play every role except president, including government ministers.\n\nThat was then. This is now. The Taliban are in charge.\n\n\"Those who do not pay attention to the social fabric of Afghanistan will face serious challenges,\" warns negotiator and former MP Fawzia Koofi, who heard many of those promises.\n\nThat challenge is already crystallising in protests on the streets, in statements from capitals around the world.\n\n\"The world is watching closely,\" warned a statement from the US State Department. \"Little chance of international recognition of Taliban soon,\" declared an editorial in Russia's Nezavisimaya Gazeta.\n\nAnd a challenge may even rise from within a younger generation of Taliban.\n\n\"We must pay attention to the lessons of history,\" a young Talib recently reflected to me. He emphasised that if the Taliban tried to dominate again, they could be toppled again, as they were in 2001, as the last government just was. Another expressed unease that mullahs schooled only in religious matters were being given so many posts.\n\nA Taliban fighter stands guard outside the building of the former US embassy\n\nIn a statement issued soon after the caretaker cabinet was announced, the Emir noted that \"all talented and professional people\" were desperately needed for their \"talents, guidance, and work.\"\n\nBut in all his exhortations, it was also clear the bottom line was about strengthening \"the system,\" the re-established Islamic Emirate. This takes precedence above all else.\n\nIn recent days in Kabul, I've asked Taliban watchers of various ilk if they thought the leadership would harden over time, or open up.\n\nPowerful winds could tilt them in many directions.\n\nThe world's major aid agencies, who provided around 80% of the old government's budget, are watching closely.\n\n\"They're in very, very dire straits,\" the UN's humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told me as he ended a visit where he emphasised the centrality of humanitarian principles and values, including the inclusion of women and girls. Senior officials, he remarked, asked him for patience and advice.\n\nAfghanistan's new leaders are also under the microscope of jihadi movements worldwide who've enthusiastically welcomed a new land of Islamic governance compliant with Islamic Sharia law.\n\nAfghanistan is, to use the expression, \"too big to fail\". Warnings about a safe haven for extremist groups, worries about human rights and a deepening humanitarian crisis of hunger and hardship, will concentrate many minds on trying to find a way to work with leaders still finding their way, still rooted in their past, rather than, as yet, a different kind of future.\n\nBut that mantra will stick - actions, not words, matter most.\n\nIn the UK you can listen to Lyse Doucet's podcast, A Wish for Afghanistan, on BBC Sounds .", "Soldiers will be drafted in to drive ambulances in a bid to ease the \"unprecedented\" pressure on the NHS.\n\nScottish Ambulance Service chief executive Pauline Howie said logistical staff would also be made available to support paramedics and technicians.\n\nMs Howie said the impact of Covid had placed the service at its \"highest level of escalation\".\n\nOn Thursday, the Scottish government confirmed it had asked the MoD for military assistance.\n\nMs Howie was asked on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme if it would mean soldiers driving NHS ambulances or army ambulances.\n\nShe said: \"I would expect the former and we will be working through the details of that over the coming days.\"\n\nHer comments came after it emerged an 86-year-old woman had to wait eight hours for an ambulance after falling and breaking her hip at home.\n\nLillian Briggs, who has Parkinson's, skin cancer and has had two heart attacks, was left lying on her kitchen floor in agony after blacking out.\n\nHer son, Robert Ewing, and his sister rang for an ambulance a number of times only to be told their mother was in the system but was not a priority.\n\nMr Ewing told BBC Scotland: \"I thought she was going to die in front of us.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service apologised for the delay and confirmed it was investigating the circumstances.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said health services were dealing with the most challenging combination of circumstances in their history due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nOpposition politicians have highlighted a series of serious ambulance delays, including one where a man died after a 40-hour wait.\n\nMs Howie was asked on Good Morning Scotland if the two cases highlighted in the media were \"anomalies\".\n\nShe said: \"The vast majority of patients, for immediately life-threatening patients, will receive a response under 10 minutes and for other emergency patients, under 40 minutes.\"\n\nThe chief executive confirmed the service would apologise directly to the families and share the findings of its reviews into the circumstances.\n\nMs Howie also described the current pressures on the NHS as \"unprecedented\" and added staff face an \"extremely challenging\" winter.\n\nArmed forces personnel are already involved in the Covid vaccination programme\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane told the programme the problem was not new and recalled one of his patients waiting eight hours for an ambulance in 2018.\n\nHighlighting the stress on all parts of the health service, he said on Monday alone he had 80 patient contacts during his GP shift.\n\nDr Gulhane said: \"Ambulances queuing round the block. Record A&E waiting times. This is shining a light on a crumbling NHS that happened before Covid.\"\n\nHe also accused the Scottish government of using the pandemic as a \"smokescreen for everything\".\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie welcomed the involvement of the military.\n\nBut she told Good Morning Scotland: \"What it demonstrates is that the ambulance service and the NHS are absolutely in crisis, and this is all before the winter starts.\"\n\nMs Baillie also said ministers had \"taken their eye off the ball\" and failed to respond to delays which were reported in June.\n\nShe added efforts should now be made to bring back recently-retired staff and increase capacity.\n\nOne suggestion has been to reopen the NHS Louisa Jordan at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow.\n\nThe temporary facility, which closed in March, carried out outpatient and diagnostic appointments, hosted training and accepted blood donations.\n\nDr John Montgomery told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"Given that the critical problem that we face right now is lack of beds and the Louisa Jordan was set up effectively as a field hospital then, unfortunately, closing it because of the forthcoming COP26 may be one of the worst decisions we have made.\n\n\"The Louisa Jordan would have been a perfect place for the patients who might have required, not-necessarily high intervention levels of medicine, but perhaps required nursing care and would have been a perfect place for ambulances to take patients to.\"\n\nThe GP, who is based on the south side of Glasgow, added he is \"very, very fearful indeed\" for the winter ahead.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said the current problems were not about capacity alone.\n\nMs Howie added: \"I think the challenges are not just about facilities, they are about workforces as well.\n\n\"Across health and care services, there are workforce capacity challenges and those are being actively addressed by health boards.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Sturgeon said her government was looking at a range of plans to deal with the significant challenges facing the health services.\n\nShe told the Scottish Parliament: \"I'll be going back to my office to finalise the detail of the request for military assistance so we can submit that as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"Such military assistance is already being provided to ambulance services in England and of course we have had military assistance for other aspects of the pandemic over the past 18 months.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson later confirmed it was seeking military assistance to address acute services, and a separate request had been made to support mobile testing units.", "The Bedale Hunt is based in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire\n\nA two-year-old girl has died after falling from a pony during a hunt meeting in North Yorkshire.\n\nThe toddler was riding with members of the Bedale Hunt on land near Northallerton when she fell on Wednesday, a hunt spokesman said.\n\nHe described the fall as a \"tragic accident\" and offered condolences to all affected.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said it was compiling a report on behalf of the coroner.\n\nA spokesman for the force said the girl died in hospital during the early hours of Thursday.\n\n\"The girl's family are receiving specialist support while enquiries are ongoing into the incident,\" he added.\n\nThe hunt spokesman said: \"As a community we are all completely devastated but are pulling together to support the family.\"\n\n\"We urge that everybody respects the family's privacy during a very distressing time.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Air Ambulance confirmed it had attended the incident but did not provide further details.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hit series focuses on the fictional chess player Beth Harmon, played by Anya Taylor-Joy\n\nGeorgian chess icon Nona Gaprindashvili has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix, saying she was incorrectly portrayed in the hit series The Queen's Gambit.\n\nThe case refers to a sequence in the drama's final episode which says Gaprindashvili, now 80, had never played competitive chess with men.\n\nThe document says that by 1968, the year in which the episode is set, she had faced at least 59 male players.\n\nNetflix said the claim had \"no merit\".\n\nThe company said it had \"only the utmost respect\" for Gaprindashvili and her \"illustrious career\" but that it would \"vigorously defend the case\".\n\nNona Gaprindashvili is pictured playing at the International Chess Congress in London in 1964\n\nThe Queen's Gambit is based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis and focuses on a fictional chess player called Beth Harmon, played by Anya Taylor-Joy. The series was released last year, becoming what Netflix described as its \"biggest limited scripted series ever\".\n\nIn the final episode, a commentator mentions Gaprindashvili when describing Harmon: \"The only unusual thing about her, really, is her sex. And even that's not unique in Russia. There's Nona Gaprindashvili, but she's the female world champion and has never faced men.\"\n\nThe 25-page case filed in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday said: \"Netflix brazenly and deliberately lied about Gaprindashvili's achievements for the cheap and cynical purpose of 'heightening the drama' by making it appear that its fictional hero had managed to do what no other woman, including Gaprindashvili, had done.\"\n\nIt added: \"The allegation that Gaprindashvili 'has never faced men' is manifestly false, as well as being grossly sexist and belittling.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Allan Scott: The Queen's Gambit streaming series is \"taken straight from Walter Tevis's imagination\"\n\nBorn in 1941 in the Georgian town of Zugdidi, Gaprindashvili began playing chess at the age of 13, became female World Championship at 20 and was the first woman to be awarded the title of grandmaster, according to the lawsuit.\n\n\"By 1968,\" the lawsuit says, Gaprindashvili \"had competed against at least 59 male chess players (28 of them simultaneously in one game), including at least 10 Grandmasters of that time.\"\n\nGaprindashvili, who lives in Tbilisi and continues to compete in chess tournaments, is seeking $5m (£3.6m) in compensation and the removal of the statement that she had never played against men. The lawsuit says the line had been changed from the book on which the series is based.\n\nThe Queen's Gambit was viewed in more than 62 million households in the first 28 days after its release, according to Netflix. It won two awards at this year's Golden Globes and has garnered 18 nominations at the Emmy Awards, which will take place this weekend.", "UK researchers have developed a calculator to identify those at highest risk of severe illness from Covid despite having one or two vaccines.\n\nThey say jabs provide protection against serious illness and death for most people, but for some the risks - while much lowered by jabs - remain.\n\nThis includes older people, people with Down's Syndrome, and those with weakened immune systems.\n\nThe risks are highest for those who have not been fully vaccinated.\n\nWriting in the BMJ, scientists say those at risk should ensure they have both jabs.\n\nThey suggest their risk calculator could be used to help spot fully vaccinated individuals who may additionally benefit from boosters or early treatment - including newer therapies such as monoclonal antibodies.\n\nThe research team - which includes scientists from the universities of Edinburgh, Oxford and Nottingham - examined hospital records involving some five million people in England who had had two jabs and about two million who had had one.\n\nThere were about 2,000 deaths linked to Covid and almost the same number of Covid hospital admissions - most occurred 14 or more days after the first vaccine (when substantial immunity is expected to have developed).\n\nJust 81 deaths and 71 admissions happened 14 or more days after the second vaccine dose.\n\nFrom this data, the groups most at risk of severe illness or death, included:\n\nResearchers say while overall the risks would be lower for people who have had two jabs, they would expect the general pattern to remain in terms of the groups identified to be at higher risk.\n\nBut they say because there were relatively few Covid-related hospital admissions and deaths in people who had two jabs it was harder to build up a precise picture.\n\nAnd they say certain risks - such as people who do high-risk jobs - could not be taken into account.\n\nProf Julia Hippisley-Cox, from the University of Oxford, said: \"Individual risk will always depend on individual choices as well as the current prevalence of the disease. However we hope that this new tool will help shared decision making and more personalised risk assessment.\"\n\nThe risk calculator is available online for academic use and there are plans to make a version that will be available to the public.\n\nAn earlier version of the risk calculator helped spot people who would benefit from shielding in England.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nA judge has ruled that Prince Andrew's US lawyer can be served with legal papers in a sexual assault case filed by Virginia Giuffre in New York.\n\nIt follows a dispute over whether the prince has been formally notified of the civil claim against him.\n\nNew York judge Lewis Kaplan ruled Ms Giuffre's lawyers could take the US route to serve papers on the prince.\n\nMs Giuffre, 38, claims she was sexually assaulted by the prince at three locations including New York City.\n\nPrince Andrew, the Queen's 61-year-old second son, has consistently denied the allegation.\n\nSeparately, the High Court in London has given the prince's lawyers until next Friday to appeal against its decision to serve papers on him in the UK.\n\nServing of documents is the critical first stage in any claim for damages - it means that a defendant has been made fully aware of the allegations against them by receiving all of the papers in the case.\n\nIf a defendant does not take part in the case after they have been served, they risk automatically losing.\n\nJudge Kaplan, whose ruling emerged in public court records overnight, said that given the dispute over whether the papers had been served in London, it was now entirely lawful for him to order that they should be sent to the prince's Los Angeles-based lawyer Andrew Brettler.\n\nMr Brettler spoke for the prince in a telephone hearing on the case earlier this week - but he was not formally designated as a lawyer who was authorised to accept service for him and pass the material on.\n\nBut Judge Kaplan ruled: \"Service on the defendant's US counsel is reasonably calculated to bring the papers served to the defendant's attention, regardless of whether his US counsel is 'authorised' to accept service on his behalf.\"\n\nThe judge noted that Ms Giuffre's lawyers had already proceeded with an attempt to serve the case on Prince Andrew in London under an international convention between the US and UK courts.\n\nThis request to intervene and assist in handing the documents to the prince was accepted earlier this week at the High Court.\n\nMaster Barbara Fontaine, a senior English judge who oversees requests from foreign courts for help, has authorised officials to begin the process of serving.\n\nShe has given the prince's legal team until next Friday to decide if they will challenge her decision to proceed with serving the papers in the UK.\n\nThe Judicial Office said in a previous statement: \"Lawyers for Prince Andrew have indicated that they may seek to challenge the decision of the High Court to recognise the validity of the Hague Convention request for service made by Ms Giuffre's lawyers.\n\n\"The High Court has directed that any challenge must be made by close of business on September 24.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the prince declined to comment.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the \"slightly arcane legal tussle\" had ended \"with a victory for Virginia Giuffre's lawyers [and] a defeat for Prince Andrew's lawyers\".\n\nThis, he said, had drawn Ms Giuffre's civil case \"one step closer to the courtroom - which is exactly where Prince Andrew and his lawyers don't want it to be\".\n\nMs Giuffre was an accuser of the billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who died in prison in 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre - then known as Virginia Roberts - says she was assaulted by the prince at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nHer case claims Prince Andrew engaged in sexual acts without Ms Giuffre's consent, including when she was 17, knowing how old she was, and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nThe prince has consistently denied the claims and, in 2019, told BBC Two's Newsnight programme: \"It didn't happen.\n\n\"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\n\n\"I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"", "Bullards bosses say they are prepared to go to court over the matter\n\nA small gin-maker threatened with legal action by global energy drinks firm Red Bull over the use of the word 'bull' in its name says it will fight the case.\n\nNorwich-based Bullards was told there was a \"likelihood of confusion on behalf of the public\" as both brand names \"include the term bull\".\n\nRed Bull is opposing an application to register the mark Bullards before the UK Intellectual Property Office.\n\nBullards, originally founded in 1837, said the claim was \"ludicrous\".\n\nIn response, Red Bull told the BBC: \"We do not believe it appropriate to comment on a current legal case.\"\n\nIn a legal letter to Bullards, Red Bull said it was \"prepared to resolve this dispute\" if Bullards deleted a series of goods and services from its trademark application and registration, including energy drinks, events and non-alcoholic beverages.\n\n\"Our client recognises that your client's brand stems from a historical family business and so it has asked us to highlight that it does not want to prevent your client from doing anything it has historically done,\" the letter said.\n\n\"What they're claiming is ludicrous,\" said Russell Evans of Bullards.\n\n\"There is no confusion whatsoever and actually if we did concede we would be admitting there was.\"\n\nRed Bull said it was concerned about \"the breadth of goods and services\" in Bullards' trademark registration and application\n\nMr Evans said Red Bull had not said his firm had to stop using the Bullards name for its gin.\n\n\"But they're saying we can't do events, we can't do soft drinks, which we are going to do because we're going to do tonics, we can't do energy drinks - not that we would ever want to do energy drinks,\" he said.\n\nHe added it would cost \"thousands of pounds\" to remove the goods and services listed in the letter and accused Red Bull of \"trying to bully us\".\n\n\"If needs be we'll go to court and let's see what a court of law has to say on it,\" he said.\n\nBullards was founded in 1837, making beer and importing wine and spirits, before it was taken over by national brewery Watneys in 1963.\n\nThe Bullards name was revived in 2015, with the company focusing on gin.\n\nIn 2013, Red Bull threatened the brewery Redwell Brewing in Norwich with legal action due to its name starting with 'Red' and ending with 'll', before apparently backing down, saying there was \"no dispute\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US real estate heir Robert Durst, subject of HBO crime documentary The Jinx, has been convicted of killing his best friend Susan Berman.\n\nDurst was found guilty of killing Ms Berman in 2000 to stop her talking to police about his wife's disappearance.\n\nThen aged 55, she was found shot in the head in her Beverly Hills home.\n\nIn The Jinx's final part, Durst is heard muttering to himself: \"What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.\"\n\nHours before the last episode aired, authorities arrested Durst in New Orleans for Ms Berman's murder. Jurors were played the clip during the trial.\n\nProsecutors called Durst, 78, a \"narcissistic psychopath\". It now looks likely he will die in jail.\n\nSusan Berman was a crime writer, and had acted as a spokesperson for Durst when he became a suspect in his wife's disappearance.\n\nAt an earlier hearing, Durst's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, objected to jurors also being shown clips from All the Good Things, a 2010 film about his marriage starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.\n\nThe film was directed by The Jinx's filmmaker Andrew Jarecki and depicts the life of the tycoon, showing him as a murderer.\n\nDurst's wife Kathleen McCormack, a medical student, went missing in 1982 and is presumed dead.\n\nShortly after Friday's verdict, her family issued a statement urging prosecutors in New York's Westchester County to prosecute Durst.\n\n\"The justice system in Los Angeles has finally served the Berman family. It is now time for Westchester to do the same for the McCormack family,\" they said.\n\nProsecutors argue that Durst actually murdered three people - the third being an elderly neighbour, Morris Black, who discovered Durst's identity in 2001 while he was hiding out in Texas.\n\nDurst was acquitted of murdering Mr Black, successfully arguing he had killed him on the grounds of self-defence before cutting up the body.\n\nDurst is an estranged member of one of New York's wealthiest and most powerful real estate dynasties. His brother Douglas Durst, who testified at the trial, told the court: \"He'd like to murder me.\"\n\nDurst is due to be sentenced on 18 October.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool remain unbeaten in the Premier League this season after Sadio Mane scored his 100th goal for the club in a victory against Crystal Palace.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side created numerous chances against a resilient Palace before Mane pounced on a rebound at the back post in the first half.\n\nMohamed Salah doubled their lead with just over 10 minutes remaining when he smashed home a flick-on from a corner, before Naby Keita's late curling strike made it 3-0.\n\nLiverpool were wasteful in the first half as Diogo Jota fired over the bar from a few yards out in a glorious position, while Thiago and Jordan Henderson were also denied by keeper Vicente Guaita.\n\nPalace had started brightly - hitting the post twice in as many minutes as Liverpool failed to clear their lines in the box - but the hosts' persistence eventually paid off.\n\nIn the end it was a comfortable victory that capped a good week for Liverpool at Anfield, following their dramatic 3-2 win over AC Milan in the Champions League on Wednesday.\n\nAnd it means they go top of the table with four wins from their opening five games, while visitors Palace remain outside the top 10.\n\nMane was one of six changes to Klopp's side from their win over AC Milan, and his return must have been an unpleasant sight for Palace fans.\n\nHaving scored twice against Palace on the final day of last season, Mane's opener on Saturday made him the first player to net in nine consecutive league matches against a single opponent.\n\nIt took his total to 13 against Palace in the Premier League - the most anyone has scored against them - and was the perfect way to notch up his 100th goal in all competitions for Liverpool.\n\nPalace had attacking threat of their own from Wilfried Zaha - making his 250th Premier League appearance - but he was dealt with by the physicality of Fabinho and debutant Ibrahima Konate.\n\nAnd while Palace continue to adapt and learn under new boss Patrick Vieira, they were given a humbling reminder of the ruthlessness of Liverpool's attacking quality.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jairo Riedewald.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Mohamed Salah tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Crystal Palace 0. Naby Keïta (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Odsonne Édouard (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "David Gomoh was stabbed at least nine times\n\nFour gang members have received life sentences for the murder of a \"charismatic and intelligent\" NHS worker who died in front of his family.\n\nDavid Gomoh, 24, staggered home after being stabbed while on the phone to his girlfriend in Canning Town, east London, in April 2020.\n\nHe had no links to any gangs but was randomly targeted as part of a feud.\n\nHis death was part of a \"petty but fatal game of one-upmanship\" played out on the streets, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMuhammad Jalloh, 19, from Stratford, east London, and Vagnei Colubali, 23, from Cambridge, were jailed for a minimum of 27 years.\n\nDavid Ture, 19, of no fixed address, was given 26 years and Alex Melaku, 18, of Telford, 21 years.\n\nMelaku only became an adult one day before sentencing, meaning he has been identified for the first time.\n\n(L to R): Vagnei Colubali, David Ture, Mohammad Jalloh and Alex Melaku have been jailed for life\n\nAll four defendants were also sentenced to concurrent terms for conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm with intent to an unidentified man who escaped.\n\nJudge Mark Lucraft QC, the Recorder of London, said the killers had carried out a \"brutal murder\" which had involved a \"significant degree\" of planning.\n\nMr Gomoh, a marketing graduate, who worked in procurement for the health service, had been in the \"wrong place at the wrong time\", he added.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, his mother Marian said she was \"haunted\" by recurring nightmares about what happened, adding: \"I felt numb, paralysed by grief and pain. Why David?\"\n\nShe said the \"psychological and emotional torture escalated\" during the trial, as she listened to details of what happened to her \"beautiful son\".\n\nShe said her son's murderers had \"walked uninvited into our lives and destroyed David's life\".\n\nThe defendants have \"wrecked our family\", she said, adding: \"Their contempt for a human life is just beyond comprehension.\"\n\nHis sister Lizzie paid tribute to her \"fun-loving, amazing brother\", adding that his death had had a \"devastating impact on us all\".\n\nShe said: \"It still feels so raw and so fresh.\"\n\nReferring to her brother's killers, she said: \"I hope they will eventually show remorse.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Laurence Smith described it as a \"senseless attack on a completely innocent man\".\n\nHe said: \"Despite the significant evidence linking them to this crime, all four refused to admit to their actions, meaning David's family and friends had to sit through a trial and relive the worst night of their lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people have taken part in a number of Orange Walks in Glasgow\n\nPolice have condemned \"outbreaks of racist and sectarian singing\" by some of those attending Orange Order processions in Glasgow.\n\nIt said the behaviour was \"utterly unacceptable\" and a number of arrests had been made in connection with various offences.\n\nThe Orange Order has said there had been parades in Glasgow for 200 years with \"very, very little trouble\".\n\nIt insisted the group was not anti-Catholic.\n\nThousands of people attended the marches through the city, which were rescheduled from 12 July due to the Covid rules.\n\nPolice Scotland said 800 officers had been called in to police the marches.\n\nChief Superintendent Mark Sutherland said: \"We are aware that on a number of occasions there have been outbreaks of racist and sectarian singing by some of those attending to support the Orange Order processions, this is utterly unacceptable and we completely condemn this behaviour.\"\n\nHe said action would be taken \"against those intent on causing harm and dividing our communities\" where possible, and that arrests had been made.\n\nFollow-up investigations would be launched as necessary, he added.\n\nCh Supt Sutherland continued: \"Once again, we see a number of people intent in causing offence and stirring up hatred by singing unacceptable sectarian and racist songs.\n\n\"It is clear that sectarianism remains a serious, ongoing problem in Scotland.\"\n\nMembers of the Orange Order and their supporters march through the city\n\nOver the course of the day the parades passed three Catholic churches, where vigils were held by campaigners who said the walks were anti-Catholic.\n\nRonnie Convery, of the Archdiocese of Glasgow, earlier told the BBC that the Catholic Church acknowledged people had a legal right to march through the city. However, he asked that the parades were timed and go on a route that avoided causing \"fear and alarm\" in the Catholic community.\n\nGlasgow City Council has the power to alter a parade's route or timing but has opted not to do so. A spokesman for the council said the parades would be \"more disruptive to the life of the city\" if they took an alternative route.\n\nJim McHarg, Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, said the organisation had a right to its procession\n\nJim McHarg, Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, said his organisation had \"every right\" to process through the streets.\n\n\"As an organisation, we have always respected other's points of views and opinions.\n\n\"Our organisation is based on the motto of civil and religious liberty for all people - and that includes us.\"\n\nHe said the council told the Orange Order to parade on main streets, and Catholic churches were built on main streets so it was inevitable that parades would have to pass some churches.\n\n\"We do not go there to cause any offence whatsoever. It's most certainly not deliberate - we are not out to offend anyone.\"\n\nSupporters of Call It Out gathered outside St Benedict's Catholic church in Easterhouse as an Orange walk passed\n\nJeanette Findlay, from the Call It Out campaign, which opposes anti-Irish and anti-Catholic bigotry, said the marches \"absolutely should be rerouted\" by the council so they did not pass Catholic churches.\n\nShe pointed out that it had the powers and had exercised them in the past.\n\nMs Findlay said this would \"balance the rights of the community\", and said she was \"very happy\" for the Orange Order to march, and she would defend their right to, adding \"All that we're asking is that they don't march past Catholic churches\".\n\nGlasgow City Council said 32 roads in the city were closed off for the processions.\n\nThe Church of Scotland said it condemned anti-Catholic bigotry and sectarianism.\n\nIt added: \"Over the years we have worked together [with the Roman Catholic Church] to tackle sectarianism and support one another.\n\n\"We speak to leaders in the Roman Catholic Church every week and greatly appreciate the friendship that exists between our churches and our communities.\"\n\nThere have been a number of high-profile incidents around parades by Protestant Loyal Orders and Irish Republican demonstrations in Glasgow in recent years.\n\nRecent incidents linked to the marches include an attack on a Catholic priest by a follower of an Orange parade in 2018.\n\nViolent protests at a Republican march in 2019 led to a number of parades being cancelled by Glasgow City Council.\n\nLast summer's parades did not go ahead as a result of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThere have also been outbreaks of violence at some events related to football.\n\nA number of people were assaulted in May after thousands of Rangers fans took to the streets of Glasgow - despite the Covid restrictions - when the club won the Scottish Premiership.\n\nThe first minister criticised the \"sectarian\" scenes as \"utterly unacceptable\", saying that \"vile anti-Catholic prejudice\" was on display.\n\nEarlier this month, a number fans were charged after footage emerged online of fans singing a sectarian song ahead of an Old Firm game.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people are camped out at the US-Mexico border bridge in poor conditions\n\nUS officials have moved thousands of migrants away from a Texas border town that has seen an influx of mostly Haitian migrants over the past week.\n\nMore than 10,000 people had gathered under a bridge connecting Del Rio in Texas to Mexico's Ciudad Acuña.\n\nLocal officials have struggled to provide them with food and adequate sanitation.\n\nSome 2,000 people were moved to immigration and processing stations on Friday.\n\nThe US government says it plans to fly the migrants back to where they began their journeys.\n\nFlights are expected to start on Sunday, with the US currently negotiating returns with the countries in question.\n\nHaiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry sent support to the migrants on social media late on Saturday, saying \"arrangements have already been made\" to welcome those who return.\n\nBut some migrants say they are afraid to return. \"In Haiti, there is no security,\" Fabricio Jean, 38, who is at the camp with his wife and two daughters, told the Associated Press. \"The country is in a political crisis.\"\n\n\"There's people killing each other in Haiti, there's just no justice,\" another father of two, 29-year-old Stelin Jean told the Texas Tribune. \"I just want to live a calm life without any problems, I want to live somewhere where I know there's justice.\"\n\nThe US Department for Homeland Security said in a statement that the transfers will continue \"in order to ensure that irregular migrants are swiftly taken into custody, processed and removed from the United States consistent with our laws and policy\".\n\nIt added that US Customs and Border Protection is sending 400 additional agents to Del Rio, a city with a population of roughly 35,000.\n\nThe US government says it plans to fly the migrants back to where they began their journeys\n\nDel Rio's Mayor Bruno Lozano has declared a state of emergency, and described the situation as \"unprecedented\" and \"surreal\". He said border patrol had been overwhelmed and that \"agitated\" migrants were living in impossible conditions.\n\nThe makeshift camp at Del Rio has few basic services, and migrants waiting in temperatures of 37C (99F), have been wading back across the river into Mexico to get supplies.\n\nThe migrants are mostly Haitians, with some Cubans, Peruvians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans also present.\n\nMany Haitians left the country after a devastating earthquake in 2010, and a large number of those in the camp had been living in Brazil or other South American countries and travelled north after being unable to secure jobs or legal status.\n\nCubans too have been fleeing the island's worst economic crisis since shortly after the end of the Cold War, the BBC's Mexico correspondent Will Grant reports.\n\nHe says many of the migrants in Texas have made probably the most treacherous migrant journey in Latin America by crossing the thick jungle of the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama on foot.\n\nThe US government has reported a surge of migrants at the border with Mexico this year.\n\nThe number of migrants detained there in July exceeded 200,000 for the first time in 21 years, according to government data.", "The relaxation of travel restrictions in England will give airlines a \"shot in the arm\", an industry group has said.\n\nAirlines UK welcomed the government simplifying the traffic light system and reducing testing requirements.\n\nIt said it \"moves us much closer to the reopening of UK aviation\".\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the changes would enable more people to travel around the world.\n\nFrom 4 October the amber and green lists will be scrapped in England, leaving a single red list that has been downsized.\n\nPeople who have had both jabs will not need to take a pre-departure test before leaving any country not on the red list. They will also be able to replace the day two PCR test with a cheaper, rapid lateral flow test.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said: \"This is a positive step which moves us much closer to the reopening of UK aviation and provides greater reassurance to passengers desperate to travel.\n\n\"By reducing the number of red list destinations and scrapping PCR testing, ministers have paved the way for people to get away this October half-term and into the winter following 18 months of uncertainty.\n\n\"It will provide a real shot in the arm for a sector that until now has not been allowed to trade properly.\"\n\nThomas Cook said it expected the coming weekend to be its best for sales in 2021, adding that customers \"are booking in droves\".\n\n\"Based on our bookings already today, I would expect this weekend to be the biggest of the year so far as people take advantage of the great deals on offer, the new easier rules on testing and the simplified system for international travel,\" said David Child, head of PR and brand at the travel firm.\n\nThe travel and tourism sectors have been among the hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nGlobally they have lost 62 million jobs, the World Travel and Tourism Council says.\n\n\"We are pleased to see the back of an illogical traffic light system that caused confusion and distress for travellers,\" said Julia Simpson, its president and chief executive.\n\n\"While this is certainly a step in the right direction, for the UK to be real leaders, the government should adopt a system based on the risk of individuals, not countries.\"\n\nThe changes \"remove some of the layers of complexity and expense UK holidaymakers have faced this summer\", said Andrew Flintham, managing director of Tui UK.\n\nHe said Tui had already seen an increase in bookings for Turkey and destinations \"for those looking to enjoy some winter sun\" in October.\n\nHowever, the red list should be reduced further, he said.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said: \"We urge the UK Government to use the Prime Minister's upcoming visit to the USA to work with the Biden administration to remove transatlantic restrictions for UK citizens, just as the UK has done for US travellers.\"\n\nGrant Shapps said: \"Today's changes mean a simpler, more straightforward system.\n\n\"Public health has always been at the heart of our international travel policy and with more than eight in ten adults fully vaccinated in the UK, we are now able to introduce a proportionate updated structure that reflects the new landscape.\"", "The female python was said to be \"very friendly\"\n\nA shocked couple who found a 5ft (1.5m) python in their bedroom say they have no idea how it got into their house.\n\nThe pair called police to their home on Quarry Bank, in Dudley, West Midlands, after making the discovery.\n\nThey had shut it in the room and officers were able to safely remove the python and take it to a vet.\n\nThe couple have speculated it may have arrived in a delivery or slithered in through pipes before it was spotted on Wednesday.\n\nA large item had arrived the previous day and they said they thought it may have been hidden in the box.\n\nWest Midlands Police said such discoveries were usually left to the RSPCA but it had sent three student officers on this occasion because no-one from the charity had been available.\n\nThey eventually found the snake on top of a cabinet, wrapped around a vanity mirror.\n\nUsing their batons, they put it in a shoe box with holes in.\n\nA check-up carried out by Manor Vets, in Halesowen, later found the mature female snake had a few lumps and old injuries, but was generally in good health.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrazil legend Pele says he is \"recovering very well\" after briefly being readmitted to intensive care following a recent operation.\n\nThe 80-year-old had surgery to remove a tumour from his colon this month and was initially released from intensive care on Wednesday.\n\nSao Paulo's Albert Einstein Hospital said he was readmitted \"as a preventative measure\".\n\n\"My friends, I am still recovering very well,\" Pele wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"Today I received visits from family members and I continue to smile every day. Thank you for all the love I get from you.\"\n\nPele had been having treatment at the hospital since 31 August after the tumour was detected in routine tests.\n\nMedia outlets in Brazil reported that he was readmitted to intensive care as a precautionary measure because of his age.\n\nThe hospital later released a statement confirming this and added: \"After stabilisation, the patient was transferred to semi-intensive care.\n\n\"He is currently stable from a cardiovascular and respiratory point of view.\"\n\nBefore the hospital statement was released, his daughter posted on Instagram: \"I don't know what is going on with the rumours out there but my DMs are booming!!!\n\n\"There's already a lot of anxiety roaming the world these days and we don't want to be the reason for more.\n\n\"The normal recovery scenario for a man of his age after an operation like this, is sometimes two steps forward and one step back. It's very normal.\n\n\"Yesterday he was tired and took a little step back. Today he took two forwards!\"\n\nPele's health has been a concern in recent years. He had prostate surgery in 2015 after he was admitted to hospital for the second time in six months, and he was admitted again for a urinary infection in 2019.\n\nPele is Brazil's all-time leading scorer with 77 goals in 92 games and one of only four players to have scored in four World Cup tournaments.\n\nLionel Messi recently passed him as the leading South American men's scorer in international matches with a hat-trick in Argentina's World Cup qualifying win against Bolivia.\n• None McMafia is streaming now on BBC iPlayer\n• None What is the long-term impact of taking so many hits?", "Keira Bell (centre) said she should have been challenged more when she decided to transition to male\n\nDoctors can judge if under-16s can give informed consent to puberty blocker use, the Court of Appeal has ruled.\n\nThe appeal was brought by the Tavistock Trust, which runs the UK's only youth gender identity clinic.\n\nThe decision reverses a 2020 ruling that under-16s lacked capacity to give informed consent to the treatment, which delays the onset of puberty.\n\nThe original case was brought by Keira Bell, who says the clinic should have challenged her more over transitioning.\n\nShe said she was disappointed by the decision, and will seek permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nCourt of Appeal judges said they recognised \"the difficulties and complexities\" of the issue, but that \"it is for the clinicians to exercise their judgement knowing how important it is that consent is properly obtained according to the particular individual circumstances\".\n\nPuberty blockers are drugs used to \"pause\" puberty by suppressing the release of hormones.\n\nThey are prescribed to some children who are experiencing gender dysphoria, which the NHS describes as \"a sense of unease that a person may have because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity\".\n\nMs Bell says she will seek permission to appeal to the Supreme Court\n\nThe Tavistock clinic said it welcomed the decision.\n\n\"The judgement upholds established legal principles which respect the ability of our clinicians to engage actively and thoughtfully with our patients in decisions about their care and futures,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"It affirms that it is for doctors, not judges, to decide on the capacity of under-16s to consent to medical treatment.\"\n\nThe Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) said that hormone treatment \"allows a young person time to consider their options and to continue to explore their developing gender identity before making decisions about irreversible forms of treatment\".\n\nIn December 2020, the High Court ruled under-13s were \"highly unlikely\" to be able to give informed consent to what it described as \"experimental\" treatment and it was \"very doubtful\" those aged 14 and 15 would have the sufficient understanding of the implications.\n\nKeira Bell, one of the claimants in the case, started taking puberty blockers at the age of 16 after being referred to Gids.\n\nShe was later prescribed the male hormone testosterone and had surgery to remove her breasts.\n\nNow in her mid-20s, she regrets the decision to transition to a male, and feels there wasn't enough investigation or therapy before she reached that stage.\n\nShe said she had \"no regrets\" about bringing the case, which she said \"shone a light into the dark corners of a medical scandal that is harming children and harmed me.\n\n\"I am obviously disappointed with the ruling of the court today, and especially that it did not grapple with the significant risk of harm that children are exposed to by being given powerful experimental drugs.\"\n\nThis a complex, controversial area, yet the Court of Appeal's ruling is very clear.\n\nIt is for doctors working with families and the children themselves to decide whether that young person can truly understand the implications of taking drugs that could change the course of their life.\n\nEffectively this ruling has removed the courts from the decision-making process in all but the most difficult cases.\n\nThis will be welcomed by many young people struggling with their gender identity, who believe the long wait for treatment that they already face is causing huge distress and harm.\n\nBut for those like Keira Bell, who believe they weren't challenged enough when they made decisions that shaped their futures, there will be real disappointment.\n\nHowever, the court cases have led to more discussion of the issues - and many will hope that they will also lead to greater understanding.\n\nIn March, a separate judgement from the court's Family Division had ruled parents could give consent for under-16s to access puberty blockers, with other safeguarding measures considered.\n\nThe Tavistock temporarily paused new referrals to its endocrinology service following the rulings.\n\nEligible under-16s who had already been referred for treatment, and have parental consent, are having their cases reviewed by Gids, with decisions overseen by an independent NHS England review group.\n\nThe NHS said the findings of Dr Hilary Cass's independent review into NHS gender identity services for children and young people would shed further light on the issue.\n\nThe review was announced in September 2020, when it was said it would take \"12 months or possibly longer\".\n\n\"The NHS commissioned Dr Hilary Cass to review gender identity services prior to the original High Court ruling to ensure the best model of safe and effective care is delivered - this will set out wide-ranging recommendations including on the use of puberty blockers and the many contested clinical issues identified by the court,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"An independent multi-professional review group will continue to confirm whether clinical decision making has followed a robust consent process now that the endocrine pathway has been reopened by the Tavistock.\"", "The disease attacks the central nervous system of cattle and is usually fatal\n\nA case of the cattle disease BSE has been confirmed on a farm in Somerset.\n\nThe Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) said that the infected animal has died and has been removed.\n\nAn investigation is under way to find the source of the infection and restrictions on the movement of cattle on the farm have been put in place.\n\n\"There is no risk to food safety or public health,\" said chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss.\n\nThe single case of classical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, was confirmed earlier today.\n\n\"We recognise this will be a traumatic time for the farmer and we are on hand to offer advice through this difficult period,\" said Ms Middlemiss.\n\n\"The UK's overall risk status for BSE remains at 'controlled',\" she added.\n\nAPHA will now investigate the herd, premises and potential sources of infection.\n\nIt said that there have been five confirmed cases of BSE in the UK since 2014 and all have been in animals which were not destined for the human food chain and posed no risk to the public.\n\nA spokesperson for the Food Standards Agency said there are \"strict controls in place\" to protect consumers from the risk of BSE.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n• None How BSE crisis shook our faith in food\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anne Webb, 85, from Treorchy, is believed to be the first care home resident in the UK to receive a booster jab\n\nCare home residents in Wales have started receiving their Covid-19 booster vaccinations.\n\nAnne Webb, 85, is believed to be the first care home resident in the UK to get a third dose.\n\nShe said it \"really didn't hurt,\" as she had the booster jab at Treorchy's Ty Ross Nursing Home, on Saturday.\n\nThe Welsh government plans to offer boosters to several groups, including over-50s and front-line healthcare staff.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) said it was the first health board in the UK to begin giving Covid booster vaccinations to older care-home residents.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf local authority, which is covered by CTMUHB, currently has the highest mortality rate over the course of the pandemic in Wales.\n\nRecent figures from the Office for National Statistics estimate more than 20% of the people who died from Covid-19 in Wales were care home residents.\n\nThe boosters will be offered to several groups, including the over-50s and front-line healthcare workers.\n\nBooster vaccination for other adults will be considered by the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) at a later date.\n\nClare Williams, Cwm Taf Morgannwg's deputy director of strategy, said getting a booster was crucial as the vaccine's protection wanes over time\n\nClare Williams, deputy director of strategy at Cwm Taf Morgannwg, said it was \"absolutely crucial\" people took up the booster jab when offered.\n\n\"Unfortunately in Cwm Taf Morgannwg we have seen a rise in Covid cases, with the number of patients in hospital rising to numbers we haven't seen since February,\" she said.\n\n\"Whilst one and two doses give you a really good level of protection against Covid-19, that does actually wane over time, it reduces.\n\n\"For us, it's really important to give our community the opportunity to protect themselves.\"\n\nIn Cwm Taf Morgannwg the number of patients with Covid has risen by 28% in a week and hospital visits have been suspended.\n\nNurse Ewa Syczuk was the first person in Wales to have a booster jab on Thursday\n\nThe health board said all booster vaccinations given will be Pfizer, regardless of what the first two doses were.\n\nMs Williams said people in care homes were \"some of the most vulnerable in our community, so it's only right we protect them first\".\n\nGail Dean, the manager of Ty Ross, said the booster programme made her feel \"more confident\" about having visitors into the home.\n\n\"Staff working in social care have had to be family and friend to the people they look after during the pandemic, hopefully we will go from strength to strength now,\" she said.\n\nOn Thursday, orthopaedic nurse Ewa Syczuk, 50, became the first in Wales to get a third dose of the jab at a clinic in Denbighshire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 300 firefighters from around the UK are putting their skills to the test during a mass exercise on the banks of the River Tyne.\n\nThe Festival of Rescue has attracted hundreds of spectators to the Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides.\n\nTeams are taking part in challenges designed to showcase the expertise they bring to bear on everyday situations.\n\nThese include rope and water rescues, trauma care, and cutting people out of damaged vehicles.\n\nCovid vaccinations are also on offer as part of the event, with no need to book ahead.\n\nThe two-day event has been organised by the United Kingdom Rescue Organisation\n\nTyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service described it as an exciting event for spectators, and while the \"gore may not be real the situations are\".\n\nDeputy chief fire officer Peter Heath added: \"The past 16 months has been challenging for the emergency services as we've been working tirelessly on the frontline during the pandemic by continuing to keep people safe from harm.\n\n\"The Festival of Rescue is a wonderful way for colleagues to gather and unite at the same time as showcasing some of the finest skills and techniques the service has to offer.\n\n\"I would hope it will also fill the observers with a sense of pride that these brave men and women apply these vital skills on a daily basis to help save people's lives in some of the most gruelling conditions imaginable.\"\n\nStaged car crashes are a feature of the festival\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe family of a US man whose fiancée disappeared during a road trip say he is now missing too.\n\nBrian Laundrie, 23, is a person of interest in the case but police say he is not wanted for any crime.\n\nHe and Gabrielle \"Gabby\" Petito, 22, set out on a cross-country campervan trip in July, documenting their adventures on social media.\n\nBut on 1 September, Mr Laundrie returned home alone. Ms Petito's family later reported her missing.\n\nThis week local police said they had been trying to speak to Mr Laundrie but he was refusing to talk.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, police said Mr Laundrie's family told them they had not seen their son since Tuesday. In a statement, police said they were \"frustrated\" by the developments.\n\n\"For six days, the North Port Police Department and the FBI have been pleading with the family to contact investigators regarding Brian's fiancée Gabby Petito. Friday is the first time they have spoken with investigators in detail,\" it read.\n\n\"We are not currently working a crime investigation,\" it added. \"We are now working a multiple missing person investigations.\"\n\nPolice issued this photo of the pair along with a statement\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Laundrie family home on Friday, shouting \"where's Gabby?\" as police met his parents.\n\nMr Laundrie's sister Cassandra told ABC News she had mostly been learning what has been happening from the news.\n\n\"Obviously, me and my family want Gabby to be found safe. She is like a sister and my children love her, and all I want is for her to come home safe and sound and this be just a big misunderstanding,\" she said.\n\nA lawyer for Ms Petito's family said: \"All of Gabby's family want the world to know that Brian is not missing, he is hiding. Gabby is missing.\"\n\nThe couple set off on a nomadic nationwide road trip in a white Ford Transit van in July, posting updates on social media.\n\nThey filmed themselves smiling, kissing, and running on beaches in a YouTube video, \"Beginning Our Van Life Journey\", which has been viewed over 600,000 times.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by bizarre_design_ This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwo weeks before Ms Petito went missing, on 12 August, police in the southern Utah town of Moab were called to a possible domestic violence incident involving the couple.\n\nPolice released bodycam footage which showed Ms Petito crying and complaining about her mental health to officers. She also said the couple had been arguing more frequently.\n\nThe officers recommended they spend the night apart but did not file any charges. It is not yet known what happened next.", "Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, pictured in 2020\n\nFor weeks, lawyers acting for a woman who alleges she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew have been trying to alert him to their plans.\n\nIt has been a drawn-out process involving email auto-replies and courier receipts.\n\nTo serve a member of the Royal Family once meant to do one's duty for Queen and country.\n\nBut a month-long chase by US lawyers to find Prince Andrew and in the legalese, serve him with allegations of abuse, has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase.\n\nThis is what you need to know - and why we're nowhere yet near learning the truth in this case.\n\nVirginia Giuffre is suing Prince Andrew for damages, alleging that she was sexually abused by him when she was controlled by the super-rich sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. He killed himself in 2019.\n\nEpstein was once a friend of Prince Andrew - and the ninth-in-line to the throne has consistently denied the allegation and says he can't even remember meeting Ms Giuffre.\n\nBut it's for a court in New York to decide whether her allegations are true - assuming the case ever gets going.\n\nIf you sue someone for damages, you must first \"serve\" the case on the person you are intending to sue.\n\nThat means you make sure the documents containing your allegations reach their hands - or at the very least get to a lawyer working for them.\n\nThat rule is at the heart of justice in the US and the UK: a judge must be sure that the defendant knows what they are being accused of.\n\nVirginia Giuffre and her lawyer, David Boies - one of the best known attorneys in the US\n\nSo, Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York, who is in charge of the Virginia Giuffre case, won't even consider her claims until he is sure that Prince Andrew has received the allegations in proper legal form and has had time to respond.\n\nAnd that's where we've currently been stuck - until now - as publicly available documents in the United States show.\n\nOn Thursday, 26 August, Cesar Sepulveda, a corporate investigator, turned up at the gates of Windsor Great Park.\n\nMs Giuffre's lawyers employed Mr Sepulveda to take the legal papers to the Duke of York's home.\n\nWhen he arrived on an unseasonably grey August morning, he had a fruitless wait.\n\nHe handed over his business card and despite conversations with police officers standing guard, no officials working for the Prince could be found.\n\nThe next day he returned and, in his court statement, he recounts that this time a police officer told him the documents could be left at the gate to be forwarded on to \"the legal team.\"\n\nFast forward to 13 September and David Boies, Virginia Giuffre's lawyer, joins a teleconference in a New York courtroom.\n\nHis sole objective was to convince Judge Kaplan that the prince had now been served and the case should proceed.\n\nLegal documents show the lengths that Mr Boies' and his firm had gone to.\n\nThe chase had in fact begun weeks before Mr Sepulveda's Windsor visit.\n\nDocuments were emailed to any British lawyer the Giuffre team could find who had represented the Prince in the past. They sent the requests by courier - and showed the delivery receipts to the US court.\n\nOne receipt read: \"Hi. Your package was delivered Wed 08/18/2021 at 8.28am. Delivered to Royal Lodge at Windsor... Received by A POLICE OFFICER.\"\n\nMs Giuffre's team also showed the court a photo of them posting the documents by Royal Mail directly to the prince.\n\nBy Royal Mail: The letter sent to the prince\n\nBut they didn't stop there.\n\nThey had discovered the Duke of York's office email address and sent the papers once more to tell him he was being sued... and this time they received a reply.\n\n\"Thank you for emailing The Duke of York's Office,\" it read. \"This is an automatic acknowledgement to tell you that we have received your email safely.\"\n\n\"I think that it is clear that Prince Andrew has actual notice of this complaint and proceeding,\" Mr Boies argued to the New York court on Monday. \"I believe we have complied with the service requirements.\"\n\nFedex receipt: Another proof of postage shown to the US judge\n\nBut that's not the way the prince's newly-appointed Los Angeles lawyer saw it.\n\nAndrew Brettler, on the line from California, argued the duke had not been served at all - and it should be for the High Court in London to decide.\n\nAnd that's because of a not widely known but extremely important international agreement called the Hague Convention.\n\nThis agreement means an American court can ask a British one for help in tracking down a defendant and serving papers on them.\n\nJudge Kaplan told the duke's LA lawyer that if he continued to object to Ms Giuffre's team chasing down Prince Andrew themselves, he would indeed consider sending a judge-to-judge request to the British for help.\n\n\"I think we are making this a lot more complicated that it really is,\" he remarked on the call.\n\n\"Regardless of whether your client has been served effectively to date... you have a pretty high degree of certainty that he can be served sooner or later.\"\n\nAnd that's where Master Barbara Fontaine comes in, The Queen's Remembrancer.\n\nShe's the High Court judge in charge of overseeing foreign requests for help.\n\nWhat about the Queen's Remembrancer bit? That's an ancient judicial title. One of her duties is to review for the monarch the annual plans for new trees in the Forest of Dean - but this and other ceremonial roles have nothing to do with her modern legal duties.\n\nOn Wednesday Master Fontaine confirmed she had received a valid request for assistance from New York. That meant her office would soon send the allegations to Prince Andrew once and for all.\n\nBut London solicitors for the duke objected - so the process stalled again. They have until next Friday to launch a formal challenge.\n\nWill that happen? Well, there's now been an important twist back in New York.\n\nLate on Thursday, Judge Kaplan ruled that Andrew Brettler, the Los Angeles lawyer who had joined the teleconference for the prince earlier in the week, should now be sent the documents.\n\nHe said: \"Service on the defendant's US counsel is reasonably calculated to bring the papers served to the defendant's attention, regardless of whether his US counsel is authorised to accept service on his behalf.\"\n\nAnd so after weeks and weeks of too-ing and fro-ing it appears the New York judge has decided it's time to get on with things.\n\nPrince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein around 11 years ago in New York\n\nIf Prince Andrew cannot now avoid service, the case is still far off the prospect of him giving evidence. The next stage is likely to be challenges to whether the claim against him is even valid - because Ms Giuffre brought legal action against Jeffrey Epstein before he died.\n\nThe prince's lawyers have said in court that Ms Giuffre agreed in 2009 not to sue anyone else connected to Jeffrey Epstein when she settled her damages claim against the now-dead financier.\n\nThe precise wording of that deal is currently confidential - sealed by a court.\n\nUnsealing that document is looking like the next battle, if the prince is finally served and the case gets under way.", "The US government is set to fly back to Haiti thousands of migrants who have gathered under a US-Mexico border bridge.\n\nAt least 10,000 people are camped under the bridge connecting Del Rio in Texas to Mexico's Ciudad Acuña.\n\nRead more: US 'set to fly back' Haitian migrant arrivals", "The UK's \"most vulnerable\" hospital patients, who are unable to build up an antibody response to Covid, will be offered new drug Ronapreve from Monday.\n\nThe new Covid treatment, approved just last month, uses a pair of laboratory-made antibodies to attack the virus.\n\nIt was famously used as part of the suite of experimental medicines given to US President Donald Trump last year.\n\nThe antibody cocktail has been shown to reduce hospital stays by four days and cut the risk of death by a fifth.\n\nThe government said it had secured sufficient supply of the new therapeutic for eligible NHS patients across the four nations to cover the forthcoming winter.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said he was \"thrilled it will be saving lives from as early as next week\".\n\n\"The UK is leading the world in identifying and rolling out life-saving medicines, particularly for Covid 19, and we will continue our vital work to find the best treatments available to save lives and protect the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe new treatment is expensive and priority will be given to those patients at greatest risk of becoming severely ill.\n\nIt will be offered to those over-50 without the necessary antibodies, and those aged 12-49 who are immuno-compromised - for example those with certain cancers - who struggle to mount an antibody response, either through being exposed to Covid, or from vaccination.\n\nThe government said guidance would be sent to clinicians imminently so they can begin prescribing the treatment as soon as possible.\n\nOf those eligible patients, antibody testing will initially be used to determine whether they are seronegative - meaning those who do not have an adequate existing antibody response - and will therefore be eligible for treatment.\n\nThe treatment antibodies - casirivimab and imdevimab - will then be administered to patients through a drip. The drug works by binding to the virus' spike protein, stopping it from being able to infect the body's cells.\n\nThe antibody therapy attacks the virus, unlike other Covid treatments such as the steroid dexamethasone that calm the body's overactive immune system.\n\nThere had been concern the idea was a dud after trials failed when antibodies were taken from patients who had recovered from Covid.\n\nHowever, the companies Regeneron and Roche tested monoclonal antibodies in the laboratory to find the two that were best able to stick to the virus.\n\nThis has proved far more effective, and the therapy continues to work against new variants.\n\n\"Ronapreve is the first dedicated medicine developed for Covid 19 to receive marketing authorisation from the MHRA, representing a significant milestone in how the NHS is able to fight this disease,\" said Paul McManus, Covid 19 lead at Roche Products Ltd.\n\n\"We're grateful for the collaboration of the vaccine taskforce and NHS England in helping to bring this important antibody cocktail to treat and prevent acute Covid 19 across the UK.\"", "Some pregnant women visiting the UK have been wrongly told they could be denied visas for future trips unless they pay maternity care bills while in the country, the BBC has learned.\n\nCharity Maternity Action says it has found significant failings in how debt collectors CCI Credit Management work.\n\nCCI says it represents more than 75% of trusts and health boards, and recoups money from visitors for NHS care.\n\nIt said it was reviewing all communications with overseas visitors.\n\nMigrants, visitors and former residents of the UK must pay for their care when they are in the UK.\n\nRules on charging are aimed in part at preventing people from overseas deliberately coming to the UK to give birth on the NHS for free. Government rules compel NHS trusts to chase up debts.\n\nHowever, NHS guidelines say debt should not be an automatic reason for refusal of visas - which may be needed to visit, work or stay in the UK - and only that officials \"may consider\" it.\n\nSafeguards are designed to be in place to ensure that those in need of urgent care always receive it, and there are exemptions from charges for some groups of people.\n\nJune (not her real name), who came to the UK from overseas, received a bill from CCI Credit Management for more than £4,600 for her maternity care while she was pregnant.\n\nShe had just fled a violent relationship, was destitute and her pregnancy was considered high risk because of a past stillbirth.\n\n\"I was really, really scared. I can't tell you how stressed I was. I kept going on the internet searching about this stuff,\" she says.\n\nHer letter from CCI contained the warnings about future visas. It also said debts would be taken into account for potential asylum applications. In fact, NHS debts are not considered when asylum applications are assessed.\n\nCCI said in a statement: \"For this error we unreservedly apologise.\n\n\"Please be assured that we are currently reviewing all communications with NHS overseas visitors in order to ensure that there can be no repetition of this mistake, and that further training is being provided to our teams.\"\n\nThe NHS trust dropped June's charges after Maternity Action contacted them.\n\nBut the charity says there are trusts who have refused to write off debts for those who are destitute or on very low incomes - despite guidance saying they can. They also say some trusts show poor understanding of the domestic violence provisions.\n\nChristine Benson, senior legal officer at Maternity Action, said NHS trusts needed to take safeguarding seriously.\n\n\"NHS trusts must take responsibility for the debt collection agencies and the messages that they're giving to women,\" she said.\n\nMaternity Action warns there is a growing body of evidence that charging for NHS maternity care deters women from coming forward for care.\n\nMary came to Britain to meet her husband - an EU national working here for seven years. But at immigration, the authorities said they believed she was involved in a sham marriage. She was allowed into the country but not given leave to remain. Her claim is still pending.\n\nShe said she did not access medical care throughout her pregnancy because she feared being charged until, at 21 weeks, she miscarried. She now owes £4,500.\n\nIt is not clear if going for scans earlier in her pregnancy would have resulted in a different outcome. But evidence suggests the kind of care someone receives can have an impact.\n\n\"It's really important that you have regular check-ups in pregnancy, and that's kind of a standard of care worldwide,\" says Andrew Shennan, professor of obstetrics at King's College London.\n\n\"There are many scenarios where acute management will make a big difference and turn around the outcome.\"\n\nThere is also evidence that some women turn to desperate measures to pay off their debts.\n\nMs Benson says: \"Women tell us that they engage in survival sex to support themselves and their families and to repay debts, that they stay in exploitative relationships.\"\n\nDr Edward Morris, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, says he was \"incredibly concerned\" that women are putting off seeking care during pregnancy and says \"urgent action was needed to break down barriers\".\n\nClare Livingstone, from the Royal College of Midwives, says that charging these women is \"not only wrong, it is dangerous\".\n\n\"There must be no barriers that prevent or make these women fearful of coming to our maternity services for the care they need.\"", "Pregnant women should get a Covid jab after a rise in those without vaccines needing hospital care, Wales' chief medical officer has said.\n\nDr Frank Atherton said there had been an increase in the number of pregnant women with serious illness from Covid.\n\nCovid vaccines are recommended for pregnant women by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG) and Royal College of Midwives (RCM).\n\nDr Atherton said the jab was \"safe and effective\" in all stages of pregnancy.\n\nHe said catching Covid during pregnancy carried a \"significant risk\" of hospital admission and pregnant women could be at \"increased risk of severe illness\" compared with the rest of the population, particularly in the third trimester.\n\nHe added: \"The Covid-19 vaccine can protect mums and babies from avoidable harm.\n\n\"We now have a lot of worldwide experience to know that the vaccine is safe and effective at all stages of pregnancy - women shouldn't wait, take it as soon as possible whether planning pregnancy or already pregnant.\"\n\nHe said the vaccine was based on science that has been used safely on pregnant women for many years, including jabs already administered during pregnancy, such as whooping cough and the flu jab.\n\n\"The Covid-19 vaccine can be given at any time of a pregnancy,\" he said.\n\n\"I would encourage people to contact their health board if they have not accepted their offer. The latest evidence and medical professionals agree that the vaccine provides the greatest protection from Covid-19.\"\n\nDr Atherton (left) has urged pregnant women to get vaccinated\n\nThe latest Covid figures showed there were 520 people in hospital with Covid in Wales, with an average of 42 admissions each day.\n\nDr Viki Male, a lecturer in reproductive immunology at Imperial College London, told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales earlier this week vaccines were safe and effective for those already pregnant and people trying to conceive.\n\nShe said: \"We know that Covid is dangerous during pregnancy, particularly in the second half of pregnancy. If you catch Covid it's more likely that your baby will be born pre-term. It's also more likely that your baby will be stillborn.\n\n\"So if you're thinking of becoming pregnant, you might want to get the vaccine so you're protected in advance.\"\n\nShe added there was no evidence Covid vaccines had stopped people from conceiving, including in IVF settings, and that those already pregnant should get vaccinated.\n\n\"If you're already pregnant we have absolutely loads of data about how safe the vaccines are in pregnancy,\" she said.\n\n\"There's no increased risk of miscarriage, pre-term birth, stillbirth, the baby being smaller than we expect, or any congenital abnormalities.\n\n\"We recommend Covid vaccination during pregnancy, we do not recommend getting Covid during pregnancy.\"", "Ofgem has said that UK household energy bills will be affected by soaring prices of fossil fuels globally.\n\nThe energy regulator told the BBC that increasing prices, for gas in particular, \"will feed into all customer energy bills in the UK\".\n\nIt described the energy price cap as one of the \"best tools\" to ensure consumers pay a fair price.\n\nBut the price cap for default domestic energy deals has already been raised to cover rising wholesale costs.\n\nThe typical gas and electricity customer is likely to see their bill go up by £139 to £1,277 a year from October.\n\nPrepayment customers, meanwhile, will see an increase of £153, from £1,156 to £1,309.\n\nThe price cap limits the price that companies can charge customers who have not recently changed their tariff or energy supplier and allows them only to charge legitimate costs.\n\n\"We have put tough rules in place to ensure suppliers treat customers who are struggling with bills fairly, and welcome their commitment to reach out to those who most need help,\" an Ofgem spokesperson said.\n\n\"Where help is not forthcoming, we will not hesitate to act,\" the watchdog added.\n\nLisa Barber, home products and services editor at Which?, warned that if the wholesale cost of energy continued to rise, those on variable tariffs might see their bills increase and the number of cheap tariffs on the market might shrink.\n\nTo keep costs down, Which? suggests:\n\nIt comes after the UK had to fire up two old coal power plants to meet electricity needs earlier this week.\n\nWarm, still, autumn weather has meant wind farms have not generated as much power as normal, while spiking prices have made it too costly to rely on gas.\n\nOn Tuesday, the use of coal returned to 2.2% of the UK's electricity generation.\n\nAudrey Gallacher, Energy UK's deputy chief executive, said: \"Due to the unprecedented price increases in natural gas, National Grid, the electricity system operator, has had to make some tough choices about where we get our power from in order to maintain security of supply.\n\nShe said the move highlighted the \"need to continue the low carbon energy transition, and further reduce our dependency on fossil fuels for our heat and power\".\n\n\"It will not only help us meet climate change targets but remove the risk of being exposed to volatile international wholesale prices.\"\n\nEnergy UK added that it \"recognises\" the impact increased energy prices would have on customers and that anyone worried about their bills should talk to their supplier.\n\nSome suppliers have said that profits have been hit by financial assistance offered to customers struggling to afford the higher prices.\n\nRobert Buckley, and energy analyst at Cornwall Insights, said prices for power which is needed immediately are at all-time highs - 10 times the prices of last summer.\n\n\"There's very high international commodity prices for gas and for carbon as economies recover from Covid, and the EU has tightened up its carbon market rules,\" he said. \"Very high coal prices as well.\"\n\n\"In the UK we've a combination of low wind, we've had outages at some of the nuclear stations, some of the gas stations have been offline, and we've had lower flows into the country of gas from Norway,\" he said.\n\nConsumers will see these rises push their bills up this winter as the price cap goes up, but if wholesale energy prices continue at these highs the cap \"will go up a lot more\".\n\nHowever, in the meantime the high prices are \"also very bad for suppliers because the cap limits what they can charge their consumers, and the market is way above that now\", Mr Buckley added, saying it was \"very sad\" that some small suppliers had already gone out of business.", "Back on campus: Record numbers are heading to university this term\n\nEngland's universities must take student views into account when deciding how much to teach online, says regulator the Office for Students.\n\nWith Covid restrictions lifted, the majority of teaching is expected to be face-to-face this year, says chief executive Nicola Dandridge.\n\nBut larger group teaching sessions, such as lectures, are likely to be online in many institutions.\n\nAnd numerous universities have told the BBC they are using a mixed approach.\n\nIn a snapshot survey of 47 universities, just 13 said they would be offering mostly face-to-face tuition. The others say they are adopting a more blended approach.\n\nAnd 19 institutions told the BBC they would be offering additional online learning resources.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of thousands of students are heading for university.\n\nLast week, former education secretary Gavin Williamson told vice-chancellors at the Universities UK conference that he expected students to be \"taught in person and alongside other students\".\n\nMs Dandridge said she was expecting the overwhelming majority of universities and colleges to offer primarily face-to-face teaching.\n\nBut she said the experience of the pandemic had revealed \"elements of online provision which are really valuable and really useful\".\n\n\"So there will be elements of online provision where it suits students and where it works, in terms of quality of teaching, but primarily it is face-to face-teaching.\"\n\nShe added: \"What we will be looking for is quality provision whether or not it's face-to-face or online.\n\n\"Critically, universities will be taking into consideration the views of students - what do they want, what is their feedback? And that then is factored into the course provision over the course of the next year.\"\n\nWill Huddie petitioned the University of Leeds for face-to-face lessons\n\nLast year, almost all the teaching Will Huddie received on his theoretical physics course at the University of Leeds was online.\n\n\"It was difficult,\" he said. \"It's much more natural to discuss questions in person.\n\n\"There's so much value in having the lecturer explaining things to you when they're in front of you.\n\n\"Even after a year-and-a-half of using this online technology, no-one wants to be the person to put up their hand. The interactivity is really poor.\"\n\nOutraged that teaching had remained online while Covid restrictions were lifted elsewhere, Will started a petition for a return to face-to-face teaching which was signed by thousands of others students.\n\nWill's course is now due to be delivered entirely face-to-face in the coming year, but the lectures will also be streamed online for those self-isolating and international students who cannot reach the UK.\n\n\"I want entirely face-to-face - it's what I signed up for. I don't think blended learning would wash very well with UK students,\" he said.\n\nA University of Leeds spokesperson said it was committed to working with students to ensure an active and engaged learning experience, using all of the campus and its digital resources.\n\n\"All seminars, tutorials, workshops, practical classes, performance activities and discussion groups will take place in person, with large-scale teaching events - supported by digital technology - taking place online.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Russell Group of 24 top universities said they were looking forward to students returning to campuses.\n\n\"Students can expect most seminars, small group classes and lab work to be taught in person, alongside a range of extracurricular activity, social events and support services on campus.\"\n\nBut, he said, an element of digital learning would continue, with many large group lectures remaining online.\n\nHe said many students saw benefits to this approach which was more flexible and accessible.\n\nNational Union of Students vice-president for higher education Hillary Gyebi-Ababio called for online learning that enhanced and added to the in-person student experience - but that did not replace it entirely.\n\n\"We are concerned that for some universities, online learning is simply a cost-cutting exercise, brought about by universities needing to stay financially afloat in a competitive market,\" she said.", "When the Covid pandemic suddenly stopped flights around the world, airlines found they had planes they no longer needed.\n\nHe got in touch with Plane Reclaimers in south Wales with a plan to turn an old Boeing 777 into a giant canvas for his work.", "\n• Everyone travelling to Spain (including children) must submit an online Health Control Form (in English), no more than 48 hours before departure. This will generate a QR code which needs to be presented (either digitally or as a hard copy) at the Spanish border. All travellers aged 12 and over must be able to prove they've been fully vaccinated (with both doses of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a one-dose vaccine) at least 14 days before arrival. Proof of a negative test or recovery from Covid is not accepted. From 23:00 GMT on 13 February children aged 12-17 do not need to be double-jabbed to enter the country. Instead, they must present a negative PCR test taken no more than 72 hours before arrival. You must have received your final vaccine dose no earlier than 270 days (about nine months) before travelling. If it was earlier than this, you must be able to show proof of having received a booster jab. There is no requirement for 14 days to have passed between receiving your booster and entering Spain. Spain (like all EU countries) will accept as proof the NHS Covid Pass, Scotland's NHS Covid Status Pass or Northern Ireland's COVIDCert NI app - these can be presented either in digital form on a phone, or printed (as long as it's dated after 1 November 2021). Fully vaccinated children aged 12 to 15 can now also use the NHS app to show their Covid status, or they can request an NHS Covid Pass letter for international travel. Children under the age of 12 do not need to show proof of vaccination. If you have not been fully vaccinated, you can only enter Spain if your journey is classed as \"essential\" by the Spanish Ministry of Health. If your journey qualifies, you will need to present either a negative PCR test taken within the previous 72 hours, or a negative antigen test/LFT taken within the previous 24 hours, or else a medical certificate to say that you have recovered from Covid in the previous six months. If you're travelling via Gibraltar, check the latest Foreign Office travel advice.\n• Wherever you are in Spain, you must observe social distancing of 1.5m (5ft). Everyone aged six and over must also wear a face mask in the following places (unless they have a medical exemption):\n• any enclosed space open to the public (eg shops, restaurants, hotels or hospitals)\n• any indoor space where people from different households mix\n• any outdoor space where it is not possible to observe social distancing (e.g. crowded streets, public demonstrations etc.)\n• all forms of public transport and all transport stations, platforms and airports Some regions may have additional restrictive measures, including:\n• restrictions on meeting people from other households indoors\n• capacity restrictions at beaches or other public areas (eg booking systems) You should check with local and regional authorities for more details. The Foreign Office has specific healthcare guidance for UK nationals visiting Spain. For more details about travelling in Spain, go to the UK Foreign Office travel advice for Spain\n• Everyone aged 12 and over travelling to the UK must fill in an online passenger locator form before they depart. Adults can complete the form for under-18s travelling with them. If you qualify as fully vaccinated, you do not need to take any tests either before or after you arrive in the UK, nor is there any need to quarantine. The same rules apply for travellers under the age of 18. If you are 18 or over, and not fully vaccinated:\n• you will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test, taken in the two days before you travel to the UK\n• you will need to book and pay for a PCR test, to be taken within two days of arrival in the UK. This must be booked with a private provider before you travel\n• you do not have to quarantine unless your PCR test is positive", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A group of women protest in Kabul against the all-male Taliban government\n\nDozens of women in Kabul and the north-eastern Afghan province of Badakhshan have protested against the formation of an all-male interim Taliban government to rule Afghanistan.\n\nDemonstrators said they would not accept a government with no women ministers.\n\nSome women were reportedly beaten before the protests were dispersed.\n\nLocal news organisation Etilaatroz said some of its journalists were detained and beaten for covering the rally.\n\nThe Taliban, who have not responded to the allegations, warned that such protests were illegal.\n\nThey have said protesters needed permission to march, and should not use what they called abusive language.\n\nOn Tuesday, three people were killed during a demonstration in the western city of Herat.\n\nThe EU said the Islamist group had reneged on promises to make their government \"inclusive and representative\", while the US also expressed concern that the interim government includes figures linked to attacks on US forces.\n\nAddressing reporters after a virtual meeting of 20 Western nations on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Taliban's government \"certainly does not meet the test of inclusivity, and it includes people who have very challenging track records\".\n\n\"The Taliban seek international legitimacy and support - any legitimacy, any support, will have to be earned,\" he said.\n\nBut China said on Wednesday that it welcomed the end of what it called \"three weeks of anarchy\" in Afghanistan, and pledged $31m (£22m) in immediate aid.\n\nThe formation of an interim government, China's foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters, is \"a necessary step to restore order and rebuild the country\".\n\nThe anti-Taliban National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) have urged the international community not to recognise the new government, calling the cabinet \"illegal\" and \"a clear sign of the group's enmity with the Afghan people\".\n\nThe NRF, led by Ahmad Massoud, the son of the late resistance icon Ahmad Shah Massoud, have been fighting Taliban militants in the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, which was Afghanistan's last anti-Taliban stronghold.\n\nThe Taliban insist they have now defeated the NRF in Panjshir, but NRF leaders say they are still fighting.\n\nOn Tuesday the Taliban announced the first appointments to their interim cabinet, which will be led by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund.\n\nHassan Akhund served as foreign minister, and then later deputy prime minister, when the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Like many of the new cabinet ministers he is under UN sanctions for his position in that government.\n\nSpeaking to Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Hassan Akhund said former Afghan officials should return to the country and that their security and safety would be guaranteed.\n\nHe said Taliban leaders face great responsibility towards the Afghan people, adding: \"We have suffered heavy losses for this historical moment and the era of bloodshed in Afghanistan is over.\"\n\nAnother incoming minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, is head of the notorious Haqqani network.\n\nThe Haqqani network has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) by the US. It also maintains close ties to al-Qaeda.\n\nThe FBI says Haqqani was behind some of the deadliest attacks of the 20-year-long war, including a truck bomb explosion in Kabul in 2017 that killed more than 150 people.\n\nHe is wanted by the FBI over a 2008 attack on a hotel that killed an American.\n\nThe Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in a sweeping offensive more than three weeks ago. They now face many tough challenges in the conflict-torn country, including stabilising the economy and gaining international recognition.\n\nThe Taliban's spokesman announced the appointments at a press conference on Tuesday\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, a statement attributed to Taliban Supreme Leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada told the government to uphold Sharia law - Islam's legal system. The Taliban have been known for their extremely hardline interpretation of Sharia.\n\nThe Taliban want \"strong and healthy\" relations with other countries and would respect international laws and treaties as long as they did not conflict with \"Islamic law and the country's national values\", the statement said.\n\nHassan Akhund, the new interim prime minister, is influential on the religious side of the movement, rather than the military side.\n\nHis appointment is seen as a compromise, after recent reports of in-fighting between some relatively moderate Taliban figures and their hardline colleagues.\n\nA movement which has long moved in the shadows, whose names would surface only on the world's terrorism watch lists, is now announcing titles used in governments the world over.\n\nActing prime minister Mullah Akhund appears as a compromise candidate after reported rivalries among leading military and political figures who will serve under him.\n\nIts caretaker nature also provides breathing space as the Taliban move from guns to government.\n\nIt also underlines the Taliban view that a Taliban victory can only mean Taliban rule. Sources say they pushed back against calls for an \"inclusive\" government. They balked at including former political figures and officials, who've had their turn at the top, and especially those tainted by corruption.\n\n\"Why should we let others pick our cabinet when other countries pick their own? \"was one retort.\n\nAs for women, there was never a chance they would be given a ministerial role; the ministry of women's affairs seems to have been, for now, abolished altogether.\n\nOther appointments to the new government include:", "The Scottish Borders has recorded the highest September temperature in Scotland since 1906\n\nScotland's highest September temperature in 115 years has been recorded in the Scottish Borders.\n\nThe Met Office said the temperature in Charterhall had reached 28.6C.\n\nIt said this had made Wednesday the warmest September day in Scotland since 1906 when Gordon Castle in Moray hit 32.2C.\n\nThe warm weather - which has been experienced widely across Scotland this week - has seen the Met Office issue a warning for thunderstorms on Thursday.\n\nThe yellow \"be aware\" warning is in place for all mainland Scotland, Skye, the Inner Hebrides and Western Isles from 10:00 to 20:00.\n\nThe Met Office said some places could see 20mm to 30 mm of rain fall in less than an hour, and up to 40 mm in two hours.\n\nIt said there was the potential risk of flooding in some urban areas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast month, the Met Office said its provisional figures showed Scotland had its fourth hottest summer on record.\n\nThe city of Glasgow had its hottest ever summer since records began in 1884.\n\nA high of 27.2C was recorded at Tyndrum, near Stirling, on 25 August.\n\nThe Met Office said it was unusual for the UK's highest August temperature to come from Scotland.", "The 737 Max was cleared to fly again late last year, after being grounded since March 2019\n\nBoeing's board of directors must face a lawsuit from shareholders over two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max plane, a US judge has ruled.\n\nMorgan Zurn said the first crash was a \"red flag\" about a key safety system on the aircraft \"that the board should have heeded but instead ignored\".\n\nShe said the real victims were the dead and their families but investors had also lost billions of dollars.\n\nBoeing said it would \"consider next steps\".\n\nIn her ruling the Delaware judge said: \"While it may seem callous in the face of [the families'] losses, corporate law recognizes another set of victims: Boeing as an enterprise, and its stockholders.\n\n\"Stockholders have come to this court claiming Boeing's directors and officers failed them in overseeing mission-critical airplane safety to protect enterprise and stockholder value.\"\n\nThe crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019 killed all 346 people on board, leading to the 737 Max being grounded around the world.\n\nInvestigations later found a flaw in an automated flight control system, known as MCAS, was at fault.\n\nIn January, Boeing paid $2.5bn to settle criminal charges it concealed information about changes to MCAS from safety officials, contributing to the crashes.\n\nBut it still faces civil lawsuits from families along with the latest action from shareholders.\n\nOn Tuesday, Vice Chancellor Zurn dismissed some of the investors' claims, including one regarding a decision to award former chief executive Dennis Muilenburg a $60m retirement package after he was fired.\n\nHowever, the judge said another claim about board member oversight could go ahead. Shares in the plane maker slumped following the accidents and are yet to fully recover.\n\nA Boeing spokesperson said: \"We are disappointed in the court's decision to allow the plaintiffs' case to proceed past this preliminary stage of litigation.\n\n\"We will review the opinion closely over the coming days as we consider next steps.\"\n\nThe Max was cleared to fly in the US in November 2020, and in Europe and Canada in January this year. It remains grounded in China.\n\nThe crashes have already cost Boeing about $20bn in fines, cancelled orders and other costs.", "Twitter is testing new changes to how photos and videos appear on its apps, closer to how images appear on other services such as Instagram.\n\nThe new feature will expand visual media embedded in tweets to fill the whole width of a mobile phone's screen.\n\nCurrently, images are indented next to a user's profile photo and take up much less screen space.\n\nTwitter said the new layout - being tested on iOS but not Android - would give media \"more room to shine\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Twitter Support This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of tests to change the core Twitter experience:\n\nThe experimental changes to fuel content creation and consumption come amid a rollout of Twitter's subscription service for dedicated users, Twitter Blue.\n\nBeing a place for media consumption is an explicit priority for Twitter. In May, it announced the acquisition of Scroll, an article reading and optimisation service, which it plans to roll into its paid offerings.\n\n\"Scroll will become a meaningful addition to our subscriptions work as we build and shape a future subscription service,\" it wrote at the time.\n\nTwitter also announced another test which allows users to remove followers.\n\nPreviously, the only way to prevent people seeing your tweets was to protect them - meaning you would have to approve requests to follow you - or to block individual users.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Twitter Support This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe new feature, being tested in the web browser version of Twitter, will let users remove people from their \"followers\" list.\n\nBut there is nothing to stop that person then re-following later.\n\nIt is an official way to do what is commonly called a soft block - where someone will block and then immediately unblock someone to remove the follower without notifying them.", "The UN Secretary General said that humanitarian aid can be an \"entry point\" for dealing with the Taliban, as the world body continues its operations in Afghanistan following the US evacuation.\n\nSpeaking with the BBC’s Laura Trevelyan in New York, António Guterres called on the Taliban to provide the conditions for them to do their work, while acknowledging that the situation remains \"largely unpredictable\".", "This is a very significant tax rise, with little precedent outside of a Budget.\n\nIt doesn't just break a manifesto promise, it drives a JCB through it, with £11.4bn a year in extra taxes that were the subject of a guarantee that they would not go up.\n\nThe March Budget of this year was already the most significant tax-raising Budget since 1993.\n\nBut a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic recession and associated long-lasting damage to the NHS do give some rationale for thinking about how appropriate promises are made in very different circumstances.\n\nAmong workers, the money will be raised in a \"progressive fashion\" - unlike say a VAT rise - with the highest earners paying the most.\n\nHowever, some very low earners, including some on the cusp of losing £1,000 in annual universal credit payments, will face higher tax bills of £100.\n\nAnd it is pretty clear that one of the rationales here is to be able to present a National Insurance increase of 1.25% as lower than the 2% rise in income tax that would have been required to raise such funds.\n\nThe argument is almost entirely presentational and relies on a general public lack of familiarity with how National Insurance works.\n\nThe tax rise on working is effectively 2.5%, with the direct burden shared between workers and their bosses.\n\nAs the Treasury acknowledges, however, firms may reduce wages, or raise prices to pay the extra bill.\n\nSo this is the big choice the government has made.\n\nThe prize is that pensioners can have certainty about the cost of social care, and the least well off will have it paid for.\n\nTax could have been raised on, for example, the inflating value of homes, especially at the point of their being inherited.\n\nThe social care cost could have been spread more evenly on all forms of income, from savings to pensions, through income taxes.\n\nInstead, with some tweaks to apply it to those over the age of 66 from 2023, it will go on workers and work.\n\nIt used to be called a \"jobs tax\". The hope is by earmarking it for health and care and separating out this levy on all tax bills, that the public won't mind.", "Alice Thompson wanted to work shorter hours to pick her daughter up from nursery, but ended up resigning.\n\nThe former estate agent spent tens of thousands of pounds pursuing the case against her former employer.\n\nShe was awarded £185,000 by an employment tribunal and this week told the BBC it was \"a long, exhausting journey\".\n\nThe tribunal ruled she had suffered indirect sex discrimination when the firm refused to consider her request.\n\nMs Thompson was a successful sales manager at a small independent estate agents in central London before she became pregnant in 2018.\n\n\"I'd put my heart and soul into an estate agency career for more than a decade,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\n\"That's no mean feat, it's quite a male dominated environment to work in. And I'd worked really hard to build relationships with clients.\"\n\nWhen she wanted to return to work after maternity leave, she asked her employer if she could work shorter hours, a four day week, and leave at 5pm, rather than the normal end-of-day at 6pm, to pick her daughter up from nursery.\n\nHer manager said they couldn't afford for her to work part time.\n\n\"I made a request for flexible working that wasn't seriously considered,\" Ms Thompson says.\n\n\"I proposed what would have worked for me. If that didn't work for the company, I would have been more than happy to hear a counter offer, what might work for them.\n\n\"If they needed me for the full hours, maybe eight 'til five instead of nine 'til six, that's something I could have worked around.\n\n\"But it was shut down, every avenue, not listened to, not considered. And I was left with no other option but to resign.\n\n\"How are mums meant to have careers and families? It's 2021 not 1971.\"\n\nAre firms doing enough to support new mothers?\n\nShe said she was motivated to pursue the legal challenge in order to prompt change.\n\n\"I've got a daughter and I didn't want her to experience the same treatment in 20, 30 years' time, when she's in the workplace.\"\n\nShe said her effort was worth it to \"stand up for what is right\".\n\nThe tribunal found that the firm's failure to consider more flexible working put Ms Thompson at a disadvantage, and upheld her claim. The judge awarded her almost £185,000 for loss of earnings, loss of pension contributions, injury to feelings and interest.\n\n\"Losing a job unexpectedly is always a cause of unhappiness, shock, and sometimes anger, as shown by the way many employees react to redundancy, even when there has been proper consultation, and even when it is never suggested their performance was not good enough,\" the tribunal found.\n\n\"Here the claimant resented that flexible working appeared not to be considered properly - as in our finding it was not - and felt that this was an injustice because of her sex, which it was.\"\n\nHowever several other claims Ms Thompson made regarding her treatment, including discrimination because of pregnancy and maternity, and harassment, were denied by the tribunal.\n\nThe tribunal found that the director of the Manors estate agency, Paul Sellar, had moved a staff trip to New York from November to August so Ms Thompson could fly in when pregnant, and there were checks to see when the latest was that she could fly.\n\nWhen there, she did not join the other six for a boat trip.\n\n\"She did go shopping and then back to the hotel. In our finding she was upset that the others had had a good time drinking and were late back. She may have felt excluded, but it was not because of any action on the part of the respondent,\" the judges said.\n\nOn the return journey from New York, Mr Sellar commented that Ms Thompson did not seem to have enjoyed the trip, and she replied that she had felt isolated and became tearful.\n\nA few days later he suggested she should not have gone to New York.\n\n\"We can understand that Mr Sellar may have found her response ungrateful when the group trip had cost him £25,000,\" the judges said.\n\nWhile she was determined to pursue the legal action she told Woman's Hour it was challenging.\n\n\"It's a very emotional process once you've had a child. You have a new identity as a mum, you're trying to figure things out on that field, and then you're going back to work as well,\" said Ms Thompson.\n\nBut she said workplaces that didn't support returning mothers risked \"missing out on some fantastic women, who have been really successful, because they are short-sighted and don't want to be flexible\".\n\nShe said many women had reached out to her in the wake of the ruling, many of whom had similar experiences but didn't have the mental or financial capacity to pursue a claim.\n\n\"It did come at a huge financial cost... and obviously there's the risk you might not get that money back if you lose, but there's a greater picture to trying to make some small change in the world for the better.\"\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport website and app. Live text commentary and in-depth coverage on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu says her stunning run to the US Open quarter-finals is \"surreal\", but feels confident and \"in control\" as she chases a place in the semi-finals.\n\nRaducanu faces Swiss 11th seed Belinda Bencic, who won the Olympic title last month, in the last eight on Wednesday.\n\n\"I didn't expect to be here at all,\" said the 18-year-old.\n\n\"I feel very confident in my game and in each match I am growing and learning new things.\"\n\nThe pair will meet on Arthur Ashe Stadium at 17:00 BST. Commentary of the match will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n• None 'It is right to be excited about wise and fearless Raducanu'\n\nAfter bursting on to the professional scene with a run to the last 16 at Wimbledon, Raducanu has surpassed that achievement in New York in the most astonishing style.\n\nThe Kent teenager has not dropped a set at Flushing Meadows, losing just 15 games and overwhelming a series of more experienced opponents.\n\nIt is her first overseas Grand Slam and the first major for which she came through qualifying, having received a wildcard to play at the All England Club.\n\n\"The best thing I'm doing is taking each day and not getting ahead of myself at all, looking after what I can control, and I think that is working very well,\" Raducanu said.\n\nHow Raducanu has created history in New York Raducanu is the youngest British player to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open for more than 60 years. The Kent teenager is the first woman since Jennifer Capriati in 1990 to reach at least the fourth round of her first two Grand Slam tournaments. Raducanu is only the third qualifier to reach the quarter-finals in New York. Her 15 games dropped is the lowest total by any player in the first four rounds since Serena Williams in 2013.\n\nRaducanu was ranked 361st in mid-June, having not played competitively in the previous 15 months as the coronavirus pandemic wiped out the development tours underneath the main WTA Tour.\n\nFresh from taking her A-level exams - an A* in maths and an A in economics - she arrived at Wimbledon having played just one senior tour-level match.\n\nNow the teenager is set to rise well into the world's top 100 and could even move into the top 50 and become the British women's number one - overhauling Johanna Konta and Heather Watson - if she beats Bencic.\n\n\"Bencic has a lot of experience on the tour. She's in great form, having won Olympic gold,\" said Raducanu, who is currently ranked 150th.\n\n\"I'm also feeling good about my game, also confident with the amount of matches I've played. I feel like I'm building with each one.\n\n\"It will be an extremely difficult match. I know if I'm going to have a chance, I'm going to have to play some really good tennis.\"\n\n'She is almost like the finished product' - Navratilova & Wade impressed\n\nBoth Raducanu's technical execution and her ability to cope with increased scrutiny have drawn plaudits from many of the game's greats, including 18-time Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova and Virginia Wade - the last British woman to win a major title.\n\nBoth women agree Raducanu has the talent to win Grand Slam titles in the future - if she stays clear of injury - although they are cautious about tipping her to open her account this Saturday at Flushing Meadows.\n\n\"Her shot selection has been 99.9% perfect - she has a really high tennis IQ and mental IQ,\" Navratilova told BBC Sport.\n\n\"She is almost like a finished product when she is just getting started.\"\n\nOn who will win the title, she added: \"There are still some big hitters out there. She can win. Will she? Probably not.\n\n\"She's one of eight but I think she has less than a one-in-eight chance because I think the other players are better than she is at their best.\"\n\nWade, who won the US Open in 1968, Australian Open in 1972 and Wimbledon in 1977, says Raducanu has all the qualities needed to be successful over the coming years.\n\nWade watched Raducanu's match against Shelby Rogers on Arthur Ashe Stadium, with the younger Briton addressing the 76-year-old and calling her an \"inspiration\" during the post-match victory interview.\n\n\"Emma is exciting, she is exuberant and she is a lovely person - all of that adds to the overall complexion, which is wonderful,\" Wade told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Her serve is extremely good, she moves so well, her groundstrokes are great. I've not seen a box she hasn't ticked.\"\n\nBencic impressed by Raducanu but hoping experience helps her\n\nBencic, 24, was also a teenage prodigy who reached the world's top 100 as a 17-year-old and exploded on to the Grand Slam scene at the same age by reaching the quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows in 2014.\n\nOn Raducanu, Bencic said: \"She's up and coming and an amazing talent. I didn't see much yet how she played, but what I saw is definitely she's very athletic, she's moving great, and, I mean, she has great results.\"\n\nHaving been coached by Martina Hingis' mother, Bencic was often compared to five-time Grand Slam champion Hingis - who also trained and mentored her younger compatriot.\n\nIn 2016, when she was still 18, Bencic climbed to seventh in the world rankings but then had back and wrist injuries.\n\nAfter a patient recovery, the Swiss right-hander reached the US Open semi-finals two years ago - where she lost to eventual champion Bianca Andreescu - and landed one of the sport's biggest prizes with victory in Tokyo last month.\n\nThese successful experiences are proving beneficial this fortnight in New York, says Bencic.\n\n\"I feel like from all of these situations you can always learn something. Now I definitely learn how it is to be in the second week, how to manage these quarter-finals, semi-finals matches,\" she said.\n\n\"I also feel the Olympics helped me a lot in this. I played big matches there, as well, and I know now how it feels to go deep in a tournament and an important tournament.\"\n• None Think you know your sport?: Paddy McGuinness hosts brand new Question of Sport with Sam Quek and Ugo Monye\n• None Two bodies and one brutally authentic Swedish crime drama", "Ann Bedford, the owner of the Caledonia care home, said she was unable to get emergency cover for the shifts\n\nA care home owner has said she was \"forced\" to ask two staff with Covid-19 to work because of a staff shortage.\n\nThe Caledonia home in Holyhead, Anglesey, said 11 of its 12 residents had Covid and the two staff only cared for residents who were also positive.\n\nAnn Bedford said Anglesey council and an agency had both been unable to provide emergency cover for staff who were sick or isolating.\n\nAfter speaking to social services, it was agreed the staff could work.\n\nAnglesey council said it worked closely with the care home since the staffing shortages had been brought to its attention.\n\nMs Bedford has run the home, which specialises in dementia care, since 1987 and said it had been increasingly difficult to recruit staff over the past decade. The situation now has \"no spare capacity in the system\", she said.\n\nThere are usually between 13 and 15 staff including a manager, two full-time carers, 11 part-time staff, two cooks and two cleaners at the home.\n\nLast weekend there were only three day staff, no cleaners, one cook and no night staff.\n\nThe two Covid-positive staff came in to cover the night shift.\n\nBy Wednesday morning, Ms Bedford had one person to work with the 12 residents.\n\nThe home struggled to recruit staff even before the pandemic began\n\n\"I have never known a situation as bad as we faced over the last weekend. As a matter of course we have contingency plans in place to cope in emergencies but even these buckled under the strain,\" she said.\n\n\"My heart sinks when I think about the weeks and months ahead.\n\n\"We felt abandoned and alone. I called on social services for help but they were facing their own emergencies.\n\n\"The shortage of carers on Anglesey is at dangerous levels and is being intensified by the pandemic.\"\n\nOne care agency which she asked to help with temporary staff told her \"you must be joking\", saying they were overwhelmed with requests.\n\nMs Bedford said after speaking to social services and the Care Council of Wales, it was agreed if staff felt well enough they could come in to work.\n\nShe praised the two staff who volunteered to come in, adding: \"The night shift is tough and extremely tiring. It really knocked them for six and both these staff are now suffering much more from the symptomatic effects of Covid.\n\n\"I am so grateful to them but this is a situation which should not have been allowed to happen.\"\n\nShe said the authorities had suggested transferring staff from another home she runs nearby, Plas Dyffryn, but she said it would have put staff and residents there at increased risk and was not an option.\n\n\"It is also not feasible because we simply do not have enough care staff on our books to stretch that thinly, and the Caledonia is specialised for dementia care so staff here need to be trained in those highly specific skills,\" she added.\n\nShe described staff as worn out and \"on their knees\" from the pandemic and the lack of personnel available to work.\n\n\"What's happened to me is frightening everybody (other care home managers) - we fought so hard and kept Covid out of the homes, but a lot of homes have got it,\" she said.\n\nAnglesey council said in a statement: \"Decisions in respect of emergency care provision at the Caledonia have been taken in the best interest of residents.\n\n\"We would reject claims that this private care home was abandoned. Our officers, together with colleagues in health, have worked very closely with Ms Bedford to respond to her staffing shortages since this issue was brought to our attention.\"\n\nA spokesman said they had worked to identify shift cover until the weekend to ensure residents did not have to leave their home.\n\nA team has also been convened to manage the incident at the home.\n\nThe crisis rose just before Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Tuesday National Insurance contributions would rise to fund social care and NHS reforms.\n\nIn Wales, a proportion of the funds raised at a UK level will be allocated to spend on health and care services, expected to be about £700m by 2024-25.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We know the sector is under exceptional pressure but we are very concerned to hear a report of staff being asked to work despite testing positive for Covid. We are looking into the circumstances as a matter of urgency.\n\n\"We continue to support the sector at this difficult time and have provided local authorities with £50m of additional funding to help deal with these staffing challenges.\"", "Demand for university places continues to rise despite all the disruption of the pandemic\n\nRecord numbers of 18-year-olds in the UK have accepted university places this year, according to updated figures from the Ucas admissions service.\n\nThere will be 272,500 of this age cohort starting at UK universities - up by 7% on last year.\n\nBut a sharp fall in EU students coming to the UK means overall university numbers are slightly down this year.\n\nUcas head Clare Marchant said students had worked hard for places despite \"incredibly trying circumstances\".\n\nThese latest figures show rising numbers of UK students of all ages getting university places, up to 448,000, along with more overseas students coming to the UK from countries such as China and Nigeria.\n\nThe \"resilience\" of rising demand for university places has confounded earlier warnings about the impact of Covid, says the admission service's head of data, Richard O'Kelly.\n\nDespite the switch to online learning, lack of access to social activities, Covid outbreaks and complaints about value for money, more UK students have accepted places than before the pandemic.\n\nBut the overall figure of almost 508,000 new students is slightly down on this point last year, after a 56% fall in students from EU countries such as France, Germany and Italy.\n\nIt means there will be more students from Peru than Denmark, more from Kuwait than the Netherlands - and more from China than all the EU countries combined.\n\nApplications are still open for this year's courses, but the trends show record numbers of UK school-leavers heading to university.\n\nAlmost 38% of 18-year-olds have so far decided to go to university, the highest ever proportion. Although entry numbers for those aged 19 and over are slightly down on last year.\n\nNick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said the continuing rise in UK student numbers showed \"young people are voting with their feet and behaving entirely rationally\".\n\n\"They are not snowflakes who melt under heat. They are rational, ambitious and full of aspiration.\"\n\nMr Hillman said university was still an ambition for families and that \"when the labour market is in flux and the world is in crisis, getting more education is a very sensible response\".\n\nOn the fall in EU student numbers, he said it reflected the higher fees they would be charged after the UK left the EU.\n\nThe update on university admissions, a month after exam results, shows a relatively high number of applicants still to decide on whether to take a place - with the suggestion they might have narrowly missed out on a preference and are considering whether to reapply next year.\n\nFigures for England show the regional divide is getting wider, with increasing numbers of students coming from London, the South and the Midlands, while numbers have fallen in the North East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber.\n\nCompared with 2012, the number of students from London has risen by 26%, while in the North East, numbers have slightly fallen.\n\nClare Marchant said she expected numbers of acceptances to continue increasing over the next few weeks.\n\n\"We know that some students, particularly mature applicants looking to study at their local university or college, often make a late decision through clearing, so we expect numbers to rise before the end of the cycle,\" she said.\n\nA spokesman for the Russell Group said its universities \"made more offers this year to UK 18-year-olds, including those from the most deprived areas, reflecting their determination to be fair and flexible so students were not disadvantaged by this year's changes to the assessment system\".\n\nA Universities UK spokeswoman said: \"It's brilliant to see record numbers of students recognising the benefits of a university degree.\n\n\"Embarking on a degree is a uniquely exciting time, with the skills and experience students set to gain lasting a lifetime, giving them an edge in the employment market and generating significant benefits for the UK as we rebuild from the pandemic.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holy Cross: 'I was in the school and we heard an explosion'\n\nThree central figures caught up in the events around Holy Cross Primary School in north Belfast in 2001 have been speaking about the sectarian dispute.\n\nLoyalist protesters tried to block the route taken by the school's pupils and their parents, who were from a Catholic background, on their walk to class.\n\nThe then school principal, a Presbyterian minister and a Catholic priest say the scars are still there.\n\nOnly now can Fr Gary Donegan even bring himself to speak of the events because it is still so raw.\n\nHe was a young priest starting out when it began.\n\n\"I had only just arrived - it was actually my birthday when the thing kicked off,\" he said.\n\n\"But by 3 September when the worst part of it was actually taking place I suppose I was really shocked, because to some extent children were sacrosanct and they were right in the midst of this.\"\n\nFr Gary Donegan said he had been unable to speak about the events for a long time\n\nTwenty years later, Anne Tanney still wonders if it really happened.\n\nMrs Tanney, who was the principal of Holy Cross Girls' Primary School at the time, said the worst moment was when a pipe bomb exploded as the children were walking to school through the lines of police officers keeping back the loyalist protestors.\n\n\"I was in the school and we heard this explosion outside and we knew the children were coming,\" she said.\n\n\"We ran out down to the gate and I thought there would be a child carried in dead or somebody would be dead, but they were in a terrible state.\"\n\nReverend Norman Hamilton said he worried what the exposure was doing to people living in the area\n\nThe dispute was worldwide news which worried the Reverend Norman Hamilton, who is now a retired Presbyterian minister.\n\n\"I remember, more than once, being quite taken aback at the range of media who were there from Australia, from Canada, from France, even from the Far East,\" he said.\n\nDr Hamilton said he wondered what it was doing \"not just to this community to be exposed on the world stage but what is it doing to Northern Ireland to be exposed like this on the world's stage?\"\n\nAs for Fr Donegan, he said when the 10th anniversary came around he \"deliberately suppressed any kind of marking of it\" because it was such a raw experience.\n\n\"I think long-term there was serious psychological damage done, \" he said.\n\n\"I buried a couple of the mothers and, ironically, their children were able to move on but they were not.\n\n\"I've been offered book deals. I've been offered all kinds of things, but until now I've said I want to focus on now. You can't forget, we'll never forget what actually happened, but I want to focus on what's actually happening now.\"\n\nSoldiers at a barrier on the Ardoyne Road during the Holy Cross dispute in Belfast\n\nSo 20 years on what is happening now?\n\n\"I don't think it will be replicated but I have to say I am a bit troubled in the back of my mind that tensions can arise and go in unexpected directions, not in this area, particularly, but just generally,\" said Dr Hamilton.\n\n\"I think, to be honest, we are in a sort of stalemate because the big political picture works itself out by default at local level, so whilst the communities are at greater ease with each other I'm not sure, in terms of reconciliation, and the building of close, mutually supportive relationships that we have progressed very much.\n\n\"The political fracturing is still a real problem. You cannot expect local communities to do what big-picture politicians are either unwilling or unable to do.\"\n\nFr Donegan said it was important for people with experience to move in quickly when tensions started to rise.\n\n\"I believe if it had happened in one of the leafy suburb schools the unions would have been out, the educationalists would have been out. But it's kind of like: 'It's Ardoyne, it's the Shankill' - you know to some extent we're alright jack sort of,\" he said.\n\n\"I find, sometimes, people who don't have experience, even pastors or priests... a lot of these people wouldn't know an interface if it walked up and shook them by the hand and sometimes they are better actually not being there.\n\n\"We won the peace inch by inch and people like Norman and I now are not prepared to let any shrinkage.\n\n\"We're prepared to hold on to those inches, so if we see anyone in some way starting to impinge on that, we have a moral obligation and a duty to get in there and actually do something about it.\"\n\nAnne Tanney said the worst moment was when a pipe bomb exploded as the children were walking to school\n\nMrs Tanney says the school received cards and calls from people all over the world. She and her husband were even offered a free holiday in New Zealand.\n\nShe says it was important to tell the children there were many good people in the outside world who could be trusted.\n\n\"It's a terrible thing for a child to grow up thinking that they're in a world they can't trust and where their parents can't help them,\" she said.\n\n\"And it was very bad for parents because they felt they couldn't protect their children and that's the worst thing that can happen to a parent.\"", "Deborah Polverino and her partner Guy Griffiths are facing spiralling costs\n\nPeople who have lost thousands of pounds in the post-Grenfell fire safety crisis have asked for urgent help amid spiralling insurance and service costs.\n\nDeborah Polverino, from Cardiff, saw her annual service charge rise from £3,000 to nearly £7,800 after her building failed fire safety tests.\n\nCampaigners warned people could go bankrupt and lose their homes.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"working hard to develop funding options\".\n\nA spokesman said the \"complex nature\" of the issue was \"affecting the pace\" of that work.\n\nAs well as paying increased charges, many leaseholders are worried about the huge costs of repair work for things such as flammable cladding and inadequate internal firebreaks.\n\nIn July, the Welsh government announced it would be funding surveys to assess what work was required, a move described by campaigners as \"too little, too late\".\n\nA repair fund is planned for next year in Wales. In England people can already apply for money to remove cladding on buildings over 18m (59ft) tall.\n\nThe Welsh government is yet to spend any money on removing cladding or other fire safety remediation work on private residential buildings over 18m tall.\n\nIn response to a freedom of information request by BBC Wales, it said nearly £11m had so far been spent on remedial work on 15 social housing blocks.\n\nWork has been completed on three buildings in Newport and is under way on one other in the city, eight in Cardiff and three in Swansea.\n\nMs Polverino has lived at Victoria Wharf in Cardiff Bay with her partner Guy Griffiths for 10 years.\n\nWhen they tried to move a couple of years ago they realised their seventh-floor, three-bedroom flat was \"valueless\".\n\n\"When you've invested a huge amount of money into your home and you're then told it's unsellable, or if you're lucky you might sell it at auction at a massively decreased value, it's a hard pill to take,\" said Ms Polverino.\n\n\"I can't mortgage it, I can't sell it.\"\n\nDeborah Polverino said her latest bill had her in tears\n\nIncreased costs, including insurance and internal safety measures, have seen big hikes in the service charges leaseholders must pay.\n\n\"I sat down and cried, as I'm sure many people in these blocks did,\" she said.\n\nThe total cost of repair work, including the replacement of cladding, has been estimated at £60,000 per flat, she said.\n\nAs well as the financial hit already taken and the worry about the bigger one potentially on the way, she is also anxious at the thought of a fire.\n\n\"I know so many people have sleepless nights over this. I've had my own sleepless nights.\n\n\"I even looked at getting one of these ladders but sadly they only go four floors, so that didn't help me.\"\n\nShe said the developer, Taylor Wimpey, should \"step up and do what's morally right\".\n\n\"We didn't build these properties, we didn't create the issue. Why are we paying for it?\"\n\nShe suggested the Welsh government could set up a low-interest loan scheme, similar to help it gave tenants during the pandemic.\n\nMs Polverino said First Minister Mark Drakeford and Housing Minister Julie James \"need to do more now\".\n\n\"We keep getting these promises of something in the future,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a moral obligation for the Welsh government to make sure leaseholders don't lose their homes.\"\n\nA spokesman for Taylor Wimpey said the company was \"taking steps where appropriate\" to help customers with fire safety measures and it had set funding aside to bring the external walls of its apartment buildings constructed over the past 20 years up to current standards.\n\n\"We are closely engaged with FirstPort, the management company at Victoria Wharf, regarding funding and further updates will be provided to residents as soon as possible.\"\n\nFirstPort said it was \"pleased\" Taylor Wimpey has \"announced additional funding\" and it was \"urgently reviewing\" what permanent work was required.\n\nBex Ashwin, from newly-formed campaign group Welsh Cladiators, said increased charges people were facing meant some would lose their homes or go bankrupt.\n\n\"The Welsh government really need to step up and understand the urgency of this situation and how much it is putting on residents every day from a mental health perspective.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative housing spokeswoman Janet Finch Saunders said homeowners in Wales had been left in the dark waiting for further news while costs spiralled.\n\n\"We urgently need action, with homeowners so far only seeing a paltry survey,\" she added.\n\n\"Welsh homeowners should not be left paying the price for the shortcomings of developers and it is the job of ministers to step in to rectify this injustice.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru claimed it was \"not acceptable\" the Welsh government had given no details about funding options and and urged it to address the matter, adding: \"How many more times will the pleas from these people, figuratively trapped in their high-rise buildings, fall on deaf ears?\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"These building defects are having a significant impact on leaseholders and residents.\n\n\"We are committed to supporting them and are working hard to develop funding options.\n\n\"Building safety issues are often more than just cladding-related - we are working hard to deliver a funding offer which will go further than cladding only.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu continued her fairytale run at the US Open by reaching the semi-finals with a dominant straight-set win over Swiss 11th seed Belinda Bencic.\n\nRaducanu, 18, again showed all of her quality and composure in a 6-3 6-4 win.\n\nVictory means she will rise to the cusp of the world's top 50 and become the British women's number one.\n\nRaducanu will play Maria Sakkari in Thursday's semis after the Greek beat Czech fourth seed Karolina Pliskova.\n\nIt will be the second of the women's singles semi-finals and will be played about 21:00 local time in New York (02:00 BST, Friday - live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live).\n• None Relive how Raducanu dismantled Bencic to reach US Open semi-finals\n• None 'I didn't expect to be here' - Raducanu had flights booked back to UK a fortnight ago\n\nIn only her second Grand Slam appearance, world number 150 Raducanu has become only the third woman ranked outside the top 100 to reach a US Open semi-final.\n\nAfter coming through three qualifying matches to reach the main draw, Raducanu is yet to drop a set in her eight matches at Flushing Meadows.\n\nWith her run in New York, Raducanu has recorded several notable achievements, including becoming:\n• None the first qualifier to reach the last four at Flushing Meadows\n• None the fourth female qualifier to reach any Grand Slam semi-final\n• None the first British woman to reach a US Open semi-final since Jo Durie in 1983\n• None the youngest British woman to reach a Grand Slam semi-final for 46 years\n\nWhen she sealed victory with her first match point, Raducanu clasped her head with her hands before 24-year-old Olympic champion Bencic sportingly came around the net to warmly embrace the victor.\n\nA beaming smile broke out across the Briton's face as she pointed to her team - in a mixture of shock and celebration - and contemplated what she had just achieved on Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\n\"I'm so, so happy to come through,\" said Raducanu, who earns prize money of $675,000 (£490,000) for reaching the last four.\n\n\"Belinda is such a great opponent and in unbelievable form, her ball speed caught me off guard so I had to adjust and adapt.\n\n\"I'm just taking care of what I can control and I'm on my own journey.\"\n\nThe fairytale of New York continues for Raducanu\n\nThree months ago, few outside British tennis knew Raducanu. Then she was ranked 361 in the world.\n\nRaducanu's world changed with a stunning run to the Wimbledon last 16 - after being given a wildcard on her Grand Slam debut - and her star has continued to rise following another series of displays in New York which have belied her years.\n\nAfter cruising through to the quarter-finals with a string of assured performances, playing Bencic in the last eight was supposed to be a step up in difficulty for Raducanu.\n\nQuestions were asked about how she would deal with an opponent of a greater pedigree than she had faced before, along with the weight of the occasion.\n\nRaducanu handled it in the same manner as she did the other victories at Flushing Meadows: with composed execution, clarity of thought and, still, a sense of enjoyment.\n\nAgainst Bencic, Raducanu was facing a top-40 opponent for the first time. Not only that, it was the world number 12 who won Olympic gold in Tokyo last month and had continued to ride the crest of a wave in New York.\n\nYet, after a slightly nervy start where she trailed 2-0, Raducanu grew in confidence to take control and left Bencic increasingly frustrated as the Kent teenager completed another remarkable victory.\n\nRaducanu's on-court maturity and ability to cope with the growing scrutiny have been among the youngster's most impressive traits, leading to 18-time Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova describing her \"as almost like a finished product when she is just getting started\".\n\nAfter the slow start, Raducanu hit the sideline with a fizzing forehand that helped her hold the third game and get on the scoreboard for the first time.\n\nHaving found her rhythm and timing, she began to unsettle Bencic with her aggressive play - particularly on the Swiss' second serve - and it reaped reward. Bencic produced a double fault at deuce in the sixth game, and then hit a backhand into the net, to hand the break back.\n\nFrom that point, Raducanu cut a more positive figure.\n\nIt was the second of five games in a row as the Briton took the opening set, a similar swing in momentum to her last-16 match against American hope Shelby Rogers.\n\nFrom the regular position of a frontrunner, Raducanu has been impenetrable and she continued to pile pressure on Bencic in the fifth game of the second set.\n\nAnother double fault from the Swiss - this time on break point - came at the worst possible time and handed the advantage to the teenager.\n\nBencic whacked her chair with the racquet at the changeover and her body language - putting hands on hips, slapping palms on thighs, gesticulating at her team - illustrated her annoyance at not being able to handle Raducanu's power.\n\nThat was in contrast to Raducanu, who mixes sharp intensity during the points with almost insouciance between them.\n\nSeconds before serving for the match, she flashed a beaming smile and casually tossed her racquet in the air.\n\nThen it was back to business and, like the previous service game, she trailed 30-0 before fighting back for the biggest win of her life with booming baseline strokes and accurate serving.\n\n\"It definitely took a lot of nerve to keep it together, focus on the next point and on what I could control,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"All I was thinking about was landing a first serve. It definitely means a lot to be in the semi-finals, I didn't think I'd be here.\"\n\nSakkari upsets Pliskova to set up meeting with Raducanu\n\nIn the evening session on Arthur Ashe, Sakkari claimed her place in the semi-finals with an assured display to upset Wimbledon finalist Pliskova.\n\nGreek 17th seed Sakkari, 26, won 6-4 6-4 and was impressive from the start, winning 92% of the points on her first serve, dropping only two service points in total in the opening set.\n\nThe French Open semi-finalist needed just one break point to gain a first-set advantage, before dealing another blow midway through the second.\n\nIt is the fifth successive year Pliskova, 29, has failed to go beyond the quarter-finals in New York - last doing so when she finished runner-up in 2016.\n\n\"I'm speechless. I don't know what to say,\" Sakkari said. \"Emma [Raducanu] is having a great run but I trust myself, my game and I believe a lot in myself.\"\n\n'It's incredible what she is doing' - reaction to Raducanu's win\n\nFormer British Davis Cup player Miles Maclagan on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It's astounding the way she has done it. She has breezed through! There's a sureness of where she belongs in the game and it's not a surprise to her. It's an ability to keep a calm head and have perspective at this age.\n\n\"Raducanu just needs to keep that rhythm going and not think too much. She appears to have mastered that already.\n\n\"She is not a great yet as there's a lot for her to do and achieve, but she is playing phenomenal tennis.\n\n\"There are a lot of very good players who haven't won a Grand Slam but Raducanu is defying the odds, isn't she?\"\n\nNaomi Broady, British tennis player, on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It was just relief at the end to get over the line. It's fantastic. She is out there thanking her team because she knows already it's a team effort.\n\n\"Everyone might say we need to calm down but because of the run she's on now, I think we can live in the moment.\"\n\nGigi Salmon, Radio 5 Live tennis commentator: \"She has dismantled Bencic like she has with all those who have gone before her. She is the new world number 51. She is also the British number one. But most importantly, she is a Grand Slam semi-finalist. It is absolutely incredible what she is doing.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None \"Sport can be an uncomfortable place\": Why are so many girls dropping out of sport?", "Chow Hang Tung, a human rights lawyer, was arrested earlier this year and charged with promoting unauthorised assembly\n\nSeveral members of a pro-democracy Hong Kong organisation have been arrested after their group was accused of working as a \"foreign agent\".\n\nThe Hong Kong Alliance is known for organising the city's famed annual vigil for victims of the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.\n\nPro-democracy activist and barrister Chow Hang Tung was among the arrested.\n\nThe arrests were made under the national security law, which has a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nHong Kong police's national security unit had earlier requested that the Hong Kong Alliance hand over information, reportedly including personal details of all members since the group's founding and financial records.\n\nOn Tuesday, the deadline for the request, the alliance members handed over a letter explaining their refusal to cooperate.\n\nThe next morning, police officers arrested four members of the alliance's standing committee at their homes or offices.\n\n\"We are going to respond, to say that we feel you have no legal grounds for your demands, so we are just going to ignore you,\" Ms Chow, the vice chairperson of the alliance, had told AFP on her way to the police station.\n\nPolice have said that those who fail to comply with their request could face up to six months in jail and a fine of HK$100,000 ($12,800, £9,300).\n\nMs Chow, a human rights lawyer, was arrested earlier this year and charged with promoting unauthorised assembly. She was later released on bail.\n\nShe was due on Wednesday to represent an opposition politician charged under the national security law at a bail hearing, but was arrested at her office before she could appear in court.\n\nChina recently imposed a broadly-worded national security law in Hong Kong that criminalises secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces.\n\nCritics say it is aimed at crushing dissent but China says it is meant to maintain stability.\n\nIn June, Chow Hang Tung spoke to BBC Chinese explaining why she was encouraging those in Hong Kong to remember the Tiananmen crackdown.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "\"How do you get up from an all time low?,\" The Wanted asked in their debut single in 2010.\n\nBut in 2021 the question is now: How do you come back from a seven-year break?\n\nBecause, yes, the chart-topping boy band have announced their return, a greatest hits album, a new single and a live charity gig.\n\nThe five-piece group - Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes - made the announcement on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wanted This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wanted\n\nDiscussions about a reunion first took place in 2020, but as with a lot of things, the pandemic forced the group to put the brakes on the idea at first.\n\nA second setback came when Tom Parker was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.\n\nBut after starting treatment, and \"responding well\", Tom began working with the charity Stand Up To Cancer on a Channel 4 documentary and a live show at London's Royal Albert Hall - where The Wanted will reunite to perform later this month.\n\n\"It feels amazing. It's quite nice to be able to do something again that's not related to treatment,\" Tom said at a press conference to announce the reunion.\n\n\"It's been a very sad eight months, so it's been nice to smile again, for me.\"\n\n\"We have been talking off and on for a few years now about getting back together... but have all been working on other projects at different times so it didn't happen,\" Jay adds in a statement.\n\n\"This is all about having fun with our mates, no pressure, just fun.\"\n\nIn a new promo video, the five reunite by coincidence in a hospital waiting area\n\nThe gig is on 20 September and will also include performances from Liam Payne, Becky Hill, McFly, KSI and Sigrid.\n\nThe Wanted's greatest hits collection will be released on 12 November.\n\nDuring their four years in the spotlight, the group scored two number one singles and a string of Top Ten singles and albums.\n\nTheir biggest hit, 2011's Glad You Came, also achieved the rarest of feats for British pop acts - it went big in America too.\n\nThe Wanted scored a number one hit in 2010 with their debut single, All Time Low\n\nAfter the band split in 2014, only Nathan scored solo success with music. He's had two UK top 20 singles, including Over and Over Again, a duet with Ariana Grande.\n\nMax had a minor role in Glee after the boys parted, and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2020. He was initially signed as solo music artist by Scooter Braun, who also manages Justin Bieber.\n\nSiva wrote the UK's 2016 Eurovision entry, You're Not Alone by Joe and Jake, which came 24th out of 26 countries.\n\nJay won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015 and has appeared in musicals in London's West End.\n\nTom has released solo music and appeared on reality TV shows such as Celebrity Masterchef and The Jump, as well as touring the UK in the lead role in a production of Grease.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The singer later became an Archbishop, establishing a network of LGBT churches\n\nArchbishop Carl Bean, a former Motown singer best known for the 1977 gay liberation anthem I Was Born This Way, has died at the age of 77.\n\nFeaturing the lyrics \"I'm happy, I'm carefree, and I'm gay, I was born this way\", it was a disco hit in the US and inspired Lady Gaga's Born This Way.\n\nShe credited him as an inspiration, saying his song was \"like a sermon\".\n\nAt the height of his music career, Bean worked with Dionne Warwick, Sammy Davis Jr, Burt Bacharach and Miles Davis.\n\nBut he turned down the offer of more work at Motown when they asked him to sing more commercially-viable love songs about women.\n\nInstead, he went on to become an Aids activist and founded a network of LGBT churches.\n\n\"Archbishop Bean worked tirelessly for the liberation of the underserved and for LGBTQ people of faith and in doing so, helped many around the world find their way back to spirituality and religion,\" the Unity Fellowship Church Movement said in a statement.\n\nIt said he had made the \"transition to eternal life\" on 7 September \"after a lengthy illness\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by DiscoSaturdayNightTV This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBorn in Baltimore in 1944, Bean was raised by his next-door neighbours after his mother died during an abortion.\n\nHe was actively involved in the church and the black civil rights movement from a young age, with the two often intertwining.\n\n\"I was introduced to Jesus as a rabble rouser who made things happen,\" he later recalled. The image of Jesus as an outsider, who embraced people from all walks of life, inspired him and taught him an early lesson about acceptance.\n\nAs a teenager, he found himself attracted to boys in the neighbourhood, and also alleged that an \"uncle\" - the brother of one of his guardians - sexually abused him.\n\nBoth revelations emerged at the same time and, in the ensuing turmoil, the family kicked him out.\n\n\"Being basically a foster child, I felt like, now I'ma be kicked out because I'm a queer,\" he told Vice in 2016. \"I attempted suicide and landed in the mental health ward of a big hospital.\"\n\nThe hospital insisted on treating him with electroshock therapy, but Bean found an ally in a German psychiatrist who helped him come to terms with his sexuality.\n\n\"She said, 'There are many people like you. I can't do what your parents want - make you a heterosexual - but I can help you accept who you are and go for your dreams,'\" he recalled.\n\n\"That gave me enlightenment and the chance to accept myself. If I had another doctor, I might have been a different animal.\"\n\nMusic was a solace for Bean and, after being released from hospital, he started performing gospel songs around Baltimore.\n\nAt 16, he moved to New York, where he became involved in the rich culture of the Harlem churches, and appeared in an early production of Langston Hughes's influential show Black Nativity.\n\nAfter quitting music, Bean became an influential LGBT minister and Aids activist\n\nAfter another move to Los Angeles, he formed the group Carl Bean and Universal Love. But the band faltered because, in his words, they were too far \"ahead of the curve\".\n\n\"I was part of a movement looking to erase the line between R&B and gospel,\" Bean later explained in his autobiography.\n\nHowever, the band's 1974 single Gotta Be Some Change caught the ears of producers at Motown Records, who asked him to record a song written by Bunny Jones, I Was Born This Way.\n\nLabel owner Berry Gordy thought Bean \"would be perfect\" for the track, sister and fellow Motown executive Gwen Gordy later recalled. \"It's a message song with a gospel feel. [Berry said] Bean will tear it up.\"\n\nAlthough the lyrics were unconventional at the time - arriving before the Village People made an explicit connection between disco and homosexuality - Bean felt the song was a perfect fit.\n\n\"I always say the lyric found me, and it was very natural,\" he told US radio station NPR in 2019.\n\nAlthough the song had already been released a year earlier by recording artist Valentino, Bean's version became the definitive take, reaching number 15 on the US dance charts in 1978.\n\nAfter turning down a Motown career, he turned his attention back to the church and was ordained in 1982. That year, he also founded the Unity Fellowship of Christ Church for black LGBT congregants, whose motto is: \"God is love and love is for everyone.\"\n\nBefore long, he was asked to help establish similar congregations around the US and Caribbean.\n\n\"I told them, 'If you can get 10 black gay men and lesbians together, who aren't afraid to be out, I will come and talk.' So I went to many cities for many years, and only went back to LA around 1995,\" he told Out Alliance.\n\nBean also founded the Minority Aids Project in 1985, which was the first community organisation to focus on the spread of Aids in the black community at a time when the disease was relatively new and misunderstood.\n\nHe was honoured many times for his work, receiving an NAACP Image Award in 1987, and having an intersection in Los Angeles named in his honour two years ago.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by LadyGagaVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nI Was Born This Way remained an important anthem for the gay community and gained a new lease of life in 2011 when Lady Gaga used it as the foundation for her own hymn to acceptance, Born This Way.\n\n\"I heard this song. And I just said, 'Man, does that answer every question'.\" the star once told radio host Howard Stern.\n\nBean said he was honoured and flattered that Gaga had referenced his biggest hit.\n\n\"I felt it was a great tribute, and it was the continuation of saving lives,\" he said.\n\n\"So you know, [I Was Born This Way] has just been a blessing to my life. And it's been a blessing, once again, to even another generation's life through the take that Gaga did on it.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Drivers use CCTV to check the sides of the trains before they move off\n\nA man who fell into the gap between the train and platform while getting off a London Underground service was not seen by two drivers, a report has found.\n\nHe was crushed by the Tube train he had been on and then hit by another one. He died at the scene.\n\nThe curve of the track meant the passenger was difficult to detect on the drivers' CCTV, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) found.\n\nIt happened on the Bakerloo line at Waterloo station in May 2020.\n\nThe RAIB has made several safety recommendations to London Underground.\n\nThe accident, which happened mid-morning during the first coronavirus lockdown, took place when there were no staff or other passengers to help. When the man was unable to free himself the train left with him still in the gap, crushing him as it moved off.\n\nHe had been trapped for more than a minute before the train departed. Only his head and arm had been above platform level, and so the passenger was difficult to detect using monitors.\n\nHe then lay motionless for a further minute and a half before being hit by the second train as it entered the station, the report said.\n\nThe driver of that train was unaware of the passenger because their attention was focused on the platform and the train's stopping point, the report said.\n\nCurved platforms can make it difficult for drivers to see passengers getting on or off trains\n\nThe RAIB found that London Underground's risk assessments did not identify extra risks caused by curved platforms at certain stops.\n\nThe investigation found that the model used by London Underground to assess safety issues relating to what the RAIB calls the \"platform-train interface\" did not take into account non-fatal injuries. Therefore, the model understated the risk to passengers in such scenarios and presented an \"incomplete picture\" of it.\n\nThe three recommendations made by the branch:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The first of Dillon Anderson's series of attacks occurred when he was just 14\n\nA sex attacker who throttled and raped a university student was so scared he had killed his victim that he checked her pulse, a court has heard.\n\nDillon Anderson, 22, was found guilty of raping four young women in a series of attacks between May 2014 and January 2020, the first when he was just 14.\n\nThe High Court in Edinburgh heard how Anderson throttled two of his victims during the assaults.\n\nAnderson denied any wrongdoing and claimed he had consensual sex.\n\nOne of his victims, a former Edinburgh University student, told how Anderson repeatedly caused her to pass out after compressing her neck.\n\nDescribing one occasion, the woman - now 23 - told police: \"When I came round, he was checking my pulse and he said, 'I thought you had died'. He looked panicked.\"\n\nJurors heard how Anderson, a former resident of Edinburgh's New Town area, wanted the woman to take part in \"rape\" role plays where she would be unconscious and he could do \"whatever he wanted\".\n\nDuring the trial Anderson claimed he was a virgin when he physically restrained a girl, who was then aged 14, at a house in Newtongrange, Midlothian.\n\nThe court heard how he forced her to lie on a bed and removed her clothing before raping her on an occasion between May 2014 and June 2014 .\n\nOn various occasions from August 2015, at addresses in Edinburgh and West Lothian, Anderson raped another girl who was aged 18.\n\nHe then repeatedly raped the Edinburgh University student - who was aged 19 - between September 2017 and December 2017.\n\nAnderson also preyed on another woman between December 2018 and January 2020. The court heard how he also throttled this woman, now aged 24, before raping her.\n\nThe defendant was finally brought to justice after one of the women, none of whom can be named for legal reasons, made a covert recording of Anderson attacking her.\n\nAnderson was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow on 6 October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yevgeny Zinichev was filmed inspecting the Arctic drill on Tuesday\n\nRussia's Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev has died in an accident during a big Arctic civil defence exercise.\n\nThe ministry said Zinichev, 55, had died in the Norilsk area while trying to save someone's life.\n\nA cameraman had fallen off a cliff during an interview, according to Margarita Simonyan, the head of Russian broadcaster RT.\n\n\"He and the cameraman were on the edge of a cliff. The cameraman slipped and fell into the water,\" she said.\n\n\"Zinichev rushed after the fallen man and died after hitting a protruding rock.\" The cameraman, later named as film director Alexander Melnik, 63, also died. Russian media said the accident happened at the Kitabo Oron waterfall in the Putorana nature reserve in northern Siberia, some 165km (100 miles) west of Norilsk.\n\nZinichev had been emergencies minister since 2018 and for years was reportedly a key member of President Vladimir Putin's security detail.\n\nFor most of his career he worked in state security, beginning with the Soviet KGB and eventually rising to number two in Russia's federal security service in 2016.\n\nA Kremlin statement said Mr Putin had shared many years working with Zinichev and spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was a great loss.\n\nMelnik was a director and screenwriter and was known for his 2015 Arctic adventure film Territory. The film was shot on the Putorana plateau where he died. He was planning a documentary on the development of the Arctic and Russia's Northern Sea Route.\n\nSome 6,000 people were taking part in the large-scale Arctic drill\n\nRussian media say they had been filming a training video in the Krasnoyarsk region for the ministry at the time of the accident.\n\nDeputy emergencies minister Andrei Gurovich told Rossiya 24 TV that his boss had acted spontaneously \"not like a minister, but like a rescuer. This is how he lived all his life\". Zinichev's body was being flown back to Moscow hours after the accident, which is said to have happened early on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe unprecedented two-day exercise was organised by Zinichev's department and stretched across seven regions in the Russian Arctic. He said on Tuesday that the \"format, geography and involved units are unique\".\n\nThey were reportedly ordered by President Putin to prevent crisis situations in the Arctic and involved 6,000 specialists covering a dozen emergency situations.\n\nEarlier, the minister had visited a search and rescue team and the site of a new fire station in Norilsk.\n• None Minister was filmed before fatal Arctic accident. Video, 00:00:25Minister was filmed before fatal Arctic accident", "Roads in West Alvington were hit by flood water\n\nThunderstorms have caused flash-flooding and travel disruption in some parts of Devon.\n\nThe South Hams has been the worst affected area, with a number of businesses in Salcombe saying torrential rain saw them flooded.\n\nSeveral roads in Kingsbridge, West Alvington and Plymouth also became impassable due to flood waters, and a Plymouth school was hit by lightning.\n\nDevon and part of Cornwall are on a yellow warning for thunderstorms.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PC Emma Buley 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPC Emma Buley, from Devon and Cornwall Police, said on Twitter that floods in Salcombe had \"affected dozens of businesses\".\n\nIn Salcombe, Fore Street was flooded, with people having to wade through knee-high water before it receded \"nearly as fast as it flooded\", local people said.\n\nSeveral businesses in the town, which said they had dealt with such situations before, confirmed water had got in.\n\nStaff at the King's Arms pub, which put up anti-flooding barriers on its doors, said it \"did get quite flooded\".\n\nHowever, they still planned to reopen later on Wednesday.\n\nWater levels in Salcombe dropped \"nearly as fast\" as they rose\n\nSuzanne Harris, of Cranch's Sweet Shop, said there were \"literally fountains in the street\".\n\nShe said: \"It came in quick, it was absolutely torrential, and we know the drains won't cope with it.\n\n\"Fortunately, the tide was out, which means water goes down quicker.\"\n\nElsewhere, flooding was reported near the quay in Kingsbridge, and the A379 near Churchstow was described as only \"passable with care\" before water there receded.\n\nPolice advised drivers in any affected areas to \"be careful\".\n\nFlashes of lightning have been seen across Plymouth\n\nFlashes of lightning have also been reported across the county, including in Plymouth and in the South Hams.\n\nOne major road in Plymouth, the A374 Gydnia Way, was closed due to flooding.\n\nA primary school in the city was evacuated after lightning hit the building.\n\nChildren at Mount Street Primary School were moved out after the strike hit the side of the building and tripped the alarm, but there was no fire and no injuries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thunderstorms have caused flash-flooding and travel disruption in some parts of Devon\n\nIt did affect the telephone and internet systems, but the fire service confirmed everything was safe, staff said.\n\nThe city's recently expanded and refurbished museum and archive, The Box, tweeted that it had to close as the storm \"took out some of our systems\", but it was \"working around the clock to get them back on line so we can re-open ASAP\".\n\nOne person who texted BBC Radio Devon, Aussie Chris, from Lustleigh, who is on a boat at Hope Cove, near Salcombe and Kingsbridge, said the weather had been \"just incredible for two hours\".\n\nHe said: \"[There were] huge bolts of lightning and deafening thunder claps, obviously with torrential rain.\"\n\n\"Sadly, the flash-flooding through the village [Hope Cove] is washing the beach sand out to sea - there is a yellow strip of water heading out to sea.\"\n\nFlashes of lightning were seen in Chillington\n\nThe Met Office tweeted that \"some localised flash flooding is possible\" in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nThe forecaster said: \"Spray and sudden flooding could lead to difficult driving conditions and some road closures.\"\n\nIt also said there was a \"small chance\" that some communities could become cut off by flooded roads and a \"slight chance\" that \"power cuts could occur and other services to some homes and businesses could be lost\".\n\nAn initial yellow warning covering all of Devon and much of mid and East Cornwall is in place until 21:00 BST.\n\nAnother warning has been issued for Thursday, from 10:00 until 20:00, covering the mid and north of both counties.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk", "Moving too quickly to give people Covid booster jabs would deprive scientists of data on how well the vaccines work, AstraZeneca bosses have said.\n\n\"We do not yet know whether that third dose is clinically needed,\" they say in the Telegraph.\n\nIt has already been announced that half a million of the most vulnerable in the UK will be offered a third dose.\n\nBut a separate booster programme, planned for September, has yet to be confirmed.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said, on Wednesday, he was \"confident\" a booster programme could begin this month but was awaiting advice on who should be eligible.\n\nIn their article, AstraZeneca chief-executive Pascal Soriot and biopharmaceuticals-research-and-development executive-vice-president Sir Mene Pangalos say giving the most vulnerable, who may not have built up a full immune response from the first two, a third, top-up dose is \"sensible\".\n\nBut any decision to give a third, booster jab \"to large swathes of the population\", to extend their protection from the first two, must be based on clinical data, which is only a few weeks away from being published.\n\nThat data, from a variety of sources, will show how protection from the vaccines is holding up six months on from the start of second doses being administered.\n\nMeanwhile, another study will show how mixing vaccines might help.\n\n\"Moving too quickly to boost across the entire adult population will deprive us of these insights, leaving this important decision to rest on limited data,\" Mr Soriot and Sir Mene write.\n\n\"We don't know what mix of antibodies and T-cells are needed to prevent serious illness - the so-called correlates of protection.\n\n\"This is why we need the weight of the clinical evidence gathered from real-world use before we can make an informed decision on a third dose.\"\n\nAnd they are concerned about the \"unnecessary burden on the NHS over the long winter months\" of a booster rollout.\n\nOne of the scientists who developed the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has also criticised the plan for booster doses.\n\nBut former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has urged the government to begin a mass booster rollout, as Israel has, without waiting for a final decision from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nAnd the NHS across the UK has already been told to start planning to give Covid boosters alongside flu jabs to millions of over-50s ahead of the winter.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's four chief medical officers are deciding whether 12- to 15-year-olds will be offered a Covid vaccine, after the JCVI said it would offer only a marginal health benefit.\n\nEarlier this week, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said jabs could be offered to adolescents within five days of a decision.\n\nHe also said a booster programme was \"ready to go\" as soon as data from studies was produced.", "Online shopping giant Amazon has said it is \"proud\" of its contribution to the UK economy, as it reveals its latest financial results.\n\nThe firm paid £492m in direct taxation as its sales rose 50% to £20.63bn, amid a Covid-driven surge in demand.\n\nAmazon and other tech firms, which pay tax on profits not sales, have faced scrutiny over the level of their tax bills in the UK.\n\nBut Amazon said it had invested £32bn in UK infrastructure since 2010.\n\n\"We are proud of the significant economic contribution we are making to the UK economy,\" Amazon said in a statement.\n\n\"Looking ahead, we know that the UK remains full of opportunity and we continue to be excited by the potential to continue to invest, create jobs, develop talent and have a positive impact in communities across the country,\" the statement added.\n\nAmazon's total sales in the UK, rose to £20.63bn during 2020 - up by more than 50% from £13.73bn in 2019.\n\nThe direct tax bill was up by more than two-thirds compared with the £293m it paid in the previous year.\n\nThe firm, which employs 55,000 people in the UK, said the taxes included business rates, stamp duty, corporation tax and other contributions.\n\nAmazon said employers' national insurance taxes accounted for the majority of the bill as it took on 22,000 more staff over the course of the last year.\n\nThe company's indirect tax bill came to £1.06bn, up from £854m, driven by VAT on increased sales and employee taxes, as it took on more people and increased wages.\n\nAmazon said that when both direct and indirect taxation were taken into account, it had contributed £1.55bn, up from £1.15bn.\n\nGMB, the union for Amazon workers, said the company's tax bill was \"frankly insulting\" and said firms that had profited from the pandemic should pay more.\n\nMick Rix, GMB National Officer, said:\"Amazon workers suffer unsafe, dehumanising work practices; breaking bones, falling unconscious and being taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"Ministers must get a grip of this runaway company and make sure pandemic profiteers pay more.\n\n\"Amazon's key UK business paid just £3.8m more corporation tax last year than in 2019, even as sales increased by £1.89bn.\"\n\nIn April last year, the UK government launched a 2% tax on digital sales amid concerns that big tech firms were re-routing their profits through low tax jurisdictions. The Digital Services Tax is also included in the £492m figure.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said in June last year that the coronavirus crisis had made tech giants even \"more powerful and more profitable\".\n\nOther global tech firms have faced similar scrutiny over their tax bills.\n\nFrench tax authorities recently settled disputes with Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon over their operations in the country over the last decade.\n\nLast year, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said he recognised the public's frustration over the amount of tax paid by tech firms and backed plans by think tank the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to find a global solution.\n\n\"As usual the accounts are legally compliant but opaque and lack the crucial information about intra-group transactions which enable the company to shift profits is not there,\" said Labour peer and emeritus professor of accounting at the University of Sheffield and University of Essex, Prem Sikka.\n\n\"Therefore it's impossible to know what their true economic profit is,\" Prof Sikka said.\n\nGiven the profits declared by competitors, Prof Sikka said Amazon's tax bill \"seems very low\", whereas, for retailers such as supermarket chains, tax bills as a proportion of sales were much higher.\n\n\"We need a complete change in accounting regulations which currently increase opacity rather than transparency,\" Prof Sikka added.\n\nProfessor of taxation law at King's College London, Ann Mumford agreed and said that there was a lack of public discussion around the rules which led to this amount of tax.\n\n\"It seems that Amazon realised that they would need to pay a respectable amount - and, are hoping that an increase of £3.8 million sounds like a lot of money,\" Prof Mumford added.\n\nThe pandemic has accelerated the shift towards online shopping and Amazon has been one of the biggest winners amid those changing consumer trends.\n\nAs Covid closed physical stores during successive lockdowns, sales at the internet giant rocketed.\n\nToday's numbers will raise further questions about how tech giants operate, the level of tax they pay and their impact on the struggling High Street.\n\nAmazon moved to fend off criticism by pointing out that its direct tax bill increased by more than two-thirds from the £293m it paid in 2019.\n\nCritics say that's still nowhere near enough given the surge in sales.\n\nThe firm's been on a hiring spree to meet soaring demand, offering a £1,000 joining bonus to encourage staff to work in its fulfilment centres in the north east of England.", "Conservative MP Huw Merriman reiterates the need to \"act now\" to reform health and social care in England and welcomes the \"decisive action\" being taken by the government.\n\nHowever he says he has concerns around the new tax - with the first being the political difficulty of getting the money initially being funnelled into the NHS into social care.\n\nHe tells the Commons: \"We know how difficult it is to convince people that a temporary lift to Universal Credit was just temporary, how on earth are we going to challenge the equivalence of Marcus Rashford when it comes to the NHS in persuading people that this wasn't a cut but just a plan for a period of time and then we move the money to social care?\"\n\nHe also cites the \"inter-generational unfairness\" of expecting young people without a home of their own to fund social care through a hike in National Insurance, rather than the older people with nest eggs or their own homes who would be using the service sooner.\n\nThirdly, he says the Tories will have to look to \"rein in\" public spending and allocate money for the NHS with \"strict criteria\" on how it is going to be spent.\n\nMerriman indicates he will support the government in the vote but wants them to look at some of the alternative measures he's suggested.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A group of women protest in Kabul against the all-male Taliban government\n\nAnti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan have asked the international community not to recognise the new government announced by the Islamists on Tuesday.\n\nThe all-male cabinet consisting entirely of Taliban leaders or their associates is \"illegal\", they said.\n\nThe US has expressed concern that the interim government includes figures linked to attacks on US forces.\n\nAnd the EU said the Islamist group had reneged on promises to make it \"inclusive and representative\".\n\nThe interim cabinet is led by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, who is on a UN blacklist. Another figure, Sirajuddin Haqqani, is wanted by the American FBI.\n\nThe National Resistance Front (NRF) said it considered the announcement of the Taliban's caretaker cabinet \"a clear sign of the group's enmity with the Afghan people\".\n\nThe Taliban insist they have now defeated the NRF in the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, but NRF leaders say they are still fighting.\n\nIn a statement, the US state department said it was concerned by the \"affiliations and track records of some of the individuals\".\n\nThe statement said Washington would \"continue to hold the Taliban to their commitments\" to allow safe passage for foreign nationals and Afghans with travel documents, \"including permitting flights currently ready to fly out of Afghanistan\".\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken is to hold a virtual meeting of 20 Western nations to co-ordinate a set of conditions for engagement with the Taliban government.\n\nThe Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in a sweeping offensive more than three weeks ago. It now faces many tough challenges in the conflict-torn country, including stabilising the economy and gaining international recognition.\n\nOn Wednesday dozens of women marched in Kabul and in the province of Badakhshan, saying they would not accept a government without women.\n\nThe Taliban deny using violence against the demonstrations. They say protesters need permission to march and should not use abusive language.\n\nPakistan also denies any role in Afghanistan.\n\nThe Taliban's spokesman announced the appointments at a press conference\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, a statement attributed to Taliban Supreme Leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada told the government to uphold Sharia law - Islam's legal system. The Taliban have been known for their extremely hardline interpretation of Sharia.\n\nThe Taliban want \"strong and healthy\" relations with other countries and would respect international laws and treaties as long as they did not conflict with \"Islamic law and the country's national values\", the group's statement said.\n\nHassan Akhund, the new interim prime minister, served as deputy foreign minister from 1996 to 2001, when the militants were last in power. He is influential on the religious side of the movement, rather than the military side.\n\nHis appointment is seen as a compromise, after recent reports of in-fighting between some relatively moderate Taliban figures and their hardline colleagues.\n\nThe group had previously said it wanted to form an inclusive government.\n\nSirajuddin Haqqani, the acting interior minister, is head of the militant group known as the Haqqani network, who are affiliated with the Taliban and have been behind some of the deadliest attacks in the country's two-decade-long war - including a truck bomb explosion in Kabul in 2017 that killed more than 150 people.\n\nUnlike the wider Taliban, the Haqqani network has been designated a foreign terrorist organisation by the US. It also maintains close ties to al-Qaeda.\n\nThe FBI says he is wanted for questioning over a 2008 attack on a hotel that killed an American and was behind attacks on US forces in Afghanistan.\n\nA movement which has long moved in the shadows, whose names would surface only on the world's terrorism watch lists, is now announcing titles used in governments the world over.\n\nActing prime minister Mullah Akhund appears as a compromise candidate after reported rivalries among leading military and political figures who will serve under him.\n\nIts caretaker nature also provides breathing space as the Taliban move from guns to government.\n\nIt also underlines the Taliban view that a Taliban victory can only mean Taliban rule. Sources say they pushed back against calls for an \"inclusive\" government. They balked at including former political figures and officials, who've had their turn at the top, and especially those tainted by corruption.\n\n\"Why should we let others pick our cabinet when other countries pick their own? \"was one retort.\n\nAs for women, there was never a chance they would be given a ministerial role; the ministry of women's affairs seems to have been, for now, abolished altogether.\n\nOther appointments to the new government include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Without the vaccine we would have been on our knees\"\n\n\"Bodies would start piling up\" if more people do not get vaccinated, a senior doctor has warned.\n\nDr George Gardiner said \"they would have been piling up already without the vaccine\".\n\n\"We are now facing winter pressures, Respiratory Syncytial Virus for children, the next wave of flu and Covid. We cannot do all,\" he added.\n\nSeven Covid patients were battling the virus - six of the men and women in their 20s, 40s and early 60s were unvaccinated.\n\nOne of them was double-jabbed.\n\n\"Without the vaccine we would have been on our knees weeks ago,\" Dr Gardiner said.\n\nDr George Gardiner has spoken candidly of the challenges faced by medical staff\n\n\"We would have cancelled surgery, like we had to the last time.\n\n\"We are now facing winter pressures, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) for children, the next wave of flu and a wave of Covid. We cannot do all.\n\n\"The bodies would start piling up, and they'd be piling up already without the vaccine.\"\n\nDr Gardiner has called for an end to \"tribal politics\" in Northern Ireland to allow transformation of the health service, so that cancer and coronavirus can be tackled in tandem.\n\nThe director of intensive care at Belfast City Hospital said the system was currently \"one step from chaos\" and warned hospitals will not cope with winter if Covid numbers continue to rise.\n\nNorthern Ireland has the highest infection rate of anywhere in the UK, but vaccine uptake is the lowest.\n\nA total of 2,465,965 jabs have been given out in Northern Ireland, with 86.1% of people aged 16 and over having had at least one jab.\n\nStaff are already under pressure, doctors say, even before the onslaught of winter illnesses\n\n\"We need to get everyone who can take a vaccine to take it now before the winter pressures are on us,\" Dr Gardiner added.\n\n\"The cancer surgery that we are doing at the minute is life saving. A few more Covid admissions, which could be prevented, will cause us to stop operating because we simply haven't got the capacity to do both.\"\n\nDuring this latest surge, the hospital's 14-bed ICU was divided in two.\n\nOn one side, doctors and nurses battled to help save the lives of those who have had serious surgery or major trauma.\n\nJust a few metres away, on the other side of a wall, they were battling Covid and Dr Gardiner said beds were \"at a premium\".\n\nIndeed, there was just one spare ICU bed for the patient whose surgery went ahead.\n\nOther operations were also cancelled.\n\nA number of members of staff can be involved in turning one Covid patient, to improve oxygen levels\n\nAccording to Dr Gardiner, chronic staff shortages meant specialist staff could not be spread across the Belfast Trust's three separate hospital sites.\n\nAnd one-to-one nursing care, the gold standard for ICU, was no longer possible.\n\nDr Gardiner said they were at \"the very limit with what we can achieve\".\n\n\"My biggest fear is that we won't be able to keep going with cancer surgery; that we will be overwhelmed with Covid admissions; with routine winter admissions and that we will have to stop routine cancer surgery.\n\n\"We do not want to be faced with having to ask or decide who is going to get their operation and who is not; who is going to get an ICU bed and who is not.\"\n\nIn Covid ICU - the hospital's \"red zone\" - the battle to save lives is constant.\n\nIt's hideously bright, stiflingly hot and the cacophony of hissing ventilators, beeping alarms and buzzing machinery bombard the senses.\n\nWhile the atmosphere is almost oppressive, each alert is a sign that the fight is not lost.\n\nAll patients are heavily sedated and hooked up to numerous pieces of medical equipment.\n\nNone are capable of speaking.\n\nOne-to-one nursing is the gold standard for intensive care treatment\n\nAt one point, it took seven staff to prone [turn] a woman in her 60s.\n\n\"That helps us to improve the oxygen level,\" explained consultant Martin Duffy.\n\n\"We have been doing it very frequently during the last 18 months.\"\n\nAt other beds, physiotherapists pumped chests, moved feet or arms while nurses dabbed ice lollies around the mouths of patients.\n\nNaomi Dalzell, a specialist respiratory ICU physio, said: \"These patients are often ventilated for four, five or six weeks or even more than that.\n\n\"They lose a significant amount of muscle strength while they are here. We start the rehab as early as we can [but] there's a long road ahead.\"\n\nJanette Ancog was among dozens who have been re-deployed to ICU, having usually worked as a nurse at Musgrave Park Hospital.\n\n\"It will be scary thinking ahead if the surge will go high again,\" she said, \"but we will just get through with it - we are here for each other.\"\n\nThe onslaught of another gruelling winter was also at the forefront of Emma Cody's mind.\n\nShe had just finished another challenging 12-hour nursing night shift and described the anxiety as \"immense\".\n\n\"I don't know how we are going to keep going at this level,\" she said. \"It's not sustainable. The burnout is immense.\n\n\"Everybody hits a breaking point and a lot of people have, and a lot of people will, still hit that. It is a worry.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in a high-dependency unit, cancer patient Michael McAliskey was grateful that the struggling system was still able to cope.\n\n\"I am in a lucky position where I got some treatment before I passed the point of no return,\" he said.\n\nDr Gardiner has appealed for political unity on the contentious issue of transforming the health service.\n\n\"I don't think there has been politics in the treatment of Covid or the way we have responded to it. Everyone has been behind that,\" he said.\n\n\"But now we need to move on and accept that in order to get cancer surgery done, to treat Covid, to treat emergencies, to treat all the things that we are expected to treat we need political support.\n\n\"We need public co-operation in their behaviour, their actions and understanding of what we are actually up against.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment a car is driven down railway tracks\n\nA man has been jailed after driving a car down a railway track, causing eight-hour passenger delays.\n\nAaron O'Halloran was caught on CCTV driving down the line for half a mile between Duddeston and Aston stations in Birmingham on 9 May.\n\nPolice said the 32-year-old, of Proctor Street in the city, caused damage totalling more than £23,000.\n\nHe was jailed for 15 months and disqualified from driving for two years.\n\nA jury found him guilty of dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and endangering the safety of railway passengers.\n\nAaron O'Halloran denied he was behind the wheel but was found guilty by jurors\n\nO'Halloran was filmed driving a black Mitsubishi through a gate at Duddeston station although during his trial he denied he had been the one at the wheel.\n\nBritish Transport Police said the car was abandoned across the tracks while O'Halloran fled the scene, but he left a mobile phone that allowed detectives to trace him.\n\n\"We are thankful no one was injured as a result of O'Halloran's alarming behaviour,\" he said.\n\n\"He'll now have plenty of time to reflect on his idiotic actions in prison.\"\n\nO'Halloran was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on 23 August.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has defended his plan to raise National Insurance to fund health and social care, saying it deals with \"catastrophic costs\" faced by millions.\n\nIn a testy exchange in Prime Minister's Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pressed him on whether he stood by his promise that no one who needed care would have to sell their home.\n\nThe PM did not answer directly, saying his party was taking tough decisions.\n\nMPs are debating the plan in the Commons and will vote at 19:00 BST.\n\nIn the manifesto-breaking move, the prime minister hopes to raise £12bn a year to tackle the health backlog caused by the Covid pandemic and boost social care.\n\nMr Johnson said his plan - which includes capping care costs in England at £86,000 - was broad-based and progressive according to the economic think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\n\"The plan deals - after decades - with catastrophic costs faced by millions of people, the risks that they face, the threat they could face the loss of their homes, their possessions, their ability to pass on anything to their children,\" he said.\n\nHe added it was the first time the state had stepped in to deal with the threat of such costs and meant insurance companies would now be able to help protect people against the costs of care.\n\nBut Sir Keir said the tax was unfair on working people, adding: \"Under his plan, a landlord renting out dozens of properties won't pay a penny more, while their tenants in work will face tax rises of hundreds of pounds a year.\n\n\"A care worker earning the minimum wage doesn't get a pay rise under this plan but does get a tax rise. In what world is that fair?\"\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, confirmed during the debate that the party would be voting against the tax.\n\nA handful of Conservative MPs are also expected to vote against, including former minister Steve Baker, who called on his party to \"rediscover what it stands for\" rather than \"every time there is a squeeze on the public finances, coming back for higher taxes.\"\n\nBut with an 80-seat majority, Mr Johnson's plan is still expected to pass.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe SNP also oppose the move, with its Westminster leader Ian Blackford calling it a \"regressive tax\" on millions of Scottish workers without consultation.\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey - who is also carer for his disabled son - said the plan \"forgot family carers\" who just want \"a fair deal\".\n\nIt is widely agreed that major changes are needed to England's social care system, which helps older and working-age people with high care needs to carry out day-to-day tasks, such as washing, dressing, eating and medication.\n\nThe key proposals of the new plan are:\n\nMr Johnson has said the majority of the £36bn fund raised by the tax rise will go towards catching up on the backlog in the NHS created by Covid - increasing hospital capacity and creating space for nine million more appointments, scans and operations.\n\nA smaller portion of the money - £5.4bn over the next three years - will also go towards changes to the social care system, with more promised after that.\n\nBut there has been anger from the social care sector over the amount they had been promised.\n\nThe UK Home Care Association, which represents home care providers, said it was \"nowhere near enough\", while Unison, a union for care workers, said the money \"doesn't even come close\" and those in need of care would be feeling \"extremely let down\".\n\nChairman of the Independent Care Group Mike Padgham also said the plan did not address the staffing crisis which was \"sending the sector into meltdown on a daily basis as care providers struggle to cover shifts\".\n\nAsked about staff shortages and low pay, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the levy would mean local authorities could pay more for care and a new staff training and development programme would be introduced.\n\nFrom those who work in, commission services or have their lives shaped by the care they get, the reactions to the prime minister's plans to reform this crumbling system have been mixed.\n\nThe fact there is a plan is welcome because it means there is something to work with, but charities, councils and the people who run home care and care homes, are worried by the lack of a vision of what a future care system should be trying to achieve.\n\nAnd there is even more concern about the money. One senior local Conservative politician described the mood in local government to me in one word - \"despair\".\n\nCouncils are facing a significant increase in people asking for help already, but there is no extra money now.\n\nThere's scepticism about whether the funding given to the NHS in the short term will actually be released to social care in three years' time.\n\nThe politician said the authority feared that as the new levy comes in, their costs will go up as they expect more people will be eligible for council support (with more generous means-testing) and wage bills will rise for them and care providers.\n\nThey worry that people believe the social care system is fixed now, but the situation may have just got worse.\n\nThe new tax will begin as a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance from next April, paid by both employers and workers, and will then become a separate tax on earned income from 2023 - calculated in the same way as National Insurance and appearing on an employee's payslip.\n\nThis will be paid by all working adults, including older workers. The government says it will be \"legally ring-fenced\" to go only towards health and social care costs.\n\nIncome from share dividends - earned by those who own shares in companies - will also see a 1.25% tax rate increase, to stop people getting round the tax by taking more earnings in the form of dividends rather than salary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ben Zaranko from the IFS: 'If the NHS needs more money, that leaves less for social care'\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies also said the £12bn a year extra for health and social care risked being swallowed up by the NHS.\n\nIt suggested that the experiences of the past 40 years showed NHS spending plans were almost always topped up, meaning that health would continue to require the bulk of the revenue raised by the new tax, which \"could leave little if any of the tax rises announced available for social care\".\n\nThe UK-wide tax will be focused on funding health and social care in England, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive an additional £2.2bn to spend on their services.\n\nMr Johnson said no Conservative government wanted to raise taxes but defended the move as \"the right, reasonable and fair approach\" in light of the pandemic, which saw the government spend upwards of £407bn on support.\n\nWhile he said he did not want to raise taxes further, he did not rule out more increases before the next election.\n\nSir Edward Leigh said as a \"low tax Conservative\" MP, it would be \"easy to attack\" the new levy, warning it could end up \"subsidising\" wealthy pensioners in the south east of England at the expense of those elsewhere.\n\nBut during Wednesday's debate, he said it was \"much more difficult to provide an alternative\" when the funding was needed for care and the NHS now.\n\nThe Tory backbencher did warn the leadership, however, not to think they can \"solve these problems by becoming a tax and spend party\" to cheers from his colleagues, adding: \"It is simply not going to wash\".", "The government is planning to overhaul the travel traffic light system, with changes set to be announced in weeks.\n\nGreen and amber categories could be removed and replaced with a new system, the BBC has been told.\n\nA new system would allow vaccinated travellers to go to countries with similarly high levels of vaccination as the UK without the need for quarantine.\n\nSources say the red category, which is for countries which the government says should not be visited, will remain.\n\nUnder current restrictions, red countries should not be visited \"except in the most extreme of circumstances\" and travellers returning from them must self-isolate for 10 days in a government-approved hotel.\n\nThe government declined to comment on the plans but said: \"Our international travel policy is guided by one overwhelming priority - protecting public health.\n\n\"The next formal checkpoint review will take place by 1 October 2021.\"\n\nIt is understood that the government has asked senior travel industry leaders to make proposals for international travel to replace the current traffic light system.\n\nThe government devised the travel traffic light system to limit the transmission of Covid-19 from overseas and protect against new variants coming into the country.\n\nOne of the key demands from industry bosses is the removal of Covid testing as a necessity of travel back to the UK, which they say puts customers off booking due to cost.\n\nThis would bring the UK in line with much of European Union, which does not mandate Covid tests for vaccinated travellers within the bloc. It is unclear whether this will happen in the UK.\n\nTravel industry bosses believe it is crucial that the sector receives a boost of confidence to encourage travellers and holidaymakers to book and travel again.\n\nThey say the fear caused by category changes is a huge barrier to customers booking and the sector ultimately moving into recovery.\n\nSudden changes to the traffic light categories for Portugal and Mexico at the start of the summer saw holidaymakers having to rush home at short notice.\n\nBosses also point to the \"damaging\" impact on business when commentators speculate on potential changes to countries moving on and off green, amber and red lists, which then prove to be incorrect when government decisions are officially released.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph first reported that the government was planning to scrap the traffic light system.\n\nThe third government review of international travel is due by 1 October, but sources say changes could come as soon as next week.\n\nTravel industry leaders want changes to happen as soon as possible, as the furlough scheme is due to end on 30 September and thousands of travel sector workers are still on the wage support scheme.\n\nA relaxation in travel rules, they believe, would lead to a bookings surge, which may protect the jobs of those currently on furlough.\n\nOne industry source said: \"Removing PCR testing for vaccinated passengers is essential. We have to align ourselves with what the rest of Europe are doing and stop being such an outlier.\n\nThey added that the sector now faces a \"perfect storm\": \"This summer should have been the big reopening of travel - like has happened domestically - but it wasn't because of the insistence on hugely complex and expensive tests.\"\n\nYesterday, the chief executive of British Airways, Sean Doyle, demanded that the Covid testing and quarantine system is changed, saying it is \"not fit for purpose and must be simplified\".\n\nHe added: \"We had the traffic light system over the summer. There was some progress made, but I think it's not fit for purpose. It needs to be simplified and adapted in the same way that we see in Europe and in the US.\n\nIndustry leaders say they are aware any policy changes will not happen until proposals are signed off by the Chief Scientific Officer and the Health Secretary.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Decisions on our traffic light system are kept under regular review and are informed by the latest risk assessment from the Joint Biosecurity Centre and wider public health factors.\"", "A powerful earthquake has struck the Pacific coast of Mexico, close to the resort of Acapulco.\n\nThe magnitude-seven quake was also felt strongly around 370km (230 miles) away in Mexico City, sending residents and tourists spilling into the streets from homes and hotels.\n\nPower cuts were reported in several states and there was damage as the quake shook hillsides around Acapulco.\n\nOne man was killed by a falling post in the nearby city of Coyuca de Benítez.\n\nPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador said there were no reports of major damage across the country.\n\nUtility poles fell on vehicles in Acapulco and part of a church collapsed, the AFP news agency reported.\n\nAcapulco Mayor Adela Román said that the quake sparked \"nervous breakdowns\" in the city.\n\n\"People are worried because there are aftershocks.\"\n\nShe added that \"a lot of gas leaks\" had been detected in residential areas.\n\nMany shaken residents slept in their cars and on the streets of the city as aftershocks continued, including one with a magnitude of 5.2.\n\nAn apparent light show flashed across the night sky during the tremors, with many posting videos to social media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mexico earthquake: Lights seen in sky during tremor near Acapulco\n\nThis rare phenomenon is known as earthquake lights (EQL). The US Geological Survey says that geophysicists differ in the extent to which they think that individual reports of unusual lighting associated with an earthquake actually represent EQL.\n\nSome researchers think they occur due to friction between moving rocks creating electrical activity. Others say they are probably just lightning or electricity arcing between shaking power lines.\n\nMany scared residents rushed into the streets in Mexico City\n\nIn Mexico City, many scared residents and tourists rushed into the streets in their pyjamas.\n\n\"It was terrible. It really reminds me of the 1985 quake every time something like this happens,\" Yesmin Rizk, a 70-year-old resident, told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"I'm not sure we'll sleep tonight.\"\n\nA huge earthquake struck the Mexican capital in 1985, killing at least 10,000 people.", "Sophie Moss's brother said she had been \"taken advantage of and exploited\"\n\nThe sentence given to a man who choked a woman to death during sex is being reviewed by the Attorney General to decide if it was unduly lenient.\n\nSam Pybus, 32, was jailed for four years and eight months after admitting the manslaughter of Sophie Moss, 33, at her home in Darlington on 7 February.\n\nCampaigners said the \"outrageous\" sentence sent a \"dreadful message\".\n\nReferring the sentence for review, MP Harriet Harman said it \"fails to reflect the gravity of the crime\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Attorney General's Office said the review under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme would take place within 28 days and, if successful, the case would be referred to the Court of Appeal.\n\nMs Harman said Pybus' \"disgraceful mitigation\" that Ms Moss, a mother of two young boys, encouraged strangulation during sex made it sound as if it was \"her fault\".\n\n\"[Pybus] sought to shift the responsibility for Sophie's death from himself to her claiming that she both encouraged and enjoyed his placing pressure on her neck,\" Ms Harman said.\n\nPybus had drunk 24 bottles of lager before he visited Sophie Moss, Teesside Crown Court heard\n\nThe MP said: \"The sentence fails to reflect the gravity of the crime, the impact of her death on her family, his sole culpability for her death, his cynical shifting of the responsibility from himself to her and sends out the message that killing your girlfriend during sex is a minor matter.\"\n\nWe Can't Consent To This, a campaign group set up in response to so-called \"consensual\" violence claims against women, also criticised the sentence.\n\nSpokeswoman Fiona Mackenzie said: \"It seems that strangling a woman to death is still viewed in law as an unfortunate accident, rather than terrible serious violence.\n\n\"This sends a dreadful message to women - four years and eight months is an outrageous sentence.\n\nThe Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme allows anyone to lobby the Attorney General to send a case to the Court of Appeal for review. Very experienced senior judges then consider the term given to an offender and how it compares to any relevant guidelines on sentencing and previous similar crimes.\n\nJudge Paul Watson reduced Pybus' initial sentence of seven years because the law required him to give the killer a discount for his early admission that he was guilty of manslaughter - the crime of unintentionally causing Ms Moss' death.\n\nPybus said he never intended to kill, leading to the Crown Prosecution Service ruling out a murder charge. But he could not avoid a manslaughter conviction by claiming it was \"rough sex gone wrong\".\n\nSome 28 years ago, the UK's then most senior judges declared that nobody can consent to serious harm as part of sado-masochistic sex - a ruling that was recently reasserted in the 2021 Domestic Abuse Act.\n\nPybus, who was married, had been seeing Ms Moss for sex about six times a year for three years without his wife's knowledge, Teesside Crown Court previously heard.\n\nOn 6 February he had drunk 24 bottles of Amstel lager over 10 hours, and drove to Ms Moss's flat after his wife went to bed.\n\nAt 04:43 GMT the following morning he drove to Darlington police station and told staff he believed he had strangled Ms Moss.\n\nHe said that during sex he would apply pressure to her neck, \"an act he said she encouraged\", but added he would never hurt her.\n\nThe claim she encouraged strangulation during sex was confirmed by her long-term partner, the court heard.\n\nInstead of giving Ms Moss first aid, Pybus went to his car and thought about what to do for 15 minutes before driving to the police station, the court was told.\n\nOn Tuesday Judge Paul Watson QC said he accepted Pybus, of Water View, Middleton St George, Darlington, did not intend to kill and believed he had genuine remorse.\n\nIn a victim statement Ms Moss's brother said she had been \"taken advantage of and exploited\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bukayo Saka, Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford were all racially abused after England's Euro 2020 exit\n\nA football fan who blamed three black England players for the Euro 2020 final defeat in a racist social media post has admitted abusing the stars.\n\nScott McCluskey, 43, posted the comments on Facebook shortly after the penalty shoot-out loss to Italy.\n\nMcCluskey, of Cheshire, was given a 14-week jail sentence, suspended for 18 months, with 30 days of rehabilitation work on racism and diversity.\n\nHe pleaded guilty at Warrington Magistrates' Court to sending an offensive or abusive message by a public communication network.\n\nSentencing him, District Judge Nicholas Sanders said: \"This sort of online abuse seems to have gained some sort of traction in our society and it is entirely unacceptable.\n\n\"It is something which has the capability to cause real harm not just to individuals such as the three footballers concerned but to wider society as a whole.\n\n\"This is a foul offence which has far reaching consequences not only for you but the general public.\"\n\nAs the judge passed sentence, the defendant told him: \"All I can say is I'm deeply ashamed.\"\n\nScott McCluskey was given a 14-week jail sentence, suspended for 18 months\n\nRashford, Saka and Sancho were all targeted with racist abuse on social media after the final, prompting a widespread debate about racism in both football and society.\n\nThe court heard McCluskey posted a racially offensive term about the three footballers online after England's defeat on 11 July.\n\nHe blamed the \"ethnic players\" for the team's exit from the tournament and added \"unlucky England\".\n\nProsecutor Simon Green said McCluskey's Facebook post was met with \"condemnation and outrage\" and was reported by someone who had themselves been affected by racism.\n\nMcCluskey, of Blyth Close in Runcorn, claimed he had posted the message to make people laugh, saying \"it was a joke\" and later deleting the post, but it was reported to Cheshire Police.\n\nHe was also ordered to observe a weekend curfew on Saturdays and Sundays, monitored by an electronic tag, and ordered to pay £85 costs and £128 victim surcharge, to be deducted from his benefits.\n\nJo Lazzari, from the Crown Prosecution Service, thanked one of McCluskey's Facebook \"friends\" for reporting the abuse.\n\n\"One such person saw the status and was taken back to issues with racism she experienced as a child and felt angry, upset and disappointed at having seen such a message in her own home,\" she said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On the evening of Friday 13 November 2015, Theresa Cede - an Austrian mother of two living in Paris - had invited out her friend Stéphane to celebrate his 40th birthday. Her present: two tickets for Californian band Eagles of Death Metal at the Bataclan concert hall.\n\nThey were standing near the entrance next to the concessions stall when three gunmen burst in at 21:47, killing indiscriminately. She was saved by a man who was shot and fell next to her.\n\n\"I owe him my life. I was shielded by his body, while the shooting continued around us,\" she said.\n\nAt around 22:00 a policeman and his driver fired at one of the gunmen on stage with a victim, causing the attacker's jacket to explode. Shortly after, the two remaining jihadists retreated in a corridor on the top level of the Bataclan, taking hostages. Theresa and Stéphane were eventually evacuated shortly before the final assault at 00:20.\n\nNearly six years later it is a moment of reckoning for the thousands of people who, directly or indirectly, found themselves caught up in France's worst ever night of terrorism.\n\nOpening on Wednesday and set to continue until next May is a trial hallmarked to go down in history.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a specially constructed courtroom in the historic Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité, 20 men will be judged for the jihadist Islamic State (IS) plot that led to 130 dead and hundreds of wounded that night, not just at the Bataclan but also at the Stade de France and on the café-terraces of the 10th and 11th arrondissements.\n\nAmong the defendants is the last survivor of the 10-man squad who set out on the evening of the attack.\n\nSalah Abdeslam, 31, was also supposed to blow himself up, but instead he threw away his suicide belt and fled back to Brussels where he was arrested months later. From prison he has said very little, but his questioning will be a key point of the trial.\n\nTheresa Cede is one of nearly 1,800 civil plaintiffs - mainly survivors and relatives of the dead - who have the right to tell their story before the court. Their memories will take up five weeks of hearings.\n\nWhile Theresa has not yet decided to speak herself, she will attend to give support to those who do.\n\nNearly six years of investigations conducted in 19 countries have resulted in a mountain of evidence. The justice ministry says that the 47,000 depositions and statements amount to 542 volumes which stacked up would reach 53 metres in height.\n\nThe aim of the trial is not just to establish the guilt or innocence of the 20 accused, it is also to document the origins, planning and execution of the 13 November conspiracy:\n\nTo accommodate the large numbers of lawyers, plaintiffs, journalists and members of the public, it was decided to convert an entire gallery of the 19th-Century Palais de Justice.\n\nThe gallery now contains a 45m (147ft) by 15m wood-panelled salle, with seating for 600, which will be the main courtroom, as well as two other principal rooms for press and relatives.\n• None 600seats in courtroom in old Palais de Justice\n\nWith other smaller rooms also fitted with projection screens, there is space for up to 2,000 people - though after the opening it is estimated only a fraction of that number will attend.\n\nThe whole trial will be filmed for posterity, as was the smaller Charlie Hebdo trial last year, and an online radio feed will be available to survivors and other plaintiffs so they can keep abreast of developments.\n\nBuilt at a cost of €7m (£6m), the new courtroom will be used over the next two years for other terror trials - such as the one arising from the Nice lorry attack of July 2016. The scale of the enterprise is meant to impress on the French the solemnity and historic nature of the trial.\n\nIn the words of Le Monde newspaper, \"It is the ultimate response of democratic nations to the challenge of terrorism: the law; all the law; nothing but the law.\"\n\nAmong the accused, attention will inevitably focus on Salah Abdeslam. This is because in the established account of 13 November, he was the one who was supposed to die but didn't.\n\nA childhood friend of Abdelhamid Abaaoud (the leader of the commando group who died in a shoot-out in Saint-Denis on 18 November), he allegedly played an important role ferrying the newly arrived jihadists by car from Germany and Hungary to Brussels.\n\nSalah Abdeslam, the sole surviving attacker, has already been jailed in Belgium for a gunfight with police\n\nHe is said to have rented cars and hotel rooms in Paris, and then driven the three suicide-bombers to the Stade de France.\n\nBut there is still uncertainty over what happened next. Leaving his car in the 18th arrondissement, he dumped the suicide vest in the suburb of Montrouge and after calling a friend in Brussels was picked up and driven back to Belgium.\n\nA few months later, just before the deadly Brussels suicide attacks of March 2016 - carried out by the same IS militant cell set up by Abaaoud - Salah Abdeslam was arrested in Molenbeek.\n\nThirty-two people died in bomb attacks on Brussels Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station\n\nHe told police that he had a change of heart and that was why he did not blow himself up. But the investigation established that the suicide vest was in fact defective - opening the possibility that he tried but failed to complete his mission.\n\nOf the other 19 defendants, six are absent and five of them are presumed dead: senior IS men probably killed in US drone strikes. The sixth is in prison in Turkey. Of the others some are accused of helping the gang without necessarily knowing the extent of the conspiracy.\n\nBut others, it is alleged, were important figures, and some may themselves have been intended as suicide-bombers on the night of the attack.\n\nOne of the more intriguing items of evidence in the case is a computer abandoned by the gang and found in Brussels following the March 2016 attacks there.\n\nThis included a schedule setting out the 13 November attacks, including the three Paris targets - but also two more: Schiphol airport in the Netherlands and \"metro\".\n\nOne theory is that a fourth squad - including two of the accused at the trial - may have been ordered to attack Schiphol.\n\nThere is also the possibility that Salah Abdeslam himself may have been told to attack the Paris metro, at the point where he abandoned his car. This would explain why the IS propaganda machine included a non-existent attack on the 18th arrondissement in its list of \"victories\" that night.\n\nFor Theresa Cede, the first year after the attacks was spent compiling all the information she could find about what had happened at the Bataclan. \"I had to find people who were there; I had to hear their stories; I had this absolute need to understand,\" she says.\n\n\"I am naturally an outgoing and resilient person. I had a job, a husband and two kids. My absolute priority at the start was that I would not let it have an impact on my family. But that was wishful thinking.\"\n\nTheresa Cede (here with artist Shepard Fairey) knows the trial will be hard for all the survivors\n\nFrom the start she says she had to change which side of the bed she slept on, because of spending two and a half hours next to her dead protector.\n\n\"Things suddenly bubble up,\" she says. \"When one of my sons had a birthday the sulphur smell of the candles set me off. When he went to a show with his school, the sight of the theatre with those velvet seats was another trigger.\"\n\nFor Theresa, as for many others. the weeks ahead will be tough, as the memories are brought out once again under the public gaze. Tough, she says, but necessary.\n\n\"The trial is an important step. It has to be gone through. I am not sure it will bring closure or solace. But it is part of the process.\" s", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPoland snatched an injury-time equaliser to deprive England of three points in Warsaw and a sixth straight victory in their qualifying campaign for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nEngland looked on course to maintain that perfect sequence of results in European Group I and take another giant stride towards Qatar after a moment of quality from Harry Kane gave them the lead when he sent a dipping drive past Poland keeper Wojciech Szczesny with 18 minutes left.\n\nGareth Southgate's side had performed with commendable maturity to control Poland and a hostile crowd giving thunderous backing to their team - but it all changed one minute into four minutes of stoppage time.\n\nEngland had restricted the great Poland striker Robert Lewandowski to limited opportunities but he delivered a perfect cross for substitute Damian Szymanski to rise above Luke Shaw at the far post to head past Jordan Pickford.\n\nIt was a bitter blow to England's players, who sank to their knees in disappointment, after fighting so hard but a draw does not cause too much damage and they still remain in control of their own destiny.\n\nThe Three Lions are four points clear at the top of Group I with four games remaining.\n\nEngland's players were once again loudly jeered when taking the knee after the Poland fans had warmly applauded their national anthem, boos drowned out after gestures from Szczesny and Lewandowski.\n• None 'Painful final minutes for England but one step closer to Qatar'\n• None Reaction and relive the action from Warsaw between Poland and England\n• None What's the state of play in European World Cup qualifying?\n\nKane had a turbulent summer, unsettled at Spurs as speculation of a move to Manchester City accompanied his every move, but he is back in the old routine for England without barely breaking his stride.\n\nThis was billed as the battle between Kane and his Poland opposite number Lewandowski but this was a game where it was possible to simply enjoy two masters of their craft at work.\n\nKane picked up the ball 25 yards out with 18 minutes left before proving he is ever the opportunist by flashing a dipping swerving drive beyond the deceived Szczesny.\n\nIt was his 41st goal for England, making him the country's fifth highest international goalscorer and continued an incredible record of scoring in 15 consecutive World Cup and Euro qualifiers.\n\nHe is a single-minded leader and a striker of genuine class and Southgate and England were once again grateful to that cutting edge he brings them.\n\nKane's strike may not have brought victory but a point is still an acceptable result despite the painful conclusion here in Warsaw.\n\nIt all went wrong for England in those chaotic final moments but until Poland's late surge they had once again shown they are developing and have not suffered too many after-effects from the Euro 2020 final loss to Italy on penalties.\n\nPoland tested England out with their intensity and physical commitment but Southgate's side stood strong while also having to deal with a crowd of 56,212 made up entirely of home support.\n\nEvery attack and moment of encouragement sent huge roars around this superb stadium but England remained composed, apart from a half-time flashpoint when Harry Maguire and Kamil Glik were booked after the whistle after Poland's Karol Linetty appeared to pinch Kyle Walker.\n\nIt was only late on that England wobbled, Walker diving in rashly in the build-up to Poland's leveller, as the home side were rewarded for the way they stuck to their task.\n\nThis state-of-the-art Warsaw stadium is a magnificent, atmospheric arena but once again the spotlight was on the crowd after England's players suffered racist abuse during their qualifying win in Hungary.\n\nAs England's national anthem started to play, it was met with some jeers but in gestures that did them huge credit, former Arsenal keeper Szczesny appealed for those Poland fans responsible to stope while Lewandowski pointed to the \"Respect\" slogan on his shirt.\n\nIt had a remarkable impact as those few jeers turned into genuinely warm applause from the vast majority of the crowd throughout the anthem.\n\nSadly, the same did not apply when England's players took the knee, where they were once again met with a crescendo of booing.\n\nThe game itself was played out in a noisy, vibrant atmosphere and the celebrations for the equaliser were worthy of a winner - but the contrasting behaviour before kick-off will once again be under scrutiny.\n• None Damian Dawid Szymanski (Poland) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.\n• None Goal! Poland 1, England 1. Damian Dawid Szymanski (Poland) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Robert Lewandowski with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Karol Linetty (Poland) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (Poland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jan Bednarek.\n• None Attempt blocked. Declan Rice (England) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Substitution, Poland. Michal Helik replaces Kamil Glik because of an injury.\n• None Karol Linetty (Poland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Think you know your sport?: Paddy McGuinness hosts brand new Question of Sport with Sam Quek and Ugo Monye\n• None Two bodies and one brutally authentic Swedish crime drama", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has admitted making a \"mistake\" when he confused footballer Marcus Rashford with rugby player Maro Itoje.\n\nThe Evening Standard newspaper quoted Williamson as saying he had enjoyed a Zoom discussion with England and Manchester United's Rashford.\n\nBut an aide later clarified that it had actually been with Itoje.\n\nManchester-raised Rashford called the difference in accent between him and Londoner Itoje a possible \"giveaway\".\n\nItoje, who plays for England and Saracens, tweeted: \"Due to recent speculation I thought it was necessary to confirm that I am not Marcus Rashford… And whilst we are here my name is not Mario either!! Just a simple Maro Itoje will do…\n\nBoth sportsmen are high-profile campaigners on issues involving children.\n\nRashford has spoken out on free school meals, while Itoje, who was educated at Harrow School, advocated for poorer pupils to get better access to laptop computers during lockdown.\n\nA spokesperson for Rashford said the footballer's \"consistent ask\" had been for collaboration with the government.\n\n\"More often than not this ask is rebuffed,\" the statement continued. \"Maro and Marcus are two incredibly successful young black men, but there is little more they have in common.\"\n\nLast year, the then Health Secretary Matt Hancock apologised for calling Rashford Daniel rather than Marcus.\n\n\"Whether it's Daniel Rashford or a Maro Itoje reference, the message remains the same,\" Rashford's spokesperson said. \"Put our children first.\"\n\nIn his interview with the Evening Standard, Williamson said of Rashford: \"We met over Zoom and he seemed incredibly engaged, compassionate and charming, but then he had to shoot off.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the one that was holding him back from his training.\"\n\nBut one of the education secretary's staff later clarified that he had meant Itoje rather than Rashford.\n\nAfter the article was published, Labour MP Zarah Sultana responded by calling Williamson a \"joke\".\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokeswoman Daisy Cooper said the mix-up had been \"shocking and embarrassing\", adding that minister had \"confused two black sporting heroes\".\n\nRashford himself gave a brief response, tweeting: \"Accent could have been a giveaway.\"\n\nIn a statement, Williamson said: \"Towards the end of a wide-ranging interview, in which I talked about both the laptops and school meals campaigns, I conflated the issues and made a genuine mistake. We corrected this with the journalist before publication of the story.\n\n\"I have huge respect for both Marcus Rashford and Maro Itoje, who run effective and inspiring campaigns.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirmus energy has announced gas tariffs in the Ten Towns Network area will increase by 35% from 1 October.\n\nIt says this reflects the increase in gas commodity prices which, it says, have risen by 170% since April 2021.\n\nThe Consumer Council says the news will affect approximately 55,000 domestic customers.\n\nIt means the yearly gas bill of a typical household with a credit meter will rise by about £182 per year, the council said.\n\nMore than 25 other towns in surrounding areas are also included.\n\nCustomers in the Greater Belfast area will not be affected by Wednesday's news, although an announcement regarding tariffs in this area is expected in the coming weeks.\n\n\"We are very sorry to have to make this announcement as the last thing we want is to have to increase our prices,\" said the firm's managing director Michael Scott.\n\n\"However, given the massive increases in the cost of purchasing natural gas on the global markets, it is simply unavoidable, as these costs are totally beyond our control.\n\n\"We want to assure our customers that we will continue to monitor and review our tariffs to ensure customers are getting the best prices possible. As soon as we can lower our prices again, we will do so without delay\".\n\nMegan Potts, a single mother living in Bangor, says she has already been living hand-to-mouth.\n\n\"People talk about this decision between heat and eat and it's real. I am now getting to experience that on a whole new level.\n\n\"My electricity is actually about to go up. I dare say my gas rates will probably go up as well. Everything is going up.\"\n\nDirector of Infrastructure with the Consumer Council Peter McClenaghan said: \"The size of the Firmus energy price increase will shock consumers, make household budgeting more challenging, and is particularly difficult as consumers have no option to switch supplier.\n\n\"This Firmus energy increase follows rises in electricity, grocery, and fuel costs and is particularly bad news for consumers in vulnerable situations as it will coincide with the end of the furlough scheme, the removal of the Universal Credit uplift, and the start of winter,\" he added\n\nFirmus energy is regulated by the Utility Regulator and comes after SSE Airtricity put prices up last week.", "The small bowl was found on a chest of drawers during a house clearance\n\nA porcelain bowl thought to have been worth just £500 has sold at auction for £320,000 after it turned out to be a rare Chinese relic.\n\nThe 900-year-old bowl was owned by a Lincolnshire couple and was among items being sold after their deaths.\n\nThe 5in (13cm) tall item is thought to be previously undocumented Ru ware, prompting a flurry of bidders.\n\nJessica Wall, from Stamford Auction Rooms, said it was \"totally unexpected\".\n\nThe rare bowl sat on a chest of drawers at the home of the late couple, who were seemingly unaware of its true worth.\n\nIt was initially expected to fetch between £500 and £800 with Chinese ware being notoriously tricky to value, Ms Wall said.\n\nAuctioneer Jessica Wall said it was a \"dream\" to be surprised by an item selling for so much money\n\n\"There was no indication it would fly in the way that it did,\" Ms Wall added, with the item finally fetching £320,000, before fees.\n\nIt is thought to have been made during China's Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) with only a small number of similar pieces being in private hands.\n\nThe bowls are known for being undecorated with a bluish or greenish-grey glaze, with a fine network of cracks.\n\nRecounting the moment the hammer came down on the auction two weeks ago, Ms Wall said: \"It was quite a moment.\n\n\"When it got to about £10,000, I thought it was interesting and a good result but that it would stop there. It kept going and I started to get butterflies.\"\n\nThe family of the deceased are said to be \"blown away\" by the sale, the auction house said.\n\nThe eventual buyer, who travelled from London to Stamford for the auction, has chosen to remain anonymous.\n\n\"It's extremely rare for such a big surprise like this, but it's every auctioneer's dream,\" Ms Wall added.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government is expected to announce a shake-up of the HGV driver testing process as soon as Thursday.\n\nIt wants to fast track drivers into the haulage industry amid chronic shortages which have caused supply problems.\n\nThe BBC understands that during meetings between government officials, hauliers and suppliers, the \"penny finally dropped\" that the driver shortage was getting worse not better.\n\nThe government said meetings with affected groups were ongoing.\n\nIt added any change in policy would be announced in due course.\n\nWidespread supply chain issues caused by the driver shortage have hit a range of sectors, including food, drink and medicines.\n\n\"The government seem to finally understand the scale of the problem. For the first time they looked rattled\", industry sources told the BBC.\n\nIt's thought the centrepiece of the proposals could include combining the Class C test used for rigid lorries and Class E for larger articulated lorries into a single test.\n\nCurrently, there is usually a 2-3 week minimum period between taking the two tests.\n\nThe haulage industry said a perfect storm of a post-Brexit exodus of drivers, an ageing and retiring workforce and COVID-related delays to testing new drivers had brought some supply chains to breaking point.\n\nHaulage firms, desperate for drivers to fill lorries left idle and to complete orders left unfulfilled, welcomed the move but warned that it would not be enough to fix the cracks appearing in supply chains.\n\nThey reiterated their calls for HGV drivers to be added to the Shortage Occupation List which would allow firms to temporarily bring back some of the estimated 20,000 EU drivers who have left the industry.\n\nPaul Jackson of Chiltern Distribution said: \"This is a sensible move but it's not enough to fix the problem.\n\n\"We don't put newly qualified drivers straight behind the wheel on their own. We buddy them up with experienced drivers for the first 8-10 weeks and the insurance costs for new drivers are also much higher.\n\n\"We desperately need to put HGV drivers on the list of skilled workers we can bring in from abroad.\"\n\nThe Chemical Business Association, which represents chemical firms within the supply chain, reiterated concerns that its members were struggling to get chemicals to water companies.\n\nTim Doggett, its chief executive, said: \"The supply chain situation in the UK is deteriorating.\"\n\nA survey conducted by the industry group suggests 96% of member companies are now experiencing issues with UK haulage, up from 63% in its last survey in June.\n\nThe Chemical Business Association has written to ministers warning about the effects of driver shortages.\n\nThe group write to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in June, saying that \"there was a contingent risk to the supply of chemicals into vital areas such as water treatment, which would be critical to the health and wellbeing of the population\".\n\nThe government is expected to say that the new regime will mean up to 3,000 new drivers can be tested per week.\n\nCurrently the pass rate is 56% so that would mean an extra 1,600 drivers per week.\n\nBut Richard Burnett of the Road Haulage Association said the industry was losing 600 drivers a week from the industry and with a net shortfall of 90,000 drivers, it would take nearly two years to fill the gap.\n\nThe industry was already reporting shortages of about 60,000 drivers before Brexit and the pandemic.\n\nEven allowing for that, he said there was no way to plug the recent gaps in time for Christmas - when the UK is more reliant on EU food imports.\n\nIn addition, the RHA said the onset of winter weather would throw up obstacles. \"The reality is that an industry already struggling to meet delivery schedules will be brought to its knees at the first outbreak of bad weather conditions.\"\n\nThe managing director of BJS Distribution Storage and Couriers, Harinder Singh, said the new shorter test was \"not a solution it is a risk\".\n\n\"Making the test easier does not make better drivers. The solution to the current shortage is to allow temporary visas to drivers from countries that understand the legislation and legal driving parameters of the UK, otherwise this isn't going to solve itself.\n\n\"By making the test easier you are putting more risk onto the road,\" he added.", "The countries most vulnerable to climate change are calling for an \"emergency pact\" to tackle rising temperatures.\n\nThe group wants all countries to agree radical steps to avoid \"climate catastrophe\" at the upcoming COP26 meeting in Glasgow.\n\nGreen campaigners are urging a postponement of the gathering, citing problems with vaccines for delegates.\n\nThe Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) says the event is critical and cannot wait.\n\nRepresenting some 1.2 billion people, the CVF consists of countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific.\n\nThe group has been key in pushing the rest of the world to accept the idea of keeping the rise in global temperatures to under 1.5C this century.\n\nThis was incorporated into the Paris agreement in 2015.\n\nRecent research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests that the threshold will be passed in little over a decade at current rates of carbon emissions.\n\nIn less than two months, global leaders will gather in Glasgow for COP26, the most critical meeting on climate change since Paris.\n\nAhead of the Glasgow meeting, the CVF has issued a manifesto for what the conference must deliver to keep the planet safe and protect the most vulnerable.\n\nEnvironmental groups have suggested postponing the meeting, on the grounds that vaccine distribution is inequitable and that delegates from poorer countries face huge bills for quarantine hotels when they arrive in the UK.\n\nIn Bangladesh, erosion continues as river levels keep rising\n\nHowever, the CVF member states insist the meeting must go ahead in person, and are calling for support and \"facilitated access\" to ensure inclusive participation.\n\nThe UK government has responded to these calls by agreeing to pay the quarantine hotel expenses of any delegate, observer or media from a developing country.\n\nThe vulnerable group says that progress on climate change has stalled and COP26 should move forward with what it terms a \"climate emergency pact\".\n\nThis would see every country put forward a new climate plan every year between now and 2025.\n\nAt present, signatories of the Paris agreement are only obliged to put forward new plans every five years.\n\nThe vulnerable nations say that richer countries must fulfil their obligations to deliver $100bn in climate finance per year over the 2020-24 period.\n\nA man watches as the sea rushes in on the Marshall Islands\n\nThe CVF nations want this money to be split 50-50 between cutting carbon and helping countries adapt to the threat posed by rising temperatures.\n\nThe countries also want the UK to \"take full responsibility\" for this aspect of the negotiations, saying it is vital to restore confidence in the Paris pact.\n\nAmong the other areas that the most vulnerable nations want to see progress on is the question of debt-for-climate swaps.\n\nMany of the world's poorest countries have large debt burdens, and these have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic which has stretched finances even further.\n\nIn a debt-for-climate swap, a country can reduce what it owes to international creditors by directing the debt service payments to fund renewable energy or greater protection for nature.\n\nMany campaigners have argued that the COP26 meeting should be postponed\n\nOne such restructuring was recently announced by Belize where the debt money will now go to support marine conservation projects instead.\n\n\"Vulnerable countries have unique needs - and public-private collaboration will be key to addressing them,\" said Nigel Topping, who's the UK's high-level climate action champion for COP26.\n\n\"Whether it is in debt for nature swaps such as the recent Belize announcement or in increasing public sector capability to structure investment projects to attract private finance, the aim is to accelerate progress in this area so that 2022 becomes the year of climate action solidarity.\"", "There were far more inmates in the worst-affected block than the capacity allowed\n\nForty-one prisoners have died after a fire swept through an overcrowded jail near Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.\n\nThe blaze at Tangerang prison broke out on Wednesday as most of the inmates slept. Guards unlocked some cells but had to leave as the fire raged.\n\nThere were 122 inmates staying in the worst-affected Block C - far more than the 40-person capacity.\n\nTwo foreign victims, inmates from Portugal and South Africa, are among the dead.\n\nIndonesia's Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly said in a press conference that the embassies of the respective countries had been informed.\n\nEight people were seriously injured and dozens more had minor injuries, he said.\n\nTelevision footage showed thick smoke billowing from the prison complex as the fire raged. It started at about 01:45 local time (18:45 GMT Tuesday) and was put out just over an hour later.\n\n\"The fire spread quickly and there was no time to open some cells... When the guards found out, the fire had already spread, and that's where we found the victims,\" Mr Yasonna told a press conference.\n\nHe said that an electrical short-circuit was thought to be the cause of the blaze, although this was still being investigated.\n\nThe jail was built in 1972 and its electrical system had not been updated since then, he said.\n\nThe block mainly housed inmates held for drug-related offences.\n\nOf the victims, one was reported to be a murder convict, another had been found guilty of terrorism, and the rest were in prison for crimes involving drugs.\n\nDr Hilwani from Tangerang General Hospital told Reuters some of the bodies were so badly burned they could not be identified. DNA tests are being used.\n\nOne relative of a victim, Marlinah, told the AFP news agency outside the hospital: \"I saw a viral video of the fire. Then I heard that my brother might have been killed. Then we rushed here. All we hope for now is that the procedure will not be too complicated so we can bring my brother's body for burial.\"\n\nOnly 15 guards were on duty for the entire building, which housed 2,000 inmates - a far higher number than its intended 600-person capacity.\n\nSome of the bodies were so badly burned they could not be identified", "MPs have voted 319 to 248 for a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance for workers and employers to help fund health and social care.\n\nBoris Johnson hopes the tax increase, which breaks a Conservative manifesto pledge, will raise £12bn a year.\n\nThe prime minister said his plan would deal with \"catastrophic costs\" faced by those who need care.\n\nBut Labour raised concerns that people could still have to sell their home in order to pay for the help they need.\n\nDuring a House of Commons debate, some Conservative MPs also raised objections to the proposals.\n\nFormer minister Steve Baker called on his party to \"rediscover what it stands for\" rather than \"every time there is a squeeze on the public finances, coming back for higher taxes\".\n\nOpposition MPs voted against the rise but the government, which has a majority of more than 80, comfortably won the vote.\n\nFive Conservatives - Sir Christopher Chope, Philip Davies, Neil Hudson, Esther McVey and John Redwood - voted against the changes.\n\nThirty-seven Conservative MPs abstained. However, while some abstained due to concerns about the tax rise, others may simply been given permission to miss the vote.\n\nPoliticians have long agreed on the need to reform England's social care system, which helps older and working-age people with high care needs to carry out tasks such as washing, dressing, eating and taking medication.\n\nThe key proposals of the new plan are:\n\nCurrently workers pay 12% National Insurance on earnings between £9,564 and £50,268. However, anything earned above this amount attracts a rate of just 2%.\n\nMr Johnson has said the majority of the £36bn fund raised by the tax rise will go towards catching up on the backlog in the NHS created by Covid.\n\nA smaller portion of the money - £5.4bn over the next three years - will also go towards changes to the social care system, with more promised after that.\n\nThe UK-wide tax will be focused on funding health and social care in England, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive an additional £2.2bn to spend on their services.\n\nFrom 2023, the increase in National Insurance will become a separate levy, while the National Insurance rates will return to their previous level.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said that under Mr Johnson's plan \"someone with a house worth £186,000 would still have to pay £86,000 even with this cap - and that's before living costs of going into a care home.\"\n\n\"How does the chancellor suggest they pay those fees without selling their home?\" she asked.\n\nAlong with Labour, the SNP also voted against the government's proposals, with its Westminster leader Ian Blackford accusing the Conservatives of \"taxing Scottish workers twice\" and \"forcing them to pay the bill for social care in England as well as at home in Scotland\".\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the prime minister had failed to come up with a plan to tackle care staff vacancies or help unpaid family carers.\n\nConservative MP Jake Berry was among the critical voices from the government's own backbench, warning ministers that \"throwing other people's money down a bottomless pit doesn't become a good idea if you put the NHS logo next to it\".\n\nMr Johnson sought to reassure his own MPs ahead of the vote, telling a meeting of backbenchers: \"We should never forget we are the party of low taxation.\"\n\nDo you or a loved one require social care? How will the new tax affect you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The ruling could pave the way for the decriminalisation of abortions across the country\n\nMexico's Supreme Court has ruled that criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies are unconstitutional.\n\nThe ruling, for the northern state of Coahuila, prevents women from being prosecuted for getting an abortion.\n\nAbortion is currently severely restricted in all but four of the country's states.\n\nSupreme Court Justice Luis Maria Aguilar described the move as a \"historic step for the rights of women\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the court ordered the state of Coahuila to remove sanctions for abortion from its criminal code.\n\nThe decision could pave the way for the decriminalisation of abortions across the country.\n\nCurrently, abortion is only legal in a handful of states, except in cases of rape or where the mother's life is in danger.\n\nA judicial source said the ruling will affect the whole of Mexico, allowing women in states where abortion is criminalised to undergo the procedure with a judge's order.\n\nThe Information Group on Reproductive Choice (GIRE), which campaigns for abortion rights, described the decision as \"historic\".\n\n\"We hope that throughout the country women and people with the ability to carry a child have the conditions and freedom to determine their reproductive destiny,\" it said.\n\nCoahuila borders the US state of Texas, where the Supreme Court allowed a state law banning all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.\n\nThe ruling could open up avenues for people from Texas seeking legal abortions.\n\nThe decision to decriminalise abortion in what is Latin America's second largest Catholic nation might appear surprising.\n\nHowever, the debate in Mexico has been gradually moving towards removing the illegality for some time.\n\nHigh profile protests by feminist and women's rights campaigners have underlined the need for greater reproductive rights in Mexico.\n\nSpecifically, the Supreme Court was asked to rule on a law in the northern state of Coahuila which punishes women who have illegal abortions with jail terms of up to three years.\n\nThe 11 Supreme Court judges unanimously voted to decriminalise abortion in that state, and under Mexican law, it will now apply to all the other states in the country.\n\nIt is likely to take some time to be applied across the nation, but in effect the decision provides each state with a roadmap towards new legislation.\n\nFurthermore, it should mean that women who were jailed for having abortions will be immediately released.\n\nThe decision is likely to anger more conservative politicians in Mexico and the Catholic Church. However, the church's influence has been waning in recent years and the government considers itself staunchly secular.", "The prime minister visited a London care home ahead of his big announcement on Tuesday\n\nBoris Johnson has long believed that conventions are there to be broken. He's certainly done that.\n\nA pair of election promises have been torn up. The Treasury's shaken off its traditional allergy to new specific taxes.\n\nHighly significant changes are being made to the tax and health system without wide debate among ministers or the governing party.\n\nPensioners who keep working will pay national insurance for the first time.\n\nAnd again, today's decisions confirm Boris Johnson's credo includes being a big spender, if he deems the moment requires it.\n\nIt's provided yet more evidence that his government believes the public is willing to accept heavy price tags, and broken political vows, as long as the label is marked \"NHS\".\n\nBefore the announcement, there was loud belly aching among backbenchers and Tory party grandees.\n\nThere's unease about trust, as manifesto promises evaporate.\n\nOthers wonder where the Tories' fiscal soul has gone, as the moves confirm Boris Johnson's seeming affection for big government, and big expensive interventions, driven in part - but not entirely - by the pandemic.\n\nThe opposition parties don't like it one bit, arguing the tax will unfairly hit working people, and wondering aloud where the real guarantees for improving care are.\n\nThe ultimate test though probably won't be in the Commons tomorrow, or even in the next few months, but in the years to come.\n\nToday is first and foremost a huge tax increase that will be spent by the NHS.\n\nDowning Street can't take for granted that patients will feel a big difference, or that the creaking care system will be better in a few years, or indeed that many thousands of families won't still face terrible heartaches.\n\nBut No 10 hopes that taking action will ease public anxiety.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson wants to avoid laying himself open to the charge of starving the NHS of the funds it needs after the battering of the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister has chosen the risk of an imperfect solution over the political risk of doing nothing at all.\n\nAnd that is a bet that he believes he can win.", "Anne says she is not yet anywhere near the standard of her son at playing Fortnite\n\nThe mum of one of the world's best professional Fortnite players has signed a contract with a gaming organisation to develop her own career.\n\nAnne Fish, 58, has managed her son Benjy \"Benjyfishy\" Fish, since he went professional three years ago.\n\nThe British gamer says she began playing the game in February to improve her understanding.\n\nShe quickly amassed a large following online and has now signed a paid contract with an esports firm.\n\n\"I never thought in a million years that I would ever be playing Fortnite or streaming online or ever be in a position to be able to be signed by an organisation, so it's really exciting,\" she said.\n\nAnne streams her games on Twitch to her 430,000 followers and puts out videos of her matches to her growing YouTube fanbase of 165,000.\n\nAnne has her own set-up in the room next door to her son's gaming room\n\n\"Next step is a million,\" she says, speaking from the same room in which she streams to her fans, with her collection of owls, stuffed toys and teddy bears on display, next to her shiny 100,000 YouTube subscribers award.\n\nAnne, who lives in Sunbury-on-Thames, will now be paid per month by esports and gaming influencer organisation Galaxy Racer.\n\nDetails weren't given about the contract, but Anne will now be paid for videos of herself playing and talking to fans on various social networks.\n\nAnne says she hadn't picked up a controller since playing her on her eldest son's Nintendo 64 about 15 years ago before she tried Fortnite.\n\n\"I was really bad at first. I just sort of camped and hid from other players in case I got killed.\n\n\"Slowly, you know, I started to get better. My reflexes aren't as good as young players, so I have to be more strategic. I thought it'd be really cool to see if I could get to champions division as a solo, which I did.\n\n\"I've been doing various competitions but not yet won any cash cups and I've got a long way to go, but I'm trying.\"\n\nGalaxy Racer CEO, Paul Roy, explained why the company has signed her: \"We are thrilled to announce mamabenjyfishy as the newest addition to Galaxy Racer's content creator team.\n\n\"Having proved her Fortnite skills at our recent tournament, The Aubameyang Cup, her years of experience in the industry, including managing Benjyfishy, and a shared passion for nurturing greater inclusivity within gaming and esports, we are proud to welcome Anne into the Galaxy Racer family.\"\n\nAnne's son Benjy says \"it's pretty mad\" that his mum is now a signed gamer.\n\n\"Yeah I mean it's pretty weird because obviously back in the day I always wanted to be a gamer, and the fact that my mum is now like technically a pro game streamer is pretty sick.\n\n\"I never would have thought this could happen three years ago. If you had told me that I wouldn't believe it - it's pretty mad.\"\n\nAnne began gaming to find out what Fortnite was all about but quickly amassed followers\n\nBenjyfishy is ranked as one of the top 10 players in the world by multiple websites and was one of a handful of British players to make it to the Fortnite World Cup in New York in 2019.\n\nHe says he's given his mum a few tips but that he mainly \"lets her get on with it\" in the room next door to where he plays in high-level tournaments for thousands of pounds in prize money.\n\nAnne said she dreams of being good enough to challenge her son in the battle arena but says it would be a mountain to climb.\n\n\"It would be super good if I could compete against him at a World Cup or something, but there is such a skill gap between the likes of Benjy and myself that I don't think I could ever quite make it to that level. But I'll try!\"\n• None Epic v Apple: What have we learned?", "The Scottish government is to resume making the case for independence - with the goal of holding a referendum by the end of 2023.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a vote would only be held \"when the Covid crisis has passed\".\n\nBut she said work would restart on a \"detailed prospectus\" so that voters can make a \"fully informed\" choice.\n\nThe Scottish government had previously paused work on its indyref2 plans because of Covid.\n\nMs Sturgeon was speaking to MSPs as she set out her plans for the year ahead at Holyrood - including work to establish a National Care Service, reforms to the Gender Recognition Act and tighter regulation of fireworks.\n\nThe opposition Conservatives urged her to focus on recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic rather than independence.\n\nWith Holyrood's summer recess over, Ms Sturgeon was addressing MSPs in the wake of the SNP's election victory in May and the party's power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens.\n\nThe two parties form a pro-independence majority at Holyrood, and Ms Sturgeon said the government's \"democratic mandate\" to hold a fresh referendum was \"beyond question\".\n\nShe said this would only happen \"when the Covid crisis has passed\", but added that she wanted it to be \"before the end of 2023\".\n\nAnd she said civil servants would now resume work on a \"detailed prospectus\" for independence so that voters could make a \"fully informed\" choice.\n\nThe first minister has previously said she wants the agreement of the UK government to hold an independence referendum so that the result is put beyond any legal question.\n\nHowever Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said he is not willing to agree to this in the immediacy, saying the focus should instead be on recovering from the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Scottish government has already published draft legislation for a new independence referendum.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon set out plans for a range of other new bills in her speech to MSPs, saying her plans would \"meet head on the key challenges Scotland faces\".\n\nThese include work to establish a National Care Service, which Ms Sturgeon said should be up and running within five years.\n\nShe also confirmed that a Gender Recognition Reform Bill would be tabled to make it easier for trans people to change their legally recognised gender.\n\nThe issue has caused deep divisions within the SNP, with the first minister acknowledging that \"some have sincerely held concerns about this legislation\", but insisting that \"it will make life easier for one of the most stigmatised minorities in our society\".\n\nThe government will also consult on changes to the justice system, including potentially scrapping the \"not proven\" verdict and separating the dual roles of Scottish law officers.\n\nOther proposals in the Programme for Government include:\n\nMs Sturgeon also nodded to her party's power-sharing deal with the Greens, telling MSPs that \"tackling the climate emergency is a moral and economic imperative\".\n\nThe Greens meanwhile claimed that the government's agenda was heavily influenced by their own policies, with co-leader Patrick Harvie saying they would \"lead efforts to lower emissions\".\n\nWhat Nicola Sturgeon has not done is announce plans to legislate for a referendum at Holyrood.\n\nTogether with their power-sharing partners in the Greens, the SNP has a majority to pass the bill — although without UK government agreement it would probably face a legal challenge.\n\nThe first minister is not, at this stage, formally requesting from Boris Johnson the explicit power to hold a referendum, knowing he's likely to refuse.\n\nInstead, she is restarting work by civil servants on the prospectus for independence. Work that was put on hold when coronavirus struck.\n\nShe will hope that will assuage her critics in the independence movement who don't think she's pushing hard enough for indyref2, with her party conference due this weekend.\n\nIt has also angered Conservatives and other supporters of the UK who think she is putting nationalist politics ahead of Covid recovery - a recovery the first minister insists remains her top priority.\n\nThe policy programme has been drawn up in conjunction with the Scottish Greens, who have joined the Scottish government\n\nThe Conservatives were critical of the plans, with leader Douglas Ross saying Ms Sturgeon's priorities were all wrong.\n\nHe said: \"Another independence referendum is front and centre of the first minster's plans for the year ahead.\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon is giving us a new white paper for independence instead of a plan for jobs, a plan to tackle drug deaths or a plan for NHS recovery.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Anas Sarwar said the government was \"short on big ideas\", saying: \"This isn't good enough, it isn't bold enough and it won't do enough.\"\n\nHe added: \"Barely a week goes by without someone from the government front bench declaring something mundane, rebadged or self-serving as historic.\n\n\"But the drier truth is that despite the SNP's rhetoric, the only historic thing today is levels of poverty in our streets, the numbers waiting for treatment in our hospitals and the depth of the economic crisis facing our country.\"\n\nAnd Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said there was \"little in the way of new hope\" in the programme, saying there was merely \"old hype, reheated and rebatched\".", "Helen Macdonald’s animal was destroyed after twice testing positive for bovine tuberculosis (bTB)\n\nA government examination on Geronimo the alpaca has found possible evidence of bovine tuberculosis (bTB), but supporters are disputing the results.\n\nAuthorities took Geronimo from his farm near Bristol on 31 August and killed him after he twice tested positive for the disease.\n\nVets working with his owner have said there were no visible lesions of bTB.\n\nBut the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said post-mortem tests showed TB-like lesions.\n\nThe animal's owner, Helen Macdonald, requested a copy of the post-mortem examination after the alpaca was removed from her farm in South Gloucestershire and culled.\n\nLawyers acting for the veterinary nurse said she had received a letter from the government legal department containing the preliminary findings.\n\nThese findings were then reviewed by veterinary surgeons supporting Ms Macdonald.\n\nMs Macdonald received an outpouring of support from the public\n\nIn a statement, the lawyers said the \"preliminary gross post-mortem findings are negative for visible lesions typical of Bovine Tuberculosis\".\n\n\"For clarity there are no white or cream caseous, enlarged abscesses typical for bTB in alpacas whether in the lungs, bronchial, mediastinal or retropharyngeal lymph nodes,\" it said.\n\nIt added that Ms Macdonald had formally requested the full findings of the post-mortem report along with all relevant documents.\n\n\"She has further requested that both fresh, frozen and formalin fixed tissue and fluid samples be preserved and provided to an independent expert to carry out further tests.\"\n\nIn a statement, the government chief veterinary officer Dr Christine Middlemiss said: \"We have completed the initial post-mortem examination of Geronimo.\n\n\"A number of TB-like lesions were found and in line with standard practice these are now undergoing further investigation.\n\n\"These tests include the developing of bacteriological cultures from tissue samples which usually takes several months - we would expect to complete the full post-mortem and culture process by the end of the year.\"\n\nMs Macdonald along with members of the Justice for Geronimo and Stop Badger Cull campaigns, have been protesting in London\n\nMs Macdonald along with members of the Justice for Geronimo and Stop Badger Cull campaigns, have been protesting in London.\n\nSpeaking outside Defra in Westminster, she said: \"We urge the Government to act with compassion and cooperation, which to date has been severely lacking, creating deep and unnecessary distress to Geronimo.\n\n\"We call on the secretary of state to tender his resignation immediately,\" she said.\n\nShe has also vowed to fight for animal rights in \"honour\" of Geronimo.\n\n\"Geronimo was a blessing in my life. He touched the world. He was loved and precious to very many people and he lives on.\n\n\"I miss him. But I will do him the honour of fighting for him and making sure his legacy lives on for all animals.\"\n\nMs Macdonald imported Geronimo from New Zealand in 2017\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We want the NHS backlogs to be cleared as fast as possible\"\n\nThe number of unvaccinated people ending up in hospital with Covid is \"concerning\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThree quarters of those admitted at hospitals such as St Thomas' had not had a Covid jab, with a \"higher proportion\" of younger people now being affected, he said.\n\nHe added that while lifting most restrictions in July continued to look right, there was still a risk as infections remained high.\n\nThe UK has reported more than 30,000 cases for the last nine days in a row.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid is also rising. It currently stands at 7,907, compared to 5,697 a month ago.\n\nSpeaking at St Thomas' Hospital, London, the prime minister told the BBC: \"It'd be fair to say the decision to go ahead with the roadmap in the way that we did continues to look right.\n\n\"The openings that we did in July continue to look right - we're seeing the fastest growth of any G7 economy now we're comparatively open in this country.\n\n\"But we've got to be very clear with people. There still is a risk out there and there still is a pandemic, and the numbers of infections remain high or high-ish.\n\n\"I'm certainly concerned and what I'm particularly concerned about is that in great hospitals like this, 75% of the people who are succumbing to Covid still are not vaccinated.\"\n\nFour out of five people aged 16 and above have had two doses of a vaccine, while nearly 89% have had one dose.\n\n\"Sadly, we are seeing an increase in the proportion of Covid victims who are younger people,\" the prime minister said, urging those who were unvaccinated to get their jab.\n\n\"What we want to do is get people to see the value of vaccination to themselves and their families.\"\n\nWhat we are seeing with Covid is not a sudden surge like in previous waves, but a slow, gradual build-up of pressure.\n\nThe virus is not raging out of control, but it is still circulating and at quite a high level.\n\nThe vaccines are working really well.\n\nBut with one in five adults still not fully vaccinated, there are millions of people at risk.\n\nThat, as the prime ministers says, is the most significant cause of the pressure in hospitals.\n\nOnly around 7% of hospital beds are occupied by Covid patients, but if that keeps increasing along with the return of normal winter viruses, hospitals will have to start rationing other types of care more.\n\nIt's going to be a long, hard autumn and winter for the NHS.\n\nAsked about reports the government was planning of a \"firebreak\" lockdown in October, he said: \"There's been no discussion of anything like that.\"\n\nMr Johnson also reiterated the government's plan to offer a booster vaccine to the most vulnerable groups this month.\n\nIt had already been announced that half a million of the most vulnerable in the UK will be offered a third dose, following a recommendation from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAbout 400,000 to 500,000 people in the UK with severely weakened immune systems will be eligible for a third dose of vaccine.\n\nClarification 26th October 2021: In his interview with the BBC Boris Johnson highlighted that \"75% of the people who are succumbing to Covid still are not vaccinated,\" which we understood to be a comment on the general picture of hospital admissions, when addressing the state of the pandemic in the UK. His team later clarified that the figure of 75% related to \"major trusts like St Thomas' and so we have amended the article's second paragraph to precisely reflect that.\n• None No plans for October lockdown, says government", "Rents outside London are soaring at their fastest rate in more than a decade, according to a property website.\n\nZoopla said private rental prices across the UK increased by 5% in the 12 months to the end of July - adding £456 a year to the average tenant's bill.\n\nThe 5% jump is the biggest recorded since Zoopla's index started in 2008.\n\nThe firm said it was down to increased demand for city living amid limited supply.\n\nAs lockdown restrictions have eased and businesses have reopened in city centres, there has been a marked return to more built-up areas, it said.\n\nIn August, the stock of property available to rent outside the capital was about a third below typical levels, while supply was already under pressure.\n\nAs a result, average rents for the UK, excluding London, stand at £790 per month, up from £752 a year ago.\n\nZoopla's head of research, Grainne Gilmore, said: \"The strong levels of rental demand seen across the UK during August will moderate in line with seasonal trends, but overall demand for rental property is likely to remain higher than usual in the coming months, amid this swing back to city life.\"\n\nShe cautioned that the market would be likely to depend on the path of the Covid-19 virus and any potential lockdown restrictions being re-introduced.\n\n\"But given no deviation from the current landscape, the demand for rental property, coupled with lower levels of supply, will continue to put upward pressure on rents,\" she added.\n\nInner cities across the UK, such as Edinburgh, have seen the highest growth in demand, although Zoopla's data showed London saw a decline of -3.8% in July on an annual basis.\n\nBut competition remains fierce for properties, the platform said, with rents now typically agreed within just 15 days of a property being listed.\n\nHalifax, the UK's biggest mortgage lender, recently said that while house prices hit a record high in August, the annual pace of growth in property values slowed.\n\nIt said, however, that the broader economic picture was positive, with high job vacancies and consumer confidence returning, which benefited the overall housing market.\n\nWhere can you afford to live in the UK - and is it cheaper to rent or buy? Try our calculator to see where in the country suits your finances.\n\nChoose rent or buy, how many rooms you want the property to have and how much you'd like to pay each month. If you're buying, you also need to enter your deposit, as you won't get a mortgage without one.\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "Maura McGoldrick was vaccinated in England and in Scotland\n\nA woman who was vaccinated in England and Scotland says she cannot get an accurate vaccination certificate because of issues with data-sharing across health services.\n\nMaura McGoldrick, 21, received her first dose in London and her second in Glasgow, where she lives.\n\nHowever, her vaccination record only shows her having received one dose.\n\nThe fourth-year student at the University of Edinburgh is concerned others may be similarly affected.\n\nThe Scottish government said it had been working to \"align\" vaccination data from across the UK.\n\nThe certificates are necessary for travelling abroad and could be used as part of a passport scheme to allow people into nightclubs and large events.\n\nScotland's system has already seen problems including a recent security glitch and people being denied use of the pass in certain countries.\n\nIt has only recently been made available in the form of a QR code - despite a digital passport being widely used across Europe for months.\n\nWhile travelling to London over the summer, Ms McGoldrick said she heard news of the push for young people to visit drop-in vaccine clinics - and attended a local clinic the following day.\n\nShe said the medics at the centre were unable to find her NHS records, but took her name and address and gave her a card which stated the batch of the vaccine she had just received.\n\nTo be safe, Ms McGoldrick said she quickly phoned NHS Inform to let them know she had received her first jab outside of Scotland and was told her records would be updated.\n\nHowever, when she received her second dose in Glasgow in August, she was told the first dose was missing from her medical records.\n\nShe requested her vaccine certificate by post and, again, the document showed one dose issued in Glasgow.\n\n\"Because there have been other things going on, it's just compounded general stress and been emotionally draining,\" said Ms McGoldrick.\n\n\"I know rationally it's not the end of the world and I'm very privileged even to just have the vaccine.\n\n\"But I'm now at the stage where there is no-one else for me to call, no more leads for me to pursue - it's a bit of a hopeless situation.\"\n\nMs McGoldrick has spent more than two weeks calling NHS Inform and her GP in order to resolve the matter.\n\nShe said her GP managed to acquire information on her vaccination in London.\n\nHowever, she said NHS Inform staff told her there was no data-sharing mechanism between them and NHS England and they would need to request the information from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nThe Scottish government denied the claim about data sharing, saying it has worked to \"align\" vaccination records from different UK nations.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are aware some people have encountered problems but it's untrue to say there is no data-sharing and we are working closely with other nations to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We have a process in place for sharing data between England and Scotland and continue to work with international stakeholders to improve the transfer of data across borders.\n\n\"Updated NHS Inform guidance contains guidance on what to do if you have been vaccinated abroad or have been vaccinated in different parts of the UK.\"\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde gave the BBC contradictory information, saying that NHS Scotland certificates \"can only contain information on vaccines administered in Scotland\".\n\nIt has not responded to a further query.\n\nMs McGoldrick is currently trying to get the health board to share her GP's information with NHS Inform - but said other people in her position may not be able to chase it up.\n\nShe said: \"Selfishly speaking, I'm trying to sort this out for myself but I'm in the fortunate position where I have time to chase this up.\n\n\"But I know there are other people in the same position - NHS Inform said they had other people call about this but assumed they sorted it out. People have probably just given up as it will take more time and effort that they have to give right now.\"\n\nVaccine certificates with QR codes are widely used across European countries\n\nAs a result of her vaccine status issue, Ms McGoldrick has postponed her October plans to travel to Copenhagen - partly for leisure, but also to do work experience related to her university course in international relations.\n\nShe said she thought she was doing the right thing by getting her vaccine as quickly as possible, but the bureaucracy and cancelled plans that resulted had been a \"bit of a blow\".\n\n\"It's the fact that we've been cooped up for so long,\" she said. \"I felt when I got two doses I had done everything I was supposed to do.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Social care must be paid for by taxes, not borrowing\n\nA new health and social care tax will be introduced across the UK to pay for reforms to the care sector and NHS funding in England.\n\nBoris Johnson said it would raise £12bn a year, designed to tackle the health backlog caused by the Covid pandemic and to bolster social care.\n\nHe accepted the tax broke a manifesto pledge, but said the \"global pandemic was in no-one's manifesto\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the plan was a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nLeaders in social care also warned the money was \"nowhere near enough\" and would not address current problems.\n\nThe tax will begin as a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance from April 2022, paid by both employers and workers, and will then become a separate tax on earned income from 2023 - calculated in the same way as National Insurance and appearing on an employee's payslip.\n\nThis will be paid by all working adults, including older workers, and the government says it will be \"legally ring-fenced\" to go only towards health and social care costs.\n\nIncome from share dividends - earned by those who own shares in companies - will also see a 1.25% tax rate increase.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies said the latest tax increases amounted to £14bn. Together with those announced in the March Budget, it said, 2022 had seen the highest tax rises in 40 years.\n\nThe UK-wide tax will be focused on funding health and social care in England, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive an additional £2.2bn to spend on their services.\n\nThe SNP said the tax would \"unfairly penalise Scottish families - and leave the poorest in society subsidising the wealthy\".\n\nMPs will vote on the new proposals in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson said the proceeds from the tax would lead to £12bn a year being raised, with the majority going into catching up on the backlog in the NHS created by Covid - increasing hospital capacity and creating space for nine million more appointments, scans and operations.\n\nA portion of the money - £5.4bn over the next three years - will also go towards changes to the social care system, with more promised after that.\n\nA cap will be introduced on care costs in England from October 2023 of £86,000 over a person's lifetime.\n\nAll people with assets worth less than £20,000 will then have their care fully covered by the state, and those who have between £20,000 and £100,000 in assets will see their care costs subsidised.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sharon told the BBC that she feared her mum 'would be auctioned off to the lowest bidder'\n\nJune Clay, 92, from Hornchurch, had to go into a nursing home four years ago.\n\nAs a property owner, June had to \"self-fund\", so sold her house to afford fees which over four years have risen to nearly £1,200 a week.\n\nHer capital is almost all gone. The local authority will help, but only up to £640 a week - while the cheapest homes locally charge £900.\n\nNow her children, in their 60s, are considering re-mortgaging their own homes and using their pension savings to pay for her care.\n\n\"I made a promise to my mum, that she would stay in that home... I'm worried sick about it,\" says daughter Sharon.\n\nBut she fears the reforms will be \"smoke and mirrors\" that will not meet the full costs of care.\n\nMr Johnson insisted that with the new tax, \"everyone will contribute according to their means\", adding: \"You can't fix the Covid backlogs without giving the NHS the money it needs.\n\n\"You can't fix the NHS without fixing social care. You can't fix social care without removing the fear of losing everything to pay for social care, and you can't fix health and social care without long-term reform.\"\n\nBut Labour's Sir Keir said the new tax broke the Conservatives' pledge at the last election not to raise National Insurance, income tax or VAT.\n\nHe also said the rise would target young people, supermarket workers and nurses, rather than those with the \"broadest shoulders\" who should pay more.\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"Read my lips - the Tories can never again claim to be the party of low tax.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says the Conservatives can “never again claim to be the party of low tax\"\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey - who is a carer himself - also said the tax was \"unfair\", and that the government's plan missed out solutions for staffing shortages, care for working age adults and unpaid family carers.\n\nMr Johnson said no Conservative government wanted to raise taxes - but he defended the move as \"the right, reasonable and fair approach\" in light of the pandemic, which saw the government spend upwards of £407bn on support.\n\nLater, during a press conference, the prime minister said he didn't want to raise taxes further but did not promise there would be no further rises before the next election - despite being asked repeatedly to rule it out.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has also announced it will suspend the so-called \"triple lock\" on pensions for one year following concerns that a big post-pandemic rise in average earnings would have led to pensions increasing by 8%.\n\nThe government is raising about £12bn a year for three years with these tax rises.\n\nJust over £2bn of that goes to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland under rules on how UK government spending is split.\n\nThat leaves £10bn a year for health and social care in England. Most, but not all, of that has been earmarked against particular parts of health and social care.\n\nAbout £6bn a year has been earmarked for the NHS.\n\nAnother nearly £2bn a year will go to social care.\n\nA bit less than half of that will go towards the new funding model (helping people to pay for care) and a bit more than half going on delivering care - training for staff, support for councils and work on making the care and health services work better together.\n\nSome of the remainder will be spent on tax. The Department of Health and Social Care, and the NHS, are big employers and so a tax rise for employers will mean they have to pay more.\n\nBut there's still at least a £1bn increase in the DHSC budget that goes into \"other\", with the government saying they'll announce further details in the coming weeks.\n\nAhead of the announcement, there was a backlash from number of Tory MPs, who said they were against a rise in National Insurance.\n\nBut questioning the PM after his statement in the Commons, many backbenchers instead sought reassurance that the money raised from the new tax would definitely go towards social care.\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 4's World At One that he thought the government had listened to concerns about only making changes to National Insurance, especially as it would \"disproportionately target younger people\" and not pensioners.\n\nHe said: \"This new tax is more broadly based and the 10% of pensioners who work will pay it as well.\"\n\nHowever, there was anger from the social care sector over the amount they had been promised as a result of the tax.\n\nChief executive of the UK Home Care Association, Dr Jane Townson, said: \"This is nowhere near enough. It will not address current issues and some measures may create new risks.\"\n\nChairman of the Independent Care Group, Mike Padgham, said it was a \"huge opportunity missed for radical, once-in-a-generation reform of the social care system\", adding it would not address the staffing crisis which was \"sending the sector into meltdown on a daily basis as care providers struggle to cover shifts\".\n\nAnd the general secretary of the Unison union, Christina McAnea, said: \"A detailed plan is needed first to mend and future-proof a sector broken by years of neglect.\n\n\"Only then will the cost of making good the damage become clear.\"\n\nThe sums are eye-watering, but they've still left health and care bosses disappointed.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has had a huge toll on the NHS, requiring an overhaul of how services are run and creating a growing backlog in care.\n\nEven with this money, it will take the health service years to catch up.\n\nPart of the reason for that is that despite the headline figure of £36bn over three years, by the time the money is shared out across the four UK nations and social care takes a chunk, the frontline of the NHS in England is left with little more than half the £10bn a year health bosses were asking for.\n\nCouncils are perhaps even more disappointed.\n\nThe case for social care predates the pandemic. Governments have been dodging it since the late 1990s so the fact that changes are on the way is being welcomed.\n\nBut the cap only solves one part of the problem - protecting people's assets when they face catastrophic costs.\n\nYou will still need to be eligible for care to benefit from the cap. Access is rationed so only the most frail qualify - currently half of requests for help are turned down.\n\nCouncils say the money will do little to help them tackle this.", "The government has confirmed a one-year suspension of the \"triple lock\" formula for annual state pension increases.\n\nThe move follows government concern that a big post-pandemic rise in average earnings would have meant pensions increasing by 8%.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said the average earnings component would be disregarded in the 2022-23 financial year.\n\nInstead, the rise will be the consumer inflation rate or 2.5%.\n\n\"Tomorrow, I will introduce a Social Security Uprating and Benefits Bill for 2022-23 only,\" she told the Commons.\n\n\"It will ensure the basic and new state pensions increase by 2.5% or in line with inflation, which is expected to be the higher figure this year, and as happened last year, it will again set aside the earnings element for 2022-23 before being restored for the remainder of this Parliament.\"\n\nMs Coffey said the figures had been \"skewed and distorted\" by the average earnings rise, which she described as a \"statistical anomaly\".\n\nShe said the change meant that pensions would still rise, but less quickly. The triple lock would return the following year, she added.\n\nUnder the triple lock, pensions increase by inflation, the increase in earnings between May and July or 2.5%, whichever is the greater.\n\nThe Work and Pensions secretary said she was \"anticipating an unusual change in earnings\" due to the pandemic.\n\nShe added that earnings between May and July were expected to rise by more than 8%, so a one-year adjustment was needed.\n\nLast month, the Bank of England said it was expecting inflation to peak at 4%.\n\nThe Conservatives promised in their 2019 election manifesto to maintain the triple lock formula.\n\nMs Coffey's announcement came just hours after Prime Minister Boris Johnson breached another manifesto commitment by increasing National Insurance to fund health and social care.\n\nAge UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said: \"If suspending the triple lock for a single year helps get a government deal on social care over the line, then I believe it's a price worth paying, but only if it really is just a one-off measure and not a sneaky way for ministers to ditch the triple lock altogether.\"\n\nMs Abrahams said that with more than two million pensioners currently living in poverty, there was \"a strong case\" for keeping the triple lock untouched.\n\nShe added that it was \"imperative that the triple lock reverts to normal next year, to help all those pensioners on low and modest incomes who desperately need it\".\n\nThe one-year break in the usual calculations for increases in the state pension was widely expected.\n\nThere is, after all, near-universal agreement that the average annual earnings rise (one leg of the so-called triple lock) will be an anomaly caused by the economic effect of Covid.\n\nCharities representing the elderly will hold the government to its commitment that this is just a temporary arrangement.\n\nTheir fear is that the government might be tempted to do the same again - potentially reducing rises in a state pension which is already low when compared with elsewhere in the Western world.\n\nOthers will consider this as a missed opportunity to reform the universal triple lock system, even though its existence is a Conservative manifesto promise for the rest of this Parliament.", "Support for pupils who have special needs is \"beyond crisis\" in England and \"sucking money from budgets\" for all children, a report says.\n\nNearly all schools (97%) responding to a survey by a head teachers' union said they received insufficient funding to support pupils who had special needs.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers says funding has to rise so all pupils can be supported to learn.\n\nThe government said its review of the system aimed to improve things.\n\nFunding for higher-level needs was rising 9.6% in 2022-23 and the Department for Education was providing £42m to projects for pupils who had special educational needs and disabilities (Send).\n\nBut the NAHT report, based on a survey of 1,500 head teachers, suggests nearly a third of schools have cut services in the past year.\n\nAnd the starkest findings relate to funding for education for pupils who have Send.\n\n\"Special needs is beyond crisis in schools - it is sucking the money from budgets,\" Lesley Roberts, head teacher of a Berkshire primary, said.\n\nSimon Kidwell, head teacher of Hartford Manor Primary School, in Cheshire, said: \"The moment we get a child moving to us with recognised special needs, we are already in deficit.\"\n\nThis is because schools are required by local authorities to show they are spending the equivalent of 15 hours teaching assistant time -£6,000 in the case of Hartford Manor Primary on an pupil with an EHCR before they can get any extra money.\n\nAnd one pupil now attended a residential care setting, which may well have been avoidable if they had not been refused the early help the school requested at age seven.\n\nSeparately, parents and carers of children who have special needs have written to the prime minister, demanding better in-school provision.\n\nThey are concerned the government review has had little input from affected families and may actually weaken the law, which the Department for Education denies.\n\nLet Us Learn Too campaign co-founder Hayley Harding said: \"Before my son was diagnosed with autism, I would never have believed the fight that families have to go to just to enable their children to learn, in England.\n\n\"The right laws are there but unfortunately many local authorities blatantly ignore them, leaving many children unable to go to school.\n\n\"This review is the perfect opportunity to rectify this and introduce accountability.\"\n\nJason says daughter, Aime, just wants to go to school\n\nJason Bailey's daughter, Aime, is autistic - and the anxiety her condition causes leads to reflex anoxic seizures, during which her heart briefly stops.\n\nHer local authority said she had no medical need for an education health and care plan (EHCP) - but no school would admit her without additional support, so the 12-year-old attends a unit offering short-term provision for children too ill for mainstream education.\n\nJason feels fortunate Aime has a place there - but the curriculum is very narrow and she is in a class of three, so it is hard to make friends.\n\n\"She wants to go to school and be able to get a full education, the same as any of her peers, in an environment that is nurturing enough to allow her to attend,\" he says.\n\n\"It has been incredibly stressful, the amount of times we have been in tears and Aime's been in tears thinking she is putting pressure on the family.\n\n\"There is no understanding from the local authority.\n\n\"The review taking place has no direct input from anyone who has involvement with Send children.\n\n\"And if you do not have people affected by it, how can you make an effective decision?\"\n\nNicola Shortt's son Hunter has a complex brain injury and attends a mainstream school, with full-time one-on-one assistance.\n\nTheir local authority initially refused to assess him - and every year she has to battle to ensure his care plan is fit for purpose, she says, once resorting to paying a solicitor £900 to write to the council.\n\n\"It is exhausting - and it doesn't end,\" she says.\n\n\"Services for disabled children in general are just massively underfunded and we have seen cuts with successive governments to the point where service delivery is not viable.\n\n\"Parents have to keep going round and round this process or have the financial means to use solicitors.\"\n\nNAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman said despite the rhetoric on extra investment, school budgets were under enormous pressure.\n\n\"A far more ambitious programme of investment is required from the government if schools are going to be able to deliver the education that the current generation of pupils need and deserve,\" he added.\n\nLabour shadow education secretary Kate Green said schools were having to make cuts because of the government's record of underfunding education.\n\nLocal council bosses called for reforms to ensure special-needs funding was sustainable.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nScotland impressively revived their World Cup 2022 qualification hopes by climbing into a play-off place after a momentous victory in Austria.\n\nLyndon Dykes' penalty, awarded after a VAR check, gave Steve Clarke's men a lead they clung on to in Vienna.\n\nStephen O'Donnell - having survived an Austria penalty appeal - and Che Adams had chances to ease the Scots' nerves.\n\nBut the visitors stood firm amid intense second-half pressure to collect a priceless and deserved away win.\n\nCoupled with runaway leaders Denmark's 5-0 defeat of Israel, it moves Scotland up two places to second. Clarke's side are a point clear of the Israelis, who visit Hampden next, and four above Austria with four games remaining.\n• None How far are Scotland from World Cup?\n\nWith the three-way fight for the runners-up berth gathering pace, Scotland needed a big performance and to a man they delivered.\n\nTwo VAR calls ultimately made the difference in a frantic encounter as Scotland ended the first half having converted a disputed penalty while Austria were incensed they had been deprived one.\n\nThere was scarcely an appeal from Adams' team-mates when the striker went to ground while grappling with Martin Hinteregger.\n\nBut replays showed the Austrian had a fistful of his jersey, and Dykes rattled the penalty down the middle and under the body of former Kilmarnock goalkeeper Daniel Bachmann.\n\nHinteregger, already on a booking for clattering Callum McGregor, was fortunate not to be shown a second yellow.\n\nLuck was then on Scotland's side just before half-time when the ball struck O'Donnell's arm as he jostled for a header with Christophe Baumgartner. No penalty was forthcoming and Konrad Laimer skidded a shot wide in the ensuing melee.\n\nThe chaotic scene as the sides left the pitch was in keeping with a breathless opening half. The tempo was unrelenting, with Austria making an energetic start as Real Madrid superstar David Alaba marauded down the left and whipped over a succession of crosses.\n\nMarko Arnautovic and Baumgartner fired wide, with the former also botching a header after being picked out unmarked by another Alaba cross.\n\nIt was a direct approach that Scotland resisted manfully, with their three centre-backs of Grant Hanley, Jack Hendry and Kieran Tierney standing strong time and again.\n\nScotland had crafted the clearest opening, with Bachmann palming away a Dykes header from John McGinn's cross, but found themselves pinned back after the break as Austria poured forward fuelled by anger.\n\nScottish nerves were jangling again when Hanley was booked for grappling with Hinteregger at a corner, with no penalty given as the ball was out of play. The Norwich City defender will miss the Israel next game through suspension, though.\n\nBachmann almost gifted the visitors a second when he kicked the ground while attempting to clear but Scotland could not capitalise, with O'Donnell's shot blocked.\n\nThe keeper redeemed himself with a fantastic sprawling save from O'Donnell's shot after Adams' pass had sent the full-back clear.\n\nDespite dominating possession, Austria did not work Craig Gordon until the closing stages, when the Scotland number one brilliantly batted away a Baumgartner header.\n\nAdams dragged wide at the other end as the hosts went for broke but one goal was enough for Scotland to begin dreaming of a reaching a first World Cup finals since 1998.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nThis has the potential to be a campaign-defining result for Scotland against a side who had lost just four of their previous 25 home games and took Italy to extra time in the last 16 of Euro 2020.\n\nScotland's high point of that tournament - the draw with England at Wembley - was evoked in an another away performance full of quality and sheer dogged spirit.\n\nAfter a sobering defeat in Denmark and laboured 1-0 win against Moldova, it was the uplifting end to this World Cup triple-header that the nation craved.\n\nBilly Gilmour, at just 20 years old, bossed the midfield and were there stand-outs all over the pitch as Scotland savoured a rare away triumph.\n• None Clarke's side have won consecutive matches for the first time since beating Slovakia and Czech Republic in October 2020 - all four games in their two-game winning runs have ended 1-0.\n• None Scotland are unbeaten across their last five competitive matches against Austria (W2 D3), winning a competitive away game against them for the first time on Tuesday.\n• None Dykes has scored five goals in his last six games for club and country (2 in 3 for Scotland, 3 in 3 for QPR). He has scored in consecutive Scotland games for the first time.\n• None Aged 38 years and 250 days, Gordon became the fifth oldest player to feature for the Scotland men's national team - the oldest is David Weir against Spain in October 2010 (40 years and 155 days).\n• None Austria have lost consecutive home World Cup qualifiers for the first time, and have failed to score in three successive home matches in all competitions for the first time since February 2008.\n\nScotland complete the campaign with two double-headers. First up is Israel at Hampden and the Faroe Islands away on 9 and 12 October.\n\nThen comes a trip to Moldova on 12 November, followed by a Hampden meeting with Denmark three days later.\n• None It's almost impossible not to play along...\n• None Do you have bizarre dreams? Scarlett investigates if they really have any meaning", "Sir Keir Starmer asked two specific questions of the prime minister, but he didn’t receive specific answers.\n\nHe queried whether the Conservative election promise – that no-one should have to sell their home\n\nTo pay for care – still stood.\n\nAnd he inquired if the extra cash promised for the NHS in England would clear the backlog.\n\nThe prime minister sidestepped the questions and instead asked if Labour would oppose the new health and social care levy.\n\nOn the assumption Sir Keir would refuse to back it, the PM came equipped with a slogan: \"vote Labour, wait longer.\"\n\nFollowing a degree of agreement during the Covid crisis, traditional dividing lines were clearly being drawn at PMQs.\n\nThe prime minister declared that Labour believed in welfare rather than work.\n\nWhile the Labour leader accused Boris Johnson of putting his \"rich mates\" ahead of \"working people\".", "Armed police accompanied Joanikije to the ceremony at a monastery in Cetinje\n\nThere have been fierce clashes in Montenegro as the Serbian Orthodox church installed a new leader in a ceremony that exposed divisions in the Balkan country.\n\nPolice used tear gas against protesters who threw rocks and bottles in the city of Cetinje.\n\nMontenegro split with Serbia in 2006 but its church remains under the Serbian Orthodox church.\n\nSome, including Montenegro's president, see it as a symbol of Serb influence.\n\nPresident Milo Djukanovic had urged protesters to disrupt the inauguration of Joanikije II to the top clerical position, known as the Metropolitan of Montenegro and Archbishop of Cetinje.\n\nOn Saturday, hundreds of protesters set up barricades to block access to Cetinje and the demonstrations spilled into Sunday when the ceremony took place.\n\nPolice arrested more than a dozen people, including an advisor to the president. At least 20 people were injured, AFP reported.\n\n\"We're on the barricades because we're fed up with Belgrade denying our nation, and telling us what are our religious rights,\" protestor Andjela Ivanovic told Reuters, referring to Serbia's capital.\n\n\"All religious objects [churches] built in Montenegro belong to people here and to the state of Montenegro.\"\n\nJoanikije II and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije were flown in by helicopter for the ceremony.\n\nDivisions over Serb influence extend to the top of Montenegro's political leadership, with the pro-Serb Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic branding the protests \"terrorist acts\".\n\nProtesters see the Serb Orthodox Church as a symbol of Serb influence\n\nThe demonstrators had tried to stop the ceremony taking place\n\nPresident Djukanovic is still reeling from the defeat his Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) suffered in last year's parliamentary election, which came after he pushed through legislation which would have allowed the state to claim Church property.\n\nThe move backfired when the Church campaigned for the opposition, pushing the DPS from power for the first time in three decades.\n\nMontenegrins who identify as ethnic Serbs account for about a third of the country's 630,000 population, according to the latest census data. The majority of Montenegrins are members of the Serbian Orthodox Church regardless of ethnicity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gen Sir Nick Carter says the Taliban managed to \"buy off\" opponents as it took over\n\n\"Everybody got it wrong\" on how quickly the Taliban would take over Afghanistan, the head of Britain's armed forces has said.\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter told the BBC: \"It was the pace of it that surprised us and I don't think we realised quite what the Taliban were up to.\"\n\nAsked whether military intelligence was wrong, he said the government received intelligence from a variety of sources.\n\n\"It's not purely about military intelligence,\" he said.\n\nThe last British and US troops left Afghanistan a week ago, bringing their 20-year military campaign in the country to an end.\n\nThere has been criticism of the way the West withdrew from Afghanistan, with questions over how the Taliban was able to seize control of the country at such speed.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told MPs last week the intelligence assessment had been that there would be a \"steady deterioration\" in the security situation in August but it was \"unlikely Kabul would fall this year\". However, the Taliban took over Kabul in mid-August.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr show on Sunday, Sir Nick was asked how the predictions had been wrong.\n\n\"I think everybody got it wrong is the straight answer,\" he said. \"Even the Taliban didn't expect things to change as quickly as they did.\"\n\nThe chief of the defence staff said: \"I don't think what anybody predicted was how fragile that Afghan government was and how fragile it was in relation to the command of its armed forces.\"\n\nThe Taliban is expected to announce a new government in the coming days, meaning foreign powers will have to adapt to the prospect of dealing with a Taliban administration.\n\nSir Nick said it was too early to say how the Taliban would govern, but there was a possibility the militant group would be less repressive than it was in the past.\n\n\"On the face of it, it doesn't look good at the moment. But let's see what happens. It may well change,\" he said.\n\n\"I also think they're not stupid enough to [not] know the Afghan people have changed and they want a slightly different sort of governance.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the Taliban was accused of murdering a female police officer. The killing comes amid reports the group is escalating its repression of women.\n\nSir Nick said it was now down to the international community to encourage the Taliban to govern in a different way, he added.\n\n\"They're going to need a bit of help to run a modern state effectively,\" he said. \"If they behave, perhaps they'll get some help.\"\n\nAsked whether military intelligence was wrong, Sir Nick said: \"No... many of the assessments suggested it wouldn't last the course of the year and, of course, that's proven to be correct.\"\n\nHe said: \"It's a much broader thing than just strictly military intelligence.\n\n\"The way it works in this country is we have the joint intelligence committee which sits inside the Cabinet Office. So what they do is pull together the sources from the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office, the inter-agencies and the secret intelligence services and wider open source material.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab tells MPs intelligence suggested Kabul was unlikely to fall this year\n\nCurrently, Taliban soldiers are fighting resistance groups in Panjshir Valley, the last remaining part of Afghanistan which the Taliban does not yet control.\n\nOn Saturday, the top US general said that civil war was likely to erupt in Afghanistan, and those conditions could lead to a resurgence of terrorist groups there.\n\nGen Mark Milley told Fox News: \"The conditions are very likely that you could see a resurgence of terrorism coming out of that general region within 12, 24, 36 months.\"\n\nSir Nick told the BBC the risk of terrorism will depend on whether an effective government can be formed in Afghanistan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier James Martin speaks about the UK's evacuation operation from Afghanistan\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said there was a strong possibility that Britain may now be less safe because of the events in Afghanistan.\n\n\"The urgent task for the government... is to make sure Afghanistan doesn't collapse once again into a haven of terrorism,\" she said.\n\nShe called on the UK to work with other countries - not just its allies - to take a common approach towards the Taliban, and use their leverage to demand rights for women and girls living in Afghanistan.\n\nEarlier, former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger, who stepped down from his role last year, told Times Radio that having no physical presence in Afghanistan would be a \"blow\" to intelligence networks.\n\nAnd he added that \"turning our back\" on a place like Afghanistan \"leads inexorably to an increase in the threat to our country\".", "High numbers of workers in restaurants and hotels have been furloughed but many are now returning to work\n\nJob creation looks set to remain strong after the furlough scheme ends, but a fresh rise in unemployment is still likely, a think tank has said.\n\nThanks to the success of furlough, an expected pandemic-driven surge in joblessness has not materialised, said the Resolution Foundation.\n\nBut it warned that about 900,000 people are still expected to be on the scheme when it finishes on 30 September.\n\nAs a result, \"huge uncertainty\" surrounds what might happen next.\n\n\"The Foundation expects many of these employees to return to their previous role - especially those on partial furlough - upon the scheme's closure,\" it said in its latest labour market report.\n\n\"But with the number of people starting new jobs already at record highs - and potentially hitting two million for the time ever this autumn - firms are unlikely to have the capacity to immediately take on all previously furloughed staff who do lose their job.\"\n\nFurlough was introduced in spring 2020, to stop people being laid off by their employers during lockdown. It applies across the UK.\n\nThe government initially paid 80% of the wages of people who could not work, or whose employers could no longer afford to pay them, up to a monthly limit of £2,500.\n\nIn July 2021, employers were required to pay 10% of salaries - with the government's contribution falling to 70%.\n\nIn August and September, the government's contribution reduced further: it now pays 60% and employers pay 20%.\n\nThe government says 11.6 million jobs have been supported since the scheme began.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation said it was possible that unemployment would rise from its current level of 4.4% to about 4.9% in the autumn, with another 150,000 workers unemployed.\n\n\"Faced with this uncertainly,\" it said, \"employment support schemes, such as Kickstart and Restart, will prove particularly important in protecting vulnerable groups.\n\n\"Restart will be particularly important for older workers, who are now the most likely age group to be on furlough, and who are most likely to have been on the scheme for at least six months.\"\n\nIt added that there would be a need to maintain wider economic support, including keeping the £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit that is set to end at the same time as the furlough scheme.\n\nHannah Slaughter, economist at the Resolution Foundation, said the furlough scheme had \"prevented an unemployment catastrophe\".\n\n\"But with the scheme ending in less than four weeks' time, there is huge uncertainty about what will happen next to the jobs market,\" she said.\n\nMs Slaughter added: \"With firms already reporting 'hiring bottlenecks', even a fresh surge in job starts is unlikely to be enough to prevent unemployment rising this autumn.\n\n\"Given the uncertainty surrounding the labour market, the chancellor should maintain the £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit. Cutting support while unemployment is rising is bad politics, bad economics, and bad for living standards.\"\n\nThe government has declined to extend furlough again or reverse the Universal Credit cut, saying that as the economy opens up, the focus needs to shift to getting people back to work.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Is the story true?\" - Michael Fawcett faces reporters after claims about his conduct surfaced.\n\nA former aide to the Prince of Wales has temporarily stepped down from his role as chief executive of The Prince's Foundation amid claims that he helped secure an honour for a major donor.\n\nMichael Fawcett has been accused of offering to help a wealthy Saudi businessman with an honour.\n\nThe prince was not aware of any link between donations to the foundation and honours, a close source told the BBC.\n\nThe Met Police said it was \"aware of media reports and await further contact in relation to this matter\".\n\nMr Fawcett became chief executive of the Prince's Foundation in 2018. It is an educational charity and encompasses a number of Prince Charles' charitable interests.\n\nThe heritage-led regeneration of the Dumfries House estate in Ayrshire is at the heart of the organisation's work, the foundation's website says.\n\nClaims about Mr Fawcett's conduct were published in the Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Mr Mahfouz, who denies any wrongdoing, donated large sums to restoration projects of particular interest to Prince Charles.\n\nMr Fawcett is alleged to have co-ordinated support for an honour for Mr Mahfouz, according to newspaper reports.\n\nDouglas Connell, chair of The Prince's Foundation, said Mr Fawcett offered on Saturday to step down temporarily from chief executive duties while an investigation was carried out.\n\nMr Connell added: \"The Prince's Foundation has accepted this offer. Michael fully supports the ongoing investigation and has confirmed that he will assist the investigation in every way.\"\n\nPrince Charles with Michael Fawcett, his valet at the time\n\nA spokeswoman for The Prince's Foundation said it \"takes very seriously the allegations that have recently been brought to its attention and the matter is currently under investigation\".\n\nMr Fawcett was once a close aide of Prince Charles and served as his valet until 2003.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said that a Palace source stressed the distance between Prince Charles' office and his foundation, but Mr Fawcett was known for being close to Prince Charles and these allegations were an \"embarrassment\" for him.\n\nMr Fawcett began his royal service in 1981 as a footman to the Queen, before later becoming Prince Charles' assistant valet.\n\nIn 2003 he was cleared of financial misconduct allegations over the selling of royal gifts.\n\nHe resigned after the internal report criticised the running of the royal household, but continued to work as a freelance fixer and Prince Charles' events manager.", "Seventy two people died in the fire\n\nBereaved relatives of those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire say they are \"disgusted and disappointed\" that they have not been consulted after experts advised it should be taken down.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported ministers were set to announce it would be demolished for safety reasons.\n\nBut those affected by the tragedy say no action should be taken until a decision is made on a lasting memorial.\n\nThe government said a final decision on the tower had yet to be taken.\n\nIt added no changes to the structure would be made before the fifth anniversary of the disaster, in June 2022.\n\nIn a safety report commissioned by the government and published in May, engineers Atkins said there was \"unanimous agreement and unambiguous advice\" from experts that work to \"deconstruct or partially deconstruct\" the tower should start by May 2022 at the latest.\n\nIt said there were concerns over the safety of those living and working around it.\n\nSeventy-two people died in the fire that engulfed the 24-storey tower in north Kensington, west London, on 14 June 2017.\n\nA Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission, which was set up in 2018, is looking at how the victims should be remembered and has yet to publish its final plans.\n\nA government source told the Sunday Times the decision to demolish it was a \"fait accompli\".\n\nGrenfell United say the timeline of its demolition needs to be made by survivors and the bereaved\n\nGrenfell United, which represents survivors and families of those who died in the fire, said it was shocked.\n\nIn a statement, it said many of the Grenfell community accepted the tower's removal was a case of when not if, but the timeline needed to be decided by the \"bereaved, survivors and the community not the government\".\n\n\"Given what we went through, safety has always been paramount and we have had previous assurances that the tower can be kept safe for as long as it needs to be, and that it poses no risk to the community around it\", the group said.\n\nIt also said too few families had so far been consulted with and that \"a wide range of viewpoints\" needed to be taken into account.\n\nAbbas Dadou, from the Lancaster West Residents Association, said it was \"utterly disgusting\" more residents had not been consulted.\n\n\"They [the government] should empower residents and should give them the options to choose what they want.\"\n\nNabil Choucair, who lost six members of his family in the blaze, said it was important a decision on Grenfell Tower was not rushed, describing it as a \"very sensitive, very delicate\" matter for people in the community.\n\n\"This is about our family members. Seventy-two people should never have lost their lives there.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Community and Local Government said it knew how \"important and sensitive\" the decision was and it had yet to be taken.\n\n\"Following important independent safety advice from structural engineers, we are engaging closely with the community as we consider the evidence including the safety concerns raised, and what the future of the Grenfell Tower should be.\"\n\nThe government added it wrote to families in May and again in July to outline how a decision would be made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nCoverage: Follow on Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website\n\nBoccia gold medallist David Smith said it is an \"unbelievable honour\" after he was chosen to carry the Great Britain flag at Sunday's closing ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics.\n\nSmith, 32, retained his BC1 singles title on Wednesday for his third gold overall and his fifth Paralympic medal.\n\nIt saw him become the most successful British boccia player of all time.\n\n\"I am proud to be the face of the athletes that are here, and those who have already returned home,\" he said.\n\n\"It is an unbelievable honour to be leading out the ParalympicsGB team at the closing ceremony,\" Smith added.\n\n\"Not only am I representing the sport that I love, but the wider ParalympicsGB team too.\n\n\"I have received so much support over these last 12 days, this honour is for every one of them - athletes, support staff and British fans alike.\"\n\nChef de mission Penny Briscoe said Smith \"truly represents the spirit of the Games\".\n\n\"He is the most wonderful ambassador for the sport of boccia, for our entire team and for the Paralympic movement too,\" she said.\n\nBoccia and goalball are the only two sports on the Paralympic programme that do not have an Olympic equivalent.\n\nThe closing ceremony at the Olympic Stadium is due to start at 12:00 BST.\n• None How Smith transformed his life during the pandemic\n• None Cockroft wins seventh gold and Davies third as GB enjoy more success - day 11 round-up\n• None Para-athletes should get equal pay, says sprinter Peacock\n• None The story of how the Nazis' most notorious war criminals were caught\n• None What are the six stages of ghosting? From denial to thirst traps, find out why dating is exhausting", "Marquees set up by pubs and restaurants during the Covid pandemic could become permanent on-site fixtures, under government proposals.\n\nMinisters are consulting on plans to allow some of extra seating introduced by outdoor hospitality to continue.\n\nStreet markets may also be allowed to open all year but a continuation of al fresco dining on roads is not planned.\n\nThe hospitality industry welcomed the plans but said firms still faced \"huge hurdles\" as the weather turned colder.\n\nThe consultation from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is examining the changes introduced during the pandemic to encourage customers to dine outdoors to reduce the spread of Covid.\n\nThe government says it is aiming to make a number of these permanent so people can \"continue to enjoy outdoor hospitality and local attractions, and businesses can innovate\".\n\nThe plans include supporting communities to hold outdoor markets by giving powers to local councils to grant them for an unlimited number of days.\n\nA temporary lifting of restrictions in June 2020 allowed councils to permit street markets for an unlimited number of days. They had previously only been allowed to be held for 14 days a year.\n\nThe second proposal in the consultation concerns marquees that have sprung up in the grounds of pubs, cafes and restaurants, as well as other new \"moveable structures\" in listed buildings, such as shelters for ticket sales.\n\nBut a height limit of four metres (12ft) could be brought in, and the size of any new structure would not be allowed to take up more than 50% of the space of the existing buildings on a site.\n\nAnd the public are also being asked to consider whether they would like to see the operation of any outside structure limited to 56 days a year.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said: \"The simple reforms we made during the pandemic to help hospitality businesses, markets and historic visitor attractions make use of outdoor spaces more easily, made a massive impact.\n\n\"As part of our vision to transform high streets into thriving places to work, visit and live, we intend to make as many of these measures permanent fixtures of British life as possible.\"\n\nThe trade association UK Hospitality said the outdoor structures had acted as a \"vital lifeline during an extraordinarily difficult period\".\n\nBut it warned moves by some local authorities to open up roads again for traffic would be a significant blow.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls said: \"It is in the interest of the country to have a thriving, dynamic and properly-supported hospitality sector and retaining these outdoor measures would help secure the recovery of a large and vital part of the UK economy.\"\n\nBut she added that businesses \"face huge hurdles going into the autumn and winter\".\n\nLabour's shadow communities secretary Steve Reed said: \"Measures to help businesses recover after the pandemic are welcome but this is a Conservative government which is undermining the high street by allowing retail spaces to be turned into low quality housing and failing to level the playing field between bricks and mortar businesses and online retailers.\n\n\"The Conservatives have left our high streets and British businesses behind, blocking them out when they should have been listening to them the most, and actively watering down a global deal to tackle major tax-dodging and stop online giants undercutting our high streets.\"", "Barrie Henderson has found a way to revive his granny's legacy\n\nBarrie Henderson was devastated when his late grandmother's business - the UK's longest-running vegetarian restaurant - went into liquidation last year.\n\nHis granny Janet founded Scotland's first vegetarian cafe almost 60 years ago, and it went on to become an institution in Edinburgh.\n\nNow Barrie is preparing to bring back the Hendersons name in an attempt to revive her legacy.\n\nBarrie, 36, grew up working at the Edinburgh institution and had been a manager before it closed last year. His father, Oliver, and aunt, Catherine Home, were the directors.\n\nBarrie told BBC Scotland: \"When Hendersons was liquidated I felt like the rug had been pulled from under me and I didn't know what to do.\n\n\"It wasn't about the money, it was about my granny's legacy and family history, and it hurt a lot.\n\n\"I didn't know what to do and I kept looking back at my life and thinking and reflecting on how I could have done things differently.\n\n\"It was a hard time and very dark. My identity, history and life had been jettisoned.\"\n\nBarrie has planted vegetables and fruit in a garden at the back of his new restaurant in Edinburgh's Barclay Place\n\nBarrie said he was inundated with messages from regular customers and friends after the business closed.\n\nThe father-of-one said: \"So many people messaged me saying it was so sad and saying I should start again, how there were not many veggie places, and how the lockdown wouldn't be forever.\n\n\"It was these forces pushing me that made me realise I could do it.\n\n\"I grew up with Hendersons and I want my son to grow up the same way knowing about granny's legacy. I don't want her memory to disappear from Edinburgh.\"\n\nJanet Henderson was 20 when she was introduced to vegetarianism by an aunt in Vienna in the 1930s.\n\nJanet Henderson first became interested in vegetarianism after a stay with family in Vienna in the 1930s\n\nWhen she returned to Scotland, Janet married James, a farmer who was known as Mac, and began selling organic produce to wholefood shops from her four-acre vegetable garden on the family farm in East Lothian.\n\nThe Hendersons Farm Shop opened in Hanover Street, Edinburgh, in 1962, then the following year Janet opened up a vegetarian restaurant in the basement.\n\n\"From what I hear, my granny was a workaholic, she was on the counter every lunchtime and in the kitchen in the mornings,\" says Barrie.\n\n\"She was strict, stern and creative and really passionate about people having a good diet. I'm very happy her memory will now live on.\"\n\nHe plans to open a new restaurant in Barclay Place later this month after borrowing money from friends.\n\nAlthough Barrie ran Hendersons before it was liquidated he was not financially invested in the firm, so is able to start a new business using the same family name.\n\nHendersons cook Myra tending pots in the restaurant's kitchen in the 1960s\n\nIn a bid to make his new venture work he said they would be returning to dishes from his granny's \"salad heavy\" menu, using a lot of raw organic ingredients.\n\nThis will mean using locally-grown produce rather than the more exotic vegetables that had been getting used latterly in the restaurant.\n\nBarrie's father, Oliver Henderson, said Janet would be \"really proud\" that her legacy was being carried on.\n\n\"She would have been very upset last year when we had to close,\" he said.\n\n\"We all thought it was closed for good, so for Barrie to find a way to bring it back to life, and my mother's legacy to live on, is wonderful.\"\n\nBarrie Henderson with his grandfather, Mac, and sister, Alexandra, in Hendersons 20 years ago\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have been told to smarten up their clothing when they return from summer recess to the Commons next week.\n\nWith the age of the virtual Commons now over, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has updated the \"Rules of behaviour and courtesies\" in the House.\n\nHe has alerted MPs to required dress standards, insisting clothing such as jeans and chinos are not allowed.\n\nIt represents a toughening of the advice from his predecessor, who said there was \"no exact dress code\".\n\nJohn Bercow's last set of rules said typical business clothing was merely a suggestion.\n\nThe crackdown follows a number of moments when parliamentary fashion made headlines.\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt was rebuked by Sir Lindsay in December for not dressing smartly enough during a Commons debate on Covid-19.\n\nAnd prior to the pandemic, the then Labour MP Tracy Brabin - who is now Mayor of West Yorkshire - attracted attention when her dress slipped off her shoulder at the dispatch box.\n\nMs Brabin later auctioned the black garment and raised £20,000 for charity.\n\nTracy Brabin caused controversy for wearing a black dress that slipped off her shoulder\n\nSir Lindsay's new guide states MPs should remember \"the way in which you dress should demonstrate respect for your constituents, for the House and for the institution of Parliament in the life of the nation\".\n\n\"Members are expected to wear business attire in and around the Chamber,\" it says.\n\n\"Jeans, chinos, sportswear or any other casual trousers are not appropriate. T-shirts and sleeveless tops are not business attire.\n\n\"Smart/business shoes are expected to be worn. Casual shoes and trainers are not appropriate. Men are encouraged to wear a tie, and jackets must be worn.\n\n\"It is a privilege to serve as a Member of Parliament and your dress, language and conduct should reflect this.\"\n\nSir Lindsay has also moved to clamp down on rowdiness in the Commons.\n\nSinging is to be banned, potentially averting a repeat of the scenes from Prime Minister Boris Johnson's proroguing of Parliament in September, 2019, when Labour MPs protested by singing songs including the Red Flag and Scots Wha Hae.\n\nThe new rules state that \"singing and chanting are not permitted in the chamber\" and that \"clapping is also not allowed as it eats into the time available for debate\".\n\nMPs have also been told to pay attention: \"When listening to a debate you should not read books or newspapers or obviously devote yourself to your phone or other electronic device.\"\n\nLast month, MPs packed the Commons for the first time in person in more than a year after Parliament was recalled to debate the situation in Afghanistan.", "Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker has posted on social media during his stay in Wales\n\nWales has played host to some of Hollywood's finest this summer, with stars filming on location and posting pictures of the scenery in their down time.\n\nOscar winner Forest Whitaker, Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda and British star Tom Hardy have all given Wales their social media seal of approval, but what does that do for the locations in the backdrop?\n\nWell, according to tourism expert Dr Marcus Hansen, quite a lot.\n\nThe programme leader for hospitality, tourism and events at Wrexham Glyndwr University said stars filming and promoting in Wales can put \"hidden gems on the map\".\n\n\"Film-induced tourism is really an extension of popular media and popular culture and Wales featuring in a film or TV series can be invaluable marketing,\" he said.\n\n\"If films/TV series become very popular, people often want to re-connect with the show and therefore decide to visit the locations. Great examples are New Zealand after Lord of the Rings or Dubrovnik, Croatia, following Game of Thrones.\"\n\nIn 2019, it was estimated that about 350,000 visitors - and £50m - were drawn to Northern Ireland each year thanks to Game of Thrones being produced there.\n\nTourism expert Marcus Hansen said stars posting Wales on their social media is \"invaluable\" for the tourism industry\n\nDr Hansen said: \"People want to re-experience those emotions from their favourite film or TV show and so you have people travel to where it was filmed to do that.\n\n\"So, particularly from an international perspective, it can really put Wales on the map, and it would be very expensive to try and get that kind of exposure in other ways.\"\n\nForest Whitaker - who won the Academy Award for best actor in 2006 for The Last King of Scotland - is the latest A-lister to share some pictures from his trips around Wales.\n\nIn one Instagram post, he said: \"Enjoying time in beautiful Wales before going back to set.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by forestwhitaker This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhitaker is filming Netflix crime drama Havoc with big name co-stars, including Tom Hardy.\n\nHe posted pictures from popular waterfronts, including St Catherine's in Tenby and Penarth Pier, Cardiff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robert Melen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHardy surprised Barry locals when he showed up at the town's famous pleasure beach and was even spotted on a few rides.\n\nDr Hansen said it would have a \"great impact\" for a destination like Wales with heritage attractions and eye-catching geography, but which has perhaps not been seen as big a draw as other locations in the UK up to now.\n\n\"Whilst an advert can be very effective, it'll struggle to compete with recommendations from friends, family and celebrities whom we may follow online,\" he added.\n\n\"It's seen as more trustworthy, unless of course the celebrity is sponsored by the destination. But I think Wales is still a bit of a hidden gem, certainly compared to places in England and Scotland and so to get this kind of exposure is really invaluable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stars of the coming of age hit drama Sex Education talk about their love for Wales.\n\nHe added: \"People, today, want real, authentic recommendations. So, if Tom Hardy or Forest Whitaker are having a good time here, it will pique others' interests too. Indeed, people might want to replicate their favourite celebrity's experience as a way of connecting with them.\"\n\nBoogie Nights' Luis Guzman also posted a picture featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda while out in Cardiff this summer.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by loueyfromthehood This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMiranda has spoken of his love of Wales in the past couple of years, with the American actor, singer, songwriter and producer working in the country for the BBC's His Dark Materials series.\n\nHe even rapped about Cardiff while in New York.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lin-Manuel Miranda breaks into an impromptu rap about his time in Cardiff\n\nDr Hansen said the tourism industry had been very hard hit by Covid.\n\n\"So many people have chosen to stay within the UK and, here in Wales, we now have some great additions to cater to all these new tourists.\n\n\"I'm A Celeb has been invaluable as well, given the rise in domestic tourism. People will have been looking for somewhere to go right around the time that show came on and I think it reminded a lot of people of Wales and how beautiful and unique it is.\"\n\nActors just can't stay away from Wales - Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought Wrexham FC earlier this year\n\nA Welsh government spokeswoman said it was great to see so many people enjoying their summer holidays in Wales, including many well-known faces.\n\n\"Many TV programmes and films are being shot on location in Wales at the moment too - our beautiful country will be seen by many new audiences around the world.\n\n\"Film and TV tourism has helped give many parts of Wales a real boost - Pembrokeshire and Snowdonia are still experiencing positive gains from major productions filmed over the last decade.\n\n\"Location spotting is popular with many tourists; from Harry Potter at Freshwater West to Barry Island tours for Gavin and Stacey.\n\n\"Keeping Faith locations have been included in a Superfan Trail map produced by Carmarthenshire council and the hugely popular Netflix series Sex Education continues to put the spotlight on locations around the Wye Valley.\"", "The former vice-president of Afghanistan has sent a video to the BBC to deny reports that he's fled the country.\n\nAmrullah Saleh says he's in the Panjshir Valey, the last Afghan province not under Taliban control, where both sides have claimed they're winning in heavy fighting.", "A major operation to influence public opinion saw comments posted on Western media articles in support of Russian interests, according to new research.\n\nCardiff University's Crime and Security Research Institute found 32 prominent media websites across 16 countries were targeted including Mail Online, the Express and the Times.\n\nThe comments were fed back into Russian-language media outlets as the basis for stories, researchers said.\n\nThe tactic was spotted this year.\n\nBut the operation is believed to have been escalating since at least 2018 and recently focused on the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nIn one example highlighted by the researchers, a Mail Online story last month about the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan featured 2,500 comments from the public.\n\nBut some, it is alleged, were part of an organised Russian campaign.\n\nBy selecting a small number of comments, a Russian news article was then headlined: \"The British have compared the rise of the Taliban to power with the end of Western civilisation\".\n\nThis, Cardiff researchers say, was one of 18 recent stories on the fall of Kabul that were produced using reader comments in the UK and US, supporting Russia's narrative about the end of liberal democracy, the failure of Nato or made a link to the willingness to support Ukraine.\n\nThe Cardiff team say this was just the latest part of a long-running campaign.\n\nThey identified 242 stories where provocative pro-Russian or anti-Western statements were posted in reaction to articles relevant to Russia.\n\nResearchers used pattern recognition techniques to analyse reader comments, which suggested some accounts were posting pro-Kremlin content in an organised manner.\n\nResearchers showed a translated example of an article on the RuEconomics website\n\nSometimes those posting were accused by others on the site of being Russian trolls but in most cases they did not respond.\n\nThese comments were then picked up by Russian media organisations who took the original news story and used the comments to construct a Russian language news story with a particular slant suggesting \"The British think X or Y\".\n\nThese were published to suggest extensive support among Western citizens for Russia or President Vladimir Putin or for a particular policy.\n\nThese would be published in Russia, but also other European countries, particularly Bulgaria. These would then be further amplified on social media platforms, including Telegram.\n\nProf Martin Innes said the \"sophisticated\" campaign takes advantage of the fact that while social media sites have put more resources into detecting influence campaigns, traditional mainstream sites have fewer security measures to stop people creating multiple, false identities.\n\nOne account was found to have changed location 69 times and changed name 549 times since it was created last June.\n\n\"There has been a tendency to think about influence operations as just pivoting around the use of fake social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook and the like,\" Prof Innes, told the BBC.\n\n\"What is important about this research is showing how other kinds of media can be and are being manipulated and on an almost industrial scale.\"\n\nSome media websites allow people to vote on comments as well and the researchers say pro-Kremlin comments received an unusually high number of \"up-votes\".\n\nRussia has consistently denied being involved in propaganda and misinformation operations.\n\nOther websites targeted include the US's Fox News, Le Figaro in France, Der Spiegel and Die Welt in Germany, and Italy's La Stampa.\n\nThe work was undertaken by the Open Source Communications Analytics Research programme at Cardiff University's Crime and Security Research Institute and was funded by UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the owners of Mail Online, Express.co.uk and The Times for comment.", "Police officers in riot gear escorted schoolgirls and their families past the protesters in 2001\n\nTwenty years ago, a violent sectarian dispute took place outside Holy Cross Primary School in north Belfast.\n\nThe school was thrust into the international spotlight, when hundreds of loyalist protesters tried to block the route taken by the school's pupils and their parents, who were from a Catholic background, on their walk to class.\n\nBBC News NI's Gareth Gordon, who was among the reporters who covered the story at the time, shares his memories.\n\nHave tape recorder, will travel. Once, my journey was a road trip to the places left behind when Northern Ireland got peace.\n\nThere I met mostly good people trapped by location and a history they didn't write. But some not so good as well.\n\nOf all of them, Holy Cross is the name I most remember, with very good reason.\n\nCatholic Ardoyne is beside Protestant Glenbryn. Just another interface but with one big difference.\n\nTucked away at the Glenbryn end of the Ardoyne Road is the Catholic Holy Cross Girls' Primary School.\n\nAnd for a time in 2001, before an even more grave event in New York replaced it in the world's collective consciousness, it made headlines around the globe.\n\nA large police convoy waited to protect the Holy Cross school run in 2001\n\nNo community living on either side of Belfast's many peace walls had a monopoly on grievance, and that summer there was a lot of it about.\n\nAttacks from one side on the other went both ways and Ardoyne saw more than its fair share.\n\nTwenty years on, the blame game has been well played out elsewhere.\n\nWhat follows here are my memories of a situation I, or no-one else who witnessed it, will ever forget.\n\nAt its heart are the innocents who attended Holy Cross Girls' School.\n\nChildren held hands tightly with family members as they passed police and Army lines\n\nLocals claimed some Protestants were attacked while putting up flags in late June just before the end of summer term.\n\nThere was a claim one of them was knocked off a ladder. As usual this is disputed.\n\nBut what's not disputed is that the school was then singled out for attention by loyalist protesters - a situation that remained unresolved all summer until the new term began in September.\n\nEveryone remembers the girls, some crying, being taken to school by parents with police shielding them from angry people shouting insults from the \"other side\".\n\nWhatever the rights and wrongs of the cause which began this form of protest, it was lost in the terrified faces of the girls forced to suffer a school run like no other.\n\nThe daily school run became a traumatic experience for children\n\nThe Wednesday morning was the worst. A pipe bomb was thrown, probably aimed at police, but the explosion was loud enough to send children into hysterics.\n\nLater I asked two Protestant women why it had happened. This is how it went.\n\nWoman one: \"There must be a reason why we're doing this. There must be. We've had enough fear and we can't take it no more. We don't care.\"\n\nWoman two: \"We don't care; we're like the Jews now, I think.\"\n\nWoman one: \"I mean I wouldn't let my son or my daughter come home from a disco or anything from that Crumlin Road to get in here and it's the only way they can come at night.\"\n\nMe: \"This morning, whatever the wrongs and rights here, a bomb went off close to the children going to school. How did that make you feel?\"\n\nWoman one: \"I'm past feeling. You can't understand that. I am past feeling. I'm not going to run my ones down for throwing that bomb.\"\n\nMe: \"But you're not a terrorist.\"\n\nWoman one: \"I'm not. No, I'm not a terrorist. No, I'm a mother. I'm a mother of five children.\"\n\nMe: \"Who's to blame for this?\"\n\nWoman one: \"Themmuns down there.\"\n\nMe: \"How would you have felt this morning if a child had been killed?\"\n\nWoman one: \"I'd have felt terrible. I'm a mother of five. Yes, it would be like me losing one of my own. I could feel for that mother.\"\n\nMe: \"So you're not past caring.\"\n\nRUC officers shielding an injured colleague during the 2001 Holy Cross dispute\n\nThe next morning the walk to school was played out on live television and radio to a world which could not quite believe what was happening.\n\nMy job was to relay this live on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme which remained on air way past its scheduled end time of 09:00 BST.\n\nI did so against the ear-splitting sound of protesters blowing whistles. But, thankfully, there were no more pipe bombs and the children made it through.\n\nPolice in riot gear protected families from attack on the school run\n\nI had no idea if I was speaking to thousands or to myself until we reached the school and the presenter Seamus McKee was able to ask me a question.\n\nOne woman later told me she missed an important appointment because she couldn't leave her car listening to me until it was clear the children had made it through unscathed.\n\nAfter that, the protest seemed to peter out. No-one had the stomach for any more of this madness.\n\nThe following week I stood at the school gate as two clerics who had been centrally involved in trying to resolve things - Father Aidan Troy and the Reverend Norman Hamilton - emerged after a joint school visit.\n\nCatholic priest Fr Aidan Troy helped shield schoolgirls on their walk to school\n\nI returned to the BBC happy the protest was now over and looked forward to an easy day.\n\nThat day was 11 September 2001 and my report of the school visit never made air.\n\nDays later I arrived in New York to cover the aftermath of the attacks on the Twin Towers.\n\nWe went first to Battery Park, a residential area near the World Trade Center, where people unable to return home watched lorry after lorry carry away the rubble of their lives.\n\n\"Are you really from BBC Northern Ireland?\" asked a woman who told me she and her daughter had spent the evening before the attack crying at the scenes of those young girls being escorted to school in Belfast.\n\nEven in the midst of a horrific terrorist attack on the other side of the Atlantic, there was no escaping Holy Cross.", "Hundreds of UK nationals are stuck in Afghanistan days after the last evacuation flight left Kabul airport. It is feared that hundreds more who are eligible for relocation to Britain are also trapped in the country, which is now in the hands of the hardline Islamist group.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has taken part in meetings in Qatar and Pakistan this week to discuss how some of the people could be helped to safety, said Kabul airport might reopen \"in the near future\". He also signalled that Britain was looking for co-operation with the Taliban on crossings.\n\nHere, British nationals and at-risk Afghans share what has happened since the final evacuation flight - and what they plan to do now. The BBC has changed some names to protect the identities of those we spoke to.\n\nHalima's parents, who both have British passports, went to Afghanistan for a family funeral in July, before the Taliban's rapid surge to power. Their flights back to London were cancelled and days later the country fell to the Taliban. In an email, the UK government told them to go to Kabul airport to be put on an evacuation flight but they turned back after warnings of an attack.\n\nHalima is alone now in London while her parents are trapped in Afghanistan\n\nSince the final UK evacuation, they have had no communication from the government. \"We are running out of money here. Banks are closed, there is a shortage of food,\" they explain. Their only plan is to try to survive until it's possible to come home.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week, Halima, who is in her early 20s, asked: \"Have you got any idea what my family and I are going through?\" She has so far received only an automated reply.\n\nAfter working in a London hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic, Wahid went to visit family in Afghanistan in early August. After the Taliban seized power, he was advised by the Foreign Office to go to the Baron Hotel, near Kabul airport, where British troops were processing UK nationals for evacuation.\n\nWahid says he loves his job in the hospital and misses going to work\n\nAt the gates, Taliban guards tried to tear up his British passport. Photos show the bruises from the humiliating beating they gave him in front of his wife.\n\n\"Now I'm moving from house to house. It's not safe to stay still. I have nightmares,\" he explains, adding that his brother was captured by the Taliban last week.\n\n\"It's too scary to try to leave through a neighbouring country. We heard a group of Afghans were killed at the border last week,\" said Wahid, who is in his 20s.\n\n\"All I can do is wait. All day I look at my phone hoping for an email - but nothing,\" he says.\n\nAbdul was an English language trainer for the British Council, working all over Afghanistan. The council told him he was eligible for the Arap (Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy) scheme, which gives Afghans who worked for the British government the right to resettle in the UK.\n\nHe has not yet heard the outcome of his application. \"We are left behind. They've given us to the Taliban,\" he said as the final evacuation flight left.\n\nAbdul worked for the British Council and is waiting to hear whether he can resettle in the UK\n\nFearing for their safety, Abdul and his family have now abandoned their home. With no job, he has sold his wife's jewellery to make ends meet.\n\nHe says he has no plans and no options. \"It's hard for me to return to normal life,\" he says. \"Even if the borders to neighbouring countries open, I don't know how to safely get out. No-one is answering my question - how long should we wait to hear from the government?\"\n\n\"There's no sleep - just worrying,\" says Zahra. She is in Leeds. Her family, some of whom fought the Taliban or prosecuted militants under the Western-backed Afghan government, are in Afghanistan.\n\nShe registered their details with the UK government but was told this week there were no updates and not to call the government hotline again. \"They have provided no solutions,\" she says.\n\nThe family are in hiding and waiting. One relative, tired of being scared, is considering the dangerous crossing into neighbouring Iran.\n\n\"There needs to be some kind of confirmation from the government. That's what they're waiting for. If they go to another country, will there be help?\" says Zahra, who is in her 20s. \"I'm 100% sure my family would take the risk if there was clarity and hope.\"\n\nFarwad went to the Baron Hotel three times to join the evacuation by British soldiers. In one attempt he says he waited for 24 hours in the dust and heat. An Afghan-British national, he had gone back to Afghanistan in 2019 and was living with his wife and young baby, neither of whom have British passports.\n\nHe was so certain they would be able to leave the country after the Taliban took power that he left their home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from Kabul: \"It's still a struggle to survive, or a race to try to escape\"\n\nHe says he sent numerous emails and called embassy staff. \"I told them our passport says the Queen 'will afford the bearer such assistance and protection as necessary' but they didn't care,\" he says.\n\nFarwad is now staying with neighbours. \"I don't have any options. My wife and child don't have British passports and I cannot leave them. It's dangerous to go to neighbouring countries. The embassies are closed. We don't know what to do.\"\n\n\"I've dialled the helpline more than 2,000 times,\" Sayyid, who lives in Edinburgh with his Scottish wife and children, tells the BBC.\n\nHis brother, who worked for a British charity in Afghanistan, has already been threatened by the Taliban, he says. With his mother, he left their home and joined the crowds at Kabul Airport trying to leave. But after missing out on the evacuation, they are left waiting in hope that flights will soon resume.\n\n\"I want them to get on one of those flights. They are eligible,\" Sayyid says. \"My mother is asking for my help and I'm helpless. She said 'I don't care about my life, but please take your brother'.\"", "Vaccine passports in nightclubs and other indoor venues in England will be required at the end of this month, the vaccines minister has confirmed.\n\nNadhim Zahawi said it was the right time to start the scheme for sites with large crowds as all over-18s will have been offered two jabs by then.\n\nAsking people to show certificates with Covid vaccination proof has been criticised by venues and some MPs.\n\nMr Zahawi said it would ensure the economy could remain open.\n\n\"The best way we can keep those industries open in my view, in our view, is to work with the industry,\" he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\nThe vaccines minister said: \"One thing that we have learnt is that in large gatherings of people, especially indoors, the virus tends to spike and spread.\"\n\nMr Zahawi also indicated the government's plans to offer a Covid booster jab to most vulnerable people - including all over-50s - could get the go-ahead this month.\n\nAnd he said extending the vaccine rollout to all 12-15 year-olds would \"absolutely\" be the right thing to do if the UK's chief medical officers recommended it.\n\nAsked about vaccine passports, Mr Zahawi referred to Premier League football clubs asking some fans to show proof they have been jabbed, which allowed stadiums to reopen to capacity crowds last month.\n\nHowever, only a small number of clubs have made Covid-19 checks a mandatory condition of entry.\n\nMr Zahawi added: \"When the evidence that you are presented is so clear cut and that we want to make sure the industry doesn't have to go through [an]open-shut, open-shut sort of strategy, then the right thing to do is to introduce that by the end of September when all over 18 year-olds have had their two jabs.\"\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman last week said the plans first unveiled in July remained in place, adding: \"We set out broadly our intention to require vaccination for nightclubs and some other settings.\"\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association has said plans for vaccine passports could \"cripple the industry\" and see night clubs facing discrimination cases.\n\nOpposition to the plans has also come from Tory MPs on the Covid Recovery Group as well as the Liberal Democrats, whose leader, Ed Davey, described them as \"divisive, unworkable and expensive\".\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour has refused to support plans to require vaccine passports for entry to nightclubs and many large events in Scotland from later this month.\n\nOpposition is building to the Scottish government's proposal, which First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said would be the least restrictive way to keep people safe.\n\nWales says it has no plans to introduce Covid passports for venues, while ministers in Northern Ireland have not yet announced a position on a scheme.\n\nOn the issue of offering Covid jabs to all 12 to 15-year-olds, Mr Zahawi said he did not want to \"pre-determine\" the decision of the UK's chief medical officers but would accept their advice.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) decided not to recommend the rollout be extended, saying the benefits to younger children on health grounds alone were \"marginal\". They have now asked the chief medical officers to consider the wider implications - including transmission rates and disruption to schools.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, a member of the Nervtag group that advises the government on virus threats, said he was \"a little surprised\" at the JCVI's decision.\n\n\"We do know the virus is circulating very widely amongst this age group, and that, if we're going to be able to get the rates down and also prevent further surges of infection perhaps later in the winter, then this is the group that needs to become immune,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nInterim advice from the JCVI has also suggested giving a third dose of a Covid vaccine to more than 30 million people.\n\nMr Zahawi said: \"It is very likely that we will begin boosting those groups as per the, I hope, interim advice becomes final advice by the end of this month.\"\n\nOn Sunday, 37,001 cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and 68 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.", "Our Yorkshire Farm is Channel 5's most successful factual programme ever\n\nA yearning for stunning scenery, traditional lifestyles and down-to-earth personalities has made Scotland and Yorkshire the top destinations for UK TV programmes over the past year.\n\nScotland featured in more show titles on the main five channels than any other place name - appearing 14 times, excluding news, sport and true crime.\n\nIt was followed closely by Yorkshire, which has had series made about its farmers, firefighters and vets.\n\nCornwall is next on the list.\n\nDuring the pandemic, more than ever, viewers have wanted to be transported from the realities of their daily lives - but TV crews have found it hard to go to more exotic places.\n\nMany such programmes showcase beautiful landscapes and country life, while the Yorkshire-set series are more varied.\n\nJenni Steele, film and creative industries manager for Visit Scotland, says there has been \"a real boom\" in production there in recent years.\n\n\"Quite similar things attract film-makers and visitors,\" she says. \"The top things that attract visitors to Scotland are the landscapes, the scenery and the heritage. And you can see how that then translates quite easily over to production and crews.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic, she says, UK-based crews \"couldn't go abroad to film, and they were looking for something a little bit different, maybe a little bit less seen in the UK, and places like the Hebrides provided a really different type of landscape and opportunity\".\n\nDarcey Bussell recently fronted a programme about the Wild Coasts of Scotland\n\nAndrew Sheldon, who has made shows like Darcey Bussell's Wild Coasts of Scotland, The Yorkshire Dales and Lakes, Devon & Cornwall and Epic Wales, says the British TV industry has helped people through the past couple of years by letting them see different places without leaving their homes.\n\n\"There was a practical level during the first lockdown - 'If I can't visit those places, I'd like to look at them',\" said Mr Sheldon, who is creative director of Leeds-based production company True North.\n\n\"But underneath that, there is an undercurrent of, we live in quite dark, very complex times and people yearn for more straightforward existence.\n\n\"People connect to the idea that there is a life out there that is simple, that is straightforward, and has clarity to it, where you can see the start and the end and it's not some dystopian nightmare.\"\n\nChannel 5 controller Ben Frow recently said Our Yorkshire Farm, which follows North Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen and her family, was the broadcaster's most successful factual programme ever.\n\nMr Sheldon says: \"I think Yorkshire is so popular because there's a sense that people from that part of the world are straightforward and can be trusted, and there's a generosity of spirit around them. I'm sure it's not quite that simple, but the viewing figures suggest that's certainly part of it.\"\n\nJay's Yorkshire Workshop is currently on BBC Two\n\nYorkshire is also popular for other forms of programming - Channel 5's new series of the rebooted All Creatures Great and Small will launch on 16 September.\n\nThis Monday, Channel 4 will open a new office for about 250 staff in the former Majestic nightclub in Leeds, to go with smaller hubs in Glasgow and Bristol. Channel 4 News will be co-hosted from Leeds and other locations for the first time from later this month.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC has just announced two new series - Yorkshire Born, featuring midwives and new families in Bradford; and Highland Blues, about \"a police force where traditional community policing meets modern cutting edge crime fighting\".\n\nHowever, executives may be tiring of some locations. Channel 5 commissioning editor Daniel Pearl reportedly told the Edinburgh TV Festival he did not want to make \"another programme about Yorkshire, another programme about a large family in Yorkshire\".\n\nAndrew Sheldon has been looking for new destinations, but says places that resonate sufficiently with the whole population are \"few and far between\".\n\nHe has considered places like North Norfolk and the South Downs, and has made a new series fronted by Pam Ayres in The Cotswolds for Channel 5.\n\n\"I'm really looking forward to see how that does,\" he says. \"The Cotswolds is a rightly loved place but I'm interested to see if it appeals to a wide audience.\n\n\"There are some really beautiful parts of the UK, but they don't quite get the same exposure and for some reason they don't quite appeal to as many as those three big ones do.\"", "Fourth LV= Insurance Test, The Kia Oval (day four of five) England need 291 more runs to win\n\nEngland made a promising start to their pursuit of a record 368, to leave the fourth Test against India primed for a thrilling conclusion at The Kia Oval.\n\nFaced with what would be England's highest successful chase in Test cricket, Haseeb Hameed and Rory Burns took the home side to 77-0 at the close on day four.\n\nWhen England took three wickets for 16 runs in the morning session, including India captain Virat Kohli for 44, Joe Root's side had the opportunity to minimise their target.\n\nHowever, Shardul Thakur batted patiently for 60 and Rishabh Pant was similarly careful in his 50 as they shared a seventh-wicket partnership of 100.\n\nOn a placid pitch, the tourists were eventually bowled out for 466 in their second innings.\n\nHistory is against England - only nine times in the history of the game have more runs been chased by any side to win a Test.\n\nYet, all four results will be possible on Monday morning, as a wonderful series that is level at 1-1 continues to deliver.\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n• None Highlights and reaction from day four at The Oval\n\nThis Test has confounded expectations at every turn and another fluctuating day in perfect late-summer sunshine has set up a grandstand finale.\n\nRealistically, India remain favourites, with England's next-best hope being the draw. However, optimism inside the The Oval was raised by the way Hameed and Burns played on a pitch that only seems to be getting better for batting.\n\nEngland also have the inspiration of Ben Stokes' Headingley heroics fresh in the memory.\n\nFor context, their target in 2019 was 359, which they reached in 125.4 overs. Here they need more runs in what is likely to be fewer overs.\n\nIndia, and particularly captain Kohli, will be under pressure to close out the win, especially after again omitting masterful off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.\n\nThe Oval is sold out for the final day. The match is deliciously poised. It could turn out to be a classic.\n\nFrom 270-3 overnight, India's most likely hope of batting England out of the game seemed to be Kohli.\n\nHowever, when he edged Moeen to slip soon after both Ravindra Jadeja and Ajinkya Rahane had been pinned lbw by Chris Woakes, the tourists were 213 ahead with only four wickets in hand.\n\nPant's cavalier attitude had brought little prior success in this series, while Thakur hit the fastest ever Test half-century in this country in the first innings, yet they both curbed their natural instincts to calmly stretch India's advantage.\n\nPant did not hit his first boundary until the 54th ball he faced. Only when Moeen wasted a run-out chance with both men in the middle of the pitch when Pant was on 37 did India opt to attack.\n\nThakur hit Ollie Robinson over long-on for six and reached 50 for the second time before he edged Root's off-spin to slip.\n\nPant's 105-ball half-century was his slowest in Tests and he was furious with himself when he drove a return catch back to Moeen.\n\nInfuriatingly for England, Umesh Yadav swung his way to 25 and Jasprit Bumrah again frustrated them with 24 to prolong the toil and increase the target.\n\nEngland doing it the hard way\n\nIf England do pull off an incredible win, or even survive to claim a draw, they will have done so after the best part of two days toiling in the field.\n\nThey lacked inspiration in the early part of Sunday morning, only to be inspired by the introduction of Woakes who struck twice in as many overs.\n\nTime and again, Woakes, Robinson and James Anderson were summoned. The work Anderson and Robinson have done must raise questions over their fitness for the fifth Test, while Anderson has taken only two second-innings wickets in six Tests his summer. Craig Overton was often overlooked.\n\nOff-spinner Moeen conceded more than 4.5 runs an over and his failure to run-out Pant - he had time to either throw to wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow or even run to the stumps himself, only to miss with an attempted direct hit - goes alongside the six catches England have missed in this match.\n\nAfter so long in the field, the home top order was vulnerable to the new ball, yet Hameed and Burns played with certainty, positivity and sound judgement.\n\nBurns pulled with authority in moving to 31 not out, while Hameed flicked off his pads on the way to 43, the latter surviving a tense review for lbw off Mohammed Siraj in the penultimate over of the day.\n\n'England have given themselves a glimmer' - reaction\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"England will talk about chasing it but if you said now, do you want the draw, I think they would take it. I am leaning towards draw, then India, then England. England have given themselves a glimmer.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Chris Woakes, speaking to TMS: \"There is enough time in the game to get the runs. After that session [the evening session] we feel more pleased than at the start of our innings. We know it is a good pitch.\"", "Dorset Police said the plane crashed into water at Poole Harbour near Sandbanks\n\nTwo people have been injured after a plane crashed into the water at the Bournemouth Air Festival.\n\nIt involved a small wing-walker aircraft and took place away from the main display area off Bournemouth beach.\n\nDorset Police said the pair had been rescued from Poole harbour at about 15:30 BST and were reported to have suffered only minor injuries.\n\nEyewitnesses described the biplane flipping as it hit the water.\n\nPolice said an investigation was under way.\n\nAlex Cason, 30, told the BBC he was fishing when he saw the plane come down in front of him.\n\n\"Just above the rocks I see this plane very low and I just sort of stood there in shock really - it was descending,\" he said.\n\n\"I couldn't stop looking at the pilot's face - he looked in real shock... a few seconds later 10 metres in front of me the plane crashes.\n\n\"The plane's nose hit the water, it flipped over, and then the pilot and passenger were under water for 10 seconds and luckily there was a rib [boat] nearby and they came over.\n\n\"It was very terrifying to watch, the lady [passenger] was screaming... I didn't know what to do, I just stood there in shock.\"\n\nBournemouth Air Festival said the aircraft would be recovered and it expected to resume display flights on Sunday\n\nOwain Hughes, who was sailing in Poole Harbour at the time of the crash, captured the moment of impact on his phone.\n\n\"It was flying low for a while and then it landed before doing a front flip,\" he said.\n\n\"We were sailing into the harbour. I honestly thought it was going to crash into us.\"\n\nThe rescue team was soon on hand and involved two lifeboats and the coastguard helicopter, the RNLI said.\n\nOwain Hughes said he thought the plane was going to crash into his boat\n\nBBC Radio Solent's Ian Ramsdale, who was at the festival on Saturday, said spectators on the beach had been told a pilot had reported a fault and had flown off to try and rectify it.\n\n\"They just didn't return,\" he said.\n\nBournemouth Air Festival said the aircraft would be recovered in due course and thanked those who took part in the rescue.\n\nIt said: \"It is a huge relief for all those involved in the Air Festival that the incident has resulted in the display crew being removed from the water safe and well.\"\n\nIt added it expected display flights to resume on Sunday.\n\nSpectators on the beach were told a plane had reported a fault\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The author of the successful Wolf Hall trilogy, about the life of 16th Century politician Thomas Cromwell, says he wouldn't have gone on holiday in a political crisis.\n\nThe current Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, was at a Greek resort as the Taliban made huge advances across Afghanistan.\n\nHilary Mantel also compared the former Number 10 adviser Dominic Cummings to her most celebrated character.\n\nShe spoke to the BBC's Andrew Marr along with the actor Ben Miles, who stars in and co-adapted the stage play of the latest book in the series.", "Images on social media showed packed queues at the west London airport on Friday night, with travellers complaining of waits of several hours.\n\nA Heathrow spokesman apologised for the delays, but blamed Border Force for not providing enough staff at immigration.\n\nThe Home Office, which has responsibility for Border Force, said the wait times were \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt said Border Force was \"rapidly reviewing its rosters and capacity and flexibly deploying our staff across the airport to improve waiting times\".\n\nTravellers at Heathrow used social media to complain about lengthy queues with inadequate ventilation, while some claimed people had fainted while they were waiting.\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"There are people collapsing in Terminal 5 Arrivals due to overcrowding and no ventilation. Some Covid secure measures…\"\n\nAnother said: \"Horrendous kettling at Heathrow Terminal 5 arrivals tonight. No Border Force. No ventilation. No fire exits. No explanation. Held there for over an hour. People fainting. Panicked skeleton Heathrow ground team not knowing what to do.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adina Chirodea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Heathrow Airport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Saturday morning, Heathrow Airport tweeted that it was unable to say how long travellers would have to queue for immigration.\n\nIn a subsequent statement, the airport said it had \"escalated\" the issue with Border Force and expected it to provide a better service over the weekend.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson said: \"We are very sorry that passengers faced unacceptable queuing times in immigration due to too few Border Force officers on duty.\n\n\"Border Force were aware of the extra demand from families and we are very disappointed that they did not provide sufficient resource.\n\n\"We have additional Heathrow colleagues to support in managing queues and to hand out passenger welfare including water, but we need every immigration desk to be staffed at peak times.\n\n\"We have escalated this with Border Force and expect them to provide a better service over the remainder of the weekend.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was the busiest weekend of the year for returning passengers, with particularly high numbers of families with children under the age of 12 who cannot use e-gates.\n\nE-gates allow travellers with biometric passports to bypass manual inspections when they cross border control.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Throughout the pandemic we have been clear that queue times may be longer as we ensure all passengers are compliant with the health measures put in place to keep the UK public safe. However, the very long wait times we saw at Heathrow last night are unacceptable...\n\n\"Border Force is rapidly reviewing its rosters and capacity and flexibly deploying our staff across the airport to improve waiting times.\"\n\nThe Home Office added that Border Force was working closely with Heathrow Airport and its airlines and was committed to ensuring passengers had \"a safe and hassle-free journey\".\n\nThe ISU union, which represents borders, immigration and customs staff, said Border Force had been \"chronically under-funded for years\" at major airports, with new recruits directed to inland and international trade to address issues arising from Brexit.\n\nSpeaking about the scenes on Friday, an ISU spokeswoman said: \"It will happen again. Not just at Terminal 5 but potentially at any large airport.\"\n\nMore people have travelled overseas after the government relaxed some travel restrictions\n\nThe UK's travelling restrictions were eased for many on 19 July, when the government dropped the requirement to quarantine after returning from amber list destinations for children and fully vaccinated adults.\n\nMost countries - including the UK's most popular holiday destinations - are on the amber list.\n\nTravellers coming from green list countries do not need to quarantine when they come back to the UK - whether or not they have had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nHowever, travellers from green and amber destinations must have one test before returning to Britain and another two days after they get back.\n\nOnly British nationals can enter the UK directly from a red list country, and they must pay to quarantine in government-approved hotels and be tested.\n\nThe travel industry has criticised the UK's changing travel rules, with airlines saying the system risked making international travel \"more expensive, burdensome and uncertain compared to other countries\".\n\nTravel lists are currently updated every three weeks and the system is similar for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "An irrepressible and immensely likeable pop star, Sarah Harding, who has died at the age of 39, helped Girls Aloud become Britain's biggest-selling girl group of the 21st Century, but also had a \"wild child\" reputation and a turbulent personal life.\n\nHarding's natural warmth, energy and glamour were key parts of the chemistry that helped Girls Aloud soar and blow a breath of fresh air through the charts.\n\nHer vocal capabilities and wide-eyed exuberance were put in the national spotlight on 2002 TV talent show Popstars: The Rivals.\n\nWhen judge Louis Walsh rebuked the 20-year-old for failing to remember dance moves in one episode, her excuse was: \"I'm too much of a loon.\"\n\nWhen Walsh then told her she was through to the next round anyway, she proved herself right by hugging him round the neck, skipping into the corridor screaming, jumping into two peoples' arms and collapsing on the floor.\n\nWearing her emotions on her sleeve endeared Harding to viewers.\n\nL to R: Kimberley Walsh, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, Cheryl Tweedy and Nadine Coyle made up Girls Aloud\n\nIn the final, five spots in the band were up for grabs. Cheryl Tweedy, Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh and Nadine Coyle had all been told they were in - meaning it was between Harding and Javine Hylton for the last seat.\n\nWhen Harding's name was read out, she staggered, sobbing uncontrollably, to sit alongside her new bandmates.\n\nHylton had been the bookies' favourite, and the result was such a surprise that ITV launched a brief investigation into the voting - but no irregularities were found.\n\nThree weeks later, Girls Aloud were number one. They were the first band to have a Christmas chart-topper with their debut single and the first girl group to debut at number one.\n\nIt helped that the track, Sound of the Underground, was one of the best and most innovative pop songs of the decade. \"They landed in a gulf in a drab pop landscape,\" wrote the Telegraph's Alice Vincent in 2017.\n\nAgainst that backdrop the tune \"almost tore a hole in the space-time continuum\", declared The Guardian's Michael Cragg.\n\nIt was the first of four UK number ones and 21 Top 10 hits over the course of a decade. Girls Aloud's other slices of pop brilliance, crafted by writers and producers Xenomania, included Love Machine (2004), Something Kinda Ooh (2006), Call the Shots (2007) and The Promise (2008).\n\nThe last of these earned the band a Brit Award for best single.\n\nThey won the Brit Award for best single for The Promise in 2009\n\nThe success fulfilled a dream Harding had held since her father, a session musician, started taking her into recording studios when she was three years old.\n\n\"It was all I wanted to do,\" she told The Sun. \"I always loved being the centre of attention and ever since I can remember I've wanted to be a star.\"\n\nHarding was born Sarah Hardman on 17 November 1981 in Ascot, Berkshire, and moved with her family to Stockport, Greater Manchester, at the age of 14. But she struggled to settle in at her new school and dropped out before taking her GCSEs.\n\nShe gigged in pubs, clubs and caravan parks around the north-west of England and north Wales and formed her own short-lived girl group. She also signed with an Italian label to sing on dance tracks - only to get cold feet three days before she was due to fly out.\n\nAt college she studied hair and beauty, and did jobs ranging from pizza deliveries to directory enquiries. It was while working in a bar that she applied for Popstars: The Rivals.\n\nDespite her grounding in music, Harding had little idea about what to expect from stardom.\n\n\"These days there is a lot more talent coming out of shows like that, so people are now partly aware of what is going to happen,\" she told the Daily Star in 2015. \"With social media, you kind of see what is coming. We didn't have all that back in the day.\"\n\nA nickname, Hardcore Harding, was coined by her karate teacher \"because she's left loads of men injured\" - but it also suited her party lifestyle. Her twenties were \"all heartbreaks and hangovers\", she once said.\n\n\"I was young and naive and played up to my lairy character,\" she told The Sun. \"It overshadowed the real me.\"\n\n\"I used to think I was Liam Gallagher, flicking the Vs at the camera, thinking I was rock 'n' roll,\" she told The Sun on Sunday's Fabulous magazine.\n\nThe singer said she went through a \"little wild-child stage\"\n\nAs for the heartbreaks, her boyfriends included socialite Calum Best, TV presenter Steve Jones, producer Mark Foster, actor Danny Dyer and DJ Tom Crane, to whom she was engaged.\n\nAfter her four-year relationship with Crane broke down in 2011, she went into rehab for depression and alcohol addiction. \"I've been to hell and back,\" she said at the time. \"I'm just glad I survived.\"\n\nShe told another interviewer: \"The drinking was more to give me more confidence, especially when I was going through my little wild-child stage.\"\n\nBut her lifestyle calmed down in her thirties, and she enthused about how she preferred tending her vegetable patch in her Buckinghamshire garden to partying.\n\nGirls Aloud reassembled for their 10th anniversary in 2012 only to part ways again the following year, having sold a total of 4.3 million singles and four million albums.\n\nHarding (left) had a stint in Coronation Street in 2015\n\nExplaining the band dynamic to Look magazine after the split, Harding said: \"Me and Nadine are more music orientated - more vocals - and the other three are more about dancing. I'd put my foot down about the music side of things. Nicola was more about the clothes. Choreography is Cheryl's forte.\n\n\"When there's five of you, it's difficult to have a say in everything. I'm looking forward to having more control.\"\n\nBy that time, the other four had all launched solo careers. Harding started work on hers in 2011, but ditched the songs and started again a few years later with more input into the songwriting. \"This is my angry song but there's some real heartbreak stuff that I've written,\" she said of her debut solo single Threads, which came out in 2015.\n\nThreads missed the UK Top 100, however, and her solo career was over.\n\nHarding also got into acting, appearing opposite Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike and Riz Ahmed in the 2009 BBC Two drama Freefall. She appeared in St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold the same year and acted alongside Dyer and Denise van Outen in the 2012 flop Run For Your Wife.\n\nCoronation Street signed her up for four episodes in 2015, and she took part in such other TV shows as Celebrity Masterchef, the BBC's gymnastics contest Tumble - where she came second - and Channel 4's ski show The Jump.\n\nBut she dropped out of the latter after sustaining a ligament injury. Later that year, she blamed the injury for her withdrawal from her theatre debut in Ghost: The Musical, which had received poor reviews.\n\n\"I've been in constant pain with my knee injury,\" she said. \"It can take a massive toll on your mental as well as physical well-being.\"\n\nIn 2017 she went into the Celebrity Big Brother house and emerged as the winner. Just like at the start of her career, some viewers were aggrieved by the result.\n\nHarding then retreated from the limelight, only re-emerging in August 2020 to deliver the devastating news that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.\n\nIn March 2021, an early extract from her memoir, Hear Me Out, revealed doctors had told her she wouldn't see another Christmas.\n\nShe wrote she was \"trying to live and enjoy every second of my life, however long it might be\".\n\nThe book also revealed that all five members of Girls Aloud had been reunited behind closed doors in the wake of her diagnosis.\n\nThe star admitted she was anxious about them all seeing her looking \"bloated\" due to the steroid treatment she was on, and having lost her eyelashes due to chemotherapy.\n\n\"It's not that I thought they wouldn't understand or be judgmental, of course; it's just that when we were together as a group, part of our thing was the glamour,\" she wrote.\n\nWhile back together, the ex-bandmates watched the 2006 E4 documentary series Girls Aloud: Off the Record, \"laughing\" and \"cringing\" at their old antics.\n\n\"I have to say, I looked on fondly,\" wrote Harding. \"'You only miss this when it's gone,' I told the girls.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A street vendor in Herat, Afghanistan's third-largest city, which was seized by the Taliban earlier this month.\n\nWhat is life like for those left behind when the last foreign troops flew out of Afghanistan? Four people from cities and provinces around the country told the BBC they had lost basic freedoms and were struggling to survive.\n\nSome names have been changed to protect contributors' safety.\n\nMazar-i-Sharif is a large city and major economic hub in the north of Afghanistan, close to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Once a government stronghold, it fell to the Taliban on 14 August.\n\nA view of a closed market in Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province, Afghanistan\n\nMajib used to work in a restaurant. Now he's struggling to find food. In a video call from Mazar-i-Sharif, he pointed to the dirty floor of an abandoned building where a few blankets were piled - for now it is his new home.\n\nMajib arrived in the city just a few weeks ago, one of more than half a million Afghans displaced this year by the conflict between the Taliban and recently-ousted government forces.\n\nHis father was killed by the Taliban more than 10 years ago, he said. A decade on and he's \"scared to go outside\" because \"they're beating people up every day\".\n\nFootage from Mazar-i-Sharif last week showed dozens of Afghans carrying suitcases and clutching plastic bags as they boarded buses to the capital, Kabul, in the hope of trying to leave.\n\nBut in the past few days, since US forces departed, more people have been arriving from in Mazar-i-Sharif from Kabul, Majib said - trying to make their way to the border with Uzbekistan as a way out.\n\nMajib is also desperate to escape, but doesn't know if he will make it. \"The Taliban are here and they don't want people to leave the country,\" he said.\n\nHelmand Province in the south, where British troops were stationed during the conflict, was seized by the Taliban on 13 August. The provincial capital Lashkar Gah saw some of the heaviest fighting in the weeks preceding.\n\nWomen and children at a mobile clinic in Lashkar Gah in March 2021\n\nPinned to the noticeboard of Dr Viktor Urosevic's office are small plastic bags containing bullets. \"We call it our wall of shame,\" he said, as he removed one to hold up to the camera in a video interview.\n\nMost of them were large calibre rounds which he had removed from young patients, he said.\n\nDr Urosevic works at a trauma hospital in Lashkar Gah. Now that the fighting has ended, the wards are no longer packed like they were just weeks ago. The bombs and bullets have stopped and the streets outside are calm.\n\n\"It's very strange, I've been here for a few years, but it's never been so quiet,\" he said. \"I'm seeing it as the silence before the storm, I hope I'm wrong, but let's see.\"\n\nMany buildings were damaged or destroyed in bombings in Lashkar Gah and families who fled during the conflict have come back to find their homes in ruins, Dr Urosevic said.\n\n\"They're sleeping in front of the mosque, they're sleeping in the streets,\" he said. \"They don't have the funding to rebuild their homes so a lot of them have ended up being homeless or forced to stay with their relatives.\"\n\nHe said a lot of families in the area were living in poverty, struggling to get a meal during the day. With banks closed for many days, a lack of access to cash has exacerbated the problem.\n\nMany foreign aid workers who would be distributing this kind of aid left the country as the Taliban took charge. Dr Urosevic, from Serbia, is among those who decided to stay behind.\n\n\"We have a responsibility, we are the only trauma centre in the province,\" he said. \"People need food, they need money, they need medicines.\"\n\nOne of Afghanistan's poorest provinces, Badakhshan, in the northeast of the country, borders Tajikistan. The Taliban took control of its provincial capital on 11 August.\n\nDisplaced people in Badakshan back in May 2018. People in the province have been uprooted for years by the conflict.\n\nAbdul is a doctor in Badakhshan. He was a student the last time the Taliban ran the country.\n\n\"The situation at that time was very bad and their behaviour is the same as they were in the past,\" he said. \"I don't see any changes.\"\n\nAbdul sent the BBC several pictures from a hospital in the area which is now guarded by the Taliban. In one, an 18-month-old boy lies emaciated on a bed, as his mother begs for staff to save him. According to Abdul, she could not afford to feed him.\n\n\"Day by day, more children are becoming malnourished,\" he said.\n\nAccording to the UN, more than half of the children under five in Afghanistan are expected to be acutely malnourished in the next year.\n\nPoverty was already a reality for many in this province, but food and fuel prices have risen since the Taliban took charge and government employees have lost their jobs. Some are still waiting to be paid for the last few months.\n\nAbdul also fears for women's rights in the province. While female medical staff have been allowed to work, he said many other women weren't being allowed to continue with their jobs and were left wondering what lies ahead.\n\nGirls above Class 6 - above UK secondary school age - were no longer being allowed to go to school, Abdul said. \"People don't have any hope for their future,\" he said. \"There is no opportunity for people in Badakhshan.\"\n\nHerat, a Silk Road city close to the border with Iran, was seen as one of Afghanistan's most liberal. The day after US troops left, hundreds of Taliban supporters filled the streets. Others stayed home in fear.\n\nA Taliban figher on patrol in Herat, which was seized by the group on 11 August.\n\nGul had just come back from the market when he spoke to the BBC. \"All over the bazaar, the Taliban are standing with their guns,\" he said. \"You don't see many rich people or women and girls on the street now because they're all afraid of the Taliban.\"\n\nGul's wife Afsoon now can't leave the house without taking a male escort and she has to wear a burqua covering her face. \"The future for my daughter is unclear,\" she said.\n\nAnd Gul's sister, a doctor, was told to stay away from her clinic for a few weeks, he said, even after Taliban leaders told women in the medical profession they could return to work.\n\nDays later she was able to return alongside other women, Gul said. But many other women were still at home, he said, unsure if they can resume the careers they had worked for. Gul and his family are still hoping to leave Afghanistan.\n\n\"We will go anywhere,\" he said. \"America, Germany, France. Anywhere.\"", "More than 8,700 chain stores closed in British High Streets, shopping centres and retail parks in the first six months of this year, research suggests.\n\nThat is an average of nearly 50 outlets a day as the impact of the pandemic and changing shopping habits continue to hit many towns and city centres.\n\nBut despite some high-profile retail failures, the number of closures has fallen compared with a year earlier.\n\nCity centres have suffered the worst, while retail parks are faring better.\n\nThe store closure figures were collected by the Local Data Company on behalf of accountancy firm PwC.\n\n\"After an acceleration in store closures last year couple with last minute Christmas tier restrictions and lockdowns extending into 2021, we might have expected a higher number of store closures this year,\" says Lisa Hooker, consumer markets lead at PwC.\n\nShe believes continued government support combined with resilient consumer spending has helped many operators weather the storm and survive the pandemic.\n\nThe Local Data Company tracked more than 200,000 stores operated by businesses with more five outlets across Great Britain. These include everything from retail and restaurants, to cafes, banks and gyms.\n\nAs the chart below shows, although 3,488 stores opened in the first six months of 2021 the closures were far greater. A total of 8,739 shops shut creating a net decline of 5,251 outlets - a huge number, but 750 less than this time last year.\n\nFashion retailers recorded the biggest decline reflecting the collapse of Sir Philip Green's retail empire which saw his brands, including TopShop and Dorothy Perkins, disappear from the High Street.\n\nMore than 120 department stores also shut for good.\n\nThere was also a decline in car showrooms, betting shops and banks, providing yet more evidence of changing shopping behaviour and the shift to online.\n\nData also shows that store openings were at their lowest level for six years. Leisure dominated the growth with takeaway chains leading the way.\n\nAnd it is city centres that are still suffering the most, declining faster than suburban areas which are being supported by people working from home.\n\nLondon, for instance, has gone from being the best performing region in 2016 to the worst for two years running.\n\nRetail parks have fared best of all. Many are anchored by supermarkets, DIY and furniture retailers which have all done well during the pandemic.\n\nFootfall at these sites is almost back to pre-pandemic levels, showing how shoppers seem happier to drive to bigger shops than visit High Streets and shopping centres in towns.\n\nHowever, there is still an appetite for new space on the High Street.\n\nGail's Bakery has just opened a new outlet in Kew, a suburb in south west London, in what was once a branch of Barclays bank. The chain has opened four bakeries during the pandemic, seizing the opportunity to take advantage of cheaper rents and a change in consumer behaviour.\n\n\"I definitely think people are eating better food more often and more often at home and I think that's a great trend for us,\" says co-founder and chief executive, Tom Molnar. \"Instead of using Gail's as a treat, they're using it more as a staple,\n\n\"When rents go down, more creative-based businesses can survive... I do have some confidence that new ideas will come in [to the High Street],\" he says.\n\nSo is the worst now over from the turmoil of the last few years?\n\nThese latest closures follows the loss of more than 17,500 chain outlets last year.\n\n\"There are promising signs that the speed of the decline we were tracking across the worst of the pandemic is slowing,\" says Lucy Stainton, head of retail and strategic partnerships at the Local Data Company.\n\n\"That being said, the compound impact of multiple lockdowns can't be ignored and whilst a slowdown in store closures is certainly welcome, the volume of empty units across Great Britain is at a record high with no sign that the demand will ever be there to meet the supply.\"\n\nThe next six months will be make or break for many chains, according to PwC's Lisa Hooker.\n\n\"Operators are far from out of the woods... particularly with the reinstatement of full business rates for all but the smallest operators, the winding-down of furlough support and agreement yet to be reached between many operators and landlords on rent arrears, \" she says.\n\n\"But the good news is that there are some green shoots of optimism. Consumers still want a shopping experience and a number of chain stores and restaurants are opening.\"", "US Open 2021: Emma Raducanu wins and plays Shelby Rogers next in New York Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu has reached the last 16 in back-to-back Grand Slams Coverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app British teenager Emma Raducanu thrashed Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo in a one-sided US Open encounter and will face American Shelby Rogers in the last 16. Raducanu, 18, won 6-0 6-1 against world number 41 Sorribes Tormo as her overseas Grand Slam debut continued with an extraordinary win in New York. She will play Rogers on Monday after the world number 43 stunned Australian top seed Ashleigh Barty. \"My game is just getting better with each match,\" said Raducanu. After bursting on to the Grand Slam scene with a stunning run to the Wimbledon last 16 as a wildcard, the world number 150 has now matched that breakout display at Flushing Meadows. Sorribes Tormo is the highest-ranked player Raducanu has beaten in her fledgling professional career. \"I was playing very well and I know Sara is a tough opponent so I had to be on my game and worked so hard,\" said Raducanu, who won in one hour nine minutes.\n• None Andreescu and Sakkari through to fourth round\n• None Salisbury & Skupski both reach doubles last eight The manner of the teenager's victory was scarcely believable, overwhelming an industrious opponent who has reached a career-high ranking after winning 29 tour matches this year. Raducanu's power and precision was too much for Sorribes Tormo to handle. The Briton walloped 23 winners and served solidly throughout, too. Fittingly she sealed victory with another thunderous forehand winner before taking the acclaim of a New York crowd which appears to realise they are watching a star in the making. \"I had to hit through her and hit the corners,\" said Raducanu, whose number of winners outweighed 16 unforced errors. \"If you trade against her you come second best and I took the game to her and I hit more winners than errors.\" Raducanu has been a popular attraction for US Open fans on the outside courts Three months ago, few outside British tennis knew Raducanu. Then she was ranked 361 in the world. After her stunning run at Wimbledon she became a household name in the UK and is now attracting plenty of attention from the New York crowd, many of whom who wanted selfies and autographs after she beat Sorribes Tormo. Victory also means the Kent teenager is on the verge of climbing into the world's top 100. Raducanu qualified for her first major last week and, unfazed by the magnitude of playing in her first overseas Grand Slam, has continued to create a buzz at Flushing Meadows. In three qualifying matches and three main-draw matches, she has not dropped a set. \"It was an unbelievably impressive performance from such a young player. She has absolutely nothing to lose,\" former British number one Laura Robson said on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. \"We kept bigging this match up as a tough opponent - and it is a tough opponent. Sorribes Tormo has won so many matches against top players and has the game to really get you in trouble. \"But she was never in it. She didn't have the chance to play her game because Emma hit her off the court.\" Raducanu quickly stamped her authority in the opening stages, breaking 24-year-old Sorribes Tormo's serve at the third attempt in a lengthy second game. From then on it was one-way traffic as the Briton won 29 of the 42 points played in the first set. She continued to press in the second set, breaking serve at the first opportunity for a 2-0 lead. With her head in her hands, Sorribes Tormo looks shell-shocked as she trailed 3-0 at the changeover. Raducanu refused to ease off as she chased a second set to love, maintaining her intensity as the Spaniard battled to get on the scoreboard. There was a huge cheer as Sorribes Tormo did hold serve for 5-1, after fighting off a match point, but could not further delay the inevitable as Raducanu maintained her composure to serve out a one-sided victory. \"The level was silly,\" added Robson, who also reached the US Open fourth round as an 18-year-old in 2012. \"A lot of young players can hit the ball hard, but to be this consistent and be able to back yourself is unbelievable.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None The story of how the Nazis' most notorious war criminals were caught\n• None What are the six stages of ghosting? From denial to thirst traps, find out why dating is exhausting", "Boris Johnson will defend his handling of the Afghanistan crisis in the Commons as he reiterates his vow to use \"every economic, political and diplomatic lever\" to help Afghans.\n\nBoth he and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab have faced criticism over the UK's response to the Taliban takeover.\n\nThe prime minister will make a statement in the House later on Monday.\n\nIt comes after the UK's top general said \"everybody got it wrong\" on how quickly the Taliban would gain control.\n\nLabour has been among those warning that the UK could face a heightened terror threat if extremism is allowed to flourish in Afghanistan.\n\nThe last British and US troops left Afghanistan at the end of August, bringing their 20-year military campaign in the country to an end.\n\nThere has been criticism of the way the West withdrew, with questions over how the Taliban was able to seize control of the country at such speed.\n\nAnd there is also concern that many Afghans who were eligible to come to the UK - many of whom worked with the British armed forces or government - have been left behind.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, which returns on Monday from its summer recess, Mr Johnson will pledge to \"use every economic, political and diplomatic lever to protect our country from harm and help the Afghan people\".\n\nHe has previously said Western governments could withhold substantial funds from the Taliban.\n\nMr Johnson will also commend the \"courage and ingenuity\" of those involved in the UK's evacuation of around 15,000 people from the Afghan capital, Kabul.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to provide an update on the government's new resettlement programme for Afghans, which will allow a total of 20,000 people to settle in the UK over the coming years.\n\nMr Johnson will also use his Commons speech to thank the 150,000 British service men and women for their work in Afghanistan over the past two decades.\n\nHis statement comes in the week marking the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania which prompted the US and its allies to go to war in Afghanistan.\n\nIn a speech to the Royal United Services Institute, the former Labour prime minister, Tony Blair - who was in power at the time - admitted \"nearly everything about 9/11 and its aftermath, particularly now, is mired in controversy\".\n\nBut he said \"radical Islam\" continues to represent \"a first order security threat\" and leading nations, including Russia and China \"must unite to develop an agreed strategy\" to counter extremism.\n\nHe said he now accepts the West should not \"attempt what we tried in Afghanistan\" in another country and that \"for sure, we could have 'remade' better\" in Afghanistan.\n\nThe challenge now, he said, is to work out a way to deal with the threat.\n\nMr Blair added: \"Maybe my generation of leaders were naïve in thinking countries could be 'remade'.\n\n\"Or maybe the 'remaking' needed to last longer.\n\n\"But we should never forget as we see the women of Afghanistan in the media, culture and civic society now flee in fear of their lives, that our values are still those which free people choose.\n\n\"Recovering confidence in our values and in their universal application is a necessary part of ensuring we stand up for them and are prepared to defend them.\"\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson would announce an additional £5m to help military charities provide support for veterans with the aim of ensuring \"no veteran's request for help will go unanswered\".\n\nThe PM's last appearance in the House of Commons came during an emergency debate on the Afghanistan crisis on 18 August, when he faced a barrage of criticism from MPs on all sides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gen Sir Nick Carter says the Taliban managed to \"buy off\" opponents as it took over\n\nOn Sunday, Gen Sir Nick Carter, the chief of the defence staff, told the BBC the pace of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan \"surprised us\".\n\n\"I don't think what anybody predicted was how fragile that Afghan government was and how fragile it was in relation to the command of its armed forces.\"\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said there was a strong possibility that Britain may now be less safe because of the events in Afghanistan.\n\n\"The urgent task for the government... is to make sure Afghanistan doesn't collapse once again into a haven of terrorism,\" she said.", "Two people failed to resurface from a dive off Whitsand Bay\n\nTwo men are presumed to have died after they failed to return to the surface while exploring a wreck off the Cornwall coast.\n\nThe pair were diving around the HMS Scylla which was sunk in 2004 to create an offshore reef.\n\nA major search operation off Whitsand Bay continued into the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nJames Instance from Falmouth Coastguard said the pair were suspected to have died, but that had not been confirmed.\n\nHM Coastguard said it received a call at about 19:45 BST on Friday after two divers were reported trapped on a diving wreck at Whitsand Bay.\n\nMr Instance said: \"Three people had been undertaking a dive yesterday afternoon into the early hours of yesterday evening.\n\n\"There had been an issue below surface while they were exploring the wreck.\"\n\nOne of the three divers was able to return to the surface and raise the alarm, HM Coastguard said.\n\nThey are currently being treated for decompression at DDRC Healthcare in Plymouth.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said: \"Two male divers were part of a planned dive at HMS Scylla site and failed to return to the surface.\n\n\"Police are currently assessing the situation and next of kin have been informed.\"\n\nHM Coastguard said its helicopter from Newquay was joined in the search by RNLI Lifeboats from Plymouth and Looe, as well as the police.\n\n\"We were unable to locate or find anybody,\" Mr Instance said.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the people who were in the dive party who are dealing with what is a very traumatic experience.\"\n\nA couple staying in the Whitsands Bay area saw the search teams launching on Friday\n\nEmily Hadfield and Tom Gardiner witnessed the rescue efforts while staying at a nearby chalet on Friday evening.\n\n\"There was a helicopter just searching round the bay here and then half an hour later we saw the boats start to come out with search lights in the pitch black,\" Mr Gardiner said.\n\n\"It's sad, we're sat there watching TV, going to bed, and you've got that feeling that someone's in trouble or something's happening. It's not very pleasant.\"\n\nMr Instance said leisure divers were being asked to stay away from the wreck while a recovery effort was under way.\n\nProfessional dive units are being brought in to assist, the coastguard said.\n\nTwo divers from Gloucestershire died while exploring the Scylla wreck in 2007.\n\nIn 2014 divers were warned not to enter the wreck due to hazardous conditions identified by the National Marine Aquarium.\n\nIt is not clear if the two divers who went missing on Friday went inside the Scylla.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Banu Negar's family say the officer was eight months pregnant when she was killed\n\nTaliban militants in Afghanistan have shot dead a policewoman in a provincial city, witnesses have told the BBC.\n\nThe woman, named in local media as Banu Negar, was killed at the family home in front of relatives in Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province.\n\nThe killing comes amid increasing reports of escalating repression of women in Afghanistan.\n\nThe Taliban told the BBC they had no involvement in Negar's death and are investigating the incident.\n\nSpokesman Zabiullah Mujaheed said: \"We are aware of the incident and I am confirming that the Taliban have not killed her, our investigation is ongoing.\"\n\nHe added that the Taliban had already announced an amnesty for people who worked for the previous administration, and put Negar's murder down to \"personal enmity or something else\".\n\nDetails of the incident are still sketchy as many in Firozkoh fear retribution if they speak out. But three sources have told the BBC that the Taliban beat and shot Negar dead in front of her husband and children on Saturday.\n\nRelatives supplied graphic images showing blood spattered on a wall in the corner of a room and a body, the face heavily disfigured.\n\nThe family say Negar, who worked at the local prison, was eight months pregnant.\n\nThree gunmen arrived at the house on Saturday and searched it before tying members of the family up, relatives say.\n\nThe intruders were heard speaking Arabic, a witness said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There is anger at the Taliban in Kabul, but others in rural areas welcome the end of a deadly war\n\nSince taking power on 15 August, the Taliban have sought to portray themselves as more tolerant than their global reputation suggests, but incidents of brutality and repression are still being reported in parts of Afghanistan.\n\nHuman rights groups have been documenting revenge killings, detentions and persecution of religious minorities. The Taliban have said officially that they will not seek retribution against those who worked for the former government.\n\n\"No grudges, no revenge,\" was the Taliban message at their first press conference after they took power. But there's a growing chasm between Taliban statements and the message coming from the streets where every Talib has a gun and controls his own corner.\n\nIt's hard to gauge the extent of abuse and harassment, particularly of women, across this country. Horrific incidents may be isolated but there's an everyday tension now enveloping the lives of many women, especially professionals, and those who must work to feed their families.\n\nIn Kabul, everyone I've spoken to - former government advisers, airline cabin crew, teachers, hairdressers - are worried. Some are downright scared. Some are hiding in safe houses.\n\nThe Taliban continue to stress that \"women and girls will have all their rights within Islam\". But rules which are emerging, such as the new dress code and classes segregated by gender at universities, underscore how women's lives are set to change, beyond recognition.\n\nThe Taliban on Sunday gave more details of how segregation of the sexes will be enacted in universities.\n\nIn an extensive document, the new authorities said men and women must be separated, if necessary by a curtain.\n\nIdeally, women will be taught by women but if none are available then \"old men\" of good character can step in, AFP reports.\n\nFemale students must wear an abaya, or robe, and niqab, or face veil.\n\nOn Saturday, Taliban officials broke up a demonstration by dozens of women in Kabul demanding the continuation of rights built up since the end of the Taliban's previous spell in power.\n\nThe group say the Taliban targeted them with tear gas and pepper spray as they tried to walk from a bridge to the presidential palace.\n\nMeanwhile, fighting is reported to be continuing in the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul. The province is the only part of Afghanistan actively resisting Taliban rule.\n\nThe opposition National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) said its spokesman Fahim Dashti and a commander, Gen Abdul Wudod Zara, had been killed.\n\nBut the group also said a prominent Taliban general and 13 bodyguards had also died in the conflict.\n\nNRF leader, Ahmad Massoud, posted on Facebook that he welcomed a proposal from religious leaders for a negotiated end to the conflict.\n\nHe said that the NRF would be prepared to stop fighting if Taliban stopped its attacks.\n\nEarlier, the Taliban said their forces were now in the provincial capital, Bazarak, where they inflicted \"numerous casualties\", though this was disputed by the NRF.", "The West Bridgford player was taken to Queen's Medical Centre after he collapsed during the match at their Regatta Way Ground\n\nA young footballer has died after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during an FA Youth Cup game.\n\nDylan Rich, 17, was taken to hospital after collapsing during the match between West Bridgford Colts and Boston United in Nottinghamshire.\n\nThe game on Thursday evening at the Regatta Way ground was abandoned and Dylan died on Sunday.\n\nWest Bridgford Colts said his death had \"left everyone involved with our club devastated and heartbroken\".\n\nThe club previously confirmed their player was treated with a defibrillator at the ground before paramedics arrived.\n\nA spokesman added: \"It is with great sadness that, following the events of Thursday evening, we have to announce the tragic passing of Dylan Rich.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers go out to his parents Mike and Anna, his sister Lucy and Dylan's family, friends and teammates.\"\n\nThe club also thanked the \"wider football community\" for their messages over the last few days.\n\nIt said it would be supporting players and staff affected by Dylan's death.\n\nBoston United also paid tribute saying it was a \"tragic conclusion\".\n\nThe FA released a statement saying everyone at the organisation was \"deeply saddened by the tragic news\" of Dylan's death.\n\n\"We send our deepest condolences to his family, friends and everybody at the club at this very difficult time.\n\n\"We would like to recognise the courageous response of all those who reacted quickly to the situation at the FA Youth Club fixture on Thursday evening and we thank the emergency services for their efforts.\n\n\"We ask that the privacy of both his family and the club is respected at this time.\"\n\nDozens of football clubs have also been paying tribute to the teenager on Twitter, including Nottingham Forest and Notts County.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nottingham Forest FC ❤️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Notts County FC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Glasgow company has been fined £150,000 for making more than half a million nuisance marketing calls.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found that DialADeal Scotland Ltd (DDSL) had made the unsolicited calls between August 2019 and March 2020.\n\nThey were about non-existent Green Deal energy saving schemes, including boiler and window replacement, loft insulation and home improvement grants.\n\nThere were more than 500 complaints - one of the highest numbers received.\n\nThe calls were made to telephone numbers which had been registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) where people had not given their permission to receive them. This is against the law.\n\nThe complaints suggested that DDSL had used several false trading names and the ICO's investigation found that the company also disguised the telephone numbers they were calling from. This is also illegal.\n\nKen Macdonald, head of ICO regions, said: \"DialADeal were breaking the law on a number of fronts, not only were they making calls to people without their permission, they were also hiding their identity using false names and spoof numbers.\n\n\"Calls about Green Deal schemes can be a real problem as people often believe they are legitimate but, thanks to the complaints made by the public, we've been able to take action.\n\n\"Companies making similar nuisance calls should take note, we use our powers where we see serious breaches of the law.\"\n\nAs well as issuing the fine, the ICO has also given the company an enforcement notice ordering it to stop making unsolicited marketing calls and has successfully blocked its attempt to be struck off the Companies House register to try and avoid paying any fine.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland secured a predictably comfortable win over Andorra at Wembley as the smooth path to next year's World Cup in Qatar continued with a fifth successive victory in their qualifying group.\n\nManager Gareth Southgate made 11 changes from the side that won 4-0 in Hungary in readiness for arguably the toughest test in European Group I, in Poland on Wednesday.\n\nLeeds United striker Patrick Bamford was given a debut but was unable to find the net in the usual one-sided contest against Andorra, although their damage limitation exercise was relatively successful until the last 20 minutes.\n\nJesse Lingard gave England the lead with a left-foot finish after 18 minutes but it then took then until the 72nd minute to double their advantage when Harry Kane, on as substitute for Bamford, scored his 40th goal for his country from the penalty spot after Christian Garcia fouled Mason Mount.\n\nAndorra, inevitably, tired and Lingard got his second and England's third with a low shot that the evaded the grasp of Andorra keeper Josep Gomes.\n\nAnd in a moment greeted with real joy around Wembley, Arsenal's Bukayo Saka, whose last Wembley experience was missing the decisive penalty in England's Euro 2020 Final loss to Italy, celebrated his 20th birthday by scoring with a neat header five minutes from time.\n• None Player rater: Lingard tops your votes but will Man Utd stay harm England hopes?\n• None England forward Saka 'does not need closure' - Southgate\n\nEngland's performances, both individual and as a team, must all be shaped by the context of an Andorran opposition that currently nestles neatly between New Caledonia and the Dominican Republic in 156th place in the current Fifa rankings.\n\nWhat is surely beyond dispute, however, is that England have a genuine rising star in their ranks in Borussia Dortmund's 18-year-old Jude Bellingham.\n\nThe youngster who emerged at Birmingham City before following England team-mate and new Manchester United signing Jadon Sancho to Dortmund carries the hallmark of quality in everything he does.\n\nAnd while this opposition may be low in the rankings, it should also be noted that Bellingham has also looked as extraordinarily composed and at home in an England shirt in pretty much every international he has played.\n\nOne early moment of sleight of foot had the Wembley crowd on their feet in appreciation and he subsequently cruised around looking unflustered and a cut above everyone else on the pitch until he was removed from the action by Southgate.\n\nBellingham has been earmarked as a youngster destined for an outstanding career as soon as he came to prominence at Birmingham and he has done nothing since to change the widely-held view that England have a performer of the very highest stature on their hands.\n\nLingard's chances may be limited at Manchester United this season but his bright and breezy presence, along with two goals, repaid manager Southgate's faith that he can make an important contribution to England's World Cup qualifying campaign.\n\nAnd there was a moment of real elation late on when Saka headed home to make England's victory even more convincing.\n\nSaka was devastated when he missed the final penalty in the shootout as England lost the Euro 2020 final at Wembley in July, and was subjected to disgraceful racist abuse in the immediate aftermath.\n\nThe Arsenal youngster has been welcomed with genuine warmth even on opposition grounds since and his name was greeted with huge cheers every time it was announced at Wembley.\n\nIt was the perfect finale for Saka and England when he scored the fourth goal.\n\nHis joy was reflected in the reaction of his team-mates, who rushed to celebrate with him in a show of real delight for their young team-mate.\n• None Chus Rubio (Andorra) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Tyrone Mings (England) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jesse Lingard (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Cucu (Andorra) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! England 4, Andorra 0. Bukayo Saka (England) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jesse Lingard with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nGreat Britain won two more bronzes on the final day of action at the Tokyo Paralympics to bring the curtain down on another successful Games.\n\nThe men's wheelchair basketball team beat Spain 68-58 to finish third for the second time in a row while Krysten Coombs took bronze in the men's SH6 badminton singles.\n\nEarlier, David Weir finished fifth in the men's T54 marathon as Switzerland's Marcel Hug won his fourth gold of the Games.\n\nIt means that GB finish second behind China in the medal table with 41 golds, 38 silvers and 45 bronzes to make 124 in total.\n\nThey won medals in 18 of the 19 sports they competed in, only missing out in shooting.\n\nBritain won 64 golds and 147 medals at Rio 2016, but were helped to those greater totals by the absence of Russian athletes banned after revelations of state-orchestrated doping.\n\nTheir Tokyo tallies are higher than the 34 golds and 120 overall medals won on home soil at London 2012.\n\nParalympicsGB chef de mission Penny Briscoe told BBC Radio 5 Live that the team had \"rewritten the history books\" and praised their \"phenomenal efforts\".\n\nGB rely on 'heart' to finish on a high\n\nWheelchair basketball player-coach Gaz Choudhry said the win over Spain was a result of \"being resilient and being courageous\".\n\nChoudhry took over the coaching duties after head coach Haj Bhania tested positive for Covid-19 prior to departure for Japan.\n\nFollowing the bitter disappointment of losing to Japan in Friday's semi-final, GB had to raise their game one more time. After trailing 30-28 at the break, they put in a storming third quarter to finish it 50-40 up and they held on in the final quarter for a fourth bronze from the past five Games.\n\nChoudhry top-scored on 19 points and Terry Bywater paid tribute to the role played by the 36-year-old throughout the Games.\n\n\"We can't say enough about Gaz, the way he's led this team and brought us together - the bond we have in this group is something really special,\" said Bywater.\n\n\"I've got five Paralympic bronze medals but it's fair to say this one means just a bit more because of all the sacrifices we've made and tough times we've had.\"\n\nChoudhry played down his own achievements\n\n\"We've had so many knock-backs all summer. This game just came down to heart,\" he said.\n\n\"This bronze medal is for everyone else. We know where we were, but now we've won it, it definitely feels more than a bronze. But this team deserves a gold.\"\n\nCoombs, who outside his sport does some acting and has appeared in an episode of Game of Thrones, came into the Paralympics ranked fifth in the world.\n\nA win in the group stage over team-mate Jack Shephard helped him get into the last four where he lost to India's Krishna Nagar.\n\nDespite losing the first game to Brazil's Vitor Tavares, the 30-year-old came through to win 12-21 21-10 21-16 to follow Dan Bethell's silver medal in the SL3 event.\n\n\"Being here has been amazing but to come away with a medal is brilliant,\" he told Channel 4.\n\n\"I'm shocked and overwhelmed. I can't believe it but I've been working so hard.\n\n\"Having the sport at the Paralympics will do so much for it all over the world.\"\n\nBritain's Matt Skelhon and Lorraine Lambert both missed out on a place in the final of the last event on the shooting programme, the R6 mixed 50m rifle prone SH1.\n\n\"Today, I think I couldn't handle the pressure. I really lost it,\" said Skelhon, who won bronze in the event at London 2012 and was Paralympic champion from 10m in 2008.\n\n\"It has been a really tough week. I am well out of competition practice, and it showed out there.\n\n\"My confidence is low and I went out and tried as hard as I could but I think that just put even more pressure on myself. I gave it everything and it wasn't enough.\n\n\"I think 90% of it is mental - if the equipment is on point then the rest is mental - knowing you're at a level to compete with others but we really haven't had that with no exposure to competition for two years.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nScotland kept their World Cup qualification dream alive with a nervy but deserved win over Moldova thanks to Lyndon Dykes' tap-in at Hampden.\n\nThe Scots missed chances and endured uneasy moments in equal measure after Nathan Patterson created Dykes' goal.\n\nHead coach Steve Clarke had suggested Group F had reached a \"pivotal\" moment and so it could prove after this and Israel's win over Austria.\n\nIsrael sit second, with Scotland up to third before Tuesday's trip to Vienna.\n\nClarke had wanted an improved performance as well as the three points against the group's bottom side but said he would settle for a first win in five outings.\n\nIn the end, he got the latter and half a performance, with a first 45 minutes full of vigour before a disjointed second that nevertheless keeps Scotland in the hunt for reaching their first World Cup finals since 1998 at the group's halfway stage.\n\nClarke's team selection reflected his pre-match warning that this was a \"must-win\" game.\n\nThe six changes from Wednesday's defeat in Denmark added speed and an attacking threat that had the visitors pinned back in their own half for an opening spell in which Moldova head coach Roberto Bordin had promised to frustrate the Scots.\n\nJust as Clarke's decision to start captain Andy Robertson at right-back in Denmark appeared to backfire, handing Patterson a first start in that position, and likewise Kevin Nisbet up front, proved the undoing of Bordin's plan.\n\nCaptain Igor Armas had returned from suspension for Moldova, but the towering centre-half's pass was intercepted by Patterson, the Rangers right-back played a one-two with Nisbet and, when his low shot could only be palmed clear by goalkeeper Cristian Avram, Dykes was presented with a simple tap-in at the back post.\n\nA wave of blue was now flowing towards the visiting goal and Kieran Tierney ought to have done better than have a downward close-range header touched over by Avram and likewise Robertson fired wastefully over.\n\nScotland were almost made to pay for those misses when midfielder Mihail Ghecev fired a yard wide and defender Maxim Potirniche's header threatened the back post.\n\nThere were further tense moments for the home side early in the second half before Billy Gilmour, who was otherwise excellently marshalling the midfield, somehow fired wide with only Avram to beat.\n\nRyan Christie did likewise, shooting over after being set up by substitute David Turnbull before a busy Hampden Park breathed a collective sigh of relief as their team survived a late flurry of desperate pressure from visitors ranked a lowly 175th in the world.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nScotland had scored once in four games without a victory before defeating Moldova and goals remain the Achilles heel for Clarke's side.\n\nHowever, they have given themselves a fighting chance of finishing runners-up behind a Denmark side who now appear out of sight, five points clear at the top.\n\nPatterson shook off early nerves to give Clarke food for thought at right-back even once Stephen O'Donnell is fully fit, while Nisbet proved himself at this level with his part in the goal.\n\nDykes at times was anonymous, but with four goals in his last five games for club and country, the Queens Park Rangers striker is the match winner Scotland might need in Austria.\n\nWhat they said\n\nScotland head coach Steve Clarke: \"It was important we played on the front foot. I think we did that. It was important to get a clean sheet. We did that as well. So a good night for us.\n\n\"We had to win the game tonight otherwise Tuesday would probably be a dead rubber. You always need that second to avoid that nervy five minutes at the end.\n\n\"If you are not creating chances, you are more worried than if you are creating chances and not scoring, but we created a lot of good chances and 1-0 is enough to get the three points.\"\n• None Scotland gained just their second victory in their last 11 competitive matches under Steve Clarke, losing five, having won six of their previous eight and drawing two.\n• None Moldova have lost 14 of their last 17 away matches in qualifying for major tournaments, losing their last 10 in a row by an aggregate score of 28-1.\n• None Scotland have won six of their last nine home World Cup qualifiers, drawing three, and keeping clean sheets in all six victories.\n• None Lyndon Dykes netted his first international goal since October 2020, ending a run of 12 matches without one for Scotland.\n• None Scotland defender Kieran Tierney three attempts on goal - all on target - were more than any other player in the match.\n• None Captain Andrew Robertson became the 33rd player to reach 50 caps for Scotland, with only Paul McStay, Kenny Dalglish and Darren Fletcher reaching the milestone at a younger age than the 27-year-old.\n\nScotland travel to face an Austria side in Vienna on Wednesday (19:45 BST) who will be smarting from their 5-2 humbling in Israel.\n• None Offside, Scotland. Craig Gordon tries a through ball, but Che Adams is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Ryan Christie (Scotland) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by David Turnbull.\n• None Offside, Scotland. Liam Cooper tries a through ball, but Che Adams is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Grant Hanley (Scotland) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Kenny McLean with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The storage limit for eggs, sperm and embryos would be increased from 10 years to 55 years under government plans\n\nStorage limits for eggs, sperm and embryos will go up to 55 years under government plans that ministers say will give people greater choice over when to start a family.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said the current limit of 10 years was \"severely restrictive.\"\n\nModern freezing techniques mean eggs can be stored indefinitely without deterioration, research from the Royal College of Obstetricians has suggested.\n\nThe Department for Health said there would be extra conditions around third party donors and use of a person's frozen cells after they have died.\n\nCurrently, when the 10 years is up, prospective parents must decide whether to undergo fertility treatment or have the cells destroyed, unless samples have been stored due to medical procedures, such as chemotherapy for cancer.\n\nUnder the new system, they would be given the option to keep or dispose of the frozen cells or embryos at 10-year intervals.\n\nMr Javid said: \"This new legislation will help turn off the ticking clock in the back of people's minds.\"\n\nHe added: \"By making these changes, we are going to take a huge step forwards - not just for giving people greater freedom over their fertility, but for equality too.\"\n\nHe said extending the time limit \"protects the ability of all our patients to make reproductive choices for themselves as individuals and couples.\"\n\nJulia Chain, chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, said the earlier a woman froze her eggs the better the chance of a successful IVF pregnancy later.\n\nShe said: \"This will give women a lot more choice and flexibility about when they can start having their families.\"\n\nWhat is egg, sperm and embryo freezing?\n\nIt is a way of preserving fertility by collecting eggs, sperm or embryos and storing them so it may be possible to have a baby at a later date.\n\nThe process involves collecting around 15 eggs through IVF, cooling them quickly then storing them in tanks of liquid nitrogen.\n\nThe eggs are then thawed when needed, and those that have survived intact will be injected with sperm.\n\nSperm samples are usually divided between a number of containers called straws before freezing so they can be used in multiple treatments.\n\nEmbryos are frozen during fertility treatment in case the first round is not successful or to try for a sibling.\n\nThey can be frozen when they're just a single cell, at the two to eight cell stage or later in their development.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "People will need vaccine passports to get into nightclubs under new rules\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf says the benefits of vaccine passports for entry to nightclubs and other large events outweigh the concerns and are preferable to another lockdown.\n\nIn July, Mr Yousaf told the BBC he was sceptical about the passports due to fears of increasing the inequality gap.\n\nHowever, he now says circumstances have changed and steps have been taken to resolve the issues.\n\nThe passports are due to be brought in at the end of the month.\n\nThe plans will apply to indoor and outdoor events but will need to be approved by MSPs next week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the move was needed to help stem the recent surge in the number of cases.\n\nLatest figures showed a further 6,107 people had tested positive, with the number of people in hospital doubling in the past 10 days.\n\nAnd several areas of Scotland are among the regions with the highest rates of the virus in Europe.\n\nThe new vaccine certification rules mean people over the age of 18 will need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to:\n\nThe new rules will affect many sporting events in Scotland - particularly football matches - as well as concerts and music festivals.\n\nConcerns have been raised by nightclub owners about the fairness of passports being brought in for some venues and not others, while the SPFL said it had \"a significant number of questions and real concern\" about the plan.\n\nIn July, Mr Yousaf highlighted concerns that the passports \"might increase the inequality gap, and there would be ethical issues\".\n\nAnd after the UK government set out its plans to introduce passports in England, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said he did not believe it was right to exclude people who did not want to be vaccinated.\n\nOnce again we find ourselves at a worrying stage in the pandemic. So why not just bring back restrictions?\n\nFor one thing - vaccines are extremely effective at preventing serious illness, and in Scotland almost 70% of the entire population is now fully jagged. For most of this group, visiting a restaurant, heading out to the shops or meeting up with a group of people should be relatively safe.\n\nThat's why there is no desire to impose blanket restrictions that would also be economically very hard to justify.\n\nBut the alternatives are limited.\n\nOne is to find incentives to encourage younger people to get vaccinated. That's why the government is now pushing for vaccine passports despite it being controversial.\n\nThey also need to step up efforts to target other groups where uptake is low.\n\nReminding people to use rapid lateral flow tests as more people head back into workplaces might help, as well as basic measures like wearing masks and improving ventilation in buildings.\n\nAlso encouraging people to follow the new isolation rules and get tested quickly if they have been in contact with a positive case.\n\nFor now this seems to be the plan as officials continue to scrutinise the data in the hope that this wave of cases is about to plateau.\n\nHowever, on Thursday, Mr Yousaf told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme the problems of people who did not have smartphones being unable to access the QR codes needed had been resolved as, from Friday, paper copies would include the codes.\n\nHe said vaccine passports had never been ruled out.\n\n\"We have put on the table, quite clearly, what some of our concerns are,\" he said. \"But our circumstances have now changed. Cases have increased 80% in the last week. A month ago our test positivity was 5% - it's now over 11%.\"\n\nHe said that limiting the scheme to very specific events and venues was \"a demonstration of the fact that we still have concerns\".\n\nBut he added: \"The benefits of a certification scheme, in terms of a public health intervention, in terms of incentivising vaccination, those benefits outweigh the concerns that still remain.\"\n\nMike Grieve, director of the Night-Time Industries Association Scotland, told the programme the policy was \"incoherent\" and \"inconsistent\" as, for instance, a large pub could let hundreds of people in without the passports but they would be required at a small nightclub next door.\n\nHe said: \"There is zero consistency there. If you look at live music venues - standing capacity up to 500 - no vaccine passport - nightclub 250-300 capacity - vaccine passport. Where is the logic behind that?\"\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"Nightclubs have consistently been deemed high risk venues due to lack of ventilation and largely those attending are amongst the younger cohort where the uptake of the vaccine is lower. We also know that the behaviours exhibited in nightclubs in terms of close contact are high risk.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole Hamilton said the passports were actually \"health ID cards by any other name\".\n\nHe added: \"For the first time in Scottish society, private citizens will be asked to evidence treatment that they've had in order to access venues and services or provide their private medical data to a complete stranger in order to get into a football ground or a nightclub.\n\n\"We believe this is unnecessary. It's not been demonstrated to us how this is a tool of infection control - this feels more like state control.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is keen for more people in the younger age group to get vaccinated\n\nResponding to claims that the passports would mean people were more likely to \"drop their guard\", Mr Yousaf said: \"Even if you are in these settings with both doses of the vaccine, the virus is still there - you can still catch it. It's important that people still exhibit good behaviours and demonstrate caution.\"\n\nHe said the scheme was not being introduced immediately to allow time to gain parliament's approval, to give businesses time to prepare for it and to enable some tweaks to be made to the NHS app so it recognised the QR codes.\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"Ultimately, we are bringing this forward because we don't want to reimpose restrictions but that is always an option we have to consider, particularly if we see the rise in cases we saw last week.\"\n\nHe said early indications were that the rate of increase was beginning to slow down but the government would also \"want to keep an eye on the enormous pressure on the NHS\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Wednesday that although the hospitality industry as a whole would not be included in the certification scheme that decision would be kept under review.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - will be exempt.\n\nSeveral other European countries - including France, Italy and Ireland - have already introduced certification.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire broke out on Saturday evening and will last for some time, fire services say\n\nMore than 60 firefighters have been tackling a blaze which broke out at a plastics recycling facility in Torfaen.\n\nSouth Wales and Mid and Wales Fire Services sent 14 appliances and seven officers to Capital Valley Plastics, in Blaenavon, at about 21:40 BST on Saturday.\n\nNeighbouring properties were advised to keep doors and windows closed due to a \"large smoke plume\" from the fire.\n\nTwo fire engines and a high volume pump have now scaled it down.\n\nThe fire has reduced significantly since Saturday evening\n\nThe fire, which was \"well-alight\", left no-one injured, a spokeswoman said.\n\nTravel disruptions in the area are expected after Gwent Police closed the road to allow crews to deal with the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gwent Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None Firefighters battle to bring house blaze to an end", "Pat Hume, pictured here with her husband in 2010, was the \"perfect partner\" for John\n\nPat Hume has been described as the most \"extraordinarily strong woman, with the softest, most gentle manner\".\n\nThe widow of the late SDLP leader and Nobel prize winner John Hume died on Thursday after a short illness, aged 83.\n\nFormer Irish President Mary McAleese paid tribute to Mrs Hume saying she was \"the perfect partner\" to John Hume.\n\nMrs Hume worked alongside her husband from the beginning of the civil rights movement in Londonderry in the 1960s.\n\nHer death comes just over a year after the death of her husband.\n\n\"She was a nurturer, she was a coper,\" said Dr McAleese, who recently spent a day with Mrs Hume.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, the Hume family said they were \"heartbroken\", adding that she \"died as she lived - surrounded by family, peacefully and generous to the end\".\n\nThe family paid tribute to the medical staff who cared for their mother in her final days.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster, Dr McAleese said John relied on Pat for her \"wisdom and advice\".\n\n\"Pat was an extravagantly wise woman, she had a huge wisdom,\" she added.\n\n\"I don't know anybody who I have met in my life who was more rounded and more grounded than Pat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"She was able to synthesise common sense, compassion, political nous in a way that was really, really special and absolutely essential to John.\"\n\nDr McAleese said Mrs Hume \"never looked for the limelight... but boy is she deserving of a mountain of praise.\"\n\nFoyle MP and current SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said Mrs Hume has left \"a tremendous legacy for everyone in Derry and across Ireland\".\n\n\"John always said: 'I'm the parcel and Pat delivers me.'\n\n\"That was true,\" he added.\n\n\"I genuinely don't believe any of the of the things John achieved would have been possible without Pat.\n\n\"She just had such strength and also belief in what they were doing, she was as driven to bring about a peaceful, and just Ireland as he was.\"\n\n\"The people of Derry and the people of Ireland owe them both a great debt.\"\n\nPat Hume was, according to her husband John, his rock and key adviser throughout his long political career.\n\nAs a journalist in the north west, you were always very keen to get Pat Hume's insight into current political developments.\n\nHer brain was so sharp and she was able to cut through a lot of the spin and nonsense - delivering lines you wouldn't hear from politicians.\n\nI always found her very frustrating, but very frustrating in a nice way.\n\nThe more I tried to question her, and get advice and a steer from her, the more she would ask me about my family, my career and how things were going for me.\n\nYou always came away from meeting her having unburdened yourself, without having gleaned the information you were hoping to get.\n\nLike her husband John, she was always interested in people and that cut to the core of what they were about as a couple.\n\nThey were very much rooted in the Derry community and were more interested in the people around them, than mixing with the great and the good.\n\nPat Hume's name never appeared on an election ballot paper, but her influence on the political path in Northern Ireland stretched far beyond many politicians.\n\nJohn and Pat Hume with David Trimble and Hillary Clinton in Belfast in 2012\n\nPaying tribute to Mrs Hume on Friday, former US President Bill Clinton said that she \"played an enormous role\" in helping to achieve peace in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"All of us who were blessed by the way she lived her life and advanced her cause with such grace and good humour will be forever grateful,\" he said.\n\nHillary Clinton, former US secretary of state and presidential candidate, described her as \"a gracious, determined force behind the achievement of peace in Ireland\".\n\nMrs Clinton added that the Humes \"made the world a better place and set an example for us all\".\n\nFormer Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker Mitchel McLaughlin said Pat Hume was \"one of the bedrocks of the peace process who kept her nerve at the worst of times\".\n\n\"She didn't flinch, John Hume didn't flinch and they prevailed in the end,\" the former Sinn Féin Foyle MLA said.\n\nWhen talks with the Sinn Féin leadership were held at the Humes' home in Derry, Pat \"set the atmosphere for constructive and calm conversation\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfailingly, no matter the circumstances, Pat Hume was always steady, steadfast, she clearly was across all the discussions.\n\n\"She was always focused on finding ways through the disagreements and I think John Hume was benefitting from her advice on an ongoing basis. I think republicans benefitted as well, I know I certainly did.\"\n\nJohn and Pat Hume pictured beside one of Mr Hume's election poster in 1999\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Mike Nesbitt, a trustee of the John and Pat Hume Foundation, said the Hume's shared a view of Northern Ireland politics that was ahead of its time.\n\n\"Everybody else was talking about a divided society and the negativity of that, John and Pat were talking in a very positive way about the benefits of the fact we have a very diverse society,\" he told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\nHe said she was \"more than just John's rock\" and along with Daphne Trimble, wife of former Ulster Unionist party leader Lord Trimble, had played a key role in supporting victims and survivors of the Troubles.\n\nLady Trimble said she shared a \"warm friendship\" with Mrs Hume.\n\n\"She was one of the best, simply one of the best people I have ever met,\" she said.\n\nHer friend will be sorely missed, she added.\n\nMrs Hume's work continued during the Troubles, through to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.\n\nShe ran her husband's Foyle constituency office dealing with community issues, housing and poverty in Derry.\n\nMrs Hume, a former teacher, was awarded the Irish Red Cross Lifetime Achievement award in 2018.\n\nA foundation honouring John and Pat Hume's peace and reconciliation work was launched in November last year.\n\nA book of condolence has opened in the main hall of Derry's Guildhall.\n\nThe city's Mayor Graham Warke said it would allow people to \"offer the people the chance to pay their respects and say thank you to a remarkable and courageous woman\".\n\nMrs Hume's funeral Mass will be held at St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry at 11:00 BST on Monday.\n\nMembers of the public are invited to watch the service live via webcam.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGareth Bale completed a match-winning hat-trick deep in injury time to spare Wales from embarrassment against Belarus in Russia and keep alive their hopes of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup.\n\nWales made the ideal start as the first of two Bale penalties gave them an early lead, but they unravelled in two calamitous first-half minutes as goals from Vitali Lisakovich and Pavel Sedko put Belarus in front.\n\nLisakovich scored from the spot after Chris Gunter was penalised for a raised foot, before an unmarked Sedko punished shambolic defending from Wales, who were fortunate not to be further behind at half-time.\n\nBale scored his second penalty to bring Wales level midway through the second half and, in the third of four minutes of injury time, the captain came to his country's rescue with a low shot that squirmed under Belarus goalkeeper Sergei Chernik and into the net.\n\nAfter losing their opening match of the campaign to group leaders Belgium, Wales could ill afford to draw this game, never mind lose it.\n\nAnd having stared at an ignominious defeat in Kazan which would have effectively ended their aspirations of qualifying automatically for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, this fortuitous victory keeps the dream intact, no matter how improbable it may be.\n\nOnly the group winners qualify automatically and Group E leaders Belgium, ranked number one in the world and unbeaten in their four matches to date, remain overwhelming favourites ahead of the second-placed Czech Republic and Wales, who are third with a game in hand.\n\nRobert Page's side have another five games to catch their rivals - starting against Estonia in Cardiff on Wednesday - but, even at this early stage, the play-offs look like their likeliest route to a first World Cup appearance since 1958.\n\nFinishing second in their group would secure a play-off spot, but Wales at least have the peace of mind that winning their most recent Nations League group has all but ensured their passage to the play-offs.\n\nThat might have been what most would have expected of Wales when they were drawn in such a challenging group but, after this escape act against a Belarusian side 89th in the world rankings, they still have an outside chance of overhauling Belgium.\n\n'Nightmare' almost comes true for Wales\n\nThis was very nearly a nightmare come true for Wales, whose preparations for this game had been disrupted like never before.\n\nOn top of the 10 players absent because of injury, suspension and Covid-19, they were without a further three as a result of visa issues.\n\nThat was because the game was moved to Kazan in Russia as teams from the United Kingdom and the European Union cannot enter Belarus by air because of sanctions against the country's government.\n\nNo wonder, therefore, that Page had described this fixture as a \"nightmare logistically\" - but Wales were still expected to beat a Belarus team 70 places below them in the Fifa rankings.\n\nThey looked well placed to do so when they were awarded a penalty inside five minutes. Bale latched on to a lofted ball into the Belarus penalty area by Ben Davies and, after taking a touch, the Wales captain was clattered to the ground by Chernik.\n\nBale sent the Belarus skipper the wrong way with his penalty, firing into the bottom-right corner to end a run of 16 matches without an international goal stretching back to 2019.\n\nWales took control from that point and had chances to extend their lead, with Joe Allen having a shot saved by Chernik and Daniel James pushing another narrowly wide.\n\nHowever, after half an hour the contest was turned on its head as Wales imploded.\n\nGunter was the first to err with a high boot on Nikolai Zolotov, which Lisakovich punished with a thunderous low penalty, and then centre-backs James Lawrence and Chris Mepham were both horribly out of position as Sedko scored Belarus' second.\n\nThe home side, albeit on neutral ground, should have been further ahead by half-time but Aleksandr Sachivko and Danila Klimovich both squandered fine opportunities.\n\nThose were to prove costly misses as Wales were awarded a second penalty when Davies was pushed in the back as he attempted a header on goal. Bale, who had missed a spot-kick during Euro 2020 this summer, scored his second of the game as he sent Chernik the wrong way once again.\n\nWales knew a draw was of no real use against such lowly opposition but their desperate late attempts to score a winner looked destined to amount to nothing.\n\nThat was until the ball fell to Bale inside the box and, with just a minute of added time left, his low left-footed strike snuck under Chernick and rolled over the line to complete his hat-trick and Wales' late heist.\n• None Goal! Belarus 2, Wales 3. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Daniel James.\n• None Attempt saved. Mark Harris (Wales) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Mark Harris (Wales) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Joe Morrell with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Chris Gunter (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Vitali Lisakovich (Belarus) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Vladislav Klimovich.\n• None Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Offside, Wales. James Lawrence tries a through ball, but Mark Harris is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nGreat Britain's team have \"rewritten the history books\" with their performance in Tokyo, says ParalympicsGB's chief Penny Briscoe.\n\nGB won 124 medals, including 41 golds, to finish second in the medal table behind China.\n\nWhile those tallies are a drop on Rio five years ago, Britain won medals in 18 of the 19 sports they entered, a new team record.\n\n\"It's been an incredible Games for ParalympicsGB,\" Briscoe said.\n\n\"We're absolutely delighted with the performance of the team.\"\n• None GB finish Paralympics with two more bronzes\n\nChef de mission Briscoe believes the return of Russian athletes - competing under the flag of their Paralympic Committee after they were banned in 2016 - made replicating Rio's medal totals improbable.\n\nBritain won 64 golds and 147 medals overall in Rio after claiming 34 and 120 respectively at London 2012.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"The medal total was always going to be difficult in terms of the return of Russian athletes. But for 18 out of 19 sports to deliver medal success was an absolutely phenomenal effort by the team.\n\n\"We've rewritten the history books out here in Tokyo.\"\n\nThe Winter Paralympics begin in Beijing in six months' time with the next edition of the summer Games in Paris only three years away.\n\n\"It has been a monumental effort,\" said Briscoe of the Tokyo campaign. \"It has been challenging, complex and incredibly demanding. Not only in the 12 days we've been competing but in the 18 months leading up to the Games.\"\n\nThe 12 days of action were brought to an end in a shimmering closing ceremony that celebrated Japan's mix of cutting-edge technology and distinctive culture as well as commemorating the unique challenges of holding the Games during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBoccia gold medallist David Smith carried the Great Britain flag, while the parade into the Olympic Stadium included the Afghanistan flag, which was carried by their two competitors, Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli. They had been evacuated from Kabul before making it to Japan in what was described as \"a major global operation\".\n\nThe pair had arrived late in Tokyo and missed the opening ceremony.\n\nAfter a performance that evoked classic console games and karaoke and a solemn acknowledgement of the healthcare workers behind the scenes, Paris, the next host, took centre stage.\n\nA collection of French Tokyo 2020 medal winners, joined by Olympic counterparts, musicians and circus performers, cheered beneath the Eiffel Tower, with the famous landmark given a prosthetic running blade in place of one of its four legs in a computer-generated image.\n\nSeiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Organising Committee who competed at seven Olympic Games as a track cyclist and speed skater during her sporting career, paid tribute to the athletes.\n\n\"The indomitable spirit of all those who have overcome difficulty has illuminated this stage,\" she said.\n\n\"We were overwhelmed by your astonishing performances. The long and arduous paths you have travelled shook us all to the core.\"\n\nThe Games signed off with athletes and performers coming together in a rendition of Louis Armstrong's jazz standard What a Wonderful World.\n\nThe staging of the Games amid the pandemic has shown the Paralympic movement is \"stronger than ever before\", according to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Andrew Parsons.\n\nThe Games, like the Olympics earlier in the summer, took place behind closed doors with Covid-19 case numbers in Japan breaching 25,000 per day for the first time four days before their start.\n\n\"I think these Games were just sensational,\" he said.\n\n\"The sport was unbelievable, world records were broken in every possible sport. Performances were fantastic. To think that these athletes have prepared for these Games under the circumstances of the pandemic, facing restrictions, is unbelievable.\n\n\"It's proof that the Paralympic movement is stronger than ever before.\"\n\nParsons hopes to have all sports shown live in 2024\n\nFinancial constraints meant that there was no live television coverage of wheelchair fencing, powerlifting and Para-taekwondo at the Tokyo Games.\n\nParsons said he hoped to have live coverage of all sports at Paris 2024.\n\n\"In Rio there were 13 events covered live and here in Tokyo we are running 19 sports live,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Of course we would like to have the 22 sports being played live on TV but at the end of the day it's a matter of resources and broadcasting rights.\n\n\"I was frustrated to not be able to have these sports live but also on the flip side we made great progress from going from 13 in Rio to 19 here in Tokyo.\"\n\nParsons added that the IPC will take \"a more targeted approach\" in adding new sports to the Paralympic programme after seeing the response to karate, baseball, skateboarding, climbing and surfing at the Tokyo Olympics.\n\nThe Paris 2024 sports selection mirrors Tokyo, although wheelchair basketball is still waiting for final confirmation that it will be included because of changes to its classification rules that have been demanded by the IPC.\n\nAny significant changes to the Paralympics programme would only take effect from Los Angeles 2028.\n\n\"We will be more proactive in selecting sports that we think will be appealing or that the host nation might think will be interesting,\" Parsons said.\n\nSarah Storey delivered three of Britain's golds with victory in the individual pursuit, time trial and road race to claim her 15th, 16th and 17th Paralympic titles of a career that has spanned eight Games and two sports.\n\nStorey has now surpassed swimmer Mike Kenny as the most successful British Paralympian of all time.\n\nWhile the 43-year-old intends to compete again at Paris 2024, in part to give her three-year-old son Charlie the chance to experience the Paralympics in person, other British legends will not be back next time.\n\nFive-time champion swimmer Ellie Simmonds and Libby Clegg, who did the T11 sprint double on the track in Rio, have said that Tokyo marks the end of their Paralympic careers.\n\nHowever, a new generation of stars emerged, led by swimmer Reece Dunn, who was Britain's most successful athlete at the Games, winning five medals, including three golds.", "No trains will be running between Glasgow and Edinburgh on Sunday, due to engineering works and strike action.\n\nScotRail said there would also be no replacement buses running between the two cities.\n\nStrikes among conductors have been taking place every Sunday since the end of March in a dispute over overtime pay.\n\nOn Thursday, ScotRail engineers also voted for industrial action after pay talks with management collapsed.\n\nAbout 250 workers, who maintain and repair ScotRail trains, backed strike action and other measures.\n\nThe Unite union said this industrial action was likely to take place from the middle of September.\n\nIt said operator Abellio ScotRail had rejected a number of demands, including a \"substantial\" pay increase, greater flexibility of holidays, and no compulsory redundancies.\n\nThe ballot returned a vote of 78% in favour of strike action from a 68.4% turnout.\n\nScotRail has said passenger numbers and its income have plummeted due to the pandemic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ScotRail This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe key routes currently affected can be found on the ScotRail website.\n\nRMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said: \"Our members who have stood firm for over six months in this fight for pay justice and equality in the face of continued provocation from the employer are a credit to the entire trade union movement. They have never wavered and remain absolutely rock solid and determined again today.\n\n\"This week a parallel issue over the imposed pay freeze stepped up a notch with sister unions joining the fight for justice.\n\n\"Our campaign of action continues and it is now down to ScotRail, Transport Scotland and the senior politicians who call the shots to take these essential workers seriously, get out of the bunker and get round the table with the union to negotiate a fair and just settlement. \"\n\nIn December 2019, Abellio was stripped of the contract to run ScotRail services by the Scottish government amid criticism of performance levels.\n\nThe Scottish government announced in April that the franchise would be taken over by a public sector body from the end of March next year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nothing of significance has been found during the latest search for clues to the suspected murder of Claudia Lawrence, police have confirmed.\n\nThe 35-year-old chef has not been seen since she failed to turn up for work at the University of York in March 2009.\n\nPolice began a search of Sand Hutton gravel pits, about eight miles (13km) outside the city, on 24 August.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said some items, with no obvious link to Ms Lawrence, were being assessed.\n\nLeading the inquiry, Det Supt Wayne Fox said \"nothing of obvious significance\" was located during searches of part of the wooded area and in the smaller of the two lakes at the site.\n\nHe said separate strands of information had been received which led to the two-week search at Sand Hutton.\n\n\"When we assessed these separate and independently-sourced pieces of information against the wealth of information already generated during the last 12 years, we found they correlated with other information pointing to the area of Sand Hutton,\" he said.\n\nOne of two lakes at the site was drained during the search\n\nSpecialist officers could be seen searching the exposed lake bed\n\nDet Supt Fox added that officers had consulted with national experts and concluded they could not discount the \"possibility that Sand Hutton gravel pits could have a major relevance in explaining what happened to Claudia\".\n\nHe said the force had been duty bound to conduct thorough searches.\n\n\"Not searching was not an option - not for Claudia, not for her family and not for the wider public,\" he added.\n\nThe searches at Sand Hutton involved draining the smaller of the two lakes and combing through extensive woodland that surrounds both lakes.\n\nDet Supt Fox said while a small number of items were recovered during the two-week search, which were being assessed for their forensic potential, any relevance to Ms Lawrence's disappearance had not currently been established.\n\nA large number of specialist officers worked at the Sand Hutton search site for two weeks\n\nThe disappearance of Ms Lawrence sparked one of the longest running and highest profile missing person cases in the UK.\n\nShe was last seen at 15:05 GMT on Wednesday 18 March 2009 as she walked towards her home on Heworth Road, York.\n\nThat evening she spoke to both of her parents in separate phone calls, but failed to arrive for her shift at Goodricke College the following day.\n\nHer father, Peter Lawrence, reported her missing on 20 March. A friend of Ms Lawrence's had called him after she did not turn up at a local pub on the evening of 19 March.\n\nA number of people have been questioned in connection with her disappearance, but no charges have ever been brought.\n\nAccess to the area was restricted and a police cordon was put in place while searches continued\n\nDet Supt Fox said the publicity surrounding the latest search had prompted members of the public to come forward with new information, which would be assessed and investigated.\n\nHe added North Yorkshire Police was not liaising with any other police force about the information received.\n\nHe said the force remained committed to establishing what had happened to Ms Lawrence.\n\n\"You cannot fail to be moved by the ongoing suffering of a mother who does not know what has happened to her daughter,\" he said.\n\n\"I again repeat the request to those who know what has happened to Claudia to do the right thing, come forward and help end the torment of Claudia's family.\"\n\nMs Lawrence's father died in February without ever finding out what had happened to his daughter.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Furniture giant Ikea is struggling to supply about 1,000 product lines as a shortage of HGV drivers continues to hit businesses.\n\nThe company said the shortage of products, including mattresses at some stores, was down to Covid and Brexit.\n\nBusinesses ranging from flu vaccine suppliers to food and drink firms have also been suffering from supply issues.\n\nThe government has previously said it is \"working closely with industry to address sector challenges\".\n\nIkea said that all 22 of its UK and Ireland stores were having supply problems with 10% of its stock, or around 1,000 product lines.\n\n\"Like many retailers, we are experiencing ongoing challenges with our supply chains due to Covid-19 and labour shortages, with transport, raw materials and sourcing all impacted. In addition, we are seeing higher customer demand as more people are spending more time at home.\n\n\"As a result, we are experiencing low availability in some of our ranges, including mattresses.\"\n\nThe retailer apologised and said it hoped the situation would improve \"in the coming weeks and months\".\n\n\"What we are seeing is a perfect storm of issues, including the disruption of global trade flows and a shortage of drivers, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic and Brexit,\" Ikea said.\n\nThere has been disruption in the global container shipping industry due to the pandemic, while Brexit labour shortages span from lorry drivers to meat production workers.\n\nLabour problems linked to Brexit are also hitting meat production.\n\nThe National Pig Association warned on Sunday that there was a backlog of 85,000 pigs on farms dues to a significant shortage of abattoir workers, and that this figure was growing at 15,000 per week.\n\n\"If processors continue not to take the pigs they will have to go somewhere,\" said National Pig Association chief executive Zoe Davies.\n\n\"If the government doesn't act soon to alleviate labour shortage in plants, farmers will be forced to make difficult choices.\n\n\"The last thing we want to see is pigs being destroyed on farms and the meat wasted, so we are talking to processors about options.\"\n\nShe added that the government does not appear to have \"the slightest interest in helping us here which I find both incredibly disappointing and galling in equal measure considering this situation is entirely within their gift to resolve\".\n\nBusinesses across the board have been hit by supply chain problems which hauliers have blamed on Covid and Brexit.\n\nFlu jabs in England and Wales have been delayed due to the HGV driver shortage, and food firms including Tesco and Iceland have said there could be shortages of some products in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nWetherspoons ran short of some beer brands, but downplayed the link to Brexit, instead saying the shortages were down to industrial action. Unions, however, say this industrial action never took place.\n\nBrewers Heineken and Molson Coors, and fast food chains McDonald's, KFC and Nando's were also hit by supply issues.\n\nThere is a shortage of more than 100,000 drivers in the UK, according to the Road Haulage Association.\n\nDuring the pandemic as travel restrictions came in, many European lorry drivers went home to their own countries, and then decided to work elsewhere.\n\nThere have also been tax changes which mean it's now more expensive for foreign drivers to work in the UK.\n\nLogistics firms have been calling for the government to allow temporary work visas for lorries in the short term to try to alleviate the problem.\n\nBut the government has consistently said that firms have to do more to find UK drivers.\n\nIt has previously said: \"We're working closely with industry to address sector challenges, which are similarly being faced by other countries around the world.\n\n\"This includes plans to streamline the process for new drivers to gain their HGV licence and to increase the number of driving tests able to be conducted.\n\n\"We want to see employers make long-term investments in the UK domestic workforce and make employment more attractive through offering training, careers options and wage increases.\"", "Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding has died at the age of 39, her mother has said.\n\nShe had retreated from the limelight re-emerging last August to announce that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.", "City Road was closed to traffic but has since reopened\n\nFive people have been taken to hospital after reports of an assault in Cardiff.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the five had \"superficial injuries\" following the incident on City Road at about 14:45 BST.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it sent its hazardous area response team to the scene and took two of the people to hospital.\n\nThe police appealed for anyone with mobile phone or dashcam footage to send it to them.\n\nPolice cordoned off part of the pavement\n\nPolice have appealed for mobile phone or dashcam footage", "A woman who raised concerns about the safety of children at an NHS gender clinic has been awarded £20,000 in an employment tribunal case.\n\nSonia Appleby is children's safeguarding lead for Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the Gender Identity Development Service.\n\nThe tribunal ruled that the way the trust treated her had damaged her professional reputation.\n\nThe trust said it was disappointed by the tribunal's decision.\n\nIt added that it was considering the ruling carefully, saying: \"It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nGids is England's only NHS gender service for children. There are clinics in London and Leeds.\n\nAs the child safeguarding lead at the trust, Ms Appleby's job meant protecting children at risk from maltreatment, and stopping impairment of children's health or development.\n\nThe tribunal heard that a number of staff brought concerns to Ms Appleby. The concerns included the high numbers of children being referred to Gids, and \"a worry that some young children are being actively encouraged to be transgender without effective scrutiny of their circumstances\".\n\nMs Appleby then reported these concerns to her line manager.\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust specialises in mental health, and the gender clinic is a service within it\n\nIt heard evidence that after this, instead of addressing the concerns, the trust management attempted to prevent her from carrying out her safeguarding role in what Ms Appleby described as a \"full-blown organisational assault\".\n\nThe trust denied treating Ms Appleby unfairly, claiming that aspects of her allegations affected the way she was treated and that she had been \"accusatory in approach\".\n\nThe tribunal concluded that Ms Appleby was subjected to \"quasi disciplinary treatment\" and there was \"obvious unfairness\" in the way she had been dealt with by the trust.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Appleby said that the decision to go to court had been an overwhelming one, but she was extremely pleased with the outcome.\n\nLast year the BBC's Newsnight programme reported concerns from some staff at Gids.", "Fawziyah Javed died after falling from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh\n\nPolice have named a woman who fell to her death from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.\n\nFawziyah Javed died at the scene shortly after the fall in Holyrood Park at about 21:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe 31-year-old was from Pudsey in West Yorkshire.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that a 27-year-old man had been charged in connection with her death and was expected to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday.\n\nDet Insp Bob Williamson said: \"Fawziyah's family ask for their privacy to be respected during this extremely difficult time.\n\n\"I'd like to thank the officers and partners who attended the scene on Thursday evening and have assisted with our ongoing inquiries.\"\n\nPolice confirmed that Fawziyah Javed was from Pudsey in Leeds\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As a member of Girls Aloud, Sarah Harding was part of Britain's most successful girl group of the 21st Century.\n\nThe band was formed on the hit TV talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. Harding, then aged 20, is pictured above centre, with two other hopefuls.\n\nShe narrowly won a place in the girl group, who christened themselves Girls Aloud and performed in public for the first time at the G-A-Y nightclub in London.\n\nNicola, Nadine, Sarah, Cheryl and Kimberley went straight to number one with their debut single Sound Of The Underground.\n\nThat was the start of a stellar career for the group, who scored four UK number one singles and a total of 21 top 10 hits.\n\nTheir other hits included No Good Advice, Jump, I'll Stand By You, Love Machine, Something Kinda Ooh, Call The Shots, The Promise and Something New.\n\nIn 2007, they teamed up with fellow girl group Sugababes to release a version of Walk This Way as the official Comic Relief single.\n\nIn total, Girls Aloud sold 4.3 million singles and four million albums.\n\nThey were nominated for five Brit Awards, winning the trophy for best single for The Promise in 2009.\n\nHarding also branched out into acting, playing ambitious beautician Sam opposite Dominic Cooper in BBC drama Freefall in 2009.\n\nAfter having a cameo in the first St Trinian's remake in 2007, Harding took a main role in the sequel.\n\nShe was the final member of Girls Aloud to launch a solo music career, releasing the Threads EP in 2015.\n\nTwo years later, she was crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brother.\n\nShe stepped out of the public eye after 2018, and broke the news about her cancer diagnosis two years later.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Louis Watkiss, 12, was injured at the SnowDome on Friday\n\nA 12-year-old boy who died after he was injured at an indoor ski centre has been named as Louis Watkiss.\n\nStaffordshire Police were called to the SnowDome in Tamworth on Friday to reports a child had been seriously injured.\n\nAmbulance crews attended the scene, but Louis, from Sutton Coldfield, died at the scene a short time later.\n\nOfficers are continuing to investigate the circumstances, with support from the Health and Safety Executive.\n\nThe family are being supported by officers.\n\n\"We would ask everyone to respect the family's right to grieve in private during this extremely difficult time,\" the force said.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said previously its workers tried to save Louis, who died \"after an incident on the slope\".\n\nA man who was also injured in the incident did not need treatment.\n\nThe venue, which has been closed since Friday, said in a statement: \"The directors and staff are deeply shocked by what happened, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this terrible time.\n\n\"An investigation is currently being carried out by the authorities, and we are giving it our full co-operation.\"\n\nAlan White, leader of Staffordshire County Council, said he was shocked by the \"tragic news\".\n\n\"We must wait for the circumstances to be established, but I would offer my deepest sympathies at this terrible time to the family and friends of the deceased and to everyone affected by this tragedy,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, police urged members of the public not to share any images or footage from the incident.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Boy, 12, dies after being injured at SnowDome\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stevie-Jo Kirkpatrick had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia and was being treated at Glasgow's super hospital campus\n\nA cancer specialist told the mother of a patient at Glasgow's super hospital that her daughter would be safer at another hospital, an inquiry has heard.\n\nAnne Marie Kirkpatrick's daughter Stevie-Jo was being treated for leukaemia at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus. She then contracted a hospital infection.\n\nMrs Kirkpatrick has given evidence to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry.\n\nShe said she was told the best way to keep her child safe was by moving her.\n\nMrs Kirkpatrick explained that her daughter had been first diagnosed with cancer in 2014 when she was nine years old.\n\nAfter a relapse in 2017, Stevie-Jo was treated at the new Royal Hospital for Children (RHC). In 2018 she contracted listeria meningitis, And then in 2019, she had a course of cancer treatment halted when she started developing painful lumps and lesions on her body.\n\nTest results showed she had developed mycobacterium chelonae - a rare infection - that likely came from a water supply in one of the hospital's operating theatres.\n\nHer life-saving chemotherapy had to be finished six months early due to her needing immediate treatment for the hospital-acquired infection.\n\nMrs Kirkpatrick said she had asked for a meeting with Professor Brenda Gibson who looked after Stevie-Jo, and a microbiologist, after they had been examining showers in patients' rooms for mould.\n\nShe said Professor Gibson had reflected on her situation and advised her that the best plan was to send her daughter to complete her treatment in Dumfries, where the family lived.\n\nNow 17, Stevie-Jo spoke at the inquiry, telling Lord Brodie that the new infection led to her developing a green, pus-filled, golf-ball sized sore and suffered painful lumps throughout her body which bled and left scars.\n\nShe said she was moved to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary as it was felt she would be safer there and that she was now \"scared\" of the Glasgow hospital site and suffers panic attacks because of this.\n\nShe said the QEUH campus site constantly smelled of sewage, making her feel more sick.\n\nProblems with the water supply there led to her being asked to use bottled water and being unable to shower, making her feel the water \"wasn't safe\".\n\nMs Kirkpatrick said that unlike the previous Yorkhill facility, the young cancer patients were kept in isolation \"constantly\" so she felt \"lonely\", there were no TVs in the rooms and fans which were needed cool the \"boiling\" temperatures were removed.\n\nShe said the Yorkhill unit had double doors to \"keep it purified\" but the new site did not and she was told by a staff member the ventilation was only \"30% of what it should be\".\n\nA nurse told her about people contracting the cryptococcus infection, hearing that pigeons got in the ventilation of the hospital.\n\n\"It was a worry how far it would travel and people were getting sick from it,\" she said.\n\n\"I was worried. I had a really low immune system then, well, I didn't have one.\"\n\nQEUH and the RHC in Glasgow are currently at the centre of an investigation over issues at the flagship Glasgow hospitals which have been linked to the deaths of two children.\n\nIt was ordered after patients at the Glasgow hospital died from infections linked to pigeon droppings and the water supply.\n\nStevie-Jo had to stop cancer treatment early due to an infection\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mrs Kirkpatrick told the hearing that her daughter was still suffering with the infection, which she claims doctors said could take up to five years to fight off.\n\nShe said an independent case note review panel found that it was very highly probable the infection came from the water supply in the operating theatre in the RHC.\n\n\"It concluded that the infection has had a severe impact on my daughter's life, and it is continuing to have a severe impact on her life,\" she said.\n\nMrs Kirkpatrick told the inquiry she was aware about water issues in Ward 2A of the RCH, but was told \"umpteen times\" that other areas of the hospital were safe.\n\nShe said: \"To find out the hospital has inflicted more pain and could have taken our child's life is devastating.\"\n\nIn a closing statement, Mrs Kirkpatrick said: \"I don't feel safe in the hospital, and I know for a fact that my daughter certainly doesn't feel safe.\n\n\"It's not just the infections, I don't even feel the actual building is safe. I don't feel that the structure of the building is safe.\n\n\"I don't feel that the health board has got the kids' best interests, or their care is at the centre of it.\"\n\nThe Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow is one of the facilities being looked at in the inquiry\n\nEarlier this year, an independent review found the deaths of two children at the QEUH campus were at least in part the result of infections linked to the hospital environment.\n\nOn Saturday, it emerged that the police have launched a criminal investigation into a number of deaths at the QEUH campus, including that of 10-year-old Milly Main.\n\nMilly's mother recently told the inquiry her child's death was \"murder\".\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has now instructed police to investigate the deaths of Milly, two other children and 73-year-old Gail Armstrong at the Glasgow campus.\n\nIt is understood the probe could lead to criminal charges or a fatal accident inquiry.\n\nNHSGGC and NHS Lothian will give evidence to the inquiry, chaired by Lord Brodie, at a later point.", "The speed limits have been introduced in a bid to cut air pollution\n\nDrivers breaking the speed limit on some of Wales' most polluted roads could face fines from next week.\n\nCameras have been installed at five locations in south and north-east Wales, where 50mph zones have been introduced.\n\nThe Welsh government said air pollution had already been cut by up to 47%.\n\nFrom 4 October, warning letters will be sent to those breaking the limits - with the worst offenders facing prosecution.\n\nThe speed limit on the M4 between junctions 24 and 28 in Newport changed to 50mph in March, with average speed camera enforcements to be introduced at a later date.\n\nThe M4 stretch through the Brynglas tunnels in Newport will change from a variable limit to a fixed 50mph\n\nAll the A-roads are dual carriageways, where the 70mph limit would otherwise apply.\n\nThe new zones were introduced after the Welsh government agreed to work on new plans to tackle air pollution following legal proceedings in 2018.\n\nFigures for 2020 and 2021 showed nitrogen dioxide at the five locations had generally been below the legal limit, due to reduced traffic because of the pandemic.\n\nThere are three 50mph areas being enforced across south Wales\n\nTwo parts of north-east Wales will have the new enforced limits\n\nBut with traffic now returning to pre-pandemic levels, the Welsh government said it wanted to see \"better compliance\" in those areas.\n\nClimate change deputy minister, Lee Waters, said things needed to be done differently if climate change was to be tackled.\n\nThe A494 between Ewloe and the border with England will be covered by the enforcement zone\n\nHe said the speed limits were working but enforcement was essential \"to achieve the reductions we need to make in the shortest possible time\".\n\nTeresa Ciano, manager of road safety partnership GoSafe, said enforcement would inform people of the importance of obeying the speed limit, and prosecute the \"most dangerous\" drivers.", "Beautician Aimee Simpson wants to buy her first home in Edinburgh but cannot afford to\n\nAimee Simpson has spent years saving for a one-bedroom flat. She's 28, works as a beautician and has sacrificed a social life to raise £30,000 for a deposit.\n\nThe problem is, Aimee - who still lives with her parents - wants to buy a place near her work in Edinburgh.\n\nWith the biggest rise in house prices for 14 years, she can find nothing in her price range in a city squeezed by a shortage in affordable homes and rocketing rent costs.\n\n\"A lot of the new builds are just too expensive because they're at a premium,\" she said.\n\n\"I've looked at more rundown properties that I would do up, but you're up against property developers - with bigger budgets.\n\n\"It is a struggle and you just hit walls everywhere you look.\"\n\nWhen Aimee left school in May 2011, the average price for a flat in Edinburgh was £164,252. Today, it's £236,608.\n\n\"It's really disheartening,\" she told BBC Scotland's Disclosure programme.\n\n\"I feel like I could work seven days and still not be any better off.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aimee, from Edinburgh, and Katherine, from Skye, are both facing struggles finding somewhere to stay\n\nShe thought about applying to the Scottish government's Low-cost Initiative for First Time Buyers (Lift) scheme, which offers financial assistance for a share in the property.\n\nBut the scheme's cap for one-bedroom properties in Edinburgh is just £125,000.\n\nIts rules also state the purchase price can't be higher than a property's Home Report valuation - meaning it is unlikely to be used in the city's competitive market.\n\nLift is now the only government-backed assistance for first-time buyers in Scotland.\n\nAimee added: \"I just feel like Edinburgh's my home. I want to be near my family.\"\n\nOver the last 10 years, the average price of a home Edinburgh increased by £100,000\n\nBBC Scotland's Disclosure has been hearing from young people either priced out of home ownership in the city or unable to find affordable rent.\n\nAs well as the increase in average house prices, Edinburgh has seen steeper rises in rent prices - around 46% - than any other part of Scotland.\n\n\"The market just now is absolutely frantic,\" said Gary Middlemass, an Edinburgh estate agent with 40 years' experience.\n\n\"There is simply not enough properties coming on. When something does come on the market there tends to be a lot of interest, which pushes up prices.\"\n\nHowever, two Scottish government schemes to aid first-time buyers are coming to an end.\n\nThe Help to Buy scheme, which supported more than 17,000 new build house sales over the last eight years, is closed to new applications and will end in March 2022.\n\nLast year, 80% of those accessing the scheme were first-time buyers, more than half of purchases involved two people and the average household income of applicants was £42,000.\n\nMeanwhile, the First Home Fund, which assisted 9,000 buyers in just over a year, has been closed despite its early success.\n\nThe Scottish government has said the decision to scrap the schemes is a result of cuts to its financial transaction budget by the UK government.\n\nHouse builders say their cancellation will \"limit the life choices\" of young people hoping to buy a home.\n\n\"I've got real concerns about the people in the middle, those who can't get on to the housing market,\" said Nicola Barclay, chief executive of industry body Homes for Scotland.\n\n\"They're earning just a little bit too much, so they can't get a social house. And private rent is stopping them from saving up the kind of deposits that they need to then move onto the housing ladder.\n\n\"Their choices are just really limited now.\"\n\nShe highlighted that in England the Help to Buy scheme still exists and is targeted at first-time buyers. Another initiative has also been introduced in England called First Homes, which is a form of shared ownership.\n\n\"We have nothing equivalent in Scotland now,\" said Ms Barclay.\n\n\"I think it is so unfair that a young adult who has chosen to live and work in Scotland, is unable to buy a house whereas if they had exactly the same job in England, they could do.\"\n\nEstate agents say there are not enough properties coming on to the market at the moment\n\nHousing Secretary Shona Robison described first purchase figures as \"very buoyant\" but defended the decision to close both initiatives.\n\n\"The evidence was showing us that actually people using that [Help to Buy] scheme could afford to buy their own home,\" she said. \"But with government assistance they were perhaps buying a bigger property and a more expensive property.\n\n\"We have a judgement to make with limited resources. We believe the best investment for those resources is to help those who could not afford to buy their own home without government assistance.\"\n\nIn 2007, the Scottish government predicted house price inflation would cause problems for lower income families. Then Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said 35,000 homes of all types had to be built a year to reset the balance.\n\nHowever, Scotland's house building industry has yet to return to the pre-financial crash levels of 25,000 a year.\n\nThe rising costs in Edinburgh has also put pressure on the city's social housing stock, with 21,000 applicants currently on the waiting list.\n\nIn the last decade, more than 8,300 affordable homes have been built in Edinburgh with 2,100 under construction\n\nFamilies find themselves either priced out by rising rent costs, or given notice to leave their homes as landlords looking to sell take advantage of the increase in house prices.\n\n\"I'm not going to pretend it is easy for people, \" said housing convenor, councillor Kate Campbell.\n\n\"We have 6,000 people who are currently homeless and we don't have a huge supply of social housing, that's why we're building more.\"\n\nIn the last decade, 8,390 affordable homes have been built in the city. Another 2,100 are currently under construction.\n\nMeanwhile, the city is also seeing a growth in so-called \"Build to Rent\" properties - private rented flats aimed at those unable to afford a mortgage but unlikely to get into social housing.\n\nAcross Scotland, nearly 10,000 are in the pipeline, with more than 3,000 in Edinburgh.\n\nThe Scottish government has pledged to build 110,000 affordable homes - 70% of which will be social rent - before 2032.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'There's six of us in this tiny flat'\n\nBut some families are still waiting years for a suitable home.\n\nMichael Urquhart, his partner Kara, and their four children have been on Edinburgh's social housing list for 10 years.\n\nThey've had six privately rented homes in that period and have spent time in one of the city's homeless bed-and-breakfasts.\n\nThey are currently living in a two-bedroom ex-council flat in the Prestonfield area and bid for social housing each week on the city's online EdIndex system, which sees hundreds of applications per property.\n\nMichael said: \"I think I'm probably going to be here for at least another couple of years, just because the bidding's not going well.\n\n\"I'd rather just keep myself here, until I can get my forever home.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's their dream and their livelihoods\"\n\nAlmost 500,000 requests have been made for Northern Ireland's high street voucher scheme - but some people complained that they could not access the website used for the process.\n\nEveryone aged 18 and over can apply for a £100 \"spend local\" card to use in shops before the end of November.\n\nThere were problems with the application page on the NI Direct site after it opened on Monday morning.\n\nEconomy Minister Gordon Lyons said \"not everybody has to rush at once\" to it.\n\nSome people complained on social media that the website had crashed on them while others said they had not received a verification message after entering their email address.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme on Monday, Mr Lyons acknowledged there was \"huge demand\".\n\nBy Monday evening, there had been 475,081 requests for an applications link, 200,994 links issued and almost 97,000 applications completed, he said.\n\nMr Lyons said the verification messages were being sent \"in a staged process just to make sure the website isn't overwhelmed all at once\".\n\nHe added that almost 15% of the population had started their applications.\n\n\"There is a card available for everyone that is eligible so I would encourage people to apply for that over the coming weeks,\" he said.\n\nEconomy Minister Gordon Lyons has been promoting the voucher scheme in recent weeks\n\nThe cards are expected to arrive between seven and 10 days after you apply.\n\nThey can be used in any shop with a card machine but cannot be used online or for gambling or legal services like penalties.\n\nA phone application service will open on 11 October for anyone who does not have access to the internet.\n\nThe online and phone application processes will remain open until 25 October.\n\nThe £145m scheme is designed to boost activity in businesses hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, like non-essential retail and hospitality.\n\nHigh streets and town centres were already facing a tough time before the pandemic began with the rise in online shopping.\n\nIt is hoped the voucher scheme will encourage more people to go out to shops, which could help the economic recovery.\n\nThere has been a warning, however, that fraudsters may attempt to target the scheme.\n\nEddie Lynch, the commissioner for older people, said there had been reports of cold callers in Newtownards attempting to scam people out of handing over their bank details after promising to help with their applications.\n\n\"We have seen this all too often over many years where people latch on to issues and try to target older people and others to scam them from their money,\" he said.\n\n\"It's about raising the awareness of that and making sure people are vigilant.\n\n\"If anyone does call you to help you with this scheme that you don't know, just either close the door or put down the phone.\"\n\nIt's finally here after almost a year - the high street voucher scheme was first suggested last November.\n\nTiming is key for this policy in order to make sure it has the maximum economic impact.\n\nBut as we head into this winter, the wider economic conditions mean consumers are facing a \"cost-of-living crunch\".\n\nThings like rising energy bills as well as an end to both the furlough scheme and uplift in universal credit mean many consumers won't be able to afford to spend their £100 on a treat.\n\nThey may instead be forced to spend it on essentials, for example a weekly grocery shop in one of the big supermarkets which were never forced to close.\n\nThe scheme's success will depend on how and where shoppers choose to spend their £100.\n\nLinda McHenry, who owns a women's clothes shop in Ballymoney, County Antrim, said she hoped people would think of the card as a bonus.\n\n\"Support your local independent shops - this is their dream, it's their livelihood,\" she said.\n\n\"Come out and experience again what it's like to physically shop for the day.\"\n\nSome businesses are already working on incentives and offers to try to encourage people to choose to spend with them.\n\nOne shop owner said: \"If they don't come and support independents, there won't be any.\"\n\nFor example, one electronics retailer is already offering customers an additional 10% discount.\n\nShop owner Andy Kilpatrick said: \"We want to help shoppers make their voucher go that little bit further.\n\n\"We appreciate it's also tough times for people out there looking for Christmas presents and things so by giving an extra 10% that could help improve people's shopping budgets.\"\n\nPresident of Ballymoney Chamber of Commerce Winifred Mellett said the town's independent retailers were providing \"brilliant promotions\".\n\n\"I'm not going to tell you what they are at the moment because we are going to wait for a few days and then surprise everybody,\" she said.\n\nMs Mellett also owns a women's clothes shop in the town, and has worked on the shop floor for decades.\n\n\"We felt that shoppers were drifting away from independent shops and now, all of a sudden, they are coming back and that's a feeling that's come from Covid,\" she said.\n\n\"If they don't come and support independents there won't be any and what would the high street be like?\n\nSome businesses are working on offers to try to encourage people to choose to spend with them\n\nLondonderry Chamber of Commerce chief, Paul Clancy, said the voucher scheme has been \"badly needed\".\n\n\"It is great to have a real positive story for the High Street, to get people back on the High Street and increase the footfall.\n\n\"We would love to see it spent in the local, smaller shops that have really struggled, that would be great. But at the end of the day money going back anywhere into the local economy is good for everybody,\" he said.\n\nThe trade organisation Retail NI has urged shoppers to spend their voucher cards in locally-owned, independent shops.\n\nIts chief executive Glyn Roberts also expressed some concern that the online portal could be overwhelmed if everyone tries to apply as soon as it opens to the public.\n\n\"With a scheme of this ambition and size we are bound to experience some problems and would urge shoppers to be patient,\" he said.\n\n\"If people can wait a few days before making their application, hopefully we can avoid any delays or problems with a rush on the online portal and they will receive their voucher on a timely basis.\"\n\nMr Roberts also said that 70p in every £1 spent with an independent retailer \"is recycled around the economy, supporting local producers and manufacturers\".\n\n\"As the scheme opens and consumers are thinking about how to spend their voucher, we would strongly encourage them to use with local independent retailers,\" he added.\n\nAodhán Connolly, director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, said the voucher scheme would provide a \"welcome boost\" during a \"lull time in retail and hospitality\".\n\n\"For me, the main thing about this is to get people back on the high streets, to get them to rediscover the high streets and actually one of the knock-ons from this is that people can see it is safe and welcoming to return to high streets across Northern Ireland,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"As long as they are spending it on bricks and mortar retail, that's all that we can ask.\"", "Hospitals in England have been given the green light to ease some of the Covid infection-control measures that have been in place during the pandemic.\n\nThe changes, recommended by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), are aimed at easing pressure on the NHS.\n\nIt says testing and isolating patients before planned operations can be dropped and hospitals can return to normal cleaning procedures.\n\nSocial distancing can also be reduced from 2m (6ft) to 1m in some areas.\n\nMore than five million people are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England and hundreds of thousands have been waiting more than a year.\n\nAlthough the government has announced an extra £5.4bn over the next six months to respond to the backlog caused by the pandemic, ministers have warned waiting lists could get worse before they get better, as more people come forward.\n\nUKHSA chief executive Dr Jenny Harries said the new recommendations would help local hospitals plan more elective care.\n\n\"This is a first step to help the NHS treat more patients more quickly, while ensuring their safety and balancing their different needs for care,\" she said.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"As ever more people benefit from the protection of our phenomenal vaccination campaign, we can now safely begin to relieve some of the most stringent infection controls where they are no longer necessary, to benefit patients and ease the burden on hardworking NHS staff.\"\n\nHospitals are being advised to revert to standard cleaning procedures between patients\n\nThree recommendations relate to elective care in NHS and social care:\n\nLocal hospitals will be left to decide when and how these changes are introduced.\n\nGuidance on which measures can be relaxed in GP surgeries, dentists and for ambulance trusts are still being considered.\n\nThe recommendations were based on reviews of evidence and broad agreement from experts in infection prevention and control, the UKHSA said.\n\nDr Simon Clarke, associate professor in cellular microbiology, from the University of Reading, said the recommendations seemed \"reasonable\" but there would be some patients with false negative test results who could end up on wards with vulnerable patients.\n\nAnd he said it was \"corner cutting\" to remove enhanced cleaning measures in hospitals.\n\n\"Enhanced cleaning is common in healthcare settings which are exposed to influenza patients so it seems that penny pinching by removal of enhanced hygiene measures may well lead to transmission of Covd-19 and other infections in our hospitals,\" Dr Clarke said.\n\nHospitals should continue to follow current guidance on the wearing of personal protective equipment (PPE), the UK Health Security Agency advised.", "Accountancy firm Grant Thornton has been fined £2.3m for failures in its audits of collapsed cake chain Patisserie Valerie.\n\nThe fine was for audits carried out between 2015 and 2017, regulator the Financial Reporting Council said.\n\nIt said Grant Thornton had \"missed red flags\" and failed to \"question information provided by management,\"\n\nGrant Thornton admitted to not following audit rules. It must report annually to show how it is improving.\n\nDavid Newstead, who carried out the audits, was also fined £150,000 for his role in signing off the accounts.\n\nClaudia Mortimore, deputy executive counsel to the FRC, said: \"This decision notice sets out numerous breaches of relevant requirements across three separate audit years, evidencing a serious lack of competence in conducting the audit work.\"\n\nThe fine was originally £4m, but was adjusted for aggravating and mitigating factors and discounted to £2.34m.\n\nMr Newstead's £150,000 fine was adjusted to £87,750 for the same reasons. In addition he has been banned from carrying out audits for three years.\n\n\"The package of financial and non-financial sanctions should help to improve the quality of future audits,\" said Ms Mortimore.\n\nGrant Thornton - Britain's sixth largest accountancy firm - had previously been fined £650,000 in December 2019 over the botched audit of a listed company.\n\nThe Financial Reporting Council said it fined the accounting firm after it identified a series of errors surrounding its work for an unnamed company in 2016.\n\nIn October 2018, Patisserie Holdings announced that its board had been notified of potentially fraudulent accounting irregularities.\n\nThe company subsequently entered into administration, leading to the closure of 70 stores and more than 900 job losses.\n\nThe collapse followed the discovery of a huge black hole in the firm's accounts, eventually valued at £94m.\n\nAfter it went into administration, the cafe chain was found to have overstated its cash position by £30m and failed to disclose overdrafts of nearly £10m.\n\nIn June 2019 five people were arrested and questioned over the alleged accounting fraud, the Serious Fraud Office reported.\n\nA spokesperson for Grant Thornton said the company has invested significantly in audit practice since the scandal.\n\nHe added: \"We have co-operated fully with the FRC and acknowledge the investigation's findings relating to our audits in 2015-2017.\n\n\"We regret the quality of our work fell short of what was expected of us in this instance.\"\n\nA civil case had previously been launched against Grant Thornton by liquidators at FRP Advisory, claiming the auditor was negligent.\n\nPatisserie Valerie was an unusual corporate collapse. Most come with some type of warning - a whistleblower, a deteriorating trading performance or the resignation of key executives - but the bakery chain simply imploded. It had expanded quickly and appeared to be in the rudest financial health until it realised its accounts were a fiction. The cash position was wildly inflated and there were two bank loans of which the board was not aware.\n\nThe shares were suspended in October 2018, and despite an emergency cash injection from shareholders led by chairman Luke Johnson, the company was put into administration the following January. A management buyout meant a slimmed down version of the chain continues to trade. That might have been the end of it, but the timing of the default meant it led to profound reform in the mechanism of safeguards around British companies, some of which are still being implemented and indeed bickered over.\n\nThere had been a similar failure 10 months earlier, when Carillion, a giant construction and services group, also ran out of cash. With Carillion, there were more warnings, but eventually its accounts also proved to be wildly at odds with the reality of its financial position. Its demise led to calls for changes to how audits are conducted, and when the bakery chain went under, those calls became deafening.\n\nSeveral reviews of auditing and the audit profession were set in motion. The largest of these was the Kingman review, named after its chairman Sir John Kingman, the former Treasury mandarin who now chairs the FTSE 100 insurance and savings group Legal & General. He recommended the creation of a new regulator, which is due to become reality in two years' time. The big audit firms have also had to separate their audit arms from the rest of their accounting business - and look at proposals to share their work on the largest companies with smaller firms.\n\nThe spokesperson for Grant Thornton said: \"We will continue to rigorously defend the civil claim brought by Patisserie Valerie's liquidators, which ignores the board's and management's own failings in detecting the sustained and collusive fraud which took place.\n\n\"We recognise that there were shortcomings in our audit work; however, our work did not cause the failure of the business.\"", "Labour says it will \"bring back neighbourhood policing\" in England and Wales if it wins the next election.\n\nIn a speech to Labour's conference, shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds promised to \"tackle the epidemic of anti-social behaviour\".\n\nAnd he said the Tories were \"soft on crime and soft on the causes of crime\".\n\nLabour says it will scrap the government's £200m \"national yacht\" - which it calls a \"vanity project\" - to pay for the policy.\n\nThe proposals include a roll-out of police hubs in communities and a recruitment drive for special constables.\n\nAt the conference being held in Brighton, shadow education secretary Kate Green has unveil Labour's Covid recovery plan for children.\n\nThe party wants to extend the school day for new activities, such as art and sport, as well as small group tutoring and mental health support.\n\nIn her speech on Tuesday, Ms Green challenged new Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi to deliver a \"recovery guarantee\" that ensures every child \"thrives on new opportunities to learn, play and develop - just as Labour's plan would enable them to do\".\n\nOther policy promises being unveiled at conference included the doubling the current spending on dementia research to £160m and making city firms provide at least 35 hours of free legal services - known as pro bono work - per lawyer per year.\n\nUnveiling its proposals on combating crime, the party is pointing to figures from the Office for National Statistics, which say the number of people claiming they never see a police officer on foot patrol has doubled since 2010.\n\nAnd Home Office data shows the number of special constables - volunteer officers who support police on the frontline - have fallen by 6,300 in the same timeframe.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds told conference: \"With me as home secretary, if there is trouble on your street, Labour will make sure that someone is there.\n\n\"You will see officers on the beat.\"\n\nHe also promised a national rollout of police hubs, giving a place for the public to talk to their local force and other agencies about concerns in the area.\n\nEach hub will have a Neighbourhood Prevention Team, made up of police, community support officers, youth workers and local authority staff.\n\nAnd their aim will be to increase police presence in communities and ensure crime - especially anti-social behaviour - is tackled quickly.\n\nOther policies include a major recruitment drive to increase the number of special constables and a new Child Exploitation Register for those convicted of modern slavery offences linked to county lines drug dealing.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds (left) is hoping to be home secretary if Labour and its leader Sir Keir Starmer (centre) win the next election\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds also used the speech to attack the current government's performance on tackling crime.\n\n\"In Tory Britain, people say you never see police on the beat any more,\" he said.\n\n\"That school children feel afraid at the bus stop, that people feel unsafe going out after dark, this is the price of years of Tory cuts to neighbourhood policing.\n\n\"The Conservatives are the party of crime and disorder. They are soft on crime and soft on the causes of crime.\"\n\nBut Tory chairman Oliver Dowden said it was Labour who had \"shown time and time again that they are weak on crime and weak on the causes of crime\".\n\nHe added: \"Only the Conservatives are getting on with the job of keeping the British people safe: by recruiting 20,000 more officers, boosting police funding to record levels, and introducing tougher sentences for child murderers, drink drivers, and those convicted of serious violent and sexual offences.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Boris Johnson also pledged to target crime and anti-social behaviour by introducing electronic tags for burglars after leaving prison and ensuring every neighbourhood in England and Wales had a named police officer for residents to contact.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry says it is “factually inaccurate” to say that only women have a cervix.\n\nEmily Thornberry has backed the Labour leader's stance in a row over whether only women have cervixes.\n\nThe shadow trade secretary said it was \"factually inaccurate\" to make the claim when some trans men and non-binary people also have a cervix.\n\nIt comes after a Labour MP supported online criticism of a tweet referring to \"individuals with a cervix\".\n\nRosie Duffield was called transphobic by trans rights supporters - but she has rejected the claim.\n\nAsked about the incident on Sunday, Sir Keir said it was \"not right\" to say only women have a cervix, and called for a \"mature, respectful debate\" around the issue.\n\nHe added: \"We need to... bear in mind that the trans community are amongst the most marginalised and abused communities.\"\n\nAppearing on BBC Two's Politics Live on Monday, Ms Thornberry said she agreed with her leader's stance on the issue.\n\n\"It is factually inaccurate [as] there are men who have cervixes,\" she said. \"There are men who are trans. And they are men. It is just factually wrong [to say otherwise].\"\n\nShe said people who identified as men with cervixes \"often, frankly, have had quite a hard time in the way in which they live their lives\", adding: \"To then have some people still shouting at them saying, 'you are wrong, you are a woman, I don't care what you say', then I think we start getting into transphobia.\n\n\"I think we need to have a little more tolerance and a little less shouting at each other, quite frankly. I am personally really sad that a great party like ours is having this kind of level of debate.\"\n\nMs Thornberry added: \"It is just people trying to live their lives and we should have a bit of understanding.\"\n\nCanterbury MP Ms Duffield has regularly used social media to outline her own position on transgender issues - especially around the debate on the Gender Recognition Act.\n\nSome groups are calling for the medical diagnosis element of the process to change gender to be scrapped in England and Wales, allowing people to self-identify.\n\nBut Ms Duffield believes that biological females should have protected spaces where biological males are not allowed to go - such as domestic violence refuges and prisons - and she is against people being able to self-identify as trans to gain access to those spaces.\n\nThe Labour MP has said she is \"completely supportive of trans rights\".\n\nBut she has been condemned by some LGBT+ groups - who say trans men and women should be treated the same as biological men and women - and two of her staff members resigned from her office over her views.\n\nLabour MP Rosie Duffield is not attending Labour's party conference this week\n\nIn August, Ms Duffield liked a tweet by broadcaster Piers Morgan, who criticised a news story from CNN about cancer screening for \"individuals with a cervix\", responding: \"Do you mean women?\"\n\nWhen the MP was called transphobic for appearing to endorse the tweet, she replied: \"I'm a 'transphobe' for knowing that only women have a cervix… ?!\"\n\nShe later acknowledged that some trans men have a cervix.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC's Andrew Marr that saying only women have a cervix was \"something that shouldn't be said\" and it was \"not right\".", "Police said Jonathan Diba-Musangu met most of his victims through a church in Rochdale\n\nA footballer has been jailed for 24 years for \"gruesome\" sex attacks on six victims as young as seven.\n\nJonathan Diba-Musangu, 23, who used to be on Rochdale AFC's books, raped the seven-year-old girl in 2012.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) also said he raped a 12-year-old girl at a summer camp four years later.\n\nHe was jailed at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court for 12 offences including three counts of rape of a child under 13 and two counts of rape.\n\nDiba-Musangu, of Fernhurst Street, Chadderton, was also convicted of two counts of sexually assaulting a child under 13, two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and three counts of sexual activity with a child.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said he met most of his victims through a church in Rochdale where he taught Sunday school and music classes.\n\nHe also worked in focus groups for young adults alongside his budding career as a footballer.\n\nDiba-Musangu, a semi-professional goalkeeper for Rochdale AFC in the mid to late-2010s, was arrested in 2018 when he played for Mossley FC.\n\nDet Insp Julie Maxwell, of GMP, said: \"It's taken immense bravery for these victims to come forward and cooperate with us as we pieced together his gruesome acts.\n\n\"Diba-Musangu abused his position of power within the church and may well have had a successful footballing career ahead of him before the work of detectives have led to where he is now - behind bars.\"\n\nAn NSPCC spokesperson said: \"The victims in this case have lived with the devastating impact of being abused as young girls by Diba-Musangu. \"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Greg Smith called the decision to paint the new lines \"stupid\"\n\nA baffled homeowner found \"keep clear\" markings painted on the road outside his home - a converted village school which closed down 18 years ago.\n\nGreg Smith, 56, bought the building in Grewelthorpe, North Yorkshire, eight years ago.\n\nDespite his protestations, he said council contractors re-painted the zig-zag markings and suggested he black them out once they had left.\n\nMr Smith said the work, completed last week after roads in the village were resurfaced, had left him in the \"ridiculous\" position of risking a fine for parking outside his home.\n\nHe parks his car on a small driveway next to his house, with his wife previously parking her car outside the property.\n\n\"It was a bit stupid as [the contractor] realised it wasn't a school anymore,\" Mr Smith said.\n\n\"He said: 'It's nothing to do with me mate, I'm just being paid to do the job. If I was you, I'd come out with a tin of black paint once I've gone and paint it over'.\"\n\nThe property has not been a primary school for almost two decades since it was converted into a house\n\nLines outside the village's current primary school, which opened just down the road after the original's 2003 closure, were also repainted.\n\n\"There's a bit of standing joke in the village about it,\" he said. \"People find it quite funny that they'd paint the lines 18 years after it stopped being a school.\"\n\nMr Smith said he had tried to contact the council's highways team on several occasions but was still waiting for a response.\n\n\"You can either view it as funny or totally ridiculous,\" he said.\n\n\"Either way, it's a waste of ratepayers' money to do it and to have to paint it out.\"\n\nAn image taken in 2016, left, shows faint lines and the new paint job following resurfacing work\n\nMelisa Burnham, from North Yorkshire County Council's highways team, apologised for the error.\n\nShe added: \"This is a genuine mistake and the lines and markings will be removed as soon as possible.\n\n\"There will be no prosecutions for people parking on the markings in the meantime.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aldi UK's chief executive Giles Hurley is confident the supermarket chain can weather any storms in the supply chain\n\nThe boss of supermarket chain Aldi UK has told the BBC he doesn't envisage any disruption for customers this Christmas.\n\nThere have been dire warnings about food shortages and empty shelves due to a chronic shortage of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) lorry drivers.\n\nBut chief executive Giles Hurley says his deliveries are moving as normal.\n\n\"There's no doubt current circumstances are testing the industry...but it's business as usual for us,\" he said.\n\nLike many other retailers, Aldi, Britain's fifth biggest supermarket, had to increase salaries for its delivery drivers, however it won't reveal by how much.\n\n\"At the moment, we're well set, but I have to say we're never complacent,\" said Mr Hurley. \"We're always recruiting, always have done and that won't change.\"\n\nRetailers are starting to ramp up their supplies to ensure everything is in place for peak festive trading.\n\nThis year, the battle for consumers' Christmas spend won't just be about who has the best products - it's shaping up to be a contest over who can keep the shelves full.\n\nMr Hurley is feeling confident: \"I think we're uniquely placed to weather the storm - we have a refined range and fewer suppliers.\n\n\"We actually employ more of our drivers directly than a majority of the market and on leading terms and conditions and finally a lot of what we source is British and that means our supply chains are a little shorter and easier to control.\"\n\n2020 was challenging for the discounters as huge numbers of shoppers moved to online grocery shopping. For the first time in a decade, Aldi and Lidl lost market share to their rivals.\n\nTesco has warned food prices could rise by up to 5% this winter\n\nIn figures just released, Aldi saw its sales for the 12 months to December 2020 grow by 10% to £13.5bn, while pre-tax profits dipped by 2.5% to £265m.\n\nAldi has also announced £1.3bn of investment over the next two years as it pushes ahead with its store opening plan. The supermarket chain wants to add another hundred stores in 2022 and 2023, creating 2,000 new jobs.\n\nFraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at market research firm Kantar, says the discounters are quickly making up for the ground they lost.\n\n\"During the lockdowns people tended to do all their shopping in one place which favoured the big four retailers,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Shoppers are now more comfortable being out and about again and are happy to visit multiple stores to get what they need - that's good news for Aldi and Lidl, which typically benefit from people making those combination shops.\"\n\nWith a cost of living squeeze looming this winter, discounters will hope to gain more business, he says.\n\nAldi says that in the last 12 weeks alone, it has already welcomed 600,00 new customers to its stores.\n\nBut food prices are also starting to pick up, as retailers face a host of rising costs, from boosting driver pay to increasing commodity prices, packaging and shipping costs.\n\nRetail experts think big supermarkets will do better this Christmas than discounters\n\nSome of those costs will have to be passed on to shoppers - the question is how much.\n\nTesco's chairman John Allan has warned that food prices could rise by up to 5% this winter. Mr Hurley isn't concerned, however.\n\n\"Well look if that's what Tesco deliver, I think that's great for our business, because that means that we'll just see the price gap widen,\" he said.\n\nAlthough no one in the grocery industry is immune to inflation, he feels Aldi has a \"very unique business model\", which means the supermarket chain will be able to \"insulate customers far better than anyone else\".\n\nHowever many shoppers will be tightening the purse strings this autumn and shop prices, as well as availability of products, will be a key focus for consumers.\n\nGrocery expert Bryan Roberts believes all retailers are facing a tricky Christmas with supply chain issues, during a period when the big supermarkets traditionally do well as shoppers are willing to spend more on products.\n\n\"Compared to the 2008 financial crisis, when Aldi received a massive boost, the big supermarkets are in a much better place to defend themselves, with two of the big four matching Aldi's prices on key items and all of them massively improving their economy own label ranges and investing in lower prices,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nThe United States have regained the Ryder Cup with a record 19-9 victory over Europe at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.\n\nOpen champion Collin Morikawa claimed the winning half point in the fifth of Sunday's 12 singles matches as the home side raced to the 14½ points they needed.\n\nRory McIlroy, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter - Europe's only winners in the singles - were in tears as they showed the emotion of what will be a chastening defeat.\n\nAround them, American players celebrated, with Brooks Koepka downing a beer thrown to him from the fans after he completed a 2&1 victory on the 17th green to booming chants of \"U-S-A\" from a 40,000-strong home crowd.\n\nThere had already been big wins for Patrick Cantlay, Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau amid a carnival atmosphere by Lake Michigan, while Dustin Johnson became the first American to win all five matches at a Ryder Cup since 1979.\n\nSuch was the headiness of the celebrations that Koepka and DeChambeau, who have been involved in a long-running feud, briefly embraced in the post-match media conference, with US captain Steve Stricker saying they had \"wanted to play together\".\n\n\"This is a special day for everyone here involved,\" added Stricker, who struggled to keep his emotions in check as a Wisconsinite.\n\n\"The Ryder Cup means a lot to everybody, your side and our side. We finally put in a dominant performance.\n\n\"This is a new era right here, they are young, motivated, they came here determined to win.\n\n\"I never won a major. But this is my major.\"\n• None Tearful McIlroy says he 'should have done more'\n• None DeChambeau and Koepka hug twice after win\n• None How Europe were crushed at Whistling Straits\n\nEurope captain Harrington conceded: \"It's a tough loss, but they were better than us. They were a strong team and played on their best form. They had momentum the whole time.\"\n\nThe margin of victory eclipses the 18½-9½ successes enjoyed by Europe in 2004 and 2006 and America's own triumph in 1981.\n\nThis was a thoroughly deserved win, built on a dominant opening two days for the hosts.\n\nThey led 6-2 after Friday's foursomes and fourballs sessions, and extended that to a record 11-5 on Saturday to leave themselves needing to win just 3½ points out of the 12 available in the singles.\n\nHarrington spoke on Saturday evening of using the spirit of 2012, when the visitors came from 10-6 down to win the 'Miracle of Medinah' - the only away victory in the past eight editions - to inspire his side.\n\nHe put McIlroy, who had lost all three of his matches, out first and the Northern Irishman immediately put European blue on the scoreboard by winning the first hole against Olympic champion Xander Schauffele.\n\nAnd when Harrington's fellow Irishman Shane Lowry went ahead on the second in the second match, the few European fans who had managed to make it to Whistling Straits this week started to believe.\n\nHowever, Cantlay, who won the PGA Tour's season-long FedEx Cup and its $15m prize earlier this month, won the next four holes to take control of that match.\n\nBehind him, Scheffler birdied the first four holes as he put world number one Jon Rahm under early pressure.\n\nAnd then the big-hitting DeChambeau hit his tee shot on the par-four first onto the green and holed the 40-foot eagle putt to stun Sergio Garcia.\n\nThey were leads the Americans would keep throughout their matches against the Spaniards, who had combined for three points from three matches in Friday and Saturday's fourballs and foursomes.\n\n\"Unfortunately they were a little better than we were,\" said Garcia, who extended his points record to 28½ at his 10th Ryder Cup.\n\n\"We've got to accept that and we've got to get ready for Rome and try to get it back.\"\n\nThe victory was clinched with seven matches still out on the course, underlining the vast superiority of the home side.\n\nJustin Thomas crushed Tyrrell Hatton 4&3, Koepka saw off Bernd Wiesberger 2&1 and Daniel Berger beat Matt Fitzpatrick on the last as the US won seven of the singles matches.\n\nThis may now be the start of a dynasty for the US, who had lost seven of the previous nine editions of the biennial contest, but have now won successive Ryder Cups on home soil for the first time in 38 years.\n\nThe 12-strong team featured eight of the top 10 in the world rankings and eight of their team are in their 20s, with the oldest being 37-year-old world number two Johnson, who rounded off a terrific week with a one-hole victory over Paul Casey.\n\nThree of the six rookies in the team, Cantlay, Morikawa and Scheffler, remained unbeaten throughout the week as every US player contributed at least one point.\n\nBy contrast, several of the European players must be close to the end of their Ryder Cup careers, although 48-year-old Westwood, who qualified for the team, and 45-year-old Poulter, one of Harrington's three wildcard selections, were victorious in singles.\n\nBoth of their triumphs came long after the cup had been lost, but both won their opening holes when European blue was lacking on the scoreboards.\n\nWestwood, who trailed by two holes with five to play, eventually beat Harris English on the 18th, while Poulter, a captain's pick for the fifth time in seven appearances, never trailed against Tony Finau, winning 3&2.\n\n\"Sticking a point on the board is nice from a personal feeling, but it's no consolation,\" said Poulter on BBC Radio 5 Live after keeping up his fine record of having never lost a singles match, winning six and halving the other.\n\n\"We'll saddle up and see if we can go again in Italy.\n\n\"You don't think it's a complete runaway like this. When you look at the scoreboard it looks extremely lopsided, but it didn't feel that way.\"\n\nThe next Ryder Cup is scheduled to be held in Rome in 2023, which will be 30 years since the US last won an away match.\n• None Who is New York named after and why? Go on a fact-finding journey about famous places that have changed names\n• None Meet the women taking the wheel in a male-dominated car industry", "Police are appealing for information after a teenage girl was sexually assaulted in Belfast.\n\nIt happened at about 22:30 BST at an outdoor event in the Ormeau Park area and close to a fast-food van.\n\n\"The girl was sexually assaulted by an unknown male, who is described as being around 17 years old, with dark-blonde, wavy hair,\" said a police spokesperson.\n\nThe youth is also thought to be approximately 5' 8\" (173cm) in height and of slim build.\n\n\"We are very grateful to two girls who came to the assistance of the victim, and would ask them to get in touch as we believe they can assist with our enquiries,\" the police statement added.\n\nAnyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the PSNI.", "Wiley was appointed an MBE in 2018\n\nA warrant has been issued to arrest rapper Wiley after he failed to turn up for a court hearing to face charges of assault and burglary in east London.\n\nThe musician, whose real name is Richard Kylea Cowie Jr, is accused of breaking in to a flat in Forest Gate and assaulting Ali Jacko on 28 August.\n\nThe 42-year-old was due to appear at Thames Magistrates' Court on Monday but failed to appear.\n\nThe district judge issued a warrant to arrest and bring Mr Cowie to court.\n\nMonday's hearing was due to take place after he was granted an adjournment earlier this month to allow him more time to apply for legal aid and speak to his lawyers.\n\nThe rapper had been using Mr Jacko's recording studio before the pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Quinn, 15, received a Covid vaccine at his school in Essex\n\nHalf of children and young people aged nine to 18 are willing or eager to be vaccinated against Covid, a large survey in England suggests.\n\nIt is one of the first polls to ask pupils, rather than parents, their views on teenage Covid jabs.\n\nCarried out during the summer term, the responses from more than 27,000 students at 180 schools reveal half would opt to get protected.\n\nMore than a third were undecided and just over one in 10 would decline.\n\nThe findings, published in the journal EClinicalMedicine, were carried out before the UK recommended all children aged 12 to 15 should be offered one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid jab.\n\nExperts now say although Covid is rarely a serious illness in children, vaccinating those over 12 is beneficial.\n\nIt cuts their risk of catching and spreading the virus and should mean fewer have their education disrupted as a result.\n\nLike any medicine or intervention, there are some risks or side effects to consider too.\n\nTo help young people reach an informed decision, experts are calling for accessible information - on social media platforms such as TikTok for example - clearly setting out the benefits and risks.\n\nOne very rare side effect with the vaccine, that young people should be aware of, is heart inflammation.\n\nSymptoms of it include a fluttering, fast-beating or pounding heart, shortness of breath or some chest pain.\n\nThe chance of it happening is a few in a million.\n\nWhen it does occur, it is usually mild and people quickly make a good recovery.\n\nCatching coronavirus can cause it too, plus carries the added risk of other complications, such as serious illness or long Covid for some people.\n\nThe survey, carried out in schools across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Merseyside, also found:\n\nYoung people who thought they had already caught Covid in the past were more likely to opt out of having a vaccine.\n\nVaccination is still recommended, even if you have recovered from Covid, however.\n\nOne of the researchers, Mina Fazel - an associate professor from the University of Oxford - said it was vital to get trusted advice out to young people.\n\n\"Young people might not want their peers, their teachers, or even their parents to know about their choice to get vaccinated,\" she said.\n\n\"It could be that they are worried what their friends think, for example, and what they may need is a way to get vaccinated while feeling safe and comfortable. We must ensure these opportunities are provided for.\n\n\"The young people we've spoken to are saying that we need to use social media channels. That maybe celebrities getting involved might be a route that they would listen to more.\"\n\nAs part of England's vaccine drive, a film featuring rugby stars - including Sam Underhill, Alex Goode and Dan Robson - will be played out at stadiums across the country from this weekend, urging young people to get their Covid vaccine.", "The Labour leader told the BBC there needed to be a \"mature, respectful debate\" around trans rights.\n\nSir Keir Starmer says it is \"not right\" to say only women have a cervix amid a row involving one of his MPs.\n\nRosie Duffield came under fire after supporting online criticism of a tweet, which referred to \"individuals with a cervix\" to be inclusive of trans men.\n\nThe incident was called transphobic by trans rights supporters - but Labour MP Ms Duffield rejects the claim.\n\nAsked about the row, Sir Keir said claiming only women have cervixes was \"something that shouldn't be said\".\n\nBut Health Secretary Sajid Javid attacked the Labour leader, saying his remarks were a \"total denial of scientific fact\".\n\nCanterbury MP Ms Duffield has regularly used social media to outline her own position on transgender issues - especially around the debate on the Gender Recognition Act.\n\nSome groups are calling for the medical diagnosis element of the process to change gender to be scrapped in England and Wales, allowing people to self-identify.\n\nBut Ms Duffield believes that biological females should have protected spaces where biological males are not allowed to go - such as domestic violence refuges and prisons - and she is against people being able to self-identify as trans to gain access to those spaces.\n\nThe Labour MP has said she is \"completely supportive of trans rights\".\n\nBut she has been condemned by some LGBT+ groups - who say trans men and women should be treated the same as biological men and women - and two of her staff members resigned from her office over her views.\n\nLabour MP Rosie Duffield is not attending Labour's party conference this week\n\nIn August, Ms Duffield liked a tweet by broadcaster Piers Morgan, who criticised a news story from CNN about cancer screening for \"individuals with a cervix\", responding: \"Do you mean women?\"\n\nWhen the MP was called transphobic for appearing to endorse the tweet, she replied: \"I'm a 'transphobe' for knowing that only women have a cervix… ?!\".\n\nShe later acknowledged that some trans men have a cervix.\n\nAppearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, Sir Keir Starmer was asked if it was transphobic to say only women have a cervix.\n\nThe Labour leader replied: \"Well, it is something that shouldn't be said. It is not right.\"\n\nSir Keir added: \"We need to have a mature, respectful debate about trans rights and we need to... bear in mind that the trans community are amongst the most marginalised and abused communities.\n\n\"Wherever we've got to on the law, we need to go further.\"\n\nMs Duffield is not attending this week's party conference in Brighton, having said there were concerns for her safety after threats from activists.\n\nBut Sir Keir said he had spoken to Ms Duffield and \"she didn't want to come because it would cause a distraction from the ideas that we're putting forward\".", "Some group members arrived in Downing Street carrying pictures of lost loved ones\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to appoint a chair for the official Covid inquiry before Christmas, after meeting a campaign group.\n\nCovid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice said he also pledged to involve them in the decision, during a meeting with them in Downing Street.\n\nThe PM met the group earlier, having declined to do so since last year.\n\nIt has been campaigning for a public inquiry into the pandemic, due to start in spring 2022, to begin immediately.\n\nFive families from the group met Mr Johnson on Tuesday for a private reception, to share stories of their loved ones lost due to Covid.\n\nAfterwards, they said they were pleased he had met them - but they were \"still disappointed by the lack of urgency\" over an inquiry start date.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said the PM had promised the group the inquiry would \"get to the bottom of many of the questions that they, and thousands of others like them, have about the pandemic\".\n\n\"The prime minister gave a commitment that the chair of the inquiry would be appointed by Christmas,\" they added.\n\n\"He set out that for now, it is right that public servants continue to focus their efforts on tackling the pandemic before moving on to the inquiry in the spring of next year.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hannah, who lost both her dad and grandmother to Covid, met with the prime minister.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Johnson told reporters the meeting had been \"very emotional\".\n\n\"Obviously there's very little I could say to mitigate their own suffering,\" he added.\n\n\"But what I did say is we are determined to make sure the experience of the bereaved is something we took account of in the public inquiry.\"\n\nThe group, representing families with relatives who have died with the virus, has been asking for a meeting with Mr Johnson since last year.\n\nHowever, he has previously turned down a meeting with them, citing a threat of legal action over an official pandemic inquiry.\n\nThe group wrote to the government in August last year, saying it was considering a judicial review of the decision not to hold an immediate public inquiry.\n\nBut the group denied that legal action had started - and labelled Mr Johnson's reason for not meeting them a \"poor excuse\".\n\nThe PM gave his support to the National Covid Memorial Wall, suggesting it could become a permanent memorial\n\nIn May, Mr Johnson announced a statutory public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic would begin in spring 2022.\n\nThe group's meeting with the PM comes a week before it attends the Conservative Party annual conference, beginning in Manchester on Sunday.\n\nThe group says it was initially denied permission to attend, before subsequently being told they could after \"the news broke in the media\".\n\nIn a statement after the meeting, the group said families expect to be consulted on the appointment of a chair and the inquiry's terms of reference.\n\nIt added Mr Johnson also gave his support to the National Covid Memorial Wall, suggesting it could become a permanent national memorial.\n\n\"Although we wish this meeting had taken place a long time ago, we're pleased that the prime minister has chosen to finally engage with us,\" the statement added.\n\n\"However, we are still disappointed by the lack of urgency the prime minister displayed, as we see no reason why preparations for the inquiry cannot begin now, particularly as nearly 1,000 people are still losing their lives each week.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour’s shadow chancellor says she would invest in \"good jobs in the green industries of the future\"\n\nLabour has promised to spend an extra £28bn a year on making the UK economy more \"green\" if it wins power.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the money would go on offshore wind farms, planting trees and developing batteries.\n\nIn her speech to Labour's annual conference in Brighton, she also pledged to phase out business rates to help the Covid-damaged High Street.\n\nAnd she said giant tech firms would pay more tax in future.\n\nAn aide to Ms Reeves told the BBC the £28bn would come from government borrowing and the investment should \"have a positive impact\" on the wider economy.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Reeves said: \"I will be a responsible chancellor. I will be Britain's first green chancellor.\"\n\nShe added: \"I will invest in good jobs in the green industries of the future, giga-factories to build batteries for electric vehicles, a thriving hydrogen industry, offshore wind with turbines made in Britain, planting trees and building flood defences, keeping homes warm and getting energy bills down, good new jobs in communities throughout Britain.\"\n\nRachel Reeves is the shadow chancellor with something for everyone.\n\nFor the Labour Party activists crying out for ambitious pledges following a series of lukewarm announcements there was £28bn a year of investment to help the UK reach its climate targets.\n\nShe also went after some of the most potent symbols for party members: private schools and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon (\"if you can afford to fly to the moon, you can afford to pay your taxes here on earth!\")\n\nFor the business community there was a promise to axe business rates and replace the £30bn of revenue with… something.\n\nFor those who thought it was all a bit too much she unveiled some fiscal rules that could lightly limit her room to spend and borrow, and a new value for money \"hit squad\" that would scrutinise government spending.\n\nShe has also upped her speech game significantly, introducing a group of keyworkers in the front row to rapturous applause and lowering her voice dramatically to deliver her soundbites.\n\nMs Reeves said the annual £28bn investment - which would continue until 2030 - would help \"protect our planet for future generations\".\n\nIt would include the £3bn shadow business secretary Ed Miliband promised to help make the UK steel industry carbon-neutral in his conference speech on Sunday.\n\nLabour is expected to make a series of announcements on where the rest of the money would go.\n\nGreenpeace UK welcomed the overall spending pledge, with its head of politics, Rebecca Newsom, saying: \"Tackling the climate crisis has to be at the heart of what the Treasury does.\"\n\nThe independent Climate Change Committee estimates the cost of making the UK carbon-neutral will be between 1% and 2% of GDP until 2050. Based on last year's figures, that would equate to between £19.6bn and £39.2bn a year.\n\nDuring her half-hour speech, Ms Reeves said a Labour government would freeze business rates in England until 2023 and make rates relief for smaller firms more generous.\n\nIt would eventually scrap rates completely, she said, replacing them with a new \"modern\" business tax, which the party is yet to define.\n\nLabour is also proposing a new tax on commercial property.\n\nAnd it is proposing to increase the digital services tax - paid by search engines and social media firms - from 2% to 12%, when it is replaced by a higher global corporation tax rate agreed as part of an international scheme.\n\nMs Reeves told the conference the party would bring in the \"biggest overhaul of business taxation in a generation\", allowing businesses to \"lead the pack, not watch opportunities go elsewhere.\"\n\nShe announced plans to scrap \"hundreds\" of tax breaks and set up an Office of Value for Money, which aides describe as a \"hit squad\" to scrutinise government spending and ensure tax is used wisely.\n\nMs Reeves said a Labour government would tell firms which have received contracts to deal with the Covid pandemic but under-delivered to repay the money given to them by the government.\n\n\"We will set up a team to go through every line of every failed contract where value was not delivered, and claw back every penny of taxpayers' money we possibly can,\" she added, \"because that money belongs in our police, it belongs in our schools and it belongs in our NHS.\"\n\nThe policies announced by Ms Reeves were welcomed by the Federation for Small Businesses, whose national chair Mike Cherry said: \"The shadow chancellor is right to propose concrete reform of a business rates tax which disproportionately burdens the small businesses and sole traders at the heart of local communities.\"\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Oliver Dowden said: \"Successive Labour leaders have threatened businesses with tax hikes, higher bills, and more red tape.\n\n\"Only the Conservatives can be trusted to support our businesses and help our economy thrive as we build back better.\"", "Sabina Nessa was found dead near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nDetectives continue to question a man arrested on suspicion of murdering south-east London primary school teacher Sabina Nessa.\n\nThe 28-year-old was attacked while walking to meet a friend at The Depot bar in Kidbrooke on 17 September.\n\nShe had earlier left her home in nearby Astell Road and her body was found the next day in Cator Park by a member of the public.\n\nThe 36-year-old man was arrested in East Sussex early on Sunday morning.\n\nThe Met previously released CCTV footage of a man filmed walking close to the park, through Pegler Square, on the night Ms Nessa was attacked.\n\nPeople have continued to lay tributes in Pegler Square\n\nTwo other men arrested last week on suspicion of murder were later released pending further investigation.\n\nA post-mortem examination into the cause of Ms Nessa's death was inconclusive.\n\nTributes have continued to be left in Pegler Square and a book of condolence has been opened in the One Space community centre, near to where Ms Nessa's body was found.\n\nOn Friday, more than 500 people joined a vigil in the square during which the teacher's sibling Jebina Yasmin Islam told the crowd she had \"lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister, who left this world far too early\".\n\nShe said her family's \"world is shattered, we are simply lost for words\".\n\nHundreds more tributes were posted on social media - including a message from the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\n\"I am saddened by the loss of another innocent young woman on our streets,\" she said.\n\n\"My thoughts are with Sabina's family and friends, and all those who have been affected by this tragic event.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Each UK nation can make its own rules regarding travel\n\nWales has partially agreed to align with England's plans to overhaul rules on international travel.\n\nGreen and amber lists of countries will be merged and pre-departure Covid tests will be scrapped from 4 October.\n\nBut ministers have still not decided whether to stop using PCR tests for returning travellers.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan urged the UK government to keep the \"vital\" testing regime.\n\nBut comments from Ms Morgan admitting \"challenges\" in having a Wales-only system were seized on by the Conservatives, who claimed Labour did not know \"if they're coming or going\" on travel.\n\nIt has been unclear whether the Welsh government would agree to the changes, which were announced over a week ago.\n\nUnder reforms from Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, amber and green lists in England would be merged from 4 October and fully-vaccinated travellers will no longer have to take a pre-departure test, or a day eight test after their return.\n\nFrom later in October, people will be able to take a lateral flow test two days after they arrive back in the country - hopefully \"for when people return from half-term breaks\", the UK government said.\n\nScotland had concerns about the new testing regime, but now plans to align with the UK government.\n\nThere have been concerns from the Welsh government that it would make it harder to detect new coronavirus variants coming from abroad.\n\nWhile travel is a devolved matter for each nation of the UK to decide, the Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish governments have often followed the UK government's rules for England during the pandemic.\n\nMs Morgan said: \"The decision to move away from PCR tests from returning travellers on day two is concerning.\n\n\"This test, combined with genetic sequencing of all positive tests, is a vital part of our surveillance for coronavirus and protects our borders from the virus.\"\n\nShe said the strongest solution would be for the UK government to reinstate UK-wide testing, adding that there were \"communication and enforcement challenges\" in Wales having different testing requirements.\n\nThe minister added that the government continued to \"thoroughly examine the evidence for a Wales-only testing regime\".\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Russell George said: \"Sadly for the people of Wales, Labour don't know if they're coming or going with travel lists.\n\n\"The Welsh government can't permanently live in fear of another variant of Covid. Again, the minister's arbitrary rationale behind her decision-making would have the borders shut indefinitely.\"\n\nThe UK government's Department for Transport said: \"Due to the success of our vaccine rollout and the epidemiological situation abroad, we are able to take a proportionate approach to international travel, simplifying the system and reducing costs while managing risks to public health.\n\n\"Public health is a devolved matter and we continue to work closely with devolved administrations on four nation alignment where possible.\"\n\nIt added that genomic sequencing - which is used to investigate different variants of coronavirus - will continue for positive PCR tests after international travel.", "Damien Bendall is accused of killing Terri Harris, her two children, and a friend who was staying over\n\nA woman and three children who were found dead at a house in Derbyshire died as a result of \"violent acts\", a coroner has said.\n\nTerri Harris and her children John Paul and Lacey Bennett were found dead along with Lacey's friend Connie Gent at a house in Killamarsh on 19 September.\n\nTheir inquest openings heard police went to the house following a report Damien Bendall had stabbed himself.\n\nMr Bendall was arrested on suspicion of murder and has since been charged.\n\nDet Insp Graham Prince told the inquest that Derbyshire Police received a phone call from Dorset Police at 07:26 BST on 19 September.\n\n\"Dorset Police received a telephone call about the safety of Damien Bendall,\" Det Insp Prince said.\n\n\"That phone call was made by a relative of Damien Bendall. They indicated to Dorset Police that Bendall had suffered a stab wound and that was self-inflicted.\"\n\nHe said Derbyshire Police were alerted and officers were dispatched to Chandos Crescent in Killamarsh and were met by Bendall when they arrived at 07:39.\n\nPolice found Terri Harris and the three children dead at the house in Chandos Crescent\n\nDet Insp Prince said police then entered the house \"concerned for the safety of the other occupants\".\n\nOnce inside the house they located Terri Harris, 35, John Paul Bennett, 13, Lacey Bennett, 11, and Connie Gent, also 11.\n\nThey were already deceased, he said, and paramedics confirmed this when they arrived a short time later.\n\nThe coroner, Peter Nieto, said post-mortem examinations have been carried out and he is awaiting full reports. However, he said the early indications were that the deaths had been caused by \"violent acts\".\n\nHe suspended the inquests, explaining that they cannot resume until after criminal proceedings have ended.\n\nJohn Paul and Lacey's father Jason Bennett said \"life will never be the same again\"\n\nDet Insp Prince said Connie had been stopping at the house since 17 September, as she was visiting Lacey and her family.\n\nA member of the Killamarsh community has revealed how the children had been selling sweets for a cancer charity the day before they died, and had been planning to go out again.\n\nThey were widely praised after Terri Harris posted photos in a community Facebook group.\n\nOne woman commented: \"Well done to your kids. My niece bought some lollies from them, they were very pleasant and polite. A real credit to you.\"\n\nMs Harris tagged the three children so they could read the nice comments people had written about them.\n\nShe also posted: \"Like to thank you for the lovely comments the kids will be back out tomorrow at the park or Chandos Crescent thank you for your support.\"\n\nDamien Bendall has been charged with four counts of murder\n\nMr Bendall, 31, of Chandos Crescent, appeared at Derby Crown Court on Friday morning.\n\nHe is due to appear at the same court for a review hearing on 26 November.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sabina Nessa's body was found near her home in Kidbrooke\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa, who was killed as she walked to meet a friend in south-east London.\n\nKoci Selamaj, 36, was arrested in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on Sunday.\n\nMr Selamaj, of Terminus Road in the town, will appear at Willesden Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nMs Nessa, 28, was found in Cator Park in Kidbrooke, a few minutes' walk from her home, on Saturday 18 September.\n\nThe evening before, she had been making her way to The Depot bar in Kidbrooke Village but never arrived.\n\nTributes have continued to be left in nearby Pegler Square, where a vigil was held on Friday, and a book of condolence has been opened in the One Space community centre, close to where Ms Nessa's body was found.\n\nPeople have continued to lay tributes in Pegler Square, near where the teacher was killed\n\nMore than 500 people joined the vigil, during which the teacher's sister Jebina Yasmin Islam told those gathered that she had \"lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister, who left this world far too early\".\n\nShe said her family's world had been \"shattered\", adding: \"We are simply lost for words.\"\n\nHundreds of tributes were posted on social media, including a message from the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There have been several protests around the M25 in the past two weeks\n\nClimate change protesters have defied a court order and blocked part of the M25 at Heathrow Airport.\n\nA total of 53 people have been arrested as Insulate Britain blocked the slip road at junction 14 just after 08:00 BST. The road has now reopened.\n\nA High Court injunction banning protests around the M25 and Dartford Crossing was issued last Thursday.\n\n\"You can throw as many injunctions at us as you like, but we are going nowhere,\" the campaign group said.\n\nMinisters had hoped the High Court injunction would prevent further disruption around London\n\nIt is the latest of several protests targeting major roads in the south east.\n\nThe order, which was granted to National Highways Ltd, states demonstrators are banned from \"causing damage to the surface of or to any apparatus on or around the M25 including but not limited to painting, damaging by fire, or affixing any item or structure thereto\".\n\nThe blocked junction has since fully reopened\n\nIt adds that those involved \"may be held to be in contempt of court and may be imprisoned, fined or have their assets seized.\"\n\nMinisters had hoped the High Court injunction would prevent further disruption around London.\n\nIn statements read out last week at the Home Office, the campaigners said: \"We are more scared of the destruction of our country than we are of breaking an injunction.\n\n\"There are times when we have to step up and do what is right.\"\n\nThe group, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, is calling for the government to insulate homes in the UK to help cut carbon emissions.\n\nIt wants heat-saving measures installed in social housing by 2025 and all homes by 2030.\n\nProtesters were dragged away from the protest\n\nProtester Dr Diana Warner, 62, a retired GP from Bristol, said she was protesting out of \"desperation\".\n\n\"This is the fifth time I've been here trying to block a motorway because the only way to get the government to listen is to disrupt things,\" she said.\n\nMs Warner added she \"completely understood\" people's frustrations with the protest however what was at risk was the \"lives of our children and grandchildren\".\n\n\"I'm really sorry but I'm determined to do everything I can to make us safe and change society ... we have to try.\"\n\nThe government said it was investing £1.3bn to support people to install energy efficiency measures.", "Australia's prime minister has signalled he may not attend the UN's landmark climate conference in November as his government faces continued criticism of its poor climate record.\n\nIn an interview, Scott Morrison said he had \"not made any final decisions\" on attending, suggesting it was a burden.\n\n\"It's another trip overseas... and I've spent a lot of time in quarantine,\" he told the West Australian newspaper.\n\nThe COP26 summit will be the biggest global climate crisis talks in years.\n\nIt is hoped that the 12-day meeting between world leaders in Glasgow, Scotland will produce the next emissions standards to slow global warming and keep temperature rise below 1.5C.\n\nBut Mr Morrison said he would consider other priorities, including the reopening of Australia's borders.\n\n\"I have to focus on things here and with Covid. Australia will be opening up around that time. There will be a lot of issues to manage and I have to manage those competing demands,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nAustralia recently approved a coal mine expansion south of Sydney despite global calls for coal projects to come to an end\n\nAustralia - one of the world's top exporters of coal and gas - is one of 200 countries expected to present their updated 2030 emissions cuts at the meet.\n\nMr Morrison has said he wishes Australia to achieve net zero emissions \"as soon as possible\", but has not outlined any measures to do so.\n\nHis government has resisted committing to net zero by 2050 - a goal already pledged by the US, the UK and many other developed nations.\n\nAustralia has consistently been criticised for its slow climate progress and heavy reliance on coal-fired power - which makes it the most carbon polluting nation in the world per capita.\n\nCanberra is also staunchly protective of its fossil fuel industry - and has pledged to continue mining and trading dirty fuels as long as there is demand in Asia.\n\nIn July, a UN report ranked it last out of 170 member nations for its response to climate change.\n\nAnd despite Australia's claims to the contrary, the UN has previously said the nation is not on track to reach its modest Paris Agreement targets of a 26-28% cut on 2005 levels by 2030.\n\nMr Morrison, who became leader in 2018, has consistently defended Australia's climate policies as adequate.\n\nThe nation experienced a catastrophic fire season in its 2019-2020 summer - during which Mr Morrison was criticised for downplaying the role of climate change and travelling to Hawaii for a family holiday during the peak of the crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Life at 50C: Australia is one of the countries already seeing an increase in the number of extremely hot days\n\nHe has made several trips abroad this year, including to the G7 summit hosted by the UK in June, and in recent days to Washington for the Quad meeting with the leaders of the US, India and Japan.\n\nForeign Minister Marise Payne said on Monday that if Mr Morrison did not attend there would still be senior level representation at the meeting.\n\n\"It's not a no-show at the conference. Australia will be strongly represented at the conference no matter by which senior Australian representative and our commitment is very clear,\" she told the ABC.", "Covid vaccinations are available to 12 to 15-year-olds across the UK\n\nSchool leaders have warned about being targeted by hoax Covid vaccine consent letters, which aim to spread anti-vaccine messages to parents in England.\n\nHead teachers have been sent a \"consent checklist\", under a fake NHS logo, along with a letter telling them to share this with parents.\n\nBut the checklist includes a series of negative claims about the risks of vaccinations to young people.\n\nHead teachers' leaders say the hoax letters are \"massively unhelpful\".\n\n\"We would appeal for those behind these fake consent forms to stop circulating them,\" said Julie McCulloch of the ASCL head teachers' union.\n\nThe letters sent to schools are presented as being a consent form with information to be sent to parents ahead of pupils being given Covid vaccinations.\n\nBelow an \"NHS Vaccines\" logo, it includes claims such as the vaccine being a risk for \"strokes, blindness, deafness, clotting, miscarriages, anaphylaxis and cardiovascular disorders\".\n\nIt appears from social media that some parents have already been sent the letter, after schools had been tricked into sharing them.\n\n\"Today we have a 'consent checklist' which seems almost kinda like it's designed to put kids off?,\" said one parent on Twitter - with a follow-up that the school had been in touch again to withdraw the letter.\n\nDr Jonathan Leach, NHS England medical director for Covid immunisation, told confused parents on Twitter that this was \"not a legitimate NHS form\".\n\nHeads' leader Ms McCulloch said the hoax letters were causing problems for schools when they were already under pressure.\n\n\"One of these pressures is the fact that a large number of pupils have caught Covid and are absent from school - the very thing that the vaccination programme is designed to address,\" she said.\n\nCovid vaccinations have been offered to 12 to 15-year-olds across the UK this term, with the aim of reducing the spread of the virus and the resulting disruption in schools.\n\nAmong those schools sent the hoax letter were those in the St John the Baptist academy trust in East Anglia.\n\n\"Our schools are doing an amazing job to continue their primary purpose of education and to keep children and staff safe. And it is shocking that we are being targeted by hoaxers, who are trying to undermine those efforts by pretending they are from the NHS,\" said Brian Conway, chief executive of the trust.\n\nHe said that Covid cases were rising among the younger years in secondary school, but there were few cases in the top years, \"where many students have already had the jab\".\n\nAny unauthorised use of the NHS logo was taken very seriously, said a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\n\"Misinformation about the vaccine is dangerous and costs lives. We are continuing to do everything we can, working with local authorities and our NHS, to counter the spread of untruths with public information that is grounded in science and facts,\" said the DHSC spokeswoman.", "The fuel supply problems in parts of the UK have an impact on the NHS like the rest of society.\n\nAmbulance services have their own fuel pumps at their depots so there is no immediate risk that a crew in need of fuel should not be able to fill up their tanks today.\n\nThose in-house pumps will need restocking at some point and clearly ambulance services will be prioritised for supplies.\n\nThere is – as one service put it – no realistic scenario where ambulances run out of fuel.\n\nBut the bigger concern is for staff who are travelling around in their own vehicles, either to get to work or to see patients in the community.\n\nNearly all are reliant on using public petrol stations. Already the UK Homecare Association has raised concern that the service provided by carers in people’s homes has been disrupted with staff running out of petrol and caught in queues, ending up late for calls.\n\nThe association, along with others like the British Medical Association, are calling for health and care staff to be prioritised for fuel.\n\nDuring previous fuel shortages councils have arranged systems to ensure essential workers are able to fill up their cars.\n\nThe message coming from a number of health and care bodies is that this must be brought in and quickly.", "\"Labour is changing in front of our eyes,\" says one of Keir Starmer's allies. That, for the Labour leadership, is the point.\n\nIt's only a few days since they took the powerful unions and the left of the Labour Party by surprise in revealing their intention to sweep away rules that were the framework for the Jeremy Corbyn era.\n\nThose were the rules that encouraged thousands upon thousands of new members into the party, who then chose Mr Corybn. Those were the rules that gave power to members to try to get rid of their MPs.\n\nAnd suggesting getting rid of those rules created huge upset, provoking the ire of union leaders, who felt they'd been cut out of the loop, and anger among some on the left who felt the leadership was trying to wrestle power away from them.\n\nOne senior party figure told me: \"There was a lot of swearing on both sides.\"\n\nConfronted by accusations that he'd failed to do the groundwork, amid warnings that he would not be able to ram the overhaul through in a matter of days, Sir Keir dropped one of the big ideas - changing the electoral college, the party's voting system. You can read about what happened here.\n\nBy Sunday night, however, Starmer's team was delighted by what happened - after what they see as that temporary humiliation.\n\nAfter discussions on the conference floor, the leadership was able to change a significant number of the rules, making it harder for members to get rid of MPs they weren't happy with, in so called \"trigger ballots\", giving MPs more power in selecting the party's leader, and cracking down on anti-Semitism.\n\nThey are pleased and relieved for three big reasons.\n\nOne shadow cabinet member said the changes were \"the right thing to do and the right time to do it\". Removing trigger ballots should, in theory, mean that Labour MPs can spend more time talking to constituents than having to worry that every move might lead to their local party trying to oust them.\n\nAnd for Starmer's team it cuts down on the risk of \"entryists\" to the party, who could join for a few pounds to install their favoured candidate, even if they have no long-term commitment to the Labour Party.\n\nInevitably, it's outraged many of former leader Jeremy Corbyn's backers, and those who believe that activists should have that power.\n\nIt's worth noting, too, that the plans passed because of the backing of the unions and MPs, not existing members. But the hope in the leader's office is of a party that becomes more manageable and more disciplined.\n\nSimilarly for Starmer's team, cracking down on anti-Semitism was the first promise he made on becoming leader, and a promise that he had to keep.\n\nBeyond the technical impact of the changes, party top brass feel too that their decision in pushing for the changes, and to do so quickly, is a vindication of Starmer's judgement.\n\nHe was warned against picking the fight, was embarrassed when he ditched some of his plans, but pushed on with a watered-down programme and won.\n\nOne of those behind the strategy told me: \"If we had to take three days of pain so we could spend the next 18 months facing outwards and talking to the public, it was worth it.\"\n\nKeir Starmer's critics often portray him as too safe, too cautious. This time he's secured changes \"in six days that could have turned into six months of arguments\".\n\nLastly, a highly visible vote, a highly significant (in Brighton at least!) change also gives evidence Starmer desperately wants to show the public that Labour is changing.\n\nInside the party, Jeremy Corbyn was wildly popular in some sections, and excited a new generation of activists who hadn't been previously reached. But his leadership was toxic to many, and the party crashed to its worst defeat in decades with him in charge.\n\nKeir Starmer - who don't forget was part of Mr Corbyn's top team throughout - has long believed that he has to show to the country, not just that it has a new boss, but that it is turning into a different party altogether.\n\nSir Keir was pictured having a shandy, celebrating the Arsenal result, and perhaps tonight's results too.\n\nBut the win for the leadership does not sweep away all of their problems. Far from it. There is intense pressure on Sir Keir to say more about what he would want to do in government, to put forward more convincing policies, and to communicate them better.\n\nThere are people in the party like Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham willing to say that out loud, too, as he did speaking to us on Sunday in pretty bold terms.\n\nAnd there are also plenty of activists, and some MPs on the left, who are not on board with these changes, and may never be.\n\nThe left's sway is clearly fading here, but it hasn't disappeared. One senior party figure told me \"they are still alive and kicking\", and it's not clear how hard they will be willing to kick.\n\nBut the internal wrangling came out in Sir Keir's favour on Sunday. He hopes it will clear this vital week for other conversations.", "Sabina Nessa was found dead near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder by police investigating the death of south-east London primary school teacher Sabina Nessa.\n\nA 36-year-old man was arrested in East Sussex at about 03:00 BST, in what Scotland Yard described as a \"significant development\".\n\nMs Nessa's family has been informed of the development, the Met Police said.\n\nThe 28-year-old was attacked while walking to meet a friend at The Depot bar, Kidbrooke, on 17 September.\n\nShe had earlier left her home in nearby Astell Road and her body was found the next day in Cator Park by a member of the public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sabina Nessa's sister, Jebina Yasmin Islam: \"We have lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister\"\n\nScotland Yard previously released CCTV footage of a man filmed walking close to the park, through Pegler Square, on the night Ms Nessa was attacked.\n\nTwo other men arrested last week on suspicion of murder were later released pending further investigation.\n\nPeople have continued to leave tributes and candles in Pegler Square, while a book of condolence was opened on Saturday in the One Space community centre, near to where Ms Nessa's body was found.\n\nPeople have continued to lay tributes in Pegler Square\n\nOn Friday, more than 500 people joined a vigil in Pegler Square during which the teacher's sibling Jebina Yasmin Islam told the crowd she had \"lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister, who left this world far too early\".\n\nShe said her family's \"world is shattered, we are simply lost for words\".\n\nMembers of Ms Nessa's family also spoke at a rally at East London Mosque, while a candle was lit outside No 10 Downing Street in her memory.\n\nA post-mortem examination into the cause of Ms Nessa's death was inconclusive.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plastic pollution is washed on to beaches during storms\n\nScientists are warning politicians immersed in climate change policy not to forget that the world is also in the midst of a plastic waste crisis.\n\nThey fear that so much energy is being expended on emissions policy that tackling plastic pollution will be sidelined.\n\nA paper from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Bangor University says plastic pollution and climate change are not separate.\n\nIt says the issues are actually intertwined - and each makes the other worse.\n\nManufacturing plastic items adds to greenhouse gas emissions, while extreme weather such as floods and typhoons associated with a heating planet will disperse and worsen plastic pollution in the sea.\n\nThe researchers highlight that marine species and ecosystems, such as coral reefs, are taking a double hit from both problems.\n\nReefs and other vulnerable habitats are also suffering from the seas heating, from ocean acidification, pollution from farms and industry, dredging, development, tourism and over-fishing.\n\nAnd in addition, sea ice is a major trap for microplastics, which will be released into the ocean as the ice melts due to warming.\n\nThe researchers want politicians to address all these issues – and not to allow climate change to take all the policy “bandwidth”.\n\nProfessor Heather Koldewey from ZSL said: “Climate change is undoubtedly one of the most critical global threats of our time. Plastic pollution is also having a global impact; from the top of Mount Everest to the deepest parts of our ocean.\n\n“Both are having a detrimental effect on ocean biodiversity; with climate change heating ocean temperatures and bleaching coral reefs, to plastic damaging habitats and causing fatalities among marine species.\n\n“The compounding impact of both crises just exacerbates the problem. It’s not a case of debating which issue is most important, it’s recognising that the two crises are interconnected and require joint solutions.”\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wastewater plants release microplastics, but could manta rays hold the key to a solution?\n\nProfessor Koldewey added: “The biggest shift will be moving away from wasteful single-use plastic and from a linear to circular economy that reduces the demand for damaging fossil fuels.”\n\nHelen Ford, from Bangor University, who led the study, said: “I have seen how even the most remote coral reefs are experiencing widespread coral death through global warming-caused mass bleaching. Plastic pollution is yet another threat to these stressed ecosystems.\n\n“Our study shows that changes are already occurring from both plastic pollution and climate change that are affecting marine organisms across marine ecosystems and food webs, from the smallest plankton to the largest whale.”\n\nZSL is urging world governments and policy makers to put nature at the heart of all decision making in order to jointly tackle the combined global threats of climate change and biodiversity loss.", "Work is currently being done to estimate the numbers working with children who are not registered\n\nA \"loophole\" means safeguarding risks are being created in Wales by unregistered people working with children, according to a report.\n\nExperts on the Interim Youth Work Board called for change so everyone working with young people must register with the Education Workforce Council (EWC).\n\nCurrently, workers in certain settings such as independent schools and private organisations do not need to register.\n\nWales' education minister said he would respond to recommendations this year.\n\n\"Clearly, there are safeguarding risks here for young people, and for parents, carers, guardians and the public,\" the report says.\n\nThere are about 78,000 people registered with the EWC.\n\nThey fall into categories such as teachers and support staff at local authority-maintained schools and further education colleges, youth workers and those involved in work-based learning.\n\nA youth worker generally means someone who has a qualification, and works in areas such as council or voluntary-led services with 11 to 25-year-olds, in youth clubs, or tackling issues such as homelessness or mental health problems.\n\nHowever, those working with young people in settings such as housing associations, faith organisations and privately-run initiatives do not need to register.\n\nExperts said services needed to be radically reformed to ensure they survived for all children to access in the future\n\nFormer children's commissioner Keith Towler chaired the board, which reported back to the Welsh government.\n\nHe said it was important youth work took place in a \"safe space\".\n\n\"When I've spoken with young people about the value of youth work, they always talk about having trusted relationships with their youth workers.\n\n\"That youth work provides someone who will listen and act on their concerns, provide advice and support and offer opportunities and fun things to do.\n\n\"Keeping young people safe has to be a priority for everyone but registration is also about improving and developing standards in our youth work practice,\" he said.\n\nAn inspectors' report in 2020 found Ruthin School did not comply with welfare, health or safety regulations\n\nLast year, the head of a private school was dismissed after schools inspectorate Estyn found children were at risk of harm because of \"safeguarding failures\".\n\nToby Belfield of Ruthin School, Denbighshire, had been accused in newspaper reports of sending inappropriate text messages to six girls.\n\nInspectors later found the school did not comply with regulations on the welfare, health or safety of pupils.\n\nAt the time, children's commissioner Sally Holland said the situation highlighted \"gaps\" in the regulation of independent schools.\n\nShe also told an inquiry she was concerned Mr Belfield had set up an online school after his dismissal, and could not be struck off the teaching register because he was a non-qualified teacher.\n\nCurrently, staff in council-run schools must register, but those in private learning environments do not\n\nMs Holland has now called for change, and said: \"Registration should be widened not only to cover all youth work practitioners, but also to cover student teachers and student youth workers, and to cover staff working in independent education settings.\"\n\nShe said youth work was \"a vital part of the education landscape in Wales\", but added: \"The laws around registration to the EWC need changing to make sure that we strengthen the safeguarding of children and young people in all the places they access their education.\"\n\nThe panel of experts on the Interim Youth Work Board made a number of recommendations including developing a workforce plan for the sector and ensuring everyone is qualified to work with young people.\n\n\"Youth work services can be a lifeline for young people, especially those who are vulnerable, and it is vital that everything possible is done to ensure that staff and volunteers can be relied upon to keep their users safe,\" said NSPCC Cymru's policy and public affairs manager Viv Laing.\n\n\"We believe that a mandatory registration scheme, together with policy, procedures and regular safeguarding training, would have the potential to ensure a safe environment for young people in all youth work settings.\"\n\nA \"mapping\" process commissioned by the Welsh government is currently exploring the number of people delivering youth work in Wales, including identifying gaps in those required to register.\n\nIt is being carried out by the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services, and chief executive Paul Glaze said it was at a \"very early stage\".\n\n\"We are now about to embark on a 12-month research project with academic support, which will be a Wales-wide piece of work and something we are excited about,\" he said.\n\nEducation Minister Jeremy Miles said he would take action, ensuring registration and safeguarding for youth work \"has parity with other parts of the education sector\".\n\n\"We welcome the commitment by the minister to close the current registration loopholes for youth work staff identified in the report,\" said EWC chief executive Hayden Llewellyn.\n\n\"The safety of young people and learners in Wales is paramount and we look forward to working with the Welsh government and youth work organisations to resolve the current gaps.\"", "Britain First leader Paul Golding at a protest in 2017\n\nThe far-right group Britain First has registered as a political party after its application was approved by the Electoral Commission.\n\nParty leader Paul Golding said he was \"ecstatic\" and would start \"building the electoral arm of our party\".\n\nThe party was deregistered in 2017 after it failed to renew its registration on time.\n\nAn Electoral Commission spokesperson said the party's application had \"met the legal criteria\".\n\nThe watchdog assesses potential new parties to ensure they comply with legal obligations and that their proposed names, descriptions and emblems do not risk misleading or confusing voters.\n\nParties also need to show that their constitutions or membership policies do not breach equalities law.\n\nThe Electoral Commission does not consider a group's political views when deciding whether or not to register a party.\n\nBritain First campaigns on an anti-immigration message and has called for a halt to all further immigration except in specific cases.\n\nThe group has developed a strong online following, attracting attention when one of its anti-Islamic videos was retweeted by the then-US President Donald Trump.\n\nHowever it has performed less well electorally, with Mr Golding securing only 1.2% of the vote when he stood in the 2016 London mayoral election.\n\nIn 2018, Facebook removed the group's pages saying it had repeatedly violated its community standards.\n\nThe decision came shortly after Mr Golding and the party's deputy leader Jayda Fransen were found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment.\n\nIn 2019, the group was fined £44,200 by the Electoral Commission for \"multiple breaches\" of electoral law, including a failure to keep accurate financial records or donation reports.", "Paul Kelly says the damage has already been done for the turkey business this Christmas\n\nFarmers are warning of a Christmas turkey shortage because visa changes to allow labour recruitment from abroad have come too late.\n\nA poultry association said big producers have already scaled back because they assumed they would not have enough staff to process birds.\n\nAnd turkey farmer Paul Kelly told the BBC the damage had already been done.\n\nThe government has announced a visa scheme to allow 5,500 poultry workers into the UK on three-month contracts.\n\nAs part of the changes, 5,000 HGV drivers will be allowed into the UK on similar contracts in an attempt to keep supermarket shelves stocked and petrol stations supplied with fuel.\n\nKate Martin, chairwoman of the Traditional Farm Fresh Turkey Association, said: \"This year it's looking like there is a national shortage of turkeys when we're talking about supermarket shelves, rather than buying direct from your farm.\n\n\"It is the supermarket shelves that will be emptier of turkeys this year than they have been before, only because there have been less turkeys placed on the ground; only because the big processers know that they will not get them processed.\"\n\nShe said some members of her association had already seen a rise in orders, with one reportedly seeing a 400% increase on last year.\n\nMs Martin said farms \"are now missing a whole host of their workforce that they have been training and investing in over the last however many years. Those workers are no longer available for us to use on a seasonal basis - they will go find work in mainland Europe instead.\"\n\nPaul Kelly, who runs the KellyBronze farm, said the major producers were resigned to producing fewer birds for Christmas.\n\n\"The damage has already been done for the bigger processors because they have not put the turkeys on the farm,\" he said.\n\nSmaller producers, however, might be better prepared as they tended to recruit local labour rather than draft in large numbers of migrant staff, he added.\n\nOne supermarket group told the BBC it was far too early to speculate about Christmas stocks.\n\nThe British Poultry Council has estimated there are nearly 7,000 vacancies across the sector, leading some chicken producers to cut their output, and sparking shortages at restaurant chains Nando's and KFC.\n\nMr Kelly said: \"There are chickens being killed on farms at the moment. There are pigs being shot in fields, because there are not enough people there to do the jobs.\"\n\nA temporary visa scheme \"is definitely not an answer\" for the long term, he added.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the package of visa measures would help the food and haulage industries cope in the run-up to Christmas.\n\n\"After a very difficult 18 months, I know how important this Christmas is for all of us and that's why we're taking these steps at the earliest opportunity to ensure preparations remain on track.\"\n\nHowever, some business leaders said the measures did not go far enough, with the British Chambers of Commerce saying they were the equivalent of \"throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire\".", "A row has broken out at the Labour party conference over Angela Rayner's remarks\n\nAngela Rayner says she would be \"happy to sit down\" with the PM after she faced criticism for calling him \"scum\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader has stood by the comment she made during a fringe event at the party's conference.\n\nTaking to Twitter on Monday, she repeated her accusations that Boris Johnson had made \"racist, homophobic and sexist\" remarks.\n\nAnd she posted pictures of headlines where the PM had refused to say sorry for his own controversial comments.\n\nMs Rayner said: \"If he withdraws his comments and apologises, I'll be very happy to apologise to him.\"\n\nBut Labour's Shadow Scotland Secretary Ian Murray told the New Statesman she should apologise as politicians should \"lead by example\".\n\n\"I think it would be worth an apology, and I think it would do an awful lot of good to Angela to apologise as well - and I think it would do an awful lot for our political discourse.\"\n\nShadow Trade Secretary Emily Thornberry said she would \"probably apologise\" if she had used the word \"scum\" - but added that Ms Rayner had the \"evidence\" to back up her other accusations.\n\nConservative Party co-chair Oliver Dowden said: \"Voters have heard the message loud and clear from Labour conference: if they support Conservative values or this government they are 'scum'.\n\n\"Instead of looking down our noses at voters and throwing around playground insults, we are focused on bringing people together and delivering for them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry suggests “there may have been drink partaken” over Angela Rayner’s “scum” comments.\n\nThe row began on Saturday night when Ms Rayner was reported to have called Tory ministers \"a bunch of scum\" at a conference event.\n\nOn Sunday, she stood by her comments, telling the BBC: \"I will apologise when Boris apologises for saying the comments he has made, I will retract that he is scum.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"not the language I would have used\" but did not call for his deputy to apologise.\n\nMs Rayner renewed her attack on the prime minister with headlines about his previous remarks\n\nMs Rayner renewed her attack on the PM on Monday, tweeting four headlines about Mr Johnson refusing to apologise over remarks he made about Muslim women and gay men.\n\nShe added: \"Boris Johnson also called the children of single mothers 'ignorant and illegitimate'.\n\n\"According to Boris Johnson, when I was a young single mum I should have been pushed into 'destitution on a Victorian scale'.\n\n\"So you can apologise for those comments as well, prime minister.\"\n\nAsked about the comments on BBC Two's Politics Live, shadow trade secretary Emily Thornberry said her shadow cabinet colleague's initial comments had been made at a fringe meeting \"where there may have been drink partaken [and] where it is noisy, rowdy\".\n\nShe added: [Ms Rayner] was putting forward evidence of him being racist, misogynistic and then, in the heat of all that, she calls them 'scum'.\n\n\"She probably shouldn't have said 'scum' but the rest of it of course, there is evidence of it.\"\n\nMs Thornberry said it happened \"in the heat of the moment\", before adding: \"I personally would apologise if I had [used the word scum] but I understand the context of it, I can see how it has happened.\n\n\"I don't think this is the biggest thing that has happened at party conference.\"", "Labour in Wales shows the party could not be limited to getting \"reluctant concessions\" from the rich and powerful, Mark Drakeford said\n\nLabour should look to its success in Wales to understand how to win the next election, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nWales' first minister said the party was building innovative services at UK regional and national levels, despite not holding power in Westminster.\n\nHe said Welsh Labour had pursued a \"radical programme\" and the party could not be limited to getting \"reluctant concessions\" from the powerful.\n\nWelsh Labour retained power in Wales during the Senedd elections in May.\n\nMr Drakeford's speech to Labour party conference was greeted by standing ovations from party activists.\n\nThe Welsh party leader said, despite being out of government in Westminster, \"Labour is in power, making a difference that only Labour can make, every single day, in communities right across Britain.\n\n\"It's those Labour success stories - in England, Scotland and in Wales - which can help us to win the next general election.\n\n\"From West Yorkshire and the Rhondda to Sheffield, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough - right across the UK, Labour is in power today - standing up for people, standing up communities.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said the experience of winning in Wales meant it \"cannot be the limit of the ambition of this great party to wring marginal and reluctant concessions from the rich, the powerful and the privileged\".\n\nCynon Valley MP Beth Winter criticised Sir Keir Starmer for having \"a lack of progressive, radical policies\"\n\nThe start of the party conference was marred by internal rows over party rules - and over how much say members have over leaders and parliamentarians.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Drakeford defended the work of party activists, saying Labour is only in power where it is because of them.\n\n\"There have been times when it has been fashionable to look askance at those who work actively in the Labour cause,\" he said.\n\n\"As if that commitment, by itself, cuts us off from the wider band of Labour voters.\"\n\n\"But the truth is that where Labour is in power there is a very different story to tell,\" adding Labour activism \"helps us to win\".\n\nEarlier this week Labour backed the UK leader Sir Keir Starmer in giving MPs more of a say in choosing its future leaders and make it harder for members to deselect MPs.\n\nElsewhere in the speech, Mr Drakeford said only through being \"authentically Labour\" could the party show \"what a Labour government can and is doing\".\n\n\"Not in some remote part of the world, not in a theoretical policy document, but right here in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nMark Drakeford comes to Brighton a proven election winner - something UK Labour is desperate to achieve at Westminster.\n\nHis profile has never been higher - Sir Keir, Angela Rayner and Anneliese Dodds all popped into Welsh night - and his speech on Monday afternoon is a definite elevation from the traditional Sunday slot for Welsh Labour leader.\n\nSo while the first minister is under pressure over the Welsh NHS performance in the wake of the pandemic, the Welsh Labour leader is offering advice on winning elections in Brighton.\n\nOn close reading, some of his speech could be read as a veiled warning to Sir Keir - respect the activists (after the rows over rule changes), don't limit your ambition to \"marginal and reluctant concessions\" from the rich and powerful (after some apparent softening on nationalisation), a theoretical policy document doesn't show what Labour's doing (last week's Fabian pamphlet by Sir Keir).\n\nConfronting the numbers is another story - after such a comprehensive defeat in the 2019 general election it would a be huge ask for any party leader to get back into government in a single electoral cycle.\n\nShadow Welsh secretary Nia Griffith said \"people can see our words in action\"\n\n\"The point is that when we say we will do something, because that's what the Welsh Labour government's already doing, then people can see our words in action,\" she said.\n\n\"So, if we ask for free school meals during the school holidays, we can tell people Labour means business.\n\n\"Because Labour in Wales delivered on free school meals for those children entitled during the school holidays.\n\n\"So all the examples that we can bring from Wales and show what a Labour government can do in action, give credibility to our plans for a UK Labour government.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Cynon Valley MP Beth Winter warned Labour might struggle to win the next general election because of \"a lack of progressive, radical policies\" from UK party leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nShe said it was \"really troubling\" a focus on party rule changes was \"overshadowing\" the conference.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Wales, UK Labour leader Sir Keir said: \"My central purpose in the issue on the rules is simply to make sure that our Labour party is facing those working families, facing outwards rather than talking to ourselves.\"\n\nPlans to change the rules around electing the party leader have been dropped.\n\nMembers approved a watered down set of rule changes which will require any future leadership candidate to have more more support from MPs and make it harder for Labour constituency members to oust their MP.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Activists say people in Switzerland are now ready for same-sex marriage\n\nAlmost two-thirds of Swiss voters have backed same-sex marriage in a referendum.\n\nSome 64% supported the measure, making it one of the last countries in western Europe to legalise same-sex marriage.\n\nCampaigners have hailed the vote as a historic moment for LGBT rights in the country.\n\nIn the build up to the vote, church groups and conservative political parties opposed the idea, saying it would undermine the traditional family.\n\nSwitzerland has allowed same-sex couples to register partnerships since 2007, but some rights are restricted.\n\nThe measure will make it possible for same-sex couples to adopt unrelated children and for married lesbian couples to have children through sperm donation.\n\nIt makes Switzerland the 30th country in the world to adopt same-sex marriage.\n\n\"It is a historic day for Switzerland, a historic day when it comes to equality for same-sex couples, and it is also an important day for the whole LGBT community,\" Jan Muller, of the \"yes\" campaign committee, told AFP news agency.\n\nJustice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said the first same-sex marriages would take place in July next year.\n\n\"Whoever loves each other and wants to get married will be able to do so, regardless of whether it is two men, two women, or a man and a woman,\" she said.\n\nBut Monika Rueegger, a politician with the right-wing Swiss People's Party and an opponent of the measure, said children and fathers were the losers.\n\n\"This was not about love and feelings,\" she told Reuters. \"It was about children's welfare.\"\n\nOver the last 20 years, most countries in western Europe have recognised same-sex marriage. However, in Switzerland many big decisions go to a nationwide ballot, and this can slow down major changes to social legislation.\n\nThe new law, which had the backing of the Swiss government and all major political parties except the People's Party, was passed by parliament in December.\n\nHowever, it was then challenged by opponents, who gathered enough signatures to force a referendum.", "Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) top candidate Alice Weidel said her party had done well Image caption: Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) top candidate Alice Weidel said her party had done well\n\nThe far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is on course to win the largest share of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony, according to preliminary results.\n\nSo far, the party has won more than 28% of second votes (which show voters' party preference) in the state, well ahead of the SPD with 19%.\n\nThe AfD has also performed well in the neighbouring state of Thuringia, with 24% of the second votes (slightly ahead of the SPD on 23%).\n\nIn recent years the AfD has tended to do well in eastern Germany.\n\nThe AfD has managed to woo voters from the centre-right and even the centre-left with its emphasis on Islam and migration. Those issues have galvanised some voters, especially men with nationalist attitudes.\n\nBut on a national level, the party's share of the vote in this election is projected to be lower than the last one in 2017, when it received almost 13%.\n\nEarlier Alice Weidel, one of the party's top candidates, said considering the negative media treatment of the AfD, the party had done well.\n\n\"We are in the double figures, we have been able to assert ourselves,\" she said.\n\nAll the other parties likely to be represented in the Bundestag have long ruled out forming a coalition with the AfD.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy McDonald MP: \"Is it unreasonable to expect our key workers not to have that level of pay?\"\n\nShadow cabinet member Andy McDonald has quit Labour's front bench with a scathing attack on Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nIn his resignation letter - published in the middle of Labour's party conference in Brighton - the MP said his party leader had made Labour \"more divided than ever\".\n\nMr McDonald also accused him of not honouring his pledges to members.\n\nSir Keir thanked him for his service but said his own focus was on \"winning the next general election\".\n\nBut former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, a leading figure on Labour's left, said: \"Questions have got to be asked about Keir Starmer… the conference is falling apart.\"\n\nMr McDonald previously served as shadow transport secretary on Jeremy Corbyn's front bench, but he became one of the few members to survive the handover of power to Sir Keir, and stayed in the top team as shadow secretary for employment rights and protections.\n\nIn recent months, his focus had been on creating Labour's new programme of employment rights, which was unveiled at the conference on Saturday by deputy leader Angela Rayner.\n\nMr McDonald said he had accepted the job \"because I wanted to fight for the working people of this country\", but had quit over a lack of support from his leader over bringing in a £15-an-hour minimum wage.\n\nSources close to Sir Keir told the BBC they were not unhappy at the departure, insisting this week was \"all about change and closing the door on the Corbyn era\".\n\nThe Labour leader's team sought to play down tensions over the minimum wage issue, with party sources telling the BBC they would be relaxed if members supported a rise.\n\nLabour MP Barry Gardiner - who served alongside Mr McDonald in Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet - told the BBC he was \"extremely shocked\" to hear of the resignation, saying he had been \"a very powerful voice for workers in the country\".\n\nBut the founder of left-wing Labour activist group Momentum, Jon Lansman, joined Mr McDonald's criticism of Sir Keir, telling BBC News: \"He promised to unite the party and actually, unfortunately, he's driving wedges within the party.\"\n\nFellow members of Sir Keir's top team expressed shock at the resignation.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"It's a shame. I'm sure he'll focus on working for the party from the back benches.\"\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Mr McDonald was \"a friend of mine\" and he was \"sad to see him go\".\n\nBut he disagreed with the remarks about division in the party, adding: \"We have seen [at] this conference, frankly, Labour facing towards the general election in a way that is not just ambitious in terms of the pledges… but we have also tried to do that in a [way] that gains [the] credibility that is required to win power\".\n\nAs news of the resignation broke in the conference hall, one delegate shouted \"Andy McDonald, solidarity!\" to loud cheers from some in the crowd.\n\nThe reaction of sources close to the Labour leadership to Andy McDonald's resignation can best be described as \"close the door on your way out\".\n\nBut they clearly want to turn adversity to advantage.\n\nHaving pushed through leadership rule changes which infuriated the left, they insist that this week is all about change and showing Labour is a potential party of government.\n\nSo the departure of a survivor of the Jeremy Corbyn era is seen to play into that narrative. One source described him as \"the last Corbynista standing\".\n\nSome are suggesting it was part of a co-ordinated attempt to undermine Sir Keir's leadership.\n\nMr McDonald's resignation letter says Sir Keir's pledges to the membership were not being honoured - raising directly an issue of trust.\n\nHis demand for a £15 minimum wage is supported by some unions who feel bruised by the Labour leadership's focus on changing party rules when they wanted the focus to be in members' living standards.\n\nMr McDonald insists he still wants to see Sir Keir in Downing Street - but he should \"reflect\" on his style of leadership and consult the party and the unions more.\n\nIn Mr McDonald's letter, the MP claimed his position was \"untenable\" after the leader's office instructed him go to a meeting at Labour's party conference and \"argue against a national minimum wage of £15 an hour and against statutory sick pay at the living wage\".\n\nHe said it was \"something I could not do\", adding: \"After many months of a pandemic when we made commitments to stand by key workers, I cannot now look those same workers in the eye and tell them they are not worth a wage that is enough to live on, or that they don't deserve security when they are ill.\n\nMr McDonald said it was a \"bitter blow\" that Labour had not followed the country in its \"renewed awareness of how important the work done by millions of low-paid workers truly is\".\n\nHe added: \"I joined your frontbench team on the basis of the pledges that you made in the leadership campaign to bring about unity within the party and maintain our commitment to socialist policies.\n\n\"After 18 months of your leadership, our movement is more divided than ever and the pledges that you made to the membership are not being honoured.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, Sir Keir released a statement which said: \"I want to thank Andy for his service in the shadow cabinet.\n\n\"Labour's comprehensive New Deal for Working People shows the scale of our ambition and where our priorities lie.\n\n\"My focus and that of the whole party is on winning the next general election so we can deliver for working people who need a Labour government.\"", "Strictly Come Dancing's Tom Fletcher and dance partner Amy Dowden have tested positive for Covid, a day after the first live show in the series.\n\nThe pair will miss next week's live show and are now self-isolating separately, the broadcaster said.\n\nThe BBC added \"that all being well, they will return the following week\".\n\nFletcher, a singer, songwriter and author, is best known for being one of the lead vocalists of pop rock band McFly.\n\nOn Sunday, the band's Twitter account and his own personal account said he was unwell and would not be onstage for their performance in Glasgow tonight.\n\n\"He sends huge and heartfelt apologies to all the fans he won't see tonight. The show will still be going ahead, we're looking forward to seeing you all and need you guys to sing extra loud for us tonight.\"\n\nDowden said in an Instagram post that she had tested positive for Covid-19 but did not have any symptoms.\n\nShe added: \"I have no doubt that over the next 10 days my mind will be going crazy with choreography ideas, ready to get back on the Strictly dancefloor for the live show in week three.\"\n\nIt comes after an unnamed professional dancer tested positive for Covid earlier this month, in the run-up to the show's launch last Saturday.\n\nThere have been reports that some of the pro dancers on Strictly have refused to be vaccinated, although there is no suggestion Dowden is among them.\n\nAnd on 3 February, the dancer, who has spoken publicly about living with the chronic bowel condition Crohn's disease, shared a post on Instagram in which she said she was \"incredibly grateful\" to be having her Covid vaccine the following day.\n\nEarlier this week, Strictly pro Gorka Márquez told ITV's This Morning stories about dancers' vaccine status were \"just speculation\" and the dance show was \"taking big responsibility to keep everyone safe\".\n\nFletcher and Dowden tackled a cha-cha-cha to September by Earth, Wind and Fire in Strictly Come Dancing's first live show of the 2021 series, the night before testing positive.", "The hearing was told Eilidh had been a \"happy fun-loving girl\"\n\nA woman whose daughter was killed in the Manchester Arena attack has told an inquiry of the moment the bomb exploded and her \"whole world was torn apart\".\n\nEilidh MacLeod, who was 14 and from Barra in the Outer Hebrides, was 13ft (4m) from Salman Abedi when set off a homemade device at the venue in 2017.\n\nMarion MacLeod told the Manchester Arena Inquiry she heard an \"enormous explosion\" as she waited outside the venue for her daughter.\n\nThe inquiry into the attack has been looking at the individual circumstances of how each of the 22 people killed at the venue on 22 May 2017 died.\n\nThe hearing was told Eilidh had been a \"happy fun-loving girl\" who had an \"amazing sense of fun and sense of humour\".\n\n\"Her life was good and she was loving it,\" her family said.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nIn a statement read to the inquiry, Mrs MacLeod said Eilidh had attended the concert with a friend and she had been waiting to collect them when she heard the bomb go off.\n\n\"I was just about at the corner, across the road from where I told Eilidh I would be waiting for them, when I heard an enormous explosion,\" she said.\n\n\"The ground shook and that was when our whole world was torn apart.\"\n\nThe court heard that Eilidh died in the arena foyer from multiple injuries that medical experts said were unsurvivable.\n\nHer friend was seriously injured.\n\nAddressing the hearing, inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders said Eilidh \"would have achieved anything she set her mind to\" and had \"enriched the lives of many\".\n\nThe inquiry also heard how the mother of Sorrell Leczkowski tried to resuscitate her after the bomb went off.\n\nThe 14-year-old, from Leeds, was with her mother Samantha and grandmother Pauline Healy as they waited to pick up her sister from the concert.\n\nThe inquiry heard Sorrell had been \"singing and dancing\" and making her family laugh about 20ft (6m) from Abedi when the bomb went off.\n\nSir John said Sorrell had been \"at the centre of her family life\"\n\nThe hearing was told Mrs Leczkowski carried out chest compressions on her daughter and a security guard, car park employee and various police officers also tried to resuscitate her, while she \"pleaded with them not to let her die\".\n\nHowever, the schoolgirl died in the arena foyer from a neck injury. Her grandmother was also badly injured.\n\nHer mother said Sorrell, who wanted to study at Columbia University in New York to become an architect, was \"precious and so perfect\" and was \"a happy, positive and caring young woman\".\n\nThe institution's architecture society later made her an honorary member.\n\nSir John said Sorrell had been \"at the centre of her family life\".\n\n\"She was happy, she was fun and she was caring,\" he said.\n\n\"It is ironic that so many victims of this evil act were especially full of life and talented too.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pop star is known for hits like Murder On The Dancefloor and Groovejet\n\nSophie Ellis-Bextor has spoken out about being raped at the age of 17 by an older musician.\n\nWriting in her new memoir, Spinning Plates, the singer says she lost her virginity in the incident at the apartment of a guitarist, who was 29.\n\n\"I heard myself saying 'No' and 'I don't want to,'\" she writes, \"but it didn't make any difference\".\n\n\"He had sex with me and I felt so ashamed. It was how I lost my virginity and I felt stupid.\"\n\nShe continued: \"I felt grubby, but also unsure about my own feelings as I had no other experience to compare it with.\"\n\nIn the book, which is being serialised in the Mail On Sunday, Ellis-Bextor describes how she met the musician - who she calls Jim - at a gig while she was studying for her A-Levels.\n\nHe invited her back to his flat to see his history books \"and before I knew it we were on his bed and he took off my knickers\".\n\nThe singer, who is now 42, says she was left confused following the incident as the public perception of rape in the 1990s \"was not to do with consent\" but rather \"something you associated with aggression\".\n\n\"But no one had pinned me down or shouted at me to make me comply,\" she says, adding that \"the things I saw and read and the way sex was discussed [at the time] made me believe I didn't have a case.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by sexual abuse or violence, help and support is available at BBC Action Line.\n\nAccording to Rape Crisis England and Wales, this perception still persists - with many victims believing they have no case if there are no physical signs of struggle or assault.\n\nThe charity says there \"are many reasons why someone might not scream or struggle\". In fact, it says, \"quietness and stillness might suggest a lack of those crucial elements of freedom and capacity\".\n\nMisconceptions like these can make it difficult for survivors to seek help, with many fearing they will not be believed, it adds.\n\nEllis-Bextor says she had decided to share her own experience to help people understand \"where the line between right and wrong lies\".\n\n\"My experience was not violent,\" she writes in her memoir. \"All that happened was I wasn't listened to. Of the two people there, one said yes, the other said no, and the yes person did it anyway.\n\n\"The older I've become, the more stark that 29-year-old man ignoring 17-year-old me has seemed.\"\n\nAs the mother of five sons, Ellis-Bextor says she had been careful to introduce them to the concept of consent.\n\n\"I want to raise considerate, kind people who can take other people's feelings into account,\" she writes.\n\n\"I want them to actively want the other person to be happy, too, rather than just stopping because they have to.\"", "Hayden's mum Shauna raised enough money to get her son's surgery carried out in Turkey\n\n\"To be put in a position where you're basically begging off people, it's infuriating.\"\n\nLast October, 12-year-old Hayden Kildea was diagnosed with severe scoliosis, a condition where the spine twists and curves to the side. Left untreated, it can become a dangerous and life-limiting condition.\n\nThe Kildeas, who live in Strabane, Northern Ireland, say they were told Hayden would need urgent surgery - but that because of the backlog caused by the pandemic, he would have to wait more than two years.\n\nHis mum Shauna found a clinic in Turkey that was able to carry out the operation immediately, but it would cost £50,000 - money the family didn't have.\n\nSo in the summer, they turned to crowdfunding and campaigning to raise the money.\n\nShe says: \"It's really, really frustrating that we're in our own country and we can't get Hayden the surgery he needs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMillions of people across the UK are currently on NHS waiting lists - in Northern Ireland there are over 465,000 people, while in England, 5.6m are queuing for treatment.\n\nData shared with BBC Panorama shows that on average, waiting lists have grown by 50% in the most deprived parts of England since the start of the pandemic, compared with nearly 35% in the most affluent areas.\n\nThe research, conducted by the King's Fund, also shows that people on waiting lists in poorer areas are nearly twice as likely as those in wealthier areas to wait more than one year for treatment.\n\nThe data looks at waiting lists from April 2020 to July 2021 (the latest available data) and includes planned hospital treatments such as knee and hip replacements, cataract surgery and other common procedures.\n\nHayden Kildea's family reached their target. He has now had the operation in Turkey and is recovering back at home.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board in Northern Ireland said patient demand continued \"to exceed capacity across a range of specialties\". It added: \"As a result, even before the pandemic, the number of people waiting longer than the target waiting times was increasing.\"\n\nSofia felt she couldn't wait for an NHS procedure\n\nSofia Jones, 36, has endometriosis - a gynaecological condition that leads to severe pelvic pain. Some days she could barely walk, having to stay in bed all day.\n\nSofia, who lives near Dundee, says she was told she'd have to wait two years for an NHS operation. But that felt too long to wait, so she and her partner decided to take out a £7,000 loan to pay to have the surgery in a private hospital.\n\n'It was a really tough decision to go private,\" she says, \"because we were having to put ourselves into debt. And that's a lot of money. But you have to have some quality of life.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"We're sorry the unprecedented impact of the pandemic has lengthened waiting times for some patients. The pandemic has been the most significant challenge the NHS has faced in its 73-year history, and as in many health care systems across the world, the unavoidable pausing of non-urgent elective procedures has resulted in some delays.\"\n\nAccording to Anita Charlesworth, chief economist at the Health Foundation think tank: \"The big worry about long waits leading people to have to go private is that it will increase inequalities, but also that many people will be forced to make awful trade-offs over their finances in order to be able to get access to the care that they need when they need it.\n\n\"And that goes against every grain of why we set up the health service,\" she said.\n\nBrenda Pugh, 61, from Petersfield in Hampshire, had to give up work in a law firm in 2019 after being diagnosed with arthritis. She was unable to work due to the pain caused by her arthritis which was first diagnosed five years ago.\n\nAs the pandemic began, she was told she needed a double hip replacement and now has to use crutches. When she moves she says it's like \"walking on jagged glass\".\n\nThe pain is so severe she has written to her consultant, begging him for the operation. She says: \"I can't carry on like this. My life just isn't worth living.\"\n\nBrenda Pugh, 61, had to give up work because of arthritis\n\nThe cost to have the surgery privately would be about £10,000 per hip - and she says there's no way she can afford that.\n\nBrenda is one of 62,000 patients who've been waiting more than 12 months to get joint replacement surgery.\n\nNew research conducted by charity Versus Arthritis and given exclusively to BBC Panorama reveals that half (54%) of people with arthritis who are currently waiting for surgery are facing an average cost of £1,739 a year to keep their pain at bay, through things like private physio appointments and over-the-counter painkillers.\n\nInevitably, GPs are the ones patients turn to for help managing their pain as they wait. One of them, Dr Leora Harverd, from a practice in north London, says she's overwhelmed by her current caseload.\n\nSome of her patients are anxious about long delays for treatment, and says it's not unusual that people go private, but \"it's not how it should be\".\n\nThis month the government announced they would be investing £36bn in NHS and social care for all four home nations up to 2025.\n\nAnalysis of their plans by the Health Foundation shows that £10bn has been committed to address the backlog in England over the next three years.\n\nMs Charlesworth says it's a lot of money but won't necessarily be enough: 'If we want the waiting list to come down by the next election, we would need to spend at least £13bn; if we wanted to meet the target to treat people within 18 weeks, we need to be spending £17bn - and the government has committed £10bn.\"\n\nBut even the prime minister has admitted that \"waiting lists will get worse before they get better\".\n\nNHS England said: \"Caring for more than 450,000 seriously ill Covid patients has inevitably had a knock-on effect on non-urgent care.\n\n\"NHS staff have stepped up and made effective use of additional resources helping carry out millions more tests, checks, treatments and operations this summer compared to last.\"\n\nBBC Panorama - NHS: Wait or Pay is on BBC One on Monday 27 September at 19:35 BST, and available afterwards on BBC iPlayer.", "Plans to make an \"Instagram experience\" for under-13s, dubbed Instagram Kids, have been paused.\n\nFacebook would use the time to listen to \"parents, experts, policymakers and regulators\", Instagram head Adam Mosseri wrote.\n\nIt follows leaked internal research the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said Instagram was \"toxic for teen girls\".\n\nBut in a recent blog, Facebook head of research Pratiti Raychoudhury called this allegation \"simply not accurate\".\n\nInstagram requires users to be at least 13 before they create an account - but many children under that age use the platform anyway.\n\nAnd the company previously told BBC News Instagram Kids would be a \"practical solution to the ongoing industry problem of kids lying about their age to access apps\" and enable children to connect with family and friends in an \"age appropriate way\".\n\nBut in April, a letter from the Campaign for a Commercial-free Childhood, signed by 99 groups and individuals, claimed the \"image-obsessed\" platform was dangerous for children's health and privacy and called for the project to be scrapped.\n\nIn the new blog post, Mr Mosseri said he still believed it was better to have a version of Instagram for 10-12-year-olds, rather \"than relying on an app's ability to verify the age of kids who are too young to have an ID\".\n\n\"The reality is that kids are already online,\" he said.\n\nWhile the project is paused, Instagram will expand its work on new opt-in parental supervision tools, to cover 13-19-year-olds currently on Instagram.\n\nThere would be more announcements on that in the coming months, Mr Mosseri wrote.\n\nAnd while he disagreed with the WSJ's interpretation of the leaked research it had \"raised a lot of questions for people\".\n\nIn 2020, teenage girls were asked when they felt bad about their bodies did Instagram make them feel:\n\nBut Facebook said the survey:\n\nIn other areas such as eating issues, loneliness, anxiety and sadness, \"teenage girls who said they experienced these challenges were more likely to say that Instagram made these issues better v worse,\" it said.\n\n\"The research actually demonstrated that many teens we heard from feel that using Instagram helps them when they are struggling with the kinds of hard moments and issues teenagers have always faced\", Ms Raychoudhury wrote, two weeks after the WSJ report, part of its Facebook Files series.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam Mosseri 😷 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut technology news site The Verge said Facebook's response \"ignores many of the issues raised in the WSJ piece, including that teens claimed they felt addicted to Instagram\".\n\nCommentators have challenged Facebook to make public the research.\n\nAnd on Monday, a Facebook representative told BBC News it planned to release some of the research material to Congress.\n\n\"Our plan is to release the two most noteworthy source decks to Congress and we're looking at a potential public release,\" they said.\n\n\"Our intention is that they will become public.\"\n\nFacebook global head of safety Antigone Davis will answer questions at forthcoming US Senate committee, where she is expected to be asked about the WSJ report and plans for Instagram Kids.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A church in the village of Arkalochori was reduced to a pile of rubble\n\nAt least one person has been killed and several injured after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Greek island of Crete, local officials say.\n\nThe man died when the dome of a church that was being renovated in the town of Arkalochori caved in.\n\nPeople were sent rushing out on to the streets when the earthquake struck at 09:17 (06:17 GMT).\n\nMany buildings were damaged and some reduced to piles of rubble from the initial quake and strong aftershocks.\n\nPeople who live in damaged, older buildings are being advised to stay outdoors.\n\nSome 2,500 tents were set up to house those who could not safely return to their homes on Monday, government minister Christos Stylianidis told Greece's Ant1 news.\n\nHe also declared a state of emergency in the Heraklion region - where Arkalochori is located.\n\nBritish woman Millie Mackay and her nine-year-old daughter Eleni are on holiday in Crete and were in their ground floor hotel room when the earthquake hit.\n\n\"Glasses started smashing so we ran outside by the pool,\" Ms Mackay told the BBC.\n\n\"There the bosses guided us to a place of safety... [The manager] was then calling out room numbers and checking if everyone was out and OK.\"\n\nLocal resident Evangelia Christaki told AFP news agency that she had just enough time to grab her husband, who has a disability, and run outside as her house shook.\n\n\"Fortunately, our home was not too badly damaged,\" she said. \"But the authorities have told us to stay outdoors over the next hours. In any case, we are so scared.\"\n\nThe small farming town of Arkalochori, located about 30km (18 miles) from the island's capital Heraklion, was particularly badly hit by the earthquake.\n\nPictures from the area show damaged shop fronts and crumbled buildings.\n\nLocal media is reporting that safety inspections are now under way, with members of Greece's disaster response unit flown in with sniffer dogs and specialised rescue equipment.\n\nRescuers searched through the rubble of the demolished church in Arkalochori\n\n\"This is not an event that occurred without warning,\" seismologist Gerasimos Papadopoulos said on Greece's state broadcaster, ERT.\n\n\"We have seen activity in this region for several months. This was a strong earthquake, it was not under sea but under land and affecting populated areas,\" he added.\n\nThe European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) initially recorded a magnitude of 6.5 while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) put it at 6.0.\n\nThe Athens Geodynamic Institute later said the 5.8 quake struck 23km (14 miles) north-west of the coastal village of Arvi, at a depth of 10km.\n\nBoth Greece and Turkey sit on fault lines and earthquakes are common.\n\nHave you been affected by the earthquake? If it's safe to do so, you can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Theatres have said they are at breaking point because of the 1m social distancing rule\n\nStormont ministers have agreed to end social distancing restrictions for shops, theatres and a number of other indoor settings in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe executive has asked some sectors to put in place mitigations including proof of double vaccination or a negative lateral flow test.\n\nBut this will be advice and not legally enforceable.\n\nMinisters did not consider social distancing in the hospitality sector during Monday's virtual meeting.\n\nInstead, this will be further discussed on 7 October, First Minister Paul Givan said in a social media post.\n\nHe added that the changes for indoor seated venues, indoor visitor attractions and retail settings will take effect from 18:00 BST on 30 September. That is the date when the UK-wide furlough scheme ends.\n\nSocial distancing of at least 1m (3ft) has been a legal requirement in many indoor premises in Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, those who run venues hosting concerts, conferences and theatres in Northern Ireland have said they are at breaking point because of the rule.\n\nWhile social distancing measures are to be removed, the executive agreed that face coverings will remain a legal requirement in retail settings and for indoor attractions.\n\nThey also called for people \"to utilise all other available mitigations such as hand sanitising, good ventilation, and using one-way systems where possible\".\n\nHospitality businesses like pubs and cafes have to serve fewer customers because of social distancing rules\n\nBBC News NI's Political Editor Enda McClafferty said it is understood venues will be under no legal obligations to put mitigation measures in place, rather, this will be on an \"opt-in\" basis.\n\nOn proof of Covid status for entry, he said: \"Venues have been asked to put in place a number of mitigations including proof of being fully vaccinated, proof of a negative lateral flow test or proof of natural immunity through a positive Covid PCR test within the previous six months.\"\n\nBusiness groups have previously asked for the law to be relaxed as it is affecting trade.\n\nHospitality businesses are having to serve fewer customers in order to adhere to social distancing rules and venues cannot operate to their full capacity, meaning a drop in revenue from ticket sales.\n\nFor weeks, Northern Ireland's First Minister Paul Givan has been urging his executive colleagues to relax the rules, previously saying that he wanted to see all Covid-19 restrictions lifted by the end of September.\n\nHis party colleague, Economy Minister Gordon Lyons said on Monday that he \"wanted to see movement\" on social distancing rules \"as soon as we can\".\n\n\"I have been contacted by a number of people who work in that industry who are concerned about the impact that these restrictions continue to have on the viability of their events and on their businesses as well,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill has previously argued for a more \"cautious approach\", expressing concern about infection rates and the knock-on effect on hospitals.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Wales have already lifted a number of social distancing requirements\n\nEngland abolished its mandatory social distancing measures on 19 July, with a small number of exceptions for settings like hospitals, care homes and border control posts.\n\nWales lifted its legal requirements on social distancing on 7 August, leaving it to individual businesses to decide their own rules after risk assessments.\n\nScotland dropped its social distancing requirements on 9 August, but a 2m (6ft) rule remains in place for Scottish healthcare settings such as hospitals, doctors' surgeries and dentists.\n\nThe business group Hospitality Ulster has been a vocal critic of Stormont's social distancing rules.\n\nAfter last Thursday's executive meeting, Hospitality Ulster chief executive Colin Neill said he was \"hugely disappointed by the lack of movement\" on Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe EU's Digital Covid Certificate is being rolled out across EU member states\n\nMeanwhile, the SDLP said Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon had been \"blocked\" in her efforts to introduce a vaccine certification scheme for entry to some venues where social distancing measures will soon be removed.\n\nMs Mallon argued against a proposal from the DUP and Sinn Féin which will see social distancing measures dropped in indoor seated venues without the requirement of vaccine certification.\n\nSpeaking after the executive's announcement, her party leader Colum Eastwood said it had been a \"moment to act\" and such a programme could have increased vaccine uptake, \"particularly in younger age groups\".\n\n\"It is astounding and reckless that DUP and Sinn Féin ministers have kicked the can down the road instead of bringing certainty and clarity,\" he explained.\n\n\"Not only does this offer no incentive for vaccination it puts the onus entirely on businesses themselves.\n\n\"This is a cop out and another failure of leadership.\"\n\nPreviously, Sinn Féin said it would support a proposal for vaccine passports to gain access to pubs and restaurants in Northern Ireland if it was recommended by Stormont health officials.", "Ms Mallon said the introduction of vaccine passports could act as an incentive for younger people to get vaccinated\n\nThe introduction of vaccine passports in Northern Ireland is a \"no brainer\", the infrastructure minister has said.\n\nSDLP MLA Nichola Mallon said she has raised the issue at Stormont executive meetings on \"a number of occasions\".\n\nIt comes after her party leader Colum Eastwood called for the introduction of vaccine passports earlier this week.\n\n\"It's frustrating that we're still sitting having this discussion,\" Ms Mallon told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme.\n\nSince July, the EU Digital Covid Certificate system has been in operation in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt is being used as a form of passport to give members of the public access to international travel and hospitality industries.\n\nThe Republic has been using the EU Digital Covid Certificate system since July\n\nMs Mallon said she believed the introduction of a similar scheme in Northern Ireland would act as an incentive for more young people to be vaccinated.\n\n\"We know that the level of uptake in vaccines from people aged 18 to 35 is lower here and we know when we look at the south that the introduction of Covid passports acts as an incentive for that age group,\" she said.\n\n\"So, for me it's a no brainer.\n\n\"We have to be honest with ourselves. If we want to have a sustainable pathway out of the remaining restrictions, if we want to avoid further lockdown, if we want to protect our health service from unprecedented pressures as it goes into winter, then we need to look to introduce Covid passports.\"\n\nNew Covid passport rules will begin in Scotland and Wales in October.\n\nSimilar plans in England have been scrapped but will be kept in reserve in case they are needed this winter.\n\nIn a wide ranging interview, the infrastructure minister also said the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) was \"back to full testing capacity\", in terms of MoTs.\n\nThere were \"clearly technical difficulties\" moving to the new MoT booking system, the infrastructure minister said\n\nLast week, the DVA apologised after a delay in rolling out a new MoT booking system left drivers unable to get a test slot.\n\n\"DVA has introduced a modern, up-to-date booking system which will make it much easier and a much more improved experience for customers,\" said Ms Mallon.\n\nHowever, she added that there \"were clearly technical difficulties moving to the new system\".\n\n\"There was monumental amounts of data that had to be switched over and there were technical issues and difficulties and the DVA has apologised for that, and I apologise for any inconvenience that was caused to people.\"\n\nThe PSNI will not penalise the driver of a vehicle whose MoT has expired, so long as it is in roadworthy condition, the vehicle is properly insured, and the driver can provide proof that a test appointment has been booked for the vehicle, according to the DVA.\n\nThe booking system was fully operational again by Friday, with 20,000 people able to successfully book an MoT, Ms Mallon added.\n\nHowever, for those whose MoT certificate expires before their next test date, Ms Mallon said: \"I would encourage people to keep checking the booking system because cancellations allow other people to come forward.\"", "Singer R. Kelly has been found guilty of exploiting his superstar status to run a scheme to sexually abuse women and children over two decades.\n\nEleven accusers - nine women and two men - took the stand over the searing six-week trial to describe sexual humiliation and violence at his hands.\n\nAfter two days of deliberation, the jury found the US star guilty on all nine charges he was facing.\n\nSentencing is due on 4 May and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars.\n\nThe jury found Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was the ringleader of a violent and coercive scheme that lured women and children for him to sexually abuse.\n\nThe singer - most famous for the hit songs I Believe I Can Fly and Ignition (Remix) - was also found to have trafficked women between different US states.\n\nAlong with eight counts of sex trafficking, Kelly was found guilty of racketeering - a charge normally used against organised crime associations.\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors detailed how his managers, security guards and other entourage members worked to assist him in his criminal enterprise.\n\nThe court also heard how Kelly had illegally obtained paperwork to marry Aaliyah when she was 15 in 1994, seven years before the singer died in a plane crash.\n\nThe certificate, leaked at the time, listed Aaliyah's age as 18. The marriage was annulled months later.\n\nHer 1994 debut album, Age Ain't Nothing But a Number, was produced and written by R. Kelly.\n\nOne woman who testified that Kelly imprisoned, drugged and raped her said in a written statement after the verdict that she had \"been hiding\" from Kelly due to threats made against her since she went public with her accusations.\n\n\"I'm ready to start living my life free from fear and to start the healing process,\" added the woman, identified in court as Sonja.\n\nAnother woman who testified in court, Lizette Martinez, said she was \"relieved\" by the verdict.\n\n\"I'm so proud of the women who were able to speak their truths,\" she added.\n\nLegal documents have revealed the mental torment that Kelly subjected his victims to. They were not allowed to eat or use the bathroom without his permission, he controlled what clothes they wore and made them call him \"Daddy\".\n\nGloria Allred, a lawyer who represented several victims, told reporters: \"I've been practising law for 47 years. During this time, I've pursued many sexual predators who have committed crimes against women and children.\n\n\"Of all the predators that I have pursued, Mr Kelly is the worst.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt a news conference outside the court on Monday, prosecutor Jacquelyn Kasulis said that the jury had sent a message to other powerful men like Kelly.\n\n\"No matter how long it takes, the long arm of the law will catch up with you,\" said Ms Kasulis.\n\nThe verdict comes 13 years after Kelly was acquitted of charges of making child sexual abuse videos after a trial in the state of Illinois.\n\nMany of the allegations heard in the trial were first laid out in the 2019 documentary Surviving R Kelly.\n\nVictims were sometimes selected from his concert audiences, or were enticed to join him after being offered help with their fledgling music careers after chance encounters with the singer.\n\nBut after joining his entourage, they found that they were subjected to strict rules and aggressively punished if they violated what his team had dubbed \"Rob's rules\".\n\nThis was a swift decision by the jury of seven men and five women.\n\nThey took nine hours over two days to reach a verdict, meaning they must have been fairly united in their examination of the evidence.\n\nRight before the verdict was read, a handful of R. Kelly's fans blasted his music outside the courthouse. I asked them how they felt after he was found guilty. They were visibly sad and told me they still supported him.\n\nOn the other hand, R. Kelly's victims are feeling some measure of comfort.\n\nOne - who remained anonymous throughout the trial - issued a statement saying she felt like she could now start the healing process. This verdict no doubt hinged on their testimony and willingness to recount personal trauma.\n\nFor decades these black women kept asking when they would be heard, when their voices would matter. This conviction is their Me Too victory.\n\nKelly's lawyer Deveraux Cannick told reporters the singer did not expect to be found guilty.\n\n\"The government cherry-picked their version that they thought would support the continuation of the narrative,\" said Mr Cannick. \"Why would he expect this verdict given all the inconsistencies that we saw?\"\n\nKelly is separately facing trial in Chicago on child sex images and obstruction charges. He is also due to face sex abuse charges in Illinois and Minnesota.\n\nAt least two former Kelly associates have pleaded guilty in separate cases related to attempts to silence Kelly's accusers.", "At least two people have been killed after a tornado swept through an Italian island.\n\nNine others were injured as the whirlwind overturned cars and ripped off roofs on the tourist hotspot of Pantelleria on Friday, according to Italy's civil protection agency.\n\nFour of the wounded remain in a critical condition.\n\nOne rescue worker who spoke to Italy's Ansa news agency described the scene as \"apocalyptic\".\n\nLocal media report that the tornado ripped down a coastal road.\n\nAn off-duty fireman is among the dead, the civil protection agency said. Both he and the other victim, an 86-year-old man, were driving their cars at the time, Ansa news agency reports.\n\nEmergency workers are planning to transfer the wounded to hospitals in the city of Palermo by helicopter once weather conditions improve.\n\nThe Mediterranean island of Pantelleria is known for its volcanic cliffs and hot springs and is a favourite spot for celebrities.\n\nWhile tornadoes are not typically associated with Europe, several hundred are believed to hit the continent every year. Many go unreported as they hit remote rural areas.\n\nFive people were killed and 150 injured earlier this year when a whirlwind hit the Czech Republic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The rare sight of a tornado in the Czech Republic was caught on film", "Lilly, aged four, and Smaller, aged 10, were killed in a crash with a lorry on the M1 near Milton Keynes\n\nA judge has issued an arrest warrant for a woman accused of killing two of her children in a crash on the M1.\n\nMary McCann, 35, of Bamford Avenue, Derby, failed to appear at Aylesbury Crown Court to answer two charges of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nHer 10-year-old son Smaller and four-year-old daughter Lilly died after a collision with an HGV near Milton Keynes on 9 August.\n\nJudge Francis Sheridan said he wanted ports and airports on alert for her.\n\n\"It is most likely she will flee to Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a sad case, but by absconding to avoid the indictment being put is in my view tactical.\"\n\nMary McCann (right) failed to appear at court charged with killing her son Smaller (pictured) and daughter Lilly\n\nThe family's white Vauxhall Astra collided with an HGV between junctions 14 and 15 of the northbound carriageway at about 23:10 BST.\n\nMs McCann and another child passenger were injured.\n\nA family member said they were on their way back from a party in London and Ms McCann's 13-year-old daughter had stayed in the city.\n\nProsecutor Heather Stangoe told the court: \"Unfortunately, we do not know where she is. We were informed through her solicitor that they had failed to make contact with the defendant. Her bail address was her sister's and she is not there.\n\n\"It was the funeral of her children this week. Her one-year-old child is with the grandmother and is safe.\"\n\nDefence barrister Laban Leake said: \"The funerals were on Monday and Tuesday.\n\n\"She gave a telephone number, an attempt was made to contact that number, but there was no response.\n\n\"We know nothing of her state of mind.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Woman charged over crash which killed two children\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A private service of remembrance has been held in the September 11 Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square, London\n\nThe Queen has sent a message to US President Biden marking 20 years since the 11 September attacks, saying her thoughts and prayers are with the victims, survivors and their families.\n\nIn her message, she also paid tribute to the resilience of the communities who joined together to rebuild.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the terrorists had failed to \"shake our belief in freedom and democracy\".\n\nAfter sunset, 67 candles were lit to remember the British victims.\n\nCommemorations have been taking place at a memorial garden in Grosvenor Square, London, where a private service of remembrance was held earlier, organised by a support group for victims' families.\n\nOther events have been held around the world to remember the 2,977 people killed.\n\nThe attacks, which were planned by al-Qaeda from Afghanistan, saw four US passenger jets seized by suicide attackers - two of which were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York.\n\nAnother plane crashed into the Pentagon, just outside US capital Washington DC, and a fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back.\n\nCandles have been put out in the September 11 Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square, London, to remember British victims\n\nPeople comforted each other after attending the Memorial Garden\n\nFlowers have been laid in Grosvenor Square\n\nIn her message to President Biden, the Queen said: \"As we mark the 20th anniversary of the terrible attacks on September 11 2001, my thoughts and prayers, and those of my family and the entire nation, remain with the victims, survivors and families affected, as well as the first responders and rescue workers called to duty.\n\n\"My visit to the site of the World Trade Center in 2010 is held fast in my memory.\n\n\"It reminds me that as we honour those from many nations, faiths and backgrounds who lost their lives, we also pay tribute to the resilience and determination of the communities who joined together to rebuild.\"\n\nAnd in a defiant message to mark the anniversary, the prime minister said while the terror threat remained, people refused \"to live in permanent fear\".\n\n\"That we are coming together today - in sorrow but also in faith and resolve - demonstrates the failure of terrorism.\"\n\nThe Queen laid a wreath at Ground Zero during her 2010 visit\n\nEvents have also been taking place at Windsor Castle, where a special changing of the guard ceremony took place, during which the US national anthem was played. It was an echo of the playing of the Star Spangled Banner at Buckingham Palace 20 years ago on the day after the atrocity, as a gesture of solidarity.\n\nThere was a minute's silence after the Band of the Welsh Guards performed the anthem, watched by hundreds who had gathered at the castle.\n\nActing US ambassador Philip T Reeker said the events were a reminder that the US had \"no closer ally and no closer friend in good times and in bad times\" than the UK.\n\nHe said: \"This has shown the special relationship remains so crucial to all of us.\"\n\nMr Reeker was among those attending another event at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, organised by education charity Since 9/11 for survivors of the attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says terrorism failed to drive US and UK apart\n\nDuring the commemoration, the message from the PM was played, in which he said recent events in Afghanistan had only strengthened people's belief in freedom and democracy.\n\n\"Twenty years ago, September 11 2001 became, in President Roosevelt's words after Pearl Harbor, a 'date which will live in infamy',\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"On a crystal clear morning, terrorists attacked the United States with the simple goal of killing or maiming as many human beings as possible, and by inflicting such bloodshed in the world's greatest democracy, they tried to destroy the faith of free peoples everywhere in the open societies which terrorists despise and which we cherish.\"\n\nFlowers left by Boris Johnson at the garden in Grosvenor Square, bearing a message \"in defiance of those who would have us live in fear\"\n\nMr Johnson said that \"precisely because of the openness and tolerance of the United States\", people of almost every nationality and religion were among those murdered that day.\n\n\"But while the terrorists imposed their burden of grief and suffering, and while the threat persists today, we can now say with the perspective of 20 years that they failed to shake our belief in freedom and democracy; they failed to drive our nations apart, or cause us to abandon our values, or to live in permanent fear.\"\n\nThe US national anthem was played during the Changing of the Guard at Windsor Castle on Saturday\n\nA minute's silence was also held at Windsor Castle earlier\n\nTony Blair, who was prime minister at the time, also recorded a message for the event, saying the thinking of the 9/11 terrorists was \"filled with hatred, an ideology at violent odds with a world seeking to flourish across boundaries of faith and culture\".\n\nIt is as \"flawed and irrational\" today as it was 20 years ago, he said.\n\nOn 11 September, 2001, Andrew Cullen - originally from Motherwell in North Lanarkshire - arrived at work on the 89th floor of the South Tower. Soon afterwards, he heard an explosion in the North Tower.\n\n\"Myself and three colleagues made the decision to get out of the building, so we headed towards the stairwell and began descending from the 89th floor down to the Sky Lobby at the 44th floor,\" he said.\n\n\"It was at that point that the port authority instructed us to go back to our offices, so they sort of shuffled us into one of the freight elevators.\n\n\"At that point the button for 78 was lit but we decided we wanted to go down, so I was the one who pounded the lobby button just a few moments before the second plane hit the tower above us.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the anniversary was about remembering and honouring those who were killed and showing \"support to our American friends as they mark this difficult time in their history\".\n\nHe said the tragedy was \"still so raw\", with the consequences of the attacks \"still being felt to this day\".\n\n\"But as we mark this anniversary, I'm convinced our resolve has never been stronger,\" he said. \"We will continue to fight terror and violence, by promoting our values of justice and peace.\"\n\nThe Labour leader laid flowers in the September 11 Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square, London\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the lives of innocent people, including the 67 Britons, would be remembered, adding: \"Our values of freedom, tolerance and respect will always, always prevail. Hate will never win.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury said 20 years on it was still hard to articulate the sense of \"shock and horror\" felt around the world after the attacks - including \"the devastating loss experienced by so many people, and the fear and uncertainty that terrible day brought\".\n\nJustin Welby added: \"9/11 was a sharp reminder to us of the fragility of the privilege many of us have of living free of the threat of violence, while many in our world continue to wake to war or the fear of war.\"\n\nHe urged his followers to follow the example of the first responders to the Twin Towers and be willing \"to make sacrifices for the wellbeing of others\".", "Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova will be making her Proms debut on Saturday night\n\nThe BBC Proms will conclude on Saturday night with an Argentine tango, played by virtuoso accordionist Ksenija Sidorova.\n\nThe 33-year-old will play pieces by Aníbal Troilo and Astor Piazzolla, who revolutionised tango in the 1950s and 60s by incorporating jazz and classical to create the new style, nuevo tango.\n\nShe will be joined on stage by tenor Stuart Skelton, who will lead the audience in the traditional last night programme, including Land Of Hope And Glory and Rule, Britannia!\n\nThe songs will be performed in full, after a row over plans to play instrumental versions during the 2020 Last Night celebrations.\n\nThat decision was reversed after a furore in the press, including reports that the BBC was censoring the lyrics due to associations with colonialism and slavery. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was among those who opposed the decision.\n\nSpeaking to The Guardian earlier this week, Skelton brushed aside criticisms of what conductor Sir Simon Rattle recently called the \"jingoistic tendencies\" of the Last Night concert.\n\n\"Given the past 18 months, it's a chance to enjoy the event for what it is - a wrap party for the biggest music festival on the planet,\" he said.\n\n\"As for flag-waving, people love it or hate it, they do it or they don't. I'm not here to judge.\"\n\nSoloist Sidorova, who was born in Latvia, is an exciting young talent who has become a passionate ambassador for the accordion on the classical stage.\n\n\"It's really remarkable how composers are attracted to it when they are looking for new sounds and new ways of expressing themselves,\" she told The Telegraph ahead of her Proms debut.\n\n\"And it has the great advantage that it needs no accompaniment, it can create an entire sound world by itself. You can just go to the forest and play alone.\"\n\nSidorova started playing the instrument at the age of six, after discovering a small squeezebox in her grandmother's attic, and went on to study accordion at London's Royal Academy of Music.\n\nPraised by one reviewer as a \"superbly subtle and virtuosic\" player, she signed to Deutsche Grammophon in 2016, recording a modern interpretation of Georges Bizet's Carmen; and has since performed her version of Roxanne with Sting and Bryn Terfel, and duetted with the violinist Nicola Benedetti.\n\nEarlier this year, she paid tribute to Astor Piazzolla's centenary year by releasing an album of his most innovative masterworks - one of which, Chiquilín de Bachín, she will play at the Proms.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSidorova's appearance at London's Royal Albert Hall will mark the end of a six-week Proms season that mainly featured British musicians due to restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHowever, audiences were allowed to return for the first time since 2019, with thousands of fans attending concerts by Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Nubya Garcia and Nicola Benedetti.\n\nHighlights included the highly-anticipated concert debut of John Wilson's Sinfonia of London, who played a soul-stirring and charismatic programme that included Strauss, Ravel and Korngold's filmic Symphony in F sharp major.\n\nChineke - the UK's only black and ethnically diverse orchestra - celebrated diversity in composers as well as performers, playing pieces by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Fela Sowande and Florence Price.\n\nJeneba Kanneh-Mason was the soloist for Price's Piano Concerto In One Movement, a piece that has only recently been rediscovered.\n\nA spiritual, harmonically inventive composition, it climaxes with an allegretto apparently modelled after the African-American \"juba\" dance once practised on US plantations.\n\nThe Independent said that Kanneh-Mason's \"heartfelt\" rendition marked the 19-year-old out as a \"rising star\" of British classical music, alongside her elder siblings Isata and Sheku.\n\nAll seven of the Kanneh-Mason children also got together for a one-off Prom, performing an updated version of Camille Saint-Saëns's much-loved suite The Carnival of the Animals; while Sheku wowed audiences with his interpretation of Dvořák's Cello Concerto, accompanied by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOne of the most emotionally-charged concerts was delivered by The Proms Festival Orchestra - an ensemble of leading freelance players who were specially assembled to acknowledge the difficulties they faced during the pandemic.\n\nThe 80-piece orchestra included a double-bassist who'd taken up a job as an undertaker and a harpist who'd started working in a vineyard to make ends meet.\n\nTheir performance of Mahler's Fifth Sympony was called \"stirring\" and a \"triumph\" by The Times.\n\nThe Proms will return next year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police have said Mary McCann may try to change her appearance\n\nPolice said a woman accused of killing her two children in a crash on the M1 might \"try to alter her appearance\".\n\nA judge issued an arrest warrant for Mary McCann, 35, of Bamford Avenue, Derby, on Friday after she failed to attend Aylesbury Crown Court.\n\nShe was due to answer two charges of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nHer 10-year-old son Smaller and four-year-old daughter Lilly died after a collision with an HGV near Milton Keynes on 9 August.\n\nThey were killed after the family's Vauxhall Astra collided with the lorry between junctions 14 and 15 of the northbound carriageway at about 23:10 BST.\n\nLilly, aged four, and Smaller, aged 10, were killed in a crash with a HGV on the M1 near Milton Keynes\n\nPolice said Ms McCann has links to Derby, Huntingdon, Luton, the Northolt and Uxbridge areas of London and Ireland.\n\nSgt Dominic Mahon, of the joint operations roads policing unit, said: \"We are appealing for the public's help in locating Mary McCann after she failed to appear at court in connection with a fatal road traffic collision in Milton Keynes.\n\n\"We believe that it may be possible for McCann to try to alter her appearance.\"\n\nMs McCann is described as being about 5ft 1in (1.54m) tall, of medium build, with brown hair and blue eyes.\n\nPolice said she also speaks with an Irish accent.\n\nOn Friday, Judge Francis Sheridan said he wanted ports and airports on alert for her.\n\nMary McCann (right) failed to appear at court charged with killing her son Smaller (pictured) and daughter Lilly\n\n\"It is most likely she will flee to Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a sad case, but by absconding to avoid the indictment being put is in my view tactical.\"\n\nMs McCann and another child passenger were injured in the crash. A family member said they were on their way back from a party in London and Ms McCann's 13-year-old daughter had stayed in the city.\n\nThe court heard her children's funerals had been held on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nDefence barrister Laban Leake said: \"She gave a telephone number, an attempt was made to contact that number, but there was no response.\n\n\"We know nothing of her state of mind.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The winning film was directed by Audrey Diwan\n\nA film about illegal abortions in 1960s France has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.\n\nAudrey Diwan's Happening (L'Événement) is about a woman seeking a termination to continue studying.\n\n\"I did this movie with anger, with desire, with my belly, my guts, my heart and my head,\" Diwan said as she accepted the award.\n\nThe film comes after controversial new laws banning abortion after six weeks were introduced in Texas.\n\nThe 78th edition of the world's oldest film festival wrapped up on Saturday night, with international celebrities flocking to Venice's red carpet.\n\nThe ceremony was a stark contrast to last year's event, when guests had to wear masks during screenings and around half of the seats on the Lido waterfront were left empty due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe winning film, Happening, is based on an autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux and portrays a young woman seeking a termination to be able to continue her studies, despite the risk of prison or death.\n\nThe award was selected by a jury led by Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho.\n\nThe second prize, the Silver Lion, was presented to Italian director Paolo Sorrentino for The Hand of God, a film about his youth in the southern city of Naples.\n\nOther women filmmakers were also honoured during Saturday's ceremony, with New Zealand's Jane Campion picking up the best director award for The Power of the Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Maggie Gyllenhaal, meanwhile, was awarded the best screenplay prize for The Lost Daughter, which features Olivia Colman.\n\nPenelope Cruz won the award for best actress for her role in Parallel Mothers, directed by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. Best Actor went to Filipino actor John Arcilla for his role in crime thriller On the Job: The Missing 8.\n\nLast year's top prize was given to Nomadland, a US film about a widow living as a nomad after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "One councillor said the wild flower meadows were \"little more than dead grass\"\n\nRare flowers have been seen growing in controversial wildflower meadows in north Wales, a council has said.\n\nToothed medick has never officially been recorded in Wales, and hound's-tongue is on the UK's red list and has only been recorded 18 times in Denbighshire in the last 116 years.\n\nBut some residents have signed a petition, saying they look untidy and deprive people of space.\n\nOne woman claimed a mouse had gnawed its way into her bedroom because the meadows are too close to people's homes.\n\nIn a report to a council scrutiny committee meeting, officers said there had been common spotted orchids in Stryd y Brython, as well as hound's-tongue and toothed medick at two sites in Prestatyn.\n\n\"To be clear, aesthetic preferences are not a relevant factor in the site selection process,\" the report said.\n\nDenbighshire council said rare flowers were growing in the meadow, including Hound's-Tongue\n\nThe petition, which has gathered the signatures of 29 people living in Ffordd Nant, Rhuddlan, was presented to the local authority by councillor Ann Davies.\n\nShe said she was \"fully supportive of wild flowers\" but did not believe they should be allowed to grow near people's homes.\n\n\"Nant Close is a lovely residential estate, the bungalows form a circle around what was a lovely manicured green space in the centre were roses which the elderly residents cared for,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"This has now been taken from them, together with their gentle walks around this grassed area. They have lost the view to each other's bungalows, in effect looking out for each other.\n\n\"Their well-being is very much affected. One resident has had a mouse gnaw its way into her bedroom.\n\n\"The residents were not consulted prior to the planting and I was informed once the plans were in place.\n\n\"[There is] not a wild flower in sight, just long dead grass which the residents are compelled to look at.\"\n\nThe council added: \"As a Local Authority, we have a statutory duty to enhance biodiversity and promote the resilience of our ecosystems.\n\n\"These sites are not unmanaged or left to grow wild or to become rank. The sites are left uncut between March and August each year, except a small border mown around each site cut on a fortnightly schedule and a litter pick undertaken during this time too.\"", "Towns like Workington in Cumbria hope to benefit from the government's levelling up policy\n\nThe architect of Boris Johnson's initiative to revive so-called left-behind areas has warned that the \"levelling up\" scheme is at risk of failure.\n\nWill Tanner, a former Tory No 10 adviser who was amongst the first to identify the \"red wall\" seats, calls on the government to abandon its \"top-down\" approach to the scheme.\n\nIn a new report for his Onward think tank, Mr Tanner also says the government should learn from the success of the last Labour government's New Deal for Communities which helped cut poverty in such communities.\n\nMr Tanner says: \"The Treasury will not level up left behind places using the same top-down policies that left places behind in the first place.\n\n\"If ministers are serious about levelling up in the long term, they need to build local capacity that can endure - and help local people take back control of their communities.\"\n\nMr Tanner, a former adviser to Theresa May, has become an influential voice in Conservative circles after his Onward think tank identified the red wall seats in the run up to the last election.\n\nThey were the once rock-solid Labour seats which fell into Conservative hands at the 2019 general election.\n\nIn a report shortly before the election, Mr Tanner described \"Workington Man\" - from the West Cumbrian constituency - as the sort of lifelong Labour voter who would switch to the Conservatives.\n\nThis voter was pro-Brexit, sceptical of globalisation and wanted a government that would protect cherished local institutions such as pubs and post offices from closing.\n\nIn an interview with Newsnight ahead of the publication of his new report, Mr Tanner says: \"Absolutely we came up with the Workington Man concept at the last election. We identified that as the archetypal voter that swung towards the Conservative party and delivered all those seats in the north of England - like Workington, like Walsall, like Warrington - those seats that the Conservative party had often never held before.\n\n\"It is precisely those seats that would benefit from a more localised approach, a bottom-up approach where communities take control of local assets like libraries and sports clubs and community hubs. Using them as the lynchpin for regeneration is likely to be successful in regenerating those local areas.\"\n\nNewsnight visited Workington to gauge opinion about the government's \"levelling up\" agenda. Some shoppers thought the government was too focused on larger metropolitan areas.\n\nBut Mike Johnson, the Conservative leader of the local Allerdale Borough Council, did not recognise the criticisms in the report.\n\nMr Johnson told Newsnight: \"We've certainly not encountered [too much central control] because a lot of the schemes we have put forward that have been successful bids have been community driven.\n\n\"For example we are looking at developing a sports village. That will involve a stadium for the local rugby team and the football team. That is driven by those two clubs. So it is sort of from grassroots up as opposed to it being imposed on them.\"\n\nIn his new report, Mr Tanner does praise the government for setting aside £1.4bn for the \"levelling up fund\".\n\nBut he calls on ministers to learn from Labour's £2.29bn New Deal Communities scheme which ran from 1998 to 2011. Of the 39 areas covered by the programme, 77% saw levels of deprivation fall relative to the national average between 2004 to 2019.\n\nDame Margaret Hodge, the former Labour minister, says the findings show it is wrong to say her party had neglected this area.\n\nShe told Newsnight: \"Somehow this government thinks it invented a concern for and investment in communities that have gone through difficult times and may have high levels of deprivation. There have been policies to tackle this since I have been in politics.\"\n\nDame Margaret said that Labour had itself to blame for the belief among those in red wall seats that the party did not help those areas. Asked how Labour had lost the red wall seats even after investing in them she said: \"That goes back to what happened with Labour after 2010 when we disowned all the successes we had achieved during 13 years in government.\"\n\nOnward has examined government regeneration schemes over the last 60 years in the report: \"Turnaround: How to regenerate Britain's less prosperous communities by helping them take back control\".\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "A report into allegations of bullying against Scotland's first female bishop has recommended she leave her role.\n\nThe report for the Scottish Episcopal Church looked at allegations against Bishop Anne Dyer in the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney.\n\nIt claims Bishop Dyer's diocese is suffering from \"systemic dysfunction\".\n\nBishop Dyer has responded by saying she has faced \"significant bullying and harassment\" since taking up the role in 2018.\n\nThe Scottish Episcopal Church said it was setting up a mediation process.\n\nThe independent report was compiled by former Church of Scotland Moderator Prof Iain Torrance and says a number of witnesses told him they had been bullied by the bishop.\n\nProf Torrance said he \"cannot recommend the continuation of a tenure in which I fear that more people will be made to feel diminished and discouraged\".\n\nThe former moderator added that Bishop Dyer no longer enjoyed the trust and confidence of a number of the priests in the diocese.\n\nCanon Anne Dyer's election to bishop was announced in November 2017\n\nBishop Dyer was selected as the Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in November 2017, making her the first woman to become a bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church.\n\nShe said it was her \"earnest desire to seek to understand and take responsibility for my contribution to the present distress\" in her diocese.\n\nThe bishop also said that she had been \"subject to significant bullying and harassment on a number of fronts\".\n\nIn a statement, she added: \"There are a diversity of views in the diocese, different perspectives and understandings of what is happening among us.\n\n\"In addition, I am also conscious that since his investigation was carried out, I have continued to be subject to repeated attacks on social media, some of which has been described as simple harassment, and others reported to the police as possible hate crimes.\"\n\nA statement from the College of Bishops said it \"recognises the level of hurt and upset experienced by a number of people in the diocese and hopes that the mediation process will help to bring healing.\"", "Hundreds of new pensioners could face anxiety and stress owing to delays in payments of their state pension, campaigners have said.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions admitted that the pandemic and staffing issues had caused backlogs in payments to those reaching the age of 66.\n\nIt is understood that the number affected is in the low thousands, and officials have apologised to them.\n\nOne charity said that the problem could have a big impact on poorer claimants.\n\n\"For people who rely on the state pension as a relatively high proportion of their income it could be a bit of a disaster,\" said David Sinclair, director at the International Longevity Centre UK.\n\n\"The potential for anxiety and stress is huge.\"\n\nPensions Minister Guy Opperman told MPs that hundreds of department staff were being redeployed to deal with the backlog in payments.\n\nA DWP spokesman said: \"We are sorry that some new state pension customers have faced delays receiving payment.\n\n\"All those affected have been identified and we have deployed extra resources to process these as a priority. Any claims made today should not be subject to delay.\"\n\nThose without their money should be paid automatically, and Mr Opperman said that the system would be back to normal by the end of October.\n\nMr Sinclair said the episode shed a light on wider issues, and called on the DWP to ensure that the pension system was more automated. Those reaching state pension age are required to make a claim before payments start.\n\nHe said older people could be confused easily by the various requirements needed in the pension, tax and benefits systems.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: \"For many people living on the breadline it can be difficult to make ends meet, and so we urge the government to resolve this problem as soon as possible to ensure people who have reached their state pension age can access their money.\"\n\nThe DWP is already facing criticism and a heavy workload after it emerged that an estimated 200,000 female pensioners are collectively owed up to £2.7bn after the under-payment of state pensions owing to historic errors at the department.\n\nPensioners were also told earlier this week that the \"triple lock\" formula for annual state pension increases would be suspended for a year.\n\nThe move follows government concern that a big post-pandemic rise in average earnings would have meant pensions increasing by 8%.\n\nNow, the average earnings component will be disregarded in the 2022-23 financial year, with the rise based only on the higher of the consumer inflation rate or 2.5%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MI5 boss: \"Recent events in Afghanistan will have emboldened extremists\"\n\nA total of 31 late-stage terror plots have been foiled in the UK in the past four years, the head of MI5 has said.\n\nDirector general Ken McCallum, who revealed in October there had been 27 attacks thwarted since 2017, said there had been six during the pandemic.\n\nHe said they were largely Islamic extremist plots, but a \"growing number\" were planned by right-wing terrorists.\n\nHe also warned that the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban was likely to have \"emboldened\" UK terrorists.\n\nThe terror threat would not change overnight but there could be a \"morale boost\" for extremists, he said. \"The terrorist threat to the UK, I am sorry to say, is a real and enduring thing.\"\n\n\"Of course there are likely to be terrorist attacks on UK soil on my watch,\" he said, saying MI5 works as hard as it can to stop them happening but \"to our horror, we know that won't be possible on every single occasion\".\n\nThe head of the security service added that MI5 had \"saved thousands of lives across the last 20 years\" but it \"cannot always succeed\".\n\nMr McCallum, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the US, said that smaller-scale terrorist acts by those already in the UK made up the largest number of threats faced by MI5.\n\n\"There is no doubt that events in Afghanistan will have heartened and emboldened some of those extremists and so being vigilant to precisely those kinds of risks is what my organisation is focused on along with a range of other threats,\" he said.\n\nBut there is still also a risk of an increase in larger plots directed by terrorism groups like al-Qaeda, he warned.\n\n\"The big concern flowing from Afghanistan alongside the immediate inspirational effect is the risk that terrorists reconstitute and once again pose us more in the way of well-developed, sophisticated plots of the sort that we faced in 9/11 and the years thereafter,\" Mr McCallum said.\n\nMore risk \"may flow our way\" in light of the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan, said Mr McCallum\n\nWhile the government says it will judge the Taliban by their actions, the UK security service would plan for the possibility \"more risk, progressively, may flow our way\", Mr McCallum said.\n\n\"Terrorist threats tend not to change overnight in the sense of directed plotting or training camps or infrastructure - the sorts of things that al-Qaeda enjoyed in Afghanistan at the time of 9/11,\" he said.\n\n\"These things do inherently take time to build, and the 20-year effort to reduce the terrorist threat from Afghanistan has been largely successful.\n\n\"But what does happen overnight, even though those directed plots and centrally organised bits of terrorism take a bit longer to rebuild... overnight, you can have a psychological boost, a morale boost to extremists already here, or in other countries.\"\n\nIt is difficult to say if the UK is safer, or less safe, now than it was at the time of the September 11 attacks, said Mr McCallum.\n\nSo-called Islamic State had \"managed to do something that al-Qaeda did not\" in inspiring lots of people to attempt smaller scale acts of terrorism, he explained.\n\nHe added: \"We need to be vigilant both for the increase in inspired terrorism which has become a real trend for us to deal with over the last five to 10 years, alongside the potential regrowth of al Qaeda-style directed plots.\"\n\nFor the past two decades, terrorism has dominated MI5's work. But with significant shifts over time.\n\nIt took the attacks of 7 July 2005 for it to fully understand the threat came from within as well as abroad. By the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the sense was that the threat from al-Qaeda might be receding and MI5 could turn to other issues of concern, such as state espionage.\n\nBut then the Islamic State group emerged out of Iraq and Syria and a new wave started - less sophisticated and organised but still deadly.\n\nOnce again, in the last couple of years, there was a hope that this jihadist threat might be slowing as MI5 took on extreme-right wing activity and focused more on Russia and China.\n\nBut recent events have raised concerns that the jihadist threat could evolve once again, with Afghanistan inspiring people to act, or by the Western withdrawal creating a new safe haven for groups to operate in and plan more sophisticated attacks, as they did in the years around 9/11.\n\nFormer chief of the UK defence staff General Lord Richards said he believes we are closer to \"another 9/11\" following the US and UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\n\"I fear the Taliban and some extremist jihadist groups are, whatever they like to say, in each other's pockets,\" he told LBC. \"Scores will be settled, debts will have to be repaid and there will be ungoverned space opened up in Afghanistan which those groups will exploit and the ability of the Taliban to actually manage them will be minimal.\"\n\nTony Blair, Labour prime minister at the time of the 9/11 attacks, told Today: \"We need to decide whether this radical Islamist threat is a real first-order security threat or not. If it is, we need to combine the leading powers of the world and we've got to construct a long-term strategy where we have the staying power to see it through and to defeat them.\"\n\nHe said the Taliban \"need to know they're going to be held to account - they need to know that if they go back to sheltering terrorist groups that are coming after us then we are prepared to act against them\".", "Will current Manouchehri pupils be able to become doctors and engineers like their predecessors?\n\nWaving their hands excitedly in the air, a class of six- and seven-year-old girls eagerly try to get their teacher's attention, each one desperate to be chosen to answer a question about Persian grammar.\n\nThe Manouchehri primary school in Kabul was among the first to re-open for girls following the US invasion in 2001 and the defeat of the Taliban. Back then, there was just a single room, with pupils sat on a mud floor.\n\nUnder Taliban rule, beginning in Kabul in 1996, girls weren't allowed to get an education, and female teachers were ordered to stay at home.\n\nAisha Misbah was one of them. Now she's headteacher and proudly shows off newly built classrooms.\n\nMany of those she taught have gone on to become doctors, engineers or even teachers at the school, she says.\n\n\"This is our biggest achievement. Our students are so bright. They're so creative and make such beautiful things that even we get shocked. I hope the Taliban will allow it all to continue.\"\n\nSince taking over Afghanistan for a second time, the Taliban have permitted girls to go to school.\n\nFor now, however, only primary school pupils of both genders are attending classes, whilst teachers await the publication of new rules governing secondary schools.\n\nIn some more rural areas, there have long been reports of Taliban commanders only permitting girls to go to school until they reach the age of puberty.\n\nThe most recent figures from the World Bank show that about 40% of Afghan girls attend primary school, far more than during the Taliban's previous stint in power but far fewer than in other countries in the region.\n\nIt's a similar picture in healthcare, where infant and maternal mortality rates have improved but remain shockingly high.\n\nThe Taliban insist women will be allowed to work, but some remain sceptical, especially after Taliban officials recently said most women, other than those working in healthcare or education, should stay at home until security improves.\n\nThe same excuse was given throughout the 1990s to completely prevent women working.\n\nAbout half of all Manouchehri students have to study in large tents erected in the playground\n\nBut the pupils at Manouchehri face other challenges, too.\n\nIn the playground, three large tents have been erected, with desks and blackboards. The school is so overcrowded that about half of the pupils have to study outside.\n\nPleas to the previous government fell on deaf ears, and when non-government organisations offered to help, they were told to give the money to the education ministry first.\n\nRampant corruption has plagued Afghanistan over the past two decades, and it meant that the billions of dollars of international support didn't always make it to those in need.\n\nThe education system has helped mould, however, a generation of young Afghan women and men who are vocal in standing up for their views, including challenging the Taliban.\n\n\"We are not afraid of death,\" said female protesters in Kabul earlier this week\n\n\"We are not those men and women of 20 years ago,\" one female protester at a demonstration in Kabul tells me, \"who were whipped into submission.\"\n\nAnother, her voice pulsing with emotion says: \"We are not afraid of death. We are the young generation who will bring forth the buds of peace.\"\n\nThe new government announced by the Taliban consists entirely of members of the group, all of whom are men.\n\nMany had served in senior positions during the Taliban's reign during the 1990s, a period marked by a brutal interpretation of sharia law.\n\nFor many others in more rural areas, where attitudes are more socially conservative, the greater social freedoms some have grown up with in bigger cities since 2001 feel irrelevant when compared with the suffering of living along the frontline.\n\nBeauticians salons all over Kabul have been painted over amid fears of the Taliban reprisals\n\nFew Afghans have been unaffected by the war, irrespective of their background, but in villages caught along bloody frontlines, many have welcomed the arrival of the Taliban - for at least bringing an end to the violence.\n\nIf the price of peace is greater cultural authoritarianism, some are more willing to pay it than others.\n\nAt a snooker club in Kabul, less than a week after the city was taken over by the Taliban, I meet a group of young men from the city's middle class.\n\nA mix of students and business owners, speaking on condition of anonymity, they're scathing about the Taliban.\n\nOne says they look like \"zombies\", worrying they will soon start dictating whether or not men can shave their beards or how they can style their hair, whilst others question how they can trust a group responsible for so many suicide bombings and attacks.\n\nBut they're also all damning about Afghanistan's political class.\n\nAshraf Ghani, the former president who fled abroad, \"should be arrested\", they proclaim.\n\n\"He sold out the future of all young people,\" says one of the group, accusing him of having escaped with millions of dollars - the allegation Mr Ghani denies.\n\nThey're equally dismissive of those politicians who have stayed in the country but who over the years have often taken part in deeply disruptive political spats.\n\n\"They weren't trying to solve the problems of ordinary people, but just trying to fill their own pockets and share the wealth with their own relatives.\"\n\nThe last two presidential elections in Afghanistan ended in standoffs, with widespread allegations of voter fraud.\n\nNevertheless, however flawed the previous democratic system was, the young men at the snooker club deeply rue its passing.\n\n\"We've worked hard and are educated. We could've lifted the country up but now we can't do anything to serve it.\"\n\nOf all the \"gains\" made over the past two decades, the creation of an independent local media is one the principal success stories.\n\nNews organisations were amongst the freest in the region, despite being violently targeted by militants.\n\nJournalists did at times face threats from the government.\n\nFor example, former Vice-President Amrullah Saleh, now a leading figure in the National Resistance Front, once ordered the arrest of those responsible for \"fake news\" about civilian deaths as a result of a 2020 government air strike in Takhar province, in which it's believed 12 children were killed.\n\nHowever, recent days have raised fears the Taliban will not tolerate coverage they perceive as negative.\n\nWhilst the group initially claimed they would allow a free press as long as journalists don't breach \"Islamic values\" or the \"national interest\", reporters covering recent, peaceful protests against the group have at times been detained and badly beaten.\n\nEarlier this week, 22 year-old Taqi Daryabi and a colleague were taken away by the Taliban from a demonstration they had been covering to a police station.\n\n\"There were around seven to 10 men in one room, they all started kicking me, and beating me with sticks and rubber pipes,\" Taqi told the BBC, his back and face still covered in bruises.\n\n\"One Talib told me, 'be grateful I didn't cut your head off,'\" Taqi says. \"Now that the Taliban are here, no-one can feel safe. In the past we have seen them kill, kidnap and beat journalists… they should allow us to work freely.\"\n\nTaliban fighters are now the new masters at Kabul's Bush Bazaar\n\nThe legacy of American and international intervention in Afghanistan will be deeply contested.\n\nSigns of the US influence are already fading first.\n\nAt \"Bush Bazaar\", named after the former American president and famous for selling military gear smuggled out of international bases, most of the flak jackets or rifle scopes on sale are now Chinese replicas.\n\nWhereas army soldiers or private security guards hired by politically powerful Afghans were once the main customers, now Taliban fighters stroll past the shops.\n\nOne, Fatih, from the eastern province of Khost, is looking for a new set of boots. He's disappointed, he hoped to buy some that had been made in America, but \"everything is Chinese\".", "The Grade II listing means the structure has particular historic or architectural significance\n\nThe 'Trigger's broom' of bridges is to undergo a £30m restoration in a bid to keep the 154-year-old structure safe.\n\nIn the classic Only Fools and Horses scene, Trigger proudly reveals he has used the same broom for 20 years, saying deadpan: \"This old thing has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles!\"\n\nMuch like Trigger's broom, there is little remaining of the original 1867 Barmouth Bridge in north-west Wales.\n\nNow the Grade II listed rail and foot bridge will undergo another facelift.\n\nSpanning 840m (2,750ft) across the Mawddach Estuary in Gwynedd, it is the largest wooden viaduct still in regular use anywhere on the UK rail system.\n\nTo the Network Rail team caring for it, the 154-year-old Barmouth Bridge is affectionately known as 'Trigger's broom'.\n\nWhile the loveable road sweeper in the hit BBC comedy had the responsibility of looking after his broom, it's Helen Hodgson of Network Rail who has the responsibility of maintaining the historically-significant bridge.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BritBox This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nTrigger was one of the main characters in classic BBC TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses\n\nIt is a vital part of the UK railway network - carrying Cambrian Line trains between Birmingham and Shrewsbury to Pwllheli - but also needs a number of upgrades over the next two years.\n\n\"There aren't many rail bridges around the UK which are a tourist destination in themselves,\" she said.\n\n\"But every year thousands of people come to walk across Barmouth Bridge, catch a train over the Mawddach, or simply stand and take photos of it\n\n\"We want to preserve that famous appearance, but at the same time we have to make sure it can keep functioning as an integral part of the rail network from Shrewsbury to Pwllheli, and an essential daily link for hundreds of commuters and school children.\"\n\nVery little of the original Barmouth Bridge remains, after decades of alterations and maintenance\n\nBuilt between 1864 and 1867, the first incarnation of Barmouth Bridge was a 700m (2,300ft) wooden viaduct surmounted with a drawbridge that could be raised to allow shipping to pass underneath.\n\nIn 1900, this was replaced with a swing bridge which pivoted 90 degrees around one of the central wooden piles, creating two shipping lanes either side.\n\nHowever, as the majority of the structure was made from softwoods such as pitch pine and Douglas firs, throughout its history, rotten timbers had to be regularly replaced, to the extent that there is virtually nothing of the 1854 bridge remaining.\n\nMatters reached crisis-point in the early 1980s, when it was discovered that the enormous wooden piles which hold up the entire structure were infested with teredo shipworm.\n\nThat marked the end of Barmouth as a functioning swing bridge.\n\nMrs Hodgson said: \"In the '80s the only way to save the bridge in time was to encase the piles in concrete sheaths, almost like booties around the legs.\n\n\"In lockdown last year we were able to take the opportunity to prop up the bridge while we removed the concrete and replaced the softwood piles with hardwoods specially selected from the far east for their resistance to infestation.\"\n\nShe said the old piles had \"the appearance and consistency of Swiss cheese\" when they came out of the water.\n\nThe UK's pandemic lockdown offered an opportunity to conduct further work on the bridge\n\nDuring the first phase of the renovation, running from Sunday until 12 December, all the planks of the bridge's bed will be replaced with the same hardwoods and the entire length of track will be replaced.\n\nIn the second phase, running until 2023, the metallic spans will be replaced like-for-like and future-proofed against corrosion.\n\nYet a decision had to be taken not to reinstate the bridge's swing function.\n\nIt was decided modern mechanisms would destroy the look of the bridge\n\n\"We've worked closely on this with the Snowdonia National Park, Gwynedd Council and Cadw,\" said Mrs Hodgson.\n\n\"In the end we all concluded that to restore Barmouth to a swing bridge would need a great deal of modern mechanisms which would destroy the iconic appearance which people come to see.\n\n\"Instead, we've decided to retain all the original workings as they were in 1900, as its listed status requires, as really there is no need for large ships to pass beneath in these modern times.\"\n\nMrs Hodgson believes that, rather than being set in time, a bridge such as Barmouth is a living entity.\n\n\"What we're trying to achieve is an evolution of the bridge. It's still the same structure which everyone loves, but in the same way as people grow up, the bridge is maturing and improving.\n\nBuilt in the mid 1800's, the bridge remains one of the largest wooden viaducts in the UK\n\n\"I'd like to think that the sympathetic restoration we're carrying out is exactly how the original builders would have done it if they'd had access to the same materials and technology as we do.\"\n\nThough she does hope that there are some practices which will not be replicated this time around.\n\n\"As you can see from the photos, I hope our work will include a bit more hard hats and high-vis, and considerably fewer men hanging over the side with flat-caps and cigarettes dangling from their mouths.\"", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nLawyers for the woman who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse claim they have successfully served him with legal papers.\n\nVirginia Giuffre has launched a civil case against the prince in New York - and legal papers have to be \"served\" before the case can proceed.\n\nHer lawyers say they were served on 27 August, being left with a police officer at Windsor's Royal Lodge.\n\nPrince Andrew denies all the claims made by Ms Giuffre.\n\nA spokeswoman representing the Duke of York has declined to comment on the latest development.\n\nA US judge must determine whether the papers were in fact \"served\" before any case can proceed.\n\nA video conference on the next stages of the case is scheduled for a New York court on Monday.\n\nAccording to court documents, an answer is due from Prince Andrew to the affidavit by 17 September and \"if you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint\".\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said it was still not clear yet whether Prince Andrew's legal team would accept that legal papers have been served.\n\nThe prince is currently at Balmoral, the Queen's Scottish estate.\n\nLegal papers say a process server working for Ms Giuffre's team arrived at the Royal Lodge on Thursday 26 August at 09:30 BST.\n\nThe man met security staff, left a business card, and was asked to wait.\n\nThe papers say he then spoke to police, including the head of security, who could not locate Prince Andrew's private secretary \"or anyone senior\".\n\nThe agent was told the security team \"had been told not to accept service of any court process\".\n\nHe was then given a solicitor's name and number, phoning him at 10:40, but did not get a response.\n\nOn Friday 27 August, the same process server returned to the Royal Lodge in Windsor and spoke to the \"head of security\".\n\nHe was advised the papers could be left with police at the main gates, which would be forwarded to the legal team.\n\nThe papers state: \"The deponent did enquire whether it was possible to meet personally with the defendant, but the deponent was told that this was not possible.\"\n\nMs Giuffre's legal team claim that by leaving the papers with the officer, the service was successfully completed.\n\nOur correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the tactics of Prince Andrew's legal team appeared to be just not to respond at all.\n\n\"We should keep in mind that shortly after he did withdraw from public life, Prince Andrew did say he would co-operate with any legitimate inquiries by the US authorities,\" he told BBC's Radio 5 live.\n\n\"I think it is fair to say the Americans would say that there has been little or indeed no evidence of any such co-operation by Prince Andrew.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew said in 2019 that he could not recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nMs Giuffre - an accuser of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who died in jail in 2019 - claims she was brought to the UK at the age of 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nShe filed a case against him last month in New York. It is a civil rather than criminal case - meaning Ms Giuffre wants the court to decide whether her allegations are true, and whether the duke should pay her damages.\n\nThe case alleges the prince sexually abused Ms Giuffre at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and the US Virgin Islands.\n\nIt claims the prince engaged in sexual acts without her consent, knowing how old she was and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC about Ms Giuffre's allegations in 2019, Prince Andrew said they \"never happened\".\n\n\"It didn't happen. I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever,\" he told BBC Newsnight.", "The Taliban's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced the new government in a press conference on Tuesday\n\nThe phrases have tripped off the tongues of Taliban for quite some time.\n\n\"We're working to establish an inclusive government that represents all the people of Afghanistan,\" promised Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar when he recently arrived in Kabul to start talks aimed at forming a leadership to move the movement from guns to government.\n\n\"We would like to live peacefully,\" vowed Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid at the first press conference in the capital after the Taliban suddenly swept into power on 15 August. \"We don't want any internal enemies and any external enemies.\"\n\nJudge them by their actions, not their words, has become the mantra of a fast-expanding league of Taliban watchers including Afghans, foreign governments, humanitarian chiefs and political pundits the world over.\n\nBut Afghans are watching most closely of all. They have to.\n\nOn a day when brave protesters with bold banners spilled into the streets of Kabul and other cities - Afghan women leading the charge to demand their rights, their representation, their roles in society - the new Taliban government was unveiled.\n\nWas this more evidence of the media-savvy Taliban? It temporarily knocked news of Taliban firing guns in the air, wielding rifle butts and sticks to disperse protesters, out of the world's headlines.\n\nBut it was a modest ceremony, in the mundane setting of a press conference, for such a momentous, much-anticipated message. It electrified social media, and delivered a gut punch to those who had held fast to Taliban promises.\n\nFar from being inclusive, it is exclusively Taliban. The old organigram of the Taliban movement, with its commissions, deputies, and the all-powerful Emir Hibatullah Akhundzada, has been transplanted into a cabinet with the same political architecture of governments everywhere.\n\nIts makeup is overwhelmingly drawn from Pashtun tribes, with only one Tajik and one Uzbek, both Talibs. There's not a single woman, not even in deputy minister positions.\n\nThe reviled Ministry of Vice and Virtue is back; the Women's Affairs Ministry is out.\n\nIt's a government of the old guard, and the new generation of mullahs and military commanders: men in charge when the Taliban ruled in the 1990s who return, beards much lighter and longer; former Guantanamo Bay prisoners; current members of US and UN black lists; battle-hardened fighters who pressed forward on every front in recent months; self-styled peacemakers who sat around negotiating tables, and shuttled around regional capitals with promises of a new Taliban 2.0.\n\nTaliban fighters stand in front of protesters during an anti-Pakistan protest in Kabul\n\nSome names stick out - some so far they can seem provocative.\n\nThe caretaker head of cabinet is the white-bearded Mullah Hasan Akhund, a founding member of the Taliban who's on the UN's sanctions list.\n\nThe caretaker Minister of the Interior is Sirajuddin Haqqani. His face has rarely been seen except in a photograph, partially obscured by a caramel-coloured shawl, in a FBI wanted poster announcing a big bounty of $5m that's also on his head. His more recent claim to fame was an op-ed in the New York Times in 2020 calling for peace which failed to mention that the Haqqani Network named after his family is held responsible for some of the worst attacks on Afghan civilians. The Haqqanis insist there's no such network; they say they're part of the Taliban now.\n\nThe caretaker Minister of Defence, Mullah Yaqoob, represented by a black silhouette, is the eldest son of the founding Emir of the Taliban, Mullah Omar.\n\nBut, wait, this is just a caretaker cabinet.\n\nAt the press conference in Kabul, as a raucous chorus of questions rose from journalists in the room, it was said more posts might be announced in time. \"We haven't announced all the ministries and deputies yet so it's possible this list could be extended,\" Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputy head of the cultural commission, told my colleague Secunder Kermani.\n\nThis may be the opening political salvo to reward and reassure their rank and file fighters, many of whom have been streaming into Kabul, to welcome the return of a \"pure Islamic system\".\n\nIt also appears as a carefully constructed compromise. Mullah Akhund suddenly emerged at the top, fixing in place rival political and military heavyweights including Mullah Baradar whom many predicted would take a leading role, instead of a deputy position.\n\nTaliban leaders are said to have pushed back against calls to include political leaders from the past, especially those tainted by corruption, arguing they've already had their time at the top.\n\nA phrase still rings in my ears from Taliban negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who's now been appointed as deputy foreign minister, the same role he held the last time round.\n\nWhen I asked him in February 2020, after the signing of the landmark US-Taliban deal, what he would say to Afghans who feared their return, he replied with great gusto: \"I tell them we will have a government acceptable to the majority.\" The word majority was punctuated by a loud emphasis.\n\nIn other words, a government dominated by traditional values, not what they mock as Western ideas.\n\nThose were heady days when Afghans dared to hope the worst of the war was over. Later that year, on the first day of formal Afghan talks in the Gulf state of Qatar, a buzz shot through the room when the Taliban hinted they would no longer be demanding an Islamic Emirate; they said they understood its sensitivity.\n\nIn talks with female negotiators, they reassured them women could play every role except president, including government ministers.\n\nThat was then. This is now. The Taliban are in charge.\n\n\"Those who do not pay attention to the social fabric of Afghanistan will face serious challenges,\" warns negotiator and former MP Fawzia Koofi, who heard many of those promises.\n\nThat challenge is already crystallising in protests on the streets, in statements from capitals around the world.\n\n\"The world is watching closely,\" warned a statement from the US State Department. \"Little chance of international recognition of Taliban soon,\" declared an editorial in Russia's Nezavisimaya Gazeta.\n\nAnd a challenge may even rise from within a younger generation of Taliban.\n\n\"We must pay attention to the lessons of history,\" a young Talib recently reflected to me. He emphasised that if the Taliban tried to dominate again, they could be toppled again, as they were in 2001, as the last government just was. Another expressed unease that mullahs schooled only in religious matters were being given so many posts.\n\nA Taliban fighter stands guard outside the building of the former US embassy\n\nIn a statement issued soon after the caretaker cabinet was announced, the Emir noted that \"all talented and professional people\" were desperately needed for their \"talents, guidance, and work.\"\n\nBut in all his exhortations, it was also clear the bottom line was about strengthening \"the system,\" the re-established Islamic Emirate. This takes precedence above all else.\n\nIn recent days in Kabul, I've asked Taliban watchers of various ilk if they thought the leadership would harden over time, or open up.\n\nPowerful winds could tilt them in many directions.\n\nThe world's major aid agencies, who provided around 80% of the old government's budget, are watching closely.\n\n\"They're in very, very dire straits,\" the UN's humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told me as he ended a visit where he emphasised the centrality of humanitarian principles and values, including the inclusion of women and girls. Senior officials, he remarked, asked him for patience and advice.\n\nAfghanistan's new leaders are also under the microscope of jihadi movements worldwide who've enthusiastically welcomed a new land of Islamic governance compliant with Islamic Sharia law.\n\nAfghanistan is, to use the expression, \"too big to fail\". Warnings about a safe haven for extremist groups, worries about human rights and a deepening humanitarian crisis of hunger and hardship, will concentrate many minds on trying to find a way to work with leaders still finding their way, still rooted in their past, rather than, as yet, a different kind of future.\n\nBut that mantra will stick - actions, not words, matter most.\n\nIn the UK you can listen to Lyse Doucet's podcast, A Wish for Afghanistan, on BBC Sounds .", "Darren Osborne was jailed for a minimum of 43 years for the Finsbury Park terror attack\n\nThe terrorist behind an attack on the Finsbury Park mosque in London may lose sight in one eye after a prison attack, a court has heard.\n\nDarren Osborne was jailed for life for murdering Makram Ali after deliberately ploughing into a crowd of people in north London in June 2017.\n\nThe 51-year-old from Cardiff was stabbed at HMP Full Sutton in August 2020, Hull Crown Court heard.\n\nConvicted killer Patrick Chandler has pleaded guilty to the assault.\n\nChandler launched the \"unprovoked\" attack on Osborne on a prison sports pitch using a sharpened wooden tool, the court was told.\n\nHe stabbed Osborne in the head, arm and torso before snapping the weapon in his forehead.\n\nThe court heard that Chandler's attack left extremist Osborne with \"significant\" and \"permanent damage\" to his eye.\n\nHer Honour Judge McKone said Osborne had been left \"very frightened of losing the sight in his right eye\" and although was expected to make a full recovery, could end up requiring a glass eye in the future.\n\nThe assault has also left Osborne, from the Pentwyn area of Cardiff, with permanent tissue damage to his arm.\n\nOsborne is serving a minimum of 43 years for the Finsbury Park attack, after being convicted in 2018 of murder and also attempted murder.\n\nDuring Osborne's trial, the prosecution said they were \"clear throughout that this was a terrorist attack\".\n\nPatrick Chandler has been ordered to serve a further eight years in jail on top of his previous sentences.\n\nHis attacker Chandler was already serving a life sentence for a murder in Essex in 2017.\n\nThe 48-year-old was also given an additional 10 year term for another attack on an inmate at a prison in Chelmsford.\n\nChandler admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm on Osborne, and having a bladed instrument in the prison.\n\nHe was ordered to serve a further eight years in jail on top of his previous sentences.", "Health chiefs say hospitals in west Wales are feeling the strain during the third Covid wave\n\nHealth and social care is in \"almost the perfect storm\" during the third wave of the Covid pandemic, the head of a Welsh health board has warned.\n\nHywel Dda University Health Board has postponed some routine surgery at its hospitals as Covid cases rise.\n\nIt comes as two other health boards in Wales have suspended some visits, with one of them suspending some operations.\n\nHywel Dda chairwoman Maria Battle said they now had 30,000 patients waiting for planned surgery in west Wales.\n\nHealth board staff said they had faced \"an incredibly busy week\" across in facilities in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.\n\nThe Betsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales announced on Friday it was suspending routine operations and halted most hospital visits.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board has also suspended most patient visits for \"the safety of our patients and staff\" at its facilities in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that modelling suggested there could be \"100 new Covid-19 hospital admissions\" every day in Wales by the end of September as that is when experts expect the Delta-variant infection to peak.\n\nThe Covid infection rate in Wales has risen to 522.7 cases for every 100,000 people - the highest since December last year - and Merthyr Tydfil now has the UK's 15th highest infection rate.\n\nAcross Wales, there has been a 35% rise in the number of patients in hospital over the last seven days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People will not need vaccine passports to access public services in Wales, the first minister says\n\nHowever, with almost 70% of Welsh adults now fully vaccinated, the number of people in hospital with the virus is three times less than at the height of the second Covid wave in December and January.\n\n\"Compared to the last 18 months, we may be lulled into thinking we are back to normal,\" said the Hywel Dda chairwoman.\n\n\"But, whilst hopefully the worst impact of Covid-19 is over, we are not out of the woods just yet.\n\nShe said 18 months of battling against the pandemic had come with \"fear and personal sacrifices\" for teams at hospitals like the major centres at Haverfordwest, Carmarthen and Aberystwyth.\n\n\"It is only natural that many staff are now exhausted,\" said Ms Battle.\n\n\"During this time, we have also seen a higher level of sickness absence than usual, which is compounded by a high number of vacant nursing posts in Hywel Dda.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to support all our staff and recruit to vacant posts.\"\n\nThe health board boss also admitted social care shortages across west Wales were leading to delays in discharging patients - resulting in bed-blocking.\n\n\"We are seeing ambulances waiting outside of A&Es as there are not enough beds available for patients who need to be admitted,\" added Ms Battle.\n\nHywel Dda health board has been forced to postpone some routine surgery\n\n\"At the moment, in health and social care, we have almost the perfect storm.\n\n\"But we have got through many storms together during the life of this pandemic and with your support we will get through this one again.\"", "Ksenija Sidorova is the first accordion player to be a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms\n\nIt may have been her first visit to the BBC Proms, but accordion player Ksenija Sidorova stole the show at the Last Night concert.\n\nExpressive and passionate, the Latvian musician's performance of Astor Piazzolla's Libertango brought a packed Royal Albert Hall to its feet.\n\nIt came halfway through a diverse concert that also paid tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks.\n\nConductor Sakari Oramo said the night reflected the \"healing power of music\".\n\n\"Due to the worldwide Covid pandemic, live music-making was stopped across the world for many months - and in some places it still is,\" he said.\n\n\"Music that is core to human expression went silent. The bond between audiences and performers was broken.\"\n\nNoting that, elsewhere in the world, people's freedom to make and enjoy music was currently being \"threatened and denied\", Oramo concluded that it was \"very special for us all to be here for the Last Night Of The Proms again, with an audience, to celebrate the healing and uplifting power of music\".\n\nConductor Sakari Oramo was helming his 28th Prom - and fifth Last Night\n\nThe Prommers, bedecked in crowns, bow ties, bowler hats and a mixture of EU and union flags, were typically enthusiastic, especially after missing out on the 2020 season.\n\nThey bobbed up and down to the Sailor's Hornpipe and sang Land Of Hope And Glory at the top of their lungs- the lyrics performed in full following a very public row over their possible exclusion last year.\n\nAnd when Oramo paid tribute to Sir Henry Wood, the founder conductor of the Proms back in 1895, one audience member pointed to Wood's statue at the back of the hall and shouted, \"He's behind you!\"\n\nThe concert opened with a new commission, Mother, by Iranian-American composer Gity Razaz.\n\nA restless symphonic piece with an extensive percussion section, it depicted the healing power of nature amid the chaos of modern life.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the premiere, Razaz said she hoped to capture \"the exquisite majesty of our natural world\" in a way that \"propels us to take more serious, proactive steps towards protecting our planet\".\n\nThe programme also included a heart-breaking new arrangement of Barber's Adagio For Strings, marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Proms This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe adagio was performed at the Last Night in 2001, just four days after the atrocity, with American conductor Leonard Slatkin on the podium. He asked the audience not to applaud at the end. Instead, they held aloft candles.\n\nJonathan Manners' new arrangement was suitably sombre and haunting, incorporating Barber's 1961 choral setting of the Latin text Agnus Dei: \"Lamb Of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us [and] grant us peace\".\n\nThe programme also included a recently rediscovered piece by Florence Price - the first African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major US orchestra - and Ravel's lament for the victims of World War One, Le tombeau de Couperin.\n\nAustralian tenor Stuart Skelton brought some levity with a spirited performance of Iain Farrington's I Still Call Australia Home, delivered in an eye-catching black sequinned jacket.\n\nLater, he led the audience in the traditional chorus of Rule, Britannia! wearing a full Aussie cricket outfit.\n\nStuart Skelton in his full cricketing gear, as he performs Rule, Britannia!\n\nSkelton also indulged in his love of Wagner, performing the poignant Wesendonck Lieder with a rich subtlety, before letting rip on the passionate Prize Song, from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.\n\nThe 53-year-old, who was also making his debut at the Last Night, said he was still pinching himself after being invited.\n\n\"To be considered in that pantheon? You never expect that one. It's one of those bucket list, dreams come true,\" he told the BBC. \"It's like a wrap party for the world's most prestigious music festival.\"\n\nHe even came up with a bespoke cocktail to celebrate the occasion.\n\nSidorova started playing accordion at the age of six\n\nFor all his charm, accordion virtuoso Sidorova was the indisputable highlight of the night, introducing the Last Night to two mildly revolutionary elements- the accordion and the tango.\n\nShe first took the stage in the first half, playing Franck Angelis' Chiquilín de Bachín (Little Boy at Bachín), a saccharine story of a six-year-old boy who sells flowers outside a cheap restaurant in the heart of Buenos Aires's theatre district.\n\nSat on a piano stool, sporting some impressively voluminous sleeves, Sidorova imbued the piece with a nostalgic quality, deftly swerving maudlin sentimentality.\n\nBut it was her second-half performance of Libertango - a staple of Strictly Come Dancing - that really showcased her captivating and witty playing style, as she traded riffs back-and-forth with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.\n\nViewers and prommers alike lapped up the performance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Keoni This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Abbi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Paul Chapinal🎬🎼🇪🇸🇬🇧 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Dan Gregory #notmypm #Article49 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe pomp and ceremony of the Last Night - described by Rob Rinder on BBC Radio Three as an \"upmarket stag do\" - marked the end of a triumphant six-week Proms season.\n\nComing a year after the festival was reduced to a two-week, socially-distanced skeleton, this year's event welcomed 2,000 musicians, 30 orchestras and, crucially, tens of thousands of fans.\n\nHighlights included the highly-anticipated concert debut of John Wilson's Sinfonia of London, who played a soul-stirring and charismatic programme that included Strauss, Ravel and Korngold's filmic Symphony in F sharp major.\n\nChineke - the UK's only black and ethnically diverse orchestra - celebrated diversity in composers as well as performers, playing pieces by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Fela Sowande and Florence Price.\n\nThe Aurora orchestra played Igor Stravinsky's 1945 suite from The Firebird from memory (as is their tradition); while the prodigiously talented Kanneh-Mason family joined forces to perform an updated version of Camille Saint-Saëns's much-loved suite The Carnival of the Animals.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOne of the most emotionally-charged concerts was delivered by The Proms Festival Orchestra - an ensemble of leading freelance players who were specially assembled to acknowledge the difficulties they faced during the pandemic.\n\nThe 80-piece orchestra included a double-bassist who'd taken up a job as an undertaker and a harpist who'd started working in a vineyard to make ends meet.\n\nTheir performance of Mahler's Fifth Sympony was called \"stirring\" and a \"triumph\" by The Times.\n\nA collection was held at the Last Night to support a hardship fund for freelance musicians who have found themselves in financial difficulties after the last 18 months.\n\nThe Proms will return next year on Friday, 15 July.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Andrew was in the South Tower when the first plane hit and was trying to descend the building when the second plane caused another explosion\n\nTwenty years ago, Andrew Cullen felt the explosion of a plane hitting the skyscraper next to him just as much as he heard it.\n\nInstinct led him to a series of actions in the following minutes which would turn out to be critical.\n\nA split-second decision over which lift button to push turned out to be the biggest decision of his life.\n\nHitting down instead of up just moments before the second plane hit the south tower of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 ensured the Scot would be alive to re-tell his story two decades on.\n\nBorn in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Andrew was 10 when his dad got a job in Pittsburgh and moved the family to the US in 1980.\n\nAt the age of 25, he moved to Manhattan to work as an analyst at investment firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBR).\n\nOn 11 September, 2001, he arrived at work on the 89th floor of the South Tower. He was part of a team working on a big deal for a bank.\n\nAndrew Cullen survived the 9/11 terror attack on the World Trade Centre, escaping from his office on the 89th floor of the South Tower\n\nReliving the morning on BBC Radio's Drivetime programme, Andrew said: \"It was very clear, there wasn't a cloud in the sky, so from the 89th floor you could see forever, straight over both the Statue of Liberty as well as east over to Queens and Brooklyn.\n\n\"Usually at about 06:45, the traders and the analysts and the other sales guys start rolling in and it was really while the salesmen and traders were making their morning phone calls that we felt and heard an enormous explosion from the North Tower.\n\n\"We had no idea what it was, but the ferocity of the explosion caused our building to sort of whipsaw and being on the south east side of the building I was able to see some of the debris coming out of the side of the building.\"\n\nHe said: \"I got out of my chair and started walking north along the trading desk, and arrived at the equity desk where Derek Sword, my colleague from Dundee was sitting. I believe he was on the phone with his brother Alan at the time trying to surmise what had happened.\n\n\"At that point myself and three colleagues made the decision to get out of the building so we headed towards the stairwell and began descending from the 89th floor down to the Sky Lobby at the 44th floor and it was at that point that the port authority instructed us to go back to our offices, so they sort of shuffled us into one of the freight elevators.\n\n\"At that point the button for 78 was lit but we decided we wanted to go down so I was the one who pounded the lobby button just a few moments before the second plane hit the tower above us.\"\n\nIf the lift had gone up, they would have been killed.\n\nHe said: \"At that point it was chaos. I got expelled from the elevator with some colleagues. I crawled around the corner to the stairwell and maybe 30 seconds later one of my colleagues came down to the 43rd floor and we made the decision we needed to get out of the building as quickly as possible.\"\n\nA wall of dust and smoke races through streets as one of the World Trade Center towers collapses. Andrew was blown behind a desk in a health club as the store fronts along Wall Street were blown in.\n\nAndrew and his colleagues still had no idea what had happened. The only logical explanation they had was that the other tower had collapsed into their tower. Now he understands that during the massive second explosion, the jet fuel came down the lift shaft and blew the lift apart.\n\nHe said: \"I am not sure how many survivors there were in the elevator but I was told it had dropped at that point. So we were fairly fortunate to be on the front.\"\n\nAfter finding a stairwell, they managed to get to the lobby where port authority officers and fire crews were trying to organise people to get them out of the building.\n\nThey did not want to waste a minute so they found the east side of the building and headed into the courtyard and then over towards the street.\n\n\"Once we had seen the effect of the planes flying into the building and witnessed some people jumping out of the building, we headed to a health club we knew to get away from the scene,\" Andrew said. \"We had only arrived there for about 10 minutes before our tower collapsed and sent the debris down Wall Street where a lot of the store fronts were blown in including the Equinox club where we were.\n\n\"We were fairly fortunate that we didn't get hit with shrapnel and other debris that was flying around. We got knocked down to the floor and we were behind a desk when it blew in over the top of us. Once the dust had settled we made our way into one of the bathrooms and grabbed wet towels and wrapped them around our faces to avoid inhaling smoke.\n\n\"Again we found the east of the building and made our way over to the East River but it was feeling our way along because it was like walking through a blackout - that's how thick the dust and debris was. When we hit the East River we found about a million other people.\n\nAndrew believes it was instinct that got him out of the tower in time.\n\n\"When you have a threat that faces you and you don't know what it is, you have a choice,\" he said. \"You either face it or you get the hell out of the situation.\n\n\"All I knew was that the explosion I felt from the first tower being hit was extremely powerful, and I didn't need to be a third of a mile up in the air. I am deathly terrified of heights so that ironically might have saved my life.\"\n\nLater in the day Andrew helped work the phones with other employees who survived and by the end of the day they had an idea of who got out and who didn't.\n\nScot Derek Sword was one of 67 KBW employees who died\n\nDerek, his Dundee friend, was one of the 2,606 who lost their lives in the Twin Towers attack.\n\nThe pair bonded over their Scottish roots on Andrew's first day in the job. They were introduced by one of KBW's CEOs John Berry who also died. The firm lost 67 employees that day.\n\nThe surviving staff spent the rest of the week in and out of New York hospitals checking logs to see if any of their colleagues had survived.\n\nAndrew, now 51, is a history and economics teacher in South Carolina. He has attended a few memorial services since that day but prefers to keep a low profile.\n\n\"You manage it but you don't get over it, \" he said. \"It's a process. It is always there and it might change your life but it shouldn't stop you living it.\n\n\"It forced me to think about how I was living my life and change my path a bit, rather than following what I thought was a prescriptive path, doing things I was a bit more interested in, maybe being a bit more impetuous than I would have been.\"\n\nTwo shafts of light mark the anniversary of the collapse of the Twin Towers in 2001", "The alarm was raised at Porth Dafarch on Anglesey on Saturday morning\n\nA runner has been airlifted to hospital after falling off a cliff in north Wales.\n\nA major rescue operation was launched after reports a woman had fallen on the Anglesey coast at 10:45 BST.\n\nCoastguard crews from Holyhead, Cemaes Bay and Moelfre were joined by a helicopter from Dublin, and a RNLI lifeboat, in the search near Holyhead.\n\nThe casualty had been running at Porth Dafarch and was flown to hospital at 14:00.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nEmma Raducanu ended Britain's 44-year wait for a women's Grand Slam singles champion as she beat Leylah Fernandez to win the US Open in the most thrilling style.\n\nThe 18-year-old ended her scarcely believable run in New York with a 6-4 6-3 win over her 19-year-old Canadian opponent in a high-quality final.\n\nRaducanu threw herself to the floor in disbelief as she fired down an ace to conclude what has been the most remarkable journey.\n\nRaducanu served for the match at 5-3 but cut her leg as she went break point down, leading to a medical time-out and a clearly irritated Fernandez expressing her frustration to the match official.\n\nHowever, Raducanu shrugged off the delay, saving a further break point before closing out her third championship point.\n\nThe two shared a warm hug before Raducanu headed up the stairs at Arthur Ashe Stadium to celebrate with her support box.\n\nRaducanu was cheered on by an emotional Virginia Wade, who was the last British woman to win a major trophy at Wimbledon in 1977.\n\n\"It means so much to have Virginia Wade here and also Tim Henman,\" Raducanu said in her on-court speech.\n\n\"They are British icons and for me to follow in their footsteps gave me the belief I could do it.\"\n\nWith the victory, Raducanu becomes:\n• None The first British female winner at the US Open since Virginia Wade in 1968\n• None The first qualifier in the Open era to win a Slam\n• None The youngest women's Slam champion since Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon in 2004\n• None The first woman to win the US Open without dropping a set since Serena Williams in 2014\n\nShe will take home £1.8m in prize money, rise to 23 in the world rankings and will become the British number one on Monday.\n\nRaducanu will also know that she has starred in one of the biggest moments in British sporting history - and captured the imagination of the fans at home and in New York.\n• None 'I don't want to let go of the trophy'\n\nAstonishing. Ridiculous. Meteoric. Unbelievable. Take your pick - but no word can ever really sum up what Raducanu has achieved.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Raducanu had a flight booked back to the UK, just in case she did not come through qualifying in New York. Seventeen days later, she has lifted the trophy in front of a rapturous crowd.\n\nRaducanu did not just come through qualifying: she dominated the tournament. The most games she lost in one set in her entire run in New York - five - came in the second round of qualifying.\n\nIt is not just that Raducanu has kept on winning, but she has done it with such dominance. She did not drop a set en route to the final, despite meeting Olympic champion Belinda Bencic and in-form Maria Sakkari on the way.\n\nIn the big moments, she has held her nerve, trusting in her power and serve, even when she saw two championship points go by in the final.\n\nThis is someone who, two months ago, was collecting her A-Level results. She only made her WTA main-draw debut in June. All this has happened so quickly, and yet not once has Raducanu not looked like she belongs.\n\nWith all the attention on Raducanu after Wimbledon - as well as questions from some about her mental toughness - she could have easily been overwhelmed.\n\nInstead, she trusted in herself, hired a new coach in Andrew Richardson and went to America to play in the various events.\n\nNo-one could have seen this coming; not the ease with which Raducanu would brush her opponents aside, or the calmness with which she would approach every match.\n\nBut Raducanu always believed. And she will leave New York as the US Open champion.\n\nFormer British number one Laura Robson on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"There are so many sliding doors moments. Before Wimbledon, Emma didn't have a main draw wild card. Would she be in this position if they hadn't upgraded it? Would this happen if she hadn't had to retire from the fourth round with breathing problems?\n\n\"She played an almost perfect performance in her first Grand Slam final. You have to think there will be so many more.\"\n\nFormer Wimbledon champion Pat Cash: \"I cannot believe it. It is unheard of for a qualifier to win the US Open. Goran Ivanisevic won Wimbledon as a wildcard but he had already been to Wimbledon finals, not playing a second Grand Slam.\n\n\"She hits so cleanly. I cannot come up with a reason for this to happen. It does not make sense at all. Her performance is mindboggling.\"\n\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller: \"I have never seen anything like this and I suspect if I work in this business for another 20 years I won't see anything like it.\"\n\nA full Arthur Ashe Stadium - which holds almost 24,000 people - is one of the most intimidating sights in tennis, but neither player looked fazed as they walked out on to the biggest stage of their career.\n\nFernandez had more of the crowd support, given that she has ousted the second, third and fifth seed in New York, but there was still good support for Raducanu.\n\nThe first three games lasted for 23 minutes, both players showing a devastating array of cross-court punches and fiery returns of serve, and they traded breaks as they found their footing.\n\nAs she has done throughout the tournament, Raducanu dug herself out from 0-30 down several times, stepping forward, playing more aggressively and finding her first serves.\n\nThat gave her the confidence to attack Fernandez's second serve and put herself on top. She closed out the first set with a forehand down the line, turning and pumping her fist towards her box before letting out a yell of \"come on!\" to the crowd as they rose to applaud.\n\nFernandez has shown tenacity throughout the tournament and she did so here, saving three break points in her first service game to stop Raducanu taking a 2-0 lead in the second.\n\nShe then found the break, adjusting to hit Raducanu's serves better, and it looked as though the momentum had swung the way of the young Canadian.\n\nHowever, there is a reason Raducanu has not dropped a set in New York. At the changeover she sat quietly, eyes closed, before again increasing her tempo and creating the break opportunity.\n\nShe broke with the shot of the match - a stunning forehand pass, made from almost off the court, that left Fernandez stranded at the net.\n\nTwo championship points came and went on the Fernandez serve, saved once again by brave hitting, but Raducanu did not falter despite taking a nasty cut to the leg as she slid behind the baseline.\n\nIt was an odd interlude in what was an entertaining final that proved that the future of women's tennis is bright.\n• None How has the Premier League succeeded?: Fever Pitch tells the origin story via the stars that made it\n• None Listen to the best tracks from nominees and winners of the prestigious prize", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage showing a hooded figure has been released by Didsbury Mosque\n\nAn arson attack at a Manchester mosque is being investigated as a hate crime, police have said.\n\nNo-one was injured in the blaze, late on Friday night, at Didsbury Mosque in Burton Road, officers said.\n\nMosque leaders said they were \"so grateful\" to neighbours who tried to put it out with their coats.\n\nThey added that they had received threats to burn the mosque \"for a couple of years, but now the attempt has come\".\n\n\"If it was not for the actions of two of our amazing neighbours on Burton Road, who saw the flames and put them out with their coats, we hate to think what could have happened,\" they said.\n\n\"We cannot thank them enough.\"\n\nThe fire was quickly extinguished after it caused minor damage\n\nGreater Manchester Fire Service said they were at the scene for more than two hours and were conducting an investigation with police.\n\nManchester City Council deputy leader Luthfur Rahman said the fire was \"a despicable act designed to create fear and hatred\".\n\n\"I commend the neighbours who raised the alarm - they, not the cowards responsible for this arson, are the true spirit of this city.\"\n\nThe mosque, which has released CCTV footage of the attack, asked the local community to \"stay vigilant\", adding: \"Please do not let hate divide us or win.\"\n\nNo-one was injured in the blaze at Didsbury Mosque\n\nIt has previously been under scrutiny after it was identified as one of the mosques attended by the Manchester Arena attack bomber Salman Abedi and his family.\n\nAbedi killed 22 people when he detonated a suicide bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in 2017.\n\nAfter the attack, a mosque trustee said the 22-year-old was known as a loner and admitted it had \"a lot to learn\" in engaging with young people.\n\nSince then, the mosque has been praised for its community work including helping in the aftermath of last winter's floods.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Commemorations have taken place on the 20th anniversary of the 11 September attacks.\n\nA minute's silence was held at the exact time each hijacked plane crashed.\n\nGeorge W Bush, who was the US president at the time, gave a speech in Pennsylvania, where one of the planes crashed into a field after passengers overpowered the hijackers.", "Money to pay for social care could have been raised through taxing landlords, Sir Keir Starmer was expected to tell a conference.\n\nIt comes after Boris Johnson announced plans to raise National Insurance tax on workers and employers in order to pay for the NHS backlog and social care\n\nSir Keir was to describe the rise as \"unfair\" and \"poorly thought through\".\n\nBut the Labour leader has come under pressure in recent days to detail his own plan to fund social care.\n\nAddressing the House of Commons earlier this week, Mr Johnson acknowledged his tax rise broke a manifesto commitment not to raise taxes, but defended the move as \"the right, reasonable and fair approach\" in light of the pandemic.\n\nHe criticised calls for a rise in capital gains tax - the levy you pay on the profits when you sell an asset - arguing that it would not raise enough money to \"even begin to deal with this problem\".\n\nSpeaking to the Local Government Association which represents councils in England and Wales, Sir Keir was expected to attack the Conservatives' plans, arguing that: \"Working people will pay more tax now, but might still have to sell their home to pay even more later.\"\n\n\"This is an unfair plan that doesn't work. And who is left with the bill? It's working people. It's especially low earners and young people who have already borne the brunt of the economic impact of the pandemic,\" he was to say.\n\nInstead he was to argue that \"the money could have been raised by taxing the incomes of landlords, and those who buy and sell large quantities of financial assets, stocks shares\".\n\nMr Johnson's plans, he was to say, leave \"a private landlord renting out multiple properties not paying a penny more in tax, and their hard-working tenants to pick up the burden\".\n\nHe was to add it sees \"an Amazon worker's taxes raised, but Amazon itself able to squirrel profits away in tax havens and only pay a fraction of what high street shops do\".\n\nEarlier this week, Sir Keir told Sky News he would back \"wealth taxes\" to fund social care but did not set out further details.\n\nGiving shape to a future Labour policy, Sir Keir was also expected to say that his party would introduce a principle of \"home first\" care, shift the focus to prevention and early intervention, and introduce a \"new deal\" for care workers.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's proposals there will be a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance from next April for workers and employers.\n\nIt means that someone earning £30,000 will pay an extra £255 a year, while someone on a £50,000 salary will pay £505.\n\nIncome from share dividends - earned by those who own shares in companies - will also see a 1.25% tax rate increase.\n\nIn 2023, National Insurance will return to its previous level and the tax increase will become a separate health and social care levy on earnings.\n\nThe majority of the £36bn fund raised by the rise will go towards tackling the backlog of NHS cases created by the pandemic.\n\nA smaller portion of the money - £5.4bn over the next three years - will also go towards changes to the social care system, with more promised after that.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir was to warn that the government plans would not provide any money for councils in the short term and would force them to put up council tax in order to meet demand.", "Boris Johnson will announce his Covid winter plan for England on Tuesday, including contingency measures that would be implemented if the NHS was at risk of becoming overwhelmed.\n\nThe PM will outline plans for booster jabs after the UK's vaccine advisory body unveils its guidance on Monday.\n\nOfficials are looking at measures that could be needed if cases rose steeply.\n\nBut government sources have said further lockdowns are not being considered.\n\nMr Johnson's Covid plan is set to follow an announcement by the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisation (JCVI) on who should receive booster jabs.\n\nThe JCVI said last week that a third vaccine dose should be offered to people over the age of 12 with severely weakened immune systems - which accounts for up to half a million people in the UK.\n\nIt came after research showing about 40% of people with weakened immune systems had a low antibody response, and potentially less protection, after two vaccine doses.\n\nThe advice means the most vulnerable - less than 1% of the population - will be offered a third dose, rather than all those on the original list of clinically extremely vulnerable people.\n\nThe JCVI has yet to announce if a separate booster programme is needed and who would be eligible.\n\nA government source stressed the Covid winter plan would emphasise how society planned to continue \"living with\" the virus throughout the winter and promote Covid and flu jabs.\n\nThe Times reports that mandatory face coverings and working from home will be brought back in if there is a winter surge in infections.\n\nThere is growing concern among ministers that the NHS could come under severe strain if Covid infections surged alongside a bad flu season, the paper says.\n\nSources have told the Times the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has devised a series of options to limit the spread of Covid-19 without the use of lockdowns.\n\nThe legal requirement to wear a face covering ended on 19 July, but people have been advised to continue to wear them in crowded indoor spaces.\n\nThe UK reported a further 29,547 new infections on Saturday, alongside another 156 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nMeanwhile, 89% of the population over the age of 16 have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while almost 81% have had both doses.\n\nThe Coronavirus Act - emergency legislation introduced to give the government new powers to tackle coronavirus - is also coming up to its six-month review by MPs.\n\nMr Johnson is set to repeal regulations in England that are no longer necessary, including the powers to close down parts of the economy, such as businesses, or the placing of restrictions on events and gatherings.\n\nAlso set to be repealed are regulations that enable the temporary closure or limiting of access to schools, colleges and childcare; those that extend time limits for urgent warrants; and powers to detain infectious people.\n\nHowever, certain measures from the Act will be kept - including the requirement to self-isolate on receiving a positive PCR test; giving sick pay to those isolating from day one rather than day seven; and the power to keep schools open if they close against government guidance.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Thanks to the efforts of the public, the NHS and our phenomenal vaccination programme, we reached step four in our roadmap and life has returned to a sense of normality.\n\n\"These extraordinary times required necessary but intrusive measures. But I'm determined to get of rid of any powers we no longer need because of our vaccine defences.\"\n\nThe PM is expected to hold a Downing Street press conference next week to set out the next steps in the government's pandemic response.", "Northern Ireland primary pupils are only behind students in the east Asian countries Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan\n\nSchools are safe places for children and staff, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer has said.\n\nProfessor Sir Michael McBride made the comments in a detailed letter about schools to pupils, parents and staff.\n\nHe added, though, that it was \"inevitable\" there would be Covid cases in schools.\n\nBut he said there was a \"certainty of long-term harm to many children and young people\" from not attending school.\n\n\"The public health grounds for keeping and supporting children at school are extremely strong,\" he wrote.\n\nHis letter comes as the Public Health Authority (PHA) takes over responsibility for contact tracing in schools on Friday.\n\nIn his letter Sir Michael said that the Covid pandemic had damaged children's wellbeing, mental health and education.\n\n\"Children from more disadvantaged backgrounds have been particularly negatively impacted,\" he said.\n\n\"As we progress through the pandemic response, we must continue to strike a balance between safeguarding children's education and wellbeing and measures to contain Covid.\"\n\nSir Michael said that now was the right time to take a more targeted approach to contact tracing in schools and said he was writing to explain why that was the case.\n\n\"Multiple sources of evidence show that a lack of schooling increases inequalities, reduces the life chances of children and can exacerbate physical and mental health issues,\" he said.\n\n\"School improves health, learning, socialisation and opportunities throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood.\"\n\nHe wrote that it was \"no longer necessary\" to close schools as had happened earlier in the pandemic.\n\nSir Michael McBride said there is a \"certainty of long-term harm to many children\" from not attending school\n\nHe also cited large-scale studies from England and Scotland which showed \"the vast majority of those identified as school close contacts and sent home to isolate during the last academic year did not go on to develop Covid\".\n\nThe chief medical officer said that the overall risk of children becoming severely ill from Covid was extremely low.\n\nHe also said all school staff had the chance to be fully vaccinated, and that many other safety measures remained in place in schools.\n\n\"It is my professional opinion, which is shared by my chief medical officer colleagues across the UK, that very few, if any, children or teenagers will come to long-term harm from Covid due solely to attending school,\" he said.\n\n\"This has to be set against a certainty of long-term harm to many children and young people from not attending school.\"\n\nSir Michael said the contact tracing taken on by the PHA would bring Northern Ireland into line with England, Scotland and Wales and identify children with the \"closest contact\" to a positive case.\n\nHe also said it would free principals and teachers to get back to \"doing what they do best - teaching and inspiring our children and young people.\"", "Cinema-goers watch the premiere of Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\n\nHollywood giant Walt Disney Co said the rest of its 2021 films will screen exclusively in cinemas before being made available for streaming.\n\nThe decision is a boost to struggling entertainment venues, with major films during the pandemic debuting online at the same time as in theatres.\n\nMarvel's Eternals is among the films that will get a theatrical debut.\n\nIt comes after Disney's successful theatrical release this month of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.\n\nTen Rings - which tells the story of a former assassin forced to confront his power-hungry, warlord father - took in $127.6m (£92m) globally in its first weekend in cinemas.\n\nThe sum is second only to Marvel's $158m (£114m) takings for Black Widow in July.\n\nLast month, Disney CEO Bob Chapek referred to the Ten Rings rollout as \"an interesting experiment for us\", given how all earlier films had been released online simultaneously with cinemas since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe film is being made available exclusively in cinemas for its first 45 days, before becoming watchable on the subscription Disney+ streaming platform.\n\nEternals, directed by Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao, will use the same release schedule, as will Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story.\n\nAnimated musical Encanto will be in theatres for 30 days, starting around the Thanksgiving holiday in November, before moving online.\n\nOther major studios have been closely watching Disney to determine whether they should also resume in-theatre debuts.\n\nThe decision also comes after actress Scarlett Johansson sued Disney over their decision not to theatrically release Black Widow exclusively in cinemas.\n\nAfter an initial strong opening weekend, box office sales fell sharply, leading Johansson's team to claim Disney's decision had led to a loss in income for her.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport website and app, with live text commentary and match report on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu's history-making US Open final against Canada's Leylah Fernandez will be available to watch live on network television after Amazon Prime agreed a deal with Channel 4.\n\nThe match, which is due to start at 21:00 BST on Saturday, 11 September, will also be live on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nAmazon's Prime Video streaming service has had exclusive UK broadcast rights for the final Grand Slam of the year.\n\nBut a deal has been struck with Channel 4, with Amazon pledging to reinvest that money - believed to be a seven-figure sum, according to the Press Association - into British women's tennis to help fund the next generation of players.\n\n\"Emma's journey from qualification through to the US Open final at the age of 18 is a truly magical story for British sport and we think it's important that we extend our coverage to as many people as possible to support her in this historic moment for women's tennis,\" said Alex Green, managing director of Prime Video Sport Europe.\n\nChannel 4's chief content officer Ian Katz added: \"We're glad to have worked with Prime Video and pulled out all the stops to get it on air.\"\n\nThe live radio commentary will also be available be on BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app, which will additionally have live text commentary and in-depth coverage of the match.\n\nThe agreement means a planned BBC highlights show that was scheduled for Sunday will no longer take place.\n• None Reaction to brilliant Raducanu reaching the US Open final\n• None Raducanu set to be best paid British sportswoman\n• None How has the Premier League succeeded?: Fever Pitch tells the origin story via the stars that made it\n• None Listen to the best tracks from nominees and winners of the prestigious prize", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aftermath of the Kerala plane crash shows the plane broken in two\n\nPilot error and failure to follow safety guidelines probably led to the crash of an Air India Express plane in August last year, investigators say.\n\nThe passenger plane with 190 people on board crashed at the Calicut airport in the southern state of Kerala, killing 21 people.\n\nThe Boeing 737, which had flown from Dubai, skidded off the runway in rain and broke in two after landing.\n\nThe flight was repatriating Indians stranded by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe dead included both pilots. Seventy-five passengers were seriously injured.\n\nThe aircraft crashed as it attempted to land for a second time. The first attempt was aborted by the pilots because of the heavy monsoon-season rainfall lashing Kerala.\n\nThe report by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said there were several \"violations\" of operation procedures before landing by the pilot.\n\nThey include that not carrying out \"adequate briefing\" for landing with tailwinds in rain and poor visibility, as well as failure to \"quickly calculate accurate landing data in adverse weather conditions\", contributed to the crash.\n\nA malfunctioning windshield wiper had also impaired visibility, the 257-page report said.\n\nThe plane reportedly overshot the runway upon landing amid heavy rain\n\nThe pilot also \"did not make the mandatory announcement for the cabin crew to be seated on the first approach for landing... This is a very serious omission and compromises cabin crew\", the report said.\n\nThe report added that \"systemic failures\" could have also contributed to the crash.\n\n\"These usually occur due to prevailing safety culture that give rise to errors, mistakes and violation of routine tasks performed by people operating within the system,\" it said.\n\nPlane crashes have happened before during the monsoon season, in India which lasts from June to September and wreaks havoc across south Asia every year.\n\nIn May 2010, 158 people died when an Air India Express flight overshot Mangalore airport runway and crashed.", "The suspects were aboard the Kahu - a luxury Jamaican-flagged yacht sailing from the Caribbean\n\nSix men including a Briton have been arrested off the coast of Plymouth after authorities seized more than two tonnes (2,000kg) of cocaine.\n\nThe British man, from Stockton-on-Tees, and five Nicaraguans were arrested on a luxury yacht on Thursday.\n\nThe men, aged from 24 to 49, were held on suspicion of drug trafficking and remain in custody, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nOfficers estimate the street value of the drugs is about £160m.\n\nThe group were sailing in the Jamaican-flagged Kahu when they were intercepted 80 miles off the coast, in international waters north of Guernsey.\n\nThe yacht, which had sailed from the Caribbean, was intercepted and boarded by specialist Border Force and NCA officers.\n\nThe six men were intercepted 80 miles off the coast of Plymouth\n\nThe arrests were made as part of an operation led by the NCA and supported by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Border Force.\n\nBorder Force's cutter Searcher and coastal patrol vessel Alert had covertly identified and monitored the yacht's movements, the NCA said.\n\nDeputy director Matt Horne said: \"There's no doubt these drugs would have been sold on into communities across the UK in such ways as county lines fuelling more crime and misery.\n\n\"Organised crime groups (OCG) are motivated by money. The deprivation of these drugs will smash a hole in the OCG's plans and ability to operate.\"\n\nMr Horne explained that the arrests of the men transporting the drugs means the crime group will have lost trusted offenders who would have been key to their operation.\n\n\"We continue to work with partners at home such as Border Force and those abroad such as the AFP to protect the public from the Class A drugs threat,\" he added.\n\nThe Kahu seen docked beside Border Force's cutter Searcher\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nPrince Andrew's team do not believe that legal papers from lawyers for the woman who has accused him of sexual abuse have been successfully served, the BBC understands.\n\nVirginia Giuffre has launched a civil case against the prince in New York - and legal papers have to be \"served\" before the case can proceed.\n\nHer lawyers said they were left with a police officer at his home in Windsor.\n\nPrince Andrew denies all the claims made by Ms Giuffre.\n\nOn Monday, a US judge must determine whether the papers have in fact been \"served\" before any case can get under way.\n\nThe video conference, scheduled for a New York court, will consider the next stages of the case.\n\nPrince Andrew, the Queen's son, is currently at Balmoral, the royal family's Scottish estate.\n\nAccording to court documents from Ms Guiffre's lawyers, an answer is due from him to the affidavit by 17 September and \"if you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint\".\n\nLegal papers say a process server working for Ms Giuffre's team arrived at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, Berkshire, on Thursday 26 August at 09:30 BST.\n\nThe man met security staff, left a business card, and was asked to wait.\n\nThe papers say he then spoke to police, including the head of security, who could not locate Prince Andrew's private secretary \"or anyone senior\".\n\nThe agent was told the security team \"had been told not to accept service of any court process\".\n\nHe was then given a solicitor's name and number and phoned him at 10:40, but did not get a response, the papers say.\n\nOn Friday 27 August, the same process server returned to the Royal Lodge in Windsor and spoke to the \"head of security\".\n\nHe was advised the papers could be left with police at the main gates, and they would be forwarded to the legal team.\n\nThe papers state: \"The deponent did enquire whether it was possible to meet personally with the defendant, but the deponent was told that this was not possible.\"\n\nMs Giuffre's legal team claim that by leaving the papers with the officer, the service was successfully completed.\n\nAsked whether the prince had received the papers and if he accepted they had been served, a spokeswoman representing the prince said: \"No comment.\"\n\nOne reason it is believed the duke's team does not consider papers have been served is because they maintain British legal procedures require that a valid request for assistance from UK court officials must come from a judicial or diplomatic officer in the US - and not from Ms Giuffre's lawyers.\n\nIt is understood there are also questions over the steps taken to deliver the papers, in particular, attempts to serve them personally to the prince at his home and to email them to barristers who may not be authorised to conduct litigation.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said: \"Clearly the papers have not been served personally on Prince Andrew.\n\n\"Equally clearly, Prince Andrew has not been making himself available to receive these papers so it will all now have to be decided by a judge in New York on Monday - whether they've been served, whether the court case can continue.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew said in 2019 that he could not recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nMs Giuffre - an accuser of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who died in jail in 2019 - claims she was brought to the UK at the age of 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nShe filed a case against him last month in New York. It is a civil rather than criminal case - meaning Ms Giuffre wants the court to decide whether her allegations are true, and whether the duke should pay her damages.\n\nThe case alleges the prince sexually abused Ms Giuffre at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and the US Virgin Islands.\n\nIt claims the prince engaged in sexual acts without her consent, knowing how old she was and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC about Ms Giuffre's allegations in 2019, Prince Andrew said they \"never happened\".\n\n\"It didn't happen. I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever,\" he told BBC Newsnight.", "Why Don't We have had two US top 10 albums\n\nUS boy band Why Don't We have accused one of their managers of \"mental, emotional and financial abuse\" by making them \"hostages in our own home\" and restricting their food.\n\nThe five-piece's latest album went to number five in the UK in January.\n\nThey claimed the manager, who they didn't name, \"controlled us 24/7\", verbally berated them and led members to develop eating disorders.\n\nDavid Loeffler, one of their managers, rejected the \"untrue, hurtful\" claims.\n\nWhy Don't We said they were aged between 15 and 18, and \"young, impressionable and trusting\" when they formed and started living in the same house.\n\n\"Little did we know that we would eventually become prisoners in the 'Why Don't We compound' under the supervision of one of our managers at Signature Entertainment Partners,\" they wrote on social media.\n\n\"He would not only live with us during the day, but controlled us 24/7, setting an alarm that would go off if any door or window was opened. Needless to say, we were not given the security code to the alarm, essentially making us hostages in our own home.\"\n\nThey added that their food was \"restricted to the point that some band members developed eating disorders\", and they were forced to sneak food into the house.\n\n\"We were verbally berated almost every day and alienated from our friends and families,\" they added. \"We had no support system except for each other and were made to believe that this was 'normal', that every artist had to pay their dues.\"\n\nThe group have had two US top 10 albums, and their statement comes after two former partners of Signature Entertainment sued each other.\n\nMr Loeffler and music industry veteran Randy Phillips had launched the band's career, but split up and took legal action against each other last month over the group's management and control of Signature and another company.\n\nAt the time, Mr Phillips' lawyer Howard King alleged that Mr Loeffler had subjected the group to \"years of mental and financial abuse\".\n\nAccording to Billboard in late August, the group were refusing to sign a recording agreement with Atlantic Records or perform as a group, until Mr Phillips was reinstated as their sole manager.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the group's lawyer Alan Gutman said they \"support Randy Phillips the same way he has supported us from the start of our careers\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Loeffler's lawyer Michael Levin said Signature had profit share agreements with the members of Why Won't We, which had been \"very beneficial for the individual members of WDW\", earning them approximately $10m (£7.2m) in total.\n\nHe added: \"Recent comments attributed to WDW members are untrue, hurtful, and apparently designed to be part of an ill-advised strategy to evade their obligations under these agreements.\n\n\"Signature would certainly welcome a reasonable and amicable resolution of this matter that preserves the mutually beneficial relationship that has helped WDW achieve their great success to date.\"", "Elle Seline said her fellow contestants and the organisation support her no make-up stance\n\nA Ms Great Britain contestant who was bullied at school over her appearance is to enter the competition make-up-free to \"empower young women\".\n\nElle Seline, 31, said she used make-up as a mask when she was a teen and was ridiculed for having more body hair due to her mixed Greek/English heritage.\n\nShe wants her entry in the national pageant to inspire the next generation.\n\n\"There may be a young girl at school who sees it and feels that, actually, I'm good enough as I am,\" she said.\n\nElle hopes to inspire other women to realise that wearing make-up is a choice\n\nElle grew up on the Greek island of Skiathos before attending Warminster School in Wiltshire.\n\n\"I came from a different culture. I was ridiculed for my body shape, my hair was quite frizzy and they would always say that I had head lice and that I was a gorilla because I had a bit more facial hair and arm hair,\" she said.\n\nNow a mental health worker and living in Surrey, she said the bullying led to depression in adulthood.\n\nElle's friend Kate May, left, described the bullying she received as \"really dark\"\n\n\"I would look in the mirror and ridicule myself, because that's what they did,\" Elle said.\n\nShe straightened her hair, shaved her arms and started wearing makeup from about the age of 13.\n\n\"I would wear foundation that was a bit lighter than my skin because I was desperate to fit in. And the filters and the apps nowadays are doing exactly what I did at school,\" she added.\n\nElle said she was \"being that person I needed when I was growing up\"\n\nElle entered last year's Ms Great Britain - a new category for Miss Great Britain, the UK's longest-running beauty pageant - for 27-38-year-olds.\n\nBut she said she did not \"give them Elle\".\n\n\"I gave them something I thought they wanted to see,\" she said.\n\nThe beauty contestant said her stand to wear no make-up in such a public setting \"should be normal\"\n\nElle, who is also a musician, decided to enter again this year, but without the aid of make-up, after finding confidence in herself during lockdown.\n\n\"When I was onstage doing gigs I would always make sure that I looked, in my eyes, pristine. It was my shield, to be honest.\n\n\"During lockdown I didn't have the pressures that I had before, which were to wear make-up. I had to learn to accept myself as I was,\" she said.\n\nElle's friends have called her no make-up stance \"inspiring\"\n\nHer school-friend Kate May, 30, said: \"The amount of bullying (Elle) had, it was really dark, it would be enough to break anyone, but she used it to fuel her dreams.\"\n\nMiss May said she had also struggled with her own appearance, often using a lot of filters on social media, which Elle told her she did not need.\n\n\"Even I've gone a little bit more make-up-free because she just makes me feel great about myself,\" she said.\n\n\"It takes a lot of courage to bare your own self. I think she'll pave the way for other women to think, I don't need that. It's so inspiring.\"\n\n\"One of the things I want to say to people is that it's OK to be who you are and it's OK to have flaws and be unique\"\n\nElle said these days beauty pageants are more about \"who you are and what you bring to the table\".\n\n\"Standing onstage in front of loads of people on a national pageant platform is going to be really scary. But I know after the competition I'm going to feel really good about myself, regardless of if I win or not.\n\n\"We owe it to the next generation to say it's okay to be you,\" she added.\n\nThe finals of Miss Great Britain will be held in Leicester on Thursday and Friday.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The US has been remembering the 2,977 people who died when four passenger planes were hijacked by al-Qaeda militants and crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon 20 years ago.\n\nThe first of six moment's of silence began with the ringing of a bell at the exact time the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center.\n\nThe bell rang again when the second plane crashed into the South Tower; when each of the towers fell; when a third jet struck the Pentagon; and when a fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.\n\nThe names of each of the victims was read out during the ceremonies. Family members took turns to read out the names, paying tribute to the loved one they had lost.\n\nMany of those who lost their lives in New York were firefighters who had gone into the two towers to try and get people out.\n\nIn total, 441 first responders were killed, the largest loss of emergency personnel in US history.\n\nAt the memorial in New York, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden were joined by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as former First Ladies Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.\n\nGeorge W Bush, who was president when the attacks happened, attended the ceremony in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the fourth plane came down after its passengers and crew overpowered the hijackers.\n\nThe 184 people who lost their lives in the attack on the Pentagon were remembered at a ceremony outside the Department of Defense headquarters just outside Washington DC.\n\nBruce Springsteen played I'll See You in My Dreams during the ceremony in New York to a silent crowd, with some gently swaying to the music.\n\nThe twin beams of the Tribute in Light illuminated the New York skyline as a memorial to all those who lost their lives in the terror attacks.", "It's almost a cliche, hackneyed even. A big event happens, and people say they will never forget where they were when they heard about this or that.\n\nBut I suspect nearly everyone around the world above the age of 30 really does remember where they were when they heard about, then watched in real time, the most audacious, most dreadful terrorist attack on the United States unfold.\n\nOver the past few days, I have been talking to people not only who remember where they were, but how it upended their lives\n\nWe spoke to Max Giaconne, who was 10 years old - and four days into his new school - when the teacher told him he needed to go to the principal's office. And there was his mother in tears. Max's father worked in the World Trade Center.\n\nAnn Van Hine was driving when she heard on the radio about the attack on the twin towers - and then an order calling all firemen to report for duty. She knew in that moment - with a terrible foreboding - her husband would be rushing into the Twin Towers as everyone else was trying to escape.\n\nAnd then I spoke to Andy. Like Max he was in an elementary school. But not as a pupil.\n\nAndy Card was President Bush's chief of staff, and had to interrupt the commander in chief as he read to schoolchildren to tell them that a second plane had hit the Twin Towers. His comments were succinct and brief: \"America is under attack,\" he told the president.\n\nAndy Card utters four words in the president's ear\n\nAs the BBC's Paris correspondent, I was reporting on attempts by Eurotunnel to curb the flow of illegal immigrants across the channel (some issues remain stubbornly familiar). We were driving from Lille to Calais for the evening news when my producer called to say we needed to find a television as something unbelievable was happening in New York.\n\nThat afternoon my cameraman and I sat and edited our piece for the evening news but were unable to concentrate as we watched live the horrors unfolding across the Atlantic. A motorcycle dispatch rider went to my home in Paris to collect my passport and bring it to Calais. Who knew where we'd end up next.\n\nSome things about that day, that period I remember vividly. I remember the powerful sense of clarity it brought to so many people.\n\nThough the democracy we lived in might be imperfect with some dodgy, scheming politicians around - would we rather be living in societies with freedom of speech, due process, the rule of law, sexual equality, free and fair elections; or do we stand with those who would fly planes into buildings, who would stone homosexuals to death, who would deny women an education?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four stories of how the world reacted on 9/11\n\nSimplistic maybe, but in a world that is made up of almost imperceptibly different shades of grey, this seemed black and white.\n\nBut the other evening I watched the stunning BBC documentary 9/11: Inside The President's War Room which, incidentally, features that man Andy Card. And somehow 20 years on I had forgotten the chaos, the sheer panic, the disbelief that engulfed the US and its leadership.\n\nThe rulers of the richest country in the world with the most feared military machine were cowering in bunkers, unclear what might happen next, uncertain what to do, fearful there might be a second wave of attacks.\n\nThough that is only part of the story. Alongside that there was a steely resolve; a unity of purpose. Twenty years ago Americans stood together; and most of the rest of the world stood with America. It was vividly exemplified by the Queen breaking with protocol (not something done lightly by the royal family), and ordering the Coldstream Guards to play the Star Spangled Banner during the Changing the Guard ceremony.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere was iron resolve - the events of 9/11 would be avenged.\n\nArmy recruitment offices would see long queues form outside their doors. Democrats and Republicans put aside their petty partisan bickering to focus on the big picture. And when George Bush stood on the rubble of the Twin Towers with a policeman's bullhorn in hand and said he had heard the American people, and the perpetrators of this crime would soon be hearing from America, he spoke for the nation.\n\nWithin weeks a massive multinational force was assembled, with America spearheading, to force the Taliban - who'd allowed the al-Qaeda leaders who plotted the 9/11 attacks to set up terrorism finishing schools in the country - out of power.\n\nIt was relatively straightforward militarily. I was despatched from Paris to move with a front line in Northern Afghanistan. I watched just outside Kunduz as B52 bombers flew daily sorties to dislodge the Taliban from their last remaining stronghold in the North.\n\nOusting the Taliban was considered a global priority 20 years ago, writes the author (right)\n\nThis would be the start of a series of American entanglements.\n\nAnd one thing they all seemed to share is a lack of long term success. The \"liberal interventionism\" championed by both President Bush and Tony Blair saw the Taliban booted out of Afghanistan, and Saddam Hussain ousted in Iraq - but what followed became known as the \"forever wars\". Messy entanglements where victory - if that is measured by a smooth functioning democracy - always bloodily out of reach.\n\nWhen President Obama came into power there was a different approach.\n\nIn Libya the Americans would support the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi, but at arm's length; with the Syrian civil war, America huffed and puffed but chose to sit that one out. In Egypt, the US supported the overthrow of President Mubarak - but when the Egyptians elected the Muslim Brotherhood to power, the Americans made clear their displeasure, and the generals moved back in.\n\nIn other words the Americans had tried invasion - it went badly. They'd tried \"intervention-lite\" - still no good. Staying outside a conflict brought criticism, and supporting the spread of democracy only worked if voters went for US friendly governments. It's a pretty unhappy tale of foreign intervention.\n\nThe reasons for Donald Trump's victory in 2016 - with his proclamation of America First - are various. But one of them was certainly the growing weariness of the American people to the cost of these military entanglements.\n\nAnd this is the backdrop to the commemorations taking place in New York this weekend. Twenty years ago, Americans in the face of tragedy were united. Today, with relative peace and considerable prosperity they are bitterly divided.\n\n...but for some it's too much to bear\n\nSo to 2021. How incredible that to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 the Taliban have been forming their new government. The pre-eminent superpower seems to be suffering a crisis of confidence; and in the manner of its departure from Afghanistan ordered by Joe Biden - the Kabul debacle - a crisis of competence.\n\nI met Ann Van Hine in Battery Park, on the southern tip of Manhattan. She's appalled how much America has turned inwards and how Americans have turned against each other. She believes the unity shown 20 years ago is possible again today. As we sit talking, I realise that we are looking out to New York Harbour, towards the Statue of Liberty, with the stirring poem New Colossus on the plinth.\n\n\"Give me your tired, your poor,\n\nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore.\n\nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,\n\nI lift my lamp beside the golden door!\"\n\nLady Liberty symbolises America opening its arms to the world.\n\nThe opening of that golden door.\n\nBut 20 years on the US feels a much sadder, more introspective place.", "Coverage: Radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live/BBC Sport website and app, with live text commentary on the website and app\n\nMy first sight of Emma Raducanu at this US Open came on one of those typical late summer New York days: oppressively hot and uncomfortably humid.\n\nThe 18-year-old was playing in the final round of qualifying, against Mayar Sherif of Egypt. And within minutes of sitting down to watch on court five, a colleague and I had turned to each other with the same thought: she really is an exceptional talent.\n\nRaducanu had secured some excellent wins since reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon in July, most notably in her run to the final of the WTA Challenger event in Chicago the previous week.\n\nBut having only arrived in New York on the Monday, and due to play three qualifying matches in three days from the Wednesday, there was some concern among the coaching team that fatigue may be an issue.\n\nA flight home had been booked for the following weekend, but that would prove an unnecessary precaution as the longest trip of Raducanu's life had plenty of miles left to run.\n\nThe first qualifier in history to reach a Grand Slam final takes the view you should try and live like a local when on the road. She tries to do her own shopping and likes to make her own breakfast. A lox bagel (of salmon and cream cheese) would be her first choice, and on the odd trip around Manhattan frozen yoghurt in Times Square does not go amiss.\n• None Emma Raducanu says reaching final is 'crazy, cool and absolutely mind-blowing'\n• None The making of Great Britain's US Open finalist Emma Raducanu\n\nRaducanu is here with coach Andrew Richardson, LTA physio Will Herbert and her IMG agent Chris Helliar. Iain Bates, the LTA's head of women's tennis, is also in New York and because Richardson is left-handed, he has been the nominated right-handed server in practice.\n\nHe has not seen so much of her in the evenings, though.\n\n\"It's not been a huge amount. She's very much kept herself to herself,\" he says.\n\n\"I had dinner with Andrew a couple of times, and her agent a couple of times, but not with Emma - she's just been doing whatever she's been doing in her hotel room and keeping herself to herself.\"\n\nSupport has also been provided by Tim Henman, who is working for television in New York, and Andy Murray, who has been watching avidly from the UK. Raducanu also spoke backstage to Virginia Wade after her fourth round victory.\n\nLittle did she know then that she would soon become the first British woman to reach a Grand Slam final since Wade at Wimbledon in 1977.\n\nThe list of media demands has grown as the fortnight has progressed. We have been granted among our first, in-person (masked) radio interviews since the pandemic began, and there has been interest from the New York Times, Fox Asia, the Japanese broadcaster Wowow, and even Der Spiegel magazine from Germany.\n\nAs well, naturally, as ESPN - the host broadcasters in the United States. Raducanu has been engaging and charming throughout, and won a new fan on her regular visits to the ESPN set.\n\n\"She has the same grace that she has on court,\" host Chris McKendry told me.\n\n\"She's very calm, she's very collected. She's composed, very well spoken. I love her story of going to traditional school and having her friends outside tennis who have kept her very grounded.\n\n\"She seems to be very interested in other topics. The other day we were talking about her studies and she has a very good brain for numbers. She told me on her bucket list is a visit to Wall Street.\n\n\"I don't want to get her hopes up but often if you win this tournament they have you ring the opening bell for the exchange. It's not often an 18-year-old champion tennis player wants to sit down and talk about Wall Street.\"\n• None BBC TV to show highlights of US Open final\n• None How Emma Raducanu became the first qualifier to reach a Grand Slam final\n\nAll Raducanu's challenges have been met head on. She fell asleep at 9pm on the night the torrential rain and tornado warning brought so much flooding and destruction to the region.\n\nThe following morning, she was due to play her second-round match against Zhang Shuai at 11am local time. The journey in from Manhattan took a full 90 minutes. Raducanu missed her initial practice session, but seemed totally unperturbed.\n\nPlaying in the Arthur Ashe Stadium is also not to be taken lightly. There are seats for 24,000 people, 360 LED lights shining down from the roof during the night session, and 10 metre-high digital billboards which spell out the names of the players in large, bold, flashing lettering.\n\nAnd then there is the time away from home. The trip is now in its seventh week, a stark contrast to the 15 months spent at home studying and training during the pandemic.\n\nBut that is perhaps where Emma Raducanu has more in common with any other teenager.\n\n'Are you missing your parents, and missing home?' I asked her once, in reference to the weeks spent in San Jose, Pennsylvania, Chicago and now New York.\n\n\"Isn't it every 18-year-old's dream?\" was her nicely-timed reply.", "The Tribute in Light installation in New York, ahead of the 9/11 commemorations\n\nUS President Joe Biden has urged unity as his country remembers the victims of the 2001 11 September attacks.\n\nIn a video released on the eve of the 20th anniversary, he paid tribute to the 2,977 people who lost their lives.\n\n\"We honour all those who risked and gave their lives in the minutes, hours, months and years afterwards,\" Mr Biden added, speaking of the emergency workers who responded to the attacks.\n\nCommemoration events are due to take place on Saturday.\n\nJoe Biden will begin with a ceremony at 08:30 (12:30 GMT) in New York at the site where the World Trade Center's Twin Towers once stood.\n\nHe is not expected to deliver any speeches, but in his address on Friday, he said: \"No matter how much time has passed, these commemorations bring everything painfully back as if you just got the news a few seconds ago.\"\n\nHe acknowledged the \"darker forces of human nature - fear and anger, resentment and violence against Muslim Americans\" which followed the attacks, but said that unity had remained the US' \"greatest strength\".\n\n\"We learned that unity is the one thing that must never break,\" he added.\n\nQueen Elizabeth has sent a message to Mr Biden saying her visit to the World Trade Center in 2010 was \"held fast in my memory\".\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers, and those of my family and the entire nation, remain with the victims, survivors and families affected, as well as the first responders and rescue workers called to duty,\" the Queen said.\n\nAmong the dead in the 11 September attacks were 67 Britons.\n\nPM Boris Johnson said the attacks had failed \"to shake our belief in freedom and democracy\".\n\nMore on the 11 September attacks\n\nThe attacks, which were planned by al-Qaeda from Afghanistan, saw four US passenger jets seized by suicide attackers - two of which were flown into the Twin Towers.\n\nAnother plane struck the Pentagon, just outside the US capital, Washington DC, and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Biden will visit all three attack sites, along with the first lady, Jill Biden.\n\nThere will be six moments of silence to correspond with the times the two World Trade Center towers were struck and fell, and the moments the Pentagon was attacked and Flight 93 crashed.\n\nThe commemorations come at a difficult time for the president, who has faced strong criticism in recent weeks over the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, which ended a US presence that began less than a month after the 11 September attacks.\n\nMr Biden had promised to leave Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the attacks, and said it was unlikely the Taliban could seize the country. The militant group captured the capital in less than 10 days.\n\nFormer first responder Laura Loud remembers friends and co-workers at the Eisenhower Park memorial in New York", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu (left) and Leylah Fernandez have a combined age of 37 Coverage: Radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live/BBC Sport website and app, with live text commentary on the website and app Emma Raducanu will seek to become the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title in 44 years when she takes on fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez in an unlikely US Open final between two players who have lit up New York. A final between the world numbers 150 and 73 was never predicted, nor should it even be as thrilling a prospect as it is, but this US Open - and these two players - have defied expectations at every turn. Raducanu's story is the stuff of dreams - ranked too low to make the main draw, the 18-year-old had to come through three rounds of qualifying and has become the first qualifier to reach a major final. And she did all that without dropping a set. Fernandez, 19, has brushed aside a series of leading players - taking out defending champion Naomi Osaka, fifth seed Elina Svitolina, world number two Aryna Sabalenka and three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber.\n• None 'Crazy, cool & mind-blowing' - Raducanu on shock run to New York final\n• None Raducanu set to be best paid British sportswoman Their different paths and contrasting styles - but similarly fearless approach - have set up the first Grand Slam final between teenagers since the 1999 US Open when Serena Williams beat Martina Hingis. A maiden major beckons for one of them but regardless of whose name is etched onto the trophy, they have both shown there is a bright future for tennis at a time when fans were wondering who might fill the void when the sport's biggest names eventually retire. 'Whole country will be cheering Raducanu on' Raducanu's exploits have drawn praise from royalty, politicians and rock stars, as well as pundits and fans. If she finally ends the country's wait for a first female Grand Slam singles champion since Virginia Wade's 1977 Wimbledon triumph, someone might have to invent some new superlatives as they have all been used to describe her already. What has been impressive is that not only is she 18, but she has clinically beaten much more experienced players such as Olympic champion Belinda Bencic and 17th seed Maria Sakkari with a fearless game that shows great variety, as well as the intelligence to change tactics on the spot. And then there is that smile. So relaxed has she appeared at times that she has managed to beam between points, and the mega-watt grin that has lit up the Arthur Ashe Stadium after converting match points has won over local fans as well as those back home. She has already achieved so much in just three months, reaching the last 16 at Wimbledon on her Grand Slam debut, rising from 338 in the rankings to just outside the top 30 when they are next published on Monday, and she will also become British number one. \"When you see that kind of talent, that won't be denied,\" 18-time Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova said. \"She is almost like the finished product, when she is just getting started.\" British fans will be relieved the final is at a much more palatable time of 21:00 BST, with many having set their alarms for the middle of the night when she played her semi-final. \"The whole country will be cheering you on in the final,\" Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted. Of course Fernandez, who is just two months older than Raducanu and turned 19 this week, has been living her own dream at Flushing Meadows. She, too, has been showered with congratulations, and among the messages from the prime minister and top sports people, there was this bit of advice from Canadian ice hockey captain Marie-Philip Poulin: \"Make sure to have that maple syrup before the final!\" Fernandez's matches have been stickier affairs than Raducanu's, with four of her six matches going to three sets and featuring five tie-breaks. The Briton, by contrast, has not dropped a set or faced even a tie-break. But Fernandez's opponents have been bigger names and her demeanour on court is also different to Raducanu's. The left-handed Canadian loves fist-pumping and revving the crowd up to get behind her, while Raducanu cuts a serene figure. The pair, who were both born in Canada to immigrant parents, have grown up playing in the juniors together, facing each other in the second round of junior Wimbledon in 2018. Raducanu won that match 6-2 6-4. But so much has changed for both players since then that it cannot possibly be a gauge of what Saturday will bring. Such is the attention that this match-up is attracting, Novak Djokovic's quest for a record 21st men's major and a calendar Grand Slam has been slightly overshadowed. \"I think we're all just super hungry to make a difference in the tennis world,\" said Fernandez. \"We've always talked about and joked around that we're going to be in the WTA Tour and we're going to be on the big stage together. \"We want to make a difference. We want to make an impact in tennis.\" Regardless of the result in the final, they have certainly done that already.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None How has the Premier League succeeded?: Fever Pitch tells the origin story via the stars that made it\n• None Listen to the best tracks from nominees and winners of the prestigious prize", "The Taliban have used live ammunition, batons and whips against protesters, the UN has said\n\nThe UN has condemned the Taliban for their \"increasingly violent response\" to dissent, weeks after the group's rapid takeover of Afghanistan.\n\nTaliban fighters killed four people during recent protests, the UN said.\n\nDemonstrations have taken place across Afghanistan since the fall of Kabul on 15 August, demanding respect for women's rights and greater freedoms.\n\nTaliban fighters have used batons, whips, and live ammunition against protesters, the UN said in its report.\n\n\"We call on the Taliban to immediately cease the use of force towards, and the arbitrary detention of, those exercising their right to peaceful assembly and the journalists covering the protests,\" a spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a press statement.\n\nTaliban fighters swept across Afghanistan in August, capturing provincial centres and eventually the capital Kabul itself in less than two weeks.\n\nThe US then led an airlift from the capital's international airport, evacuating more than 120,000 people before pulling out its own forces on 31 August.\n\nThe Taliban takeover follows two decades of US military operations in Afghanistan, after American and allied forces ousted the group from power in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks.\n\nThe US will mark the 20th anniversary of those attacks on Saturday.\n\nUN spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani criticised the Taliban's crackdown on demonstrations in a press briefing on Friday.\n\nDemonstrations have grown since 15 August, she said. But on Wednesday the Taliban banned unauthorised gatherings, and on Thursday they ordered telecommunications companies to shut off mobile internet in Kabul.\n\nIt is crucial the group listen to Afghan women and men on the streets \"during this time of great uncertainty\", she said.\n\nThe press statement also noted the deaths of at least four people - including a boy - and the violent dispersal of demonstrators in recent weeks.\n\nIt also criticised violence against journalists. Reporters told the BBC this week they had been beaten, detained and flogged by the Taliban when they tried to cover the protests.\n\nThe journalists said they were badly beaten in Taliban custody\n\nThe UN report comes amid growing concerns about Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover.\n\nOn Friday, the UN's World Food Programme said 93% of households in the country were not eating enough food. A drought has exacerbated supply problems, causing the loss of some 40% of the wheat crop.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal reports that aid workers fear the entire population could fall into poverty within months.\n\nAnd UN body Unesco warns that the country faces a \"generational catastrophe\" in education, after two decades of progress for children - especially girls.\n\nUnconfirmed reports suggest the Taliban plan to hold a ceremony to inaugurate their new government on Saturday, after announcing its leadership this week.\n\nIt is the day the US will hold events to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.\n\nClose to 3,000 people died that day. Islamist militant group al-Qaeda masterminded the attack, led by Osama Bin Laden - who was at the time in Afghanistan under the protection of the Taliban.\n\nKen McCallum, director general of the UK intelligence agency MI5, has told the BBC that the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has likely \"emboldened\" UK terrorists.\n\nPresident Joe Biden had initially set 11 September as the deadline for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, before the Taliban takeover forced the US to speed up its withdrawal.\n\nOn Thursday the first foreigners flew out of Kabul since the US pull-out. Around 100 people - among them UK, US, Canadian and Dutch nationals - took a Qatar Airways charter flight to Doha.\n\nA second Qatar Airways flight from the Afghan capital landed in Doha on Friday, reportedly carrying some 150 people. France has confirmed that 49 of its nationals were on board.\n\nThe White House said 19 US nationals were on board the aircraft. It added that on Friday another two American nationals and 11 permanent residents left Afghanistan overland to a third country with Washington's assistance.\n\nHowever, press secretary Jen Psaki said that the US has temporarily halted flights of Afghan refugees into the country after the discovery of four cases of measles among those who have recently arrived.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former member of Afghan parliament: 'The Taliban would've killed me if they found me'", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nCristiano Ronaldo scored twice on his return to Manchester United as the hosts eventually cruised to victory against Newcastle United and delighted a packed Old Trafford.\n\nCheered from the moment he left the team coach on its arrival at the ground, throughout the warm-up and then once the game had started, Ronaldo repaid the backing in the best possible manner.\n\nTwelve years after he last scored for Manchester United in this stadium, Ronaldo broke the deadlock in first-half added time when he tapped in after visiting keeper Freddie Woodman spilled Mason Greenwood's shot.\n\nThen, after Javier Manquillo had levelled with his first Newcastle goal, Ronaldo finished off a flowing move by racing on to Luke Shaw's through ball and drilling a low shot through Woodman's legs.\n\nHis international team-mate Bruno Fernandes rifled in the goal of the game as he collected Paul Pogba's square pass and curled a shot into the top corner from the edge of the area before substitute Jesse Lingard added a fourth in added time.\n\nThe margin of victory was harsh on Steve Bruce's men, who played well for long periods. But Newcastle's efforts were irrelevant to the ecstatic home fans, who had the added bonus of their side returning to the top of the Premier League.\n• None Recap Manchester United v Newcastle, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n• None Everything you need to know about Manchester United, all in one place\n• None Everything you need to know about the Magpies, all in one place\n\nYou only had to look in the directors' box to understand this was a special day for the hosts.\n\nExecutive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, who has not been seen since the Super League debacle, and co-chairman Avram Glazer, who was making his first Old Trafford visit in two years, were both present.\n\nGlazer and Woodward both played central roles in Ronaldo's return to the club from Juventus.\n\nHowever, Sir Alex Ferguson was arguably even more significant in the move, ringing the Portuguese to implore him to return to the club where he is still feted as a hero, rather than accept an offer from Manchester City.\n\nRonaldo proved he still has much to offer at the age of 36, and that the efforts to entice him back to the club were worthwhile.\n\nHis opener showed the value of anticipation, as he followed Greenwood's shot in when the Newcastle defenders hesitated.\n\nThe second emphasised that Ronaldo retains enough speed to cause problems for defences as he charged clear to take his overall Manchester United tally to 120.\n\nAlthough he has never previously operated as a striker in the conventional sense, that is where he started - and largely he stayed there. He did drop deeper at times, but generally was the most advanced Manchester United player.\n\nAt times, that did mean the hosts searched for wider crossing positions more often than a team with such gifted technical players would prefer. But the ends justified the means on this occasion.\n\nThere was, however, to be no repeat of the hat-trick he scored on his last appearance against Newcastle at Old Trafford in January 2008.\n\nNevertheless, with Fernandes delivering the kind of goal that has earned him hero status at the club and Lingard giving a reminder of the ability he showed on loan at West Ham, it was a victory that went beyond the contribution of a single individual - even if Ronaldo's name will dominate the aftermath.\n\nRonaldo's momentous goal must have felt like a kick in the guts for former Old Trafford captain Bruce.\n\nNewcastle's record at the ground is terrible and the build-up to this game pitched them in the role of spoilsports, trying to wreck a party that had been building up all week.\n\nThrough a combination of disciplined defending, what could be kindly described as 'time management' - which irritated the home fans immensely - and incisive counter-attacks, Newcastle were excellent.\n\nAllan Saint-Maximin, Sean Longstaff and Joe Willock all got themselves in a position to threaten David de Gea's goal without managing to beat the home keeper.\n\nRonaldo's goal with the half time break beckoning ruined all that good work, and it was so preventable too.\n\nIsaac Hayden was standing next to the Portuguese when Greenwood took aim but, unlike Ronaldo, he didn't gamble on the outcome and was not in position to challenge when Woodman made his mistake.\n\nTo their credit, Newcastle renewed their efforts after half-time and for a brief time after they had capitalised on a Harry Maguire error to convert a superb counter-attack - which ended with Saint-Maximin prodding a ball through for Manquillo's second goal in English football - a second Old Trafford win since 1972 seemed possible.\n\nThat hope evaporated as Ronaldo returned to centre stage, leaving the visiting fans to renew their chants demanding change at the top of their club.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 4, Newcastle United 1. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Attempt missed. Joelinton (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Allan Saint-Maximin with a cross.\n• None Allan Saint-Maximin (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Matt Ritchie tries a through ball, but Allan Saint-Maximin is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Newcastle United 1. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Attempt saved. Joseph Willock (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Allan Saint-Maximin (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Matt Ritchie.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Luke Shaw tries a through ball, but Jesse Lingard is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Joseph Pfeifer, Battalion Chief of the New York City Fire Department, told the BBC about his experiences on that day. He first featured in the National Geographic documentary 9/11: One Day in America\n\n\"We were attending a routine gas emergency in the area. And at 08:46 we heard the loud noise of a plane coming overhead, and then I saw the plane aim and crash into the World Trade Center. I was the first fire service commander on the scene.\n\n\"Every first responder, when we saw the burning towers, knew this was the most dangerous fire of our lives. Everyone made their own personal decision to go in.\n\n\"I thought I might die when the North Tower collapsed. It was so confusing that we didn’t know at that point the South Tower had gone down already. But at that moment someone yelled, ‘the building is collapsing,’ and I started to run. You don’t run too far with helmets and bunker coat and pants and boots, in 11 seconds.\n\n\"We wound up ducking behind a small van, and then this beautiful summer day goes completely dark, where you can’t see anything. We hear steel crashing all around us, and glass and then things go quiet. And in the darkness, I wondered if I was still alive.\n\n\"My brother Kevin was a lieutenant in the fire service, and that day we stood just maybe a meter apart and we looked at each other. He didn’t say a word, it was just a quiet moment for a few seconds, and then I ordered him up to evacuate the building and to rescue those that were trapped.\n\n\"That was the last time I saw him.\"\n\nLower Manhattan was filled with with fireman, police, and rescue crews after the collapse of the World Trade Center Image caption: Lower Manhattan was filled with with fireman, police, and rescue crews after the collapse of the World Trade Center", "Prof Martin Marshall says GP workloads mean they are more likely to make a mistake which could harm patients\n\nGPs in England are finding it \"increasingly hard to guarantee safe care\" as the number of doctors falls and demand surges, a senior medic said.\n\nProf Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, told the Guardian GP numbers had fallen by 4.5% despite an ageing population with an increased need for care.\n\nGPs feared making serious mistakes due to excessive workloads, he said.\n\nProf Marshall also defended the continued use of remote consultations.\n\nIn 2015, the government promised to hire 5,000 extra GPs within five years, but instead the Royal College of GPs says between September 2020 and March 2021 numbers fell by 1,307 to 28,096.\n\nAt the 2019 election, then Health Secretary Matt Hancock admitted they had failed to meet the recruitment target, as the Conservatives made a fresh promise to recruit 6,000 more GPs by 2025.\n\nProf Marshall said the demand for services from GPs, including more complex consultations and the vaccination programme, on top of this decline in numbers was putting family doctors under strain.\n\n\"The fact that general practice is under such enormous pressure means it can't deliver the patient-centred services that it wants to. Many GPs are even finding it challenging to maintain a safe service,\" he said.\n\nHe said family doctors were more likely to make a mistake if they were working 11- or 12-hour days, seeing 50 or 60 patients.\n\n\"GPs are finding it increasingly hard to guarantee safe care to their patients,\" he said. \"The chances of making a mistake in a diagnosis or a mistake in a referral decision or a mistake in prescribing are all greater when you're under stress.\"\n\nProf Marshall spoke as GPs faced criticism over the continuing difficulty for some patients in accessing face-to-face appointments.\n\nHealth Service Journal reported that one coroner had raised remote consultations as a risk during the inquests into five separate deaths.\n\nProf Marshall said remote appointments had been necessary during the pandemic to keep staff safe and avoid spreading the virus.\n\nHe said many patients welcomed them as more convenient. But while he said patients who \"absolutely need\" face-to-face appointments for clinical reasons are given them, GPs were \"struggling\" to meet demand from patients who would prefer in-person consultations.\n\nThe RCGP is calling for an emergency rescue package to support surgeries, including recruiting 6,000 more GPs and 26,000 support staff such as nurses and receptionists by 2024.\n\nOn Tuesday, the prime minister announced a new health and social care levy, which is intended to provide extra funding to ease pressure on the NHS over the next three years.", "Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, often affectionately called \"Bennifer\" by fans, have walked the red carpet together for the first time since reuniting as a couple.\n\nThey posed for photographers as they arrived for the premiere of The Last Duel at the 78th annual Venice International Film Festival.\n\nTheir last red carpet appearance together was almost 20 years ago for the premiere of the film Gigli in 2003.", "The John Lewis Partnership is looking to fill thousands of seasonal jobs to meet increased demand around Christmas.\n\nIt plans to recruit more than 7,000 temporary workers in its UK John Lewis and Waitrose stores and distribution centres.\n\nThe employee-owned business said this was 2,000 more temporary roles than the previous year.\n\nNew joiners will be offered free food and drink to \"help ensure we can attract the help we need\", it said.\n\nThe partnership is hiring people for its supermarkets, department stores and warehouses, including delivery drivers for its online grocery division.\n\nIt has 34 John Lewis department stores and 331 Waitrose supermarket stores alongside its online operation.\n\nThe partnership is also looking to fill 550 permanent, full-time, driver and warehouse jobs.\n\nNikki Humphrey, people director at the John Lewis Partnership, said: \"We know that as the first Christmas after lockdown, customers will want to make it really special and we're throwing everything we can into helping them celebrate - our festive team will have a crucial role to play.\"\n\n\"We look forward to welcoming people into our team across the country,\" she added.\n\nThe jobs will be advertised online from Thursday, with 4,700 temporary roles available in Waitrose stores and 2,300 in John Lewis.\n\nThe move comes after the number of job vacancies in the UK surged past one million for the first time.\n\nAccording to new official figures released on Wednesday, the number of jobs in the three months to August rose above one million for the first time since records began in 2001.\n\nThe most popular sectors in terms of vacancies were social work, hospitality, science, retail and manufacturing.\n\nBut business lobby groups warned that demand for more staff had reached a critical point.\n\nSuren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce, said that firms faced an \"acute hiring crisis\".\n\n\"With Brexit and Covid-19 driving a more deep-seated decline in labour supply, the end of furlough is unlikely to be a silver bullet to the ongoing shortages,\" he said.\n\n\"These recruitment difficulties are likely to dampen the recovery by limiting firms' ability to fulfil orders and meet customer demand.\"\n\nSupermarket bosses have said that it is vital to fix the labour shortage problems before key trading over the Christmas period.\n\nThe John Lewis Partnership will also launch Christmas promotions in shops from October and will use a new 300,000 sq-ft distribution centre in Leicestershire to ensure it can meet demand ahead of the Black Friday sales.\n\nLast year, the UK's Christmas celebrations were hindered by restrictions on the number of people allowed to meet up due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nWith fewer restrictions expected this year, retailers are hoping for a bumper festive period.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four 'amateur astronauts' launched into orbit by SpaceX\n\nFour amateur astronauts have blasted off from Florida on their private mission to orbit.\n\nThe Inspiration4 crew, comprising one billionaire and three \"ordinary citizens\", rode out of the Kennedy Space Center in a Dragon capsule provided by the SpaceX rocket company.\n\nThe quartet will spend the next three days circling the Earth.\n\nIt's another milestone in the space tourism market, which is experiencing a resurgence after a decade's hiatus.\n\nEarlier this summer, billionaire businessmen Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos went above Earth's atmosphere in their own space vehicles.\n\nAnd following this latest mission, there'll be three privateer visits to the International Space Station (ISS) - one in October, carrying a Russian movie director and an actress, and two either side of the New Year.\n\nThe Inspiration4 crew of Jared Issacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor and Chris Sembroski have had six months of intensive training with SpaceX. However, onboard computer systems will be in control of their Dragon capsule, overseen by SpaceX teams on the ground.\n\nThe Dragon is not going anywhere near the ISS. It's on a \"free flight\" to a target altitude of 575km (360 miles). That's about 150km above the orbiting laboratory, and roughly the height from where the Hubble Space Telescope views the cosmos.\n\n(L-R) Sembroski, Proctor, Isaacman and Arceneaux trained for six months\n\nEven if they don't have a destination as such, the foursome will have plenty to keep them occupied. They've taken up scientific experiments to be conducted inside their Dragon capsule, and SpaceX has modified their temporary home to include a big window, which the crew is sure to be using during downtime to wonder at the Earth below.\n\nThe Inspiration4 venture was purchased from SpaceX by Mr Isaacman, 38, who made his fortune developing systems to process credit card payments. But rather than go on an \"outing with fishing buddies\", he decided, as he saw it, to inject real purpose into the flight.\n\nSo, he gifted the three adjacent seats to people with inspirational stories.\n\nFans of Haley Arceneaux turned out to watch the flight go up\n\nThis is perhaps best illustrated in 29-year-old Hayley Arceneaux. She overcame bone cancer as a child and as an adult has gone back to work for the medical facility that cured her - the St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr Isaacman wants to raise $200m for St Jude's work.\n\nHaley Arceneaux was treated for cancer at St Jude as a 10 year-old\n\nDr Sian Proctor, 51, is a geoscientist and science communicator. She actually came close to being a Nasa astronaut in 2009 but missed out in the final round of selection. Dr Proctor won her seat through her role as an artist and by demonstrating her entrepreneurial skills. She plans to paint while looking out the Dragon's domed window.\n\nChris Sembroski, 42, is a US Air Force veteran and works as an engineer with aerospace company Lockheed Martin. He'd made a donation to St Jude that also entered him into a lottery draw for the fourth position in the crew.\n\nMr Sembroski didn't win the lottery - but a friend did, and asked him to take the place.\n\nThe Dragon capsule and its Falcon rocket head out over the Atlantic Ocean\n\nSpaceX and Inspiration4 have described Wednesday's launch as the first \"all-civilian mission to orbit\". That depends very much on your definition of \"civilian\". The first man to walk on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, was technically a civilian, having resigned his Navy commission in 1960, nine years before Apollo 11.\n\nThe big window during development at SpaceX\n\nBut there's no doubting the Dragon flight commanded by Mr Isaacman has significance.\n\nSpace activity - even human spaceflight - is becoming ever more commercial, and the idea that people can go to orbit outside of the purview of the major national space agencies will increasingly look normal.\n\nThe 2000s saw several super-wealthy individuals spend a fortnight on the ISS. That particular era of space tourism ended in 2009 when spare seats on Russian rockets were bought up for the exclusive use of Nasa astronauts. But this second era looks as though it will be more resilient, simply because there are many more private space companies chasing the business, and this should bring down prices for a wider pool of customers.\n\nElon Musk's vision is for humans to be living on Mars\n\nElon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, is intent on making humans \"a multi-planet species\".\n\nAnd Mr Isaacman regards Inspiration4 as a signpost of where things are going. He was very keen that his Dragon go higher than astronauts usually go. And not since the final shuttle servicing mission of Hubble in 2009 have people been to an altitude above 570km.\n\n\"We've been going to the space station (420km) for some time, and there's just unbelievable science and research and great contributions that are coming out of there. But if we're going to go to the Moon again, and we're going to go to Mars and beyond, we've got to get a little outside of our comfort zone and take that next step in that direction,\" he said before launch. \"So that was really the rationale (for our choice of altitude).\"\n\nSome commentators have voiced concern about the collective impact on the Earth's climate of spaceflights like this one.\n\nSpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket uses highly refined kerosene fuel which produces the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO₂), along with nitrogen oxides, which also contribute to warming. Emissions from rocket launches remain tiny compared with the aviation industry, though they are projected to grow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SpaceX launch: What is SpaceX and why is it working with Nasa?", "Dutch former model Thysia Huisman, in red, was among those to attend the video conference\n\nA group of former models have called on French lawmakers to abolish the law which determines how long victims of sexual assault have to report to the authorities.\n\nThe women claim to have been sexually assaulted or raped by their French model agents more than 20 years ago.\n\nFrench law says they have run out of time to start criminal proceedings.\n\nBut the women have said \"rape should not have an expiration date\".\n\nSome of them travelled to Paris to give testimony at the French senate, saying \"the law needs to change\".\n\nIn the meeting with Senator Nathalie Goulet, the women, including Lesa Amoore, Thysia Huisman and Laurie Marsden, called for the time given for sexual assault to be reported to authorities to be \"expanded or thrown away entirely\".\n\nMs Goulet said she was interested in a possible French version of the New York Child Victim Act, which allowed a one-year \"look-back window\", of which old claims past their statute of limitations could be brought back.\n\n\"We have a station in the next two weeks on the justice law, so maybe it will be an opportunity to put an amendment and try to discuss this subject,\" Ms Goulet told the women.\n\n\"We all feel the same, this statute of limitations, we have to work on it.\"\n\nBut Ms Goulet added a note of caution to the women, saying \"but we have to be realistic.\n\nLeft to right: Ebba Karlsson, Anne-Claire LeJeune and Lisa Brinkworth attended the senate hearing in Paris\n\n\"It is crystal clear that you want to change the regulations, but it will never be for the past, it will be for the future, if we are successful.\n\n\"On the other side, we have another way than criminal proceedings, we also have civil proceedings which might be easier.\"\n\nThe director of advocacy group The Model Alliance, Sara Ziff, told the meeting that \"unfortunately the fashion industry from 30 years ago is the same industry today\".\n\nFrench authorities have already begun a preliminary investigation against Gerald Marie who was one of the world's biggest model agents. Fifteen women, so far, have given statements to French authorities alleging sexual assault or rape against him.\n\nAnother former model agent, Jean-Luc Brunel, who has been investigated over the sexual harassment and rape of minors, is the other man some of the women appearing at the senate have accused.\n\nMr Brunel, who is currently on remand, has denied any wrongdoing.\n\nLaurie Marsden claims that in 1982, Marie attempted to rape her after a party.\n\nNow a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist, she says it is important to highlight the trauma victims go through before they're ready to talk to anyone.\n\n\"I have worked with trauma survivors for the last 24 years and I intend to speak about why women don't come forward and how it can take many, many years to get over the shame and fear and the overwhelming feelings that are triggered over sexual assault.\n\n\"And many people will not talk about it and will not disclose it, really because they are not psychologically capable of doing so. And that's a really important point that has not been taken into account when the laws were written.\"\n\nGerald Marie said in a statement, he \"refutes with dismay these false and defamatory allegations\".\n\nLisa Brinkworth recorded her account of the assault on camera at the time\n\nFormer BBC reporter, Lisa Brinkworth also took part in the senate discussion. She posed as a model in a documentary for the BBC's Donal McIntyre Investigates series in 1998.\n\nShe alleges she was sexually assaulted by Gerald Marie during filming.\n\nHave you been personally affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Stefan Sutherland's body was found 11 days after he was reported missing\n\nPolice say they have found no criminality involved in the death of a man whose body was found on a Highland beach 11 days after he went missing.\n\nStefan Sutherland died after vanishing from Lybster, in Caithness, in 2013.\n\nHis family believed his death was suspicious and campaigned for a new investigation.\n\nPolice Scotland's major investigation team has completed a 16-month review of the case, which involved officers speaking to more than 500 people.\n\nMr Sutherland's sister Katrina Sutherland said she and her family were unhappy with the outcome of the review.\n\nShe told BBC Radio Scotland: \"It is disappointing after a two-year investigation to come up with the same response we had seven years ago.\"\n\nMs Sutherland said a \"huge effort\" went into to securing the review. She added: \"We can only thank the people that talked to the police from the bottom of our hearts. A lot of people gave a lot of time to give police information.\"\n\nMr Sutherland's disappearance on 6 September 2013 was followed by searches of the local area by police, search dogs and a mountain rescue team.\n\nHis body was discovered by a member of the public on the shoreline near Occumster near Lybster. Mr Sutherland had lived in the local area.\n\nMr Sutherland's family dispute that his death was accidental and say blood was found at a house he visited before he disappeared.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable John Hawkins said during the review more than 200 statements were taken and officers re-interviewed witnesses spoken to in 2013. They also traced a number of new witnesses.\n\nThe senior officer said: \"Stefan's death was a tragedy for his family, his friends and the close-knit Caithness community. Our sympathies remain with them all today.\n\n\"These inquiries found no evidence of criminality in relation to Stefan's death which was supported by an expert review of forensic evidence, witness testimony and all facts established during both the initial investigation in 2013 and the latest review.\n\n''I recognise the years of campaigning by the Sutherland family, who have rightly sought answers to a number of questions surrounding Stefan's death.\"\n\nMr Hawkins said the review found that many of these questions and concerns were based on \"unsubstantiated information\" being passed to the family \"which understandably caused significant grief and worry to the Sutherland family and the local community\".\n\nPolice Scotland said it would investigate any new information received.", "Ferguson went into administration following a dispute over the last major order for CalMac ferries\n\nThe nationalised Ferguson shipyard has missed out on an order to build two new CalMac ferries.\n\nThe Inverclyde yard was among 11 bidders for the order to replace ships on the Islay route, but failed to make the shortlist.\n\nThe four shipyards which will now submit detailed tenders are based in Poland, Romania and Turkey.\n\nFerguson Marine said it was \"disappointed\" but would learn lessons as it looks for future work.\n\nThe new ships will be the first major order by CMAL, which procures vessels for CalMac, since Glen Sannox and an as-yet unnamed ship, known as Hull 802, which are still under construction at the Ferguson shipyard.\n\nGlen Sannox is currently due to be delivered in the second half of next year, more than four years late, with the two ships costing the taxpayer more than double the original contract price.\n\nProblems with the order dragged the yard back into administration in 2019 and since then it has been wholly-owned by the Scottish government, which also owns CMAL and CalMac.\n\nThe new ships will replace MV Hebridean Isles and allow MV Finlaggan (pictured) to be re-deployed to another route\n\nThe new order for the Islay route will be for two 94.8m long vessels to replace MV Hebridean Isles - which is 36 years old - and MV Finlaggan which was launched in 2011. MV Finlaggan would then be redeployed to a different route.\n\nThe new ships will be larger but more fuel efficient than the current vessels and will have greater vehicle capacity.\n\nUnlike the order for Glen Sannox and Hull 802, they will not use liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the engines but will instead have diesel-electric propulsion systems, making use of lithium batteries where possible, for instance when manoeuvring in port.\n\nThe four shortlisted shipyards which will now submit more detailed bids are Damen Shipyard in Romania, Remontowa Shipbuilding in Poland, and Turkish shipyards Sefine Denizcilik Tersanecilik Turizm, and Cemre Marin Endustri.\n\nJim Anderson, director of vessels at CMAL, said: \"We received interest from many shipyards across the world, and carried out robust assessment of their technical and financial suitability to take on this project.\n\n\"Four shipyards scored the highest across both criteria and have now been issued an ITT (invitation to tender) for the contract.\n\n\"This stage of the procurement process will take around six months, and we hope to award the contract to the winning shipyard at the end of March 2022.\"\n\nThe GMB union, which represents the Ferguson workforce, said Scotland's commercial shipbuilding sector was \"mirroring the failure of our offshore wind sector\".\n\n\"Ferries paid for by the public purse will be manufactured in Eastern Europe or Turkey, that's jobs and value that should be coming to Inverclyde going abroad,\" said GMB Scotland organiser Gary Cook.\n\nScottish Labour's transport spokesman Neil Bibby said it was \"hammer blow\" to Scottish shipbulding, adding: \"This announcement means more jobs and more money going overseas at a time of economic crisis.\"\n\nScottish Conservative transport spokesman Graham Simpson said: \"It's humiliating for the SNP that ships which could be built in the west coast of Scotland are instead going to be welded together in Eastern Europe.\n\n\"The SNP let down our shipyards so badly that they are missing out on work to Romania, Poland and Turkey.\"\n\nFor the Liberal Democrats, economy spokesman Willie Rennie said: \"It is a damning indictment of the Scottish government's utter failure to secure high tech, high wage jobs that there is no shipyard in Scotland on this shortlist.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"While it is disappointing that Ferguson Marine have been unsuccessful on this occasion, we are fully committed to supporting the yard to secure a sustainable future, including a pipeline of future work, to help protect jobs and commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde.\"\n\nThe bulbous bow section is fitted to Hull 802 at Ferguson Marine as work continues on the previous big order for CalMac ferries\n\nFerguson Marine said it had put forward a \"robust bid\" for the new order but it respected CMAL's decision.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Scotland's public sector ferries will, of course, continue to be future business targets for the shipyard, but they are not the sole focus.\n\n\"We believe there is a significant opportunity for contracts and business growth in the build of complex vessels in the 40 to 100m range, which includes offshore patrol vessels and service operation vessels.\n\n\"We are actively pursuing opportunities of this nature, which exist in Scotland and around the world, and we remain highly focused on completion of the dual fuel ferry project, which is a top priority.\"\n\nThe Port Glasgow shipyard has been extensively modernised since it first went into administration in 2014 and was taken over by businessman Jim McColl. Its workforce has risen to more than 450.\n\nMr McColl and CMAL have blamed each other for problems with the previous ferry order which led to the yard going into administration again five years later.\n\nThe \"turnaround director\" appointed by the Scottish government, Tim Hair, recently told the BBC that investment was continuing at Ferguson Marine and he was confident the yard would be competitive by the time it wins its next major order.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid says booster vaccines will \"protect the most vulnerable through the winter months\"\n\nCovid booster jabs will begin to be offered across the UK from next week.\n\nIt follows a recommendation from the government's vaccine advisers, the JCVI, who said about 30m people should be offered a third dose.\n\nThey said the booster should be given at least six months after a person had their second dose - with the Pfizer-BioNTech jab recommended.\n\nThose eligible include over-50s, younger adults with health conditions and frontline health and care workers.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid made the announcement in the Commons as part of an autumn and winter plan for managing Covid in England.\n\nScotland will begin offering booster jabs for the broader group from Monday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nShe said the programme \"was intended to prolong the protection\" of vaccines and will run alongside the flu vaccination programme.\n\nThe go-ahead was also confirmed in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe recommendation from the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation) comes amid concern about waning immunity.\n\nThere are some signs protection offered by the vaccine may start dropping off several months after the second dose - with the most vulnerable groups most at risk of this.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Javid told MPs: \"There is evidence that the protection offered by Covid-19 vaccines reduces over time, particularly older people who are at greater risk, so booster doses are an important way of keeping the virus under control for the long term.\"\n\nThe JCVI said it was still unclear exactly how much protection does slip, but it wanted to take a precautionary approach and ensure the most vulnerable people maintain high levels of protection.\n\nThe advice is separate to the recent recommendation of third doses for people with severely weakened immune systems - something that is already being rolled out.\n\nThere is a huge amount of uncertainty about what winter will bring. In fact, it's not even clear what the next month will bring.\n\nIt was feared September could see Covid cases rise, but there are no signs of that happening yet.\n\nBig surges in infection levels are probably behind us, given the amount of immunity built up in the population.\n\nBut if current levels are sustained throughout winter, the NHS will struggle. And even a small dip in vaccine effectiveness could make a big difference to admissions - hence the booster announcement.\n\nThen there is the concern about the return of other respiratory viruses. They were kept at bay last year by lockdowns and social distancing, but that has meant immunity to them has waned.\n\nA virus called RSV - the leading cause of respiratory illness in young children - is already circulating at very high levels. Flu could also take off.\n\nIt is why the NHS is having to prepare for the worst, while hoping for the best.\n\nTrials have been carried out in the UK looking at the use of booster jabs.\n\nThe JCVI said these showed Pfizer was well-tolerated and provoked a good immune response, including against new variants of the virus, such as Delta, regardless of which Covid vaccine had been given for the first two doses.\n\nIt said where Pfizer was not available a half-dose of Moderna could also be used.\n\nFor people who cannot have the Pfizer or Moderna because of issues like allergies, the AstraZeneca vaccine can be used as a booster.\n\nA gap of six months between the second dose and the booster shot was considered the most effective for boosting protection.\n\nThe trials also showed the flu vaccine can also be given at the same time as the booster jab where that is practical - some people will be offered a flu jab before they become eligible for a Covid booster.\n\nJCVI chairman Prof Wei Shen Lim said: \"The UK's Covid vaccination programme has been hugely successful in protecting people against hospitalisation and death, and the main aim of the booster programme is to prolong that protection and reduce serious disease as we head towards the colder months.\"\n\nHe said even a small tip in vaccine effectiveness could have a big impact on hospital admission numbers given the size of the population.\n\nHe said those under 50 were likely to have a more long-lasting immune response to the first two doses of vaccine so may not need a booster - although he did not rule it out happening completely.\n\nThere are some signs protection offered by the vaccine may start dropping off several months.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van Tam said the UK was likely to be in for a \"bumpy winter\" with Covid, coupled with other respiratory viruses, such as flu, returning - previously lockdowns and social distancing meant these were kept at very low levels.\n\nHe said the booster programme was about \"staying on top of Covid\" and could make a \"very substantial impact\" on hospitalisations and deaths.\n\nAbout 85% of deaths in recent weeks have been among the over 60s.\n\nBut Prof Van Tam added it was also important that those who had not yet come forward for jab did so - more than five million adults have not yet had their first dose yet.\n\nThe announcement comes after the government confirmed on Monday that all children aged 12 to 15 in England would be offered one dose of the Pfizer jab, with invitations going out from next week.\n\nIt follows advice from the UK's chief medical officers, who say the jab will help reduce disruption to education.\n\nA rollout is yet to be confirmed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a statement before the announcement on the booster programme, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said while the pandemic \"is far from over\", the \"phenomenal vaccine programme, new treatments and testing\" mean the UK is \"able to live with the virus without significant restrictions on our freedoms\".\n\nThe PM, who is holding a coronavirus press conference later, said he would lay out a strategy for the months ahead \"when the virus has a natural advantage, to protect the gains we have made\".", "The four miners who died: Charles Breslin, Phillip Hill (top) and Garry Jenkins and David Powell (bottom, left to right)\n\nInquests have opened on the four miners who became trapped in a flooded Swansea Valley mine.\n\nCharles Breslin, Phillip Hill, Garry Jenkins and David Powell died at Gleision Colliery earlier this month.\n\nCoroner Phillip Rogers spoke of the effects the men's deaths had had on their families and the local community.\n\nThe miners' families did not attend the hearing at the Guildhall in Swansea, which lasted just a few minutes and was adjourned until a later date.\n\nThe inquest heard the cause of the miners' deaths, which was released last week by South Wales Police, was exposure to flooded pit contents under pressure.\n\nInvestigations into the cause of the tragedy are continuing.\n\nMeanwhile, the funerals of Mr Breslin, Mr Hill and Mr Jenkins will take place on different days this week.\n\nA date for Mr Powell's funeral has yet to be set.\n\nPost-mortem examinations found the four men died as a result of flooding in the pit in in Cilybebyll, near Pontardawe, on 15 September.\n\nThree others managed to escaped as flood water engulfed the mine. A major rescue operation was launched but the bodies of the four dead men were recovered the following day.\n\nThree other men escaped. Two were able to join the rescue attempt, but the other man was injured and remains in hospital.\n\nSouth Wales Police said they were continuing to work with the Health and Safety Executive to investigate the incident and inquiries could last up to three months.\n\nAn appeal fund launched to support the families of the four miners who were killed has now raised more than £200,000, according to estimates by the office of Neath MP Peter Hain.\n\nAmong those raising money last weekend was the Treorchy Male Choir, which has a long history connected to the mining community.\n\nDavid Bebb, the choir chairman, said: \"Today in Wales we don't expect to hear of colliery disasters.\n\n\"When the events took place at Gleision Colliery it reminded us very much of the dangers our own choristers as well as our forefathers, went through while working underground, which is why we wanted to contribute towards the fund.\"\n\nStaff at the Royal Mail's 124 offices in Wales held a minute's silence on Tuesday morning.\n\nThere was also a collection in each office for the fund.", "Apple has announced its new iPhone 13, which can film \"portrait mode\" videos with a depth of field effect.\n\nThe new cinematic mode \"anticipates when someone is about to enter the frame\" and shifts focus to them, Apple said - something known as \"pull focus\".\n\nIt is the only smartphone that lets users edit this effect after shooting, Apple boss Tim Cook said.\n\nHowever, most other features on the new model were incremental updates over previous versions.\n\nThe event was also overshadowed by news of a new security flaw in Apple devices which could expose users' messages.\n\nApple released a security patch on Monday for the previously-unknown flaw, which could let attackers access its iMessage service without the user clicking on a malicious link or file.\n\nThe new iPhone includes a faster A15 chip, a brighter display, and a battery life of up to 2.5 hours longer, and comes in new colours including pink, blue, midnight, starlight and red.\n\nThe new iPhone will also have up to 500GB of storage with its lowest available storage rising to 128GB from previous models' 64GB.\n\nApple was also keen to stress its green credentials, saying the phone used many recycled materials - including antenna lines made from plastic water bottles, it said.\n\nThe launch comes as buyers are keeping their phones for longer before upgrading. Investment firm Wedbush Securities estimates that around 250 million iPhone users have not upgraded their phones in 3.5 years.\n\nPaolo Pescatore, an analyst at PP Foresight, said many have yet to experience modern features.\n\n\"While many will see some upgrades as incremental, there are millions of users who have yet to upgrade to 5G. Therefore, this so called 'supercycle' moment is still relevant,\" he said.\n\nThe 5G connectivity is only available on the iPhone 12, released last year, and the newly-announced models.\n\nIn the second quarter of this year, Apple shipped 25.9% of all 5G handsets in the world, according to analyst firm IDC.\n\nMarta Pinto, senior research manager at IDC, said: \"With the new portfolio, this number will grow and consolidate the dominance of Apple in that space.\"\n\n\"Not being the first [to launch a 5G phone] paid off.\"\n\nApple also launched an iPhone 13 Mini, Pro and Pro Max.\n\nThe iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max contain three cameras and what Apple calls \"its most advanced camera system yet\".\n\nIts premium models include a Super Retina XDR display and ProMotion - which delivers adaptive refresh rates of up to 120Hz.\n\nThis allows for smoother scrolling, animations, and gameplay.\n\nThe iPhone 13 mini starts at £679, with the iPhone 13 starting at £779. The iPhone 13 Pro starts at £949, and the larger Pro Max £1,049.\n\nApple has a reputation for innovation. But if this launch was anything to go by, that reputation is outdated.\n\nNothing especially new or visionary was announced here. The updates to its iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad feel conservative, uninspired, safe.\n\nBarring a new improved cinematic camera (which to be fair looks good) these are iterative updates. Even the presentation, though slick, had no particularly memorable or creative moments. Rumours of more interesting updates, iPhones with satellite capabilities for example, turned out to be false.\n\n\"What a spectacular set of announcements,\" said Apple's Tim Cook - referring to products like the new iPhone 13, which looks almost identical to the iPhone 12.\n\nSome had speculated that maybe Apple would stop numbering the new iPhone (13 being an unlucky number for some) - but no such radical move.\n\nStill, Apple will sell a lot of these gadgets - they always do.\n\nBut look past the bombastic marketing and this was a pretty uninteresting launch - particularly from a company that likes to describe itself as innovative.\n\nApple also announced a new version of its wearable Apple Watch.\n\nThe Series 7 brings the first redesign to the watch since 2018, and will be slightly larger.\n\nThe new size can fit almost 50% more text on screen, and has a keyboard to input text. It is also dust-resistant for the first time.\n\nApple Watch iOS 8 will also be able to automatically detect bicycle rides, including e-bikes.\n\nBut manufacture of the Apple Watch Series 7 could face production delays, reported Bloomberg.\n\nApple said the new model would be available \"later this fall\", whereas other products such as the new iPad and iPhone - announced at the same event - are available from next week.\n\nApple accounts for 47% of the global smartwatch market, according to research from CCS Insight.\n\n\"At first glance the latest Apple Watch is another iterative update, but the larger screen allowing bigger virtual buttons and a full qwerty keyboard should certainly improve usability,\" Leo Gebbie, principal analyst at CCS Insight said.\n\nHe said he had expected to see a longer battery life, as \"owners continue to clamour for smartwatches to last longer\", but that was not announced - even if faster charging was.\n\n\"Despite these concerns, the Apple Watch continues to sell in record numbers and dominates the smartwatch market by a distance,\" he added.\n\nApple has also launched a new version of its iPad. Tim Cook said its iPad sales had grown by 40% in the past year.\n\nIt will be powered by the A13 chip, with 20% faster performance from its previous iteration. Apple said this was up to \"three times faster than the Chromebook\".\n\nThose cheap styles of laptop exploded in popularity last year as schools shut down during the pandemic.\n\nThe new iPad starts at $329 (£319) and has a discounted price of $299 for schools.\n\nA new iPad mini was also launched, with USB-C functionality, Apple pencil support and no home button - using a lock button on the top for Touch ID instead. Prices start at £479.", "Dominic Raab has resigned as deputy prime minister, following an investigation into claims of alleged bullying.\n\nMr Raab, who was also the justice secretary, had always denied the allegations but said he would quit if bullying claims were upheld.\n\nHe has done that, but in his resignation letter to Rishi Sunak, and in an article penned for the Telegraph newspaper, Mr Raab also hit back.\n\nWhile the report from senior lawyer Adam Tolley KC makes uncomfortable reading in parts, Mr Raab - who's changed his Twitter handle to \"MP for Esher and Walton, father of two, boxing fan\" - has thrown a punch of his own.\n\nIn his letter to the PM, he said ministers needed to be able to give direct critical feedback and exercise direct oversight over their civil servant officials.\n\nHe apologised for any \"unintended\" stress caused, but referred to the \"pace, standards and challenge\" he brought to the Ministry of Justice.\n\nThe report cleared the former frontbencher of shouting and swearing at staff, and he was not found to have used physical gestures - but it did say that style of working as a minister was \"inquisitorial, direct, impatient and fastidious\".\n\nAnd it paints a picture of a man who worked from 7.30 in the morning until late at night and at weekends.\n\nMr Raab was found to have described the work of officials as \"utterly useless\" and \"woeful\" while he was justice secretary.\n\nAnd as foreign secretary, a role he served in from 2019 to 2021, the report says in one instance \"he acted in a way which was intimidating, in the sense of unreasonably and persistently aggressive conduct in the context of a work meeting. His conduct also involved an abuse or misuse of power in a way that undermines or humiliates.\"\n\nFamily: Married to Erika Ray, a Brazilian marketing executive, with two sons\n\nBefore politics: Foreign Office lawyer. He was the lead on a team focusing on bringing war criminals to justice at The Hague\n\nDespite resigning, Mr Raab is entitled to a pay-off of nearly £17,000, a quarter of his ministerial salary, as long as he is not reappointed to another position within three weeks.\n\nBut the MP, who paid his own legal fees during the investigation, faces a pay cut of £67,505 as he loses his ministerial salary. As an ordinary backbencher, he will earn £86,584 a year.\n\nMr Raab was born in 1974, the son of a Czech-born Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis in 1938.\n\nHe was brought up in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham, before studying law at Oxford University and switching to Cambridge for his masters degree.\n\nHe worked as a lawyer in the commercial sector and the Foreign Office before entering politics in 2006 as an aide to Brexit-supporting Conservative MP David Davis, and then Remain-backing Dominic Grieve.\n\nFirst elected to Parliament in 2010, the following year Mr Raab angered then-Home Secretary Theresa May by describing some feminists as \"obnoxious bigots\" in an online article also claiming men were getting \"a raw deal\".\n\nMrs May accused him of fuelling \"gender warfare\".\n\nMr Raab remained on the backbenches for five years after becoming an MP.\n\nBut the karate black-belt became a junior justice minister following David Cameron's general election victory in 2015.\n\nHe played a prominent role in the successful Leave campaign in the 2016 EU referendum, but was sacked by Mrs May when she took over as prime minister.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Raab was branded \"offensive\" by then-Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron after saying \"the typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty; it's someone who has a cash flow problem\".\n\nBut in June that year he returned to government, as a justice minister, this time middle-ranking rather than junior.\n\nIn Mrs May's January 2018 reshuffle he became housing minister - one of the highest-profile non-cabinet roles in government.\n\nAnd in July that year, when David Davis quit, the prime minister promoted Mr Raab to Brexit secretary, a cabinet post.\n\nYet his improved relationship with Mrs May did not last long. In November 2018, he quit, arguing that he could not \"in good conscience\" support the \"backstop\" arrangement designed to avoid a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.\n\nAs an influential Brexiteer, his comments were seen as significant in increasing opposition to Mrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU, which MPs repeatedly rejected.\n\nAfter Mrs May announced she was standing down, Mr Raab entered the contest to become Conservative leader, and prime minister.\n\nIn a crowded field, he failed to get the 33 MPs' votes he needed to progress to the third round. Fellow Brexiteers Boris Johnson and Michael Gove outlasted him.\n\nMr Johnson, to whom Mr Raab gave his support after his elimination from the race, promoted him to foreign secretary and first secretary of state - effectively deputy prime minister.\n\nBut he only narrowly managed to hold on to his Esher and Walton seat at the 2019 general election, seeing off a strong Liberal Democrat challenge by 2,743 votes.\n\nThe overall Conservative landslide, however, on a promise to \"get Brexit done\", meant he saw his dream of leaving the EU come true on 31 January 2020.\n\nAs foreign secretary and first secretary of state, he was the UK government's de-facto second-in-command.\n\nHe was left in charge of running much of the government when the prime minister was hospitalised with Covid-19 in April 2020.\n\nColleagues, including Mr Johnson's arch-critic and former aide Dominic Cummings, have praised Mr Raab's performance under extreme pressure.\n\nBut he has continued to anger opponents with some of his comments, in 2020 telling talkRadio's Julia Hartley-Brewer he would only \"take the knee\" - go down on bended knee - for \"the Queen and the Mrs when I asked her to marry me\".\n\nHe later qualified his remarks - following opposition criticism of his \"insulting\" and \"flippant\" tone - saying he \"fully\" supported the Black Lives Matter campaign.\n\nIn fact, some of his remarks and gaffes have resulted in mockery. Despite a reputation for being a creature of habit, he dismissed an eye-catching claim by a former diary secretary that he insisted on the same Pret A Manger lunch every day.\n\nAnd as Brexit secretary, he came under fire for saying he \"hadn't quite understood\" how reliant UK trade in goods was on the Dover-Calais crossing.\n\nAs foreign secretary, Mr Raab was heavily criticised for his handling of the aftermath of the fall of Afghanistan, specifically for remaining on holiday in Crete while the Taliban marched back to power.\n\nHe insisted he'd been across the detail and was in touch with the key players.\n\nDowning Street stood by the minister, however he was later demoted to the role of justice secretary, which although still a cabinet position is not as prestigious as foreign secretary.\n\nMr Raab stayed publicly loyal to Mr Johnson, being one of the few ministers not to resign during the final chaotic week of his premiership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deputy party leaders swap exchanges on bullying claims against him and her previous labelling for her opponents.\n\nIn the leadership race that followed, he enthusiastically threw his backing behind Rishi Sunak - and in August fiercely attacked the rival candidate Liz Truss, calling her economic plans \"electoral suicide\".\n\nThat broadside wasn't forgotten by Ms Truss's team and Mr Raab was not included in her cabinet when she became prime minister.\n\nHowever, Ms Truss was soon gone and Mr Raab returned to government in the familiar roles of justice secretary and deputy prime minister.\n\nAs Mr Sunak's deputy, he stood in for his boss at Prime Minister's Question opposite Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy. Their exchanges across the despatch box were often fiery.\n\nAs well as a big drop in salary, Mr Raab also loses the status of his position at the very top of government. Whether he will return to high office remains to be seen.\n• None Who’s in charge if the PM is ill?", "Paul Hamill was a former mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey\n\nTributes have been paid to the Democratic Unionist Party councillor Paul Hamill, who has died aged 46.\n\nIt is understood Mr Hamill died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nMr Hamill was a member of Antrim and Newtownabbey Council and served as its mayor from June 2017 to May 2018.\n\nIn the months leading up to his death, Mr Hamill had regularly shared Covid-sceptic and anti-vaccine views on social media.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) described him as a \"hard-working and dedicated representative\" and said his loss would be \"keenly felt\".\n\n\"Paul brought wide experience to his role as a public representative having worked in industry before spending many years as a pastor,\" Sir Jeffrey said.\n\n\"Those skills and experience made him an invaluable part of our council team.\n\n\"We in the Democratic Unionist Party have lost a dear friend and colleague, but my thoughts are with Paul's wife Ruth, his children and the wider family circle at this most difficult time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Councillor Anne Marie Logue This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDUP peer Lord Dodds said he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\n\"I have known him since before he was an elected representative and even before he joined the DUP,\" he said.\n\n\"Throughout that time, he has been a tower of strength to me personally and to the party within north Belfast.\n\n\"Paul was a tireless worker for the people of Rathcoole and the wider Newtownabbey area. He touched the lives of many people during his time as a local councillor and he will be greatly missed by everyone in the area.\"\n\nThe current Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Billy Webb from the Alliance Party, released a statement on behalf of the council.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I have learned of the passing of our colleague, Councillor Paul Hamill who sadly lost his battle with Covid,\" Mr Webb said.\n\n\"Many of us counted on him as a friend regardless of party affiliation, he treated everyone with great kindness, and will be greatly missed.\"\n\nPaul Hamill speaking to the BBC in 2015\n\nThe mayor added that he would open a \"virtual book of condolence\" on Wednesday and invited \"everyone who knew Paul to leave a message paying tribute to his memory and many accomplishments\".\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) members of Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council also expressed their sympathy.\n\n\"On behalf of the Ulster Unionist Party I extend my sincere sympathies to Paul's wife Ruth, their children and extended family,\" said Alderman Mark Cosgrove.\n\n\"I also offer my condolences to Paul's colleagues. This is devastating news for them all and is hard to take in. Paul will be sadly missed by his family and many friends.\"\n\nSinn Féin councillor Anne Marie Logue, who sits on the council, said Mr Hamill was a \"true gentleman\" and would be \"fondly remembered for his work in community relations\".\n\nBefore he entered politics, Mr Hamill worked for Belfast City Mission as a missionary in Rathcoole.", "Simone Biles says it was a \"relief\" and \"empowering\" to speak out about being the victim of sexual abuse by jailed US Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar.\n\nIn January 2018 Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years after nearly 160 women accused him of sexual abuse.\n\nBiles, 21, then told her own story of how she was one of those victims.\n\n\"It was very hard but I figured out that if I can tell my story then it might encourage other people to tell theirs,\" she said.\n• None Simone Biles wins record fifth US all-around title as comeback continues\n\nBiles, who won four gold medals and a bronze at the Rio Olympics in 2016, said she wanted to speak out about the reaction to her revelation and her responsibility as a role model.\n\nShe came back from a two-year career break to win her fifth US national title in August while wearing a teal leotard - the designated colour to represent survivors of sexual abuse.\n\nAnd she returns to international competition at the World Championships in Qatar this month.\n\n\"I think it was very important to support the fellow gymnasts it had happened to and to speak up for what you believe in and say 'I don't think this is right' and I hope I gave them courage to come out and tell their stories one day if they want to,\" she said.\n\n\"People do look up to me so if they can see Simone can be strong enough then hopefully I can too - and that's the message I wanted to give.\n\n\"It kind of felt empowering even though I know that is an overused word right now.\"\n\nOhio-born Biles says she was \"relieved\" after speaking out, after feeling \"a lot of pressure\" to keep the truth to herself for so long.\n\nBiles praised Judge Rosemarie Aquilina who sentenced Nasser, and she says he \"got what he deserved\".\n\n\"The judge was absolutely amazing on her part, so we were very proud of her, and it is kind of a relief because [Nassar] got what he deserved and he almost got as many years [in prison] as [he abused] girls.\n\n\"It's kind of crazy because I can't be the one to save everything, but as long as I do my job and everyone is pleased maybe I'll save something.\"\n\nLooking beyond the World Championships in Doha, which run from 24 October to 3 November, Biles is focused on preparing for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 and says that not being a \"rookie\" anymore means she is a mentor to the younger members of the squad - and has learnt to manage expectations.\n\n\"I pushed a lot of things away because expectations are scary and I don't want to be the one to hold all of them, but as I get older I just become used to it,\" she said.\n\n\"For my first Olympics Games to walk away with five medals is unbeatable even for myself, so we'll just go in there [Tokyo] with an open mind and see what happens.\"\n\nI've been lucky enough to see Simone Biles compete before, particularly in Rio when she cemented her name in gymnastics legend. But I had never seen her perform this close up. There is no fuss with Biles. No ego, no entourage - unless you count her mum, Nellie, who tagged along for the incredibly laid-back interview.\n\nAfter an amicable split with her long-term coach she has a new coaching partnership and said recently she feels happier and healthier than ever. A lot of that she puts down to the 18-month break she took after Rio, a break where she swam with sharks, socialised like never before - and drank plenty of chocolate shakes!\n\nShe's improved on her nemesis, the bars. She reigns supreme on the vault and floor and has added improvements to the routines which won her gold in Rio, but she now has a new ambition - to make the individual bars final in Doha. Something seems to have just clicked.\n\nYet despite Biles' superhuman abilities she has always suffered with low self-esteem. As a huge Beyonce fan she recently said she wished she had the singer's confidence. She giggled with that infectious smile though when I quoted lines from Beyonce's track 'Ego' to her - \"I walk like this 'cause I can back it up.\" And boy, can she.", "The families of four miners killed in the Gleision colliery disaster say they are still waiting for answers about what happened.\n\nCharles Breslin, Philip Hill, Garry Jenkins and David Powell died when the Swansea Valley mine flooded.\n\nA year on, their families have spoken about their pain at discovering the men had died and their ongoing grief.\n\nPolice investigating the incident say they have handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nIn a special BBC Wales Week In Week Out programme, the miners' relatives say they still do not know exactly how and why the men died.\n\nHayley Phillips, the niece of 45-year-old Mr Hill, said: \"At the moment there are still so many unanswered questions of how this possibly could have happened and ruin four lives and four families.\"\n\nMine manager Malcolm Fyfield was seriously injured in the incident but escaped through an old mine shaft.\n\nTwo other miners, including Mr Powell's son, escaped and helped raise the alarm.\n\nAs rescuers tried to reach the four trapped men - all experienced miners - their families gathered at the nearby Rhos Community Centre where a team of liaison officers from South Wales Police kept them updated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A year after four men died in the Gleision mining tragedy their families are still struggling to come to terms with their loss.\n\nThe country also watched and waited as news of the disaster unfolded on a hillside above the village of Godregraig.\n\nComing just weeks after the rescue of the Chilean miners, there was genuine hope that the four men would be found alive.\n\nThe families have now revealed the agony of waiting for news, and of their hope fading when the first body was discovered but not identified.\n\nMs Phillips said she vividly remembered the moment a police officer told the families the news.\n\nThis picture show for the first time what the Mines Rescue Service faced as they made Gleision safe enough for investigators to re-enter\n\n\"I can still see his face. He took his hat off and he held it by there and he said, 'Can I have your attention',\" she said.\n\n\"And he closed the doors and he closed the windows, and he looked at us and he said, 'There's no way I can say this other than I'm really sorry but we've found a body'.\n\n\"And the whole place just collapsed.\"\n\nMr Breslin, 62, was just two months off retirement. His wife Mavis was convinced all along that he would get out alive.\n\n\"In the car on the way down, all I did was pray,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought I don't care if he's paralysed, as long as I can have him home. But no.\"\n\nDavid Powell's widow Lynette said she would never come to terms with what happened to her husband, who had just turned 50.\n\n\"The love of my life I have lost forever,\" she said.\n\n\"And I don't know how to cope. I know it's a year and I should be coping but it's getting worse.\n\n\"I know they say I was supposed to get better but it's getting worse, not better.\"\n\nClockwise from top left : Mavis Breslin, Lynette Powell, Hayley Phillips and Alex Jenkins have spoken of their grief a year after the disaster\n\nAlex Jenkins, whose 39-year-old father Garry was the first to be found dead, wanted to pay his own special tribute to his dad.\n\n\"I asked the undertaker if I could walk the coffin to the grave, because dad was there when I came into the world so I thought I'd be there when he gets taken out,\" he added.\n\nSouth Wales Police launched an investigation into the incident, led by Det Ch Insp Dorian Lloyd.\n\nHe said a file had been given to the CPS which was currently considering the evidence.\n\nThe mine's manager Malcolm Fyfield has been questioned on suspicion of causing manslaughter through gross negligence.\n\nThe privately-run mine has been closed and its licence has been suspended.\n\nA memorial fund led by Prince Charles has raised more than £1m for the families.\n\nGleision: A Year On - The Families' Stories, Week In Week Out Special is on BBC One Wales, at 20:30 BST on Monday, 17 September.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lyra McKee was was shot while observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate in April 2019\n\nDetectives investigating the death of journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry have arrested four men.\n\nThe men, aged 19, 20, 21 and 33, were all arrested on Wednesday under the Terrorism Act, police have said.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate in April 2019.\n\nOne man has already been charged with murder and another man charged with rioting and associated offences on the night Ms McKee was killed.\n\nThe four men have all been taken to the Serious Crime Suite at Musgrave Police Station in Belfast.\n\nThere was a police presence on the Lone Moor Road near Creggan on Wednesday\n\n\"These arrests are the culmination of a detailed two-year investigation into Lyra's murder and the events which preceded it,\" Det Supt Jason Murphy said.\n\n\"The local community have supported the Police Service of Northern Ireland throughout the course of this protracted investigation and I wish to thank them for their continued support,\" he added.", "Earlier this year, Terry Lubbock said he \"may never get the answers I want\" following his terminal diagnosis\n\nA man who fought for 20 years to find out how his son died after a party at Michael Barrymore's home has died, a friend said.\n\nTerry Lubbock, 76, from Harlow, Essex, revealed earlier this year that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\nHe had campaigned for justice for Stuart, 31, who was found in the TV presenter's pool in Roydon, near Harlow, in March 2001.\n\nFriend Harry Cichy paid tribute to his \"tenacity and determination\".\n\n\"He thought about Stuart every waking hour, seven days a week,\" he said.\n\n\"He's died sad, knowing people never knew the truth about what happened.\"\n\nThe senior investigating officer from Essex Police vowed inquiries would continue and made a fresh appeal for information.\n\nStuart Lubbock was found unconscious in Michael Barrymore's swimming pool in March 2001\n\nNo-one has been charged with any offence in relation to death of Stuart Lubbock, who had been attending a party at Mr Barrymore's home with eight other people.\n\nHe was found unconscious in the entertainer's swimming pool, and alcohol, ecstasy and cocaine were detected in his bloodstream.\n\nHe died at Harlow's Princess Alexandra Hospital, police said.\n\nA post-mortem examination found he had suffered \"horrific\" injuries prior to his death.\n\nA coroner recorded an open verdict, but Terry Lubbock had asked for a fresh inquest.\n\nLast month a man arrested on suspicion of murder and indecent assault was released without charge.\n\nMichael Barrymore, now 69, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing\n\nDet Ch Insp Jennings said: \"Terry's devotion to his son and to his pursuit of justice knew no bounds. He was an example to many of us in his relentless quest for truth and justice.\n\n\"Our investigation into Stuart's death will not end with Terry's - as long as the case remains open, we will do all we can to deliver justice for him and his family.\n\n\"To this end we urge anyone who has information about Stuart's death to please now, more than ever, do the right thing and come forward.\"\n\nMichael Barrymore's Essex home became the centre of inquiries into how Stuart Lubbock died\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The use of opioids for pain relief soared during the pandemic as some patients waited longer for surgery, according to new research.\n\nThe University of Aberdeen team focused on more than 450 patients due to have hip or knee replacement surgery.\n\nThey said waiting times for these procedures increased by an average of 90 days.\n\nThe numbers of patients using opioids while waiting for surgery increased by 40% compared to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe research, published in the BMJ Quality and Safety, looked at data collected from 452 NHS patients from the north east of Scotland.\n\nThey were on the waiting list for hip and knee replacement surgery, and were compared with patients who had surgery before the pandemic.\n\nThe university's Luke Farrow, who led the research, said alternative ways of managing severe arthritis pain needed to be found \"urgently\" for those waiting for this kind of surgery.\n\nHe said: \"Our work provides evidence of potential for an emerging opioid problem associated with the influence of Covid-19 on elective orthopaedic services.\n\n\"With continued delays in the provision of timely total hip and knee arthroplasty expected for some time due to the considerable backlog of patients awaiting surgery, patients will need to seek alternative treatment options to manage their symptoms.\n\n\"We would advocate that healthcare professionals and patients avoid the use of opioid medication if at all possible due to the known lack of effect in this setting and potential for harm\".\n\nHe added: \"Covid-19 has had a significant detrimental effect on access to hip and knee surgery, and work by others has suggested this has been associated with worsening pain and quality of life for patients.\"\n• None Impact of COVID-19 on opioid use in those awaiting hip and knee arthroplasty- a retrospective cohort study - BMJ Quality & Sa The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TikTok has announced a set of features to help users struggling with mental health issues and thoughts of suicide.\n\nThe features include guides on wellbeing and support for people who are struggling with eating disorders.\n\nThere is also a search intervention feature that directs users to support resources if they look up terms such as \"suicide\".\n\nThe move comes as rival platform Instagram comes under fresh scrutiny over its impact on users' wellbeing.\n\nIn the announcement TikTok said: \"We care deeply about our community, and we always look for new ways in which we can nurture their well-being.\n\n\"That's why we're taking additional steps to make it easier for people to find resources when they need them on TikTok.\"\n\nThe new resources, which the company said will be rolled out globally in the coming months, include an expanded guide on eating disorders and a feature that will direct users to local support, such as a Crisis Text Line, if they search for the terms such as suicide.\n\nTikTok, like its rival social media platforms, has come under intense scrutiny over the impact it can have on the mental health of its users, especially teenagers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Julie Smith uses social media to reach out to a younger audience\n\nA report by the Education Policy Institute and The Prince's Trust earlier this year found that teenagers' mental health was being damaged by heavy social media use.\n\nIt was linked to negative wellbeing and self-esteem, regardless of a young person's mental state, with more girls experiencing feelings of depression and hopelessness, the study said.\n\nTikTok's announcement came as The Wall Street Journal reported that Instagram has repeatedly found that in certain situations its platform could be harmful to the mental health of its teenage users.\n\nAccording to the report, the company has been studying the impact of the app on its younger users' mental wellbeing for at least two years. The paper also said that the research had repeatedly found it is harmful for a large proportion of users, especially teenage girls.\n\nIn a lengthy statement, Instagram acknowledged the existence of research reported by The Wall Street Journal but said the story \"focuses on a limited set of findings and casts them in a negative light\".\n\nThe social media firm also said it stood by the research and that: \"It demonstrates our commitment to understanding complex and difficult issues young people may struggle with, and informs all the work we do to help those experiencing these issues.\"\n\nThe BBC Action Line has details of organisations offering information and support if you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this story", "California Governor Gavin Newsom has claimed victory in the recall vote\n\nCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom appears to have survived a rare state-wide vote to remove him with a clear majority, US media report.\n\nRepublicans launched the election over his handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe Democrat, currently in the third year of his four-year term, had faced a field of 46 candidates, and was expected to win by a large margin.\n\nBoth President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris campaigned with Mr Newsom ahead of the contest.\n\nThe BBC's US partner CBS projects that the governor will prevail, with about two-thirds of voters backing him and more than 70% of the vote tallied.\n\n\"I'm humbled and grateful to the millions and millions of Californians that exercised their fundamental right to vote,\" Mr Newsom said in a victory speech in Sacramento.\n\nThe outcome has been closely watched as a bellwether for national 2022 elections.\n\nMr Newsom's main rival, conservative radio host Larry Elder, claimed that the vote was rigged before polls even opened.\n\nOn the eve of the recall vote, Mr Biden appeared at a rally with Mr Newsom - a former San Francisco mayor - to tell voters that their choice will \"reverberate around the world\".\n\nPresident Biden campaigned with Mr Newsom one day before the vote\n\nThe effort to unseat Mr Newsom has been driven by increasingly partisan politics, but gained steam after he was photographed dining at a fancy restaurant while urging Californians to stay home to avoid spreading Covid-19.\n\nHe apologised for the \"bad mistake\" but some voters found his actions to be hypocritical.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Governor Gavin Newsom's sleepy son invades the stage during his inauguration speech\n\nNearly 1.5 million signatures were gathered by petition (equal to 12% of the 2018 vote), meeting the bar for an election to decide whether Californians wanted to keep Mr Newsom in office, or replace him for the remainder of his term.\n\nMr Newsom faced a ragtag group of mostly conservatives hoping to take his place, including reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner, who vanished from the campaign trail to film Celebrity Big Brother in Australia.\n\nRepublican John Cox drew attention for travelling with a live Kodiak brown bear as part of his \"unleash the beast\" campaign - he cast himself as the \"beast\" to Mr Newsom's \"beauty\".\n\nWith the largest state population in the US, California has some 22 million registered voters and the fifth largest global economy.\n\nThe Golden State has been firmly Democratic in national elections, but the state does have large Republican regions. Six million voters cast ballots for Donald Trump in 2020, leaving Mr Biden with a 29-point victory in the state.\n\nThere have been consistent efforts to remove California governors through the recall process since the 1960s, though many have not qualified for a vote.\n\nIn 2003, the last time California held a gubernatorial recall election, voters booted an unpopular Democratic governor and replaced him with Republican bodybuilder-turned-actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.\n\nFellow Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan also got his political start as a Republican governor of California before later serving eight years as US president from 1981 to 1989.\n\nAs the polls closed across California, the governor of the Golden State was probably breathing a little more easily than he would have been a couple of months ago. At the beginning of August, the polls indicated that this could be an unexpectedly tight race.\n\nAnd it wasn't just Gavin Newsom who was sweating in the intense Californian summer heat.\n\nIf he were to lose this recall election, it wouldn't just end his political career - it would result in a handbrake turn for the political trajectory of California, with a new Republican Governor elected by a tiny proportion of the state's 22 million voters. And that could have major national implications.\n\nCalifornia's senior Senator Diane Feinstein is 88 years old. If she were, for any reason, unable to complete her term after a new Republican Governor had been inaugurated, they would appoint her replacement and, in doing so, immediately eliminate the Democrats voting majority of just one in the Senate.\n\nWhat began as a grassroots recall effort effectively became a referendum on the Democrats' handling of the coronavirus. Strategists on both sides will now be looking for indications of how their national pandemic policies are playing in marginal congressional districts.\n\nThis is, if you like, a training run ahead of next year's mid-term marathon.", "Zheng Zeguang had a virtual audience with the Queen on his appointment as ambassador in July\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK has been told he cannot come to Parliament while sanctions remain in place against a number of MPs and peers.\n\nZheng Zeguang was due to attend a Commons reception on Wednesday, hosted by the all-party group on China.\n\nBut after protests, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Lord Speaker Lord McFall ruled this out.\n\nThe Chinese embassy said it was a \"despicable and cowardly\" decision that would harm both countries' interests.\n\nThe ban, which was first reported by the Daily Telegraph, comes at a time when tensions between the two governments are high.\n\nIn March, China imposed travel bans and asset freezes on five MPs and two peers whom it accused of spreading lies about the country.\n\nThis was in response to the UK's decision to impose its first sanctions against Chinese officials for human rights abuses in Xinjiang.\n\nDespite this, the China parliamentary group still decided to invite Mr Zheng to its summer party on the Commons terrace pavilion overlooking the Thames.\n\nLast week, the five Conservative MPs who were sanctioned - Sir Iain Duncan-Smith, Tom Tugendhat, Nusrat Ghani, Neil O'Brien and Tim Loughton - wrote to the Speaker voicing their concerns.\n\nThe two sanctioned peers - crossbencher Lord Alton and Labour's Baroness Kennedy - wrote to the Lord Speaker.\n\nThey said: \"The sanctions imposed by the Chinese government represent an attack not just on members directly targeted but on Parliament, all parliamentarians, select committees, and parliamentary privilege.\n\n\"We should never allow our place of work to become a platform to validate and promote such sanctions.\n\n\"We know that this is a view shared by a great many Right Honourable and Honourable Members who will wish their protests to be heard if this visit is to go ahead.\"\n\nThey added: \"It is unthinkable therefore that parliamentarians should have to suffer this infringement on our liberties whilst the prime representative of the Chinese government in the UK is still apparently free to come to Westminster and to use facilities here as a mouthpiece for his regime.\"\n\nNusrat Ghani welcomed the \"unprecedented\" ban on the ambassador, telling BBC News: \"Sanctioning MPs is a direct threat to Parliament and our democracy.\n\n\"We will not be silenced nor intimidated by any regime, and our Parliament will not be become a tool of propaganda for Chinese Communist Party absurd sanctions.\"\n\nAnother sanctioned MP, Tim Loughton, tweeted: \"If the genocidal Chinese regime think they can shut down free speech by parliamentarians in a democracy there are consequences and in this case it is that the Chinese regime must not have a platform in the Mother of Parliaments.\"\n\nIn a statement, Sir Lindsay said he held regular meetings with ambassadors to \"establish enduring ties between countries and parliamentarians\".\n\nBut he added: \"I do not feel it's appropriate for the ambassador for China to meet on the Commons estate and in our place of work when his country has imposed sanctions against some of our members.\n\n\"If those sanctions were lifted, then of course this would not be an issue.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador Liu Xiaoming: \"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang\"\n\nLord McFall's spokeswoman said the \"meeting should take place elsewhere, considering the current sanctions against members including two members of the Lords\".\n\nA Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson said: \"Parliament is independent of government. It is for the Speaker to decide who is allowed on the parliamentary estate.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Chinese embassy said: \"The despicable and cowardly action of certain individuals of the UK Parliament to obstruct normal exchanges and cooperation between China and the UK for personal political gains is against the wishes and harmful to the interests of the peoples of both countries.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nThe World Anti-Doping Agency is to review whether cannabis should remain a banned substance.\n\nThe move follows American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson missing the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for the substance in June.\n\nThe 21-year-old later revealed she had used cannabis to help cope with the death of her biological mother.\n\nWada says the scientific review will begin next year and that cannabis will remain prohibited in 2022.\n\nThe anti-doping agency says the review is taking place \"following receipt of requests from a number of stakeholders\".\n\nRichardson won the 100m at the US Olympic trials in Oregon in June, where she ran what was then the sixth-fastest women's time in history in the semi-finals.\n\nThe athlete's positive test came at the Olympic trials event, which meant her qualification times were expunged and she was given a one-month suspension.\n\nThe trials came a week after the death of her biological mother.\n\nBoth the US Anti-Doping Agency and USA Track and Field expressed sympathy for the athlete and accepted the substance was not used to enhance performance but said they had no choice but to follow the rules.\n\nTesting positive for cannabis currently carries a ban of up to four years although that can be reduced to three months if athletes can show taking it was not related to sports performance.\n\nAny ban can be reduced further to one month if athletes agree to a treatment programme.\n• None \"It can become an uncomfortable place\": Why are so many girls dropping out of sport in their teenage years?\n• None Listen now as the Formula 1 star talks about the importance of visibility", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pictures from South Korea's Ministry of National Defence show the launch\n\nNorth and South Korea have tested ballistic missiles hours apart from each other, highlighting an arms race on the peninsula as nuclear talks with the North remain stalled.\n\nThe North fired two ballistic missiles across its east coast, its first test with such missiles in six months and a fresh breach of UN resolutions.\n\nThe tests came as South Korea and China discussed the North's nuclear issue.\n\nHours later, the South tested its first submarine-launched ballistic missile.\n\nThe test of the missile known as SLBM was pre-planned and not in reaction to the North's latest launches. It makes South Korea the seventh country in the world with such technology.\n\nPresident Moon Jae-in, who attended the test, said South Korea now had \"sufficient deterrence to respond to North Korea's provocations at any time\", urging the South to continue increasing its weapons programmes to \"overwhelm North Korea's asymmetric power\".\n\nThe comments were criticised by Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who described them as illogical and regrettable, warning that they could lead to a breakdown in ties, state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nIn North Korea's test, the short-range missiles flew around 800km (500 miles) at a maximum altitude of 60km, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.\n\nThey were launched from central inland areas of the country, and flew east towards the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, the JCS added. South Korea and the US were conducting analysis to determine which type of missile was used.\n\nThe Japanese defence minister said later the missiles had landed inside Japan's exclusive economic zone.\n\nSouth Korean television broadcast file footage in report about the North's latest test with ballistic missiles\n\nUN resolutions ban North Korea from carrying out tests with ballistic missiles - which can carry either nuclear or conventional warheads - in efforts to curb the country's nuclear programme.\n\n\"It's extraordinary timing that you have not one but two Koreas testing ballistic missiles on the same day,\" Prof John Delury at Yonsei University told AFP news agency. \"It does speak to the fact that there's an arms race in this region.\"\n\nThe recent launches show North Korea has continued to develop its weapons despite a severe economic crisis. Experts say Pyongyang carries out such tests to improve its technology while trying to increase its leverage in negotiations with Washington.\n\nThe US wants the country to give up its nuclear and missile programmes in exchange for sanctions relief, but the North has refused.\n\nJapanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called the North Korean launch \"outrageous\" while the US said it posed a threat to the neighbours and the international community.\n\nEarlier, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with his South Korean counterpart, Chung Eui-yong, in Seoul, and said all parties should work to promote peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.\n\nBallistic missiles are classed according to how far they can travel, the furthest of which being an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).\n\nNorth Korea has in the past tested ICBMs said to be capable of reaching nearly all of Western Europe and about half of the US mainland.\n\nLast weekend, Pyongyang said it tested a long-range cruise missile capable of hitting much of Japan, calling it \"a strategic weapon of great significance\". Experts say it could possibly carry a nuclear warhead.\n\nThe UN Security Council does not forbid the test of cruise missiles. But it considers ballistic missiles to be more threatening because they can carry bigger and more powerful payloads, have a much longer range, and can travel faster.\n\nNorth Korea is facing food shortages, and has spent more than a year in isolation. It cut off most trade with its closest ally China to stop the spread of Covid-19.\n\nLast March, Pyongyang defied sanctions and tested ballistic missiles, which triggered a strong rebuke from the US, Japan and South Korea.\n\nAnd last month the UN atomic agency said North Korea appeared to have restarted a reactor which could produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, calling it a \"deeply troubling\" development.", "Boris Johnson became prime minister in December 2019 and immediately faced the UK's looming exit from the EU and the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe health crisis has been described as perhaps the biggest challenge the country has faced since World War Two.\n\nMr Johnson’s election win secured him the largest Tory majority in Parliament since 1987.\n\nHe succeeded Theresa May as prime minister. His only previous cabinet post was foreign secretary, which he quit over differences with Mrs May over Brexit.\n\nSince being at 10 Downing Street, he married his fiancee Carrie Symonds and the couple have had two children.", "Nadhim Zahawi arriving in Downing Street for the reshuffle\n\nNadhim Zahawi has been appointed the new education secretary for England - replacing Gavin Williamson in the Cabinet reshuffle.\n\nMr Zahawi leaves his previous post as the minister responsible for the Covid vaccines roll-out.\n\nThe departing education secretary had faced much criticism over his handling of schools during the pandemic.\n\n\"We can't pretend we are sorry that Gavin Williamson has gone,\" said teachers' union leader Kevin Courtney.\n\nMr Zahawi, who has previously been a junior education minister, was born in Iraq. His family moved to the UK in 1976 when he was aged nine, attending independent schools in London and then studying chemical engineering at University College London.\n\nHe will now be responsible for schools, colleges and universities in England, as they recover from the disruption of the pandemic.\n\n\"Education is a crucial part of our levelling up agenda so it's an honour to be back at the Department for Education as secretary of state,\" said Mr Zahawi.\n\n\"Children and young people have had a tough time during this pandemic and I'll be listening to them and their families as we accelerate our work to build back better and fairer.\"\n\nMary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union with Mr Courtney, urged the incoming education secretary to push for extra funding in next month's public spending review.\n\n\"The money promised to schools to date is a small fraction of the amount judged to be needed by the government's former education recovery tsar,\" said Ms Bousted.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: \"One of the most pressing tasks facing Mr Zahawi will be to ensure that the government now fulfils its promise to deliver a properly funded recovery package so that every pupil in the country receives the support they need and deserve.\n\n\"With the comprehensive spending review only weeks away, there really is no time to waste.\"\n\n\"The Department for Education may now be under new management but the same challenges remain,\" said Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union.\n\n\"More ambition is needed on post-Covid education recovery, investment in schools and colleges, support for children with special educational needs, and closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers,\" he said.\n\nMr Williamson's departing message said it had been a privilege to serve as education secretary \"despite the challenges of the global pandemic\". And he highlighted his efforts to raise the status of further education and skills.\n\n\"I'm particularly proud of the transformational reforms I've led in Post-16 education: in further education colleges, our skills agenda, apprenticeships and more,\" tweeted Mr Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson - the first big casualty of the reshuffle - had faced much criticism during the pandemic, with particular problems around last summer's exams, which saw protests and U-turns over how grades were decided.\n\n\"He failed to engage with our suggestions on how to make schools safer during Covid - and thereby kept them closed longer,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut David Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, commended Mr Williamson's support for further education, despite the disruption of the pandemic.\n\n\"It was always going to be a bumpy ride for Gavin Williamson. Despite that, he helped convince the prime minister and chancellor that post-16 education and skills should be a priority,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nJo Grady, leader of the UCU lecturers' union, described his time in office as \"disastrous\".\n\n\"Rather than responding to the challenges of a global pandemic, he led the charge in a completely pointless culture war against university staff and students.\n\n\"A culture war that was entirely fabricated and led to no positive change in the sector,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green said: \"Two years of exams chaos and staff abandoned, unsupported and demoralised. That is Gavin Williamson's legacy.\n\n\"The prime minister has allowed this to happen, keeping a failing education secretary in post for months and refusing to fight for children's futures.\"", "The chairman of The Prince's Foundation has resigned amid concerns over possible \"rogue activity\" linked to the future king's educational charity.\n\nDouglas Connell said he would be responsible \"if it appears that serious misconduct may have taken place\".\n\nNewspaper reports alleged the charity had accepted £100,000 from a Russian donor who was later promised a meeting with the Prince of Wales.\n\nThe Scottish Charity Regulator is investigating the claims.\n\nThe charity's ethics committee had ultimately rejected former banker Dmitry Leus's donation, the Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Times reported.\n\nThe Prince's Foundation chief executive Michael Fawcett temporarily stood down earlier this month, following separate allegations he had offered to help secure an honour for another major foreign donor.\n\nMr Connell, who as chairman oversaw the charity's governance, said: \"I am both shocked and dismayed by newspaper reports that rogue activity of various kinds may have taken place within and outside The Prince's Foundation.\n\n\"I and the other members of the board of trustees had no knowledge of any such activity, and we have launched a rigorous and independent investigation.\n\n\"My view is that the person chairing any organisation should take responsibility if it appears that serious misconduct may have taken place within it.\n\n\"I believe that the correct course of action is for the chair to accept that responsibility and to stand down from the role.\"\n\nAnother charity executive, development director Chris Martin, has also temporarily stood down.\n\nA representative for The Prince's Foundation - which delivers education and training programmes across the world - said: \"The Prince's Foundation understands and respects Mr Connell's decision to step down.\n\n\"We would like to thank him for all his work to date and wish him well.\n\n\"The Prince's Foundation takes very seriously the allegations made in recent news articles and is committed to the highest ethical standards.\n\n\"These changes to the board of trustees will not impact the scope or timing of the rigorous independent investigation already under way.\"\n\nPrince Charles is president of the foundation but not involved with its governance. The charity's trustees oversee its day-to-day activities.\n\nAn investigation has been launched into the allegations relating to Mr Fawcett, by an independent team on behalf of the foundation's trustees.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said of that investigation: \"The Prince of Wales fully supports the investigation now under way at the foundation.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The £100 cards aimed at boosting the retail and hospitality sectors will be issued from next month\n\nNorthern Ireland's High Street voucher scheme will open for registration on 27 September with the first cards being issued on 4 October.\n\nThe £145m programme will offer pre-paid cards worth £100 to all over-18s.\n\nIt aims to help those businesses in retail and hospitality which were hit by the pandemic.\n\nThe £100 cards will have to be spent by 30 November, with registration happening primarily through an online portal.\n\nPeople without online access can register by phone from 11 October.\n\nTo be eligible for a card you must have registered by either method by 25 October.\n\nSmall business owners have welcomed the scheme but wonder just how much trade it will bring their way\n\n\"Now is the time to get ready to spend local,\" said Economy Minister Gordon Lyons.\n\n\"The objective of the scheme is to boost local businesses following the drop in footfall brought about by the pandemic.\"\n\nHe has urged people to be patient when registration opens as there will likely be high demand.\n\nThe minister made the announcement on the Ormeau Road in south Belfast where traders welcomed the news.\n\nBusiness owner Sinead Cashman said the money would be a boost at a time when there was a \"natural lull\" and \"people have a few less pounds in their pocket to spend\".\n\nEconomy Minister Gordon Lyons visited businesspeople on Belfast's Ormeau Road - including florist Milana Surova - to announce the start of the scheme\n\nJenni Doherty, from Little Acorns bookstore in Londonderry, said it would be great if the voucher brought more visitors to her shop but for those on the bread line, this voucher was \"a real gift\".\n\n\"Yes, it will give a lovely little boost but I'm not relying on it,\" she told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra.\n\n\"Individually, as a citizen of the city, I will be spending it locally in other walk-in shops.\n\n\"I don't think myself and a lot of other independent businesses would have survived the various lockdowns without the local community.\"\n\nTheresa Murray, who runs Linen and Latte in Glengormley, said she felt overjoyed initially at the idea of the voucher but now feels flatter.\n\n\"It's a very positive thing to do but when you have a small business, there are various challenges,\" she said.\n\nVouchers must be spent in an actual physical shop\n\n\"It has been an extremely tough year for everybody.\n\n\"People will use it for things they haven't been able to get... that leaves us in limbo.\"\n\nThere will be few limits on how the card can be used - it must be spent in a physical premises and cannot be used for gambling.\n\nIt is based on similar schemes in Jersey and Malta.\n\nJersey's scheme saw more than £10m spent with a 98% take up rate among the eligible population.\n\nThe sectors which benefitted the most from the scheme were:\n\nThe final £1.4m was spent in a variety of industries ranging from agriculture and fishing, transport and storage, and construction and quarrying.\n\nConfirmation of dates for the scheme comes after a number of young people submitted complaints to the Department for the Economy about their exclusion from it.\n\nThe under-18s who have complained about being excluded are being assisted by the Children's Law Centre (CLC).\n\nIt said their complaints were made on the basis of the department overseeing its roll out not publicly consulting on the policy and failing to carry out an Equality Impact Assessment before making a decision to exclude under-18s.\n\nA spokesperson for Department for the Economy said it had carried out an equality impact assessment.\n\nThe assessment, which was published online on 10 September, stated that \"the impact regarding age is judged to be minor\".\n\nThe pre-paid card cannot be used for online shopping\n\nPolicy officer at the Children's Law Centre, Claire Kemp, said equality screening was carried out \"only after we lodged a complaint with the department\", and that it was completed just days before the scheme was scheduled to go live.\n\n\"This policy has not been rushed, yet fundamental steps to avoid discriminating against protected groups, including young people, have been ignored or delayed to the extent of rendering them meaningless,\" she said.\n\nThe department's assessment stated that there were regulatory and financial concerns around issuing cards to minors, child-specific data protection issues and verification problems as no datasets currently exist which could be used to confirm the identity of 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\nHospitality Ulster's Colin Neill said the scheme would give a real boost to the Northern Ireland economy, including the hospitality sector\n\n\"We would encourage all those eligible to receive the £100 voucher to apply as soon as possible and, where they can, spend it with local hospitality businesses, supporting not just their local bars, restaurants, hotels and coffee shops, but their friends and family that work in them,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, SDLP assembly member Mark H Durkan expressed concern that some older and vulnerable people without internet access \"could end up missing out\".\n\nThe Department for the Economy said a phone line would be available for those unable to apply online.\n\nPeople will also be able to register to complete an application on behalf of a \"limited number\" of other people.", "The film, titled Jagged, premiered at the Toronto film festival earlier this month\n\nAlanis Morissette has distanced herself from what she describes as a \"salacious\" new film, in which she appears to address being sexually exploited by five men when she was 15.\n\nThe singer said she agreed to take part in a HBO film celebrating 25 years of her classic album Jagged Little Pill.\n\nHowever, the film, which also addresses the alleged exploitation, \"is not the story I agreed to tell,\" she added.\n\nThe director of Jagged has not yet responded to the singer's comments.\n\nIn her statement, Morissette noted she had been dealing with post-natal depression at the time.\n\n\"I agreed to participate in a piece about the celebration of Jagged Little Pill's 25th anniversary, and was interviewed during a very vulnerable time (while in the midst of my third postpartum depression during lockdown),\" the 47-year-old said in a statement.\n\n\"I was lulled into a false sense of security and their salacious agenda became apparent immediately upon my seeing the first cut of the film. This is when I knew our visions were in fact painfully diverged.\n\n\"This was not the story I agreed to tell,\" she continued. \"I sit here now experiencing the full impact of having trusted someone who did not warrant being trusted.\"\n\nMorrissette has said she will not support or promote the film\n\nThe Canadian star went on to confirm she has chosen not to attend any promotional events around the movie, firstly because she is currently on tour, and secondly as she believes the film \"includes implications and facts that are simply not true\".\n\n\"While there is beauty and some elements of accuracy in this/my story to be sure - I ultimately won't be supporting someone else's reductive take on a story much too nuanced for them to ever grasp or tell.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, before the new statement was issued, the film's director Alison Klayman told the Washington Post it was \"a privilege\" to make the film and that she was \"really proud of it\".\n\n\"Hopefully there will be other opportunities in the future for her to come to film events,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC has asked Klayman for further comment in light of Morissette's latest statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alanis Morissette's debut album Jagged Little Pill is 25 years old\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, the film sees the singer open up about being sexually exploited by unnamed people within the music industry at the time - a topic she previously addressed in the lyrics to one of her songs, Hands Clean.\n\nCanada's legal age of consent is 16, although it was 14 when Morissette was a teenager. However, the law says that even if both parties are over the formal age of consent, it should still be considered whether the relationship involved an abuse of power or trust.\n\n\"It took me years in therapy to even admit there had been any kind of victimisation on my part,\" Morissette says in the film.\n\n\"I would always say I was consenting, and then I'd be reminded like 'Hey, you were 15, you're not consenting at 15.' Now I'm like, 'Oh yeah, they're all paedophiles. It's all statutory rape.\"\n\n\"I did tell a few people and it kind of fell on deaf ears,\" she says. \"It would usually be a stand-up, walk-out-of-the-room moment.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Education officials acknowledged the \"different approach\" may cause \"anxiety among the school community\"\n\nSchools should not send pupils home as close contacts or ask them to self-isolate, according to guidance to principals from the Department of Education (DE).\n\nIt said schools should not identify close contacts unless asked to do so by the Public Health Agency (PHA).\n\nThe PHA took over responsibility for contact tracing in schools on Friday.\n\nThe move brings Northern Ireland into line with the approach taken in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThe bulk of the responsibility for identifying close contacts in schools until Friday had been with school leaders.\n\nIn their letter to principals, the department said the \"new, more focused approach to contact tracing in schools means fewer, and in many cases no, close contacts will be identified in the case's class\".\n\nThe department acknowledged this \"different approach\" may cause \"anxiety among the school community\".\n\nBut they said the \"previous approach resulted in many pupil close contacts self-isolating unnecessarily and is therefore no longer justifiable\".\n\nOn Tuesday, it emerged more than one in 10 pupils in Northern Ireland were not in school during the second week of the new term.\n\nThe department said 88.9% of pupils were in school during the week from 6 September to 10 September.\n\nHundreds of pupils spent last week distance learning in self-isolation at home\n\nChief medical officer Sir Michael McBride had previously written to schools citing studies from England and Scotland which showed \"the vast majority of those identified as school close contacts and sent home to isolate during the last academic year did not go on to develop Covid\".\n\nIn their guidance to principals, the department said the PHA's contact tracing would \"reduce the potential for large numbers of pupils being required to self-isolate\".\n\nThey also wrote that it would \"reduce the amount of time spent by schools on contact tracing, while still helping to protect pupils and staff\".\n\nThe department said the contact tracing service may contact schools if they had difficulty identifying close contacts with parents and children.\n\nThey also said that in some cases schools would be notified of a positive case before the PHA had contacted the family involved.\n\nHowever, that was because it could take until the next day for the contact tracing service to receive information about a positive PCR test result.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been deemed safe and effective to use as a booster - but it is only being recommended for people who are allergic to the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna).\n\nI understand that concern about a rare blood clotting side effect is the reason why the AZ vaccine is not being used.\n\nThe vaccine is already limited in the UK to those over 40. And for those who have only had the AZ jab so far - several trials have shown that the Pfizer vaccine produces a very strong antibody response, and that mixing vaccine types can enhance immunity.\n\nNearly 50 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have been given by the NHS, more than any other vaccine, and it has already prevented tens of thousands of deaths in the UK.\n\nBecause of the restrictions around its use for younger adults, it has been given to a higher proportion of older adults than Pfizer - and therefore will have likely saved more lives.\n\nBut its future use in the UK now looks very uncertain.\n\nThe AZ vaccine has been produced on a not-for-profit basis, at around three pounds per dose, a fifth of the cost of the Pfizer vaccine. It is also easier to store and transport, making it a vital global tool in the pandemic.\n\nThe vaccine has been licensed in more than 160 countries, although it has not been approved in the United States, despite a successful trial there.\n\nAll the vaccines used in the UK give significant defences against severe Covid. But it remains unclear which will have the most lasting protection.\n\nThe messenger RNA vaccines score best in the initial weeks after immunisation, but their immunity wanes more quickly than the AstraZeneca vaccine, which uses a disabled virus. So it would be wrong to completely write off the Oxford-AZ jab as a booster.\n\nIf the vaccine is shown to give more durable immunity, it may yet have a continuing role here.\n\nWhat is certain is how important the vaccine is globally. More than 1.2 billion doses have been distributed worldwide - and that figure should hit 2 billion by the end of the year.", "You might think that only in your 'Wildest Dreams' would you meet American pop star Taylor Swift on a night out in Belfast.\n\nBut that is exactly what happened for some lucky locals and hospitality staff last week.\n\nStaff in a Belfast bar posted on social media that the star had happily posed for selfies when she visited the city.\n\nWorkers at the bar said she was in the city with her boyfriend, the actor Joe Alwyn.\n\nHe is wrapping up filming on the Hulu/BBC Three adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel Conversations with Friends.\n\nAmong the venues Swift visited was the Tipsy Bird bar in the city centre.\n\nSwift asked local singer Tiernán Heffron for a selfie and he obliged\n\nThere she met singer Tiernán Heffron, 22, who plays at the bar every Friday night and is a huge fan of Swift.\n\n\"It was just like any other gig in Belfast until she turned up. No one there knew she would be there,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I was getting set up and someone came over to tell me Taylor Swift had just walked in.\n\n\"The back of my knees just dropped. I was excited because any other singer-songwriter would dream of this moment - so I just thought 'let's do it'.\n\n\"My heart was beating so fast. I just went for it and I had her up singing and dancing to 'Tell My Ma' - she was having a blast.\"\n\n\"She came up to me in the middle of it with a big smile and said: 'You're so good - how can I follow you?' Mr Heffron said.\n\n\"I told her my name and that I worked in a special needs school but I had been working hard on my music and she asked me for a selfie.\n\n\"She tipped me for playing, told me she enjoyed my music and said: 'You deserve this'.\"\n\nWhen he went to say goodbye to her and thank her for the tip she told him she had heard him singing Ed Sheeran songs and that the two were best friends.\n\n\"She said: 'Right now are putting in your 10,000 hours - this is not your first gig - you're confident and you're going to do great',\" Mr Heffron said.\n\nIn a Facebook post, the Tipsy Bird said: \"The one and only Taylor Swift graced us with her presence last Friday night.\n\n\"We can confirm she is just as lovely as you would expect and was kind enough to take a picture with our team.\n\n\"Taylor, if you fancy being a Tipsy Bird another night in the future, you know where to find us\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by The Tipsy Bird This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. End of facebook post by The Tipsy Bird\n\nShe was also spotted at Shu restaurant on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast, where she posed for photos with the team.\n\n\"On Thursday evening we had the pleasure of serving Taylor Swift,\" Shu said.\n\n\"Taylor was so lovely and really is a beautiful person inside and out and she kindly agreed to photos with all of our team,\" the restaurant added in a post on social media.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post 2 by Shu This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nSwift released the first re-recording of her back catalogue, Fearless (Taylor's Version) in April.", "The new foreign secretary, Liz Truss, is only the second woman - after Labour's Margaret Beckett - to hold the post.\n\nAs a former trade minister, she is a known figure on the international diplomatic circuit, having travelled the world negotiating trade deals that had to be replaced after Brexit.\n\nShe will bring some character to a job that often requires a bit of human diplomacy.\n\nLike the prime minister, she is no stranger to the photo-opportunity. But the risk is that her willingness to speak freely might get her into trouble, as she admitted to the BBC's Nick Robinson a few years ago, telling him: “I don’t think anyone would describe me as diplomatic.\"\n\nNext week, Truss will accompany the PM to the United Nations general assembly in New York.\n\nShe will play a key role in the government’s efforts to secure a successful COP26 climate summit in November, and there are many bilateral relationships in need of some repair.\n\nFor the new foreign secretary, the learning curve will be steep and unrelenting.", "Influencers are to be signed up by the City regulator in a campaign to warn people about the pitfalls of high-risk investments.\n\nSome celebrities have been criticised for their part in promoting trading apps which have proved popular among young people drawn into investing.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wants to reach these risk-takers in a planned £11m awareness campaign.\n\nIt is part of a wider strategy to ensure investors are well-treated.\n\n\"Investors have never had more freedom. Technology has democratised the market, new products have become available and people have better access to their life savings than before,\" said Sarah Pritchard, executive director of markets at the FCA.\n\n\"But that freedom comes with risk. We want to give consumers greater confidence to invest and to help them do so safely, understanding the level of risk.\"\n\nIn the strategy, the FCA has repeated its warning that some people have invested money for the first time during the pandemic in products which have unsuitably high risks for their financial circumstances.\n\nIt has warned they are getting involved in cryptocurrencies and foreign exchange owing to the thrill of investing, rather than for long-term savings goals.\n\nAdvertising authorities took action against a post by Lauren Goodger\n\nAlongside that, there has been concern that some celebrities have been endorsing certain products without making their own gain clear.\n\nIn August, an Instagram post by TV star Lauren Goodger was banned because she did not clearly mark it as an advert.\n\nA survey by investment platform Interactive Investor found that 45% of young investors aged 18 to 29 said their first ever investment was in cryptocurrency, while many were funding this through a cocktail of credit cards, student loans, and other loans.\n\nAs a result, the FCA is planning a campaign to help people make well-informed decisions.\n\n\"We plan to use a range of channels to reach our audience, including partnerships with influencers, social media, online videos, paid ads on Google and more,\" the strategy said.\n\nThe FCA also points out that nearly 8.6 million people currently hold more than £10,000 of investible assets in cash.\n\nIn a major boost for the investment industry, in the next five years the regulator aims to reduce the number of consumers by a fifth who could benefit from investment earnings but are missing out.\n\nThis could potentially mean 1.7 million people, each with more than £10,000 put away, making the jump from cash savings to investments.\n\nLaura Suter, from investment company AJ Bell, said: \"For many of these individuals, investing is a logical route, as they don't need the safety of cash or immediate access to their money, but it's often a job on the to-do list that people don't get around to.\"\n\nLiz Field, of the Personal Investment Management and Financial Advice Association, said that the FCA should have been more ambitious in its supervisory role.", "North Korea has announced it fired a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend.\n\nDespite international condemnation, the East Asian country keeps testing missiles, some of which are in violation of UN Security Council resolutions and have resulted in tough sanctions.\n\nWhy does Pyongyang continue with these launches, if they come at such a hefty cost to its economy?\n\nThe BBC's Laura Bicker runs us through some of the reasons why North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is determined to develop his country's missile programme.", "Scotland's prison population has risen despite fewer people being jailed by courts\n\nA study of almost 200 fatal accident inquiries into deaths in custody found the sheriff made no recommendation to improve practice in 90% of cases.\n\nAcademics at Glasgow University looked at 196 deaths in prisons covering almost 15 years from 2005 to 2019.\n\nThe authors said FAIs often took three or four years to complete but in most cases found no action that would have led to a different outcome.\n\nThe Scottish government said mental health was a priority for prisons.\n\nFatal accident inquiries (FAI) are official hearings into the circumstances of unexpected deaths. They are usually held in Sheriff courts and are aimed at preventing future deaths.\n\nThe study found the average time between the death of a person in custody and the publication of the FAI determination was 509 days between 2005 and 2008.\n\nHowever, since legislation in 2016 aimed at making the process more efficient and fairer, the time has increased to almost 700 days.\n\nThere was also less chance of the FAI concluding with a finding about the circumstances of the death, the report said.\n\nThe team behind the report said the sheriff had the power to make findings on whether there were any defects in any system that resulted in the death and on whether any reasonable precautions could have prevented it.\n\nIn nine out 10 cases, however, there was no finding of a reasonable precaution and no recommendations to improve practice or prevent death.\n\nKatie Allan died in Polmont Young Offenders Institute in 2018 and an FAI has yet to be held\n\nLinda Allan's daughter Katie died in Polmont Young Offenders Institute in 2018 and there has not yet been an FAI into her death.\n\nKatie took her own life after being sentenced for drink-driving and knocking a 15-year-old boy unconscious.\n\nLinda Allan said she had assumed her daughter was safe in state care and was horrified to discover that was not the case.\n\nShe said she was \"flabbergasted\" to discover the number of \"preventable\" deaths in custody, especially among young people.\n\nMs Allan started researching the details of the FAIs into deaths in custody to try to understand what happened to her daughter.\n\nShe told the BBC she wanted to \"see if we could prevent this happening to anybody else\".\n\nMs Allan said she did not really understand what the point of the FAI was if it was not to prevent future deaths.\n\n\"The FAI system in Scotland is broken and needs a complete overhaul,\" she said.\n\n\"Lots of these young people are in for minor offences but really it is irrelevant why they are in prison. People should not die for the crime they have committed,\" she said.\n\nThe initial work she and her husband did has been taken on by Glasgow University academics.\n\nThe report said that families were rarely involved in FAIs in terms of being legally represented, present at inquiries or providing evidence.\n\nIt also highlighted concerns about the provision of healthcare in prisons.\n\nIn one example a man complaining of pain and claiming to have a recurrence of previous meningitis, died of the condition while staff initially ignored him, then treated him with the drug used for overdoses, and shackled him after he had lapsed into a coma.\n\nThe report authors also question the value of the current FAI system in Scotland.\n\nSarah Armstrong, professor of criminology at Glasgow University, said: \"If you were to design a system to maximise the suffering of families who have lost someone to death in prison, a system that would resist any change and is lacking in public access and transparency because most of the evidence is decided before it even gets to court, it is hard to imagine something more suited to those purposes than what we have right now.\"\n\nIn November 2019 the former Justice Secretary announced an independent review into deaths in custody. It is being led by Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, HM chief inspector of prisons for Scotland, and is expected to report back next month.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Every death in custody is a tragedy. The safe treatment and mental health of all those in custody is a key priority for Scotland's prisons, which care for people with higher levels of risk and vulnerability than the general population as a whole.\n\n\"We are determined any lessons that need to be learned will be learned, and that all appropriate agencies must look closely at the outcome of Fatal Accident Inquiries.\"\n\nScottish Conservative justice spokesman Jamie Greene said: \"The SNP have created a broken system that moves at a snail's pace and makes absolutely no effort to correct itself.\n\n\"It is wrong to leave families in the dark like this. The Scottish Conservatives would introduce a legal time limit so that investigations are carried out promptly and ensure that lessons are learnt whenever an FAI concludes.\"", "Thousands of leaseholders who bought homes from a major housebuilder will no longer be subjected to ground rents that double every 10 or 15 years.\n\nCountryside Properties will keep rents at the same level as when they first bought their home after a probe by the Competition and Markets Authority.\n\nCountryside is the latest housebuilder to scrap the \"unfair\" contract terms.\n\nMillions of buyers signed leasehold contracts that campaigners say make homes impossible to mortgage or sell.\n\nThe regulator launched its investigation into leaseholds in 2019 because it was worried that leaseholders were facing huge and unexpected increases in the cost of buying a freehold or massive increases in ground rents, which kick in every 10 to 15 years.\n\nThe commitment from Countryside comes after the CMA launched enforcement action against four housing developers in September 2020.\n\nThese were Countryside and Taylor Wimpey, for using \"possibly unfair contract terms\", and Barratt Developments and Persimmon Homes over the possible mis-selling of leasehold homes. The watchdog's investigation into Barratt Developments and Taylor Wimpey is continuing.\n\nAndrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA, said Countryside leaseholders could breathe a \"sigh of relief\", following the contract changes.\n\n\"No one should feel like a prisoner in their home, trapped by terms that mean they can struggle to sell or mortgage their property,\" he said.\n\n\"We will continue to robustly tackle developers and investors - as we have done over the past two years - to make sure that people aren't taken advantage of.\"\n\nSome of the biggest names in property have changed their terms recently, while others remain under investigation.\n\nIn June, Persimmon agreed for its leaseholders to buy the freehold of their property at a discount, while Aviva, which buys freeholds from house builders, pledged to repay homeowners who saw their ground rents double.\n\nWith a leasehold, the person owns a lease which gives them the right to use the property, but they still have to get their landlord's permission for any work or changes to their homes.\n\nWhen a leasehold flat or house is first sold, a lease is granted for a fixed period of time, typically between 99 and 125 years, but sometimes up to 999 years - although people may extend their lease or buy the freehold.\n\nHowever, leasehold house owners are often charged expensive ground rent as well as fees if they want to make changes to their homes. A leasehold house can also be difficult to sell.\n\nThere were an estimated 4.6 million leasehold dwellings in England between 2019 and 2020, which equated to 19% of the English housing stock. More than two thirds (3.2 million) of the leasehold dwellings were flats and 1.5 million were houses, official figures said.\n\nKatie Kendrick, founder of the National Leasehold Campaign (NLC), said the changes would help people \"escape onerous ground rents that make their homes unmortgageable and unsellable\".\n\n\"We are delighted that Countryside are the next domino to fall in this whole sorry saga of doubling ground rents,\" she added.\n\nCountryside Properties confirmed it no longer sells leasehold homes with doubling ground rents. It will also remove terms which converted clauses which meant ground rent increased in line with the Retail Prices Index (RPI).\n\nIain McPherson, chief executive of Countryside, said the housebuilder had \"engaged extensively and constructively with the CMA throughout the course of its review to reach this positive outcome for affected leaseholders\".\n\nFor Baz Jafar, the leaseholder of a one-bedroom flat which was sold to him by Countryside, the agreement to scrap ground rent increases has been a \"long time coming\".\n\nThe 31-year-old, along with many others living in the same block of flats in north London, discovered the onerous clauses \"one or two years\" after buying the properties.\n\nHe told the BBC most leaseholders in the building had used solicitors recommended by Countryside.\n\n\"We found we could not really move to different mortgage companies,\" said Mr Jafar. \"We could not really sell [the homes] because mortgage companies found these increased terms unacceptable.\"\n\nMr Jafar said when he and others raised the issue with Countryside, the company said rising ground rent payments were \"industry standard\".\n\n\"The whole thing stank from the beginning,\" said Mr Jafar. \"Countryside say they are really happy to come to a solution for leaseholders. People are only affected because Countryside wrote these leases in the first place.\n\n\"I'm disappointed that they [Countryside] have not given any admission of liability. I do not think they should be given any credit for what they are doing.\"\n\nDr Coscelli said Taylor Wimpey and freehold investors had the \"opportunity to do the right thing\" to remove \"problematic clauses from their contracts\".\n\n\"If they refuse, we stand ready to step in and take further action - through the courts, if necessary,\" he said.\n\nNCL co-founder Jo Darbyshire, who lives in a Taylor Wimpey house that was sold in 2010 with ground rent of £295, doubling every 10 years, said it was \"about time\" for the housebuilder to \"do the right thing and match what Countryside are doing\".\n\nTaylor Wimpey declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.\n\nHousing secretary Robert Jenrick said said new legislation would \"put an end to this practice\" by housebuilders for future homeowners, by setting ground rents in new leases at zero.\n\nGround rents typically start at about £250 a year. Doubling clauses mean that this amount escalates over time. Campaigners often say the leasehold system was not properly explained to them when they bought their properties, leaving them trapped in unsellable homes.\n\nThree firms have now agreed to change their ways, but the CMA is continuing to investigate the use of ground rent by Taylor Wimpey and Barratt Homes. The government is introducing new legislation to scrap ground rent on new leases, but homeowners who have already paid high charges in the past want compensation.\n\nFor the four million leaseholders across England and Wales, ground rent is only part of the problem. They do not own a single brick of the building, so they need permission to do any work on the property and can be charged a fee for it.\n\nDevelopers can also sell on the freehold of your home to investors without telling you. Housebuilders say leasehold does work for some developments, but the system remains controversial and reforms slow.", "Simon Coveney faced criticism for his handling of the appointment of Katherine Zappone as a UN special envoy.\n\nIrish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has survived a confidence vote in the Dáil (Irish parliament) following a controversial appointment.\n\nFor weeks, he has been criticised for his handling of the appointment of former government minister Katherine Zappone as a UN special envoy.\n\nHe denied he was lobbied to appoint her but apologised for not informing members of the cabinet.\n\nHe won a confidence motion by 92 votes to 59.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Coveney said he regretted the \"preventable controversy\" over Ms Zappone's appointment, admitting he should have taken the issue more seriously when he was first questioned about it in the summer.\n\nHowever, he insisted the appointment was \"in no way corrupt or dishonest\".\n\nMs Zappone later turned down the job, saying the controversy had undermined the legitimacy of the envoy role.\n\nMr Coveney's party, Fine Gael, is in a coalition government with both Fianna Fáil and the Green Party.\n\nOn 27 July 2021 he informed cabinet ministers that Ms Zappone would become the new \"Special Envoy to the UN for Freedom of Opinion and Expression\".\n\nHowever, the job had not been advertised and it later emerged that neither Fianna Fáil nor Green Party ministers knew about her appointment, including the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin.\n\nKatherine Zappone is a former government minister and a high-profile LGBT rights campaigner\n\nThe Republic's biggest opposition party, Sinn Féin, tabled a motion of no confidence in Mr Coveney on Wednesday - the first day the Dáil (Irish parliament) returned from its summer recess.\n\nBut the government put down a counter confidence motion to be voted on by TDs (members of parliament).\n\nThe taoiseach has described Mr Coveney's failure to inform his government colleagues before the appointment as an \"oversight\".\n\nMr Martin warned Fianna Fáil TDs that they faced a six-month suspension from the parliamentary party if they did not support Mr Coveney in Wednesday's vote.\n\nThe taoiseach's response caused internal divisions within his own party.\n\nBefore the vote on Wednesday evening, Fianna Fáil TD Marc MacSharry resigned from the parliamentary party and insisted he would be voting no confidence in Mr Coveney.\n\nMr MacSharry, who is a long-time critic of Mr Martin, claimed Fianna Fáil policy was currently being \"determined in a fashion consistent with an undemocratic totalitarian regime\".\n\nEarlier in the controversy, it emerged Mr Coveney's party leader Leo Varadkar had not been aware of the special envoy appointment until a week before cabinet, when Ms Zappone texted him about it.\n\nIn messages released by Mr Varadkar in September, he showed that he subsequently asked Mr Coveney about the role before the cabinet meeting in July.\n\nMs Zappone replied her contract was soon to be finalised.\n\nOn 4 August, Ms Zappone announced she would not take on the special envoy position as she believed \"it is clear that criticism of the appointment process has impacted the legitimacy of the role itself\".\n\nSinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald has called for Mr Coveney to be sacked, branding his actions as not being \"of the standard expected of a minister\".\n\nThe Labour Party indicated it did not have confidence in the government but leader Alan Kelly said there were \"bigger issues\" than the row.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Coveney told a party conference he was \"embarrassed\" the appointment had led to a \"fiasco\".\n\n\"It's not been my finest month in politics,\" he said.", "One penny coins were back in production last year after none were minted for general circulation in the previous two years, Royal Mint figures show.\n\nCovid lockdowns meant that many coins were hoarded at home requiring some to be produced for use in the economy.\n\nBanks recently called on people to donate unused loose change to charities after the pandemic hit fundraising.\n\nSome 88 million new 1p coins were minted in 2020 - still well below the levels seen before the two-year pause.\n\nThe figures show that no new £2 coins have been minted for four consecutive years, and no new 2p coins have been produced for three years.\n\nThe Royal Mint has previously stated that it had no plans to resume production of these coins for 10 years, owing to a coin mountain that exists while demand has dropped.\n\nMany more one penny coins have been produced over the years than 2p coins, for practical reasons. The general trend is a fall, owing in part to the rise in use of contactless cards for low-value purchases.\n\nThe limit for a single purchase on a contactless card will increase from £45 to £100 in October.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Royal Mint said: \"The volume and variety of coins which enter circulation is determined by demand from UK banks and Post Offices. When demand rises we consult with HM Treasury before manufacturing more coins.\"\n\nThe Mint has published full details of the variety of coins produced during 2020.\n\nIt said that 330 million coins were released into circulation, which is well down on production levels seen in recent history.\n\nAmong them were new 50p designs commemorating \"Diversity Built Britain\" and the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. Ten million of each of those designs entered circulation, making them relatively widely accessible.\n\nThe most desirable coin for collectors is still the 2009 Kew Gardens 50p.\n\nThe design was created by Christopher Le Brun and features the famous Chinese Pagoda at Kew with a decorative leafy climber twining in and around the tower.\n\nOnly 210,000 were released into circulation.\n\nAlmost all of them are now in collectors' hands, so the chances of coming across one in your change are slim.", "Parent groups are warning of a \"tsunami\" of crippling school-anxiety cases leading to persistent and debilitating absence from education.\n\nThere is no official data on absence due to school anxiety and many affected pupils are labelled truants but support groups are being flooded with calls.\n\nAnd an education lawyer in north-west England says the pandemic has made an \"unprecedented crisis\" even worse.\n\nThe education department said it was investing £17m in school mental health.\n\nChildren with school anxiety may experience physical symptoms such as stomach pain, nausea and headaches before school or have immobilising anxiety, panic attacks or something that seems like a tantrum.\n\nThey may even threaten to harm themselves if parents make them go to school, and yet their parents can still be threatened with fines and court action.\n\nFran Morgan, whose daughter experienced school anxiety, set up support organisation Square Peg to help other families in similar situations.\n\n\"We are seeing a tsunami on the horizon,\" she says.\n\nThe issue is poorly understood and often incorrectly labelled \"school refusal\".\n\n\"It's not about refusal - it's not a child that won't do something. It's about a child that physically can't,\" Fran says.\n\n\"It's a debilitating level of anxiety which prevents attendance and the consequences to families are catastrophic.\"\n\nMany parents are being prosecuted and fined under legislation put in place to stop parents taking children on holiday in term time.\n\n\"But it's penalising all those parents whose children are stuck in the system,\" Fran says.\n\n\"We know all the problems with the special educational needs and disability system, we know the problem accessing children mental health services - a lot of those children are the ones who are struggling to attend and parents are being penalised for that.\"\n\nMatty, 16, from West Yorkshire, missed 18 months of schooling, after struggling with his mental health and having panic attacks.\n\n\"I don't think people understand it,\" he says.\n\n\"If I broke my leg, people would understand it - but they don't understand it because it's not visible.\n\n\"I just didn't want to go in - just like dread, almost, of going in.\"\n\nMatty's mother, Heidi Mavir, says: \"It was really tough for both of us, all of us really.\n\n\"He was desperate to go to school - he really wanted to be in school.\n\n\"He kept saying, 'I'll try again Mum. I'll try really hard.'\n\n\"But I think what people don't understand about mental health and anxiety in particular is, like any health problem, if you can't do something, you can't do something.\n\n\"No amount of trying to think yourself out of it will make any difference to that.\"\n\nMatty is now at a specialist school.\n\nSinclairs Law chief executive Mike Charles, a specialist solicitor in education law, says he is dealing with about 50 requests for help with the issue a week.\n\n\"We are facing an unprecedented crisis of proportions we have never seen in certainly my experience, spanning 30 years,\" he says.\n\n\"School anxiety and generally the mental health of our children has been a massive issue for many years but it's particularly more pronounced since the pandemic, because the impact this has had on children has undoubtedly affected their mental health in a very substantial way.\"\n\nBeth Bodycote founded the support group Not Fine In School nearly four years ago.\n\nBut over the year to September 2021, coinciding with school lockdowns and the pandemic, its membership grew by nearly 50% - to 17,924.\n\nIncreasing numbers of children and young people are struggling with mental-health issues, including anxiety, stress, and depression, but many schools are adopting a stricter approach to attendance, Beth says.\n\n\"For instance, we have seen families who had organised a temporary part-time timetable being told it is now no longer possible,\" she says.\n\n\"Fines and court action remain a threat for many parents even though these punitive actions do nothing to resolve the underlying causes of absence from school.\n\n\"There needs to be a move away from strict blanket policies about attendance and behaviour, to adopt a much more flexible and child-led approach, especially for children and young people who are struggling.\"\n\nParents are often asked to provide evidence of mental ill health causing absence - but a GP's letter is often insufficient.\n\nAnd many families may still be waiting for mental-health support or have had it refused.\n\nA Department for Education official said: \"In exceptional circumstances, head teachers have discretion to authorise absence - and fines should only be used as a last resort.\n\n\"Where a pupil does not attend, the school, family and council should work together to agree a plan for attendance, because the classroom is the best place for their education, development and wellbeing.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US, UK and Australian leaders welcomed what President Biden described as a \"historic step\"\n\nThe UK, US and Australia have announced a historic security pact in the Asia-Pacific, in what's seen as an effort to counter China.\n\nIt will let Australia build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, using technology provided by the US.\n\nThe Aukus pact, which will also cover AI and other technologies, is one of the countries' biggest defence partnerships in decades, analysts say.\n\nChina has condemned the agreement as \"extremely irresponsible\".\n\nForeign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said it \"seriously undermines regional peace and stability and intensifies the arms race\".\n\nChina's embassy in Washington accused the countries of a \"Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice\".\n\nThe pact also created a row with France, which has now lost a deal with Australia to build 12 submarines.\n\n\"It's really a stab in the back,\" France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Info radio.\n\nThe new partnership was announced in a joint virtual press conference between US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on Wednesday.\n\nAnd while China was not mentioned directly, the three leaders referred repeatedly to regional security concerns which they said had \"grown significantly\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said China was \"embarking on one of the biggest military spends in history\".\n\n\"It is growing its navy [and] air force at a huge rate. Obviously it is engaged in some disputed areas,\" he said. \"Our partners in those regions want to be able to stand their own ground.\"\n\nIn recent years, Beijing has been accused of raising tensions in disputed territories such as the South China Sea.\n\nOn Thursday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the pact would \"preserve security and stability around the world\" and generate \"hundreds of high-skilled jobs\".\n\nHe also said the relationship with France was \"rock solid\".\n\nThe Aukus alliance is probably the most significant security arrangement between the three nations since World War Two, analysts say.\n\nThe pact will focus on military capability, separating it from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance which also includes New Zealand and Canada.\n\nWhile Australia's submarines is the big-ticket item, Aukus will also involve the sharing of cyber capabilities and other undersea technologies.\n\n\"This is an historic opportunity for the three nations, with like-minded allies and partners, to protect shared values and promote security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region,\" the joint statement read.\n\n\"This really shows that all three nations are drawing a line in the sand to start and counter [China's] aggressive moves in the Indo-Pacific,\" said Guy Boekenstein from the Asia Society Australia.\n\nFrance's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said trust with Australia \"had been betrayed\"\n\nWestern nations have been wary of China's infrastructure investment on Pacific islands, and have also criticised China's trade sanctions against countries like Australia.\n\nAustralia had in the past maintained good relations with China, its biggest trading partner. But the relationship has broken down in recent years amid political tensions.\n\nBut there is tension now too with France, after Australia tore up the A$50bn (€31bn; £27bn) deal to build 12 submarines.\n\n\"We had established a relationship of trust with Australia, this trust has been betrayed,\" Mr Le Drian said.\n\nThese submarines are much faster and harder to detect than conventionally powered fleets. They can stay submerged for months, shoot missiles longer distances and also carry more.\n\nHaving them stationed in Australia is critical to US influence in the region, analysts say.\n\nThe US is sharing its submarine technology for the first time in 50 years. It had previously only shared technology with the UK.\n\nAustralia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines, after the US, UK, France, China, India and Russia.\n\nAustralia has reaffirmed it has no intention of obtaining nuclear weapons.\n\nMeanwhile New Zealand said it would ban Australia's submarines from its waters, in line with an existing policy on the presence of nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nNew Zealand, although a Five Eyes member, has been more cautious in aligning with either the US or China in the Pacific.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her nation had not been approached to join the pact.", "Most children are expected to receive their jab in school\n\nYoung people aged 12 to 15 in Northern Ireland will be offered Covid vaccines, while all over-50s and healthcare staff will be offered booster jabs.\n\nThe changes to the vaccine programme were announced by Stormont's Department of Health, with the first boosters to be given within 10 to 15 days.\n\nPeople aged 16 to 49 with underlying health issues can also have boosters.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said it would protect young people and prolong protection for those most at risk.\n\nAn estimated 900,000 people will be eligible to receive a booster jab in Northern Ireland.\n\nCare home residents will be first on the list when the booster roll-out begins in late September, according to the head of Northern Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination programme, Patricia Donnelly.\n\nMs Donnelly also said 12 to 15-year-olds were likely to be offered their vaccines in October.\n\nThere are about 98,000 young people aged from 12 to 15 in Northern Ireland and the decision to vaccine that cohort comes after the UK's four chief medical officers recommended the step.\n\nThese young people will be offered a single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine with parental consent sought prior to vaccination.\n\nMost school-aged children aged 12 to 15 are expected to primarily receive their Covid-19 vaccination in school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patricia Donnelly believes 12 to 15-year-olds will be offered jabs next month\n\nA schools-based vaccination programme is the model used for vaccinations including for human papillomavirus (HPV) and the annual flu programme.\n\nThey will be supported by GPs where necessary.\n\nConsent forms for vaccination will begin to be distributed via schools shortly, the department said.\n\nThere will be alternative provision for those who are home-schooled or in secure services.\n\nYoung people aged 12 to 15 who are part of an at-risk group will receive two doses, eight weeks apart, in line with advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\n\"This move will help protect young people from catching Covid-19 and is expected to prevent disruption in schools by reducing transmission,\" the health minister said.\n\nVaccinations for children aged between 12 and 15 in the Republic of Ireland began in August.\n\nThe Covid-19 booster vaccine announcement followed advice from the JCVI.\n\nThey advised booster jabs should be offered to people who are more at-risk from serious disease and were vaccinated as priority groups during the first phase of the vaccination programme early this year.\n\nCare home residents will be the first to be offered booster vaccines\n\nThe Department of Health said this meant the booster jabs will be offered to:\n\nMr Swann said care home residents and front-line health and social care workers would be first on the list.\n\n\"By early October we expect to see GPs starting to invite their oldest patients in to receive their booster dose as they pass the six-month mark from receiving their second dose,\" he said.\n\nRegardless of which vaccine brand these patients received in the earlier stages of the programme, the JCVI has advised a \"preference\" for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the booster programme.\n\n\"This follows data from the Cov-Boost trial that indicates the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is well tolerated as a third dose and provides a strong booster response,\" the department said.\n\nIt added that a half dose of the Moderna vaccine may be offered as an alternative, and in cases where patients have certain allergies, an AstraZeneca vaccine may be considered for booster protection.\n\nAs many younger adults have only recently received their second vaccine jab, the benefits of boosters for under-50s who are at less risk from Covid-19 are to be considered at a later date.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritish sprinter CJ Ujah's 'B' sample has tested positive, confirming the result of his initial test from the Tokyo Olympics.\n\nUjah, 27, was part of the British men's 4x100m relay team which won silver at the rearranged 2020 Olympics.\n\nThey will now almost certainly lose those medals.\n\nUjah was provisionally suspended when a test taken at the Games - his 'A' sample - tested positive for banned substances Ostarine and S-23.\n\nAthletes have the right to request that a back-up sample, taken at the same time as the A-sample, be tested to confirm the initial result.\n\nOstarine is listed as an anabolic agent - banned at all times - in the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) list of prohibited substances.\n\nThe UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) website said it has \"similar effects to testosterone\".\n\nS23 is a Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator (Sarm), which, according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) has \"similar anabolic properties to anabolic steroids\".\n\nThe International Testing Agency said the case has now been referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport Anti-Doping Division, which will rule on whether the British relay team - also including Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake - should be disqualified.\n\nOlympic and World Athletics' rules state \"where the athlete who has committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation competed as a member of a relay team, the relay team shall be automatically disqualified from the event in question... including the forfeiture of all titles, awards, medals, points and prize and appearance money\".", "Pope Francis spoke to reporters while on board a flight from Slovakia to Italy\n\nThe Pope has said he does not know how to explain why some cardinals in the Catholic Church are hesitant to get the Covid-19 jab.\n\n\"It's a bit strange because humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines,\" Francis told reporters during a flight from Slovakia to Italy.\n\nThe pontiff, who is vaccinated himself, has previously encouraged people to get jabbed for the \"common good\".\n\nHe said one cardinal had ended up in intensive care with Covid-19.\n\nFrancis did not name the man he was referring to, but conservative US Cardinal Raymond Burke, 73, recently spent days on a ventilator in hospital after contracting the virus.\n\nIt is unclear whether Cardinal Burke is vaccinated or not, but in the past he has been critical of vaccination.\n\n\"Even in the College of Cardinals there are some vaccine negationists,\" the Pope told reporters aboard the Papal plane. \"But one of them, poor thing, has been hospitalised with the virus. These are the ironies of life.\"\n\nHe added that almost everyone at the Vatican was now vaccinated, and that they were \"studying how to help\" those who were hesitant.\n\n\"As children [we were vaccinated] for measles, polio - all the children were vaccinated and no one said anything,\" he exclaimed.\n\nBut the pontiff did recognise that some vaccine debates could increase fears and uncertainty about the jabs, to which he said \"we should clarify things and speak calmly\".\n\nSome religious leaders, especially in the United States, believe Catholics should be allowed to claim conscientious objection to the Covid-19 vaccines on religious grounds. However Pope Francis has disagreed with this, and said the vaccines were \"morally acceptable\" and could be used \"in good conscience\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The Gospel Truth?' Covid-19 vaccines and the danger of religious misinformation", "Fashion firms Asos and Primark have announced new sustainability commitments, with both saying they will keep prices affordable.\n\nAsos says it is aiming to achieve a net-zero impact on the environment by 2030.\n\nPrimark says its clothes will be made using recycled or \"more sustainably sourced materials\" by the same date.\n\nThe budget retailer has also promised to halve carbon emissions across its operations.\n\nCritics warned, however, that these goals will be hard to track as fast-fashion supply chains often lack transparency.\n\nOn Thursday, Asos set out new environmental and social targets. They include:\n\nIts chief executive, Nick Beighton, told the BBC's Today programme: \"We need to work with our partners on this to offset any minimal cost increases we anticipate from doing this.\"\n\nHe added that he expects more consumers to choose to shop with Asos based on those commitments.\n\n\"The responsibility for a sustainable future lies with all of us and businesses must lead the way,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement, Primark also said it would design its clothes to be more durable so they can be recycled and last longer - without increasing its prices.\n\nIt said it would \"pursue a living wage for workers in its supply chain\", but did not specify how much this wage would be in the countries where it has employees or when this would happen. Primark has 397 stores across 14 countries and employs about 70,000 people.\n\nThe company's chief executive, Paul Marchant, said: \"Sustainability shouldn't be priced at a premium that only a minority can afford.\n\n\"Because of who we are, we believe we have the opportunity to make more sustainable fashion choices affordable to all.\"\n\nPrimark said it would eliminate single-use plastics in its own operations, but it does not own the majority of factories which manufacture its clothes.\n\nHowever, Noelle Hatley, lecturer in fashion business at Manchester Metropolitan University's Fashion Institute, said that using language such as \"ambitions\" and \"pursuing\" was vague.\n\n\"They need to be setting measurable targets, how many suppliers and factories and by what date will living wages be paid?\"\n\nOver the next year, Primark said it would make all men's, women's and kids' entry price point T-shirts from sustainably sourced cotton.\n\nBut Ms Hatley said that \"without transparency of costings it is difficult to know how they can achieve this as the fast fashion business model relies on 'unsustainable' or 'below real cost' prices\".\n\nThough she said the announcement is encouraging, Ms Hatley added that if prices are being maintained, it \"would be good for them to share how they are achieving this; for example, are they accepting a lower margin, or is the factory being paid the same for what could be more expensive materials?\"\n\nKate Fletcher, research professor at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at the University of the Arts London, said that the problem of fast-fashion is volume and questions remain about how Primark is going to put limits around how many pieces it produces.\n\n\"The real change comes with the detail not in the commitments and aspirations,\" she said.\n\n\"What I'd like to see are details on what the real and living wages would be in different countries.\"\n\nPrimark was one of a number of retailers that attracted strong criticism in 2013 after more than 1,100 workers were killed in the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh.\n\nThe Irish firm - which was one of 23 brands being produced at the garment factory - extended payments to victims and families affected. A worker in a Bangladeshi factory typically earns around 10p an hour.\n\nIt was one of the worst industrial accidents in recent memory and prompted more scrutiny of working conditions in garment factories.\n\nThe global fashion industry produced an estimated 2.1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2018, and uses more energy than both aviation and shipping combined. It also accounts for nearly 20% of waste water.\n\nAsos was also criticised in a recent report by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) that found that more than a third of items listed on its website were made entirely from new plastics.\n\nThe RSA pointed out that Asos had performed better than other firms such as Boohoo and Missguided, but said that fast fashion firms had more work to do.\n\nIn the UK, citizens buy more new clothes than any other European country and an estimated 350,000 tonnes of clothes end up in landfill every year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Concert promoters say restrictions at indoor gigs mean big acts are pulling out of Northern Ireland\n\nRestrictions at indoor concerts could lead to more big acts pulling out of Northern Ireland, event organisers have warned.\n\nOver the summer, acts such as Genesis, Van Morrison and JC Stewart cancelled or rescheduled gigs in Belfast because of social distancing rules.\n\nThe current rules mean one metre social distancing at indoor events, seated guests only and no dancing.\n\nBut concert promoters have called for the distancing rule to be re-examined.\n\nThe director of events at the Waterfront Hall and Ulster Hall said the issue should be addressed sooner rather than later.\n\nEvent organisers warn that more \"big names\" could put out of Northern Ireland dates\n\nCharlie McCloskey said most of September's bookings have now been postponed or rescheduled.\n\n\"We have 16 events booked but 15 of those have had to reschedule because they were sold at full capacity without social distancing.\n\n\"The current one metre social distancing still leaves live events unfeasible.\n\n\"We understand that the virus is still out there. We're going to have to live with it.\"\n\nPromoter and venue owner Joe Dougan told BBC News NI more events were \"in jeopardy\" in the coming months unless rules are changed or indicative dates are set.\n\nA series of gigs by Sir Van Morrison were cancelled at the beginning of the summer\n\n\"I think if some movement does not come on the 23 September, we'll be in a dire position,\" he said.\n\n\"It is the lack of an indicative date that is hurting us most in this industry at the moment.\n\n\"We are the only part of the British Isles which hasn't set a date or reopened.\n\n\"We have no ability to plan. Over the summer months we lost a tonne of money because of reduced capacities.\"\n\nMr Dougan said he has cancelled 30 events which were booked to go ahead in the month of September.\n\n\"This is an expensive business and this is simply not commercially viable.\"\n\nMany of those working in the events sector remain on furlough, which is due to end at the end of the month.\n\nA spokesperson for the Executive Office said: \"Further consideration will be given to the remaining restrictions when the executive next meets.\n\n\"Any decisions will take full account of the health, economic and social context.\"", "Charles Breslin, David Powell, Philip Hill and Garry Jenkins (l-r) died after water rushed into the Gleision colliery a decade ago\n\nThe families of four miners who died in a south Wales colliery disaster 10 years ago are calling for an inquest.\n\nCharles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, Phillip Hill, 44, and Garry Jenkins, 39, died when water flooded the Gleision drift mine in September 2011.\n\nThe mine's manager and owners were cleared of manslaughter charges in 2014.\n\nCharles Breslin's widow, Mavis, said she felt \"cheated\" of a husband and an inquest.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said it could not comment because the investigation into the inrush and subsequent trial were led by the police and Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe mine shaft flooded after a controlled explosion on 15 September 2011\n\nLynette Powell, whose husband David celebrated his 50th birthday in the weeks before he died, said all she had was a temporary death certificate.\n\n\"That is no closure for me,\" she said. \"I haven't got an inquest. Not only for me, for all the families.\"\n\nIt comes as two survivors of the Gleision mine tragedy told the Wales Investigates programme they felt their colleagues' deaths in 2011 had been \"swept under the carpet\".\n\nNigel Evans and Jake Wyatt were two of only three survivors of the Gleision mine disaster\n\nIn their first media interview since the tragedy, Jake Wyatt, 68, and Nigel Evans, 49, spoke of alleged illegal workings in the mine, and said they felt authorities had failed to get to the bottom of what might have caused the four miners' deaths.\n\nWhile it's not known what, if any, impact these alleged illegal workings had on the inrush, Lee Reynolds, a former surveyor for Gleision mine who gave evidence in the trial, questioned whether they had been noticed or acted on by the HSE.\n\nMr Reynolds has been working with Maria Seage, the co-owner of Gleision mine, to get more information on the HSE's role over the years and its subsequent investigation.\n\nHe called on authorities to look into whether opportunities to improve safety at the mine prior to the inrush had been missed.\n\nHe said: \"When you get a major incident - and I believe four people getting killed tragically is a major incident - they have a prior role investigation. It should be undertaken independently.\n\n\"With what we're finding in our investigation, a prior role investigation should have been undertaken, but wasn't.\"\n\nLee Reynolds, a former surveyor for Gleision mine, has called on authorities to consider whether opportunities had been missed\n\nThe water inrush at the Gleision drift mine, near Cilybebyll, Neath Port Talbot, on 15 September 2011, happened after the men blasted through to old, disused workings in an effort to improve air circulation in the mine.\n\nThe mine manager Malcolm Fyfield said he had checked the old workings for water prior to the accident and found none, but in court he was accused of gross negligence manslaughter for failing to notify the HSE of his intentions to knock through to the old workings, which was a legal requirement.\n\nMr Fyfield, 58, and owners MNS Mining were found not guilty of manslaughter charges [gross negligence manslaughter and corporate manslaughter, respectively] following a three-month trial in 2014.\n\nThe jury in the multimillion-pound trial reached not guilty verdicts after just 30 minutes of deliberation.\n\nFollowing the trial, the acting coroner for Swansea decided not to not to hold full inquests for the four men.\n\nThe water inrush at the Gleision drift mine happened after the men blasted through to old, disused workings\n\nA subsequent factual report, published by the HSE in 2015, gave details of the underground investigation undertaken by its inspectors after the tragedy, but was unable to explore issues that had not been raised in court.\n\nAn HSE spokesman said it would be inappropriate to comment on the points raised by Mr Reynolds and the families because it did not lead the investigation into the tragedy.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"Our thoughts are with the families on this poignant anniversary. We supported the South Wales Police investigation at the time which ended in a manslaughter trial, but HSE did not bring any charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 in addition to their prosecution.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: There's no single trigger for bringing back restrictions but we'll keep an eye on the NHS\n\nPressure on the NHS is the main factor that would lead to tighter Covid restrictions in England, the health secretary has said.\n\nSajid Javid told the BBC there was not a \"single trigger\" for the government moving to its \"Plan B\" measures.\n\nBut he said how the NHS was coping was the number one issue to watch.\n\nGovernment scientists have warned that there could be a large jump in Covid hospital admissions if restrictions are not tightened soon.\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said its modelling suggested hospitalisations could reach 2,000 to 7,000 per day next month.\n\nCurrently there is an average of just over 750 Covid admissions per day in England.\n\nThe scientists said a \"relatively light set of measures\" could keep case numbers down if they were brought in early enough.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson hopes to avoid the need for additional restrictions by getting more people vaccinated.\n\nAs he announced his winter plan for tackling Covid in England on Tuesday, he said some measures would be kept in reserve for if the NHS faced unsustainable pressure - including vaccine passports, mandatory face masks and advising people to work from home.\n\nMr Javid told BBC Breakfast: \"We don't want to get to a position ever again where there's unsustainable pressure on the NHS so it's not able to see people in the usual way when it needs to, particularly emergency patients.\n\n\"So in my mind that is the number one issue that we need to always, always keep an eye on.\"\n\nThe health secretary said factors would include hospital admission numbers, pressures on A&E and staffing levels.\n\nAppearing on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Javid was pressed on why the government was not acting early to prevent a rise in hospital admissions.\n\nHe said the UK now had \"much better defences\" than it did a year ago, including vaccines, new treatments and an improved testing and surveillance system.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protecting the NHS from being overwhelmed \"has to remain the objective\" says the PM\n\nPapers released by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) on Tuesday, dated 8 September, said there was \"potential for another large wave of hospitalisations\".\n\nVirus modellers advising the committee - the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M) - said it was possible the virus would spread more rapidly after the return of schools and more people going back to their workplaces.\n\nThey said high levels of home-working had been very important for curbing the epidemic in recent months, with a significant decrease \"highly likely\" to lead to a rapid increase in hospital admissions.\n\nAs well as encouraging working from home, they suggested \"light-touch measures\" such as clear messaging telling people to \"act cautiously\", more widespread testing, a return to requiring all contacts of cases to isolate, and more mask-wearing.\n\nIf hospitalisation rates were allowed to get too high then much more stringent and disruptive measures would be needed, they said.\n\nHowever, the body acknowledged its previous warning - that lifting all restrictions over the summer might prompt a large scale outbreak - had not been borne out by events.\n\nDaily Covid cases have also been falling in England over the past week.\n\nThe modellers who report into the Sage committee were too pessimistic back in July when they assumed the opening up of society would lead to a surge in infections and hospital admissions.\n\nThe latest set of papers notes that the closure of schools, warm weather and large numbers of people being required to self-isolate played a bigger than expected role in curbing infections.\n\nBut they go on to say that the peak time for cases expected previously from August has now simply been pushed back to October through to December.\n\nThe return of schools and colleges could push up case rates. Another large wave of hospitalisations looms, they say.\n\nThey lean towards early light touch intervention by ministers, for example getting more people to work from home again.\n\nIn effect this is calling on the government to enact Plan B for England soon.\n\nSceptics will say modellers have got it wrong before and a pinch of salt is needed with the latest papers. But few would deny the possibility of a very difficult winter ahead.\n\nEpidemiologist Prof Andrew Hayward says the focus should now be on the number of hospital admissions and the ability of the NHS to cope, rather on the number Covid cases, because of the impact of vaccines.\n\nProf Hayward, who is a member of Sage but was speaking in a personal capacity, also said working from home would make \"a significant difference to transmission if we get into trouble\".\n\n\"The most important and effective way of reducing spread of the virus is not to be in contact with other people,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nProf Stephen Reicher, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which feeds into Sage, said the number of contacts people had per week had risen to the highest number for a year - but this was mostly down to people going into work.\n\nHe told Times Radio people should be allowed to continue to work from home if they can, rather than being forced back into the office.\n\nThe country is entering the autumn with a much higher level of cases, hospital admissions and deaths than last year.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK reported a further 26,628 cases and another 185 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. The most recent data showed there were 8,413 Covid patients in hospital.\n\nOn 15 September last year, there were 3,105 daily cases and 27 deaths reported, along with 1,066 Covid patients in hospital.\n\nHowever, vaccines are now offering extensive protection against severe illness. Some 81.2% of people aged 16 and over in the UK are fully vaccinated.\n\nAll over-50s in the UK - as well as those in other vulnerable groups - are to be offered a booster shot at least six months after their second dose, with 12 to 15-year-olds also being offered a single dose.\n\nWhat questions do you have about this story? And please also share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after a chaotic 45 days in Downing Street. But where did she come from and what makes her tick?\n\nA Remain supporter who became the darling of the Brexit-backing Conservative right wing.\n\nA former Liberal Democrat activist, who marched against Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, but claimed to be the keeper of the Thatcherite flame. It is fair to say that Mary Elizabeth Truss has been on a political journey.\n\nShe was not a household name, like her predecessor Boris Johnson, when she became PM. But she leaves having made history; serving the shortest tenure of any UK prime minister.\n\nDuring the leadership election this summer, her promise to return to fundamental Conservative values - cutting taxes and shrinking the state - proved to be exactly what party members, who got the final say over who took over from Mr Johnson, wanted to hear.\n\nAnd, crucially, as foreign secretary she had remained loyal to Mr Johnson until the bitter end, as other ministers deserted him. It won her favour with Johnson loyalists.\n\nGrassroots Tory supporters of Liz Truss saw in her the steadfast, tenacious and determined qualities they admired in Margaret Thatcher - an image Ms Truss herself has tried to cultivate.\n\nBut despite her shifting political positions and allegiances over the years, these words also come up frequently when friends and family are asked to describe her character - along with \"ambitious\".\n\nFamily: Married to accountant Hugh O'Leary with two teenage daughters\n\n\"She's a very opinionated person in terms of what she wants,\" said her brother Francis in 2017, when recalling his older sister's teenage dalliance with vegetarianism.\n\n\"When you go to a restaurant, you might be 14 but she was precocious about what she wants, what she didn't want.\"\n\nWhen the family played Cluedo or Monopoly, \"she was someone who had to win,\" added Francis in a BBC Radio 4 profile of Truss.\n\n\"She would create some special system to work out how she could win.\"\n\nMaurizio Giuliano, a university contemporary who first met her at a Liberal Democrat event, says she stood out from the other students.\n\n\"I remember her being very well-dressed compared to other 18 to 19-year-olds. She also had the demeanour of a real adult compared to what we were at that age.\n\n\"She was forceful and opinionated and she had very strong views.\"\n\nSerious political debate was the order of the day in the Truss household, according to Francis, the youngest of her three younger brothers.\n\n\"You didn't sit around talking about the latest Megadrive game at the dinner table, it was much more issues, political campaigns etc,\" he told Radio 4's Profile programme.\n\nIt must have felt inevitable that she would get involved in politics in some capacity when she grew up, but no-one in her family would have predicted the path she eventually took.\n\nBorn in Oxford in 1975, Ms Truss has described her father, a mathematics professor, and her mother, a nurse, as \"left-wing\".\n\nAs a young girl, her mother took her on marches for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, an organisation vehemently opposed to the Thatcher government's decision to allow US nuclear warheads to be installed at RAF Greenham Common, west of London.\n\nThough she is now proudly a Conservative from Leeds, back then she was a Scottish liberal.\n\nThe family moved to Paisley, just west of Glasgow, when Ms Truss was four-years-old.\n\nIn a BBC interview, she recalled shouting \"Maggie, Maggie, Maggie - oot, oot, oot,\" in a Scottish accent, as she took part in marches.\n\nThe Truss family later decamped to Leeds, where she attended Roundhay, a state secondary school. She has described seeing \"children who failed and were let down by low expectations\" during her time there.\n\nSome of Ms Truss's contemporaries at Roundhay have disputed her account of the school, including Guardian journalist Martin Pengelly, who wrote: \"Perhaps she is selectively deploying her upbringing, and casually traducing the school and teachers who nurtured her, for simple political gain.\"\n\nOne Roundhay school mate, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"It was a really good school, really supportive teachers. Quite a lot of us have gone on to good universities and good careers.\"\n\nAlthough not part of her friendship group, he has clear memories of the young Truss.\n\n\"She was quite studious, serious,\" he says, with a \"heavy social conscience\" and part of a group that were into environmentalism.\n\n\"I remember a school trip to Sellafield and her asking difficult questions and giving them a grilling. I remember that quite distinctly.\"\n\nAt Oxford University, Ms Truss read philosophy, politics and economics. Friends recall a well-liked, if frenetic student.\n\nThe teenage Truss caused a stir at the Lib Dem conference with her anti-monarchy stance\n\n\"I remember her determination which was very impressive for me,\" says Jamshid Derakhshan, who was studying for a postgrad degree in mathematics when Truss was an undergraduate.\n\n\"She was very quick with everything. Going around the college quickly, being everywhere.\"\n\nAs to what sort of prime minister his old friend will make, Dr Derakhshan says: \"My feeling is she's not going to be stuck with one particular idea, she's very flexible in her mind and what will be best for the time.\"\n\nMs Truss was involved in many campaigns and causes at Oxford but devoted much of her time to politics, becoming president of the university's Liberal Democrats.\n\nAt the party's 1994 conference, she spoke in favour of abolishing the monarchy, telling delegates in Brighton: \"We Liberal Democrats believe in opportunity for all. We do not believe people are born to rule.\"\n\nShe also campaigned for the decriminalisation of cannabis.\n\n\"Liz had a very strong radical liberal streak to her,\" said fellow Lib Dem student Alan Renwick in 2017.\n\n\"We were setting up the Freshers Fair stall, Liz was there with a pile of posters, saying 'Free the Weed' and she just wanted the whole stall to be covered with these posters.\n\n\"I was scurrying around after Liz trying to take these down and put up a variety of messages, rather than just this one message all over the stall.\"\n\nHer Instagram posts have seen a transformation, from candid shots posing with rhubarb... to striding out of high-level meetings flanked by assistants\n\nHer conversion to conservatism, towards the end of her time at Oxford is said to have shocked her left-leaning parents, but for Mark Littlewood, a fellow Oxford Lib Dem, it was a natural progression.\n\n\"She's been a market liberal all of her adult life,\" according to Mr Littlewood, who is now director general of the libertarian, free market think-tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs.\n\n\"Her political career reflects her ideology - she has always been highly sceptical of big government and privileged institutions who think they know best,\" Mr Littlewood said.\n\nShe clearly changed parties, but that \"was a judgement about what's the best and most likely vehicle for her to succeed in politics and get what she wants to get done,\" Mr Littlewood said.\n\nNevertheless, what she has described as her \"dubious past\" came back to haunt her as she tried to convince Tory members she was truly one of them.\n\nAt a leadership hustings in Eastbourne, some in the audience jeered, as she told them: \"We all make mistakes, we all had teenage misadventures, and that was mine.\n\n\"Some people have sex, drugs and rock and roll, I was in the Liberal Democrats. I'm sorry.\"\n\nShe had become a Conservative because she had met like-minded people who shared her commitment to \"personal freedom, the ability to shape your own life and shape your own destiny,\" she explained.\n\nAfter graduating from Oxford she worked as an accountant for Shell, and Cable & Wireless, and married fellow accountant Hugh O'Leary in 2000. The couple have two children.\n\nMs Truss stood as the Tory candidate for Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, in the 2001 general election, but lost. She suffered another defeat in Calder Valley, also in West Yorkshire, in 2005.\n\nBut, her political ambitions undimmed, she was elected as a councillor in Greenwich, south-east London, in 2006, and from 2008 also worked for the right-of-centre Reform think tank.\n\nLiz Truss became an MP in 2010\n\nConservative leader David Cameron put Ms Truss on his \"A-list\" of priority candidates for the 2010 election and she was selected to stand for the safe seat of South West Norfolk.\n\nBut she quickly faced a battle against de-selection by the constituency Tory association, after it was revealed she had had an affair with Tory MP Mark Field some years earlier.\n\nThe effort to oust her failed and Ms Truss went on to win the seat by more than 13,000 votes.\n\nShe co-authored a book, Britannia Unchained, with four other Conservative MPs elected in 2010, which recommended stripping back state regulation to boost the UK's position in the world, marking her out as a prominent advocate of free market policies on the Tory benches.\n\nDuring a BBC leadership debate, she was challenged about a comment in Britannia Unchained, describing British workers as \"among the worst idlers in the world\". She insisted she had not written it.\n\nIn 2012, just over two years after becoming an MP, she entered government as an education minister and in 2014 was promoted to environment secretary.\n\nAt the 2014 Conservative conference, she made a speech in which she said, in an impassioned voice: \"We import two-thirds of our cheese. That. Is. A. Disgrace.\"\n\nThe speech was little noticed at the time, but it has taken on a life of its own on social media, attracting much mockery and becoming widely shared.\n\nTwo years later came arguably the biggest political event in a generation - the EU referendum.\n\nMs Truss campaigned for Remain, writing in the Sun newspaper that Brexit would be \"a triple tragedy - more rules, more forms and more delays when selling to the EU\".\n\nHowever, after her side lost, she changed her mind, arguing that Brexit provided an opportunity to \"shake up the way things work\".\n\nBecoming the first female Lord Chancellor and justice secretary in 2016\n\nUnder Theresa May's premiership, she became the first female Lord Chancellor and justice secretary, but she had several high-profile clashes with the judiciary.\n\nHer initial failure to defend judges after they were branded \"enemies of the people\" by the Daily Mail, when they ruled Parliament had to be given a vote on triggering Brexit, upset the legal establishment.\n\nShe later issued a statement supporting the judges, but she was criticised by Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd as \"completely and absolutely wrong\" for not speaking out sooner.\n\nAfter 11 months as justice secretary, she was demoted to chief secretary to the Treasury.\n\nWhen Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019, Ms Truss was moved to international trade secretary - a job which meant meeting global political and business leaders to promote UK PLC.\n\nLiz Truss held a frosty joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in the weeks before the invasion of Ukraine\n\nIn 2021, aged 46, she moved to one of the most senior jobs in government, taking over from Dominic Raab as foreign secretary.\n\nIn this role she has sought to solve the knotty problem of the Northern Ireland Protocol, by scrapping parts of a post-Brexit EU-UK deal - a move the EU fiercely criticised.\n\nShe secured the release of two British-Iranian nationals who had both been arrested and detained in Iran.\n\nAnd when Russia invaded Ukraine in February she took a hard line, insisting all of Vladimir Putin's forces should be driven from the country.\n\nBut she faced criticism for backing people from the UK who wanted to fight in Ukraine.\n\nHer decision to pose for photographs in a tank while visiting British troops in Estonia, was seen as an attempt to emulate Margaret Thatcher, who had famously been pictured aboard a Challenger tank in 1986. It also fuelled speculation that she was on leadership manoeuvres.\n\nClaims she was deliberately trying to channel Thatcher grew even louder when she posed for a photograph in a white pussy bow collar of the kind favoured by the Iron Lady.\n\nBut she has always dismissed such criticism, telling GB News: \"It is quite frustrating that female politicians always get compared to Margaret Thatcher while male politicians don't get compared to Ted Heath.\"\n\nLiz Truss posed for official shots in a tank whilst visiting British troops in Estonia last year\n\nMs Truss's campaign for the party leadership was not free of controversy.\n\nPressed on how she would tackle the cost-of-living crisis, she said she would focus her efforts on \"lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts\".\n\nShe has been forced to scrap a plan to link public sector pay to regional living costs by a backlash from senior Tories who said it would mean lower pay for millions of workers outside London.\n\nAnd she called Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon an \"attention seeker\", adding it was best to \"ignore her\".\n\nShe also got into a spat with French President Emmanuel Macron, who accused her of \"playing to the gallery\" at a leadership hustings. Asked if Mr Macron was a \"friend or foe\", she had said the jury was still out.\n\nBut it was domestic issues, or rather one domestic issue, that dominated the sometimes fractious leadership contest with Rishi Sunak.\n\nMs Truss's response to the cost-of-living crisis was always likely to define her premiership. And ultimately her time in Downing Street began to rapidly unravel following her disastrous \"mini-budget\".\n\nLiz Truss now becomes the shortest-serving prime minister in UK history.", "Britain is about to embark on a world tour - in the shape of the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by a fleet of warships.\n\nThe Royal Navy says it will be the most powerful UK naval deployment in a generation.\n\nThe government sees the fleet, named the Carrier Strike Group, as a potent symbol of \"Global Britain\" - and as proof of Boris Johnson's promise to restore the Royal Navy as Europe's foremost naval power and end what he called an \"era of retreat\".\n\nThe prime minister spent this morning on board HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth naval base, ahead of its maiden operational deployment.\n\nBut is this world tour more than a symbol of national virility or a flag-waving exercise?\n\nAnd what's the point of sailing halfway across the world?\n\nOver the next 28 weeks the Carrier Strike Group will cover 26,000 miles - further than the distance around the world at the equator.\n\nHMS Queen Elizabeth will first sail into the Mediterranean. From there, she is planning to launch her F-35 jets to conduct airstrikes over Iraq against the group known as Islamic State.\n\nIt would be the carrier's first combat operation - even though the RAF has been doing the same mission for the past seven years from its land base on Cyprus.\n\nPerhaps more controversial is the decision to then go east. The strike group will sail through the Suez Canal, out to the Indian Ocean and on to the Philippine Sea.\n\nHMS Queen Elizabeth is scheduled to make a number of port stops along way - including Oman, Singapore, South Korea and Japan.\n\nLike the US, Britain is responding to the rise of China. But unlike America, Britain has less influence and fewer resources to match.\n\nFor UK foreign policy it means a more modest \"tilt\" to Asia rather than the US \"pivot\".\n\nHMS Queen Elizabeth will be accompanied by two Royal Navy Frigates, two Destroyers, two supply ships and - beneath the surface - an Astute Class Submarine.\n\nAn American Navy Destroyer and a Dutch Frigate will be part of the strike group.\n\nThere'll also be more American jets on board the carrier: 10 US Marine Corps F-35s compared to the Britain's eight.\n\nThe government insists the addition of allies is a sign of strength rather than weakness. But it is also an indication that Britain's Armed Forces are now smaller and can do less on their own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What's it like on board HMS Queen Elizabeth?\n\nThe strike group will sail through the South China Sea where China has been expanding its claim to territorial waters.\n\nBut Defence Secretary Ben Wallace insists Britain is not looking for a \"confrontation\". Instead, he says the carrier group will exercise its right to freedom of navigation.\n\nSo do not expect a repeat of what happened in 2018 when another Royal Navy Warship, HMS Albion, deliberately sailed close to the disputed Paracel Islands, prompting an angry response from Beijing.\n\nThese sensitivities highlight ambiguities in Britain's policy towards China. The British government says it still wants a constructive relationship - not least on trade.\n\nTwo former defence chiefs have questioned the decision to send the strike group east.\n\nLord Nicholas Houghton recently told MPs that \"it was not necessarily the best way of seeking an accommodation\" with Beijing, while Lord David Richards said Britain should be focusing its attention closer to home \"on Nato and the Euro-Atlantic area\".\n\nBut the deployment has as much to do with boosting trade and strengthening diplomatic ties in the region.\n\nAt sea it'll be conducting military exercises with allies, including Japan, Australia and the US. During her port visits, HMS Queen Elizabeth will become a giant floating trade and diplomatic mission.\n\nIn the words of the head of the Royal Navy, Admiral Tony Radakin: \"Navies follow trade and trade follows navies.\"\n\nHe says this deployment shows the Navy is \"flying the flag for Britain and carrying forward the prime minister's vision\" of a \"Global Britain\".\n\nSome argue there might have been better ways of sending a strong message to China.\n\nDr Peter Roberts, director of military sciences at RUSI, a defence and security think tank, says that instead of what he calls \"a predictable, long and slow deployment\", the Royal Navy could have dispatched two of its hunter-killer submarines.\n\nIf they set off north, under the Arctic ice, and then popped up in the Pacific, he suggests, that would have had a greater impact on challenging both Russian and Chinese behaviour.\n\nThe former national security adviser, Lord Peter Ricketts, believes it still makes sense to send the carrier east as a \"symbol of working closely with allies\".\n\nThis is not least to get a return on the significant investment in the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers. But, he adds, \"this is a piece of diplomatic theatre, not a military strategy\".", "Detectives will take no further action over Martin Bashir's BBC interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police looked at an independent review of the methods used to obtain the 1995 interview, but had \"not identified evidence of activity that constituted a criminal offence\".\n\nThe review, by Lord Dyson, found Bashir had used deception to secure it.\n\nPrinces William and Harry say the interview fuelled their mother's \"fear, paranoia and isolation\".\n\nBashir, who was most recently the BBC's religion editor before resigning earlier this year, rejected the claim, but apologised to the princes and Diana's wider family.\n\nThe journalist told the Sunday Times that Diana was never unhappy about the content of the interview and said they remained friends after the programme aired.\n\nThe Dyson report found the BBC lacked transparency over the programme and that Bashir had acted in a \"deceitful\" way to persuade Diana to submit to the interview.\n\nIt also found the BBC covered up what it had learnt about how Bashir secured the interview, but that a 1995 letter from Diana said she had \"no regrets\" concerning the matter.\n\nMartin Bashir has now left the BBC after returning to become its religion correspondent and later editor\n\nIn the interview, Diana famously said: \"There were three of us in this marriage\". It was the first time a serving royal had spoken so frankly about life in the Royal Family.\n\nMillions of viewers heard her speak about an unhappy marriage to the Prince of Wales, their affairs and her bulimia.\n\nIn a statement, Scotland Yard said: \"In March 2021, the Metropolitan Police Service determined it was not appropriate to begin a criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful activity in connection with a documentary broadcast in 1995.\n\n\"Following the publication of Lord Dyson's report in May, specialist detectives assessed its contents and looked carefully at the law - once again obtaining independent legal advice from Treasury Counsel as well as consulting the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\n\"As a result, the MPS has not identified evidence of activity that constituted a criminal offence and will therefore be taking no further action.\"\n\nThe BBC has issued what it described as a \"full and unconditional apology\" for the way the interview was obtained.\n\nTim Davie, the BBC director general, said in May: \"While today's BBC has significantly better processes and procedures, those that existed at the time should have prevented the interview being secured in this way.\"", "Tributes have been paid by the families of the four men who were killed in the Swansea Valley mining tragedy.\n\nThe bodies of Charles Breslin, Phillip Hill, Garry Jenkins and David Powell were recovered from Gleision colliery on Friday after it became flooded.\n\nRelatives thanked rescuers and the community for their support as an appeal fund reached more than £55,000.\n\nMeanwhile, mining experts have urged the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to review safety procedures.\n\nThe families added their own tributes on Monday to those left by the community to the four men who died.\n\nCharles Breslin, 62, a miner for most of his life, was called popular and sociable, a \"hard working family man and a good father\", who had recently celebrated 40 years of marriage.\n\nThe family of Phillip Hill, 44, said they had \"endured much tragedy\" with the loss of his mother and a son in the last 10 months.\n\nThey paid tribute to the rescue teams \"who worked tirelessly to bring our Phillip home safely but sadly in vain\".\n\nGarry Jenkins, 39, a keen motocross racier, was called special in every way, \"always happy, hard working and never without a smile on his face\".\n\n\"Proud collier\" Dai Powell, 50, was \"our life and soul, he brought joy and fun to everyone he met\".\n\nThree miners had managed to escape as flood water engulfed the mine's shaft when a retaining wall holding back a body of water underground failed.\n\nThe HSE said it was too early to identify the cause of the flooding as its investigation at the colliery near Pontardawe continued.\n\nInquests into the deaths are not expected to be opened until the end of this week or early next week.\n\nBut Dr Eric Wade, of the Open University, said the water may have built up in an older abandoned mine nearby, and called on such workings to be drained before new shafts were opened.\n\n\"Perhaps you can't remove the danger entirely but you can try to ensure you minimise the risk,\" he told BBC Wales' Week In Week Out programme.\n\n\"If you're going to work in these areas before you start your mine up you should attempt to dewater some of the old workings and this would give you another margin of safety.\"\n\nRescuers' \"hearts sunk\" when they heard the news the miners had died\n\nPeter Hain, the local MP for Neath, said an appeal fund for the families of the dead miners had reached more than £55,000 by Monday lunchtime as a stream of people visited his constituency office in the town to make donations.\n\nHe welcomed a decision by the UK Government to boost the appeal fund by a further 25%, equivalent to the Gift Aid tax rebate that would have been applicable if the fund had been launched as an official charity.\n\nMaking the announcement, Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan said: \"No one could fail to have been touched by this tragedy and the response to this appeal is heartfelt.\n\n\"Since the terrible events of last week people have donated generously to the appeal fund and I hope they will continue to do so.\"\n\nMs Gillan and Mr Hain have both been named as patrons of the fund, along with the Prince of Wales, First Minister Carwyn Jones, the Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan, Welsh Rugby Union chairman David Pickering, and other public figures in the locality.\n\nMeanwhile the rescue team and emergency services involved in the incident have been reflecting on the tragedy.\n\nChris Margetts, of Mid and West Wales Fire Service, said rescuers felt \"sorry that we just couldn't bring them home\".\n\nMark Tibbott, from the Mines Rescue Service, said: \"All along in my eyes, it was always a search and rescue operation and we kept driving ourselves forward.\n\n\"But then after 36 hours on site all my energy suddenly sunk...\"", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nWhat did it take to bring down Dr Larry Nassar - the USA Gymnastics team doctor who abused hundreds of young women?\n\nWhy did the abuse continue for more than two decades?\n\nAnd did USA Gymnastics (USAG) cover it up?\n\nThese are some of the questions explored in Athlete A, a new documentary out on Netflix.\n\nBBC Sport spoke to directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, as well as Rachael Denhollander - the first woman to publicly accuse Nassar and a key contributor to the film.\n\nFurther reading about the Nassar case\n• None Feb 2018: Nassar jailed for up to 300 years for abusing at least 265 women\n\nNassar, a former USAG team doctor, was sentenced to more than 300 years for molesting young gymnasts in 2018.\n\nAn investigation by the Indianapolis Star, which began in 2016 with help from survivors, police and attorneys, brought Nassar to justice.\n\nBut the documentary reveals Nassar was never the main target for the newspaper.\n\n\"When we started to work with the IndyStar, we started to realise the investigation that led them to Nassar was actually an investigation into USA Gymnastics policy, around how it dealt with reports of sexual abuse,\" Shenk tells BBC Sport.\n\nCohen adds: \"Larry Nassar was just one bad guy within a system that has tolerated abuse for decades. The truth that was exposed was that they had been burying cases for many, many years.\"\n\nIn a filmed deposition shown in the documentary, former USAG president Steve Penny admits the organisation did not always pass reports of assault straight to police.\n\nPenny resigned from USAG in 2017 and was subsequently arrested for allegedly tampering with evidence in relation to Nassar. Penny refutes any suggestion of a cover-up and denies any wrongdoing.\n\nUSAG says it has shifted its organisation \"to be more athlete-centric\" with newly created athlete health and wellness roles, a new \"safe sport\" policy, and new educational initiatives.\n\nHow did the film come about?\n\nCohen and Shenk say the initial story came from former USA gymnast, Jennifer Sey, who was national champion in 1986 before retiring from the sport in 1988.\n\nIn 2008, she published a book called Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, And Elusive Olympic Dreams.\n\n\"When the Larry Nassar news started to break a few years ago, she was very much in touch with the gymnasts at the centre of that story,\" says Shenk. \"Ultimately, she got to know the journalists who were telling the story.\"\n\nShenk adds that access to the IndyStar investigation enabled them to start filming before Nassar went to trial. \"As the number of survivors coming forward kept rising, we were able to document that,\" he says.\n\nWho are the key figures?\n\nThere are a lot of heroes in this film - journalists Marisa Kwiatkowski, Mark Alesia, Tim Evans and Steve Berta at the IndyStar; Detective Lieutenant Andrea Munford, who found child pornography images at Nassar's house; lawyers John Manly and Angela Povilaitis, who represented the survivors.\n\nOf the survivors, there are three main focal points - former USA gymnasts Maggie Nichols, Denhollander and Jamie Dantzscher.\n\nThe titular \"Athlete A\" is Nichols, who reported Nassar to USAG in June 2015. Her family argue in the film that the claim was not dealt with properly.\n\n\"We were not going to go public, because we were told there was an FBI investigation and we could possibly jeopardise it,\" says Nichols' father, John.\n\nDenhollander, who is now a lawyer, was the first woman to publicly accuse Nassar.\n\nShe was 15 when she went to see him for an appointment at Michigan State University. Over a year and a half, he repeatedly abused her, under the guise of treatment.\n\nSome 16 years later, when Denhollander came across the IndyStar article alleging malpractice at USAG in 2016, she came forward to share her story. She had previously reported Nassar to a gym where she was working, but it was not taken further.\n\nAlesia, a journalist at the IndyStar, explains how Denhollander turned up with about 100 pages of medical notes and a case prepared against Nassar.\n\nAt around the same time, Dantzscher also spoke to the paper, anonymously.\n\nIn response to these public statements, Nassar's lawyers denied he had ever touched a patient inappropriately during treatment. Hundreds of women, who knew that to be untrue, then came forward.\n\nWas there a culture of abuse in gymnastics?\n\nIn the documentary, Sey argues that emotional and physical abuse \"was actually the norm\" during her time as a gymnast.\n\nFormer USAG coaches Bela and Martha Karolyi, who came over from Communist Romania, where they coached 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci to a perfect score at the 1976 Olympics, are portrayed as having created a dangerous atmosphere.\n\n\"They brought with them the Eastern European methodology, which included not feeding the athletes very much and abusing them in various physical and psychological ways,\" Cohen tells BBC Sport.\n\nShe argues that laid way for \"a way of thinking that would enable a predator like Nassar\".\n\nBela and Martha Karolyi both deny the allegations and say they were never physically or verbally abusive.\n\nDantzscher describes how, at the time, Nassar seemed like \"the only nice person\" in gymnastics. She tells stories about him sneaking the girls candy at the Karolyi ranch, where the athletes trained monthly and where parents were not allowed access.\n\nWhy did Nassar come to light so late?\n\nWhen Denhollander took her story to the IndyStar, she also told Michigan State University Police, and she says she was not surprised to discover there had been multiple reports against him, from as far back as 1997.\n\n\"Larry was able to stay every time by simply saying: 'These women are confused'\" Denhollander tells BBC Sport.\n\n\"It is a product of a community and a culture that sends the message that the sexual assault and abuse of women is not a big deal.\"\n\nWhat is the key message of the documentary?\n\nShenk says: \"Ultimately, it's a story about people who were taken advantage of by an organisation that lost sight of its responsibility.\"\n\nHe believes that those in power were guilty of neglect as gymnastics became more marketable.\n\n\"The Olympics is a big event in the United States. But, over the years, it became very much about the marketing of the athletes. Unfortunately, many of the organisations, including USA Gymnastics, did not have policies in place to protect the, often very young, athletes.\"\n\nAre the directors happy with the film?\n\nShenk tells us there is some unfinished business.\n\n'We still don't have a final settlement for many of the survivors who have filed suits against USA Gymnastics,\" he says.\n\nEarlier this year, USAGproposed a settlement thatit is reported would release Penny, the Karolyis and others from liability. That was criticised by American four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles and Denhollander, among others.\n\nWhen asked what still needs to be done to mean justice has been done, Denhollander is unequivocal: \"The answer is everything.\"", "Teenage girls can be very conscious of body image - and Instagram can make them feel worse, the internal studies showed\n\nFacebook-owned Instagram has been criticised for keeping secret its internal research into the effect social media had on teenager users.\n\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal, its studies showed teenagers blamed Instagram for increased levels of anxiety and depression.\n\nCampaign groups and MPs have said it is proof the company puts profit first.\n\nInstagram said the research showed its \"commitment to understanding complex and difficult issues\".\n\nThe Wall Street Journal's report, not disputed by Facebook, finds:\n\nIn response to the WSJ report, Instagram published a lengthy blog defending its research.\n\nThe WSJ story focused \"on a limited set of findings and casts them in a negative light\", it said, but the issue was far more complex.\n\nAccording to Facebook, people's relationship with social media is complex - it makes them feel both good and bad\n\n\"We've done extensive work around bullying, suicide and self-injury, and eating disorders, to help make Instagram a safe and supportive place for everyone,\" the company said in its post.\n\n\"Based on our research and feedback from experts, we've developed features so people can protect themselves from bullying, we've given everyone the option to hide 'like' counts and we've continued to connect people who may be struggling with local support organisations.\"\n\nIt was working on prompts to encourage people repeatedly dwelling on negative subjects to look at different topics, it said.\n\nAnd it promised to be more transparent about its research in future.\n\nBut National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children head of child safety online Andy Burrows said it was \"appalling they chose to sit on their hands rather than act on evidence\".\n\n\"Instead of working to make the site safe, they've obstructed researchers, regulators, and government and run a PR [public-relations] and lobbying campaign in an attempt to prove the opposite.\"\n\nMP Damian Collins, who is chairing the UK parliamentary committee looking at how big technology should be regulated to protect users' safety, said it was time to \"hold them to account\".\n\n\"The Wall Street Journal Facebook files investigation has exposed how the company, time and again, puts profit before harm,\" he said.\n\n\"Its own research is telling it that a large number of teen Instagram users say the service makes them feel worse about themselves - but the company just wants to make sure they keep coming back.\"\n\nThe Online Safety Bill aims to give regulator Ofcom the power to fine companies that fail to act on content that could cause harm.\n\nInstagram is popular with young children, despite a joining age of 13\n\nUS campaign group Fairplay (formerly the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood) said the news showed Instagram was no place for children.\n\n\"In a move straight out of big tobacco's playbook, Facebook downplayed the negative effects of its product and hid this research from the public and even from members of Congress who specifically asked for it,\" it said.\n\n\"And in the ultimate display of chutzpah and disregard for children, the company now wants to hook young kids on Instagram.\"\n\nFairplay also called on the US government to demand Facebook released its research and blocked its plans to launch Instagram Youth.\n\nIt was revealed earlier this year Facebook planned to create an advert-free Instagram for under-13s, designed to keep them safe.\n\nJonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University's Stern School of Business, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had met Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg to discuss the social network's effect on mental health.\n\n\"He was interested but he believes the research is ambiguous and does not point to harm,\" Mr Haidt said.\n\n\"Of course, now we know they had their own research which did suggest harm.\"\n\n\"They had focus groups, online surveys, diary studies - so this was not one chance finding.\n\n\"I wouldn't expect them to come forward the first time they find evidence of harm and say, 'Oh my God our product is harmful,' but if they have multiple sources of evidence and there is evidence outside the company too, then I think the picture is pretty clear.\"\n\nBut, he added, it would take root-and-branch changes at the company to make any difference.\n\n\"The platform encourages children to post photos of themselves, to be raided by others including strangers around the world,\" he said.\n\n\"If this is the business model, there is no way to fix it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. M25 protests: Campaigners from Insulate Britain block junctions for the second time in a week\n\nPolice have made 71 arrests as climate change protesters caused fresh disruption on the M25, blocking roundabouts and the motorway itself.\n\nInsulate Britain activists stopped traffic on three sections of the road for the second time in three days.\n\nThere were long delays at junctions 1a and 1b for Dartford, Kent; eight for Reigate and nine for Leatherhead, Surrey; and 23 for South Mimms, Herts.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the action was putting lives at risk.\n\nHe tweeted: \"These actions are not only highly disruptive to those going to work and transporting vital goods, but are putting lives at risk on a busy motorway.\n\n\"Not to mention the resulting traffic delays will only add to vehicle emissions.\"\n\nDemonstrators, who targeted the UK's busiest motorway as part of their campaign for government action on home insulation, sat on the road, while stranded motorists beeped their horns.\n\nVideos posted on social media showed angry drivers remonstrating with the activists.\n\nPolice said the road was clear of protesters at about midday, but a four-vehicle collision at junction nine was not cleared until just before 16:00 BST.\n\nClimate change protesters returned to the M25 after protests on Monday\n\nThe action caused delays on the A1(M) in Hertfordshire when motorists were unable to get on to the M25 at junction 23\n\nSurrey Police said the protest was reported at junctions eight and 10 just after 08:00 BST on Wednesday and in total it arrested 32 people.\n\nHerts Police said its officers were called at about the same time to near junction one of the A1(M) southbound / junction 23 of the M25 at South Mimms and were on the scene within minutes, detaining 18 people.\n\nIt said it attempted to engage with the group, following \"clear, national standards\", and balancing \"the rights of people to protest with the rights of those affected\".\n\n\"However, protesters ignored repeated requests from officers to move to a safer and less disruptive location, and alleged that they had glued themselves to the tarmac, making it clear that their aim was to cause as much disruption as possible,\" Supt Adam Willmot said.\n\nHe thanked the public for their \"patience and understanding\".\n\nKent Police said it was called at about 08:20 to junctions 1a and 1b for the Dartford Tunnel and Princes Road and arrested 21 people,\n\nHertfordshire Police detained 18 people at junction 23 for the A1(M)\n\nActivists blocked roundabouts at M25 junctions as well as the carriageway in some areas\n\nThe action follows protests on Monday when five junctions were blocked and 77 arrests made.\n\nAnnouncing Wednesday's action, the campaign group posted on social media: \"Insulate Britain are back\".\n\nIt said 89 of its members were taking part in the latest action.\n\nIn a tweet, it said: \"You're angry. So are we... But sitting in the road makes Boris Johnson sit up and take notice, so we're staying, until 10 Downing Street #getonwiththejob.\"\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Proper jobs for hundreds of thousands of people to start the first real step - to insulate all the homes of this country - which pound for pound gives us the biggest reduction in carbon emissions.\n\n\"It is a total no-brainer and yet this government refuses to get on with the job.\"\n\nIn response to Monday's protests, a government spokeswoman said: \"People's day-to-day lives should not be disrupted, especially on busy motorways where lives are put at risk and resulting traffic delays will only add to vehicle emissions.\n\n\"We are investing £1.3bn this year alone to support people to install energy efficiency measures, and our upcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy will set out how we decarbonise the nation's homes in a way that is fair, practical and affordable.\"\n\nDuring the latest protest, some activists sat down on the motorway carriageway\n\nEdmund King from the AA said: \"Whilst most people understand the need to take action on climate change, these motorway blockade tactics are just backfiring as they are alienating the working public stuck in this chaos and subsequently pumping out more emissions,\" he said.\n\n\"Essential deliveries, emergency services, people missing hospital and business appointments are all hit by these blockades.\"\n\nOne driver caught up in delays in Hertfordshire said: \"I can understand why they're protesting but to do this is just ridiculous.\n\n\"If it's protesting against climate change, you've got all these vehicles stationary on the road with their engines running so they're not achieving anything.\"\n\nHertfordshire Police said it attempted to engage with the group before making arrests\n\nAs police worked to remove the glue from Stephanie's hand, she told commuters she was \"sorry\" about the action but that protesters had \"tried everything else\"\n\nOne protester, who wished to be known only as Stephanie, and who had glued herself to the road in Hertfordshire, said: \"I understand [the affected drivers'] frustration because it's annoying when people disrupt your day.\n\n\"I'm sorry about that, I really am, but the climate crisis is going to be far, far more disruptive than this.\"\n\nShe added that she did not want to be there but they had \"tried everything else\".\n\n\"I am terrified for my children. Their lives are going to be full of floods, fires and food shortages - we're already seeing it now,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larry Nassar has been given at least 300 years in jail for his crimes\n\nThe FBI disregarded allegations about a prolific USA Gymnastics child abuser and later made serious errors in the investigation, a watchdog has found.\n\nThe long-awaited report gave a scathing assessment of the FBI's investigation into former team doctor Larry Nassar.\n\nNassar was sentenced to over 300 years in jail in 2018 for molesting gymnasts.\n\nNumerous missteps and cover-ups by FBI agents allowed his abuse to continue for months after the case was first opened, the report found.\n\nRachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse Nassar of abuse, said that while the US justice department's internal review exposed serious failings, there was a lack of accountability.\n\n\"This report lays bare the corruption, but its conclusion says 'doesn't matter'. Because nothing happens now,\" she wrote in a series of tweets. \"These agents retire on government pensions while survivors fight to stay alive.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it was like to testify against Larry Nassar\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the FBI acknowledged the findings of the report, calling the handling of the Nassar file \"inexcusable and a discredit to this organisation\".\n\n\"We will take all necessary steps to ensure that the failures of the employees outlined in the report do not happen again,\" the agency said.\n\nThe 119-page report by the Department of Justice Inspector General found that despite the seriousness of the allegations against Nassar, the FBI field office in Indianapolis dragged its feet in responding.\n\nIn July 2015, following an internal review into Nassar, USA Gymnastics reported a number of allegations to the FBI in Indianapolis. After some \"limited follow-up\" that summer, the agency \"did not undertake any investigative activity\" on the case for more than eight months.\n\nDuring that time, the report said, Nassar's sexual assaults continued.\n\nConfronted by their mistakes, two FBI officials lied during interviews to cover up their errors, the report said.\n\nAt the time the allegations surfaced, one of the FBI agents, Jay Abbott, had been in discussions with USA Gymnastics officials about a job with the Olympic Committee. Mr Abbott retired from the agency in 2018.\n\nThe other, an unnamed employee, \"is no longer a supervisor\", the FBI said on Wednesday, and will not work on FBI matters until an internal investigation is complete.\n\nMr Abbott's lawyer, Josh Minkler, said in a statement to Reuters news agency that his client \"thanks the law enforcement officers and prosecutors who brought Larry Nassar to justice\".\n\nThe internal review into the FBI's handling of the Nassar case was launched in 2018 when the disgraced doctor was sentenced to decades behind bars.\n\nHe has been accused of sexual abuse by more than 330 women and girls from USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, including Olympic stars Simone Biles and Aly Raisman.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu says she is \"hungry\" to improve after her US Open win.\n\nThe 18-year-old became the first British woman in 44 years to win a Grand Slam singles title when she beat Leylah Fernandez in Saturday's final.\n\nOn Monday she appeared on US talk shows and attended the Met Gala, before Tuesday's visit to the US Stock Exchange.\n\n\"I have a few days' rest and recovery - I think needed after the last seven weeks,\" she told CNBC's Closing Bell.\n\n\"But then I am straight back to training and hungry to get better and come back out and play some more tournaments.\"\n\nRaducanu stunned the US Open field, coming through qualifying and not dropping a set throughout the tournament, to become the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam title.\n\nSince then the new world number 23 and British number one has been the focus of media attention all over the world.\n\nShe could receive a wildcard to appear at Indian Wells in California, which begins on 7 October.\n\nThe season-ending WTA Finals take place in Guadalajara, Mexico in November and the eight players with the highest points tally this year will qualify. In that race, Raducanu has risen to 14th.\n\n\"After the US Open I wanted to give myself this week to completely switch off from tennis because it's been an extremely intense but rewarding seven weeks,\" she told the WTA Insider.\n\n\"I know I'll get back to work probably Monday or early next week to get back to training again. Schedule-wise, I'm not sure. Maybe Indian Wells, I don't know. I'm going back to London before my next tournament for sure.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nWin the US Open? Are you kidding me? - McEnroe\n\nSeven-time Grand Slam champion John McEnroe says he \"meant exactly what he said\" about Raducanu at Wimbledon, despite the British teenager's sensational US Open win.\n\nRaducanu retired from her fourth-round match with Ajla Tomljanovic at SW19 because of breathing difficulties and McEnroe was criticised at the time for describing the occasion as being \"a little bit too much for her\".\n\nSpeaking on CNN, McEnroe stood by his comments but insisted they had been blown out of proportion and that he always intended to be supportive.\n\n\"I tried to relate it in a small way to my experience when I first went to Wimbledon, also at 18, and managed to qualify, like Emma did, and get through to the semis,\" he said.\n\n\"She did better than I did - I played Jimmy Connors, I hadn't been on Centre Court and I remember my legs shaking, feeling totally overwhelmed by the experience and almost happy that I didn't win.\"\n\nHe went on to praise Raducanu's achievements in taking her maiden Grand Slam victory.\n\n\"More important than what I said is how she handled it moving forward, because I'm sure there was a lot of concern about she would handle this sort of newfound fame.\n\n\"I don't think you could possibly do it any better,\" he added.\n\n\"Win the US Open? Are you kidding me? That's insane.\"\n• None \"It can become an uncomfortable place\": Why are so many girls dropping out of sport in their teenage years?\n• None Listen now as the Formula 1 star talks about the importance of visibility", "Mr Wilson said the \"people who should have been speaking to each other weren't speaking to each other\"\n\nPolice \"failed\" in their response to the Manchester Arena attack, terrorism experts have told the bombing inquiry.\n\nThree experts told the Manchester Arena Inquiry there had been a \"significant failure\" in Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) emergency response to the attack, which killed 22 people on 22 May 2017.\n\nScott Wilson, Ian Dickinson and Iain Sirrell said GMP failed to work well with other services in the aftermath.\n\nThey said there was no evidence of a \"cohesive and co-ordinated response\".\n\nThe hearing was told the men looked through close to 1,000 pages of evidence about the police response to the attack.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nThe inquiry heard there was \"a breakdown in communication between the different commands, resulting in a lack of direct command and operational confusion\" and the failed GMP response extended to the other emergency services involved.\n\nA \"major failure\" of the co-ordinated response was emergency service commanders not meeting together at the scene at an early stage.\n\nMr Wilson, a former counter-terrorism commander at Metropolitan Police, said the \"people who should have been speaking to each other weren't speaking to each other\".\n\nHe said that although there was some joint working between GMP, British Transport Police and the ambulance service within the arena foyer, the co-ordinated response by emergency services overall \"didn't work at all\" and it was a \"significant omission\" by GMP not to declare a major incident until two and a half hours after the explosion.\n\nMr Dickinson, a former counter-terrorism chief in Scotland, said a declaration should have been made within 10 minutes and that would have made a difference to the response.\n\nHe said another \"significant\" fault was the force's failure not to learn lessons from an earlier counter-terrorism training exercise, known as Winchester Accord, at the Trafford Centre in May 2016.\n\nThe hearing was told the exercise revealed a serious lack of multi-agency co-operation which was repeated in the arena response.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Microsoft has announced users can now delete all passwords from their accounts and instead login using an authenticator app or other solution.\n\nThe technology giant made passwordless accounts available for business users of its products in March.\n\nAnd that system is now being made available to all Microsoft or Windows users.\n\nIt said \"nearly 100% of our employees\" were already using the new, more secure system for their corporate accounts.\n\nIf passwordless login is enabled, users re-logging in to a Microsoft account will be asked to give their fingerprint, or other secure unlock, on their mobile phone.\n\nAnd this is far more secure than using passwords, which can be guessed or stolen, according to Microsoft.\n\n\"Only you can provide fingerprint authentication or provide the right response on your mobile at the right time,\" it said.\n\nWindows users will still be able to use quick-login features such as a Pin code, though.\n\nSome rare exceptions will still need passwords, such as Office 2010, Xbox 360 consoles, and Windows 8.1 or earlier machines.\n\nAnd if access to the authenticator app is lost - for example, if the phone it is installed on is lost or stolen or a user forgets when upgrading - backup options can be used, including:\n\nBut SMS and email are two of the most common channels for cyber-criminals targeting specific individuals\n\nAnd Microsoft says security-conscious users who have two-factor authentication set up will need to have access to two different recovery methods.\n\nMicrosoft's messaging tells customers no passwords are more secure\n\nProf Alan Woodward, part of a research team investigating passwordless authentication, at the University of Surrey, called it \"quite a bold step from Microsoft\".\n\n\"This isn't just logging into PCs, it's logging into online services as well\" - including important ones such as cloud storage, he said.\n\nMicrosoft laid out its reasons for the new system in a series of blog posts.\n\nSecurity vice-president Vasu Jakkal wrote: \"Passwords are incredibly inconvenient to create, remember, and manage across all the accounts in our lives.\n\n\"We are expected to create complex and unique passwords, remember them, and change them frequently - but nobody likes doing that.\"\n\nThe separate authenticator app - not pictured in this stock photo - is claimed to be more secure than a password\n\nInstead, people tended to create insecure passwords that technically cleared the bar for using symbols, numbers or case sensitivity - but in order to remember them, used a repeated formula or the same password on multiple websites.\n\nAnd that led to hackers guessing them or revealing them in a data breach and reusing them.\n\n\"Hackers don't break in, they log in,\" the blog post read.\n\nThe new passwordless feature greets users with a box saying: \"A passwordless account reduces the risk of phishing and password attacks.\"\n\nAnd once the feature is set up, a confirmation tells users: \"You have increased the security of your account and improved your sign-in experience by removing your password\".\n\nMicrosoft's claims about poor password use were largely true, Prof Woodward said.\n\n\"The message has been pummelled home about what good password hygiene looks like - but it's easier said than done,\" he said.\n\nPasswords were a decades-old concept \"and maybe the time is now right to start looking for something different\".\n\nBut there were no currently agreed standards.\n\n\"There are a number of different ways this could be done - and it would be good if everybody moved on, really, and tried to find a way of doing this,\" Prof Woodward said.", "Customers have been advised not to panic after two energy suppliers announced they had ceased trading.\n\nOne of the firms is Edinburgh-based People's Energy, which supplies gas and electricity to about 350,000 homes and 1,000 businesses.\n\nThe other is Dorset-based Utility Point, which has 220,000 domestic customers.\n\nNational advice service Advice Direct Scotland said energy supplies would continue for those affected.\n\nIt also said customers would not lose any money owed to them.\n\nConsumers have also been advised not to immediately switch to a new supplier as a new company will be chosen by regulator Ofgem.\n\nPeople's Energy was formed in 2017 by East Lothian couple David Pike and Karin Sode following a crowdfunding campaign.\n\nThe firm promised to return profits to its customers in a transparent, ethical way of working.\n\nIn August last year, it announced plans to create 100 new jobs with an expansion into the Borders.\n\nPeople's Energy was co-founded in 2017 by Karin Sode and David Pike\n\nIn a statement on its website, People's Energy said: \"Please rest assured that your energy supply is secure and all account credit balances are protected for our domestic customers.\n\n\"This includes any recent top-ups that were made as part of the seasonal weighting initiative.\"\n\nIt added: \"We are truly sad that we weren't able to make this community-focused approach to energy supply work.\n\n\"Thank you to those of you who supported our mission from early on. We are very sorry about the inconvenience and disruption this will cause our customers.\"\n\nIn a similar announcement on its website, Utility Point said customers \"need not worry, their supplies are secure and domestic credit balances are protected\".\n\nAdvice Direct Scotland, which runs the national energyadvice.scot service, said customers affected \"should not panic\".\n\nSpokesman Colin Mathieson said: \"While this news can be worrying for consumers, it's important to remember that you won't be cut off if your energy supplier has gone out of business - so you don't need to do anything right now.\n\n\"The gas and electricity regulator Ofgem will arrange for your account to be transferred to a new supplier.\n\n\"There won't be a break in your supply when it's transferred over, although the price you pay for your energy might go up - and that's when you can consider switching supplier, and you won't be charged an exit fee to do so.\"\n\nFurther information about the collapse of the energy firms can be found on the Ofgem website.", "Gavin Williamson has been the highest-profile education secretary for England since Michael Gove - but probably not for the right reasons.\n\nIf the pandemic had a political fall guy, it was always likely to be Mr Williamson - often the lightning rod for irritation and exasperation from families facing disruption and U-turns on schools and exams.\n\nNow he has become one of the big casualties of the prime minister's reshuffle - tweeting on his departure that it had been a privilege to serve \"despite the challenges of the global pandemic\".\n\nIt might seem a long time ago now, but before the pandemic Mr Williamson was seen as the bringer of good news.\n\nHis predecessors as education secretary had faced constant maulings over school funding shortages - but Mr Williamson arrived with the promise of a £7bn increase. It was big bucks and big ambitions.\n\nThe trouble only really began when his department collided with the giant iceberg of Covid.\n\nThe first dent was a major U-turn on getting all primary school pupils back to school, and then there were self-defeating battles with Marcus Rashford over free meals in the holidays.\n\nOnline learning at home tested parents' patience and fed into worries about lost learning and annoyance at the hokey-cokey of going in and out of school, with hundreds of thousands of pupils regularly having to isolate.\n\nBut the biggest disaster was the chaos of last year's exams, with multiple U-turns and late-night lurches in policy that saw grades go through the roof and his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both go out the door.\n\nThat such senior staff had to step down while he stayed put didn't add to the lustre of his reputation.\n\nThe exam results system used last summer prompted protests\n\nThere has never been a full independent inquiry into what went wrong with the 2020 exams - so it's hard to know who was really to blame. But it did serious harm to Mr Williamson's credibility - and there was no shortage of people on his own side who were privately ready to point the finger.\n\nAnd his poll ratings among Conservative supporters remained resolutely negative.\n\nAs a former chief whip, it was said his survival chances were boosted by knowing where the bodies were buried. But he also made political enemies ready to come back to haunt him.\n\nMr Williamson, who has never appeared to complain about the criticism directed at him, could also feel aggrieved that he was taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nThat was encapsulated in the plans to get schools back in January 2021, when his determination to open classrooms was reversed almost immediately by another lockdown.\n\nExams, which he'd wanted to go ahead, were again cancelled and the long-awaited catch-up plans turned to dust when the catch-up tsar Sir Kevan Collins walked out over a lack of funding.\n\nThe education secretary doesn't write the cheques but he was left holding a punctured balloon of a policy.\n\nThis year's replacement exam results, with much responsibility outsourced to teachers and schools, didn't have any of the major problems of last year. There would have been cause for quiet celebration that it had all gone relatively smoothly - not an easy achievement in what remain unprecedented circumstances.\n\nBut after a successful re-opening of schools this autumn, there was another tripwire moment when in an interview with the London Evening Standard he seemed to confuse two black sportsmen, Marcus Rashford and Maro Itoje. It was another gift for his critics on social media.\n\nIt's hard to know what the legacy will be of his education plans, because he never really got a chance to start them, beyond pushing for a greater emphasis on skills and further education. The pandemic overshadowed everything else.\n\nWill he bounce back to a big post in government again? At 45 he is still young by political standards, and has the northern, state-school, non-Oxbridge credentials for the government's levelling up plans.\n\nHe certainly seems ready to fight on, describing himself as having the hide of a rhino.\n\nBut there were times when he looked distinctly weary - such as an online talk with head teachers where he extolled the virtues of getting a dog who would always be there for you.\n\n\"Not every day has been brilliant,\" he told them.", "Gavin Williamson has been sacked as education secretary in the prime minister's Cabinet reshuffle.\n\nThe MP for South Staffordshire faced repeated opposition calls to quit, or be sacked, over his handling of disruption to schools and exams during the pandemic.\n\nMr Williamson previously held the posts of chief whip and defence secretary.\n\nHere are some of Mr Williamson's memorable ministerial moments.", "Father-of-two Brian Phelan died after being stabbed on a rural road near Newry in 2018\n\nA 30-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of Brian Phelan on the outskirts of Newry in July 2018.\n\nMr Phelan was stabbed three times in the neck and twice in the body during an attack on a remote Carrivekeeney Road, near to the village of Camlough.\n\nHe had gone there with Daniel Martin James Carroll, of Edward Street in Portadown, but originally from Newry.\n\nCarroll was found guilty of Mr Phelan's murder at Newry Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nDuring a two-week trial, the court heard that on the day of his death Mr Phelan had met Carroll in Bessbrook before travelling to the road with the intention of buying quad bikes.\n\nThe road, which runs up the side of Camlough mountain, effectively comes to a dead end for vehicles, however a path does lead across the mountain.\n\nIt was the defence's case that three men with paramilitary links had appeared from a nearby field, attacked Mr Phelan, threatened him and then made off in the direction of the mountain.\n\nAlthough he said he knew them, Carroll would not name the men stating that his life and that of his family was at risk.\n\nThe defence said that the mountain path could have been accessed by small vehicles such as quadbikes.\n\nHowever, the prosecution said this version of events, which Carroll put forward 15 months after Brian Phelan's death, was complete nonsense.\n\nIt said the defendant had attacked the victim and then fled the scene, changing his T-shirt before being arrested nearly two hours later at a family member's home in Newry.\n\nAlthough no definite motive was identified, the jury had been told of Carroll's previous record, which included unprovoked violence.\n\nGiving evidence, a police officer had also suggested there could have been a financial disagreement between the two men.\n\nA jury of six men and five women took less than 90 minutes to reach a unanimous guilty verdict.\n\nSocial distancing meant that only a small number of Brian Phelan's friends and family were permitted inside the courtroom.\n\nThere were emotional scenes from those in the public gallery with a loud cheer from the adjoining foyer.\n\nBefore being sent down, the judge told Carroll that he would be sentenced to life imprisonment.\n\nA tariff hearing to determine the minimum amount of time he will spend in prison before being considered for parole will be set in November.\n• None Trial under way of man accused of stab murder", "A PM is rarely as powerful as on a reshuffle day\n\n\"This is a mad way to run the country,\" confessed a member of the government.\n\nWhether prime ministers wield sharp knives or attack with blunt spoons, reshuffle days like this are indeed a strange mixture of bravado and farce.\n\nBravado when, earlier, one cabinet minister told me, \"I think I'm OK,\" as, ashen-faced, looking nauseous and clammy, they were en route to see the prime minister before promptly being sacked.\n\nAnd farce when, as legend has it, on several occasions, would-be ministers end up jobless, because the post-it notes with their name on fell off the board. Forgotten, their career plunged to the floor too.\n\nThe way the most senior government politicians are recruited and removed is bizarre and brutal. For weeks ministers have nervously inquired of journalists: \"Is it on?\" And inhabitants of the Westminster village who claim real knowledge of the plan are rarely those who truly know.\n\nBut, whatever the curious British traditions of how it's done, it is what is done that makes the difference. Prime ministers rarely wield as much power as on the day of the big hirings and firings.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson has used this occasion to make big changes to the cabinet. The most significant switch came in one of the chunkiest jobs of all.\n\nRemoving the foreign secretary is a big deal. Dominic Raab's always happy to let it be known that he holds a black belt in karate. And his conversation with the prime minister this reshuffle day took longer than expected, suggesting he fought his move pretty hard. Sources suggest he managed to wangle the ill-defined title of deputy prime minister out of Mr Johnson.\n\nBeing justice secretary, running prisons, courts, and the legal system, is of course a huge job. Downing Street insists it's not a demotion, and that it doesn't want this move to be seen as punishment after what looked, to many people, like a debacle in Afghanistan.\n\nBut even with the DPM bauble, Mr Raab, the now former foreign secretary, is a less senior figure in the government.\n\nThere are some other slightly puzzling aspects. Steve Barclay was, until the reshuffle, chief secretary to the Treasury, wielding the calculator on what is a hugely important Spending Review, when cash for departments for the next few years is fixed. That review is coming in just a few weeks' time, so you might wonder at the wisdom of moving Mr Barclay right now.\n\nHe's being replaced by Simon Clarke, a previous inhabitant of a Treasury role, a strong supporter of Mr Johnson and North East MP. He's also, at 6ft 7ins, around a foot taller than his new boss in Number 11 - cue the inevitable jokes about Number 10 wanting to make the chancellor feel small.\n\nAnne-Marie Trevelyan is back on the top team\n\nIn a similar vein Anne-Marie Trevelyan, also a strong Johnson backer, returns to cabinet as trade secretary. Irrespective of the merit of her move to that department, Ms Trevelyan had been part of the government's team preparing for COP26, a major international event that starts in about 50 days. If it's a true priority, unpicking a part of the team right now may raise a few eyebrows.\n\nThere are many more jobs to be allocated, more intrigue to come when middle-ranking and junior ministers get their P45s or offers. But the shape of the cabinet itself is clear.\n\nWhat's harder to divine is any one strong political ideology, or any radical guiding idea. Certainly, politicians popular with the Tory party like Truss seem to have prospered. Loyalty to the prime minister himself seems to have been rewarded.\n\nBut it's not a Brexit cabinet, or a small-state cabinet, or to use Tory verbiage, a \"one-nation\" cabinet for those more in the middle.\n\nIt's a Johnson cabinet, with no particular bent towards any one faction or tribe. For some of his backers, that is one of Mr Johnson's attributes - he's not wedded to principle, but staying on top. For other Tories, that's rather the problem - with no one strong ideology other than a desire to win, it begs the question of what it's all really for.\n\nFor Downing Street, though, this is a day for the doers. After the early traumas of Brexit, then the emergency and horror of the pandemic, the moves represent, they hope, a refreshed team that can get things done.\n\nWhether it's building houses without upsetting the Tory shires, sorting out school exams, pushing through tougher prison sentences, with new faces it's a government that Downing Street hopes will be more able to push reform forward, and make its case.\n\nNearly two years after the election, it's perhaps the start of Mr Johnson's third act as prime minister. And while the shuffling of his cabinet pack has passed, so far largely without incident, there is no doubt about the scale of the challenge, individual and collective, that they face.", "Anderson, pictured here with his mum, spent months in hospital waiting for appropriate housing\n\nFor mum Princess Bell, the one time each week her children spend together is very special.\n\nBut the siblings don't live separately. They're in the same house - but they can't spend more time together because a combination of their disabilities and unsuitable accommodation means they have to stay on different floors.\n\nThey are one of the 4,100 families who responded to a survey by the charity Contact surveyed in June and July of this year.\n\nParents of disabled children reported worries that inappropriate housing was having a negative impact on their health.\n\nMore than 40% who took part in the poll said their home didn't meet their child's needs.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsnight, some parents even said they struggled to even get their children in and out of their property.\n\nPrincess lives in temporary accommodation in south London with her 13-year-old son, 11-year-old daughter and a baby.\n\nThe older children both have a rare genetic condition that means they are unable to walk or speak and have breathing problems.\n\nThe family are living in a three-bedroom house - every inch of each room packed with specialist equipment - while they wait for the council to find them a new home.\n\nDue to a lack of space, the two older children with disabilities sleep on different floors. Once a week, Princess takes one child up to see the other. She says she doesn't feel safe doing this more often.\n\n\"They've always been very, very close. And they're in the same house and they don't see each other... so when it's then time for her to go back to her room, she cries and they lay together on the mat entwined because they're best friends and they don't see each other and they're in the same house. And it is heartbreaking to see that because we're already housebound.\"\n\nLambeth Council said it had been working hard to meet the very complex housing medical needs of the family and apologised for delays in resolving the issue.\n\n\"However, we face a real shortage of available homes,\" said a spokesman.\n\nData from Contact's survey, shared with Newsnight, suggested 27% of respondents said they felt their home made their child's condition worse or put them at risk.\n\n\"We were really taken aback by the proportion of families who weren't only saying that the housing was unsuitable, but that their home environment was actually having a negative effect on their child's disability,\" said Amanda Batten, Contact's chief executive.\n\n\"There's no doubt that poor and inappropriate housing is having a hugely detrimental impact on the health and the lives of many disabled children and their families,\" she said.\n\nWhile the majority of the respondents lived in private or privately rented accommodation, 31% lived in social housing.\n\nThe government has been consulting on improving access to accessible housing. The report is due in December.\n\nCampaigners say this is a vital opportunity to drive up standards of housing and potentially transform the lives of some of our most vulnerable children.\n\nAmanda Batten says there's a window of opportunity for change.\n\n\"Fundamentally, the problem is that there is not enough social and affordable housing full stop and, in particular, not enough social and affordable housing that is accessible to disabled children and their families,\" she says.\n\nAnd the lack of housing is costly to other sectors.\n\nThe government's own data shows that delayed hospital discharges cost the NHS about £285m per year and the evidence suggests that up to 14% of these delayed discharges could be reduced by accessible housing.\n\nMany disabled children need extra space for equipment such as wheelchairs\n\nBertille Chuipa's son Anderson, now 16, had a head injury while go-karting. He uses a wheelchair and needs a lot of space for his medical equipment.\n\nBertille gave up her job as a teacher and translator in Manchester to look after Anderson. \"He needs somebody all the time at his side to keep an eye on him,\" she says.\n\nAnderson's former home wasn't suitable for a wheelchair and he spent more than a year in hospital while the council looked for an appropriate property.\n\nTara Parker, a paediatric nurse who works for the charity WellChild, says its research shows Anderson's experience isn't that unusual.\n\n\"Some young people will be delayed in an intensive care unit for approximately 12 months. And the cost of that is eye-watering. You could have bought and built them three houses by the time you've done that,\" she says.\n\nLocal authority money is available to make improvements to properties, but the charity says it has more than 700 families on its waiting list for property improvements, 90% of whom live in social housing.\n\nManchester City Council said that occupational therapists searched for some months to find an appropriate home for Anderson due to the size of the wheelchair in question.\n\nThe family's current bungalow has been extensively adapted.\n\nAt its starkest, inadequate housing can play a part in the circumstances surrounding a child's death.\n\nNewsnight has been investigating the reasons behind the deaths of young people, using evidence generated by the country's first national database of child deaths, the National Child Mortality Database, which was published in May.\n\nPoor housing was identified as a contributing modifiable factor in child deaths in this country.\n\nIn 2016, Mollie Wells's son Harlie was born with a brain injury and cerebral palsy. Mollie, who lives in Ipswich, was only 17 at the time and was responsible for the majority of his care.\n\n\"He needed round-the-clock care. He couldn't walk, talk, couldn't sit up,\" she says.\n\nHarlie's mum wasn't able to fit his wheelchair inside the flat where they lived\n\nIn 2017, Harlie and Mollie had to move after her private landlord gave her notice. The council found them a flat but the wheelchair wouldn't fit through the door and had to be left outside in a communal area.\n\n\"I had to lift him everywhere. I had to do ground lifts. I had to do everything because he had no equipment,\" Mollie says.\n\nThe lack of space and equipment in the flat meant Mollie couldn't follow his care plan or medical advice properly.\n\n\"He couldn't do physio, which possibly could have strengthened his legs, his back, his posture,\" she says.\n\nHarlie's doctors and occupational therapists wrote to the council to say he needed to be rehoused urgently.\n\n\"They [the council] said that they'd look into it and it went on for two-and-a-half years,\" Mollie says.\n\nIn October 2019, Harlie died unexpectedly. Mollie found him in his bed. She tried, in vain, to resuscitate him. Harlie was five years old.\n\nThe conditions surrounding his death fed into an analysis by experts on the national child mortality database.\n\nJacquelyn Wood is an NHS child death review nurse who looked at the circumstances around Harlie's death to see what lessons could be learned.\n\nMs Wood says they looked at the impact that the pressure of being carried throughout the property might have had on his body. \"And I think it's really about asking that question. Does that then affect kind of life expectancy and mortality?\"\n\nShe says Mollie fought to give Harlie the best care that she could afford and could access.\n\n\"When it came down to housing, there wasn't anything else that she could do,\" she says.\n\n\"It really isn't an isolated incident.\n\n\"Ultimately the problem we have across the whole of the UK is there isn't enough suitable disabled housing to meet the needs of these cohorts of children,\" she says.\n\nMollie also believes his housing affected Harlie. \"He wasn't given a chance,\" she says.\n\nIpswich Borough Council said it had provided the best accommodation it could for Harlie Beau-Wells.\n\nBut \"it was acknowledged by all… that the property did not meet all of Harlie's needs\".\n\nIt said it was building a specifically adapted bungalow for the family when Harlie died.\n\n\"Like all councils with housing, we have a large shortfall of suitable adapted property to meet demand from people with needs due to their disability,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government told Newsnight: \"We recognise the importance of improving accessibility, and the number of accessible homes has nearly doubled in a decade.\n\n\"Since 2010, we have invested over £4bn into the Disabled Facilities Grant, providing adaptations to almost 450,000 homes, including stairlifts, wet rooms and ramps. Councils are best placed to decide how much accessible housing is needed in their area, and set these requirements in their local plans.\"\n\nWatch the full report on BBC Newsnight on BBC Two or catch-up later on iPlayer.", "Plans for tackling Covid during autumn and winter in England have been unveiled, with Boris Johnson warning the disease \"remains a risk\".\n\nThey include booster jabs for millions - but hold in reserve measures like vaccine passports for certain settings.\n\n\"Plan A\" is designed to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed, and promotes vaccines and testing.\n\n\"Plan B\", to be used if the NHS is coming under \"unsustainable pressure\", includes measures such as face masks.\n\nUnder Plan A of the autumn and winter plan, announced by Health Secretary Sajid Javid, ministers will:\n\nThe plan will also include continuing testing, tracing of cases and self-isolation for those who catch the virus.\n\nBusinesses will also be encouraged to consider using the NHS Covid Pass to check the vaccination or test status of customers.\n\nUnder Plan B - which ministers say would only be enacted if further measures are needed to protect the NHS:\n\nGuidance on working from home may also be issued under this plan.\n\nMr Johnson, discussing the plan at a Downing Street news conference, said he was confident vaccinations could protect the gains made so far.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped the vaccination programme meant the UK could remain \"one of the most free societies\" in Europe, with only limited restrictions to keep the disease in check.\n\nAsked in what circumstances he would consider moving from Plan A to the stricter Plan B, Mr Johnson said he would consider the risks, the state of the disease and factors like hospital pressure.\n\nPlan B made use of \"a number of different shots in the locker\", he said.\n\n\"You wouldn't necessarily play them all at once, far from it, you would want to do things in a graduated way,\" he said.\n\n\"Because so many of the population have some degree of immunity, smaller changes in the way we're asking people to behave can have a bigger impact.\"\n\nHe added that this would \"give us the confidence that we don't have to go back to the lockdowns of the past\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protecting the NHS from being overwhelmed \"has to remain the objective\" says the PM\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser, said that if the country had gone into last winter with the current level of restrictions, cases would have gone \"through the roof\".\n\nHe said it underlined the importance of getting the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"There are five million or so people who are eligible for vaccines now who haven't been vaccinated,\" he said.\n\n\"Trying to persuade those people it is the right thing to do to get vaccinated would make a significant difference.\"\n\nProf Chris Whitty, chief medical adviser, warned that \"winter is coming\" and that respiratory viruses such as flu and others would be \"hugely advantaged\".\n\n\"If you've not had your vaccination, now is a very good time to do so,\" he said.\n\nThe government wants to avoid bringing back restrictions in England.\n\nNot just the big ones - like closing down shops or pubs. But the smaller ones too - like telling people they must wear face coverings in certain venues or that they should work from home.\n\nThe autumn and winter plan keeps the latter on the table. The prime minister gave us an idea of why. He doesn't want Covid vaccine passports, he says, but if it prevents having to close certain venues in future, he's prepared to keep the prospect alive.\n\nThe plan also says \"more harmful economic and social restrictions\" are a last resort - ministers are desperate to avoid them.\n\nBut the uncertainties of the next few weeks and months mean they cannot be taken off the table completely.\n\nEarlier, Mr Javid told MPs it was highly likely frontline NHS staff and those in wider social care settings will need to have Covid-19 and flu vaccinations so they can be deployed.\n\nThe health secretary said the government would be \"keeping an open mind\" and waiting for the results of a consultation but he believed this would be \"an important step in protecting those at greatest risk\".\n\nHe described Plan B measures as those \"that we can call upon only if they are needed and supported by the data to prevent unsustainable pressure on the NHS\".\n\nUnder that plan, the government expects proof of vaccination would be mandatory for nightclubs, crowded indoor venues with more than 500 attendees, crowded outdoor events with more than 4,000 people, such as festivals, as well as any settings with more than 10,000 people.\n\nMr Javid said the government would remove more of its powers in the Coronavirus Act, including those directing the temporary closure of schools.\n\nHowever, those that are \"critical\" to the pandemic response, such as supporting statutory sick pay for those self-isolating, will remain.\n\nMr Javid suggested PCR tests for fully vaccinated travellers would be scrapped in favour of cheaper lateral flow tests - with a review of rules around international travel due by 1 October.\n\nA further 26,628 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK on Tuesday, alongside another 185 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe message from ministers in England is clear - we are going to try to rely almost entirely on the vaccines to protect us this winter.\n\nBut what is not spelt out is how bad it will have to get before we need to change course and move to Plan B.\n\nThe winter plan talks about \"unsustainable pressure\" on the NHS as the trigger, rather than too many deaths.\n\nSo what can the NHS cope with? The document does not spell that out.\n\nCurrently 7% of hospital beds are filled by Covid patients. That may not sound a lot, but hospitals are run close to capacity so Covid cases quickly impact on other care that can be provided.\n\nThe amount of non-emergency treatment being done is already nearly a fifth down on normal levels.\n\nIf Covid admissions keep growing or other respiratory illnesses take off, it will mean more rationing - from knee and hip replacements being delayed to people waiting longer for an ambulance.\n\nNone of this, though, is unusual - it happens every winter. But the scale of it could be very different.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum speaks of her regret at joining ISIS: 'It kills me inside'\n\nShamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria as a teenager, says she will regret joining the Islamic State group for the rest of her life and has offered to help the UK fight terrorism.\n\nShe told the BBC she could be \"useful to society\" and it would be a waste to let her \"rot\" in a Syrian camp.\n\nThe 22-year-old is accused of playing an active role in IS - she denies that.\n\nSajid Javid is standing by his decision to revoke her citizenship.\n\nShamima Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join IS.\n\nThere, she married a Dutch recruit and lived under IS rule for more than three years. In 2019, she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp. Her baby later died of pneumonia and Ms Begum said she had previously lost two other children.\n\nThe then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Ms Begum of her UK citizenship on national security grounds.\n\nMs Begum has previously said the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, in which 22 people - some of them children - were killed in a bombing claimed by IS, was similar to military strikes on IS strongholds and called the terror attack \"retaliation\".\n\nAsked by BBC reporter Josh Baker how it made her feel to think back to being part of a group that committed genocide and murder around the world, she said: \"It makes me sick to my stomach really. It makes me hate myself.\"\n\nIn the interview for BBC Sounds and BBC 5 live, Ms Begum also said she only now felt comfortable talking about her true feelings.\n\nOur reporter asked whether she had changed her opinion on IS because it had not created a caliphate.\n\n\"I have had these opinions for a very long time but only now I feel comfortable to express my real opinion,\" she replied.\n\nShe said if allowed back into the UK, she could advise on the tactics used by IS to persuade people to go to Syria and could share ways to speak to people who are at risk of being radicalised.\n\nShe said she felt \"an obligation\" to do so, adding that she did not want any other young girls to destroy their lives like she had.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum spoke to the BBC from a refugee camp in Syria in February 2019\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Begum spoke to ITV's Good Morning Britain and made a direct offer to Boris Johnson to become \"an asset\" in the fight against terror.\n\nSpeaking from a Syrian refugee camp, she said there was \"no evidence\" she was a key player in preparing terrorist acts and was prepared to prove her innocence in court.\n\n\"I know there are some people, no matter what I say or what I do, they will not believe that I have changed, believe that I want to help,\" she said.\n\n\"But for those who have even a drop of mercy and compassion and empathy in their hearts, I tell you from the bottom of my heart that I regret every, every decision I've made since I stepped into Syria and I will live with it for the rest of my life.\n\n\"No one can hate me more than I hate myself for what I've done and all I can say is 'I'm sorry' and just give me a second chance.\"\n\nShe said she would \"rather die than go back to IS\" and added: \"The only crime I committed was being dumb enough to join IS.\"\n\nMs Begum says she wants a trial, saying she is \"willing to go to court and face the people who made these claims and refute these claims, because I know I did nothing in IS but be a mother and a wife\".\n\nBut Sajid Javid, now health secretary, suggested there was no likelihood Ms Begum would be allowed to return and fight her citizenship case.\n\nHe told GMB that the decision to strip her of her UK citizenship was \"both morally right, absolutely right, but also legally correct and the right one to protect the British people\".\n\n\"I won't go into details of the case, but what I will say is that you certainly haven't seen what I saw,\" he added.\n\n\"If you did know what I knew, because you are sensible, responsible people, you would have made exactly the same decision - of that I have no doubt.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The government's top priority remains maintaining our national security and keeping the public safe.\"\n\nLiberty, a human rights group, previously called the decision to revoke Ms Begum's citizenship \"an extremely dangerous precedent\" and said the right to a fair trial was not something democratic governments should take away on a whim.\n\nOne of the other girls who travelled with Ms Begum, Kadiza Sultana, was reportedly killed in a bombing raid, but the fate of the third - Amira Abase - is unknown.\n\nMs Begum has previously said her husband had been held in a prison where men were tortured and had surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters.\n\nJosh Baker from the I'm Not A Monster podcast spoke to Shamima Begum for a forthcoming BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live podcast series.", "Jess Brammar has been appointed to a senior role in BBC News, despite an impartiality row over her old tweets.\n\nA former editor of HuffPost UK, she will now oversee the BBC's domestic and international news channels.\n\nIt comes after weeks of wrangling, during which time BBC board member Sir Robbie Gibb was said to have objected to her appointment.\n\nSome media outlets drew attention to her now-deleted tweets, which were critical of Brexit and the government.\n\nSir Robbie was said to have warned that hiring Brammar would anger ministers, at a time when the BBC is about to enter negotiations for the licence fee that funds its operations.\n\nBut her appointment was confirmed by BBC chairman Richard Sharp at the Royal Television Society's Cambridge Convention on Wednesday,\n\nBrammar said she was \"looking forward to cracking on with the job\".\n\nThe newly-created role of executive editor will involve oversight of the BBC News channel and its international equivalent, BBC World.\n\nBrammar has previously worked at BBC programmes Question Time and Newsnight, as well as at ITN.\n\nBut her appointment was mired in controversy for several weeks, after it emerged she had criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson on social media.\n\nIn July, the Financial Times reported Sir Robbie had warned the BBC's outgoing director of news and current affairs, Fran Unsworth, that the government's \"fragile trust in the BBC will be shattered\" were Brammar to be appointed.\n\nSir Robbie, who previously worked as communications director to former prime minister Theresa May, was appointed to the BBC board in April.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg agreed, commenting later that month that Brammar's potential appointment \"damages the whole perception of independence and impartiality at the BBC\".\n\nHe added: \"They really do damage themselves\".\n\nBrammar previous tweets included accusing the PM of lying in a TV interview, and also compared Brexit to the TV series Better Call Saul, \"but less funny or interesting or enjoyable\".\n\nEarlier this year, she criticised the Society of Editors' response to claims by Meghan Markle of racism in the British press.\n\n\"I'm aware I won't make myself popular with my peers,\" Brammar tweeted, \"but I'm just going to stand up and say it: I don't agree with [the] statement from my industry body that it is 'untrue that sections of the UK press were bigoted'.\"\n\nUnsworth confirmed Brammar's appointment in an email to staff on Wednesday, while addressing the recent controversy.\n\n\"Jess is an award-winning editor with wide-ranging experience in broadcasting,\" she wrote.\n\nAddressing the recent controversy, she added: \"BBC News has to be impartial and independent. BBC journalists are hired from a variety of different backgrounds, but while working at the BBC, they leave any personal opinions at the door.\"\n\n\"Any individual should be judged on how they do their job at the BBC, not on what they have done in different organisations with very different objectives,\" she added.\n\n\"It is extremely disappointing that anyone should receive public and personal criticism - or online abuse - simply for applying for a job at the BBC.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter for the first time in several weeks, Brammar added that \"couldn't be more thrilled to be joining such an incredibly talented team\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jess Brammar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt was announced last week that Unsworth herself would be leaving the BBC early next year, after more than 40 years with the broadcaster.\n\nBrammar's appointment was confirmed alongside that of Paul Danahar, who will become executive news editor of the World story team.\n• None BBC's director of news to leave the corporation", "Scotland is to begin vaccinating children aged between 12 and 15 from Monday of next week.\n\nThe jabs will initially be available at drop-in centres, with parents and carers being asked to accompany their children.\n\nLetters will be sent everyone in the age group the following week, inviting them to an appointment.\n\nThere will also be a vaccination programme in schools after the scheduled appointments.\n\nThis will allow anyone who has not yet been vaccinated to have a further opportunity to do so.\n\nIt comes after the Chief Medical Officers of each of the four UK nations concluded that the additional benefits were sufficient to justify vaccination of children over the age of 12.\n\nThey said it would help to reduce disruption to their schooling this winter and benefit those growing up in the poorest areas.\n\nScotland is also to join the other UK nations in offering a booster shot of the Pfizer vaccine to all adults over 50, frontline health and care workers, younger adults with health conditions that put them at higher risk, and adult household contacts of people with suppressed immune systems.\n\nThe JCVI advisory group said the move was needed amid concern about waning immunity ahead of winter.\n\nThe boosters programme will also begin next Monday, when frontline health and social care workers will be able to book their appointment online through NHS Inform.\n\nResidents in care homes for older people will be offered both flu and Covid booster vaccines from next week.\n\nAnd adults aged 70 years or over, and everyone aged over 16 on the highest risk list, will be contacted shortly either by letter or by their GP.\n\nOther eligible groups - all adults over 50, all those aged 16 to 49 with underlying health conditions, adult carers, unpaid and young carers, and adult household contacts of people who are immunosuppressed - will be able to book online from October.\n\nVaccine take up has been lower among younger age groups in Scotland\n\nAnnouncing the expansion of the vaccination programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said both measures would \"help us considerably in our ongoing efforts against this virus\".\n\nAnd she stressed the importance of \"informed consent\" for young people considering whether to have the jab.\n\nChildren able to overrule the decision of their parents on whether or not they should have the vaccine if they are deemed to be competent and understand the health implications.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I know that these are important decisions for young people and their parents, and that many will have questions.\n\n\"I would encourage everyone to read the information that will be provided, and do not hesitate to visit a drop in clinic to ask any questions or raise any concerns.\n\n\"Vaccination is a vital part of our overall protection against this virus. That is why it is important to support people - especially young people - to make informed choices that they feel comfortable with\".\n\nSecondary pupils will have to continue wearing masks in the classroom until at least the October holidays\n\nMs Sturgeon also confirmed that secondary schools pupils will continue to have to wear face coverings in class until at least the October holidays, when the measure will be reviewed again.\n\nShe acknowledged that this would be unpopular with many pupils, but said it remained a \"prudent and necessary precaution\".\n\nAnd with university terms now starting, she said no large in-person lectures will be held for now.\n\nInstead, there will be a mix of online and in-person learning - with universities and colleges deciding themselves the level of in-person teaching that they will offer during this term.\n\nIn addition, physical distancing will remain in place on campuses and face coverings will be required in indoor public spaces.\n\nNearly 70% of Scotland's population has now had two jabs. But almost a quarter are still completely unvaccinated. That includes around 230,000 people aged 12-15. Experts say opening up vaccination to this group will help increase population coverage and slow the spread of the virus.\n\nBut ministers still want the rest of the highly sociable 18-29 age group to get vaccinated too, with drop-in clinics for students during freshers' weeks.\n\nOf course, young people remain unlikely to become seriously unwell with Covid. But widespread community infection is having knock-on effects causing wider harm, for example in schools and hospitals.\n\nBoosters will also go ahead for health and care workers, and adults over 50 and with some health conditions.\n\nHopefully this will head off further pressure over the winter - if the NHS can keep its head above water for the next few weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said vaccinating 12 to 15-year-olds and offering booster shots had the potential to be \"game-changing in halting the spread of Covid this winter\".\n\nBut he said more answers were needed on how the schemes would be delivered, and called for mobile vaccination units at every school to encourage uptake - particularly those in areas where vaccination rates are low.\n\nMr Ross added: \"We have seen almost every year, like clockwork, the SNP's flu jag programme descends into chaos. They cannot let the country down by allowing Covid booster jags to go the same way.\"\n\nScotland has seen a surge in the number of cases in recent weeks, with the country having the highest infection rate of any UK nation last week and the number of people being hospitalised with the virus also increasing dramatically.\n\nBut there are signs that the sharp increase has levelled off and may be starting to fall slightly, with the country recording an average of 5,506 new cases in the week to 11 September - lower than the figure of 6,290 a day for the previous week.\n\nMore than 70% of all cases last week were among those under the age of 45.\n\nThe latest daily figures showed that 3,375 positive cases were reported on Monday - 11.4% of all tests carried out.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus has increased by 16 to 1,064, with 89 patients in intensive care - one fewer than yesterday.\n\nThe deaths of a further 21 people who had recently tested positive for the virus have also been recorded, taking the total by that definition to 8,263.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool had to come from behind to win a Champions League thriller against AC Milan at Anfield.\n\nJurgen Klopp's team laid siege to Milan's goal from the start, taking a deserved early lead when former Chelsea defender Fikayo Tomori deflected a cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold into his own net.\n\nLiverpool, who missed the chance to double their advantage when Mohamed Salah's penalty was saved by keeper Mike Maignan, were stunned when Milan, after being completely outplayed, struck twice in the space of seconds right on half-time to take the lead through Ante Rebic and Brahim Diaz.\n\nKlopp's side regrouped to subject Milan to intense pressure once more after the break and were rewarded for their stirring comeback, Salah making amends for his penalty miss by equalising from close range after 48 minutes when he was superbly set up by Divock Origi.\n\nAnd as the traffic became one-way once more with Anfield turning up the volume, Jordan Henderson rifled home his first Champions League goal for seven years in the 69th minute when Milan could only partially clear a Liverpool corner to settle this richly entertaining Group B opening game.\n\nLiverpool somehow managed to transform what was, for the most part, a superb performance into a nervous night at Anfield against a Milan side who were outplayed for almost the entire game.\n\nThey opened up in a manner that suggested this opening group game would be done and dusted by half-time as Liverpool created a succession of clear openings that resulted in one goal and should have brought more.\n\nMilan were handed a reprieve when Salah suffered a rare blemish from the spot with only his second failure in 19 attempts, striking his effort too close to Maignan after Ismael Bennacer handled Andy Robertson's shot.\n\nAnfield was stunned when Milan hit Liverpool twice right on the break to somehow end the first half in the lead, but it was a harsh lesson learned as they got careless in defence and were shown that any moments when you switch off will be punished in the Champions League.\n\nThere was still a sense of inevitability about Liverpool's victory and, in the manner reminiscent of so many of their wins in recent years, it was sheer weight of pressure that finally wore Milan down, even if the winner did come from an unlikely source as Henderson's crisp drive gave Maignan no chance.\n\nIt was no more than Liverpool deserved but it was also an early warning that sloppiness is very dangerous, even against a side who had barely been out of their own half in the first 45 minutes.\n\nIn the end, it is the win that counts in a very tight Champions League group which also contains Porto and the dangerous La Liga champions Atletico Madrid. Those two blemishes apart, Klopp will be delighted with so much of Liverpool's performance.\n\nLiverpool manager Klopp has flagged up that he will use all of his squad strength this season but he may have surprised a few by restricting Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mane to the bench in an opening Champions League game where victory is always vital to gather instant momentum.\n\nKlopp is determined not to overwork Van Dijk after he missed most of last season with a serious knee injury. It allowed Joe Gomez to get 90 minutes under his belt after he suffered a similar fate to his Dutch defensive partner when he was struck down with a knee problem on England duty.\n\nOrigi came in for Mane, and the player who will always be remembered at Anfield for his Champions League deeds in Liverpool's successful 2019 campaign - when he led the sensational semi-final comeback against Barcelona and scored in the final against Tottenham - made another key contribution here.\n\nHe produced a superb piece of ingenuity to set up Salah for his equaliser just after the interval at a time when Liverpool needed a swift response to those two Milan sucker punches right on half-time.\n\nOrigi later went off suffering from cramp, understandable given his lack of action, and Anfield showed its appreciation with a standing ovation.\n\nSalah was the beneficiary and he was once again Liverpool's talisman, a man on a mission to put matters right after missing his penalty.\n\nKlopp will continue to utilise his squad throughout this campaign but Salah will remain, as ever, absolutely central to all Liverpool's hopes in domestic competition and in the Champions League - and he delivered the goods again.\n• None Attempt missed. Brahim Díaz (AC Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Theo Hernández.\n• None James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Brahim Díaz (AC Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Simon Kjaer (AC Milan) header from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Sandro Tonali with a cross.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None McMafia is streaming now on BBC iPlayer\n• None What is the long-term impact of taking so many hits?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it was like to testify against Larry Nassar\n\nFormer Olympic doctor Larry Nassar has been handed a jail sentence of 175 years in Michigan for abusing female athletes he was supposed to be treating.\n\nHere, the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan, who was in court, and Roland Hughes detail the extraordinary testimony given in court by the survivors of his abuse.\n\nThis article contains graphic details of sexual abuse\n\nAll say they were abused by the same man: former Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.\n\nOver seven days, they took to the stand one by one to do what few survivors of sexual abuse ever get the chance to do - directly confront their attacker.\n\nNassar had already pleaded guilty to 10 counts of sexual assault for abusing young girls under the guise of medical treatment.\n\nWomen who filed criminal complaints against Nassar spoke out at his sentencing hearing in Lansing. But they were followed by close to 150 others, many of whom chose to do so without the anonymity to which they were entitled.\n\nKyle Stephens was the first to tell her story.\n\nFor years she was known only as Victim ZA, but as she stood before Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, she calmly shared her name.\n\nIn doing so, she waived her anonymity in public just as she was about to testify to the damage her abuser had done.\n\n\"I was ready to speak,\" Kyle said in an interview with the BBC after her testimony. \"I think it was really empowering to get up there and give my story from start to finish.\"\n\nFor decades, Larry Nassar abused young women. It was Kyle's call to police that led to him finally being arrested.\n\nUnlike many of the other women who shared their stories in this case, Kyle wasn't a gymnast and a patient of Nassar's. Her parents were friends with his family.\n\nAs she stood in the small courtroom, photos of her as a smiling child were projected on to a screen. Nassar first abused her when she was six, \"when I still had not lost all my baby teeth\".\n\nImages of Kyle Stephens as a child were projected on to a screen in court\n\nIt began with him exposing himself. Later, he would masturbate before her. Then, he physically abused her - all while both their families were in the same house.\n\nWhen Kyle, aged 12, told her parents that Nassar would rub his erect penis on her bare feet, he denied it. Back then, her parents did not believe her, and urged her to apologise to him.\n\n\"He forced me to grow up really fast,\" Kyle told the BBC after the hearing. \"It was such a benign action until you grow up and realise it was a vile thing.\"\n\nSeven minutes into her testimony, delivered alongside her mother, Kyle looked up at Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and politely asked if she could address Nassar directly.\n\nShe reminded him of how her parents invited him round to their home after she had accused him. Sitting in her living room, he had denied abusing her and had said that if she was ever really abused, she should remember to report it.\n\n\"Well Larry, I'm here,\" she told him in court. \"Not to tell someone, but to tell everyone.\n\n\"Perhaps you have figured it out by now, but little girls don't stay little forever. They grow into strong women who return to destroy your world.\"\n\nIn her teens, Kyle was asked to babysit Nassar's two daughters. Doing so helped her protect them, she told the court, and allowed her to save enough money to pay for counselling.\n\nHaving reached a point where she had started to question whether the abuse had indeed occurred, she tried again to explain to her parents what had happened.\n\nThis time, they believed her.\n\nNassar, 54, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1985 and joined the medical staff of the US national gymnastics team based in Indianapolis a year later.\n\nIn 1997, alongside his work with the national gym team, he began working as a team physician at Michigan State University (MSU). He began abusing Kyle Stephens a year later.\n\nHe worked for the US gymnastics team in four Olympic Games, regularly rushing to the help of gymnasts who might have fallen awkwardly.\n\nMany of Nassar's victims cited the moment he helped injured gymnast Kerri Strug at the 1996 Olympics, a moment that boosted his reputation as a caring, well-respected doctor\n\nCarrie Hogan, a former softball player at MSU, told the court it was seen as a \"privilege\" to be treated by Nassar. Successful treatment could make a difference to the university's stars on the brink of a sports career.\n\n\"I was very aware of the signed photographs of the Olympic gymnasts he had treated,\" she said. \"He was the best of the best.\" Others said he was seen as a \"god\" in the gymnastics world.\n\nIn an episode of a gymnastics podcast broadcast in December 2013, Nassar spoke about how important it was to look after young athletes.\n\n\"Not just physically but mentally, you have to protect your athletes,\" he told GymCastic, speaking uncharacteristically slowly. \"You have to let them know they will be cared [for].\"\n\nHe also warned of the danger of mental injury to athletes, saying \"the physical injuries almost always they can recover from. The mental injury leaves the scars that keep coming back and haunt them later.\"\n\nMany of the women who spoke in court said that after he abused them, they were intimidated by his powerful status.\n\nReporting the offence - if they understood that they had been subject to an offence at all - felt almost impossible.\n\nNassar had a strikingly similar pattern of how he abused young women, the vast majority of whom were gymnasts.\n\nThey came to him often in pain, looking for help.\n\nAt their most vulnerable moment, he tried to convince them what he was doing was normal - even talking about everyday life and joking as he touched them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former gymnast Jeanette Antolin: 'You made me believe you were my friend'\n\nBy projecting a sense of normality from his position of authority, Nassar made his victims feel they were wrong to believe this was abuse, and that they would be in the wrong if they complained.\n\n\"I remember having the option of keeping my spandex on, which I was very grateful for and chose,\" said Jennifer Rood Bedford, a volleyball player at MSU between 2000 and 2003.\n\n\"He had me lay down face down on the medical table. When he started treatment, I remember him saying his treatment relied upon applying pressure to areas around the pelvis and that this was normal.\n\n\"So when he went down there, I just told myself it was normal, that he knows what he's doing and don't be a baby.\n\n\"I remember laying there and thinking 'Is this OK? This doesn't seem right'.\"\n\nRachael Denhollander, a former gymnast from Michigan, was the first victim to speak up publicly in 2016.\n\nShe told the BBC that Nassar abused her during every visit she made to his clinic over a year after she turned 15.\n\nNassar would position Rachael's mother at the head of the table so she was not able to see what he was doing.\n\nWith one hand, he would carry out sports massage. With the other, covered by a towel, he would insert his fingers into Rachael's vagina or anus. In one of their last sessions, he unhooked her bra and fondled her breast - the only time Rachael said she knew she was definitely being assaulted and not treated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany of the women said their trust in male relatives, partners, doctors, strangers, friends and teachers was destroyed as a result of Nassar's actions.\n\n\"My first reaction was to question myself, to blame myself,\" said Jennifer Rood Bedford.\n\n\"I wanted to believe the best in people, but no matter how much I rationalised - he's a doctor, he's treating you, he didn't mean for that to happen - I couldn't shake the voice in my head that something wasn't right.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by child sexual abuse, sexual abuse or violence, help and support is available.\n\nIf you are in the UK, you can find links here: BBC Action Line\n\nIf you are in the US, you can contact Rainn, the national sexual abuse hotline, here, or by calling 800.656.HOPE\n\nFor Gwen Anderson, a former gymnast who competed for her state of Michigan, the abuse began when she was just 12.\n\nNow, as a teacher to girls of the same age, she says she sees Nassar's actions in an even starker light.\n\n\"I teach 12, 13, 14-year-olds every day,\" she told the court. \"And every single day, when I look at them, I am faced with the reality of how young and defenceless we were when you molested us.\n\n\"I look at them every single day and I think to myself 'I am their safe place. I am their protector. I am their encouragement. I am their motivator. I am their rock'.\"\n\nIt is unclear when and how Nassar's abuse of his patients started, though the first allegations date to 1994.\n\nIn August 2016, the Indianapolis Star published a story detailing allegations of sexual abuse committed by coaches working for USA Gymnastics. It claimed that the sporting body did not report allegations of abuse to relevant authorities.\n\nThe initial article did not name Nassar. But after it was published, Rachael Denhollander realised this was her chance to speak up.\n\nThe newspaper published allegations against him from two named former gymnasts, including Rachael, a month later.\n\n\"I knew this was how it was going to have to be done,\" she told the BBC outside court. \"When you have a predator who is surrounded by two very powerful institutions, one anonymous voice is never going to be enough.\n\n\"When you have a predator who is manipulative, gregarious and as engaging as Larry is, you have to be willing to meet him where he is the most comfortable - on very public ground. And never flinch.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRachael's bravery helped encourage other women to come forward. In the corridors outside the sentencing hearing, countless women cited Rachael's actions as inspiration for their own decision to speak up.\n\nAs a result, instead of 90 survivors sharing their stories of abuse over four days - as had been expected at the start of the hearing - 156 women and girls ended up doing so over seven days.\n\nThe feeling in the courtroom throughout was one of collective empowerment and solidarity built through a shared experience of horror.\n\nFour-time Rio Olympic champion Simone Biles issued a statement to say she too had been abused by Nassar. Then, Olympic gold medallists Aly Raisman and Jordyn Wieber came to court to detail what he did to them during the 2012 Games in London.\n\nHe was sentenced to 60 years in jail a year later for three counts relating to child sex abuse images on his computer.\n\nHe then pleaded guilty to molesting females at his home, at a gymnastics club and in his MSU office, a plea that led to the 156 pre-sentence testimonies.\n\n\"I realise what I am feeling pales in comparison to the pain, trauma and emotional disturbance that I have wreaked,\" Nassar told the survivors as the hearings drew to a close.\n\n\"There are no words that can describe the depth and breadth of how sorry I am for what has occurred.\n\n\"I will carry your words with me for the rest of my days.\"\n\nAt the start of the hearings, Nassar had stared blankly down at his hands, avoiding eye contact with all those who came forward to speak.\n\nHis former colleague, gym coach Tom Brennan, stood alongside Gwen Anderson while she was testifying. \"Look at her,\" he yelled at the man he called his former mentor, ordering him to pay attention to the women as they testified.\n\nAfter that, Nassar appeared to look up and listen to the survivors with greater frequency.\n\nThe question of how repentant he was remained unanswered at the end of the hearings, however: Judge Aquilina read excerpts of a letter he sent her, saying he was a good doctor, and that the media had convinced the young women to believe he had acted wrongly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Judge Aquilina: 'I have just signed your death warrant'\n\nJudge Aquilina's role in this case was crucial. Almost every testimony began with survivors thanking her for her support and encouragement.\n\nGiven that Nassar had admitted his guilt months before, Judge Aquilina had no obligation to be impartial. As she took on the role of therapist, advocate and friend to the women who stood before her, she condemned his actions.\n\n\"The monster who took advantage of you is going to wither, much like the scene in the 'Wizard of Oz' where the water gets poured on the witch and the witch withers away,\" she told one woman after her testimony.\n\nShe also encouraged a number of the abuse survivors not to kill themselves when they said they had considered suicide - taking their own lives would hand Nassar victory, she said.\n\n\"I know you're a little nervous, pretend you're talking to me and your mum,\" she told another woman as she prepared to deliver her testimony.\n\nA crime writer in her spare time, Judge Aquilina's words were a powerful force throughout the hearing. She described the women as \"sister survivors\" and \"warriors\" who had demonstrated \"superwoman steel.\"\n\n\"I didn't want even one victim to lose their voice,\" she told the court, as she explained why she was prepared to let the hearing go on for as long as it took to hear all of the survivors who wanted to speak.\n\nThe survivors, in turn, responded. One after the other waived their anonymity and came to realise this was a chance to take charge of their own story.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tiffany Thomas Lopez: \"You created an army when you violated us\"\n\nNot all the women knew each other, but many acknowledged the invisible bond between them, and the strength they had gained from the others who had spoken in court.\n\nOne former MSU softball player, Tiffany Thomas Lopez, told Nassar she was part of \"the army you created when you violated us\", going on to say: \"Your actions have had me by the throat for years. I'm ready to be released from your clench.\"\n\nAs the hearings went on past the four days that were initially scheduled, anger gradually built towards the institutions where Nassar worked.\n\nAly Raisman, part of the gold medal-winning gymnastics team in the 2012 Olympics, demanded an independent investigation into how Nassar was allowed to continue abusing girls even after complaints were made.\n\nShe attacked both USA Gymnastics - an organisation she said was \"rotting from the inside\" - and the US Olympic Committee for their lack of support. Three senior USA Gymnastics board members subsequently quit.\n\nThe focus has now shifted on to who knew what, and when.\n\nRachael Denhollander, \"the five-star general in the army of survivors\"\n\nThe Lansing State Journal newspaper reports that seven women or girls made complaints about Nassar to coaches, trainers, police or university officials between 1997 and 2015.\n\nIn 2014, an investigation by MSU even cleared Nassar of wrongdoing after a recent graduate accused him of molesting her. Two years later, he was under arrest.\n\nThe university has put aside $10m (£7.2m) to reimburse former students for counselling, but is being sued by about 140 women. MSU President Lou Anna Simon has also quit.\n\nMeanwhile, MSU's board of trustees asked the Michigan attorney general's office to conduct an outside review into how it handled the allegations.\n\nAs Nassar starts his jail sentence - brought about by a team of female investigators, prosecutors and judges - the battle to seek answers from the authorities is only just starting. Why did they not listen to survivors' stories sooner?\n\nRachael Denhollander, now a mother of three and a lawyer, was the last to give her testimony. Judge Aquilina called her \"the five-star general in the army of survivors\".\n\nFor Rachael, the sentence has been a vindication of her decision to speak out publicly 16 months ago.\n\n\"I'm so deeply grateful for where we are,\" she told the BBC. \"But it's absolutely heartbreaking to me.\n\n\"To know that the vast majority of those little girls could have been saved from what they went through is devastating.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by child sexual abuse, sexual abuse or violence, help and support is available.\n\nIf you are in the UK, you can find links here: BBC Action Line\n\nIf you are in the US, you can contact Rainn, the national sexual abuse hotline, here, or by calling 800.656.HOPE", "Comedian Norm Macdonald has died at the age of 61, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer, according to his family and representatives.\n\nThe Canadian comic was born in Quebec City in 1959 and got his start in Canadian clubs before moving to the US to pursue TV comedy writing.\n\nHe worked for the Roseanne programme before joining Saturday Night Live to host news parody skit Weekend Update.\n\nKnown for his dry delivery, Macdonald had fans in the US and worldwide.\n\n\"He was most proud of his comedy. He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him. Norm was a pure comic,\" Lori Jo Hoekstra, Macdonald's long-time producing partner, said in a statement.\n\n\"He once wrote that 'a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.' He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.\"\n\nMacdonald was also known for his roles in comedy films such as Dirty Work, Billy Madison and Dr Doolittle.\n\nAccording to Deadline, he was slated to appear in the New York Comedy Festival in November.\n\nMacdonald was known for his deadpan delivery style, and impressions of Hollywood stars such as Burt Reynolds, Clint Eastwood and Quentin Tarantino.\n\nAfter leaving Saturday Night Live, he starred in his own comedy series, Norm, from 1999 to 2001.\n\nHe also hosted a Netflix programme called Norm Macdonald Has a Show in 2018.\n\nThe Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute to Macdonald last night. He wrote on Twitter: \"The world was a much funnier place because Norm Macdonald was in it. We've lost a comedic genius, and a great Canadian. Sending my condolences to his loved ones and countless fans mourning his passing.\"\n\nComedian and actor Jim Carrey tweeted: \"He was one of our most precious gems. An honest and courageous comedy genius.\"\n\nSaturday Night Live also celebrated its former star, calling him \"one of the most impactful comedic voices of his or any other generation\".\n\n\"I am absolutely devastated about Norm Macdonald,\" wrote late night host Conan O'Brien. \"I will never laugh that hard again. I'm so sad for all of us today.\"\n\nFamily Guy creator Seth MacFarlane remembered his time working with Macdonald: \"You always hoped he would hang around after the work was done, just so you could hear his stories and get a laugh. So hilarious and so generous with his personality. I'm gonna miss him.\"\n\nFormer Daily Show host Jon Stewart wrote online: \"No one could make you break like Norm Macdonald. Hilarious and unique.\"\n\nSeth Rogen recalled his own beginning as a Canadian comic, saying: \"I essentially ripped off his delivery when I first started acting.\"\n\n\"We lost a comedy giant today. One of the all time greats,\" Rogen added.", "Former health minister Nadine Dorries has been appointed the new culture secretary, replacing Oliver Dowden.\n\nThe Tory MP for Mid Bedfordshire is best known outside Westminster for her 2012 appearance on ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.\n\nDorries was suspended by her party after agreeing to fly to Australia and compete on the programme. She was readmitted the following year.\n\nThe 64-year-old becomes the 10th culture secretary in 10 years.\n\nBorn in Liverpool in 1957, Dorries started out as a nurse before entering politics in 2000.\n\nPrior to her election in 2005 she worked a special adviser to Oliver Letwin, the then shadow chancellor.\n\nThe politician and author said she was \"very\" happy with her new appointment\n\nA staunch Brexiteer, Dorries has had an occasionally fractious relationships with the leaders of her party.\n\nIn 2012 she described then-PM David Cameron and his then-chancellor George Osborne as \"two arrogant posh boys who show no remorse\".\n\nOutside of politics she is a published author, having signed a deal in 2013 to write a trilogy inspired by her childhood experiences.\n\nThe first instalment, The Four Streets, was greeted by largely negative reviews when it was published the following year.\n\nIn 2015 she revealed she had been sexually abused as a child by her local vicar, now deceased.\n\nShe has previously used her Twitter account to comment on topical issues facing the arts and entertainment industry, including so-called cancel culture.\n\nOn Thursday, media minister John Whittingdale followed Mr Dowden out of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\n\nWhittingdale had stepped in to deliver a keynote speech to the Royal Television Society after Dowden's departure on Wednesday - but he also left less than 24 hours later.\n\nDorries appeared on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2012\n\nNadine Dorries, a successful novelist, a former contestant on I'm a Celebrity (which led to a brief suspension of the Conservative whip) and a strong advocate of gender equality on the BBC, certainly has a track record in taking an interest in cultural matters.\n\nIn 2017 she tweeted: \"Left wing snowflakes are killing comedy, tearing down historic statues, removing books from universities, dumbing down panto.\"\n\nHer move to the DCMS also comes on the day her predecessor, Oliver Dowden, was about to deliver his opinions on the future of Channel 4. That speech has now been made by the media minister, John Whittingdale.\n\nSport, gambling, the future of the BBC, broadband services, the DCMS has a broad remit that covers everything from dealing with the tech giants to helping to alleviate loneliness.\n\nAnd over recent months Oliver Dowden has increasingly entered debates about so-called \"woke culture\", statues and removing \"contested heritage\", political territory in which the new culture secretary has already expressed strong views\n\nHis tenure saw him negotiate a £1.57 billion support package to help the arts sector cope with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWednesday's front bench reshuffle saw him appointed co-chairman of the Conservative Party, replacing the sacked Amanda Milling.\n\nDowning Street confirmed he would hold the role of minister without portfolio at the Cabinet Office.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Changes to periods and unexpected vaginal bleeding after having a Covid vaccine should be investigated to reassure women, says a leading immunologist specialising in fertility.\n\nWriting in the BMJ, Dr Victoria Male, from Imperial College London, said the body's immune response was the likely cause, not something in the vaccines.\n\nThere is no evidence they have any impact on pregnancy or fertility.\n\nThe UK's regulator has received more than 30,000 reports of period problems.\n\nThese suspected side-effects include heavier than usual periods, delayed periods and unexpected bleeding after all three Covid vaccines, out of more than 47 million doses given to women in the UK to date.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Your questions about vaccines and periods answered\n\nAfter reviewing the reports, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says it \"does not support a link\" between Covid vaccines and the symptoms.\n\nMenstrual disorders are extremely common, can be caused by many different things, and the numbers of women affected are low, it says.\n\nPeriod changes have also been reported by some women after infection with the virus itself, and with long Covid.\n\nHowever, writing in an opinion piece in the BMJ, Dr Male says \"robust research\" into reports of period problems would help to counter misinformation around the vaccines.\n\n\"Vaccine hesitancy among young women is largely driven by false claims that Covid-19 vaccines could harm their chances of future pregnancy.\n\n\"Failing to thoroughly investigate reports of menstrual changes after vaccination is likely to fuel these fears.\n\n\"If a link between vaccination and menstrual changes is confirmed, this information will allow people to plan for potentially altered cycles,\" she said.\n\nDr Male, a lecturer in reproductive immunology, said \"clear and trusted information\" was important for women who rely on being able to predict their cycles.\n\nAnd she said the effects of any medical intervention on menstruation should not be \"an afterthought\" in future research.\n\nScientists don't yet understand exactly how vaccines could cause period changes. They may be linked to the impact of the immune system - which is stimulated by the vaccine - on hormones driving the menstrual cycle, but they could also be caused by immune cells acting differently in the lining of the uterus.\n\nOther vaccines, such as HPV or human papillomavirus, have also been linked to similar menstrual changes - but there has been little research carried out on how and why it happens.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why it's recommended you get the Covid vaccine if you're pregnant\n\nScientists agree that women's ability to have a baby is not affected by the vaccines. Trials show that vaccination did not change women's chances of becoming pregnant naturally or during fertility treatment. Research into male fertility after vaccines also shows no impact on sperm quality.\n\nDr Jo Mountfield, vice-president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), said changes to periods could be concerning, but generally lasted only one or two cycles.\n\nShe encouraged anyone who experiences heavy bleeding which is unusual, especially after the menopause, to speak to a healthcare professional for advice, but she emphasised there was no risk of long-term harm.\n\n\"There is no evidence to suggest that these temporary changes will have any impact on a person's future fertility, or their ability to have children,\" Dr Mountfield said.\n\nThe RCOG said vaccination was the \"best protection\" against coronavirus, especially if planning a pregnancy, because unvaccinated pregnant women are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill from Covid than other women of the same age.\n\nIt also called for more research into why women may experience changes to their menstrual cycle after the vaccine.", "The Scottish government is considering setting up a parades commission similar to the one in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe announcement came in the wake of police making several arrests at a series of Orange Walks in Glasgow at the weekend.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she had asked the justice secretary to examine what action could be taken to prevent similar disorder in the future.\n\nShe said this would include considering whether a commission is needed.\n\nThe independent parades commission in Northern Ireland was set up in 1998, and has the power to place restrictions on public processions and related protest meetings.\n\nMs Sturgeon was responding to a question at Holyrood from SNP MSP James Dornan, who highlighted concerns that some of the weekend's Orange Walks had passed by Catholic churches.\n\nPolice made a total of 14 arrests amid reports of anti-social behaviour including sectarian and racist singing.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government would give \"further consideration\" to whether a commission should be established.\n\nShe added: \"I have already asked the justice secretary to consider what further action could be taken to maintain the important balance of rights between peaceful procession, freedom of speech, but also the ability of people to go about their daily lives without feeling unsafe and being free from harassment.\n\n\"I will ask the justice secretary to consider the possible creation of a parades commission as part of that.\n\n\"I know that members will join me unequivocally at condemning all instances of anti-Catholic bigotry which we have seen on our streets in recent times.\"\n\nSome of the parades passed by Catholic churches\n\nThe Orange Order, which organised the walks at the weekend, has said there have been parades in Glasgow for 200 years with \"very, very little trouble\".\n\nIt has also insisted the organisation is not anti-Catholic.\n\nAbout 5,000 people were said to have taken part in the marches, with police saying there had been \"outbreaks of racist and sectarian singing\" among some of those who attended.\n\nThe force said most of the 14 arrests made by its officers were for public disorder and anti-social behaviour, but also included sectarian-related breach of the peace.\n\nThe marches had been postponed from 12 July because of Covid restrictions.", "Despite coronavirus, the number of people aged 100 years and over in the UK rose to its highest ever level in 2020, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nNearly half of those 15,100 centenarians had their 100th birthday last year.\n\nSo why did so many get a letter from the Queen in 2020?\n\nThey would have been born in 1920, during a baby boom after the end of World War One.\n\nIn 1919-20, there were 45% more births than the year before and thanks to improvements in living standards and health over the last century, many of them have been lucky enough to live to very old ages.\n\nBut it's a different picture in people in their 90s - this population is still growing, but much more slowly, reflecting lower birth numbers after the post-WW1 peak.\n\nThe pandemic also had an impact, hitting older age groups harder than younger ones.\n\nWomen, on average, live longer than men - and there are around twice as many women than men in their 90s, and four times as many women aged 100 and over.\n\nMen are catching up though.\n\nOver time, less smoking and better working conditions have meant men living longer.\n\nEven 20 years ago, the gap between female and male life expectancy was much greater.\n\nThere were eight times as many female centenarians to every male back then.", "Many people have been left waiting to speak to a GP surgery receptionist for up to an hour, a patients' watchdog says\n\nPeople in parts of Wales are facing a \"crisis of access\" to GPs, according to a patients' watchdog.\n\nThe Community Health Council (CHC) said many were left waiting for up to an hour on the phone to speak to someone.\n\nWhen they finally get through, they are often told there are no available appointments, it added.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said doctors were trying to ease the problem by using modern technology such as video calling.\n\nBut the union admitted an ongoing problem had been made worse by the pandemic.\n\nOne health board estimated demand for appointments was up 20% in some places.\n\nGeoff Ryall-Harvey, of the North Wales CHC, said he feared people were getting \"extremely frustrated\".\n\nSome surgeries, he said, had banned queueing outside because of Covid.\n\nBut with some GPs not having an online booking system, he said this had meant long waits on the phone for some.\n\nBecca Martin tried to get an appointment for her father when he developed a urine infection in June\n\nMr Ryall-Harvey said: \"People are being told all the appointments are gone, even at 08:10 in the morning when the lines have just opened.\n\n\"It's one thing to be told that there are no appointments left, but for this to happen several days on the run means there's a very real crisis of access for people in some areas.\n\n\"Part of the problem goes back before the Covid pandemic. There has been a steady decline in the number of GPs working in Wales.\"\n\nBy the time Becca's family got an appointment for her dad, his condition became so bad he was taken straight to hospital\n\nBecca Martin, of Wrexham, tried to make a GP appointment for her 67-year-old father Steve when he developed a urine infection in June.\n\nBut she said it was \"incredibly difficult\" and by the time they managed to get one, his condition had become so bad he was taken straight to hospital.\n\n\"My mum was on the phone for over an hour at one point,\" Ms Martin said.\n\n\"That's not unusual - I've heard many cases of people on the phone for upwards of an hour trying to get through.\"\n\nAfter being repeatedly told there were no appointments and to call back the next day, Ms Martin said her mother told the surgery she \"was fearful for his life and she thought he was going to die\".\n\n\"By that point it was too late and he was blue-lighted to hospital because he'd deteriorated too much,\" she explained.\n\nMany Welsh GP surgeries are run independently, contracting services to the local health board.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board estimated that in practices it managed, demand for appointments had increased by up to 20%.\n\nDr Phil White, chairman of the Welsh GPs Committee at the BMA, which represents doctors, said problems were developing before Covid with more GPs being lost to early retirement.\n\nDr Phil White said the number of video, phone and e-mail consultations had increased in the last year\n\nBut he said GP surgeries are often in buildings with small waiting rooms, which were not safe for large number of often vulnerable people.\n\n\"But video consultations, phone consultations and e-mail consultations have escalated considerably over the past 12 months,\" he added.\n\nThe Welsh NHS Confederation, which represents the organisations that make up NHS Wales, said the health service was facing \"unprecedented demand\".\n\n\"More people are needing to access primary care with services under more pressure now than they were at the height of the pandemic,\" said director Darren Hughes, adding leaders were doing \"all they can to address these issues\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson tells the French to \"donnez-moi un break\" over the new military pact\n\nBoris Johnson has told the French president to \"donnez-moi un break\" and get over his anger about a new military pact between the UK, US and Australia.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Washington, he said it was time for \"some of our dearest friends\" to \"prenez un grip\".\n\nParis is angry after Australia signed the Aukus pact to build nuclear-powered submarines, pulling out of a major contract with France in the process.\n\nMr Johnson insisted they were \"not trying to shoulder anybody out\".\n\nThe Aukus agreement, announced last week, is widely seen as an effort to counter China's influence in the contested South China Sea.\n\nFrance has expressed anger at the pact, which ends a $37bn (£27bn) deal signed by Australia in 2016 for France to build it 12 conventional submarines.\n\nSpeaking later on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said he and other leaders had been a \"bit taken aback by the strength of the French reaction\".\n\n\"We all want to reach out, everyone wants to reach out to Paris and try to sort something out,\" he told reporters on a flight to New York ahead of a speech later at the UN General Assembly.\n\nThe BBC has been told that the prime minister and US President Joe Biden both expressed \"astonishment\" at France's reaction during their meeting at the White House on Tuesday.\n\nThe pair discussed how to reassure the French side, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said, but decided not to invite France or any other country to join the pact - but to look at ways of increasing collaboration in the Indo-Pacific region.\n\nBoth the UK and the US believed, she added, that Australian leader Scott Morrison had warned France ahead of the announcement, but were unsure of the exact manner of those conversations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nIn the days after the deal was announced, French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the move as a \"stab in the back\".\n\nFrance's defence minister then called off talks with her UK counterpart, Ben Wallace, who tried to reassure France saying that there had been no intent to \"upset or drive a wedge between us and France\".\n\nAnd in a rare step among allies, French President Emmanuel Macron ordered the recall of the French ambassadors to Washington and Canberra.\n\nHowever, France's ambassador will now return to the US following a call between Mr Macron and US President Joe Biden on Wednesday.\n\nDuring the call, the two leaders agreed that the situation \"would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to France and our European partners, \" a joint statement said.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the half-hour call was \"friendly\", and Mr Biden hoped it was a step towards \"returning to normal\".\n\nThe White House said Joe Biden had requested the call with Emmanuel Macron\n\nOn his visit to the US this week, Mr Johnson said the deal was \"fundamentally a great step forward for global security. It's three very like-minded allies standing shoulder to shoulder creating a new partnership for the sharing of technology.\n\n\"It's not exclusive. It's not trying to shoulder anybody out,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts have described the Aukus alliance as probably the most significant security arrangement between the three nations since World War Two.\n\nThe pact will focus on military capability, separating it from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance which also includes New Zealand and Canada.\n\nWhile Australia's submarines is the big-ticket item, Aukus will also involve the sharing of cyber capabilities and other undersea technologies.\n\nMr Johnson is understood to have learned French while attending school in Brussels and, during his time as foreign secretary, he was known to venture into French during press conferences.\n\nHe has deployed the \"donnez-moi un break\" phrase previously on several other issues, including over his 2019 decision to suspend Parliament, and a 2016 warning from a French minister that Brexit could lead to border controls in Calais.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I have stage four cancer but avoided chemotherapy'\n\nThousands of Welsh cancer patients will be able to live longer without chemotherapy thanks to a new gene-testing service.\n\nIt will let doctors study hundreds more genetic changes in cancer cells.\n\nMore advanced-cancer patients could be offered alternative personal treatments so they can live life as normally as possible.\n\nThe state-of-the-art system is run by the Cymru Service for Genomic Oncology Diagnoses (CYSGODI).\n\nPart of the All Wales Medical Genomic Service (AWMGS), based at Cardiff and Vale health board, it plans to expand testing capacity over the next 10 years.\n\nCancer scientist Rhian White said they would now be able to see changes in 500 genes - up from 30\n\nHead cancer genomics clinical scientist, Rhian White, said: \"Cancer is a disease of the genome and the CYSGODI service means we're now able to expand our genomic testing for patients with cancer.\n\n\"Up until now we've only been able to detect genetic changes in around 30 genes, but the service means we're now able to detect changes in around 500 genes.\n\n\"We can also test many more types of tumours, so our service at the moment involves testing lung cancers, colorectal cancers, melanomas and a couple more tumours.\n\n\"Over the next year we'll be able to roll out testing for a much wider range of tumours.\"\n\nMore advanced-cancer patients than ever will be able to use alternative treatments, like taking tablets at home.\n\nSuch medication can be more tolerable and improve patients' lives.\n\nDr Samantha Cox said the tests introduced \"precision medicine\" for patients\n\nVelindre clinical oncologist Dr Samantha Cox said: \"What this genetic testing does is help provide clinical teams with the tools they need to identify the best treatments.\n\n\"It's about introducing precision medicine for the benefits of patients, because we know that if we can target specific genetic changes in the DNA, we can switch off those signals which are telling the cancer cells to grow more effectively.\n\n\"Where we compare the newer anti-cancer targeted therapies with more traditional therapies, like chemotherapy, we know the outcomes are often better in terms of controlling the cancer better and helping patients live for longer,\" she added.\n\nThe new technology means Kate Molton can be treated with just one tablet a day\n\nKate Molton, from Cardiff, was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2017.\n\nAfter testing, doctors found she did not need chemotherapy.\n\nThe 57-year-old said she \"jumped at the opportunity\" of an alternative.\n\n\"Due it being stage four cancer, I thought I would need to have a much longer chemo programme,\" she said.\n\n\"I was frightened chemo was the only option when I was first told.\"\n\nInstead Kate was given medication to take at home.\n\nFor the past four years she's taken just one tablet a day, which has let her carry on working and living normally.\n\n\"There are side effects, but to me it was preferable to the alternative of chemotherapy,\" Kate said.\n\n\"You learn to live with them, or you can get other medication to treat the side effects too.\n\n\"Some of the side effects can be horrendous, like skin splitting down the side of your nails or a rash on your body, but you can get cream which addresses that problem.\"\n\nShe said the pills meant people did not even know she had cancer.\n\n\"I run a completely normal life,\" she said. \"The most debilitating condition I have is rheumatoid arthritis.\"\n\nThe system will also let doctors test for more types of tumours\n\nWales' Health Minister, Eluned Morgan, said: \"CYSGODI puts Wales at the forefront of genomic testing in the UK and cements our place as a leader in this field.\n\n\"This service will provide ground-breaking testing and treatment options for people with cancer and will support healthcare professionals to routinely care for more people using the latest genomic advances.\"", "The BBC has obtained first-hand accounts from migrants who say they’ve been illegally deported from the European Union by Polish border troops.\n\nClose to the border between Belarus and Poland, the BBC’s Europe correspondent Nick Beake found migrants stranded in a forest, with night-time temperatures dropping close to freezing. At least four people are known to have died.\n\nEU members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania have each declared a state of emergency amid a surge of thousands of people trying to cross from Belarus. The EU has accused the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as a weapon, while Poland has banned aid workers and journalists from its border zone.", "Millions of low income families are facing a squeeze on their finances from October, a charity has said.\n\nA combination of rising energy and consumer goods prices, coupled with benefits cuts, will add an extra £710 in costs for poorer households, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warned.\n\nThe report comes amid debate about plans to end the uplift in Universal Credit payments.\n\nThe government said it has schemes in place to protect consumers.\n\nThe charity worked out the impact of rising costs on a lower-income couple with two young children, with one adult working full-time with gross earnings of £20,000 per year.\n\nIt said the £710 poor households would need to find would include an extra £3 per week for energy assuming a pre-payment meter, £8 in other costs and £2.50 per week in National Insurance contributions.\n\nOn top of this, they will be losing a £20-per-week increase in Universal Credit (UC), which the government introduced last year as a temporary measure and is due end in October.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC on Tuesday the UC cut could make it \"a very difficult winter\" for low income families, and said he was speaking to Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey \"a great deal\" on the subject.\n\nPeter Matejic, deputy director of evidence and impact at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: \"Millions of low-income families are incredibly anxious about how on earth they are supposed to make ends meet from next month.\n\n\"Ministers rightly recognise this is shaping up to be a very difficult winter, yet there is little sign of them taking the decisive steps that are necessary to avoid real hardship for low-income families.\"\n\nWholesale gas prices have soared in recent months due to high demand and a reduced supply.\n\nCustomers are buffered from steep wholesale gas price rises by the energy price cap, which is the maximum price they can be charged.\n\nBut from 1 October, customers on standard tariffs could see an increase of £139, from £1,138 to £1,277 a year.\n\nAnd people with pre-payment meters could see an increase of £153, from £1,156 to £1,309.\n\nAbout four million UK households use pre-payment meters. These customers are more likely to be vulnerable and living in fuel poverty, and are more likely to self-disconnect if they are in debt, according to Ofgem.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Protecting consumers is our top priority which is why Energy Price Cap will remain in place.\n\n\"We are supporting vulnerable and low-income households further through initiatives such as the Warm Home Discount, Winter Fuel Payments and Cold Weather Payments.\n\nThe spokesperson added that the uplift to Universal Credit \"was always temporary, to help claimants through the economic shock of the toughest stages of the pandemic\".\n\n\"It's right that the government should focus on helping people back into work and supporting those already employed to progress and earn more.\"\n\nMartin Lewis, the founder of Moneysavingexpert.com, said in advice published online that energy prices have \"exploded\" and that \"urgent damage limitation is needed\".\n\nHe said that alongside hikes to gas prices, electricity prices from gas-powered generation may also rise.\n\nFrom 1 April next year, the price cap could jump again to a \"stomach-churning\" £1,450 per year for typical use, he said. Consumers coming off a cheaper energy deal \"will pay substantially more\", he said.\n\nMr Lewis said he was \"very concerned about how those on lower incomes will cope with these horrific new energy prices\" adding that they face \"the perfect price storm\".\n\nThere are emergency coronavirus measures ongoing for those who are struggling, and are having to \"choose between heating and eating\", he said.\n\n\"Your supply won't be cut off - disconnections have been suspended, while prepayment customers can get emergency credit to ensure the lights stay on,\" he said.\n\nPeople can apply on a case-by-case basis to suppliers for payment reviews, breaks, or reductions.\n\nIt is also possible to get £140 towards bills through the Warm Home Discount, government scheme.", "Labour says it would cap the amount of property overseas investors can purchase in new developments, in a bid to help first-time buyers.\n\nUnder plans to be outlined at its annual conference, the party would also give first-time buyers \"first dibs\" on new builds for six months.\n\nIt will also pledge to reform rules governing how developers contribute towards affordable housing.\n\nAnd it will pledge to give councils new powers to buy land for homes.\n\nThe conference, starting in Brighton on Saturday, will give party leader Sir Keir Starmer his first chance to set out his stall to members in person.\n\nIt comes amid an ongoing policy review, where the party will decide how much of its policy offering it should change from the Jeremy Corbyn era.\n\nIn a speech on Sunday, Labour's shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell will set out the party's plans to build \"more truly affordable homes\".\n\n\"Our country is facing a housing crisis with the link between hard work and getting on the housing ladder broken for many,\" she will say.\n\nShe is expected to accuse the Conservatives of becoming the \"party of speculators and developers\", treating property \"as a commodity, not the bedrock of stable lives and life chances\".\n\nAnd in a move to occupy traditional Tory territory, she will call Labour the \"party of home ownership\".\n\nShe will pledge to change England's planning rules, so that half of the homes in new developments cannot be sold to foreign investors.\n\nThe party says this will help first-time buyers by preventing properties being sold off-plan to developers before local residents can buy them.\n\nThe policy is an evolution of the party's position at the 2019 election under Jeremy Corbyn, when it proposed a new tax on foreign buyers.\n\nIn its 2019 manifesto, the party also promised first-time buyers \"first dibs\" on new housing - but did not specify for how long.\n\nBoosting home ownership is expected to be a key focus of the conference this weekend\n\nMs Powell will also recommit to several Corbyn-era housing policies, including linking the definition of \"affordable\" homes to average wages, not rents.\n\nThe party is critical of the government's current definition, which allows affordable rents to be set at up to 80% of the local market rate.\n\nShe will also set out plans to allow local authorities to buy land more cheaply from private owners when completing a compulsory purchase.\n\nCouncils are currently not allowed to buy such land at agricultural value - instead having to factor in the prospect of future planning permission, which makes it more expensive.\n\nLabour believes changing this could enable councils to buy more land for affordable housing, and give them a stronger hand with developers.\n\nThe party had proposals in this area under its previous leadership, when it proposed setting up a \"sovereign land trust\" to buy property.\n\nIt will also renew its criticism of rules under which developers negotiate with councils to build affordable homes, or contribute cash towards them.\n\nThe party has criticised the current system as too lax and favourable to developers.\n\nThe government itself plans to replace the current system with a new levy as part of its wider proposals to change the planning system in England.\n\nA Conservative spokesman said Ms Powell's housing speech \"amounts to a series of rehashed and failed policies from Jeremy Corbyn or Sadiq Khan\".\n\n\"It once again goes to show Labour under Keir Starmer have absolutely nothing new to offer our country,\" he added.", "Tenants are being evicted due to rent arrears built up during the Covid pandemic, despite the government saying no-one should lose their home as a result of the crisis.\n\nOne-third of hearings monitored in England and Wales over the summer explicitly cited the pandemic as the reason for the arrears, an investigation has found. The average hearing lasted just 10 minutes.\n\n\"We had a few safety nets, but they weren't enough for Covid,\" says Marshall Kinder-Maiss, 27.\n\nThree weeks before the UK went into lockdown in March 2020, he and his partner Joanne thought their dreams had come true. After 18 months of trying to conceive a child, Joanne had just given birth to a baby boy, Roman. To support his growing family, Marshall, a chef, decided to leave his job at a Nando's restaurant in Liverpool to take a better-paid role with a city-centre cafe.\n\nMarshall had a week off between his old job and his new one. And that was the week when Covid restrictions were introduced. Marshall's new job offer was withdrawn. And as he had left his former employer, he wasn't eligible for the government's furlough scheme.\n\nThe couple's income plummeted. Until their claim for Universal Credit was processed, their only money was Joanne's maternity pay of £150 a week. When the couple were both working full-time, they used to take home around £2,000 a month. Their £450-a-month rent quickly became unaffordable as overdrafts were maximised to pay for living expenses. They've struggled to pay rent ever since.\n\n\"It was not how it was supposed to be,\" says Joanne, 24. \"It makes me feel a bit sick. We both grew up coming from poverty so we tried our best to get out of that. We've always been working people, and now I just feel like our son has been born into the exact same situation.\n\n\"All of our peers - they're not in this position. So it's a bit humiliating to be honest.\"\n\nThey are now £4,000 in rent arrears and have been served with an eviction notice. They must leave the house by 11 October.\n\nIn March 2020, former Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick tweeted that \"no-one should lose their home as a result of the coronavirus epidemic\". A ban on bailiff evictions was introduced in England and Wales. This ended in England in May this year, and in Wales the following month.\n\nTo investigate the impact of this, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) sent reporters to 30 county courts in England and Wales throughout July and August.\n\nOf the 555 cases involving either private or social housing landlords, 270 ended in a possession order. A third of those, 88 cases, explicitly mentioned the impact that Covid had had on their finances.\n\nCourt bailiffs were \"swamped\" following the end of the eviction ban, lawyers told the BBC.\n\nSource: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (July and August 2021)\n\nMarshall and Joanne have decided not to go to Liverpool County Court to challenge their landlord's legal action. They have been advised by their legal representative that it would be \"pointless\".\n\nThey have been served with a Section Eight order, used when a tenant breaks the terms of the rental agreement. This acts as a mandatory ground for repossession if the landlord can prove that the tenant has arrears of at least two months.\n\nLast year, MPs on the Housing, Communities and Local Government committee recommended changes in the law to give judges discretion in deciding each individual case. The government chose to ignore the recommendation.\n\nOn Monday, the BBC visited Wandsworth County Court - a crumbling three-storey building in south London - to witness possession orders being rapidly handed down, some within just five minutes.\n\nThe individuals or families in question will be forced out of their homes in just two weeks' time.\n\nOnly one tenant appeared in person during the session. She told the court she had been unable, during the pandemic, to find her usual agency work as an executive PA. This left her unable to afford the £1,600 a month rent on her one-bedroom flat in Hammersmith, west London.\n\nShe had racked up £24,000 in rent arrears. The court ordered her to leave her property by 4 October. In addition to her rent arrears, she must pay £604 in interest, and the landlord's £3,000 legal costs.\n\nThe woman, who did not want to be named, told the BBC she would stay with a friend for the first two weeks. She has no idea where she will live after that.\n\n\"I don't know what to do. I've found a job, but my credit history is so bad, I doubt I'll find a place,\" she said.\n\nMarshall and Joanne say they have the same problem.\n\nMarshall found a new job three months ago, working for a food delivery firm, and is now looking for a second job to supplement his wage. But they don't have any savings to pay a deposit, and their credit rating is now poor.\n\nAnd they face fierce competition for a new home, says Joanne.\n\n\"They're really sought after because there are a lot of evictions, so people are desperate to get a house.\"\n\nMarshall says he phones the council an average of once a week to enquire about social housing, but has been told there are others whose need is greater.\n\nThe couple say they definitely plan to pay back their arrears once they are able to.\n\nThe average tenant in the cases analysed by the TBIJ had £6,500 worth of rent arrears. But a judge at another London court told the BBC he had come across one set of tenants with arrears of £190,000 in recent weeks. Some tenants had \"undoubtedly taken advantage\" of the evictions ban, he said, in effect to live rent-free.\n\nLandlady Michelle Dighton, 41, believes this is the case with a tenant in one of her rental properties.\n\nShe is owed more than £25,000 in rent arrears as she says her tenant - in Croydon, south London - hasn't paid rent since October 2019. She says that she delayed serving an eviction notice, hoping to resolve the situation amicably.\n\nBut when the government introduced the eviction ban, Michelle found herself stuck. Legal delays have further prevented the mother-of-two from sending round the bailiffs.\n\n\"I have to pay a mortgage and service fee for the flat, but I'm not getting any income from it.\"\n\nAdvice for tenants from the Citizen's Advice Bureau:\n\nMichelle says, as a tenant herself, she understands why the government introduced the eviction ban, \"but the courts can't distinguish between those who can't pay and those who won't pay\".\n\n\"My tenant's arrears have nothing to do with Covid,\" she thinks.\n\nAlthough the majority of tenants whose cases were monitored by TBIJ were served a Section Eight eviction notice, a fifth were served a Section 21 notice. Section 21 is a controversial part of the 1988 Housing Act which allows landlords to evict people without giving a specific reason. Often called \"no fault\" or \"revenge\" evictions, the Conservatives promised to scrap them in their 2019 manifesto.\n\nMinisters said they will outline their proposals \"in due course\".\n\nIn a statement, the new Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: \"Our £352bn support package has helped renters throughout the pandemic, and prevented a build-up of rent arrears. We also took unprecedented action to help keep people in their homes by extending notice periods and pausing evictions at the height of the pandemic.\n\n\"As the economy re-opens, it is right that these measures are now being lifted and we are delivering a fairer and more effective private rental sector that works for both landlords and tenants.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"Here in Wales, we have made significant additional help available for tenants, including additional funding for Discretionary Housing Payments and grants to clear Covid-related rent arrears. This support goes far beyond any support UK government have provided.\"", "This wallaby, Edward, arrived at the same time as missing Eddie did\n\nA young wallaby has escaped into the countryside just a day after arriving at a petting zoo in Aberdeenshire.\n\nEddie, who is about six months old, only arrived at Waulkmill Menagerie, near New Deer, on Sunday.\n\nHowever, he escaped through a small hole in a fence on Monday.\n\nNikki Johnstone, who runs the attraction, said he was spotted outside a pub in New Deer and was last seen heading north in the direction of Cuminestown and Turriff.\n\n\"He'll be fine with grass and whatever plants he can forage\", she told BBC Scotland\n\n\"The cold is a bit of a worry factor because he is so little, he would need a heat lamp during our winters.\"\n\nEddie was seen near The Howe pub in New Deer\n\nMiss Johnstone said Eddie was no threat as he was not aggressive to humans or other animals, and advised anyone who spotted him to close him in and close the area if they could.\n\n\"We can't chase him through a field, he's way too fast for that\", she said.\n\n\"We're just spreading the word, and have contacted drone people.\n\n\"I'm totally gutted and just worried sick for him - just needing him home.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ex-Labour MP Keith Vaz should be ashamed of his behaviour towards a House of Commons staff member, a report on his conduct has said.\n\nMr Vaz's \"sustained and unpleasant bullying\" of Jenny McCullough had an \"enduring psychological impact\" on her, a panel of independent experts says.\n\nThe panel says Mr Vaz - who stood down as an MP in 2019 - should never be given a Parliamentary pass again.\n\nHe has rejected the ruling and says he is considering legal action.\n\nMs McCullough says she was subjected to verbal abuse and attempts to undermine her position, when she worked as a clerk for the Home Affairs Committee, chaired at the time by Mr Vaz.\n\nThe former minister likened her to prostitutes, told her she could not do her job effectively because she was \"not a mother\", and threatened to take photographs of her drinking alcohol to show to her boss, according to the report.\n\nParliament's standards commissioner has already rebuked Mr Vaz, with the independent panel - set up last year to rule on allegations about MPs' behaviour - being brought in to decide on sanctions.\n\nThe panel's chair, Sir Stephen Irwin, said Mr Vaz's bullying \"was hostile, sustained, harmful and unworthy of a Member of Parliament\", adding \"he should be ashamed of his behaviour\".\n\nJenny McCullough worked at the Commons from 2002 to 2011\n\nOn a trip to Russia in 2008, the report said Mr Vaz insisted on taking a member of his own staff against advice and told Ms McCullough this was because she was \"not competent\".\n\nMr Vaz then threatened to take photos of her drinking alcohol and show them to her manager.\n\nThe report said there was evidence the photos were taken and \"the implication of the threat was that she was liable to drink to excess so as to affect her performance\".\n\nThe panel found \"there was no substance to this\" and deemed it a \"psychological threat\".\n\nOn the same trip, Mr Vaz accused her of not being able to do her job effectively because she \"wasn't a mother\" and forced her to reveal her age in order to undermine her performance.\n\nMs McCullough moved to a different team following the trip. Mr Vaz then told her after a meeting with some prostitutes, that they had \"reminded him of\" her.\n\nThe panel said that if the former Leicester East MP had currently held a Commons pass \"it would have been appropriate to remove it\" and his eligibility for one \"should never be restored\".\n\nFormer MPs are entitled to passes to the Parliamentary estate - but Mr Vaz had his taken off him after a separate breach of the Commons code of conduct.\n\nThe panel also rejected claims from Mr Vaz's medical adviser that he was too ill to participate in its inquiry, after reviewing \"publicly available material demonstrating his ongoing public media and political activity\".\n\nMr Vaz's office said: \"He has never seen the report, nor has he had the chance to question any witnesses or provide a response.\"\n\nThe statement rejected the panel's claim that Mr Vaz had refused to cooperate with them, saying the former MP had been told he was no longer required to take part and an interview that had been due to take place at his home was cancelled.\n\n\"The Parliamentary Commissioner, Kathryn Stone, gave the complainant the right of appeal but failed to offer Mr Vaz the same right which is a fundamental breach of the process leaving the decision open to judicial review,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"This is a deeply fractured process which has cost the taxpayer thousands of pounds. The total overall cost now stands at £1m.\"\n\nThe statement said Parliament's complaints and grievance process was \"riddled with flaws\", adding: \"As a direct result of the protracted and debilitating process, Mr Vaz was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy for which he was hospitalised and for which he is still undergoing treatment. This matter is now in the hands of solicitors.\"", "Air pollution is even more dangerous than previously thought, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, as it slashes maximum safe levels of key pollutants such nitrogen dioxide.\n\nAn estimated seven million people die prematurely each year from diseases linked to air pollution, the WHO says.\n\nLow- and middle-income countries suffer the most, because of their reliance on fossil fuels for economic development.\n\nThe WHO puts air pollution on a par with smoking and unhealthy eating.\n\nIt is urging its 194 member states to cut emissions and take action on climate change, ahead of the COP26 summit in November.\n\nDecade by decade, the limits for what's considered a safe amount of pollution are being ratcheted down.\n\nIt's not news to people suffering from heart and lung problems that toxic particles and gases can harm people at much lower levels than previously thought.\n\nThe changes to the guidelines mean the UK's legal limits for the most harmful pollutants are now four times higher than the maximum levels recommended by the WHO.\n\nThe trouble is that the worst pollution - tiny particles which can be breathed into the lungs - is so terribly hard to stop.\n\nPollution comes from vehicle exhausts and gas central heating. But harmful particles are also released into the air in other ways - or formed in the air in reaction with other chemicals.\n\nParticle sources include paints, cleaning fluids, and solvents. Add to that car tyres wearing on the road, or brakes - meaning that even electric cars can't offer a perfect solution.\n\nHow many people know that farm slurry also gives off gases that contribute to deaths in cities?\n\nThat's why the new advice is so challenging to governments. If you live in a city, it's very hard to escape pollution, however hard you try.\n\nThe new guidelines, released on Wednesday, halve the recommended maximum for exposure to tiny particles called PM2.5s.\n\nThese are produced by burning fuels in power generation, domestic heating and vehicle engines.\n\n\"Almost 80% of deaths related to PM2.5 could be avoided in the world if the current air pollution levels were reduced to those proposed in the updated guideline,\" the WHO said.\n\nIt is also cutting the recommended limit for another class of microparticles, known as PM10s, by 25%.\n\nOther pollutants singled out in the guidelines include ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide.\n\nAir pollution is linked to conditions such as heart disease and strokes. In children, it can reduce lung growth and cause aggravated asthma.\n\n\"Improving air quality can enhance climate change mitigation efforts, while reducing emissions will in turn improve air quality,\" the WHO says.", "The FBI has issued a federal arrest warrant for Gabby Petito's boyfriend for his \"use of unauthorized devices\" following her death.\n\nThe indictment says Brian Laundrie used a debit card and PIN number for accounts that did not belong to him between 30 August and 1 September.\n\nMs Petito's body was found on Sunday inside a park the couple had visited.\n\nMr Laundrie is currently missing. His family say he was last seen on 14 September.\n\nOfficials are searching for him at a Florida nature reserve.\n\nThe couple had been travelling for several weeks before 23-year-old Mr Laundrie returned home to Florida alone with their white van on 1 September. He did not contact police or the Petito family on his return.\n\nMs Petito's family reported her missing 10 days later. On Sunday, the body of the 22-year-old was found in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. The coroner ruled her death a homicide but gave no indication as to how she died.\n\nThe indictment issued on Wednesday by the US District Court of Wyoming says Mr Laundrie obtained over $1,000 (£730) with the debit card transactions.\n\n\"While this arrest warrant allows law enforcement to arrest Mr Laundrie, the FBI and our partners across the country continue to investigate the facts and circumstances of Ms Petito's homicide,\" FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Schneider said in a statement.\n\nMr Laundrie's lawyer, Steve Bertolino, told Fox News that it was his \"understanding that the arrest warrant [was] related to activities occurring after the death of Gabby Petito and not related to her actual demise\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police stopped Gabby Petito more than two weeks ago\n\nMr Laundrie's family reported him missing over the weekend. They claim he left for a hike and never returned. He is considered a \"person of interest\" in the disappearance but had refused to speak with investigators before disappearing.\n\nThe search for Mr Laundrie has focused on a 24,000-acre nature reserve near his home in North Port, Florida. Police are using dogs, drones, and all-terrain vehicles for the search, which officers say is complicated by difficult, swampy terrain.\n\nEarlier this week, investigators also searched the Laundrie family home. Agents were seen removing several boxes from the house and towing away a silver Ford Mustang.\n\nIt is still unclear what happened when Ms Petito went missing. Two weeks earlier, on 12 August, police in the southern Utah town of Moab were called to a possible domestic violence incident involving the couple.\n\nPolice released bodycam footage which showed Ms Petito crying and complaining about her mental health to officers. She also said the couple had been arguing more frequently.\n\nThe officers recommended they spend the night apart but did not file any charges.\n\nMs Petito last video-called her mother on 24 August to say she was leaving Utah and heading to the Teton mountain range in Wyoming, according to Rick Stafford, the family's lawyer.", "The Grenfell fire in June 2017 claimed the lives of 72 people\n\nThe government failed to act over warnings of the risks of cladding more than seven years before the Grenfell Tower fire, a public inquiry has heard.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade (LFB) asked the government to warn councils of the risks posed by external wall panels following another fire in 2009.\n\nHowever, the LFB said it was told there was \"insufficient\" information to warrant a warning.\n\nThe Grenfell fire in June 2017 has been partly blamed on dangerous cladding.\n\nSeventy-two people died as a result of the disaster in west London.\n\nThe second phase of the public inquiry is looking into the cause of the fire, including how the 24-storey tower came to be in a condition which allowed the blaze to spread.\n\nIn July 2009 six people died in a fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell, south-east London.\n\nThe inquiry heard that the LFB's investigations into that fire found that tests conducted on the external wall panels installed showed they did not meet the standards suggested by building regulation guidance.\n\nIn December 2009 the commissioner of the LFB, Ron Dobson, wrote to the chief fire and rescue adviser to the Department for Communities and Local Government about the issue.\n\nThe brigade asked the government to warn housing providers that it would be advisable for them to check that external walls panels installed on high rise housing met the required specifications.\n\nHowever, the inquiry was shown evidence that the Department for Communities and Local Government adviser, Sir Ken Knight, replied to say there was \"insufficient information to warrant alerting housing authorities\", the inquiry was told.\n\nInstead, the department sent a generic letter to chief executives of local authorities in England saying that any work carried out should be checked by a building control body.\n\nIn December 2012, the LFB also sent a letter to Brandon Lewis, who was parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Communities and Local Government.\n\nThat letter recommended, among other things, further guidance about building regulations which covered the spread of fire over the external envelope of a building.\n\nOn Tuesday, the inquiry heard that despite the London Fire Brigade's internal knowledge of the risks posed by this issue, it did not train its own frontline staff about them.\n\nA training package developed in October 2015 which contained a warning about buildings which had been fitted with modern insulation materials was not rolled out, because the LFB encountered IT problems after upgrades to the Internet Explorer browser.\n\nIf you want to find out more about the Grenfell Tower public inquiry you can find all episodes of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast on the BBC website.", "Food industry bodies have warned of panic-buying this Christmas unless action is taken to address labour shortages.\n\nThe National Farmers' Union (NFU) called for an emergency visa to allow firms to recruit from outside the UK.\n\nUK farmers, hauliers and shops have been struggling with shortages that have been made worse by Covid and Brexit.\n\nThe government said that the UK has a \"highly resilient food supply chain\".\n\nThe head of the NFU, Minette Batters, wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday warning that the food and farming sector is on a \"knife edge\" due to a shortage of workers across the entire supply chain.\n\nThe letter, signed on behalf of a number of food and drink trade bodies, urged the government to introduce a Covid-19 recovery visa to open up new recruitment opportunities as a matter of urgency.\n\n\"Without it, more shelves will go empty and consumers will panic buy to try to get through the winter,\" Ms Batters wrote.\n\n\"That is why we must have an urgent commitment from you to enable the industry to recruit from outside the UK over the next 12 months to get us through the winter and to help us save Christmas.\"\n\nShe said it is \"a travesty that this is happening in parallel with UK food producers disposing of perfectly edible food as it either cannot be picked, packed, processed or transported to the end customer\".\n\n\"Every day there are new examples of food waste across the industry, from chicken to pork, fruit and vegetables, dairy and many other products. The food is there, but it needs people to get it to the consumers,\" Ms Batters said.\n\nThe letter was signed on behalf of other groups such as the British Frozen Food Federation, the British Meat Processors Association, Dairy UK and the Food and Drink Federation.\n\nThere was a report in The Grocer that Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain, had warned the government that panic-buying this Christmas could be worse than during lockdown.\n\nHowever, Tesco later said: \"We have good availability, with deliveries arriving at our stores and distribution centres across the UK every day.\n\n\"While the industry-wide shortage of HGV drivers has led to some distribution challenges, we're working hard to address these and to plan for the months ahead, so that customers can get everything they need.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he does “not believe people will be short of food” amid reports of some empty supermarket shelves.\n\nSome farmers have resorted to giving fruit and vegetables away rather than let it rot in their fields.\n\nThe NFU has said that only 11% of seasonal workers in the 2020 season were UK residents.\n\nRobert Newbery from NFU East Midlands said earlier this month: \"Brexit is certainly having an impact. The people that could move freely within Europe before now can't.\"\n\nIn response to the NFU's call for support, the government increased the number of visas available under the Seasonal Worker Pilot (SWP) from 10,000 in 2020 to 30,000 this year.\n\nThere are also labour shortages in meat production, with a shortfall of abattoir workers and butchers.\n\nThe Association of Independent Meat Suppliers told the BBC in August the industry had about 14,000 job vacancies.\n\nIt said Covid, the UK's exit from the European Union (EU) and perceptions over career paths had caused a looming \"recruitment crisis\".\n\nHauliers and food firms have also been warning of a chronic shortage of lorry drivers, which they also ascribe to the pandemic and Brexit.\n\nA government spokesperson said that the UK's supply chain is \"highly resilient\" and has coped well when faced with recent pressures.\n\nThey pointed out that the government earlier this year expanded its Seasonal Workers Pilot to 30,000 visas for workers to come to the UK for up to six months.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with industry to understand labour demand and supply, including both permanent and seasonal workforce requirements,\" they said.\n\nSeparately, the government has said it has taken action to prevent supermarket shortages with a deal to restart production at CF Industries, the UK's biggest producer of carbon dioxide.\n\nThe gas is widely used by the food industry to prolong shelf life.\n\nRestarting production at the carbon dioxide plants is set to cost taxpayers tens of millions of pounds, after the government agreed to meet the full operating costs for three weeks.", "Andrew Monk, a City chief executive, is not a fan of government proposals for new staff to have the right to ask to work from home.\n\n\"People abuse it,\" and are less productive, at least in financial services, he told the BBC.\n\nHis view is that a lot of people who ask for flexible working want to work part-time but on a full-time salary.\n\nThe government, however, says that allowing flexible working makes businesses more productive.\n\nIt is proposing that from the first day of employment new starters can request flexible working, rather than having to wait at least six months, as is the case at the moment.\n\nUnder the proposals people can request flexible working such as job sharing, flexi-time, or working from home. Employers won't have to agree to the request.\n\nNevertheless, any legislation is \"setting a tone that is almost making people think they can do part-time work but on full-time salaries\", Mr Monk told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.\n\nHe is chief executive of investment firm VSA Capital, which employs about 20 people in the City of London.\n\n\"Pretty much we are all back at work, because I think that's what we need to be in our particular industry,\" he says. \"Obviously it varies from industry to industry, but in financial services it's more important to be in the office because its a very live industry\".\n\nSome big firms, including accountancy giants PwC and Deloitte, have gone the other way from VSA Capital, however, and have embraced flexible working.\n\nMr Monk said: \"What you'll find is that audit work is taking significantly longer than it used to take, and of course when things take longer, it means they cost more as well, because these people tend to charge by the hour.\"\n\n\"Actually, although they are all working from home and say it's all fine, it's not fine.\"\n\nMr Monk said the time it takes for firms to set up a stock market flotation has jumped from three months on average to six.\n\n\"London is very lucky - we have a financial centre that is the pride of the world, and you have to work long hours,\" he said. \"But we're also paid very high salaries, and so you can't expect to be paid a good salary and then not work hard.\"\n\nThe number of people working from home jumped dramatically during coronavirus lockdowns in the UK, and may businesses are gearing up to let employees work from home at least some of the time.\n\nHowever, some big City firms, such as Goldman Sachs, are opposed to working from home, with its boss David Solomon labelling it as an \"aberration\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has also warned that working from home can damage young people's careers.\n\nHowever, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has said: \"Empowering workers to have more say over where and when they work makes for more productive businesses and happier employees.\n\n\"It was once considered a 'nice to have', but by making requests a day one right, we're making flexible working part of the DNA of businesses across the country.\"\n\nKate Hulley, the owner and manager of cardboard box manufacturer Belmont Packaging, recently switched her factory to a four-day week.\n\n\"We've never looked back,\" she told the BBC Radio 5Live's Wake Up to Money programme. \"Productivity went up.\"\n\nThe firm compressed the week, doing the same amount of hours in four days. \"It has worked extremely well. The customers haven't seen any difference in service.\"\n\nStephen Warnham, head of content at UK jobs site Totaljobs.com, earlier told the BBC that firms competing for staff needed to trust people \"to work in the way that best gets the job done\".\n\nAs part of a survey of 200,000 staff worldwide, published in March this year, Totaljobs found that nine in 10 employees wanted partial flexibility to choose where they work.\n\n\"From a legislative perspective this is long overdue as a third of employers we speak to are already doing this anyway, so it is a really critical change,\" said Mr Warnham.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy also said that flexible working leads to a workforce that is more productive and highly motivated, pointing to a 2017 study by HSBC.\n\nThere have been a number of studies which indicate that employees are more productive if they are allowed to work flexibly, including a remote working experiment in China.\n\nSome people find it easier to focus without distractions from colleagues in the office.\n\nMore recently, a University of Southampton study of work during Covid lockdowns suggested that 90% of people thought their productivity had stayed the same or improved by working from home.\n• None Staff to get day-one right to ask for home working", "The US is to donate 500 million more doses of the Pfizer vaccine to developing nations from next year.\n\nPresident Joe Biden made the pledge at a virtual Covid-19 summit on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, promising an \"arsenal of vaccines\".\n\nThe additional jabs will see the total US commitment on vaccine sharing exceed one billion jabs.\n\nExperts say some 11 billion doses are required to vaccinate at least 70% of the global population.\n\nThe World Health Organisation has set a minimum target of 40% vaccine coverage in every country by the end of 2021.\n\nBut the goal is unlikely to be met.\n\nWhile many high-income countries have now given at least one shot to more than half their populations, only 2% of people in low-income countries have had their first dose, according to data from the University of Oxford.\n\nIt's a big pledge but it'll be met with a fair share of scepticism from countries still waiting to vaccinate even 2% of their population.\n\nThe US had already pledged 580m doses but delivered only 160m of those so far.\n\nSo what's different now? Well, global production has picked up in the past few months and there are doses available.\n\nRich countries could have 1.2bn spare doses by the end of the year, even if they run booster campaigns, according to science analytics firm Airfinity. 241m of those could go to waste if they're not donated. But these need to be sent very soon.\n\nCovax, the WHO-backed scheme to help distribute vaccines fairly, has told the BBC that too many of the donations it's receiving have come in small quantities, at the last minute and with little time left before they expire.\n\nThat makes their job of getting them to where they are needed very hard. If Biden want to meet this ambitious goal of vaccinating the world by this time next year, that will have to change.\n\nThe White House's Covid summit comes as research shows rich countries are still holding surpluses of vaccines, many of which could soon be thrown out.\n\nIn June, members of the G7 - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US - pledged to donate one billion doses to poor countries over the next year.\n\nPresident Biden pledged 580m at the time, of which the US has delivered only 160m so far.\n\nThe donated vaccines are routed through Covax, the global scheme supported by the WHO to get doses where they're needed most.\n\nCovax purchases and then sells vaccines at low-cost to middle income countries and donates to poor countries.\n\nIn the US - where more than 76% of adults have received at least one dose - criticism that the country is doing too little to help the rest of the world has grown.\n\nOn Friday, a panel advising the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended booster shots - third doses - of the Pfizer vaccine for people 65 and over.\n\nThe WHO has previously called on wealthier nations to hold off on providing boosters until vaccination rates go up in lesser developed countries.\n\nLast week, in a letter to Mr Biden, eight lawmakers of his own party wrote: \"Clearly, there is an inequitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccine doses, and it is getting worse.\"", "Tributes have been pouring in since the four were found dead in Killamarsh\n\nA father has paid tribute to his \"sweet little girl\" who was killed during a sleepover at her best friend's house.\n\nConnie Gent, 11, was one of four people, including two other children, found dead at a house in Killamarsh in Derbyshire on Sunday.\n\nDamien Bendall, of Chandos Crescent, Killamarsh has been charged with their murders.\n\nConnie's father Charlie Gent told ITV: \"The hardest thing is I'm not going to get to hold her again.\"\n\nMr Gent said: \"Connie was such a special and sweet little girl.\n\n\"She was my little sidekick. She was my rock, my shining star, my angel.\n\n\"I feel like I was her hero, and I let her down.\"\n\nHe added she enjoyed music and singing and loved TikTok.\n\nThe bodies of Terri Harris, 35, her children John Paul, 13, and Lacey, 11 were found alongside Connie after police were called to Chandos Crescent in Killamarsh at 07:26 BST on Sunday.\n\nJohn Paul and Lacey's father Jason Bennett said \"life will never be the same again\"\n\nLacey and John Paul's mother Terri Harris was also found dead at the house\n\nMr Bendall, 31, has been charged with four counts of murder and made a brief appearance via videolink in Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on Wednesday morning.\n\nHe spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth and was remanded into custody.\n\nHe is due to appear at Derby Crown Court on Friday.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Man in court over killings of mother and children\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Apple devices - such as the iPad Pro and Mac laptops - use USB-C (left) while the iPhone uses Lightning (right)\n\nManufacturers will be forced to create a universal charging solution for phones and small electronic devices, under a new rule proposed by the European Commission (EC).\n\nThe aim is to reduce waste by encouraging consumers to re-use existing chargers when buying a new device.\n\nAll smartphones sold in the EU must have USB-C chargers, the proposal said.\n\nApple has warned such a move would harm innovation.\n\nThe tech giant is the main manufacturer of smartphones using a custom charging port, as its iPhone series uses an Apple-made \"Lightning\" connector.\n\n\"We remain concerned that strict regulation mandating just one type of connector stifles innovation rather than encouraging it, which in turn will harm consumers in Europe and around the world,\" the firm told the BBC.\n\nIt added that it aims to make every Apple device and usage carbon neutral by 2030.\n\nMost Android phones come with USB micro-B charging ports, or have already moved to the more modern USB-C standard.\n\nNew models of the iPad and MacBook use USB-C charging ports, as do high-end phone models from popular Android manufacturers such as Samsung and Huawei.\n\nThe changes would apply to the charging port on the device body, whereas the end of the cable connecting to a plug could be USB-C or USB-A.\n\nAround half of chargers sold with mobile phones in the European Union in 2018 had a USB micro-B connector, while 29% had a USB C connector and 21% a Lightning connector, a Commission impact assessment study in 2019 found.\n\nThe proposed rules will apply to:\n\nOther products including earbuds, smart-watches and fitness trackers were not considered for technical reasons linked to size and use conditions.\n\nThe proposal also standardises fast charging speeds - meaning devices capable of fast charging will be charged at the same speeds.\n\nEU politicians have been campaigning for a common standard for over a decade, with the Commission's research estimating that disposed of and unused charging cables generate more than 11,000 tonnes of waste per year.\n\nIn the European Union, around 420 million mobile phones and other portable electronic devices were sold in the last year.\n\nThe average person owns around three mobile phone chargers, of which they use two regularly.\n\nIn 2009, there were more than 30 different chargers, whereas now most models stick to three - the USB-C, Lightning and USB micro-B.\n\n\"Having one common charging standard would be a victory for common sense in the eyes of consumers,\" Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight said.\n\n\"Although Apple has made a strong argument for keeping its Lightning connector, given the one billion active iPhone users, some of its products including Mac and iPad now support USB-C.\n\n\"Hopefully it will eventually become a non-issue if Apple keeps adding USB-C to more devices.\"\n\nIt may be a number of years before the proposals come into effect.\n\nThe legislative proposal, known as a Directive, will be debated by the European Parliament and national governments.\n\nMEPs and member states may suggest amendments to the proposal. Only once the EC has agreed these amendments, will the directive be enacted.\n\nThe EC hopes that will happen in 2022 - after which member states usually have two years to enact the rules into national law, and manufacturers will have 24 months to change their charging ports.\n\n\"We gave industry plenty of time to come up with their own solutions, now time is ripe for legislative action for a common charger. This is an important win for our consumers and environment and in line with our green and digital ambitions,\" Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager said.", "A man was captured on CCTV walking in Pegler Square\n\nA 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Sabina Nessa in south-east London, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nMs Nessa's body was found by a member of the public in Cator Park in Kidbrooke.\n\nOfficers believe the 28-year-old teacher was attacked shortly after leaving her home in Astell Road at about 20:30 BST on Friday.\n\nThe force has also released an image of another man they are searching for.\n\nThe image shows a figure of a person walking through nearby Pegler Square.\n\nAn image of a silver car it is believed he had access to - and that police are searching for - has also been released.\n\nSabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nThe arrested man was held at an address in Lewisham and remains in custody.\n\nPolice said a post-mortem examination carried out on Monday was inconclusive.\n\nAnother man in his 40s who was held on suspicion of murder the day after Ms Nessa's body was found was later released under further investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Nessa was attacked as she walked to meet a friend at The Depot bar at about 20:30 BST last Friday.\n\nHer body was found the next day near a walkway in the park.\n\nPolice have also released an image of a car which they believe the man had access to\n\nSpeaking about the CCTV image appeal, Det Ch Insp Neil John said: \"We would ask anyone - especially those in Kidbrooke and the wider area of Lewisham and Greenwich - to take a careful look at these images to check whether you know who this man is or have seen him over recent days.\n\n\"Any information as to his identity or whereabouts could be vital for our investigation so we are asking you to share this image far and wide to ensure as many people as possible see it.\"\n\nPolice say Ms Nessa was planning to meet a friend at The Depot bar in Kidbrooke Village on the night she was killed\n\nMs Nessa's family previously said they had been left \"devastated\" by her killing.\n\nHer cousin, Zubel Ahmed, described the 28-year-old as the \"kindest, sweetest girl you could meet\".\n\nHe said: \"Sabina's heart was as good as gold, she never had a bad word to say about anyone. Her sister is going to miss her so much.\"\n\nMs Nessa was a teacher at Rushey Green primary school in Lewisham. The head, Lisa Williams, called her \"a brilliant teacher; she was kind, caring and absolutely dedicated to her pupils\".\n\nA vigil is due to be held in Ms Nessa's memory on Friday evening.\n\nIt has been organised by a Kidbrooke community group with the support of Reclaim the Streets, which held a vigil for murder victim Sarah Everard in Clapham Common that ended in mass arrests.\n\nPolice said they would be part of the gathering.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Strachan wrote songs, musicals and novels as well as music for TV programmes\n\nMatthew Strachan, the composer who co-wrote the theme music for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, has died at the age of 50.\n\nHe wrote the quiz show's theme and dramatic incidental music with his father Keith.\n\nIt became well-known around the world thanks to the programme's many international versions.\n\nStrachan also composed for The National Lottery and EastEnders, and created a series of fake 1970s porn soundtracks.\n\n\"Matthew was loved by his family and he will be sadly missed,\" Keith Strachan told the BBC.\n\n\"He was a warm, funny and talented human being.\"\n\nThe father-and-son team wrote a total of 95 pieces of music for the show over eight days in 1998.\n\nThey went on to win them the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' award for the the most-broadcast piece of music on US TV for 10 years in a row, earning them a place in the organisation's hall of fame.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio London in 2014, Strachan recalled the \"unusual circumstances\" in which he was called in to write the iconic score.\n\nHe said: \"... A non-broadcast pilot had been made of the show and it was very unsuccessful, it just didn't work.\n\nThe Strachans' Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? music has been heard around the world\n\n\"The executive producer of the show pulled into a lay-by one morning and called the entire creative team and said 'we're going to have to throw the entire thing out and start again from scratch because if we don't ITV are just going to turn their back on this'\".\n\nStrachan said he and his father were called into a meeting, and after watching the show and talking to the director, it was \"eventually decided that there needed to be 95 pieces of music... to cover every eventuality of what happens in the show\".\n\nHe added: \"There's a piece of music for every event, there's a piece of music for when the lights go down, then there's an underscore for the questions…[it's] the idea that it should be quite subliminal.\n\n\"And then we came up with the bright idea - which made a rod for our own backs - of putting up the music a semi-tone every time there was a new question, to sort of raise the stakes a bit - but that increased our workload... we were working 24 hours a day to get this thing done.\"\n\nReflecting on why the programme was a \"particularly good piece of television\", he said: \"The format is great, it's very simple, it's very intimate and there's inherent tension in the thing which is why I think all that lighting and the music works for it.\"\n\nCleverly, the father and son recorded every piece of music in multiple keys - so that every time a new question was posed, the music would move up a semi-tone, subconsciously raising the stakes.\n\nStrachan's other works included the music for BBC Radio 4's Home Front and for some of Jasper Carrott's BBC comedy shows, including police spoof The Detectives.\n\nHe also created the alter-ego Klaus Harmony, \"the Mozart of Porn\", who released several albums of \"erotic masterpieces\" that had supposedly soundtracked cheap 1970s exploitation films.\n\nWith song titles like Cream The Oink, Kosmik Ladywave, Rempenmeister and Jesus, You Really Do Mean Diamonds, Don't You, the albums gained a cult following.\n\n\"He could have done anything [after Millionaire] but he did that,\" wrote his friend and fellow composer Daniel Pemberton on Twitter. \"Matthew made records called things like Wundercrotchen and Funky Sexy Shop. That's what he wanted from life.\n\n\"I loved it. It says a lot about being a composer that money is rarely the goal - deep down, all most of us really want to do is just make music.\"\n\nWriter Dirk Maggs also paid tribute, remembering Strachan on Twitter as a \"dear friend and massive talent\" who had been \"gentle, kind, talented and wickedly funny\".\n\nComposer Kevin Sargent added that Strachan had been \"a talented, clever, funny man whose most famous work redefined the genre of the TV game show\".\n\nAccording to his company biography, Strachan also wrote scores for musicals and penned two mystery novels with wife Bernadette under the pseudonym MB Vincent.\n\nEarlier this year he was charged with arson after setting fire to his home.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Compensation payments for hundreds of civilian deaths linked to the British armed forces have been revealed for the first time.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence paid out £688,000 for 289 civilian deaths between 2006-14, an average of £2,380.\n\nBut in one case, a family was paid just £104.17, less than others received for the deaths of a herd of donkeys.\n\nThe MoD said compensation was set by legal principles, including past and future losses and local customs.\n\nAlmost 7,000 compensation claims paid out by the British military during combat operations in Helmand, in Afghanistan, up until 2014 were analysed by the charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV).\n\nThe youngest casualty was a three-year-old boy who, according to records, was \"killed by shock\" during a British mine clearance operation. At least 16 children were among the 289 civilian deaths.\n\nUsing data obtained under Freedom of Information requests, this is the first attempt to scrutinise the impact of British military forces on civilian lives in Afghanistan in this way.\n\nMurray Jones from AOAV said: \"The fact that a charity has had to scrutinise this data, rather than the British military themselves, is hugely concerning.\"\n\nCompensation payments for civilians killed varied widely. In February 2008 a family received just £104.17 for a confirmed fatality and property damage.\n\nThere is no more detail given, but it is the lowest recorded sum for a civilian death.\n\nIn contrast, British forces paid out £110 for a lost mobile phone in Camp Bastion, £662 for the death of six donkeys after they \"wandered on to a rifle range \", and £240 for damage caused to a property by an armoured vehicle.\n\nOther payments linked to civilian deaths include £586.42 for the death of a 10-year-old boy in December 2009.\n\nBritish forces also paid out £4,233.60 for four children \"shot and killed by ISAF (International Security Assistance Force)\" in the same month. There is no record of this incident in the English language media.\n\n\"So few of these deaths were reported on at the time that these casualties could easily be forgotten,\" said Mr Jones.\n\nOne payment for an incident which did receive media attention was significantly higher. Five Afghan children injured by stray bullets fired from a British army Apache helicopter received £7,204.97.\n\nOverall, £397,000 was paid out by the British for 240 injuries - an average of £1,654.\n\nThe largest single payment awarded was £54,347 for a single fatality in Kabul in 2007. No more details of the incident are recorded.\n\nThe records show that the majority of claims for compensation were rejected. In total 885 claims of death and 285 claims of injury were denied by the MoD.\n\nAOAV said: \"It's likely that the deaths recorded are an underestimation of deaths caused by British forces.\"\n\nThe US military also paid out more than 1,600 \"condolence payments\" between October 2006 and September 2014 for deaths, injuries and property damage.\n\nThe payments cost the US nearly $4.9m, according to a report by the Center for Civilians in Conflict.\n\nThe MoD said the amount of compensation paid is \"determined by legal principles which consider the degree of injury and both past and future losses; settlements also reflect local customs and practice\".\n\n\"Every civilian death is a tragedy and the UK always seeks to minimise the risk of civilian casualties through our rigorous targeting process, but that risk can never be removed entirely,\" an MoD spokesperson said.", "The ledger dropped out of the unused loft when contractors were removing rotten woodwork\n\nA Victorian ledger has been discovered at a railway station by contractors after it fell through a ceiling they were repairing.\n\nThe luggage ledger dated back to April 1885, when March Railway Station in Cambridgeshire first opened.\n\nOther Victorian items found in the unused loft included a Great Eastern Railway sack and three small log books.\n\nGreater Anglia customer service manager Anita Stuart said it was \"lovely to have uncovered this link to the past\".\n\nThe ledger will go on display at March railway station\n\nThe contractors were removing rotten woodwork when the hand-written ledger, detailing entries of all the passenger luggage and parcels sent from the station, dropped out of the loft.\n\nOther finds included another ledger, a series of British Rail Red Star consignment notes and documents more than 100 years old detailing all the goods trains which passed through the station.\n\nIt highlighted the \"pivotal nature of March station to the area\", according to Mike Lamport, historian and board member of the Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board.\n\nThe Great Eastern Railway company's system extended from London Liverpool Station out to East Anglia\n\nHe said the station had \"senior staff based there, along with a loco shed and sidings, from which managers could draw locomotives and rolling stock from to run special services as demand arose\".\n\nMarch station is being remodelled as part of a regeneration of railway stations between Ely and Peterborough, supported by a £9.5m package of funding from the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority.\n\nThe ledger - known in the 1800s as a day book - will be put on display in the new station.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The British food industry will be forced to pay five times more for carbon dioxide as part of a government deal with a US company to restart production in the UK.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said carbon dioxide prices would rise from £200 per tonne to £1,000.\n\nThe government has agreed to pay out tens of millions of pounds to CF Industries to reopen a plant in the UK.\n\nThe closure had raised fears over food supplies and the nuclear industry.\n\nUS-owned CF Industries recently shut two UK sites that produce 60% of the country's commercial carbon dioxide supplies, because of a sharp rise in gas prices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFarms, food producers and supermarkets have warned that a shortage of carbon dioxide will lead to significant disruption to the manufacture and supply of fresh produce.\n\nThe Times also reported that ministers were concerned that the UK might have to close its six advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactors, which also use CO2.\n\nThe government announced late on Tuesday night that it would meet the full operating costs to run CF Industries' Billingham plant in Teesside for three weeks. The costs are expected to be in the \"low tens of millions\" and will be below £50m.\n\nMr Eustice said that the deal with CF Industries \"will be not a loan, it will be a payment to underwrite some of their fixed costs\".\n\nAt the end of the three-week period, it is hoped that the price of carbon dioxide will have risen sufficiently to make it economically viable for CF Industries to keep production running.\n\nMr Eustice said the food industry would have to accept \"a big, sharp rise\" carbon dioxide prices from £200 to £1,000 a tonne.\n\n\"The critical thing was to get the production up and running expeditiously. That's why we've needed this government intervention,\" he said.\n\n\"But we've had meetings with the food industry. They all recognise that the price of carbon dioxide is going to increase substantially and when that price increases, then the market signal will be then for these plants to continue producing.\"\n\nMr Eustice insisted that the rise in cost would not have a \"significant impact\" on food prices.\n\nHe said that while food prices were increasing \"due to global commodity prices, oil prices and also other factors such as labour shortages\", carbon dioxide was \"a tiny proportion\" of the industry's overall costs.\n\nCF Industries had halted two of its fertiliser factories - which produce carbon dioxide as a by-product - because of gas prices.\n\nCarbon dioxide is used in the slaughter of animals such as chickens\n\nCF Industries' Billingham plant will need up to three days to start producing new CO2.\n\nThe company told the BBC it had \"no estimate\" on when its second UK plant at Ince in Cheshire would resume production.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association said the deal to open CF Industries' Teesside plant was a \"huge relief\" and said it was now \"focused on re-establishing supplies before Friday this week, which is when around 25% of pork production was in danger of shutting down\".\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, welcomed the decision, but said the timetable to restart CF Industries' factory and begin producing carbon dioxide \"will still be tight\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"Our understanding is that provided that carbon dioxide starts to get through to food producers by the end of the week, then we can avert major and significant disruption in our stores.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the \"exceptional short-term arrangement\" would ensure industries that rely on a stable supply of CO2 \"have the resources they require to avoid disruption\".\n\nHe said: \"With regards to the CO2 situation, it was abundant, it was very cheap and I think a lot of people were surprised at what happened.\"\n\nThe government intends to publish the letter from Mr Kwarteng to Tony Will, chief executive of CF Industries, which sets out the terms of the taxpayer support.\n\nCommenting on the three-week deal, Mr Kwarteng said: \"In a critical intervention you have to have a way of exiting the arrangement.\n\n\"It is not a case of just trying to nationalise it or supporting it indefinitely, and that is why in the critical period we needed to have a short term arrangement I am confident that we can get other sources of CO2 in that period.\n\nMr Eustice said that the shortage of carbon dioxide had been caused by a \"perfect storm\" of circumstances where CF Industries had shut its two plants because \"an increase in gas price means they are not profitable\", while two other providers had closed their sites for maintenance.\n\nBut the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said the current difficulties showed how exposed the UK is, because of its reliance on such a small number of carbon dioxide producers.\n\n\"Over many years, we have had a major consolidation of the industry resulting in sectors like food and drink, nuclear and health being reliant on a very small number of very large suppliers,\" the BMPA said.\n\n\"If a market-based solution is to be found, it will likely involve longer-term higher prices for CO2, which will be sustainable for some, but not all users of the gas.\"\n\nIan Wright, the chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, also called on the government to support other fertiliser producers and help food producers to look for alternatives to CO2.\n\nMr Will, who flew from the US to the UK on Sunday to meet Mr Kwarteng, said: \"We look forward to working with Secretary Kwarteng and the UK government on developing a longer-term solution, including the development of alternative suppliers of CO2 for the UK market.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that the deal with CF Industries has been drafted so that other companies who stop production because of high commodity prices will not be able to ask the government for similar help.\n\nNorwegian firm Yara has also cut production at a number of European factories, including one in Hull.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he does “not believe people will be short of food” amid reports of some empty supermarket shelves.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson urged people not to worry about putting food on the table this winter, amid rising energy and food bills and a cut to universal credit.\n\nWholesale prices for gas have surged 250% since January, with a 70% rise since August alone, leading to calls for support from the industry and the collapse of some smaller energy firms.\n\nMr Opie added that the government should also take action on other issues affecting food retailers in recent weeks, such as the shortage of HGV drivers, which has been exacerbated by the pandemic and many drivers returning to the European Union after Brexit.\n\nThe government has been keen to stress that this is very much an emergency measure, time-limited, and with a cap on the amount it is prepared to pay.\n\nIt had to do something. Food producers were warning that shortages would become apparent within days, at a time when supply chains have already been disrupted by other issues, such as a lack of lorry drivers.\n\nBut the fact remains that it has agreed to give a large US-owned company tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money, just to operate one of its own plants. That isn't a particularly good look - and it has cast a glaring spotlight on the vulnerability of a key part of the economy.\n\nNow there is a three-week window for government, supermarkets and food producers to come up with a \"sustainable market-based solution\". In practice, that's likely to mean users paying more for their CO2, a cost which will ultimately be borne by consumers.", "Police are investigating leaks of information about the Scottish government's inquiry into harassment allegations against Alex Salmond.\n\nOfficers told the BBC they were dealing with two complaints of what could be \"unlawful disclosure\".\n\nNews that two female civil servants complained about Mr Salmond's behaviour first appeared in the Daily Record in August 2018.\n\nInvestigations by the Scottish government and the information commissioner failed to establish how the paper got hold of the details.\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Salmond said he was referring the matter to Police Scotland.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman has now confirmed the force is \"investigating two complaints regarding the potential unlawful disclosure of information\".\n\nIn a statement, Mr Salmond welcomed the confirmation of the police investigation.\n\nHe added: \"I have always believed that if you find the sources of the criminal leaks then you find the truth\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it was unable to comment on any live police investigations.\n\nIt is understood the investigation into the second leak concerns the publication of the Scottish government's report into the Salmond case which appears in a new book.\n\nBreak-Up by journalists David Clegg and Kieran Andrews was published by Biteback earlier this month.\n\nThe Daily Record newspaper revealed Mr Salmond was being investigated in August 2018\n\nAn internal government investigation was set up in 2018 after two female civil servants made formal complaints about Mr Salmond's behaviour, dating back to when he was first minister.\n\nSome of the complaints were upheld in a decision report written by Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans, the Scottish government's most senior civil servant, who said they were \"well founded\".\n\nHowever these findings were set aside when Mr Salmond successfully challenged the newly-devised complaints handling procedure in court.\n\nThe government conceded that the probe had broken rules and been \"tainted by apparent bias\" because the investigating officer had had some prior contact with the complainers.\n\nThe former first minister was awarded costs of more than £500,000, and was later cleared of all charges in a separate criminal trial.\n\nDetails of the investigation were published in the Daily Record newspaper after they were revealed by what Mr Clegg called an \"anonymous whistleblower\", and further extracts from Ms Evans' report were later published in the book he penned with Mr Andrews.\n\nAn inquiry into the leak was carried out by the Information Commissioner's Office, the body with statutory responsibility for investigating such matters.\n\nIts report said it had \"sympathy with the hypothesis that the leak came from an employee of the Scottish government\", given the timing and the limited number of people who had access to the findings.\n\nHowever it said a forensic examination of government computers and interviews with staff had not provided an \"electronic trail to follow\" or any witnesses.\n\nIt concluded that \"there was insufficient evidence to point to any specific suspect and to allow the investigation to move forward\".\n\nHowever Mr Salmond continued to insist that there \"absolutely should be a police investigation of the matter\", saying he believed the leak had been \"politically inspired\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon apologised for failings in the internal investigation, but said complaints should not be \"swept under the carpet\"\n\nA Holyrood inquiry committee found the Scottish government's handling of the original complaints had been \"seriously flawed\" when its report was published on 23 March.\n\nThe committee's report noted concerns about the disclosure, saying it had been \"damaging\" for both Mr Salmond and the women who complained.\n\nIt added: \"Confidentiality of an investigation is of paramount importance, and the leaking of such information is extremely serious.\"\n\nBoth Ms Evans and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon have apologised for the mistakes that were made during the probe, while insisting it was right and proper to investigate the complaints.\n\nWork to develop a new independent system for investigating complaints against ministers and former ministers is due to be completed by the end of the year.", "Notting Hill director Roger Michell has died at the age of 65, his publicist has announced.\n\nIn statement issued to the Press Association, he said it was with \"great sadness\" that the director's family confirmed he died on Wednesday.\n\nNotting Hill, a 1999 romantic comedy which starred Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, became one of the highest-grossing British films of all time.\n\nMichell was also known for movies including Venus and My Cousin Rachel.\n\nIn 2011, he directed Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Rachel McAdams in Morning Glory, a film set behind the scenes of a fictional TV breakfast show.\n\nHis cause of death has not yet been announced.\n\nMichell was born in South Africa to a British father, and his family later returned to the UK.\n\nHe studied at Cambridge University, then became assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre, working alongside the likes of Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle, before going on to become resident director at the Royal Shakespeare Company.\n\nHis 1995 BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion won the Bafta for best single drama, and he soon caught the eye of producer Richard Curtis who asked him to direct Notting Hill.\n\nThe tale of an ordinary English book shop owner falling in love with a superstar American actress won the audience award for most popular film at the Baftas in 2000, and scored three Golden Globe nominations.\n\nIn an interview with Zavvi last year, Michell reflected on the legacy of his most famous film.\n\n\"Whilst making it I realised it had to be pretty successful or it would be a failure as the previous film, Four Weddings, had been such a huge success if we didn't do better than that it would be like a failed second album,\" he said.\n\n\"But I am surprised and delighted 20 years on people are still talking about it and celebrating it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robbie Collin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn its release, the film took $262m (£168m) at box offices worldwide - beating the $256m (£164m) total made by Four Weddings And A Funeral in 1994.\n\nMichell went on to say that it would be difficult to revisit the same story. \"I think that will be a tough one,\" he added.\n\n\"The world has changed so much. I would like to have another go at a rom-com but they are really hard to do. It's much harder to do comedies than serious films.\"\n\nMichell alongside Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt at Notting Hill's New York premiere in 1999\n\nMichell directed Ben Affleck and Samuel L Jackson in the 2002 thriller Changing Lanes, and also worked with Daniel Craig in the 2003 film The Mother.\n\nHis theatre credits include Nina Raine's Consent, Harold Pinter's The Homecoming and Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood.\n\nHe won another Bafta in 2015 for his two-part TV drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies - the true story of his old schoolteacher who was accused of murder but was found innocent.\n\nThe Telegraph's film critic Robbie Collin said: \"Truly horrible news about Roger Michell. Yes, Notting Hill was the big one, but there was so much more. Loved Le Week-End especially, which is so sharp and compassionate on British middle age. And his still-to-be-released The Duke might be his very best.\"\n\nIndieWire's David Ehrlic added: \"Ugh, i had dinner with Roger Michell at Telluride less than three weeks ago. He was kind and gregarious and so honest about the ups & downs of his directing career (proud of Endless Love, excited about a doc he was making). Notting Hill is a masterpiece. RIP.\"\n\nThe director is survived by his four children, Harry, Rosie, Maggie and Sparrow - from his two marriages to the actresses Kate Buffery and Anna Maxwell Martin.", "A second data breach by the Ministry of Defence, potentially compromising the safety of Afghans who may be eligible to relocate to the UK, has been uncovered by the BBC.\n\nDozens of people were mistakenly copied in to an email earlier this month, with their email addresses visible to all recipients.\n\nIt is the second such breach to come to light. An investigation is under way.\n\nThe MoD has apologised and said extra support was being offered to them.\n\nIn the latest data breach to be uncovered, defence officials sent an email that had the email addresses and some names of 55 people which could be seen by everyone who was sent the message.\n\nThe recipients - at least one of whom is from the Afghan National Army - were told UK relocation officials had been unable to contact them and they were asked to update their details.\n\nAn MoD spokeswoman said: \"We have been made aware of a data breach that occurred earlier this month by the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (Arap) team.\n\n\"This week, the defence secretary instigated an investigation into data handling within that team.\n\n\"Steps have now been taken to ensure this does not happen in the future.\"\n\nIt comes just a day after the defence secretary apologised for a separate breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said it had been \"an unacceptable level of service\" that had let down thousands of members of the armed forces and veterans.\n\nMore than 250 people seeking relocation to the UK - many of whom are in hiding - were mistakenly copied into the email.\n\nTheir email addresses could be seen by all recipients, showing people's names and some associated profile pictures.\n\nMr Wallace said an investigation had been launched and one official suspended.\n\nDefence sources told the BBC that Mr Wallace did not know about this second breach when he spoke in the Commons on Tuesday.\n\nFormer Conservative defence minister Johnny Mercer, who served in Afghanistan, said he feared there may be more to come.\n\n\"I've been concerned from the start as to how these individuals have been treated - the whole thing was such a rush to the door when Kabul fell that these mistakes were inevitable,\" he said.\n\n\"I personally think we've taken out people we really shouldn't have, and failed to bring out the majority of those we should - I think we are only beginning to learn the scale of what has gone on here.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour shadow defence secretary John Healey welcomed the defence secretary's apology but told the Commons that action now mattered most.", "Restaurant, café and pub bosses are set to be banned from keeping tips left for staff by customers in Britain.\n\nThe government plans to make it illegal for hospitality firms to withhold tips from workers, who often rely on them to top up their income.\n\nLabour Markets Minister Paul Scully said the plans would \"ensure tips will go to those who worked for it\".\n\nIf an employer breaks the new rules they can be taken to an employment tribunal.\n\nIn that instance, bosses may be forced to compensate workers or face fines.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Business said that the new legislation would help about two million people working in the hospitality industry.\n\nIt is expected to come into force within the next year.\n\nBut it comes some time after the practice was reported to have taken place at High Street chains such as Pizza Express, Cote Brasserie and Bill's.\n\nIn 2015, the restaurants were accused of keeping tips or charging 10% \"administrative costs\" on processing the service charge payments if they were made by debit or credit card.\n\nAlthough they denied any wrongdoing, the reports drew a huge backlash from unions and the public.\n\nConservative MP Paul Scully said on Tuesday: \"Unfortunately, some companies choose to withhold cash from hardworking staff who have been tipped by customers as a reward for good service.\n\n\"Our plans will make this illegal and ensure tips will go to those who worked for it\".\n\nHe added that the move would also reassure customers that their money is going to \"those who deserve it\".\n\nMinisters also pointed towards research that suggests most tips are now paid by card in the UK, rather than in cash.\n\nCurrently, businesses who receive tips by card have the choice of whether to keep it or pass it on to workers. Cash tips, on the other hand, are legally the property of staff.\n\nFewer tips are being paid in cash due to the rise in contactless payments\n\nAs well as requiring all employers to pass on all tips, service charges and gratuities in full without any deductions, the new legislation will introduce a code of practice, which will set out exactly how tips should be distributed fairly.\n\nWorkers will also get the right to request information on their boss's tipping record, in case they want to bring a claim to an employment tribunal.\n\nWhile the move was welcomed by the Living Wage Foundation, it said that the focus should be on improving wages in lower-paid sectors instead.\n\nIts interim director, Graham Griffiths, said: \"If this work is to be truly valued we need to see more people lifted onto a real Living Wage.\n\n\"To build a stronger and more dynamic economy, our focus should be on increasing the number of businesses doing the right thing and committing to pay a Living Wage\".\n\nKate Nicholls, UKHospitality chief executive, added the new rules would strengthen the sector's ability to create jobs.\n\nBut she pointed out: \"For hospitality businesses, though, customers tipping with a card incurs bank charges for the business, and many also employ external partners to ensure tips are fairly distributed among staff.\n\n\"With restaurants, pubs and other venues struggling to get back on their feet... we urge the government to continue to work closely with the sector as it introduces this legislation to ensure this works for businesses and employees.\"\n\nHave you worked somewhere that kept your tips? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "R. Kelly's lawyer has compared him to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr in the closing argument of the singer's sex-trafficking trial.\n\nDeveraux Cannick said both men held the government to account and he urged jurors to be courageous.\n\nThe singer, 54, denies all charges against him in the federal case.\n\nThe prosecution ended its argument with a simple message: \"Convict him\", after saying he should pay for the \"pain he inflicted on each of his victims\".\n\nR. Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is accused of grooming and sexually abusing women and underage girls.\n\nThe charges include one count of racketeering and eight counts of illegally transporting people across state lines for the purpose of sex.\n\nOver the past five weeks, the jury in Brooklyn, New York, has heard from a number of men and women who said the star stripped them of control, enforcing draconian rules over when they could eat, sleep and go to the bathroom, and pressured them into sexual acts, which he would often videotape.\n\nProsecutors have portrayed him as a predator who exploited his fame to attract fans into his circle, where he would demand strict obedience or else punish them.\n\n\"For decades, the defendant recruited and groomed women, girls and boys for his own sexual gratification,\" Elizabeth Geddes, a lawyer for the prosecution, told the jury. \"With the help of his inner circle, he slowly isolated his victims, set rules and exacted punishment.\"\n\nShe continued: \"It is time to hold the defendant responsible for the pain he inflicted on each of his victims. It is now time for the defendant to pay for his crimes. Convict him.\"\n\nNine women and two men have appeared in court, saying R. Kelly sexually abused them.\n\nThe defence lawyer said R. Kelly was living a \"playboy life\" because his record label painted him as a sex symbol. \"Where's the crime in that?\" said Mr Cannick, dismissing alleged victims as groupies.\n\n\"You heard about a man who treated these women like gold,\" Mr Cannick added. \"He bought them bags more expensive than cars.\"\n\nHe invoked King's \"I've Been to the Mountaintop\" speech: \"Somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press.\"\n\nKing upheld the Constitution to try to make the government \"be true to what's on paper\", he said, adding: \"That's all Robert is trying to do.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, R. Kelly declined to testify in his own defence.\n\nCourt reporters said he was shaking his head during the prosecution's final arguments.\n\nThe jury is expected to retire to consider its verdict later on Thursday.\n\nIf convicted, R. Kelly faces up to 15 years in prison.", "Life expectancy for men in the UK has fallen for the first time in 40 years, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates.\n\nLife expectancy at birth in the three years to 2020 was 79 years for men, falling back to a level last seen in 2012-14.\n\nFemale life expectancy was virtually unchanged, at just below 83.\n\nNormally, life expectancy in the UK and around the world increases over time - and falls are rare.\n\nBut the Covid-19 pandemic saw life expectancy fall across most of Europe and the USA in 2020, on a scale not seen since the World War Two, according to research from Oxford University.\n\nAnd experts say further reductions may be seen in the next year or so, before life expectancy starts to recover.\n\nBut what will happen in the longer term, as the effects of healthcare disruption become evident?\n\nBefore Covid struck, life expectancy at birth in the UK was increasing, although at a much slower rate after 2011 compared with the preceding decades.\n\nBut the new figures show male life expectancy fell by seven weeks between 2015-17 and 2018-20 - the first such drop since current records began, in 1980.\n\nDespite the name, these life expectancy figures, known as \"period life expectancy\", do not predict an actual lifespan.\n\nInstead, they show the average age a newborn would live to if current death rates continued for their whole life.\n\nAnd as Covid death rates are unlikely to continue long-term, the new estimates do not mean a boy born in 2020 will have a shorter life than one born in 2019.\n\nBut they do provide a snapshot of the effect of the pandemic that can be compared over time and between countries and different populations.\n\nLooking at 2020 itself, rather than the three-year average, the ONS found life expectancy for men had fallen by 1.2 years and for women by 0.9, reflecting the higher Covid-19 death toll for men.\n\nThe UK is far from alone in seeing these large drops in life expectancy for 2020.\n\nAn analysis of 29 countries across Europe, the US and Chile, shows falls in almost all of them, often reversing years of improvements.\n\nAnd the US suffered the biggest decreases, with a fall of more than two years for men, according to researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, at the University of Oxford.\n\nThe pandemic had a \"very sizeable and unprecedented impact\" on death rates and life expectancy, Dr Ridhi Kashyap, associate professor of social demography and one of the study's lead authors, says.\n\nAnd losses of more than a year are particularly unusual.\n\n\"This is something that we really don't have since World War Two for most of Western Europe - and since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the 1990s, in Eastern Europe,\" Dr Kashyap says.\n\nAnd in many countries, life expectancy fell even below the 2015 figure, already a bad year due to a strong flu season.\n\nGiven the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic, a widespread fall is unsurprising, co-lead author Dr Jose Manuel Aburto says.\n\nBut, he says: \"What is surprising is the magnitude of the fall.\"\n\nThe US was particularly hard hit as Covid death rates increased in the working-age population, rather than being limited to the older population, a pattern repeated in several Eastern European countries and to some extent in Scotland, Dr Aburto says.\n\nBut females in Finland and both sexes in Denmark and Norway showed slight improvements, while losses were small in countries such as Estonia and Iceland.\n\nOnce the pandemic is over and \"its consequences for future mortality are known, it is possible that life expectancy will return to an improving trend in the future\", ONS statistician Pamela Cobb says.\n\nAnd there may even be a bounceback in the first year or so after it ends, due to what demographers call the \"survivorship effect\".\n\n\"Essentially what this means is you've lost a large section of your more frail population, then you have a healthier surviving population and you would expect mathematically there to be fewer deaths in the period that follows,\" Stuart McDonald, co-founder of the Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group, says.\n\nBut thinking about the long-term picture, there are a \"whole range of factors that we are trying to understand\".\n\nFuture waves of the virus, long Covid, economic disruption and delays to treatment for cancer and other serious illnesses all have the potential to keep UK life expectancy down, he says.\n\nOn the other hand, vaccinations, improved knowledge of mass-infection control and an increased focus on healthcare may help it recover.\n\n\"Does life expectancy get back on to its original track and continue increasing or does it increase from the lower point? I'm going to hedge, I think it's a bit of both,\" Mr McDonald says\n\n\"But my view, and the emerging consensus in the actuarial profession is that, even on a long-term basis, this is a net negative, meaning slower growth.\"\n\nQuantifying impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic through life expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries will be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. The data is available for exploration here.", "A BP garage showing out of use signs today in Sherborne\n\nBP has warned it has had to \"temporarily\" close some of its petrol stations due to a shortage of lorry drivers.\n\nThe oil firm said only \"a handful\" of sites were affected by the fuel supply issues, which have led to a lack of unleaded and diesel fuel.\n\nThere are around 1,200 BP branded petrol stations around the UK, of which 300 are operated by BP themselves.\n\nThe company said it was working hard to address the issues.\n\nSupply chain delays had been \"impacted by industry wide driver shortages across the UK\" and that the company was working hard to address the issues, BP said in a statement.\n\n\"We continue to work with our haulier supplier to minimise disruption and to ensure efficient and effective deliveries,\" the company added.\n\nOther petrol station operators have been approached by the BBC for comment.\n\nEsso said that a \"small number\" of its 200 Tesco Alliance retail sites have been affected.\n\n\"We are working closely with all parties in our distribution network to optimise supplies and minimise any inconvenience to customers. We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience,\" a spokesperson from Esso added.\n\nHowever, supermarket Morrisons, which operates 338 petrol stations across the UK, said it was not seeing any similar issues at the moment.\n\nCo-op runs 130 petrol stations in the country, and said it has a \"full complement\" of fuel delivery drivers.\n\nTesco also said that they have a \"good availability of fuel\" and both Sainsbury's and Asda said there are no current issues in their fuel supplies.\n\nA BP petrol station in Worcester was closed due a lack of fuel\n\nDowning Street has said people should continue buying fuel as normal.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was no shortage of fuel in the UK, adding: \"We obviously recognise the challenges faced by the industry and we're taking steps to support them.\"\n\nHe pointed to changes made by the Department for Transport to make it quicker for HGV drivers to get their licences and said that this is a problem several countries are facing.\n\nGrant Shapps also told the BBC's Question Time on Thursday that he believed the shortages had also been caused because of working conditions that \"hadn't been pleasant\" and that higher salaries offered to drivers was something the government was \"happy to see\".\n\nHe also said that improvements in the availability of tests were \"coming in prior to Christmas… so these are things that will resolve the issues in the lead up to Christmas\".\n\nThe temporary closures come just months after BP had to close a \"handful\" of its UK sites in July because of lorry driver shortages. At the time, BP said its supply chain issues had also been exacerbated by the closure of a distribution terminal due to staff being told to isolate.\n\nPaul Cheema's petrol station is just about to run out of unleaded petrol\n\nPaul Cheema has run a petrol station in Coventry since 2013, and says he's never experienced a situation like this before.\n\n\"We used to be able to put orders in for next day delivery. Now we have to do it a week in advance, but we're ordering blind. We don't know how much fuel we're going to sell in that time. If we'll have enough, or even too much,\" says Paul.\n\n\"Last week we put in an order for a delivery to arrive today. That was pushed back until tomorrow, and now we've been told it won't arrive until Saturday.\"\n\n\"So that means we won't have any unleaded petrol to sell tomorrow,\" he said.\n\nPaul says that fuel delivery delays have been happening all summer, but it's been particularly bad in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"We're a petrol station. We should have availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I'm not blaming our fuel supplier. It's not their fault. It's the bigger driver shortage problem behind it.\"\n\nHe sells thousands of litres of unleaded every day, so the cost implications for him are huge.\n\n\"There could be a 40% impact on sales with this week's delivery problems. If I haven't got any liquid in the ground, I'm not making money. I can't operate the site at a loss.\"\n\n\"If I haven't got fuel to sell, that customer isn't coming into my petrol station shop either, so I'm losing money there too,\" says Paul.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), which represents petrol station operators across the UK, said that some sites across the UK were seeing delivery delays, but that they were largely confined to London and the South East, and were \"temporary by nature\".\n\nGordon Balmer from the PRA said that petrol station closures were rare, and that the fuel supply chain was resilient enough to cope.\n\n\"Fuel demand is still only at 92% of pre-pandemic levels so we believe there should be ample stock available at refineries and delivery terminals throughout the UK.\"\n\nMany businesses have been complaining about the UK's shortage of lorry drivers, which is still causing serious supply chain problems.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic, Brexit and tax changes have all contributed to a lack of qualified drivers. Industry bodies estimate there is a shortfall of about 100,000 workers.\n\nLogistics UK, which represents the haulage industry, said it was \"aware of reports that petrol supplies are currently being affected\" by the lack of drivers.\n\n\"The driver shortage is a very serious issue that needs urgent government and industry action to resolve, however, we urge people not to panic buy; the logistics industry is resilient and has proven capable of supporting shops, families and businesses during Covid-19, border closures and the first stages of Brexit, and will continue to serve the needs of the nation,\" the industry body said.", "Parents forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s are being asked to come forward to give evidence to a new investigation.\n\nThe Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights is to hold an inquiry into the forced adoption of babies of unmarried mothers during those years.\n\nCommittee chair Harriet Harman says it is a matter that affects the human rights of thousands of women.\n\nOne mother said she was told: \"You won't be seeing this baby again.\"\n\nThe affected mothers said they were made to hand over their babies by doctors, nurses, social workers and churches.\n\nThe Scottish government is also examining the issue of forced adoptions after reports by the the BBC. Birth mothers have held a series of meetings with Scottish government officials to discuss the issue.\n\nNews of the inquiry comes after the BBC reported on the issue earlier this year. In the five months since, dozens of other birth mothers, birth fathers and their children have come forward to tell their stories.\n\nYvonne Labrum was 19 when she became pregnant with Andrew Conant's baby in 1974. He was 18 and had just left the Navy. The couple were in a relationship.\n\nYvonne says her father was extremely angry and banned Andrew from seeing her.\n\nBut she says the worst moment came when she'd given birth and she had to deal with maternity hospital staff and a social worker appointed to her case.\n\nYvonne says she was not allowed to keep her baby as she was unmarried\n\n\"It all had to be kept hush-hush,\" says Yvonne. \"You're not married, therefore you're not keeping the baby. Which really hurt me.\n\n\"I was treated with contempt. They took my baby from me and wouldn't let me hold her.\"\n\nShe had given birth to a daughter, later named Liz Harvie.\n\n\"I needed stitches after my delivery, but I was left alone in a room for two hours without stitches,\" she says. \"I was like a slab of meat on a table.\"\n\nAndrew, meanwhile, was refused entry to the hospital and it was decades before he met his own daughter.\n\nYvonne says a few days after the birth, a social worker put pressure on her to sign an adoption consent form, but then tricked her when it was time to hand the baby over.\n\n\"She (the social worker) asked to hold my baby and said she would hand her back. But she didn't. She just said 'you won't be seeing this baby again' and walked out,\" says Yvonne.\n\nIt would be another 29 years before Yvonne and Andrew would be reunited with Liz.\n\nAndrew says: \"It hurt not seeing my baby daughter. I've had other children and they have all missed out on having a relationship with Liz.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Harvie was taken from her birth mother, Yvonne, as a child\n\nLiz was told she was adopted and had a happy upbringing - but she was always anxious to trace her birth parents and try to understand why they had given her up.\n\n\"I was confused and angry, yes, that I had been put up for adoption,\" she says. \"I felt abandoned.\"\n\nIt was Liz who instigated the search for Yvonne and Andrew, bringing them together for a reunion.\n\nThey have all now given their backing to a campaign seeking to get an official apology for forced adoption.\n\nLiz says while this \"wouldn't take away the pain, it would certainly help\".\n\nAndrew, Yvonne and Liz are now seeking an apology\n\nIt's not known how many babies were taken from their birth parents in this way.\n\nAround 500,000 babies were adopted in England and Wales between 1945 and 1975, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAcademics have suggested that the majority of these babies would have been born to unmarried parents, given the taboo of getting pregnant outside of wedlock that existed at the time.\n\nDozens of other unmarried birth mothers who were involved in forced adoptions have told the BBC what they went through.\n\nOne said a midwife refused her pain relief during birth and called her \"wicked\" for getting pregnant.\n\nAnother said she was left alone on a hospital bed for four hours unable to reach her screaming baby. And one woman claimed her social worker used coercion to get her to sign an adoption consent form.\n\nThe UK government says it accepts that forced adoptions did take place, but that the blame lies with society and its attitudes at the time. It adds that adoption services are much better now.\n\nLabour MP Harriet Harman says her committee is calling for birth mothers, birth fathers and their children to come forward with a view to giving evidence, either written or in person.\n\nShe says this is a matter that affects the human rights of thousands of women and that the committee wants to hear as wide a range of evidence as possible.", "UK inflation is expected to rise above 4% by the end of the year, fuelled by rising energy costs, the Bank of England has warned.\n\nThe Bank also said that there were signs the supply chain crisis was starting to hamper the economic recovery, and revised down its growth forecast for the third quarter by 1%.\n\nIt came as the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee held interest rates at 0.1%\n\nDespite the inflation forecast a rate rise was not yet needed, the MPC said.\n\nFactors driving higher inflation were still expected to moderate next year, the policymakers said.\n\nSupply constraints were hitting recovery and there are signs \"cost pressures may prove more persistent.\"\n\nSupply chain challenges evident in shops, ports and forecourts are now having a material impact on the recovery from the pandemic.\n\nThe Bank of England has revised down its expectations for economic growth in the current three month period.\n\nIn addition to these supply challenges, there are shortages from workers to microchips, which may mean inflation proves to be \"more persistent\".\n\nInterest rates were unanimously kept on hold at the record low level of 0.1%.\n\nBut two of the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee, including a deputy governor, voted to stop the Bank buying government bonds on account of inflation worries.\n\nSupply chain factors now holding growth back and there is also renewed concern that more than a million workers are stuck on the furlough scheme.\n\nThe Bank will wait to see the impact of the end of furlough at least before turning off the tap of funds it is pumping into the economy.\n\nThe Bank said that supply constraints were \"evident in surveys showing historically lengthy supplier delivery times and backlogs of work, significant material and labour shortages in a number of sectors, and lower levels of inventories\".\n\nDevelopments over the past month have \"strengthened\" the case made in August that some tightening of monetary policy could be necessary to meet the central bank's 2% inflation target sustainably in the medium term, policymakers said.\n\nThe MPC added that \"considerable uncertainties remain\". It said Consumer Prices Index inflation, currently at 3.2%, could remain above 4% into the second quarter of next year.\n\nHinesh Patel, a portfolio manager at Quilter Investors, said the Bank \"clearly expects the inflation rate to be higher than previously feared\".\n\n\"While they reiterate it will be transitory, it will no doubt be of major concern.\n\n\"Ultimately what is flowing through the system right now is 'bad inflation', that is: price rises are hitting the most vulnerable households, alongside the impacts of furlough on unemployment uncertainty,\" he said.\n\nLast month, the Bank said it expected the economy to regain its pre-pandemic size in the final three months of 2021 and inflation to hit a 10-year high of 4% at the same time.", "Extremists are using mainstream video games and gaming chat platforms to spread hate, BBC Click has found.\n\nOver three months, researchers found anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia on platforms, including DLive and Odysee, where users stream and chat about games such as Call of Duty and Minecraft.\n\nCampaigners say including extremist narratives among everyday conversations can be a pathway to radicalisation.\n\nThese conversations then move to spaces such as private Telegram channels.\n\n\"Once you're in that world, then the radicalisation starts to happen,\" Joe Mulhall, of anti-fascist organisation Hope Not Hate, said.\n\n\"That's when you start to go to other meetings, to smaller groups that aren't necessarily playing games, talking about politics more explicitly.\"\n\nIn response, Telegram told BBC News it used a \"combination of proactive monitoring of public spaces and user reports\" to remove content breaching its terms of service.\n\nDLive and Odysee have not responded to BBC News's requests for comment.\n\nTheir policies cite zero tolerance against hate and violent extremism and both say they are proactive at removing any content violating guidelines.\n\nExtreme view were slipped into chats on DLive and Odysee\n\nCall of Duty said: \"The actions we have taken to confront racist behaviour include banning players for racist and hate-oriented names, implementing new technology and making it easier for players to report offensive in-game behaviour.\"\n\nBut the researchers also found extremist \"roleplay\" scenarios within games on various platforms that let players create and share their own custom maps and environments.\n\nThese included Nazi concentration camps and a Uyghur detainment camp in games such as Roblox and Minecraft.\n\nOne Roblox driving game invited players to \"become a racist\" and simulate the murder of people belonging to ethnic minorities by running them over in a car.\n\nA user-generated game in Roblox let players run over non-white characters\n\n\"These are small and not played by a huge amount of people but what they do is allow extremists to create role-playing experiences... to live out radicalised fantasies online,\" Jacob Davey, from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, said.\n\nRoblox said: \"We work relentlessly to ensure our platform remains a safe and civil space, and with a combination of machine learning and a team of over 2,000 moderators, we monitor for safety 24-7 to detect and swiftly act on any inappropriate content or behaviour.\"\n\nMinecraft said: \"Terrorist or violent extremist content is strictly forbidden by our community standards and we take action to remove such content if it appears on our systems.\"\n\nBut extremists may have turned to gaming spaces after the social-media giants increased enforcement of their rules, according to the researchers.\n\nMr Davey said: \"The extreme right-wing have potentially found safe harbours to broadcast their ideology or to engage in more traditional propagandising - the sorts of things that they would have done a few years ago on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.\n\n\"Online gaming basically forms a means for people to connect over a shared hobby online, and this includes extremists.\n\n\"It's a way for them to connect with like-minded individuals, to socialise and ultimately form firmer social bonds, which can be really important in terms of advancing and furthering extremist movements globally.\"\n\nMr Mulhall said: \"You sit at home after school and play games, so the gaming element can create a sense that it's normal, not extremist, not dangerous.\"\n\nThe Royal United Services Institute is part of a team of counter-extremism experts launching a large-scale investigation into online gaming.\n\nThe defence think tank' s Dr Jessica White said: \"The online and chat space where moderation tends to be poor is being increasingly encroached upon by extremists but we need to get widespread evidence of its scale.\"\n\nThe government is also in talks with industry bodies to discuss steps to tackle the exploitation of gaming spaces by extremists.\n\nA representative of Ukie, the UK's gaming trade body, said: \"We use sophisticated AI [artificial-intelligence] moderation tools and trained community managers to build safe spaces.\n\n\"We also work closely with government and law enforcement to further protect players.\n\n\"We know the challenges we face are shared by other forms of digital entertainment and we continue to adopt a positive and proactive approach to protecting players.\"", "Chloe Clem's disapproving look when she was two years old has become an internet sensation\n\nA young girl who became an internet sensation when a photo of her went viral is now selling an NFT for thousands of dollars at auction.\n\nNFTs are unique digital tokens which are often attributed to art that has no physical representation.\n\nChloe Clem, now 10, became famous in 2013 when her mother shared her unimpressed reaction to a surprise Disneyland trip online.\n\nThe image has become a popular meme for expressing concern.\n\nAn NFT provides a digital certificate of ownership for the piece, but bears no copyright. Therefore the winner of the auction will own the digital token representing the meme, but not the meme itself.\n\nNFTs are usually bought in cryptocurrencies, so the transaction is recorded on a publicly available ledger called the blockchain.\n\nThe digital artworks have come under fire recently due to environmental concerns, as vast amounts of energy are required to mine cryptocurrencies, process transactions and maintain the blockchain.\n\nIn September 2013, Chloe's mother Katie uploaded a video featuring her two daughters reacting to the Disneyland surprise.\n\nOne of the girls, Lily, started crying, she said, \"but then the camera panned over and Chloe made her cute little buck-toothed side-eye face and the internet did the rest.\"\n\nThe video has been watched more than 20 million times, while the image of Chloe's reaction became an internet sensation.\n\n\"I opened up Tumblr and there were just pages and pages of Chloe's face,\" her mother told the BBC.\n\n\"It was very weird, very overwhelming. I had my family, friends sending me these memes - till this day they still send me the memes of Chloe they see on the internet.\"\n\nChloe Clem, now 10, and her mother Katie\n\nWithin weeks, a Buzzfeed article had declared Chloe \"the patron saint of Tumblr\" and \"the queen and goddess of the internet\".\n\nNow the Utah family has decided to auction off the image as an NFT. Bids start at 5 Ethereum - a form of cryptocurrency worth roughly $15,000 (£11,000).\n\nMs Clem said that after learning about the NFT market, selling the meme was a \"no brainer\".\n\n\"It's a cool opportunity, especially if there's a Chloe fan out there who loves this meme they'll be able to own it. Even Chloe has said 'that's pretty cool' - it's a typical 10-year-old thing to say.\"\n\nThe market for ownership rights to digital art has boomed recently after several multi-million-dollar NFT sales.\n\nIn March, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sold his first ever tweet for the equivalent of $2.9m to a Malaysia-based businessman.\n\nAnd in April, the woman featured in the so-called Disaster Girl meme sold it for $500,000. Weeks later, another image called the Overly Attached Girlfriend meme sold for $411,000.\n\nIn August, however, a fan of British graffiti artist Banksy was tricked into buying a fake NFT by a hacker, off the artist's website. Luckily for him, the hacker returned most of what he paid - more than $336,000.\n\nThe Disaster Girl meme, featuring Zoë Roth won a photography prize in 2008 and went viral when it was posted online\n\nMs Clem says she would like to use any money made from the sale to help pay for her daughters' education.\n\n\"Chloe is like, 'I'd like to buy a horse, I'd like to build a Walt Disney World,' but I'd just like to put her through college,\" she says.\n\nChloe has amassed over 500,000 followers on Instagram, and has even featured in a Google advert in Brazil.\n\n\"We've been able to travel to Brazil and do all these amazing things,\" Ms Clem says. \"[But] at the end of the day I'm just a stay at home mom with my girls.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "That's all for tonight after a dramatic four hours of election results.\n\nNext Tuesday at the first sitting of the house, the new members will be sworn in for a five-year term of office.\n\nThey will also elect a new Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Keys.\n\nKeep an eye on the BBC Isle of Man page in the coming days for more reaction. For now though, goodnight!", "The couple moved to Morvil Cottage near New Inn, Pembrokeshire in 2013 from England\n\nAn 81-year-old man suffocated his wife with a plastic bag before taking his own life, an inquest has heard.\n\nDavid Arnold killed his wife Christina Arnold, 71, in their isolated cottage, at Morvil near New Inn, Pembrokeshire in February.\n\nTheir bodies were found by police on the 16 February after a letter was received from Mr Arnold.\n\nHe stated his intention to kill his wife and then take his own life.\n\nCoroner's officer Lisa Jenkins told the court the couple had moved to the isolated farmhouse in Pembrokeshire from England in May 2013.\n\nThey had four children and six grandchildren who they did not have a close relationship with but \"they loved their family\".\n\nThey rented the property, Morvil Cottage, which was in a \"rural and remote location\" and at the \"bottom of a valley\" and down a farm track, not visible from the road.\n\nThe court heard David Arnold suffered from anxiety and was sensitive to noise and his wife suffered from depression.\n\nMorvil Cottage is down a farm track, not visible from the road or from the gate\n\nPolice received a call at 21:30 on 16 February from an area manager at the Royal Mail.\n\nRoyal Mail had received a handwritten letter from Mr Arnold in which he indicated that he was going to kill his wife and take his own life.\n\nAt about 22:50, officers gained entry to the property via the unlocked front door.\n\nBoth bodies were found in the house, along with two letters - one detailed personal details about the property and other matters and the other, from Mr Arnold, said that he had killed his wife and intended to take his own life.\n\nMs Jenkins confirmed to the coroner there was no evidence of third party involvement.\n\nIn his report, Home Office pathologist Derek James said there were no signs of a struggle in the case of Mrs Arnold.\n\nCoroner Paul Bennett said it was \"not entirely clear why Mr Arnold took steps to end his and his wife's life\".\n\nHe said the couple had died in circumstances that were \"particularly tragic and distressing\".\n\nHe found Mrs Arnold was unlawfully killed and conclusion of suicide was recorded for Mr Arnold.\n\nHe described the case as \"stark and tragic\".", "In the run up to this trip Boris Johnson and Joe Biden had already shared a big political and diplomatic moment - a new security pact with Australia to share nuclear submarine propulsion technology.\n\nThe prime minister confessed to a huddle of hacks on the train from Washington back to New York that they also shared surprise at the level of French outrage when that emerged.\n\nIn their Oval Office talks it is understood they spoke of their astonishment, and how the tension could be soothed, but neither saw them inviting France to join the pact as a solution.\n\nWhen asked if he understood why Emmanuel Macron might be hurt, the prime minister seemed to compare leaving France out of the pact to some kind of awkward break up saying, it was \"a very human thing to delay the frank conversation until the last possible moment. I don't know if anyone has been in that situation in their emotional life but it's very human to put it off\".\n\nThat came on top of Mr Johnson resorting to Franglais to tell the French to \"donnez moi un break\" - give me a break - and relax about the whole thing. The manner of his appeal makes that seem not quite so likely.\n\nIrrespective of the Gallic outrage, which some on the UK side suggested might perhaps be rather overblown to maximise the chances of compensation, for Downing Street the security deal and the president and the prime minister's talks on that subject are an important achievement.\n\nAlong with the United States promise of billions extra to help developing countries go green, there are markers of a relationship in good health.\n\nRemember, on the way to the US Mr Johnson put the chances of achieving his goal of a cheque for $100bn to fight climate change by next month as just \"six out of 10\".\n\nPresident Biden's announcement this week, was not something No 10 was sure would happen at this stage.\n\nIt takes the UK a long way to meeting that that total, and officials hope the American vow will unlock other finance from other nations.\n\nRemember too how, so often on big foreign trips, a slight, or a stumble can send things into a terrible spin - Gordon Brown's attempt to see President Obama which ended awkwardly in a kitchen and Donald Trump grasping Theresa May's hand.\n\nAnd of course, Mr Johnson himself is not exactly a stranger to a gaffe or a glitch. But as I write, shortly before he and the press pack fly back there hasn't been any major slips or surprises - at least not that we know about yet.\n\nThe very obvious lack of progress on a big trade deal however is much less comfortable for Downing Street.\n\nIt does matter that the trade pact Mr Johnson himself used to talk up so enthusiastically is nowhere to be seen.\n\nIt's not a surprise that the Biden White House isn't keen but it became very plain this week that the chances are faint and far in the future.\n\nAdditionally there's frustration among some senior Conservatives that suggestions were made that it would be easy to start with. \"I told colleagues ever since 2016 just how difficult a trade deal would be but of course they didn't want to listen,\" one of them said.\n\nPresident Biden obviously still places huge importance on how the UK seeks to resolve problems with the EU over Northern Ireland.\n\nBut there's no doubt that No 10 regards these frantic few days as a success.\n\nWhen Mr Biden won the White House there were nerves in some quarters that the relationship could be awkward, and the differences profound.\n\nPresident Biden and Mr Johnson certainly are contrasting political characters. But this week has provided plenty of diplomatic evidence that they can do business when it counts.", "Sabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nPolice are investigating whether Sabina Nessa was killed by a stranger as she walked to meet a friend at a pub.\n\nThe body of the 28-year-old teacher was found by a member of the public in Cator Park, Kidbrooke, south-east London, on 18 September.\n\nOfficers believe she was attacked shortly after leaving her Astell Road home at about 20:30 BST last Friday.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Det Ch Supt Trevor Lawry said: \"The streets are safe for women.\"\n\nHe added: \"People should be free to walk around free from fear and officers are here to make sure that can take place.\"\n\nAsked whether police believe Ms Nessa was attacked by a stranger, he said: \"That is definitely a line of inquiry that we are looking at.\"\n\nA man in his 40s who was arrested on suspicion of murder the day after Ms Nessa's body was found was later released under further investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe police press conference was held on the same morning London mayor Sadiq Khan said violence against women was a national \"epidemic\".\n\nAppearing on ITV's Good Morning Britain, he said: \"Between last year's International Women's Day and this year's International Women's Day, 180 women were killed at the hands of men across the country.\n\n\"We do have an epidemic when it comes to violence against women and girls.\"\n\nHe called for violence against women to be treated with the same level of priority as counter-terrorism.\n\nPolice have not yet established a motive for the attack on Ms Nessa, although they do not believe the killing is linked to any other incident in the area.\n\nA post-mortem examination into the cause of the 28-year-old's death was inconclusive, the Met said.\n\nAsked for any details about how Ms Nessa died, Det Ch Supt Lawry said he could not release any information \"at this time\".\n\nOfficers searching near where the 28-year-old teacher was found\n\nMs Nessa was killed on a short walk to meet a friend at The Depot bar.\n\nThe five-minute journey to the pub would have taken the teacher through Cator Park, near where her body was found.\n\nMs Nessa's sister paid tribute to the \"beautiful, talented and caring\" teacher on social media.\n\n\"Never in my life did I or my sisters or my mum or dad think this could happen to us,\" she said.\n\nA vigil is due to be held in Ms Nessa's memory on Friday evening.\n\nThe gathering is being organised by a Kidbrooke community group with the support of Reclaim the Streets, which held a vigil for murder victim Sarah Everard in Clapham Common that ended in mass arrests.\n\nPolice said they would be part of the vigil on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says there's \"every chance\" of a UK-US trade deal – just not \"right now\"\n\nThe United States is lifting its decades-old ban on imports of British lamb, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe PM, who is in the US for talks with UN leaders and President Joe Biden, said the ban was \"unjustified\".\n\nBut he admitted the UK was now focused on making \"incremental steps\" on US trade access, rather than aiming for a full agreement.\n\nMr Biden appeared to play down the chances of a wider deal during a meeting with Mr Johnson on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said the Biden administration \"is not doing free trade deals around the world right now\".\n\nBut he added he had \"every confidence that a great deal is there to be done\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner mocked the lack of movement, saying the PM had made \"absolutely zero progress\" on a trade deal during his US trip.\n\nThe United States has banned British lamb imports since 1989, following the first outbreaks of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease.\n\nA similar ban on British beef imports, imposed in 1996, was lifted in September last year.\n\nThere is no indication yet of when the US will start accepting lamb and lamb products from the UK, and an official announcement has not been made.\n\nThe US Department for Agriculture has been consulting on lifting the ban since 2016 - and there were originally hopes it would be lifted the following year.\n\nAt the time, the UK government estimated the change would be worth an extra £35m a year to the UK economy.\n\nWhen it comes to trade, the big deal that's emerged from Boris Johnson's visit to Washington is that there's to be no deal happening any time soon.\n\nThat's significant, and a setback for Boris Johnson's government.\n\nIn March 2020, just a few weeks after the UK had left the EU, the then-Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the day marked a \"crucial step in beginning the formal negotiations for a free-trade agreement with our largest bilateral trading partner, the United States.\"\n\nToday it all looks different. The United States, Boris Johnson told us, is not doing deals.\n\nSo whilst Ms Truss predicted a \"£3.4 billion lift to the economy\" from a US-UK deal, today we had an \"incremental step\" but a tiny one by comparison - a possible opening for lamb exports.\n\nA US deal was by far the biggest prize when it came to the promise of post-Brexit trade deals. But under this US administration, it's not happening any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson said the ban was \"totally unjustified\" and \"discriminating on British farmers and British lamb\".\n\nThe National Sheep Association industry group welcomed the news, adding it had always seen the US as a \"potentially important market\".\n\nIts chief executive Phil Stocker cautioned, however, that \"we shouldn't expect to see any sudden surge in volumes going to the US\".\n\nHe added that Brexit had made it more difficult to sell into the EU - the UK's lamb largest export market - and it was \"important to work on any market that gives us future potential\".\n\nBoris Johnson and Joe Biden held face-to-face talks in the White House on Tuesday\n\nMr Johnson cited the lifting of the ban as an example of \"practical steps to help our exports\" the UK was taking, pending progress on wider trade talks.\n\nDowning Street has pointed to the resolution of the Airbus-Boeing trade dispute, as well as the lowering of whisky tariffs and the decision to lift the ban on British beef.\n\nSecuring a trade deal with the United States has been a priority for many Brexit-backing politicians, following the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr Biden appeared to downplay the chances of an agreement soon, adding he would discuss the issue \"a little bit\" with Mr Johnson during his trip to the White House.\n\n\"We're going to have to work that through,\" the US president added.\n\nThe US is already a significant UK trading partner, accounting for £1 in every £6 of British trade.\n\nThe BBC understands the government is considering whether to join an existing trade arrangement between the US, Canada and Mexico - known as the USMCA.\n\nHowever, Downing Street denies this and says it focus remains on a UK-US trade deal.\n\nIf a USMCA arrangement was pursued, it would limit the UK's ability to sell services.\n\nEconomists say the overall gains from joining it could be less than 0.1% of the UK's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - a measurement of the size of the economy.", "Farmers' leaders say the food and farming sector is on a \"knife edge\" due to labour shortages\n\nThe environment secretary has said the government is looking at different options on how to fix labour shortages in the food sector.\n\nGeorge Eustice said the government was considering whether changes could be made to the Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme (SAWS).\n\nSAWS is a quota-based scheme that allows farmers to recruit overseas.\n\nTrade bodies have warned of panic-buying this Christmas unless action is taken to address the lack of staff.\n\nThose shortages have been made worse by Covid and Brexit.\n\nMr Eustice acknowledged \"the reality that there is an acute labour shortage at the moment across the UK economy\".\n\nThe SAWS scheme saw 30,000 temporary workers admitted to the UK this year to fill vacancies in agriculture - mostly working on fruit and vegetable farms - helping with the picking and packing of produce.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to an agricultural show in Northern Ireland, Mr Eustice said there are \"some real concerns about how we'll deal with that spike in demand in the two weeks up to Christmas\".\n\n\"We have SAWS and we're looking at options as to how we can change the focus of that and we hope to be able to say something on this shortly,\" he continued.\n\nWhen asked if he would be looking at changes to visas to address workforce shortages, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Thursday: \"If that was actually the solution, I'm sure we would move to it quickly and I don't rule out anything.\"\n\nThe National Farmers' Union (NFU) has called for another emergency visa to allow firms to recruit from outside the UK.\n\nEarlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he does \"not believe people will be short of food\" this autumn and winter, amid reports of some gaps on supermarket shelves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he does “not believe people will be short of food” amid reports of some empty supermarket shelves.\n\nGovernment sources told the BBC discussions were ongoing to \"look at where the gaps are\".\n\nAsked if that meant action might be taken before Christmas they indicated \"realistically, yes, before Christmas\".\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Eustice said the government wanted to monitor whether workers who may be made redundant when the furlough schemes finish at the end of September could instead enter the labour market where there are shortages. Those include areas such as lorry driving or meat processing.\n\nHowever, he said if that did not happen \"then the beauty of a controlled immigration system is you can take steps to allow people to come in on temporary visas should you want\".\n\nNFU head Minette Batters wrote to the prime minister on Wednesday, warning that the food and farming sector is on a \"knife edge\" because of labour shortages across the entire supply chain.\n\nThe letter, signed on behalf of a number of food and drink trade bodies, called for the introduction of a Covid-19 recovery visa to open up new recruitment opportunities.\n\n\"Without it, more shelves will go empty and consumers will panic buy to try to get through the winter,\" Ms Batters wrote.\n\nReferring to an earlier NFU report, Ms Batters said that there were an estimated 500,000 unfilled vacancies in the industry.\n\nDue to the shortages, some farmers have resorted to giving fruit and vegetables away rather than let it rot in their fields.", "Robert Fyfe as Howard with wife Pearl, played by Juliette Kaplan\n\nActor Robert Fyfe, best known for playing Howard in sitcom Last of the Summer Wine for 25 years, has died at the age of 90.\n\nFyfe joined the long-running BBC show in 1985 and remained until its final episode in 2010.\n\nHoward Sibshaw was Pearl's henpecked husband who was always trying to hide his passionate affair with Marina.\n\nFyfe's manager Maxine Hoffman said the Scottish actor was \"the most delightful client anyone could wish for\".\n\nHe was \"a truly talented and versatile actor and much loved by everyone he worked with\", she added.\n\nHoward was continually sneaking off to be with Marina, played by Jean Fergusson\n\nFyfe appeared in the first episode of Dr Finlay's Casebook in 1962 and was also seen in Coronation Street, Z Cars, Angels, The Onedin Line, Survivors, The Gentle Touch and Monarch of the Glen.\n\nHis film credits included The 51st State, Cloud Atlas and Babel.\n\nHis wife Diana died a few weeks before him, leaving sons Timothy, Nicholas and Dominic.\n\nJuliette Kaplan, who played Pearl, and Jean Fergusson, who played Marina, both died in 2019.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pallets loaded with the Blue WKD drink were taken from Caledonian Bottlers in Cumnock\n\nThousands of bottles of alcohol worth £280,000 have been stolen in a raid at a factory in Ayrshire.\n\nA number of pallets all loaded with the Blue WKD drink were taken from Caledonian Bottlers in Cumnock.\n\nPolice said three HGV lorries were used in the theft in the early hours of Monday.\n\nOne of the vehicles was later found on fire on the A76 between Mennock and Enterkinfoot, Dumfriesshire, at 23:45 on Monday.\n\nPolice Scotland has appealed for anyone who may have seen a convoy of three lorries near the business park to come forward.\n\nDet Con Hugh Dempster of Kilmarnock Police added: \"I'd also ask any drivers who were travelling towards Mennock late on Monday evening to check their dashcam footage, as they may have captured one or more of the stolen vehicles.\n\n\"Anyone who is offered 'Blue WKD' alcohol at a much discounted price is asked to contact police immediately as this may be the stolen alcohol.\"", "Norman Taylor said he was charged £45 to reschedule a speed awareness course when he had Covid\n\nA driver who did not attend a speeding course after telling organisers he had Covid says a £45 charge to change the date is \"scandalous\".\n\nNorman Taylor was caught speeding at 46mph (74 km/h) on a 40mph (64 km/h) stretch of Fabian Way on 16 July while heading out of Swansea towards the M4.\n\nThe 73-year-old booked a face-to-face course but said he then contracted Covid and was charged to change it.\n\nTTC Group, which runs the courses, said it did not comment on individual cases.\n\nAccording to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Mr Taylor said after being caught he was given the choice of attending an £88 course or paying a fine and having three points on his licence.\n\nHe chose the former and booked a face-to-face course on 22 September.\n\nMr Taylor said he then contracted Covid, despite having two jabs, and his health declined.\n\n\"I've got severe asthma anyway,\" said the 73-year-old.\n\n\"I am booked in for a six-week intensive course at Morriston Hospital. I'll have to go in twice a day.\"\n\nHe was caught speeding on Fabian Way, Swansea, as he headed towards the M4\n\nMr Taylor, of Sketty, Swansea, said he was not well enough to attend the course and believed he should not because of his Covid diagnosis.\n\nHe said he phoned TTC the day before to explain and was offered a course on 29 October 29 - but was told he would be charged £45 to change the date.\n\n\"She said I could appeal it, but it's just scandalous,\" Mr Taylor said. \"When I feel better, I will appeal.\"\n\nThe former lorry driver said he had never received a speeding notice before.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heidi Crowter says she will not stop her fight against the current abortion laws\n\nA woman with Down's syndrome has lost her High Court challenge over a law that allows abortion up to birth for a foetus with the condition.\n\nHeidi Crowter, 26, from Coventry, brought the case against the government in July, saying the legislation did not respect her life.\n\nHer legal team had argued the rules were unlawfully discriminatory.\n\nThe government maintained there was no evidence the law discriminated against Down's.\n\nAs two senior judges dismissed the case earlier, Ms Crowter said she would seek to appeal against the judgement, adding \"the fight is not over\".\n\nUnder current legislation for England, Wales and Scotland, there is a 24-week time limit for abortion, unless \"there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped\", which includes Down's syndrome.\n\nThe judges found that section of the Abortion Act was not unlawful, and it aimed to strike a balance between the rights of the unborn child and of women.\n\nMs Crowter, who is married and campaigns under her maiden name, said: \"We face discrimination every day in schools, in the work place and in society. And now thanks to this verdict the judges have upheld discrimination in the womb too.\"\n\nShe added on Twitter: \"The judges might not think [the law] discriminates against me, the government might not think it discriminates against me, but I am telling you I feel discriminated against.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Heidi Crowter-Living the dream This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Heidi Crowter-Living the dream\n\nLord Justice Singh and Mrs Justice Lieven said at the outset of their judgement: \"The issues which have given rise to this claim are highly sensitive and sometimes controversial.\n\n\"This court cannot enter into those controversies; it must decide the case only in accordance with the law.\"\n\nThey said they had heard evidence showing some families would \"positively wish to have a child\" even knowing it would be born with severe disabilities.\n\nBut the judges also said there was clear evidence not every family would react the same way and the ability to provide for a disabled child would \"vary significantly\".\n\nThey added while scientific developments had improved, some conditions would only be found late in a pregnancy, after 24 weeks.\n\nThe judges concluded the legislation was a matter for Parliament \"which can take account of different interests and viewpoints, rather than in litigation\".\n\nMs Crowter's lawyers had claimed the legislation was unlawfully discriminatory as it was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nBut at the hearing in July, the government said not only was there was no evidence of discrimination, provisions were in place to discourage it.\n\nSpeaking in the summer, Ms Crowter said the law was offensive, and she wanted to challenge people's perception of Down's syndrome so that they saw \"just a normal person\".\n\nShe also said then her stance was not a campaign against women's right to choose.\n\nMs Crowter brought the case with another two parties - a child who has Down's, identified in the proceedings only as A, and Máire Lea-Wilson, 33, from Brentford, London, whose son Aidan has the condition.\n\nHeidi Crowter says people with Down's syndrome face discrimination in all areas of their lives, including in the womb\n\nMs Lea-Wilson said she had two boys and felt the judgement \"effectively says that my two sons are not viewed as equals in the eyes of the law\".\n\nShe added she did not regret bringing the case as it had helped raise awareness of the issues, and said she too would appeal against the judgement.\n\n\"Equality should be for everyone regardless of the number of chromosomes they have,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking in July, British Pregnancy Advisory Service told the BBC there was \"a relatively small number of abortions every year\" taking place after 24 weeks.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The footprints belonged to teenagers and children who lived between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago\n\nHumans reached the Americas at least 7,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new findings.\n\nThe topic of when the continent was first settled from Asia has been controversial for decades.\n\nMany researchers are sceptical of evidence for humans in the North American interior much earlier than 16,000 years ago.\n\nNow, a team working in New Mexico has found scores of human footprints dated to between 23,000 and 21,000 years old.\n\nThe discovery could transform views about when the continent was settled. It suggests there could have been great migrations that we know nothing about. And it raises the possibility that these earlier populations could have gone extinct.\n\nThe footprints were formed in soft mud on the margins of a shallow lake which now forms part of Alkali Flat in White Sands. The research has been published in the journal Science.\n\nA team from the US Geological Survey carried out radiocarbon dating on seeds found in sediment layers above and below where the footprints were found. This gave the researchers remarkably precise dates for the impressions themselves.\n\nBased on their sizes, scientists think the tracks were made mainly by teenagers and younger children travelling back and forth - along with the occasional adult.\n\nResearchers dated seeds found above and below the layers containing the footprints\n\nThey offer a fascinating window into what life was like for these early occupants of what is now the South West US.\n\nThe scientists don't know for sure what the teenagers were doing, but it is possible they were helping the adults with a type of hunting custom seen in later Native American cultures. This was known as the buffalo jump and involved driving animals over a shallow cliff edge.\n\nThe animals \"all had to be processed in a short period of time,\" explained Dr Sally Reynolds, co-author from Bournemouth University. \"You'd have to start fires, you'd have to start rendering the fat.\" The teenagers could have been helping out by collecting firewood, water or other essentials.\n\nThe age of the discovery is key, because there have been countless claims of early human settlement in the Americas. But virtually all are disputed in some way.\n\nIt often comes down to a debate over whether stone tools found at an ancient site are in fact what they appear to be, or are simply rocks broken through some natural process - such as falling from a cliff.\n\nThe proposed artefacts at early locales are sometimes less clear-cut than the exquisitely crafted spear-points found in North America from 13,000 years ago onwards. This leaves the door open for doubt about their identity.\n\n\"One of the reasons there is so much debate is that there is a real lack of very firm, unequivocal data points. That's what we think we probably have,\" Prof Matthew Bennett, first author on the paper from Bournemouth University, told BBC News.\n\nA stone point made by the Clovis people. They were once believed to be the first Americans\n\n\"Footprints aren't like stone tools. A footprint is a footprint, and it can't move up and down [in the soil layers].\"\n\nWhile the nature of the physical evidence here is harder to dismiss, the researchers had to ensure the dating evidence was - quite literally - watertight.\n\nA potential complication flagged up by the journal during the early stages of review was the \"reservoir effect\". This refers to the way that old carbon can sometimes get recycled in aqueous environments, interfering with radiocarbon results by making a site seem older than it is.\n\nHowever, the team members say they have accounted for this effect and believe it is not significant here.\n\nProf Tom Higham, a radiocarbon dating expert at the University of Vienna, said: \"They've undertaken some checks on the dates of material from near to the footprint location and found that fully terrestrial samples (charcoal) produced ages similar to those of the aquatic species they dated from nearer to the footprints.\n\n\"They've also argued, I think justifiably, that the lake must have been shallow at the time people walked there, mitigating the effect of reservoir effects introduced by old carbon sources.\" The consistency of the results and the support from a different dating technique applied to the site both supported the validity of the results, he added.\n\n\"I think taken together this is a 21,000-23,000-year-old sequence,\" Prof Higham told BBC News.\n\nThe controversies in early American archaeology have much to do with the historical development of the field.\n\nDuring the second half of the 20th Century, a consensus emerged among North American archaeologists that people belonging to the Clovis culture had been the first to reach the Americas.\n\nTeam members record the seed layers above the prints\n\nThese big game hunters were thought to have crossed a land bridge across the Bering Straits that connected Siberia with Alaska during the last ice age, when sea levels were much lower.\n\nAs the \"Clovis First\" idea took hold, reports of more ancient settlement were dismissed as unreliable and some archaeologists actually stopped looking for signs of earlier occupation.\n\nBut in the 1970s, this orthodoxy was challenged.\n\nIn the 1980s, solid evidence turned up for a 14,500-year-old human presence at Monte Verde in Chile.\n\nAnd since the 2000s, other pre-Clovis sites have become widely accepted - such as the 15,500-year-old Buttermilk Creek Complex in central Texas and the 16,000-year-old Cooper's Ferry site in Idaho.\n\nNow, the footprint evidence from New Mexico suggests humans had made it to the North American interior by the height of the last Ice Age, when massive ice sheets covered much of what is today Canada. This would have blocked entry to humans crossing from Asia, perhaps suggesting that humans arrived even earlier when a path - or \"corridor\" - through the ice was open.\n\nGary Haynes, an emeritus professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, said: \"I cannot find fault with the work that was done or with the interpretations - the paper is important and provocative.\n\n\"The trackways are so far south of the Bering land connection that we now have to wonder (1) if the people or their ancestors (or other people) had made the crossing from Asia to the Americas much earlier, (2) if people moved quickly through the continents after each crossing, and (3) if they left any descendants.\"\n\nDr Andrea Manica, a geneticist from the University of Cambridge, said the finding had important implications for the population history of the Americas.\n\n\"I can't comment on how reliable the dating is (it is outside my expertise), but firm evidence of humans in North America 23,000 years ago is at odds with the genetics, which clearly shows a split of Native Americans from Asians approximately 15-16,000 years ago,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"This would suggest that the initial colonists of the Americas were replaced when the ice corridor formed and another wave of colonists came in. We have no idea how that happened.\"", "Apple has banned Fortnite from its App Store until a legal battle with the game's maker Epic has concluded, according to Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games.\n\nThis means the popular game won't be available for new users to download on iPhones or other Apple devices.\n\nMr Sweeney called out Apple in a series of tweets and said the appeals process may take about five years to complete.\n\nThe BBC has approached Apple for comment.\n\nPeople who already have the game downloaded on their Apple devices will be able to carry on playing it, but will not receive any updates.\n\nFortnite was originally removed from Apple's App Store last year for violating its policies by launching its own in-app payment system.\n\nApple charges a 30% commission on all in-app purchases, but this feature tried to bypass that.\n\nThe move triggered a legal battle brought by Epic Games, which accused Apple of running the App Store as a monopoly.\n\nIn September, a US court ruled that Apple could not stop app developers directing users to third-party payment options.\n\nBut the judge also said that Epic failed to demonstrate Apple was operating an illegal monopoly.\n\nBoth Epic and Apple are appealing respective parts of the judgement.\n\n\"Apple spent a year telling the world, the court, and the press they'd 'welcome Epic's return to the App Store if they agree to play by the same rules as everyone else',\" Mr Sweeney wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"Epic agreed, and now Apple has reneged in another abuse of its monopoly power over a billion users.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tim Sweeney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn correspondence shared by Mr Sweeney, Apple said Epic had \"committed an intentional breach of contract, and breach of trust, by concealing code from Apple\" and it would not reinstate its account \"until the district court's judgement becomes final and non-appealable\".\n\nMeanwhile, Apple's chief executive Tim Cook has come under fire after an email he sent to employees warning them not to leak confidential information was itself leaked.\n\nThe message told Apple staff employees that the company would do \"everything in [its] power to identify those who leaked\" information to reporters.\n\n\"People who leak confidential information do not belong\" at Apple, he added.", "Some of those who had just landed tried to rush back to the returning planes\n\nAngry scenes broke out at Haiti's main airport after migrants were deported to the country from the US.\n\nOn Tuesday, migrants at the airport in Port-au-Prince rushed back towards the plane they had arrived on, while others threw shoes at the jet.\n\nLast weekend, the US started flying out migrants from a Texas border town which has seen an influx in recent weeks.\n\nAbout 13,000 would-be immigrants have gathered under a bridge connecting Del Rio in Texas to Ciudad Acuña in Mexico.\n\nSeparately reports have emerged of thousands - mostly Haitians - stranded near the border between Colombia and Panama.\n\nChaos unfolded at Haiti's Toussaint Louverture airport as one man attempted to re-board the aircraft. The plane's crew rushed to close the jet's doors in time, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nVideo footage taken at the airport shows people scrambling for their personal belongings after their bags were dumped out of the plane.\n\nThere are reports that some migrants were not told they would be returning to Haiti.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people are camped out at the US-Mexico border bridge in poor conditions\n\nAccording to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there were two separate incidents at the airport on Tuesday.\n\nA source told NBC News that the pilots on board one of the flights were assaulted on arrival in Haiti and three US immigration officers were also injured.\n\nIn a separate incident in Texas, a group of Haitians reportedly fought Border Patrol agents and attempted to escape after realising they were being deported.\n\nAt the time, the migrants were being transported on a bus from the town of Brownsville to Del Rio.\n\n\"When the migrants found out they were going to be sent back to Haiti, they took the bus over and they fled,\" Brandon Judd, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, said at a news conference late on Tuesday.\n\nThe removal of migrants has been criticised by Partners In Health, an NGO that has been working in the country.\n\n\"During a challenging and dangerous period for Haiti, it is unthinkably cruel to send men, women and children back to what many of them do not even call 'home' anymore.\"\n\nAbout 4,000 people have either been deported or moved to other processing centres, according to DHS.\n\nPeople were forced to look for their belongings on the ground after arriving in Haiti\n\nFrom Thursday, flights could be ramped up to as many as seven a day, according to the Washington Post.\n\nQuoting an unnamed US official, the Associated Press also reported on Tuesday that authorities are also releasing Haitian migrants into the US \"on a very, very large scale\".\n\nThe official added that many of the migrants have been given notices to appear at immigration offices within 60 days. The official said this approach requires less processing time than having them appear before an immigration court.\n\nThe migrants have been waiting in a makeshift camp in temperatures of 37C (99F).\n\nLocal officials have struggled to provide them with food and adequate sanitation.\n\nMost of those at the camp are Haitians, but there are also Cubans, Peruvians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans present.\n\nMeanwhile the Colombian government has said that around 19,000 migrants - mainly from Haiti - are stranded near the border with Panama. Migrants often cross into Panama and proceed on foot as part of a long journey north towards the United States.\n\nHowever, a senior Colombian official said that many migrants are now stranded near the border as a result of an agreement between the two countries restricting the number of migrants crossing the Gulf of Urabá into Panama to just 250 people a day.\n\nHe added that many migrants have been risking their lives by trying to cross the gulf illegally at night on substandard boats.\n\nMany Haitians left the country after a devastating earthquake in 2010, and a large number of those in the camp had been living in Brazil or other South American countries and travelled north after being unable to secure jobs or legal status.\n\nThis year has brought further hardship for the impoverished country. In July, Haiti's president was assassinated - and in August it suffered another deadly earthquake.", "Sabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nThe family of a primary school teacher who was killed in a south-east London park say they have been left \"devastated\" by her death.\n\nThe body of Sabina Nessa was found by a member of the public in Cator Park, Kidbrooke, on Saturday morning.\n\nMs Nessa's cousin Zubel Ahmed said the 28-year-old was a \"beautiful soul\" and appealed for help to find whoever was responsible for the \"horrific crime\".\n\nA vigil is due to be held in her memory on Friday evening.\n\nOfficers searching near where the 28-year-old teacher was found\n\nThe Met Police believe Ms Nessa was attacked and died the previous evening, at a time when the park would have been busy.\n\nMr Ahmed said the family understood she had been on her way home \"when she was attacked from behind.\"\n\nHe said her parents were \"absolutely shocked\" and \"inconsolable still, understandably so, to hear of their daughter being taken away from them by some cowardly man\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are all truly devastated,\" says Sabina Nessa's cousin Zubel Ahmed\n\nDescribing his cousin, Mr Ahmed said she \"was the most caring person - kindest, sweetest girl you could meet\".\n\n\"She's been teaching for two years. Loves teaching, loves kids, she's got a couple of cats at home. She was just a beautiful soul.\"\n\nThe area where she was found remains cordoned off and flowers have been left at the site.\n\nCards, candles and flowers have been left at the site of Ms Nessa's death\n\nA vigil will be held in Kidbrooke on Friday\n\nInformation sheets advising women on how to stay safe at night have been handed out by a community group in response to the death.\n\nThe handout suggests pedestrians stick to busy places with good lighting.\n\nAdvice on the sheet, printed from the Met Police website, also includes the suggestions that pedestrians should face oncoming traffic and conceal their jewellery.\n\nFriday's vigil has been organised by Reclaim the Streets who said they were \"angry and heartbroken\" by the killing and called on the government to do something about \"an epidemic of violence unfolding in front of our eyes.\"\n\nThe information leaflet suggests pedestrians should stick to busy places with good lighting\n\nMiss Nessa, who was originally from Sandy in Bedfordshire, lived in Lewisham, south-east London.\n\nShe had been a year one teacher at Rushey Green Primary school in Catford for about a year.\n\nA post-mortem examination into the cause of the 28-year-old's death was inconclusive, the Met said.\n\nA man in his 40s who was arrested on suspicion of murder has been released under further investigation.\n\nOfficers have asked for any potential witnesses to contact them, and for drivers to check dash-cam footage they might have.\n\nThe Met believe the attack happened around 20:30 BST on 17 September at a time where the park \"was likely being used by many people.\"\n\nDet Supt Luke Marks said: \"This did not happen in the middle of the night - people would have been in and around the park at the time.\n\n\"We have extra officers in the area conducting high-visibility patrols, and anybody in London, regardless of gender, should be able to go out in an evening and not be concerned about being the victim of violent crime.\"\n\nMs Nessa was described by colleagues as \"kind, caring and dedicated\". The school's headteacher Lisa Williams said: \"She had so much life ahead of her and so much more to give and her loss is desperately sad.\n\n\"As a school we are supporting each other through this very difficult time, and we will be providing specialist support to those who need it.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan also paid tribute, saying he had been left \"heartbroken\" by her death.\n\n\"The perpetrator of this despicable crime must be caught and brought to justice which is why I want to encourage anyone who may have been in the park around the time of the incident, and may have relevant information, to contact the police,\" he added.\n\nSafeguarding minister Rachel Maclean told the House of Commons: \"Every woman who loses their life is one woman too much and we are devastated to hear of the loss of the life of Sabina Nessa. Our hearts go out to the family.\n\nShe added that the government was \"passing legislation, setting out actions and tackling these horrific crimes and we are determined to see a reduction in them\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: It's time for humanity to grow up\n\nA climate summit of world leaders in 40 days' time will be the \"turning point for humanity\", PM Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations.\n\nHe warned that global temperature rises were already inevitable, but called on his fellow leaders to commit to major changes to curb further warming.\n\nFour areas needed tackling - \"coal, cars, cash and trees\", he said.\n\nCountries must take responsibility for \"the destruction we are inflicting, not just upon our planet but ourselves\".\n\n\"It's time for humanity to grow up,\" he added ahead of the UK hosting the COP26 summit in Glasgow.\n\nThe prime minister also said it was time to listen to the warnings of scientists. \"Look at Covid if you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right.\"\n\nSetting the tone for November's meeting, he said countries must make \"substantial changes\" by the end of the decade if the world is to stave off further temperature rises.\n\n\"I passionately believe that we can do it by making commitments in four areas - coal, cars, cash and trees,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson praised China's President Xi Jinping for his recent pledge to stop building new coal-fire energy plants abroad.\n\nBut he called on the country - which produces 28% of global greenhouse gas emissions - to go further and end its domestic use of coal, saying the UK was proof that it could be done.\n\nThe UK used coal to generate 25% of its electricity five years ago - but that is now down to 2%. Mr Johnson said it would be \"gone altogether\" by 2024.\n\nBut Labour's shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband accused the UK government of \"facing both ways\" on climate change, urging other nations to take action while it considered plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria and cut money for improving home insulation.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One that a UK trade deal had also allowed Australia to renege on their climate commitments.\n\n\"It undermines our moral standing as the host. I want the prime minister to succeed, but I'm afraid he's left it very late and he's not handled this presidency well,\" he said.\n\nIn his speech, the prime minister also said he did not see a conflict between the green movement and capitalism, saying: \"The whole experience of the Covid pandemic is that the way to fix the problem is through science and innovation, the breakthroughs and the investment that are made possible by capitalism and by free markets.\"\n\n\"We have the tools for a green industrial revolution but time is desperately short,\" he added.\n\nElsewhere, the prime minister made a series of calls for action to his fellow leaders, including:\n\nAmid the serious warnings, Mr Johnson also attempted to strike a humorous note at points, including saying Kermit the Frog had been wrong when he sang It's Not Easy Bein' Green.\n\nThe prime minister reiterated that the world must curb the rise in global average temperatures to 1.5C - the stricter of the two targets set by the UN in the 2015 Paris agreement.\n\nHowever, the world is already 1C hotter compared with pre-industrial levels.\n\n\"If we keep on the current track then the temperatures will go up by 2.7 degrees or more by the end of the century,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"And never mind what that will do to the ice floes... we will see desertification, drought, crop failure, and mass movements of humanity on a scale not seen before, not because of some unforeseen natural event or disaster but because of us, because of what we are doing now.\n\n\"And our grandchildren will know that we are the culprits and... that we were warned and they will know that it was this generation that came centre stage to speak and act on behalf of posterity and that we missed our cue and they will ask themselves what kind of people we were to be so selfish and so short sighted.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is fashioning himself as a leader on climate change.\n\nHe has set a benchmark by phasing out sales of most new conventional vehicles by 2030.\n\nThe international alliance he's formed to get rid of coal power is gathering support - though not yet enough.\n\nAnd by setting aggressive targets to cut carbon emissions overall (78% by 2035) he is encouraging others to follow.\n\nYet, in his own backyard, the prime minister is stumbling.\n\nHe previously pledged \"never to be lagging on lagging\". But his plan for insulating homes is badly delayed - along with other vital initiatives on issues including aviation, farming and financing the low carbon revolution.\n\nRecent research showed his government had imposed less than a quarter of the policies needed to clean up the economy.\n\nAt COP26, leaders from 196 countries will be asked to agree action to limit climate change and its effects, like rising sea levels and extreme weather.\n\nA recent report from UN scientists warned that global temperatures have risen faster since 1970 than at any point in the past 2,000 years.", "Sir Keir Starmer has published an 11,500 word essay on what he stands for and how he wants to change the UK, ahead of his party's conference.\n\nThe Labour leader says the country is at a crossroads after the pandemic and is \"crying out for change\".\n\nIf elected prime minister, he says he would create \"a society built on everyone's contribution\".\n\nSir Keir has faced criticism from some in Labour that he lacks vision and voters don't know what his values are.\n\nHe is due to deliver his first in-person conference speech to party members since becoming leader last year, in Brighton next week.\n\nIn his essay The Road Ahead, published by the Fabian Society think tank, he sketches out many of the themes that are likely to feature in his speech, saying he wants Labour to be \"Britain's bricks and mortar\".\n\n\"People want to emerge from lockdown into something better,\" writes the Labour leader.\n\n\"They want to see a contribution society: one where people who work hard and play by the rules can expect to get something back.\n\n\"Where you can expect fair pay for fair work, where we capture the spirit that saw us through the worst ravages of the pandemic and celebrate the idea of community and society; where we understand that we are stronger together.\"\n\nSpeaking about his own background, as the son of parents who \"worked with their hands\" who was able to go to university and reach the top of the legal profession, Sir Keir writes: \"There are two fundamental things we need to fix in this country: insecurity and inequality of opportunity.\n\n\"Does a working-class child in Britain today have the same opportunities my generation did? It is hard to think they do.\"\n\nHe wants to silence critics who accuse him of lacking vision or direction, to create dividing lines with his political opponents - and to suggest that his values are in touch with those of the majority of voters.\n\nHe sets out 10 \"simple key principles\" for a future Labour government, which would \"always put hard-working families and their priorities first\".\n\nThe pamphlet is peppered with the phrase \"security and opportunity\".\n\nThis is, in part, to convince voters that a future Labour government would tackle the insecurity many people feel at work.\n\nBut it is also designed to play to his perceived strengths and his life story.\n\nLabour's target voters are unlikely to devour the entire tract.\n\nBut the forthcoming conference will provide Sir Keir with both the opportunity - and the challenge - of distilling his message.\n\nIn the pamphlet, Sir Keir attacks Prime Minister Boris Johnson as \"utterly unserious and completely unprepared for the great challenges of our time\".\n\nAnd he accuses both the Conservatives and the SNP of being in thrall to nationalism.\n\nBy contrast, he argues, Labour should be \"proudly patriotic\" but \"reject the divisiveness of nationalism\".\n\nHe repeats his call for the party to embrace the achievements of the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown governments - but says Labour has to change to stand a chance of returning to power.\n\n\"The Labour Party at its best does not wait around for the public to decide we are right. Instead, it adapts and updates. It does not look backwards - it marches forwards,\" he writes.\n\nConservative party co-chairman Oliver Dowden said: \"If this is Starmer's 'big vision' then he should have gone to Specsavers.\n\n\"Labour are talking to themselves about themselves. They're all essays and no action.\"\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Robert Peston, former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the document \"looks like the sermon on the mount written by a focus group\".\n\n\"I can't see anything in this document that is going to inspire,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Liam Byrne - who failed to unseat Conservative Andy Street as West Midlands mayor in May's elections - has set out his own plan to return his party to power.\n\nIn an article for Prospect magazine, the former minister says Sir Keir needs to target Tory voters with \"an evocative tale of how we build our future with pride in our past, fed by roots in industry and community\".\n• None Party conferences: What to expect this year", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US special envoy for Haiti has resigned in protest over the deportation of Haitian migrants.\n\nThe decision to return migrants fleeing an earthquake and political instability was \"inhumane\", senior diplomat Daniel Foote said in a damning letter.\n\nLast weekend, the US started deportation flights from a Texas border town, where about 13,000 migrants had gathered under a bridge.\n\nThey have been waiting in a makeshift camp in temperatures of 37C (99F).\n\nLocal officials have struggled to provide them with food and adequate sanitation.\n\nSince Sunday, the US has returned to Haiti 1,401 migrants from the Texas camp on the border with Mexico.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Foote said Haiti was a \"collapsed state\" that \"simply cannot support the forced infusion of thousands of returned migrants lacking food, shelter, and money without additional, avoidable human tragedy\".\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Jen Psaki responded in a press conference: \"Special Envoy Foote had ample opportunity to raise concerns about immigration during his tenure. He never once did so.\"\n\nMs Psaki also described images from the border - showing horse-mounted US officers corralling the migrants - as horrific and said horses would no longer be used in the area.\n\nImages showed US Border Patrol agents charging at Haitian migrants by Rio Grande river that divides Texas and Mexico.\n\nThe widely shared pictures, taken by an AFP photographer earlier this week, have evoked grim comparisons to US slavery and the country's historical mistreatment of black people.\n\nThat led to pressure on President Joe Biden's administration, and prompted calls from within his Democratic Party to give the Haitians asylum rather than fly them back to their home country.\n\nMany Haitians left after a devastating earthquake struck the country in 2010. A large number of those in the camp had been living in Brazil or other South American countries and travelled north after being unable to secure jobs or legal status.\n\nThis year has brought further hardship for the impoverished country. In July, President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated - and in August it suffered another deadly earthquake.\n\nMr Foote said Haitians needed \"immediate assistance\", and criticised the US and other countries for interfering in the country's politics.\n\n\"What our Haitian friends really want, and need, is the opportunity to chart their own course, without international puppeteering and favoured candidates but with genuine support for that course,\" he said.\n\nMr Foote has served in the role since Moïse's assassination in July.\n\nA state department spokesperson thanked the ambassador for his work, and insisted that the US remained \"committed to supporting safe, orderly, and humane migration throughout our region\".\n\nBut in a later statement, a department spokesperson hit back at Mr Foote's claim he had been ignored by officials.\n\n\"It is unfortunate that, instead of participating in a solutions-oriented policy process, Special Envoy Foote has both resigned and mischaracterised the circumstances,\" Ned Price said.\n\nPresident Biden has been accused of having an incoherent policy on migration. On the campaign trail, he vowed to reverse President Donald Trump's policies - which he deemed too harsh - and he put Vice-President Kamala Harris in charge of the issue in March.\n\nBut critics say they have failed to come up with a concrete plan for the near future, with the numbers of migrants coming into the country reaching record highs.\n\nOn the US side of the Mexican border in Del Rio, teams of police and National Guard agents have \"completely blocked off\" the area, according to immigrant rights activist Jenn Budd, who is at the scene.\n\n\"You cannot breathe here without law enforcement knowing what you're doing,\" Ms Budd, a former Border Patrol agent, told the BBC.\n\n\"They're cleaning it up and getting rid of everything, and they have shut down access to the river itself.\"\n\nOn the Mexican side of the river, migrants in a camp in Ciudad Acuña are voicing concern about potential expulsions. \"I have nothing in my country. What are they going to do?\" one tearful Haitian woman asked an AFP reporter.\n\nSeparately, nearly 19,000 mostly Haitian migrants are in Colombia, waiting to cross the border with Panama on the journey to the US, officials say.\n\n\"We want them to let us cross, from here to Panama, before the United States closes its border,\" one migrant said. \"They are going to take away our dreams. I come from Peru, I've been struggling.\"\n\nAs monthly border-crossings continue to surge, Joe Biden has been caught between conservatives who say he is weak on undocumented migrants and liberal activists who view his policies as too much like those of his predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\nNow the criticism of Biden's actions are coming from inside his own administration - a development that could encourage more to speak out.\n\nThe images of uniformed border patrol agents on horseback accosting black Haitians have drawn comparisons to dark chapters of slavery and discrimination in American history. Immigration activists say the border episode provides evidence of the harsher treatment dark-skinned migrants receive in this country.\n\nThe US has a process by which it can give undocumented migrants \"temporary protected status\" from deportation if government officials determine that it would not be safe to return them to their home country.\n\nHaitians, as well as citizens from a handful of Central American countries, enjoy this protection - and it's cited as one of the reasons migrants brave the hazardous journey to the US, even though new arrivals do not qualify for the protections.\n\nInstead, the Haitians at the border are being sent back to a homeland where, according to Daniel Foote in his resignation letter, they face inhumane treatment and grave danger.", "Sabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nSabina Nessa was killed on a \"five-minute\" walk to meet a friend at a pub, police believe.\n\nOfficers said the 28-year-old teacher was attacked as she walked to The Depot bar in Kidbrooke Village, south-east London, from her home on Astell Road at about 20:30 BST last Friday.\n\nHer body was found by a member of the public in Cator Park the next morning.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry, and a man was arrested and released under further investigation.\n\nA vigil is due to be held in Ms Nessa's memory on Friday evening.\n\nDet Insp Joe Garrity said: \"Sabina's journey should have taken just over five minutes but she never made it to her destination.\n\n\"Our investigation is making good progress and specialist officers remain at the crime scene carrying out intensive searches and enquiries.\n\n\"We know the community are rightly shocked by this murder - as are we - and we are using every resource available to us to find the individual responsible.\"\n\nOfficers searching near where the 28-year-old teacher was found\n\nMs Nessa's cousin Zubel Ahmed has previously said she was a \"beautiful soul\" and appealed for help to find whoever was responsible for the \"horrific crime\".\n\nHe said her parents were \"absolutely shocked\" and \"inconsolable still, understandably so, to hear of their daughter being taken away from them by some cowardly man\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are all truly devastated,\" says Sabina Nessa's cousin Zubel Ahmed\n\nDescribing his cousin, Mr Ahmed said she \"was the most caring person - kindest, sweetest girl you could meet\".\n\n\"She's been teaching for two years. Loves teaching, loves kids, she's got a couple of cats at home. She was just a beautiful soul.\"\n\nThe area where she was found remains cordoned off and flowers have been left at the site.\n\nCards, candles and flowers have been left at the site of Ms Nessa's death\n\nInformation sheets advising women on how to stay safe at night have been handed out by a community group in response to the death.\n\nThe handout suggests pedestrians stick to busy places with good lighting.\n\nRoyal Greenwich's Safer Spaces team has been distributing personal alarms to women.\n\nThe borough have issued over 200 alarms to women and vulnerable residents over the last two days particularly in the Kidbrooke area.\n\nAdvice on the sheet, printed from the Met Police website, also includes the suggestions that pedestrians should face oncoming traffic and conceal their jewellery.\n\nFriday's vigil has been organised by a Kidbrooke community group.\n\nIt is being supported by Reclaim the Streets who said it was angry and heartbroken\" by the killing and called on the government to do something about \"an epidemic of violence unfolding in front of our eyes\".\n\nThe information leaflet suggests pedestrians should stick to busy places with good lighting\n\nMs Nessa, who was originally from Sandy in Bedfordshire, lived in Lewisham, south-east London.\n\nShe had been a year one teacher at Rushey Green Primary school in Catford for about a year.\n\nA post-mortem examination into the cause of the 28-year-old's death was inconclusive, the Met said.\n\nA man in his 40s who was arrested on suspicion of murder was later released.\n\nOfficers have asked for any potential witnesses to contact them, and for drivers to check dash-cam footage they might have.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Linda Evangelista (pictured in 2009) rose to fame in the 1990s, gracing catwalks and magazine covers\n\nSupermodel Linda Evangelista has said she has been left \"permanently deformed\" due to an adverse reaction to a fat reduction procedure.\n\nThe 56-year-old revealed she had experienced a rare cosmetic side effect of the treatment five years ago which actually increased her fat cells.\n\n\"I have been left, as the media has described, 'unrecognisable',\" she told her 900,000 Instagram followers.\n\nEvangelista explained it was the reason she'd disappeared from the public eye.\n\nThe Canadian model went on to say she had undergone \"two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries\" after the slimming procedure - also known as body contouring - had had the opposite effect.\n\n\"To my followers who have wondered why I have not been working while my peers' careers have been thriving, the reason is that I was brutally disfigured by... [a procedure] which did the opposite of what it promised,\" Evangelista explained.\n\nEvangelista posed for photographers as she walked the red carpet at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival\n\nShe said the side effect she experienced \"has not only destroyed my livelihood, it has sent me into a cycle of deep depression, profound sadness and the lowest depths of self-loathing. In the process I have become a recluse.\"\n\nIn her social media post, the star said she wanted to tell her story publicly in order to move on with her life, and suggested she would be suing the company she said was responsible.\n\nThe company which Evangelista claims to have used has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\n\"I'm so tired of living this way,\" she continued. \"I would like to walk out my door with my head held high, despite not looking like myself any longer.\"\n\nThe non-surgical procedure, which has grown in popularity in recent years, uses cold temperatures to reduce fat deposits in certain areas of the body.\n\nDescribing the \"very rare but serious side effect\" she had experienced, Evangelista said it \"means the fat cells in the treatment site grow larger rather than smaller\", adding: \"It's not fully understood why this occurs.\"\n\nLeft to right: Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington pictured in 1989\n\nEvangelista rose to fame in the 1990s as one of a group of emerging supermodels, gracing high-end catwalks around the world and the cover of leading fashion magazine Vogue.\n\nShe also appeared in a George Michael music video alongside Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington.\n\nThe model has kept a low profile in recent years, rarely posting new images of herself on social media.\n\nIn the few pictures she has posted, her face is often partially obscured by a headscarf or hat.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by lindaevangelista This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStars including Gwyneth Paltrow and stylist Karla Welch showed their support in the comments underneath Evangelista's post, as did designers Jeremy Scott and Brandon Maxwell.\n\n\"You are and always will be a supermodel, now adding super role model of courage to your glorious resume,\" wrote Scott, while Paltrow posted a red love heart emoji.\n\nMaxwell posted: \"I have always recognised you as someone who was physically beautiful, yes, but more importantly you really shone bright from within... In your darkest moments may you never forget the light you have sparked in so many, and continue to.\"\n\nFellow model Karen Elson said: \"Sweet Linda. I love you dearly, you are so brave and wonderful.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers from the UK to Portugal will not need to be fully vaccinated to avoid quarantine, the country's tourist board has said.\n\nInstead, UK visitors will only need to show proof of a negative PCR antigen test to get into the country.\n\nVisit Portugal said the measures also apply to passengers embarking and disembarking cruise ships on the coast of the Portuguese mainland.\n\nThe new rules are in place from Tuesday and will be effect until 16 September.\n\nUK travellers, aged 12 and above, must show a valid PCR or antigen test certificates to airline check-in staff to board flights to Portugal.\n\nA PCR test must be taken up to 72 hours before departure, or an antigen test up to 48 hours before travel.\n\nChildren aged 11 or under are not required to present proof of negative Covid tests and do not have to be vaccinated.\n\nHowever Portugal's tourism board said the rules may be revised at any time, depending on scientific or medical changes pertaining to the pandemic.\n\nAnything that makes travel easier to and from Europe is welcomed by the travel industry, but this change has come late in the summer when many potential travellers are fully vaccinated anyway.\n\nIt's unlikely to make a major impact on UK trips to Portugal, particularly as Portugal's mainland is still on the UK's amber list.\n\nThis means anyone not double jabbed will have to quarantine when they arrive in the UK.\n\nBut it is a move in the right direction for travel companies who hope countries will continue to open up rather than close shut.\n\nAt present, shops and restaurants in Portugal are currently allowed to stay open until 2am and bars and clubs may close even later.\n\nBut customers can only enjoy the revelry sitting down - dancing will be allowed again in October if the vaccination campaign continues successfully.\n\nPortugal is currently on the UK's travel amber list, amid concerns about rising Covid cases.\n\nAdults fully vaccinated in the UK, the US and most European countries don't have to self-isolate upon their return to the UK.\n\nBut a Covid test is needed three days before returning from an amber country, and a PCR test two days after arriving.\n\nArrivals who are not fully vaccinated need to quarantine for 10 days and take an additional PCR test on or after day eight.", "Taliban fighters in Kabul. Reports say the group is targeting perceived enemies despite promising an amnesty.\n\nSince they took control of Afghanistan just over two weeks ago, the Taliban have sought to portray a more moderate image than when they last seized power in 1996.\n\nThey have repeatedly said they will grant amnesty to all, including those who worked for western militaries or the Afghan government or police. In a dramatic press conference after the group swept into Kabul, chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid made a declaration of forgiveness.\n\nBut there is growing evidence that the reality on ground is different to the rhetoric coming from Taliban leaders and spokesmen. It was not lost on some watching the press conference in Kabul that Mr Mujahid made his declaration from the seat of the former government spokesman Dawa Khan Menapal, who had been killed by the group just weeks earlier, as \"punishment for his deeds\".\n\nNow sources inside Afghanistan, as well as some who recently fled, have told the BBC that Taliban fighters are searching for, and allegedly killing, people they pledged they would leave in peace.\n\nSeveral sources confirmed that Taliban fighters last week executed two senior police officials - Haji Mullah Achakzai, the security director of Badghis province, and Ghulam Sakhi Akbari, security director of Farah province. Video footage showed Mr Achakzai was kneeling, blindfolded, with his hands tied behind his back before he was shot.\n\nThose who managed to flee say they fear for their colleagues back home. Zala Zazai, a former Afghan policewoman, one of thousands trained since the Taliban was deposed in 2001, said she was still in touch with other former policewomen.\n\n\"The Taliban call them from their office phones and ask them to come to work, and ask for their home address,\" she said.\n\nMs Zazai said that even in Tajikistan she was not totally out of the reach of the Taliban. Her mother, who is with her, received messages urging both women to return to Afghanistan and \"live in the Islamic way\", she said.\n\nA former Afghan soldier who fled from Badakhshan province along with his three brothers, all of whom were in the army, said Taliban fighters were harassing his family, \"asking them for money saying your son was in the special forces\".\n\nAnd a former Afghan special forces soldier still inside the country told the BBC that he and his family were in hiding after former colleagues were killed.\n\n\"Since the Taliban have come to power they haven't stopped killing,\" he said. \"A few days ago, they killed twelve members of the special forces in Kandahar and three soldiers in Jalalabad as well. They were my close friends. I was in touch with them. The Taliban took them out of their homes and shot them.\"\n\nThe BBC was not able to independently confirm the killings, and the Taliban have repeatedly denied committing any revenge killings. But the group was widely thought to be behind a spate of assassinations after signing a peace deal with the US in 2020, and there are mounting reports they have been searching for targets since taking power two weeks ago.\n\nTaliban forces patrol near the Hamid Karzai International Airport, a day after US troops withdrew.\n\nAmnesty International reported earlier this month that Taliban fighters massacred nine ethnic Hazara men after taking control of Afghanistan's Ghazni province in July. And Human Rights Watch reported that Taliban fighters were conducting searches in Kandahar province as they swept the country and detaining anyone suspected of working with the government, reportedly killing some detainees.\n\nA high-ranking Afghan police official, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, told the BBC from hiding that he'd heard the Taliban were searching for him.\n\n\"They caught my assistant and interrogated him for five hours,\" the official said. \"They treated him very badly. They asked him, 'Where is your chief?' If they are forgiving everyone then why are they hunting for me?\"\n\nHe said he was changing location every day with his wife and children. \"I have no money to cross the border,\" he said, breaking down as he spoke. \"The problem is the Taliban have no justice system. They have no courts, no jail. They are just killing.\"\n\nIt is not just people who worked in the security forces who say they are being targeted. Members of the civil administration, and those who worked in jobs disapproved by the Taliban told similar stories.\n\n\"The Taliban took my car, beat up my guards and took their weapons,\" said Zarifa Ghafari, who was Afghanistan's first female mayor, governing Maidan Shar, the capital of Wardak province.\n\n\"They were searching for me. They called all the people who used to be in contact with me asking where I was. They even went to my husband's parents' house to look for me,\" she said.\n\nMs Ghafari was speaking via a video call from Germany, where she fled after the Taliban took power.\n\n\"They made me do something I never wanted to do,\" she said. \"They made me leave a country that I love.\"\n\nZarifa Ghafari, Afghanistan's first female mayor, places a flag on her father's grave in Afghanistan\n\nNilofar Ayoubi was also among those who managed to flee in time. A few weeks ago, she was busy working with her staff at her high-end fashion and accessories store in Kabul. When Taliban fighters walked into the city, they began stripping everything.\n\n\"We removed the mannequins from the windows, covered the windows, locked the door and ran,\" Ms Ayoubi said. \"I paid my staff a month's salary, then I went off home, packed two bags with my documents and a few things for my children and went into hiding,' she said.\n\nMs Ayoubi applied for asylum to Poland and, after pushing through the scrum at Kabul airport, managed to escape with her husband and children.\n\n\"As soon as I landed I saw multiple calls from my family,\" she said. \"They were so scared. They said the Taliban had come to our home, pointed guns at them and warned them that if you don't call your daughter and son-in-law back, we will kill you.\"\n\nAs the Taliban settles into power, part of the concern is that even if all their promises of clemency are true, the group's factions are not all necessarily in agreement, and not necessarily under control. Many in Afghanistan doubt that the Taliban leadership plans to honour its own amnesty. They doubt the group is a new moderate version of its old self. If violent acts of intimidation and reprisal go unaccounted for, and unpunished by the leadership, it will become clear that the Taliban of the present is no less ruthless than the Taliban of the past.", "A more eco-friendly petrol is coming to British filling stations this month, but a quarter of drivers do not know whether their cars can run on it, new research says.\n\nThe government intends to make E10 the new standard petrol grade.\n\nIt contains less carbon than other motor fuels and more ethanol, a kind of alcohol manufactured from plants.\n\nBut according to the RAC, 24% of motorists are unaware of it, while 27% do not know if their car is compatible.\n\nCurrent petrol grades in the UK - known as E5 - contain up to 5% ethanol, with the other 95% being regular unleaded petrol.\n\nTheir replacement, E10, will see this percentage increased to 10% - a proportion that would bring the UK in line with countries such as Belgium, Finland, France and Germany.\n\nIntroducing E10 could cut carbon emissions by 750,000 tonnes a year, says the Department for Transport, the equivalent of taking 350,000 cars off the road and an important step towards the government's climate change targets.\n\nThe new fuel is being rolled out everywhere in the UK except Northern Ireland, where it is not due to arrive until early 2022.\n\nEvery petrol vehicle built after 2011 should accept E10. But it will not be compatible with some older vehicles - as many as 600,000 of those currently on UK roads, the RAC estimates.\n\nThe introduction of E10 fuel comes after the government announced new climate change commitments in a bid for the UK to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035.\n\nClimate is the average weather in a place over many years. Climate change is a shift in those average conditions and the Earth is now in a period of rapid climate change, with global temperatures rising because of human activities, such as the burning of coal, oil and gas.\n\nReducing the impact of climate change and hitting carbon emissions targets will require more electric cars, low-carbon heating, renewable electricity and, for many, cutting down on meat and dairy products, scientists say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has set up a website where drivers can check whether their car will run on E10 fuel.\n\nBut it warns it will not be liable for any damage to vehicles as a result of drivers using its checker - especially if their car has been fitted with replacement parts.\n\nThe RAC said 26% of drivers surveyed had already checked online, with a further 15% saying they had found their car was compatible by another means.\n\nThose with incompatible vehicles will have to use E5 super unleaded instead, which the RAC says can cost 12p a litre more than standard unleaded.\n\nAccording to its survey, 59% of drivers who know their cars are incompatible with E10 are worried about the higher cost of filling up, while 20% fear mistakenly filling their tanks with E10.\n\nRAC head of policy Nicholas Lyes said E10 petrol had already started appearing on forecourts to replace the old E5 blend and the process would continue \"at pace\" in coming weeks.\n\nHe said that while it would make no difference to \"the vast majority\" of petrol car drivers, a \"sizeable minority\" would be adversely affected.\n\n\"Drivers who will continue to rely on E5 will also need to make sure the filling station they're visiting stocks the fuel in the first place, or risk running out of fuel and having to call on their breakdown provider,\" he added.\n\n\"We'd also like to remind owners of classic cars that need to be careful not to accidentally top up with E10 and then leave it sat unused in the tank for long periods, something which can lead to expensive damaged plastics, metals and seals.\"\n\nIn another development, oil giant Shell announced on Wednesday it was aiming to install 50,000 charging points on Britain's streets by 2025, as part of a government-backed push to increase electric vehicle numbers and reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\nShell will roll out the charging points through on-street charging point company Ubitricity, which it acquired in February.\n\nThe government has estimated that the UK will need between 280,000 and 480,000 charging points by 2030, the year it plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars.\n\nShell said it would support local authorities financially to install more on-street chargers in towns and cities.\n\nDavid Bunch, Shell's UK country chairman, said: \"It's vital to speed up the pace of EV charger installation across the UK and this aim and financing offer is designed to help achieve that.\n\n\"Whether at home, at work or on-the-go, we want to give drivers across the UK accessible EV charging options, so that more drivers can switch to electric.\"\n\nShell currently has 60,000 charging points globally, but plans to increase that number to 500,000 by 2025 and to 2.5 million by 2030.", "The Tokyo Paralympics are nearly over - plan how you will follow the final day of competition with our day-by-day guide - all times BST.\n\nIt might be the last day of competition but GB's competitors will be hoping to finish on a high.\n\nWheelchair racers David Weir and Johnboy Smith carry hopes in the T54 marathon (from 22:30 Saturday). Weir won the event in London but crashed out of the Rio race in 2016, while it is a Games debut for Smith, his former training partner, who will be the first Romany Paralympian.\n\nDerek Rae will bid for redemption and a medal in the T46 event for athletes with arm impairments (from 22:50). The Scot failed to finish the race in Rio, which hurt him a lot, and he has gone on to win World Championship silver since then.\n\nOn the final day of the badminton event, Krysten Coombs goes in the bronze-medal match in the SH6 event against Brazil's Vitor Tavares (session starts at 01:00).\n\nMatt Skelhon's campaign on the shooting range ends with the R6 - mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 event (from 01:30), while the men's wheelchair basketball medals will be decided with GB up against Spain for bronze (02:00) before Japan face the US for gold.\n\nAustralian Michael Roeger wants nothing more than a first Paralympic gold in the T46 marathon. The current world record holder has improved his personal bests all season and is competing in his fourth Games but only has a bronze medal in Rio to his name.\n\nIn the women's T54 wheelchair marathon, American Tatyana McFadden is hoping to make up for the disappointment of five years ago where she was beaten in a photo-finish in the women's race by China's Zou Lihong.\n\nGold is up for grabs in the women's sitting volleyball (02:00) with reigning champions the United States facing China, the beaten finalists in Rio.", "The baby's mother, who is in London, says she is lost without her daughter\n\nThe parents of a seven-month-old baby who is stranded in Kabul without them say they are losing hope that they will be able to get her to the UK.\n\nThey say a five month delay in receiving their baby's British passport means their daughter is stuck in Afghanistan with grandparents.\n\nThe mother and British father say they had no choice but to return to the UK in May to retain the mother's UK visa.\n\nThe government said it would do all it could to help British nationals.\n\nThe baby's mother, an Afghan national, travelled to Afghanistan in September last year to see family.\n\nShe says she lost her UK ID card during her trip, and because of this, she was unable to return to the UK before her baby was born. Her partner joined her in December, and their daughter was born in Kabul in January.\n\nThe mother, who the BBC is not naming to protect her identity, was later issued a single-entry visa, which gave her 30 days to return to the UK to apply for a replacement permit.\n\nThe family say they had no choice but to leave their baby behind because of the limited window in which to travel back and renew the visa. They were also told the baby could not travel without a passport.\n\nThe mother speaks little English and needed the father to return to the UK with her to gain her replacement documents.\n\nThey hoped to return to Afghanistan as soon as the document was issued but events took over.\n\nAlthough the parents received their baby's passport on Wednesday, there are now no commercial flights operating into and out of Kabul.\n\nThe baby remains in the care of her grandparents.\n\n\"I have been separated from my baby for months I am lost without her by my side and we are losing hope,\" says the baby's mother, who is in London.\n\n\"I beg the government to please help us bring my baby and family back to me.\"\n\nThe speed of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan took the world by surprise\n\nThe baby's father says they applied for the baby's passport in March.\n\n\"We miss her but we cannot do anything. We want to hug her, kiss her,\" he says.\n\n\"She is stuck in Afghanistan because of the passport delay. If the passport took less time, she would have been here with us.\"\n\nBritish forces and embassy staff left Kabul before the baby could be brought to the UK.\n\n\"They said: 'Wait until she gets her passport.' I told them: 'It is going to be too late,'\" the father says, referring to British officials.\n\n\"They said she's not British yet. You have to wait till her passport arrives, then she's British, then we can help you.\"\n\nThere are also concerns for the safety of the baby's grandparents because of the help they have given to UK and US forces since 2001.\n\nThe family has not left their house in Kabul for the past week for fear of reprisals from the Taliban.\n\n\"We helped the UK when they came to our country, we now need help,\" one family member said.\n\n\"We helped as much as we could but now we need help, nobody wants to know.\"\n\nA Home Office statement said the UK will \"continue to do all we can to deliver on our obligation to British nationals and eligible Afghans\".\n\nIt said it did not comment on individual cases, but said \"more must be done to support those at risk\" and it will \"urgently\" look to establish a scheme to provide protection for Afghan citizens most at risk.\n\nMore than 16,000 people have been evacuated by the UK from Afghanistan, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said any British nationals who remain in Afghanistan and want to leave, and those caring for British nationals who are in Afghanistan, should continue to check travel advice and sign up for alerts.\n\n\"We will keep under constant review our means to help these people as the situation evolves,\" a statement said.\n\nIt said the UK has advised against travel to Afghanistan since at least 2001.\n\nIn April 2021 the UK advised British nationals there to consider leaving and on 6 August 2021 urged all those still there to leave immediately.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Top US general admits 'anger and pain' over Afghanistan\n\nThe top US general has described the Taliban as a \"ruthless group\" and says it is unclear whether they will change.\n\nGen Mark Milley said, however, it was \"possible\" that the US would co-ordinate with the Islamist militants on future counter-terrorism operations.\n\nUS forces withdrew from Afghanistan on Tuesday, ending America's longest war 20 years after launching an invasion to oust the Taliban.\n\nThe Islamists are now in control and expected to announce a new government.\n\nGen Milley was speaking alongside US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, in their first public remarks since the last troops left Afghanistan.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has been widely criticised over the abrupt manner of the withdrawal, which led to the unexpected collapse of the Afghan security forces the US had trained and funded for years.\n\nThe Taliban's lightning advance sparked off a frenetic effort to evacuate thousands of foreign nationals and local Afghans who had been working for them.\n\nIn the news conference on Wednesday, both Gen Milley and Secretary Austin praised the troops who had served in Afghanistan and the massive evacuation mission.\n\nAsked about their co-ordination with the Taliban in getting evacuees to the airport, Mr Austin said: \"We were working with the Taliban on a very narrow set of issues, and that was just that - to get as many people out as we possibly could.\"\n\n\"In war you do what you must in order to reduce risk to mission and force, not what you necessarily want to do,\" Gen Milley added.\n\nHe said it was possible that the US would co-ordinate with the Taliban on future action against Islamic State affiliate IS-K, the group which claimed an attack outside Kabul airport last week that killed as many as 170 people, including 13 US service personnel.\n\nIS-K is the most extreme and violent of all the jihadist militant groups in Afghanistan. It has major differences with the Taliban, accusing them of abandoning jihad and the battlefield.\n\nMr Austin, meanwhile, said he would \"not want to make any predictions\" on future co-operation. But he added that officials would \"do everything that we can to make sure we remain focused on [IS-K], understand that network, and at the time of our choosing in the future, hold them accountable for what they've done\".\n\nIn total, the evacuation operation saw more than 123,000 people wishing to flee the Taliban airlifted out of the country.\n\nThe US estimates that there are between 100 and 200 Americans still in Afghanistan.\n\nUS Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said \"all possible options\" were being looked at to get remaining US citizens and people who had worked with the US out of the country.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he was not certain how many UK nationals remained in the country, but that it was believed to be in the \"low hundreds\".\n\nThe Taliban have celebrated the final withdrawal of foreign forces, and are now focusing on forming a government.\n\nThe deputy head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, Sher Abbas Stanekza, told BBC Pashto that a new government could be announced in the next two days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Taliban are asked if there will be a place for women in its new government\n\nHe said there would be a role for women at lower levels but not in top positions.\n\nHe also said that those who served in government in the past two decades would not be included.\n\nThis magical word \"inclusive\" is being used by Afghanistan's neighbours to try to put pressure on the Taliban to share some of the power so they don't have absolute control.\n\nBut look at it in pure political terms. The Taliban have come to power much more quickly than even they expected. And they feel they have an overwhelming mandate to pursue their overriding objective to establish an Islamic system.\n\nIn this new emerging Islamic emirate, women will be playing secondary roles to men.\n\nThis is already very different from what we heard even two years ago, when the Taliban started discussing with representatives of the Afghan government and civil society. They said then that women could have any roles in our new Islamic government except the president or prime minister. They could be ministers or CEOs.\n\nNow they seem to be rolling back from that because what happened in the past is now history. It's a new day for them and it's a day when the Taliban are in charge.", "Officials will be able to make decisions about school safety on hard data, Prof Sir Terence Stephenson says Image caption: Officials will be able to make decisions about school safety on hard data, Prof Sir Terence Stephenson says\n\nProf Sir Terence Stephenson, the lead author of the University College London study on long Covid in children, has been talking to BBC Radio 4's the World At One about its implications.\n\nHe says that when they began the research in December 2020, some people were speculating that as many as half of all children who caught coronavirus would develop long Covid.\n\nThe study offers reassurance that it is nowhere near that prevalent, he says, suggesting that more like one-in-seven or one-in-14 cases become long Covid.\n\nProf Stephenson says the data should help policy-makers make decisions on issues such as school safety or the vaccination of children.\n\n\"This provides some data that allows them to make judgements and policy decisions on hard evidence, rather than speculation,\" he says.\n\n\"It’s good that we can say it’s not overwhelming. But it’s also important to say we can’t trivialise this.\"\n\nThere was \"no difference\" in mental health between those who contracted Covid, those who didn't, and young people surveyed over the last ten years, Prof Stephenson says.\n\nIt seems young people's mental health is \"bearing up well\" in the pandemic, he says.\n\nThe most common lasting symptoms were headaches, fatigue, dizziness and the loss of a sense of smell or taste. But Prof Stephenson says all of these are treatable.\n\nHe says they will continue to monitor young people's health at six months, 12 months and 24 months after their positive test.", "JoJo Maman Bebe is raising prices for the first time in about five years due to widespread supply chain issues.\n\nThe baby clothing and goods retailer said it had seen shipping costs quadruple in recent months.\n\nIts commercial director, Gwynn Milligan, said: \"We've had no choice but to pass on some of these costs to our customers.\"\n\nPrice hikes will not be uniform across the board, but will depend on each item and what it is made up of.\n\nMs Milligan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the firm had seen increases in the cost of raw materials such as wood, paper and plastics, for example, which may affect items such as its toys or changing mats.\n\nShe added that the company was also having to absorb increased costs on some products, because of competition from retail rivals.\n\n\"We've looked at prices across our competitors and also what customers realistically want to pay.\n\n\"There's no set increase in any area, but it depends on what we've looked at and what's going on in that sector.\"\n\nWhile the retailer does not believe that price increases will be sustained, it did point to problems with deliveries too - largely down to a shortage of lorry drivers at ports and difficulties in obtaining shipping containers.\n\nMs Milligan said: \"We're advising customers not to panic because we've increased our orders to deal with the ever-growing demand of JoJo.\"\n\nThe baby goods retailer said it was expecting a 'bigger' Christmas than last year\n\nCustomers have already starting planning their Christmas buys, according to the retailer. The term \"Christmas\" was the third-highest search on its website last week, and it believes that spending will be higher due to lockdown restrictions hampering festive plans for many people in the UK last December.\n\nIt comes as the British Retail Consortium (BRC) warned that price increases could last into the winter months.\n\nAccording to new figures released by the trade body and market research firm Nielsen, retail prices in August saw a slight increase on the previous month.\n\nSome non-food categories, such as electricals, reported sharp rises in inflation compared with last year due to \"global issues from delayed shipping and shortages of microchips\".\n\nWhile overall retail prices fell 0.8% year-on-year, Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said: \"There are some modest indications that rising costs are starting to filter through into product prices.\"\n\nRetailers such as Tesco and Aldi have increased wages for lorry drivers amid shortages.\n\nShe warned: \"Low prices are already under threat, and now the HGV driver shortage has created an additional problem with a shortfall of 90,000 drivers.\"\n\nThe BRC issued a warning on lorry driver shortageswith Logistics UK in August saying that while Brexit and Covid-19 caused many to leave the UK, a temporary visa for drivers from the European Union could lure them back.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Dickinson said in the run-up to the key Christmas trading period customers may see reduced choice or higher prices for their presents of choice and she called on the government to increase the number of HGV driving tests taking place.\n\n\"Without government action, it will be the British consumers who will pay the price.\"\n\nThe government has slightly relaxed the Drivers' Hours rules, which means drivers will be able to increase their daily driving limit from nine hours to 11 hours twice a week.\n\nCompanies such as Tesco and Aldi have also increased wages for HGV drivers, or have started to offer sign-on bonuses.", "The Wetherspoons chain has said some of its pubs have run out of some beer brands because of supply chain issues.\n\nThe group said Heineken, Carling and Coors were among the brands affected.\n\nHeineken and brewer Molson Coors said that like many in the industry, they had been hit by a shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nMeanwhile, a Coca-Cola bottling giant also said Diet Coke was unavailable in some supermarkets owing to the driver shortage.\n\nThe UK is facing a shortage of lorry drivers that hauliers have blamed on Covid and Brexit, and have called for immigration rules to be changed to allow EU drivers to return.\n\nBut the government has consistently said that the haulage industry and retailers need to be training new UK drivers.\n\nThe logistical problems have led to empty shelves at some supermarkets, while the retail industry has flagged concerns about Christmas supplies.\n\nFast-food chains have also been hit, with Nando's running short of chicken and McDonald's having to stop serving milkshakes.\n\nThere are also shortages of Diet Coke in some supermarkets due to the lack of HGV drivers, as well as problems sourcing aluminium cans, bottling giant Coca Cola Europacific Partners said.\n\nIt said its supply chain was working \"flat out\" to meet demand.\n\nWetherspoons also said on Wednesday that some of its pubs had seen some supply shortages.\n\nThe pub chain said there had been problems with Heineken and Molson Coors deliveries.\n\n\"We are experiencing some supply problems with both Carling and Coors, which means that some pubs do not have the products available,\" a Wetherspoons spokesman said.\n\n\"We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused. We know that the brewers are trying to resolve the issue.\"\n\nMolson Coors, which owns Carling and Coors, said: \"Like many in our great British brewing and pub sector, we have been hit by the HGV driver shortage.\n\n\"While overall our availability is good, there are intermittent pockets of pressure in our supply network that are unfortunately affecting a number of Wetherspoons pubs.\n\n\"After such a difficult period for our industry, it's heart breaking to be letting any customer down and we will continue to do everything in our power to get our much-loved brands back on every Wetherspoons bar,\" it said.\n\nWetherspoons said its problems had been caused by planned industrial action by Heineken drivers working for GXO Logistics. The Unite union said no industrial action had taken place.\n\nHeineken said: \"We're working tirelessly to find solutions to delivery issues caused by considerable disruption in the haulage and logistics market.\n\n\"Pubs won't run dry - if your favourite pint isn't immediately available, there will be a tasty alternative to try.\"\n\nThe logistics industry has said that driver shortages across the UK are due to a combination of Covid and Brexit.\n\nOn Wednesday Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin, a prominent supporter of Brexit, was taken to task by some critics on Twitter.\n\nSinger Billy Bragg wrote: \"Here's a lament for Tim Martin, whose Wetherspoons chain is struggling with the realities of the Brexit for which he campaigned so loudly.\"\n\nTwitter user Pearl Noir wrote: \"So how's Brexit working out for you so far Tim?\"\n\nThe UK is short of about 100,000 drivers, according to the Road Haulage Association, with new recruits to the industry facing problems getting driving tests due a Covid-related backlog.\n\nIn addition, when the pandemic struck last year, many European drivers went home, with few returning, according to hauliers.\n\nNow the UK has left the EU, it is no longer part of the single market, so it is easier for European drivers to find work in the EU.\n\nForeign drivers also now need visas and the Home Office is not keen on allowing lorry drivers on to a list of shortage occupations.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng this week rejected calls to loosen immigration rules, saying it would be a \"short-term temporary solution\" and that firms should employ UK workers, especially those facing an \"uncertain future\" when the furlough scheme ends next month.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We're working closely with industry to address sector challenges, which are similarly being faced by other countries around the world.\n\n\"This includes plans to streamline the process for new drivers to gain their HGV licence and to increase the number of driving tests able to be conducted.\n\n\"We want to see employers make long-term investments in the UK domestic workforce and make employment more attractive through offering training, careers options and wage increases.\"\n\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that retailers were doing all they could to avoid any possible disruption to supplies before Christmas.\n\n\"Government must address the HGV driver shortage by rapidly increasing the number of HGV driving tests taking place, providing visas for EU drivers, and looking for a longer-term solution,\" said Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the BRC.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCristiano Ronaldo completed his shock move back to Manchester United on transfer deadline day to help push Premier League clubs' outlay past £1bn - but overall spending has dropped for the second year in a row.\n\nThe Portugal forward's eye-catching Old Trafford return was one of the early moves to be rubber-stamped on Tuesday, before England's summer window closed at 23:00 BST.\n\nThe biggest deal was Nikola Vlasic's £26.8m move from CSKA Moscow to West Ham, while Chelsea left it late to sign Saul Niguez on loan from Atletico Madrid.\n\nHowever, there would be no late move for Kylian Mbappe as Paris St-Germain rejected two bids from Real Madrid for the France World Cup-winning forward.\n\nIn total, Premier League clubs spent £1.1bn on transfers during the window, which was open from 9 June until 31 August. That outlay was 11% lower than the previous summer's total of £1.3bn, itself was a 9% fall from 2019.\n\nAccording to financial services firm Deloitte, this is the lowest collective gross spend by Premier League clubs since 2015, and the first time there has been a consecutive decline since the global financial crisis between 2008 and 2010.\n\nSome of Deloitte's other key findings from the window include:\n• None Deadline day activity totalled £150m, meaning Premier League clubs have spent in excess of £1bn for the sixth summer in a row;\n• None Premier League clubs signed 148 players, compared with 132 in summer 2020 and 128 in summer 2019;\n• None No less than 22% of all players signed by Premier League clubs this summer were acquired on free transfers, up from 20% in summer 2020;\n• None Only four Premier League clubs did not acquire a player on a free transfer, while there were eight in summer 2020;\n• None The German Bundesliga is the only European 'big five' league to increase its gross spending this year;\n• None The Premier League's net player transfer spend of £560m dwarfed that of La Liga (£55m), Serie A (£50m) and Ligue 1 (£15m).\n\nDan Jones, of Deloitte's sports business group, said: \"This has been a remarkable transfer window.\n\n\"Club spending records have been broken, player moves - including the two greatest players of their generation [Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo] - have grabbed the headlines and Premier League clubs have spent in excess of £1bn for the sixth summer in a row.\n\n\"Perhaps most remarkable is that all this has been achieved with lower spending than we have seen in the previous two summers.\"\n• None Recap of deadline day as it happened\n• None All the deadline-day deals in one place\n\nWhat were the deadline-day signings?\n\nTottenham spent £25.8m on Barcelona full-back Emerson Royal, while winger Daniel James joined Leeds from Manchester United for £25m.\n\nBrighton signed Spain defender Marc Cucurella from Getafe for around £15.4m while Senegal striker Abdallah Sima also joined the Seagulls from Slavia Prague before moving to Stoke on loan.\n\nAs well as Vlasic, West Ham also brought in midfielder Alex Kral on loan from Spartak Moscow. Leicester signed winger Ademola Lookman on a season-long loan from RB Leipzig.\n\nBurnley signed their second full-back in the space of a few days by bringing in Wales international Connor Roberts from Swansea. Crystal Palace landed striker Odsonne Edouard from Celtic for £15m.\n\nArsenal wrapped up their busy summer by signing Japanese defender Takehiro Tomiyasu from Bologna while allowing Hector Bellerin to join Real Betis and Reiss Nelson to move to Feyenoord, both on loan.\n\nEverton announced the free transfer signing of Salomon Rondon just as the window closed in England at 23:00 BST.\n\nFilm fans will appreciate Newcastle signing Mexican striker Santiago Munoz, whose name is strikingly similar to Santiago Munez, the fictional character who played for the Magpies in the 2005 movie Goal.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, the major clubs were active on transfer deadline day, even though Real Madrid were unsuccessful in their attempt to sign Mbappe.\n\nInstead, the Spanish giants signed highly-rated France midfielder Eduardo Camavinga from Rennes.\n\nJuventus responded to losing Ronaldo to Manchester United by re-signing Italy striker Moise Kean from Everton on a two-year loan.\n\nBarcelona, seeking to move out players in order to ease financial concerns, sold Ilaix Moriba to RB Leipzig before leaving it late to loan Antoine Griezmann back to Atletico Madrid.\n\nWith the exception of Germany's Bundesliga, gross transfer spend is down for all of Europe's other 'big five' leagues - in England, Italy, Spain and France - for the second consecutive year.\n\nBehind the Premier League, Serie A is the next highest spending league with £475m. The Premier League clubs' total gross transfer spend, though, is still more than double that of Serie A's clubs.\n\nWhat were the big transfers of the summer?\n\nArsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea were, in gross terms, the four biggest- spending Premier League clubs and were responsible for the four highest-value individual transfers in this window.\n\nManchester City completed the biggest single deal of the window, breaking the British transfer record to sign Jack Grealish from Aston Villa for £100m.\n\nEuropean champions Chelsea were not far behind, re-signing striker Romelu Lukaku from Inter Milan for £97.5m.\n\nAs well as Ronaldo, Manchester United spent £73m to sign Jadon Sancho from Dortmund and £34m to bring in Raphael Varane from Real Madrid.\n\nArsenal were also one of the big spenders this summer, splashing out around £140m on players including Ben White from Brighton (£50m), Martin Odegaard from Real Madrid (£30m) and Aaron Ramsdale from Sheffield United (£24m).\n\nLiverpool were relatively quiet in the window, spending £36m to sign defender Ibrahima Konate from RB Leipzig. They did, however, tie up new contracts for a number of key players including captain Jordan Henderson, who signed a new four-year deal on deadline day itself.\n\nArguably the most eye-catching deal of the summer was a free transfer - Lionel Messi breaking down in tears as he confirmed his Barcelona departure after 21 years before heading to Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe ones that got away\n\nThe summer 2021 transfer window will also likely be remembered for the deals that did not happen.\n\nManchester City spent much of the summer pursuing England captain Harry Kane, only for the striker to commit his future to Spurs.\n\nReal Madrid tried twice to sign Mbappe, but their two bids in excess of £100m were rejected by Paris St-Germain.\n\nChelsea were interested in another France international, defender Jules Kounde, but Sevilla would not entertain bids for less than his 80m euro release clause.\n\nAinsley Maitland-Niles took to social media to try to force a move away from Arsenal but ended up staying. Jesse Lingard will fight for his place at Manchester United after a permanent move to West Ham failed to materialise. And Wolves abandoned a late move for Lille midfielder Renato Sanches.\n\nWhere does the financial power now lie in European football? Perhaps that can be best summed up by a transfer deal that did not go through this summer.\n\nDespite wrestling with well-publicised financial issues as the transfer window edged towards Tuesday's deadline, Real Madrid were able to offer more than £100m for Mbappe.\n\nEven though Mbappe is known to hanker after a move to the Bernabeu, and even though his contract runs out in less than 12 months' time, meaning he could join Real for nothing next summer and sign a pre-contract agreement as early as January, his club PSG said no.\n\nFinancially, the decision makes no sense. But from a footballing perspective - for a club who have signed Messi and Sergio Ramos, among others, this summer in a determined effort to win the Champions League - it was the right move.\n\nPSG opted not to join the discredited European Super League plan. They didn't have to. They didn't need the extra revenue.\n\nThe same could be argued for the six Premier League representatives. After all, despite the massive impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Manchester City still spent a British record £100m on Jack Grealish, Chelsea almost as much on Romelu Lukaku, and Manchester United more than that as they brought in Cristiano Ronaldo, Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane. Tottenham were able to turn down City's attempt to sign Harry Kane and Arsenal were the biggest spenders of all, on six new players.\n\nThere may be some sniggering at the moment about Arsenal's plight, bottom of the table, with no points and no goals after three matches of the new Premier League season, but that situation will not last.\n\nAnd if this summer is anything to go by, the reality is that for all the public discontent about the European Super League - and Project Big Picture before that - the only difference from the present landscape is that there are currently fewer clubs able to compete on that scale than the 15 who would have been granted entry to the Super League.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "'You can browbeat me all you like....'\n\nDominic Raab clashes with Labour MP Neil Coyle over the issue of the numbers of people left behind in Kabul. Mr Coyle says the evacuation of some UK embassy guards was held up by paperwork. Dominic Raab says buses weren't given permission to enter the airport - a reflection of conditions on the ground. Mr Coyle accuses him of failing to answer the question and they talk over each other. \"You can browbeat me all you like....\" says Mr Raab. Mr Coyle interrupts to tell him: \"You're not answering the question so let's move on.\" He is asked about the personal details of UK-linked Afghans which were found by a Times journalist in the British embassy in Kabul. Mr Raab says three families were evacuated within 24 hours and were now in the UK. Asked if he owes them an apology, he says the UK owes them every effort to get those out that we did.", "Declan Donnelly's black Range Rover was one of those targeted by the men\n\nFour men have admitted a plot to steal a number of luxury cars, including one that belonged to TV presenter Declan Donnelly.\n\nThe group were accused of targeting about £750,000 worth of high-value vehicles between January and July.\n\nEllis Glynne, 29, Connor Murray, 21, Perry Ogle, 23, and Vinothkumar Ratnam, 37, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal the cars.\n\nFour other men appeared at Kingston Crown Court charged over the plot.\n\nMr Donnelly's black Range Rover was one of those targeted by the thieves.\n\nThe court previously heard police had been called to the presenter's west London home in the early hours of 6 April but the alleged thieves fled empty-handed before officers arrived.\n\nThe I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here presenter, his wife, and their daughter were reportedly asleep at the time of the attempted break-in and were unaware until they were later told by police.\n\nDeclan Donnelly and his wife Ali Astall were unaware their car had been targeted, the court heard\n\nIn total, 12 men have been charged with various offences relating to several alleged planned burglaries.\n\nGlynne and Ratnam, both from Surrey, and Murray and Ogle, both from Hounslow, west London, all admitted conspiracy to steal the vehicles.\n\nAlfie Chandler, 18, from Hounslow, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to steal the vehicles, while Tommy Hutchinson, 18, from Feltham, who is also charged with conspiracy to steal the vehicles, did not enter a plea.\n\nRyan Crafts, from Wokingham, Berkshire, and Charlie Kavanagh, from Ashford, Surrey, previously entered not guilty pleas at a hearing in August.\n\nGlynne, Murray and a third man, Robert Green, 41, from Addlestone, Surrey, face a separate count of conspiracy to burgle over an attempted theft from an ATM at a convenience store in Brentford between 25 January and 7 February last year.\n\nAll three of them deny the charges.\n\nGlynne, Murray and Ogle also pleaded guilty to a second count of conspiracy to burgle, over an alleged plot to steal 11 electric bikes from Velospeed, in Thatcham, Berkshire, between 14 June and 17 June this year.\n\nAlfie Chandler and another man, Jack Foley, 24, from Surrey, have denied being part of that plot.\n\nTyler Smallworth, 20, from Hounslow, was further charged with theft of a van but previously denied the charge.\n\nEdward Atkins, 34, also from Feltham, is due to be arraigned at a later date.\n\nGlynne and Murray have been in custody while the other defendants were released on bail ahead of a further hearing on 15 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Maddie Durdant-Hollamby was stabbed to death, Northamptonshire Police said\n\nA couple found dead in an apparent murder-suicide both died from knife wounds, police said.\n\nThe bodies of Maddie Durdant-Hollamby, 22, and partner Benjamin Green, 41, were found at a house in Slate Drive, Kettering, last Friday.\n\nThe force has said it was not seeking anyone else over Ms Durdant-Hollamby's death, which it was treating as murder.\n\nFamilies of both had been informed of the findings, officers said.\n\nMs Durdant-Hollamby's body was found by police on Friday following a report of concern for her welfare\n\nPaying tribute, Ms Durdant-Hollamby's family, from Wimblington, Cambridgeshire, said they were \"absolutely devastated\" by her death.\n\nRelatives described her as a \"talented dancer\" whose career in marketing was \"sadly cut short just as it was blossoming\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with everybody who knew and loved Maddie as much as we did.\"\n\nPolice have previously said investigators \"found no known background of domestic abuse\", but urged people with relevant information to come forward.\n\nDet Ch Insp Joe Banfield said: \"Our investigation into the deaths of Maddie and Ben continues, and a file is being prepared for the coroner.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu showed her talent and maturity again on the Grand Slam stage as she eased to victory on her US Open main-draw debut.\n\nRaducanu, 18, was a break down in each set but won 6-2 6-3 against experienced Swiss opponent Stefanie Vogele.\n\nAfter her stunning run as a wildcard at Wimbledon in July, Raducanu qualified for her first major in New York.\n\nShe is now the only Briton left in the women's draw after Katie Boulter lost her opening match later on Tuesday.\n\nFellow US Open main-draw debutant Boulter could not challenge emerging talent Ludmilla Samsonova as the Russian sealed a 6-3 6-2 win.\n\nRaducanu's composed display ended with a slight wobble as she needed a seventh match point to secure her spot in round two.\n\nThere she will face China's Zhang Shuai, who beat Raducanu in San Jose in early August.\n\n\"It is absolutely amazing,\" Raducanu told Amazon Prime. \"Everyone could tell I was getting shaky at the end, I was so relieved at the end of it.\n\n\"I feel really good physically and confident in my game. I'm excited to see how far I can go.\"\n\nThe buzz around Raducanu was illustrated by a joyous reaction to her victory from the New York crowd, which included a young girl holding a sign which said 'Emma, I Love You' and a line of selfie-hunters patiently waiting as she came off court.\n\nFellow Britons Heather Watson and Harriet Dart lost their opening matches when the final Grand Slam of the 2021 season started on Monday, while Johanna Konta pulled out of the tournament with a thigh injury.\n• None Re-live coverage of day two of the US Open\n• None Pliskova into second round in New York\n\nBuzz continuing to grow around Raducanu - and she shows why\n\nRaducanu was supposed to face American 13th seed Jennifer Brady on Arthur Ashe Stadium - the world's biggest court - in her opening match, but there was a late change of plan for the Briton when the Australian Open finalist withdrew because of a knee injury.\n\nInstead she faced 128th-ranked Vogele on court 17 and, while facing an opponent with less pedigree was perhaps a piece of good fortune, she showed her ability to easily adapt to the situation.\n\n\"I was very up for my match against Brady, I was looking forward to playing on such a big stage. I had to prep last minute but I had to focus on my game and what I could control,\" she said.\n\nBacked by a vocal crowd interested in seeing first hand why she has emerged as Britain's best young talent, Raducanu delivered with another superb performance.\n\nShe showcased her heavy weight of shot, range of skills and improved athleticism since pulling out of her fourth-round match at Wimbledon with breathing difficulties and dizziness.\n\n\"As long as she keeps her right head, the right people around her, the discipline, the work ethic, she will be in the top 10 in no time,\" Daniela Hantuchova, the former world number five and now an analyst, said on Amazon Prime.\n\nRaducanu did have a few problems sealing victory, though. After being unable to convert five match points as 31-year-old Vogele rallied, she showed more nerves with a double fault on her sixth match point.\n\nA brilliant reverse overhead volley set up a seventh opportunity, the execution of such a tough shot at a tense stage even drawing laughter from the Briton, who clinched victory when Vogele went long.\n\nHaving not dropped a set at Flushing Meadows this week, and looking physically stronger, she now has the chance to avenge her recent defeat by Zhang.\n\n\"I think I have improved in the last few weeks,\" Raducanu said. \"Playing at this level week in week out you adapt and if you don't you're going to lose.\n\n\"I've come quite far in maintaining the consistency of the high level and the longer points. As the weeks have gone on and I've played more matches I feel very confident in my game and taking the game to the opponent.\"\n\nBoulter - who like Raducanu came through qualifying to reach the main draw - failed to match the power of Samsonova and the world number 52's early break put her 3-1 up in the first set.\n\nThe Briton, 25, immediately had four break-back points but failed to convert any of them and, although she saved three set points in the next game, Samsonova's impressive serving helped her close out the set.\n\nThe 22-year-old Russian came out confidently at the start of the second and immediately broke world number 190 Boulter, who was playing with heavy strapping on her right arm.\n\nSamsonova kept hold of the momentum and continued to threaten before a second break gave her a chance to serve for the match and she slammed down a forehand at the net to seal her place in the second round.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None How did a humble arcade machine become a multi-billion pound industry?\n• None Find out how you can get your money back for a rescheduled show", "Michelle O'Neill said she would remain in self-isolation\n\nNorthern Ireland's deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill has said she has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe vice president of Sinn Féin tweeted that she would remain in self-isolation and hopes to return to her public duties next week.\n\nA meeting of the Stormont Executive due to take place on Wednesday, to discuss the coronavirus restrictions, has been postponed until next week.\n\n\"I am thankful to have had two doses of the vaccine,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"Executive Office Minister Declan Kearney will take forward departmental business in the meantime.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michelle O’Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Irish Cabinet agreed on a plan that would effectively end most Covid-19 restrictions by 22 October.\n\nThe cabinet said the easing of rules is dependent on 90% of adults being vaccinated and Covid-19 cases remaining manageable.\n\nEasing of rules in the Republic of Ireland is dependent on 90% of adults being vaccinated\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Paul Givan previously said he wanted all regulations lifted by the end of September.\n\nEconomy Minister Gordon Lyons has said he \"absolutely\" supports that view.\n\n\"Although we have a steady number of cases, we have had a massive reduction in the number of hospitalisations compared to January and February,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Givan's DUP colleague said the Stormont executive must now \"set out a path\" for ending Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nHospitality businesses have been calling on ministers to agree to remove restrictions such as social distancing and table service requirements, which they say have damaged trade.\n\nNightclubs in Northern Ireland also remain closed, unlike in the rest of the UK.\n\nMs O'Neill previously said the executive needed to remain \"cautious\", while the SDLP's Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said it was \"naïve\" to set a date to end restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, six more coronavirus-related deaths were reported in the previous 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been a further 1,313 new confirmed cases of Covid-19, up from 1,259 cases reported on Monday.\n\nThere are currently 391 hospital inpatients with Covid-19, and 44 in ICU. Thirty-seven of them are on ventilation.\n• None Stormont must 'set out a path' to end restrictions", "Transfer news: Done deals on August deadline day and during September 2021 Last updated on .From the section Football", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Taliban fighters were seen posing in aircraft for pictures and celebrating on the tarmac of Kabul airport\n\nPictures have emerged of Taliban fighters with military equipment left behind by US forces at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport.\n\nA total of 73 aircraft, nearly 100 vehicles and other equipment were abandoned by US troops as they pulled out ahead of the 31 August deadline.\n\nBut US Central Command head Gen Kenneth McKenzie said it had all been rendered impossible to use.\n\n\"Those aircraft will never fly again,\" he said.\n\nIn June, the Afghan armed forces were using:\n\nEstablishing the cost of individual items of equipment is not straightforward - but the unit cost of an A-29 has been quoted as more than $10m (£7.3m).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nabih This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUsed by the US State Department to evacuate staff from the embassy in Kabul, seven Sea Knights have reportedly been rendered inoperable and left behind.\n\nAt least one C-130 Hercules transport plane was also pictured on the tarmac.\n\nAccording to Gen McKenzie, 70 mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs) were also abandoned, after being disabled.\n\nThe cost of a single MRAP has been quoted as $500,000-$1m.\n\nAlso left behind in Kabul were:\n\nIn some cases explosives were used to render equipment impossible to use.\n\nElsewhere in the country, however, Afghan troops fled making little effort to destroy or disable equipment.\n\nSatellite images suggest some aircraft were flown out of the country to Uzbekistan, in the days before the collapse of the Afghan government.\n\nAnd experts point out some aircraft may be of very limited use to the Taliban without trained pilots, maintenance and access to spare parts.\n\nBut, although is impossible to establish a specific number, most of the 167 aircraft, including 33 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, under the control of the Afghan armed forces at the end of June, are now thought to be in Taliban hands.\n\nAnd the Taliban are clearly already using other US equipment.\n\nTaliban special-forces members have been pictured in Kabul with M4 rifles.\n\nAnd the US also provided more than 2,500 Humvees, from December 2017 to April 2020, according to the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.\n\nSpecific costs may vary - but the unit price has been quoted as more than $250,000.\n\nOther equipment experts say could be of huge tactical value to the Taliban include night-vision goggles,16,000 of which were provided to Afghan troops between 2003 and 2021.", "The sign outside the Biddle Rd branch of McDonald's in Medford\n\nA branch of McDonald's in Oregon, US, is calling on 14 and 15 year olds to apply for jobs at the restaurant amid a shortage of fast food workers.\n\nThe Biddle Road franchise in Medford put a banner outside its shop two weeks ago, urging younger workers to apply.\n\nAccording to reports, it has seen a spike in applications since making the offer, which complies with labour laws.\n\nIt comes as fast food and other outlets across the US struggle to fill vacancies despite restrictions easing.\n\nHeather Kennedy, operator of the Medford restaurant, told Business Insider such staff shortages were \"unheard of\" in her family's 40-year history operating McDonald's franchises.\n\nInitially she tried to attract more workers by raising the restaurant's minimum wage to $15 (£10.50), but did not spark enough interest.\n\nHowever, Ms Kennedy said she had received more than 25 new applications since she opened her doors to under 16s.\n\nMcDonald's declined to comment on the move but told the BBC franchisees were using a range of measures to tackle staff shortages including better pay, sign-on bonuses, and new benefits like backup childcare.\n\nMcDonald's also recently announced it will raise hourly wages to an average of $15 per hour at company-owned restaurants across the US.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by trixie tang This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not the first fast food chain to ask younger workers to fill staffing gaps.\n\nBranches of Burger King and Wendy's have put up similar signs recently. And according to reports, the Texan chain Layne's Chicken Fingers is promoting workers in their teens and early 20s into managerial positions, amid a lack of more experienced recruits.\n\nUS labour laws vary from state to state, but in Oregon, people aged 14 and above are allowed to work in non-hazardous jobs such as food service, as long as their hours are limited to accommodate schooling and they get adequate rest breaks.\n\nHowever, it seems to be rare - the average age of an employed McDonald's worker in the US is 27, according to research from jobs website Zippia.\n\nThere is currently a sharp labour shortage in the US as fear of Covid, schools remaining shut, and a lack of available child-care keeps workers at home.\n\nSome economists have also blamed generous federal benefits brought in during the pandemic - which provide an extra $300 every week - although these have already expired in many states.\n\nVacancies for lower skilled, lower paid jobs have been particularly hard to fill, prompting firms such as Walmart and Amazon to offer retention bonuses and higher starting wages.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nCristiano Ronaldo broke the world record for goals scored in men's international football as he hit his 110th and 111th goals for Portugal in their dramatic 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe 36-year-old scored two late headers - to break and extend the record - after he had a penalty saved by Gavin Bazunu.\n\nAli Daei, who scored 109 goals for Iran between 1993 and 2006, held the record which Ronaldo equalled with a double against France at Euro 2020.\n\nThe Manchester United forward has also equalled Sergio Ramos' European record for men's caps - with his 180th Portugal appearance.\n\nThe world record - only ratified by Fifa this summer - is the 195 Malaysia caps won by Soh Chin Ann between 1969 and 1984.\n\nRonaldo, who rejoined United from Juventus on deadline day, and Daei are the only two male players to score 90 or more international goals.\n\n\"I'm so happy, not only because I beat the record, but for the special moment that we had,\" he told RTE. \"Two goals at the end of the game. I have to appreciate what the team did, we believed until the end. I'm so glad.\"\n\nThis is the latest landmark to push the argument for the Portuguese to be considered an all-time great.\n\nHe is already the top scorer in club football's top tournament, the European Cup/Champions League, a trophy he has won five times.\n\nThe former Real Madrid forward is also the top scorer in European Championship history (14) and in Euros and World Cups combined (21).\n• None How has Ronaldo game changed in recent years?\n• None Watch Cristiano Ronaldo: Impossible to Ignore on BBC iPlayer now\n\nHow his international goals have come\n\nWhat tournaments have they come in?\n\nAlmost half of Ronaldo's goals have come in the final 30 minutes of games.\n\nHe has netted 33 times in the final 15 minutes - including twice against the Irish - and 22 times between the 61st and 75th minute.\n\nRonaldo has scored 17 times between minutes 16-30 and 16 times between 31-45, with 11 in the opening 15 minutes of the first half and 12 in the opening 15 minutes of the second half.\n\nSome 91 of his goals have been inside the box with 20 from outside. He has scored 14 penalties and nine free-kicks.\n\nLithuania and Sweden - seven each - are the sides he has scored the most against. He had not scored against the Republic of Ireland before Wednesday's game in the Algarve.\n\nThere is no official database for top men's international goalscorers which makes it hard to say exactly who ranks where.\n\nRonaldo is top on 111 and Daei is next on 109, of that there is no doubt.\n\nIran's Daei, who played for Bayern Munich, was said to have broken Hungarian legend Ferenc Puskas' record in 2003 with his 85th international goal. That is the year Ronaldo made his international debut.\n\nCynics could argue that Daei's goals were against easier opposition - with 95 against fellow Asian sides.\n\nHe scored eight against the Maldives and Laos and six against Lebanon.\n\nBut Ronaldo has also benefitted from facing weaker nations including six against Andorra and Luxembourg each.\n\nThe only question is who ranks below them? Mokhtar Dahari of Malaysia - who played in the 1970s and 80s - is credited as being third in some places with 89 goals. A Fifa tweet this summer seemed to confirm that , despite it never being officially validated.\n\nPuskas is definitely next, with 84 goals in 85 caps for Hungary. He was the top-scoring European before Ronaldo.\n\nZambia's Godfrey Chitalu scored 79 goals between the 1960s and 1980s - again not certified but also mentioned on that Fifa tweet.\n\nRonaldo is unlikely to beat the world record, including women's football, of Canada striker Christine Sinclair. She has scored 187 goals in 304 caps and has not yet retired.\n\nRonaldo gets one over on Messi\n\nIn the strange modern-day phenomena of Ronaldo and Lionel Messi fanboys, this is another tick in the Ronaldo column.\n\nRonaldo's 111 goals in 180 games is well clear of Messi's 76 in 151 - roughly 0.6 goals a game compared with 0.5.\n\nMessi - the joint eighth top scorer in the world - is 34 and on current form would need to play into his forties to reach 111 international goals.\n\nThe highlight of Ronaldo's international career was undoubtedly winning Euro 2016, although he went off injured early in the final.\n\nHe has scored in two Euros semi-finals too, 12 years apart - against the Netherlands in 2004 and Wales in 2016.\n\nHis finest hour at a World Cup was a hat-trick against Spain in the group stages three years ago in Russia, including a late free-kick. That is one of his nine international hat-tricks - including one against Switzerland in the 2019 Uefa Nations League semi-finals.\n\nHe has also scored in all nine major tournaments he has played in - World Cups and European Championships. Including the Confederations Cup and Nations League, he has scored in 11 out of 11.\n\nHe won the Golden Boot at Euro 2020 with five goals in four games, beating five-goal Czech Patrik Schick on assists.\n• None How did a humble arcade machine become a multi-billion pound industry?\n• None Find out how you can get your money back for a rescheduled show", "People over the age of 12 with severely weakened immune systems should have a third vaccine dose to top up protection against Covid-19, experts say.\n\nAbout 400,000 to 500,000 in the UK are eligible and will be contacted soon.\n\nThey include those with blood cancer, advanced HIV and recent organ or stem-cell transplants.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said a separate booster programme for other age groups was still being considered.\n\nWhether all 12- to 15-year-olds will be offered a vaccine is yet to be decided.\n\nThe advice means the most vulnerable - less than 1% of the population - will be offered a third dose, rather than all those on the original list of clinically extremely vulnerable people.\n\nIt follows research showing about 40% of people with weakened immune systems had a low antibody response, and potentially less protection, after two vaccine doses.\n\nPeople with severe immunosuppression are also more likely to become seriously ill if they catch Covid-19.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, who chairs Covid immunisation for the JCVI, said: \"We want people with severely suppressed immune systems to have the best chance of gaining protection from Covid-19 via vaccination.\n\n\"Therefore, we are advising they have a third vaccine dose on top of their initial two doses, as we hope this will reduce their risk of severe outcomes such as hospitalisation and death.\"\n\nHal Cohen is taking powerful drugs after having a kidney transplant\n\nHal Cohen, 40, from north London has been taking regular medication to stop his body rejecting a kidney donated by his father.\n\nBut these vital drugs also blocked his immune system from developing protection against Covid from two vaccine doses.\n\nHe is now looking forward to having a third dose.\n\n\"It's going to be really great for me, and will hopefully give me some vaccine protection and the ability to return to normal life.\n\n\"But it's not clear if the booster is going to work for people like me,\" he said.\n\n\"So we do need to carry on looking at other treatments too - to give us the best chance.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said people would be contacted \"as soon as possible, to discuss their needs and arrange an appointment for a third dose\".\n\nHe said the separate booster programme prioritising those most at risk from Covid-19 was still planned to begin in September.\n\nThe JCVI says either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine are preferred as third doses, because studies suggest they lead to a heightened immune response in this vulnerable group.\n\nFor 12- to 17-year-olds, the Pfizer vaccine is preferred.\n\nProf Lim said \"timing was important\" and a specialist doctor should decide when to give the third dose - but it should be at least eight weeks after the second and at a time when patients were least likely to be immunosuppressed.\n\nThose eligible for a third dose include people:\n\nCharities representing people with these illnesses welcomed the decision on a third dose.\n\n\"There is good reason to think some people with blood cancer will see an improved immune response as a result of a third dose, and so we urge everyone with blood cancer to get it when they are offered it,\" said Gemma Peters, chief executive of Blood Cancer UK.\n\nBut she advised people to remain cautious after their third dose until it was clear how much protection it offered.", "The UK government has rejected calls from politicians across the UK to halt the planned cut to universal credit.\n\nThe £20-a-week top-up introduced during the pandemic is due to be phased out from late September.\n\nIn a letter, the chairs of the welfare committees in the UK's four parliaments said the increase should be made permanent.\n\nBut Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey told them it was right to focus on supporting people back into work.\n\nUniversal credit is claimed by more than 5.5 million households in the UK. Around 39% of recipients are in employment.\n\nThe payment, which combines six benefits for working-age people, currently pays a minimum standard allowance of £344 a month.\n\nResponding to a letter from the four cross-party committees, Ms Coffey said: \"Now the economy has reopened, it is right that the government should focus on supporting people back into work and supporting those already employed to progress in their careers.\n\n\"Our ambition is to support two million people to move into and progress in work through our comprehensive £33bn Plan for Jobs.\"\n\nThe letter calling for the top-up to be made permanent was signed by the chairs of committees at Westminster, the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd in Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nIt was signed by Labour's Stephen Timms at Westminster, the SNP's Neil Gray for Holyrood, Paula Bradley of the DUP for Stormont and Labour's Jenny Rathbone at the Senedd in Cardiff.\n\nThe three devolved governments have also criticised the cut.\n\nMr Timms said: \"The £20 cut will plunge hundreds of thousands, including children, into poverty. Instead, the government should extend the lifeline beyond September.\n\n\"The secretary of state's dismissive response to our letter suggests that the government is still in denial about the impact of ending the increase.\"\n\nThe uplift, equivalent to £1,040 a year, will officially end on 6 October - meaning some people will receive their last payment at the higher rate later this month.\n\nLabour's Welsh social justice minister Jane Hutt told BBC Radio 4's Today programme extending it was the right thing to do \"socially\" and \"morally\".\n\nShe added that bringing it to an end this autumn would be the \"wrong move economically\", with the payments recycled back into local businesses.\n\nExtending it would cost around £6bn a year and the government says spending has to be brought under control after unprecedented emergency interventions during the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson could face a backbench rebellion, with a number of Tory MPs among those concerned about the impact of removing the uplift.\n\nThey include former work and pensions secretaries and a number of MPs representing constituencies in the north of England.\n\nThey expect more pressure to be put on the government in September, when Parliament returns from its summer recess.", "The number of weather-related disasters to hit the world has increased five-fold over the past 50 years, says the World Meteorological Organization.\n\nHowever, the number of deaths because of the greater number of storms, floods and droughts has fallen sharply.\n\nScientists say that climate change, more extreme weather and better reporting are behind the rise in these extreme events.\n\nBut improvements to warning systems have helped limit the number of deaths.\n\nAs global temperatures have risen in recent decades, there has been a significant uptick in the number of disasters related to weather and water extremes.\n\nIn the 50 years between 1970 and 2019, there were more than 11,000 such disasters, according to a new atlas from the WMO that charts the scale of these events.\n\nFlooding in Bangladesh has taken a huge toll in lives and economic damage over recent decades\n\nOver two million people died as a result of these hazards, with economic losses amounting to $3.64 trillion.\n\n\"The number of weather, climate and water extremes are increasing and will become more frequent and severe in many parts of the world as a result of climate change,\" said WMO Secretary-General Prof Petteri Taalas.\n\n\"That means more heatwaves, drought and forest fires such as those we have observed recently in Europe and North America. We have more water vapour in the atmosphere, which is exacerbating extreme rainfall and deadly flooding. The warming of the oceans has affected the frequency and area of existence of the most intense tropical storms,\" he added.\n\nMore than 90% of the deaths related to weather disasters have occurred in developing countries.\n\nThe biggest killers have been droughts, responsible for 650,000 deaths; while at the other end of the scale, extreme temperatures took nearly 56,000 lives.\n\nBut over the 50-year period, the overall death toll from disasters fell rapidly.\n\n\"Behind the stark statistics lies a message of hope,\" said Prof Taalas.\n\n\"Improved multi-hazard early warning systems have led to a significant reduction in mortality. Quite simply, we are better than ever before at saving lives.\"\n\nWhile more people have been saved in the face of an increasing number of extremes, the economic toll has mounted.\n\nReported losses in the decade between 2010-2019 were around $383m per day, a seven-fold increase on the $49m per day between 1970-1979.\n\nThe town of Kingswood in Texas was hit badly by Hurricane Harvey in 2017\n\nThree of the extreme events with the biggest financial impact all occurred in the same year - 2017. It saw Hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma hit the US. Taken together, the economic impact of the three accounted for 35% of the total losses from the top 10 disasters between 1970 and 2019.\n\nThe atlas points out that, while improvements in warning systems are helping to save lives, there is much more work to be done.\n\nOnly half of the 193 countries that are members of the WMO have multi-hazard early warning systems in place.\n\nThe aftermath of Hurricane Irma, which brought devastation to parts of the Caribbean and the US in 2017\n\nThere are also huge gaps in weather and hydrological observing networks in Africa, some parts of Latin America and among island states in the Pacific and Caribbean.\n\n\"More lives are being saved thanks to early warning systems but it is also true that the number of people exposed to disaster risk is increasing due to population growth in hazard-exposed areas and the growing intensity and frequency of weather events,\" said Mami Mizutori, special representative of the UN's Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction.\n\n\"More international cooperation is needed to tackle the chronic problem of huge numbers of people being displaced each year by floods, storms and drought.\n\n\"We need greater investment in comprehensive disaster risk management, ensuring that climate change adaptation is integrated in national and local disaster risk-reduction strategies,\" she said.", "An expensive but \"game-changing\" anti-cholesterol drug could soon be offered to hundreds of thousands of people in England and Wales on the NHS.\n\nNHS England says inclisiran, given as a twice-a-year injection, could save about 30,000 lives within a decade.\n\nIt normally costs nearly £2,000 per dose but Novartis, which makes it, has agreed an undisclosed discount.\n\nIt can lower bad fat in the blood when other cheaper drugs, like statins, have not done enough, says draft advice.\n\nThe health watchdog NICE is recommending it as an option for people who have already had a stroke or heart attack and are not responding to other cholesterol-lowering treatments.\n\nExperts hope it will help to cut their risk of further life-threatening cardiovascular events.\n\nAlthough there is no long-term proof of this yet from studies, they believe it is worth recommending based on existing evidence.\n\nIt will bring England and Wales in line with guidance for Scotland.\n\nMore than two in five people in England are thought to have high cholesterol and around 6.5 million adults are taking medicines, called statins, to help lower it.\n\nZena Forster has now tried several different kinds of statins to control her high cholesterol\n\nZena Forster, 65, from Newcastle, has had a stroke and a heart attack and been diagnosed with an inherited condition that means her cholesterol levels are always high, despite taking statins.\n\n\"I'm on my fourth statin now,\" she told the BBC One's Breakfast programme.\n\n\"Heart disease is relentless and there is no cure - and I just aim to slow the progress.\"\n\nThe new drug was \"good news\" for people like herself, Ms Forster said, and offered hope as another treatment option.\n\nAnd taking it twice a year would be no burden compared with remembering to take a daily pill.\n\nWhile statins - which are taken daily - slow down the production of cholesterol in the liver, inclisiran works in a different way.\n\nIt uses gene-silencing to help the liver remove harmful cholesterol.\n\nIt turns off, or silences, a gene called PCSK9, which results in the liver absorbing more \"bad\" LDL cholesterol from the blood and breaking it down.\n\nIt can be used on its own or alongside statins.\n\nMeindert Boysen, NICE deputy chief executive and director of the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, said: \"Inclisiran represents a potential game-changer in preventing thousands of people from dying prematurely from heart attacks and strokes.\n\n\"We're therefore pleased to be able to recommend it as a cost effective option on the NHS.\"\n\nAmanda Pritchard, chief executive of the NHS, said heart disease was still \"one of the major killer conditions\".\n\n\"It is fantastic that we now have such an effective and convenient treatment for those living with dangerously high cholesterol levels.\"\n\nShe said the rollout of inclisiran would save lives and benefit hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In separate IRA bomb attacks Jennifer McNern lost both her legs and Margaret Yeaman was blinded\n\nA pension scheme for people who were badly injured during the Troubles has opened for applications.\n\nThe start of the Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme is more than a year behind schedule, having been the subject of political rows.\n\nTo qualify, a person must have suffered a severe and permanent physical or psychological injury caused through no fault of their own during the Troubles.\n\nRecipients will receive annual payments of between £2,000 and £10,000.\n\nThe UK government and the Northern Ireland Executive have long been at odds about how the scheme will be funded, with the overall costs potentially topping £1.2bn over the next 20 to 30 years.\n\nThe Troubles claimed more than 3,500 lives and it has been estimated that another 40,000 were injured\n\nLast year a judge ruled Stormont's Executive Office was acting unlawfully in delaying the introduction of the scheme.\n\nHe said the start of the scheme was being deliberately stymied in order to pressurise the government into funding it.\n\nHe also determined there was an attempt by Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill to have the scheme's eligibility criteria changed, with her party, Sinn Féin, having said the rules potentially discriminated against some republicans with Troubles-era convictions.\n\nFunding for the scheme has been agreed for this year, but Stormont ministers still want the government to provide extra cash to help cover future expenditure.\n\nMargaret Yeaman, who was blinded in an IRA bomb in Banbridge, County Down, in 1982, said it had been a \"long, bumpy road\" for her and others injured during the Troubles who have been waiting for the payments.\n\n\"I'll not even say that we're getting it until I have it in my hand,\" she said.\n\nThe level of payment through the scheme will depend on the severity of a victim's injuries\n\nJennifer McNern described the payments as \"recognition\" of what she had been through since she lost both of her legs after an IRA bomb explosion in Belfast in 1972.\n\n\"This is really an acknowledgement of the harm caused physically, psychologically and financially,\" she said.\n\nThe victims' group, the Wave Trauma Centre, said the opening of the scheme was a \"triumph for the courageous and determined campaigners who have fought for over a decade\" for the payments.\n\n\"At times it was desperately frustrating but they never lost their focus on gaining tangible recognition for all those like themselves who had been severely and permanently injured through no fault of their own,\" said the group's co-ordinator Alan McBride.\n\n\"We'll also remember those who campaigned but didn't live long enough to see this day.\"\n\nThe group Relatives For Justice said the qualification criteria for the pension should be extended.\n\nAndrée Murphy, its deputy director, welcomed the initiative but insisted modifications need to be considered.\n\n\"It is very possible that a paramedic or a police officer or an eye-witness at a scene will be eligible for a payment and a loved-one who has suffered the deep psychological distress and trauma since then will not be eligible for this,\" she said.\n\n\"That is going to feel unfair and we have to resolve it,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The roots of Northern Ireland’s Troubles lie deep in Irish history\n\nAfter a series of delays, the scheme was to have opened in June but Mr Justice McAlinden, who chairs the panel overseeing the awarding of the payments, pushed it back until the end of August.\n\nThat final delay, he said, was to allow applicants to \"familiarise themselves\" with \"complex\" medical assessment guidance before making their submissions.\n\nHe said he hopes that money will start being distributed to victims before the end of this year.\n\nIn an interview with BBC News NI, he said he was confident that enough funding would be available for everyone entitled to payments, and he hoped the process would begin soon.\n\nThe judge said: \"I would hope that there would be a speedy turnaround for non-complex, relatively straight-forward cases.\n\n\"We'll just have to see how we measure up to our goals but I would hope that, let's say, it will be within months as opposed to years for the vast majority of applicants to receive determinations from the board.\"\n\nAsked if this meant that the money would start being paid before the end of this year, he said: \"Yes. I would hope so.\"\n\n\"I'm not worried about the issue of funding,\" Mr Justice McAlinden told the BBC\n\nAsked about the provision of funding, Mr Justice McAlinden said there was still political \"debate, discussion, disagreement as to where the funding will ultimately come from.\"\n\nBut he added: \"I have an undertaking, given in court, to the Court of Appeal that in terms of the role of the board, the payments that the board allocate and award, those payments will be met.\"\n\nThe scheme covers violence related to the Troubles between 1966 and 2010, including incidents in Great Britain and Europe.\n\nNon-UK residents injured outside the UK cannot apply, such as victims of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings carried out by loyalists in 1974.\n\nAfter the death of a recipient, their spouse or carer will get the payments for a further 10 years.\n\nWelcoming the opening of the scheme, First Minister Paul Givan said the scheme would give people who had suffered as a result of the Troubles \"the practical support and recognition that they deserve\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said it had been \"a difficult and painful road for victims and survivors\", and encouraged anyone who had suffered permanent physical or psychological disablement as a result of the conflict to make an application.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said it was an important day for all victims and survivors, \"but particularly for those who campaigned for this scheme with dignity and commitment for so long\".", "Colin Pitchfork spent 33 years in prison for the murders\n\nDouble child killer Colin Pitchfork has been released from prison, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.\n\nHe was jailed in 1988 for raping and murdering 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire.\n\nIn June, the Parole Board concluded it was safe to release Pitchfork, who was the first murderer to be convicted using DNA evidence.\n\nThe MoJ said Pitchfork, 61, would remain under supervision for the rest of his life.\n\nPitchfork raped and strangled Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and killed Dawn Ashworth three years later.\n\nHe was caught following an unprecedented mass screening of 5,000 men using pioneering DNA profiling technology.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to both murders and was given a life sentence in January 1988.\n\nThe killings led to a major manhunt before Pitchfork was arrested\n\nFollowing a hearing earlier this year, the Parole Board concluded Pitchfork met all the criteria for release from prison, subject to conditions.\n\nThe decision was attacked by several MPs and victims' family members, prompting the government to formally challenge the decision on the grounds it was \"irrational\".\n\nBut this was rejected by a judge-led review in July, leaving opponents powerless to halt the release.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"Our heartfelt sympathies remain with the families of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth following the independent Parole Board's decision to release Colin Pitchfork.\n\n\"Public safety is our top priority, which is why he is subject to some of the strictest licence conditions ever set and will remain under supervision for the rest of his life.\"\n\nDawn Ashworth and Lynda Mann were murdered by Pitchfork three years apart in the 1980s\n\nBarbara Ashworth, mother of Dawn Ashworth, said: \"Well it was on the books that he was going to be released, but I don't think he should be breathing the same air as us.\n\n\"It goes without saying that life should have meant life in his case, because he said he was guilty of the offences, the murders of both the girls... and he did a lot more besides.\"\n\nThe Parole Board said Pitchfork's licence conditions include living at a designated address, taking part in probation supervision, wearing an electronic tag, taking part in lie detector tests and having to disclose what vehicles he uses and who he speaks to, with particular limits on contact with children.\n\nHe will also be subject to a curfew, have restrictions on using technology and limits on where he can go. He is banned from entering Leicestershire without the permission of officials.\n\nColin Pitchfork has now been transferred from prison to an \"Approved Premises\" - a hostel run by the Probation Service to help settle offenders who leave jail after a long sentence.\n\nFrom there, he will eventually have the opportunity to move to his own home - but before that can happen he must prove he is complying with all his licence conditions.\n\nHe's now subject to 36 strict monitoring conditions on top of the standard restrictions placed on anyone serving part of their sentence in the community.\n\nThese led the Ministry of Justice to conclude he is going to be one of the most closely monitored lifers out in the community for many, many years to come.\n\nOf course if he steps out of line he can be recalled back to prison at the drop of a hat.\n\nSouth Leicestershire MP Alberto Costa, who campaigned to stop Pitchfork's release, said he was \"extremely saddened and disappointed\".\n\n\"While I respect the Parole Board's decision to reject the government's challenge against his release, I do not agree with it,\" he said.\n\n\"In my view, Pitchfork still presents a very real danger to the public.\n\n\"Questions will of course remain as to whether someone who has committed such heinous crimes should ever be released. In cases such as these where two innocent girls were murdered in the most horrendous fashion, life should simply mean life.\n\nHe added that the case showed the Parole Board's processes needed a reform and said the system should \"work better for victims and their families\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Half of all magnolia species are threatened with extinction in the wild\n\nAt least 30% of the world's tree species face extinction in the wild, according to a new assessment.\n\nThey range from well-known oaks and magnolias to tropical timber trees.\n\nExperts say 17,500 tree species are at risk - twice the number of threatened mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles combined.\n\nConservation groups are calling for urgent protection efforts amid threats such as deforestation, logging and climate change.\n\n\"We have nearly 60,000 tree species on the planet, and for the first time we now know which of these species are in need of conservation action, what are the greatest threats to them and where they are,\" said Dr Malin Rivers of the charity Botanic Gardens Conservation International in Kew, London.\n\nThe Global Tree Assessment, by 500 tree experts and 61 institutions, brings together data on the conservation status of all trees\n\nFor a healthy world, we need tree species diversity, added Sara Oldfield, co-chair of the Global Tree Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.\n\n\"Each tree species has a unique ecological role to play,\" she said. \"With 30% of the world's tree species threatened with extinction, we need to urgently scale-up conservation action.\"\n\nThe report, State of the World's Trees, found that at least 30% of the 60,000 known tree species face extinction.\n\nSome 142 species have already vanished from the wild, while 442 are on the very edge of extinction, with fewer than 50 individual trees remaining.\n\nThe biggest threats to trees globally are forest clearance for crops (impacting 29% of species), logging (27%), clearance for livestock grazing or farming (14%), clearance for development (13%) and fire (13%).\n\nOne-in-five tree species are used by humans for food, fuel, timber, medicines and more\n\nClimate change, extreme weather and sea level rise are growing threats to trees. But the authors say with conservation action, there is hope for the future.\n\n\"The report gives us that road map to mobilise the wider conservation community and other key players to ensure that tree conservation is at the forefront of the conservation agenda,\" said Dr Rivers.\n\nThe experts are calling for a number of actions, including:\n\nTropical forests are facing threats from climate change and extreme weather\n\nScientists estimate that one million animals and plant species are threatened with extinction.\n\nOver the past 300 years, global forest area has decreased by about 40% and 29 countries have lost more than 90% of their forest cover.\n\nResearch shows that seven main commodities drive more than half of deforestation worldwide.\n\nTrees at particular risk of extinction include:", "Four hundred emergency patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital in the last day in Northern Ireland, a senior doctor has said.\n\nDr Paul Kerr, from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine for Northern Ireland, said some of them have been waiting up to two days\n\nThe Department of Health has said that emergency departments \"remain under severe strain\".\n\nThis follows an extremely busy bank holiday weekend.\n\n\"There's no doubt what we are witnessing is unprecedented activity and huge crowding in emergency departments,\" Dr Kerr said.\n\nHe said this was leading to delays in admission, with large numbers of emergency patients awaiting admission lying on trolleys.\n\n\"For example, this morning there's probably in the region of 250 patients waiting in emergency departments, these are patients who have already been seen, assessed and treated and are awaiting a bed,\" Dr Kerr said.\n\n\"In the past few days we know some of these patients are waiting one or two days on a trolley.\n\n\"These are sick patients, these are our most vulnerable patients - old people possibly, with sepsis possibly, with strokes possibly, or a heart attack or possibly with a fractured hip or some other emergency that require them to be admitted to hospital.\n\n\"There are 400 who have waited over 12 hours in the past 24-hour period. That is something that we previously didn't see.\"\n\nCovid-19 pressures in hospitals are part of the problem\n\nSean McGovern, associate medical director at the South Eastern Trust, said trolley waits had been around in emergency departments for a very long period of time.\n\n\"What is highly unusual is they've been at such an extent over the summer period and the backlog of patients waiting admission in emergency departments is adding significant stress to emergency departments, it's causing overcrowding and therefore in a world of social distancing is of great concern to staff,\" he said.\n\n\"We are seeing stresses that we would see in the worst of winter pressures. The likelihood is things could get worse before they get better.\"\n\nHe added: \"We must look at opening up acute beds in the first instance, even though that is difficult to get staffing for those beds, to maintain those beds is difficult.\n\n\"We must have a clear strategy, and understand the big issues facing the health service are capacity and pandemic resilience in this time.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health said emergency departments remain under severe strain, reflecting pressures right across the health and social care system.\n\n\"There are a number of interlinked factors behind this situation, including limits on capacity due to Covid-19 infection prevention measures, ongoing Covid-related care for patients, people coming forward for medical care for conditions that developed or worsened during the pandemic and limits on capacity in intermediate/social/domiciliary care, impacting on hospital discharges,\" it said.\n\n\"The public can help by using services appropriately. To be clear, if your case is an emergency, then you should go to a hospital emergency department without delay. We must continue to do all we can to stop the Covid-19 virus spreading.\n\n\"By getting fully vaccinated, with both doses of vaccine, you will be playing an important part in supporting our health service.\"", "A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there Image caption: A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there\n\nThe BBC is covering the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US, which led to the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan.\n\nThis is the story of Chris Cruz, who explains in an interview to BBC's OS programme why he decided to join the US army.\n\n\"My mother was heading to work on a normal 11 September day. As soon as she exited the subway, she was told to start running as the buildings were coming down. She literally saw them coming down and described people jumping out of the windows,\" says Chris.\n\n\"When she finally made it home, I - as an 11-year-old boy at the time - had to tell her that she had burn marks and blood spots on the back of her legs. She was in a state of shock.\n\n\"As I grew up, I realised... I had the ability to be part of an organisation that could defend and prevent these atrocities for all Americans.\n\n\"9/11 played a role, but not in a way of revenge. I didn't want to join out of bloodlust. I served two tours in Afghanistan. Both of those times I volunteered to go.\n\n\"I don't think our mission would have succeeded without our Afghan partners. I agree we couldn't be there forever, but we made a promise to keep our partners safe and that we wouldn't turn our backs on them, and that's exactly what we've done.\"\n\nChris adds: \"I do think the way we pulled out, the way we left it, was completely wrong. There needed to be a better exit strategy.\"", "The UK is in talks with the Taliban to secure safe passage out of Afghanistan for a number of British nationals and Afghans who remain there.\n\nThe talks, involving UK officials and senior Taliban members, are taking place in Doha, Qatar, No 10 said.\n\nThe defence secretary is understood to have told MPs that between 150 and 250 people eligible for relocation - plus their families - remain in the country.\n\nIt comes after a Taliban pledge to allow further departures.\n\nCommenting on the UK-Taliban negotiations, a No 10 spokesman said: \"The prime minister's special representative for Afghan transition, Sir Simon Gass, has travelled to Doha and is meeting with senior Taliban representatives to underline the importance of safe passage out of Afghanistan for British nationals, and those Afghans who have worked with us over the past 20 years.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab will face questions from MPs later over his handling of the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nOpposition parties called for his resignation last month after it emerged he had been unavailable to make a phone call about evacuating interpreters while he was on holiday in Crete.\n\nMr Raab subsequently said that \"with hindsight\" he would not have gone away, but dismissed the idea that he was \"lounging on the beach\" as \"nonsense\".\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, said Mr Raab had answers to give on \"much more than the chaos of the last two weeks\", adding: \"The foreign secretary had 18 months to prepare but was missing in action.\"\n\nDowning Street has insisted that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has \"full confidence\" in Mr Raab and there are \"no plans\" for a Cabinet reshuffle.\n\nDetails of the talks between the UK and the Taliban are sparse.\n\nA statement from Downing Street says they will \"underline\" the importance of Afghan nationals being granted safe passage out of the country, which suggests the talks may be about the importance of the issue rather a negotiation over logistics.\n\nAnd it's a delicate bit of diplomacy - the UK wants something from the Taliban but doesn't want to bestow too much legitimacy on them before the nature of their administration becomes clear.\n\nBut Sir Simon is well qualified for the job, which he's been in for a few weeks. He was Nato's most senior non-military representative in Afghanistan, spent years as a top official in the Foreign Office and helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Raab said more than 17,000 people had been evacuated by the UK from Afghanistan so far, including over 5,000 UK nationals.\n\nHe also said the UK needed to face the \"new reality\" in Afghanistan and work with other nations to exercise a \"moderating influence\" on the Taliban.\n\nFormer British ambassador to Afghanistan between 2010 and 2012 Sir William Patey said engaging with the Taliban could help prevent a refugee crisis and avoid the country becoming a host for terrorists.\n\n\"[The Taliban] know they can't run this country without help,\" he told the BBC's Newsnight, adding that the UK had \"some cards\" in the talks because \"they're going to have to engage\".\n\nSir Simon Gass, pictured in 2013, is the prime minister's special representative for Afghan transition\n\nVictoria Atkins, who has been appointed Afghan Resettlement minister, told BBC Breakfast the Taliban would \"be relying on international aid - and we want that to be forefront of their mind when we are discussing with them and third countries\".\n\nAsked whether the talks would legitimise the Taliban, she said that was the \"great debate for the Western world\" but any talks were being \"done carefully\", and the government was determined to ensure those eligible in Afghanistan could leave.\n\nThe Taliban have declared victory in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US troops, with fighters streaming into Kabul airport on Tuesday. British troops left the country over the weekend.\n\nThe militants have promised those with authorisation will be allowed to leave the country, and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken pledged to \"hold the Taliban to their commitment\".\n\nBut Dame Barbara Woodward, the UK's ambassador to the UN, said they would be judged \"on the basis of their actions on the ground, not their words\".\n\nIn addition to the talks with the Taliban, the UK government said it was sending 15 \"crisis response specialists\" to Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to assist British diplomats in their work to allow people to reach the UK.\n\nThey are expected to focus on helping UK nationals, interpreters and other Afghans who were employed by the UK, and those Afghans judged most at risk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The final flights bringing British troops arrive in the UK\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Tuesday, a former English language teacher who is stranded in Kabul said he regretted working with the UK mission because he now fears for his life.\n\n\"Why did I work for people who left me and fled and left me alone here?\" he asked.\n\nThe teacher, who the BBC is not naming, said he was now a target for the Taliban.\n\n\"They are looking for me because I've got pictures in billboards advertised for classes,\" he said.\n\nHe said he tried to escape Afghanistan shortly before the militants took control but received \"no reply\" to his application for resettlement, adding that he had been unable to sleep ever since.\n\nAsked what he thought would happen to him if he could not leave and the Taliban found him, he added: \"My fate will be the same, like others, like the people who work in military, in the media... they will kill me too.\"\n\nAre you trying to leave Afghanistan? Do you have family trying to leave Afghanistan? Get in touch.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.\n• None Kabul arrivals in the UK: 'The happiest moment of my life'", "Right across the globe, countries which have traditionally relied on American backing are suddenly starting to wonder if they should get themselves some re-insurance.\n\nTaiwan, which is almost daily subject to threats of invasion from China, is particularly worried. South Korea, Japan, Western Europe, and Britain are all wondering if the American commitment to them could evaporate as fast as the commitment to Afghanistan has.\n\nOnly four months ago, President Joe Biden sounded confident and reassuring: \"We will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit. We'll do it responsibly, deliberately and safely. And we will do it in full co-ordination with our allies and partners.\"\n\nThat isn't what happened. And a country which depended on American and Western support for an entire generation has suddenly found itself abandoned.\n\nWhen the Taliban were thrown out in November 2001 by a coalition of moderate Afghan mujahideen, with Western support, an era of relative prosperity and personal freedom began. Kabul, and much of the country as well, are almost unrecognisable now after the gross poverty which five years of Taliban rule brought.\n\nThere's certainly been huge corruption, right from the top: but there was also quiet growth and an absence of fear. Infant mortality dropped by 50%.\n\nThe war against the Taliban had dwindled to a security operation. Afghan soldiers, police and civilians were still suffering, but many fewer Western soldiers were being killed: 11 last year. There were far more US troops stationed in Britain than in Afghanistan. A smallish Western force of around 2,500 kept the Taliban down and the country stable.\n\nIt was the announcement of the deadline for pulling out the Western troops that led to the sudden Taliban surge and the capture of Kabul.\n\nEverything is uncertain now in Afghanistan. Schools and colleges where girls were getting a good education have virtually all closed down. Reports from across the country say that women are scarcely to be seen in the streets now, just as happened when the Taliban were last in power, from 1996 to 2001.\n\nThere are frequent reports of local atrocities: the murder of the folk-singer Fawad Andarabi in Baghlan province, for instance. Afghanistan's towns and cities have echoed to music for 20 years. Now it has been banned by the Taliban.\n\nSome supporters of the previous government of President Ashraf Ghani are starting to negotiate with the Taliban leadership, and it is possible that a new coalition will start to emerge which will be a little more moderate than the Taliban regime which ran the country before. But the real power outside Kabul and the other main cities will lie with groups of pro-Taliban warlords, of the kind who lynched Fawad Andarabi for being a folk-singer.\n\nThe likelihood is that the new Taliban regime will be faced with two separate civil wars: one against the Islamic State-Khorasan - which carried out the bombing at Kabul airport last week and regards the Taliban as religious sell-outs - and one against the resistance movement of supporters of the old government.\n\nThese resistance fighters are based in the impregnable Panjshir Valley, 100 miles north-east of Kabul. President Biden's abrupt withdrawal means that peace, for the people of Afghanistan, is further away than ever.", "Great Western Railway (GWR) advised people to only travel \"if your journey is essential\" after the crash\n\nLorry drivers and haulage companies have been told to \"take better care\" by railway line owner Network Rail after a lorry hit a bridge in Devon.\n\nRail services were cancelled on Sunday after the crash in Plymouth.\n\nPassengers have been warned that they will face disruption until the weekend.\n\nNetwork Rail said the lorry caused \"huge damage\" to the line connecting Cornwall and south Devon \"with the rest of the country\", creating \"bank holiday misery for thousands\".\n\nThe lorry hit the bridge at Ashford Crescent at about 15:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nNetwork Rail said the Tesco truck was wedged for more than 24 hours before being removed on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt said: \"The lorry caused huge damage to the bridge in Plymouth, forcing the railway line that connects Cornwall and Plymouth with the rest of the country to close and causing bank holiday misery for thousands of travellers.\"\n\nIt added that about five railway bridges were hit by lorries a day nationally and the annual bill for \"such careless driving comes in at around £20m\".\n\nMike Gallop, of Network Rail, said: \"We are urging all lorry drivers and haulage companies to take better care, look out for the height warnings on all of our bridges, and take a second to think before taking a risk and causing disruption to so many people's lives.\"\n\nRail bosses said the lorry caused \"huge damage\" to the bridge\n\nRail bosses said one of the two lines over the bridge was open, but only one train an hour was operating in each direction across the bridge.\n\nNetwork Rail said \"extremely limited\" replacement road transport was also running between Exeter St Davids and Plymouth.\n\nService operator Great Western Railway (GWR) has advised people to \"only travel if your journey is essential\".\n\nTesco said it was \"very sorry for the problems this has caused for travellers and we are investigating how this has happened\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Susan Dorbon died five years after she was found trapped between hangar doors\n\nA worker at a private jet company died five years after she was crushed by hangar doors, an inquest heard.\n\nSusan Dorbon, from Barton-le-Clay, Bedfordshire, was left tetraplegic and in a coma after she was found trapped between two doors at Signature Flight Support at Luton Airport in 2015.\n\nIn August 2020 she died, aged 50, at a care home in Cambridgeshire.\n\nHer cause of death was traumatic brain injury and cardiac arrest, the coroner's court jury was told.\n\nMrs Dorbon was working the nightshift at Signature Flight Support at Luton Airport when the incident happened\n\nThe inquest at Chicksands in Bedfordshire heard Mrs Dorbon, who was known as Suzi, was part of a three-person team moving aircraft on the nightshift on 28 April 2015.\n\nMrs Dorbon operated the doors to the hangar while her two colleagues collected the aircraft.\n\nHer colleague Stuart Hyde said they had already moved one aircraft into the hangar without a problem.\n\nMr Hyde and Jim Cooper then used a tug to collect a second plane while Mrs Dorbon manoeuvred the doors.\n\n\"When we approached the hangar it looked like the doors were in the correct position,\" Mr Hyde said.\n\n\"Suzi wasn't in sight. We slowed down and got out of the aircraft tug. The situation did not feel right.\"\n\nMr Hyde said he walked towards the hangar and saw a high-vis jacket before realising it was his colleague.\n\n\"It was Suzi stuck in the doors,\" he said.\n\n\"She was upright but at an angle but leaning into a cavity.\"\n\nThe inquest heard Mrs Dorbon was freed by firefighters and airlifted to hospital.\n\nMr Hyde said the mechanical doors had been installed a year earlier and staff had received hour-long training sessions.\n\nHe said there was no safety device to stop the two doors being moved at the same time.\n\n\"I can't remember being told a distance to stand back from the doors,\" he said.\n\nCoroner Dr Sean Cummings said the door operator should have been standing a metre clear of the doors before operating them.\n\nThe jury heard Mrs Dorbon's husband, Mick Dorbon, also worked at the airport.\n\nHe was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and had not worked since the incident.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nCoverage: Follow on Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website\n\nBritain's David Smith compared himself to Manchester United footballer Cristiano Ronaldo after he retained his BC1 individual Paralympic boccia title with a thrilling victory in Tokyo.\n\nThe 32-year-old trailed Chew Wei Lun of Malaysia 2-0 after the first of four ends but stormed back to win 4-2 for GB's 30th gold of the Tokyo Games.\n\nSmith had previously likened himself to the six-time world snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan but said his approach in the final was more in keeping with the Portuguese forward.\n\n\"I like to be creative, I like to put on a show,\" said Smith, \"I like to play well but I prefer to win, so I guess you could put me in that camp.\n\n\"I'm probably unlike Ronnie and more like Ronaldo in that if I have to dig it out, I will - and I work hard to get what I need to do.\"\n\nThe victory gives Smith his fifth Paralympic medal and sees him overtake Nigel Murray as the country's most successful athlete in the sport.\n\nSwimmer Becky Redfern won silver in the SB13 100m breaststroke, just over a year after giving birth to son Patrick.\n• None Redfern's 'tough ride' to Tokyo silver after thinking pregnancy meant swimming career 'was over'\n\nThe 21-year-old led at halfway but was overhauled by Germany's Elena Krawzow, who won by 0.64 seconds as Redfern clocked one minute 14.10 seconds.\n\nWill Bayley and Paul Karabardak reached Friday's final of the table tennis class 6-7 event with a gripping 2-1 win over Spain.\n\nWheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn won her first Paralympic medal with bronze in the T53 100m in 16.53 seconds, behind China's Gao Fang (16.29) and Zhou Hongzhuan (16.48).\n\nThere was also bronze for archer Victoria Rumary in the women's W1 event and table tennis bronzes for the class 4-5 team of Sue Bailey and Megan Shackleton and class 8 team of Ross Wilson, Aaron McKibbin and Billy Shilton.\n\nThe GB men's wheelchair basketball team put in a strong second-half display to beat Canada 66-52 as they continued their bid to add Paralympic gold to their European and world titles.\n\nIn wheelchair tennis, defending champion Gordon Reid and Rio runner-up and fellow Briton Alfie Hewett both reached the men's singles semi-finals.\n\nIt means Britain are guaranteed a medal in the event because, if Reid and Hewett lose their semi-finals, they would play each other in the bronze-medal play-off.\n\nHowever, British quad doubles pair Andy Lapthorne and Antony Cotterill were beaten in their bronze-medal match, losing 7-5 3-6 7-5 to Japan's Mitsuteru Moroishi and Koji Sugeno.\n\nDaniel Bethell enjoyed a winning start as he became the first badminton player to represent Briton at a Paralympics Games, beating Japan's Daisuke Fujihara 21-11 21-7 in the men's singles SL3 class.\n\nIt is now three gold medals for Smith, who has earned a reputation for sporting colourful hairstyles at Paralympic Games.\n\nThis time it was dyed blue and red, following a blue mohawk in Rio five years ago and a red mohawk on his Games debut in 2008 in Beijing.\n\nAfter a disappointing opening end, he rose to the pressure against his younger opponent, who had won all five of his matches to reach the decider.\n\n\"I didn't play great, but I got over the line,\" said Smith.\n\n\"There are a lot of things going on in my head at the moment, becoming the first BC1 to defend a Paralympic title and becoming the most successful British player of all time.\n\n\"You try not to think about it but it does matter, I do care about stuff like that.\n\n\"This is such a great sport and I just feel we are getting the recognition we deserve here, that makes me feel a bit emotional.\"\n\nTeam-mate Scott McCowan lost out 6-1 to Australia's Daniel Michel in the bronze play-off in the BC3 category.\n\nThe men's wheelchair basketball team came from 42-32 down with four minutes to go in the third quarter to reach their seventh Paralympic semi-final in a row and they will face hosts Japan in the last four on Friday.\n\nPatrick Anderson kept Canada in the game with 22 points but Gaz Choudhry, who is coaching the GB team with Haj Bhania forced to stay in Britain after a positive coronavirus test, led his side with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 14 assists.\n\nThere were also key contributions from Lee Manning (17 points and 19 rebounds) and Gregg Warburton (16 points).\n\n\"We have a lot of work still to go, two more games is the way we see it,\" said Warburton. \"We've reached our first objective of getting to a semi-final.\n\n\"We're showing a lot of character and a lot of spirit. We believe no matter what situation we're in the game, we can beat anyone. We just have to keep believing.\"\n\nGerman long jumper Markus Rehm failed to trouble his own world record but was still an easy winner of the T64 long jump for his third title in a row.\n\nThe 33-year-old who set a world record of 8.62m at the European Championships in June, managed 8.18m in Tokyo to finish well ahead of French runner-up Dimitri Pavade (7.39m).\n\nDutchman Jetze Plat won his third gold medal of the Games with victory in the H4 road race.\n\nPlat had won triathlon gold on Sunday before claiming handcycling gold in Tuesday's road race and finished five minutes and 43 seconds ahead of his closest rival to complete the treble.\n\nHis team-mate Jennette Jansen bridged a 33-year-gap with gold in the women's H1-4 road race.\n\nJansen, 53, won three titles as an athlete in Seoul in 1988 and also represented her country at wheelchair basketball before switching to cycling.\n\nAnd there was yet another medal for Paralympic veteran Heinz Frei. The 63-year-old Swiss made his Games debut in 1984 as a wheelchair racer before switching to cycling and won his 27th Games medal with silver in the H3 time trial.\n• None How did a humble arcade machine become a multi-billion pound industry?\n• None Find out how you can get your money back for a rescheduled show", "Ahmed travelled from the UK to Afghanistan about two weeks ago\n\nA British citizen who is stranded in Afghanistan after travelling to the country to help his family flee is pleading with the government for help.\n\nThe taxi driver, who the BBC is calling Ahmed to protect his identity, flew from Liverpool as the Taliban seized control of the country.\n\nHe is currently in hiding with his wife and children after fleeing from the Afghan capital Kabul.\n\nAhmed told BBC North West Tonight that people \"are desperate to leave\".\n\nHe said: \"At the moment our only hopes are that the government can do something to get us out from here.\n\n\"We can't get out of the house. We basically can only go 20 or 30 yards into a local shop.\"\n\nAhmed, 30, added: \"We are in trouble. We need to go.\"\n\nUS forces withdrew from Afghanistan on Monday, ending their 20-year presence, while British troops also left over the weekend.\n\nMore than 15,000 people, including about 2,200 children, have been evacuated by the UK since 15 August.\n\nAbout 800 to 1,100 eligible Afghans, including those who worked for the UK government, and 100 to 150 British nationals, were feared to be unable to make evacuation flights.\n\nAhmed, who has British citizenship while his wife and children are Afghan citizens and live there, travelled to the country two weeks ago to try to rescue them.\n\nHe now fears for the safety of his family, describing the journey to his current location as \"dangerous\".\n\n\"I can't even trust anybody for a minute. It's that scary around here,\" he added.\n\nAhmed's friend Andrew Sharkey said it was a worrying time for friends and relatives in the UK\n\nAhmed has been in daily contact with his friend Andrew Sharkey, who said people in the UK \"are worried for him... he is obviously a target\".\n\n\"I think if he was found out there, as a British passport holder, it would put his life in danger.\n\n\"We are trying to do everything we can to help him,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement the Foreign Office said: \"We will continue to do all we can to deliver on our obligation to get British nationals and eligible Afghans out of the country while the security situation allows.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden defends pull-out: \"I was not going to extend a forever exit\"\n\nUS President Joe Biden has defended his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan - a move which led to Taliban militants returning to power.\n\nStaying longer was not an option, Mr Biden said in an address to the nation, a day after the end of a 20-year US presence in Afghanistan.\n\nHe praised troops for organising an airlift of more than 120,000 people wishing to flee the Taliban regime.\n\nThe Islamist militants have been celebrating what they call a victory.\n\nUS-led troops went into Afghanistan in 2001, ousting the Taliban in the wake of the devastating 9/11 attacks, blamed on al-Qaeda - a militant jihadist group then based in the Asian country.\n\nMr Biden has been widely criticised - at home and by his allies - over the abrupt manner of the US withdrawal, which led to the unexpected collapse of the Afghan security forces US troops had trained and funded for years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Taliban celebrate after the the last American soldier leaves Afghanistan\n\nTaliban militants were able to reclaim control of the whole country within 11 days - finally entering the capital, Kabul, on 15 August.\n\nPresident Biden deployed nearly 6,000 troops to seize control of the airport to co-ordinate the evacuation of US and allied foreign nationals and local Afghans who had been working for them.\n\nThousands of people converged on Kabul international airport in the hope of being able to board one of the evacuation flights.\n\nTaliban supporters, including these in Kandahar, have been celebrating on the streets\n\nIn Tuesday's address, Mr Biden praised troops for the mass evacuation and promised to continue efforts to bring out those Americans who were still in Afghanistan and wanted to return - about 200 people altogether.\n\n\"A lot of our veterans and their families have gone through hell,\" he said. \"Deployment after deployment. Months and years away from their families... loss of limbs, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress.\"\n\n\"I was not going to extend this forever war, and I was not extending a forever exit,\" Mr Biden said, adding: \"The war in Afghanistan is now over.\"\n\nHe said the US did not need troops on the ground to defend itself.\n\nThe president later said his decision was \"not just about Afghanistan\". \"It's about ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries,\" he tweeted.\n\nJoe Biden tried to \"turn the page\" from a month of chaos and death in Afghanistan and, more broadly, from 20 years of ultimately futile US attempts at occupation and nation-building.\n\nAt times he seemed defensive, noting that Americans were warned 19 times to exit Afghanistan before the August US military withdrawal. He accused Afghan leaders, allies on whom the US had depended, of \"corruption and malfeasance\". And he blamed the Trump administration for negotiating what he characterised as an inadequate withdrawal agreement with the Taliban.\n\nHe said the US had no vital interest in Afghanistan, and tried to reframe US foreign policy as depending less on military deployments and more on diplomacy and international cooperation to face adversaries like China and Russia.\n\nPublic opinion polls show Americans still support the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, although many are unhappy with how Biden oversaw the exit. White House officials say they hope, as time passes, that the nation will be grateful for what the president accomplished and forget the details of how it ended.\n\nHave you been personally affected by the issues raised in this story? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The move means people will need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before being allowed into nightclubs and many other events\n\nVaccine passports are to be required for entry to nightclubs and many large events in Scotland from later this month, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe plans will apply to indoor and outdoor events, and will need to be signed off by MSPs next week.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the move was needed to help stem the recent surge in the number of cases.\n\nA further 6,107 people have tested positive, with the number of people in hospital doubling in the past 10 days.\n\nAnd several areas of Scotland are among the regions with the highest rates of the virus in Europe.\n\nThe new vaccine certification rules mean people over the age of 18 will need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to:\n\nThe new rules will impact on many sporting events in Scotland - particularly football matches - as well as concerts and music festivals.\n\nSPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said Premiership football clubs had \"a significant number of questions and real concern\" about the plan.\n\nHe added: \"It's not clear what IT infrastructure will be in place, what time-scales clubs will be asked to work to, or what can be done for those without smart phones.\n\n\"And it's not clear if it's going to cut across terms and conditions of seasons tickets already bought by people across the land.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the hospitality industry as a whole would not be included in the certification scheme - although that decision would be kept under review.\n\nAnd there are no plans to include key services or settings where people have no choice over attendance - such as shops, public transport, education and medical services.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - will be exempt.\n\nPeople can already request a paper copy of their vaccination record to allow them to travel, and from Friday they will be provided with a QR code so they can download a copy of the record to keep on their phone.\n\nPaper copies of vaccine certificates are already available for people who have been fully vaccinated\n\nA similar scheme will be introduced in England at the end of this month, with people needing to have a \"Covid pass\" to access \"higher risk\" settings such as nightclubs.\n\nSeveral other European countries - including France, Italy and Ireland - have already introduced certification.\n\nScotland's health secretary, Humza Yousaf, said in July that he was \"sceptical\" about the case for vaccine passports, citing concerns that they \"might increase the inequality gap, and there would be ethical issues\".\n\nThe country's deputy first minister, John Swinney, also said he did not believe it was right to exclude people who do not want to be vaccinated after the UK government set out its plans to introduce passports in England.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon told MSPs that the certification scheme was now needed to \"help protect individuals and the country as a whole and reduce the risk of further restrictions being necessary\".\n\nThe first minister added: \"Many of the events and venues that are covered by the certification scheme are important - they matter to our economy, and to our cultural and social life.\n\n\"That's why we want to enable them to stay open safely - but they are not essential services.\n\n\"And the nature of them - which involves bringing many people together in relatively small areas - does mean that, despite their very best efforts, they can contribute significantly to the spread of the virus.\"\n\nShe also said it would be \"grossly irresponsible\" to rule out re-introducing further restrictions in the future.\n\nThe Scottish Greens are not keen on vaccine passports. The new minister for zero carbon buildings, active travel and tenants' rights, Patrick Harvie, has raised concerns about their introduction before.\n\nIn July he argued vaccine certification \"would deepen discrimination against those who have not yet been vaccinated\".\n\nToday the party's health spokesperson, Gillian Mackay, said it was essential the Scottish government ensures the introduction of vaccine certification doesn't adversely affect disabled people, those with underlying health conditions and those from the global south who may not be able to access proof of vaccination.\n\nBut the Greens are now in government. Vaccine certification isn't specifically excluded in the co-operation agreement they signed with the SNP and so the Greens are bound by collective responsibility on this issue and will have to support it when it's put to the vote at Holyrood.\n\nThe first minister said it was a \"significant move\" and would need to be signed off by MSPs, with a debate and vote to take place next week.\n\nHowever the SNP has a comfortable majority with the backing of the Scottish Greens - who have previously been opposed to the move - and the cooperation agreement between the two parties commits them to working together on Covid-related matters.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats were the only party to hit out directly against the plans following Ms Sturgeon's statement, with leader Alex Cole-Hamilton saying vaccine passports were akin to \"medical ID cards\", adding: \"This is an illiberal step\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the Scottish government had \"wasted months\" that could have been spent making preparations, and was now \"introducing vaccine passports at the last minute\".\n\nHe added: \"It's a striking u-turn from what John Swinney said last month, where he emphatically claimed vaccine passports were \"the wrong way\" to go.\n\n\"We need businesses to get in-depth guidance around these certificates as soon as possible. They should be involved in the process and the government needs to clarify whether they will be expected to police these new rules.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the virus was now out of control and Scotland - and claimed the government had no strategy to deal with it.\n\nCase levels in Scotland are 80% higher now than they were last week, and five times higher than they were four weeks ago.\n\nThe number of people in hospital has more than doubled since 20 August, from 312 to 629.\n\nIntensive care admissions have not risen as quickly, but have still gone up from 34 to 59 over the same timescale.\n\nMeanwhile 4,108,804 people have had a first dose of vaccine, and 3,691,066 have had two.\n\nThat includes 95% of people over 40 who are now fully vaccinated, as well as 71% of 30 to 39-year-olds and 51% of 18 to 29-year-olds.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the many affected firms would not welcome the certificate scheme - but would accept it as an alternative to stricter restrictions.\n\nBut it said the system needed to be user-friendly for both businesses and the public, and warned against a \"rush\" to extend the scheme to other settings.\n\nThe Scottish Licensed Trade Association (SLTA) said the scheme was a \"threat hanging over the whole of the hospitality industry\", while the UK Hospitality Scotland said the move would \"cause dismay amongst businesses\" that had only recently been allowed to reopen.", "Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani has died at his home in Srinagar at the age of 92.\n\nHe passed away after a lengthy illness.\n\nA veteran campaigner against Indian rule, he had been under house arrest for much of the past 11 years.\n\nIndian authorities have imposed a strict security clampdown in Srinagar, Kashmir's main city, placing barbed wire and barricades on the roads near Geelani's home.\n\nReports say that internet services and voice calling have been suspended in most areas and a curfew may follow. His burial took place in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nSuch measures are not unusual at moments of tension in Indian-administered Kashmir. Police typically describe them as precautionary, citing the need to stop online rumours fuelling potential violence.\n\nIndia and Pakistan control different parts of the Muslim-majority territory, but both say it is wholly theirs. There has been violence on the Indian-run side for 30 years, due to a separatist insurgency.\n\nGeelani was a divisive figure in India. Experts said he always talked about Kashmir's freedom but personally favoured the region's merger with Pakistan.\n\nTributes have come from Kashmiri leaders in India and also from Pakistani politicians.\n\nMehbooba Mufti, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, said she was \"saddened\" by his death.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mehbooba Mufti This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan called Geelani a \"freedom fighter\" and declared Thursday a day of official mourning.\n\nHe said the separatist leader had \"struggled all his life for his people & their right to self-determination\".\n\nPolice in Kashmir allowed only close relatives to attend Geelani's funeral.\n\nAnnouncements were made from loudspeakers at the main mosque near Geelani's home after his death, asking local people to march towards it.\n\nHowever, Indian troops and armoured vehicles are said to be on the streets and police have urged residents to stay indoors.\n\nGeelani was a legislator for more than 15 years, representing Jamaat-i-Islami - a major political-religious organisation in Indian Kashmir, which was banned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in 2019.\n\nHe spent long spells in prison, including nearly 10 years after 1962, shortly after he began campaigning for Kashmir to merge with Pakistan.\n\nGeelani led a faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella group of almost two dozen separatist parties - but walked out in 2020, accusing others of \"revolting against his leadership\".\n\nHe was known for his strong opposition to any kind of dialogue with India. He insisted that a plebiscite on whether Kashmir should remain under Indian rule should be held before talks could take place.\n\nThis often put him in conflict with younger colleagues, who were more open to holding talks with Indian leaders.\n\nIn 2020, Geelani was awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan, Pakistan's highest civilian honour.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Piers Morgan: Ofcom decision says \"I was entitled to not believe them\"\n\nITV has been cleared by media regulator Ofcom, which has rejected a record 58,000 complaints about Piers Morgan's criticism of the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nThe ex-Good Morning Britain host said he didn't believe what Meghan said in her Oprah Winfrey interview in March.\n\nThe duchess herself filed complaints with the regulator and ITV.\n\nOfcom said restricting his views would be a \"chilling restriction\" on free expression but criticised his \"apparent disregard\" for the subject of suicide.\n\nMorgan said he was \"delighted\" with the ruling, which he described as \"a resounding victory for free speech and a resounding defeat for Princess Pinocchios\".\n\nSpeaking outside his home, the 56-year-old journalist said he \"wasn't really sure why I lost [my job] in the first place\". He said Ofcom had \"emphatically endorsed my right to not believe what the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were saying\".\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey was broadcast in March\n\nOfcom said its decision was \"finely balanced\", but that ITV had \"provided adequate protection to viewers from potentially harmful and highly offensive statements about mental health and suicide\".\n\nThe 57,793 complaints - the highest in Ofcom's 18-year history - related to Good Morning Britain on 8 and 9 March, the mornings before and after the Oprah interview with Meghan and Harry was broadcast in the UK.\n\nIn the in-depth interview, the duchess revealed her mental health became so bad she \"didn't want to be alive any more\", that she did not receive the help she asked for from Buckingham Palace, and that an unnamed member of the Royal Family had queried \"how dark\" their son Archie's skin might be.\n\nThe following day, Morgan said he did not \"believe a word she said\", that he \"wouldn't believe it if she read me a weather report\", and \"the fact that she's fired up this onslaught against our Royal Family I think is contemptible\".\n\nHe briefly walked off the programme after clashing with weather presenter Alex Beresford, and was later criticised by mental health charity Mind.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson gives the lowdown on Piers Morgan's departure from GMB\n\nHis departure from the show after six often confrontational and controversial years was announced that evening.\n\nMorgan later conceded that it was \"not for me to question if she felt suicidal\", but has defended his \"right to be allowed to have an opinion\".\n\nHe has continued to refer to her as \"Princess Pinocchio\" and was recently nominated for the National Television Award for best TV presenter.\n\nOfcom said: \"Consistent with freedom of expression, Mr Morgan was entitled to say he disbelieved the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's allegations and to hold and express strong views that rigorously challenged their account.\n\n\"The [Ofcom broadcasting] code allows for individuals to express strongly held and robustly argued views, including those that are potentially harmful or highly offensive, and for broadcasters to include these in their programming.\n\n\"The restriction of such views would, in our view, be an unwarranted and chilling restriction on freedom of expression both of the broadcaster and the audience.\"\n\nHowever, the regulator said it had concerns over his comments about suicide and mental health.\n\n\"We were particularly concerned about Mr Morgan's approach to such an important and serious issue and his apparent disregard for the seriousness of anyone expressing suicidal thoughts,\" it said.\n\nOfcom \"would have been seriously concerned\" if he had not been challenged by co-hosts Susanna Reid and Chris Ship, which provided \"adequate protection for viewers\", it added.\n\nMorgan didn't refer to that part of Ofcom's report in a column about the ruling for the Mail, saying the overall decision \"came down to an unequivocal and emphatic endorsement of my right to an opinion\".\n\nHe wrote: \"It was preposterous that I had to leave a job I loved because I didn't believe a demonstrable liar.\n\n\"But it happened because the corporate world has been cowed into surrendering to the woke mob whenever it bays for blood.\"\n\nSpeaking later, he added: \"The conclusion says I was entitled to not believe them... and by the way you're all entitled to not believe me.\"\n\nHe hosted the daily breakfast programme with Susanna Reid\n\nITV said it was Morgan's decision to leave GMB and it has no plans to invite him back to the programme, but it will keep working with him on his Life Stories series.\n\nThe broadcaster welcomed Ofcom's decision. \"The ruling sets out clearly that it was the balance and context the programme makers provided which was key in mitigating against the potential for harm and offence which could have been caused by Piers Morgan's comments,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It is because of the programme's editorial decisions and the opposing views which were forcefully expressed by other presenters and guests, that the programme did not breach Ofcom's rules.\"\n\nThe duchess has not commented on the ruling.\n\nOfcom's report added: \"While we acknowledged that Mr Morgan's questions about the nature of racism had the potential to be highly offensive to some viewers, the conversations about race and racism in this programme provided open debate on the issues raised by the interview.\n\n\"We also considered that the programme allowed for an important discussion to be had on the nature and impact of racism. ITV had clearly anticipated that racial issues would be discussed at length as part of the coverage of the interview and had taken steps to ensure context could be provided during the discussions.\n\n\"Despite strong opinions expressed during the programme, in Ofcom's view any potential offence was justified by the context and the comments and discussions about race and racism were not in breach of rule 2.3 of the code.\"\n\nA further 6,480 people complained about the original Oprah interview. On Wednesday, Ofcom said it would not investigate those complaints.\n\n\"In our view, the interview was clearly presented as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's personal testimony, which would be open to viewer interpretation,\" a statement said.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, Ofcom rejected more than 36,000 complaints about the latest series of ITV2's Love Island, including almost 25,000 about Faye's behaviour towards Teddy.\n\n\"We assessed a high number of complaints from viewers who were troubled by a contestant's behaviour and language,\" an Ofcom spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Although we recognise that emotionally-charged confrontation between couples can make for uncomfortable viewing, we consider the scenes were within viewers' likely expectations of this programme's established format.\n\n\"We also took into account that the programme showed other contestants supporting Teddy, and that Faye resolved to apologise for her actions.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The ISS pictured from a Soyuz spacecraft last year\n\nThe International Space Station (ISS) could suffer \"irreparable\" failures due to outdated equipment and hardware, a Russian official has warned.\n\nAt least 80 percent of in-flight systems on the Russian segment of the ISS had passed their expiry date, Vladimir Solovyov told state media.\n\nHe also said small cracks had been discovered that could worsen over time.\n\nRussia has often raised concerns over hardware and has suggested it could leave the ISS after 2025.\n\nThe station was built in 1998 as part of a joint project between Russia, America, Canada, Japan and several European countries and was originally designed for a 15-year lifespan.\n\nMr Solovyov, the chief engineer at the space company Energia, which is the leading developer of Russia's section of the ISS, said: \"Literally a day after the [in-flight] systems are fully exhausted, irreparable failures may begin.\"\n\nHe warned last year that much of the equipment on the station was starting to age and would soon need to be replaced.\n\nThe former cosmonaut also announced that \"superficial\" cracks had been discovered on Russia's Zarya cargo module. Launched in 1998, it is one of the oldest modules of the ISS and is now primarily used for storage.\n\n\"This is bad and suggests that the fissures will begin to spread over time,\" Mr Solovyov told the RIA news agency.\n\nIn April, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told state TV that aging metal on the station could \"lead to irreversible consequences - to catastrophe. We mustn't let that happen\".\n\nAnd Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, said last year that structural fatigue meant the ISS would not be capable of operating beyond 2030.\n\nRussia's space programme has been hit by a series of budget cuts and corruption scandals in recent years. Its section of the ISS has also faced a string of problems.\n\nIn July, a malfunction caused the jet thrusters on the country's Nauka research model to fire without warning, destabilising the ISS.\n\nIts Zvezda service module, which provides living quarters for ISS crew members, has also experienced several air leaks since 2019.\n\nDespite these setbacks, the country's space agency has promised a series of ambitious ventures, including a mission to Venus, the creation of a rocket capable of making round trips into space and a mission to the Moon's surface next year.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is SpaceX and why are they working with Nasa?", "Gunfire rang out at Kabul as the Taliban celebrated the last US troops leaving Afghanistan.\n\nBBC News chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet says the skies were full of red tracer and machine gun fire as the Taliban hailed the US departure, nearly 20 years since the US-led invasion forced them from power.", "The highway collapse came after intense rainfall as Hurricane Ida reached the US South\n\nNew Orleans officials have imposed a citywide curfew as large parts of Louisiana and Mississippi remain without power following Hurricane Ida.\n\nMayor LaToya Cantrell said the curfew would last from 20:00 to 06:00 and police said there had been \"several\" incidents of looting in the city.\n\nEnergy companies are working to restore power but residents are being warned it could take weeks in some areas.\n\nMeanwhile water services and infrastructure have also been hit.\n\nTwo people were killed and at least 10 injured after a section of highway collapsed near Lucedale, Mississippi on Monday.\n\nSeveral cars were reported to have fallen into a hole that was 50 to 60ft (15 to 18m) long and 20 to 30ft deep, according to highway police.\n\nLocal authorities believe that some of the drivers may not have been able to see the road properly because of the heavy rains. The highway remains closed.\n\nOver eight inches (20cm) of rain fell in the area during Ida, which reached the US mainland as a Category 4 storm on Sunday.\n\nWhile Ida's speed has slowed, authorities continue to warn of storm surges and heavy rains across the southern US.\n\nBy Tuesday afternoon, Ida was in Tennessee, soaking the area with intense rain and prompting flash flood warnings.\n\nNew Orleans and large parts of the region are without lights and power\n\nLocal officials have urged evacuated residents to delay their return home as more than one million homes and businesses remain without power, including most of New Orleans.\n\nMayor Cantrell said that she was hopeful \"that we should have some level of transmission\" by Wednesday but \"that does not mean we will immediately see all the lights on in the city.\"\n\nFederal officials say that some 441,000 people in 17 parishes across the region have no water, and a similar number may be without power for up to a month.\n\nIt comes as heat advisories have been issued, with some areas expected to reach 95F (35C), according to weather officials say.\n\nLouisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said some 25,000 line workers were working to restore power but admitted: \"There are an awful lot of unknowns right now.\"\n\nMeanwhile Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Bill Nungesser has warned the death toll from Ida will likely rise in the coming days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Wind gusts of up to 172mph and heavy rain pummelled Louisiana\n\nIn addition to the two killed during the highway collapse, at least two other people have been reported dead during the storm.\n\nIn Louisiana, a man died while attempting to drive across a flooded area of New Orleans. Another man died after being struck by a tree near Baton Rouge.\n\n\"Knowing that so many people stayed behind in places like Grande Isle and Lafitte where flood waters have devastated those areas, we expect there will be more people found who have passed,\" Mr Nungesser said.\n\nIda is expected to move next to the US northeast, with rain and threat of floods stretching from the Tennessee to the mid-Atlantic.\n\nWashington, DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia are among the cities now under flash flood watches.\n\nHow has Hurricane Ida affected you? Only if it's safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The BBC and Cheryl have been criticised over a new 12-part podcast about R&B music.\n\nThe Girls Aloud star, former X-Factor judge and solo chart-topper shared details of the BBC Sounds podcast You, Me & R&B on social media.\n\nCritics say it should have been hosted by a black presenter and some feel it's an example of \"black talent being pushed to the side and ignored.\"\n\n1Xtra DJs Yasmin Evans and DJ Ace were among those to comment on the choice.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Yasmin Evans This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ace ♣️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUhura, 30, makes pop culture podcasts herself and is one half of The Unpacked Podcast.\n\nShe thinks it's great that Cheryl is such a big fan of R&B music, but doesn't think she should have been given this platform, ahead of a black artist.\n\n\"I honestly feel that if you're going to give a platform about R&B music to a woman, and the platform is the BBC, it should be a black woman musician,\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"There are so many black British female artists who have been overlooked within the UK constantly.\n\n\"These women are talented, they are knowledgeable, they are experts in their fields.\"\n\nShe names Mica Paris or Beverley Knight as her preferred hosts.\n\nUhura would have liked a black female artist who has \"lived and breathed R&B music\" host the BBC Sounds podcast\n\n\"It feels like again, black voices and black talent is being pushed to the side and ignored,\" Uhura adds.\n\n\"Yet again, there is a white woman being rewarded.\n\n\"Does she really have the credentials? From my understanding she's a pop singer, not an R&B singer.\"\n\nSheryl Nwosu asks why people like Jamelia or Craig David haven't been given the same platform by the BBC\n\nSheryl Nwosu, the chair of the Black Music Coalition, says she was surprised when she heard about the podcast.\n\n\"I think it really ignores some of the voices, which were raised in 2020, and some of the issues which were validly raised by black artists within the music industry, who have specifically spoken of the lack of access to opportunities for them,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"She's never done anything to promote the genre, but she's given this platform as a vehicle to promote herself and talk about herself using R&B as the backdrop.\"\n\nBBC Sounds, which made the podcast in collaboration with BBC Radio 2, said it was one of many new music commissions, with a variety of hosts.\n\n\"We feature a wide range of voices spanning different genres across our extensive music output.\n\n\"Many of our shows are fronted by DJs who are experts in their fields, others are hosted by people with a passion for their topic,\" it said in a statement.\n\nDuring her solo career, Cheryl has worked with artists such as Will I Am and Tinie Tempah\n\nCheryl has spoken throughout her career of her love for R&B music.\n\nIn 2009 she told Holly Willoughby, in TV special Cheryl Cole's Night In, that \"everybody knows I like R&B, I love hip hop\" and in 2010 told Piers Morgan, on his Life Stories series, that she wanted to dress like US R&B group, TLC.\n\n\"I thought of myself as a bit of a hip hop girl, I wanted to wear baggy trousers and Timbaland boots,\" she said at the time.\n\nOther podcasts commissioned and curated by celebrity names include Charli XCX's Best Song Ever and Romesh Ranganathan's For The Love Of Hip Hop.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Cheryl This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian London Hughes tweeted to say that the podcast was unsurprising because \"white women have always been allowed to take up space in UK 'black music'.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by London Hughes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCheryl and the podcast were accused of \"profiting off black spaces\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the criticism has focussed on the singer's 2003 conviction for an assault against a black toilet attendant, which was found by a court not to be a racist attack.\n\nThe incident took place when Cheryl, 38, was 20 years old, shortly after she became famous as part of Girls Aloud.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted Cheryl's management for comment on the backlash, but they have yet to respond.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Benjamin Mendy has been charged with rape and sexual assault\n\nManchester City defender Benjamin Mendy will remain in custody ahead of a potential trial on rape charges after a bail application was refused.\n\nThe 27-year-old defender is accused of four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault at his home in Cheshire.\n\nHe has been in custody at HMP Altcourse in Liverpool after being denied bail at Chester Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nThe judge made his ruling at a hearing held behind closed doors, which Mr Mendy, who also plays for the French national team, did not attend.\n\nThe footballer is charged with attacks on three different women, including one under 18, at his home in Prestbury, Cheshire.\n\nThree of the rapes are alleged to have taken place in October 2020 and he is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in early January 2021.\n\nHe is also charged with raping a woman in August 2021.\n\nThe footballer, who has been suspended by the club pending investigation, is due to appear at Chester Crown Court on 10 September.\n\nCheshire Constabulary said a second man, aged 40, who was arrested on suspicion of rape as part of the police investigation into the allegations had been released on bail.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The risk of \"long Covid\" in children is much lower than many had feared, leading child health experts have said.\n\nAfter the world's biggest study into the issue, the researchers, led by University College London, said they were \"reassured\".\n\nThey surveyed 11- to 17-year-olds testing positive for coronavirus in England between September and March.\n\nThe research suggests somewhere between 2% and 14% still had symptoms caused by Covid 15 weeks later.\n\nThe team said it was important those with persistent symptoms, which included headaches, tiredness and breathing difficulties, received support.\n\nBut there was little evidence huge numbers had sought NHS help for symptoms that had left them bedridden or unable to attend school.\n\nThe study, which has yet to be published in a medical journal, also gathered data from young people who had never tested positive, meaning more than 50,000 were surveyed in total.\n\nAnd 53% of them had at least one symptom after 15 weeks, simply because they are common in the general population.\n\nAmong those who had tested positive, this proportion was 65%.\n\nA more significant difference was seen among those 30% had three or more symptoms, compared with 16% of those who had never tested positive, suggesting 32,000 out of nearly 235,000 who were infected between September and March have developed long Covid.\n\nBut the numbers could be even lower.\n\nOnly 13% of those asked to respond to the survey did so.\n\nResearchers believe those who are suffering ongoing symptoms would be more likely to complete the survey than those who are not.\n\nIf all those with long Covid were to do so among those who did so, that would suggest their actual number was just 4,000 or fewer than 2%.\n\nThe research team - including Prof Sir Terence Stephenson, from UCL's Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health infectious disease lead Dr Liz Whittaker, and Public Health England officials - will continue to follow the children in the coming months.\n\nBut Sir Terence said he was already \"reassured\" suggestions, at the height of the pandemic, that half of children could develop long Covid cases were wrong.\n\n\"It is nowhere near what people thought in the worst-case scenario\".\n\nAlthough, he said, the numbers were still \"not trivial\" and the issue needed to be taken seriously.\n\nMost likely to report persistent symptoms were older girls who already had poorer physical and mental health.\n\nThose struggling emotionally and mentally could be more attuned to even minor physical illnesses, the researchers said, and a positive coronavirus test could help trigger that.\n\nOf all the children in the study, 40% reported feeling sad, worried or unhappy.\n\nAnd the researchers said it was clear the pandemic had had a damaging effect on young people because of:\n\nThis showed how important it was to get \"back to normal\" and have schools open, Dr Whittaker added.", "A Taliban fighter stands at the scene of the attack, which killed almost 200 people\n\nUK officials instructed Afghans to go to the Abbey Gate entrance to Kabul airport hours before Thursday's suicide bombing there, the BBC has learned.\n\nEmails seen by Newsnight show that even though the UK and US deemed a threat to the airport to be imminent, the British embassy told people to \"use the Abbey Gate [near] to the Baron Hotel\".\n\nAlmost 200 people were killed in the explosion, including two UK citizens.\n\nThe UK government said it was investigating the emails.\n\nOne Afghan told the BBC that official UK advice on the day of the attack was \"confusing and conflicting\".\n\nBefore the last foreign troops left Kabul on Monday, thousands of people gathered at the gate daily in the hope of boarding a flight out of Afghanistan. Some had been called to the gate by the British authorities because they met the right criteria to be evacuated.\n\nAnother email, sent from the British embassy later the same day, asked a former Afghan interpreter whether he was in the right place. It read: \"Please advise that you are at the correct gate? Abbey Gate on hawa on Shawasi Street.\"\n\nThe BBC has not named him to protect him from the Taliban.\n\n\"If I had followed their advice, I would be no more. I said I won't because I don't feel safe as the situation was getting worse,\" the former interpreter said.\n\n\"It would be madness to go there and that saved my life. It was our own judgement that saved our lives.\"\n\nOn 25 August, the day before the attack, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) updated its guidance, warning against all travel to Kabul airport.\n\nIt said: \"The security situation in Afghanistan remains volatile. There is an ongoing and high threat of terrorist attack. Do not travel to Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport. If you are in the area of the airport, move away to a safe location and await further advice.\"\n\nThe US embassy in Kabul issued similar advice, saying that those \"at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate now should leave immediately\".\n\nOn the morning of 26 August, the day of the explosion, the Armed Forces minister James Heappey told the BBC: \"There is now very, very credible reporting of an imminent attack and hence why the Foreign Office advice was changed last night.\" He said it could happen in a matter of hours.\n\nAfter the FCDO advice to stay clear of the airport was issued, there was confusion among many Afghans who had worked for the British. They did not know whether the advice to stay away from the airport applied to everyone - or only to those not already instructed to go to the airport for evacuation.\n\nHowever, when staff tried to seek clarification from the FCDO, their emails went unanswered.\n\nOne Afghan woman who worked for the British embassy in Kabul said the UK advice to people wanting to leave the country that day was \"conflicting and confusing\". Again, she has not been named to protect her identity.\n\nShe said: \"You should not be calling people to the gate when you know this situation.\n\n\"I'm surprised because if I was responsible, I would not be asking people to risk their lives. [The UK government] were not replying to my emails. I kept trying and asking them for safer route until, after the blast, I received [a] response, [to] which I was like: 'really?!'.\n\n\"I could have been one of those unfortunate people who was killed.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson told the BBC: \"We did all we could to get individuals to safety in incredibly difficult and changing circumstances.\n\n\"We changed travel advice as soon as an increased terror threat was established and ensured that all call handlers communicated this advice as well as making it clear on the ground where we advised the crowds to disperse.\n\n\"We are investigating how an email against this advice could have been sent.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The final flights bringing British troops arrive in the UK\n\nOn Monday, Politico reported US officials had been planning to close the Abbey Gate. It said US forces kept the gate open to allow the UK to safely evacuate personnel from the nearby Baron Hotel - something the UK government has denied.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said it was \"simply not true to suggest that we pushed to keep the gate open\" and that the UK had moved operations out of the Baron Hotel \"in response to the change in travel advice ahead of the attack\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab is due to face questions on Wednesday from the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on his handling of the situation in Afghanistan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geronimo the alpaca was led away to be destroyed on Tuesday\n\nAn alpaca at the centre of a legal row with the government has been killed.\n\nGeronimo twice tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, and the Department of Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) ordered him to be euthanised to stop the spread of the disease.\n\nOwner Helen Macdonald disputed the results and mounted several High Court challenges to save him.\n\n\"I am absolutely disgusted by this government. These are barbaric actions,\" she said.\n\nDefra staff dressed in blue overalls, goggles and masks, accompanied by police, arrived at her farm in Wickwar, near Bristol, at about 11:00 BST and led Geronimo away, with the scene broadcast on an online live feed of the enclosure.\n\nA spokesman confirmed the destruction warrant had been carried out after Geronimo was taken away from his pen and loaded into a trailer.\n\nThe vehicle then left the scene under a police escort, with a number of protesters watching.\n\nDefra said Geronimo was euthanised in order to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis\n\nMs Macdonald said the government had refused to act in good faith and had ignored her pleas for constructive dialogue.\n\n\"We know now they have been stringing us along for the last week, fobbing us off by saying people are on holiday and would get back to us this week,\" she said.\n\n\"In fact, all the time they were simply planning to murder Geronimo. This is yet another appalling demonstration of bad faith and duplicity by the secretary of state and everyone at Defra.\n\n\"Geronimo has been manhandled out of my farm. He was rounded-up and dragged into a horsebox.\"\n\nMs Macdonald received an outpouring of support from the public\n\nSupporters had been camping out at the farm to try to prevent officials arriving to destroy Geronimo, and some were seen talking to police as the animal was removed.\n\nOne woman was briefly arrested after spraying officers with a water pistol, but was quickly de-arrested.\n\nMs Macdonald, a veterinary nurse, had called on Defra to allow Geronimo to be tested for a third time or let him live to aid research into the disease.\n\nShe argued the test used on Geronimo was flawed and he had tested positive previously because he had repeatedly been primed with tuberculin - a purified protein derivative of bovine TB bacteria.\n\nShe lost a last-ditch High Court appeal to save Geronimo on 18 August, and the destruction warrant gave Defra until 4 September to put the animal down.\n\nPolice accompanied Defra officials to the farm in Wickwar on Tuesday morning\n\nMore than 140,000 people from around the world had signed a petition addressed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stop Geronimo's destruction.\n\nWildlife television presenter Chris Packham and the prime minister's father Stanley Johnson also gave their support.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"It's obviously highly distressing for someone to lose animals to TB and that's a situation that farmers sadly have to face.\n\n\"Our sympathies are with Ms Macdonald and any others that are affected by this terrible disease.\"\n\nMs Macdonald insisted Geronimo was a \"perfectly healthy animal\", adding: \"Boris apparently is sympathetic, well I don't need his sympathy.\n\n\"I needed him to stop this in its tracks when he had the opportunity and look what's happened.\"\n\nChief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss said it was a \"terribly sad situation\" but they had to follow the scientific advice and cull animals that tested positive for bTB in order to minimise its spread.\n\n\"Not only is this essential to protect the livelihoods of our farming industry and rural communities, but it is also necessary to avoid more TB cases in humans.\n\n\"No-one wants to have to cull infected animals if it can be avoided,\" she said.\n\nA Defra spokesman said a post-mortem examination and a study of tissue samples would be carried out by veterinary pathologists from the Animal and Plant Health Agency and the process could take up to three months.\n\nMs Macdonald has called for Defra to allow for an independent witness to attend the examination alongside the pathologists.\n\nDefra said 28,356 cattle were compulsorily slaughtered in England in the 12 months to March 2021, after testing positive for bovine tuberculosis.\n\nDuring 2020, a total of 205 camelids - animals such as camels, llamas and alpacas - were culled.\n\nDefra said: \"Bovine TB remains one of the greatest animal health threats to the UK, causing devastation for hard-working farmers and rural communities.\n\n\"We are pursuing a range of interventions in cattle and in badgers to eradicate the disease by 2038.\n\n\"If we do not take action, TB could pose an increased risk to animal and human health and to the international image and reputation of our cattle industry.\"\n\nMs Macdonald imported Geronimo from New Zealand in 2017\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nCoverage: Follow on Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website\n\nReece Dunn set a new world record to win his third gold medal of the Tokyo Paralympics, as the medals continued to flow for Great Britain on day seven.\n\nDunn won the men's SM14 200m individual medley in a new world best of two minutes 8.02 seconds.\n\nIt is his fourth medal of the Tokyo Games - his first Paralympics - having already won 200m freestyle and 4x100m relay golds and 100m butterfly silver.\n\nHis win followed cycling golds for Sarah Storey and Ben Watson.\n\nStorey became Great Britain's joint most successful Paralympian of all time after winning her 16th gold medal in the women's C5 time trial.\n\nWatson, making his Paralympic debut, then won the men's C3 time trial by more than 56 seconds.\n\nThere were further cycling medals for Crystal Lane-Wright and tandem pair Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall, both winning silver, while George Peasgood won men's C4 time trial bronze to add to the triathlon silver he won earlier in the Games.\n\nIn the pool, Bethany Firth and Louise Fiddes won silver and bronze respectively in the women's SM14 individual medley, while there were bronze medals for Stephen Clegg and Hannah Russell in the S12 100m freestyle races.\n\nColumba Blango won athletics bronze in the men's T20 400m, a late push down the final straight earning him a personal best of 47.81 seconds, before Olivia Breen won bronze in the T38 long jump.\n• None 'What the Paralympics really mean' - joy as Afghan athlete makes Tokyo debut\n\nDunn, 25, only broke onto the British swimming scene in 2019 but has taken his maiden Paralympics by storm with four medals, with the backstroke still to come.\n\nHe was second at the final turn but powered through on the freestyle leg to touch first, shaving 0.14 seconds off the world record, previously set by Japan's Dai Tokairin in 2019.\n\nGabriel Bandeira of Brazil took silver with bronze going to Ukraine's Vasyl Krainyk.\n\n\"I had no idea where I was, I had to max every single leg, my breaststroke felt as good as it has felt in a long time but I was in agony that last 50 metres,\" Dunn told Channel 4.\n\n\"Breaststroke is difficult for me with the shoulder I've got at moment, it's under a lot of fatigue, every length my arm felt like it was going to crumble.\"\n\nIn the women's SM14 individual medley, Firth and Fiddes added another two medals to GB's impressive haul from the pool as Valeriia Shabalina of the Russian Paralympic Committee won gold.\n\nFiddes had earlier been disqualified in the heats but that was rescinded on appeal.\n\nBritish team-mate Jessica-Jane Applegate just missed out on a third medal of the Games, finishing fourth.\n\nEarlier, Clegg won his second bronze medal in Tokyo in a tight finish in the 100m freestyle, while in the women's race, three-time Paralympic champion Russell also edged third place.\n\nFrom desk job to top of podium\n\nFive years ago, during the Rio 2016 Paralympics, Watson was working a desk job as a chartered surveyor. He attended a talent ID day, and fast forward to 2021 and he's a Paralympic champion.\n\nIn his first event of the Games - he will go in the road race on Thursday - he clocked 35:00.82, 56.59 seconds quicker than silver medallist Steffen Warias, whose German compatriot Matthias Schindler took bronze.\n\nFin Graham narrowly missed out on a second medal of the Games, finishing fourth as three-time Tokyo medallist Jaco van Gass placed sixth.\n\n\"I don't really believe it, I've actually never won a time trial at a World Cup or World Championship, I've always been the bridesmaid so it's good on the big one to win it,\" Watson told Channel 4.\n\n\"Paralympic champion, I haven't got any words for it, it's amazing. It's what we've worked for since we started this journey.\n\n\"In 2016 I was 93kg working a desk job, 2021 I'm here, Paralympic champion.\"\n\nHe added: \"At the start of 2016 I was drinking and partying, now I am here. If you have the desire and want it, go get it.\"\n\nPeasgood won his second medal of the Games in a different sport after his triathlon silver, with his time trial bronze making history.\n\nIt was the 1,000th medal to be won by ParalympicsGB or Team GB since National Lottery funding was introduced in 1997.\n\nFachie and pilot Hall won silver in the women's B time trial, days after they won pursuit gold in the velodrome, while Lane-Wright won silver behind Storey in the C5 time trial.\n\nStephen Bate and pilot Adam Duggleby could not retain their men's B time trial title from Rio 2016 after crashing out of the race.\n\nSophie Unwin and pilot Jenny Holl were fifth in the women's B time trial.\n\nElsewhere, top seeds and Rio silver medallists Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid are through to the men's doubles final in the wheelchair tennis with a 6-2 6-1 win over Japan's Shingo Kunieda and Takashi Sanada.\n\nJordanne Whiley reached the semi-finals of the women's singles for the first time, beating Dana Mathewson of the United States 6-3 3-6 7-5 in the quarter-finals.\n\nIn boccia, defending BC1 champion David Smith is through to the final, but Scott McCowan will play for bronze in the BC3 event after losing his semi-final.\n\nGB's table tennis players are guaranteed three more medals after Megan Shackleton and Sue Bailey, Billy Shilton and Aaron McKibbin, and Will Bayley and Paul Karabardak all progressed to the semi-finals in their respective team events\n\nDaniel Sidbury and six-time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir finished sixth and 10th respectively in the T54 1500m, with Sidbury beating the previous world record yet still missing out on the medals as Switzerland's Marcel Hug set a new world best time of 2:49.55.\n\nGB lost to China in the quarter-finals of the women's wheelchair basketball.\n\nAmerican Oksana Masters won her first summer Paralympic gold with victory in the women's H4-5 time trial - her ninth Paralympic medal across both the summer and winter Games.\n\nCycling is the fourth sport Masters has won medals in, having previously been on the podium in rowing, cross-country skiing and biathlon.\n\nAt the age of 50, Japan's Keiko Sugiura won the women's C1-3 time trial in the prefecture where she was born, Shizuoka - making her Japan's oldest gold medallist.\n\nCuba's Omara Durand Elias won her sixth Paralympic gold in the T12 400m, while in the women's F56 javelin, Hashemiyeh Motaghian Moavi became the first Iranian woman to win Paralympic athletics gold with a world record throw of 24.50m.\n\nBut there was disappointment for the United States' 'armless archer' Matt Stutzman - one of the world's most recognisable Paralympians - as the London 2012 silver medallist lost in the men's compound open class last-16.\n• None How did a humble arcade machine become a multi-billion pound industry?\n• None Find out how you can get your money back for a rescheduled show", "Calum Maclean and Jenny Graham completed the challenge in less than four days\n\nTwo adventurers have become the first people to walk the longest straight line in the UK without crossing a paved road.\n\nCalum Maclean, 32, and Jenny Graham, 41, climbed mountains, scrambled down gullies and tackled steep rocky crags to complete the 49-mile (78.55km) challenge.\n\nThere were no paths on the route through the Cairngorms, so they had to wade through thigh-high heather and pull themselves up steep slopes.\n\nThey completed the walk from the Pass of Drumochter to Corgarff on Monday evening in 83 hours and 56 minutes.\n\nThe pair carried their tents and all the food for the four-day adventure in 16kg (2st) packs.\n\nThe pair worked as a team to complete the challenge\n\nIt was Calum, from Aberfeldy, who had the idea to attempt the expedition.\n\n\"I'm happy I've done it but I wouldn't do it again,\" he said.\n\n\"I would do another straight line walk, but it wouldn't be this one.\n\n\"It was very tough due to the thick heather and the open moor landscape sections were relentless to look at and be in.\"\n\nThe route follows a line from the Pass of Drumochter to Corgarff\n\nCalum said he had to really concentrate on the steep rocky sections and work out how they were going to get down without ropes.\n\nAlthough they were not faced with any rock climbing, the steepness of sections pushed them to their limits.\n\nHe said: \"There were very steep bits to descend beside cliffs where we really had to focus and our senses were heightened.\n\n\"If your foot slipped you knew you were putting yourself in danger.\n\n\"But we always talked about each section before we did them and worked out what our limits were and how to tackle them slowly.\"\n\nThe pair carried all their food and tents for the four-day adventure\n\nIn the past, there have been a couple of failed attempts to complete the route, which was plotted by Ordnance Survey a couple of years ago.\n\nCalum said he was shocked when they reached the finish only to discover a road which was made of dirt and not concrete.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"The Ordnance Survey route said it finished at the Old Military Road, but when we got there we could see it wasn't paved and was instead a dirt track.\n\n\"So we quickly got out our GPS device and Ordnance Survey app on our phones and plotted the route until it extended to a paved road - about 2km (1 mile) away.\n\n\"I had eaten all my food and was starving and tired, so it was tough to realise we hadn't reached the end.\n\n\"The last section was through a forest with lots of fallen trees which made it a bit risky.\"\n\nJenny, from Inverness, holds the female record for cycling around the world. She circumnavigated the globe by bike in 125 days arriving at the finish line in Germany in 2018.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland it was the hardest walk she had ever done.\n\n\"I've walked all over Scotland and the Alps and this tops them all,\" she said.\n\n\"We were very worried about our ankles in the deep heather because it covered holes you couldn't see.\n\n\"When we reached sections with flat slabs of rock we felt lighter and it felt great compared to the heather.\"\n\nJenny and Calum had to wade through rivers on the route\n\nJenny said the route involved going over lots of uneven ground through forests, rivers and bogland at a fast pace.\n\n\"There were some steep descents and one day we were in hill fog that suddenly lifted at the top of a mountain and all we could see was a wall in front of us,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought how are we ever going to get up that?\n\n\"But then when we got on it we found it wasn't so bad and we managed to pick our way up.\"\n\nShe added that she felt like an explorer on the last extra section through the forest.\n\nShe said: \"Nobody has probably ever walked there. I was thinking at the time, this is truly our own original route, it was a cool moment.\n\n\"We have both climbed all the mountains in the Cairngorms and know the area well, but this walk took us to places we would never have visited.\n\n\"It was an incredible adventure that I wouldn't do again.\"\n\nThe pair completed the challenge on Monday night\n\nAn Ordnance Survey spokeswoman said it had been a \"tremendous achievement\" to complete the longest-line challenge.\n\n\"Four days out in the wilderness navigating difficult terrain is no mean feat and we offer our warmest congratulations,\" she said.\n\n\"We wouldn't recommend walking this challenging route unless you are an experienced walker and very conversant with a map and compass.\"\n\nJenny said she had learned that the simplest idea - walking in a straight line - wasn't always the simplest thing to do.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The race began in 2015 as a legacy event after the county hosted the Tour de France's Grand Départ in 2014\n\nThe Tour de Yorkshire cycle race has been cancelled for a third year in a row, its organisers have announced.\n\nThe 2020 and 2021 legs of the four-day event, which draws thousands of visitors to the county, were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWelcome to Yorkshire said staging the race in 2022 \"would be unviable\" due to \"escalating financial challenges and uncertainties\".\n\nBritish Cycling's chief said the latest cancellation was \"very disappointing\".\n\nTourism board Welcome to Yorkshire said the decision was made after \"lengthy discussions\" over many months with the race co-organiser Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO).\n\nChief executive James Mason said: \"The race is a much-loved international sports event which showcases Yorkshire across the globe.\n\n\"So many people involved in the decision-making process understand just how popular the race is.\n\n\"We had every intention for the race to go ahead but unfortunately some of the circumstances were out of our control and sometimes you have to make big calls for the right reasons.\"\n\nSome of Yorkshire's best-known sites, including the cobbled Main Street in Haworth, have featured on previous routes\n\nThe race began in 2015 as a legacy event after the county hosted the Tour de France's Grand Départ in 2014.\n\nIt is held around the May Bank Holiday weekend and features a four-day men's race of more than 370 miles (600 km) and a two-day women's race.\n\nBritish Cycling chief executive Brian Facer said the event was \"not just about the economic boost that top-level bike racing has brought to Yorkshire, but also in the huge numbers of people who have been inspired to cycle themselves\".\n\nWelcome to Yorkshire, which is funded via local councils and tourism businesses, has had well-documented problems with its finances in recent years.\n\nAccounts showed it spent more than £430,000 on investigating and removing former chief executive Sir Gary Verity, who left in 2019 amid concerns over his expenses claims.\n\nLast June, it said the pandemic had left it facing a £1.4m shortfall, and in February this year Sir Gary's successor, James Mason, admitted the body had made \"big mistakes\" with public money.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Record numbers of UK school leavers will be heading for university this term\n\nUniversities have been urged to provide face-to-face teaching when students return this term.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said students should expect to be taught \"in-person and alongside other students\".\n\nIt would be right to stay online when there's a \"genuine benefit to using technology\", he said.\n\nBut he warned university leaders: \"I do not expect to see online learning used as a cost-cutting measure.\"\n\nParents would find it \"odd\" if students could go to other social activities but were not allowed back into lecture halls, the education secretary told the Universities UK conference.\n\nRecord numbers of 18 year olds from the UK will be starting university this autumn - and Mr Williamson, speaking via a video link, said students were craving a \"return to normality\".\n\nEven with safety measures against Covid, the education secretary said there should not be unnecessary delays on starting face-to-face classes.\n\nTeaching students in-person could be more effective, said Mr Williamson, allowing them to benefit from the \"conversations you have around the margins\", and from the support of other students.\n\nTrying to teach \"complex molecular biology techniques\" was much harder over Zoom, he told the conference at Northumbria University.\n\nDuring the past two academic years, the pandemic saw much teaching switching to online - but there have been petitions from students concerned that lectures might carry on online into the autumn term.\n\nAn annual survey on value for money highlighted complaints from students about paying full tuition fees for online learning.\n\nThe education secretary, who faced criticism this week after he confused footballer Marcus Rashford with rugby player Maro Itoje in an interview, also reiterated warnings about universities where too few students went on to graduate jobs.\n\nIt was \"simply unacceptable\" that at 25 higher education institutions, fewer than half of students progressed to such graduate posts or further study, said Mr Williamson.\n\nHe reaffirmed suggestions of introducing minimum entry requirements for university courses, such as a good pass at GCSE English and maths.\n\nAnd he said the government would press ahead with proposed changes to the admissions timetable, so that students would have their A-level results before completing their applications.\n\nThere were suggestions from university heads at the meeting that some students preferred the greater flexibility of online lectures, such as those with caring responsibilities.\n\nSteve West, the new president of Universities UK, said there would be a return to in-person teaching where possible, but he suggested a blend of online and face-to-face study would emerge - and that the greater use of digital technology could enhance learning.\n\n\"To politicians and commentators who have asked: 'Why not everything in person?' I respectfully point out that the move of some teaching, learning and assessment online was already happening pre-Covid.\n\n\"The pandemic merely accelerated the pace of change,\" said Prof West, the vice-chancellor of the University of the West of England Bristol.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu continued her fairytale run at the US Open by reaching the semi-finals with a dominant straight-set win over Swiss 11th seed Belinda Bencic.\n\nRaducanu, 18, again showed all of her quality and composure in a 6-3 6-4 win.\n\nVictory means she will rise to the cusp of the world's top 50 and become the British women's number one.\n\nRaducanu will play Maria Sakkari in Thursday's semis after the Greek beat Czech fourth seed Karolina Pliskova.\n\nIt will be the second of the women's singles semi-finals and will be played about 21:00 local time in New York (02:00 BST, Friday - live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live).\n• None Relive how Raducanu dismantled Bencic to reach US Open semi-finals\n• None 'I didn't expect to be here' - Raducanu had flights booked back to UK a fortnight ago\n\nIn only her second Grand Slam appearance, world number 150 Raducanu has become only the third woman ranked outside the top 100 to reach a US Open semi-final.\n\nAfter coming through three qualifying matches to reach the main draw, Raducanu is yet to drop a set in her eight matches at Flushing Meadows.\n\nWith her run in New York, Raducanu has recorded several notable achievements, including becoming:\n• None the first qualifier to reach the last four at Flushing Meadows\n• None the fourth female qualifier to reach any Grand Slam semi-final\n• None the first British woman to reach a US Open semi-final since Jo Durie in 1983\n• None the youngest British woman to reach a Grand Slam semi-final for 46 years\n\nWhen she sealed victory with her first match point, Raducanu clasped her head with her hands before 24-year-old Olympic champion Bencic sportingly came around the net to warmly embrace the victor.\n\nA beaming smile broke out across the Briton's face as she pointed to her team - in a mixture of shock and celebration - and contemplated what she had just achieved on Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\n\"I'm so, so happy to come through,\" said Raducanu, who earns prize money of $675,000 (£490,000) for reaching the last four.\n\n\"Belinda is such a great opponent and in unbelievable form, her ball speed caught me off guard so I had to adjust and adapt.\n\n\"I'm just taking care of what I can control and I'm on my own journey.\"\n\nThe fairytale of New York continues for Raducanu\n\nThree months ago, few outside British tennis knew Raducanu. Then she was ranked 361 in the world.\n\nRaducanu's world changed with a stunning run to the Wimbledon last 16 - after being given a wildcard on her Grand Slam debut - and her star has continued to rise following another series of displays in New York which have belied her years.\n\nAfter cruising through to the quarter-finals with a string of assured performances, playing Bencic in the last eight was supposed to be a step up in difficulty for Raducanu.\n\nQuestions were asked about how she would deal with an opponent of a greater pedigree than she had faced before, along with the weight of the occasion.\n\nRaducanu handled it in the same manner as she did the other victories at Flushing Meadows: with composed execution, clarity of thought and, still, a sense of enjoyment.\n\nAgainst Bencic, Raducanu was facing a top-40 opponent for the first time. Not only that, it was the world number 12 who won Olympic gold in Tokyo last month and had continued to ride the crest of a wave in New York.\n\nYet, after a slightly nervy start where she trailed 2-0, Raducanu grew in confidence to take control and left Bencic increasingly frustrated as the Kent teenager completed another remarkable victory.\n\nRaducanu's on-court maturity and ability to cope with the growing scrutiny have been among the youngster's most impressive traits, leading to 18-time Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova describing her \"as almost like a finished product when she is just getting started\".\n\nAfter the slow start, Raducanu hit the sideline with a fizzing forehand that helped her hold the third game and get on the scoreboard for the first time.\n\nHaving found her rhythm and timing, she began to unsettle Bencic with her aggressive play - particularly on the Swiss' second serve - and it reaped reward. Bencic produced a double fault at deuce in the sixth game, and then hit a backhand into the net, to hand the break back.\n\nFrom that point, Raducanu cut a more positive figure.\n\nIt was the second of five games in a row as the Briton took the opening set, a similar swing in momentum to her last-16 match against American hope Shelby Rogers.\n\nFrom the regular position of a frontrunner, Raducanu has been impenetrable and she continued to pile pressure on Bencic in the fifth game of the second set.\n\nAnother double fault from the Swiss - this time on break point - came at the worst possible time and handed the advantage to the teenager.\n\nBencic whacked her chair with the racquet at the changeover and her body language - putting hands on hips, slapping palms on thighs, gesticulating at her team - illustrated her annoyance at not being able to handle Raducanu's power.\n\nThat was in contrast to Raducanu, who mixes sharp intensity during the points with almost insouciance between them.\n\nSeconds before serving for the match, she flashed a beaming smile and casually tossed her racquet in the air.\n\nThen it was back to business and, like the previous service game, she trailed 30-0 before fighting back for the biggest win of her life with booming baseline strokes and accurate serving.\n\n\"It definitely took a lot of nerve to keep it together, focus on the next point and on what I could control,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"All I was thinking about was landing a first serve. It definitely means a lot to be in the semi-finals, I didn't think I'd be here.\"\n\nSakkari upsets Pliskova to set up meeting with Raducanu\n\nIn the evening session on Arthur Ashe, Sakkari claimed her place in the semi-finals with an assured display to upset Wimbledon finalist Pliskova.\n\nGreek 17th seed Sakkari, 26, won 6-4 6-4 and was impressive from the start, winning 92% of the points on her first serve, dropping only two service points in total in the opening set.\n\nThe French Open semi-finalist needed just one break point to gain a first-set advantage, before dealing another blow midway through the second.\n\nIt is the fifth successive year Pliskova, 29, has failed to go beyond the quarter-finals in New York - last doing so when she finished runner-up in 2016.\n\n\"I'm speechless. I don't know what to say,\" Sakkari said. \"Emma [Raducanu] is having a great run but I trust myself, my game and I believe a lot in myself.\"\n\n'It's incredible what she is doing' - reaction to Raducanu's win\n\nFormer British Davis Cup player Miles Maclagan on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It's astounding the way she has done it. She has breezed through! There's a sureness of where she belongs in the game and it's not a surprise to her. It's an ability to keep a calm head and have perspective at this age.\n\n\"Raducanu just needs to keep that rhythm going and not think too much. She appears to have mastered that already.\n\n\"She is not a great yet as there's a lot for her to do and achieve, but she is playing phenomenal tennis.\n\n\"There are a lot of very good players who haven't won a Grand Slam but Raducanu is defying the odds, isn't she?\"\n\nNaomi Broady, British tennis player, on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It was just relief at the end to get over the line. It's fantastic. She is out there thanking her team because she knows already it's a team effort.\n\n\"Everyone might say we need to calm down but because of the run she's on now, I think we can live in the moment.\"\n\nGigi Salmon, Radio 5 Live tennis commentator: \"She has dismantled Bencic like she has with all those who have gone before her. She is the new world number 51. She is also the British number one. But most importantly, she is a Grand Slam semi-finalist. It is absolutely incredible what she is doing.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None \"Sport can be an uncomfortable place\": Why are so many girls dropping out of sport?", "The Taliban's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced the new government in a press conference on Tuesday\n\nThe phrases have tripped off the tongues of Taliban for quite some time.\n\n\"We're working to establish an inclusive government that represents all the people of Afghanistan,\" promised Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar when he recently arrived in Kabul to start talks aimed at forming a leadership to move the movement from guns to government.\n\n\"We would like to live peacefully,\" vowed Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid at the first press conference in the capital after the Taliban suddenly swept into power on 15 August. \"We don't want any internal enemies and any external enemies.\"\n\nJudge them by their actions, not their words, has become the mantra of a fast-expanding league of Taliban watchers including Afghans, foreign governments, humanitarian chiefs and political pundits the world over.\n\nBut Afghans are watching most closely of all. They have to.\n\nOn a day when brave protesters with bold banners spilled into the streets of Kabul and other cities - Afghan women leading the charge to demand their rights, their representation, their roles in society - the new Taliban government was unveiled.\n\nWas this more evidence of the media-savvy Taliban? It temporarily knocked news of Taliban firing guns in the air, wielding rifle butts and sticks to disperse protesters, out of the world's headlines.\n\nBut it was a modest ceremony, in the mundane setting of a press conference, for such a momentous, much-anticipated message. It electrified social media, and delivered a gut punch to those who had held fast to Taliban promises.\n\nFar from being inclusive, it is exclusively Taliban. The old organigram of the Taliban movement, with its commissions, deputies, and the all-powerful Emir Hibatullah Akhundzada, has been transplanted into a cabinet with the same political architecture of governments everywhere.\n\nIts makeup is overwhelmingly drawn from Pashtun tribes, with only one Tajik and one Uzbek, both Talibs. There's not a single woman, not even in deputy minister positions.\n\nThe reviled Ministry of Vice and Virtue is back; the Women's Affairs Ministry is out.\n\nIt's a government of the old guard, and the new generation of mullahs and military commanders: men in charge when the Taliban ruled in the 1990s who return, beards much lighter and longer; former Guantanamo Bay prisoners; current members of US and UN black lists; battle-hardened fighters who pressed forward on every front in recent months; self-styled peacemakers who sat around negotiating tables, and shuttled around regional capitals with promises of a new Taliban 2.0.\n\nTaliban fighters stand in front of protesters during an anti-Pakistan protest in Kabul\n\nSome names stick out - some so far they can seem provocative.\n\nThe caretaker head of cabinet is the white-bearded Mullah Hasan Akhund, a founding member of the Taliban who's on the UN's sanctions list.\n\nThe caretaker Minister of the Interior is Sirajuddin Haqqani. His face has rarely been seen except in a photograph, partially obscured by a caramel-coloured shawl, in a FBI wanted poster announcing a big bounty of $5m that's also on his head. His more recent claim to fame was an op-ed in the New York Times in 2020 calling for peace which failed to mention that the Haqqani Network named after his family is held responsible for some of the worst attacks on Afghan civilians. The Haqqanis insist there's no such network; they say they're part of the Taliban now.\n\nThe caretaker Minister of Defence, Mullah Yaqoob, represented by a black silhouette, is the eldest son of the founding Emir of the Taliban, Mullah Omar.\n\nBut, wait, this is just a caretaker cabinet.\n\nAt the press conference in Kabul, as a raucous chorus of questions rose from journalists in the room, it was said more posts might be announced in time. \"We haven't announced all the ministries and deputies yet so it's possible this list could be extended,\" Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputy head of the cultural commission, told my colleague Secunder Kermani.\n\nThis may be the opening political salvo to reward and reassure their rank and file fighters, many of whom have been streaming into Kabul, to welcome the return of a \"pure Islamic system\".\n\nIt also appears as a carefully constructed compromise. Mullah Akhund suddenly emerged at the top, fixing in place rival political and military heavyweights including Mullah Baradar whom many predicted would take a leading role, instead of a deputy position.\n\nTaliban leaders are said to have pushed back against calls to include political leaders from the past, especially those tainted by corruption, arguing they've already had their time at the top.\n\nA phrase still rings in my ears from Taliban negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who's now been appointed as deputy foreign minister, the same role he held the last time round.\n\nWhen I asked him in February 2020, after the signing of the landmark US-Taliban deal, what he would say to Afghans who feared their return, he replied with great gusto: \"I tell them we will have a government acceptable to the majority.\" The word majority was punctuated by a loud emphasis.\n\nIn other words, a government dominated by traditional values, not what they mock as Western ideas.\n\nThose were heady days when Afghans dared to hope the worst of the war was over. Later that year, on the first day of formal Afghan talks in the Gulf state of Qatar, a buzz shot through the room when the Taliban hinted they would no longer be demanding an Islamic Emirate; they said they understood its sensitivity.\n\nIn talks with female negotiators, they reassured them women could play every role except president, including government ministers.\n\nThat was then. This is now. The Taliban are in charge.\n\n\"Those who do not pay attention to the social fabric of Afghanistan will face serious challenges,\" warns negotiator and former MP Fawzia Koofi, who heard many of those promises.\n\nThat challenge is already crystallising in protests on the streets, in statements from capitals around the world.\n\n\"The world is watching closely,\" warned a statement from the US State Department. \"Little chance of international recognition of Taliban soon,\" declared an editorial in Russia's Nezavisimaya Gazeta.\n\nAnd a challenge may even rise from within a younger generation of Taliban.\n\n\"We must pay attention to the lessons of history,\" a young Talib recently reflected to me. He emphasised that if the Taliban tried to dominate again, they could be toppled again, as they were in 2001, as the last government just was. Another expressed unease that mullahs schooled only in religious matters were being given so many posts.\n\nA Taliban fighter stands guard outside the building of the former US embassy\n\nIn a statement issued soon after the caretaker cabinet was announced, the Emir noted that \"all talented and professional people\" were desperately needed for their \"talents, guidance, and work.\"\n\nBut in all his exhortations, it was also clear the bottom line was about strengthening \"the system,\" the re-established Islamic Emirate. This takes precedence above all else.\n\nIn recent days in Kabul, I've asked Taliban watchers of various ilk if they thought the leadership would harden over time, or open up.\n\nPowerful winds could tilt them in many directions.\n\nThe world's major aid agencies, who provided around 80% of the old government's budget, are watching closely.\n\n\"They're in very, very dire straits,\" the UN's humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told me as he ended a visit where he emphasised the centrality of humanitarian principles and values, including the inclusion of women and girls. Senior officials, he remarked, asked him for patience and advice.\n\nAfghanistan's new leaders are also under the microscope of jihadi movements worldwide who've enthusiastically welcomed a new land of Islamic governance compliant with Islamic Sharia law.\n\nAfghanistan is, to use the expression, \"too big to fail\". Warnings about a safe haven for extremist groups, worries about human rights and a deepening humanitarian crisis of hunger and hardship, will concentrate many minds on trying to find a way to work with leaders still finding their way, still rooted in their past, rather than, as yet, a different kind of future.\n\nBut that mantra will stick - actions, not words, matter most.\n\nIn the UK you can listen to Lyse Doucet's podcast, A Wish for Afghanistan, on BBC Sounds .", "Compulsory Covid and flu jabs for frontline NHS and care workers in England are being considered in a government consultation.\n\nPlans are already in place to make it mandatory for care home workers in England to be fully vaccinated.\n\nBut some unions and care organisations have warned that making the jabs mandatory will lead to staff shortages.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid is urging all health service workers to get both jabs to protect vulnerable patients.\n\nAbout 88% of NHS trust staff have received two Covid doses, but in some trusts that falls to 78%, figures show.\n\nIn the UK, more than 30,000 new daily cases have been reported for nine days in a row and the number of people in hospital with the disease is rising.\n\nThe six-week consultation process will take views on whether vaccine requirements should apply for health and wider social care workers - those in contact with patients and people receiving care.\n\nThose working in care homes in England regulated by the Care Quality Commission need to be double jabbed, unless medically exempt, from November.\n\nThese latest proposals, if agreed, would extend that to all health service workers and would mean that only those who are fully vaccinated - unless exempt - would be able to be deployed to deliver health and care services.\n\nCare organisations have warned compulsory vaccinations could cause difficulties in a sector that already struggles with recruitment.\n\nSocial care minister Helen Whately said about 90% of care home staff have already been vaccinated and the government was working with care homes to support staff who were hesitant about getting the jab.\n\nAsked if they would be sacked if they did not get vaccinated, she told BBC's Breakfast alterative roles would be sought for them outside the care home, adding: \"This is really difficult.\"\n\nShe said she had spoken to care home residents and their families who said they wanted workers double vaccinated to give them the most protection against Covid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We want the NHS backlogs to be cleared as fast as possible\"\n\nViews from government advisory bodies on the plans are mixed.\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) Social Care Working Group advises a similar approach to vaccination across social care and health sectors, because the network of residents, patients and workers are so close and often overlap.\n\nWhile Professor Adam Finn, from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said if the proposals did go ahead, it would be \"like an admission of failure\" and imply that messaging was not effective enough.\n\n\"It's like saying you can't either find the time or find the ability to explain to people why it makes sense and create the culture in which everybody does it because they understand why it's important,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe consultation is expected to focus on the proposals, their scope, and any impact on staffing and safety such as reducing staff sickness absence.\n\nStaff, healthcare providers, patients and their families are all being urged to share their view with the government, with a final decision expected this winter.\n\nMr Javid said it was clear to see the impact vaccines had against respiratory viruses which could be fatal to the vulnerable.\n\n\"We will consider the responses to the consultation carefully but, whatever happens, I urge the small minority of NHS staff who have not yet been jabbed to consider getting vaccinated - for their own health as well as those around them,\" he said.\n\nThe government said there was a longstanding precedent for vaccination in NHS roles - some surgeons already have to have Hepatitis B jabs if they are likely to be exposed to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have not made Covid vaccines compulsory for care home staff.\n\nFlu vaccination has been recommended to vulnerable groups in the UK since the 1960s.\n\nNational flu jab rates in the health service have increased over the last decade, from 14% in 2002 to 76% last year.\n\nExperts are warning of a possible surge in flu cases this year as coronavirus lockdowns meant flu levels were very low last winter.", "Conservative Party co-chair Ben Elliot has been warned to maintain a \"clear distinction\" between his public duties and his private business interests.\n\nThe lobbying watchdog investigated after reports suggested Mr Elliot's firm Quintessentially had arranged access to top politicians for clients.\n\nIt found it \"had not been engaging in consultant lobbying activity\".\n\nBut it urged Mr Elliot to be \"cautious\" and ensure his two roles remain separate.\n\nMr Elliot's spokesman said: \"The registrar has made clear that Quintessentially does not lobby government and therefore does not need to register as a lobbyist.\"\n\nLabour said Prime Minister Boris Johnson should sack him from his role in the Conservative Party.\n\nLobbying is the widely used term for individuals, businesses, trade unions, groups or charities trying to persuade a government to change its policies.\n\nThe Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (ORCL) began an investigation last month into whether Quintessentially - which provides art, travel services and property for wealthy clients - had become an \"unregistered consultant lobbyist\".\n\nIt found the company had given \"substantive assurances that no consultant lobbying is undertaken\" on behalf of customers.\n\nBut the ORCL also said Mr Elliot should be careful \"about the possibility of engaging in consultant lobbying activity (perhaps unintentionally) by not making a clear enough distinction between his role as a director of Quintessentially and his other activities connected to government\".\n\nLabour Party chair Anneliese Dodds said: \"The lobbying regulator is sending a clear message to Boris Johnson about the actions of the co-chair of the Conservative Party.\"\n\nShe added: \"Boris Johnson appointed this man to his post, so the prime minister must take responsibility and remove him immediately.\"", "Amazon has offered to cover the cost of college tuition of all 750,000 of its frontline workers in the US.\n\nIt comes as the online shopping giant struggles to attract and retain staff amid an industry wide labour shortage.\n\nThe firm said it would invest $1.2bn in the scheme, with workers able to access the annual funding for as long as they remain at Amazon.\n\nIt is the latest big firm to offer to fund workers' education after similar moves by Walmart and Target.\n\nIn a blog post, Amazon said its college tuition offer would apply at \"hundreds of education partners across the country\" without stating which ones.\n\nThe shopping giant said it would also cover other types of education including high school diplomas and English language courses, as well as extending on-the-job career training to 300,000.\n\n\"Amazon is now the largest job creator in the US, and we know that investing in free skills training for our teams can have a huge impact for hundreds of thousands of families across the country,\" said Dave Clark, head of worldwide consumer at Amazon.\n\nUS firms are offering a range of benefits and incentives to lure employees back to the workforce as restrictions ease.\n\nAccording to the US Labor Department, job openings hit a fresh record high of 10.9 million in July, surpassing the number of unemployed people by more than two million.\n\nExperts say a mixture of people leaving the workforce during the pandemic, lingering concerns about Covid and a lack of childcare have prolonged the shortage.\n\nLast month Walmart said it would pay the costs of tuition and books for its hourly staffers, with about 1.5 million people eligible.\n\nAnd Target said it would offer free undergraduate degrees to more than 340,000 employees at its US stores.\n\nFirms have also raised starting wages or offered bonuses to win workers, with some even urging 14 and 15 year-olds to apply to tackle the shortage.", "Journalists from the Etilaatroz newspaper were flogged with cables\n\nJournalists in Afghanistan say that they have been beaten, detained and flogged by the Taliban when attempting to cover protests.\n\nPhotos circulating online show two journalists from Etilaatroz newspaper with welts and bruises after their arrest in the capital Kabul.\n\nOne of them, Taqi Daryabi, told the BBC he had been taken to a district police station where he was kicked and beaten.\n\nOn Wednesday, the BBC's team were also prevented from filming.\n\nMr Daryabi, alongside Etilaatroz's photographer Nematullah Naqdi, had been covering a women's protest in Kabul on Wednesday.\n\nAfterwards, they were taken to a police station, where they say they were beaten with batons, electrical cables and whips. A few hours later, they were released by the Taliban, without explanation.\n\n\"They took me to another room and handcuffed my hands behind me,\" he told the BBC's Secunder Kermani in Kabul. \"I decided not to defend myself because I thought they would just beat me even worse, so I lay down on floor in a position to protect the front of my body.\n\n\"Eight of them came and they started beating me... Using sticks, police sticks, rubber - whatever they had in their hands. The scar on my face is from shoes where they kicked me in face.\n\n\"I was unconscious after that so they stopped. They took me to another building where there were cells and left me.\"\n\nMr Daryabi said he had fallen unconscious after the beating, and that after about two hours he had been released.\n\n\"I could barely walk but they were telling us to walk quickly. I was in very bad pain.\"\n\nNematullah Naqdi said Taliban fighters had tried to take away his camera as soon as he started taking photographs of the protest.\n\n\"One of the Taliban put his foot on my head, crushed my face against the concrete. They kicked me in the head... I thought they were going to kill me,\" Mr Naqdi told AFP news agency.\n\nHe asked why he was being beaten, only to be told: \"You are lucky you weren't beheaded.\"\n\nAfghanistan's Tolo news agency reported that its cameraman had been arrested and held by the Taliban for nearly three hours.\n\nThe CPJ, an international non-governmental organisation, said at least 14 journalists had been detained and then released over the past two days.\n\n\"The Taliban is quickly proving that earlier promises to allow Afghanistan's independent media to continue operating freely and safely are worthless,\" said Steven Butler, CPJ's Asia programme co-ordinator.\n\n\"We urge the Taliban to live up to those earlier promises, to stop beating and detaining reporters doing their job, and allow the media to work freely without fear of reprisal.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the Taliban, which seized control of Afghanistan in a sweeping offensive more than three weeks ago, announced the formation of an all-male interim government to rule the country.\n\nSince then, they have effectively banned protests, declaring them illegal unless permission is sought from the ministry of justice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A group of women protest in Kabul against the all-male Taliban government", "Three is the latest mobile network to announce it is reintroducing roaming charges between the UK and Europe.\n\nFrom 23 May 2022, customers who have taken out a new or upgraded contract after 1 October will have to pay £2 a day to use their monthly allowance of minutes, texts and data in the EU.\n\nIt follows similar announcements from EE and Vodafone earlier this year.\n\nThree is also extending changes to other destinations, introducing a £5 a day charge for roaming outside Europe.\n\nThe move effectively ends Three's long-standing roaming feature, branded \"Go Roam\", which allowed customers to use their contract allowances in 71 countries, including distant locations such as the USA, Hong Kong and Australia.\n\n\"This is a huge blow to Three customers,\" said Paolo Pescatore, a telecoms analyst at PP Foresight.\n\n\"Free roaming to so many destinations helped lure and retain users. Now this is no longer a differentiator, it will be hard for Three to stand out in an increasingly crowded and cut-throat market,\" he warned.\n\nIn a statement, Three said: \"The new charge ensures that customers are clear on what they will pay when using their phone in another country and only those who roam will pay for the service.\n\n\"It will also ensure that we can continue investing in our UK network.\"\n\nThe change does not affect roaming to Ireland or in the Isle of Man.\n\nMobile operators have also said they are under pressure from rising costs, including wholesale costs which can be much higher for UK networks.\n\nUnder EU rules, citizens could use their contract's minutes, texts, and data while roaming in the EU. But that is no longer the case post-Brexit as the trade deal did not include it.\n\nUK law does, however, cap roaming charges at £45 per month, unless the user explicitly decides to spend more.\n\nAll major UK operators had previously said they had no plans to reintroduce roaming fees in Europe.\n\nEE was the first to break ranks and announce that it would do so, followed by Vodafone.\n\nO2 said there is currently no change in its stated position - that it has no plans to change roaming fees.\n\nIn a statement, Sky Mobile said: \"Customers will not be charged roaming charges in EU countries and will be able to continue to use their data, call and text allowances as they do in the UK.\"", "The government is planning to overhaul the travel traffic light system, with changes set to be announced in weeks.\n\nGreen and amber categories could be removed and replaced with a new system, the BBC has been told.\n\nA new system would allow vaccinated travellers to go to countries with similarly high levels of vaccination as the UK without the need for quarantine.\n\nSources say the red category, which is for countries which the government says should not be visited, will remain.\n\nUnder current restrictions, red countries should not be visited \"except in the most extreme of circumstances\" and travellers returning from them must self-isolate for 10 days in a government-approved hotel.\n\nThe government declined to comment on the plans but said: \"Our international travel policy is guided by one overwhelming priority - protecting public health.\n\n\"The next formal checkpoint review will take place by 1 October 2021.\"\n\nIt is understood that the government has asked senior travel industry leaders to make proposals for international travel to replace the current traffic light system.\n\nThe government devised the travel traffic light system to limit the transmission of Covid-19 from overseas and protect against new variants coming into the country.\n\nOne of the key demands from industry bosses is the removal of Covid testing as a necessity of travel back to the UK, which they say puts customers off booking due to cost.\n\nThis would bring the UK in line with much of European Union, which does not mandate Covid tests for vaccinated travellers within the bloc. It is unclear whether this will happen in the UK.\n\nTravel industry bosses believe it is crucial that the sector receives a boost of confidence to encourage travellers and holidaymakers to book and travel again.\n\nThey say the fear caused by category changes is a huge barrier to customers booking and the sector ultimately moving into recovery.\n\nSudden changes to the traffic light categories for Portugal and Mexico at the start of the summer saw holidaymakers having to rush home at short notice.\n\nBosses also point to the \"damaging\" impact on business when commentators speculate on potential changes to countries moving on and off green, amber and red lists, which then prove to be incorrect when government decisions are officially released.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph first reported that the government was planning to scrap the traffic light system.\n\nThe third government review of international travel is due by 1 October, but sources say changes could come as soon as next week.\n\nTravel industry leaders want changes to happen as soon as possible, as the furlough scheme is due to end on 30 September and thousands of travel sector workers are still on the wage support scheme.\n\nA relaxation in travel rules, they believe, would lead to a bookings surge, which may protect the jobs of those currently on furlough.\n\nOne industry source said: \"Removing PCR testing for vaccinated passengers is essential. We have to align ourselves with what the rest of Europe are doing and stop being such an outlier.\n\nThey added that the sector now faces a \"perfect storm\": \"This summer should have been the big reopening of travel - like has happened domestically - but it wasn't because of the insistence on hugely complex and expensive tests.\"\n\nYesterday, the chief executive of British Airways, Sean Doyle, demanded that the Covid testing and quarantine system is changed, saying it is \"not fit for purpose and must be simplified\".\n\nHe added: \"We had the traffic light system over the summer. There was some progress made, but I think it's not fit for purpose. It needs to be simplified and adapted in the same way that we see in Europe and in the US.\n\nIndustry leaders say they are aware any policy changes will not happen until proposals are signed off by the Chief Scientific Officer and the Health Secretary.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Decisions on our traffic light system are kept under regular review and are informed by the latest risk assessment from the Joint Biosecurity Centre and wider public health factors.\"", "The Ajax was intended to be \"fully digital\" and provide the Army with modern armoured fighting vehicles\n\nDefence Minister Jeremy Quin has said he \"cannot 100% promise\" that noise and vibration problems with the Army's new fleet of armoured vehicles can be resolved.\n\nHe told MPs the programme remains \"troubled\" and said he could give no deadline for issues to be sorted out.\n\nIt comes after the Ministry of Defence confirmed more than 300 soldiers are being assessed for hearing loss.\n\nLabour said the programme is on \"end of life watch\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) signed a contract for 589 of the Ajax armoured vehicles in 2014 and has already spent nearly £3.5bn on the troubled flagship programme.\n\nThe vehicles, which are fully digital, were billed as the \"next generation\" of armoured vehicles but have been beset by problems.\n\nTrials were halted in March and again in June after crews reported problems with noise and vibration.\n\nThe future of the British Army's most expensive equipment programme hangs in the balance.\n\nEven the Ministry of Defence now calls Ajax \"a troubled programme\".\n\nSome MPs think it's worse than that - only a matter of time before it has to be cancelled.\n\nLabour says Ajax is on a death watch and someone needs to be held responsible for what's gone wrong.\n\nThe Army - never the most transparent organisation - knew of the problems with noise and vibration years ago.\n\nDefence Minister Jeremy Quin has at least been willing to lay out the facts. By doing so he's piling on the pressure on the main contractor, General Dynamics, UK.\n\nMr Quin says he still hopes they will successfully complete the programme. But he's not giving any guarantees.\n\nNor is he willing to say how much longer he's prepared to wait.\n\nMaking a statement in the Commons, Mr Quin confirmed independent trials had resumed at the testing site, Milbrook.\n\nHe said time and space was needed to get results and data would not be available this month because \"considerable work needs to be undertaken\".\n\nAnd he admitted that vibration concerns were raised before trials first began in 2019.\n\nBut he said he hoped issues could be rectified and the vehicles brought in to service.\n\nAn independent report by the MoD's director of health and safety would also look at the concerns raised, he added.\n\nHe said: \"I have previously described Ajax as a troubled programme. It is, but that does not mean that the problems are irresolvable.\"\n\nThe system represents a step-change in the capabilities of the British Army, he added, but he said that ministers would \"never accept a vehicle that does not meet our testing requirements\" and would work with the manufacturer, General Dynamics, to fix the outstanding issues.\n\nConservative former defence minister, Mark Francois, told the Commons Ajax is an example of why the MoD's procurement process is \"completely broken\".\n\nHe said that analysis of the top 36 MoD programmes showed that the Ajax programme was \"red, unlikely ever to be achieved\".\n\nHe said: \"How many were green? Successfully on track of the 36?\n\n\"None, zero, zilch, nothing. Not one major MoD procurement programme is successfully on track.\n\n\"This is over a £100bn of British taxpayers' money.\"\n\nHe added: \"You have got a broken system and you are in total denial. What are you going to do about it?\"\n\nLabour's shadow defence minister, John Healey, said it was a \"shocking\" admission that \"it is not possible to determine a realistic timetable\" for Ajax's introduction into service could be given.\n\nHe said that it had gone \"from bad to worse\" since ministers last updated MPs three months ago.\n\n\"This is a programme that has cost £3.5bn to date, delivered just 14 vehicles and is set to be completed a decade late.\n\n\"The minister's statement now puts Ajax on an end of life watch,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPoland snatched an injury-time equaliser to deprive England of three points in Warsaw and a sixth straight victory in their qualifying campaign for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nEngland looked on course to maintain that perfect sequence of results in European Group I and take another giant stride towards Qatar after a moment of quality from Harry Kane gave them the lead when he sent a dipping drive past Poland keeper Wojciech Szczesny with 18 minutes left.\n\nGareth Southgate's side had performed with commendable maturity to control Poland and a hostile crowd giving thunderous backing to their team - but it all changed one minute into four minutes of stoppage time.\n\nEngland had restricted the great Poland striker Robert Lewandowski to limited opportunities but he delivered a perfect cross for substitute Damian Szymanski to rise above Luke Shaw at the far post to head past Jordan Pickford.\n\nIt was a bitter blow to England's players, who sank to their knees in disappointment, after fighting so hard but a draw does not cause too much damage and they still remain in control of their own destiny.\n\nThe Three Lions are four points clear at the top of Group I with four games remaining.\n\nEngland's players were once again loudly jeered when taking the knee after the Poland fans had warmly applauded their national anthem, boos drowned out after gestures from Szczesny and Lewandowski.\n• None 'Painful final minutes for England but one step closer to Qatar'\n• None Reaction and relive the action from Warsaw between Poland and England\n• None What's the state of play in European World Cup qualifying?\n\nKane had a turbulent summer, unsettled at Spurs as speculation of a move to Manchester City accompanied his every move, but he is back in the old routine for England without barely breaking his stride.\n\nThis was billed as the battle between Kane and his Poland opposite number Lewandowski but this was a game where it was possible to simply enjoy two masters of their craft at work.\n\nKane picked up the ball 25 yards out with 18 minutes left before proving he is ever the opportunist by flashing a dipping swerving drive beyond the deceived Szczesny.\n\nIt was his 41st goal for England, making him the country's fifth highest international goalscorer and continued an incredible record of scoring in 15 consecutive World Cup and Euro qualifiers.\n\nHe is a single-minded leader and a striker of genuine class and Southgate and England were once again grateful to that cutting edge he brings them.\n\nKane's strike may not have brought victory but a point is still an acceptable result despite the painful conclusion here in Warsaw.\n\nIt all went wrong for England in those chaotic final moments but until Poland's late surge they had once again shown they are developing and have not suffered too many after-effects from the Euro 2020 final loss to Italy on penalties.\n\nPoland tested England out with their intensity and physical commitment but Southgate's side stood strong while also having to deal with a crowd of 56,212 made up entirely of home support.\n\nEvery attack and moment of encouragement sent huge roars around this superb stadium but England remained composed, apart from a half-time flashpoint when Harry Maguire and Kamil Glik were booked after the whistle after Poland's Karol Linetty appeared to pinch Kyle Walker.\n\nIt was only late on that England wobbled, Walker diving in rashly in the build-up to Poland's leveller, as the home side were rewarded for the way they stuck to their task.\n\nThis state-of-the-art Warsaw stadium is a magnificent, atmospheric arena but once again the spotlight was on the crowd after England's players suffered racist abuse during their qualifying win in Hungary.\n\nAs England's national anthem started to play, it was met with some jeers but in gestures that did them huge credit, former Arsenal keeper Szczesny appealed for those Poland fans responsible to stope while Lewandowski pointed to the \"Respect\" slogan on his shirt.\n\nIt had a remarkable impact as those few jeers turned into genuinely warm applause from the vast majority of the crowd throughout the anthem.\n\nSadly, the same did not apply when England's players took the knee, where they were once again met with a crescendo of booing.\n\nThe game itself was played out in a noisy, vibrant atmosphere and the celebrations for the equaliser were worthy of a winner - but the contrasting behaviour before kick-off will once again be under scrutiny.\n• None Damian Dawid Szymanski (Poland) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.\n• None Goal! Poland 1, England 1. Damian Dawid Szymanski (Poland) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Robert Lewandowski with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Karol Linetty (Poland) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (Poland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jan Bednarek.\n• None Attempt blocked. Declan Rice (England) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Substitution, Poland. Michal Helik replaces Kamil Glik because of an injury.\n• None Karol Linetty (Poland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Think you know your sport?: Paddy McGuinness hosts brand new Question of Sport with Sam Quek and Ugo Monye\n• None Two bodies and one brutally authentic Swedish crime drama", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport website and app. Live text commentary and in-depth coverage on the website and app\n\nEmma Raducanu says it is a \"weird feeling\" to have reached the US Open semi-finals and be one of the last few remaining players in the locker room.\n\nThe 18-year-old Briton continues her dream run when she meets Greek 17th seed Maria Sakkari on Thursday.\n\nThe pair play on Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York at about 21:00 local time (02:00 BST, Friday).\n\n\"I didn't think I'd be here. But now I am, I'm so excited to get out there,\" said Raducanu.\n\nRaducanu has exceeded expectations in her first overseas Grand Slam - and only her fourth tour-level event - by becoming the first qualifier to reach the US Open last four.\n• None Raducanu's fairytale run continues as she reaches US Open semi-finals\n• None 'I didn't expect to be here' - Raducanu had return flight booked a fortnight ago\n\nAfter coming through three qualifying matches to reach the main draw, the Kent teenager is yet to drop a set in her eight matches at Flushing Meadows.\n\nThe latest triumph came against Swiss 11th seed Belinda Bencic on Wednesday and set up the last-four meeting with Sakkari, who also reached the semi-finals at the French Open in June.\n\nRaducanu joked that the fewer players there were left in the tournament the \"easier to get a practice court at a decent time\".\n\n\"To be in the semi-finals with so few people left in the tournament, it is a weird feeling and I haven't quite wrapped my head around it,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm excited though, for sure.\"\n\nAfter beating Czech fourth seed Karolina Pliskova in her quarter-final, Sakkari said: \"Emma is having a great run but I trust myself and trust my game. I believe a lot in myself.\"\n\nRaducanu ready to star under the New York lights\n\nRaducanu has continued to break new ground at Flushing Meadows and there will be another new experience when she plays in the night session on Ashe for the first time.\n\nPlaying underneath the lights on the biggest tennis court on the world - which has a capacity of nearly 24,000 - is an experience like no other.\n\nWith exuberant fans enjoying the mid-match entertainment - which usually includes music, dancing fans, celebrities being introduced to the crowd and 'Kiss Cam' at the changeovers - there is always a din of background noise in a crackling atmosphere.\n\n\"It'll be my first night match here in New York and it will be a cool atmosphere,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"Playing in the evening I have a bit more time to recover and prepare as much as possible, then we will see what happens.\"\n\nRaducanu has long been tipped as a future star by those who know her, but nobody would have predicted the ease with which she has breezed through the US Open main draw.\n\nShe has not even been taken to a tie-break, conceding just 22 games to her five opponents in the main draw.\n\nBeating Bencic means Raducanu will rise to the cusp of the world's top 50, in the process overhauling Johanna Konta and Heather Watson to become the British women's number one.\n\nOne more victory will lift her into the top 30 - moving her above American veteran Serena Williams, who did not play in this year's US Open because of injury.\n\nWhat Raducanu has achieved in her fairytale in New York Raducanu is the first qualifier to reach the last four at Flushing Meadows The 18-year-old is the fourth female qualifier to reach any Grand Slam semi-final She is the first British woman to reach a US Open semi-final since Jo Durie in 1983 Only the third woman ranked outside the top 100 to reach a US Open semi-final\n\nReaching the last four also guarantees $675,000 (£490,000) in prize money. Having only played three tour-level events before the US Open - including the last-16 run at Wimbledon - Raducanu had previously earned $303,376 (£220,380) in her career.\n\nWhatever happens on Thursday at Flushing Meadows, British doubles player Naomi Broady says she is convinced Raducanu will become a star in British tennis for many years to come.\n\n\"It is so exciting. Everyone can say we need to calm down, we've seen it before and nothing has come of it, but with what we've seen in this run, let us live in this moment of excitement,\" said Broady, who revealed she was texting Raducanu a few hours before Wednesday's quarter-final.\n\n\"I wasn't sure if she would be responding because I thought she might be off her phone.\n\n\"She was super relaxed - it was a totally normal conversation.\n\n\"You wouldn't have thought she was about to go on for her first Grand Slam quarter-final.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Think you know your sport?: Paddy McGuinness hosts brand new Question of Sport with Sam Quek and Ugo Monye\n• None Two bodies and one brutally authentic Swedish crime drama", "A fire risk assessor for Grenfell Tower was \"professionally reckless\" for signing off its cladding as safe without evidence, an inquiry has heard.\n\nExpert witness Dr Barbara Lane said Carl Stokes was not qualified to say the cladding complied with regulations.\n\nShe disagreed with another witness who had suggested it was reasonable for Mr Stokes to assume the cladding met fire safety regulations.\n\nThe deadly fire in June 2017 has been partly blamed on dangerous cladding.\n\nSeventy-two people died in the disaster in west London.\n\nThe second phase of the public inquiry is looking into the cause of the fire, including how the 24-storey tower came to be in a condition which allowed the fire to spread.\n\nFormer firefighter Mr Stokes won the contract to conduct fire risk assessments for the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (TMO) in September 2010.\n\nWhen he gave evidence to the inquiry in June, he admitted he based his fire risk assessment on an informal conversation with someone working for the main contractor at Grenfell Tower.\n\nDr Lane, a fire engineering and safety specialist, said this was \"professionally reckless behaviour\" and Mr Stokes' conclusion should have been supported by evidence.\n\nShe said he wrongly concluded in a report that the cladding was \"fire-rated\".\n\nIn April 2017, a few months before the fire, Mr Stokes also told the TMO which ran Grenfell Tower that \"the cladding complied with the requirements of the building regulations\".\n\nDr Lane said Mr Stokes was not qualified to make this statement and that in doing so he departed from the acceptable standards of a person providing safety advice.\n\nThe inquiry has already concluded that the aluminium cladding breached building regulations because it allowed the flames to spread.\n\nThe building control department of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has admitted failings in its assessment of the Grenfell Tower refurbishment. A police investigation is ongoing.\n\nHowever, Mr Stokes was employed to do regular risk assessments for the tower, and could have checked with others that a safe cladding system had been installed.\n\nA question for the inquiry will be whether that was his job.\n\nWhen he gave evidence Mr Stokes was adamant it was not. He said he did not even know Grenfell was being fitted with cladding until he walked past in 2014 and saw a sample for residents to assess.\n\nAn earlier expert witness, fire engineer Colin Todd, told the inquiry in July that assessing the cladding was beyond the expertise of risk assessors.\n\nHe said it was reasonable to assume the cladding complied with building regulations because the council's building control was involved.\n\nBut Dr Lane, who has been giving a week of evidence, said Mr Stokes should have checked whether the newly renovated walls of the tower complied with safety rules, as part of his inspection.\n\nIf you want to find out more about the Grenfell Tower public inquiry you can find all episodes of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast on the BBC website.", "The government is expected to announce a shake-up of the HGV driver testing process as soon as Thursday.\n\nIt wants to fast track drivers into the haulage industry amid chronic shortages which have caused supply problems.\n\nThe BBC understands that during meetings between government officials, hauliers and suppliers, the \"penny finally dropped\" that the driver shortage was getting worse not better.\n\nThe government said meetings with affected groups were ongoing.\n\nIt added any change in policy would be announced in due course.\n\nWidespread supply chain issues caused by the driver shortage have hit a range of sectors, including food, drink and medicines.\n\n\"The government seem to finally understand the scale of the problem. For the first time they looked rattled\", industry sources told the BBC.\n\nIt's thought the centrepiece of the proposals could include combining the Class C test used for rigid lorries and Class E for larger articulated lorries into a single test.\n\nCurrently, there is usually a 2-3 week minimum period between taking the two tests.\n\nThe haulage industry said a perfect storm of a post-Brexit exodus of drivers, an ageing and retiring workforce and COVID-related delays to testing new drivers had brought some supply chains to breaking point.\n\nHaulage firms, desperate for drivers to fill lorries left idle and to complete orders left unfulfilled, welcomed the move but warned that it would not be enough to fix the cracks appearing in supply chains.\n\nThey reiterated their calls for HGV drivers to be added to the Shortage Occupation List which would allow firms to temporarily bring back some of the estimated 20,000 EU drivers who have left the industry.\n\nPaul Jackson of Chiltern Distribution said: \"This is a sensible move but it's not enough to fix the problem.\n\n\"We don't put newly qualified drivers straight behind the wheel on their own. We buddy them up with experienced drivers for the first 8-10 weeks and the insurance costs for new drivers are also much higher.\n\n\"We desperately need to put HGV drivers on the list of skilled workers we can bring in from abroad.\"\n\nThe Chemical Business Association, which represents chemical firms within the supply chain, reiterated concerns that its members were struggling to get chemicals to water companies.\n\nTim Doggett, its chief executive, said: \"The supply chain situation in the UK is deteriorating.\"\n\nA survey conducted by the industry group suggests 96% of member companies are now experiencing issues with UK haulage, up from 63% in its last survey in June.\n\nThe Chemical Business Association has written to ministers warning about the effects of driver shortages.\n\nThe group write to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in June, saying that \"there was a contingent risk to the supply of chemicals into vital areas such as water treatment, which would be critical to the health and wellbeing of the population\".\n\nThe government is expected to say that the new regime will mean up to 3,000 new drivers can be tested per week.\n\nCurrently the pass rate is 56% so that would mean an extra 1,600 drivers per week.\n\nBut Richard Burnett of the Road Haulage Association said the industry was losing 600 drivers a week from the industry and with a net shortfall of 90,000 drivers, it would take nearly two years to fill the gap.\n\nThe industry was already reporting shortages of about 60,000 drivers before Brexit and the pandemic.\n\nEven allowing for that, he said there was no way to plug the recent gaps in time for Christmas - when the UK is more reliant on EU food imports.\n\nIn addition, the RHA said the onset of winter weather would throw up obstacles. \"The reality is that an industry already struggling to meet delivery schedules will be brought to its knees at the first outbreak of bad weather conditions.\"\n\nThe managing director of BJS Distribution Storage and Couriers, Harinder Singh, said the new shorter test was \"not a solution it is a risk\".\n\n\"Making the test easier does not make better drivers. The solution to the current shortage is to allow temporary visas to drivers from countries that understand the legislation and legal driving parameters of the UK, otherwise this isn't going to solve itself.\n\n\"By making the test easier you are putting more risk onto the road,\" he added.", "Police would like to speak to Dami Tobi Ayans over the treatment of Ben King, who later died at Cawston Park\n\nPolice have named a man wanted in connection with an investigation into the ill-treatment of a patient with severe learning disabilities who later died at a private hospital.\n\nBen King, 32, also had Down's Syndrome and was being treated at Jeesal Cawston Park, near Aylsham in Norfolk, when he died on 29 July 2020.\n\nNorfolk Police want to trace Dami Tobi Ayans, 60, who is thought to have previously lived in the Costessey area.\n\nMr King had been detained at Cawston Park under the Mental Health Act in 2018.\n\nFollowing an inquest into his death, a report by coroner Jacqueline Lake said Mr King had been given a sedative on 28 July after showing signs of agitation.\n\nThe report said CCTV viewed at the inquest showed Mr King had been assaulted in the hours prior to his death.\n\nThe hospital, which had been placed in special measures by Care Quality Commission inspectors in 2019, was closed earlier this year because provider Jeesal had been \"unable to demonstrate improvements\".", "Coffee chain Costa Coffee has announced a 5% pay rise for 14,500 staff working at its company-owned stores in the UK.\n\nThe coffee chain is also recruiting 2,000 more people due to rising demand following the ease of Covid restrictions.\n\nCosta said the pay rise was to thank staff for their hard work during the pandemic.\n\nThis follows redundancies last year when the coffee chain was forced to cut costs.\n\nIn September 2020, Costa put up to 1,650 jobs at risk after demand failed to rebound following the first coronavirus lockdown. In the end it made 609 people redundant.\n\nThe coffee chain said it now needs more staff to support new stores and rising demand as it prepares for the typically-busy festive period.\n\nOn average, store team members will take home £500-£900 more per year once the wage increase comes into effect from 1 October.\n\nCosta owns 1,500 stores in the UK, while another 1,200 stores are franchise-owned.\n\nThe pay rise does not include workers at franchise-owned stores.\n\n\"Our team members are the heart of our business and as we continue to emerge stronger from the pandemic, this 5% pay increase is one way we are able to show our thanks to them,\" said Neil Lake, managing director of Costa Coffee UK & Ireland.\n\n\"Our teams have been through the most challenging year and a half in living memory and have shown incredible passion, resilience, and commitment as they continue to serve perfectly crafted cups of Costa coffee to consumers across the country.\"\n\nCosta said all store team members would receive a pay increase of at least 45p per hour, meaning minimum pay for the role will rise from £8.91 to £9.36 per hour.\n\nStaff at the rank of \"Barista Maestro\", who oversee how the coffee is made and manage branches, will receive a pay rise of 65p per hour, bringing their minimum pay up from £9.64 to £10.29 per hour.\n\nWhile top rates of pay vary according to location and experience, Costa said the top rate for store staff would go up from £10.64 to £11.29 per hour.", "Dame Cressida Dick became the first woman to lead the Metropolitan Police when she was appointed in 2017\n\nVictims of police injustice are calling for the prime minister to replace Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick when her contract comes to an end in April.\n\nIn an open letter, they accuse her of \"presiding over a culture of incompetence and cover-up\".\n\nThe BBC understands Dame Cressida, 60, has been offered a two-year extension and that negotiations are ongoing.\n\nSince her appointment in 2017, she has been involved in several controversies.\n\nTwo of the seven who signed the letter, published in the Daily Mail, are Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack, and Lady Brittan, whose home was raided when her husband Lord Brittan was falsely accused of child abuse.\n\nThe others include Alastair Morgan, whose brother Daniel was murdered in 1987 - the killer remains unidentified and a report into the case accused the force of institutional corruption and sparked denials from the Met's leadership - and the son of D-Day Army officer Lord Bramall, who was falsely accused of child sexual abuse by the paedophile and fantasist Carl Beech.\n\nBBC broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, who was arrested as part of Operation Yewtree, and the former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor - another victim of Beech's false allegations - are also signatories, as is Sir Edward Heath's biographer Michael McManus. The former prime minister was another public figure smeared by Beech.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Gambaccini: \"The Metropolitan Police have obfuscated the truth from the people of this country\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Mr Proctor said it was \"utterly extraordinary\" the government should contemplate extending Dame Cressida's tenure \"even for a day, let alone two years\".\n\nHe said the letter's signatories were linked by their common experiences of police malpractice over a number of years, and they had come up with no reason why the chief commissioner \"who has failed and failed and failed\" should be given an extension.\n\n\"There must be other chief commissioners outside of London who'd be prepared to do the job and do it a great deal better, with integrity and without cover-up after cover-up.\n\n\"I personally believe she should have resigned months ago. I'm not fighting for myself, I'm fighting for the future so that it won't happen to anyone else.\n\n\"And it could happen to someone else if changes are not made at the top of the Metropolitan Police. No-one has been held responsible for the problems Operation Midland [the Carl Beech allegations investigation] created.\n\n\"The commissioner even got a damehood - quite outrageous.\"\n\nHarvey Proctor said Dame Cressida should have resigned months ago\n\nMr Proctor said he received an apology in person from Lord Hogan-Howe, Dame Cressida's predecessor, who was the Met's chief commissioner while Beech's allegations were treated as \"credible and true\", but he rejected an apology from Dame Cressida because \"her words and actions did not go hand in hand\".\n\n\"I call on the prime minister and the home secretary to meet with all seven of us to hear our experiences - and I would defy them then to continue with any extension of her remit.\"\n\nMr Gambaccini, who sued the Met over the way it dealt with accusations against him, said Dame Cressida postponed the case for as long as possible in what he described as \"three and a half years of non-honesty\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire, he also said that he and his fellow signatories \"all found that the leadership of the Metropolitan Police is breathtakingly corrupt\".\n\nHe accused both the chief commissioner and the force of misleading the public.\n\nLady Brittan, the widow of Lord Brittan, is among those calling for Dame Cressida's tenure to end\n\nAs the first female Met commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick was bound to be well received when she was appointed in 2017. It was the job she had always wanted and it meant a return to the force where she had spent most of her career and where she was popular with the rank and file.\n\nSome of the criticism now being levelled at her relates to her time at Scotland Yard before she was in the top job.\n\nIn 2014 as an assistant commissioner she was in charge of the team involved in Operation Midland - the disastrous long-running inquiry into an alleged VIP paedophile ring. When Midland collapsed and the complainant, Carl Beech, was exposed as a serial liar, criticism was levelled at a number of officers including one detective who had initially described Beech's story as \"credible and true\".\n\nCressida Dick admitted that she had heard the officer say this on the radio and had done nothing to correct it.\n\nThe former MP Harvey Proctor, who lost his job and his home as a result of being falsely accused by Carl Beech, is one of the seven signatories to the letter saying that Dame Cressida must not have her contract extended. He, like the others, does not believe that over the past four years she has displayed the right characteristics to remain in the role.\n\nDoreen, now Baroness, Lawrence is the first name on the letter. She says she is unhappy that the commissioner has closed her son's murder inquiry and, as a lifelong race campaigner, she is also concerned about the Met's use of stop and search.\n\nThe signatories were brought together by the Daily Mail, which has been calling for Cressida Dick to go.\n\nThe commissioner recently described herself as an honourable person. The question now is whether she will want to accept a two-year extension.\n\nMr Gambaccini also criticised the BBC for its reporting of his case, accusing it of being on the \"side of wrongdoers\".\n\nHe has previously described the corporation as \"the worst employer in the world\", alleging that no senior managers were in touch with him during his time under investigation by the Met Police. The BBC said it had no comment to make.\n\nIn February 2017, Dame Cressida became the first woman to lead London's force since its inception in 1829. Her appointment was criticised at the time by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was wrongly shot dead during an operation she led in 2005.\n\nNow Dame Cressida is coming to the end of a five-year contract, Home Secretary Priti Patel has consulted with London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Downing Street over the decision to ask her to stay on for two more years, according to media reports.\n\nProtesters demonstrate outside Scotland Yard over the treatment of people by police at the Sarah Everard vigil\n\nThe Met commissioner resisted pressure on her to resign in March when the force came under scrutiny over the handling of a vigil held in memory of Sarah Everard, the marketing executive murdered by then-Met Police constable Wayne Couzens.\n\nThe force has faced repeated accusations of racial bias in its use of stop-and-search powers and was hit with criticism over the security of Wembley stadium during the final of the Euro 2020 championships.\n\nSince the start of the year, both Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the home secretary have publicly backed Dame Cressida.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The appointment of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service is a formal process which will be confirmed in the proper way.\"\n\nThe mayor of London and Met Police have declined to comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The ISS pictured from a Soyuz spacecraft last year\n\nAlarms were triggered on board the International Space Station after the crew reported smoke and the smell of burning plastic.\n\nThe incident centred on the Russian-built Zvezda module which provides living quarters, Russian media report.\n\nThe ageing space station has suffered a number of failures over the years and a Russian official recently warned of outdated hardware and failing systems.\n\nRussia's space agency, Roscosmos, said later that all systems were back to normal.\n\nThe smoke was detected during recharging of the station's batteries, the agency said, and the crew had now returned to \"regular training\".\n\nThe burning plastic smell was reported to have spread from the Russian section to the US segment.\n\nThe US space agency, Nasa, said a spacewalk planned for later on Thursday would still go ahead, according to Russia's Ria Novosti news outlet.\n\nTwo Russian cosmonauts are set to carry out work on the recently delivered Nauka science module.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRussian official Vladimir Solovyov told state media on 1 September that the ISS could suffer irreparable failures due to outdated equipment and hardware.\n\nAt least 80 percent of in-flight systems on the Russian segment had passed their expiry date, Mr Solovyov, chief engineer at space company Energia, told state media. Energia is the lead developer of Russia's ISS modules.\n\nHe also said small cracks had been discovered on Russia's Zarya cargo section and they could worsen over time.\n\nThe ISS was built in 1998 as part of a joint project between Russia, the US, Canada, Japan and several European countries and was originally designed for a 15-year lifespan.\n\nIn April, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told state TV that aging metal on the station could \"lead to irreversible consequences - to catastrophe. We mustn't let that happen\".\n\nRoscosmos said last year that structural fatigue meant the ISS would not be capable of operating beyond 2030.\n\nIn July, a malfunction caused the jet thrusters on the Nauka module to fire without warning, destabilising the ISS.\n\nRussia said in April that it could leave the ISS and build its own space station by 2030, though nothing has been finalised.\n\nThere are currently seven astronauts on board the ISS: two from Russia, three from the US, one from France and one from Japan.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is SpaceX and why are they working with Nasa?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ant and Dec, Line of Duty, Corrie and more - watch the highlights of the National Television Awards 2021\n\nAnt and Dec have underlined their status as the nation's favourite TV hosts after their 20th consecutive win at the National Television Awards.\n\nThe pair, whose full names are Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, have won the best TV presenter trophy at every NTAs ceremony since 2001.\n\nDonnelly described their win as \"overwhelming\", while McPartlin said: \"You've no idea how special this is.\"\n\nThe night's other winners included Line of Duty, Gogglebox and It's A Sin.\n\nThe BBC, ITV and Channel 4 dominated the top categories - with the Ricky Gervais's Netflix comedy After Life marking the only prize for a streaming service.\n\nAccepting their 20th award for best TV presenter, McPartlin said: \"Thank you very much indeed.\n\n\"We were talking in the car on the way here and the first year we won a NTA, Tony Blair was the prime minster and Newcastle United qualified for the Champions league. That just goes to show how long ago that was.\n\n\"But this one means the most - 20 years, I'm shaking.\"\n\nMcPartlin and Donnelly celebrated their first TV presenting prize at the NTAs in 2001 alongside boyband Blue\n\nDonnelly added: \"It's pretty overwhelming to be honest with you. So much has changed in both of our lives since 2001, but one thing that hasn't changed is how unbelievably grateful we are that you take time, year after year, to vote for us and put us up here.\"\n\n\"We are so honoured and humbled and grateful. It means the absolute world.\"\n\nLine of Duty received a special recognition award and was also named best returning drama, despite complaints from some viewers who were disappointed by the conclusion of the sixth series.\n\n\"This means so much,\" said star Martin Compston as he thanked viewers and paid tribute to creator Jed Mercurio.\n\n\"We started as a wee show on Wednesday night on BBC Two, and now we're the biggest drama on TV. And it's all because of the fans, we owe everything to you,\"\n\n\"We genuinely don't take this for granted, thank you and who knows - maybe we'll be back again.\"\n\nLine of Duty star Martin Compston (third left) teased that the police drama could return in the future\n\nAccepting the prize for best factual programme, Gogglebox star Julie Malone paid tribute to the four stars of the show who have died since the last NTAs ceremony - Andrew Michael,Pete McGarry,Mary Cook and June Bernicoff.\n\n\"I'd like to dedicate this award to all the people we've lost sadly over the past 18 months,\" Malone said. \"Andy, Pete, Mary and everybody's favourite grandma, June, who's now reunited with Leon.\"\n\nKate Garraway won the new authored documentary category for Finding Derek, which followed her husband Derek Draper's long battle with Covid-19.\n\nDraper battled with the virus which had ravaged his body for more than a year before finally returning home in April.\n\n\"Thank you so much for voting,\" Garraway said. \"I wonder if the reason why you did is that our story is your story. I think we've all been touched by the pandemic, whether it's livelihoods, mental health, all the other extraordinary documentaries that have been highlighted and nominated tonight, they've also been affected by the pandemic.\"\n\nShe told families still suffering the effects of coronavirus: \"Whatever you're going through, you're not forgotten. We want the joy back. We want it to be over, but if you're still living with the scars, the fight goes on.\n\n\"But most of all, Derek, who should be here and should have had the chance to tell his own story - Derek, you're going to get the chance, believe. The hope is real.\"\n\nKate Garraway became the first winner of a new award for authored documentary for her programme Finding Derek\n\nChannel 4 drama It's a Sin, which followed a group of friends in the 1980s during the Aids crisis, was named best new drama.\n\n\"Honestly this show is so brilliant from everybody in the cast to the crew, production, behind the scenes. It was the hugest privilege of my life to be a part of it,\" said the show's star Olly Alexander.\n\nWriter Russell T Davies added: \"This is a story in which many people lost their lives, so it's nice to dedicate this to those we lost, those who lived, those who learned, and those we loved.\"\n\nA video montage introduced by Sir Trevor McDonald reflected on the impact Covid-19 had on the UK, as well as rounding up other major news events since the last NTAs ceremony aired in January 2020.\n\nThe death of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prime Minister Boris Johnson being admitted into intensive care after contracting Covid-19, the announcement of the vaccine and England making it to the Euro 2020 final were all highlighted in the montage which reflected an eventful 18 months for the UK.\n\nPhillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby accepted This Morning's award for best daytime programme\n\nBruce Forsyth entertainment award - I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!\n\nI'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! won the Bruce Forsyth entertainment award for a series which switched the Australian jungle for a Welsh castle due to travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.\n\n\"It was a real change to do it in Wales last year but it was absolutely brilliant,\" said McPartlin. \"We loved it, we loved doing it there, and we can't wait to go back and do it again this year.\"\n\n\"I can't tell you what a joyous show it was to work on, every single person we encountered was amazing, my campmates were incredible, and the reception when we left was just beyond. It was amazing to know we were a part of a strange time. Thank you very much!\"\n\nBake Off winner Peter Sawkins made a speech, while the show's judges and presenters dialled in virtually\n\nThis Morning was named best daytime programme, with host Philip Schofield telling the audience: \"The last 18 months have been amazing for all of us.\"\n\nReferring to the disruption caused by the pandemic, he said: \"Because of the brilliance of ITV and our team, we could stay on air. We felt like we were everyone's comfort blanket, and you [the viewers] were our comfort blanket, and we were all in it together.\"\n\nThe Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood also acknowledged the impact of the pandemic while accepting the award for best challenge show.\n\n\"A big thank you for this award, it means a lot to everybody,\" said Hollywood. \"Last year was particularly difficult during Covid, but we had to do the show because we wanted to put a smile on your faces.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PayPal is introducing new fees for payments between businesses in the UK and those in Europe, from November.\n\nBritish businesses will be charged a 1.29% fee for payments from the European Economic Area and vice versa.\n\nMost currently pay about 0.5% in similar charges, which have remained unchanged since before the UK left the EU customs union and single market.\n\nPayPal said it was now incurring extra costs, such as the rise in interchange fees between the UK and EEA.\n\nEuropean rules capping credit and debit card interchange fees at 0.2% and 0.3% no longer apply to UK businesses.\n\nAnd both Visa and Mastercard have announced they will raise them fivefold from mid-October.\n\nThe EEA is made up of the 27 remaining European Union states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.\n\nAnd the new charges apply to the whole of the UK, Guernsey, Jersey, Gibraltar, and the Isle of Man.\n\nMost businesses will see their current 0.5% fee raised to 1.29% - still lower than PayPal's standard 1.99% for the rest of the world - but some of those with their own customised agreements with PayPal will have their existing rate raised by 1.29%.\n\nThe new fee was first mentioned on the same day the company announced it would accept cryptocurrency Bitcoin but details were not released until this week.\n\nPayPal said it was \"simplifying\" its cross-border fees.\n\n\"In a highly competitive market, this will make it easier for these businesses to compare PayPal's pricing with that of other providers and to better appreciate the value we provide,\" it said.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said any rise in payment-platform fees \"is unwelcome news for small businesses and entrepreneurs\".\n\n\"Since the start of the year, around one in four small exporters have stopped exporting to the EU, citing amongst other reasons the costs involved in selling to EU-based customers,\" vice-chairman Martin McTague said.\n\nAnd over the past three months, a little over 40% of small exporters said the value of their exports had dropped.\n\n\"We need to see stronger support for small exporters from the government, including a relaunched SME [Small and Medium Enterprises]Brexit Support Fund and a reformed Tradeshow Access Programme,\" McTague added.", "The number of people on furlough has continued to fall, with young people leading the way, latest figures show.\n\nAt the end of July, 1.6 million people were still on furlough, the lowest level since the start of the pandemic and 340,000 fewer than a month earlier.\n\nBut older people and the travel sector did less well, with half of eligible travel workers still on the scheme.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation said the numbers of people coming off furlough had \"slowed to a trickle\".\n\nSince the start of the coronavirus pandemic, 11.6 million workers have benefited from the government programme, which is due to be wound up at the end of this month.\n\nAt the peak of the pandemic in May last year, nearly nine million people were on furlough.\n\nThere had been \"a striking fall\" in the number of young people on furlough, the Treasury said.\n\nA total of 121,600 people aged 18 to 34 came off the scheme during the months of June and July, it added.\n\nThe number of people on furlough in the arts, entertainment and recreation sector, as well as accommodation and food services have seen particularly large reductions in the number of jobs on furlough, the Treasury said.\n\nNumbers furloughed from these sectors declined by 26,200 and 96,700 in July respectively.\n\nHowever, concern remains over the number of people in the travel industry who are still on furlough.\n\nAccording to the Treasury figures, 51% of people employed in passenger air transport and 41% of travel agency and tour operator workers are still on furlough.\n\nLast month, British Airways warned it was facing a \"serious\" problem over wage costs, which would \"steeply increase\" after the end of the furlough scheme.\n\nOlder people are also more likely to be still on furlough. Those aged 65 and over had the highest rate of furlough, at 8%.\n\n\"As the end of the furlough scheme looms into view, men, older people and travel sector workers are particularly at risk,\" said Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nShe described the rates of furlough in the travel industry as \"alarmingly high\", adding: \"Where an entire industry is struggling, it's going to make life even harder if the end of furlough means you lose your job.\n\n\"There just aren't going to be enough travel industry jobs around, so an awful lot of people will have to move industry.\"\n\nBA has warned its wage costs will increase \"steeply\" when the furlough scheme ends\n\nAt the same time, latest figures for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) have shown a consistent fall in demand, with about 800,000 people claiming the most recent grant.\n\nAcross all five grants available under SEISS, 9.9 million claims have been made and more than £27bn has been claimed by almost three million people.\n\nCharlie McCurdy, economist at the Resolution Foundation, said the number of people coming off furlough over the summer had \"slowed to a trickle\".\n\n\"As a result, up to a million employees could still be on furlough when the scheme closes at the end of this month,\" he added.\n\n\"While we expect most of these staff to return to their previous roles, a significant number will not, and we could see a fresh rise in unemployment this autumn.\n\n\"Given these circumstances, now is not the right time to cut Universal Credit by £20 a week. The government must change course.\"\n\nAre you currently on furlough? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Symbolic confederate statue comes down in Virginia\n\nAn imposing statue of an American Confederate general in Richmond, Virginia, has been taken down.\n\nGovernor Ralph Northam announced it would come down amid national protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe statue became a focal point for this activism and crowds cheered as a crane removed it on Wednesday.\n\nMemorials to leaders of the pro-slavery, Confederate states - whose capital was Richmond - have long stirred controversy.\n\nWhile the removal of these statues is often done with little fanfare, authorities broadcast Wednesday's removal on social media. Large crowds also gathered at the site.\n\nEarlier in the week, Mr Northam called the statue \"a monument to the Confederate insurrection\".\n\nThe 21ft (6.4m) statue - which dates to 1890 - was taken to a secure facility until a decision is made about what to do with it.\n\nThe statue's 40ft (12m) pedestal, which is still covered in graffiti from the 2020 protests, will remain in place. Local officials have said that it will stay there until the area is \"reimagined.\"\n\nIn a moment fraught with symbolism, the statue of the leader of the Confederate Army has come down in the city that was once the capital of the Confederacy.\n\nFor many in the South - the white South - Lee was a hero and a rallying cry. For some, he was a symbol of regional pride. For others, he was an icon of resistance - first, to the occupying Union armies in the aftermath war, but later to attempts by the US federal government to impose desegregation and civil rights protections on recalcitrant Southern states.\n\nIt was no coincidence that most of the confederate statues were erected not in the immediate aftermath of the war, but in the early 20th Century, as the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan gained power and southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws disenfranchising blacks.\n\nLee's removal reflects the seismic shift in attitudes toward the Confederacy in much of the US South - especially Virginia, where changes in demographics and political perspectives have been particularly pronounced.\n\nNow the city must determine how to fill the empty lots and graffiti-covered pedestals where these statues once stood - fashioning a new history in place of the dismantled one.\n\nThe governor's plans to remove the statue in 2020 were delayed by two separate lawsuits by Richmond residents opposed to its removal.\n\nLast week, however, Virginia's Supreme Court rejected the lawsuits, paving the way for the statue to be removed.\n\n\"This is an important step in showing who we are and what we value as a Commonwealth,\" Governor Northam said.\n\nHundreds of statues of General Lee and other famous Confederate figures exist throughout the US.\n\n\"There's no other country in the world that erects monuments to those who took up arms against their country,\" Mayor of Richmond, Levar Stoney, told BBC News.\n\nSince a wave of protests engulfed the US following George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, more than a dozen statues have been removed in Richmond alone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nFormer President Donald Trump released a statement on Wednesday night decrying the \"complete desecration\" of the statue.\n\n\"Our culture is being destroyed,\" he wrote.", "Pro-choice protesters outside the Texas State Capitol this month\n\nThe US Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit challenging Texas' controversial abortion law.\n\n\"The act is clearly unconstitutional,\" Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a briefing on Thursday.\n\nIt bans abortions from as early as six weeks into pregnancy and allows anyone to sue those involved in the procedure.\n\nDoctors and women's rights groups have strongly condemned the law, which took effect last week after the Supreme Court failed to block it.\n\nSB8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, came into effect last week after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal filed by abortion providers.\n\nIn an unsigned opinion, the court said that although the appeals had raised \"serious questions\" about the constitutionality of the law, it could not block it due to complex and \"novel\" procedural questions.\n\nThe lawsuit says: \"It takes little imagination to discern Texas's goal - to make it too risky for an abortion clinic to operate in the State, thereby preventing women throughout Texas from exercising their constitutional rights, while simultaneously thwarting judicial review.\"\n\nAt the briefing, Mr Garland said a \"scheme to nullify the Constitution of the United States is one that all Americans, whatever their politics or party, should fear\".\n\nHe said the greater risk was that other states might follow Texas' example with regards to any such rights, warning that his department would then bring similar lawsuits against them.\n\nDemocratic President Joe Biden has been under increasing pressure to act after the law went into effect on 1 September.\n\nLast week, Mr Biden vowed a \"whole-of-government\" response. He called the Supreme Court's decision to not block the law \"an unprecedented assault\" on women's rights.\n\nEarlier this week, the justice department announced it would protect Texas clinics that performed abortions.\n\nSB8 bans abortions following the detection of what anti-abortion activists call a foetal heartbeat.\n\nThe American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has said the term is misleading and what is being detected at such an early stage of pregnancy is a portion of foetal tissue \"that will become the heart as the embryo develops\".\n\nThe law also gives individuals the right to sue anyone who provides or facilitates access to an abortion past the six-week point. It does not allow the women who get the procedure to be sued.\n\nPeople who successfully sue under the law will be awarded at least $10,000 (£7,200), in addition to any legal fees incurred.\n\nCritics, like the American Civil Liberties Union, have said that this leaves the responsibility for enforcing it on individuals, rather than local or state officials, and could give rise to abortion \"bounty hunters\".\n\nTexas' Republican Governor Greg Abbott has defended the law, vowing that his state will \"always defend the right to life\".\n\nOfficials in several other US states have said they are considering similar laws.\n\nIn Florida, state Senate leader Wilton Simpson told reporters that the ban has \"encouraged\" local politicians, who are \"already working\" on a similar bill. South Dakota's governor Kristi Noem said she has directed her office's \"unborn child advocate\" to make sure the state has anti-abortion laws \"on the books\".", "People queued for entry into nightclubs when they reopened Image caption: People queued for entry into nightclubs when they reopened\n\nHolyrood votes to back controversial plans to introduce a vaccine passport scheme in Scotland.\n\n68 MSPs voted for the government motion, with 55 against.\n\nThe move will mean that only people who have been fully vaccinated will be allowed into nightclubs, major sporting events and many concerts and festivals.\n\nThe Scottish government says the plan is designed to allow large events to go ahead as safely as possible.\n\nDetails of the proposals were only published by the government on Thursday morning - just hours before the vote.\n• What do we know about Scotland's vaccine passport?", "New South Wales will begin to exit lockdown when 70% of adults are vaccinated\n\nAustralia's biggest city Sydney is likely to ease out of lockdown from next month, provided a vaccination threshold is reached.\n\nThe New South Wales (NSW) state capital has been in lockdown since July due to a Delta variant outbreak.\n\nThe state government released its much-anticipated \"roadmap to freedom\" on Thursday.\n\nIt sets out new freedoms for people once 70% of adults in the state have had two vaccine doses.\n\nNSW recorded over 1,400 new infections on Thursday, another daily record. Its outbreak has claimed 153 lives.\n\nBut Premier Gladys Berejiklian has stressed people must adjust to having the virus in the community once a majority of society is vaccinated.\n\nShe declined to nominate a date for reopening but said it would occur on the first Monday after reaching the 70% target.\n\nNearly 43% of her state's adults are fully vaccinated and 75% have had a first dose, meaning the threshold is likely to be reached next month.\n\nAt that point, shops and restaurants will be able to reopen with customer limits. Ms Berejiklian did name a date for reopening schools - 25 October.\n\nShe said only fully vaccinated people would have access to other privileges:\n\nSubject to distancing restrictions, the following venues will also reopen:\n\nThere will be a 500-person limit at outdoor seated events, and 50-person limit at weddings and funerals.\n\nIt's not yet clear how people will prove their vaccination status, but there has been discussion of a vaccination passport or app.\n\nThe NSW proposal follows a national plan for all of Australia to reopen at 70% and 80% vaccination levels.\n\nCurrently, more than half of Australia's 25 million people are under lockdown - there are also outbreaks in Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory.\n\nBut Covid-free states like Queensland and Western Australia have rebuffed plans to \"live with the virus\" in the near future, arguing the vaccination threshold should be higher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sydney has seen several protests against lockdown measures in the past months\n\nNSW leads the other states in vaccination rates. Nationally, 64% of adults have had at least one dose.\n\nAustralia has increased its overall vaccine supply to about 10 million doses a week after scrambling to secure Pfizer vaccines from other nations.\n\nIt recently announced swap deals with the UK, Singapore and Poland.\n\nBut Prime Minister Scott Morrison's government has been criticised for failing to secure more Pfizer doses early on, instead relying heavily on its AstraZeneca supplies.\n\nEmails released this week by the Labor opposition showed the government had failed to negotiate a Pfizer contract before other Western countries, and had waited to be contacted by the company.", "The clinic in Tetovo was constructed last year to care for people suffering serious effects of Covid-19\n\nAt least 14 people have been killed in a fire at a makeshift hospital treating Covid-19 patients in North Macedonia.\n\nFootage shared on social media showed a building in flames and a thick cloud of black smoke billowing into the air near a main road in the city of Tetovo.\n\nFirefighters put out the blaze in less than an hour. It broke out about 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on Wednesday.\n\nThe authorities suspect that oxygen cylinders used to treat coronavirus patients exploded.\n\nPublic prosecutors said they were investigating whether there were more victims, as reported locally.\n\n\"This is a very sad day,\" Health Minister Venko Filipce wrote on Twitter, expressing his condolences to the families of the victims.\n\nOf the 26 patients in the coronavirus treatment facility at the time of the fire, 12 were being treated in hospital and were \"out of danger\", Mr Filipce said.\n\nHe described the fire as a \"terrible accident\" but provided no further details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oxygen cylinders used to treat patients are thought to have exploded at the hospital\n\nTetovo's deputy fire chief Saso Trajcevski said the fire had spread rapidly inside the building after oxygen cylinders exploded. Footage showed flames bursting through the windows in the portable buildings that made up the modular hospital.\n\nAlthough his team reached the building quickly, he said the large amount of plastic meant that the fire was intense.\n\n\"This is a truly tragic event,\" said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in a statement posted to Facebook, adding: \"The cause of the fire will be determined.\"\n\nLocal media said Mr Zaev had been booed when he arrived at the site of the accident on Thursday.\n\nNorth Macedonia's government has declared three days of national mourning for the victims.\n\nThe temporary facility was reportedly constructed last year to care for people made seriously ill from the coronavirus.\n\nOxygen cylinders have been blamed for a number of fires at hospitals treating coronavirus patients since the pandemic began. Ten people died in a fire at Gaziantep in Turkey last December, and a similar fire claimed 10 lives in Peatra Niamt in Romania in November 2020.\n\nNorth Macedonia has a population of about two million people and, with Covid vaccination rates below 30%, it has seen a recent surge in cases and deaths. Tetovo is one of the most affected areas, as many expat Macedonians are said to have visited friends and relatives there during the summer months.\n\nSome injured patients were transported to receive care in the capital Skopje\n\nMayor Teuta Arifi spoke of her regret that the victims had been in the hospital for coronavirus treatment. The Republika website said most of the patients were in a moderate condition as the most serious cases had been transferred to the capital Skopje for treatment.\n\nOne infectious diseases specialist, Zaklina Sopova, complained that makeshift hospital facilities had been set up without proper safety standards.\n\nNorth Macedonia has reported more than 180,000 cases of Covid-19 and 6,153 coronavirus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University data. A further 24 deaths were reported over the past day on Wednesday.", "A woman was injured when trying to remove a similar poster from a crossing in Cardiff\n\nLondon transport staff have been warned after anti-mask posters with razor blades on the back were found, a union has said.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said it had raised the issue of \"Masks Don't Work\" posters with Transport for London (TfL).\n\nTfL said it was not aware of any incidents involving blades but had given advice to its workers.\n\nA similar poster was found in Cardiff where a woman was injured removing it.\n\nThe RMT called for the courts to take the \"hardest possible line\" against those found responsible.\n\nThe RMT has formally raised the issue with TfL and said warning bulletins highlighting the danger of injury had been issued to staff.\n\nGeneral secretary Mick Lynch said: \"Any anti-vax conspiracy theorist resorting to this disgusting practice of lacing their propaganda with razor blades needs to know that they will face criminal prosecution and the highest possible sentences.\n\n\"As far as RMT is concerned they should be locked up for a long time. We would expect the police and the courts to take the hardest possible line.\"\n\nTfL has sent guidance to staff after the incident in Cardiff\n\nTfL said it was not aware of any incidents involving razor blades taking place on its network.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We act urgently to remove unauthorised materials from our network, such as posters, including those relating to the pandemic.\n\n\"The safety of our customers and colleagues is paramount and we have issued guidance to our staff on how to remove them safely after reports of instances outside of our network of razor blades being attached to the back of such materials.\n\n\"None have been detected on our network and there have been very few instances of unauthorised adverts and materials relating to the pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has accused a charity of trying to airbrush the achievements of ex-Prime Minister Winston Churchill.\n\nHis criticism came after the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust renamed itself The Churchill Fellowship and removed images of the ex-PM from its website.\n\nSir Nicholas Soames, Sir Winston's grandson, said his family \"fully and unreservedly support\" the charity's \"remarkable\" work.\n\nAnd the charity has insisted it was not \"disowning Sir Winston\".\n\nIt said the change came about because the former name of the organisation was \"confusing to people and did not explain what we do\".\n\nBut Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told LBC radio the charity was pandering \"to a noisy woke brigade who are trying to challenge all aspects of our history\".\n\nIn a statement on its website, The Churchill Fellowship said: \"The key element we kept was the name 'Churchill' - you cannot look at our new logo and avoid the importance we attach to that name.\"\n\nIt added that Sir Winston was internationally admired for \"saving Britain and the world from Nazism\" but there was also \"controversy about his views on race\".\n\n\"None of this takes away from Sir Winston's enormous contribution to the world as we know it today.\"\n\nMr Johnson has long been an admirer of Sir Winston and has written a biography of the Conservative politician.\n\nAsked about the charity's decision, the Downing Street spokesperson said: \"The prime minister believes Winston Churchill is a hero\", adding \"there is a never ending political debate about who is sufficiently pure and politically correct\".\n\nHe urged the charity to \"think again and not try to re-write the past\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Dowden added to the criticism, saying: \"They would not have the freedom - no-one would have the freedom - to make these kinds of decisions were it not for Churchill in the first place.\n\n\"I do really worry when we start to question the sort of values that have made this such a wonderful country.\"\n\nThe Churchill Fellowship - which is chaired by Sir Winston's grandson Jeremy - offers grants to enable people to study practical topics abroad.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britain’s wartime leader divided opinion in his own lifetime, and remains a divisive figure today\n\nSir Winston is often described as one of the country's greatest prime ministers for his role leading the country against the Nazis during World War Two.\n\nHe is credited with maintaining morale during a difficult time for the country and refusing to negotiate with Adolf Hitler in the early years of the war.\n\nHowever, he has also been accused of racism - for example in 1937, he told the Palestine Royal Commission: \"I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.\"\n\nThe wartime leader has also been accused of failing to support Indians during the Bengal famine - in which three million people are believed to have died - instead prioritising wheat supplies for European and Australian civilians.\n\nBut Allen Packwood, director of the Churchill Archives Centre, has said there were \"always going to be conflicting priorities and demands\" during a global war and that the prime minister was \"not always going to get everything right\".", "The small bowl was found on a chest of drawers during a house clearance\n\nA porcelain bowl thought to have been worth just £500 has sold at auction for £320,000 after it turned out to be a rare Chinese relic.\n\nThe 900-year-old bowl was owned by a Lincolnshire couple and was among items being sold after their deaths.\n\nThe 5in (13cm) tall item is thought to be previously undocumented Ru ware, prompting a flurry of bidders.\n\nJessica Wall, from Stamford Auction Rooms, said it was \"totally unexpected\".\n\nThe rare bowl sat on a chest of drawers at the home of the late couple, who were seemingly unaware of its true worth.\n\nIt was initially expected to fetch between £500 and £800 with Chinese ware being notoriously tricky to value, Ms Wall said.\n\nAuctioneer Jessica Wall said it was a \"dream\" to be surprised by an item selling for so much money\n\n\"There was no indication it would fly in the way that it did,\" Ms Wall added, with the item finally fetching £320,000, before fees.\n\nIt is thought to have been made during China's Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) with only a small number of similar pieces being in private hands.\n\nThe bowls are known for being undecorated with a bluish or greenish-grey glaze, with a fine network of cracks.\n\nRecounting the moment the hammer came down on the auction two weeks ago, Ms Wall said: \"It was quite a moment.\n\n\"When it got to about £10,000, I thought it was interesting and a good result but that it would stop there. It kept going and I started to get butterflies.\"\n\nThe family of the deceased are said to be \"blown away\" by the sale, the auction house said.\n\nThe eventual buyer, who travelled from London to Stamford for the auction, has chosen to remain anonymous.\n\n\"It's extremely rare for such a big surprise like this, but it's every auctioneer's dream,\" Ms Wall added.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ann Bedford, the owner of the Caledonia care home, said she was unable to get emergency cover for the shifts\n\nThe Welsh government will investigate why staff with Covid-19 were brought in to work at a dementia care home, the health minister has said.\n\nThe Caledonia home in Holyhead, Anglesey, said 11 of its 12 residents had Covid and the two staff only cared for residents who were also positive.\n\nA shortage of workers was blamed, with the move agreed with social services when no emergency cover was available.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan said \"it is not a situation that is acceptable\".\n\nOutlining why the Welsh government will investigate, she accepted the care sector is \"under incredible pressure\", but added: \"There can be no excuse for putting somebody who has Covid in front of someone who hasn't got Covid.\"\n\nMs Morgan added the government had mounted a large recruitment campaign to try and plug the gaps.\n\n\"Frankly, a lot of people have left who were working in the care sector,\" she said, adding many staff from eastern Europe had left Wales as a result of Brexit.\n\n\"I think it is important for us to underline this for the situation that we are in.\"\n\nAnn Bedford said it had been increasingly difficult to recruit staff over the past decade, adding there was \"no spare capacity in the system\".\n\nThere are usually between 13 and 15 staff including a manager, two full-time carers, 11 part-time staff, two cooks and two cleaners at the home.\n\nThe home struggled to recruit staff even before the pandemic began\n\nLast weekend there were only three day staff, no cleaners, one cook and no night staff.\n\nThe two Covid-positive staff came in to cover the night shift as there was no emergency cover available.\n\nBy Wednesday morning, Ms Bedford had one person to work with the 12 residents.\n\nAnglesey council said it worked closely with the care home since the staffing shortages had been brought to its attention.", "The prime minister visited a London care home ahead of his big announcement on Tuesday\n\nBoris Johnson has long believed that conventions are there to be broken. He's certainly done that.\n\nA pair of election promises have been torn up. The Treasury's shaken off its traditional allergy to new specific taxes.\n\nHighly significant changes are being made to the tax and health system without wide debate among ministers or the governing party.\n\nPensioners who keep working will pay national insurance for the first time.\n\nAnd again, today's decisions confirm Boris Johnson's credo includes being a big spender, if he deems the moment requires it.\n\nIt's provided yet more evidence that his government believes the public is willing to accept heavy price tags, and broken political vows, as long as the label is marked \"NHS\".\n\nBefore the announcement, there was loud belly aching among backbenchers and Tory party grandees.\n\nThere's unease about trust, as manifesto promises evaporate.\n\nOthers wonder where the Tories' fiscal soul has gone, as the moves confirm Boris Johnson's seeming affection for big government, and big expensive interventions, driven in part - but not entirely - by the pandemic.\n\nThe opposition parties don't like it one bit, arguing the tax will unfairly hit working people, and wondering aloud where the real guarantees for improving care are.\n\nThe ultimate test though probably won't be in the Commons tomorrow, or even in the next few months, but in the years to come.\n\nToday is first and foremost a huge tax increase that will be spent by the NHS.\n\nDowning Street can't take for granted that patients will feel a big difference, or that the creaking care system will be better in a few years, or indeed that many thousands of families won't still face terrible heartaches.\n\nBut No 10 hopes that taking action will ease public anxiety.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson wants to avoid laying himself open to the charge of starving the NHS of the funds it needs after the battering of the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister has chosen the risk of an imperfect solution over the political risk of doing nothing at all.\n\nAnd that is a bet that he believes he can win.", "They first came together in Snowdonia - and 100 years on, members of the Pinnacle Club have conquered the world's highest peaks.\n\nFrom the Alps to the Himalayas, the 200-strong club exclusively for women climbers has criss-crossed the globe.\n\nAnd they have been celebrating their centenary back where it all began, in Wales.", "Emma Raducanu shock at reaching US Open semi-finals in New York Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRaducanu was ranked 361st in the world at the start of June, having never played in a top-level senior tournament Coverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport website and app. Live text commentary and in-depth coverage on the website and app British teenager Emma Raducanu's run to the US Open semi-finals was so surprising even to her that she had booked flights back to the UK a fortnight ago. The 18-year-old Briton is the first qualifier to reach the last four of the Grand Slam in New York. \"I didn't expect to be here at all,\" the world number 150 said. \"My flights were booked at the end of qualifying, so it's a nice problem to have.\"\n• None Raducanu's fairytale run continues as she reaches US Open semi-finals The rapid rise of Raducanu continued as she reached the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows with a straight-set win over Swiss 11th seed Belinda Bencic on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Wednesday. As a result Raducanu, who passed her A Levels earlier this summer, is set to rise to the cusp of the world's top 50 and will become the British women's number one. \"It definitely means a lot to be in the semi-finals,\" she added. \"I'm just really enjoying the experience. Out there on the court, I was saying to myself, this could be the last time you play on Ashe, so might as well just go for it and enjoy everything.\" One downside to the surprise run is Raducanu's parents, Ian and Renee, have not been able to see any of their daughter's matches first hand. Nor will they be able to see Thursday's semi-final - against Greek 17th seed Maria Sakkari - because of the strict travel restrictions to the United States. \"It's not possible, because you need a waiver and it takes a couple weeks for approval. It's too late and they won't be able to get one,\" Raducanu said. With a wide smile she added: \"I haven't actually called my parents for quite a while. Earlier this week they were ghosting me, but when we speak - because I have been away for so long now - they just really want to see how I am.\" The match will be the second of the women's singles semi-finals and will be played about 21:00 local time in New York (02:00 BST, Friday - live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live). Raducanu has become the first British woman to reach a US Open semi-final since Jo Durie in 1983, while Virginia Wade was the last to win the title in 1968. Wade watched Raducanu's match against Shelby Rogers on Monday, with the younger Briton addressing the 76-year-old during the post-match victory interview and describing her an \"absolute legend\". More recently, three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray won the men's tournament in 2012 as part of his journey to becoming a British legend. Former world number one Murray, 34, has practised with Raducanu at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton in recent times, as well as playing against the teenager in mixed doubles at the Battle of Brits exhibition event last year. Tim Henman, another notable British former player, who reached the US Open semi-finals in 2004, has also been watching Raducanu from courtside at Flushing Meadows in his role as a television analyst. \"I think that their presence and everything that they have achieved is inspiration in itself for me. We have some great role models to look up to,\" Raducanu said. \"I personally haven't spent that much time with them, but Andy has quite often on occasion spoken to me and I actually hit with him two times, which was really good for me to see his ball speed and how good he is. \"All are such great role models and figures for me to follow.\" How the teenagers are showing the future is bright Raducanu's success comes as a host of young stars have filled the absence of several big names - in particular Serena Williams, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal - with superb performances. Canada's 19-year-old Leylah Fernandez has perhaps even captured more attention than Raducanu in New York, having beaten Japan's defending champion Naomi Osaka, Germany's three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber and Ukrainian fifth seed Elina Svitolina in her past three matches. Raducanu 'in that handful who will be dominating tennis' - Wade On the men's side, Spain's Carlos Alcaraz, 18, is another teenager who has showcased his ability on the biggest stage. With Raducanu having joined Fernandez in the last four, it is the first time since 2009 that two teenagers have progressed to the US Open women's singles semi-finals. Asked how Fernandez's success is inspiring her, Raducanu said having so many young players doing well showed \"how strong the next generation is\". After revealing Fernandez had handed out cupcakes in the locker room to celebrate her 19th birthday earlier this week, she added: \"Leylah is really nice. Everyone is on their own trajectory, though. \"I'm here taking control of what I can control and it is my own journey at the end of the day. \"I think to compare yourself and your results against anyone is probably like the thief of happiness. \"I didn't compete for 18 months [because of the coronavirus pandemic], but here I am, and it just shows that if you believe in yourself, then anything is possible.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None \"Sport can be an uncomfortable place\": Why are so many girls dropping out of sport?", "Maros Sefcovic is in Northern Ireland to meet political, business and civic leaders\n\nEuropean Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic has urged politicians to \"dial down the rhetoric\" on the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nHe was responding to Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's warning that his party may quit Stormont \"within weeks\" if its protocol demands are not met.\n\nMr Sefcovic is in Northern Ireland to meet political, business and civic leaders.\n\nThe UK wants the protocol, which puts a trade border in the Irish Sea, changed.\n\nUnionists believe it undermines their place in the United Kingdom and want it to be scrapped.\n\nMr Sefcovic said he had already spoken to Sir Jeffrey \"a couple of weeks ago\".\n\n\"I will see him this afternoon as I will see also the other political leaders,\" he said on Thursday.\n\n\"We will have the opportunity to discuss this face to face and my message will be 'let's work on the concrete problems'.\n\n\"Let's focus on the issues which are the most important for the people of Northern Ireland, let's be constructive, let's dial down the political rhetoric, let's bring calm and focus on what is our task to accomplish.\"\n\nMr Sefcovic, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, described Sir Jeffrey as a \"very experienced politician\" who wants the best for Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I can assure him that is my intention as well,\" Mr Sefcovic added.\n\nMr Sefcovic (centre) met First Minister Paul Givan (left) and Declan Kearney, junior minister at the Executive Office during a visit to Stormont\n\nMr Sefcovic said the purpose of his trip to Northern Ireland was to find out \"face-to-face\" what the problems were with the implementation of the protocol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maroš Šefčovič🇪🇺 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I came here to listen, to learn what are the concrete problems that the people of Northern Ireland are facing with the implementation of the protocol.\n\n\"But I am also here to talk about opportunities the protocol is bringing, especially to the economy and of course the people of Northern Ireland, and I am starting with the business representatives.\"\n\nOn Monday, the UK delayed new checks on goods from Great Britain entering Northern Ireland as required by the protocol.\n\nLord Frost, the Brexit minister, said the move was necessary to \"provide space for further potential discussions\" with the EU.\n\nMr Sefcovic said the EU had taken note of the decision.\n\n\"We are talking over the last few weeks constructively on solving the issues linked with the protocol and I hope that also the way that we handled Monday's announcement coming from London just proves that we are ready to do our utmost to look for every possible solution within the protocol to resolve the problems.\"\n\nHowever the EU has repeatedly said the sort of fundamental renegotiation Lord Frost wants is not on offer.\n\nTechnical discussions between the UK and EU on an agri-food agreement have reached a stalemate.\n\nThe EU has offered the UK a Swiss-style deal which would involve the UK following EU rules.\n\nThe UK has rejected that and instead asked for a deal in which the EU would recognise UK standards as equivalent to its own.\n\nAn EU official has suggested that the issue could be unlocked with a bespoke arrangement which recognises Northern Ireland's unique circumstances.\n\nIt is not yet clear what such an arrangement might involve and the EU is wary that the UK would demand the same deal for GB-EU agri-food trade.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCricket Australia (CA) will cancel its men's Test match with Afghanistan if reports that the women's team cannot play under Taliban rule are true.\n\nOn Wednesday, the International Cricket Council said it was concerned by Taliban cultural commission deputy head Ahmadullah Wasiq's comments.\n\nWasiq told Australian broadcaster SBS News: \"I don't think women will be allowed to play cricket.\"\n\nCA said they \"support the game unequivocally\" for women at all levels.\n\n\"If recent media reports that women's cricket will not be supported in Afghanistan are substantiated, Cricket Australia would have no alternative but to not host Afghanistan for the proposed test match due to be played in Hobart,\" they added.\n\nAustralia were scheduled to host their first ever Test against Afghanistan from 26 November ahead of the Ashes series with England, which begins on 8 December.\n\nThe men's team has already received support from the Taliban - but under ICC rules all 12 full members must have a national women's team, with only full members able to play Test matches.\n\nThe ICC expressed concerns after Wasiq said: \"I don't think women will be allowed to play cricket because it is not necessary that women should play.\n\n\"In cricket, they might face a situation where their face and body will not be covered. Islam does not allow women to be seen like this.\"\n• None Afghanistan and the threat to progress through sport\n\nAn ICC statement said the organisation \"is committed to the long-term growth of women's cricket and despite the cultural and religious challenges in Afghanistan, steady progress had been made in this area since Afghanistan's admission as a full member in 2017\".\n\nThe statement continued: \"The ICC has been monitoring the changing situation in Afghanistan and is concerned to note recent media reports that women will no longer be allowed to play cricket.\n\n\"This, and the impact it will have on the continued development of the game, will be discussed by the ICC board at its next meeting.\"\n\nThe Taliban named a new government on Tuesday, three weeks after reclaiming power, but doubts remain over the regime's rules.\n\n\"So far, we don't have any news from the government,\" Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) chief executive Hamid Shinwari said in a telephone interview with SBC and Reuters.\n\nLast week, BBC Sport reported how many of the women's team are in hiding in Kabul, claiming members of the Taliban have already come looking for them.\n\nWhen the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan two decades ago, girls were not allowed to attend school and women were banned from work and education.", "The flight took more than 100 people from Kabul to Doha, the capital of Qatar\n\nDozens of international passengers - including UK citizens - have flown out of Kabul in the first such flight since US forces left the country.\n\nThe Qatar Airways charter flight landed in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday, with a second flight due on Friday.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged help with evacuations during a recent visit to Qatar.\n\nHundreds of Afghan citizens who had helped the US military were unable to get out in last month's US airlift.\n\nReuters news agency reports that 113 people were on the plane.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said 13 British citizens had arrived in Doha, and thanked Qatar for facilitating the flight.\n\nThe White House released a statement confirming that US citizens had flown, and also thanked Qatar, saying the flight was the result of \"careful and hard diplomacy and engagement\".\n\nIt said the Taliban had been \"businesslike and professional\" in helping the US citizens fly out.\n\nIn a press conference held at the airport, Qatari special envoy Mutlaq bin Majed Al Qahtani described Kabul international airport as operational and said it was a historic day for Afghanistan.\n\nThe flights are the first to leave since the rushed US military-led evacuations finished last month, following the Taliban takeover of the country on 15 August.\n\nMore than 124,000 foreigners and Afghans fearful of Taliban retribution were flown out of the country.\n\nAround 100 US citizens were thought to be left in Afghanistan before the flight.\n\nPhotos have also emerged showing injuries inflicted on two journalists who covered protests on Wednesday.\n\nThey are reported to have been badly beaten after being arrested by the Taliban in Kabul.\n\nThe two journalists say they were badly beaten in Taliban custody\n\n\"One of the Taliban put his foot on my head, crushed my face against the concrete,\" photographer Nematullah Naqdi told AFP news agency. \"They kicked me in the head... I thought they were going to kill me.\"\n\nMr Naqdi was covering a protest by women in front of a police station with his colleague at the local Etilaatroz newspaper, Taqi Darybai.\n\nThe Taliban have banned protests unless authorised by the justice ministry.\n\nBut dozens of demonstrators chanting \"we want freedom\" gathered near the Pakistan embassy in Kabul and Taliban gunmen opened fire to disperse them, protesters said.\n\nLocal media have also reported another protest by women in Kapisa province, north-east of Kabul. Sources told Aamaj news that several women had been arrested.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aamaj News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC Dari heard from a number of Afghans about the demonstrations.\n\n\"It is our right to protest,\" said Haseeneh from Kabul. \"Now that we know what the Taliban meant by their new cabinet, we will protest. They kept saying that women should wait till the Taliban announce their new cabinet. There is no single woman in the cabinet.\"\n\nBut Alazay from the southern province of Helmand called for other countries to recognise the Taliban government.\n\n\"If that happens, our lives are going to be much easier. If the protests continue and the Taliban suppress them, the international community will not recognise the Taliban's new government and do you know who will suffer? We, the people.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, dozens of women in Kabul and the north-eastern province of Badakhshan protested against the formation of the all-male interim Taliban government.\n\nSome women, calling for the inclusion of female ministers in the government, were reportedly beaten before the demonstrations were broken up.\n\nThree people were killed during a demonstration in the western city of Herat on Tuesday. The Taliban have denied that they were behind the violence.\n\nMeanwhile, there are reports that the internet was temporarily taken down in parts of Kabul.\n\nAfghan journalist Bilal Sarwary tweeted that several sources in the telecom sector had confirmed to him that the Taliban had ordered mobile phone internet coverage to be turned off temporarily in several districts.\n\nJournalist Habib Khan later tweeted that the internet had been restored in the city.\n\nAnd separately, social media footage has emerged from the Panjshir valley said to show the desecration of the mausoleum of the well-known former anti-Taliban alliance leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud.\n\nThe Taliban said on Tuesday they had taken the valley - the last region of Afghanistan holding out against their rule - from the Afghanistan National Resistance Front. The NRF, led by Ahmed Shah Massoud's son, said they would continue to fight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Taliban fighters raise their flag in front of Panjshir's provincial governor's office", "KPMG has 7,300 London staff based at its office in Canary Wharf.\n\nAccounting giant KPMG has become one of the first large UK businesses to set a target for the number of employees from working class backgrounds.\n\nKPMG has defined working class as having parents with \"routine and manual\" jobs, such as drivers, cleaners and farm workers.\n\nIt wants 29% of its partners and directors to come from working class backgrounds by 2030.\n\nThat compares with 23% of partners and 20% of directors at the moment.\n\nKMPG said that these employees were paid 8.6% less than those from the other socio-economic groups.\n\nIn February, KMPG faced a backlash after its former chairman dismissed the notion of \"unconscious bias\" training.\n\nEarlier this month the firm was accused by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) of giving it \"false and misleading\" information about collapsed construction giant Carillion. In July, KPMG was also criticised by the UK accounting regulator for its \"unacceptable\" bank audits for the third year in a row.\n\nAccording to data from the Social Mobility Commission, 39% of the UK workforce aged 16 plus are working class.\n\nThe Labour Force survey also showed that 24% were \"intermediate\", defined as having parents with jobs such as secretaries, call centre agents and nursery nurses. The remaining 37% had \"professional backgrounds\" with parents working as teachers, finance managers, software designers and accountants.\n\nKPMG said that while its senior and junior colleagues were its most socio-economically diverse employees, working class representation in middle management grades was comparatively lower and this was contributing to the pay gaps.\n\nThe firm's diversity data is from a non-mandatory survey in which 70% of staff took part. Out of the 10,444 staff who were surveyed, 1,289 selected \"I don't know\" or \"Prefer not to say\" options when asked about their backgrounds.\n\nThe company will also train its 16,000 employees to understand the issue of socio-economic background and to recognise \"invisible barriers\" to progression.\n\nKPMG chair Bina Mehta said she was from a working-class background and was a \"passionate believer that greater diversity improves business performance\".\n\n\"Diversity brings fresh thinking and different perspectives to decision-making, which in turn delivers better outcomes for our clients,\" she added.\n\nMs Mehta was appointed to the role this year after the resignation of the company's former chairman, Bill Michael. During a company-wide Zoom call, he said there was \"no such thing as unconscious bias\".\n\nIn anonymous comments on the Zoom call workers complained and one wrote: \"There's no such thing as unconscious bias?! Are you joking? Please do your research before just making such statements. Check your privilege.\"\n\nAlong with the other \"big four\" accountancy firms PwC, Deloitte and EY, KPMG offers unconscious bias training for its staff. It is designed to increase awareness about race, sex, sexuality or disability prejudices and patterns of discrimination in the workplace.\n\nNick Miller, chief executive of non-profit consultancy the Bridge Group, said: \"In publishing pay gaps by socio-economic background for the first time, and using this to inform a strategy for change, KPMG is leading the way.\"\n\nOn the verifiability of socio-economic staff surveys, Sarah Atkinson, chief executive of the Social Mobility Foundation, told the BBC: \"We don't see this being any different to the risk of employees lying about work experience on their CV; if businesses implement social mobility into all their practices it will create fairness of opportunity.\n\n\"Social mobility in business is about rewarding potential, not polish.\n\n\"It demands a whole business approach: recruiting directly from areas where there are fewest opportunities, providing non-degree pathways and creating workplace cultures that are inclusive for all,\" she added.\n\nTessy Ojo, chief executive of the Diana Award's employability programme, agreed that there were risks the socio-economic data may not be \"properly measured\" by the surveys and said if they are \"not mandatory how will we know that they (KPMG) are hitting the target?\"\n\n\"They need to make sure people don't face barriers at the grass root level and ensure staff monitoring is anonymous so people can take part.\"\n\nAnalysts project that social mobility will worsen as a result of the pandemic and 600,000 more children are now living in relative poverty, compared with 2012.\n\nHalf of adults from the poorest backgrounds receive no training at all after leaving school and even in a professional role, they earn 17% less, on average, than more privileged colleagues, according to a 2020 report by the Social Mobility Commission.\n\nThe commission found people who come from a privileged rather than a working-class background are 60% more likely to be in a professional job.\n\nThe same report found that where a person comes from is also decisive in what professional opportunities they have. Young people are twice as likely to go to university if they are from a social mobility \"hot spot\" such as some city centres or high performing school areas (27%), compared with those from remote rural or former industrial areas (14%) across the UK.\n\nHowever, more people from working class families are now in professional jobs, with the percentage having increased to 39% in 2020 compared with 33% in 2014.\n\nThe UK ranks 21st on a global social mobility index, well behind most European countries. It has a high score on access to education, but Dame Martina Milburn, chief executive of the Prince's Trust charity group, said the UK \"does poorly on labour market policies to help the unemployed and on fair wages\".\n\nHowever, employees are divided about whether they would want similar targets in their workplaces.\n\nThomas from Leeds told the BBC that even as someone who would benefit, he thought it was a bad idea.\n\n\"As soon as you set targets like this you are moving towards positive discrimination, which let's face it is just discrimination.\"\n\n\"The mantra should always be to hire people based on their ability to do the job which will include an element of fitting into the workplace culture. Social mobility should happen naturally. I am proof of that.\"\n\nJack, an IT manager from Birmingham, said though it was a \"step in the right direction\", he was \"generally suspicious\" of quotas.\n\nHe left school at 16 and is now in a management position aged 28. He said the reason he progressed was because people assumed he had a degree.\n\nHe said that as they \"did not bother to clarify\", he \"didn't bother correcting them either\".\n\n\"What this does acknowledge is that the main source of inequality in the workplace is class and nothing else - this fits with my views as a working class person.\"\n\nWould you describe yourself as working-class? Do you think firms setting a target is a good idea? Please tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "EasyJet has rejected a takeover approach and announced plans to raise £1.2bn from shareholders to help its recovery from the pandemic.\n\nThe airline said the unsolicited bid undervalued the company and the unnamed suitor was now no longer interested.\n\nBloomberg reported that the bidder was rival Wizz Air, although it declined to comment.\n\nEasyJet's boss said the fundraising would allow the firm \"to accelerate our post‐Covid‐19 recovery plan\" instead.\n\nThe carrier has already raised emergency funds during the crisis, having been affected by Covid-related travel restrictions.\n\nEasyJet also plans to raise $400m (£290m) in debt.\n\nThe company said on Thursday it was \"well-placed to emerge from the pandemic\", but the additional cash would provide a buffer should further coronavirus-related lockdowns delay the airline's recovery.\n\nIt has lost more than £2bn as many flights were grounded during the coronavirus crisis and it slumped to its first-ever loss in its 25-year history as a result.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren has spoken out in favour of reducing the costs of Covid tests required for travel, in order to get customers booking again and the aviation industry back on its feet.\n\nOn Thursday, he said the funds raised through the share sale would strengthen the airline's balance sheet.\n\nHe added it would also position the firm for growth as the aviation industry in Europe emerges from the pandemic, saying that the airline had seen a spike in customer demand where restrictions have been lifted.\n\nEasyJet boss Johan Lundgren has previously spoken out about expensive PCR tests\n\nLooking ahead, the company plans to fly 57% of its 2019 capacity between July and September, \"with a continued focus on profitable flying\".\n\nIt also said it would try to grow its sales through the launch of new products such as EasyJet Holidays, as well as a \"standard plus\" fare.\n\nThe airline is in the midst of a huge cost-cutting programme, which it said was set to deliver about £500m of savings in the financial year to 30 September.\n\nDespite this, the carrier took the decision to review and reject the takeover approach from an unnamed potential buyer.\n\nThe board said that the all-share offer \"fundamentally undervalued\" the business and was \"highly conditional\".\n\nEasyJet shares sank in early trade on the London Stock Exchange on the news, down nearly 8% at 728p.\n\nHowever, Laura Hoy, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"There is some potential upside to consider.\n\n\"Legacy carriers may pare down some of their routes indefinitely, leaving space for EasyJet to up its presence at major airports. The group couldn't do this without an injection of cash and promised shareholders that at least some of the funds are earmarked for this purpose.\n\nShe said that although the move was \"risky\", it could pay off if EasyJet was able to expand its presence into more profitable travel routes.\n\nMr Lundgren said during a call with journalists on Thursday that the firm was in a good position to buy more landing slots as other rival airlines rein in their short-haul operations.\n\n\"I believe this is really a once in a lifetime opportunity,\" he said.\n\nAll airline bosses have fretted over one issue since the start of the pandemic - do they have sufficient financial reserves to carry them through to when passengers finally return?\n\nIt was an almost impossible question to answer, as no-one knew how long the pandemic would last.\n\nEasyJet thought it had done enough last June, when it boosted its bank lending facilities and in addition asked shareholders to stump up £450m. Now, like Oliver Twist, the company is asking for more, tapping investors for £1.2bn.\n\nIt is not only about making good the losses racked up in the past year; it is also, the company says, about positioning it to take advantage of what it believes will be a shake-out of the aviation industry in the coming months. It wants to have sufficient firepower to take advantage of \"a range of long-term strategic and investment opportunities\" that it expects to arise.\n\nSome may regard EasyJet itself as the investment opportunity.\n\nThe company also disclosed this morning that it had received an unsolicited takeover approach, which the board had rejected. It is not hard to see why the airline is attracting the attention of suitors - the shares were £18 just three years ago.\n\nBy making the approach public, the company is sending a coded message to City investors. If you don't want to see another British company fall to an opportunistic bid, it might be a good idea to support our cash call.", "Covid cases rise in almost all regions of England\n\nCovid-19 case rates are rising in all regions of England except the South West, according to the latest weekly surveillance report from Public Health England. North-east England has the highest rate, with 378.6 cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to 5 September, up from 320.3. Yorkshire and the Humber has the second highest rate at 378.4, up from 343.0. London has the lowest rate at 240.0, up slightly from 237.5. Case rates are also continuing to rise in most age groups, the figures showed. The exceptions are 20 to 29-year-olds, 60 to 69-year-olds and people aged 80 and over. The highest rate is among 10 to 19-year-olds, with 681.4 cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to 5 September, up sharply week-on-week from 478.3. The second highest rate is among 20 to 29-year-olds, down from 412.1 to 373.2. The lowest rate is among people aged 80 and over, at 114.0, down slightly from 115.4.", "The mother of one of Duggie Speight's victims said \"he stole my son's innocence\"\n\nA former headteacher described by a judge as \"a highly dangerous predatory paedophile\" has been jailed after admitting child sex abuse offences.\n\nBradford Crown Court heard that Speight, head of a school in Yorkshire, began grooming the boy by inviting him over to his flat during lockdown.\n\nHe was jailed for 12 years, with an extended licence of eight years.\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Richard Mansell QC said 44-year-old Speight had used his position of trust to \"cynically manipulate\" the boy and his family.\n\n\"Your public persona hid a very dark secret, that you are a highly dangerous, predatory, manipulative paedophile,\" the judge said.\n\nJudge Mansell said the offending was at the highest category of harm and that his victim would have to \"live with the mental scars of what you did to him for the rest of his life\".\n\nProsecutor Tom Storey said Speight became friends with the boy's family and offered tutoring.\n\nHe would give the boy alcohol and take him out and buy him expensive presents, including clothes and a laptop.\n\nMr Storey said that after one shopping trip in April the boy took an overdose and when recovering in hospital told one of his friends about the abuse. The friend told his parents who contacted the police.\n\nWhen initially interviewed by the police Speight denied the allegations, but officers searched his home and discovered mobiles phones and a tablet hidden behind a wall.\n\nThe court was told the devices contained footage of Speight having sex with the teenager filmed with a hidden camera.\n\nThere was also a video of young boys changing at a swimming pool.\n\nIn an impact statement, the boy's mother said Speight had \"destroyed my happy family life\".\n\n\"He used my friendship and trust and twisted it, \"she said.\n\n\"He stole my son's innocence and we can never get it back.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than £7m has been paid out in compensation by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to 1,600 men who were abused at a detention centre.\n\nMedomsley in County Durham housed teenage offenders who had committed minor crimes.\n\nIt closed in 1988 and 25 years later Durham Police began an investigation into abuse by former staff.\n\nThe MoJ said the cut-off for claims was 1 January 2022 with £7.2m paid out so far to 1,651 people.\n\nAn MoJ spokesman said: \"Our deepest sympathies remain with those who suffered abuse at Medomsley.\n\nHundreds of men came forward and reported physical abuse at the centre from the 1960s to 1980s.\n\nBarry Coles was 17 when he suffered regular beatings at the detention centre\n\nBarry Coles, from Hartlepool, was 17 years old when he was sent to Medomsley for riding a motorbike without tax and insurance.\n\nHe suffered regular beatings and said he witnessed some appalling sights.\n\nMr Coles said: \"I saw a lot of kids trying to escape and some got stuck in the barbed wire and they were pulling them out, they didn't give you the lickings of a dog.\"\n\nIn 2019 five former prison officers were convicted for their part in the physical abuse of inmates at Medomsley.\n\nMr Coles added life at the centre was \"brutal\" and described how officers would \"whack you across the back\" with sticks they carried.\n\n\"They used to come over and kick the bucket and give you a good kicking for getting the floor wet,\" he said.\n\nLast year the MoJ set up a compensation scheme for people who had been physically abused by any of the staff at the detention centre.\n\nIt said it had so far paid out £7.2m - the maximum individual award was £5,000.\n\nSolicitor Nathalie Clayton said she hoped the compensation would give the victims \"some justice\"\n\nSolicitors said the amount of money awarded depended on the length of time the men had spent at Medomsley and the extent of their injuries.\n\nSolicitor Nathalie Clayton, from Tilly Bailey and Irvine, the firm representing the men, said: \"The scheme has enabled us to deal with claims more quickly and I think it's given people a platform to eventually be able to speak about what happened to them and move forward knowing they've received some justice for what happened.\"\n\nThe scheme will end to new claims on 1 January.\n\nThe MoJ said since the closure of Medomsley there were regular Ofsted inspections of young offender centres, the Youth Justice Board had been created and there was improved CCTV and other technology to help protect young offenders.\n\nIt said staff working at such sites now received specialist training and added robust child protection procedures were in place.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "A paper model of the Goddess of Democracy was removed from the museum\n\nA museum commemorating the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has been raided by Hong Kong police.\n\nOfficers were later seen carrying exhibits out of the June 4 Museum.\n\nFour members of the group that ran the museum, the Hong Kong Alliance, were detained on Wednesday - including prominent pro-democracy activist and barrister Chow Hang Tung.\n\nThe arrests were made under the national security law, which has a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nPolice have accused Ms Chow of inciting subversion, her lawyers said.\n\nThe group, known for organising the city's famed annual vigil for Tiananmen Square victims, denies accusations of being a foreign agent.\n\nThe museum was closed down by officials in June. Thursday's raid was carried out by the newly created national security unit.\n\nAmong the exhibits seen being removed was a paper model of the Goddess of Democracy - a symbol of the 1989 pro-democracy student movement in Beijing.\n\nOfficers were also seen carrying out photos of the large candlelit vigils for Tiananmen victims.\n\nThe national security unit had earlier requested that the Hong Kong Alliance hand over information, reportedly including personal details of all members since the group's founding and financial records.\n\nOn Tuesday, the deadline for the request, the alliance members handed over a letter explaining their refusal to co-operate.\n\nThe next morning, police officers arrested members of the alliance's standing committee at their homes or offices.\n\nMs Chow, a human rights lawyer, was arrested earlier this year and charged with promoting unauthorised assembly. She was later released on bail.\n\nShe had been due on Wednesday to represent an opposition politician charged under the national security law at a bail hearing but was arrested at her office before she could appear in court.\n\nChina recently imposed a broadly worded national security law in Hong Kong that criminalises secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces.\n\nCritics say it is aimed at crushing dissent but China says it is meant to maintain stability.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June, Chow Hang Tung spoke to BBC Chinese explaining why she was encouraging those in Hong Kong to remember the Tiananmen crackdown", "Indie-soul singer Arlo Parks has won the 2021 Mercury Prize for her debut album, Collapsed In Sunbeams.\n\nA tender, intimate record, it draws on painful subjects like depression and anxiety but maintains a sense of hope.\n\nThe 21-year-old beat the likes of Wolf Alice, Celeste and Mogwai to scoop the £25,000 prize at a ceremony in Hammersmith, London, where she grew up.\n\nJudges called her a \"singular voice\" who \"demonstrates how to be quietly strong in a world of extrovert noise\".\n\nParks, who was left \"completely speechless\" by her victory, is the first Mercury Prize winner to be born in the 21st Century.\n\n\"It took a lot of sacrifice and hard work to get here,\" she said, after regaining her composure on stage. \"There were moments where I wasn't sure whether I would make it through - but I am here today, so thank you very much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arlo Parks accepts her Mercury Prize for album of the year.\n\nCollapsed In Sunbeams, which was released in January, reaching number three in the charts, and selling 43,000 copies to date.\n\nCritics praised its compassion and insight into topics like mental health and sexuality.\n\n\"There's no doubt that this is a universal collection of stories that'll provide solace for listeners of all ages and backgrounds for decades to come,\" wrote the NME in a five star review.\n\n\"Parks' seemingly effortless lyricism and laidback melodies make her songs cosy in winter, and chilled in summer [and] always uplifting and comforting,\" added The Line Of Best Fit.\n\nParks told the BBC she had written the album \"about the things I was scared to talk about or the things that moved me\" as she grew up in West London - and composedethe first song, Eugene, \"sitting on the floor eating pasta\" while she was still at school.\n\n\"The fact that people have connected to it, and feel strengthened and held by it, makes me really happy.\"\n\nThe Mercury Prize, given to the best British or Irish album of the past 12 months, is now in its 30th year.\n\nPrevious winners include era-defining records such as Primal Scream's Screamadelica, Pulp's Different Class and Dave's Psychodrama.\n\nThis year's list of nominees was typically eclectic, including chart-topping records by Celeste and Wolf Alice alongside singer-songwriter Laura Mvula and more left-field albums by jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia and electronic composer Hannah Peel.\n\nMvula, whose three albums have all been nominated without winning, expressed her disappointment after Thursday's ceremony. \"I get robbed. A lot,\" she wrote, adding: \"Mercury Prize can lose my number.\"\n\nOn Friday, she posted again.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by LAURA MVULA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTen of this year's 12 shortlisted albums were debuts, while four were instrumental or partly instrumental - reflecting changing listening habits during the pandemic.\n\nJudge Annie Mac said the list showed \"how remarkably creative and diverse British music is at the moment\".\n\nRadio 2's head of music, Jeff Smith, who chaired the judging panel, said selecting the winner \"is always difficult, but it was especially difficult this year\".\n\nThe full list of nominees was:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirmus energy has announced gas tariffs in the Ten Towns Network area will increase by 35% from 1 October.\n\nIt says this reflects the increase in gas commodity prices which, it says, have risen by 170% since April 2021.\n\nThe Consumer Council says the news will affect approximately 55,000 domestic customers.\n\nIt means the yearly gas bill of a typical household with a credit meter will rise by about £182 per year, the council said.\n\nMore than 25 other towns in surrounding areas are also included.\n\nCustomers in the Greater Belfast area will not be affected by Wednesday's news, although an announcement regarding tariffs in this area is expected in the coming weeks.\n\n\"We are very sorry to have to make this announcement as the last thing we want is to have to increase our prices,\" said the firm's managing director Michael Scott.\n\n\"However, given the massive increases in the cost of purchasing natural gas on the global markets, it is simply unavoidable, as these costs are totally beyond our control.\n\n\"We want to assure our customers that we will continue to monitor and review our tariffs to ensure customers are getting the best prices possible. As soon as we can lower our prices again, we will do so without delay\".\n\nMegan Potts, a single mother living in Bangor, says she has already been living hand-to-mouth.\n\n\"People talk about this decision between heat and eat and it's real. I am now getting to experience that on a whole new level.\n\n\"My electricity is actually about to go up. I dare say my gas rates will probably go up as well. Everything is going up.\"\n\nDirector of Infrastructure with the Consumer Council Peter McClenaghan said: \"The size of the Firmus energy price increase will shock consumers, make household budgeting more challenging, and is particularly difficult as consumers have no option to switch supplier.\n\n\"This Firmus energy increase follows rises in electricity, grocery, and fuel costs and is particularly bad news for consumers in vulnerable situations as it will coincide with the end of the furlough scheme, the removal of the Universal Credit uplift, and the start of winter,\" he added\n\nFirmus energy is regulated by the Utility Regulator and comes after SSE Airtricity put prices up last week.", "MPs have voted 319 to 248 for a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance for workers and employers to help fund health and social care.\n\nBoris Johnson hopes the tax increase, which breaks a Conservative manifesto pledge, will raise £12bn a year.\n\nThe prime minister said his plan would deal with \"catastrophic costs\" faced by those who need care.\n\nBut Labour raised concerns that people could still have to sell their home in order to pay for the help they need.\n\nDuring a House of Commons debate, some Conservative MPs also raised objections to the proposals.\n\nFormer minister Steve Baker called on his party to \"rediscover what it stands for\" rather than \"every time there is a squeeze on the public finances, coming back for higher taxes\".\n\nOpposition MPs voted against the rise but the government, which has a majority of more than 80, comfortably won the vote.\n\nFive Conservatives - Sir Christopher Chope, Philip Davies, Neil Hudson, Esther McVey and John Redwood - voted against the changes.\n\nThirty-seven Conservative MPs abstained. However, while some abstained due to concerns about the tax rise, others may simply been given permission to miss the vote.\n\nPoliticians have long agreed on the need to reform England's social care system, which helps older and working-age people with high care needs to carry out tasks such as washing, dressing, eating and taking medication.\n\nThe key proposals of the new plan are:\n\nCurrently workers pay 12% National Insurance on earnings between £9,564 and £50,268. However, anything earned above this amount attracts a rate of just 2%.\n\nMr Johnson has said the majority of the £36bn fund raised by the tax rise will go towards catching up on the backlog in the NHS created by Covid.\n\nA smaller portion of the money - £5.4bn over the next three years - will also go towards changes to the social care system, with more promised after that.\n\nThe UK-wide tax will be focused on funding health and social care in England, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive an additional £2.2bn to spend on their services.\n\nFrom 2023, the increase in National Insurance will become a separate levy, while the National Insurance rates will return to their previous level.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said that under Mr Johnson's plan \"someone with a house worth £186,000 would still have to pay £86,000 even with this cap - and that's before living costs of going into a care home.\"\n\n\"How does the chancellor suggest they pay those fees without selling their home?\" she asked.\n\nAlong with Labour, the SNP also voted against the government's proposals, with its Westminster leader Ian Blackford accusing the Conservatives of \"taxing Scottish workers twice\" and \"forcing them to pay the bill for social care in England as well as at home in Scotland\".\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the prime minister had failed to come up with a plan to tackle care staff vacancies or help unpaid family carers.\n\nConservative MP Jake Berry was among the critical voices from the government's own backbench, warning ministers that \"throwing other people's money down a bottomless pit doesn't become a good idea if you put the NHS logo next to it\".\n\nMr Johnson sought to reassure his own MPs ahead of the vote, telling a meeting of backbenchers: \"We should never forget we are the party of low taxation.\"\n\nDo you or a loved one require social care? How will the new tax affect you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "There’s growing concern about the fate of hundreds of Afghan Special Forces who were trained by the British military and who’ve been left behind after the Kabul airlift ended last month.\n\nJoya is one of the lucky soldiers who managed to escape in time.\n\nHe served in the Afghan Special Forces for almost twenty years, reaching the rank of Lieutenant colonel shortly before the Taliban gained control of Kabul.\n\nTravelling on foot to the capital in a race against time, members of the Parachute Regiment he served alongside managed to coordinate his rescue.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We want the NHS backlogs to be cleared as fast as possible\"\n\nThe number of unvaccinated people ending up in hospital with Covid is \"concerning\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThree quarters of those admitted at hospitals such as St Thomas' had not had a Covid jab, with a \"higher proportion\" of younger people now being affected, he said.\n\nHe added that while lifting most restrictions in July continued to look right, there was still a risk as infections remained high.\n\nThe UK has reported more than 30,000 cases for the last nine days in a row.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid is also rising. It currently stands at 7,907, compared to 5,697 a month ago.\n\nSpeaking at St Thomas' Hospital, London, the prime minister told the BBC: \"It'd be fair to say the decision to go ahead with the roadmap in the way that we did continues to look right.\n\n\"The openings that we did in July continue to look right - we're seeing the fastest growth of any G7 economy now we're comparatively open in this country.\n\n\"But we've got to be very clear with people. There still is a risk out there and there still is a pandemic, and the numbers of infections remain high or high-ish.\n\n\"I'm certainly concerned and what I'm particularly concerned about is that in great hospitals like this, 75% of the people who are succumbing to Covid still are not vaccinated.\"\n\nFour out of five people aged 16 and above have had two doses of a vaccine, while nearly 89% have had one dose.\n\n\"Sadly, we are seeing an increase in the proportion of Covid victims who are younger people,\" the prime minister said, urging those who were unvaccinated to get their jab.\n\n\"What we want to do is get people to see the value of vaccination to themselves and their families.\"\n\nWhat we are seeing with Covid is not a sudden surge like in previous waves, but a slow, gradual build-up of pressure.\n\nThe virus is not raging out of control, but it is still circulating and at quite a high level.\n\nThe vaccines are working really well.\n\nBut with one in five adults still not fully vaccinated, there are millions of people at risk.\n\nThat, as the prime ministers says, is the most significant cause of the pressure in hospitals.\n\nOnly around 7% of hospital beds are occupied by Covid patients, but if that keeps increasing along with the return of normal winter viruses, hospitals will have to start rationing other types of care more.\n\nIt's going to be a long, hard autumn and winter for the NHS.\n\nAsked about reports the government was planning of a \"firebreak\" lockdown in October, he said: \"There's been no discussion of anything like that.\"\n\nMr Johnson also reiterated the government's plan to offer a booster vaccine to the most vulnerable groups this month.\n\nIt had already been announced that half a million of the most vulnerable in the UK will be offered a third dose, following a recommendation from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAbout 400,000 to 500,000 people in the UK with severely weakened immune systems will be eligible for a third dose of vaccine.\n\nClarification 26th October 2021: In his interview with the BBC Boris Johnson highlighted that \"75% of the people who are succumbing to Covid still are not vaccinated,\" which we understood to be a comment on the general picture of hospital admissions, when addressing the state of the pandemic in the UK. His team later clarified that the figure of 75% related to \"major trusts like St Thomas' and so we have amended the article's second paragraph to precisely reflect that.\n• None No plans for October lockdown, says government", "Facebook admits a level of bias in that people are \"shown ads they may be interested in\"\n\nFacebook has been accused of breaking equality law in the way it handles job adverts.\n\nCampaign group Global Witness said it failed to prevent discriminatory targeting of ads and its algorithm was biased in choosing who would see them.\n\nIn an experiment, almost all Facebook users shown adverts for mechanics were men, while ads for nursery nurses were seen almost exclusively by women.\n\nFacebook says its system shows people ads they may be most interested in.\n\nGlobal Witness submitted two job ads for approval, asking Facebook not to show:\n\nAnd the social-media giant approved both ads for publication, although it did ask the organisation to tick a box saying it would not discriminate against these groups.\n\nGlobal Witness pulled the adverts before they were published.\n\nFacebook said: \"Our system takes into account different kinds of information to try and serve people ads they will be most interested in and we are reviewing the findings within this report.\"\n\nGlobal Witness said it was shocked by its findings\n\nIn 2019, a legal case was brought in the US over house-related adverts on Facebook the US Department of Housing and Urban Development alleged discriminated on the basis of ethnicity.\n\nThe social network has since agreed it would not allow discriminatory ads of this kind in the United States and Canada.\n\nAnd it says it is exploring extending the limits on the targeting of job, housing and credit ads to other countries.\n\n\"The fact that it is possible to do this on Facebook in the UK is particularly shocking,\" Naomi Hirst, who led Global Witness's investigation, said.\n\nBut the campaign group is even more concerned by what it found out about how Facebook's system handled ads for which the recruiter did not specify a target audience.\n\nGlobal Witness created four job ads, linked to real vacancies on the indeed.com platform, for nursery nurses, pilots, mechanics and psychologists.\n\nThe group specified only the ads should be seen by UK adults.\n\n\"That meant that it was entirely up to Facebook's algorithm to decide who to show the ads to,\" Ms Hirst said, \"and what it decided appears to us to be downright sexist.\"\n\nOf the people shown an ad for:\n\nThe algorithm is designed to ensure as many people as possible click on the ads - but Global Witness says it is perpetuating and even amplifying biases already built into recruitment.\n\nPreviously, for example, jobs for mechanics may have been advertised in magazines aimed at men.\n\n\"The difference here,\" Ms Hirst said, \"is that if you are a woman looking for a job as a mechanic, you could just as easily go to a shop and buy that magazine as your male peer.\n\n\"It's just simply not true online.\"\n\nAnd in a submission to the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, she wrote: \"Facebook's system itself may, and does appear to, lead to discriminatory outcomes.\"\n\nGlobal Witness has also contacted the information commissioner about what it describes as the discriminatory practices resulting from the way Facebook processes data for job adverts.\n\nRavi Naik, a data-rights lawyer acting for Global Witness, said its concern was Facebook's advertising mechanisms might lead to the social network's customers breaching equality laws.\n\n\"That is massively consequential because Facebook's entire business model is advertising and if that business model results in discriminatory practices, that undermines the ability of Facebook to operate properly in this country,\" he added.", "The UK medicines regulator has approved the use of Pfizer and AstraZeneca as Covid booster vaccines, paving the way for a rollout ahead of the winter.\n\nBut the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), the UK vaccine advisory body, has not decided if they are needed, and who should be eligible.\n\nThe JCVI has said a third dose should be offered to people with severely weakened immune systems.\n\nUp to half a million people over the age of 12 in the UK are in this group.\n\nA separate booster programme against Covid-19 would aim to extend protection for millions more at high risk from the virus, although there is disagreement over whether this is really necessary.\n\nAstraZeneca bosses have warned against rushing into offering boosters when the data showing it's needed after two doses isn't yet clear.\n\nIf needed, boosters could be given to frontline health and care staff, care home residents and over-70s first.\n\nEarlier this week, ministers said the NHS was ready to go if booster jabs were given the green light.\n\nDr June Raine, chief executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), said: \"I am pleased to confirm that the Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca can be used as safe and effective booster doses.\n\n\"This is an important regulatory change, as it gives further options for the vaccination programme, which has saved thousands of lives so far.\"\n\nScientists have been studying whether a mix of vaccines could provide better protection than three doses of the same jab. The data from these trials are likely to feed into any decision from the JCVI, who met today to discuss the findings.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRio Ferdinand says football is \"sliding backwards\" and racism is being normalised because of the prevalence of racist abuse online.\n\nThe former England captain was speaking to a joint parliamentary committee seeking possible improvements to the government's draft Online Safety Bill.\n\nFerdinand, 42, said he had seen family members \"disintegrate\" after he was abused on social media.\n\n\"Self-esteem, your mental health is at risk,\" Ferdinand said.\n\nThe former Manchester United defender said it was \"disheartening\" to see racism in football rising to the levels of the 1970s and 80s.\n\nHe cited the abuse received by England players Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho after July's penalty shootout defeat by Italy in the Euro 2020 final.\n\n\"When those three players missed those penalties, the first thing I thought was 'let's see what happens on social media',\" Ferdinand said.\n\nOn Wednesday Ferdinand's brother Anton spoke to the Home Affairs select committee, asking whether it would take a tragedy for social media companies to act on online racist abuse.\n\nAt that hearing, representatives of Twitter and Instagram argued they were attempting to address the issue.\n\nKaty Minshall, head of UK public policy and philanthropy at Twitter, said the company was starting to focus its work on the ease with which footballers could be contacted on social media, while Tara Hopkins, the director of public policy at Instagram, said 95% of hateful content was proactively removed from the platform.\n\n'I have seen members of my family disintegrate'\n\nRio Ferdinand told the joint committee of MPs and peers that it was \"baffling\" that social media companies had tools that track copyright breaches on, for example, his YouTube channel but could not use that same technology to pick up certain emojis or words used in racially abusive posts.\n\nHe stressed that harmful content affected more than just the person who received it, saying: \"I have seen members of my family disintegrate at times when it happens.\"\n\n\"I have to sit there with my kids and explain what the monkey emoji means in that context,\" Ferdinand added.\n\nThe former Leeds and West Ham player condemned the fact that perpetrators were allowed to remain anonymous online, saying it was \"normalising racist behaviour\".\n\n\"If you put it in the context of a young person who supports a certain player at whatever level, he is looking through that feed and seeing racist language,\" he continued.\n\n\"That young person then goes into his network of friends and 'it's fine, it's normal so I'll say that at school so it's OK'.\n\n\"When there are no repercussions, there is nothing done to expose that person for their ignorant language, then people are going to think it's normal.\"\n\nFerdinand agreed that social media companies profited from prejudice and said that placing the onus on victims to report abuse or block abusers was \"an easy cop-out\" for platforms.\n\nFerdinand spoke to the committee alongside Edleen John, the Football Association's director of international relations, corporate affairs and equality, diversity and inclusion, and Kick It Out chair Sanjay Bhandari.\n\nJohn commented on how the draft bill could tackle the issue of identity verification for social media users, suggesting a \"layered\" approach.\n\n\"Social media companies seem to believe that it's a binary option where people have to provide all information or no information,\" she said.\n\nJohn instead suggested \"multiple mechanisms\" could be used to tackle the issue, using identity verification alongside \"default settings\" and limiting the reach of an account.\n\nShe believed this approach would reduce the use of 'burner' accounts, which are set up to send abusive messages before being quickly deleted, with users able to set up a new account shortly after.\n\nJohn said she \"consistently receives platitudes\" from social media organisations in response to concerns and cited anecdotal evidence of a player who was blocked by a platform for reporting abuse too many times.\n\nBhandari said the current system was \"frictionless\" and called for an amendment to the draft bill that would give communications regulator Ofcom \"power to introduce codes of practice\".\n\n\"You need to give Ofcom the power to regulate harmful but legal content,\" he said.\n\nBhandari added that the public response to the abuse of the England trio after the Euro 2020 final should offer a template for future regulations.\n\n\"The unified public condemnation of that says to us that what the public are demanding is that every piece of hate that was spat out that night needed to be taken off the platforms,\" he continued.\n\n\"The way in which to do that is to give a regulator the power to reflect contemporary social practices.\n\n\"We would have to put checks and balances in. We also have to balance against dealing with an evolving problem. We can't legislate through the rear-view mirror, we have to legislate through the windscreen, looking ahead.\"\n\nImran Ahmed, chief executive and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), also spoke at the hearing after a report from his organisation in July found Instagram failed to remove 94% of accounts that had sent racist messages to Rashford, Saka and Sancho after the Euros final defeat.\n\n\"When it comes to racism against footballers, the reason why the abuse matters isn't because they're a wealthy footballer,\" Ahmed said.\n\n\"Imagine what they would call me, my mum or anyone else from a minority. It is a sense of, 'these places aren't for you. These are our places'.\"\n\nWhat is the draft Online Safety Bill?\n\nThe committee hearing is one of several steps in the process of the draft bill - which aims \"to establish a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online\" - being passed into law.\n\nThe draft bill places new duties on social media firms to remove harmful content quickly or potentially face multi-billion-pound fines.\n\nSome campaigners say the plans will lead to censorship, while others warn fines do not go far enough.\n\nThe draft legislation has been two years in the making and is especially geared towards keeping children safe.\n\nAs well as racist abuse, it covers terrorism, disinformation, pornography, grooming, revenge porn, hate speech, images of child abuse and posts relating to suicide and eating disorders.\n\nLate additions to the bill include provisions to tackle online scams, such as romance fraud and fake investment opportunities.", "Janey Godley went viral with voice-overs of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's daily briefings\n\nComedian Janey Godley has been dropped from a Scottish government health campaign over \"unacceptable\" tweets.\n\nThe Glasgow performer was paid for a campaign to encourage face coverings and lateral flow testing.\n\nShe admitted the tweets, from a number of years ago, had \"terrible, horrific undertones\" after they were published by several newspapers.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said trust in its public health messages was \"paramount\".\n\nMs Godley, 60, gained a large online following for her viral voice-overs of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's daily briefings during the lockdowns.\n\nShe has apologised \"without reservation\" to \"everyone I hurt\" and offered to donate the fee for the advert to the STV Children's Appeal.\n\nA number of posts, the most recent of which was from 2017, were highlighted by the Scottish Sun.\n\nThe Daily Beast followed up by publishing several tweets from 2011 and 2012 about black performers.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Godley said: \"There are tweets from my past social media that are horridly offensive, I believe in progress not perfection and I am far from perfect.\n\n\"People have every right to go through my social media and see what values I hold and to find hurtful phrases and statements is shocking, I am deeply sorry to everyone I offended.\n\n\"Comedy is no excuse to use disgusting and hurtful words that affect people and I know many of you expected better of me. I apologise for every single word that upset people.\"\n\nMs Godley's #StopTheSpike adverts ran on TV and social media. She previously appeared in government-funded Zero Waste Scotland promotions.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"A series of unacceptable tweets by Janey Godley have been brought to our attention and, while she has rightly apologised, trust in our public health messages at this time is paramount.\n\n\"We have therefore taken the decision to withdraw any further campaign material in which Ms Godley features.\n\n\"The material will be discontinued immediately on our own channels and withdrawn as soon as possible from external media.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Janey Godley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Godley was brought up in the east end of Glasgow, and has spoken candidly of her traumatic early life which included poverty and sexual abuse, before beginning a comedy career later in life.\n\nShe has appeared on the BBC as panellist on shows such as BBC Radio Scotland's Breaking the News and BBC One's Have I Got News for You, and as an actor in Traces.\n\nShe has also performed with The National Theatre of Scotland and was a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe.\n\nHigh profile comedians, including David Baddiel and Dawn French, offered their support on Twitter on Wednesday and Aberdeen Performing Arts stood by their decision to cast her in their pantomime Beauty and the Beast this winter.\n\nOn Thursday, following the Daily Beast article, Ms Godley tweeted: \"I am not asking people who like me to defend the offensive things I said, I appreciate many people who enjoy my work are horrified and upset at my tweets, that's how it should be, I am not the victim here, the people I hurt and offended are and I take that responsibility.\"\n• None Janey Godley - I lived with the stench of threat everywhere", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A group of women protest in Kabul against the all-male Taliban government\n\nDozens of women in Kabul and the north-eastern Afghan province of Badakhshan have protested against the formation of an all-male interim Taliban government to rule Afghanistan.\n\nDemonstrators said they would not accept a government with no women ministers.\n\nSome women were reportedly beaten before the protests were dispersed.\n\nLocal news organisation Etilaatroz said some of its journalists were detained and beaten for covering the rally.\n\nThe Taliban, who have not responded to the allegations, warned that such protests were illegal.\n\nThey have said protesters needed permission to march, and should not use what they called abusive language.\n\nOn Tuesday, three people were killed during a demonstration in the western city of Herat.\n\nThe EU said the Islamist group had reneged on promises to make their government \"inclusive and representative\", while the US also expressed concern that the interim government includes figures linked to attacks on US forces.\n\nAddressing reporters after a virtual meeting of 20 Western nations on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Taliban's government \"certainly does not meet the test of inclusivity, and it includes people who have very challenging track records\".\n\n\"The Taliban seek international legitimacy and support - any legitimacy, any support, will have to be earned,\" he said.\n\nBut China said on Wednesday that it welcomed the end of what it called \"three weeks of anarchy\" in Afghanistan, and pledged $31m (£22m) in immediate aid.\n\nThe formation of an interim government, China's foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters, is \"a necessary step to restore order and rebuild the country\".\n\nThe anti-Taliban National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) have urged the international community not to recognise the new government, calling the cabinet \"illegal\" and \"a clear sign of the group's enmity with the Afghan people\".\n\nThe NRF, led by Ahmad Massoud, the son of the late resistance icon Ahmad Shah Massoud, have been fighting Taliban militants in the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, which was Afghanistan's last anti-Taliban stronghold.\n\nThe Taliban insist they have now defeated the NRF in Panjshir, but NRF leaders say they are still fighting.\n\nOn Tuesday the Taliban announced the first appointments to their interim cabinet, which will be led by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund.\n\nHassan Akhund served as foreign minister, and then later deputy prime minister, when the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Like many of the new cabinet ministers he is under UN sanctions for his position in that government.\n\nSpeaking to Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Hassan Akhund said former Afghan officials should return to the country and that their security and safety would be guaranteed.\n\nHe said Taliban leaders face great responsibility towards the Afghan people, adding: \"We have suffered heavy losses for this historical moment and the era of bloodshed in Afghanistan is over.\"\n\nAnother incoming minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, is head of the notorious Haqqani network.\n\nThe Haqqani network has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) by the US. It also maintains close ties to al-Qaeda.\n\nThe FBI says Haqqani was behind some of the deadliest attacks of the 20-year-long war, including a truck bomb explosion in Kabul in 2017 that killed more than 150 people.\n\nHe is wanted by the FBI over a 2008 attack on a hotel that killed an American.\n\nThe Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in a sweeping offensive more than three weeks ago. They now face many tough challenges in the conflict-torn country, including stabilising the economy and gaining international recognition.\n\nThe Taliban's spokesman announced the appointments at a press conference on Tuesday\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, a statement attributed to Taliban Supreme Leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada told the government to uphold Sharia law - Islam's legal system. The Taliban have been known for their extremely hardline interpretation of Sharia.\n\nThe Taliban want \"strong and healthy\" relations with other countries and would respect international laws and treaties as long as they did not conflict with \"Islamic law and the country's national values\", the statement said.\n\nHassan Akhund, the new interim prime minister, is influential on the religious side of the movement, rather than the military side.\n\nHis appointment is seen as a compromise, after recent reports of in-fighting between some relatively moderate Taliban figures and their hardline colleagues.\n\nA movement which has long moved in the shadows, whose names would surface only on the world's terrorism watch lists, is now announcing titles used in governments the world over.\n\nActing prime minister Mullah Akhund appears as a compromise candidate after reported rivalries among leading military and political figures who will serve under him.\n\nIts caretaker nature also provides breathing space as the Taliban move from guns to government.\n\nIt also underlines the Taliban view that a Taliban victory can only mean Taliban rule. Sources say they pushed back against calls for an \"inclusive\" government. They balked at including former political figures and officials, who've had their turn at the top, and especially those tainted by corruption.\n\n\"Why should we let others pick our cabinet when other countries pick their own? \"was one retort.\n\nAs for women, there was never a chance they would be given a ministerial role; the ministry of women's affairs seems to have been, for now, abolished altogether.\n\nOther appointments to the new government include:", "The Taliban's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced the new government in a press conference on Tuesday\n\nThe phrases have tripped off the tongues of Taliban for quite some time.\n\n\"We're working to establish an inclusive government that represents all the people of Afghanistan,\" promised Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar when he recently arrived in Kabul to start talks aimed at forming a leadership to move the movement from guns to government.\n\n\"We would like to live peacefully,\" vowed Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid at the first press conference in the capital after the Taliban suddenly swept into power on 15 August. \"We don't want any internal enemies and any external enemies.\"\n\nJudge them by their actions, not their words, has become the mantra of a fast-expanding league of Taliban watchers including Afghans, foreign governments, humanitarian chiefs and political pundits the world over.\n\nBut Afghans are watching most closely of all. They have to.\n\nOn a day when brave protesters with bold banners spilled into the streets of Kabul and other cities - Afghan women leading the charge to demand their rights, their representation, their roles in society - the new Taliban government was unveiled.\n\nWas this more evidence of the media-savvy Taliban? It temporarily knocked news of Taliban firing guns in the air, wielding rifle butts and sticks to disperse protesters, out of the world's headlines.\n\nBut it was a modest ceremony, in the mundane setting of a press conference, for such a momentous, much-anticipated message. It electrified social media, and delivered a gut punch to those who had held fast to Taliban promises.\n\nFar from being inclusive, it is exclusively Taliban. The old organigram of the Taliban movement, with its commissions, deputies, and the all-powerful Emir Hibatullah Akhundzada, has been transplanted into a cabinet with the same political architecture of governments everywhere.\n\nIts makeup is overwhelmingly drawn from Pashtun tribes, with only one Tajik and one Uzbek, both Talibs. There's not a single woman, not even in deputy minister positions.\n\nThe reviled Ministry of Vice and Virtue is back; the Women's Affairs Ministry is out.\n\nIt's a government of the old guard, and the new generation of mullahs and military commanders: men in charge when the Taliban ruled in the 1990s who return, beards much lighter and longer; former Guantanamo Bay prisoners; current members of US and UN black lists; battle-hardened fighters who pressed forward on every front in recent months; self-styled peacemakers who sat around negotiating tables, and shuttled around regional capitals with promises of a new Taliban 2.0.\n\nTaliban fighters stand in front of protesters during an anti-Pakistan protest in Kabul\n\nSome names stick out - some so far they can seem provocative.\n\nThe caretaker head of cabinet is the white-bearded Mullah Hasan Akhund, a founding member of the Taliban who's on the UN's sanctions list.\n\nThe caretaker Minister of the Interior is Sirajuddin Haqqani. His face has rarely been seen except in a photograph, partially obscured by a caramel-coloured shawl, in a FBI wanted poster announcing a big bounty of $5m that's also on his head. His more recent claim to fame was an op-ed in the New York Times in 2020 calling for peace which failed to mention that the Haqqani Network named after his family is held responsible for some of the worst attacks on Afghan civilians. The Haqqanis insist there's no such network; they say they're part of the Taliban now.\n\nThe caretaker Minister of Defence, Mullah Yaqoob, represented by a black silhouette, is the eldest son of the founding Emir of the Taliban, Mullah Omar.\n\nBut, wait, this is just a caretaker cabinet.\n\nAt the press conference in Kabul, as a raucous chorus of questions rose from journalists in the room, it was said more posts might be announced in time. \"We haven't announced all the ministries and deputies yet so it's possible this list could be extended,\" Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputy head of the cultural commission, told my colleague Secunder Kermani.\n\nThis may be the opening political salvo to reward and reassure their rank and file fighters, many of whom have been streaming into Kabul, to welcome the return of a \"pure Islamic system\".\n\nIt also appears as a carefully constructed compromise. Mullah Akhund suddenly emerged at the top, fixing in place rival political and military heavyweights including Mullah Baradar whom many predicted would take a leading role, instead of a deputy position.\n\nTaliban leaders are said to have pushed back against calls to include political leaders from the past, especially those tainted by corruption, arguing they've already had their time at the top.\n\nA phrase still rings in my ears from Taliban negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who's now been appointed as deputy foreign minister, the same role he held the last time round.\n\nWhen I asked him in February 2020, after the signing of the landmark US-Taliban deal, what he would say to Afghans who feared their return, he replied with great gusto: \"I tell them we will have a government acceptable to the majority.\" The word majority was punctuated by a loud emphasis.\n\nIn other words, a government dominated by traditional values, not what they mock as Western ideas.\n\nThose were heady days when Afghans dared to hope the worst of the war was over. Later that year, on the first day of formal Afghan talks in the Gulf state of Qatar, a buzz shot through the room when the Taliban hinted they would no longer be demanding an Islamic Emirate; they said they understood its sensitivity.\n\nIn talks with female negotiators, they reassured them women could play every role except president, including government ministers.\n\nThat was then. This is now. The Taliban are in charge.\n\n\"Those who do not pay attention to the social fabric of Afghanistan will face serious challenges,\" warns negotiator and former MP Fawzia Koofi, who heard many of those promises.\n\nThat challenge is already crystallising in protests on the streets, in statements from capitals around the world.\n\n\"The world is watching closely,\" warned a statement from the US State Department. \"Little chance of international recognition of Taliban soon,\" declared an editorial in Russia's Nezavisimaya Gazeta.\n\nAnd a challenge may even rise from within a younger generation of Taliban.\n\n\"We must pay attention to the lessons of history,\" a young Talib recently reflected to me. He emphasised that if the Taliban tried to dominate again, they could be toppled again, as they were in 2001, as the last government just was. Another expressed unease that mullahs schooled only in religious matters were being given so many posts.\n\nA Taliban fighter stands guard outside the building of the former US embassy\n\nIn a statement issued soon after the caretaker cabinet was announced, the Emir noted that \"all talented and professional people\" were desperately needed for their \"talents, guidance, and work.\"\n\nBut in all his exhortations, it was also clear the bottom line was about strengthening \"the system,\" the re-established Islamic Emirate. This takes precedence above all else.\n\nIn recent days in Kabul, I've asked Taliban watchers of various ilk if they thought the leadership would harden over time, or open up.\n\nPowerful winds could tilt them in many directions.\n\nThe world's major aid agencies, who provided around 80% of the old government's budget, are watching closely.\n\n\"They're in very, very dire straits,\" the UN's humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told me as he ended a visit where he emphasised the centrality of humanitarian principles and values, including the inclusion of women and girls. Senior officials, he remarked, asked him for patience and advice.\n\nAfghanistan's new leaders are also under the microscope of jihadi movements worldwide who've enthusiastically welcomed a new land of Islamic governance compliant with Islamic Sharia law.\n\nAfghanistan is, to use the expression, \"too big to fail\". Warnings about a safe haven for extremist groups, worries about human rights and a deepening humanitarian crisis of hunger and hardship, will concentrate many minds on trying to find a way to work with leaders still finding their way, still rooted in their past, rather than, as yet, a different kind of future.\n\nBut that mantra will stick - actions, not words, matter most.\n\nIn the UK you can listen to Lyse Doucet's podcast, A Wish for Afghanistan, on BBC Sounds .", "Iain Anderson has been appointed as the first LGBT business champion\n\nThe UK's first LGBT business champion has pledged to build a bridge between the government and the LGBT community.\n\nIain Anderson, executive chairman of public relations firm Cicero, will focus on improving workplace equality at a small business level.\n\nOne CIPD report suggested 40% of LGB employees had experienced conflict at work, rising to 55% of trans employees.\n\nEarlier this year, the government's LGBT advisory panel was disbanded after several members quit.\n\nOne, Jayne Ozanne, accused the government of creating a \"hostile environment\" for LGBT people.\n\nThe members left over the government's handling of LGBT rights and amid claims it was \"dragging its feet\" on a pledge to ban so-called conversion therapy.\n\n\"I definitely see my role as a link between the LGBT community, government and business and I want to build a bridge between the three parties,\" Mr Anderson said.\n\n\"If businesses see me, and in turn government, putting in place tangible ways to allow LGBT people to be themselves, they'll understand that this is a priority area and do more about it.\"\n\nMr Anderson, a Stonewall ambassador, was appointed to the new unpaid position by equalities minister Liz Truss.\n\nHe told the BBC that the UK had \"come a long way\" on LGBT issues, but there was \"still a lot of prejudice and discrimination out there\".\n\nHe added that large firms had put in a lot of work on improving conditions for LGBT workers and he wanted to help small firms \"buddy up\" with bigger companies to learn from their experiences.\n\n\"I don't want this to be a burden, I want this to be an opportunity,\" he added.\n\nStonewall's Robbie de Santos described the appointment as a \"really important move\" and said it was the government's responsibility to \"set the tone and culture\" for what was happening in the UK.\n\n\"Where 35% of LGBT+ people hide who they are at work for fear of discrimination - and two in five haven't told anyone about being bi at work - we are in a situation where the government does need to step in.\n\n\"It's just not on that huge sections of the LGBT population can have that experience at work, so it's a welcome sign the government has appointed someone specifically to look at this. If you think about how much of time we spend at work, it's really key.\"\n\nFor his part, Mr Anderson said that coming out as gay at work helped his business to thrive.\n\n\"I've been in business 30 years and I didn't feel able to be myself at work for about half that time,\" he said.\n\nLGBT people faced an average pay gap of 16% compared to heterosexual people, a 2019 YouGov survey for LinkedIn suggested - roughly double the UK's gender pay gap.\n\nWhile gender pay gap reporting has become compulsory for large businesses - suspended during the pandemic - Mr Anderson is not pushing for mandatory reporting of LGBT pay gaps.\n\n\"I'm open to conversations with businesses and organisations about any suggestions they have to improve the workplace for LGBT people. If pay gap reporting is one of those suggestions, then I'm more than happy to look at this as an option.\"\n\nHe also acknowledges that LGBT pay gap reporting is more \"tricky\" as not all employees wish to be out at work.\n\nIn the role, he will also help British businesses to advocate LGBT equality in their international trading partners ahead of the UK's first global LGBT conference next summer.\n\nSmall business owner Jose Franca urged the government not to use the appointment as a 'tick-box' exercise.\n\nMike Cherry, national chair of the Federation of Small Business (FSB), welcomed Mr Anderson's appointment.\n\n\"We hope this will instil a new clear focus on LGBT+ individuals who run small businesses right across the country who are so often overlooked compared to others.\n\n\"All too often, it is only larger companies and corporates that offered serious engagement with these issues, it's vital that small business owners and the self-employed are also considered and involved.\n\n\"The government must lead the way on this, by offering mentoring opportunities, role models and an expanded business network\".\n\nMatthew Percival, skills and inclusion director at the Confederation of British Industry said: \"Employers need to be thinking about all groups of society, taking steps to understand and respond to the experiences of LGBT employees.\n\n\"Forums or networks that help LGBT colleagues put forward their views and priorities to management are one of many practical ways in which this can be done.\"\n\nHe added that the government could \"send a powerful signal\" by ratifying the International Labour Organization's Violence and Harassment Convention, described as the first international treaty to recognise the right of everyone to a world of work free from violence and harassment.\n\nJose Franca, who runs an LGBT business group, urged the government not to make the role a \"tick-box\" exercise.\n\n\"We feel that small business LGBT+ members aren't being represented and we say to the government, don't use us as tick-box exercise, engage with us - what are our challenges? Give us the spotlight,\" says Mr Franca, a developmental consultant who helps lead an LGBTQ+ support group for the FSB.\n\n\"Is this going to be different or is it just another PR exercise - what action will they take?\"", "People in Scotland will need proof they have been fully vaccinated before they can enter nightclubs and many large events from 1 October.\n\nThe vaccine passport plan was formally approved by Holyrood after the SNP and Greens voted in favour.\n\nSome businesses have complained of a lack of detail about how the scheme will work in practice.\n\nThe proposals were opposed by the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said the system would reduce the risk of transmission and help prevent venues - many of which have only recently reopened - from having to close again due to Covid.\n\nA paper published by the government on Thursday morning, just hours before the vote in the Scottish Parliament, said officials were still working to define what a nightclub actually is.\n\nAnd it said evidence was still being gathered about the effectiveness of similar schemes elsewhere in the world.\n\nPeople in England will need to have a \"Covid pass\" to access \"higher risk\" settings such as nightclubs from the end of this month.\n\nThere are no current plans to introduce a similar scheme in Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe new rules will mean people over the age of 18 in Scotland will need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to:\n\nIt means that many major sporting events - particularly football matches - will be affected, as will concerts and music festivals.\n\nPeople who have had two vaccines in Scotland can already download or get a paper copy of a certificate with a QR code.\n\nBy the end of the month, it is expected that this code will also be available on a new NHS Scotland Status app.\n\nThese codes can be scanned at a venue to confirm the user is fully vaccinated.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - will be exempt.\n\nPeople will need to show a QR code before they are allowed into some venues\n\nA major goal of the scheme is to encourage more younger people to be vaccinated - with the latest figures showing that uptake among those under the age of 40 in Scotland has been lower than older age groups.\n\nMany areas of Scotland have seen some of the highest Covid rates in Europe in recent weeks - although there are signs that the surge in cases is beginning to slow down.\n\nThe number of people in hospital and intensive care units has also been steadily rising, with health professionals warning that that NHS is coming under increasing strain.\n\nMr Swinney said Scotland was in a \"fragile position\" with Covid-19 case rates still high, telling MSPs that \"we all recognise the need to try all we can to protect the return to greater normality that we have experienced in recent weeks\".\n\nHe said the scheme would reduce the risk of transmission in some settings, allowing those venues to \"operate more safely when the potential alternative would be closure\".\n\nMr Swinney said it would also protect vulnerable people who cannot be vaccinated, and would encourage others to come forward for a jab.\n\nHe said: \"On balance - given the benefits to individuals, to the health of the population, and as a way to keep certain venues and events open - a certification scheme is a proportionate step to take.\"\n\nMr Swinney had been critical of vaccine passports when the proposals for England were unveiled by the prime minister, as had Health Secretary Humza Yousaf and the SNP's partners in government, the Scottish Greens.\n\nGreens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the facts on the ground had changed - and that the scheme was \"worth considering when cases are running at around 7,000 a day and once the entire adult population has had two doses\".\n\nHospitality groups have called for more details about how the system will work, while a football supporters association said it was \"concerned about inequalities\" shutting some fans out of games.\n\nLeon Thompson of the trade body UK Hospitality Scotland told BBC Scotland there had been \"very rushed and hurried conversations with officials\" in recent days, with members \"very concerned\" about the practicalities of the plans.\n\nDr Liz Cameron, chief executive of Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said it would \"directly impact on consumer confidence and risks creating further financial damage to those sectors who have already been hardest hit by Covid-19\".\n\nCBI Scotland director Tracy Black said vaccine passports had the potential to be \"a useful tool in managing risk in large venues\" - but that there needed to be \"close cooperation and coordination\" with businesses.\n\nThe Scottish Tories voted against the proposals despite the Conservative UK government planning to introduce a similar system.\n\nLeader Douglas Ross said not enough detail had been provided about the Scottish scheme, and that the government should not be asking MSPs to \"impose\" a vaccine certification scheme on establishments it was not able to define.\n\nHe said: \"A responsible government should bring forward proposals that are able to be enacted.\n\n\"We are in a really difficult position as politicians seeking to make a decision on an extremely difficult subject if the government cannot even give us simple information.\"\n\nScottish Labour also opposed the plans, with deputy leader Jackie Baillie saying there was a \"practical question about the government's ability to even implement this\".\n\nShe said people with a vaccination certificate could still have the virus and be infectious, saying ministers were in danger of giving people a false sense of confidence that they were \"invincible\".\n\nMs Baillie said the government should \"not simply reach for anything just to be seen to take action, and end up making things worse\".\n\nAnd Alex Cole-Hamilton said his Scottish Liberal Democrats were \"fundamentally opposed to the plans, which he said set the country on a \"disturbing and illiberal course\".\n\nHe added: \"Medical ID cards will be introduced by this coalition tonight and liberals will immediately begin the campaign to see their abolition.\"", "The singer later became an Archbishop, establishing a network of LGBT churches\n\nArchbishop Carl Bean, a former Motown singer best known for the 1977 gay liberation anthem I Was Born This Way, has died at the age of 77.\n\nFeaturing the lyrics \"I'm happy, I'm carefree, and I'm gay, I was born this way\", it was a disco hit in the US and inspired Lady Gaga's Born This Way.\n\nShe credited him as an inspiration, saying his song was \"like a sermon\".\n\nAt the height of his music career, Bean worked with Dionne Warwick, Sammy Davis Jr, Burt Bacharach and Miles Davis.\n\nBut he turned down the offer of more work at Motown when they asked him to sing more commercially-viable love songs about women.\n\nInstead, he went on to become an Aids activist and founded a network of LGBT churches.\n\n\"Archbishop Bean worked tirelessly for the liberation of the underserved and for LGBTQ people of faith and in doing so, helped many around the world find their way back to spirituality and religion,\" the Unity Fellowship Church Movement said in a statement.\n\nIt said he had made the \"transition to eternal life\" on 7 September \"after a lengthy illness\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by DiscoSaturdayNightTV This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBorn in Baltimore in 1944, Bean was raised by his next-door neighbours after his mother died during an abortion.\n\nHe was actively involved in the church and the black civil rights movement from a young age, with the two often intertwining.\n\n\"I was introduced to Jesus as a rabble rouser who made things happen,\" he later recalled. The image of Jesus as an outsider, who embraced people from all walks of life, inspired him and taught him an early lesson about acceptance.\n\nAs a teenager, he found himself attracted to boys in the neighbourhood, and also alleged that an \"uncle\" - the brother of one of his guardians - sexually abused him.\n\nBoth revelations emerged at the same time and, in the ensuing turmoil, the family kicked him out.\n\n\"Being basically a foster child, I felt like, now I'ma be kicked out because I'm a queer,\" he told Vice in 2016. \"I attempted suicide and landed in the mental health ward of a big hospital.\"\n\nThe hospital insisted on treating him with electroshock therapy, but Bean found an ally in a German psychiatrist who helped him come to terms with his sexuality.\n\n\"She said, 'There are many people like you. I can't do what your parents want - make you a heterosexual - but I can help you accept who you are and go for your dreams,'\" he recalled.\n\n\"That gave me enlightenment and the chance to accept myself. If I had another doctor, I might have been a different animal.\"\n\nMusic was a solace for Bean and, after being released from hospital, he started performing gospel songs around Baltimore.\n\nAt 16, he moved to New York, where he became involved in the rich culture of the Harlem churches, and appeared in an early production of Langston Hughes's influential show Black Nativity.\n\nAfter quitting music, Bean became an influential LGBT minister and Aids activist\n\nAfter another move to Los Angeles, he formed the group Carl Bean and Universal Love. But the band faltered because, in his words, they were too far \"ahead of the curve\".\n\n\"I was part of a movement looking to erase the line between R&B and gospel,\" Bean later explained in his autobiography.\n\nHowever, the band's 1974 single Gotta Be Some Change caught the ears of producers at Motown Records, who asked him to record a song written by Bunny Jones, I Was Born This Way.\n\nLabel owner Berry Gordy thought Bean \"would be perfect\" for the track, sister and fellow Motown executive Gwen Gordy later recalled. \"It's a message song with a gospel feel. [Berry said] Bean will tear it up.\"\n\nAlthough the lyrics were unconventional at the time - arriving before the Village People made an explicit connection between disco and homosexuality - Bean felt the song was a perfect fit.\n\n\"I always say the lyric found me, and it was very natural,\" he told US radio station NPR in 2019.\n\nAlthough the song had already been released a year earlier by recording artist Valentino, Bean's version became the definitive take, reaching number 15 on the US dance charts in 1978.\n\nAfter turning down a Motown career, he turned his attention back to the church and was ordained in 1982. That year, he also founded the Unity Fellowship of Christ Church for black LGBT congregants, whose motto is: \"God is love and love is for everyone.\"\n\nBefore long, he was asked to help establish similar congregations around the US and Caribbean.\n\n\"I told them, 'If you can get 10 black gay men and lesbians together, who aren't afraid to be out, I will come and talk.' So I went to many cities for many years, and only went back to LA around 1995,\" he told Out Alliance.\n\nBean also founded the Minority Aids Project in 1985, which was the first community organisation to focus on the spread of Aids in the black community at a time when the disease was relatively new and misunderstood.\n\nHe was honoured many times for his work, receiving an NAACP Image Award in 1987, and having an intersection in Los Angeles named in his honour two years ago.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by LadyGagaVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nI Was Born This Way remained an important anthem for the gay community and gained a new lease of life in 2011 when Lady Gaga used it as the foundation for her own hymn to acceptance, Born This Way.\n\n\"I heard this song. And I just said, 'Man, does that answer every question'.\" the star once told radio host Howard Stern.\n\nBean said he was honoured and flattered that Gaga had referenced his biggest hit.\n\n\"I felt it was a great tribute, and it was the continuation of saving lives,\" he said.\n\n\"So you know, [I Was Born This Way] has just been a blessing to my life. And it's been a blessing, once again, to even another generation's life through the take that Gaga did on it.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "SNP MP John Nicolson asks who the panel who would throw a banana or send money emojis to footballers.\n\n\"Sometimes it's young school boys ranging ages 13, 14 years old, sometimes younger. Or maybe an estate agent or a banker.\n\n\"Really it is from all different types. You can't just pinpoint one type of person from a certain particular background and say that is the actual stereotypical racist who's putting this abuse online or at stadiums or wherever. It's a very varied demographic demographic of people.\n\nJohn Nicolson asks what lessons can be learned how to tackle it.\n\nFerdinand says the landscape is very different now.\n\n\"I think with social media, we've never been in this in this area, this time is very different.\n\nHe says anonymity online is \"the big difference\".\n\n\"The fact that you can be anonymous online, gives you a certain amount of power - it enables you to puff your chest out, and be able to really say what you really feel, especially compounded with the fact that there's no repercussions, at the moment\".\n\nIn 2018, Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had a banana skin thrown in his direction as he celebrated scoring in front of Tottenham fans at the Emirates Stadium. Image caption: In 2018, Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had a banana skin thrown in his direction as he celebrated scoring in front of Tottenham fans at the Emirates Stadium.", "The first of Dillon Anderson's series of attacks occurred when he was just 14\n\nA sex attacker who throttled and raped a university student was so scared he had killed his victim that he checked her pulse, a court has heard.\n\nDillon Anderson, 22, was found guilty of raping four young women in a series of attacks between May 2014 and January 2020, the first when he was just 14.\n\nThe High Court in Edinburgh heard how Anderson throttled two of his victims during the assaults.\n\nAnderson denied any wrongdoing and claimed he had consensual sex.\n\nOne of his victims, a former Edinburgh University student, told how Anderson repeatedly caused her to pass out after compressing her neck.\n\nDescribing one occasion, the woman - now 23 - told police: \"When I came round, he was checking my pulse and he said, 'I thought you had died'. He looked panicked.\"\n\nJurors heard how Anderson, a former resident of Edinburgh's New Town area, wanted the woman to take part in \"rape\" role plays where she would be unconscious and he could do \"whatever he wanted\".\n\nDuring the trial Anderson claimed he was a virgin when he physically restrained a girl, who was then aged 14, at a house in Newtongrange, Midlothian.\n\nThe court heard how he forced her to lie on a bed and removed her clothing before raping her on an occasion between May 2014 and June 2014 .\n\nOn various occasions from August 2015, at addresses in Edinburgh and West Lothian, Anderson raped another girl who was aged 18.\n\nHe then repeatedly raped the Edinburgh University student - who was aged 19 - between September 2017 and December 2017.\n\nAnderson also preyed on another woman between December 2018 and January 2020. The court heard how he also throttled this woman, now aged 24, before raping her.\n\nThe defendant was finally brought to justice after one of the women, none of whom can be named for legal reasons, made a covert recording of Anderson attacking her.\n\nAnderson was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow on 6 October.", "Television stars took to the red carpet for the National Television Awards. It's the first big and flashy awards night for British TV since the pandemic began, taking place in London's O2.\n\nStars posed for selfies with excited fans, ahead of what Alan Carr calls the most glitzy \"office party\" for members of the industry.", "Supermarket chain Morrisons has said it expects the UK's lorry driver shortage to push up prices this year.\n\nIt said the lack of drivers, plus higher freight charges and commodity prices, could lead to higher prices.\n\nHowever, it said it would seek to mitigate those and other potential cost increases, such as any incurred in maintaining good product availability.\n\nTransport secretary Grant Shapps said the UK must \"stand on its own two feet\" and not rely on EU drivers.\n\nSpeaking after Morrisons reported its latest trading figures, Mr Shapps rejected calls for more immigration to resolve the problem.\n\n\"We have to stand on our own two feet as the United Kingdom. There are a lot of people coming off furlough. I look forward to them getting jobs.\"\n\nLorry driver shortages have have been blamed on EU workers leaving the UK following Brexit as well as during the pandemic and tax changes making it more expensive for drivers from elsewhere in Europe to work or be employed in the UK.\n\nIndustry bodies estimate there is a shortage of about 100,000.\n\nMr Shapps said: \"To say this is an issue of Brexit is completely untrue. What it is about - is coronavirus.\"\n\nHe pointed to the global driver shortage in the US, Poland and Germany and said the UK was not alone in having supply chain problems.\n\nThe transport secretary confirmed that some HGV driver tests would be fast-tracked.\n\nMorrisons and its rivals have seen gaps on shelves due to the driver shortage.\n\nLast month, it joined a growing chorus in the food and drink industry calling for government help to recruit lorry drivers.\n\nChief executive David Potts indicated HGV drivers should be eligible for Skilled Worker visas, allowing them to work in the UK.\n\nThe firm's latest comments came as it reported first-half results, showing a profit before tax and exceptional items of £105m in the six months to 1 August, down from £167m in the same period last year.\n\nMorrisons is currently at the centre of a takeover battle between two US private equity firms.\n\nIn its results statement, it reiterated that it had received offers for the company from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) and Fortress and was recommending CD&R's offer of 285p per share.\n\nShareholders will be asked to approve this offer at a meeting to be held in or around the week beginning 18 October, it added.\n\nHowever, as neither bidder has said their offer is final, Morrisons said on Wednesday that it was in talks with CD&R, Fortress and the Takeover Panel about an auction to decide its future.\n\nIt said any auction would take place before the planned shareholder meetings, on a date to be announced by the Takeover Panel.\n\nMorrisons said the whole British food industry was facing continued challenges from Covid-19 and sustained supply chain cost increases, which were largely outside its control.\n\nHowever, it added that it was working to address those challenges and that second-half profit was expected to be considerably higher than in the first half.\n\nWe expect some industry-wide retail price inflation during the second half, driven by sustained recent commodity price increases and freight inflation, and the current shortage of HGV drivers,\" it said.\n\n\"We will seek to mitigate these and other potential cost increases, such as any incurred to maintain good on-shelf availability.\"\n\nChairman Andrew Higginson said the whole Morrisons team had shown \"commendable resilience facing into a variety of continuing challenges during the first half, including the ongoing pandemic, disruption at some of our partner suppliers and the impact on our supply chain of HGV driver shortages\".\n\n\"As we approach our busiest time of year, I'm confident the team will continue to rise to all challenges and keep up all the good work to improve the shopping trip for customers,\" he added.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said Morrisons, like all supermarkets, had faced the challenge of maintaining customer interest and sales as non-essential retail reopened after the pandemic and life returned to some kind of normality.\n\n\"But those roadblocks haven't stopped the retailer from shining,\" she added. \"The ongoing bidding war for the UK's fourth-largest grocer has proved that a growing online presence often satisfies the appetite of hungry investors.\n\n\"Having cemented an important relationship as a key supplier and partner to Amazon, and to McColl's convenience stores, Morrisons has triggered a bidding war among private equity firms in the US, who are more concerned with the lucrative property portfolio which the store network possesses than what's on the shelves.\"", "Hayder Aljayyash recruited Noureldien Eltarki to find students to buy the papers\n\nA former student has been jailed for 20 months for hacking university computers and selling exam answers for thousands of pounds.\n\nHayder Aljayyash, 29, was studying for a master's degree in embedded system design at the University of South Wales when he broke into its systems.\n\nAljayyash's crimes were committed between November 2017 and May 2019.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard Aljayyash, from Iraq, remained undetected by using \"sophisticated\" techniques.\n\nIt was told he recruited housemate and fellow student Noureldien Eltarki, 30, to find students to buy the papers.\n\nEltarki, from Libya, was given a nine-month suspended sentence for agreeing to sell unlawfully obtained exams and ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nBoth men pleaded guilty to their charges at a previous hearing.\n\nThe system breach was discovered by maths lecturer, Liam Harris, while marking an exam in May 2019.\n\nJim Davis, prosecuting, said it became obvious to Mr Harris a number of students had answered questions by copying his own marking scheme and solutions.\n\nFive students had even copied typing mistakes from Mr Harris's original working papers.\n\nA team was then set up within the university to investigate and determine the size of the data breach.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard the university established a \"war room\" to process 140 million log records, which identified an IP address - linked to a house in Brook Street, Treforest, where Aljayyash and Eltarki were both living - from which the systems were accessed.\n\nThe men were sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court\n\nBoth men studied at the university's engineering and computer sciences faculty.\n\nPolice were informed of what had happened and arrested Aljayyash at home on 30 May 2019.\n\nMr Davis told the court police seized computer equipment belonging to Aljayyash, including USB sticks and a laptop which contained \"numerous files which matched those downloaded as part of the university breach\".\n\nThe court heard the defendant used staff log-in details to access the network almost 700 times.\n\nMr Davis said Aljayyash used \"a sophisticated key logging device to acquire details of staff usernames and passwords\".\n\nThe court heard Aljayyash made about £20,000, including £6,500 from one second-year student.\n\nEltarki was paid £300 or £400 each time by Aljayyash for finding students to buy the stolen papers.\n\nThe court heard the investigation and new security measures cost the university more than £100,000.\n\nSentencing Aljayyash, Judge Wynn Morgan told the defendant had \"obvious talent and skill,\" and what he did was \"planned and consistent\".\n\nHe called the scheme \"very sophisticated\" and said it had \"damaged the reputation of the institution\".\n\nHe told Aljayyash that his motive was \"financial greed\".\n\nThe court heard Aljayyash accepted responsibility for what he did and was \"ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nThe court was told he has moved to Doncaster, where he was volunteering at a charity shop fixing laptops and helping other asylum seekers to use technology.\n\nThe court heard he was \"intent on helping people use the internet for good\".\n\nSusan Ferrier, who defended Eltarki, told the court her client realised he had made as \"stupid a decision as he could have\".\n\nJudge Wynn Morgan told Eltarki the \"scheme was evidently not your idea but you attempted making money on the side which is self-evidently wrong\".\n\nAfter the case, South Wales Police's Det Con Marc Troake said: \"Through collaborative and intensive investigation involving South Wales Police and IT teams at the University of South Wales, we were able to trace these individuals who believed they could cheat the system.\n\n\"I hope that this sentence serves as a warning to those thinking about attempting to overcome security protocols for financial gain.\"", "Last year saw the highest ever uptake of the flu vaccine in the over-65s\n\nDoctors have queried why the government did not plan for a delay to flu vaccine deliveries in England and Wales.\n\nSeqirus, one of the UK's largest suppliers of seasonal flu vaccines, has said the delay of up to two weeks is due to a shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nBritish Medical Association vice-chairman David Wrigley urged MPs to \"to take some action and say why are there were no contingency plans in place\".\n\nThe Department of Health said it was \"untrue\" to say there was a shortage.\n\n\"The delivery from one supplier is delayed by one or two weeks and this should have no impact on the flu vaccination programme overall,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nNHS England says patients who are affected will be contacted by their GP.\n\nDr Wrigley told BBC Breakfast his practice was expecting 5,500 flu vaccines to be delivered.\n\nHe said some members of staff were \"physically shaken\" at the news that all those appointments would have to be rescheduled.\n\nHe said: \"We know there's difficulties with HGV drivers so why are we not getting these flu jabs to the practices so we can get them into our patients' arms and protect them? \"We're hearing nothing from our politicians and the BMA is actually calling for the government to have a Cobra meeting because within the space of two weeks we've seen two major crises of cancellation of blood tests and now flu jabs.\"\n\nSeqirus, which supplies vaccines to GP practices and pharmacies in England and Wales, said: \"Due to unforeseen challenges linked with road freight delays, we have informed all our customers of a consequent delay to their scheduled vaccine delivery by a maximum of one to two weeks.\n\nThe company, which is one of a number of suppliers, said it was it was \"working hard to resolve the delay\" and customers would be able to reschedule their flu vaccination clinics.\n\nProfessor Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the JCVI, said there could be a surge in flu cases this year so delays to jabs were concerning.\n\nCoronavirus lockdowns meant flu levels had been very low last winter, he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We do know when there are low circulating influenza levels the year before often we get high infection rates in the following year,\" he said.\n\n\"So it's quite possible that we will have a high instance of influenza this year.\"\n\nHe said it was important to get the flu jab \"as soon as possible\" and that he hoped the delay would be corrected soon.\n\nMeanwhile, the professional body representing GPs said it would hit practices.\n\n\"This is news we really didn't want to hear\", said Dr Gary Howsam, vice chairman of the Royal College of GPs.\n\n\"With more than 36 million people eligible for the flu vaccine on the NHS this year, GPs need the supply chain to run like clockwork.\n\nDr Howsam said GPs are \"already under enormous pressure and still waiting for details of how the Covid booster campaign will align with everything else they need to do this winter\".\n\nDoctors meticulously plan jabs each year, he said, adding that it is \"essential that as many people as possible in at-risk groups get their vaccination as early into the flu season as possible\".\n\n\"A delay of even a couple of weeks is going to have a big impact on practices and their patients, especially when GPs are already dealing with the fallout caused by the shortage of blood test bottles and the anxiety this is causing.\"\n\n\"General practice and the entire NHS is dependent on the smooth roll-out of the winter flu vaccination programme. It cannot fail,\" he said.\n\nDoctors are already dealing with a shortage of blood test tube vials due to supply chain issues.\n\nDr Richard Vautrey, British Medical Association GP committee chairman, said the delay is likely to affect a \"significant proportion\" of practices - and have a \"serious impact\" on practice workloads and patients.\n\nHe said: \"Many practices will have spent the last few days and weeks meticulously planning for their flu vaccination programme, inviting and booking patients in for their jabs, only now to have to contact them all again to cancel or reschedule appointments.\n\n\"This causes a huge increase in staff's already unsustainable workloads, and inconvenience and unneeded anxiety for patients who will be keen to be protected ahead of winter.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said: \"GPs are at their wits' end, first forced to cancel blood tests because of bottle shortages and now we learn flu vaccines will be delayed.\n\n\"This has been a summer of crisis for the NHS with patients paying the price.\n\n\"With winter coming and flu resurgence a huge risk, ministers must urgently get a grip.\"", "Sophie Moss's brother said she had been \"taken advantage of and exploited\"\n\nThe sentence given to a man who choked a woman to death during sex is being reviewed by the Attorney General to decide if it was unduly lenient.\n\nSam Pybus, 32, was jailed for four years and eight months after admitting the manslaughter of Sophie Moss, 33, at her home in Darlington on 7 February.\n\nCampaigners said the \"outrageous\" sentence sent a \"dreadful message\".\n\nReferring the sentence for review, MP Harriet Harman said it \"fails to reflect the gravity of the crime\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Attorney General's Office said the review under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme would take place within 28 days and, if successful, the case would be referred to the Court of Appeal.\n\nMs Harman said Pybus' \"disgraceful mitigation\" that Ms Moss, a mother of two young boys, encouraged strangulation during sex made it sound as if it was \"her fault\".\n\n\"[Pybus] sought to shift the responsibility for Sophie's death from himself to her claiming that she both encouraged and enjoyed his placing pressure on her neck,\" Ms Harman said.\n\nPybus had drunk 24 bottles of lager before he visited Sophie Moss, Teesside Crown Court heard\n\nThe MP said: \"The sentence fails to reflect the gravity of the crime, the impact of her death on her family, his sole culpability for her death, his cynical shifting of the responsibility from himself to her and sends out the message that killing your girlfriend during sex is a minor matter.\"\n\nWe Can't Consent To This, a campaign group set up in response to so-called \"consensual\" violence claims against women, also criticised the sentence.\n\nSpokeswoman Fiona Mackenzie said: \"It seems that strangling a woman to death is still viewed in law as an unfortunate accident, rather than terrible serious violence.\n\n\"This sends a dreadful message to women - four years and eight months is an outrageous sentence.\n\nThe Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme allows anyone to lobby the Attorney General to send a case to the Court of Appeal for review. Very experienced senior judges then consider the term given to an offender and how it compares to any relevant guidelines on sentencing and previous similar crimes.\n\nJudge Paul Watson reduced Pybus' initial sentence of seven years because the law required him to give the killer a discount for his early admission that he was guilty of manslaughter - the crime of unintentionally causing Ms Moss' death.\n\nPybus said he never intended to kill, leading to the Crown Prosecution Service ruling out a murder charge. But he could not avoid a manslaughter conviction by claiming it was \"rough sex gone wrong\".\n\nSome 28 years ago, the UK's then most senior judges declared that nobody can consent to serious harm as part of sado-masochistic sex - a ruling that was recently reasserted in the 2021 Domestic Abuse Act.\n\nPybus, who was married, had been seeing Ms Moss for sex about six times a year for three years without his wife's knowledge, Teesside Crown Court previously heard.\n\nOn 6 February he had drunk 24 bottles of Amstel lager over 10 hours, and drove to Ms Moss's flat after his wife went to bed.\n\nAt 04:43 GMT the following morning he drove to Darlington police station and told staff he believed he had strangled Ms Moss.\n\nHe said that during sex he would apply pressure to her neck, \"an act he said she encouraged\", but added he would never hurt her.\n\nThe claim she encouraged strangulation during sex was confirmed by her long-term partner, the court heard.\n\nInstead of giving Ms Moss first aid, Pybus went to his car and thought about what to do for 15 minutes before driving to the police station, the court was told.\n\nOn Tuesday Judge Paul Watson QC said he accepted Pybus, of Water View, Middleton St George, Darlington, did not intend to kill and believed he had genuine remorse.\n\nIn a victim statement Ms Moss's brother said she had been \"taken advantage of and exploited\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People queued for entry into nightclubs when they reopened\n\nMSPs are to vote on controversial plans to introduce a vaccine passport scheme in Scotland.\n\nThe move will mean that only people who have been fully vaccinated will be allowed into nightclubs, major sporting events and many concerts and festivals.\n\nThe Scottish government says the plan is designed to allow large events to go ahead as safely as possible.\n\nDetails of the proposals were only published by the government on Thursday morning - just hours before the vote.\n\nIt says the government is still \"working with stakeholders to finalise a definition\" of what is and is not a nightclub - which has been one of the key concerns of the licensed trade.\n\nOpposition parties and some of the businesses that will be affected have questioned how the scheme will work in practice, and have complained of a lack of detail from the government.\n\nThe Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats have already vowed to vote against the plans - with the Conservatives describing it as \"shambolic, last-minute, kneejerk decision making\".\n\nThe Scottish Greens have been highly critical of vaccine passports in the past - as have some senior Scottish government ministers - but have since signed a formal partnership agreement with the SNP and are thought to be unlikely to vote against the scheme.\n\nThis would give the government enough votes in the Scottish Parliament to pass the new rules.\n\nAssuming the proposals are approved by Holyrood, the passport scheme is expected to come into force from 1 October, once all adults in Scotland have had the chance to be fully vaccinated.\n\nLeon Thompson, of the trade body UK Hospitality Scotland, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that his members were \"very concerned\" about a lack of detail on how the passports would work.\n\nHe said: \"There's been some very rushed and hurried conversations with officials over the last few days but we still have no real information on how the Scottish government will introduce the scheme.\"\n\nConcerns have been raised about the potential impact on football clubs\n\nMr Thompson said there was real difficulty in defining what counted as a nightclub and added that he had seen no evidence from the Scottish government that this was going to make a difference to infection rates.\n\nThe Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has also raised concerns about how the scheme will impact on its clubs.\n\nAnd some people who had one of their vaccine doses outside of Scotland have experienced problems in getting an accurate vaccination certificate.\n\nThe new rules will mean people over the age of 18 will need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to:\n\nPeople who have had two vaccines in Scotland can already download or get a paper copy of a certificate with a QR code.\n\nBy the end of the month, it is expected that this code will also be available on a new NHS Scotland Status app.\n\nThese codes can be scanned at a venue to confirm the user is fully vaccinated.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - will be exempt.\n\nSimilar schemes are already in operation in other European countries, while people in England will need to have a \"Covid pass\" to access \"higher risk\" settings such as nightclubs from the end of this month.\n\nA major goal of the scheme is to encourage more younger people to be vaccinated - with the latest figures showing that uptake among those under the age of 40 in Scotland has been lower than older age groups.\n\nMany areas of Scotland have seen some of the highest Covid rates in Europe in recent weeks - although there are signs that the surge in cases is beginning to slow down.\n\nThe number of people in hospital and intensive care units has also been steadily rising, with health professionals warning that that NHS is coming under increasing strain.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that vaccine passports will be a direct alternative to imposing tougher restrictions on venues, many of which have only recently reopened.\n\nShe told the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday that certification was a \"reasonable response to a very difficult situation, and much more proportionate than any likely alternatives\".\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said at the weekend that his party would vote against the scheme, which he has described as an attempt by the government to \"look in control of a virus that is clearly out of control.\"\n\nHe said there was a chance that using vaccine passports might actually entrench vaccine hesitancy rather than encourage uptake, and argued that the government should be focusing on ramping up the vaccine rollout and improving Test and Protect rather than creating a new system.\n\nConservative leader Douglas Ross confirmed on Thursday morning that his party would also vote against vaccine passports, adding: \"There are still no answers to any of the key questions on infrastructure, administration, fraud, enforcement and data concerns.\"", "Mr Ghani said he was forced to leave Kabul by his security team in a live Facebook post last month\n\nFormer Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has apologised to the people of Afghanistan after fleeing to take refuge in the United Arab Emirates.\n\n\"Leaving Kabul was the most difficult decision of my life,\" he said, adding that he was sorry he \"could not make it end differently\".\n\nMr Ghani abruptly left Afghanistan as Taliban militants advanced on the capital on 15 August.\n\nHe said he had not intended to abandon his people but \"it was the only way\".\n\nHe also again denied the \"baseless\" allegations that he had travelled to the UAE with about $169m (£123m).\n\nIn a statement shared on Twitter on Wednesday, Mr Ghani said he had no choice but to leave the country in order to avoid widespread violence.\n\n\"I left at the urging of the palace security, who advised me that to stay risked setting off the same street-to-street fighting the city had suffered during the civil war of the 1990s,\" he wrote, adding that he did so to \"save Kabul and her six million citizens\".\n\nHe said he had devoted 20 years to helping Afghanistan become a \"democratic, prosperous and sovereign state\".\n\nMr Ghani added that he had \"deep and profound regret that my own chapter ended in similar tragedy to my predecessors\".\n\nThe 72-year-old former president, who has faced intense criticism from other Afghan politicians for leaving the country, said he would address the \"events leading up to my departure\" in the near future.\n\nIn a live Facebook address on 18 August, Mr Ghani said he was \"forced\" to leave Afghanistan by his security team because \"there was a real chance that I would be captured and killed\".\n\nHe said that when the Taliban entered the presidential palace in Kabul, \"they started looking for me from room to room\".\n\nDenying claims that he had taken a large amount of money with him when he left the country, Mr Ghani said he was \"not even allowed to take my sandals off and put my shoes on\".\n\nEarlier this week the Taliban, which seized control of Afghanistan in a sweeping offensive more than three weeks ago, announced the formation of an all-male interim government to rule the country.\n\nOn Wednesday, dozens of women in Kabul and the north-eastern Afghan province of Badakhshan protested against the new cabinet, saying they would not accept a government with no women ministers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A group of women protest in Kabul against the all-male Taliban government", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Actie returns to the court where he was falsely imprisoned for the first time in 30 years\n\nMembers of the so-called \"Cardiff Five\" should be \"recognised as victims\", a senior police officer has said.\n\nJohn Actie, Ronnie Actie, Stephen Miller, Tony Paris and Yusef Abdullahi spent time in prison after being falsely accused of murdering 20-year-old Lynette White in Cardiff in 1988.\n\nFormer Chief Constable of South Wales Police Matt Jukes said he was \"sorry for the effect on their lives\".\n\nHe was speaking on a BBC documentary about the case, A Killing In Tiger Bay.\n\nIt has been described as as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK legal history.\n\nOne of the three surviving members of the Cardiff Five, John Actie, thanked Mr Jukes for speaking \"brilliantly and truthfully\" and said they were \"the words we wanted to hear years ago\".\n\nLynette White's killer was only convicted in 2003\n\nSpeaking as the chief constable of South Wales, before moving to become an Assistant Commissioner in London, Mr Jukes said there was an \"enormous responsibility of transparency\" over the case.\n\n\"I joined the police force in the mid-90s, so it was after a series of miscarriages of justice, of which this case was one.\n\n\"I have to recognise that the Cardiff three and the five originally arrested as victims.\n\n\"It's a time for listening but also a time for acting, a time for the whole of the public sector and the whole of wider society to recognise that racism is still very real in our communities.\n\n\"The disadvantage experienced through the criminal justice system by black communities is real and present and stands to be addressed... and I know will remain a huge focus for South Wales Police.\n\n\"I'm sorry for the effect the actions that South Wales Police collectively and the criminal justice system had on the Cardiff three, on the five who were arrested,\" he said.\n\nLynette White when she was a child\n\nLynette White was found stabbed more than 50 times in a flat in Cardiff docklands on 14 February 1988.\n\nDespite detectives stating they were looking for a white suspect, five black and mixed-race men were later arrested and charged with her murder.\n\nAfter 19 interviews by officers, a false confession was obtained from Stephen Miller, Ms White's boyfriend.\n\nThe first trial of the five men stopped after the judge in the case died during proceedings.\n\nAfter two years in custody, John and Ronnie Actie were cleared by a jury at a second trial.\n\nBut Stephen Miller, Yusef Abdullahi and Tony Paris were found guilty, sentenced to life, and became known as the Cardiff Three.\n\nAfter a huge campaign, in 1992 the Court of Appeal ruled a gross miscarriage of justice had taken place.\n\nJudge Lord Justice Taylor said that short of physical abuse, it was \"hard to conceive of a more hostile and intimidatory approach by police officers, during the interview of Stephen Miller\".\n\nStephen Miller says he felt like a prisoner of war\n\nUnder interrogation Stephen Miller admitted to the killing and named others as being responsible.\n\n\"Why did I accuse innocent men? That's something I have to take to my grave with me,\" Mr Miller told the documentary.\n\n\"I'm a 22-year-old sitting in a police station, and they put me in this room and they just started flinging things at me - allegation after allegation - I mean it was so intense.\n\n\"I was a sorry soul - I think if they'd said God was in there with me, I'd have said yes.\n\n\"I felt like a prisoner of war. They just took me off the streets, and told me I done this.\"\n\nLynette White was killed in a flat on James Street in Butetown\n\nThe real murderer, Jeffrey Gafoor, was jailed in 2003 thanks to DNA evidence.\n\nIn 2011 police officers involved in the original, flawed investigation were put on trial for alleged corruption. They denied the charges.\n\nThe £30m case collapsed due to missing paperwork which was said to have been shredded, although it was found just weeks after the trial ended.\n\nA Home Office review said the investigation represented \"one of the worst miscarriages of justice in the history of our criminal justice system\".\n\nRonnie Actie (L) and Yusef Abdullahi (R) have both died\n\nRonnie Actie was found dead in 2007 and friends said he struggled to cope after time in prison. Yusef Abdullahi died in 2011.\n\nTony Paris lost his father just weeks before he was freed by the appeal court in 1992.\n\nHe told the programme: \"That's what killed my old man, they took his boy away, said he did something he didn't do, and we know it.\"\n\nMr Paris said he too was pleased that a senior police officer was now describing him and the four others as victims.\n\n\"It's important, 30 years down the line, because although we've had apologies before, now the whole world can see we are innocent and we are victims,\" he said.\n\nMatt Jukes was Chief Constable of South Wales Police until 2020\n\nThe police officers involved in the original investigation declined to take part in the programme.\n\nMr Jukes said the \"question of accountability\" in this case lay with \"the organisation and its senior leadership\".\n\n\"It is of course important to say that there were lots of other people tragically affected by this case - individuals who were involved in the investigation, individuals who were witnesses.\n\n\"The organisation, its professionalism, its candour is different now than it was.\n\n\"I think every age has its own challenges, and our expectations now about the way we conduct ourselves and our investigations are not only so very different but they're also exposed to so much more scrutiny.\n\n\"It's a real cause of sadness that Lynette's name gets used as shorthand for this case and it's easy to forget that a young woman's life was lost.\"\n\nJohn Actie says he hopes people will understand the effects on those involved in the case\n\nResponding to Mr Jukes' comments, John Actie said: \"I really appreciate that Matt Jukes has said these things... I'd like to say thank you very much.\"\n\nMr Actie said that he hoped the documentary would show people in the UK and across the world \"exactly what went down\" and highlight the wide-ranging, long-term effects on those involved.\n\n\"This is something where we can go 'look - sit up and watch it' and you judge yourself.\n\n\"The truth is important - the truth will set your free - and freedom is priceless. You can't buy your freedom.\"\n\nA Killing In Tiger Bay starts on 9 September at 21:00 BST on BBC One Wales, on BBC Two in the rest of UK and on BBC iPlayer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Care Minister Helen Whately has admitted that putting into effect the cap on social care costs is \"a little way off\" but said it is a \"big reform that takes time to implement\".\n\nMPs last night voted to approve a rise in National Insurance to help fund health and social care.\n\nIt limits care bills faced by people in England to £86,000 from October 2023.\n\nBut critics say the system is in crisis now and most of the funding will be swallowed up by the NHS.\n\nMPs voted by 319 to 248 for a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance next year for both workers and employers, to help deal with the crisis in health and social care as the UK emerges from the pandemic.\n\nIn 2023, National Insurance will return to its previous level and the tax increase will become a separate health and social care levy on earnings.\n\nThe measures will raise an extra £12bn a year over three years and the prime minister has said the majority of the £36bn fund will go towards dealing with the waiting list backlog in the NHS which has reached a record high.\n\nAround 15% of the money - £5.4bn in total - will go towards changes to the social care system, with more promised after that.\n\nBut there are fears that the demands on the money from the health service will continue, and not enough funding will be left to tackle the growing problems in social care.\n\nThe draft legislation for the new Health and Social Care Levy shows how the money raised will be legally ringfenced to be spent on health and social care, but gives the Treasury the power to decide the split.\n\nThis is likely to reinforce fears amongst MPs that the funds will be monopolised by the health service and never reach the care sector.\n\nIn the Commons on Wednesday, Conservative Jake Berry said he was \"very concerned that this tax is not really a health and social care tax, it's actually a Trojan horse for an NHS tax\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Whately denied it was a possibility that social care could lose out.\n\nShe said ministers had \"seized\" the challenge after successive government had talked for decades about overhauling the system but had failed to get reforms through.\n\nShe said some of the extra funding would start going in to social care from April 2022, but the new cap on costs, that ensures no-one in England will have to pay more than £86,000 - not including food or accommodation - will not take effect until 18 months later.\n\nShe praised the measure, which only applies to new claimants from October 2023 and not those already in the system, as a way to give people \"peace of mind\".\n\nShe said: \"This big policy to put in place a cap on the amount that you might face for the cost of your care, that does simply take time to implement.\n\n\"We can't turn it on tomorrow.\n\n\"We will turn it on as soon as we can and that will then give people the peace of mind that they won't face those huge care bills that some face at the minute.\"\n\nLabour says the government has broken its promise that people will not have to sell their home in order to pay for the help they need.\n\nSpeaking in the debate on Tuesday evening, Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said under Mr Johnson's plan \"someone with a house worth £186,000 would still have to pay £86,000 even with this cap - and that's before living costs of going into a care home.\"\n\n\"How does the chancellor suggest they pay those fees without selling their home?\" she asked.\n\nDo you or a loved one require social care? How will the new tax affect you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire is one of Britain's two remaining coal-fired power stations\n\nAlmost 60% of oil and gas reserves and 90% of coal must remain in the ground to keep global warming below 1.5C, scientists say.\n\nThe forecast is based on close analysis of global energy supply and demand.\n\nIt is a \"bleak\" but realistic assessment of \"what the science tells us is needed\", the researchers say.\n\nAnd they have \"painted a scenario of the future\" that leaves much less room for fossil fuels to be extracted than previously estimated.\n\nScientists say that limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5C should help the world avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change.\n\nGlobally, the researchers calculated, production of fossil fuels needed to have peaked in 2020 and be on a steady decline of 3% every year until 2050.\n\n\"Through the Covid pandemic, we have seen a large decline in production - but that is bouncing back,\" UCL associate professor of energy systems Dr Steve Pye told BBC News.\n\nThe research focuses on how much energy is required and what the limit must be on carbon emissions.\n\nDr James Price, also at UCL, said: \"We say to our model, 'Meet all those demands from now until 2100 without emitting too much carbon dioxide.'\n\n\"The result we get is a rapid reduction in fossil fuels - and a large amount of fossils fuels [left in the ground] - simply because the carbon budget is so tight.\"\n\nThe study, in the journal Nature, also found the decline in oil and gas production required globally by 2050 - to stick to that tight carbon budget - means many regions face peak production now or during the next decade.\n\nA carbon budget is the cumulative amount of CO2 that can be released in a period of time while keeping within a temperature threshold - in this case 1.5C.\n\nMany fossil-fuel extraction projects already planned or in operation are likely to hurt the world's chances of meeting internationally agreed target limits on global warming set out by the 2015 Paris Agreement.\n\nAnd this \"bleak picture\", the scientists say, \"is very probably an underestimate of what is required\".\n\nThe carbon budget determined by the modelling would give the world a 50% chance of limiting warming to 1.5C.\n\nBut the study says: \"That does not consider uncertainties around, for example, climate-system feedbacks\n\n\"So to ensure more certainty of stabilising at this temperature, [even] more carbon needs to stay in the ground.\"\n\nThe researchers highlight bold national policies to entirely phase out fossil-fuel extraction, including an alliance devised by Costa Rica and Denmark, set to be launched at the crucial United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Glasgow, this year, asking states to stop issuing fossil-fuel exploration permits.\n\nAnd the scientists say they hope the \"stark numbers\" will inspire the political will to make swift and urgent change to move away from a reliance on fossil fuels.\n\nDr Price told the BBC: \"The physics doesn't care about the political will.\n\n\"We know technically how to do this, it is just about actually doing it.\"", "Sawyers played for West Brom between 2009 and 2013 and then rejoined the club from Brentford in 2019\n\nA football fan's Facebook message about a Championship footballer was intentionally racist and not the result of autocorrect, a court has found.\n\nWest Bromwich Albion's Romaine Sawyers became aware of the post after the team was beaten 5-0 by Manchester City.\n\nSimon Silwood, 50, of Kingswinford, admitted being its source but had blamed the language on a misspelling.\n\nBut that was rejected and he was found guilty of sending a racial slur under the Malicious Communications Act.\n\nOpening the case at Walsall Magistrates' Court, prosecutor Simon Brownsey said Silwood deliberately sought to make a \"blatant\" racist pun about the midfielder, currently on loan at Stoke City.\n\nSimon Silwood (centre) told police he believed his message on the Facebook group was \"stupid not racial\"\n\nThe post was on a \"sarcastic\" fan zone Facebook group titled \"Romaine Sawyers - Ballon d'Or\", a reference to the annual award to the world's best player.\n\nSilwood, of Randall Close, Kingswinford, said he had meant to type that Mr Sawyers should win the \"buffoon d'Or\".\n\nHe claimed a misspelling, of \"bafoon\", had autocorrected on his device to \"baboon\".\n\nDistrict Judge Briony Clarke said she did not believe Silwood, a steel worker, was a credible witness and was sure that he had sent the message deliberately.\n\nMr Brownsey said the player became aware of the content after speaking to police to report racial abuse on Instagram.\n\nIn a statement provided to the court, Mr Sawyers said: \"As I read it, I felt numb and did not know what to say.\n\n\"Having seen [the word] I assumed it was referring to the colour of my skin.\"\n\nHe added: \"The word has left me feeling harassed, alarmed and distressed and I find the message to be racist.\n\n\"The whole incident has left me extremely upset.\"\n\nA spokesperson for West Bromwich Albion said: \"The club welcomes the guilty verdict and has issued a lifetime ban to the person in question.\"\n\nAccording to the prosecution, Silwood had been \"upset with how the game went\" on 26 January.\n\nThe court heard he was charged following work carried out by PC Stuart Ward, the UK's first dedicated hate crime officer within a football unit.\n\nSilwood is set to be sentenced on 30 September.\n\nHe had faced a charge of sending a message by means of a public electronic communications network that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Staff were forced to flee into a safe room during the siege\n\nA man in his 50s has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after storming a petrol station with a knife.\n\nStaff were seen fleeing to a safe room as the stand-off at Morrisons Daily in Hengrove Way, Bristol, unfolded.\n\nArmed police and a negotiator were called to the scene shortly after 07:30 BST and the public was urged to avoid the area.\n\nPolice said an injured man in his 20s was being treated for non life-threatening injuries in hospital.\n\nA man was led away shortly after bangs were heard and flashes were seen\n\nThe suspect was led away in handcuffs and escorted into an ambulance following two hours of negotiation.\n\nAn Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said the man was at a police custody unit and would be assessed by health professionals.\n\nHe added that people in the area may have heard a number of bangs that came from police distraction devices and a baton round that was discharged.\n\nIt said these \"were minimal force options\" that presented the least risk to the public, the suspect and officers.\n\nWhen we arrived at about 09:45 BST you could see there were armed police outside the doors of the Morrisons Daily.\n\nAnd then very quickly, within 30 seconds, they went inside and there was a series of bangs.\n\nYou could see the flashes from outside here on the road.\n\nA couple of minutes later, a man was led out in handcuffs and taken over to one of the vans, then he was taken away by ambulance a short time later.\n\nThere are still lots of police here. The roads are still closed.\n\nFirst Bus runs services in the area and warned of long delays as the road closure meant its buses were prevented from leaving the depot.\n\nA company spokesperson apologised for the disruptions to its services.\n\nThey added: \"The safety of our drivers and customers is paramount and we would never do anything that could put them or anyone else in harm's way, therefore services only resumed once the police told us it was completely safe to do so, however we anticipate it will be some time before we get services running normally.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by First West of England This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by First West of England\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "John Trotman said the birthday flight came good in the end\n\nA World War Two Air Force veteran has celebrated his 100th birthday by taking a plane up for a spin.\n\nJohn Trotman, who departed from Sleap Airfield in Shropshire, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross twice for 70 missions with RAF Bomber Command.\n\nHe said of Thursday's flight \"no landing is satisfactory until it's perfect\" and gave himself a score of \"nine out of 10\".\n\nHe described getting back in a plane as \"marvellous\".\n\nHis co-pilot was a good friend - his instructor when he took up flying again \"at a very ancient age\".\n\nMr Trotman, who during the War saw a good friend \"going down... engines on fire\", did not fly after the conflict for 60 years.\n\nHe added it hadn't \"really registered\" to have reached 100.\n\n\"You just keep busy... and suddenly it's here,\" he said.\n\nA \"very nice reception\" at Shawbury was enjoyed, featuring \"cake with icing on - everybody got a slice\".\n\nMr Trotman spent his 99th birthday in similar fashion, as recorded in this video:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked about swooping down as low as 30ft on War missions, the former Air Force pilot told BBC Radio Shropshire it was \"almost ground level\" and he had to drop bombs in tunnels.\n\n\"You have to dive... towards that hole, direct the bombs which... had delayed action fuses, so that you could bounce the bombs along the track and into the tunnel.\n\n\"Then you had to fly immediately upwards, away from the area just across the mouth of the tunnel when... of course after about 10 seconds or so [the bombs] exploded.\"\n\nHe said the missions stopped \"the Germans bringing their reinforcement trains\" to their troops.\n\n\"The snag was that the tunnel mouth had German troops with machine guns in anticipation that some Allied flyer would make this attempt.\"\n\nMr Trotman took to the skies from Sleap Airfield in Shropshire on Thursday\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment the SpaceX capsule splashed back down to Earth\n\nFour amateur astronauts have splashed down successfully in the Atlantic Ocean after three days in space.\n\nThey are the first private, all-civilian team ever to orbit the Earth.\n\nThe Inspiration4 crew left on a SpaceX capsule from Florida on Wednesday, and landed off the state's coast after 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nFour parachutes slowed the capsule's descent before it landed in the water, where SpaceX boats sped to retrieve it.\n\nThe Inspiration4 team was led by billionaire Jared Isaacman, 38, chief executive of the e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments Inc, who acted as mission \"commander\".\n\nHe had paid an undisclosed sum - estimated by Time magazine to be about $200 million (£145 million) - to fellow billionaire Elon Musk for all four seats aboard the Crew Dragon.\n\nMr Isaacman was joined by three strangers he had selected - geoscientist and former Nasa astronaut candidate Sian Proctor, 51; physician assistant and childhood bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux, 29; and aerospace data engineer and Air Force veteran Chris Sembroski, 42.\n\n\"That was a heck of a ride for us,\" Mr Isaacman radioed shortly after landing. \"We're just getting started.\"\n\nThe trip marks the third time Elon Musk's company has taken humans to space and back - and another milestone in the space tourism market.\n\n\"Congratulations @Inspiration4x !!!\" he tweeted after the quartet's safe return.\n\n\"Welcome to the second space age,\" mission director Todd Ericson told a press conference, saying that after this, \"space travel becomes much more accessible to average men and women.\"\n\nUltimate selfie: Jared Isaacman, Chris Sembroski, Sian Proctor, and Hayley Arceneaux with Earth in the background\n\nOnboard computer systems were in control of the Dragon capsule during its journey, overseen by SpaceX teams on the ground.\n\nThe Dragon was not scheduled to go near the International Space Station (ISS), instead embarking on a \"free flight\" to a target altitude of 575km (360 miles).\n\nThe crew, who underwent six months' training, circled the Earth more than 15 times each day.\n\nExperts gathered data on their blood oxygen levels, sleep, cognitive abilities and other vital signs during the trip, to study the impact being in space would have on non-professionals.\n\nThe trip will raise funds for St Jude's Children's Research Hospital, in Tennessee, where crew member Hayley Arceneaux was treated as a child, and now works.\n\nThe foursome plan to auction objects they took into space with them, including a ukulele.\n\nAs well as Mr Musk, the race to sell commercialised space travel has drawn in billionaire businessmen Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, both of whom went above Earth's atmosphere this year in their own space vehicles.\n• None What is the SpaceX Crew Dragon?", "The hotel's owner said he had been spending more time dealing with \"other people's guests\" than his own\n\nHotel owners have defended introducing a £200 membership fee after being overrun by people taking sunset snaps for social media from its clifftop bar.\n\nThe Druidstone Hotel, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, has been criticised as \"elitist\" after starting the members-only club.\n\nOwner Angus Bell said the hotel had been inundated by tourists after images were shared on Instagram.\n\n\"It just got too much,\" Mr Bell said.\n\nWith more people choosing to go on holiday in the UK this year due to Covid rules, visitors have flocked to beauty spots across Wales, with queues seen on mountains and packed beaches.\n\nPeople flock to the area to witness the sun setting over St Brides Bay\n\nMr Bell said he had been left struggling to cope after the bar, overlooking St Brides Bay, was swamped with visitors from nearby pop-up campsites and Airbnbs.\n\n\"It just got too much,\" he said.\n\n\"My guests were having to wait 45 minutes at the bar to get a drink and a lot of the local people would avoid us in the summer because we were too busy.\"\n\nMr Bell, who took over the hotel after his parents died, said the membership, which can increase to £400 a year with additional benefits such as an increased bar tab facility, was rolled out to try and \"control numbers\" and make it a nicer place to live and stay.\n\n\"We could have gone down the route of having a second bar, but we don't want to be a pub and I didn't like walking into my garden to find 60 people there that I didn't know,\" he said.\n\nThe former Victorian home, along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, was transformed into a 10-bedroom hotel in 1972 by his parents Rod and Jane Bell.\n\nThe hotel has been a popular site for people watching the sunset over the Bay for years\n\nMr Bell, who now runs the hotel with his partner Beth Wilshaw, said his parents had previously run the hotel as a members-only club, and the new fee was value for money.\n\n\"Non-members can still book rooms or a table in the restaurant - membership is really about the bar,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the new fee sparked backlash on Tripadvisor, with some saying the move was \"barring\" visitors and locals from visiting the hotel.\n\nOne reviewer wrote they would no longer be able to go to the Druidstone after going there for food and drinks for over 40 years.\n\nAnother, who described the move as \"utterly elitist and backward\", wrote: \"So disappointing to have such a lovely place turned into an elitist members-only clique where you can only drink if you're staying there or pay £200+ a year.\"\n\nMr Bell said that the criticism had not changed his mind, and he now had time for his staff and guests after introducing the system.\n\n\"I've made my life better - even though someone might be a bit upset that they can't pop in for a cup of tea,\" he said.\n\nIn a note on the hotel website, the owners say they \"know there are people who really love this place but for whom £200 annually just will not be possible, adding: \"We don't want to price people out of The Druidstone. So talk to Angus and Beth.\"\n• None Warning on the dangers of goat selfies", "Liam Gallagher has told fans he fell out of a helicopter after performing at the Isle of Wight Festival.\n\nThe former Oasis frontman, who headlined the Friday night of the music event, shared a photo of his bruised and cut face on Twitter.\n\nGallagher compared himself to the late The Who drummer Keith Moon, who was infamous for his wild behaviour.\n\nThe 48-year-old also joked that the image could feature on the cover of his next solo album.\n\nThe singer tweeted: \"So check this out I fell out the helicopter last night you couldn't rite it all good who said RnR is dead Keith moon eat your drum skin out C'mon you know LG x\"\n\nGallagher jokingly responded to one fan who asked how high he had fallen from, saying \"100 thousand feet\".\n\nAnother fan asked if there was any CCTV footage of the fall, prompting him to respond: \"Yeah it's in the nxt video.\"\n\nIt comes ahead of the release of new documentary, Oasis Knebworth 1996, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Britpop band playing two concerts at Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire.", "A separate Wales-only Covid inquiry would create \"an enormous degree of overlap\", according to the scientist who chaired the 2005 E. coli inquiry.\n\nProf Hugh Pennington said he preferred a UK-wide inquiry giving \"detailed attention\" to events in Wales.\n\nIt follows calls from opposition parties and campaign groups for a Wales-specific public probe.\n\nThe Welsh government said only a UK-wide inquiry could deal with the \"interconnected nature\" of decisions.\n\nProf Pennington said as the four nations were often following the same scientific advice, focusing solely on Welsh decision-making could result in \"ignoring important information\", especially as a Welsh inquiry would have more limited powers to make people give evidence.\n\nHe added that it would be it would be a \"dereliction of duty\" if Wales was treated like a \"footnote\" in a UK-wide inquiry, and that any chairperson appointed could set its remit wide enough to avoid that outcome.\n\nProf Hugh Pennington said the four nations followed the same scientific advice\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a separate judge-led inquiry for the country last month, to be held \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Liberal Democrats have all called for a Welsh probe.\n\nThe Welsh government has repeatedly refused calls for a separate inquiry, but this week First Minister Mark Drakeford wrote to the UK government and said that any Westminster-led inquiry must \"focus on Wales\".\n\nHe recommended the Welsh government be involved in how it was set up, plus separate chapters on Wales, and the consultation of Welsh experts.\n\nSam Smith-Higgins helped found the campaign group Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice after her father died\n\nPhil Smith, 74, died in January after he caught coronavirus in hospital while receiving treatment for cancer.\n\nHis daughter Sam Smith-Higgins helped found the campaign group Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru because families like hers have \"got so many questions that aren't being answered\".\n\nDespite being a lifelong Welsh Labour member, she said requests to meet the Welsh government had been ignored.\n\nCancer patient Phil Smith, 74, died in January after he caught coronavirus in hospital\n\n\"We shouldn't have to be having to scream out for a Wales-specific Covid inquiry, you should want to look at what you've done well and areas where you can improve,\" she said.\n\n\"Relying on Westminster for that is ridiculous. The numbers don't add up, we've got seven health boards in Wales versus over 200 in England.\"\n\nThe independent think-tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs has also called for a probe focussed on Wales, but linked to the UK-wide inquiry.\n\nIts director Auriol Miller said the increased powers of the Welsh government mean it should also be scrutinised in detail in Wales \"by people who understand devolution\" to effectively prepare for \"the next crisis that comes our way\".\n\nBut the head of the Welsh NHS Confederation, Darren Hughes, said while NHS Wales would \"totally commit\" to a separate inquiry, it was \"an enormously labour-intensive task\" that would put even more pressure on Welsh health boards who have already given evidence during the pandemic.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"A UK-wide inquiry will have the capacity and force to oversee the interconnected nature of the decisions that have been made across the four nations.\n\n\"The first minister has written directly to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster about the many specific issues the inquiry must focus on to deal comprehensively with the actions of the Welsh government.\n\n\"The first minister has met a number of families to hear about their experiences during the pandemic and is open to further meetings.\"\n\nWatch the full interview with Prof Pennington on BBC Politics Wales on BBC One Wales at 10:00 BST, and on BBC iPlayer afterwards.", "Holiday bookings have surged since the government announced foreign travel rules were being simplified in England.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the travel traffic light system was being replaced with a single red list.\n\nAnd fully vaccinated people will no longer need a pre-departure test before returning from non-red list areas.\n\nTravel firms said they had already seen an uptick in bookings and expected a busy weekend.\n\nAs part of the changes announced by Mr Shapps on Friday, eight countries - Turkey, Pakistan, the Maldives, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Oman, Bangladesh and Kenya - are being removed from the red list from Wednesday.\n\nIt means people returning from these destinations will no longer have to stay in hotel quarantine.\n\nMr Shapps also announced that from October travellers returning to England will no longer have to take a PCR test two days after arrival. Instead, they can take the quicker and cheaper lateral flow tests.\n\nHuw Merriman, chairman of the Commons transport select committee and who previously criticised PCR tests for being too expensive, welcomed the rule change.\n\nThe Conservative MP told BBC Breakfast it would make foreign travel simpler, more cost-effective and reflected the UK's high vaccination rate.\n\nHe also said it would be \"interesting\" to see if there would be some form of registration requirement for lateral flow tests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel experts explain the changes to travel rules in England\n\nTravel bosses welcomed the changes and reported an increase in holiday bookings since the announcement.\n\nSteve Heapy, chief executive of tour operator Jet2, said there had been a \"phenomenal\" consumer reaction since the announcement, with \"huge\" demand for holidays in the next few weeks.\n\nHe added that destinations across the board were \"selling well\" across late summer, winter and summer 2022 dates, and the firm had seen a \"surge in bookings\" for family holidays during October half-term.\n\nThomas Cook said October half-term bookings were three times higher than in August and it expected this weekend to be the biggest of the year.\n\nTui also said it had seen \"an uptick in bookings\" for Turkey for next month, while online travel agency Skyscanner saw a spike in traffic in the 30 minutes following Mr Shapps's announcement.\n\nChris Parker, director of capacity and passenger performance at DFDS ferries, said the rule changes were \"better late than never\" but it was a \"shame\" that the summer season had been lost.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there was a real collapse in bookings this year, at about 20% of 2019 bookings.\n\nBut following Friday's announcement, there was an \"immediate spike\" in visits to their website and an uptick in bookings for October onwards.\n\nThe travel rule changes will see families and loved ones reunited.\n\nSafina Hameed said she was \"over the moon\" Pakistan will be removed from the travel red list, as it means she will be able to hug her daughter for the first time in two years.\n\nMrs Hameed, who lives in Karachi, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that being separated from her daughter Shahana Minhas and her only grandson was \"horrible\".\n\nMrs Minhas, who lives in London, said she and her husband had been cautious about Covid and wanted to wait until they and their parents were vaccinated before they considered travelling to see each other.\n\n\"But then as soon as we got vaccinated and our parents got vaccinated, Pakistan went on the red list so there went any hope of actually being able to see them finally.\"\n\nSince the announcement, she has been looking at flights to Pakistan.\n\n\"It's literally been counting the days until we can finally see each other and things can go back to the way that they were,\" she said.\n\nLabour has raised concerns over how the monitoring for coronavirus variants will continue amid the plans to scrap the PCR test requirements.\n\nShadow transport secretary Jim McMahon urged ministers to explain how it would continue and whether they planned to increase sequencing of tests.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would also drop the traffic light system but would not follow England in removing the pre-departure test requirement for fully vaccinated people returning from non-red list countries.\n\nThe country's Transport Secretary, Michael Matheson, said there were \"concerns\" this would \"weaken our ability to protect the public health of Scotland's communities\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps outlines a new travel system, which he says will be \"easier, simpler and cheaper\"\n\nScotland will also not copy England in using lateral flow tests on day two at this stage.\n\nThe decision to diverge from England's rules has been criticised by Edinburgh Airport, which said the move would \"further curtail Scotland's aviation and travel industries in their recovery\".\n\nThe Welsh government said it would consider the UK government's proposed changes, but health and social services minister Eluned Morgan warned they could \"weaken the line of defence on importing infection and increase opportunities for new infections and new variants to enter the UK and Wales\".\n\nBoth administrations said they would mirror the changes to the red list destinations.\n\nNorthern Ireland's executive said it will follow other UK nations in dropping the traffic light system, but the proposed changes on pre-departure and post-arrival testing were still under consideration and would be discussed by ministers next week.\n\nMr Shapps said the measures were intended to strike the \"right balance\" between simplifying the system while managing the public health risk \"as the number one priority\".\n\nAirport Operators Association chief executive Karen Dee said the easing of restrictions should encourage more people to travel over the winter, but urged ministers to put support into the industry as furlough ends.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said it was a \"welcome step forward\" which would make travel to Europe significantly easier although more needed to be done.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nChelsea stretched their unbeaten Premier League run to five games as Thomas Tuchel's team deservedly beat Tottenham.\n\nAfter managing no shots on target in the first half, the visitors looked like a different team after the break and scored three second-half goals at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\nThe Blues opened the scoring four minutes after the re-start, when Thiago Silva headed past Hugo Lloris from Marcos Alonso's corner.\n\nHalf-time substitute N'Golo Kante added a second with his first goal in 49 league appearances, though his long-range effort took a massive deflection from Eric Dier.\n\nAntonio Rudiger found the bottom corner in injury time to complete the win.\n• None Why Chelsea's title charge already looks hard to stop - Shearer column\n• None Reaction to Spurs v Chelsea and the rest of Sunday's Premier League action\n\nSpurs started the game brightly and were the better side in the first half, but Nuno Espirito Santo's side managed just two shots on target throughout and struggled to find a response after going behind.\n\nSilva, Alonso, Rudiger, Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner all came close as the Blues enjoyed 10 second-half shots on target, but Lloris made a number of saves to deny them.\n\nChelsea are one of only three teams yet to lose in the Premier League this season, along with Liverpool and Manchester United.\n\nThe victory lifts the Blues to joint top of the table, alongside Jurgen Klopp's side.\n\nBefore the game, tributes were paid to Jimmy Greaves who played for both clubs, after he died aged 81.\n\nThomas Tuchel said in his post-match interview that he was \"absolutely not happy\" with his side's first-half performance, and whatever he said at half-time clearly did the trick.\n\nChelsea's best chance in the first 45 minutes fell to Mason Mount, who ran the length of the pitch after winning the ball in his own half, but the England midfielder scuffed his shot from six yards out after playing a one-two with Lukaku.\n\nIt was Mount's withdrawal at half-time that changed Chelsea's system and the introduction of Kante was the catalyst for Chelsea's dominant second-half display.\n\nChelsea were undoubtedly the better team after the break and two minutes after the restart, a superb ball from Silva found Alonso, but the Spaniard's goal-bound volley was tipped over by Hugo Lloris.\n\nAlonso repaid the favour not long after, with his brilliant delivery from the corner finding the Brazilian, who rose above Dele Alli to head in the opener.\n\nTwelve minutes into the second half, Tuchel's side had a firm grip on the game after Kante's long-range effort took a big deflection off Eric Dier and went in off the post.\n\nNo team has managed more shots on target in a Premier League match this season than Chelsea did against Tottenham, with all 10 coming in the second half.\n\nLloris was probably Spurs' best player as he kept a respectable scoreline, but he was eventually beaten for a third time when substitute Werner picked out Rudiger in the box, allowing the German to drill the ball into the bottom left corner.\n\nThere are pleasing signs for Tuchel that his side managed such a comfortable win without any goals from his forwards.\n\nThe German said his side still aren't at their best - a stark warning to the teams expected to be challenging for the title come May.\n\nSpurs continue to struggle in front of goal\n\nAfter winning their opening three Premier League games, it is now back-to-back 3-0 defeats for Spurs, who have scored just one goal from open play this season.\n\nFollowing a difficult Europa Conference League draw against Rennes on Thursday, Spurs started the game full of energy and showed their attacking intent from the first whistle.\n\nNuno's side were buoyed by the return of Son Heung-min, who returned to the squad after missing two games with a calf strain.\n\nThe South Korean was at the heart of Spurs' early chances and it was he who managed the only shot on target in the first half.\n\nAfter being played in by Giovani Lo Celso, Son beat Alonso, but his shot was blocked as he collided with Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga who was off his line.\n\nBut Chelsea were resolute and difficult to break down. After the break it was one-way traffic as Chelsea grew into the game and a flat Spurs side looked lethargic after going behind.\n\nHarry Kane was kept quiet and restricted to just two chances and often looked lost at the top of the pitch. It is the first time since 2015-16 that the England striker has failed to score in his first four Premier League appearances of a season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcos Alonso.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 0, Chelsea 3. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Timo Werner following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Mateo Kovacic (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jorginho.\n• None Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Antonio Rüdiger with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Timo Werner (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté with a through ball.\n• None Timo Werner (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nFrance's foreign minister has accused Australia and the US of lying over a new security pact that prompted Paris to recall its ambassadors.\n\nJean-Yves Le Drian also accused the countries of \"duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt\".\n\nThe pact, known as Aukus, thwarted a multibillion-dollar deal France had signed with Australia.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had acted in the country's national interests.\n\nHe insisted the French government \"would have had every reason to know that we had deep and grave concerns\" that the $37bn (£27bn) deal signed in 2016 - for France to build 12 conventional submarines - \"was not going to meet our strategic interests\".\n\n\"Of course it's a matter of great disappointment to the French government, so I understand their disappointment,\" he said. \"But at the same time, Australia like any sovereign nation must always take decisions that are in our sovereign national defence interest.\"\n\nThe Aukus agreement - which also includes the UK - will see Australia being given the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines as a way of countering China's influence in the contested South China Sea.\n\nFrance was informed only hours before the public announcement was made earlier this week.\n\nIn an interview with France 2 television on Saturday, Mr Le Drian said a \"serious crisis\" was in progress between the allies.\n\n\"The fact that for the first time in the history of relations between the United States and France we are recalling our ambassador for consultations is a serious political act, which shows the magnitude of the crisis that exists now between our countries,\" he told France 2.\n\nHe said the ambassadors were being recalled to \"re-evaluate the situation\".\n\nBut he said France had seen \"no need\" to recall its ambassador to the UK, as he accused the country of \"constant opportunism\".\n\n\"Britain in this whole thing is a bit like the third wheel,\" he said.\n\nFrench Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said there had been \"lying, duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt\" over the deal\n\nNewly appointed UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss defended the agreement in an article for The Sunday Telegraph, saying it showed Britain's readiness to be \"hard-headed\" in defence of its interests.\n\nThe pact means Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines. It will also see the allies share cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence and other undersea technologies.\n\nAs he left Canberra on Saturday, French Ambassador Jean-Pierre Thebault called Australia's decision to unilaterally scrap the deal a \"huge mistake\".\n\nChina meanwhile has accused the three powers involved in the security pact of having a \"Cold War mentality\".\n\nA White House official has said the Biden administration will engage with France in the coming days to resolve their differences.", "Customers have been advised not to panic after two energy suppliers announced they had ceased trading.\n\nOne of the firms is Edinburgh-based People's Energy, which supplies gas and electricity to about 350,000 homes and 1,000 businesses.\n\nThe other is Dorset-based Utility Point, which has 220,000 domestic customers.\n\nNational advice service Advice Direct Scotland said energy supplies would continue for those affected.\n\nIt also said customers would not lose any money owed to them.\n\nConsumers have also been advised not to immediately switch to a new supplier as a new company will be chosen by regulator Ofgem.\n\nPeople's Energy was formed in 2017 by East Lothian couple David Pike and Karin Sode following a crowdfunding campaign.\n\nThe firm promised to return profits to its customers in a transparent, ethical way of working.\n\nIn August last year, it announced plans to create 100 new jobs with an expansion into the Borders.\n\nPeople's Energy was co-founded in 2017 by Karin Sode and David Pike\n\nIn a statement on its website, People's Energy said: \"Please rest assured that your energy supply is secure and all account credit balances are protected for our domestic customers.\n\n\"This includes any recent top-ups that were made as part of the seasonal weighting initiative.\"\n\nIt added: \"We are truly sad that we weren't able to make this community-focused approach to energy supply work.\n\n\"Thank you to those of you who supported our mission from early on. We are very sorry about the inconvenience and disruption this will cause our customers.\"\n\nIn a similar announcement on its website, Utility Point said customers \"need not worry, their supplies are secure and domestic credit balances are protected\".\n\nAdvice Direct Scotland, which runs the national energyadvice.scot service, said customers affected \"should not panic\".\n\nSpokesman Colin Mathieson said: \"While this news can be worrying for consumers, it's important to remember that you won't be cut off if your energy supplier has gone out of business - so you don't need to do anything right now.\n\n\"The gas and electricity regulator Ofgem will arrange for your account to be transferred to a new supplier.\n\n\"There won't be a break in your supply when it's transferred over, although the price you pay for your energy might go up - and that's when you can consider switching supplier, and you won't be charged an exit fee to do so.\"\n\nFurther information about the collapse of the energy firms can be found on the Ofgem website.", "Heddwen Williams does not want any of her three children to have to self-isolate ahead of a family holiday\n\nParents are keeping their children off school so they can avoid self-isolating ahead of the summer holidays.\n\nHeddwen Lois Williams said \"it's something we've got to do\" before a family trip away.\n\nFor the week ending 2 July, there were 8,393 unauthorised absences in Wales - up 1,000 on the previous week.\n\nEducation Minister Jeremy Miles said children had lost a lot of school in the past year and it was important they attended.\n\nHowever, for the week ending 2 July, 84.2% of pupils were in the classroom - the lowest rate since the return after Easter holidays.\n\nHeddwen, 37, said she had no choice but to keep Seren, Deian and Owain Iago off school in Caernarfon, Gwynedd.\n\nInstead of being in lessons, they have been playing football in their grandparents' garden.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Seren want to make sure they get away on their holiday break\n\nHeddwen said: \"I know my husband and I still have to go to work, but then we decided that we don't really have to send the children to school, so we've decided to keep them away for the last week.\"\n\nSeren is in Year 7 - the first year of secondary school - while Deian and Owain Iago are in Year 3 and reception, respectively.\n\nAs her children are young, Heddwen is not too worried about whether it could affect their education.\n\n\"I'll be honest - it's the last week before the summer and I know everybody is starting to wind down. So no, because of the timing, I'm not feeling guilty about them losing anything,\" she added.\n\n\"I think it's been a hard year for everyone and I think it's something we've got to do, because the children are really looking forward to a nice family break. That's the decision we've done and we're happy with that decision.\"\n\nThe children's grandparents are looking after them ahead of a staycation next week and Heddwen said she knows of others taking similar steps.\n\n\"Some other parents have tried to reduce the risk by not taking them on the school bus, for example, just to get those bubbles down.\"\n\nThe children will not miss out on too much school, says mum Heddwen\n\nFigures released on Thursday showed 549 cases in the preceding week were linked to schools - almost a fifth of all new Covid-19 cases in Wales.\n\nPositive cases in schools have led to thousands of children having to self-isolate.\n\nAt one point two weeks ago, all remaining pupils at Rhyl High School in Denbighshire were in isolation.\n\nWhile fines may be issued for unauthorised school absences, Welsh government guidance says: \"Punitive measures, including fines, would not be appropriate measures to take unless authorities deem it necessary to pursue a small number of cases relating to persistent absence, which are unrelated to the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nMr Miles told BBC Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast school was where children got \"the best education and support\".\n\nHe added: \"I want to make sure that they have the opportunity to be in school to be able to build on what is needed after the last year.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said: \"We'll continue to work together to take further steps to make sure education continues for all children and young people, with as little disruption as possible.\"", "A conservationist has been seriously injured and her cameraman killed in a paramotoring crash in the north west Highlands.\n\nAustralian biologist Sacha Dench and Dan Burton were in the final stages of a challenge to circumnavigate Britain to raise awareness of climate change.\n\nPolice said their paramotors collided close to Loch Na Gainmhich near Lochinver in Sutherland.\n\nEmergency services were alerted to the incident at about 16:45 on Saturday.\n\nThe Devon-based charity Conservation Without Borders said Mr Burton, 54, was killed and its founder, climate activist Ms Dench, seriously injured.\n\nThe pair were flying the battery-powered paramotors to mark the forthcoming UN climate change conference in Glasgow.\n\nSacha Dench and Dan Burton were in the final stags of the challenge\n\nPolice at the scene of Saturday's crash\n\nThe charity said in a statement: \"We are very sorry to have to confirm that Dan Burton, the support paramotorist has died as a result of the accident. Sacha Dench is seriously injured and is being treated in hospital. Her injuries are serious but not life threatening.\n\n\"Both highly experienced paramotorists, our thoughts are with the family of Dan Burton to whom we offer our sincere condolences.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Police were informed about the incident near by the A894 shortly before 16:45 and inquiries to establish the full circumstances are ongoing. The next of kin of those involved have been informed.\"", "Strictly Come Dancing's Oti Mabuse has been teamed with rugby star Ugo Monye in her bid for a third consecutive win.\n\nThe professional partners of this year's 15 celebrity contestants were revealed in Saturday's launch show.\n\nBake Off winner John Whaite will dance with Johannes Radebe in the show's first all-male partnership. Whaite called it \"a great step forward\".\n\nComedian Robert Webb will dance with Dianne Buswell, while pop star Tom Fletcher is teamed with Amy Dowden.\n\nThis year's launch episode of Strictly was watched by an average of seven million viewers, according to overnight ratings.\n\nIt marks a drop in viewing figures from 2020's opening episode which was watched by an average of 8.6 million, while 7.8 million tuned in to watch the contestants meet their partners in 2019.\n\nThe cast announcements came after one, unnamed, professional dancer tested positive for Covid last week.\n\nA Strictly spokeswoman told the BBC that the show was following government guidelines, which \"change all the time\".\n\n\"A professional dancer has tested positive for Covid 19. However, this didn't affect recording of the launch show,\" she said.\n\nAll those taking part in the show are being regularly tested and no partners have been swapped as a result of the positive test.\n\nThis year's celebrities and their partners\n\nSaturday's launch programme was pre-recorded a week ago, with the positive case discovered the next day. The first live show takes place on 25 September, leaving sufficient time for self-isolation in between.\n\nThe spokeswoman refused to comment on reports in Saturday's Sun that two of the show's professional dancers had refused to be vaccinated.\n\n\"We do not comment on speculation of somebody's Covid vaccination status,\" she said\n\n\"Strictly Come Dancing production has, and will, continue to follow strict government guidelines to ensure the safety of all on the show.\"\n\nHosts Claudia Winkelman and Tess Daly kicked off proceedings in Saturday's pre-recorded show, which featured returning judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse and new arrival Anton Du Beke.\n\nDu Beke, the show's long-serving professional dancer, replaces Bruno Tonioli on the judging panel after Tonioli, who lives in the US and is a judge on American series Dancing With The Stars, was unable to take part because of ongoing Covid travel restrictions.\n\nBest known for Peep Show opposite David Mitchell, Webb described his dance partner as having \"slightly less conservative hair\"\n\nReigning champion Bill Bailey also returned to perform with his former professional partner Oti Mabuse. Bailey, who was 55 when he won, became the oldest celebrity to lift the glitterball. Actor Greg Wise, partnered with Karen Hauer in this series, is also 55.\n\nMabuse is the only professional dancer to have won two years in a row, following her triumph with Emmerdale's Kelvin Fletcher in 2019.\n\nFormer Strictly dancer Aliona Vilani is the only other person to have two of the show's winning glitterballs, dancing to victory with McFly's Harry Judd in 2011 and, four years later with The Wanted's Jay McGuinness.\n\nMonye - Mabuse's partner for the 19th series - revealed he would be simultaneously filming nine episodes of A Question of Sport during the second week of Strictly.\n\n\"I've got some big shoes to fill,\" said Monye, but he added: \"She definitely knows how to win.\"\n\nChef John Whaite and Johannes Radebe will perform a tango as their first dance\n\nCelebrity chef John Whaite and South African pro dancer Johannes Radebe follow in the footsteps of boxer Nicola Adams and dancer Katya Jones, who became the first same-sex pairing last year.\n\nWhaite told Daly he had been surprised and delighted by the positive reaction to his same sex pairing with Radebe adding that he had been \"expecting a little hate, a bit of trolling\".\n\nHe said it was a \"a privilege and an honour to be in this position because I think if I had seen two lads or lasses in this position when I was a little lad, life would have been that little bit easier\".\n\nTwo years ago, Radebe - who has been one of the professionals on the programme since 2018 - said he felt accepted for the first time in his life after he made history on the show by dancing with another man, out of competition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Strictly Come Dancing professionals Johannes and Graziano dance together\n\nHe and fellow professional Graziano di Prima performed together to Emeli Sande's Shine on one of the Strictly results shows.\n\nThis time around di Prima will partner Loose Women panellist Judi Love.\n\nThe show's first deaf contestant, Rose Ayling-Ellis, who will dance with Giovanni Pernice, said the response from the deaf community to her appearance on Strictly had been \"her proudest moment\".\n\nEastEnders actress Rose Ayling-Ellis was introduced to her dance partner, Giovanni Pernice, in a square in the London's East End, where Giovanni showed off his sign language skills.", "British boxer Amir Khan has been removed from a flight in the US after a reported row over face coverings.\n\nMr Khan, 34, said he had been taken off the American Airlines plane along with a colleague by police when someone complained his friend's mask \"was not high enough\".\n\nThe airline said the flight from Newark Airport to Dallas-Fort Worth returned to the gate after two people reportedly \"refused to comply with crew requests\".\n\nIt denied that police had intervened.\n\nA spokesman for the airline said: \"Our customer relations team is reaching out to Mr Khan to learn more about his experience and reinforce the importance of policies implemented for the safety of our customers and crew.\"\n\nIn a video posted to Twitter, Mr Khan said he was flying to a training camp in Colorado after a stay in New York and was left \"disgusted\" by his treatment.\n\nThe former light-welterweight world champion, from Bolton, said: \"I was taken off the plane today when I was going to training camp to Colorado Springs, by the police.\n\n\"Obviously a complaint was made by American Airlines staff, they said that my colleague's mask was not high enough and not up, that they had to stop the plane and take me and my friend off when I did nothing wrong.\"\n\nHe added: \"Now I have to reschedule another airplane to travel back to training camp which is really upsetting, for no reason this was and I'm just so disgusted that American Airlines would do this to us and ban me from travelling.\"\n\nAmerican Airlines said Flight 700 returned to the gate at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after two customers \"reportedly refused to comply with repeated crew member requests to stow luggage, place cell phones in airplane mode and adhere to federal face covering requirements\".\n\nIt said \"per protocol\" police were present when the aircraft returned to the gate but were not involved in asking either passenger to leave the plane and did not intervene.\n\nNeither Mr Khan nor his colleague had been banned from the airline, it added.", "The Bedale Hunt is based in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire\n\nA two-year-old girl has died after falling from a pony during a hunt meeting in North Yorkshire.\n\nThe toddler was riding with members of the Bedale Hunt on land near Northallerton when she fell on Wednesday, a hunt spokesman said.\n\nHe described the fall as a \"tragic accident\" and offered condolences to all affected.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said it was compiling a report on behalf of the coroner.\n\nA spokesman for the force said the girl died in hospital during the early hours of Thursday.\n\n\"The girl's family are receiving specialist support while enquiries are ongoing into the incident,\" he added.\n\nThe hunt spokesman said: \"As a community we are all completely devastated but are pulling together to support the family.\"\n\n\"We urge that everybody respects the family's privacy during a very distressing time.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Air Ambulance confirmed it had attended the incident but did not provide further details.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, has said he has already discussed his wife's case with new foreign secretary Liz Truss.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 43-year-old mother-of-one from London, has been detained in Iran since 2016.\n\nShe is serving the second of two prison sentences, this one on parole after being convicted of propaganda against the Iranian regime.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said stopping her coming home amounted to \"hostage-taking\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC One's Andrew Marr Show earlier about his continuing campaign to secure the freedom of his wife and allow her home to see her young daughter, Mr Ratcliffe revealed that he was to speak to the foreign secretary by telephone on Sunday.\n\nHe said he hoped that Ms Truss, who was only appointed in her new role on Wednesday, would be able to talk to her Iranian counterpart during the UN's General Assembly in New York this week.\n\nSpeaking after the phone call, Mr Ratcliffe said he had urged Ms Truss to take action to deter state hostage-taking, which he described as \"cost free\" for Iran.\n\nBut he also called for a resolution of the £400 million military debt which the UK has owed Iran for decades.\n\n\"I said it needed carrot and stick - that, as I had told her predecessors, they needed to address the debt if Nazanin is going to come home, and that they needed to take steps to address Iran's hostage diplomacy - to disincentivise Iran from continuing to do it.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe has said that he wants to see \"firm\" and \"clear steps\" taken against Iran because of the detention of his wife and other British nationals.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has dual British and Iranian citizenship, was first jailed in Tehran in 2016 on spying charges, which she has always denied.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said prior to his talks with Ms Truss that he would pass on the names of 10 people he accuses of being involved with \"hostage-taking\" in Iran - it is unclear if he has done that.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family have reportedly been told by Iranian authorities that she is being detained because of the UK's failure to pay its outstanding debt to Iran, rather than the criminal charge.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said: \"One of the key problems I feel these past years is there's been no cost for the Iranian side to carry on holding Nazanin, to carry on holding others, and so we've seen that now there are more British citizens in prison than there were when Nazanin was first taken.\"\n\nThe chief executive of Amnesty International UK, Sacha Deshmukh, said: \"The plight of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Anoosheh Ashoori and other UK nationals held in Iran has extended across the last four foreign secretaries. It's long past time that the UK finally brought this deeply distressing episode to an end\".\n\nHowever, Mr Ratcliffe said that it was \"a positive sign\" to be speaking with the foreign secretary \"two days into the job\".\n\nBoris Johnson was the foreign secretary when Nazanin was initially detained by Iran. He later had to apologise for remarks that the family believed made the situation worse.\n\nIn May, Ms Truss's predecessor Dominic Raab said that Iran's treatment of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounted to \"torture\" and that its government was now using her in \"a cat-and-mouse game\" for diplomatic leverage.\n\nHe said there was an \"obligation on Iran to release her immediately and without condition\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe: Nazanin speaks to her daughter most days, while under house arrest in Iran\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's parole is pending an appeal over her second prison sentence.\n\nShe is staying with her mother in Iran and has not seen her daughter, Gabriella, in two years.\n\nShe speaks to her daughter regularly but Mr Ratcliffe is aware the there is a \"consequence\" to mother and daughter spending a long time apart.\n\nBut he said it is not \"like when in prison\", the family is able to speak to each other \"most days\".\n\nUncertainty about the court ruling has led to \"real up and downs\" and the situation has been \"really hard\", Mr Ratcliffe told the BBC.\n• None Nazanin case amounts to torture by Iran, says UK", "The boss of a US company that supplies 60% of the UK's food-grade carbon dioxide supply has held crisis talks with the government over shortages.\n\nTony Will, chief executive of CF Industries, arrived in the UK earlier after the firm stopped production at its two fertiliser plants because of soaring wholesale gas prices.\n\nFood firms are warning a shortage of CO2 is threatening produce supplies.\n\nHigh global demand for gas has been blamed for the recent surge in prices.\n\nCarbon dioxide is used to stun animals prior to slaughter and in dry ice form to keep food fresh for storage and transport. It is a by-product of fertiliser manufacturing.\n\nLast week, CF Industries, the UK's biggest CO2 producer, stopped production at its Teesside and Cheshire fertiliser plants \"due to high natural gas prices\". Wholesale gas prices have jumped by 250% since January, according to Oil & Gas UK, the industry group.\n\nCF Industries said it did not \"have an estimate for when production will resume\".\n\nThe BBC has also been told that officials from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have been \"working with\" the company in recent days.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted that he had met Mr Will and \"discussed the pressures the business is facing and explored possible ways forward to secure vital supplies, including to our food and energy industries\".\n\nFood producers and supermarkets have warned of the impact CO2 shortages are having on the industry.\n\nRanjit Singh Boparan, owner of UK poultry giant 2 Sisters Food Group, said the decision by CT Industries to halt operations, was a \"massive body blow\" for the food sector and placed it \"at breaking point\".\n\nAdam Couch, the boss of pork producer Cranswick said the industry was \"already at tipping point ahead of the demanding Christmas period\".\n\n\"We have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic to keep food on the shelves, but there is a real risk of product shortages across the country if the government does not act immediately to address these issues,\" he added.\n\nSupermarket Ocado said it had \"limited stock\" of some frozen items due to gas shortages, while another supermarket told the BBC the situation was \"escalating quickly\".\n\nOne supermarket executive told the BBC the CO2 issue is \"escalating quickly\" and was causing a \"big supply issue\".\n\n\"The big meat suppliers are saying they have two to three days' supply and are now having to prioritise how they use what they have,\" he said.\n\nHe said the problem \"compounds\" supply issues the food, drink and supermarket industries are already facing due to shortages of HGV drivers in the UK, caused partly by the pandemic and Brexit.\n\nThe British Poultry Council said that the supply chains will \"inevitably slow down\" if CO2 supplies become tighter and more unpredictable in the next five to seven days.\n\nA spokeswoman said product types might be reduced as meat companies streamline production to try to cut down the impact of shortages.\n\nIan Wright, chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, stressed that the UK was not going to run out of food, but said there would be \"major concerns\" over supply to supermarkets and other food outlets.\n\nHe suggested the government would need to take an \"innovative\" approach to dealing with the shortage of CO2, such as perhaps subsidising companies who produce the gas over the next four or five weeks.\n\n\"Or the knock-on effects of this may well be felt right the way through to the end of the year and particularly over the key Christmas trading period,\" said Mr Wright.\n\nMr Kwarteng has been in talks with energy suppliers as well as the energy regulator Ofgem over the weekend amid fears more small companies could go bust in the coming days.\n\nCOP26 president Alok Sharma told BBC's Andrew Marr Show that people should not be concerned about the risk to the supply of gas. And he said the energy price cap and warm homes discount - two cost-limiting measures - would protect people.\n\nAn Ofgem spokesperson said: \"Ofgem continues to work closely with government and industry to ensure consumers continue to be protected while global gas prices are high and will speak further on these issues at the industry roundtable [on Monday].\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nTottenham and Chelsea led the tributes for their former player Jimmy Greaves, who has died aged 81.\n\nA host of Spurs legends lined the pitch inside the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as a minute's applause was held before kick-off.\n\nMartin Chivers, Steve Perryman, Micky Hazard, Paul Allen, Ossie Ardiles, Gary Mabbutt, Graham Roberts, Glenn Hoddle, Ledley King and Michael Dawson were all present.\n\nDuring the applause, some Spurs fans held flags and banners to remember the club's record goalscorer.\n\nFormer Spurs and England striker Gary Lineker told BBC Sport: \"Jimmy had a fabulous contribution to football, an incredible goalscoring record.\n\n\"He was devilishly funny as well with his wit and personality, so charismatic. But on the field of play people will remember him most. Those of us that are old enough to have witnessed his magnificence at times, he could score all sorts of goals and was a beautifully graceful footballer and a wonderful finisher.\n\n\"For me, Jimmy was one of my heroes as well. Growing up watching him play we didn't have the amount of games on television that we now do but I managed to see him play a few times.\n\n\"I also was fortunate enough to meet him on numerous occasions and he was always affable and fun and hugely knowledgeable. He was a great personality, a wonderful footballer and a man with huge charisma and fun and he will be much missed.\"\n\nOn an emotional day across football grounds, West Ham, another of Greaves' former clubs, also held a minute's applause before their Premier League match against Manchester United, as did Brighton and Leicester City.\n\nPlayers from all six teams wore black armbands for Greaves, who holds the record for most goals in the English top flight with 357.\n\nSpurs captain Harry Kane, who is second behind Greaves on the club's scoring list, told Sky Sports before facing Chelsea: \"First and foremost our condolences to Jimmy's family and close friends. It's a sad one but hopefully a day we can celebrate.\n\n\"He played for Tottenham and Chelsea and hopefully we put in a great performance in his honour.\n\n\"Jimmy was an incredible player and goalscorer and a legend for club and country.\n\n\"It's frightening really how good a player he was. For someone like me to look at his numbers and one day go on to break those numbers would be incredible. I got to meet him back in 2017 and it's just a celebration of him today.\"\n\nGreaves began his career with Chelsea and his 41 goals in 1960-61 remains a record in a season for the Blues.\n\nGreaves won two FA Cups and one Cup Winners' Cup and scored 266 goals in 379 appearances for Spurs, where he is considered a club legend.\n\nGreaves was a member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad and scored 44 goals in his 57 senior international appearances.\n\nFormer team-mate Geoff Hurst was among those to pay tribute to Greaves.", "BBC Sport looks back at some great goals from Jimmy Greaves' career and highlights the statistics that made him a footballing legend.\n\nGreaves has died at the age of 81.\n\nAvailable to UK users only", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool remain unbeaten in the Premier League this season after Sadio Mane scored his 100th goal for the club in a victory against Crystal Palace.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side created numerous chances against a resilient Palace before Mane pounced on a rebound at the back post in the first half.\n\nMohamed Salah doubled their lead with just over 10 minutes remaining when he smashed home a flick-on from a corner, before Naby Keita's late curling strike made it 3-0.\n\nLiverpool were wasteful in the first half as Diogo Jota fired over the bar from a few yards out in a glorious position, while Thiago and Jordan Henderson were also denied by keeper Vicente Guaita.\n\nPalace had started brightly - hitting the post twice in as many minutes as Liverpool failed to clear their lines in the box - but the hosts' persistence eventually paid off.\n\nIn the end it was a comfortable victory that capped a good week for Liverpool at Anfield, following their dramatic 3-2 win over AC Milan in the Champions League on Wednesday.\n\nAnd it means they go top of the table with four wins from their opening five games, while visitors Palace remain outside the top 10.\n\nMane was one of six changes to Klopp's side from their win over AC Milan, and his return must have been an unpleasant sight for Palace fans.\n\nHaving scored twice against Palace on the final day of last season, Mane's opener on Saturday made him the first player to net in nine consecutive league matches against a single opponent.\n\nIt took his total to 13 against Palace in the Premier League - the most anyone has scored against them - and was the perfect way to notch up his 100th goal in all competitions for Liverpool.\n\nPalace had attacking threat of their own from Wilfried Zaha - making his 250th Premier League appearance - but he was dealt with by the physicality of Fabinho and debutant Ibrahima Konate.\n\nAnd while Palace continue to adapt and learn under new boss Patrick Vieira, they were given a humbling reminder of the ruthlessness of Liverpool's attacking quality.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jairo Riedewald.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Mohamed Salah tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Crystal Palace 0. Naby Keïta (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Odsonne Édouard (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "The UK's sixth largest energy company, Bulb, is seeking a bailout to stay afloat amid surging wholesale gas prices.\n\nThe company, with 1.7m customers, is working with the investment bank Lazard to try to shore up its balance sheet.\n\nIt is the latest energy company battling to avoid going bust, with at least four smaller UK firms expected to go out of business next week.\n\nHigh global demand for gas has caused a recent surge in wholesale prices.\n\nA bailout for Bulb could come as part of a joint venture or merger with another company, with a further option being a cash injection from investors, according to the Financial Times, who first reported the story.\n\nIn a statement, Bulb told the BBC: \"From time to time we explore various opportunities to fund our business plans and further our mission to lower bills and lower CO2.\n\n\"Like everyone in the industry, we're monitoring wholesale prices and their impact on our business.\"\n\nIndustry group Oil & Gas UK said wholesale prices for gas had increased by 250% since January - with a 70% rise since August.\n\nThe price hike has left some companies unable to provide their customers with the energy they have paid for.\n\nHowever, if a supplier fails, energy regulator Ofgem will ensure supplies continue for affected households, and they will not lose money owed to them.\n\nA new energy supplier would be responsible for taking on any credit balances a customer may have.\n\nFour small energy companies ceased trading in recent weeks, including Edinburgh-based People's Energy, which supplied gas and electricity to about 350,000 homes and 1,000 businesses, and Dorset-based Utility Point which had 220,000 customers.\n\nAt the beginning of 2021 there were 70 energy suppliers in the UK, but industry sources have said there may be as few as 10 left by the end of the year.\n\nThe rise in gas prices has not only affected companies supplying energy, but food firms and supermarkets who use gas, in particular carbon dioxide, to deliver and store produce.\n\nCO2 is also used to stun animals before slaughter and as a coolant agent in transport.\n\nUS firm CF Industries, the UK's biggest CO2 producer, stopped production at its Teesside and Cheshire fertiliser plants due to the gas prices, which has sparked concern across the food production industry.\n\nRichard Walker, managing director of supermarket Iceland, tweeted that CO2 was \"essential for a wide range of food and medical uses\".\n\n\"Yet 60% of the UK's supply comes from only two sites, owned by one foreign company, who have decided to close due to profitability,\" he added.\n\n\"Surely matters of national security should be state-controlled?\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has held talks over the gas shortages with the boss of the US company, Tony Will, who flew into the UK on Sunday.\n\nMr Kwarteng said he was \"confident security of supply can be maintained under a wide range of scenarios\".\n\nHe said he would host further talks with the energy industry and consumer groups on Monday.\n\nEmma Pinchbeck, chief executive Energy UK, the industry's trade body, said talks with the government focused on how companies got through the current period with as little impact on customers as possible.\n\n\"The whole of the energy sector is facing unprecedented prices,\" she told the BBC\n\n\"We are reliant on a volatile international commodity in the UK because we are highly dependent on gas both in our own homes where we burn it for heat.\n\n\"We do that at a level beyond our European neighbours, but also for our power sector and other uses in the economy, so when we get an unprecedentedly high price there are unprecedented impacts on the market.\"", "First Minister Mark Drakeford and Adam Price's groups are still in talks over a co-operation agreement\n\nChanging the council tax system could be part of any potential Labour-Plaid deal in the Senedd, according to the first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said the talks were necessary because Welsh Labour has no overall majority to deal with \"challenging and ambitious issues\".\n\nBoth parties are continuing to discuss \"an ambitious co-operation agreement\".\n\nPlaid members are not expected to enter government as a deal is likely to fall short of a formal coalition.\n\nBBC Wales has been told a deal would likely include a number of policies that both parties work together on delivering.\n\nWelsh Labour and Plaid Cymru promised to reform council tax in their manifestos for May's Senedd election.\n\nThe last council tax revaluation in Wales was undertaken in 2003\n\nLabour did not commit to any particular proposals beyond \"reforming council tax to ensure a fairer system for all\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's manifesto pledged to \"undertake a revaluation, increase the number of bands at the higher end of house valuations, and ensure that council tax is more proportional to the value of properties\".\n\nThe last council tax revaluation in Wales was undertaken in 2003.\n\nPlaid also promised to \"bring forward proposals for a new and fairer land and property tax... to replace first business rates, and then, council tax\".\n\nLabour matched its best ever Senedd result in May's election, winning 30 of the 60 seats in Cardiff Bay.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Cymru's Dewi Llwyd programme, First Minister Mark Drakeford explained his party would not be able to \"pass a single piece of legislation with 30 votes, you can't pass a budget through the Senedd either\".\n\nAsked for an example of a policy that could be included in any deal with Plaid Cymru, he suggested changes to council tax.\n\n\"But it is very difficult to do because some people lose out, a lot of people win,\" Mr Drakeford explained.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme, Plaid Cymru Senedd Member Rhys ab Owen said he would like to see Senedd reform, a national care system, and the issue of second homes included in any deal.\n\nThe South Wales Central MS added: \"I think the public out there appreciate politicians coming together on a consensual level to agree on some of the big issues to move things forward.\"\n\nDarren Millar, Conservative MS for Clwyd West, told Politics Wales: \"What I'm concerned about is that this will end up being another pact which is absolutely obsessed with constitutional change and obsessed with trying to devolve more powers from Westminster.\"\n\nHe added this came at at a time when \"we need every sinew of the Welsh government to be focussed on getting to grips with the crisis in our NHS, making sure that we help businesses recover from Covid, and help in our education system catch-up with those may lost months of education\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people are camped out at the US-Mexico border bridge in poor conditions\n\nUS officials have moved thousands of migrants away from a Texas border town that has seen an influx of mostly Haitian migrants over the past week.\n\nMore than 10,000 people had gathered under a bridge connecting Del Rio in Texas to Mexico's Ciudad Acuña.\n\nLocal officials have struggled to provide them with food and adequate sanitation.\n\nSome 2,000 people were moved to immigration and processing stations on Friday.\n\nThe US government says it plans to fly the migrants back to where they began their journeys.\n\nFlights are expected to start on Sunday, with the US currently negotiating returns with the countries in question.\n\nHaiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry sent support to the migrants on social media late on Saturday, saying \"arrangements have already been made\" to welcome those who return.\n\nBut some migrants say they are afraid to return. \"In Haiti, there is no security,\" Fabricio Jean, 38, who is at the camp with his wife and two daughters, told the Associated Press. \"The country is in a political crisis.\"\n\n\"There's people killing each other in Haiti, there's just no justice,\" another father of two, 29-year-old Stelin Jean told the Texas Tribune. \"I just want to live a calm life without any problems, I want to live somewhere where I know there's justice.\"\n\nThe US Department for Homeland Security said in a statement that the transfers will continue \"in order to ensure that irregular migrants are swiftly taken into custody, processed and removed from the United States consistent with our laws and policy\".\n\nIt added that US Customs and Border Protection is sending 400 additional agents to Del Rio, a city with a population of roughly 35,000.\n\nThe US government says it plans to fly the migrants back to where they began their journeys\n\nDel Rio's Mayor Bruno Lozano has declared a state of emergency, and described the situation as \"unprecedented\" and \"surreal\". He said border patrol had been overwhelmed and that \"agitated\" migrants were living in impossible conditions.\n\nThe makeshift camp at Del Rio has few basic services, and migrants waiting in temperatures of 37C (99F), have been wading back across the river into Mexico to get supplies.\n\nThe migrants are mostly Haitians, with some Cubans, Peruvians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans also present.\n\nMany Haitians left the country after a devastating earthquake in 2010, and a large number of those in the camp had been living in Brazil or other South American countries and travelled north after being unable to secure jobs or legal status.\n\nCubans too have been fleeing the island's worst economic crisis since shortly after the end of the Cold War, the BBC's Mexico correspondent Will Grant reports.\n\nHe says many of the migrants in Texas have made probably the most treacherous migrant journey in Latin America by crossing the thick jungle of the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama on foot.\n\nThe US government has reported a surge of migrants at the border with Mexico this year.\n\nThe number of migrants detained there in July exceeded 200,000 for the first time in 21 years, according to government data.", "Boris Johnson will visit the White House for the first time since Joe Biden became president\n\nBoris Johnson will urge world leaders to take \"concrete action\" on climate change during meetings at the UN's General Assembly in New York this week.\n\nThe PM will also visit the White House for the first time since Joe Biden became US president.\n\nHe is expected to push Mr Biden on the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the potential of reopening UK to US travel.\n\nThe visit comes ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nWith some 100 world leaders expected in New York at the UN General Assembly this week, Mr Johnson will seek to galvanise action during a series of high-level meetings.\n\nMr Johnson said he would push for action on coal, climate, cars and trees in particular.\n\nDowning Street said he would focus on supporting developing nations to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis, as well as on adapting to its consequences.\n\nAhead of the visit, the PM said: \"World leaders have a small window of time left to deliver on their climate commitments ahead of COP26.\n\n\"My message to those I meet this week will be clear: future generations will judge us based on what we achieve in the coming months.\n\n\"We need to continue to make a case for a sustainable recovery from coronavirus rooted in green growth. And we have a responsibility to ensure the benefits of that growth extend to all, no matter where they are born.\"\n\nThe COP26 summit is widely seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control.\n\nIt is the moment world leaders will discuss whether enough has been achieved since 2015's landmark Paris climate agreement.\n\nThe task facing Boris Johnson is huge, because nations are falling way behind on plans to cut emissions.\n\nScientists say to avoid the worst climate impacts, carbon emissions must be cut by 45% by 2030, but the latest UN analysis shows the trend is heading in the wrong direction. On current national policies, emissions could rise by 16% in this period.\n\nThat could lead to a temperature increase of 2.7C (4.9F) above pre-industrial times.\n\nMeanwhile the climate has already dangerously heated, with deadly temperatures, wildfires, and floods - and that's with a temperature rise of just 1C at present.\n\nThe PM will attempt to persuade China to quicken its timetable for reducing emissions, even though China's not primarily to blame for climate change so far.\n\nAnd he must form policies to ensure carbon cuts in the UK. Britain is the leader in target-setting for emissions cuts - but a recent report showed it has produced fewer than a quarter of the policies needed to deliver on those targets.\n\nMr Johnson will also travel to Washington, where he is expected to hold talks with the president on the future of Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden rejected calls from the prime minister and other allies to delay his withdrawal of troops beyond 31 August to buy more time to evacuate former Afghan staff, their families and other vulnerable citizens.\n\nWith refusal meaning possibly thousands were left behind, Mr Johnson is expected to discuss further efforts to stem a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.\n\nThe prime minister is also likely to push for a restoration of UK-US travel.\n\nFallout from the new Aukus military pact between the UK, US and Australia is also expected to be under discussion.\n\nUnder the agreement, Australia is being given the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nNot only has it angered China, but France has recalled ambassadors to the US and Australia because the agreement to provide nuclear submarines to Canberra meant the cancellation of a £30bn deal for the French.\n\nNew Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has defended the deal, saying it will make the UK safer and could create hundreds of new jobs.\n\nMs Truss said she would also be attending the UN summit, \"making the case for deeper economic, diplomatic and security partnerships in order to help us seize the opportunities - and tackle the challenges - of the modern age\".\n\nDuring his trip, Mr Johnson will also meet US Vice-President Kamala Harris and other senior figures in American politics.\n• None World on course to heat up to dangerous levels", "Households are protected against gas price rises, says Alok Sharma\n\nA spike in wholesale gas prices will not result in goods shortages or price hikes for customers in the UK, a climate change minister has said.\n\nCOP26 president Alok Sharma said: \"We do not see risks of supplies right now and prices are being protected.\"\n\nHe said Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was continuing talks with energy suppliers over the weekend.\n\nHigh global demand, maintenance issues at some gas sites and lower solar and wind output are blamed for the rise.\n\nSupermarkets and food firms say the gas price rise has caused a shortage of carbon dioxide which is threatening UK supplies of meat and fresh produce.\n\nMr Sharma told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that people should not be concerned about the risks of gas supply.\n\n\"Of course, when it comes to prices there will be concern as well,\" he said.\n\n\"We have the energy price cap, we have the warm homes discount, to protect people at this particular time.\"\n\nIndustry group Oil & Gas UK said wholesale prices for gas are up 250% since January - with a 70% rise since August.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) reported that in 2020, 60% of the UK's natural gas supply was imported.\n\nMr Sharma said: \"A significant part of our gas supply comes domestically. The imported gas primarily comes from countries like Norway so we are securing that.\"\n\nHe said the situation showed that the UK needed to do \"even more in terms of renewables.\"\n\n\"That's how we ensure you have a clean energy mix and you have security of supply in our country,\" he said.\n\nThe gas price hike has caused two large fertiliser plants to shut down - which created knock-on shortages of its by-product CO2.\n\nCO2 is used to stun animals before slaughter, as a coolant agent in transport and as a shelf life extending agent in food packaging.\n\nBBC business correspondent Emma Simpson said one supermarket boss told her that unless the shortage is resolved the UK could start to see shortages of meat on shelves by the end of next week.\n\nAnother retailer said the situation was \"escalating very quickly\" and some poultry suppliers had only two to three days of CO2 supplies left.\n\nIan Wright, from the Food and Drink Federation industry body, said shoppers would notice a shortage of some products in the next two weeks.\n\n\"We will see gaps on shelves fairly soon,\" he said. \"We will not run out of food.\n\n\"But there are going to be major concerns about the continuing of supply both to supermarkets and convenience stores and restaurants and takeaways.\"\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium called for the government to \"urgently sort this problem out\".\n\n\"Otherwise we are going to see problems for consumers both immediately and in the run-up to Christmas,\" he said.\n\nGreg Jackson, chief executive of Octopus Energy - one of the UK's six largest providers - said this was \"the most extreme energy market in decades\".\n\nSmall energy companies were \"facing an unprecedented crisis\", he told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme.\n\n\"Behind this are millions of customers and thousands of people whose jobs are going to be affected.\"\n\nBut he said energy providers and the government would be doing everything they could to stop household bills from rising.\n\nHe said: \"The price cap means that the standard variable tariffs are actually way below the cost of supplying energy today.\"\n\nThe energy cap is the maximum price suppliers can charge customers on a standard - or default - tariff.\n\nMeanwhile, shadow economic secretary to the Treasury, Pat McFadden, said the issue \"should have been foreseen\".\n\nHe told Sky News's Trevor Phillips on Sunday programme: \"This should act as a spur to get on with the transition to net-zero, more renewable and sustainable supplies because the effect of all this will be rising prices for consumers just when they're being hit with other things too.\"", "The female python was said to be \"very friendly\"\n\nA shocked couple who found a 5ft (1.5m) python in their bedroom say they have no idea how it got into their house.\n\nThe pair called police to their home on Quarry Bank, in Dudley, West Midlands, after making the discovery.\n\nThey had shut it in the room and officers were able to safely remove the python and take it to a vet.\n\nThe couple have speculated it may have arrived in a delivery or slithered in through pipes before it was spotted on Wednesday.\n\nA large item had arrived the previous day and they said they thought it may have been hidden in the box.\n\nWest Midlands Police said such discoveries were usually left to the RSPCA but it had sent three student officers on this occasion because no-one from the charity had been available.\n\nThey eventually found the snake on top of a cabinet, wrapped around a vanity mirror.\n\nUsing their batons, they put it in a shoe box with holes in.\n\nA check-up carried out by Manor Vets, in Halesowen, later found the mature female snake had a few lumps and old injuries, but was generally in good health.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michelle Hadaway said Martin Bashir did not return her murdered daughter's clothing\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the \"distress\" caused to the mother of a murdered schoolgirl who said Martin Bashir borrowed her daughter's clothes and did not return them.\n\nMichelle Hadaway says Mr Bashir wanted the clothes DNA tested for a BBC programme but never gave them back.\n\nKaren Hadaway and Nicola Fellows, both nine, were found sexually assaulted and strangled in Brighton in 1986.\n\nThe BBC said it would look into any new details on the clothes' whereabouts.\n\nThe corporation added that Mr Bashir - who was most recently the BBC's religion editor before resigning earlier this year - was contacted via his agent, who said the journalist was unable to help with locating the clothes.\n\nThe BBC statement follows an investigation by the Mail on Sunday into Mr Bashir's actions after what became known as the Babes in the Wood murders.\n\nThe newspaper claims that a 2004 inquiry by the corporation's investigations unit did not contact people who might have known where the clothing was - such as the families of the murdered schoolgirls and journalists who worked on the BBC's Public Eye programme.\n\nA spokesman for the BBC said: \"The BBC is extremely sorry for the distress this has caused Ms Hadaway and we deeply regret we have not been able to give her any answers about what happened.\n\n\"We are appalled that this clothing was lost after being obtained as part of an investigation for a BBC programme.\n\n\"We are continuing to look into this matter following the Dyson inquiry, and as part of that, we asked a former senior BBC executive to review what happened in this case, including the 2004 investigation, and see if anything was missed which could help us locate the clothing.\"\n\nThe BBC said claims that in 2004 the BBC investigations unit did not make contact with individuals who might have known where the clothing was were incorrect.\n\nIt added: \"Records show that (Public Eye editor) Nigel Chapman and an individual who can be identified as (assistant producer) Charlie Beckett were contacted during the 2004 investigation.\n\n\"Martin Bashir was contacted via his agent, who told us that Martin was unable to assist with the whereabouts of the clothes.\n\n\"Eileen Fairweather had left the employment of Public Eye before the clothing went missing.\n\n\"We will continue to follow up any new information we receive about the whereabouts of the clothing. We will of course discuss any of this matter with Ms Hadaway if and when she wishes to do so.\"\n\nThe families of the two girls campaigned for decades for justice after their killer Russell Bishop was initially cleared of their killings in 1987.\n\nIn 2018, he was convicted of the murders after double jeopardy laws were changed, permitting a second trial.\n\nMs Hadaway said Mr Bashir - then a BBC staff reporter - approached her in 1991 and asked to take her daughter's clothes for DNA testing as part of his investigation for a documentary - but the programme never aired and her calls to the broadcaster went unanswered.\n\nShe has said the tests were not carried out and her daughter's clothes were never returned.\n\nIn a previous interview with BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Ms Hadaway said: \"Over the years I have been so angry with the fact this man has never apologised to me, never contacted me.\n\n\"The denials have been going on for quite a long time,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had trusted Mr Bashir with \"the last thing that I had to do with my daughter, which was her clothes\".\n\n\"To not give them to me back, or to not have them DNA tested, is a bit shameful,\" she said.\n\nAsked about claims by the Sunday Times newspaper, Mr Bashir said: \"I may have lost it, but I don't remember.\"\n\nMartin Bashir was most recently the BBC's religion editor before resigning earlier this year\n\nEarlier this week, London's Metropolitan Police said it would take no further action over Mr Bashir's 1995 BBC Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police looked at an independent review of the methods used to obtain the 1995 interview, but had \"not identified evidence of activity that constituted a criminal offence\".\n\nThe review, by Lord Dyson, found Bashir had used deception to secure it.\n\nIt comes as BBC director-general Tim Davie will appear before the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Tuesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nThe UK's new security agreement with the US and Australia will make it safer and could create hundreds of new jobs, the new foreign secretary has said.\n\nThe pact, known as Aukus, will see Australia being given the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nLiz Truss said it showed the UK's readiness to be \"hard-headed\" in defending its interests.\n\nBut France, whose own submarine deal with Australia was thwarted as a result, has criticised the agreement.\n\nIt has recalled its ambassadors in the US and Australia for consultations in response, while China has accused the three powers of having a \"Cold War mentality\".\n\nThe alliance - widely seen as an effort to counter China's influence in the contested South China Sea - was announced by US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on Wednesday.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Ms Truss said the partnership showed the UK's commitment to stability in the Indo-Pacific region.\n\nShe wrote: \"Freedoms need to be defended, so we are also building strong security ties around the world.\n\n\"This is about more than foreign policy in the abstract, but delivering for people across the UK and beyond by partnering with like-minded countries to build coalitions based on shared values and shared interests.\"\n\nMs Truss, who was was promoted from international trade secretary to foreign secretary in the reshuffle this week, said the pact \"will not just make us safer at home, it could also create hundreds of new and high-skilled jobs, from the shipyards of Govan to the factories of Tyneside\".\n\nLiz Truss became Foreign Secretary in this week's reshuffle\n\nThe pact, which will also see the allies share cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence and other undersea technologies, was described as showing \"profound strategic shifts\" by the UK's national security adviser Stephen Lovegrove.\n\nBut some have expressed fears that it could provoke China into a war.\n\nThis week, former Prime Minister Theresa May asked Mr Johnson about the \"implications\" of the partnership in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.\n\nDemocratic Taiwan sees itself as a sovereign state, but Beijing has increased pressure on the island which it views as a breakaway province.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs that the Aukus agreement was \"not intended to be adversarial\" to China but the UK was \"determined to defend international law\".\n\nClumsy diplomacy, heightened emotions and spy-like secrecy: the row over the new security pact between the UK, the US and Australia has it all.\n\nBut amid the increasingly shrill invective from humiliated French ministers, there is a fundamental truth: the West is struggling to make up its mind about China. Washington has now been joined by Canberra and London in acting together to address the security challenge.\n\nOther countries - particularly some in Europe - are less hawkish, still trying to split the difference between economic co-operation and strategic competition with Beijing.\n\nFrance is furious at the breach of contract by Australia and the lack of trust shown by the US and the UK.\n\nSo there is talk in the French papers of further retaliation, beyond the recall of ambassadors, perhaps involving Nato.\n\nOthers are speculating this row might finally encourage Europe to agree some greater strategic autonomy.\n\nThe truth is more straightforward: if the West wishes to protect its interests in the Indo-Pacific, then France and other European powers need to be on the same page as the US and its Anglophone allies. And right now both sides are not even reading the same book.\n\nMeanwhile, France's foreign minister has accused Australia and the US of lying over the deal.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Jean-Yves Le Drian said a \"serious crisis\" was in progress between the allies.\n\n\"The fact that for the first time in the history of relations between the United States and France we are recalling our ambassador for consultations is a serious political act, which shows the magnitude of the crisis that exists now between our countries,\" he told France 2.\n\nBut he said France had seen \"no need\" to recall its ambassador to the UK, accusing the country of \"constant opportunism\".\n\n\"Britain in this whole thing is a bit like the third wheel,\" he said.\n\nThe pact means Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nThe announcement ended a deal worth $37bn (£27bn) that France had signed with Australia in 2016 to build 12 conventional submarines.\n• None Johnson's new cabinet meets for first time", "Jimmy Greaves, who has died aged 81, will be remembered as a prodigy, pioneer and pundit as well as one of the greatest natural goalscorers English football has ever produced.\n\nGreaves' glittering career at club level with Chelsea, AC Milan, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United was matched by his feats for England as he remains fourth in the list of all-time goalscorers behind Wayne Rooney, Sir Bobby Charlton and Gary Lineker with 44 goals in 57 games.\n\nDespite this stellar record, he will be best remembered at international level for the crushing disappointment of missing England's 1966 World Cup final win over West Germany at Wembley after failing to regain his place from Sir Geoff Hurst following an injury. Hurst scored a hat-trick in England's 4-2 win.\n\nAfter retiring from the game and overcoming alcoholism, Greaves forged a hugely successful broadcasting career that cemented his status as one of the game's most popular and enduring figures.\n\nGreaves already had a reputation as a special talent as one of 'Drake's Ducklings' at Chelsea - the name given to manager Ted Drake's group of gifted youngsters in response to Manchester United's 'Busby Babes'. He made his debut as a 17-year-old in August 1957, scoring against Spurs at White Hart Lane.\n\nHe may be best remembered for his feats at Spurs but his name is still fondly recalled at Chelsea after scoring 124 league goals in just four years at Stamford Bridge - his natural speed, poise and killer instinct in and around the penalty area breaking records.\n\nIn 1960, aged 20 years and 290 days, he became the youngest player to score 100 league goals as his feats brought him to Europe's attention.\n\nThe young Greaves was one of English football's early exports when he left Chelsea for Italy and AC Milan in June 1961 - but it was a move he made reluctantly and briefly, scoring nine goals in 14 games before returning to London just five months later.\n\nEven in that short stint, he still demonstrated his class.\n\nIn an Italian league dominated by the Catenaccio 'door bolt' defensive system, Greaves proved he could still pick the locks with expertise, scoring goals even in the face of physical punishment.\n\nHe later said: \"I always felt I went to Milan a boy and came back a man thanks to all the physical treatment I withstood from their defenders.\"\n\nScoring goals, anywhere, was never a problem but Greaves felt stifled under the austere regime of Milan's new head coach Nereo Rocco, who banned sex and alcohol for three days before matches. Greaves could not wait to return when the San Siro giants accepted bids of £96,500 from Chelsea and Spurs.\n\nGreaves was on his way to Spurs in December 1961 after the League and FA Cup 'double' winners eventually outbid Chelsea with an offer of £99,999 - manager Bill Nicholson declining to pay the last pound because he did not want the striker to be burdened with the tag of being England's first £100,000 footballer.\n\nIt was worth every penny as Greaves' deeds wrote him into White Hart Lane legend, scoring a record 266 goals in 379 games in all competitions for the club.\n\nHe won the FA Cup twice at Spurs, scoring in a 3-1 win over Burnley in 1962 and playing in the 2-1 win against Chelsea in 1967.\n\nGreaves demonstrated his quality on the wider stage as Spurs won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1963, scoring twice as they beat Atletico Madrid 5-1 in the final in Rotterdam.\n\nIn an era renowned for hard men such as Leeds United's Norman Hunter, Ron 'Chopper' Harris at Chelsea and 'The Anfield Iron' Tommy Smith, Greaves mixed physical courage and glorious goalscoring nous that made him a striker of undisputed world class.\n\nHe scored 220 league goals in a nine-year career at Spurs, taking in 331 appearances before leaving for West Ham United in a deal involving Martin Peters that was valued at £200,000.\n\nGreaves made his England debut in May 1959 and played in all four games in the 1962 World Cup in Chile before they lost in the quarter-final to eventual winners Brazil.\n\nDespite his magnificent England career, which included a record six hat-tricks, Greaves will always be defined in an international context as the man who missed the 1966 World Cup final.\n\nGreaves suffered a leg wound that needed 14 stitches after a challenge by France's Joseph Bonnel in the last group game at Wembley, allowing Hurst to come in and make history with that final hat-trick as the single-minded manager Sir Alf Ramsey refused to alter a winning team.\n\nGreaves initially didn't receive a World Cup winners' medal, because only the 11 who played at Wembley were eligible. However, he was finally presented with one, along with other squad members, backroom staff and surviving families, at a Downing Street ceremony in June 2009 after Fifa changed the rules. He later sold it at a sports memorabilia auction in London for £44,000.\n\nHe even made his mark on the 1970 World Cup when his England career was long behind him. Greaves entered the 'London To Mexico World Cup Rally' driving a Ford Escort and finished a very respectable sixth with co-driver Tony Fall.\n\nAt the conclusion of that adventure, Greaves' great friendship with England's World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore was illustrated when he gained entry over a wall at the British Embassy in Mexico City to see the West Ham defender. He was waiting to rejoin his team-mates after the ordeal of being falsely accused of stealing a bracelet when the team were at a hotel in Bogota, Colombia.\n\nGreaves moved to Upton Park in March 1970 and even though his best years were behind him, he still kept up his record of scoring on every major debut with two goals as West Ham beat Manchester City 5-1 on a Maine Road mudheap, an occasion preserved for posterity by the Match of the Day cameras.\n\nThe decade was also the low point of Greaves' descent into alcoholism, admitting in an interview with The Guardian in August 2003: \"I lost the '70s completely. They passed me by. I was drunk from 1972 to 1977. I woke up one morning and realised that it was a different world. I'd been living in it, but I hadn't been aware of it.\"\n\nGreaves, who was by then living in a one-bedroomed flat in Wanstead in east London and making a living selling women's jumpers, admitted he would drink 20 pints of beer a day, then go home and work his way through a bottle of vodka before going to bed.\n\nIn that dark spell Greaves played for Barnet, an experience he remembered fondly as he regained some of his love for the game, often reminding those who reeled off his list of clubs as Chelsea, AC Milan, Spurs and West Ham United with the affectionate words: \"And Barnet.\"\n\nHe finally stopped drinking in February 1978 and never touched alcohol again.\n\nIf Greaves was popular as a player, his profile was raised even further by the unexpected and huge success of a new career as a television personality.\n\nNow recovered from alcoholism and in good health, Greaves suddenly gained a new generation of fans as a football pundit.\n\nGreaves acquired a following on the Midlands regional programme 'Star Soccer' then captivated the national audience as part of ITV's 1982 World Cup panel.\n\nHe appeared on ITV Sport's 'On The Ball' football magazine programme before getting his own show alongside sparring partner and former Liverpool striker Ian St John, who died in March 2021, on 'Saint And Greavsie', which ran from 1985 to 1992.\n\nGreaves often hid his immense knowledge and perceptive observations behind light-hearted quick wit and charm, but it led to a whole new chapter in his life as the public warmly embraced his plain-speaking and humour.\n\nHe even had the honour of being lampooned on the satirical puppet show 'Spitting Image' - with his puppet standing in for him on 'Saint And Greavsie' when he was unwell in 1990. Greaves also appeared on ITV's quiz show 'Sporting Triangles'.\n\nIn later years Greaves took part in intimate speaking events and marked his 75th birthday with an event attended by Spurs greats Alan Gilzean and Steve Perryman, as well as his old playing adversary and friend, former Chelsea captain Harris.\n\nAnd after years of conjecture about his absence, Greaves was finally officially inducted into Tottenham's Hall of Fame along with Perryman at a ceremony in April 2016 - the announcement having been made in March the previous year, although he was unable to attend after suffering a severe stroke in May 2015.\n\nApart from a testimonial game against Feyenoord in 1972, it was the first time Greaves had returned to White Hart Lane other than for his work as a pundit and to attend a memorial service for the manager who signed him, Nicholson, in 2004.\n\nOn the night before Greaves' 80th birthday on 20 February this year, Spurs celebrated the landmark when they faced RB Leipzig in the Champions League.\n\nThey produced a souvenir programme in tribute to his achievements on a night when many of Greaves' family and friends were guests of honours.\n\nGreaves was not well enough to attend but Spurs' latter-day prolific goalscorer Harry Kane marked the occasion by presenting a gift to the great man's eldest son Danny and one of his grandchildren Hannah.\n\nThe big screen at Spurs' palatial new home flashed up some of Greaves' magic and goals at half-time - and the crowd rose just as those before them had done more than 50 years ago at the old White Hart Lane.\n\nGreaves' ability to glide past defenders with ease, his ruthlessness and his knack of being able to pass the ball into the net did justice to those who compare his gifts with that of modern-day superstar Lionel Messi.\n\nIt was a fitting tribute to one of the most natural goalscorers the world has ever seen - and a man who overcame personal demons to make himself a national institution in his second career on TV.", "Some women held a protest in Kabul against the restrictions they are facing\n\nThe new Taliban mayor of Afghanistan's capital Kabul has told female municipal employees to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by a man.\n\nHamdullah Nomany said the Taliban \"found it necessary to stop women from working for a while\".\n\nIt is the latest restriction imposed on Afghanistan's women by the country's hard-line new Islamist government.\n\nDuring their previous rule in the 1990s women were barred from education and the workplace.\n\nAfter seizing the country last month following the withdrawal of US forces, the Taliban said women's rights would be respected \"within the framework of Islamic law\".\n\nBut the Taliban favour a strict interpretation of Islam's legal system, Sharia law.\n\nThe Islamist group appears to have shut down the women's affairs ministry and replaced it with a department that once enforced strict religious doctrines.\n\nAnd this weekend secondary schools reopened, but with only boys and male teachers allowed back into classrooms. The Taliban said it was working on reopening schools for girls.\n\nAccording to the Kabul mayor about a third of the municipality's 3,000 employees are women. He said some would carry on working.\n\n\"For example, women work in the women's toilets in the city where men cannot go,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But for the positions that others [men] can fill, we have told them [women] to stay at home until the situation is normalised. Their salaries will be paid,\" he added.\n\nOn Sunday, there were small protests outside the women's affairs ministry while another group of women held a press conference to demand their rights.\n\nOne of those protesting at the ministry said \"we do not want this ministry to be removed. The removal of women [means] the removal of human beings.\"\n\nIn a separate development, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission said it had been unable to fulfil its duties since the Taliban's takeover.\n\nThe organisation said in a statement that its buildings, vehicles and computers had all been taken over by the Taliban.", "Specially-trained officers are supporting the families of the deceased\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after four people were found dead at a house in Derbyshire.\n\nOfficers were called to a property in Chandos Crescent, Killamarsh, at 07:25 BST on Sunday after concerns were raised about the people living there.\n\nPolice said they have arrested a man and are not looking for anyone else.\n\nThe Outwood Academy City school in Sheffield confirmed it was closed following the \"tragic incident\" involving three of its students.\n\nMultiple emergency vehicles have been at the scene, with local people describing their shock at the large police presence.\n\nThe force asked that people \"avoid speculation and allow for space at this distressing time\".\n\nA church in the town is welcoming visitors who have been affected by the deaths\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Routledge, who is leading the investigation, said: \"We would really like to hear from anyone who saw or heard anything suspicious in the early hours of this morning, or has any information which they think could help with our inquiries.\n\n\"No matter how small you think that information may be, please do get in touch with us.\n\n\"It is understandably a worrying time for the community, and we would like to thank them for their patience and understanding at this time. It was important to us that close relatives of those involved were informed before we could give further details about the incident.\n\n\"Residents will continue to see a large police presence in the area, and patrols are being carried out for reassurance. If you do have any concerns, please don't hesitate to speak to them.\"\n\nFlowers have been left near the police cordon on Chandos Crescent\n\nNorth East Derbyshire MP Lee Rowley described the deaths as \"terrible and hugely tragic\".\n\n\"Our condolences to the family and our thoughts are with them,\" he said on Twitter.\n\n\"Killamarsh is such a lovely, close knit and warm community and I know that many residents will be shocked and worried by the news.\"\n\n\"I've no doubt that the village will pull together at this difficult time,\" he added.\n\nOne man living close by said: \"I'm shocked. I think people will be devastated.\"\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, Outwood Academy City school said: \"It is with great sadness that the academy will be closed today.\n\n\"A tragic incident has taken place in the community involving 3 of our students. We will however be open to any students who need our support.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all those affected by this sad news.\"\n\nThe school said it was working with the police and was unable to give more information at this time.\n\nSt Giles Church in the town said it was welcoming visitors who have been affected by the \"shocking events\".\n\nIn a post on Facebook it said it would provide a space for prayer and for people to light a candle for the deceased and those who are grieving.\n\nResidents have been told they will continue to see a large police presence in the area\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, pictured in 2020\n\nFor weeks, lawyers acting for a woman who alleges she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew have been trying to alert him to their plans.\n\nIt has been a drawn-out process involving email auto-replies and courier receipts.\n\nTo serve a member of the Royal Family once meant to do one's duty for Queen and country.\n\nBut a month-long chase by US lawyers to find Prince Andrew and in the legalese, serve him with allegations of abuse, has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase.\n\nThis is what you need to know - and why we're nowhere yet near learning the truth in this case.\n\nVirginia Giuffre is suing Prince Andrew for damages, alleging that she was sexually abused by him when she was controlled by the super-rich sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. He killed himself in 2019.\n\nEpstein was once a friend of Prince Andrew - and the ninth-in-line to the throne has consistently denied the allegation and says he can't even remember meeting Ms Giuffre.\n\nBut it's for a court in New York to decide whether her allegations are true - assuming the case ever gets going.\n\nIf you sue someone for damages, you must first \"serve\" the case on the person you are intending to sue.\n\nThat means you make sure the documents containing your allegations reach their hands - or at the very least get to a lawyer working for them.\n\nThat rule is at the heart of justice in the US and the UK: a judge must be sure that the defendant knows what they are being accused of.\n\nVirginia Giuffre and her lawyer, David Boies - one of the best known attorneys in the US\n\nSo, Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York, who is in charge of the Virginia Giuffre case, won't even consider her claims until he is sure that Prince Andrew has received the allegations in proper legal form and has had time to respond.\n\nAnd that's where we've currently been stuck - until now - as publicly available documents in the United States show.\n\nOn Thursday, 26 August, Cesar Sepulveda, a corporate investigator, turned up at the gates of Windsor Great Park.\n\nMs Giuffre's lawyers employed Mr Sepulveda to take the legal papers to the Duke of York's home.\n\nWhen he arrived on an unseasonably grey August morning, he had a fruitless wait.\n\nHe handed over his business card and despite conversations with police officers standing guard, no officials working for the Prince could be found.\n\nThe next day he returned and, in his court statement, he recounts that this time a police officer told him the documents could be left at the gate to be forwarded on to \"the legal team.\"\n\nFast forward to 13 September and David Boies, Virginia Giuffre's lawyer, joins a teleconference in a New York courtroom.\n\nHis sole objective was to convince Judge Kaplan that the prince had now been served and the case should proceed.\n\nLegal documents show the lengths that Mr Boies' and his firm had gone to.\n\nThe chase had in fact begun weeks before Mr Sepulveda's Windsor visit.\n\nDocuments were emailed to any British lawyer the Giuffre team could find who had represented the Prince in the past. They sent the requests by courier - and showed the delivery receipts to the US court.\n\nOne receipt read: \"Hi. Your package was delivered Wed 08/18/2021 at 8.28am. Delivered to Royal Lodge at Windsor... Received by A POLICE OFFICER.\"\n\nMs Giuffre's team also showed the court a photo of them posting the documents by Royal Mail directly to the prince.\n\nBy Royal Mail: The letter sent to the prince\n\nBut they didn't stop there.\n\nThey had discovered the Duke of York's office email address and sent the papers once more to tell him he was being sued... and this time they received a reply.\n\n\"Thank you for emailing The Duke of York's Office,\" it read. \"This is an automatic acknowledgement to tell you that we have received your email safely.\"\n\n\"I think that it is clear that Prince Andrew has actual notice of this complaint and proceeding,\" Mr Boies argued to the New York court on Monday. \"I believe we have complied with the service requirements.\"\n\nFedex receipt: Another proof of postage shown to the US judge\n\nBut that's not the way the prince's newly-appointed Los Angeles lawyer saw it.\n\nAndrew Brettler, on the line from California, argued the duke had not been served at all - and it should be for the High Court in London to decide.\n\nAnd that's because of a not widely known but extremely important international agreement called the Hague Convention.\n\nThis agreement means an American court can ask a British one for help in tracking down a defendant and serving papers on them.\n\nJudge Kaplan told the duke's LA lawyer that if he continued to object to Ms Giuffre's team chasing down Prince Andrew themselves, he would indeed consider sending a judge-to-judge request to the British for help.\n\n\"I think we are making this a lot more complicated that it really is,\" he remarked on the call.\n\n\"Regardless of whether your client has been served effectively to date... you have a pretty high degree of certainty that he can be served sooner or later.\"\n\nAnd that's where Master Barbara Fontaine comes in, The Queen's Remembrancer.\n\nShe's the High Court judge in charge of overseeing foreign requests for help.\n\nWhat about the Queen's Remembrancer bit? That's an ancient judicial title. One of her duties is to review for the monarch the annual plans for new trees in the Forest of Dean - but this and other ceremonial roles have nothing to do with her modern legal duties.\n\nOn Wednesday Master Fontaine confirmed she had received a valid request for assistance from New York. That meant her office would soon send the allegations to Prince Andrew once and for all.\n\nBut London solicitors for the duke objected - so the process stalled again. They have until next Friday to launch a formal challenge.\n\nWill that happen? Well, there's now been an important twist back in New York.\n\nLate on Thursday, Judge Kaplan ruled that Andrew Brettler, the Los Angeles lawyer who had joined the teleconference for the prince earlier in the week, should now be sent the documents.\n\nHe said: \"Service on the defendant's US counsel is reasonably calculated to bring the papers served to the defendant's attention, regardless of whether his US counsel is authorised to accept service on his behalf.\"\n\nAnd so after weeks and weeks of too-ing and fro-ing it appears the New York judge has decided it's time to get on with things.\n\nPrince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein around 11 years ago in New York\n\nIf Prince Andrew cannot now avoid service, the case is still far off the prospect of him giving evidence. The next stage is likely to be challenges to whether the claim against him is even valid - because Ms Giuffre brought legal action against Jeffrey Epstein before he died.\n\nThe prince's lawyers have said in court that Ms Giuffre agreed in 2009 not to sue anyone else connected to Jeffrey Epstein when she settled her damages claim against the now-dead financier.\n\nThe precise wording of that deal is currently confidential - sealed by a court.\n\nUnsealing that document is looking like the next battle, if the prince is finally served and the case gets under way.", "Children go back to school this week in parts of Wales, while others return after the weekend\n\nPupils have begun returning to schools for the new term as the Welsh government pledges to watch Covid cases.\n\nSome children go back this week while others return after the weekend.\n\nCovid measures are being based on local risk, but head teachers have asked for more information from government.\n\nOne said schools hoped for \"as much normality as possible\" at the start of a third school year affected by coronavirus.\n\nAt Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Llangynwyd, near Maesteg, Bridgend county, there is a staggered return for pupils.\n\nHead teacher Meurig Jones said everyone just wanted normality.\n\n\"Now that we've seen society go to category zero, and greater freedom and movement, I think that's what schools are hoping for,\" he said.\n\nThe return of pupils has coincided with an increase in Covid rates, especially among the young.\n\nRecord high coronavirus cases in Scotland have partly been blamed on schools returning in mid-August, earlier than elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"I am concerned, looking at what has happened in Scotland with them returning,\" Mr Jones said.\n\nDr Christine Tait-Burkard, an expert in infection and immunity at the University of Edinburgh, told BBC Radio Wales with Claire Summers the vaccination programme meant many people testing positive in Scotland were experiencing milder Covid symptoms.\n\n\"I think people are now aware that these numbers do not directly translate into hospitalisations anymore,\" she said.\n\n\"With vaccination, many people have much milder disease, and do not only not get admitted to hospital, but when they get admitted, they're also spending much less time there, which is good news.\"\n\nBut Prof Adam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said vaccinations were not the solution to school outbreaks.\n\n\"Schools are going back, but I would emphasise that these vaccines are not really terribly good at preventing mild infection and transmission. What they're good at is stopping you from getting seriously ill and that is something that is very unusual in healthy children,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think the concept that somehow vaccination can keep schools going and stop outbreaks and is there as a solution to that problem, is not a very strong one I would say.\"\n\nMr Jones said: \"The main goal here is to keep our staff and learners safe, but to make sure they get the education they deserve.\n\n\"There's been enough upheaval over the last year-and-a-half and we want to get back to that normality.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said rising Covid rates were \"in line with expectations\".\n\n\"We will monitor the situation very closely when schools return, but the high rates of vaccination in Wales have weakened the link between the virus and hospitalisations,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBefore the summer holiday, the government said contact groups, or \"bubbles,\" would not be required from September and masks in classrooms would not be routinely recommended.\n\nThey are still needed for secondary pupils on school transport.\n\nHead teacher Meurig Jones hopes to see some return to normality, but still has concerns about Covid\n\nLast week, a Welsh government plan said it should be \"business as usual\" in schools where possible, but added that measures could be escalated or removed according to local factors.\n\n\"The framework isn't clear enough,\" Mr Jones said, echoing criticism from education unions.\n\n\"It gives us some sort of information. I feel it lacks depth of what will be required.\"\n\nThe Welsh government claimed risk in schools was low when the country was at alert level zero.\n\n\"Schools will only need to consider putting additional measures in place if the local risks differ from this national rating,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Local authorities will work with their schools to decide how these measures should be tailored.\"\n\nSecondary pupils have been encouraged to take lateral flow tests before going back, and to stay home if they are positive.\n\nNicola Chan Gizzi, from Abergele, was \"apprehensive\" as her children prepared to go back to classes\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board's public health director, Prof Kelechi Nnoaham, said it was \"imperative\" steps were taken to stop Covid spreading in schools.\n\n\"Once they're back in school, students should continue to take lateral flow tests twice a week to make sure they're not spreading the virus unknowingly,\" he said.\n\n\"Young people's education has been hit hard by this virus, and it's important we keep classrooms open as much as possible.\"\n\nWales' chief medical officer, Frank Atherton, said on Wednesday that 61% of 16 and 17-year-olds had received their first vaccine dose, and those who had not were being urged to.\n\nNicola Chan Gizzi, from Abergele, Conwy county, said she was \"apprehensive\" as her children prepared to go back.\n\nThe mum-of-six wished they were still in class bubbles as a Covid outbreak would then be easier to control.\n\n\"I feel the spread will be increased when the children do go back to school,\" Ms Gizzi said.\n\nUnder-18s no longer have to isolate if they are a close contact of someone who has tested positive.\n\nThis means it is less likely large groups of children will have to stay away from school.\n\nMs Gizzi said: \"In Scotland, for example, numbers have really gone up since children returned to school.\n\n\"We have some elderly, vulnerable members in our family and it's really, really difficult.\n\n\"We try to just meet outside and try to keep each other safe, it is a difficult position.\"\n\nMs Gizzi's daughter, Anna-Beth, had \"mixed feelings\" about returning to Denbighshire's Ysgol Glan Clwyd.\n\n\"Our school had decided to try and get everything back to normal as much as they can,\" the 15-year-old said.", "BBC Sport looks back at the career of former England striker and Tottenham Hotspur's record goalscorer Jimmy Greaves, who has died at the age of 81.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey says his party is the \"gathering point\" for everyone \"fed up with the indecency and incompetence\" of government.\n\nAddressing the Lib Dem conference, he told delegates they can deprive Boris Johnson of a majority at the next election.\n\nHe announced a £5bn voucher scheme plan to help pupils catch up after the pandemic.\n\nAnd he vowed to fight for a \"fair deal\" for carers, parents and businesses.\n\nSir Ed's conference speech is the first to a live audience since becoming party leader last year.\n\nMost of the event is being held online due to pandemic concerns.\n\nAddressing a small audience of about 100 delegates at London's Canary Wharf, he pointed to success in June's Chesham and Amersham by-election - where the Lib Dems overturned a a 16,000 Tory majority to win by more than 8,000 votes - as evidence that \"the Tories can be beaten\" in traditional, so-called \"blue wall\" seats.\n\nOn education, Sir Ed said a \"massive Covid education catch-up plan is urgent\" as the UK emerges from the pandemic.\n\nHe said Liberal Democrats would give families a £200 voucher per child - paid directly to parents - to spend on activities such as extra tutoring, music or sports clubs.\n\nThe £5bn scheme would make supporting parents and children the \"top priority\" in a \"new fair deal\", he said, and would enable the \"most radical empowering of parents ever\".\n\nThat extra support \"would be doubled and in some cases tripled\" for children in care, disadvantaged children and those will special educational needs.\n\nSir Ed said his party will fight for a \"fair deal\" and aim to appeal to those who feel \"taken for granted\" by the Conservatives.\n\nReferring to the prime minister's £36bn health and social care levy, Sir Ed said it was \"little more than an unfair tax rise for workers and businesses\".\n\nHe said as a carer himself for his son he \"felt angry\" at the prime minister's \"claim to have fixed the crisis in social care\", describing it as \"just another of his broken promises\".\n\nHe criticised the plan for failing to tackle a \"dangerous shortage of care staff\" and said that those workers would be hit with a tax hike and \"heartless universal credit cuts\".\n\nHe pledged that his party would \"empower carers\" by giving them their own budget and control over care provision such as when the family carer gets a break.\n\nSir Ed said the tax-free allowance against employers, national insurance contributions should be \"raised substantially\" and that the biggest businesses would pay more tax under Lib Dem plans.\n\n\"The world's richest bosses might be racing each other to go to Mars, but before lift-off, they can pay their taxes here on Planet Earth\" he added.\n\nOn the issue of climate action, he said the UK should be leading the world by banning new oil, gas and coal companies from the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThat would stop \"the flow of money from your pension funds into the dirty industries of the past\" he added.\n\nCatch-up vouchers are a clear pitch to parents who the Lib Dems are keen to attract.\n\nPost-pandemic the party believes it can capitalise on what many said was the government's mishandling of the impact on education.\n\nAnd it fits with their broader appeal to those they say have been taken for granted or left behind by Boris Johnson's government.\n\nBut there's a danger it's seen as an expensive giveaway which would put some cautious Conservative voters off.\n\nAnd competence when it comes to the economy will be crucial if the Lib Dem's are to present themselves as a credible alternative.\n\nIn a pre-speech interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Ed was asked about the party's attitude to trans rights after an activist, Natalie Bird, was banned from standing as an MP for wearing a T-shirt featuring the words \"woman adult human female\".\n\nHe said all spaces should be open to everyone, regardless of their gender, because the issue was one of human rights.\n\n\"A trans woman is a woman, a trans man is a man\" he added.\n\nSir Ed added that transgender people are \"some of the most discriminated against\" and he accused the prime minister of toxifying the debate around rights.", "This is the only photograph Gaynor has of her extended family in Nigeria\n\nIt would leave over three million people dead, including over a million starved to death in a blockade of the Biafran south-east.\n\nMany foreign nationals working on Nigeria's oilfields were also caught up in the fighting, including Gaynor Prior, the mother of reporter Neil Prior.\n\nIt's Sunday afternoon. After a roast dinner at my mother's home in Swansea, talk turns to our childhoods.\n\nMam, who's usually quite gregarious, suddenly becomes very withdrawn. \"It's 55 years since I left Nigeria,\" she says.\n\nI've always known Mam had to flee Nigeria as a ten-year-old in the wake of the 1966 Biafran Coup, but it wasn't something we talked about.\n\nDon't get me wrong, she often reminisces about the four highly enjoyable years she spent living in Port Harcourt, but rarely touches on the last few days when she had to abandon all her friends, belongings and her African bush dog, Nero.\n\nI ask her if she'd like to talk about it. I meant as a son rather than a journalist, but to my amazement, she says: \"Yes, I want people to read about what it's like, if only so they can better understand what these poor poor Afghani people will be going through right now.\"\n\nMam's father, Alan Maggs, was a chemical engineer for British Petroleum (BP). In 1962, just two years after Nigerian independence, he was posted to the newly discovered oilfields of the Niger Delta.\n\nMy family - my grandparents and their six-year old daughter Gaynor, my mother - arrived in Port Harcourt that year. Mam's elder sister, my Aunty Susan, remained in Swansea to complete her O-Levels.\n\nThey lived alongside the Igbo people of south-east Nigeria, an area known as Biafra, which was predominantly Christian.\n\nThe civil war was portrayed in the press as a religious conflict, but many other factors were at play, including oil revenues and historical tensions over the way Britain had amalgamated disparate tribes into one artificial nation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMam describes an idyllic childhood, in which war couldn't have been further from their minds.\n\n\"One of my earliest memories is catching an aeroplane from Heathrow to Lagos, then a smaller plane to Port Harcourt,\" she recalls.\n\n\"I remember the blistering heat as they opened the plane doors. I thought I'd never be able to survive it, but within weeks I'd got used to it.\"\n\nShe was enrolled at Santa Maria school, and soon became a fixture at the Humkorshe swimming club.\n\nSwimming at the Humkorshe Club is one of Gaynor's fondest memories\n\n\"Getting up at about 05:00 to catch the minibus twenty miles to school was the worst part, and the nuns who ran the school were very, very strict. But on the up-side, we'd be finished by 12:30 and could spend the best part of the day doing as we pleased.\n\n\"For me that was swimming at Humkorshe, doing length after length and diving in the wonderful sunshine.\"\n\nMam soon made friends, and acquired an extended Nigerian family.\n\n\"We had a gang of five: Two girls, Ezikama and Stella who were my Nigerian friends, then there was Angelo, an Italian lad, and Michael from the north of England, both of those were the sons of oil workers.\n\n\"We'd cycle for miles and miles. Once we discovered an abandoned steam engine and made a den there.\n\n\"That turned out not to be such a good idea, as I got a poisonous spider in my hair, and had to cycle as fast as I could back to Michael's house, where his servant probably saved my life.\"\n\nShe speaks with fondness about the people who worked for them, but looking back she reflects on the inequity of the situation.\n\n\"It probably sounds wrong nowadays to say that we had servants, but Simon and Sunday weren't just servants, they were part of our family. They were my friends, confidants and fellow mischief-makers. I'd hate for anyone to think we were exploiting them, but in today's terms I suppose we were,\" Mam reflected.\n\n\"I still have a photograph of Simon which I sent back to my sister Susan, but so many of them, including all the ones of Sunday, I had to leave behind when we left.\"\n\nGaynor was a pupil at Santa Maria School in Port Harcourt\n\nThen came the day in 1966 when Alan returned from work with troubling news.\n\nMam says: \"Dad was very quiet. After a while he explained that the Igbo tribe had risen up in an attempt to establish an independent Biafran state.\n\n\"I said, 'but that won't affect us though right? Simon and Sunday are Igbo, there's no way they'd hurt us…?'\"\n\nWhat Mam hadn't considered was that Britain had backed the northern-dominated Nigerian army against the Biafran separatists.\n\nMeanwhile, France was supporting the Igbo, setting up a proxy war between the two so-called allies for influence over West Africa and its oil reserves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDays later my grandmother, Doreen, received a call from Alan at work. They were given hours to flee the country.\n\n\"I don't know how close the fighting was to us, but the one thing which sticks with me is the sense of urgency. We had to get out that minute,\" Mam explains.\n\n\"I do remember we flew out on a Dakota [military transport aircraft], we had to get in from a ramp underneath.\"\n\nOnly women and children could leave Port Harcourt on the emergency flights. Alan had to travel overland to Malawi, and catch a flight home from there, which took several weeks.\n\nMam adds: \"In the immediate weeks afterwards, I was of course terrified for Dad. Every night I cried myself to sleep about what had happened to Nero, but what I recall more than anything is my sister Susan being so angry that I'd taken all her teddy bears out to Nigeria, and had had to leave them all behind.\"\n\nIn the months and years which followed, Mam became increasingly traumatised by the fate of the extended family she'd left behind.\n\nThe Igbo people who had assisted British oil workers were persecuted within Biafra for their perceived treachery.\n\nThe region as a whole was blockaded by the Nigerian army. An estimated one to two million people starved to death before a ceasefire was finally signed in 1970.\n\n\"There's barely a day goes by that I don't think about what happened to all of them.\n\n\"If there's one thing I can do with this story,\" Mam says, \"if a refugee, say from Afghanistan, ends up in the house next door to you, please please be kind to them. You have no idea what they've been through or who they've had to leave behind.\"", "Folic acid is added to flour in more than 80 countries\n\nFolic acid is to be added to UK flour to help prevent spinal birth defects in babies, the government has announced.\n\nWomen are advised to take the B vitamin - which can guard against spina bifida in unborn babies - before and during pregnancy, but many do not.\n\nIt is thought that adding folic acid to flour could prevent up to 200 birth defects a year.\n\nThe new rules will only apply to non-wholemeal wheat flour, with gluten-free foods and wholemeal flour exempt.\n\nMandatory fortification - which the government ran a public consultation on in 2019 - will see everybody who eats foods such as bread getting more folic acid in their diets.\n\nNeural tube defects, such as spina bifida (abnormal development of the spine) and anencephaly, a life-limiting condition which affects the brain, affect about 1,000 pregnancies per year in the UK.\n\nMany babies diagnosed with spina bifida survive into adulthood, but will experience life-long impairment.\n\nWomen are advised to take 400 micrograms of folic acid a day for at least a month before conception and up to the 12th week of pregnancy.\n\nBut about half of pregnancies are unplanned and women are not always aware they should take the supplement - or forget to.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFolic acid is added to flour in more than 80 countries - and when it was added to bread in Australia, neural tube defects fell by 14%.\n\nHowever, there have previously been concerns that mandatory fortification could have unintended health effects, such as masking a vitamin B12 deficiency or increasing the risk of colon cancer.\n\nBut the government's independent advisory body - the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition - has been satisfied that these concerns are not supported by the evidence.\n\nSince World War Two, the UK's non-wholemeal flour has been fortified with iron, calcium and two other B vitamins - thiamin and niacin.\n\nIt's taken years of debating to reach this decision.\n\nThat's because the gains need to be carefully weighed against any potential harms.\n\nAdding folic acid to flour used in common foods, such as bread, will mean dosing the masses.\n\nClearly, getting enough folic acid around conception and during pregnancy is important for cutting the risk of women having babies with spina bifida or other neural tube defects.\n\nBut most other people already get their required amount of folate - the natural form of the vitamin - from a normal diet.\n\nThere was a concern that for some people, particularly the elderly, boosting folic acid might have unintended negative consequences, such as covering up the symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency.\n\nBut the government's independent advisory body has looked at all the evidence and is satisfied that fortification is the right thing to do for society as a whole.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said folic acid-fortified flour would be \"a quick, simple win\" to enhance a baby's development, as well as helping to boost the health of UK adults.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said preventing life-threatening health problems like spina bifida would mean fewer people needing hospital treatment.\n\nThe government said it did not anticipate the move would require a major overhaul for industrial-scale flour producers - the B vitamin would need to be listed on the labelling of all foods made with flour.\n\nKate Steele, chief executive of Shine, a charity providing specialist support for people affected by spina bifida and hydrocephalus and which has campaigned for mandatory fortification of flour for more than 30 years, said she was \"delighted\" by the decision.\n\n\"In its simplest terms, the step will reduce the numbers of families who face the devastating news that their baby has anencephaly and will not survive,\" she said.\n\n\"It will also prevent some babies being affected by spina bifida, which can result in complex physical impairments and poor health.\n\n\"This is truly a momentous day''.", "A few hundred protesters gathered around the US Capitol on Saturday, for a rally in support of the pro-Trump rioters who ransacked the building on 6 January.\n\nBut the group were easily outnumbered by the police and journalists present.\n\nAhead of the event, police said they had detected \"threats of violence\" and security was tightened in Washington.\n\nOrganisers had a permit for 700 to attend, but only about 100 to 200 protesters turned up, Reuters reports.\n\nCapitol Police said 400 to 450 people were inside the protest area - but that figure included the heavy media presence.\n\nWashington police officials had been expressing concern about the \"Justice for J6\" event for weeks.\n\nIts organisers - Look Ahead America - were led by Matt Braynard, the former director of data and strategy for Donald Trump's successful 2016 campaign.\n\nHundreds of officers patrolled the Capitol grounds and 100 National Guard troops were on standby.\n\nA fence was erected around the Capitol, and lawmakers were advised to avoid the area.\n\nSome protesters argue that last year's election was stolen from Donald Trump through fraud, despite there being no evidence of this\n\nSpeakers at the rally insisted that hundreds of rioters arrested for their actions on 6 January were \"political prisoners\" who had committed no violence.\n\nAbout 600 people have been charged in the federal investigation into the Capitol riot, where a pro-Trump mob tried to stop the US Congress from certifying the 2020 election result.\n\nAt least 185 are accused of assaulting, resisting, or impeding police officers or employees. More than 70 were charged with destroying or stealing government property.\n\nMost of those charged have been released ahead of their trials. The Associated Press news agency reports that about 63 are still in custody, citing court and jail records.\n\nIn July, officers who defended the Capitol during the riot told a Congressional committee they had been beaten and suffered racial abuse. One testified that he was knocked unconscious and suffered a heart attack. Another, an Iraq War veteran, compared the scene to a \"medieval battlefield\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Capitol Hill police officer Aquilino Gonell in tears as he testifies\n\nTony Smith, 40, from Maryland, told Reuters news agency he had come to Saturday's rally to support a fair judicial process for those charged.\n\n\"If we don't honour that, we don't honour America,\" said Mr Smith, who carried a poster board reading: \"We Want Trump!\"\n\nSome counter-protesters also gathered around the Capitol, carrying anti-Trump signs. One was removed by police after confronting the pro-Trump attendees.\n\nUS Capitol Police in riot gear surround a counter-protester, after an altercation between counter-protesters and protesters\n\nRally organiser Mr Braynard had repeatedly urged his protesters to remain peaceful. Earlier this week he also asked them to avoid wearing pro-Trump clothing or paraphernalia.\n\nMr Trump, for his part, said in an interview that he believed the rally would be \"a setup\".\n\n\"If people don't show up they'll say 'oh, it's a lack of spirit',\" he told The Federalist, a conservative news outlet. \"If people do show up, they'll be harassed.\"\n\nCapitol Police said four arrests were made, including a person in the crowd who was carrying a knife, and a man reported to be carrying a handgun.\n• None Capitol riots: What we have learned six months on", "MPs said recent events in Afghanistan highlighted \"serious weaknesses\" in the government's approach\n\nThe government's planning for national security risks is \"unstructured and lacking in central oversight and accountability\", a committee has said.\n\nThe Joint Committee on National Security Strategy said the pandemic and the fall of Afghanistan showed \"serious weaknesses\" in the current system.\n\nThe MPs and peers criticised changes that mean the PM will attend fewer National Security Council meetings.\n\nNo 10 said processes were being strengthened in response to events.\n\nThe committee said the lack of preparation for the withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan could \"only be described as a systemic failure\".\n\nIts report said there was already a \"troubling lack of clarity\" about the role and remit of the NSC, with witnesses describing \"a loose, unstructured cross-government approach, with weak oversight from the centre and unclear prioritisation of risks\".\n\nCommittee chairman Dame Margaret Beckett, a former foreign secretary, said: \"The whole point of the National Security Council is that it is supposed to prepare for, and act upon, a long-term view of our national security risks. It should be above the hurly-burly of daily concerns.\n\n\"But when two events - the Covid-19 pandemic and Afghanistan - demonstrated yet again what a dangerous world we now live in, weaknesses in the structures of the National Security Council were exposed.\"\n\nThe NSC was originally established in 2010 by the then Prime Minister David Cameron, with weekly meetings bringing together senior ministers and defence and intelligence chiefs chaired by the PM.\n\nHowever, the committee said a review by national security adviser Sir Stephen Lovegrove of the way it operated would in future result in Prime Minister Boris Johnson spending roughly 65% less time in the meetings and chairing about half of them.\n\nThe report said: \"Most concerningly, the new model for the NSC risks becoming a halfway house: It is neither a slower-paced forum for tackling the most fundamental questions facing UK national security, nor a weekly meeting of senior ministers - convened and brokered by the prime minister - to tackle the most pressing issues.\n\n\"It is the prime minister's personal investment of time and authority that lends credibility to the NSC and its cross-government structures.\"\n\nA government spokesman said the national security machinery was being strengthened following its Integrated Review of foreign and defence policy earlier this year.\n\n\"The prime minister is clear that the first duty of the government is to provide security for the people of the UK, which he is absolutely committed to delivering,\" the spokesman added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nAustralia has defended its decision to scrap a multi-billion dollar submarine purchase from France in favour of a new security pact with the US and UK.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison rejected accusations that Australia had lied, saying France should have been aware it was prepared to break the deal.\n\nFrance says the Aukus pact has led to a \"serious crisis\" between the allies.\n\nIn an unprecedented move, it has recalled its ambassadors from the US and Australia as a sign of protest.\n\nUnder the Aukus pact, Australia will be given the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines as a way of countering China's influence in the contested South China Sea.\n\nThe partnership has ended a deal worth $37bn (£27bn) signed by Australia in 2016 for France to build 12 conventional submarines. France says it was informed of the pact only hours before the public announcement was made earlier this week.\n\nMr Morrison on Sunday said he understood France's disappointment, but that he had always been clear about Australia's position.\n\nThe French government \"would have had every reason to know that we had deep and grave concerns\", he said.\n\n\"Ultimately this was a decision about whether the submarines that were being built, at great cost to the Australian taxpayer, were going to be able to do a job that we needed it to do when they went into service and our strategic judgment based on the best possible of intelligence and defence advice was that it would not.\"\n\nMr Morrison's comments came after French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France 2 television there had been \"lying, duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt\" over the deal.\n\nHe said France's ambassadors to the US and Australia were being recalled to \"re-evaluate the situation\", but that there had been \"no need\" to recall the ambassador to the UK, which he described as a \"third wheel\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden is expected to hold talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in the coming days.\n\n\"We want explanations,\" French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Sunday.\n\nMeanwhile, newly appointed UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss defended the agreement in an article for The Sunday Telegraph, saying it showed Britain's readiness to be \"hard-headed\" in defence of its interests.\n\nThe pact means Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines. It will also see the allies share cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence and other undersea technologies.\n\nChina has accused the three powers involved in the security pact of having a \"Cold War mentality\".\n\nClumsy diplomacy, heightened emotions and spy-like secrecy: the row over the new security pact between the UK, the US and Australia has it all.\n\nBut amid the increasingly shrill invective from humiliated French ministers, there is a fundamental truth: the West is struggling to make up its mind about China.\n\nWashington has now been joined by Canberra and London in acting together to address the security challenge. Other countries - particularly some in Europe - are less hawkish, still trying to split the difference between economic cooperation and strategic competition with Beijing.\n\nFrance is furious at the breach of contract by Australia and the lack of trust shown by the US and the UK. So there is talk in the French papers of further retaliation, beyond the recall of ambassadors, perhaps involving Nato. Others are speculating this row might finally encourage Europe to agree some greater strategic autonomy.\n\nThe truth is more straightforward: if the West wishes to protect its interests in the Indo-Pacific, then France and other European powers need to be on the same page as the US and its Anglophone allies. And right now both sides are not even reading the same book.", "Back on campus: Record numbers are heading to university this term\n\nEngland's universities must take student views into account when deciding how much to teach online, says regulator the Office for Students.\n\nWith Covid restrictions lifted, the majority of teaching is expected to be face-to-face this year, says chief executive Nicola Dandridge.\n\nBut larger group teaching sessions, such as lectures, are likely to be online in many institutions.\n\nAnd numerous universities have told the BBC they are using a mixed approach.\n\nIn a snapshot survey of 47 universities, just 13 said they would be offering mostly face-to-face tuition. The others say they are adopting a more blended approach.\n\nAnd 19 institutions told the BBC they would be offering additional online learning resources.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of thousands of students are heading for university.\n\nLast week, former education secretary Gavin Williamson told vice-chancellors at the Universities UK conference that he expected students to be \"taught in person and alongside other students\".\n\nMs Dandridge said she was expecting the overwhelming majority of universities and colleges to offer primarily face-to-face teaching.\n\nBut she said the experience of the pandemic had revealed \"elements of online provision which are really valuable and really useful\".\n\n\"So there will be elements of online provision where it suits students and where it works, in terms of quality of teaching, but primarily it is face-to face-teaching.\"\n\nShe added: \"What we will be looking for is quality provision whether or not it's face-to-face or online.\n\n\"Critically, universities will be taking into consideration the views of students - what do they want, what is their feedback? And that then is factored into the course provision over the course of the next year.\"\n\nWill Huddie petitioned the University of Leeds for face-to-face lessons\n\nLast year, almost all the teaching Will Huddie received on his theoretical physics course at the University of Leeds was online.\n\n\"It was difficult,\" he said. \"It's much more natural to discuss questions in person.\n\n\"There's so much value in having the lecturer explaining things to you when they're in front of you.\n\n\"Even after a year-and-a-half of using this online technology, no-one wants to be the person to put up their hand. The interactivity is really poor.\"\n\nOutraged that teaching had remained online while Covid restrictions were lifted elsewhere, Will started a petition for a return to face-to-face teaching which was signed by thousands of others students.\n\nWill's course is now due to be delivered entirely face-to-face in the coming year, but the lectures will also be streamed online for those self-isolating and international students who cannot reach the UK.\n\n\"I want entirely face-to-face - it's what I signed up for. I don't think blended learning would wash very well with UK students,\" he said.\n\nA University of Leeds spokesperson said it was committed to working with students to ensure an active and engaged learning experience, using all of the campus and its digital resources.\n\n\"All seminars, tutorials, workshops, practical classes, performance activities and discussion groups will take place in person, with large-scale teaching events - supported by digital technology - taking place online.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Russell Group of 24 top universities said they were looking forward to students returning to campuses.\n\n\"Students can expect most seminars, small group classes and lab work to be taught in person, alongside a range of extracurricular activity, social events and support services on campus.\"\n\nBut, he said, an element of digital learning would continue, with many large group lectures remaining online.\n\nHe said many students saw benefits to this approach which was more flexible and accessible.\n\nNational Union of Students vice-president for higher education Hillary Gyebi-Ababio called for online learning that enhanced and added to the in-person student experience - but that did not replace it entirely.\n\n\"We are concerned that for some universities, online learning is simply a cost-cutting exercise, brought about by universities needing to stay financially afloat in a competitive market,\" she said.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nFormer England striker and Tottenham's record goalscorer Jimmy Greaves has died at the age of 81.\n\nGreaves began his career with Chelsea before spells at AC Milan, Spurs and West Ham.\n\nHe scored 44 goals in 57 games for England and was a member of the 1966 World Cup-winning squad.\n\nHe holds the record for most goals in the English top flight with 357, and scored 266 in 379 matches for Tottenham.\n\nGreaves' 41 goals in 1960-61 remains a record in a season for Chelsea, and he also holds the Spurs record with 37 in 1962-63.\n\nA Tottenham statement read: \"We are extremely saddened to learn of the passing of the great Jimmy Greaves, not just Tottenham Hotspur's record goalscorer but the finest marksman this country has ever seen.\n\n\"Jimmy passed away at home in the early hours of this morning, aged 81.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: \"Sad to hear the news about Jimmy Greaves. He will be remembered as a goalscoring legend and one of the greats of English football.\"\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane, Spurs' second highest goalscorer of all time second behind Greaves, said he was a \"true legend\".\n\nFormer Spurs striker Gary Lineker described Greaves as a \"giant of the sport\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"Quite possibly the greatest striker this country has ever produced. A truly magnificent footballer who was at home both in the box and on the box. A charismatic, knowledgeable, witty and warm man.\"\n\nFormer England defender and Tottenham captain Gary Mabbutt told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"People talk about legends sometimes very loosely. With Jimmy, you can use that word consistently because he was that wherever he played - his sublime goalscoring ability, his finishing and the character that he was.\"\n\nTottenham said Greaves possessed \"immaculate ball control, great balance and such composure in front of goal that he rarely spurned an opportunity\".\n\nHe scored a hat-trick on his Spurs debut against Blackpool in December 1961, in the FA Cup final win in 1962 and twice in the Cup Winners' Cup win in 1963 as they became the first British club to win a European trophy.\n\n\"Football will not see his like again,\" Spurs said.\n\nGreaves is survived by his wife Irene, four children and 10 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.\n\nGreaves scored 132 goals in 169 matches for Chelsea between 1957 and 1961 before moving to Milan.\n\nChelsea said they \"mourn the loss of a truly remarkable player and one of our own\".\n\nHe scored nine goals in 14 Serie A games for Milan, including on his debut, but did not settle in Italy and returned to London with Tottenham.\n\nHe left Spurs in 1970 to join West Ham before retiring at the end of the 1970-71 season at the age of 31.\n\nThe Hammers will hold a minute's applause before Sunday's Premier League game against Manchester United.\n\nAfter retiring, Greaves moved into broadcasting and presented 'Saint and Greavsie', a football show with former Liverpool striker Ian St John, between 1985 and 1992.\n\nGreaves suffered a minor stroke in 2012 and a severe stroke in 2015. He was awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list in 2020.\n\n'Admired by all who love football'\n\nGreaves is fourth on the list of all-time England goalscorers, behind Wayne Rooney (53), Sir Bobby Charlton (49) and Gary Lineker (48).\n\nHe originally missed out on a 1966 World Cup winners medal because he was injured during the group stage.\n\nAfter recovering, Greaves was left out of the starting XI for the final and his replacement, Sir Geoff Hurst, scored a hat-trick as England beat West Germany 4-2 after extra time.\n\nThe World Cup squad players and the families of manager Sir Alf Ramsey and other backroom staff were finally presented with medals in 2009.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate said his team will pay tribute when they play Hungary at Wembley on 12 October.\n\n\"Jimmy Greaves was someone who was admired by all who love football, regardless of club allegiances,\" said Southgate.\n\n\"Jimmy certainly deserves inclusion in any list of England's best players, given his status as one of our greatest goalscorers and his part in our 1966 World Cup success.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Challis was born in Bristol in 1942 but moved to south-east London with his parents when he was one\n\nTributes have been paid to John Challis, best known for playing Boycie in BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, who has died at the age of 79.\n\nHis family said he died \"peacefully in his sleep, after a long battle with cancer\".\n\nCo-star Sir David Jason said he was \"a wonderful actor\" and \"a gentleman in the true sense of the word\".\n\nChallis starred in the show, alongside Sir David and Nicholas Lyndhurst, throughout its time on air from 1981 right through to the final show in 2003.\n\nThe character - who was both a long-time former schoolmate and devious rival of Sir David's character Del Boy - was initially due to appear in just one scene, but the part grew in prominence as the series progressed.\n\nIn fact he was so popular with viewers that, when Only Fools and Horses ended its long run, the BBC developed a spin-off show following the continuing adventures of Boycie and long-suffering wife Marlene. The Green Green Grass ran for four series.\n\nSue Holderness, who played Marlene, also paid tribute to Challis, describing him as her \"beloved friend\".\n\n\"Marlene without Boycie - it's unthinkable,\" she said. \"John Challis was my partner on screen and stage for 36 years and my beloved friend. RIP darling John. I will miss you every day.\"\n\nAnd Steven Woodcock, who played Jevon in the sitcom, said Challis was a \"fantastic actor and wonderful person, amazing to work with. There is no Del Boy without Boycie. RIP my Peckham pal\".\n\nBoycie was usually found at the Nag's Head pub, alongside wife Marlene, with a cigar in one hand and a large cognac in the other\n\nIn a statement, Challis's family said: \"He will always be loved for being 'Boycie' and leaves a great legacy of work that will continue to bring pleasure and smiles for many years to come.\n\n\"Be assured that in the future there will be an occasion to celebrate John's life - when everyone will be welcome to come along.\"\n\nJeff Nicholson, the actor playing Boycie in the Only Fools and Horses musical due to reopen next month, said Challis had told him to \"carry the torch for us\" shortly before his death.\n\nHe said Challis had been supportive of him when they met and given the cast his \"seal of approval\" when the show premiered at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in February, before closing soon after due to the pandemic.\n\nDescribing Challis as \"a real stand-up actor\", he said the pair had struck up a \"nice relationship\" in lockdown, with Challis always asking for updates on the theatre production.\n\nThe BBC's chief content officer Charlotte Moore said Challis was \"a wonderful actor who will forever be remembered for playing Boycie in Only Fools and Horses - a character so well loved by millions\".\n\nChallis happily played Boycie on screen for decades - and even adopted the persona in appearances in other entertainment shows, fan conventions and even in a video message this year advocating the wearing of face-coverings in public places to help fight Covid.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Only Fools & Horses This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Only Fools & Horses\n\nBut he also showed his range as a Shakespearean actor when he performed in open-air performances of Richard III and a Midsummer's Night Dream that were staged in Regents Park in London in 1995, right at the height of the popularity of Only Fools and Horses.\n\nMore recently he played Monty Staines in ITV show Benidorm.\n\nActress Crissy Rock, who appeared alongside Challis in the show, said she was heartbroken.\n\nShe tweeted: \"John you were a true gentleman and always so loving and supportive towards me. I am thinking of your family and close friends at this hard time. Rest well. Crissy xx\"\n\nHe was due to appear in 30 scheduled dates, billed as an \"intimate evening with John Challis\", but had to cancel the tour after one date.\n\nOthers paying tribute ranged from The Three Degrees singer Sheila Ferguson to US rapper and actor Ice T, who wrote: \"He somehow became a Twitter friend... I'm very sad. Although I never met him in person, internet friends can become close.\"\n\nFormer heavyweight champion boxer Frank Bruno also tweeted his condolences.\n\n\"(He) used to say to me 'Franklyn my dear boy how the devil are you boxed anybody round the ears recently?' Loved all the TV he did.\"\n\nChallis recently became an honorary citizen of Serbia, where Only Fools and Horses remains hugely popular.\n\nHe travelled to the Balkan country as part of a documentary, Boycie In Belgrade, which explored why the show was so well-loved there.\n\nAlthough he was famed for his nasal south London twang as Boycie, he was actually born in Bristol and only moved to London as a young child. In a quirk of fate, much of his career as an on-screen Londoner was spent in Bristol where Only Fools and Horses was largely filmed.", "Gilboa Prison is a high-security facility known as \"the Safe\"\n\nIsraeli authorities have launched a manhunt after six Palestinian prisoners escaped from one of the country's most secure jails overnight.\n\nThe men are believed to have dug a hole in the floor of their cell at Gilboa prison, then crawled through a cavity and tunnelled beneath the outer wall.\n\nOfficials were alerted by farmers who noticed them running through fields.\n\nThe fugitives include a former leader of the militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade and five Islamic Jihad members.\n\nAn Israel Prison Service official described the escape as \"a major security and intelligence failure\". Palestinian militant groups hailed it as \"heroic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Josh Breiner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe alarm was raised at Gilboa Prison, a high-security facility in northern Israel known as \"The Safe\", when authorities received reports from local farmers about \"suspicious figures\" in nearby agricultural fields.\n\nWhen prison staff carried out a headcount at 04:00 (01:00 GMT), they found six inmates were missing.\n\nThe Palestinians are believed to have made their way out of the cell that they shared by digging a hole in the floor of their bathroom. The Jerusalem Post reported that they had used a rusty spoon that they hid behind a poster.\n\nThe hole in the cell's floor led to an existing cavity beneath the prison\n\nThe hole led to a hollow space underneath the prison that was created during the facility's construction, when piles were sunk into the ground. An Israeli police commander described it as a \"structural flaw\".\n\nThe inmates are believed to have moved through the space to reach the prison's outer wall, then dug a tunnel that emerged in the middle of a dirt road just outside.\n\nThe Shin Bet security service said it believed the prisoners had been in contact with people outside the prison using a smuggled mobile phone and that they had been picked up in a car.\n\nThe tunnel emerged in a rural strip of land near the prison's walls\n\nThe six fugitives include Zakaria Zubeidi, a former commander of the Palestinian militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade in the West Bank city of Jenin, as well as five members of Islamic Jihad.\n\nFour of the Islamic Jihad members were serving life sentences after being convicted of planning or carrying out attacks that killed Israelis, while the fifth had been held without charge for two years under a so-called administrative detention order, according to Israeli media.\n\nZubeidi was arrested by Israeli forces in 2019 on suspicion of involvement in a number of shooting attacks and is currently standing trial.\n\nIsraeli border police and army troops involved in the manhunt have reportedly set up roadblocks to stop the men reaching the nearby occupied West Bank or Jordan, which is about 14km (nine miles) to the east of Gilboa prison.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke to Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev and \"emphasised that this is a grave incident that requires an across-the-board effort by the security forces\" to find the fugitives.\n\nIslamic Jihad described the jailbreak as \"heroic\" and said it would \"shock the Israeli defence system\", while Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said it was a \"great victory\" that proves \"the will and determination of our brave soldiers inside the prisons of the enemy cannot be defeated\".", "Taliban forces patrol near Kabul airport earlier this month. The group once shunned technology but is now embracing social media.\n\nIn early May, as US and Nato forces began their final withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban stepped up their military offensive against Afghan national security forces.\n\nBut they also did something less common in the group's history of conflict in the country - they launched a comprehensive social media campaign to go with it.\n\nA network of social media accounts highlighted the alleged failures of the Kabul government while lauding the Taliban's achievements.\n\nTweets boasted about the group's recent victories - sometimes prematurely - and pushed several hashtags, including #kabulregimecrimes (attached to tweets accusing the Afghan government of war crimes); #westandwithTaliban (an attempt to drive grassroots support) and #ﻧَﺼْﺮٌ_ﻣٌِﻦَ_اللهِ_ﻭَﻓَﺘْﺢٌ_ﻗَﺮِﻳﺐٌ (help from God and victory is near). The first of the hashtags at least trended in Afghanistan.\n\nIn response, Afghanistan's then-Vice President Amrullah Saleh warned his forces and the public not to fall for false claims of Taliban victories on social media, and called on people to avoid sharing details of military operations that could compromise security.\n\nThe coordination suggested the Taliban had moved on from the staunch opposition to modern information technology and media once associated with them, and built a social media apparatus to amplify their message.\n\nWhen the Taliban first came to power in Afghanistan in 1996, they banned the internet and confiscated or destroyed television sets, cameras, and video tapes. In 2005, the official website of Islamic Emirates of Taliban, 'Al-Emarah', was launched and now publishes content in five languages - English, Arabic, Pashto, Dari, and Urdu. The audio, video, and written content is overseen by the cultural commission of Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan (IEA), headed by their spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid.\n\nZabihullah Mujahid's first Twitter account was suspended by the company, but his new account - active since 2017 - has more than 371,000 followers. Underneath him is a dedicated team of volunteers promoting the Taliban's ideology online.\n\nThe reported head of that group - effectively the social media director of the IEA - is Qari Saeed Khosty.\n\nMr Khosty told the BBC the team had separate groups focused on Twitter - attempting to get Taliban hashtags trending - as well as disseminating messages on WhatsApp and Facebook.\n\n\"Our enemies have television, radio, verified accounts on social media and we have none, yet we fought with them on Twitter and Facebook and defeated them,\" Mr Khosty said.\n\nHis job, he said, was to take people who had joined the Taliban because of its ideology and \"bring them to social media platforms so they amplify our message\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There is anger at the Taliban in Kabul, but others in rural areas welcome the end of a deadly war\n\nThere are just 8.6 million internet users in Afghanistan, and absence of network coverage and affordable data remains a key challenge. The IEA social media team team pays 1,000 Afghanis (£8.33; $11.51) per month for data packages for team members \"fighting their war online\", Mr Khosty said.\n\nHe boasted that the IEA had \"four fully equipped multimedia studios that are used for generating audio, video content and digital branding\".\n\nThe result is high-quality propaganda videos glorifying Taliban fighters and their battles against foreign and national forces, widely available on their YouTube and Al-Emarah websites.\n\nThe group publishes freely on Twitter and YouTube, but Facebook has designated the Taliban a \"dangerous organisation\" and frequently removes accounts and pages associated with them. Facebook has said it will continue to ban Taliban content from its platforms.\n\nMr Khosty told the BBC the Taliban was finding it hard to sustain their presence on Facebook, and was focusing instead on Twitter.\n\nAlthough the US State Department has designated the Haqqani Network as an international terrorist group, their leader Anas Haqqani and many members of the group have Twitter accounts with thousands of followers.\n\nSpeaking on condition of anonymity, one member of the Taliban's social media team told the BBC that the team decided to use Twitter in earnest to promote a New York Times opinion article written by Sirajuddin Haqqani, the deputy leader of the Taliban, in February 2020. Most of the active Taliban accounts on Twitter were created after that.\n\n\"Most Afghans don't understand English, but the leaders of the Kabul regime actively communicated in English on Twitter - because their audience is not Afghans but the international community,\" he said.\n\n\"The Taliban wanted to counter their propaganda and that's why we too focused ourselves on Twitter.\"\n\nHe said the team members, some of whom have tens of thousands of followers, were issued specific guidelines \"not to comment on the foreign policy issues of neighbouring countries that would constrain our relations with them\".\n\nIn the past, the Taliban were known for being highly secretive about the identity of their leaders and fighters. So much so that there are barely any clear pictures of group's founder, Mullah Omer.\n\nToday, in an effort to gain international legitimacy, their leadership is not only making media appearances but promoting them heavily on social media. When the group's previously secretive spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, made a press conference appearance shortly after the fall of Kabul, the profile pictures of many Taliban Twitter accounts were changed to his image.\n\nBy contrast, many Afghan citizens who worked for international forces, organisations, media and others who were critical of the Taliban on social media are now deactivating their accounts, fearing that the information could be used to target them.\n\nHuman rights organisations Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say they have already received reports of Taliban fighters searching for, and allegedly killing, people in reprisal attacks.\n\nFacebook has launched a one-click tool for people in Afghanistan to quickly lock down their account, preventing anyone not already listed as a friend from seeing their details. The site also announced it had temporarily removed the ability to view and search the \"Friends\" list for accounts in Afghanistan.\n\nThe question is whether the Taliban have changed and abandoned the brutality associated with the group. Many in Afghanistan and around the world do not believe their promises of change.\n\nBut they appear to have grasped that some of the technology they once shunned can help them in their quest to shape opinion on a global stage.\n\n\"Social media is powerful tool to change public perception,\" said the social media team member. \"We want to change the perception of the Taliban.\"", "Coverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu put in another devastating performance to reach the US Open quarter-finals as her dream New York debut continued.\n\nThe 18-year-old qualifier, yet to drop a set here, won 11 games in a row in a 6-2 6-1 win over Shelby Rogers.\n\nIn the biggest match of her life, on the biggest tennis court in the world, Raducanu recovered from a break in the opening game to dominate in style.\n\nShe will face Olympic champion Belinda Bencic for a place in the semi-finals.\n• None Olympic champion Bencic through to US Open quarter-finals\n\nThe Briton dropped to her knees on Arthur Ashe Stadium after sealing victory when home favourite Shelby netted a service return on her fourth match point.\n\nRaducanu, who captured the British public's imagination with a run to the Wimbledon fourth round as a wildcard in July, has now gone one better after a series of accomplished displays that have had pundits predicting big things ahead for the world number 150.\n\n\"It feels absolutely amazing. Shelby is a great opponent, she's done so well in the US Open and she's had a great week so I knew it was going to be a tough match,\" the Briton said in her on-court interview.\n\n\"But I'm so happy to have come through and have managed to overcome some of the nerves at the beginning.\"\n\nRaducanu shakes off nerves on the big stage\n\nRaducanu arrived on court with a huge smile, waving to the crowd and looking relaxed, but early nerves kicked in on a court that can house 24,000 people and where greats of the game including American Billie Jean King and Britain's Virginia Wade were watching on.\n\nShe was broken in the first game and was in danger of going 3-0 down before digging deep for a gritty hold in her second service game, where she saved two break points.\n\nThat hold seemed to calm her nerves and she swiftly moved up the gears to take complete control of the match against the world number 43, who had upset world number one Ashleigh Barty in the previous round.\n\nRogers got a consolation game on the board in the second set and held off three match points but in the end it was the American who looked shell-shocked by the occasion as Raducanu reached a maiden Grand Slam quarter-final.\n\nThe last British woman to win a Grand Slam singles trophy was Wade at Wimbledon in 1977 and Raducanu told her: \"Thank you so much for watching my match. I really appreciate it, you're an absolute legend so I'm really honoured to have you here. I will just do my best and see how it goes.\"\n\nMaths is adding up for Raducanu\n\nRaducanu's run at Wimbledon had come to a premature end when she had to retire from her last-16 match against Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic because she was suffering dizziness and struggling with her breathing.\n\nAfterwards she said the whole experience of the Wimbledon run \"caught up\" with her.\n\nJust weeks later she reached her maiden WTA final and also received her A Level results - an A* in maths and an A in economics.\n\nShe did not need those qualifications to work out how the numbers added up against Rogers, where the Briton hit only 14 unforced errors compared to Rogers' 29, as well as unleashing 18 winners in a 66-minute encounter.\n\nRaducanu, who was ranked 338th before she arrived at Wimbledon in June, will break into the world's top 100 when the rankings are next released after the US Open.\n\nThat would mean she would gain automatic entry into Grand Slams and depending on how far she goes in New York she could even jump above Heather Watson and Johanna Konta to become British number one.\n\nShe will also earn at least $425,000 (£307,000) for reaching the quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows to add to the £181,000 she took home in prize money from Wimbledon.\n\nDespite facing an American at their home major, Raducanu enjoyed strong support from the crowd on the main show court, with her brilliant form having also attracted local fans to pack out her earlier matches on smaller courts.\n\nShe may have been expecting to face Wimbledon champion Barty in this match but Rogers had put paid to that and the American said her exertions in the previous round had told in a \"pretty embarrassing\" performance against Raducanu.\n\n\"It took everything I had to beat Barty. I guess that was a little apparent today,\" Rogers, 28, told a news conference.\n\n\"The tank was a little bit empty. She [Raducanu] has been doing a lot of great stuff but I don't think she had much of a challenge today.\n\n\"It was a tough day at the office.\"\n\nRaducanu, who has dropped only 15 games across her four main-draw matches, will take on 11th seed Bencic on Wednesday and with her last three victories coming against players ranked in the 40s, facing the Swiss will be a big step up just a few weeks after the 24-year-old took gold at Tokyo 2020.\n\n\"Belinda's a great player who's in great form so I know I'm going to have to bring it on Wednesday,\" said Raducanu, who will be seeking to become the first British woman to reach a Grand Slam singles semi-final since Konta at the 2019 French Open.\n\n'It's impossible not to get excited' - reaction\n\nMiles Maclagan, former British Davis Cup player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"There is something special about Raducanu and the way she takes it all in. My first encounter with Andy Murray was when he was 16 at Roland Garros and he wasn't overawed by being there, and she reminds me of that. Where is the limit? We just don't know quite yet.\"\n\nDavid Law, commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"It's impossible not to be excited. I'm scared to be too full of it over a young player for fear of pulling her into the final before she's even got to the semis, but what it feels like watching this is what it felt like watching Iga Swiatek go all the way at the French Open [in 2020].\n\n\"Raducanu has just won a Grand Slam's worth of tennis matches to get to this point, with qualifying and four matches, and she hasn't dropped a set. Bencic will be a really tough match but Raducanu is making this look easy.\"\n\nNaomi Broady, British player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"After speaking to Emma before Wimbledon, what struck me was the foresight and the belief that she could already get through.\n\n\"She's got that self-belief before she's even gone into her first Grand Slam and it's why I'm not surprised or shocked that she's got here. It's right to be excited - not just necessarily about the future, but about what she is doing right here, right now. The composure and mentality Raducanu shows in these situations is way beyond her years.\"\n• None It's almost impossible not to play along...\n• None Do you have bizarre dreams? Scarlett investigates if they really have any meaning", "With 41,192 people testing positive on Monday, the total number of Covid infections during the pandemic reached 7,018,927\n\nMore than seven million confirmed cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the UK since the pandemic began, official figures show.\n\nIt comes as another 41,192 positive tests were reported on Monday, along with 45 Covid-related deaths.\n\nBut the real number of people infected during the pandemic is likely to be much higher, partly due to the lack of testing in the early stages.\n\nCovid-19 has been named on the death certificate of 156,119 people.\n\nThe most recent figures show that there are 7,606 Covid-19 patients in hospital, with 1,034 on ventilators.\n\nMany cases during the pandemic have not shown up in the official daily count because testing only became available in summer 2020, with only people in hospital being tested before then.\n\nEven as testing became widespread, cases will have been missed as some people did not develop symptoms or had such a mild illness they did not realise they were infected.\n\nModelling by the University of Cambridge suggests 17 million people in England have been infected since the pandemic began - about 30% of the population.\n\nThe milestone of seven million confirmed cases came as the vaccine minister said a vaccine booster programme was \"ready to go\".\n\nNadhim Zahawi told MPs that third jabs were the \"most important piece of the jigsaw\" remaining to help end the pandemic.\n\nHe said the NHS was primed to roll out boosters - but the government was awaiting scientific advice for the scheme to be signed off.\n\nThe government had \"ambitious\" plans to give Covid and flu vaccines at the same time, he said.\n\nMr Zahawi said a hold-up with one of the UK's largest suppliers of seasonal flu vaccines would \"not delay the overall flu vaccination programme at all\".\n\nSeqirus has said there could be up to a fortnight's delay in jab deliveries to some GP surgeries in England and Wales due to a shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nBut Mr Zahawi told the House of Commons Seqirus had \"a border issue with their Spanish factory\".\n\nHe said: \"They are meeting with the Spanish regulator to see what is the issue. They are being very careful and estimating a one or two weeks delay.\n\n\"It will not delay the overall flu vaccination programme at all, their German and Belgian supply chain has been flowing normally and they are one supplier.\"\n\nMr Zahawi also refused to be drawn on whether all 12 to 15-year-olds would be offered a Covid jab.\n\nHe said he would not \"pre-empt\" the recommendations by the UK's chief medical officers expected in the coming days.\n\nIn response to questioning from Labour's Jonathan Ashworth, Mr Zahawi said the NHS was prepared to administer a vaccine within five working days of any recommendation.\n\nIt comes as pupils across the UK have returned to school, with many in England and Wales resuming classes on Monday.\n\nMany Covid measures have now been lifted in schools, including the requirement for face masks and isolation bubbles.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, more than half of pupils at one school could not attend because of close contact with someone who tested positive.\n\nMeanwhile, Monday was the busiest morning on the London Underground since March 2020, Transport for London said.\n\nTube passengers were up 20% and bus passengers up by 40% from the previous week, accounting for the bank holiday, but numbers were still less than half of pre-pandemic numbers on the Underground.", "Asel and many of her international team-mates are in hiding. Asel isn't her real name. In Kabul members of the Taliban have already come looking for Afghanistan's women's cricket team.\n\n\"Every woman playing cricket or other sports is not safe right now,\" she says. \"The situation is very bad in Kabul.\n\n\"We have a group on WhatsApp and every night we are talking about our problems and sharing plans about what we should do. We are all hopeless.\"\n\nAsel has barely stepped outside her home since the Taliban entered Kabul in mid-August and has locked her cricket kit away. She explains how one of her team-mates was targeted in the city.\n\n\"The village where they play cricket, some people who knew them are working with the Taliban. When the Taliban came here and took Kabul they threatened them, saying, 'We may come and kill you if you try to play cricket again,'\" Asel says.\n\nTaqwa, who is also using a pseudonym, was involved in Afghan women's cricket for many years. She managed to flee the country after Kabul fell. In the week before she got out, she moved from house to house to avoid being detected. The Taliban called her father, but he said he had not been in contact with her.\n\n\"I don't want to think about what would've happened,\" she says. \"When the Taliban came to Kabul, for a week I didn't eat anything, I didn't sleep.\n\n\"I was not only thinking about myself, I was worrying about my girls. They are sacrificing their lives, their studies. Some even didn't get married so they could play for Afghanistan. I'm very worried about their lives.\"\n\nFor another former player, Hareer, again speaking to the BBC using an assumed name, playing cricket as an Afghan woman meant far more than just taking wickets and scoring runs.\n\n\"When I play I feel like a strong woman,\" she says. \"I feel confident and I feel proud of myself.\n\n\"I can imagine myself as a woman who can do anything, who can make her dreams come true.\"\n\nBut for Hareer and the rest of the Afghanistan women's cricket team, those dreams may well have come to an end.\n\nWhen just under a year ago there seemed to be so much hope, now they fear for their safety and feel abandoned by the sporting authorities they believe can help.\n\nThe rise of cricket had seemed something of a fairy tale in Afghanistan. The country was only granted affiliate membership by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2001, just a year after the Taliban lifted a ban on the sport. When the Taliban was overthrown soon after, cricket began to flourish, along with other sports like football.\n\n\"If we look into the last 20 years, we had war, suicide attacks, we had so many problems, but the only occasion when the entire nation was happy, they were emotionally involved… was during sport,\" Emal Pasarly, editor of BBC Pashto, told The Sports Desk podcast in August.\n\n\"Only sport gave a time or a place where people were happy and they could forget about the rest of what was going on around them.\"\n\nCricket fanaticism in Afghanistan grew throughout the 2000s as the men's team began a meteoric rise on the world stage. When they qualified for the 2015 World Cup in Australia, street celebrations broke out across the country. In 2017, they were granted Test status. Players such as Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi are now international stars and are adored across the country.\n\nAfghanistan's first national women's team was formed in 2010. They faced resistance from the start.\n\nIn the early years the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) prevented the women's team from playing at several international tournaments, saying it received \"Taliban threats\".\n\nIn 2012 the team did travel for a six-team regional tournament in Tajikistan, and they won it. But two years later they folded. The ACB again blamed the decision on Taliban threats.\n• None Storyville: Afghan Cricket Club - Out of the Ashes\n• None Taliban are back - what next for Afghanistan?\n\nDespite the team disbanding, girls and young women continued to play on makeshift wickets across Afghanistan. And the ACB still had a small number of staff responsible for arranging women's matches.\n\nBut the same problems persisted for this new generation of female cricketers.\n\nHareer says that, within the ACB, many were not supportive and would only arrange matches for the women if they \"begged them to do it\". Members of the board would also school women on how to behave when they were out on the pitch, she says.\n\n\"I'm a bowler, and when I take a wicket I can't shout and act like I'm happy because there are men watching me,\" she says.\n\n\"I have to control my emotions, I can't shout to support my team-mates, I can't support them. They say: 'You shouldn't celebrate, you shouldn't shout or strike poses.'\"\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Afghanistan and the threat to progress through sport\n\nBut as the profile of the men's team grew, the ACB had to start taking the women's game more seriously. The ICC requires its 12 full members - Afghanistan became one in 2017 - to have a national women's team. This led to 25 female cricketers being awarded contracts in November 2020.\n\nJust 10 months ago, a new dawn appeared to be on the horizon for women's cricket in Afghanistan. That hope appears to have been short lived.\n\nDuring their previous rule, from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban prohibited almost all education for girls and women (girls were not allowed to attend school after the age of 8), while women were unable to work or leave the house without being accompanied by a male relative.\n\nWhile the Taliban has made attempts to portray a more moderate image this time around, the chances of women being able to partake in sport are slim. The ACB's chief executive officer, Hamid Shinwari, has said the Taliban have voiced support for the men's team, who now have approval to play their first ever Test against Australia in Hobart in November. But he told the BBC he expects the women's team to be stopped. This would violate Afghanistan's ICC membership.\n\nAfghanistan's women cricketers are hoping to escape Taliban rule like the 50 female athletes who were evacuated by the Australian government in August. Football's world governing body Fifa has said it is \"negotiating the complex evacuation\" of footballers and other athletes from Afghanistan.\n\nA spokeswoman for the ICC said: \"We are, as you would expect, in close contact with the Afghanistan Cricket Board and we're monitoring the situation and have offered our support.\"\n\nBut Taqwa says the ICC have not been in contact directly with the country's women cricketers and that the ACB have shown little interest in their welfare.\n\n\"The ICC never help us, they always disappoint us. The ICC is talking with those people who are against women's cricket, like the new ACB chairman,\" she adds, in reference to Azizullah Fazli, who was appointed after the Taliban takeover.\n\nAsked if the ACB still supports women's cricket, Mr Shinwari said: \"The future government will decide.\"\n\nDespite the situation in which they find themselves, Asel still believes the team could come together again. Hareer comes to life when she talks about her dreams for a better future.\n\n\"I want to be an international cricket player,\" she says.\n\n\"I want to be a strong Afghan woman who can change other people's lives. I want to be a role model for other Afghan women and girls. I want to change at least a few men's minds in Afghanistan. I want to be proud of myself and that's all.\"\n\nAsel adds: \"In Afghan culture, there are barriers that affect sport for women. They say that women are weak and are not built to play cricket. They have to get married and give birth and work at home and bring up the children. They must take care of their husbands.\n\n\"In my family too, some relatives say I cannot play because an Islamic culture will not let a woman play cricket. But I love it.\n\n\"The situation is bad for us. But there is hope while we are breathing. If we get taken from the country and taken somewhere else we will start again.\n\n\"We will not give up on our dreams, inshallah [if Allah wills it].\"\n• None Stumped: Afghanistan: 'We will rise again'\n• None How do you start again when everyone remembers your past?\n• None Watch the deep and dark new thriller from the producers of Line of Duty", "The road reopened to some vehicles in November - but remained closed to private cars\n\nRoadworks to return cars to a key road in Cardiff city centre are expected to begin on Monday.\n\nCastle Street reopened to buses and taxis in November, but has remained closed to cars since it was turned into an outdoor dining area last summer.\n\nCardiff council aims to reopen the road by the end of October.\n\nDrivers and residents have complained of increased congestion nearby, but environmental groups said more space should be given to walkers and bikes.\n\nThe council is forecasting nitrogen dioxide, a harmful air pollutant, will increase by 40% on the road after it is fully reopened, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nHowever, council officers said the gas had increased on nearby residential streets as a result of the closure.\n\nThe work includes making the pavement on the south side of narrower to make space for an extra lane of traffic.\n\nWork will take place between 20:00 and 06:00 so the road can remain open to buses and taxis during the day.\n\nThe road was home to an outdoor dining area last summer as Covid restrictions limited indoor capacity\n\nPlans to reopen the road were announced in June, with council leader Huw Thomas saying the closure was causing more pollution in nearby areas like Grangetown, Butetown and Riverside.\n\nThe council said its consultation, including 6,227 responses, showed 54% wanted the road reopened to private cars, while 34% wanted them kept off.\n\nBut environmental campaigners argued the return would be detrimental, after reports showed overall air quality in the Cardiff significantly improved during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh government also said it would be disappointed to see cars returning to the city centre road.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA council spokesman said: \"This new road layout will ensure that the council meets its legally binding requirement to lower pollution on Castle Street to acceptable limits in the shortest time possible and represents the council's original plan for the road as set out in the clean air plan produced by Cardiff council and subsequently approved by Welsh government in 2019.\"\n\nPrevious proposals have included bringing in a £2 congestion charge to tackle traffic and pollution, after research found air quality in the city among the worst in the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFans will be urged to travel to the stadium via bicycle or public transport and eat only vegan food when Spurs host Chelsea in the Premier League on 19 September.\n\nIt is part of a plan to make the game the world's first net zero carbon fixture at elite level.\n\nThe clubs are working with broadcaster Sky to cut emissions around the match.\n\nFans will also be urged to take positive steps to reduce their own carbon footprint.\n\nBoth sets of players will arrive at the stadium on coaches powered by biofuel, and will be drinking water from more sustainable cartons rather than plastic bottles.\n\nFood kiosks inside the stadium will also be offering a large selection of plant-based food options so fans can make a more sustainable choice.\n\nWhat does 'net zero' mean?\n\n'Net zero' is achieved when direct emissions associated with the match (for example, fan and employee travel, energy use of the stadium, production of food and drink) are reduced as much as possible and the remainder is 'offset' through natural projects.\n\nThese can include investing in organisations that plant trees or charities that help clean oceans, or by contributing to projects exploring more ways to produce renewable energy.\n\nEarlier in 2021, Tottenham were named the Premier League's greenest club after they topped a table measuring the sustainability of all 20 top-flight sides.\n\nThey recently signed up to the United Nations' Sports for Climate Action framework, which gives sports organisations a set of targets to reach to make themselves more sustainable businesses.\n\nChairman Daniel Levy said the club was delighted to be part of \"this ground-breaking initiative that will demonstrate the role our game can play in addressing the urgent issue of climate change\".\n\nThe net zero fixture is being supported by the UK government, which hosts the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow in November.\n• None It's almost impossible not to play along...\n• None Do you have bizarre dreams?: Scarlett investigates if they really have any meaning", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Is the story true?\" - Michael Fawcett faces reporters after claims about his conduct surfaced.\n\nA former aide to the Prince of Wales has temporarily stepped down from his role as chief executive of The Prince's Foundation amid claims that he helped secure an honour for a major donor.\n\nMichael Fawcett has been accused of offering to help a wealthy Saudi businessman with an honour.\n\nThe prince was not aware of any link between donations to the foundation and honours, a close source told the BBC.\n\nThe Met Police said it was \"aware of media reports and await further contact in relation to this matter\".\n\nMr Fawcett became chief executive of the Prince's Foundation in 2018. It is an educational charity and encompasses a number of Prince Charles' charitable interests.\n\nThe heritage-led regeneration of the Dumfries House estate in Ayrshire is at the heart of the organisation's work, the foundation's website says.\n\nClaims about Mr Fawcett's conduct were published in the Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Mr Mahfouz, who denies any wrongdoing, donated large sums to restoration projects of particular interest to Prince Charles.\n\nMr Fawcett is alleged to have co-ordinated support for an honour for Mr Mahfouz, according to newspaper reports.\n\nDouglas Connell, chair of The Prince's Foundation, said Mr Fawcett offered on Saturday to step down temporarily from chief executive duties while an investigation was carried out.\n\nMr Connell added: \"The Prince's Foundation has accepted this offer. Michael fully supports the ongoing investigation and has confirmed that he will assist the investigation in every way.\"\n\nPrince Charles with Michael Fawcett, his valet at the time\n\nA spokeswoman for The Prince's Foundation said it \"takes very seriously the allegations that have recently been brought to its attention and the matter is currently under investigation\".\n\nMr Fawcett was once a close aide of Prince Charles and served as his valet until 2003.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said that a Palace source stressed the distance between Prince Charles' office and his foundation, but Mr Fawcett was known for being close to Prince Charles and these allegations were an \"embarrassment\" for him.\n\nMr Fawcett began his royal service in 1981 as a footman to the Queen, before later becoming Prince Charles' assistant valet.\n\nIn 2003 he was cleared of financial misconduct allegations over the selling of royal gifts.\n\nHe resigned after the internal report criticised the running of the royal household, but continued to work as a freelance fixer and Prince Charles' events manager.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Heappey corrected himself live on BBC Breakfast, speaking to Dan Walker\n\nA government defence minister has apologised after mistakenly saying a British Afghan veteran took their own life over the events in Afghanistan.\n\nJames Heappey first told Sky News he felt \"sick to the bottom of my stomach\" after learning a soldier who served in Afghanistan had taken their own life.\n\nBut within minutes he told the BBC on air the report may be inaccurate.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it was looking into the report of the death - but it is understood to be untrue.\n\nThe confusion began when Mr Heappey - who is the government's armed forces minister - appeared on Sky News on Monday morning, and talked about UK veterans' mental health.\n\nHe said British servicemen and women had been hugely affected by the withdrawal of UK and US troops from Afghanistan and the subsequent Taliban takeover.\n\n\"It's my understanding that in the last few days there have been people who have taken their life,\" he said. \"Certainly a person who has taken their life who did so because of their feelings as a consequence of withdrawal.\n\n\"And that makes me sick to the bottom of my stomach and fearful for many of my friends who I know are still struggling with what they saw on those tours of Afghanistan.\n\n\"And that's why the government, the nation needs to put our arm around our veterans and tell them how proud we are of what they did.\"\n\nBut within the hour, while he was interviewed on BBC Breakfast, Mr Heappey corrected himself on air.\n\nWhen asked about the report of the veteran's death, he said: \"Since I mentioned that to your colleague Kay Burley on Sky only 20 minutes ago, we've had a number of reports that actually the thing I was referring to was inaccurate.\n\n\"We're looking very, very carefully at whether or not it is true that someone has taken their life in the last few days, but actually that shouldn't take away that far too many service people have taken their own lives in the last 10 years as a consequence of their service in Afghanistan.\"\n\nCalls to one veterans' charity helpline have doubled following the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan\n\nAnd he then tweeted an apology to a Sky journalist, saying: \"I'm sorry to have said something that might not be true. The note referred very accurately to my last tour of Afghanistan with 2 RIFLES in 2009 and I've spent weekend fearing colleague had taken their life. However, MoD aren't certain that note is real so wanted to clarify.\"\n\nIt is understood MoD officials believe the report is untrue.\n\nMr Heappey - a former army major who served in Afghanistan - said his \"main message\" was that too many veterans had taken their own lives while struggling with mental illness.\n\nFor some veterans, the scenes unfolding in Afghanistan have brought back a lot of traumatic memories and mixed emotions.\n\nLast month, a veterans' charity said calls to its helpline had doubled since the Taliban had taken over.\n\nAnd in an emotional speech last month, Tory MP Tom Tugendhat - who also served in Afghanistan - said many are struggling with anger, grief and rage since the pull-out.\n\nThere have also been widespread calls for more mental health support.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce an additional £5m to help military charities during a Commons statement later.\n\nMr Johnson is also is also expected to defend his handling of the crisis and reiterate his vow to use \"every economic, political and diplomatic lever\" to help the Afghans.\n\nThere has been widespread criticism of the way the West withdrew, with questions over how the Taliban was able to seize control of the country at such speed.\n\nAnd there is also concern that Afghans eligible to come to the UK - many of whom worked with the British armed forces or government - have been left behind.\n\nThe last British and US troops left Afghanistan at the end of August, bringing their 20-year military campaign in the country to an end.\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this story, sources of support are available via the BBC Action Line.", "Seventy two people died in the fire\n\nBereaved relatives of those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire say they are \"disgusted and disappointed\" that they have not been consulted after experts advised it should be taken down.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported ministers were set to announce it would be demolished for safety reasons.\n\nBut those affected by the tragedy say no action should be taken until a decision is made on a lasting memorial.\n\nThe government said a final decision on the tower had yet to be taken.\n\nIt added no changes to the structure would be made before the fifth anniversary of the disaster, in June 2022.\n\nIn a safety report commissioned by the government and published in May, engineers Atkins said there was \"unanimous agreement and unambiguous advice\" from experts that work to \"deconstruct or partially deconstruct\" the tower should start by May 2022 at the latest.\n\nIt said there were concerns over the safety of those living and working around it.\n\nSeventy-two people died in the fire that engulfed the 24-storey tower in north Kensington, west London, on 14 June 2017.\n\nA Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission, which was set up in 2018, is looking at how the victims should be remembered and has yet to publish its final plans.\n\nA government source told the Sunday Times the decision to demolish it was a \"fait accompli\".\n\nGrenfell United say the timeline of its demolition needs to be made by survivors and the bereaved\n\nGrenfell United, which represents survivors and families of those who died in the fire, said it was shocked.\n\nIn a statement, it said many of the Grenfell community accepted the tower's removal was a case of when not if, but the timeline needed to be decided by the \"bereaved, survivors and the community not the government\".\n\n\"Given what we went through, safety has always been paramount and we have had previous assurances that the tower can be kept safe for as long as it needs to be, and that it poses no risk to the community around it\", the group said.\n\nIt also said too few families had so far been consulted with and that \"a wide range of viewpoints\" needed to be taken into account.\n\nAbbas Dadou, from the Lancaster West Residents Association, said it was \"utterly disgusting\" more residents had not been consulted.\n\n\"They [the government] should empower residents and should give them the options to choose what they want.\"\n\nNabil Choucair, who lost six members of his family in the blaze, said it was important a decision on Grenfell Tower was not rushed, describing it as a \"very sensitive, very delicate\" matter for people in the community.\n\n\"This is about our family members. Seventy-two people should never have lost their lives there.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Community and Local Government said it knew how \"important and sensitive\" the decision was and it had yet to be taken.\n\n\"Following important independent safety advice from structural engineers, we are engaging closely with the community as we consider the evidence including the safety concerns raised, and what the future of the Grenfell Tower should be.\"\n\nThe government added it wrote to families in May and again in July to outline how a decision would be made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The province is the most prominent example of resistance to Taliban rule in Afghanistan\n\nThe leader of the Afghan resistance group waging an intense battle against the Taliban in the Panjshir Valley has said he is open to enter peace talks.\n\nAhmad Massoud said he supported a plan, put forward by religious clerics, for a negotiated settlement, and called on the Taliban to end their offensive.\n\nEarlier, reports suggested the Taliban had rapidly gained ground in Panjshir.\n\nThe province, north of the capital Kabul, is the most prominent example of resistance to Taliban rule.\n\nThe Islamist group took control of the rest of Afghanistan three weeks ago, taking power in Kabul on 15 August following the collapse of the Western-backed government.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Mr Massoud said the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), which includes former Afghan security force members and local militias, would be prepared to stop fighting if the Taliban ceased their attacks.\n\nThere was no immediate response from the Taliban.\n\nPanjshir, a rugged mountain valley, is home to between 150,000 and 200,000 people. It was a centre of resistance when Afghanistan was under Soviet occupation in the 1980s and during the Taliban's previous period of rule, between 1996 and 2001.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There is anger at the Taliban in Kabul, but others in rural areas welcome the end of a deadly war\n\nThe NRF said its spokesman Fahim Dashti and a commander, Gen Abdul Wudod Zara, had been killed in the conflict, while a prominent Taliban general and 13 bodyguards had also died.\n\nEarlier, the Taliban said their forces were now in the provincial capital, Bazarak, where they inflicted \"numerous casualties\", though this was disputed by the NRF.\n\nMeanwhile in Kabul, UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths met Taliban leaders and urged them to protect all civilians, especially women, girls and minorities. He was pictured with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the founders of the Taliban movement.\n\nA UN spokesman said the Taliban leaders had given a commitment to allow humanitarian access to all people in need and to guarantee freedom of movement for all humanitarian workers, both men and women.\n\nAccording to the UN, 18 million Afghans, nearly half of the population, are in need of humanitarian assistance.\n\nMullah Baradar (first from right) alongside Martin Griffiths and other Taliban leaders in Kabul\n\nAlso on Sunday, the Taliban gave more details of how segregation of the sexes will be enacted in universities. In an extensive document, the new authorities said men and women must be separated, if necessary by a curtain.\n\nIdeally, women will be taught by women but if none are available then \"old men\" of good character can step in, AFP news agency reported. Female students must wear an abaya, or robe, and niqab, or face veil.\n\nSince taking power, the Taliban have sought to portray themselves as more tolerant, but incidents of brutality and repression are still being reported in parts of Afghanistan. On Saturday, Taliban officials broke up a demonstration by dozens of women in Kabul demanding rights.\n\nHuman rights groups have also documented revenge killings, detentions and persecution of religious minorities. The Taliban have said officially that they will not seek retribution against those who worked for the former government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Both girls are expected to lead completely normal lives\n\nOne-year-old twin girls who were born conjoined at the back of their heads have seen each other for the first time after undergoing rare separation surgery in Israel.\n\nThe 12-hour operation at the Soroka Medical Centre in the city of Beersheba last week took months of preparation, and included the scalp grafts for both.\n\nDozens of experts from Israel and abroad were involved.\n\nThe girls, who have not been named, are said to be recovering well.\n\n\"They are breathing and eating on their own,\" Eldad Silberstein, the head of Soroka's plastic surgery department, told Israel's Channel 12 news.\n\nIt is the first time such an operation, which has only been conducted 20 times worldwide, has been performed in Israel.\n\nThe girls were born conjoined at the back of their heads\n\nMonths before the surgery, inflatable silicone bags were inserted into their heads and periodically expanded to stretch skin. The new skin was then used to seal their heads after the skulls were reconstructed.\n\nPreparation also included the creation of a 3D virtual reality model of the twins, said Mickey Gideon, Soroka's chief neurosurgeon. \"To our delight, everything went as we had hoped,\" he added.\n\nThe girls, who were born in August 2020, are expected to lead completely normal lives.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFourth LV= Insurance Test, Kia Oval (day five of five)\n\nEngland's batting disintegrated in the face of an inspired India, who won the fourth Test by 157 runs to take a 2-1 lead in the series.\n\nSet an unlikely 368 for victory or, more realistically, looking to bat out the fifth day, England were dismissed for 210 on a blameless pitch at the Kia Oval.\n\nHaseeb Hameed made 63 before becoming the first of four wickets to fall for only six runs.\n\nIndia pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah was sensational, reverse-swinging the ball at 90mph. The delivery he produced to bowl Jonny Bairstow was near unplayable.\n\nBumrah ended with 2-27, Shardul Thakur and Ravindra Jadeja also took two wickets apiece, and Umesh Yadav picked up the final three.\n\nIndia need to avoid defeat in the final Test at Emirates Old Trafford, starting on Friday, to win a series in the UK for the first time since 2007.\n• None 'We can put some wrongs right' - Root confident England can bounce back\n\nThis was a predatory final-day performance by India, who won despite being 127-7 on day one, conceding a first-innings deficit of 99 and being 213 ahead with only four wickets in hand on Sunday.\n\nFrom 77-0 overnight, England talked about the possibility of pulling off their highest successful chase in Test cricket but, even on such a good batting pitch, a draw would have felt like a creditable result.\n\nHowever, once the tourists sensed victory, and with captain Virat Kohli conducting the ecstatic India support among a sold-out crowd, England were overwhelmed.\n\nIt means Joe Root's side lost after winning the toss and choosing to field first. They dropped six catches in the match and Dawid Malan's needless run-out on Monday was another example of the hosts being complicit in their own downfall.\n\nThat, though, is to take nothing away from India, who lead the series despite omitting masterful off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin throughout.\n\nHere, Thakur twice produced valuable runs from number eight, Rohit Sharma was sublime in making his first overseas Test hundred and India were tactically superb in exploiting the reverse-swing on the final day.\n\nAfter sealing a remarkable victory in Australia in January, India are on the verge of a second iconic away series win this year.\n\nFrom 131-2 at lunch, England were one good session away from relative safety. Instead, they lost six wickets for 62 runs.\n\nHameed had already been dropped playing a horrible sweep and called Malan for the single that resulted in the run-out before he played down the wrong line to be bowled by Jadeja.\n\nThen came Bumrah's exhilarating spell. Reversing the old ball at high pace, he first got through Ollie Pope's defensive push and followed up with a searing inswinging yorker that gave Bairstow little chance.\n\nThe Pope wicket was Bumrah's 100th in Tests in his 24th match, making him the fastest India seamer to reach the milestone. His 2-6 in six overs was, on average, the quickest he has bowled in the series.\n\nWhen Moeen Ali tamely poked Jadeja to short leg, the guts had been ripped out of the England middle order and India were on a rampant charge towards victory.\n\nEngland's serene progress from the fourth evening continued on Monday morning, with Rory Burns reaching 50 and his opening stand with Hameed 100, only for the left-hander to edge a fine delivery from Thakur.\n\nMalan played without certainty, but arguably was not to blame for his demise. Hameed called for a questionable single on the off side, only for sub fielder Mayank Agarwal to swoop and return the ball to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant before Malan could slide into his ground.\n\nThat signalled the arrival of Root. So often the captain carries England's hopes with his urgency at the crease, yet as he witnessed the middle-order collapse from the non-striker's end he was forced into a grim salvage operation.\n\nHe ate up nearly 13 overs with Chris Woakes before fiddling at the first ball of Thakur's new spell, chopping on to his stumps for 36 and effectively ending England's slim hopes.\n\nWoakes clipped Umesh to mid-wicket on the stroke of tea, Overton was painfully bowled off his elbow when Umesh took the second new ball and last man James Anderson edged behind.\n\n'The spell of the summer' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"It's frustrating. We turned up this morning feeling like we had a chance to win the Test match.\n\n\"We set a platform to go on and win the game. It was a brilliant spell of bowling that bust it open for India.\n\n\"We've got to look at the whole game. Our catching has to improve. We'll do dome learning. The good thing is we don't have to long to dwell on it.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"In the second innings when England were put under a huge amount of pressure, they came short. They haven't been able to able to handle the pressure with the bat for a long time.\n\n\"Today's bowling performance was as good as fourth-innings bowling display as we've seen for a long, long time. It was high class.\n\n\"Jasprit Bumrah's spell after lunch was the spell of the summer by an absolute country mile.\"\n\nFormer England spinner Phil Tufnell: \"When it mattered India raised their game and England couldn't do anything about it. They were blown away in the afternoon session.\"\n• None It's almost impossible not to play along...\n• None Do you have bizarre dreams? Scarlett investigates if they really have any meaning", "A major operation to influence public opinion saw comments posted on Western media articles in support of Russian interests, according to new research.\n\nCardiff University's Crime and Security Research Institute found 32 prominent media websites across 16 countries were targeted including Mail Online, the Express and the Times.\n\nThe comments were fed back into Russian-language media outlets as the basis for stories, researchers said.\n\nThe tactic was spotted this year.\n\nBut the operation is believed to have been escalating since at least 2018 and recently focused on the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nIn one example highlighted by the researchers, a Mail Online story last month about the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan featured 2,500 comments from the public.\n\nBut some, it is alleged, were part of an organised Russian campaign.\n\nBy selecting a small number of comments, a Russian news article was then headlined: \"The British have compared the rise of the Taliban to power with the end of Western civilisation\".\n\nThis, Cardiff researchers say, was one of 18 recent stories on the fall of Kabul that were produced using reader comments in the UK and US, supporting Russia's narrative about the end of liberal democracy, the failure of Nato or made a link to the willingness to support Ukraine.\n\nThe Cardiff team say this was just the latest part of a long-running campaign.\n\nThey identified 242 stories where provocative pro-Russian or anti-Western statements were posted in reaction to articles relevant to Russia.\n\nResearchers used pattern recognition techniques to analyse reader comments, which suggested some accounts were posting pro-Kremlin content in an organised manner.\n\nResearchers showed a translated example of an article on the RuEconomics website\n\nSometimes those posting were accused by others on the site of being Russian trolls but in most cases they did not respond.\n\nThese comments were then picked up by Russian media organisations who took the original news story and used the comments to construct a Russian language news story with a particular slant suggesting \"The British think X or Y\".\n\nThese were published to suggest extensive support among Western citizens for Russia or President Vladimir Putin or for a particular policy.\n\nThese would be published in Russia, but also other European countries, particularly Bulgaria. These would then be further amplified on social media platforms, including Telegram.\n\nProf Martin Innes said the \"sophisticated\" campaign takes advantage of the fact that while social media sites have put more resources into detecting influence campaigns, traditional mainstream sites have fewer security measures to stop people creating multiple, false identities.\n\nOne account was found to have changed location 69 times and changed name 549 times since it was created last June.\n\n\"There has been a tendency to think about influence operations as just pivoting around the use of fake social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook and the like,\" Prof Innes, told the BBC.\n\n\"What is important about this research is showing how other kinds of media can be and are being manipulated and on an almost industrial scale.\"\n\nSome media websites allow people to vote on comments as well and the researchers say pro-Kremlin comments received an unusually high number of \"up-votes\".\n\nRussia has consistently denied being involved in propaganda and misinformation operations.\n\nOther websites targeted include the US's Fox News, Le Figaro in France, Der Spiegel and Die Welt in Germany, and Italy's La Stampa.\n\nThe work was undertaken by the Open Source Communications Analytics Research programme at Cardiff University's Crime and Security Research Institute and was funded by UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the owners of Mail Online, Express.co.uk and The Times for comment.", "It will be Stereophonics first gig in Wales since the Covid pandemic began\n\nWelsh rockers Stereophonics have announced a special festive return to Cardiff - with a headline Christmas show at the Principality Stadium.\n\nThe four-piece will be joined by Sir Tom Jones and Catfish And The Bottlemen for the concert on 18 December.\n\nIt will be their first gig in the capital since shows just before Wales went into the Covid lockdown in 2020.\n\nStereophonics frontman Kelly Jones said he wanted to do \"something we can celebrate\".\n\n\"After almost two years of being locked down and families all having their own stories of stress and pressure and loss, I wanted to give something to the Welsh people to feel good about,\" said Jones.\n\n\"There's a welcome in the stadium for everyone, come raise a glass and make some memories.\"\n\nThe Cynon Valley band's last shows in Cardiff were the final large events before Wales went into the first full national lockdown in March 2020.\n\nThe Christmas appearance will mark Sir Tom's return to his south Wales home\n\nAt the time, the Welsh government said the \"clear public health advice was that cancelling mass gatherings was not required\".\n\nBut within days, all mass gatherings were banned, as the pandemic measures came into force.\n\nThe new festive concert will take place with virtually all Covid restrictions lifted in Wales.\n\nAmerican superstar Pink was the last major music event at the Principality Stadium in June 2019\n\nHowever, organisers have already stressed measures will be in place to combat possible infections.\n\nAll those attending the Christmas gig will have to provide proof of being double-vaccinated against Covid-19 or proof of a negative lateral flow test taken with 24 hours of the event.\n\nFacemasks will also be required while entering and moving around the stadium.\n\nThe Stereophonics and Sir Tom Jones collaborated on 2000 hit Mama Told Me Not To Come\n\nThe event will mark the south Wales return for 81-year-old Sir Tom, who has shared the stage with Stereophonics previously and they sang together on 2000 hit Mama Told Me Not to Come.\n\n\"I've been good friends with Stereophonics for over 20 years, and was delighted to be asked by Kelly to join them for a very special show in a very special place. I can't wait to be there to share a great night with you all,\" said Sir Tom.\n\nTickets for the show will go on on sale on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK fired up an old coal power plant on Monday to meet its electricity needs.\n\nWarm, still, autumn weather has meant wind farms have not generated as much power as normal, while soaring prices have made it too costly to rely on gas.\n\nAs a result, National Grid ESO - which is responsible for balancing the UK's electricity supply - confirmed coal was providing 3% of national power.\n\nIt said it asked EDF to fire up West Burton A, which had been on standby.\n\nOn Tuesday, the use of coal returned to 2.2% of the UK's electricity generation.\n\nA National Grid ESO spokesman said there had been a three-day coal-free run in mid-August, but the country had relied on some coal power every day since then.\n\nLast year, coal contributed 1.6% of the country's electricity mix. That was down from 25% five years ago.\n\nBoth the government and National Grid ESO have committed to phasing out coal power completely by 2024 to cut carbon emissions. However, coal is still used when it is better value than gas.\n\nA small temporary uptick in the use of coal should be kept in perspective, said Dave Jones, electricity analyst at Ember, a think tank promoting the shift away from fossil fuels.\n\n\"No-one thought we'd use zero coal this year,\" he said.\n\n\"We're going through a process where year-on-year you're relying on coal less and less. As long as you know you can make it to that fixed date, which is still three years away, it's OK. We're well on track for that journey, probably ahead of schedule.\"\n\nBut higher gas prices could help accelerate the shift from gas to renewables over the next few years, he added.\n\nThe UK government has made commitments to reducing the use of gas for power generation, but has not set a fixed deadline.\n\nMore coal has been burnt this summer in particular, due to soaring prices for natural gas.\n\nAcross Europe, shortages and increased demand from Asia have seen the cost of gas increase to the highest level on record, according to Reuters.\n\nA cold start to the year meant countries across the continent dipped into their gas reserves, which would normally be replenished in the summer months when demand tends to be weaker.\n\nBut the economic rebound, as countries reopen from Covid-19 lockdowns, meant higher-than-expected demand led to a shortage of gas.\n\nBritain's use of coal power on a warm September day raises two big issues.\n\nThe first, is that this jars with an environmental commitment to reduce fossil fuel use. The second, is the huge impact global gas prices have on our domestic energy.\n\nOver the coming months, those sky-high gas prices are expected to remain volatile. So, as well as forcing National Grid to make some tough choices about where we get our electricity from, it could also have a big knock-on on what we pay.\n\nThe cap on regulated prices will be raised in October, adding £139 to the bills of 15 million households. But that could be just the start.\n\nNow would be a good time for consumers to check what they're paying - and shop around for the best deal - before the winter weather makes this issue more acute.\n\n\"In balancing the electricity system, we take actions in economical order and not on the basis of generation type,\" a National Grid spokesman said.\n\n\"Depending on system conditions, some power sources may be better at meeting a balancing requirement than others - so the most cost-effective solution to ensure safe, secure system operation will be sought.\"\n\nThe Nuclear Industry Association said the decision to fire up another coal power plant highlighted the urgent need to invest in new nuclear plants.\n\n\"Otherwise, we will continue to burn coal as a fall-back and fall well short of our net zero ambitions,\" said the trade body's chief executive, Tom Greatrex.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Fawziyah Javed died after falling from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman who fell from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.\n\nKashif Anwar, 27, made no plea as he appeared in private during a short hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.\n\nMr Anwar, of West Yorkshire, was remanded in custody and the case was continued for further examination.\n\nEmergency services were called to the landmark at about 21:00 but Ms Javed died at the scene.\n\nMs Javed worked at a charity which provided food and help for homeless people\n\nColleagues at a Yorkshire charity where Ms Javed had worked to help homeless people since 2015 described her as a \"genuine and very kind-hearted person\".\n\nOsman Gondal, chief executive of the InTouch Foundation, said: \"We have lost a community champion - somebody who had a passion and drive to help people that were in need.\"\n\nHe said Ms Javed volunteered at a number of other charities as well as InTouch, and that made her a \"very unique type of person\".\n\nMr Gondal said: \"You can have people who volunteer for, maybe, a day once a month.\n\n\"But whenever we needed her, she would always get involved.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police officers in riot gear escorted schoolgirls and their families past the protesters in 2001\n\nTwenty years ago, a violent sectarian dispute took place outside Holy Cross Primary School in north Belfast.\n\nThe school was thrust into the international spotlight, when hundreds of loyalist protesters tried to block the route taken by the school's pupils and their parents, who were from a Catholic background, on their walk to class.\n\nBBC News NI's Gareth Gordon, who was among the reporters who covered the story at the time, shares his memories.\n\nHave tape recorder, will travel. Once, my journey was a road trip to the places left behind when Northern Ireland got peace.\n\nThere I met mostly good people trapped by location and a history they didn't write. But some not so good as well.\n\nOf all of them, Holy Cross is the name I most remember, with very good reason.\n\nCatholic Ardoyne is beside Protestant Glenbryn. Just another interface but with one big difference.\n\nTucked away at the Glenbryn end of the Ardoyne Road is the Catholic Holy Cross Girls' Primary School.\n\nAnd for a time in 2001, before an even more grave event in New York replaced it in the world's collective consciousness, it made headlines around the globe.\n\nA large police convoy waited to protect the Holy Cross school run in 2001\n\nNo community living on either side of Belfast's many peace walls had a monopoly on grievance, and that summer there was a lot of it about.\n\nAttacks from one side on the other went both ways and Ardoyne saw more than its fair share.\n\nTwenty years on, the blame game has been well played out elsewhere.\n\nWhat follows here are my memories of a situation I, or no-one else who witnessed it, will ever forget.\n\nAt its heart are the innocents who attended Holy Cross Girls' School.\n\nChildren held hands tightly with family members as they passed police and Army lines\n\nLocals claimed some Protestants were attacked while putting up flags in late June just before the end of summer term.\n\nThere was a claim one of them was knocked off a ladder. As usual this is disputed.\n\nBut what's not disputed is that the school was then singled out for attention by loyalist protesters - a situation that remained unresolved all summer until the new term began in September.\n\nEveryone remembers the girls, some crying, being taken to school by parents with police shielding them from angry people shouting insults from the \"other side\".\n\nWhatever the rights and wrongs of the cause which began this form of protest, it was lost in the terrified faces of the girls forced to suffer a school run like no other.\n\nThe daily school run became a traumatic experience for children\n\nThe Wednesday morning was the worst. A pipe bomb was thrown, probably aimed at police, but the explosion was loud enough to send children into hysterics.\n\nLater I asked two Protestant women why it had happened. This is how it went.\n\nWoman one: \"There must be a reason why we're doing this. There must be. We've had enough fear and we can't take it no more. We don't care.\"\n\nWoman two: \"We don't care; we're like the Jews now, I think.\"\n\nWoman one: \"I mean I wouldn't let my son or my daughter come home from a disco or anything from that Crumlin Road to get in here and it's the only way they can come at night.\"\n\nMe: \"This morning, whatever the wrongs and rights here, a bomb went off close to the children going to school. How did that make you feel?\"\n\nWoman one: \"I'm past feeling. You can't understand that. I am past feeling. I'm not going to run my ones down for throwing that bomb.\"\n\nMe: \"But you're not a terrorist.\"\n\nWoman one: \"I'm not. No, I'm not a terrorist. No, I'm a mother. I'm a mother of five children.\"\n\nMe: \"Who's to blame for this?\"\n\nWoman one: \"Themmuns down there.\"\n\nMe: \"How would you have felt this morning if a child had been killed?\"\n\nWoman one: \"I'd have felt terrible. I'm a mother of five. Yes, it would be like me losing one of my own. I could feel for that mother.\"\n\nMe: \"So you're not past caring.\"\n\nRUC officers shielding an injured colleague during the 2001 Holy Cross dispute\n\nThe next morning the walk to school was played out on live television and radio to a world which could not quite believe what was happening.\n\nMy job was to relay this live on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme which remained on air way past its scheduled end time of 09:00 BST.\n\nI did so against the ear-splitting sound of protesters blowing whistles. But, thankfully, there were no more pipe bombs and the children made it through.\n\nPolice in riot gear protected families from attack on the school run\n\nI had no idea if I was speaking to thousands or to myself until we reached the school and the presenter Seamus McKee was able to ask me a question.\n\nOne woman later told me she missed an important appointment because she couldn't leave her car listening to me until it was clear the children had made it through unscathed.\n\nAfter that, the protest seemed to peter out. No-one had the stomach for any more of this madness.\n\nThe following week I stood at the school gate as two clerics who had been centrally involved in trying to resolve things - Father Aidan Troy and the Reverend Norman Hamilton - emerged after a joint school visit.\n\nCatholic priest Fr Aidan Troy helped shield schoolgirls on their walk to school\n\nI returned to the BBC happy the protest was now over and looked forward to an easy day.\n\nThat day was 11 September 2001 and my report of the school visit never made air.\n\nDays later I arrived in New York to cover the aftermath of the attacks on the Twin Towers.\n\nWe went first to Battery Park, a residential area near the World Trade Center, where people unable to return home watched lorry after lorry carry away the rubble of their lives.\n\n\"Are you really from BBC Northern Ireland?\" asked a woman who told me she and her daughter had spent the evening before the attack crying at the scenes of those young girls being escorted to school in Belfast.\n\nEven in the midst of a horrific terrorist attack on the other side of the Atlantic, there was no escaping Holy Cross.", "Hundreds of UK nationals are stuck in Afghanistan days after the last evacuation flight left Kabul airport. It is feared that hundreds more who are eligible for relocation to Britain are also trapped in the country, which is now in the hands of the hardline Islamist group.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has taken part in meetings in Qatar and Pakistan this week to discuss how some of the people could be helped to safety, said Kabul airport might reopen \"in the near future\". He also signalled that Britain was looking for co-operation with the Taliban on crossings.\n\nHere, British nationals and at-risk Afghans share what has happened since the final evacuation flight - and what they plan to do now. The BBC has changed some names to protect the identities of those we spoke to.\n\nHalima's parents, who both have British passports, went to Afghanistan for a family funeral in July, before the Taliban's rapid surge to power. Their flights back to London were cancelled and days later the country fell to the Taliban. In an email, the UK government told them to go to Kabul airport to be put on an evacuation flight but they turned back after warnings of an attack.\n\nHalima is alone now in London while her parents are trapped in Afghanistan\n\nSince the final UK evacuation, they have had no communication from the government. \"We are running out of money here. Banks are closed, there is a shortage of food,\" they explain. Their only plan is to try to survive until it's possible to come home.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week, Halima, who is in her early 20s, asked: \"Have you got any idea what my family and I are going through?\" She has so far received only an automated reply.\n\nAfter working in a London hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic, Wahid went to visit family in Afghanistan in early August. After the Taliban seized power, he was advised by the Foreign Office to go to the Baron Hotel, near Kabul airport, where British troops were processing UK nationals for evacuation.\n\nWahid says he loves his job in the hospital and misses going to work\n\nAt the gates, Taliban guards tried to tear up his British passport. Photos show the bruises from the humiliating beating they gave him in front of his wife.\n\n\"Now I'm moving from house to house. It's not safe to stay still. I have nightmares,\" he explains, adding that his brother was captured by the Taliban last week.\n\n\"It's too scary to try to leave through a neighbouring country. We heard a group of Afghans were killed at the border last week,\" said Wahid, who is in his 20s.\n\n\"All I can do is wait. All day I look at my phone hoping for an email - but nothing,\" he says.\n\nAbdul was an English language trainer for the British Council, working all over Afghanistan. The council told him he was eligible for the Arap (Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy) scheme, which gives Afghans who worked for the British government the right to resettle in the UK.\n\nHe has not yet heard the outcome of his application. \"We are left behind. They've given us to the Taliban,\" he said as the final evacuation flight left.\n\nAbdul worked for the British Council and is waiting to hear whether he can resettle in the UK\n\nFearing for their safety, Abdul and his family have now abandoned their home. With no job, he has sold his wife's jewellery to make ends meet.\n\nHe says he has no plans and no options. \"It's hard for me to return to normal life,\" he says. \"Even if the borders to neighbouring countries open, I don't know how to safely get out. No-one is answering my question - how long should we wait to hear from the government?\"\n\n\"There's no sleep - just worrying,\" says Zahra. She is in Leeds. Her family, some of whom fought the Taliban or prosecuted militants under the Western-backed Afghan government, are in Afghanistan.\n\nShe registered their details with the UK government but was told this week there were no updates and not to call the government hotline again. \"They have provided no solutions,\" she says.\n\nThe family are in hiding and waiting. One relative, tired of being scared, is considering the dangerous crossing into neighbouring Iran.\n\n\"There needs to be some kind of confirmation from the government. That's what they're waiting for. If they go to another country, will there be help?\" says Zahra, who is in her 20s. \"I'm 100% sure my family would take the risk if there was clarity and hope.\"\n\nFarwad went to the Baron Hotel three times to join the evacuation by British soldiers. In one attempt he says he waited for 24 hours in the dust and heat. An Afghan-British national, he had gone back to Afghanistan in 2019 and was living with his wife and young baby, neither of whom have British passports.\n\nHe was so certain they would be able to leave the country after the Taliban took power that he left their home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from Kabul: \"It's still a struggle to survive, or a race to try to escape\"\n\nHe says he sent numerous emails and called embassy staff. \"I told them our passport says the Queen 'will afford the bearer such assistance and protection as necessary' but they didn't care,\" he says.\n\nFarwad is now staying with neighbours. \"I don't have any options. My wife and child don't have British passports and I cannot leave them. It's dangerous to go to neighbouring countries. The embassies are closed. We don't know what to do.\"\n\n\"I've dialled the helpline more than 2,000 times,\" Sayyid, who lives in Edinburgh with his Scottish wife and children, tells the BBC.\n\nHis brother, who worked for a British charity in Afghanistan, has already been threatened by the Taliban, he says. With his mother, he left their home and joined the crowds at Kabul Airport trying to leave. But after missing out on the evacuation, they are left waiting in hope that flights will soon resume.\n\n\"I want them to get on one of those flights. They are eligible,\" Sayyid says. \"My mother is asking for my help and I'm helpless. She said 'I don't care about my life, but please take your brother'.\"", "Almost 388,000 people have been waiting more than a year for an operation compared with 1,600 before the pandemic\n\nThe NHS in England will get an extra £5.4bn over the next six months to respond to Covid-19 and tackle the backlog caused by the pandemic, the government has announced.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the money would go \"straight to the front line\" and provide treatments people were not getting quickly enough.\n\nMore than 5 million people are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England.\n\nThe rest of the UK will get an extra £1bn in total, ministers said.\n\nThe £5.4bn, which is for England only, is broken down into:\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The NHS was there for us during the pandemic but treating Covid patients has created huge backlogs.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said the way the health service dealt with \"one of the biggest challenges in its history\" had been \"phenomenal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Sajid Javid says there will be £5.4bn extra for the NHS\n\nHe said the extra £5.4bn in England was critical to ensure the health service had what it needed to manage the ongoing pandemic and help tackle waiting lists.\n\nBut he warned waiting lists would get worse before they got better as people came forward for help, adding: \"I want to reassure you the NHS is open, and we are doing what we can to support the NHS to deliver routine operations and treatment to patients across the country.\"\n\nThe NHS is under sustained pressure as it grapples with a huge backlog of procedures put on hold due to Covid, with hundreds of thousands of people waiting more than a year.\n\nStaff shortages combined with infection-control measures that mean hospitals have fewer beds at their disposal have led to calls for a long-term funding settlement.\n\nLast month, Mr Javid predicted \"a huge increase in demand\" with patients who had stayed away during lockdown returning to the health service for overdue treatment.\n\nIn a report in August, the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimated up to 14 million people could be on waiting lists in England by next autumn.\n\nThe cash boost once again illustrates just what impact Covid has had. The NHS has already had close to an extra £10bn this year on top of the £136bn it was due to get.\n\nMinisters hope this will help the NHS get through what promises to be a difficult winter.\n\nNot only are hospitals having to cope with Covid, there are signs that the normal winter viruses will return with a bang.\n\nLast winter there was very little flu, while other viruses such as RSV, which hospitalises thousands of young children every year, were kept largely at bay by lockdowns and social distancing.\n\nThe result is that people's immunity to these viruses will have waned - or for the very young not had a chance to develop at all.\n\nThere is also the need to tackle the growing backlog in non-emergency care, such as knee and hip operations. The waiting list is already at record levels and the NHS still has not been able to get back to pre-pandemic levels of treatment.\n\nIt is why the extra money is being welcomed but some in the NHS are still wondering whether it will be enough.\n\nNHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said the money provided welcome certainty for the NHS, which had \"pulled out all the stops\" to restore services, while caring for thousands of seriously ill Covid patients requiring hospital treatment during the toughest summer on record.\n\n\"This additional investment will enable the NHS to deliver more checks, scans and procedures as well as helping to deal with the ongoing costs and pressures of the pandemic as the NHS heads in to winter,\" she said.", "Matt Western says there should be more air ventilation filters on campuses Image caption: Matt Western says there should be more air ventilation filters on campuses\n\nShadow education minister Matt Western warns of the return of \"campus chaos\" as he asks about funding for air ventilation filters to cope with coronavirus.\n\nHe says: \"Here we are in September with a certain sense of 'Groundhog Day' with campus chaos set to return caused by the actions or inaction of this government.\n\n\"In November last year Sage published a report showing Covid outbreaks could be reduced on campus through the provision of air ventilation filters. Whilst the Welsh Labour government has committed funding for these machines, the UK Government has not.\"\n\nHe asks: \"So why hasn't the UK Government provided funding to make our campuses safe?\"\n\nEducation secretary Gavin Williamson replies: \"(Western) seems to have missed quite a significant point and a difference between this year and last year and of course we've had one of the most successful vaccine programmes rolled out anywhere in Europe where we were one of the first countries to be able to offer people not just one vaccine, but two and making sure that the adult population have it available.\n\n\"That is the big difference from this year to last year.\"", "Claudia Lawrence's mother has \"no hope\" new leads from the public will help to find her daughter after a search failed to find major clues.\n\nHopes of a breakthrough in the missing 35-year-old's case were dashed when the two-week evidence hunt ended on Sunday.\n\nPolice said news of the operation at Sand Hutton gravel pits, near York, had prompted people to provide fresh tips.\n\nBut Claudia's mother, Joan, said she did not believe these would bring an end to her 12-year wait for answers.\n\n\"You can't constantly live in hope and have it dashed, it's absolutely soul-destroying,\" she said.\n\nPolice spent a fortnight scouring the popular fishing spot, about eight miles (13km) outside the city, in response to intelligence suggesting it could have \"major relevance\" to the inquiry.\n\nA lake was drained as part of the search, and teams of officers were seen combing through woodland in search of clues to Claudia's 2009 disappearance.\n\n\"We've been down this road a lot, but this seemed more significant because of the area, the huge police presence and suchlike,\" Mrs Lawrence said.\n\n\"Part of me thought 'here we go again' and part of me thought there must be something because they wouldn't go to all this trouble if there wasn't something significant.\"\n\nJoan Lawrence said she had been hoping for a \"breakthrough\" with the Sand Hutton gravel pits search\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio York, Mrs Lawrence said the past fortnight had been \"very, very painful\" for her family, but she had made it through with support from friends, family and community.\n\n\"I've got cards, I've got flowers, I've talked to lots of people I've talked to people in the same situation who've been going through this longer than me and they all say we know where you're coming from, we know exactly,\" she said.\n\nWhile she was \"desperate for a Plan B\" to take the case forward, she held out \"no hope\" the new information would yield any progress, she added.\n\nPolice had been searching at Sand Hutton gravel pits, near York, since 24 August\n\nClaudia Lawrence's disappearance sparked one of the longest-running and highest-profile missing person cases in the UK.\n\nShe was last seen at 15:05 GMT on Wednesday 18 March 2009 as she walked towards her home on Heworth Road, York.\n\nThat evening she spoke to both of her parents in separate phone calls, but failed to arrive for her shift at Goodricke College the next day.\n\nHer father, Peter, reported her missing on 20 March after a friend called to say she had not turned up for a meeting at a local pub the previous evening.\n\nA number of people have been questioned in connection with her disappearance, but no charges have ever been brought.\n\nMr Lawrence died in February without ever finding out what happened to his daughter.\n\nPeter Lawrence, seen here on the 10th anniversary of his daughter's disappearance, died in February\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, lead investigator Det Supt Wayne Fox said \"nothing of obvious significance\" was found during searches at Sand Hutton.\n\nA small number of recovered items were being assessed for their forensic potential, he said, but any relevance to Ms Lawrence's disappearance had yet to be established.\n\nAccess to the area was restricted and a police cordon was put in place while searches continued\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "The Taliban have posted a video of their fighters raising their flag in Panjshir – the last pocket of Afghanistan not under their control – as they claim to have taken the valley.\n\nWhile resistance fighters dispute this, saying they still have a presence in the area, the Taliban flag can be seeing flying in front of the provincial governor's office.\n\nRead more: Taliban claim to have seized holdout Afghan valley", "Students across the UK have gone back to school after their summer break and a year disrupted by Covid.\n\nMost restrictions for students have been lifted, with face masks requirements and isolation bubbles gone.\n\nThose in Scotland still have to social distance.", "Last month an average of around 1.8 million journeys were being made on the Tube every day\n\nMonday morning was the busiest rush hour on the Tube since the first national lockdown, according to Transport for London (TfL).\n\nFigures showed 831,000 taps in to the Tube network between 07:00 and 10:00 BST, the highest since March 2020.\n\nThere were 860,000 registered passengers on buses according to TfL - up 40% compared to last week.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"delighted\" by the increase.\n\nMr Khan said: \"Our city - and our country - depends on London's economic recovery.\n\n\"I urge returning office workers to make the most of what our city has to offer.\"\n\nMany children have returned to school this week for the start of the autumn term, impacting numbers. But TfL said the figures were in line with recent passenger trends.\n\nNumbers are still far behind the pre-pandemic highs; nearly twice as many passengers used London Underground before the national lockdown.\n\nLast month an average of more than 1.8 million journeys were made on the Tube every weekday - compared to 3.9m in July 2019.\n\nIn 2019-20 Transport for London earned £4.9bn from fares - 47% of its income.", "The restoration of London's Elizabeth Tower, which will ultimately cost at least £80 million, is drawing to a close.\n\nAfter a delay due to the pandemic, it's now been four years since Big Ben last chimed daily on the hour.\n\nThe clock hands will return this month and work will start to remove the scaffolding.", "Jean-Paul Belmondo's battered face, laconic style and roguish smile captured the imagination of French 1960s youth.\n\nBelmondo, who has died at his Paris home aged 88, was the cool rebel of the new wave of French cinema typified in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film classic, A Bout de Souffle.\n\nHis moody performance as a doomed thief and Humphrey Bogart fan struck a chord and saw him dubbed the Gallic James Dean.\n\nLater, he forsook arts cinema to become a highly bankable commercial actor, as at home in comedy as in drama.\n\nJean-Paul Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris on 9 Apr 1933, the son of Paul Belmondo, a sculptor whose statues grace many a Parisian park.\n\nThe intensely Bohemian atmosphere of his upbringing had a formative effect on him.\n\nHe failed at school and became an amateur boxer. In his short-lived career, he won 15 of his 23 bouts before giving up to concentrate on acting.\n\nA Bout de Souffle was his first starring role\n\nHis trademark bumpy nose, however, was a result of a fight in the school playground rather than the ring.\n\nAfter performing on stage in provincial theatres, his movie break came with the role of Laszlo in Marcel Carné's 1958 film Les Tricheurs.\n\nOn the strength of his forceful portrayal, he was given his first starring role in A Bout de Souffle.\n\nOne critic described him as \"a bewitchingly ugly man.\"\n\nHis cult image carried him through several action films such as Les Distractions and La Novice.\n\nDetermined not to be stereotyped, Belmondo also accepted more demanding roles such as the idealistic intellectual of Vittorio de Sica's La Ciociara in 1961, and as the young country priest in Philippe de Broca's swashbuckling Cartouche the following year.\n\nHe also enjoyed comic roles, in Godard's Une Femme est une Femme, and, particularly, in De Broca's L'Homme de Rio, in which he played a suave, unflappable secret agent.\n\nBy the mid-60s, he had switched completely to the commercial mainstream and formed his own production company, Cerito.\n\nHe relished his role as an elder statesman of French cinema\n\nHe even performed his own stunts in such films as Les Tribulations d'Un Chinois en Chine in 1965, though he gave this practice up after an accident in the 1985 film Hold-up.\n\nHe brightened many an all-star cast in international productions such as Is Paris Burning? (1966), the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) and with Alain Delon in the gangster movie Borsalino (1970),\n\nHe moved away from action movies claiming that \"I don't want to be a flying grandpa of the French cinema.\"\n\nIn 1987 Belmondo returned to the stage for the first time for nearly 30 years and divided his work between theatre and film for the rest of his career.\n\nTwo years later he won a Cesar, the French equivalent of an Oscar, for his performance in Itineraire d'un Enfant Gate.\n\nHe branched out creatively as part of the ensemble in Varda's homage to international cinema Les Cent et une Nuits de Samon Cinema in 1995 and as the Jean Valjean figure in Claude Lelouche's re-working of Les Miserables in the same year.\n\nJean-Paul Belmondo was divorced from his first wife Elodie in 1965. His second marriage to Constantin also failed. He later had long relationships with actresses Ursula Andress and Laura Antonelli.\n\nCinema audiences at home and abroad were drawn to his charm and seeming disregard for whatever absurdities were taking place on screen. He was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The shortage of workers that is affecting supply chains across Britain could last for up to two years, according to the business body, the Confederation of British Industry.\n\nIndustries from pig farming to fast food have said the lack of skilled staff is disrupting their business.\n\nThe CBI said the shortages would harm the UK's economic recovery.\n\nIt said the government should adopt a more flexible policy on immigration to tackle the problem.\n\nThe disruption has already prompted firms, including McDonald's, Wetherspoons, Ikea and supermarket Iceland, to say they are falling short of some supplies. Some firms told the CBI they thought it would take two years for the shortages to be eliminated.\n\n\"The CBI has heard from companies actively cutting capacity because they can't meet demand, like the hoteliers limiting the number of bookable rooms because they don't have enough housekeeping staff and can't get linen laundered,\" said CBI director general Tony Danker.\n\n\"Meanwhile some restaurant owners have had to choose between lunchtime and evening services when trying to make the most of summer.\"\n\nThe problems have been blamed on the furlough scheme keeping some staff out of circulation, the pandemic more broadly, and EU workers leaving the UK following Brexit.\n\nThe CBI said the list of \"shortage occupations\" which determines whether overseas workers are granted work visas should be widened to include HGV drivers and other areas where its members had identified shortages, including welders, butchers and bricklayers.\n\n\"The government promised an immigration system that would focus on the skills we need rather than unrestrained access to overseas labour,\" said Mr Danker. \"Yet here we have obvious and short-term skilled need but a system that can't seem to respond.\"\n\nThe CBI said members also cited shortages of fruit and flower pickers, food and meat processing operatives, livestock and arable workers, factory assembly workers, scaffolders, carpenters, chefs, cleaners and housekeepers.\n\nHowever the Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has previously rejected calls to loosen immigration rules, and suggested firms should hire and train UK workers to fill the gaps in road haulage. He said he wanted to see firms making long-term investments in the UK domestic workforce instead of relying on labour from abroad.\n\nBricklayers are in short supply, the CBI says\n\nThe CBI said it welcomed the government's plans to \"build a more innovative economy\" but that it would take time. It said the economy would need short-term \"fixes\" as well as long-term strategies to resolve the current supply problems, particularly in the run-up to Christmas.\n\n\"The government's ambition that the UK economy should become more high-skilled and productive is right. But implying that this can be achieved overnight is simply wrong. And a refusal to deploy temporary and targeted interventions to enable economic recovery is self-defeating.\n\nThe end of the job retention, or furlough, scheme later this month, would bring more people back into the labour market, the CBI said. However, it added that this was unlikely to resolve the problems firms were experiencing because most of those on furlough already had jobs to return to, or were in narrowly-focused geographic areas, such as around airports.\n\n\"Furlough ending is not the panacea some people think will magically fill labour supply gaps,\" said Mr Danker.", "A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there Image caption: A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there\n\nThe BBC is covering the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US, which led to the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan.\n\nThis is the story of Chris Cruz, who explains in an interview to BBC's OS programme why he decided to join the US army.\n\n\"My mother was heading to work on a normal 11 September day. As soon as she exited the subway, she was told to start running as the buildings were coming down. She literally saw them coming down and described people jumping out of the windows,\" says Chris.\n\n\"When she finally made it home, I - as an 11-year-old boy at the time - had to tell her that she had burn marks and blood spots on the back of her legs. She was in a state of shock.\n\n\"As I grew up, I realised... I had the ability to be part of an organisation that could defend and prevent these atrocities for all Americans.\n\n\"9/11 played a role, but not in a way of revenge. I didn't want to join out of bloodlust. I served two tours in Afghanistan. Both of those times I volunteered to go.\n\n\"I don't think our mission would have succeeded without our Afghan partners. I agree we couldn't be there forever, but we made a promise to keep our partners safe and that we wouldn't turn our backs on them, and that's exactly what we've done.\"\n\nChris adds: \"I do think the way we pulled out, the way we left it, was completely wrong. There needed to be a better exit strategy.\"", "A street vendor in Herat, Afghanistan's third-largest city, which was seized by the Taliban earlier this month.\n\nWhat is life like for those left behind when the last foreign troops flew out of Afghanistan? Four people from cities and provinces around the country told the BBC they had lost basic freedoms and were struggling to survive.\n\nSome names have been changed to protect contributors' safety.\n\nMazar-i-Sharif is a large city and major economic hub in the north of Afghanistan, close to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Once a government stronghold, it fell to the Taliban on 14 August.\n\nA view of a closed market in Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province, Afghanistan\n\nMajib used to work in a restaurant. Now he's struggling to find food. In a video call from Mazar-i-Sharif, he pointed to the dirty floor of an abandoned building where a few blankets were piled - for now it is his new home.\n\nMajib arrived in the city just a few weeks ago, one of more than half a million Afghans displaced this year by the conflict between the Taliban and recently-ousted government forces.\n\nHis father was killed by the Taliban more than 10 years ago, he said. A decade on and he's \"scared to go outside\" because \"they're beating people up every day\".\n\nFootage from Mazar-i-Sharif last week showed dozens of Afghans carrying suitcases and clutching plastic bags as they boarded buses to the capital, Kabul, in the hope of trying to leave.\n\nBut in the past few days, since US forces departed, more people have been arriving from in Mazar-i-Sharif from Kabul, Majib said - trying to make their way to the border with Uzbekistan as a way out.\n\nMajib is also desperate to escape, but doesn't know if he will make it. \"The Taliban are here and they don't want people to leave the country,\" he said.\n\nHelmand Province in the south, where British troops were stationed during the conflict, was seized by the Taliban on 13 August. The provincial capital Lashkar Gah saw some of the heaviest fighting in the weeks preceding.\n\nWomen and children at a mobile clinic in Lashkar Gah in March 2021\n\nPinned to the noticeboard of Dr Viktor Urosevic's office are small plastic bags containing bullets. \"We call it our wall of shame,\" he said, as he removed one to hold up to the camera in a video interview.\n\nMost of them were large calibre rounds which he had removed from young patients, he said.\n\nDr Urosevic works at a trauma hospital in Lashkar Gah. Now that the fighting has ended, the wards are no longer packed like they were just weeks ago. The bombs and bullets have stopped and the streets outside are calm.\n\n\"It's very strange, I've been here for a few years, but it's never been so quiet,\" he said. \"I'm seeing it as the silence before the storm, I hope I'm wrong, but let's see.\"\n\nMany buildings were damaged or destroyed in bombings in Lashkar Gah and families who fled during the conflict have come back to find their homes in ruins, Dr Urosevic said.\n\n\"They're sleeping in front of the mosque, they're sleeping in the streets,\" he said. \"They don't have the funding to rebuild their homes so a lot of them have ended up being homeless or forced to stay with their relatives.\"\n\nHe said a lot of families in the area were living in poverty, struggling to get a meal during the day. With banks closed for many days, a lack of access to cash has exacerbated the problem.\n\nMany foreign aid workers who would be distributing this kind of aid left the country as the Taliban took charge. Dr Urosevic, from Serbia, is among those who decided to stay behind.\n\n\"We have a responsibility, we are the only trauma centre in the province,\" he said. \"People need food, they need money, they need medicines.\"\n\nOne of Afghanistan's poorest provinces, Badakhshan, in the northeast of the country, borders Tajikistan. The Taliban took control of its provincial capital on 11 August.\n\nDisplaced people in Badakshan back in May 2018. People in the province have been uprooted for years by the conflict.\n\nAbdul is a doctor in Badakhshan. He was a student the last time the Taliban ran the country.\n\n\"The situation at that time was very bad and their behaviour is the same as they were in the past,\" he said. \"I don't see any changes.\"\n\nAbdul sent the BBC several pictures from a hospital in the area which is now guarded by the Taliban. In one, an 18-month-old boy lies emaciated on a bed, as his mother begs for staff to save him. According to Abdul, she could not afford to feed him.\n\n\"Day by day, more children are becoming malnourished,\" he said.\n\nAccording to the UN, more than half of the children under five in Afghanistan are expected to be acutely malnourished in the next year.\n\nPoverty was already a reality for many in this province, but food and fuel prices have risen since the Taliban took charge and government employees have lost their jobs. Some are still waiting to be paid for the last few months.\n\nAbdul also fears for women's rights in the province. While female medical staff have been allowed to work, he said many other women weren't being allowed to continue with their jobs and were left wondering what lies ahead.\n\nGirls above Class 6 - above UK secondary school age - were no longer being allowed to go to school, Abdul said. \"People don't have any hope for their future,\" he said. \"There is no opportunity for people in Badakhshan.\"\n\nHerat, a Silk Road city close to the border with Iran, was seen as one of Afghanistan's most liberal. The day after US troops left, hundreds of Taliban supporters filled the streets. Others stayed home in fear.\n\nA Taliban figher on patrol in Herat, which was seized by the group on 11 August.\n\nGul had just come back from the market when he spoke to the BBC. \"All over the bazaar, the Taliban are standing with their guns,\" he said. \"You don't see many rich people or women and girls on the street now because they're all afraid of the Taliban.\"\n\nGul's wife Afsoon now can't leave the house without taking a male escort and she has to wear a burqua covering her face. \"The future for my daughter is unclear,\" she said.\n\nAnd Gul's sister, a doctor, was told to stay away from her clinic for a few weeks, he said, even after Taliban leaders told women in the medical profession they could return to work.\n\nDays later she was able to return alongside other women, Gul said. But many other women were still at home, he said, unsure if they can resume the careers they had worked for. Gul and his family are still hoping to leave Afghanistan.\n\n\"We will go anywhere,\" he said. \"America, Germany, France. Anywhere.\"", "Boris Johnson will defend his handling of the Afghanistan crisis in the Commons as he reiterates his vow to use \"every economic, political and diplomatic lever\" to help Afghans.\n\nBoth he and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab have faced criticism over the UK's response to the Taliban takeover.\n\nThe prime minister will make a statement in the House later on Monday.\n\nIt comes after the UK's top general said \"everybody got it wrong\" on how quickly the Taliban would gain control.\n\nLabour has been among those warning that the UK could face a heightened terror threat if extremism is allowed to flourish in Afghanistan.\n\nThe last British and US troops left Afghanistan at the end of August, bringing their 20-year military campaign in the country to an end.\n\nThere has been criticism of the way the West withdrew, with questions over how the Taliban was able to seize control of the country at such speed.\n\nAnd there is also concern that many Afghans who were eligible to come to the UK - many of whom worked with the British armed forces or government - have been left behind.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, which returns on Monday from its summer recess, Mr Johnson will pledge to \"use every economic, political and diplomatic lever to protect our country from harm and help the Afghan people\".\n\nHe has previously said Western governments could withhold substantial funds from the Taliban.\n\nMr Johnson will also commend the \"courage and ingenuity\" of those involved in the UK's evacuation of around 15,000 people from the Afghan capital, Kabul.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to provide an update on the government's new resettlement programme for Afghans, which will allow a total of 20,000 people to settle in the UK over the coming years.\n\nMr Johnson will also use his Commons speech to thank the 150,000 British service men and women for their work in Afghanistan over the past two decades.\n\nHis statement comes in the week marking the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania which prompted the US and its allies to go to war in Afghanistan.\n\nIn a speech to the Royal United Services Institute, the former Labour prime minister, Tony Blair - who was in power at the time - admitted \"nearly everything about 9/11 and its aftermath, particularly now, is mired in controversy\".\n\nBut he said \"radical Islam\" continues to represent \"a first order security threat\" and leading nations, including Russia and China \"must unite to develop an agreed strategy\" to counter extremism.\n\nHe said he now accepts the West should not \"attempt what we tried in Afghanistan\" in another country and that \"for sure, we could have 'remade' better\" in Afghanistan.\n\nThe challenge now, he said, is to work out a way to deal with the threat.\n\nMr Blair added: \"Maybe my generation of leaders were naïve in thinking countries could be 'remade'.\n\n\"Or maybe the 'remaking' needed to last longer.\n\n\"But we should never forget as we see the women of Afghanistan in the media, culture and civic society now flee in fear of their lives, that our values are still those which free people choose.\n\n\"Recovering confidence in our values and in their universal application is a necessary part of ensuring we stand up for them and are prepared to defend them.\"\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson would announce an additional £5m to help military charities provide support for veterans with the aim of ensuring \"no veteran's request for help will go unanswered\".\n\nThe PM's last appearance in the House of Commons came during an emergency debate on the Afghanistan crisis on 18 August, when he faced a barrage of criticism from MPs on all sides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gen Sir Nick Carter says the Taliban managed to \"buy off\" opponents as it took over\n\nOn Sunday, Gen Sir Nick Carter, the chief of the defence staff, told the BBC the pace of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan \"surprised us\".\n\n\"I don't think what anybody predicted was how fragile that Afghan government was and how fragile it was in relation to the command of its armed forces.\"\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said there was a strong possibility that Britain may now be less safe because of the events in Afghanistan.\n\n\"The urgent task for the government... is to make sure Afghanistan doesn't collapse once again into a haven of terrorism,\" she said.", "Banu Negar's family say the officer was eight months pregnant when she was killed\n\nTaliban militants in Afghanistan have shot dead a policewoman in a provincial city, witnesses have told the BBC.\n\nThe woman, named in local media as Banu Negar, was killed at the family home in front of relatives in Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province.\n\nThe killing comes amid increasing reports of escalating repression of women in Afghanistan.\n\nThe Taliban told the BBC they had no involvement in Negar's death and are investigating the incident.\n\nSpokesman Zabiullah Mujaheed said: \"We are aware of the incident and I am confirming that the Taliban have not killed her, our investigation is ongoing.\"\n\nHe added that the Taliban had already announced an amnesty for people who worked for the previous administration, and put Negar's murder down to \"personal enmity or something else\".\n\nDetails of the incident are still sketchy as many in Firozkoh fear retribution if they speak out. But three sources have told the BBC that the Taliban beat and shot Negar dead in front of her husband and children on Saturday.\n\nRelatives supplied graphic images showing blood spattered on a wall in the corner of a room and a body, the face heavily disfigured.\n\nThe family say Negar, who worked at the local prison, was eight months pregnant.\n\nThree gunmen arrived at the house on Saturday and searched it before tying members of the family up, relatives say.\n\nThe intruders were heard speaking Arabic, a witness said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There is anger at the Taliban in Kabul, but others in rural areas welcome the end of a deadly war\n\nSince taking power on 15 August, the Taliban have sought to portray themselves as more tolerant than their global reputation suggests, but incidents of brutality and repression are still being reported in parts of Afghanistan.\n\nHuman rights groups have been documenting revenge killings, detentions and persecution of religious minorities. The Taliban have said officially that they will not seek retribution against those who worked for the former government.\n\n\"No grudges, no revenge,\" was the Taliban message at their first press conference after they took power. But there's a growing chasm between Taliban statements and the message coming from the streets where every Talib has a gun and controls his own corner.\n\nIt's hard to gauge the extent of abuse and harassment, particularly of women, across this country. Horrific incidents may be isolated but there's an everyday tension now enveloping the lives of many women, especially professionals, and those who must work to feed their families.\n\nIn Kabul, everyone I've spoken to - former government advisers, airline cabin crew, teachers, hairdressers - are worried. Some are downright scared. Some are hiding in safe houses.\n\nThe Taliban continue to stress that \"women and girls will have all their rights within Islam\". But rules which are emerging, such as the new dress code and classes segregated by gender at universities, underscore how women's lives are set to change, beyond recognition.\n\nThe Taliban on Sunday gave more details of how segregation of the sexes will be enacted in universities.\n\nIn an extensive document, the new authorities said men and women must be separated, if necessary by a curtain.\n\nIdeally, women will be taught by women but if none are available then \"old men\" of good character can step in, AFP reports.\n\nFemale students must wear an abaya, or robe, and niqab, or face veil.\n\nOn Saturday, Taliban officials broke up a demonstration by dozens of women in Kabul demanding the continuation of rights built up since the end of the Taliban's previous spell in power.\n\nThe group say the Taliban targeted them with tear gas and pepper spray as they tried to walk from a bridge to the presidential palace.\n\nMeanwhile, fighting is reported to be continuing in the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul. The province is the only part of Afghanistan actively resisting Taliban rule.\n\nThe opposition National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) said its spokesman Fahim Dashti and a commander, Gen Abdul Wudod Zara, had been killed.\n\nBut the group also said a prominent Taliban general and 13 bodyguards had also died in the conflict.\n\nNRF leader, Ahmad Massoud, posted on Facebook that he welcomed a proposal from religious leaders for a negotiated end to the conflict.\n\nHe said that the NRF would be prepared to stop fighting if Taliban stopped its attacks.\n\nEarlier, the Taliban said their forces were now in the provincial capital, Bazarak, where they inflicted \"numerous casualties\", though this was disputed by the NRF.", "As Westminster has been cranking up for a busy autumn, so too has frantic and fraught speculation about the government's first big move of the political season.\n\nAt around noon on Tuesday, Boris Johnson will unveil his plan to \"fix\" the system in England that looks after some of the most vulnerable people in society.\n\nIt will come more than two years, an election, and a pandemic after he first promised to do so.\n\nDespite thousands of column inches and hours and hours of earnest public debate already, there is a huge amount that we don't know about what will be on offer.\n\nAnd as I write on Monday evening, most of the cabinet is not fully in the loop. Let's start though with what we do expect.\n\nThe government is expected to announce an increase in National Insurance, the tax paid by workers and employers, likely of 1.25%, to raise billions of pounds to pay for helping the NHS catch up with lost time and treatment after the pandemic, and to help improve and pay for social care in England.\n\nI'm told the cash raised, potentially over £12 billion, will be ring-fenced somehow, targeted initially at the health service itself then will switch to social care after three years.\n\nExpect also promises of changes to how the system works, including limiting the amount that families have to pay for care if need it.\n\nAs I wrote before the summer, for months it's been likely that the plan would be based on reforms put forward by Sir Andrew Dilnot years ago, not least because the legislation required is also on the statute book.\n\nThe social care changes do relate to the system in England, because Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have different mechanisms when it comes to its provision.\n\nBut if extra National Insurance income is spent in the way we'd expect, there will be more money for every part of the UK too.\n\nIt's likely there would have to be a specific vote in Parliament to set the level of the limit, or \"cap\" for families in England.\n\nBut the Dilnot framework already exists, which reduces the need for months of wrangling or Commons complications.\n\nIndeed, whispers today suggest that ministers might push for a vote sooner rather than later on the increase to NI, potentially branded as the \"Health and Social Care Levy\".\n\nAnd by tying the long-term changes to the care system to extra cash the NHS says it needs because of the pandemic, it could make it harder for critics to oppose the plan.\n\nThe care system is facing growing demands as a result of an ageing UK population\n\nI'm told the proposals include increasing current hospital capacity to 110% of its current level, to help make up for lost time and treatments during the pandemic.\n\nIt's potentially one thing for an angry MP to argue against a costly and complicated change to the social care system. It's quite another to vote against extra money for the health service.\n\nWe also know that Boris Johnson is willing to break a manifesto pledge by raising National Insurance, and up for going ahead with a tax rise that proportionately hits the young and less wealthy harder than the richer and older generation.\n\nOne minister suggested that unfairness would be balanced out with the chancellor's expected ditching of the so-called triple lock that protects the level of pension payments.\n\nThat might help government ministers with their script, but it doesn't smooth the edges of what many see as a blunt increase to a tax paid by millions.\n\nAnd it is abundantly clear that many Conservatives, including Cabinet ministers, are very unhappy with the proposed tax increase.\n\nThat's not just because it breaks the promise in their 2019 election manifesto, once seen as politically sacred documents, not to raise NI.\n\nBut also because the details of the reforms that are meant to take place alongside it are sketchy.\n\nWhich takes us to what we don't know - a lot.\n\nFirst, we don't know what kind of changes will be made to the care sector yet.\n\nWhat about the workforce? What about local authorities' role? What will the limits be on what families have to pay for care?\n\nAnd what about so called \"hotel\" costs, for food and accommodation in residential care?\n\nCrucially, what kind of guarantee will there be that the huge amount of extra cash raised will actually go to the NHS and then on to social care, when it's a rise in general taxation?\n\nWhat will happen to the money due to social care in three years' time if the NHS comes to believe that it actually needs to keep the extra finances?\n\nHow much extra will the NHS itself, and social care providers, have to stump up in extra NI themselves? As a huge employer, the NHS could find itself on the hook for hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nWhen the details of the plan - named \"A Build Back Better Plan for the NHS and Social Care,\" I'm told (what else, I hear you cry) - emerge in black and white at lunchtime on Tuesday, it's likely more questions will emerge in response.\n\nThere will be noise. There are arguments ahead. The opposition parties are bristling.\n\nThe prime minister may receive only ragged support from his party for the plan.\n\nBut Boris Johnson has had enough of answering \"wait and see\" when asked for his plan on social care, and is unwilling to go into the next election with this long-running dilemma not resolved.\n• None Will the National Insurance cut leave me better off?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Taliban fighters raise their flag in front of Panjshir's provincial governor's office\n\nThe Taliban have declared victory over the province of Panjshir northeast of the capital Kabul, the final pocket of territory which has remained outside their rule.\n\nThe group posted footage online of their fighters raising their flag there on Monday.\n\nResistance fighters however said they were still present in \"all strategic positions\" and \"continue to fight\".\n\nTheir leader has called for a \"national uprising\" against the Taliban.\n\nIn an audio recording posted on social media Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), blamed the international community for legitimising the Taliban and giving them military and political confidence.\n\n\"Wherever you are, inside or outside, I call on you to begin a national uprising for the dignity, freedom and prosperity of our country,\" he said.\n\nThe Taliban took control of the rest of Afghanistan three weeks ago, seizing the capital Kabul on 15 August following the collapse of the Western-backed government.\n\nIt comes nearly 20 years after US forces led an invasion to topple the Taliban.\n\nPanjshir, a rugged mountain valley, is home to between 150,000 and 200,000 people. It was a centre of resistance when Afghanistan was under Soviet occupation in the 1980s and during the Taliban's previous period of rule, between 1996 and 2001.\n\n\"The Taliban haven't captured Panjshir,\" Ali Maisam, spokesman for the NRF, earlier told the BBC, saying he was \"rejecting Taliban claims\".\n\nA tweet from the group's Twitter handle also said: \"The struggle against the Taliban & their partners will continue until justice & freedom prevails.\"\n\nBut Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement that \"with this victory, our country is completely taken out of the quagmire of war\".\n\nThe stunning Panjshir Valley is one of the smallest Afghan provinces, steeped in the biggest of legends.\n\nIts rugged mountain terrain - with its maze of valleys, crevices and caves - has been its greatest weapon in repelling invaders. The Soviet army never managed to conquer it in the 1980s; the Taliban didn't control it the first time round in the 1990s.\n\nSo in this battle of opposing narratives, it's possible that the Taliban control the Panjshir's principal public arteries and areas, and a landscape known intimately only by its own inhabitants may now be sheltering the most defiant of resistance fighters. But the Taliban advance, however deep, is of great significance - both in symbolic and strategic terms. It's a sparkling jewel in the new Taliban crown as they embark on re-establishing their Islamic Emirate.\n\nBut resistance leaders including Ahmad Massoud, son of the legendary commander, and Amrullah Saleh, the vehement Taliban critic, won't go quietly into the night.\n\nThe National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) has been resisting Taliban rule\n\nSince taking power the Taliban have sought to portray themselves as more tolerant, but incidents of brutality and repression are still being reported in parts of Afghanistan.\n\nAlthough the group has promised to respect the rights of women, many fear a return to the way they were treated when the Taliban were previously in power. Women were forced to cover their faces outside, and suffered harsh punishments for minor transgressions.\n\nWitnesses have told the BBC that Taliban militants shot and killed pregnant policewoman Banu Negar on Saturday.\n\nThe Taliban told the BBC they had no involvement in Negar's death and are investigating the incident.\n\nThere have also been several protests calling for respect for women's rights across Afghanistan.\n\nOn Monday, a group of women demonstrating in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif told BBC Persian that Taliban fighters had threatened them.\n\n\"They swore at us and insulted us, and said that we should disperse quickly or else they would beat us to death,\" she said, adding that the militants had also threatened anyone who tried to film them.\n\nWomen have taken part in protests demanding respect for their rights across Afghanistan\n\nHuman rights groups have also documented revenge killings, detentions and persecution of religious minorities. The Taliban have said officially that they will not seek retribution against those who worked for the former government.\n\nAs yet the Taliban have not announced the final make up of their new regime.\n\nSpokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters on Monday morning that all the important decisions have already been made, and that they are now working on the \"technical issues\".\n\nHe also said an interim government would be announced first, allowing for changes later.\n\nLater on Monday, US President Joe Biden was asked by a reporter at the White House if he would recognise a Taliban government. \"That's a long way off,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travelled to Qatar on Monday for talks with the government about the situation in Afghanistan, and to thank them for their part in helping the US evacuations from Kabul.\n\nMore than 120,000 people were air-lifted from the Afghan capital in a US-led operation before their forces fully withdrew from the country on 31 August.\n\nA state department official travelling with Mr Blinken on Monday announced the US had helped evacuate four of its citizens over land - the first US citizens the government has helped leave the country since the withdrawal.\n\nThe Taliban were aware of the evacuation, the official said, but no details were given about their identity or which country they crossed into from Afghanistan.\n\nUS Republican congressman Ronny Jackson tweeted after the announcement that the four evacuees came from his district in Texas.\n\nAre you in Panjshir? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows lorry clipping the kiosk as it passed\n\nThree ferry staff members had a lucky escape when the kiosk they were working in was flattened by a passing HGV.\n\nPassengers and other staff members rushed to help when the lorry struck the kiosk at Town Quay in Southampton shortly before 13:00 BST.\n\nRed Funnel said three staff members were inside at the time. One woman was taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nIt warned of disruption to road traffic and sailings to and from the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe crash was captured on a webcam located in a nearby building.\n\nThe check-in kiosk was completely demolished by the impact\n\nIt showed other staff members and members of the public running towards the kiosk when it was demolished by the lorry, which was apparently attempting to park.\n\nA Red Funnel statement said: \"Three Red Funnel colleagues were inside a check in kiosk which was struck by a HGV this afternoon.\n\n\"Our priority is the safety of our team members and passengers, and although there are no significant injuries, both police and ambulance services are in attendance as a precaution.\n\n\"The incident area has now been secured and we are currently operating a shuttle service to clear traffic as quickly as possible.\"\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said three people were treated at the scene for non-life threatening injuries, with one then taken to hospital for further treatment.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said no arrests had been made.\n\nSailings to and from the Isle of Wight were disrupted as work was carried out to clear the debris\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rapper Wiley has been charged with assault and burglary after allegedly attacking a man at an east London flat.\n\nThe musician from Tower Hamlets, whose real name is Richard Kylea Cowie Jr, is accused of causing the man a minor injury in Forest Gate on 28 August.\n\nThe 42-year-old will appear at Thames Magistrates' Court next week charged with assault by beating and burglary with intent to cause criminal damage.\n\nThe Met Police confirmed his arrest and subsequent charges earlier on Monday.\n\nThe force added that paramedics had not been needed to attend the scene of the alleged assault, on Romford Road.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “We can be proud of our armed forces, and everything they have achieved\".\n\nBoris Johnson has promised not to abandon UK allies left behind in Afghanistan after the Taliban's rapid takeover of the country.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK would do \"everything possible\" to help Afghans who worked for British forces get out safely.\n\nHe told MPs 311 such Afghans eligible for relocation to the UK had not been evacuated in time.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer blamed this on the PM's \"lack of leadership\".\n\nSir Keir added it was a \"national disgrace\" the government does not know precisely how many British nationals are left in Afghanistan.\n\nUpdating MPs as they return from their summer recess, Mr Johnson said the government's obligation towards Afghans who helped the UK would \"live on\" after the withdrawal of British troops last week.\n\nHe said the UK would exert \"economic and diplomatic pressure\" on the Taliban to provide them with safe routes out of the country.\n\nAlso updating MPs, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he had discussed organising safe passage through Qatar and Pakistan during meetings with their leaders last week.\n\nHe also said he had discussed how the UK could help organise flights from Kabul airport, where international flights have been grounded since the withdrawal of US troops at the end of August.\n\nDomestic flights have resumed at Kabul airport - but international departures are yet to restart\n\nMr Johnson confirmed that Afghans admitted to the UK under a separate refugee scheme will be allowed to stay indefinitely.\n\nHe added that the government would shortly be writing to local authorities with details of funding for accommodation and school places.\n\nSir Keir said that local councils hoping to host Afghan refugees were still \"in the dark\" over the financial support they would receive.\n\nA document seen by the BBC last week urged the Treasury to confirm extra funding before councils make offers to house refugees.\n\nIt said just under £400m has been allocated so far to help resettle those who had fled the country, but an extra £557m could be needed over the next three years.\n\nAround 15,000 people eligible to come to the UK were evacuated in the final two weeks before Kabul fell to the Taliban, including 8,000 Afghans who had worked alongside British forces.\n\nBut the government has admitted it cannot be precise with how many others were left behind.\n\nThe government has pledged to bring 20,000 refugees to the UK in the next five years, including 5,000 in the coming year.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs that the scheme would include those who \"face a particular risk from the Taliban,\" such as those working to improve human rights, or because of their \"gender, or sexuality or religion\".\n\nAlongside Mr Johnson, Sir Keir praised the efforts of British personnel who took part in the evacuation efforts.\n\nBut he said they had been let down by \"a lack of planning\" on the part of the government, and ministers had been \"missing in action\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"We have a PM incapable of international leadership just when we needed it most.\"\n\nHe said in his own constituency, Afghans who had helped the UK and were eligible for relocation who applied \"weeks ago\" weren't processed quickly enough to make it to the planes.\n\nHe added it was a \"familiar and desperate story\" to many MPs, who had heard similar stories.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said there was \"barely an MP\" who had not contacted the government on behalf of UK and Afghan nationals \"desperate to find safe passage away from the Taliban\".\n\nThe prime minister said thousands of the MPs' emails had been answered, and \"every single one\" will receive a reply by the end of Monday.\n• None Afghans who worked for UK can stay permanently", "Ministers have also agreed to remove table service rules indoors and outdoors\n\nA number of changes to Covid restrictions have been agreed by the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nUnder the new moves, the number of people allowed indoors at domestic settings will rise from 10 to 15.\n\nMinisters have also agreed to remove table service rules indoors and outdoors at pubs and restaurants.\n\nPeople will be allowed to play pool, darts and gaming machines while dancing will also be allowed at weddings and civil partnership receptions.\n\nThe requirement to purchase tickets in advance for live performances will be removed, as will the need for audience members to have allocated seats.\n\nThe changes are seen as \"limited moves\" and a \"stepping stone\" approach.\n\nThey will take effect from 17:00 BST on Friday, 10 September.\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan, of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), said: \"Today we made good progress and we met for nearly four hours in the executive and considered the current information around health, the economy, impacts on families and the community.\n\n\"We were able to reach decisions on a number of areas.\"\n\nHospitality Ulster said the moves were \"incremental changes\" and that it was time to provide indicative dates and a framework of action to move out of the remaining restrictions.\n\n\"A major strategic decision needs to be taken by the executive to bring forward a detailed and specific roadmap to address the problems that are gathering on the horizon - if not now, when?\" the organisation's Colin Neill said.\n\n\"Hospitality businesses are left hanging while restrictions continue to place a halt on viable trading. We need the best chance we can get to recover.\"\n\nHowever, Sinn Féin Junior Minister Declan Kearney said there was still a very high and dangerous infection level in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"So the executive I think has taken a very proportionate and measured and incremental approach towards the easements we have adopted today,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think we can underestimate the extent of the challenge we still face - a lot of pressure on our health workers, there's still a very high impact on the health service, high levels of hospital admissions and bed occupancy.\"\n\nThe executive will meet again on Thursday as it keeps the issue of Covid-19 in schools under review.\n\nThe DUP has been pushing for the executive to agree a plan - complete with dates - to remove all restrictions.\n\nLast week's meeting was cancelled after Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe legal requirement for social distancing outdoors no longer exists in Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, indoor premises such as restaurants and workplaces are still required to comply with at least 1m (3ft).\n\nThat rule has already been removed in the rest of the UK, but guidance remains that people should socially distance where possible, and in places like hospitals and schools, the rules differ again.\n\nSome hospitality businesses in Northern Ireland have urged the executive to scrap the requirement for social distancing, saying it continues to affect their trade.\n\nNightclubs in Northern Ireland remain closed, and dancing is not permitted at indoor venues where music is played.\n• None What are Northern Ireland's Covid-19 rules now?", "Four teenage boys and a 20-year-old man were hurt in a suspected ammonia attack on a Cardiff street.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the five were taken to hospital after being sprayed with the substance on City Road at about 14:45 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe force said they had \"superficial injuries\" and were discharged later the same day.\n\nNo arrests have been made and police said they believed those involved were \"known to each other\".\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"Despite initial reports from the scene, it has been confirmed that the clear liquid sprayed during the assault was not acid and is now believed to be ammonia.\n\n\"Ammonia is commonly used in dyes and cleaning products.\"\n\nA man who lives on City Road, who did not want to be named, said: \"I saw lots of milk cartons on the floor, there were armed police and people were taken out of the barber's behind something like tarpaulin and into an ambulance.\"\n\nHe said the surrounding roads were closed for hours and people had not been allowed to get off a waiting bus.\n• None Five taken to hospital after reports of assault", "In the next 24 hours, three hugely important decisions will be made which will have consequences for how we live in older age, and who pays for the increase in any necessary care.\n\nThese decisions have been repeatedly delayed. Put bluntly, the British political system has lacked the capacity to make tough long-term decisions in this area. The inadequacies of the care system, partly a result of decades of political short-termism, were then cruelly exposed by the pandemic.\n\nSo, something around £10bn a year has been found to make the care system fit for purpose. Firstly, to increase standards, but also to allow for more people to access it for free. Lastly, there will be a cap on the overall costs an individual will pay for care.\n\nThis is the state stepping in to help individuals plan for something that it is currently not possible to plan for - how much should you save to finance for your own care?\n\nThis will be paid for by a rise in National Insurance, breaking the government's \"tax guarantee\" manifesto commitment \"not to raise the rates of income tax, National Insurance or VAT\".\n\nThe government looked at other sources of income, but ultimately, only these three big taxes offer the capacity to raise the significant sums needed.\n\nVAT would be a regressive rise, affecting the poor more. Income tax would have to go up by 2p in the pound and is not fully in the UK Government's control because of devolution.\n\nNational Insurance is viewed as the best way to raise significant sums of money as it also involves a considerable contribution from businesses.\n\nIt is also how the then chancellor Gordon Brown did it in 2003, and also the way chosen by similar nations, such as Germany and Japan.\n\nNational Insurance is also the least unpopular tax to rise.\n\nNational Insurance is, however, a tax on the working hours of those under the age of 66. It avoids property income, dividends and capital gains.\n\nAnd while, broadly speaking, higher earners pay more the very wealthiest will not contribute on large swathes of their income.\n\nSuccessive Conservative election campaigns have previously described a rise such as this as a \"jobs tax\" that will cost tens of thousands of roles.\n\nIf the government does announce a rise, it will create a generational debate about the whole package.\n\nThe first beneficiaries of it will be those in need of care, but ultimately it will be their descendants who inherit bigger estates after the government pays care bills.\n\nThe initial answer in Whitehall is that social care spending also benefits working people. But more specifically, that these significant extra tax revenues in the first three years will go on a temporary boost to NHS spending to deal with massive post-pandemic backlogs. This clearly benefits everybody.\n\nThe bulk of the social care boost will come in the next Parliament, while - over the next three years - the tax rise will fund the post-pandemic NHS rescue.\n\nThe pandemic will also be the explanation for a suspension of the triple lock pension guarantee, which determines by how much the state pension rises based on either the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation, increases in average earnings or 2.5% - whichever of the three is the highest.\n\nAll earnings figures are distorted by the pandemic, lockdowns and furlough scheme.\n\nSo a double lock will apply, which in practice means a 3% plus inflation rise in the state pension instead of 8% that would have followed if based on the rise in average earnings. That should save £4bn a year.\n\nThis package of measures, even in its broad contours, represents generationally significant change for a long-shirked challenge.\n\nAnd Number 10 and Number 11 are making significant judgements about who should pay the price.", "Before the trial judges inspected the reconstructed wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines plane\n\nThe families of those killed in the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 have begun to testify at the trial of four suspects.\n\nAbout 90 relatives will speak at the high-security court in Schiphol over the next three weeks.\n\nInternational investigators say the plane was shot down with a missile fired by pro-Russian rebels.\n\nThree Russians and a Ukrainian are on trial but none will appear in court. All four have denied involvement.\n\nThe Malaysian Airlines flight was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on 17 July 2014 when it was downed. It crashed in the Donetsk region, about 50km (30 miles) from the Russia-Ukraine border.\n\nAll 298 people on board the Boeing 777 airliner were killed - including 283 passengers and 15 crew members. The victims were from 10 different countries, but most were Dutch nationals.\n\nDutch prosecutors have said the suspects had a role in bringing down the flight with a Russian ground-to-air missile over a combat zone in eastern Ukraine. Russia has denied responsibility.\n\nThe trial of the four suspects, Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky, Leonid Kharchenko and Oleg Pulatov, opened in the Netherlands last year after a case was brought by Dutch prosecutors following an international investigation.\n\nAll four are suspected of being pro-Russian separatists helping rebels fight Ukrainian government troops in eastern Ukraine. Only one suspect, Mr Pulatov, has employed a team of Dutch lawyers to represent him.\n\nOn Monday, judge Hendrik Steenhuis said the trial had been \"highly emotional for the relatives\", as he gave them the opportunity to testify in court for the first time.\n\nThe first relative to speak in court was Ria van der Steen, whose father and stepmother were among the victims.\n\nMs van der Steen told the court of a recurring nightmare in which she searched for her father in the blazing wreckage to tell him he was dead.\n\nThe trial is taking place in a high-security court near Schiphol airport\n\n\"It smelt of fire, it smelt of death,\" she said. \"I kept yelling, 'Dad, where are you now?'.\"\n\nShe said her father was identified by a tiny fragment of bone from his hand, as that was all that was left of his body.\n\nSecond to testify was Australian Vanessa Fizk, whose parents died in the crash.\n\nAppearing via video link from Australia, Ms Fizk said the perpetrators \"deserved punishment for their heinous actions\".\n\nRia van der Steen, whose father was killed, said she still has nightmares about the crash\n\nHer brother James expressed similar sentiments, saying his parents were the victims of a conflict they had no role in.\n\n\"The misinformation from Russia, the lack of involvement from Russia, and their denials baffles me,\" he said.\n\nFamilies from eight nations, including the UK, will testify at the trial. A verdict is expected late next year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MH17 disaster: My nephew's body came back in 80 pieces", "The storage limit for eggs, sperm and embryos would be increased from 10 years to 55 years under government plans\n\nStorage limits for eggs, sperm and embryos will go up to 55 years under government plans that ministers say will give people greater choice over when to start a family.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said the current limit of 10 years was \"severely restrictive.\"\n\nModern freezing techniques mean eggs can be stored indefinitely without deterioration, research from the Royal College of Obstetricians has suggested.\n\nThe Department for Health said there would be extra conditions around third party donors and use of a person's frozen cells after they have died.\n\nCurrently, when the 10 years is up, prospective parents must decide whether to undergo fertility treatment or have the cells destroyed, unless samples have been stored due to medical procedures, such as chemotherapy for cancer.\n\nUnder the new system, they would be given the option to keep or dispose of the frozen cells or embryos at 10-year intervals.\n\nMr Javid said: \"This new legislation will help turn off the ticking clock in the back of people's minds.\"\n\nHe added: \"By making these changes, we are going to take a huge step forwards - not just for giving people greater freedom over their fertility, but for equality too.\"\n\nHe said extending the time limit \"protects the ability of all our patients to make reproductive choices for themselves as individuals and couples.\"\n\nJulia Chain, chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, said the earlier a woman froze her eggs the better the chance of a successful IVF pregnancy later.\n\nShe said: \"This will give women a lot more choice and flexibility about when they can start having their families.\"\n\nWhat is egg, sperm and embryo freezing?\n\nIt is a way of preserving fertility by collecting eggs, sperm or embryos and storing them so it may be possible to have a baby at a later date.\n\nThe process involves collecting around 15 eggs through IVF, cooling them quickly then storing them in tanks of liquid nitrogen.\n\nThe eggs are then thawed when needed, and those that have survived intact will be injected with sperm.\n\nSperm samples are usually divided between a number of containers called straws before freezing so they can be used in multiple treatments.\n\nEmbryos are frozen during fertility treatment in case the first round is not successful or to try for a sibling.\n\nThey can be frozen when they're just a single cell, at the two to eight cell stage or later in their development.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Tributes have been paid to US actor Michael K Williams, best known for starring in HBO drama series The Wire, following his death at the age of 54.\n\nThe Wire co-star Clarke Peters told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"He was a generous actor. It wasn't me, me, me. It was us, us, us.\"\n\nFilm-maker Spike Lee described Williams on Instagram as \"his brother\" and said he \"was shook\" at the news.\n\nThe Wire creator David Simon said he was \"a fine man and a rare talent\".\n\nAlongside a picture of Williams, Simon wrote that he was \"too gutted right now to say all that ought to be said\", adding: \"On our journey together he always deserved the best words. And today those words won't come.\"\n\nThe star was found dead in his New York apartment on Monday. US media quoted law enforcement sources as saying he died from a suspected drug overdose, but that has not been confirmed.\n\nWilliams, who was nominated for three Emmys, had openly discussed his struggles with drugs over the years.\n\nIn The Wire, he played Omar Little, a gay, streetwise robber of drug gangs.\n\nHe was also known for playing gangster Albert \"Chalky\" White in the Prohibition period TV series Boardwalk Empire. Other TV credits included Lovecraft Country, The Night Of, Bessie and When They See Us.\n\nPeters, who played Lester Freamon in The Wire, said he \"didn't know whether to be sad or angry\" about the death of his co-star.\n\n\"I'm sad that Michael is no longer with us because there was a very promising personality that could have done so much more. I'm angry because I feel he's let us down by going back when he could have reached out,\" he told the Today programme.\n\n\"Once a person is on that path, maybe it is very difficult for them to get off. So we, as a society, have to pull our socks up so we can help people like this.\"\n\nSpike Lee said: \"Whew lawd, dis is a tough day -1st we lose the great French actor Jean Paul Belmondo and now my brother Michael K Williams.\n\n\"Our greats are leaving us left and right. God bless,\" he added alongside a photograph of himself with Williams at a basketball game.\n\nOther tributes from the world of entertainment came from the likes of his The Wire co-star Wendell Pierce.\n\n\"The depth of my love for this brother, can only be matched by the depth of my pain learning of his loss,\" Pierce tweeted.\n\n\"A immensely talented man with the ability to give voice to the human condition portraying the lives of those whose humanity is seldom elevated until he sings their truth,\" Pierce added.\n\nIdris Elba, who played Stringer Bell in The Wire, simply posted a black square with the initials MKW.\n\nSonja Sohn, who played Detective Kima Greggs, posted \"Always & Forever\" with a broken heart.\n\nSinger Mariah Carey shared a picture of herself with Williams, describing him as \"a beautiful soul, a beautiful person\". She added: \"I'll miss you always. Thank you for blessing us with your talent.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mariah Carey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOscar-nominated actress Taraji P Henson posted on Instagram: \"Rest well my friend. Jesus, you will be deeply missed.\"\n\n\"If he was in a scene he was the best thing about it. Period,\" wrote actor Edward Norton, who worked with Williams on the 2019 film Motherless Brooklyn.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Edward Norton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOscar winner Viola Davis simply wrote: \"No! So sad. Man do I wish this were a different ending. Rest well. Praying for your loved ones.\"\n\nFellow actress Kerry Washington posted on Twitter: \"So heartbroken. Thank you for the beauty and joy you brought to the world. Sending love and prayers to your friends, family and everyone who adored you me included. We adore you Sir.\"\n\nShe also retweeted a video of Pierce with Williams as the former praised the latter's acting ability on the red carpet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by kerry washington This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This is heartbreaking to learn. We have lost an enormous talent in Michael K Williams,\" tweeted Star Trek actor George Takei.\n\nDirector James Gunn described Williams as one of the \"most gentle souls I've ever met\".\n\nIn a statement, the HBO TV network, which aired 60 episodes of The Wire between 2002 and 2008, said: \"We are devastated to learn of the passing of Michael Kenneth Williams, a member of the HBO family for more than 20 years.\n\n\"While the world is aware of his immense talents as an artist, we knew Michael as a dear friend who was beloved by all who had the privilege to work with him. We send our deepest condolences to his family for this immeasurable loss.\"\n\nMichael K Williams' complex portrayal of Omar Little, a gay, shotgun-toting robber of drug dealers, helped cement The Wire's game-changing depiction of life in the projects of Baltimore.\n\nOmar represented the duality of a black experience never before given such honest screen time. Nowhere was that better represented than his exchanges with Wendell Pierce's detective Bunk, a black schoolfriend who reminded him of the different paths life afforded them.\n\nInterviewed together years before Williams' death, Pierce said his co-star's performance gave voice and flesh to characters \"that most people would have never given the same humanity to… opening a window to a world of men that we pass by or don't know about\".\n\nPierce described the scenes they shared as the \"greatest of my career\", performed by a man who contributed two of the \"most iconic characters in the history of American television\" in Omar Little and Chalky White, and no doubt could have given many more.\n\nWilliams with co-star Tristan Wilds at a 2006 premiere for The Wire\n\nBorn in 1966, Williams had a turbulent upbringing in Brooklyn, New York. Despite trying to avoid confrontation, he later said he \"had a way of always finding myself in trouble - like, big trouble, you know what I'm saying?\"\n\nHe began his career as a dancer and performed with Madonna and George Michael before moving into acting with companies including the prestigious National Black Theatre Company.\n\nHe got the distinctive scar on his forehead and right cheek after being slashed by a razor on his 25th birthday - but that inadvertently led to his first acting job after Tupac Shakur saw a photo of him and decided he looked \"thugged out enough\" to play his brother in the 1996 film Bullet.\n\nIn a BBC interview in 2018, Williams explained why The Wire was such a success. \"I think it has just stayed with people because it's still relevant now, because of the climate of what's going on in the United States. I think it's actually a little sad,\" he said.\n\n\"It was the first show I saw that was created as what I call 'edutainment'. It dived so honestly into what was wrong in our society, from the police department to our lawmakers to our school system, and the media. It represented what was happening in our community.\"\n\nBut in 2011, he told The Hollywood Reporter he was \"overwhelmed\" by the success of season one and went \"into an emotional tailspin\" during season two.\n\n\"I wasted a lot of money, I started drinking and drugging again, and, at the end of season two, I was forced to move back to my projects and slept on a mattress on the floor.\"\n\nSpeaking about his drug use while filming The Wire, he told news website NJ.com in 2012: \"I was playing with fire.\n\n\"It was just a matter of time before I got caught and my business ended up on the cover of a tabloid or I went to jail - or worse.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire is believed to have spread from the rear of the house\n\nA neighbour who alerted a family their home was on fire, moments before the large blaze ripped through the building, has said they are lucky to be alive.\n\nAnimals were killed after the fire tore through the house on High Street in Borth, Ceredigion, on Friday.\n\nNeighbour James Davies said he banged on the door shouting \"fire\" after seeing flames going up the veranda.\n\n\"If they had opened the back door they would have all been dead,\" he said.\n\n\"The fireball would have gone in, and the smoke, there was 2,700 litres of heating oil there,\" he said.\n\nA major incident was declared, with nearby homes evacuated and residents taken to a community centre as the blaze took hold at 15:33 BST on Friday, due to concerns about gas cylinders on the property.\n\nMr Davies, who lives on the High Street, told BBC Radio Wales he called 999 after seeing flames starting to go up an electricity pole.He said he then realised no-one had come out of the house.\n\n\"I knocked the door, shouted through the letterbox \"fire, fire\" nobody responded so I thought they may be out,\" he said.\n\nThe blaze could be seen by passengers on passing trains\n\n\"At the same time a delivery driver came running over, he slammed the door, there was three generations of a family in there.\"\n\nHe said the grandchild came to the door and they told them to tell their father to get everyone out as the house was on fire, and they all escaped.\n\nMid and West Fire Service said no one was hurt in the blaze, but a dog and caged birds were killed.\n\n\"The house is a burnt out shell, they have lost everything,\" Mr Davies said.\n\n\"The fire spread incredibly rapidly, if it happened at night or I hadn't just by luck happened to be at the back of the house, I think you would be reporting today the death of three generations.\"\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire is taking place.", "The protocol prevents a hard border with Ireland but some products need to be checked as they arrive from GB\n\nThe UK government has announced further delays to some Irish Sea border checks.\n\nThe checks are a requirement of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIt means some products need to be checked as they arrive from GB but grace periods mean that not all the checks have been implemented.\n\nSome of these grace periods were due to expire at the end of September but the government has now indefinitely extended them.\n\nIn a written statement, Brexit Minister Lord Frost said that the move was necessary to \"provide space for further potential discussions\" with the EU.\n\nThe UK wants a fundamental renegotiation of the protocol but the EU has said that is not possible, although it is prepared to consider additional flexibilities.\n\nLord Frost said it was a necessary move\n\nLord Frost's statement said: \"The government will continue to operate the protocol on the current basis.\n\n\"This includes the grace periods and easements currently in force. Operational and other guidance will be updated to reflect this approach.\"\n\nIn a statement on Monday evening the European Commission said it noted Lord Frost's statement and continued to stress that \"the Withdrawal Agreement is an international agreement\".\n\n\"The Protocol is an integral part of the Withdrawal Agreement and the agreed solution between the UK and the EU to the problems caused by Brexit for the island of Ireland,\" it said.\n\n\"Both sides are legally bound to fulfil their obligations under the Agreement.\n\n\"Our focus remains on identifying long-term, flexible and practical solutions to address issues related to the practical implementation of the Protocol that citizens and businesses in Northern Ireland are experiencing.\"\n\nThe European Commission said it would not agree to a renegotiation of the Protocol.\n\n\"Our approach to the Protocol is based on the achievement of stability, certainty and predictability in line with the objectives of the Good Friday Agreement and in order to protect the Single Market,\" it added.\n\nUnionists say the protocol damages trade and threatens Northern Ireland's place in the UK\n\nThe Northern Ireland Retail Consortium has said that there can be no more \"cliff-edge dates\" when it comes to the protocol.\n\nAodhán Connolly, the organisation's director, said he hoped the UK government's decision \"will be taken in the spirit of joint working\" and that \"both sides must move\".\n\n\"This cannot be another can-kicking exercise. Northern Ireland is in a unique situation which requires a unique solution that is agreed by both the UK and EU,\" Mr Connolly said.\n\nIn March, the UK unilaterally extended some grace periods.\n\nThat met with a furious response from the EU, which said that by acting alone the UK was in clear breach of the protocol.\n\nThe European Commission began a legal action against the UK, which is still continuing.\n\nHowever in June, the UK formally requested an extension to the sausages grace period which was granted by the EU.\n\nThe EU said it was being \"accommodating' and the UK described the move as \"sensible\".\n\nThe UK wants a \"standstill\" of all grace periods and legal actions as it attempts to persuade the EU to engage in a fundamental renegotiation of the protocol.\n\nThe EU says it will be as flexible as possible within the terms of the protocol but will not renegotiate.\n\nMeanwhile the European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic is due to to visit Northern Ireland on Thursday and Friday.\n\nMr Sefcovic, the EU's lead negotiator on the protocol, will meet political, business and civic leaders.\n\nHe is also expected to hold a press conference on Friday.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer France footballer Jean-Pierre Adams, who had been in a coma for 39 years, has died at the age of 73.\n\nAdams was admitted to hospital for knee surgery in March 1982 but never regained consciousness after an error with his supply of anaesthetic.\n\nBorn in Senegal, the defender made more than 140 appearances for Nice and also played for Paris St-Germain.\n\nIn a statement, PSG said Adams' \"joie de vivre, charisma and experience commanded respect\".\n\nNice said the club would pay tribute to Adams - who won 22 caps for France between 1972-1976 - before their next home game against Monaco on 19 September.\n\nAdams also made 84 appearances for Nimes, who said they were sending their \"most sincere condolences to his loved ones and his family\".\n\nOn the day of Adams' operation to repair a damaged tendon in his knee - suffered while on a coaching training camp - many staff at the hospital in Lyon were on strike .\n\nHis operation still went ahead, with the anaesthetist looking after eight patients, including Adams, at the same time. Adams was supervised by a trainee, who later said: \"I was not up to the task I was entrusted with.\"\n\nBetween the anaesthetist and trainee, numerous errors were made, causing Adams to suffer a cardiac arrest and brain damage.\n\nIt wasn't until the mid-1990s that the anaesthetist and trainee were punished - a one-month suspended sentence and a 750 euro fine.\n\nAdams was discharged from hospital after 15 months and had been cared for at home in Nimes by his wife, Bernadette, ever since.\n\nBernadette Adams is a remarkable woman, a gentle but steely soul who never once considered turning off her husband's life support machine despite his vegetative state.\n\nFor four decades, she has spent nearly every day caring for Jean-Pierre, changing his clothes, preparing his food, never forgetting to give him presents and often talking to him too.\n\nThe response was of course silence from a man once described as \"larger than life\" (and whose skills were highly rated by German football legend Franz Beckenbauer) yet nurses reported slight mood changes on the rare occasions Bernadette went away for a night or two.\n\nI visited the Adams home in southern France in 2016 whereupon Bernadette explained the hospital had never apologised for an accident which she could not help thinking about every day.", "About 560 people work at the food processing plant on the Llangefni Industrial Estate\n\nFive people have been taken to hospital after reports of a chemical leak at a north Wales food processing plant.\n\nThree ambulances and two rapid response vehicles were called to the 2 Sisters poultry factory in Llangefni, Anglesey, at about 09:15 BST on Monday.\n\nAmbulance officials said there were reports of individuals needing medical attention after \"exposure to a noxious fume or chemical\".\n\nFour more people were treated at the scene.\n\nNorth Wales Police said they were aware of the incident but were not involved as the incident response was being managed by North Wales Fire and Rescue Service.\n\n2 Sisters said there had been a leak of ammonia at the factory and those affected were taken to hospital as a precautionary measure.\n\n\"Colleague safety is our number one priority, the factory was evacuated as per emergency protocols and the fire brigade and ambulance service quickly attended,\" a company official said.\n\n\"The fire brigade advised when the building was safe to re-enter and they have now left the site.\"\n\nThe firm said the factory was now operating \"as normal\".\n\nThe people taken to hospital are being treated at Bangor's Ysbyty Gwynedd.", "A packed RNLI lifeboat arrived on the beach in Dungeness earlier\n\nSeveral young children were among a large group of migrants seen being brought ashore after trying to cross the English Channel.\n\nA packed lifeboat was pictured arriving on the beach in Dungeness, Kent, before officials led the passengers away.\n\nA steady stream of crossings was thought to be have taken place amid calm waters and sunny skies.\n\nThe Home Office would not confirm the number of migrants picked up on Monday \"until all events were concluded\".\n\nDan O'Mahoney, Clandestine Channel Threat Commander, said: \"This unacceptable rise in dangerous crossings is being driven by criminal gangs and a surge in illegal migration across Europe.\n\n\"We're determined to target the criminals at every level.\"\n\nOn Sunday, 158 people were picked up in four boats, four days after another seven people were \"intercepted\".\n\nA long line of people made their way along the beach at Dungeness\n\nThat brought the total of people arriving in small boats so far in 2021 to more than 12,500. Just over 8,400 arrived in 2020.\n\nHowever, the UK continues to see far fewer boat arrivals and asylum claims than many of its European counterparts.\n\nEarlier in Parliament, answering a question from Conservative MP Jacob Young, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our friends across the Channel in France are faced with a very difficult problem.\n\n\"A large number of people want to come to this country, and we are doing everything we can to encourage the French to do the necessary and impede their passage.\n\n\"But I know the Home Secretary is working right around the clock to ensure that we not only encourage the French to stiffen their sinews and stop people making the journey, but we use every possible tactic available to us as well.\"\n\nA man carried a child on his shoulders as he was led away by officials\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrazil and Argentina's World Cup qualifier was abandoned just minutes after kick-off on Sunday after Brazilian health officials objected to the participation of three Argentine players they believe broke quarantine rules.\n\nThe visitors walked off the pitch at the Corinthians Arena after the officials came out to stop the game.\n\nThe dramatic intervention came hours after Brazil's health authorities had said four England-based players for Argentina had to quarantine.\n\nAlthough it did not name the four, the players with English Premier League clubs are Emiliano Buendia and Emiliano Martinez of Aston Villa, and Giovani lo Celso and Cristian Romero of Tottenham Hotspur.\n\nMartinez, Lo Celso and Romero all started the game in Sao Paulo.\n\nNo date for the rearranged fixture has been set with Argentina players leaving to prepare for their next World Cup qualifier - at home to Bolivia on Friday, 10 September.\n\nFifa will now gather evidence from all sides to fully understand the events that led to the match suspension before it decides on the most appropriate course of action.\n\nAround one hour after the game was stopped and while Brazilian players organised an impromptu training session on the pitch, South American football's governing body Conmebol said in a statement: \"By decision of the match referee, the match organized by Fifa between Brazil and Argentina for the World Cup Qualifiers is suspended.\n\n\"The referee and the match commissioner will submit a report to the Fifa Disciplinary Committee, which will determine the steps to be followed. These procedures strictly adhere to current regulations.\"\n\nUnder Brazilian rules, visitors who have been in the UK in the 14 days before entering the country must quarantine for 14 days on arrival.\n\n\"We got to this point because everything that ANVISA directed, from the first moment, was not fulfilled,\" Antonio Barra Torres, director at Brazil's health regulator Anvisa, said on Brazilian television, according to AFP.\n\n\"[The four players] were directed to remain isolated while awaiting deportation, but they did not comply. They went to the stadium and they entered the field, in a series of breaches,\" the official added.\n\n'At no time were we notified we could not play'\n\nArgentina boss Lionel Scaloni said it was disappointing a resolution could not be found before the game got under way.\n\n\"It makes me very sad,\" he said. \"I am not looking for any culprit. If something happened or did not happen, it was not the time to make that intervention.\n\n\"It should have been a party for everyone, to enjoy the best players in the world. I would like the people of Argentina to understand that as a coach I have to defend my players.\n\n\"At no time were we notified that they couldn't play the match. We wanted to play the match, the Brazilian footballers too.\"\n\nThe Argentine Football Association said the team had been in Brazil since 3 September and had complied with all the health protocols.\n\n\"Football should not experience these kinds of episodes that undermine the sportsmanship of such an important competition,\" it said.\n\nBrazilian Football Confederation president Ednaldo Rodrigues criticised the health officials for the timing of their intervention.\n\n\"I feel sorry for all the sports fans who wanted to watch the game on television,\" he told Brazil's Sportv.\n\n\"With all due respect to Anvisa, they could have resolved this earlier and not waited for the game to start.\"\n\nIn a later statement, Anvisa insisted it had no control over the decision to interrupt the match but that it had made several attempts beforehand to \"seek compliance\" from the Argentine delegation.\n\nIt also alleged \"false information\" had been provided relating to players who had travelled via the UK.\n\n\"What a farcical way to mark one of the great games in world football.\n\n\"The game kicked off and we were five minutes in, and on wander onto the field a number of health officials and at that point it became obvious we were not going to have a game today.\n\n\"Argentina, who have another game on Thursday against Bolivia, have high-tailed it to the airport without playing the game.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Charlotte Jackson said she found out she was expecting Jacob on Mother’s Day 2018\n\nAn unborn baby died within two days of his mother being sent home from hospital after reporting reduced movement in the womb and a loss of fluid, her lawyers say.\n\nCharlotte Jackson, 29, was told by Princess Royal Hospital in Telford she had \"probably wet the bed\".\n\nThe trust running the site is already the focus of a major probe into its maternity standards amid safety fears.\n\nIt said it had recognised \"shortfalls in care\" following the 2018 fatality.\n\nAn \"undisclosed settlement\" has been reached between the family and Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH) where nearly 1,900 maternity cases are under investigation, including infant deaths.\n\nMs Jackson was 37 weeks pregnant when she underwent a pre-Caesarean assessment on 31 October three years ago, reporting fluid loss, reduced infant movement and stomach pains.\n\nShe was deemed a high-risk pregnancy because of diabetes, legal firm Irwin Mitchell said.\n\nTwo days later, after returning home, she phoned the hospital to say she had not felt the baby move since the day before.\n\nAfter attending the site, Ms Jackson was told her baby had died. Her son Jacob was delivered stillborn the following day.\n\nLawyers said that in a letter to Ms Jackson, trust chief executive Louise Barnett stated: \"I understand that Jacob could have been born healthy if we had arranged delivery earlier.\"\n\nPartner James Harris and Charlotte Jackson have a keepsake box to remember Jacob\n\nMs Jackson said Jacob had always been a \"very active baby\", so when she noticed his movements were reduced she \"had a gut feeling\" something was not right.\n\nShe was \"shocked\", she said, when told \"it was a one-off and I'd probably wet the bed\".\n\nShe added: \"Despite my fears it seemed like they wanted me out of hospital because it was busy.\"\n\nIn July 2020, Ms Jackson gave birth to a son, who has a six-year-old brother and a five-year-old sister. But she said her previous experience had left her worried.\n\n\"Any time that he wasn't moving I instantly thought 'he's gone' - I was just so scared that the same thing was going to happen again.\n\n\"Giving birth to Jacob was absolutely horrific. It's almost impossible to put into words the emotion of it all, knowing your baby had already died.\"\n\nOf SaTH she said: \"I just want them to do their job properly and understand that mums have a say too, because every time I went in and I had something they were always 'no, you're wrong, I'm right'.\"\n\nMs Barnett said SaTH had \"offered our sincere condolences\" to the couple \"and do so again today\".\n\nShe added: \"We have recognised the shortfalls in the care offered to them and have subsequently undertaken extensive investigations to carefully review the events that occurred to ensure that all the lessons from this tragic incident are fully learned.\"\n\nSaTH's standards are being investigated under the Ockeden Review, a government-commissioned probe that began in 2018 following campaigns by two other bereaved families who blamed the trust for their loss.\n\nThe review - the largest ever into NHS maternity care - initially examined 250 cases, uncovering a disproportionately high death rate among the sample.\n\nIt has since been widened to focus on nearly 1,900 cases dating back decades.\n\nInterim findings published in December 2020 highlighted numerous traumatic birth experiences including the deaths of babies due to excessive force of forceps and stillbirths that could have been avoided.\n\nIt also reported instances of mothers being blamed for infant deaths.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The shooting in the Rohini area has raised questions over the security of Delhi's courts\n\nTwo men posing as lawyers shot dead a notorious gangster inside a courtroom in India's capital, Delhi.\n\nThey opened fire at Jitender Maan Gogi inside the courtroom in Rohini where a case was being heard against him.\n\nOfficials say police returned fire, killing the two men. Police suspect a rival gang planned the attack.\n\nGogi was on Delhi police's most-wanted list and he was also an accused in dozens of cases - including murder, kidnapping and fraud - in other states.\n\nThe incident has raised questions over the security of Delhi's courts. A senior politician said that the incident showed a serious lapse in security planning.\n\nGogi was arrested in Delhi in March last year on charges of murder and extortion.\n\nOfficials said he was a target of many gangs due to his swift rise in the crime world. Reports say his career in crime began when he was a teenager and initially involved incidents of carjacking and theft.\n\nBut later he was a prime suspect in many high profile killings, including that of a popular singer in Haryana state.", "Damien Bendall is accused of killing Terri Harris, her two children, and a friend who was staying over\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murders of three children and a woman in Derbyshire.\n\nTerri Harris, 35, was found dead along with her children John Paul, 13, Lacey, 11, and friend Connie Gent, also 11, at a house in Killamarsh on Sunday.\n\nDamien Bendall, of Chandos Crescent, appeared at Derby Crown Court on Friday morning.\n\nThe 31-year-old confirmed his name and was remanded into custody. A trial was provisionally set for 1 March.\n\nHe is due to appear at the court for a review hearing on 26 November.\n\nDerbyshire Police said they were called to the house in Chandos Crescent at 07:26 BST on Sunday after concerns were raised about the safety of those inside.\n\nThey found the bodies of Ms Harris and the three children.\n\nIt is believed Connie, from Sheffield, was Lacey's friend and was visiting for a sleepover.\n\nHer father Charlie Gent told ITV: \"Connie was such a special and sweet little girl.\n\n\"She was my little sidekick. She was my rock, my shining star, my angel.\n\n\"I feel like I was her hero, and I let her down.\"\n\nJason Bennett, father of Lacey and John Paul, has spoken about being \"broken\" by the deaths of his children.\n\n\"I just want to kiss them and hold them. TikTok Queen and my beautiful boy, they were beautiful,\" he said.\n\nThe deaths have shocked the community, and seen an outpouring of grief and tributes.\n\nDozens of floral tributes have been left at the scene in Chandos Crescent\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police want to speak to this man\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of Sabina Nessa are hunting a man seen on CCTV near the scene of her death.\n\nThe 28-year-old was discovered in Cator Park in Kidbrooke, south-east London, by a member of the public on Saturday.\n\nPolice say identifying the balding man, who was seen with something in his hands, could be \"vital\" to the case.\n\nReclaim These Streets, set up after Sarah Everard's murder, held a vigil in Pegler Square - where the suspect was pictured - at 19:00 GMT.\n\nThe wanted man, who was wearing grey jeans and a black jacket, can be seen looking over his shoulder and pulling up his hood as he walks along the pavement.\n\nA 38-year-old man who was arrested in south-east London on Thursday on suspicion of murdering the teacher was released earlier on Friday, the Met Police said.\n\nSabina Nessa's post-mortem carried out on Monday was inconclusive\n\nAhead of the vigil for Ms Nessa, her sister urged people to stay safe and to pray for her.\n\nJebina Yasmin Islam said: \"We as a family are shocked at the murder of our sister, daughter and aunty to my girls.\n\n\"There are no words to describe how we are feeling as a family at the moment. We did not expect that something like this would ever happen to us.\"\n\nMs Nessa was attacked shortly after leaving her home in Astell Road at about 20:30 BST last Friday.\n\nShe had been walking to meet a friend at The Depot bar, a journey that police said \"should have taken just over five minutes\".\n\nHer body was found the next day near a walkway in the park.\n\nPolice have also released an image of a car they believe the wanted man had access to\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe said the force was not asking women to change their behaviour when going out at night.\n\nIt comes after information sheets advising women on how to stay safe at night were handed out by a community group.\n\n\"It's really important to us that we don't ask women to change their behaviour,\" she said.\n\n\"Violence against women and girls is a priority for police across the UK but we're really conscious that women should be free to go about their lives without fear of abuse.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe added that violence against women had the \"hallmarks of an epidemic\".\n\n\"It is something that is tolerated far too much in society and we the police are determined to bring offenders to justice and to prevent these offences where we can,\" she said.\n\nShe asked anyone with information about Ms Nessa's death to come forward.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has said her thoughts are with the family and friends of Ms Nessa and that she is \"saddened by the loss of another innocent young woman on our streets\".\n\nMs Nessa was a teacher at Rushey Green primary school in Catford.\n\nThe head, Lisa Williams, called her \"a brilliant teacher\" adding that she was \"kind, caring and absolutely dedicated to her pupils\".\n\nHave you been affected by this story? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Davies said he was \"still a viewer\" for the time being\n\nScreenwriter Russell T Davies is to take charge again of Doctor Who, the sci-fi show he helped revive in 2005.\n\nDavies, who was the fantasy drama's showrunner until 2009, will take over when Chris Chibnall departs next year.\n\n\"I'm beyond excited to be back on my favourite show,\" said Davies, who resumes his role as the show prepares to mark its 60th anniversary in 2023.\n\nOne of his first responsibilities will be to decide who takes over the Tardis following Jodie Whittaker's exit.\n\nThe actress is set to hang up her Sonic Screwdriver after one more six-part series and three 2022 specials.\n\nIn a statement, however, Davies said it would be \"time-travelling too fast\" to speculate on what will happen when he returns.\n\n\"There's a whole series of Jodie Whittaker's brilliant Doctor for me to enjoy, with my friend and hero Chris Chibnall at the helm,\" he continued. \"I'm still a viewer for now.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker will star in a new series and three specials next year, before she exits the series\n\nChibnall said it was \"monumentally exciting and fitting\" that Davies would be back in charge for the series' 60th birthday.\n\n\"Russell built the baton that is about to be handed back to him,\" the writer and producer continued.\n\nDavies revived Doctor Who in its current incarnation with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and remained for David Tennant's time as the Doctor.\n\nSteven Moffat took over when Matt Smith took on the role, staying to supervise Peter Capaldi's stint as TV's indefatigable Time Lord.\n\nThe success of Doctor Who's relaunch led Davies to create two spin-off shows, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.\n\nIt's nearly 18 years to the day since the BBC announced that Doctor Who was returning, more than a decade after it was axed. No Doctor or companion had yet been cast, but it was confirmed that Russell T Davies would be in charge of the show. At the time, the lifelong Doctor Who fan was best known as the writer of Queer As Folk (he even managed to briefly squeeze robot dog K9 into the series).\n\nFew predicted how huge it would become upon its return, and Davies is the man credited with much of that success. As showrunner he oversaw every creative aspect of the science fiction drama, wrote many of its scripts, and was an exceptionally hands-on executive producer - the book The Writer's Tale, a diary of daily emails and text messages between Davies and journalist Benjamin Cook. details the attention to detail he gave to almost every part of the show, from approving merchandise designs to overseeing the plans for media events.\n\nHis unexpected return to the show has delighted many, because if there is a recent golden era of Doctor Who, it's arguably when Davies was in charge, with the programme attracting huge viewing figures and racking up awards and critical acclaim.\n\nWith the exception of the Doctor Who TV movie with Paul McGann, Doctor Who has always been produced purely by the BBC. But from 2023 it will be a co-production with Bad Wolf. The production house was founded by Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner who worked alongside Davies during his time on Doctor Who. Tranter was the BBC's head of drama, Gardner was an executive producer on the show. Both are seen as less high profile, but still crucially important parts of Doctor Who's previous success.\n\nAfter leaving the show in 2009, Davies enjoyed more acclaim with TV dramas Years and Years, A Very English Scandal and It's A Sin.\n\nPiers Wenger, the BBC's director of drama, said the news of Davies' return would \"delight Doctor Who fans across the globe\".\n\n\"We are thrilled that Russell is returning to Doctor Who to build on the huge achievements of Chris and Jodie,\" he continued. \"Russell, it's wonderful to have you back.\"\n\nDavies' return was also welcomed by Bad Wolf, the production company founded in 2015 by former BBC executives Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter.\n\nGardner and Tranter both worked with Davies on the Doctor Who relaunch and will collaborate with him again when he returns as showrunner.\n\n\"We are delighted to be joining Russell T Davies on a looped ontological paradox,\" said the Bad Wolf Twitter account. \"Where Russell goes, we are proud to follow.\n\n\"With BBC Studios, Bad Wolf will be producing the all-new series of Doctor Who. It is a privilege to be asked to support him in Doctor Who's future.\"\n\nMatt Lucas appeared with Pearl Mackie and Peter Capaldi in series 10\n\nActor Matt Lucas, who played companion Nardole during Capaldi's time as the Doctor, was evidently delighted with the news.\n\n\"Russell T Davies back in the Tardis! What a coup! I'm buzzing!\" wrote the Bake Off presenter and Little Britain comic on Twitter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Restaurant, café and pub bosses are set to be banned from keeping tips left for staff by customers in Britain.\n\nThe government plans to make it illegal for hospitality firms to withhold tips from workers, who often rely on them to top up their income.\n\nLabour Markets Minister Paul Scully said the plans would \"ensure tips will go to those who worked for it\".\n\nIf an employer breaks the new rules they can be taken to an employment tribunal.\n\nIn that instance, bosses may be forced to compensate workers or face fines.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Business said that the new legislation would help about two million people working in the hospitality industry.\n\nIt is expected to come into force within the next year.\n\nBut it comes some time after the practice was reported to have taken place at High Street chains such as Pizza Express, Cote Brasserie and Bill's.\n\nIn 2015, the restaurants were accused of keeping tips or charging 10% \"administrative costs\" on processing the service charge payments if they were made by debit or credit card.\n\nAlthough they denied any wrongdoing, the reports drew a huge backlash from unions and the public.\n\nConservative MP Paul Scully said on Tuesday: \"Unfortunately, some companies choose to withhold cash from hardworking staff who have been tipped by customers as a reward for good service.\n\n\"Our plans will make this illegal and ensure tips will go to those who worked for it\".\n\nHe added that the move would also reassure customers that their money is going to \"those who deserve it\".\n\nMinisters also pointed towards research that suggests most tips are now paid by card in the UK, rather than in cash.\n\nCurrently, businesses who receive tips by card have the choice of whether to keep it or pass it on to workers. Cash tips, on the other hand, are legally the property of staff.\n\nFewer tips are being paid in cash due to the rise in contactless payments\n\nAs well as requiring all employers to pass on all tips, service charges and gratuities in full without any deductions, the new legislation will introduce a code of practice, which will set out exactly how tips should be distributed fairly.\n\nWorkers will also get the right to request information on their boss's tipping record, in case they want to bring a claim to an employment tribunal.\n\nWhile the move was welcomed by the Living Wage Foundation, it said that the focus should be on improving wages in lower-paid sectors instead.\n\nIts interim director, Graham Griffiths, said: \"If this work is to be truly valued we need to see more people lifted onto a real Living Wage.\n\n\"To build a stronger and more dynamic economy, our focus should be on increasing the number of businesses doing the right thing and committing to pay a Living Wage\".\n\nKate Nicholls, UKHospitality chief executive, added the new rules would strengthen the sector's ability to create jobs.\n\nBut she pointed out: \"For hospitality businesses, though, customers tipping with a card incurs bank charges for the business, and many also employ external partners to ensure tips are fairly distributed among staff.\n\n\"With restaurants, pubs and other venues struggling to get back on their feet... we urge the government to continue to work closely with the sector as it introduces this legislation to ensure this works for businesses and employees.\"\n\nHave you worked somewhere that kept your tips? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People should carry on buying petrol as normal, the UK government says\n\nSeveral supermarkets have closed petrol stations in Wales due to demand for fuel, amid panic buying.\n\nIt comes despite assurances from the UK government that people should carry on buying petrol as normal.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's both confirmed closures, but Tesco said it had a \"good availability\" with deliveries arriving every day.\n\nAsda had to close some stations to temporarily refuel to meet demand, but did not report any fuel shortages.\n\nSainsbury's said its Thornhill store in Cardiff had shut on Friday afternoon, adding: \"All our sites are receiving more fuel and we'll reopen again as soon as possible.\"\n\nA Tesco Extra petrol station on Cowbridge Road, in Bridgend, was also closed as of 12:00 BST on Friday and at a Tesco in Bridgend, diesel was not available and only two pumps out of eight on its forecourt were open to motorists.\n\nCardiff Gate services off junction 30 of the M4 ran out of fuel at about 19:45 BST, according to Traffic Wales.\n\nThe Asda petrol station at Leckwith, near Cardiff City FC Stadium, was closed on Friday evening to refuel after the increased demand.\n\nTraffic brought to a halt at Aberthaw as drivers try to fill up\n\nSion Jones, of Valley Services, Llandysul in the Teifi Valley, said he would have to \"consider rationing fuel sales\" to customers if panic buying continues.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC the Army could be brought in to drive fuel tankers if it would help.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSouth Wales Police appealed on Twitter for drivers to keep roads clear.\n\n\"We are aware of drivers queuing at petrol stations across South Wales,\" the force wrote.\n\n\"Keeping highways clear is essential for emergency services, & other public service functions, and hindering them poses a public safety risk.\"\n\nSainsbury's in Thornhill was closed on Friday afternoon\n\nBus company Stagecoach South Wales also wrote on Twitter: \"All our services are experiencing severe delays due to traffic queues at petrol stations. We are working to maintain services.\"\n\nStagecoach apologised to passengers because it was unable to use the bus stop at Asda in Dowlais, Merthyr, due to the amount of vehicles queueing for fuel at the superstore.\n\nCardiff Bus said in a statement: \"We would like to apologise for the current delays we are experiencing across our network.\n\n\"The roads are extremely busy due to the panic buying of fuel - we would like to thank you for your patience, our driver will be with you asap.\"\n\nQueues were seen outside a garage in Dolgellau...\n\nIt is estimated that the UK is short of about 100,000 HGV drivers - with gaps made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.\n\nOutside Wales, some stations owned by BP and Esso-owned Tesco Alliance were shut on Thursday because of a lack of delivery drivers.\n\nMr Jones is considering rationing fuel at the garage he works at\n\nSteve Coombe, of the Petrol Retailers Association, said: \"There were no supply outages last week but there are some sites that are confirming delay in deliveries... they appear confined to London and the south-east [of England] and one or two in the Midlands, but they appear to be temporary in nature.\"\n\nHe added: \"Sometimes newspaper headlines can sensationalise... everyone keep calm, there is plenty of stock.\n\n\"Those sites that have had problems are getting their fuel replenished.\"\n\nMotorists queued for fuel in Llanishen, Cardiff, on Friday\n\nWill Young, who queued for half an hour for petrol at Morrisons in Llanishen, said: \"You could see it coming really because on the news yesterday, it said it's going to happen over the next couple of weeks.\n\n\"It's not my problem but it is a problem for people who use their cars for every day purposes like business and taking their children to school.\"\n\nTony Fundell, another shopper, told BBC Wales: \"I think people are panicking. I've got enough to last me a few days so I'll top up as and when I need it.\n\n\"I'm retired so I've got enough time on my hands but I feel sorry for those who are in business.\"\n\nSometimes newspaper headlines can sensationalise the issue, says the Petrol Retailers Association\n\nChris Bird, director of C J Bird Transport in Llantrisant, told BBC Radio Wales that petrol panic buyers are \"creating their own problem\".\n\n\"If you don't need it, don't bother. Unfortunately as humans we tend to panic and be very selfish in these times,\" he said.\n\nHe added that turning to European drivers to fix the HGV driver shortage is no solution.\n\n\"The eastern European drivers have been the band aid for the job for the last 10 years I would say.\n\n\"It's solvable, the market will find its feet, the wages will go up to a point where people will become more attracted to it.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"The shortage of HGV drivers is of significant concern as they are critical to effective and timely distribution of goods across the country.\n\n\"We are monitoring the situation very closely but responsibility lies with UK government and we continue to raise our concerns with them.\"\n\nSome senior UK government ministers will meet later to discuss supply problems at petrol stations.", "Researchers across the UK are trialling a range of cannabis extracts to treat conditions from pain and asthma to brain cancer.\n\nCharles Ogilvie-Forbes is taking part in a study at King's College London, using CBD to treat the hallucinations he experiences due to his Parkinson’s disease.", "The footprints belonged to teenagers and children who lived between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago\n\nHumans reached the Americas at least 7,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new findings.\n\nThe topic of when the continent was first settled from Asia has been controversial for decades.\n\nMany researchers are sceptical of evidence for humans in the North American interior much earlier than 16,000 years ago.\n\nNow, a team working in New Mexico has found scores of human footprints dated to between 23,000 and 21,000 years old.\n\nThe discovery could transform views about when the continent was settled. It suggests there could have been great migrations that we know nothing about. And it raises the possibility that these earlier populations could have gone extinct.\n\nThe footprints were formed in soft mud on the margins of a shallow lake which now forms part of Alkali Flat in White Sands. The research has been published in the journal Science.\n\nA team from the US Geological Survey carried out radiocarbon dating on seeds found in sediment layers above and below where the footprints were found. This gave the researchers remarkably precise dates for the impressions themselves.\n\nBased on their sizes, scientists think the tracks were made mainly by teenagers and younger children travelling back and forth - along with the occasional adult.\n\nResearchers dated seeds found above and below the layers containing the footprints\n\nThey offer a fascinating window into what life was like for these early occupants of what is now the South West US.\n\nThe scientists don't know for sure what the teenagers were doing, but it is possible they were helping the adults with a type of hunting custom seen in later Native American cultures. This was known as the buffalo jump and involved driving animals over a shallow cliff edge.\n\nThe animals \"all had to be processed in a short period of time,\" explained Dr Sally Reynolds, co-author from Bournemouth University. \"You'd have to start fires, you'd have to start rendering the fat.\" The teenagers could have been helping out by collecting firewood, water or other essentials.\n\nThe age of the discovery is key, because there have been countless claims of early human settlement in the Americas. But virtually all are disputed in some way.\n\nIt often comes down to a debate over whether stone tools found at an ancient site are in fact what they appear to be, or are simply rocks broken through some natural process - such as falling from a cliff.\n\nThe proposed artefacts at early locales are sometimes less clear-cut than the exquisitely crafted spear-points found in North America from 13,000 years ago onwards. This leaves the door open for doubt about their identity.\n\n\"One of the reasons there is so much debate is that there is a real lack of very firm, unequivocal data points. That's what we think we probably have,\" Prof Matthew Bennett, first author on the paper from Bournemouth University, told BBC News.\n\nA stone point made by the Clovis people. They were once believed to be the first Americans\n\n\"Footprints aren't like stone tools. A footprint is a footprint, and it can't move up and down [in the soil layers].\"\n\nWhile the nature of the physical evidence here is harder to dismiss, the researchers had to ensure the dating evidence was - quite literally - watertight.\n\nA potential complication flagged up by the journal during the early stages of review was the \"reservoir effect\". This refers to the way that old carbon can sometimes get recycled in aqueous environments, interfering with radiocarbon results by making a site seem older than it is.\n\nHowever, the team members say they have accounted for this effect and believe it is not significant here.\n\nProf Tom Higham, a radiocarbon dating expert at the University of Vienna, said: \"They've undertaken some checks on the dates of material from near to the footprint location and found that fully terrestrial samples (charcoal) produced ages similar to those of the aquatic species they dated from nearer to the footprints.\n\n\"They've also argued, I think justifiably, that the lake must have been shallow at the time people walked there, mitigating the effect of reservoir effects introduced by old carbon sources.\" The consistency of the results and the support from a different dating technique applied to the site both supported the validity of the results, he added.\n\n\"I think taken together this is a 21,000-23,000-year-old sequence,\" Prof Higham told BBC News.\n\nThe controversies in early American archaeology have much to do with the historical development of the field.\n\nDuring the second half of the 20th Century, a consensus emerged among North American archaeologists that people belonging to the Clovis culture had been the first to reach the Americas.\n\nTeam members record the seed layers above the prints\n\nThese big game hunters were thought to have crossed a land bridge across the Bering Straits that connected Siberia with Alaska during the last ice age, when sea levels were much lower.\n\nAs the \"Clovis First\" idea took hold, reports of more ancient settlement were dismissed as unreliable and some archaeologists actually stopped looking for signs of earlier occupation.\n\nBut in the 1970s, this orthodoxy was challenged.\n\nIn the 1980s, solid evidence turned up for a 14,500-year-old human presence at Monte Verde in Chile.\n\nAnd since the 2000s, other pre-Clovis sites have become widely accepted - such as the 15,500-year-old Buttermilk Creek Complex in central Texas and the 16,000-year-old Cooper's Ferry site in Idaho.\n\nNow, the footprint evidence from New Mexico suggests humans had made it to the North American interior by the height of the last Ice Age, when massive ice sheets covered much of what is today Canada. This would have blocked entry to humans crossing from Asia, perhaps suggesting that humans arrived even earlier when a path - or \"corridor\" - through the ice was open.\n\nGary Haynes, an emeritus professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, said: \"I cannot find fault with the work that was done or with the interpretations - the paper is important and provocative.\n\n\"The trackways are so far south of the Bering land connection that we now have to wonder (1) if the people or their ancestors (or other people) had made the crossing from Asia to the Americas much earlier, (2) if people moved quickly through the continents after each crossing, and (3) if they left any descendants.\"\n\nDr Andrea Manica, a geneticist from the University of Cambridge, said the finding had important implications for the population history of the Americas.\n\n\"I can't comment on how reliable the dating is (it is outside my expertise), but firm evidence of humans in North America 23,000 years ago is at odds with the genetics, which clearly shows a split of Native Americans from Asians approximately 15-16,000 years ago,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"This would suggest that the initial colonists of the Americas were replaced when the ice corridor formed and another wave of colonists came in. We have no idea how that happened.\"", "Tom Felton was helped by onlookers and staff on the course\n\nHarry Potter star Tom Felton was carried off a Wisconsin golf course after collapsing during a celebrity match ahead of the Ryder Cup.\n\nThe actor, who turned 34 on Wednesday, experienced a \"medical incident\" and was sent to a \"local hospital for treatment\", the PGA of America said.\n\nPictures showed him conscious while being removed in a cart.\n\nMr Felton is well known for playing Harry Potter's rival Draco Malfoy in the film franchise.\n\n\"In today's Ryder Cup Celebrity Match, actor and musician Tom Felton experienced a medical incident on the course while participating for Europe,\" the PGA of America said in a statement on Thursday.\n\n\"He was transported to a local hospital for treatment. No further details are available.\"\n\nMr Felton was taken to hospital for treatment\n\nA keen golfer, Mr Felton was representing Europe alongside former professional ice hockey player Teemu Selanne, from Finland, in the celebrity tournament at Whistling Straits.\n\nThey were playing against 1980 US Olympic hockey captain Mike Eurzione and Olympic speed skater Dan Jansen.", "Pop-up vaccine hubs have been set up in places such as south London\n\nThe Covid debate has recently centred on whether teenagers should have the vaccine and when the most vulnerable will receive booster jabs. But a third group is of real concern among scientists and politicians - the five million or so adults yet to have a first dose.\n\n\"Amelia\", 34, has had about four months to get a coronavirus vaccine but so far has quietly refused. She does not want her identity revealed, because she is worried she will receive abuse.\n\n\"I do feel guilty,\" Amelia says. \"I never mention it to anyone, because I think they'll judge me or think I'm an anti-vaxxer. It does feel like I'm hiding from everyone.\n\n\"I am healthy and young and I don't like putting things in my body,\" she says, recalling refusing a flu jab when pregnant. \"I was fine, so I guess I think it'll be the same with coronavirus.\n\n\"I know I should get a vaccine. I thought I had built up the courage to do it on a few occasions. But then I saw something on social media which scared me and I couldn't - I'm petrified.\"\n\nThe UK has administered more than 48 million first doses so far.\n\nBut attention is increasingly falling on those who haven't had it. Speculation has centred on which dancers on Strictly Come Dancing have so far not taken up the offer, as well as how many Premier League footballers are potentially unvaccinated.\n\nExactly how many are yet to receive a Covid jab is unknown, but it's estimated it is more than five million people aged 16 and over in the UK.\n\nMultiple studies show coronavirus vaccines are highly effective at preventing serious illness and side-effects are rare. Immunologists say even if you have been infected naturally, vaccination will boost your immunity further.\n\nThe reasons for not having the jab vary.\n\nA \"very small number\" of people are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons, according to the government, while behavioural psychologists say \"committed vaccine opponents\" who believe in conspiracy theories are unlikely to change their minds.\n\nBut it's argued the unvaccinated who have safety concerns, or distrust institutions, those who are sceptical or indifferent, such as Amelia, could still be reached with the right support and access.\n\nSo how do you convince someone to have the vaccine?\n\nIdentifying a person's \"trigger\" motivation is seen as a highly effective way of tackling vaccine scepticism or indifference.\n\n\"This can be a wide range of things,\" says cognitive psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky, from Bristol University.\n\nResearch suggests reminding people of the common good - protecting a grandparent or parent - helps them realise \"they have a social responsibility - and they may be more willing\".\n\n\"Some can't be bothered - but if it's around the corner and you give them a free hotdog, like in Germany, then that can be really successful.\"\n\nAmelia says her trigger would be not being able to go on holiday without having had a vaccine.\n\nAnd in some areas of the UK, schemes have been running to find people like Amelia and work out what their trigger points may be.\n\nIn South Tyneside, teams spent the summer going door to door and stopping people in the street to try to maximise vaccine take-up and reduce high coronavirus rates.\n\nThey quickly noticed those failing to come forward were mostly young men from poorer areas.\n\nIn one of the most deprived wards, Simonside and Rekendyke, only 48% of men aged 18-29 and 39% of men aged 16-17 have had a first dose.\n\nBut in the least deprived, Cleadon and East Boldon, the proportions are 83% and 79%.\n\n\"The lesson is clear - there is a clear, direct relationship between the level of deprivation and vaccine uptake, among young men at least,\" Matt Brown, from the South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group, says.\n\n\"The gap between young women is far less dramatic. These young men don't understand Covid-19 can cause them serious harm and are also perhaps in jobs where you can't take an hour off work to get a vaccine.\"\n\nTo reach this group, pop-up vaccine sites have been set up in places such as pubs and outside Newcastle United's football stadium, St James' Park.\n\nThe team also tries to have people on hand who can speak foreign languages, including Urdu and Polish, as well as clinicians who can deal with medical questions.\n\n\"Our focus is to help young people understand the risks,\" Matt says.\n\nA team in south London is also trying to locate the elusive vaccine hesitant.\n\nLambeth is a young and diverse borough and data for England shows vaccine take-up is lower among younger age groups and those belonging to certain ethnic minorities.\n\nHowever, staff on the ground prefer to take a more universal approach.\n\n\"This is not about just one ethnicity,\" Lambeth Clinical Commission Group community pharmacist Ash Soni says. \"This is not about just one age - this is about reaching our entire population.\"\n\nOne of the borough's pop-up vaccine services is a blue bus with the word \"welcome\" dotted on it in different languages.\n\nNicknamed the \"worry bus\", it parks outside mosques, Tube stations and supermarkets. Trained staff speak to passers-by who have not yet been vaccinated and ask them why, without judgement or pressure.\n\n\"We've heard so many reasons,\" Mr Soni says. \"Some people fear the vaccine is too new, so we talk about how it has been created and rigorously tested.\n\n\"We hear from people who fear the vaccine puts a microchip in them and we explain that is false - where would we even fit it?\"\n\nThis \"cycle of change\", or finding a person's trigger, can take time, patience and multiple conversations - but experts say most do eventually come round.\n\nEarlier this month, the prime minister and his advisers announced their winter plan, emphasising the importance of reaching those who had so far not taken up the offer of a jab.\n\nPushing vaccination levels up was the key to maintaining lighter controls, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said. \"Trying to persuade those people it is the right thing to do to get vaccinated would make a significant difference.\"\n\nFor Amelia, \"the cons outweigh the pros\" - at least for now.\n\n\"If they said I couldn't go on holiday to Disneyland with my kids without a vaccine then that would sway it for me,\" she says. \"One morning I think I will wake up and decide to do it. I'm just not there yet.\"", "The safety of women as they go about their daily business has once again been thrust into the spotlight. And once again it's because a woman has been killed in apparently \"safe\" conditions.\n\nSabina Nessa, a 28-year-old primary school teacher, was on her way to meet a friend for a Friday evening drink. She set out on what should have been a five-minute walk through a well-used public park at about 20:30 BST and never reached her destination. She was discovered by a member of the public the following evening.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference in relation to Ms Nessa's death, Det Ch Supt Trevor Lawry from the Met Police said: \"The streets are safe for women - people should be free to walk around free from fear\".\n\nLater, a community group handed out information sheets printed from the Met's website, giving \"tips for staying safe on the street\". Women are told not to wear headphones. We are told to stick to busy places, to hide our valuables. We must walk where there is good lighting and pre-book our taxi home.\n\nSix months ago, Sarah Everard was abducted, raped and murdered by a stranger. She followed a number of the protocols with which women are often issued: she walked along a main road, at the relatively early hour of 21:00, wearing sensible clothes.\n\nAnd she trusted a police officer. One of the people we are told to seek out if we feel we are in danger.\n\nNine months before that, sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were murdered by a stranger. The theory of \"safety in numbers\" did not save the sisters, who were together when they were stabbed multiple times in a public park. Staying in contact with partners via text and organising a cab to pick them up did not stop a man deciding to kill them in a so-called deal with a so-called devil.\n\nTheir friends found them in undergrowth two days later.\n\nAs Det Ch Supt Lawry says, of course women \"should\" be able to walk around free from fear. And of course the problem is with the men who murder them rather than the women wearing headphones. And of course women should not have to modify their behaviour in order to not be attacked or abducted or raped or killed.\n\nBut \"worrying about our safety is an integral part of our existence as women,\" said Kelly Grehan, a director of 50:50 Parliament, a cross-party campaign group promoting gender equality.\n\n\"It is drummed into us from a young age that our actions determine our safety: when we were only allowed to go in public toilets in pairs, given rape alarms at secondary school and told we were 'asking for it' or 'jailbait' when we tried to dress like the pop stars we idolised before some of us had even started menstruating.\"\n\nThe killings of Ms Nessa, Ms Everard, Ms Henry and Ms Smallman create an extra frisson of fear because their randomness indicates all women are at risk. If Ms Nessa arranged to meet her friend at a different bar or at a different time; if Ms Everard had left her friend's house 10 minutes earlier or later; if Ms Henry and Ms Smallman had chosen a different part of the park to have their picnic, it could have been different women facing the final few hours of their lives. It could be any woman - even if she had followed the rules.\n\nAcademic studies have examined the ways in which women and girls trade their freedom to feel safer. One of the largest studies conducted on sexual harassment in Europe found that almost half of the 42,000 women surveyed had restricted their freedom of movement based on the fear of gender-based violence.\n\nProf Liz Kelly, the director of the child and woman abuse studies unit at London Metropolitan University, coined the term \"safety work\", to describe the strategies women develop in response to their experiences in public. Often done without thinking, these precautions become ingrained as habit, or \"common sense\".\n\nAnd we all do it. We all make sure we have a fully-charged phone and do that spikey weapon-grip with our door keys at the same time as checking nobody is following us inside. We text when we are \"home safe\" and wait up until we hear the same from our companions. This is normal. This is accepted. This is part of being a woman.\n\nThe tips offered by police and other organisations perpetuate the idea of safety work: take a longer route if it's busier and better lit; search for a Tube carriage with other women in; wear flat shoes for the walk home (in case you have to run).\n\nSarah Everard had been walking to her home in Brixton when she disappeared\n\nAs Prof Kelly says, the \"necessity of safety work steals our time and our energy - being vigilant means it is seldom possible to just be in public space, to feel joy in exercise or notice the changing seasons\".\n\nAfter Sarah Everard went missing, Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick tried to reassure women that incidences of abduction and murder were \"incredibly rare\".\n\nAnd it's true - women account for about a third of all murders and of those, only 13% are killed by a stranger. Most are victims of a partner or ex-partner. It is far more likely that we will be killed at home than in a park.\n\nSo it's a balancing act - women have to take the precautions society deems reasonable while also trying not to overreact to dangers we're told are uncommon enough to be negligible.\n\nDr Fiona Vera-Gray, an assistant professor at Durham University, uses the term \"the right amount of panic\".\n\n\"This won't ever happen to you. Except if it does, because for some of us it will, it will be your fault for not being scared enough. Don't panic enough and it's your fault, but panic too much and you're hysterical.\"\n\nBibaa Henry, 46, and 27-year-old Nicole Smallman were stabbed to death in a Wembley park\n\nAnna Birley, a co-founder of campaign group Reclaim These Streets, said: \"We often get told when the worst happens that the murder of a woman by a stranger in a public place is very rare and we are very safe.\n\n\"But the thing is, our lived experience of street harassment - cat-calling, a man exposing himself to us - tells us we're not safe, and murder is rarely the first crime someone commits.\n\n\"We shouldn't be looking to solutions that require women to change their behaviour.\n\n\"Women should be able to walk five minutes across a park at any time of day or night without fear of violence.\"\n\nIn an ideal world, everyone would live their lives unmolested. It would be safe to amble down dark alleys or across parks, whether sporting a diamond-encrusted miniskirt and platinum noise-cancelling headphones or a sackcloth boiler suit and an air of high alert.\n\nBut until we get to that utopia, if it is even achievable, is the advice offered by police and various safety charities actually something that protects women? If we disregard the hugely problematic narrative of victim-blaming, are they pragmatic - if unpalatable - tips that would keep us safe from stranger danger?\n\nThe deaths of Ms Nessa, Ms Everard, Ms Henry and Ms Smallman would suggest not.\n\nThey followed the \"rules\" and still got murdered. Ms Everard's killer wasn't put off by a brightly-lit busy road and plenty of CCTV cameras. The man who murdered Ms Henry and Ms Smallman was untroubled by the women not being alone and defenceless.\n\nThe cases above are the high-profile ones. There will have been a strata of incidents in which women were attacked but not fatally. In which someone tried to pull or persuade them into a car but were shaken off. In which a man said something sexually aggressive that didn't lead to a physical assault but did leave the woman upset and frightened and angry.\n\nThe women affected would have stuck to the guidelines, would have done their safety work. Very few women actively decide to put themselves in situations they are repeatedly told are dangerous.\n\nA report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) was commissioned by Home Secretary Priti Patel after the murder of Ms Everard.\n\nIt was published the day Ms Nessa was killed.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said there should be a \"fully joined-up policy to address this issue, from school with boys being taught to respect girls; and proper healthy relationship education\". He urged the government to \"outlaw misogyny\" and \"make the harassment of women in a public place a criminal offence\".\n\nEven if all those policies were put into place tomorrow, how long would it take to see real change? Until we get to the point that the concept of a \"healthy relationship\" is the norm, not something to be taught squeezed in between double maths and lunch?\n\nWomen are not attacked because of our route home; we are not attacked because our walk was not \"purposeful\" enough, or because of what we were wearing. If a woman is murdered by a man she doesn't know, it is because he wanted to murder her. There is no other reason.\n\nSociety as a whole - and women as individuals - owes him no excuse. No matter how well-meant, perhaps safety hints for women run the risk of offering one.\n\nAnd in the words of Prof Kelly - what will it take to move the conversation from protecting women's safety to protecting their freedom?\n\nHave you been affected by this story? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police want to speak to a man shown walking in Pegler Square\n\nA man is being questioned on suspicion of murdering primary school teacher Sabina Nessa, who was found dead in a south-east London park.\n\nThe 28-year-old was discovered in Cator Park in Kidbrooke by a member of the public on Saturday 18 September.\n\nPolice believe she was attacked shortly after leaving her home in nearby Astell Road at about 20:30 BST the previous evening.\n\nOfficers have released an image of another man they wish to speak to.\n\nHe is shown on CCTV walking through Pegler Square, where a vigil, organised by a Kidbrooke community group, is to be held for Ms Nessa later. Police said they would be part of the gathering.\n\nAn \"extensive trawl\" of CCTV in the area is ongoing as information on the man's identity and whereabouts could be \"vital\" to the investigation, police said.\n\nSabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe said the force was not asking women to change their behaviour when going out at night.\n\nIt comes after information sheets advising women on how to stay safe at night were handed out by a community group.\n\n\"It's really important to us that we don't ask women to change their behaviour,\" she said.\n\n\"Violence against women and girls is a priority for police across the UK but we're really conscious that women should be free to go about their lives without fear of abuse.\"\n\nShe added violence against women had the \"hallmarks of an epidemic\".\n\n\"It is something that is tolerated far too much in society and we the police are determined to bring offenders to justice and to prevent these offences where we can,\" she said.\n\nShe asked anyone with information about Ms Nessa's death to come forward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice said a post-mortem examination carried out on Monday was inconclusive.\n\nAnother man in his 40s who was held on suspicion of murder on Sunday has been released under further investigation.\n\nMs Nessa was attacked as she walked to meet a friend at The Depot bar, a journey that police said \"should have taken just over five minutes\".\n\nHer body was found the next day near a walkway in the park.\n\nPolice have also released an image of a car they believe the man had access to\n\nThe family of Ms Nessa, who was originally from Sandy in Bedfordshire, previously said they had been left \"devastated\" by her killing.\n\nHer cousin, Zubel Ahmed, described the 28-year-old as the \"kindest, sweetest girl you could meet\".\n\nHe said: \"Sabina's heart was as good as gold, she never had a bad word to say about anyone. Her sister is going to miss her so much.\"\n\nPolice say Ms Nessa was planning to meet a friend at The Depot bar in Kidbrooke Village on the night she was killed\n\nMs Nessa was a teacher at Rushey Green primary school in Catford.\n\nThe head, Lisa Williams, called her \"a brilliant teacher; she was kind, caring and absolutely dedicated to her pupils\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It could take more than a decade to clear the cancer-treatment backlog in England, a report suggests.\n\nResearch by the Institute for Public Policy Research estimated 19,500 people who should have been diagnosed had not been, because of missed referrals.\n\nIf hospitals could achieve a 5% increase in the number of treatments over pre-pandemic levels, it would take until 2033 to clear the backlog.\n\nBut if 15% more could be completed, backlogs could be cleared by next year.\n\nIncreasing activity levels would require more cash for new equipment and more staff, however.\n\nAnd all this is dependent on those who have not come forward for checks seeking help.\n\nBetween March 2020 and February 2021, the number of referrals to see a specialist dropped by nearly 370,000 on the year before, a fall of 15%.\n\nBehind these figures are thousands of people for whom it will now be too late to cure their cancer, the report, with the CF health consultancy, warns.\n\nAnd it estimates the proportion of cancers diagnosed while they are still highly curable - classed as stage one and two - has fallen from 44% before to pandemic to 41%.\n\nIPPR research fellow Dr Parth Patel said: \"The pandemic has severely disrupted cancer services in England, undoing years of progress in improving cancer survival rates.\n\n\"Now, the health service faces an enormous backlog of care, that threatens to disrupt services for well over a decade.\n\n\"We know every delay poses risks to patients' chances of survival.\n\n\"Clearing the cancer care backlog before the next general election looks unlikely with the way the NHS is currently resourced, staffed and organised.\"", "Labour says it would cap the amount of property overseas investors can purchase in new developments, in a bid to help first-time buyers.\n\nUnder plans to be outlined at its annual conference, the party would also give first-time buyers \"first dibs\" on new builds for six months.\n\nIt will also pledge to reform rules governing how developers contribute towards affordable housing.\n\nAnd it will pledge to give councils new powers to buy land for homes.\n\nThe conference, starting in Brighton on Saturday, will give party leader Sir Keir Starmer his first chance to set out his stall to members in person.\n\nIt comes amid an ongoing policy review, where the party will decide how much of its policy offering it should change from the Jeremy Corbyn era.\n\nIn a speech on Sunday, Labour's shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell will set out the party's plans to build \"more truly affordable homes\".\n\n\"Our country is facing a housing crisis with the link between hard work and getting on the housing ladder broken for many,\" she will say.\n\nShe is expected to accuse the Conservatives of becoming the \"party of speculators and developers\", treating property \"as a commodity, not the bedrock of stable lives and life chances\".\n\nAnd in a move to occupy traditional Tory territory, she will call Labour the \"party of home ownership\".\n\nShe will pledge to change England's planning rules, so that half of the homes in new developments cannot be sold to foreign investors.\n\nThe party says this will help first-time buyers by preventing properties being sold off-plan to developers before local residents can buy them.\n\nThe policy is an evolution of the party's position at the 2019 election under Jeremy Corbyn, when it proposed a new tax on foreign buyers.\n\nIn its 2019 manifesto, the party also promised first-time buyers \"first dibs\" on new housing - but did not specify for how long.\n\nBoosting home ownership is expected to be a key focus of the conference this weekend\n\nMs Powell will also recommit to several Corbyn-era housing policies, including linking the definition of \"affordable\" homes to average wages, not rents.\n\nThe party is critical of the government's current definition, which allows affordable rents to be set at up to 80% of the local market rate.\n\nShe will also set out plans to allow local authorities to buy land more cheaply from private owners when completing a compulsory purchase.\n\nCouncils are currently not allowed to buy such land at agricultural value - instead having to factor in the prospect of future planning permission, which makes it more expensive.\n\nLabour believes changing this could enable councils to buy more land for affordable housing, and give them a stronger hand with developers.\n\nThe party had proposals in this area under its previous leadership, when it proposed setting up a \"sovereign land trust\" to buy property.\n\nIt will also renew its criticism of rules under which developers negotiate with councils to build affordable homes, or contribute cash towards them.\n\nThe party has criticised the current system as too lax and favourable to developers.\n\nThe government itself plans to replace the current system with a new levy as part of its wider proposals to change the planning system in England.\n\nA Conservative spokesman said Ms Powell's housing speech \"amounts to a series of rehashed and failed policies from Jeremy Corbyn or Sadiq Khan\".\n\n\"It once again goes to show Labour under Keir Starmer have absolutely nothing new to offer our country,\" he added.", "Police said Ianto Sior Jenkins was struck by a vehicle\n\nA three-year-old boy died after being hit by a pick-up truck and trailer while playing on his bicycle, an inquest has heard.\n\nIanto Cerwyn Sior Jenkins was pronounced dead at Rhosfach Farm near Efailwen in Carmarthenshire at about 19:40 BST on 3 August.\n\nHe had been playing with his sister and cousin at the time.\n\nThe inquest, in Llanelli, was adjourned with a date to be fixed in four months.\n\nCoroner's officer Hayley Rogers said the emergency services were called to the farm at 19:00, after reports that a child had been in a crash with a piece of farm machinery but he died at the scene.\n\nIanto's mother, Chloe Picton, previously paid tribute to her \"blue-eyed boy... who was always smiling and laughing\".\n\n\"He loved being out on the farm and going on the tractor with his daddy,\" she said.\n\n\"Ianto and I had a very strong bond, he was 'mummy's little boy' and was always by my side everywhere we went, now that's been taken from me.\n\nCoroner Paul Bennett extended his \"belated personal condolences\" to the family and told them the coroner's service would conduct its enquiries with the \"appropriate diligence and propriety\".\n\nInquiries by both Dyfed Powys Police and the Health and Safety Executive are ongoing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sabina Nessa's sister, Jebina Yasmin Islam: \"We have lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister\"\n\nHundreds of people have joined a vigil for teacher Sabina Nessa who was killed as she walked to a pub in south-east London.\n\nThe 28-year-old was discovered in Cator Park in Kidbrooke by a member of the public last Saturday.\n\nShe had been walking to meet a friend at The Depot bar last Friday, a journey which \"should have taken five minutes\".\n\nMore than 500 people gathered at Pegler Square, not far from where a wanted suspect was captured on CCTV.\n\nJebina Yasmin Islam, Sabina Nessa's sister, broke down as she addressed crowds at the vigil.\n\nShe said: \"I just want to say thank you to everyone who came today to show support for my sister.\n\n\"We have lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister, who left this world far too early.\"\n\nMembers of the public light candles in memory of Sabina Nessa\n\nShe told the crowd how Sabina had loved her family.\n\nShe said: \"Words cannot describe how we are feeling, this feels like we are stuck in a bad dream and can't get out of it - our world is shattered, we are simply lost for words.\n\n\"No family should go through what we are going through.\"\n\nSabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nMs Nessa's uncle, Shahin Miah, described his niece as \"a kind and a open-minded person\", who was \"always smiling and helping others\".\n\nHe said Ms Nessa's death has \"once again brought to the fore the question of women's safety on the streets\".\n\nIn his statement, he said: \"We don't want what happened to Sabina to happen to anyone else.\n\n\"We don't want any other mother's chest to be empty or filled with deep sorrow, or to see the tears in the eyes of any father.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police want to speak to this man\n\nAs the police investigation continues officers want to identify a balding man, who was seen with something in his hands, who could be \"vital\" to the case.\n\nThe wanted man, who was wearing grey jeans and a black jacket, can be seen looking over his shoulder and pulling up his hood as he walks along the pavement.\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe urged anyone who may know the man to contact them.\n\nTwo men arrested on suspicion of Ms Nessa's murder have now been released pending further investigation.\n\nMembers of the public lay flowers at Pegler Square in Kidbrooke, south London\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's official Twitter account shared a photo of a candle lit outside the front door of No 10 Downing Street with the caption \"Tonight we remember Sabina Nessa\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge said she was \"saddened by the loss of another innocent young woman on our streets\" as police continued the hunt for Ms Nessa's killer.\n\nIn March, the duchess privately visited the memorial to murdered marketing executive Sarah Everard in Clapham Common, south-west London, after the 33-year-old was killed by off-duty police officer Wayne Couzens.\n\nA candle was also lit outside No 10 Downing Street in memory of Ms Nessa.\n\nCrowds gathered not far from the crime scene where forensic officers are still working\n\n\"Say her name. Sabina Nessa. We will never forget,\" was the request from the leaders of the vigil.\n\nHundreds gathered here in Pegler Square all said her name. Sabina Nessa.\n\nThis is the square the 28-year-old teacher was walking to this time last week. She never made it.\n\nNow Londoners from across the city, many of them holding candles and laying flowers, are listening on this quiet, still autumn evening to the vigil speakers.\n\nDozens more silhouetted figures observe from the tower blocks overlooking Pegler Square.\n\nMany observers are crying, listening to the speakers including Sabina Nessa's sister who says her family's world has been shattered.\n\nBut while a community joins together in grief, just behind the vigil, police have sealed off an area. Yellow evidence markers dot the road.\n\nAs one person spoke emotionally of Sabina Nessa, a forensics officer combed the bushes, a reminder that this is still very much an ongoing investigation.\n\nCrowds also gathered in Hackney, Newham, Bristol and in Brighton, to pay tribute to Ms Nessa.\n\nThere was a large turnout at a vigil for Sabina Nessa in Brighton\n\nA spokesperson for Brighton and Hove Council said: \"Every woman and girl should feel safe in their streets, in their parks and open spaces and in their homes.\n\n\"We have today lowered the flags at Hove Town Hall and Brighton Town Hall in memory of Sabina Nessa and to raise awareness of violence against women and girls.\"\n\nAre you taking part in a vigil for Sabina Nessa? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The FBI has issued a federal arrest warrant for Gabby Petito's boyfriend for his \"use of unauthorized devices\" following her death.\n\nThe indictment says Brian Laundrie used a debit card and PIN number for accounts that did not belong to him between 30 August and 1 September.\n\nMs Petito's body was found on Sunday inside a park the couple had visited.\n\nMr Laundrie is currently missing. His family say he was last seen on 14 September.\n\nOfficials are searching for him at a Florida nature reserve.\n\nThe couple had been travelling for several weeks before 23-year-old Mr Laundrie returned home to Florida alone with their white van on 1 September. He did not contact police or the Petito family on his return.\n\nMs Petito's family reported her missing 10 days later. On Sunday, the body of the 22-year-old was found in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. The coroner ruled her death a homicide but gave no indication as to how she died.\n\nThe indictment issued on Wednesday by the US District Court of Wyoming says Mr Laundrie obtained over $1,000 (£730) with the debit card transactions.\n\n\"While this arrest warrant allows law enforcement to arrest Mr Laundrie, the FBI and our partners across the country continue to investigate the facts and circumstances of Ms Petito's homicide,\" FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Schneider said in a statement.\n\nMr Laundrie's lawyer, Steve Bertolino, told Fox News that it was his \"understanding that the arrest warrant [was] related to activities occurring after the death of Gabby Petito and not related to her actual demise\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police stopped Gabby Petito more than two weeks ago\n\nMr Laundrie's family reported him missing over the weekend. They claim he left for a hike and never returned. He is considered a \"person of interest\" in the disappearance but had refused to speak with investigators before disappearing.\n\nThe search for Mr Laundrie has focused on a 24,000-acre nature reserve near his home in North Port, Florida. Police are using dogs, drones, and all-terrain vehicles for the search, which officers say is complicated by difficult, swampy terrain.\n\nEarlier this week, investigators also searched the Laundrie family home. Agents were seen removing several boxes from the house and towing away a silver Ford Mustang.\n\nIt is still unclear what happened when Ms Petito went missing. Two weeks earlier, on 12 August, police in the southern Utah town of Moab were called to a possible domestic violence incident involving the couple.\n\nPolice released bodycam footage which showed Ms Petito crying and complaining about her mental health to officers. She also said the couple had been arguing more frequently.\n\nThe officers recommended they spend the night apart but did not file any charges.\n\nMs Petito last video-called her mother on 24 August to say she was leaving Utah and heading to the Teton mountain range in Wyoming, according to Rick Stafford, the family's lawyer.", "Great Britain's Emma Raducanu relives her US Open-winning ace before trying to return the same serve from a machine.", "Student nurses are giving the vaccine at pop-up centres on campus\n\nStudents attending universities in Wales for freshers' week are being urged to get a Covid-19 vaccine and be \"sensible\".\n\nThey hope for a more settled academic term after last year's disruption.\n\nBut there are fears students will spread the virus during freshers' week.\n\nWales' Education Minister Jeremy Miles said the measures were \"really important\" as the pandemic continued, as he visited a pop-up jabs centre at the University of South Wales.\n\nLocal authorities, health boards and universities across Wales said they had been working together to welcome students back as safely as possible.\n\nBangor University has introduced measures to keep students safe in its Academi nightclub, which includes having to show either proof of vaccination or a negative lateral flow test.\n\n\"Bangor is a small city area,\" said Mabon Dafydd, president of university's Welsh language students' union, UMCB.\n\n\"We have to manage how many people are coming back and we are encouraging students to get their jabs.\n\n\"This is to ensure student safety and we think this is the best way to go about it.\"\n\nBangor University Welsh SU president Mabon ap Dafydd says students are being encouraged to get the vaccine\n\nAnother 1,340 18 to 29-year-olds across Wales received a first dose in the past seven days, down on the week before.\n\nThe number of those in that age group taking up the vaccine is decreasing every week despite there being 110,120 who have still not had it.\n\nAt least three-quarters of 18 to 29-year-olds in almost all areas have had first doses, but that drops to 68% in Ceredigion.\n\nUniversities across Wales will be offering vaccination opportunities at pop-up vaccination centres, where students who have not received their vaccine can get one during the first few weeks.\n\nTegwen Bruce Deans (left) said she's looking forward to enjoying normal uni life with her mates\n\nCatrin Wager, a Gwynedd councillor, said she was glad to see students returning, but urged them to stay safe.\n\n\"I think people are happy to see students coming back,\" she said.\n\n\"We just want to push that message of wearing masks, keeping a distance, trying to socialise outside and just try and make the most of keeping people safe.\"\n\nTegwen Bruce Deans, 20, has just started her third year at Bangor University and said she is hoping for a more settled year and a return to \"uni life\", following the disruption Covid had caused.\n\n\"I've made a conscious effort this year to go to as many events as possible just to make up for lost time over the last year,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm double vaccinated - I know that there are so many other students who are double vaccinated, just in order for us to get back to a bit of normality.\"\n\nOver the next few weeks, the Welsh government and local authorities say they will be keeping a close eye on Covid rates in university areas.\n\n\"We've been reminding people how important it is that you get yourself vaccinated on campus,\" said the Welsh education minister.\n\nJeremy Miles said he wanted students across Wales to have the most \"normal experience\" possible.\n\n\"It's also important to register with a GP and really important to keep doing your (lateral flow) tests for the first 28 days you're back on campus,\" he added.\n\n\"We are nowhere near being through with Covid.\"", "A BP garage showing out of use signs today in Sherborne\n\nBP has warned it has had to \"temporarily\" close some of its petrol stations due to a shortage of lorry drivers.\n\nThe oil firm said only \"a handful\" of sites were affected by the fuel supply issues, which have led to a lack of unleaded and diesel fuel.\n\nThere are around 1,200 BP branded petrol stations around the UK, of which 300 are operated by BP themselves.\n\nThe company said it was working hard to address the issues.\n\nSupply chain delays had been \"impacted by industry wide driver shortages across the UK\" and that the company was working hard to address the issues, BP said in a statement.\n\n\"We continue to work with our haulier supplier to minimise disruption and to ensure efficient and effective deliveries,\" the company added.\n\nOther petrol station operators have been approached by the BBC for comment.\n\nEsso said that a \"small number\" of its 200 Tesco Alliance retail sites have been affected.\n\n\"We are working closely with all parties in our distribution network to optimise supplies and minimise any inconvenience to customers. We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience,\" a spokesperson from Esso added.\n\nHowever, supermarket Morrisons, which operates 338 petrol stations across the UK, said it was not seeing any similar issues at the moment.\n\nCo-op runs 130 petrol stations in the country, and said it has a \"full complement\" of fuel delivery drivers.\n\nTesco also said that they have a \"good availability of fuel\" and both Sainsbury's and Asda said there are no current issues in their fuel supplies.\n\nA BP petrol station in Worcester was closed due a lack of fuel\n\nDowning Street has said people should continue buying fuel as normal.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was no shortage of fuel in the UK, adding: \"We obviously recognise the challenges faced by the industry and we're taking steps to support them.\"\n\nHe pointed to changes made by the Department for Transport to make it quicker for HGV drivers to get their licences and said that this is a problem several countries are facing.\n\nGrant Shapps also told the BBC's Question Time on Thursday that he believed the shortages had also been caused because of working conditions that \"hadn't been pleasant\" and that higher salaries offered to drivers was something the government was \"happy to see\".\n\nHe also said that improvements in the availability of tests were \"coming in prior to Christmas… so these are things that will resolve the issues in the lead up to Christmas\".\n\nThe temporary closures come just months after BP had to close a \"handful\" of its UK sites in July because of lorry driver shortages. At the time, BP said its supply chain issues had also been exacerbated by the closure of a distribution terminal due to staff being told to isolate.\n\nPaul Cheema's petrol station is just about to run out of unleaded petrol\n\nPaul Cheema has run a petrol station in Coventry since 2013, and says he's never experienced a situation like this before.\n\n\"We used to be able to put orders in for next day delivery. Now we have to do it a week in advance, but we're ordering blind. We don't know how much fuel we're going to sell in that time. If we'll have enough, or even too much,\" says Paul.\n\n\"Last week we put in an order for a delivery to arrive today. That was pushed back until tomorrow, and now we've been told it won't arrive until Saturday.\"\n\n\"So that means we won't have any unleaded petrol to sell tomorrow,\" he said.\n\nPaul says that fuel delivery delays have been happening all summer, but it's been particularly bad in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"We're a petrol station. We should have availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I'm not blaming our fuel supplier. It's not their fault. It's the bigger driver shortage problem behind it.\"\n\nHe sells thousands of litres of unleaded every day, so the cost implications for him are huge.\n\n\"There could be a 40% impact on sales with this week's delivery problems. If I haven't got any liquid in the ground, I'm not making money. I can't operate the site at a loss.\"\n\n\"If I haven't got fuel to sell, that customer isn't coming into my petrol station shop either, so I'm losing money there too,\" says Paul.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), which represents petrol station operators across the UK, said that some sites across the UK were seeing delivery delays, but that they were largely confined to London and the South East, and were \"temporary by nature\".\n\nGordon Balmer from the PRA said that petrol station closures were rare, and that the fuel supply chain was resilient enough to cope.\n\n\"Fuel demand is still only at 92% of pre-pandemic levels so we believe there should be ample stock available at refineries and delivery terminals throughout the UK.\"\n\nMany businesses have been complaining about the UK's shortage of lorry drivers, which is still causing serious supply chain problems.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic, Brexit and tax changes have all contributed to a lack of qualified drivers. Industry bodies estimate there is a shortfall of about 100,000 workers.\n\nLogistics UK, which represents the haulage industry, said it was \"aware of reports that petrol supplies are currently being affected\" by the lack of drivers.\n\n\"The driver shortage is a very serious issue that needs urgent government and industry action to resolve, however, we urge people not to panic buy; the logistics industry is resilient and has proven capable of supporting shops, families and businesses during Covid-19, border closures and the first stages of Brexit, and will continue to serve the needs of the nation,\" the industry body said.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 17 and 24 September.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nDavid Baker captured this stunning shot of the aurora borealis over Embo in the Highlands.\n\nBanksy eat your heart out! Andrew Smith from Inverness took this picture of his four-year-old daughter Lucy, who had the idea to pretend to let go of the balloons on the mural.\n\nChristov B said: \"I went for a drive and a bit of an explore near Crianlarich. The weather was just turning, which led to a fairly dramatic sky.\"\n\nWild beauty! Joanne Baird submitted this photo of her daughters at Glencoe.\n\nSimon Flower took this atmospheric photo of Dibidil Bothy on Rum\n\nChris Watters from Brookfield, Renfrewshire said: \"I couldn't resist trying to get a photo of this beautiful wee wasp climbing up my window. On reflection I guess I was risking getting stung.\"\n\nGrant McKenzie captured this dreamy photo of Achmelvich Bay on a North Coast 500 holiday with his wife Rachael.\n\n\"Off on a cycle and met this very confident duck on Dores beach, Loch Ness,\" said Jo Kinghorn.\n\nWhat lies beneath? Mhairi Hastie Smith from Edinburgh was captured exploring the clear water of Devils Punch Bowl on the River Quoich\n\nBob Muirhead from Kirkcaldy said: \"The dark clouds made the Dolphin at Portsoy look like a pencil sketch.\"\n\nCraig Coventry was in the perfect spot to capture this photo of northern gannets on the Bass Rock.\n\nSue Wensley took this photo of Loch Leven. She said: \"Evening over the loch, evolving reflections as the light and cloud change second-by-second.\"\n\nClemence Lynch snapped this storm of gannets flying high above the lighthouse on the Bass Rock\n\nCarol Blain sent us this glorious panoramic shot of the Five Sisters of Kintail\n\nIain Cruickshank said: \"My cat woke me at 04.00, so I thought I would head down to the East Beach at Lossiemouth to photograph the stunning sunrise and early-morning surfers.\"\n\nJack Childs said: \"Thought I'd stumbled across paradise in the hills between Loch Moidart and the River Shiel, Lochaber.\"\n\nMaud Cow: Kath O'Connor took this photo in Maud, Aberdeenshire. She said: \"This curious cow moo-ed when I took its picture! Perhaps telling us to keep on moo-ving.\"\n\nKeith Dolan took this photo at Beecraigs Country Park near Linlithgow. He said: This is our border collie Brodie who was watching the squirrels jumping from tree to tree.\"\n\nLouisa Johnston said: \"After a steep wee climb up Morven, the evening light was stunning on the walk out. Maiden Pap looked like a smoking volcano.\"\n\nRosie Mill from Baldernock took this photo of curious 18-month-old Joni on their first trip to the Kelpies\n\nHelen Turner happened upon this perfect scene on the Isle of Mull. She said: \"We were lucky that the rain and rainbows cleared in time for some amazing coastal views and a BBQ in the evening!\"\n\nChris Reekie said: \"As the sun rises through the morning mist, the green-keeping staff on the Eden Course, St Andrews, make ready for the day's golfers.\"\n\nJohn Lang took this impressive photo of Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe\n\nKenneth Gilmour took this moody shot of the Girdle Ness Lighthouse in Aberdeen. He said: \"The misty conditions helped created this moody scene.\"\n\nKayleigh Hamilton said: \"Here's a pic of our highland coos from our little farm Glenfia, enjoying the sunsets just outside Ellon.\"\n\nAnnika Rieley from Glasgow took a photo of friends doing their stretches in Loch Linnhe in Kentallen\n\nDavid Clark said: \"Stunning sunrise on Nairn Beach, Arthur was enjoying his morning walk.\"\n\nDavid Ellison captured this lovely photo of dogs Truman and Harris. He said: \"We left Kingussie in grey mist and came up to glorious early morning sunshine.\"\n\nDavid Hughes said: \"Some gulls taking to the wing as the rising sun starts to colour the sky at Aberdeen Beach.\"\n\nGerry Macdonald took this photo of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis at Aberdeen Music Hall. He said: \"It is great to see live music again.\"\n\nHao Yang from Falkirk said: \"I noticed this cute wee fella so I got out the camera, quickly made a few snaps, and later noticed that in one of them the snail looked as if it was staring right at me!\"\n\nMyles Fitt said: \"I took this photo when walking my six-month-old cockapoo Oscar in North Queensferry.\"\n\nKay Anderson said: \"Here is a photo of our Airedale, Olive. She loves running around the stubble fields at this time of year and almost took flight this morning!\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "The travel rules will change from 4 October\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive will change rules on Covid-19 testing for international travel, bringing rules in line with the rest of the UK.\n\nMinisters agreed to remove the requirement for pre-departure testing for fully vaccinated arrivals from non-red list countries from 4 October.\n\nMeanwhile, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has agreed to send up to 100 armed service medics to Northern Ireland to ease hospital pressure.\n\nRobin Swann said it was an \"important practical step to support our health and care staff\".\n\nThey could be deployed between Belfast City Hospital and the Ulster Hospital in October.\n\nThe request for assistance had been made by the Department of Health.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robin Swann MLA #StopCovidNI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe travels changes will come into force at 04:00 BST on 4 October.\n\nJet2 chief executive Steve Heapy said: \"The news that Northern Ireland holidaymakers will no longer have to take a pre-departure test in resort is another welcome step towards normality, and we applaud the Northern Ireland Executive for this decision.\n\n\"There has been enormous demand from holidaymakers in Northern Ireland following the announcement that the traffic light system will be scrapped, and today's news will give customers even more confidence.\n\n\"As a result of these recent positive steps, customers are really taking advantage of the opportunity to book some much-needed late summer and winter sunshine and we cannot wait to take them away.\"\n\nBut he added that further changes are needed in order to help the travel industry.\n\n\"There is still a long way to go to reopen international properly, and we trust the Northern Ireland Executive will replace expensive PCR arrival tests with lateral flow tests before the end of October,\" he said.", "The residence has been dubbed a 'miracle house' for escaping the lava\n\nA dramatic image shows a house in the Canary Islands that has managed to escape lava from an erupting volcano.\n\nPeople on social media have dubbed the residence in La Palma a \"miracle house\".\n\nThe volcano started erupting on Sunday. More than 200 homes have been destroyed and about 6,000 people evacuated.\n\nThe lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano is still advancing and scientists are not sure how long the eruption will last.\n\nThe image by photographer Alfonso Escalero shows the house surrounded by rivers of lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano.\n\nIt is owned by a retired Danish couple, Inge and Ranier Cocq, who have not visited since the pandemic began, according to El Mundo.\n\nAda Monnikendam, who built the house with her husband, said she had spoken with the couple who told her: \"Even though we can't go now, we're relieved that it's still standing\".\n\nSome 6,000 people have been evacuated so far\n\nAccording to Ms Monnikendam, the couple have friends in the area who have lost everything due to the volcano.\n\nThe lava has engulfed houses, schools and some banana plantations.\n\n\"They don't want to talk to anyone because they won't stop crying,\" Ms Monnikendam said.\n\nReflecting on the image, Ms Monnikendam said that it was \"sad to know that the house is there alone without anyone being able to take care of it\".\n\nLocal officials say the lava could trigger a chemical reaction that causes explosions and the release of toxic gases if it reaches the sea.\n\nHowever on Thursday, experts said the lava was currently moving \"very slowly\". It is now not clear if the flow will reach the sea.\n\nThe Canary Islands government has announced plans to buy two housing developments for those made homeless.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has flown directly from La Palma to New York for a shortened trip to address the UN General Assembly, and will immediately return to the Canary Islands to oversee emergency operations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A man with autism, ADHD and Tourette's syndrome has settled a disability discrimination case against the police and a recruitment firm for £12,500.\n\nThe man had unsuccessfully applied for an administrative post with the PSNI via a recruitment campaign conducted by Honeycomb Jobs Ltd.\n\nThe Equality Commission said effective reasonable adjustments were not made during a group interview.\n\nHoneycomb and the PSNI each paid £6,250 without admission of liability.\n\nThe man was supported in taking his case by the Equality Commission.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it would continue to liaise with the commission \"and our external recruitment agencies to ensure that our recruitment procedures and assessment methodologies are fair and accessible to all\".\n\nHoneycomb said that \"despite ongoing engagement\", it recognised that reasonable adjustments for the man at his interview \"did not go far enough in the circumstances\".\n\n\"We are therefore pleased that the parties were able to resolve this matter through conciliation and we offer the applicant our best wishes for the future,\" it said.\n\nThe commission said the man, who has asked not to be publicly identified, had disclosed that he had autism on his application form, but no one followed up on this until he had successfully completed two parts of the three-stage recruitment process.\n\nPhone calls were made to Honeycomb to let it know he would have severe difficulties effectively communicating during the group interview.\n\n\"While the man was given extra time to read the pre-briefing (which he did not need) and an extra 10 minutes and a word processor to write up what was discussed, he did not believe that effective reasonable adjustments were made at the group interview itself, which meant that due to his disability he was not able to actively participate,\" the commission said, in a statement.\n\n\"He completed the written report and scored well in all areas of the overall selection process with the exception of the group interview.\"\n\nThe man said he had worked hard to overcome his educational difficulties and the experience had \"taken its toll\", affecting his condition and self-confidence.\n\n\"It is important that employers listen and take steps to ensure that people with disabilities are given appropriate support to allow them to compete fairly with others without a disability and ultimately the possibility of achieving a good job,\" he said.\n\nMary Kitson, senior legal officer at the Equality Commission, welcomed the PSNI and Honeycomb Jobs Ltd's agreement to review their recruitment practices.", "'Lorry driving is a fun job but I'm having second thoughts'\n\nWe've been reporting on a lorry driver shortage in the UK which has been exacerbated by coronavirus. John Buckland gave up teaching to become an HGV driver in 2015 and says although he finds it \"a fun job\", he's now having second thoughts \"Long distance means I have to have nights out,\" he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One. \"So at the moment I'm spending four to five nights out a week and I just want to be home. The wages are also really pretty poor as well.\" He says offering higher salaries will not be enough to get people into the job. \"They're going to say alright you're going to get £50,000 but you're never going to see home, you're going to be out at weekends, sleeping in the cab you're going to have to park in lay-bys. I don't think that's going to be very attractive to very many people at all,\" he says. Kieran Smith from specialist HGV training agency, Driver Require, says: \"We estimate 230,000 licence holders are not driving at the moment,\" he says. \"Of those, 50,000 left in the last six months, so some of those should be able to be attracted back and that's probably the most easy short-term fix.\"", "Elon Musk says he has \"semi-separated\" from his partner, the Canadian pop artist Grimes.\n\nThe SpaceX and Tesla CEO told Page Six that while they \"still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms\", their careers often keep them apart for long periods of time.\n\nGrimes has yet to comment on the status of her relationship with Mr Musk.\n\nThe couple began dating in 2018 and welcomed their first child, named X Æ A-Xii, in May last year.\n\nMr Musk said the pair intend to continue co-parenting their child.\n\n\"It's mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or travelling overseas and her work is primarily in LA,\" Mr Musk told Page Six. \"She's staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room.\"\n\nThe pair were last seen together leaving the Met Gala earlier this month. Grimes had walked the red carpet alone but was joined by her billionaire partner inside the event.\n\nMr Musk was previously married to Canadian author Justine Wilson, with whom he has five sons: twins Griffin and Xavier, 17, and triplets Damian, Saxon and Kai, 15.\n\nHe was also twice married to Westworld actress Talulah Riley. They first wed in 2010 but divorced in 2012. They reconciled a year later and remarried in 2013, before divorcing again in 2016.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margaret Keenan: First UK person to get the Pfizer jab gets booster\n\nA woman who became the first person in the world to get the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine has had her booster.\n\nMargaret Keenan, 91, from Coventry, got her third injection at University Hospital in the city on Friday, the same place she was first vaccinated.\n\nAlso getting the booster was Matron May Parsons, who administered Ms Keenan's first jab back in December.\n\nMs Keenan said she felt happy she had got it done and that it meant she felt free.\n\nThe UK has administered more than 48 million first doses of coronavirus vaccine so far.\n\nBooster jabs are being offered to the over-50s, younger adults with health conditions and frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe recommendation came from the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation) amid concern about waning immunity\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen Ms Keenan, originally from Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, received her first injection it prompted headlines across the world and attention on social media, also tripling sales of the charity t-shirt she was wearing,\n\nMs Keenan caused sales of a charity t-shirt to triple when she wore it for her first vaccine\n\nAsked what advice she would give to people who are worried about getting vaccinated, Ms Keenan said: \"For the few seconds it takes, go and have the injection, it saves their lives and it saves their families' lives\".\n\nShe said she felt \"really good\" after having the booster and urged people to \"just go for it\".\n\n\"When you have it done you feel a different person… because you feel it's going to help you and help others,\" she said.\n\nMs Parsons added it was \"lovely\" to see Ms Keenan again and \"heart warming\" to see her doing so well.\n\nMatron May Parsons, who gave Ms Keenan her first jab, received her booster at the same time\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nPrince Andrew's US lawyers have accepted he has been served with legal papers which allege he sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre in 2001.\n\nIt follows a dispute over whether the prince had been formally notified of the civil claim against him.\n\nMs Giuffre, 38, claims she was sexually assaulted by the prince at three locations including New York City.\n\nPrince Andrew, the Queen's 61-year-old second son, has consistently denied the allegation.\n\nCourt documents show that lawyers for both sides spoke on 21 September and the time for the duke to respond was extended.\n\nThat response must now be filed to a court in New York by 29 October.\n\nA judge ruled last week that Prince Andrew's US lawyer could be served with legal papers.\n\nServing of documents is the critical first stage in any claim for damages - it means that a defendant has been made fully aware of the allegations against them by receiving all of the papers in the case.\n\nIf a defendant does not take part in the case after they have been served, they risk automatically losing.\n\nMs Giuffre was an accuser of the billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre - then known as Virginia Roberts - says she was assaulted by the prince at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nHer case claims Prince Andrew engaged in sexual acts without Ms Giuffre's consent, including when she was 17, knowing how old she was, and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nThe prince has consistently denied the claims and, in 2019, told BBC Two's Newsnight programme: \"It didn't happen.\n\n\"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\n\n\"I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"", "Housing estates, such as this one in east London, have been demolished to make way for newer buildings\n\nBritain’s top engineers are urging the government to stop buildings being demolished.\n\nMaking bricks and steel creates vast amounts of CO2, with cement alone causing 8% of global emissions.\n\nThey say the construction industry should where possible re-use buildings, employ more recycled material, and use machinery powered by clean fuels.\n\nThey are concerned about \"embodied emissions\", which is the CO2 emitted when buildings and materials are made..\n\nThey believe that unlike carbon from aircraft, vehicles and gas boilers, embodied emissions are not in people's minds.\n\nThey suspect few people realise there's a carbon impact from, for instance, building a home extension.\n\nThe report, steered by the Royal Academy of Engineering, said a new way of thinking is needed before planning new homes, factories, roads and bridges.\n\nProf Rebecca Lunn from Strathclyde University, one of the report's authors, said: \"Our biggest failure is that we build buildings, then we knock them down and throw them away. We must stop doing this.\"\n\nFellow author, Mike Cook, adjunct professor at Imperial College, challenged the government's £27bn road-building programme because of the embodied emissions created to obtain the concrete and tarmac, as well as the use of very polluting machines to construct the highways.\n\nProf Cook told BBC News: \"We have to radically revise the way we look at things.\n\n\"The most important thing is to maximise the use of existing road infrastructure by using smart motorways to maximise every inch of tarmac.\"\n\nSpeaking in a personal capacity, he added that the decision on Heathrow expansion should be re-visited following stronger warnings from climate scientists.\n\nProf Cook said questions should be asked whether projects such as HS2 - with its massive embodied carbon - will really benefit future generations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: Should we be demolishing buildings?\n\nThe Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers' Dr Julie Godefroy urged the government to set targets for the construction industry to move swiftly towards zero carbon, including embodied emissions.\n\nShe observed: \"We have to avoid demolition and new-build. Often most of the material in an existing building is underground - so we should seek to use existing foundations.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. About 88kg of explosives were used to reduce the tower to 10,000 tonnes of debris\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) responded to a request from BBC News for a comment by stating that the UK was a \"world leader in tackling climate change\".\n\nThey added: \"We are committed to reducing emissions from the construction sector, and have set up the Construct Zero programme to support the industry to achieve their climate commitments.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said that the government, earlier this year, had set out their Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, which was \"the government's comprehensive assessment\" of how industry, including the construction sector, could decarbonise in line with the government's net-zero plans.\n\nAlso, they explained, ministers this week had announced £220 million of funding to help UK industry reduce their carbon emissions and improve energy efficiency.\n\nThe Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) estimates that 35% of the lifecycle carbon from a typical office development is emitted before the building is even opened. The figure for residential premises is 51%.\n\nThe report has heartened the Architects' Journal, which has been campaigning against any unnecessary demolition.\n\nIt wants the government to change the VAT rules which can make it cheaper to rebuild than to refurbish a standing building.\n\nIts managing editor Will Hurst said: \"This staggering fact has only been properly grasped in the construction industry relatively recently. We've got to stop mindlessly pulling buildings down.\"", "Vet says she raised concerns about overloaded and unclean pens, and lame sheep and cattle\n\nA whistleblower vet who raised \"serious\" concerns about animals' welfare has won her case against the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera).\n\nDr Tamara Bronckaers told an industrial tribunal she felt she had to resign.\n\nShe said she resigned after being \"excluded, ignored and undermined\" when she brought issues to the department's attention.\n\nDr Bronckaers worked for Daera for nearly two decades until April 2018.\n\nIn the course of her work, she found breaches of animal welfare at livestock markets.\n\nShe also uncovered failures in the way the movement of cattle was recorded at markets, and the abuse of a process called \"deleted moves\".\n\nThat, Dr Bronckaers claimed, could affect the traceability of meat within the food supply chain and have an impact on the spread of disease in cattle, in particular tuberculosis.\n\n\"Animal welfare was a major concern for me and I witnessed first-hand animals suffering unnecessarily - in one livestock market, there were overloaded and unclean pens, lame sheep and cattle, and animals being left overnight without food or water,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"I suspect that over the past five years in excess of 25,000 animals have been involved in deleted moves, resulting not only in issues around animal welfare but also detrimental implications for traceability within the supply chain.\"\n\nDr Bronckaers' solicitor John McShane said she had tried to raise her concerns with the department.\n\n\"Whenever those representations, those concerns, through a period of over a year, had been forcefully put forward, the line from the department was simply to ignore it,\" he said.\n\n\"To present Dr Bronckaer as being a nuisance, to humiliate her, to denigrate her, and to ultimately leave her in a position where she felt no option but to resign from her employment of nearly 20 years and all the financial implications of that, and the distress to her and also her family.\"\n\nThe tribunal concluded that Dr Bronckaers had been unfairly dismissed.", "The BBC has obtained first-hand accounts from migrants who say they’ve been illegally deported from the European Union by Polish border troops.\n\nClose to the border between Belarus and Poland, the BBC’s Europe correspondent Nick Beake found migrants stranded in a forest, with night-time temperatures dropping close to freezing. At least four people are known to have died.\n\nEU members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania have each declared a state of emergency amid a surge of thousands of people trying to cross from Belarus. The EU has accused the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as a weapon, while Poland has banned aid workers and journalists from its border zone.", "A man was captured on CCTV walking in Pegler Square\n\nA 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Sabina Nessa in south-east London, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nMs Nessa's body was found by a member of the public in Cator Park in Kidbrooke.\n\nOfficers believe the 28-year-old teacher was attacked shortly after leaving her home in Astell Road at about 20:30 BST on Friday.\n\nThe force has also released an image of another man they are searching for.\n\nThe image shows a figure of a person walking through nearby Pegler Square.\n\nAn image of a silver car it is believed he had access to - and that police are searching for - has also been released.\n\nSabina Nessa was found near the One Space community centre in Kidbrooke\n\nThe arrested man was held at an address in Lewisham and remains in custody.\n\nPolice said a post-mortem examination carried out on Monday was inconclusive.\n\nAnother man in his 40s who was held on suspicion of murder the day after Ms Nessa's body was found was later released under further investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Nessa was attacked as she walked to meet a friend at The Depot bar at about 20:30 BST last Friday.\n\nHer body was found the next day near a walkway in the park.\n\nPolice have also released an image of a car which they believe the man had access to\n\nSpeaking about the CCTV image appeal, Det Ch Insp Neil John said: \"We would ask anyone - especially those in Kidbrooke and the wider area of Lewisham and Greenwich - to take a careful look at these images to check whether you know who this man is or have seen him over recent days.\n\n\"Any information as to his identity or whereabouts could be vital for our investigation so we are asking you to share this image far and wide to ensure as many people as possible see it.\"\n\nPolice say Ms Nessa was planning to meet a friend at The Depot bar in Kidbrooke Village on the night she was killed\n\nMs Nessa's family previously said they had been left \"devastated\" by her killing.\n\nHer cousin, Zubel Ahmed, described the 28-year-old as the \"kindest, sweetest girl you could meet\".\n\nHe said: \"Sabina's heart was as good as gold, she never had a bad word to say about anyone. Her sister is going to miss her so much.\"\n\nMs Nessa was a teacher at Rushey Green primary school in Lewisham. The head, Lisa Williams, called her \"a brilliant teacher; she was kind, caring and absolutely dedicated to her pupils\".\n\nA vigil is due to be held in Ms Nessa's memory on Friday evening.\n\nIt has been organised by a Kidbrooke community group with the support of Reclaim the Streets, which held a vigil for murder victim Sarah Everard in Clapham Common that ended in mass arrests.\n\nPolice said they would be part of the gathering.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A manager and a shopper were stabbed inside Marks & Spencer on 2 December 2020\n\nA man has denied trying to murder two women in a Marks & Spencer store in an alleged terror attack.\n\nMunawar Hussain, 57, pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted murder at the department store in Burnley on 2 December 2020.\n\nMr Hussain, who is from the town, appeared at Manchester Crown Court by video link from a secure hospital.\n\nSpeaking through an interpreter, he said he \"did not attempt to murder them\" when asked to enter his pleas.\n\nProsecutors are treating the knife attack as a terrorist case.\n\nThe store's manager, in her 40s, was stabbed in the neck, while a customer, in her 60s, suffered arm wounds.\n\nMr Hussain was remanded in custody and is due to appear for trial on 31 January at the same court.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fully-vaccinated people travelling to Scotland from overseas will no longer have to take pre-departure Covid tests, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nThe change will benefit Scots returning home from abroad and visitors from non-red list countries.\n\nScotland will also \"align with the UK post-arrival testing regime\" but details have still to be finalised.\n\nLast week the Scottish government said testing requirements would remain due to public health concerns\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said ministers still had concerns, but after talks with the aviation industry they had \"reluctantly concluded\" that following the UK's path on testing was the \"best option\".\n\nPlans to simplify the international travel traffic light system by merging green and amber classifications and removing more countries from the red list were announced last Friday.\n\nThose changes will come into effect on 4 October.\n\nNow it has also been confirmed that travellers from non-red list countries who have been fully vaccinated will not be required to provide evidence of a negative test result before travelling to Scotland.\n\nHowever, they must have been vaccinated in a country that meets \"recognised standards of certifications\".\n\nMr Matheson said the move to align with the rest of the UK came after consideration of the \"logistical, health and economic implications\".\n\nHe added: \"We have urgently considered all these implications, weighing any possible impact on the public health and the logistical realities.\n\n\"After liaising at length with stakeholders from the aviation sector to understand the impact of adopting a different approach in Scotland, we have reluctantly concluded that, for practical reasons, alignment with the UK is the best option.\"\n\nGordon Dewar, chief executive of Edinburgh Airport, said: \"We welcome this decision which will be a huge bonus for Scotland's travel and tourism sector and will provide some much needed confidence for people who need and want to travel.\"\n\nThe travel industry had warned that not aligning with the rest of the UK was costing the sector bookings\n\nDerek Provan, chief executive of AGS Airports, which owns Aberdeen and Glasgow airports, said: \"While this is something we have been urging the Scottish government to do for months, and the subsequent delay has negatively impacted the industry in Scotland, it is a welcome step forward.\n\n\"By ensuring Scotland has parity with the rest of the UK, this decision is one that will deliver much-needed consumer confidence for our passengers to start travelling again.\"\n\nDr Liz Cameron, chief executive of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, added: \"Divergence in international travel restrictions and testing regimes would have placed Scotland and its airports at a significant economic disadvantage.\n\n\"This sends a clear signal to the world that Scotland is open for business.\"\n\nSteve Heapy, chief executive of Jet2.com, claimed the firm had seen an immediate surge in bookings for flights and package holidays since the announcement.\n\nHe said: \"We had already seen demand step up following the decision to scrap the traffic light system, however this announcement removes a number of major barriers.\n\n\"The fact that Scottish holidaymakers will no longer have to take a pre-departure test in resort is a welcome step towards normality.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has also said it would consider how \"additional safeguards and surveillance of inward travel can be implemented\" in a bid to guard against the importation of new variants of Covid.\n\nTory transport spokesman Graham Simpson MSP said: \"This SNP climbdown will come as a relief to businesses in Scotland's much overlooked tourism and aviation industries.\n\n\"However, such a late U-turn means Scottish airports have missed out on any potential recovery that could have been made during the October break.\"\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme said she was a \"little perplexed\" at the latest easing of travel restrictions when \"we are still right in the middle of this pandemic\".\n\n\"I know some of the trends are going in the right direction and it feels as though we are turning a corner,\" she added. \"Whether that is a sustained position will depend on us continuing to be vigilant and having protective measures in place.\n\n\"This announcement today is another one being introduced which could have repercussions. I understand why; it is about being practical and signing up to the situation across the UK. But it doesn't come without risk.\n\n\"Even though we will still have PCR testing for red-list countries, there is no guarantee you won't detect variants of concerns in any other country. They are not just restricted to countries on the red list, so I think it's a worry.\"", "R. Kelly's lawyer has compared him to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr in the closing argument of the singer's sex-trafficking trial.\n\nDeveraux Cannick said both men held the government to account and he urged jurors to be courageous.\n\nThe singer, 54, denies all charges against him in the federal case.\n\nThe prosecution ended its argument with a simple message: \"Convict him\", after saying he should pay for the \"pain he inflicted on each of his victims\".\n\nR. Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is accused of grooming and sexually abusing women and underage girls.\n\nThe charges include one count of racketeering and eight counts of illegally transporting people across state lines for the purpose of sex.\n\nOver the past five weeks, the jury in Brooklyn, New York, has heard from a number of men and women who said the star stripped them of control, enforcing draconian rules over when they could eat, sleep and go to the bathroom, and pressured them into sexual acts, which he would often videotape.\n\nProsecutors have portrayed him as a predator who exploited his fame to attract fans into his circle, where he would demand strict obedience or else punish them.\n\n\"For decades, the defendant recruited and groomed women, girls and boys for his own sexual gratification,\" Elizabeth Geddes, a lawyer for the prosecution, told the jury. \"With the help of his inner circle, he slowly isolated his victims, set rules and exacted punishment.\"\n\nShe continued: \"It is time to hold the defendant responsible for the pain he inflicted on each of his victims. It is now time for the defendant to pay for his crimes. Convict him.\"\n\nNine women and two men have appeared in court, saying R. Kelly sexually abused them.\n\nThe defence lawyer said R. Kelly was living a \"playboy life\" because his record label painted him as a sex symbol. \"Where's the crime in that?\" said Mr Cannick, dismissing alleged victims as groupies.\n\n\"You heard about a man who treated these women like gold,\" Mr Cannick added. \"He bought them bags more expensive than cars.\"\n\nHe invoked King's \"I've Been to the Mountaintop\" speech: \"Somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press.\"\n\nKing upheld the Constitution to try to make the government \"be true to what's on paper\", he said, adding: \"That's all Robert is trying to do.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, R. Kelly declined to testify in his own defence.\n\nCourt reporters said he was shaking his head during the prosecution's final arguments.\n\nThe jury is expected to retire to consider its verdict later on Thursday.\n\nIf convicted, R. Kelly faces up to 15 years in prison.", "Kim Yo-jong is the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un\n\nThe influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says they are willing to resume talks with the South if it ends its \"hostile policies\".\n\nKim Yo-jong was responding to a renewed call from the South to officially declare an end to the Korean War.\n\nThe conflict, which split the peninsula into two, ended in 1953 with an armistice and not a peace treaty.\n\nThe two countries have technically been at war ever since, and locked in a sometimes tense relationship.\n\nThis week, South Korean president Moon Jae-in called for the two Koreas and their allies - the US which backs the South, and China which is the North's biggest economic partner - to declare a formal end to the conflict and bring peace to the peninsula.\n\nThe idea was initially dismissed by a top North Korean minister as \"premature\".\n\nBut in an unexpected statement released on Friday through state media, Ms Kim said the idea was \"admirable\".\n\nHowever she added that the North would only be willing to discuss the proposal if the South stopped what she called \"hostile policies\" towards them.\n\n\"What needs to be dropped is the double-dealing attitudes, illogical prejudice, bad habits and hostile stand of justifying their own acts while faulting our just exercise of the right to self-defence,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Only when such a precondition is met, would it be possible to sit face to face and declare the significant termination of war.\"\n\nI remember on the day that Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in first met, I said that when it comes to inter-Korean relations, hope can be a difficult thing to manage.\n\nThe prospect of ending a more than 70-year war on the Korean peninsula has been the hope of this administration in Seoul for nearly 5 years.\n\nBut President Moon is running out of time. His successor will be elected in March.\n\nHe took a gamble on meeting Kim Jong-un and holding his hand on the sacred summit of Mount Paektu. But since then, relations between the two Koreas have soured.\n\nNorth Korea even blew up an office which was purpose built to house talks between the two sides. It looked like all hope of peace talks were over.\n\nBut here we are, another small sliver of hope breaking through in the form of a statement from Kim Yo-jong.\n\nNote all the caveats and pre-conditions. There are a lot of \"ifs\" and \"buts\" in there.\n\nSo, does she mean it? Kim Yo-jong doesn't say things lightly. But she's also batting everything back to Seoul.\n\nIt might as well say: \"Talks will only follow if you behave in a way we deem worthy\".\n\nAnd who knows when that may be.\n\nSouth Korea earlier this month tested its first submarine-launched ballistic missile, just hours after the North tested their own weapon.\n\nNorth Korea has also often criticised South Korea's annual military drills with the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pictures from South Korea's Ministry of National Defence show the launch\n\nRelations between the two countries have not improved much since denuclearisation talks between Mr Kim and US president Donald Trump soured in 2019.\n\nMr Moon, who has made engagement with the North a cornerstone of his presidency, has previously argued that a declaration to end the war would encourage the North to denuclearise.\n\nNorth Korea in turn has called for crippling economic sanctions to be lifted first.\n\nBut the US has repeatedly said that North Korea must abandon its nuclear weapons first before any sanctions can be lifted.", "Specialist teams worked to remove Insulate Britain protesters who glued themselves on top of a tanker\n\nThirty nine people have been arrested after climate activists blocked Dover port, causing queues of vehicles attempting to cross the Channel.\n\nInsulate Britain, which has brought chaos on the M25 five times in the past fortnight, said more than 40 people had gathered.\n\nThe Kent port - Europe's busiest ferry terminal - said passengers should take extra time for their journeys.\n\nThe main protest began at 08:20 BST and was cleared by police two hours later.\n\nOne lane of the A20 remained blocked afterwards, as two protesters were sitting on top of a tanker with their hands glued to the vehicle.\n\nWhile she was on the tanker with her hand stuck to the railing, one protester who gave her first name as Stephanie said she did not want to be there.\n\nShe said: \"I want to be home with my family spending time with them but if we don't do this they aren't going to have a future.\n\n\"The government are not doing enough. On the current trajectory we are heading for chaos.\"\n\nBoth Stephanie, 27, and her fellow protester Josh, 28, were later lifted down by police.\n\nLorry drivers were held up by Insulate Britain protesters blocking the A20\n\nKent Police said the protest caused \"traffic disruption in Dover\", with queues forming on the A20 and the A2 approaching the port.\n\nAll those detained on Friday were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance and obstructing a highway, the force said.\n\nPolice said all those arrested remained in custody on Friday afternoon, when roads were again clear.\n\nPolice carried away a protester who was on top of a tanker\n\nDover TAP, short for Traffic Assessment Project, was implemented by National Highways, due to the congestion.\n\nIt enforces a 40mph speed restriction on the A20 approaching Dover, and lorry drivers heading for the port must remain in the left lane.\n\nThe Port of Dover said at 11:21 BST that traffic had resumed and was flowing in and out of the site.\n\nPolice officers removed a protester from the A20 in Kent\n\nThe protest followed a court ruling won by the government which means climate change protesters can be jailed if they continue their campaign of blocking the M25.\n\nHundreds of campaigners previously forced the closure of the motorway in parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the government would take further action.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"We won't tolerate reckless behaviour on motorways or ports (Dover this morning). I'm therefore seeking a further injunction to prevent this disruption.\"\n\nLater, the government confirmed a further injunction had been approved by the High Court to prevent protesters from occupying the A20 and strategic roads linked to the Port of Dover.\n\nMr Shapps said: \"We are absolutely committed to protecting the right to peaceful protest, but it is unacceptable that people cannot go about their day-to-day businesses and that businesses, or critical supplies should be put on a knife's edge because of the reckless actions of a few protesters.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The British public are rightly furious that the behaviours of a selfish minority have been putting lives at risk and causing untold disruption on our roads and now at Dover.\"\n\nProtesters from Insulate Britain sit on top of a vehicle as they block the A20 in Kent\n\nSeveral drivers remonstrated with activists in Dover.\n\nInsulate Britain also held a demonstration outside the Home Office's Westminster headquarters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCh Supt Simon Thompson, from Kent Police, thanked people affected for their patience, and said: \"The impact this disruption had on the local community and port-bound traffic is not lost on us.\"\n\nPolice cleared the A20 of protesters after two hours\n\nWriting on Twitter, she added: \"The port is the vital artery of our nation's trade - about one-fifth of all trade comes through Dover. We simply cannot afford further disruption to food and goods at this time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Natalie Elphicke MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInsulate Britain, which is calling for government action on home insulation, said: \"We are blocking Dover this morning to highlight that fuel poverty is killing people in Dover and across the UK.\n\n\"We need a Churchillian response: We must tell the truth about the urgent horror of the climate emergency.\"\n\nThe Port of Dover handles 17% of the UK's trade in goods. It was used by an average of 6,200 road haulage vehicles every day last year.\n\nDoug Bannister, chief executive of the port, said it \"implemented its tried and tested resilience plans in order to deal with the impact of the protest\".\n\nHe apologised to travellers for the \"disruption\" but said the situation was \"not of our making\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Protesters outside the Italian consulate in Barcelona demanded Mr Puigdemont's release\n\nAn Italian court has ordered the ex-president of Spain's Catalonia region to be freed following his arrest in Sardinia, his lawyer said.\n\nCarles Puigdemont is free to leave the island but must return for a hearing in October.\n\nHe was arrested on a Spanish arrest warrant on Thursday.\n\nMr Puigdemont fled Catalonia after leading a breakaway independence vote in the region in 2017. He later became a member of the European Parliament.\n\nItalian police were waiting for the former Catalan president at Alghero airport in Sardinia on Thursday and he was taken to a nearby prison.\n\nHe travelled to the Italian island on Thursday for a Catalan folklore festival, his lawyer said, and was held overnight in Sassari prison, a short distance from the airport.\n\nSpain accuses him of sedition but his lawyers say the European arrest warrant is no longer valid. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said \"it's clear that Carles Puigdemont must be brought to justice and stand trial\".\n\nHundreds of protesters rallied outside the Italian consulate in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, on Friday morning demanding his release.\n\nThe 2017 breakaway referendum prompted Spain's deepest political crisis for decades, with the Catalan regional parliament declaring independence, and Madrid then imposing direct rule over the region.\n\nAfter Mr Puigdemont and two ministerial colleagues fled, Spain jailed nine other Catalan leaders for sedition for their role in the breakaway vote. They were pardoned by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in June.\n\nThe former Catalan president now lives in Belgium and his lawyers have successfully fought off a Spanish extradition bid in the past.\n\nCRISIS IN CATALONIA: A brief guide to Spain's regional crisis\n\nWhen he became an MEP in 2019, the Catalan ex-leader initially had immunity from prosecution but the Parliament voted to strip him of that last March. He appealed against the decision but in an initial ruling at the end of July the EU's general court said there was no immediate risk of arrest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Catalonia's ex-president on life 'on the run'\n\nThere are at least two questions facing the Italian judiciary: the validity of the Spanish extradition request, and the powers of Italian judges when the case is yet to receive a ruling by the EU's general court.\n\nSpanish authorities say the European arrest warrant was \"never deactivated\". And Mr Puigdemont's lawyers say that no court within the EU can execute a European arrest warrant until a final ruling has been made.\n\nThis arrest is awkward for Spain's leftist coalition government.\n\nAlthough the administration of Socialist Pedro Sánchez insisted that the Italian authorities' actions should be respected and that \"nobody can avoid justice\", this comes at a sensitive time.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Sánchez resumed negotiations with the pro-independence Catalan government aimed at finding a solution to the longstanding territorial crisis.\n\nAlthough both sides in the talks are still extremely far apart, the Spanish government hopes that the process will eventually lead to a lasting solution in the north-eastern region. The government has already pardoned nine jailed independence leaders.\n\nMr Puigdemont embodies a relatively uncompromising strain of Catalan separatism, and his detention fuels claims by pro-independence Catalans that their leaders, and ideology, are being persecuted. It all inhibits the Spanish leader's attempts to calm tensions surrounding the Catalan issue.\n\nPrime Minister Sánchez said although Mr Puigdemont had fled while Spain was under another government, the current left-wing administration respected and stuck to judicial decisions.\n\nCatalonia's new president Pere Aragones - also a separatist - condemned the \"persecution\" of Mr Puigdemont.\n\nCatalonia is one of Spain's richest regions and already has a high degree of autonomy. But many Catalans feel they pay more to Madrid than they get back, and there are historical grievances too, in particular Catalonia's treatment under the dictatorship of General Franco.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Angela Rayner is calling for \"a fair day's pay for a fair day's work\"\n\nNew laws to boost fairness at work would be brought in within 100 days of Labour winning a general election, Angela Rayner has promised.\n\nLabour's deputy leader said \"common decency\" had to be restored to the workplace, in a conference speech.\n\nPlans include bringing workers and employers together to negotiate pay and conditions in every sector.\n\nLabour says it would also increase statutory sick pay, as well as bring in the right to flexible working for all.\n\nMs Rayner told Labour's annual conference: \"Let's make this real and show every worker in every workplace in every corner of our country that with their support, their lives, their jobs and their communities can and will be better.\"\n\nUnder the \"fair pay agreements\" proposal, representatives of workers and employers would negotiate minimum standards - or a floor - for pay and terms and conditions for their particular sector.\n\nOnce agreed, the terms would be binding on employers and staff.\n\nSir Keir sat on the stage next to Ms rayner as she delivered her speech\n\nLabour argues this would prevent \"exploitative employers from undercutting the many good employers\" - pointing to the introduction of such agreements in New Zealand and some European countries.\n\nThe idea of fair pay agreements is one policy included in Labour's green paper on employment rights. Other proposals include:\n\nLabour's deputy leader also confirmed social care would be the first sector to go through the fair pay process.\n\nMs Rayner - who is also Labour's shadow secretary for the future of work - argued that fair pay agreements would \"stop bad bosses from exploiting their workers and driving down pay\".\n\nShe also told BBC Breakfast that better pay and working conditions would ease pressure on employers by boosting staff retention and cutting the number of working days lost to sickness.\n\n\"Having good employment practices... means that you have good staff retention (and) those skills are retained within the organisation,\" she said.\n\nIn her speech, she also said the fair pay agreements would \"drive up pay, improve conditions in the workplace and stop bad bosses from exploiting their workers\", and that that ending \"poverty wages and insecure work\" would be the \"driving mission of the next Labour government\".\n\nWelcoming the proposal, TUC leader Frances O'Grady said: \"Giving workers and their unions more power to bargain collectively is the best way to improve pay and working conditions across Britain.\"\n\nMs Rayner's speech marked the beginning of Labour's annual conference - Sir Keir's first in-person conference since he became leader in 2020.", "Farmers' leaders say the food and farming sector is on a \"knife edge\" due to labour shortages\n\nThe environment secretary has said the government is looking at different options on how to fix labour shortages in the food sector.\n\nGeorge Eustice said the government was considering whether changes could be made to the Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme (SAWS).\n\nSAWS is a quota-based scheme that allows farmers to recruit overseas.\n\nTrade bodies have warned of panic-buying this Christmas unless action is taken to address the lack of staff.\n\nThose shortages have been made worse by Covid and Brexit.\n\nMr Eustice acknowledged \"the reality that there is an acute labour shortage at the moment across the UK economy\".\n\nThe SAWS scheme saw 30,000 temporary workers admitted to the UK this year to fill vacancies in agriculture - mostly working on fruit and vegetable farms - helping with the picking and packing of produce.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to an agricultural show in Northern Ireland, Mr Eustice said there are \"some real concerns about how we'll deal with that spike in demand in the two weeks up to Christmas\".\n\n\"We have SAWS and we're looking at options as to how we can change the focus of that and we hope to be able to say something on this shortly,\" he continued.\n\nWhen asked if he would be looking at changes to visas to address workforce shortages, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Thursday: \"If that was actually the solution, I'm sure we would move to it quickly and I don't rule out anything.\"\n\nThe National Farmers' Union (NFU) has called for another emergency visa to allow firms to recruit from outside the UK.\n\nEarlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he does \"not believe people will be short of food\" this autumn and winter, amid reports of some gaps on supermarket shelves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he does “not believe people will be short of food” amid reports of some empty supermarket shelves.\n\nGovernment sources told the BBC discussions were ongoing to \"look at where the gaps are\".\n\nAsked if that meant action might be taken before Christmas they indicated \"realistically, yes, before Christmas\".\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Eustice said the government wanted to monitor whether workers who may be made redundant when the furlough schemes finish at the end of September could instead enter the labour market where there are shortages. Those include areas such as lorry driving or meat processing.\n\nHowever, he said if that did not happen \"then the beauty of a controlled immigration system is you can take steps to allow people to come in on temporary visas should you want\".\n\nNFU head Minette Batters wrote to the prime minister on Wednesday, warning that the food and farming sector is on a \"knife edge\" because of labour shortages across the entire supply chain.\n\nThe letter, signed on behalf of a number of food and drink trade bodies, called for the introduction of a Covid-19 recovery visa to open up new recruitment opportunities.\n\n\"Without it, more shelves will go empty and consumers will panic buy to try to get through the winter,\" Ms Batters wrote.\n\nReferring to an earlier NFU report, Ms Batters said that there were an estimated 500,000 unfilled vacancies in the industry.\n\nDue to the shortages, some farmers have resorted to giving fruit and vegetables away rather than let it rot in their fields.", "Thousands of passengers arriving at UK airports were hit by delays on Friday after a technical problem disrupted self-service passport gates.\n\nHeathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Edinburgh airports all reported problems with the e-gates.\n\nBut a Home Office spokesperson said the problem was quickly identified and had now been fixed.\n\nThe problem came after weeks of passenger anger over queues because of Border Force staff issues.\n\nThe gates allow travellers with biometric passports to pass through border control without a manual inspection.\n\nThey are staffed and operated by Border Force, a Home Office department.\n\n\"This afternoon, a technical issue affected e-gates at a number of ports, \" the Home Office said. \"The issue was quickly identified and has now been resolved.\n\n\"We have been working hard to minimise disruption and apologise to all passengers for the inconvenience caused.\"\n\nDocumentary maker Louis Theroux was among those forced to wait in long queues at the west London airport. He described the situation at Heathrow as a \"human logjam\".\n\nOther arriving passengers said they were being held on board aircraft due to the problem.\n\nOfficials said the UK's border security was not affected.\n\nPassengers arriving at Heathrow endured lengthy queues over the summer as staff struggled to cope with Covid-19 documentation as well as passports and visas.\n\nThe Home Office, which has responsibility for Border Force, said earlier this month that the waiting times being endured by passengers were \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt said Border Force was \"rapidly reviewing its rosters and capacity and flexibly deploying our staff across the airport to improve waiting times\".", "The former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been installed as Queen's University's first female chancellor.\n\nSpeaking at a ceremony on Friday, she described the university as \"special\".\n\nShe said she was looking forward to \"learning much more about this university\" and \"helping to tell the university's exciting story\".\n\nThe ceremony is being held at the end of the first week of the new academic year.\n\nMrs Clinton said there was \"another reason\" she had \"agreed to become a member of this community\".\n\n\"Northern Ireland has become a symbol of democracy's power to transcend divisions and deliver peace, and we need that beacon of hope now more than ever,\" she said.\n\n\"But with hope comes responsibilities, the responsibility to be a citizen, to be willing to discuss and learn from people unlike yourselves.\n\n\"To debate and compromise in search of common ground to participate in our shared institutions, to respect the rights, dignity and needs of all people, and to uphold the rule of law.\"\n\nMrs Clinton used her speech to encourage people and politicians in Northern Ireland to work together to resolve their differences over Brexit and dealing with the legacy of past violence.\n\nSpeaking for 15 minutes, she also paid tribute to the late Pat Hume, wife of former SDLP leader John Hume, and said \"peace is a process not an event\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The difficulties of the past continue to threaten the present'\n\nWith her inauguration, Mrs Clinton became the university's 11th chancellor.\n\nShe was appointed in January 2020.\n\nBut Mrs Clinton has not been able to visit the university in that capacity due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe former US secretary of state has had an illustrious career serving as a US senator for New York and as first lady during her husband Bill's two terms as US president.\n\nShe was also the losing Democratic Party candidate in the presidential election which saw Donald Trump come to power.\n\nDuring the ceremony, 14 figures from the worlds of business, politics, sport, the arts, policing and education were awarded honorary degrees.\n\nThese include Derry Girls writer and creator Lisa McGee, former Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Sir George Hamilton, and international hockey player Shirley McCay.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the event, Mrs Clinton said she was pleased to be in Belfast.\n\n\"I am proud of my longstanding connection with Northern Ireland and its people and look forward to continuing to make my contribution to the university over the next few years,\" she said.\n\nProf Ian Greer, Queen's president and vice-chancellor, said Mrs Clinton had an \"enormous amount\" to offer the university and would continue to work as a \"key advocate for Queen's on the international stage\".\n\nA number of protesters gathered outside the university on Friday morning as Mrs Clinton arrived, chanting \"shame on Queen's\".\n\nThey were protesting against the United States' foreign policy.\n\nThe majority of students at Northern Irish universities spent the 2020/21 academic year taking their degree courses online.\n\nThe university is also making a special posthumous award to recognise the public service achievements of Norman Houston, director of the Northern Ireland Bureau in Washington for more than 12 years, who died in January.\n\nDuring the ceremony, the university, with support from the Northern Ireland Bureau in Washington, will announce an annual Norman Houston Study Northern Ireland Scholarship which will support a US student studying at Queen's.", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading\n\nThree teenagers who killed a 13-year-old boy over a social media row have been sentenced to custody in young offenders institutions.\n\nA girl lured Olly Stephens to a field in Reading, Berkshire, where two boys lying in wait stabbed him to death.\n\nThe boys, aged 14, were found guilty of murder following a trial at Reading Crown Court. One was sentenced to 13 years and the other to 12 years.\n\nThe girl, 14, admitted manslaughter and was given three years and two months.\n\nNone of them can be identified for legal reasons.\n\nOlly's dad Stuart Stephens said his son \"had such a big heart\"\n\nThe two boys were given life sentences, meaning they will serve minimum terms of 12 and 13 years respectively.\n\nJudge Heather Norton told the three teenagers: \"Whatever part each of you played - great or small - what you did that day was utterly cruel and totally pointless.\n\n\"You have taken one life, damaged your own futures and you have caused so much pain to so many people.\n\n\"The effects of what you did will stay with you and with Olly's family forever.\"\n\nThe judge said the sentences would seem \"unbearably short\" to Olly's family, but \"unbearably long\" for the defendants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly's parents have described their \"disbelief\" after the fatal attack\n\nOlly's killers believed he \"grassed\" on them to the brother of a boy they had mocked in a social media group chat, the trial heard.\n\nVoice notes and text messages were presented to the jury in which the boys talked about taking revenge.\n\n\"He's actually getting banged when I see him,\" one message said.\n\nAnother added: \"I actually hate the kid with a passion, like if I was to see him right now I'll probably end up killing him or something.\"\n\nThe girl was recruited to lure Olly to Bugs Bottom fields, near his home in Emmer Green, as part of a \"set-up\", the jury was told.\n\nShe suggested in messages exchanged before the killing that he deserved what was coming, describing it as \"karma\", the court heard.\n\nOlly was filmed on a doorbell camera leaving his family home for the last time, looking at his phone as he walked to meet the girl.\n\nHe was stabbed twice when he arrived - one blade penetrated 17cm (6.5in) into his back, and another wound in his chest was 9cm (3.5in) deep, the jury heard.\n\nVideos of the defendants showing off knives were found on their phones\n\nOlly's parents have described receiving a knock on the door to tell them Olly had been stabbed.\n\nThey both rushed to the fields where they found their fatally injured son receiving CPR.\n\n\"The thing that sticks in my mind is when I went up to the field and everybody turned round - the horror was just written all over their faces,\" said Stuart Stephens, Olly's father.\n\nMr Stephens said he believed \"social media has a lot to answer for\" and claimed \"it played a massive part in Olly's death\".\n\nHe also criticised the \"gangster mentality\" of the killers who he said must have felt like they \"were in a video game\".\n\nStuart Stephens read a statement outside Reading Crown Court after the hearing\n\nPaying tribute to Olly, he said: \"He had such a big heart - he was very generous, very loving, very caring.\"\n\nSpeaking on the steps of the court after sentencing, Mr Stephens said: \"We relaxed for a few moments, preoccupied with getting on with life, and took our eyes of him for just a moment.\n\n\"It cost us and him dearly.\"\n\nMr Stephens added that he would like to see laws changed \"to protect our children to empower the investigative police and to help parents and support them to navigate the dangers of online victimisation\".\n\n\"If it was up to me no child under 16 would have a mobile phone,\" he said.\n\nBoth boys were also convicted of perverting the course of justice.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Compensation payments for hundreds of civilian deaths linked to the British armed forces have been revealed for the first time.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence paid out £688,000 for 289 civilian deaths between 2006-14, an average of £2,380.\n\nBut in one case, a family was paid just £104.17, less than others received for the deaths of a herd of donkeys.\n\nThe MoD said compensation was set by legal principles, including past and future losses and local customs.\n\nAlmost 7,000 compensation claims paid out by the British military during combat operations in Helmand, in Afghanistan, up until 2014 were analysed by the charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV).\n\nThe youngest casualty was a three-year-old boy who, according to records, was \"killed by shock\" during a British mine clearance operation. At least 16 children were among the 289 civilian deaths.\n\nUsing data obtained under Freedom of Information requests, this is the first attempt to scrutinise the impact of British military forces on civilian lives in Afghanistan in this way.\n\nMurray Jones from AOAV said: \"The fact that a charity has had to scrutinise this data, rather than the British military themselves, is hugely concerning.\"\n\nCompensation payments for civilians killed varied widely. In February 2008 a family received just £104.17 for a confirmed fatality and property damage.\n\nThere is no more detail given, but it is the lowest recorded sum for a civilian death.\n\nIn contrast, British forces paid out £110 for a lost mobile phone in Camp Bastion, £662 for the death of six donkeys after they \"wandered on to a rifle range \", and £240 for damage caused to a property by an armoured vehicle.\n\nOther payments linked to civilian deaths include £586.42 for the death of a 10-year-old boy in December 2009.\n\nBritish forces also paid out £4,233.60 for four children \"shot and killed by ISAF (International Security Assistance Force)\" in the same month. There is no record of this incident in the English language media.\n\n\"So few of these deaths were reported on at the time that these casualties could easily be forgotten,\" said Mr Jones.\n\nOne payment for an incident which did receive media attention was significantly higher. Five Afghan children injured by stray bullets fired from a British army Apache helicopter received £7,204.97.\n\nOverall, £397,000 was paid out by the British for 240 injuries - an average of £1,654.\n\nThe largest single payment awarded was £54,347 for a single fatality in Kabul in 2007. No more details of the incident are recorded.\n\nThe records show that the majority of claims for compensation were rejected. In total 885 claims of death and 285 claims of injury were denied by the MoD.\n\nAOAV said: \"It's likely that the deaths recorded are an underestimation of deaths caused by British forces.\"\n\nThe US military also paid out more than 1,600 \"condolence payments\" between October 2006 and September 2014 for deaths, injuries and property damage.\n\nThe payments cost the US nearly $4.9m, according to a report by the Center for Civilians in Conflict.\n\nThe MoD said the amount of compensation paid is \"determined by legal principles which consider the degree of injury and both past and future losses; settlements also reflect local customs and practice\".\n\n\"Every civilian death is a tragedy and the UK always seeks to minimise the risk of civilian casualties through our rigorous targeting process, but that risk can never be removed entirely,\" an MoD spokesperson said.", "The project aims to create \"one vast nature recovery area\"\n\nA major new project aims to rewild an area of more than 500,000 acres (202,343ha) in the Highlands.\n\nOver a period of 30 years, mountains, hills, glens and forests would be left to natural processes.\n\nThe area could stretch from Loch Ness, across the central Highlands to Kintail on the north west Highlands coast.\n\nMoray-based charity Trees for Life is working with Rewilding Europe, along with 20 landowners and six organisations on the project.\n\nThe charity said the initiative followed three years of consultation and its work was continuing towards bring more landowners and communities on board.\n\nIt also said it would work with local people and businesses to create \"a more resilient area\" in the future.\n\nThe plan is to link up a network of landholdings to create \"one vast nature recovery area\", which would include glens Cannich, Affric, Moriston and Shiel.\n\nRewilding is a form of large-scale conservation that leaves landscapes to natural processes. In the areas, land management is reduced and fences taken down and drainage removed.\n\nThe aim is to allow habitats such as natural woodlands and native wildlife to flourish.\n\nIn continental Europe - where eight \"rewilding areas\" include Portugal's Greater Côa Valley and Croatia's Velebit Mountains - there has also been reintroduction of wildlife once native to the areas but which had died out due to hunting or habitat loss.\n\nThe aim of rewilding is to allow habitats and wildlife to flourish\n\nThe planned area would include Glen Affric and other glens west of Loch Ness\n\nFindhorn-based Trees for Life said it was seeking the involvement of more landowners and communities in the Affric Highlands initiative, and it hoped to begin practical work on rewilding the area in 2023.\n\nChief executive Steve Micklewright said: \"The Highlands have huge potential to help nature to come back and so help people to thrive, and to make a leading contribution to tackling the global climate and nature emergencies.\"\n\nFrans Schepers, of Rewilding Europe, added: \"Affric Highlands is a bold, exciting and inspiring venture for nature's recovery as Scotland moves up the biodiversity league table.\n\n\"Our decision to accept the project as our ninth rewilding area reflects the hard work and achievements of Trees for Life, its volunteers and its partners.\"", "A 12-year-old boy has died after being seriously hurt at an indoor ski centre.\n\nOfficers were called to the SnowDome in Tamworth on Friday evening to reports a child had been injured during an activity.\n\nThe ambulance service said its workers tried to save the boy who died \"after an incident on the slope\".\n\nSnowDome Limited chairman Martin Smith said: \"For an evening's activity to end so tragically is almost beyond belief and our sorrow is deeply felt.\"\n\nStaffordshire Police said a man was also injured and asked people not to speculate about the incident.\n\nOfficers also asked the public not to share any images or footage.\n\nThe centre, which offers skiing and snowboarding facilities, will be closed over the weekend.\n\nMr Smith said on-site first aid responders also attended to the boy who \"could not be saved and tragically died at the scene\".\n\n\"The directors and all of the employees extend their heartfelt thoughts and prayers and condolences to the family and friends of the young boy.\"\n\nHe added the company was in \"full co-operation with the investigating authorities\" and was \"providing complete and absolute assistance\".\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service sent two ambulances, two paramedic officers and an air ambulance to the centre in River Drive.\n\nThe SnowDome will remain closed over the weekend\n\n\"On arrival crews found a boy who had suffered very serious injuries,\" a service spokesman said.\n\n\"Staff worked on him providing advanced life support but, sadly, despite all of the efforts it was not possible to save him and he was confirmed dead at the scene.\"\n\nThe man who was injured was not treated by paramedics, he added.\n\nIn a statement the company said it was sorry the SnowDome, which also offers an ice rink, swimming pool and climbing walls, is shut.\n\n\"When it is possible and appropriate to make further comment then we will surely do so.\n\n\"We are truly sorry for the disappointment that this may cause.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been informed and anyone with information about what happened has been asked to come forward.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That's all for tonight after a dramatic four hours of election results.\n\nNext Tuesday at the first sitting of the house, the new members will be sworn in for a five-year term of office.\n\nThey will also elect a new Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Keys.\n\nKeep an eye on the BBC Isle of Man page in the coming days for more reaction. For now though, goodnight!", "Two men have been released on bail after appearing in court charged with rioting on the night journalist Lyra McKee was killed.\n\nPatrick Gallagher, 29, and Jude McCrory, 24, appeared at Londonderry Magistrates' Court via video link on Friday.\n\nBoth men are also accused of throwing petrol bombs.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot dead while observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate in April 2019.\n\nMr Gallagher, of Gartan Square in Derry and Mr McCrory, of Magowan Park in the city, were ordered to adhere to a night time curfew and will be electronically tagged as part of their bail conditions.\n\nThree other men have been charged with the murder of Ms McKee and another two have been charged with rioting and associated offences on the night she was killed.\n\nA 55-year-old man arrested on Thursday has been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.", "China's central bank has announced that all transactions of crypto-currencies are illegal, effectively banning digital tokens such as Bitcoin.\n\n\"Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities,\" the People's Bank of China said, warning it \"seriously endangers the safety of people's assets\".\n\nChina is one of the world's largest crypto-currency markets.\n\nFluctuations there often impact the global price of crypto-currencies.\n\nThe price of Bitcoin fell by more than $2,000 (£1,460) in the wake of the Chinese announcement.\n\nIt is the latest in China's national crackdown on what it sees as a volatile, speculative investment at best - and a way to launder money at worst.\n\nTrading crypto-currency has officially been banned in China since 2019, but has continued online through foreign exchanges.\n\nHowever, there has been a significant crackdown this year.\n\nIn May, Chinese state intuitions warned buyers they would have no protection for continuing to trade Bitcoin and other currencies online, as government officials vowed to increase pressure on the industry.\n\nIn June, it told banks and payment platforms to stop facilitating transactions and issued bans on \"mining\" the currencies - the trade of using powerful computers to make new coins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Friday's announcement is the clearest indication yet that China wants to shut down crypto-currency trading in all its forms.\n\nThe statement makes clear that those who are involved in \"illegal financial activities\" are committing a crime and will be prosecuted.\n\nAnd foreign websites providing such services to Chinese citizens online is also an illegal activity, it said.\n\nThe technology at the core of many crypto-currencies, including Bitcoin, relies on many distributed computers verifying and checking transactions on a giant shared ledger known as the blockchain.\n\nAs a reward, new \"coins\" are randomly awarded to those who take part in this work - known as crypto \"mining\".\n\nChina, with its relatively low electricity costs and cheaper computer hardware, has long been one of the world's main centres for mining.\n\nThe activity is so popular there that gamers have sometimes blamed the industry for a global shortage of powerful graphics cards, which miners use for processing crypto-currencies.\n\nThe Chinese crackdown has already hit the mining industry.\n\nIn September 2019, China accounted for 75% of the world's Bitcoin energy use. By April 2021, that had fallen to 46%.", "Judy Bruce says she spends some of her time at protests \"de-escalating\", by explaining why the group are there\n\nAn 82-year-old climate change protester says she is prepared to go to prison for blocking motorways.\n\nJudy Bruce, from Swansea, is a member of the Insulate Britain group, which has blocked parts of the M25 five times in the last fortnight.\n\nShe said she had already spent three nights in custody but \"nothing has got the impact that disruption does\".\n\nEarlier this week police said the protests were putting drivers at a \"very high risk of death\".\n\nOn Thursday the UK government won a court ruling against Insulate Britain, which wants the installation of heat-saving measures in social housing by 2025, and all homes by 2030.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted the activists faced \"possible imprisonment if they flout\" an injunction.\n\nJudy Bruce says Insulate Britain has \"the notice of the whole country\"\n\nProtesters have also targeted other motorways, including the M11 near Stansted Airport in Essex, and the M3 in Surrey.\n\nMs Bruce said as well as well as sitting on the motorway she had been \"de-escalating\" by \"talking to angry drivers and explaining why we're doing it\".\n\nShe said: \"[I've been] trying to help people who are really stuck with an urgent appointment, trying to get them to ring an ambulance which will always get through.\"\n\nShe said she understood why they were angry, adding: \"If I was in a traffic jam, I'd be angry too.\n\n\"We've actually tried everything else... nothing has really got the impact that disruption does.\n\n\"We've got the notice of the whole country now and everybody is talking about it.\"\n\nJudy Bruce, pictured left, wants the billions being spent on new roads and HS2 to be redirected to insulating homes\n\nWhen asked by BBC Radio Wales Breakfast if she was prepared to go to prison for protesting, she said: \"Well yes I am actually, and I've spent three evenings and into the early morning in police custody already - it is not very comfortable, I can tell you.\n\n\"But this is such a serious matter - I don't happen to have any children but other people are thinking of their grandchildren.\"\n\nShe said Prime Minister Boris Johnson was \"saying all the right things\" on climate change but \"not actually putting them into practice\", and called for the billions being spent on new roads and HS2 to be redirected to insulating homes.\n\nMr Johnson has said the COP26 summit in Glasgow will be the \"turning point for humanity\".\n\nThe civil court action was taken by National Highways, the government body which runs motorways.\n\nIn his High Court order, Mr Justice Lavender ruled it should last until 21 March, but there would be a hearing to review the situation on 5 October.\n\nThe order covers every part of the M25 and the Dartford Crossing, including slip roads and bridges, and states demonstrators are banned from \"causing damage to the surface of or to any apparatus on or around the M25 including but not limited to painting, damaging by fire, or affixing any item or structure thereto\".\n\nInsulate Britain protesters blocking the A20 in Kent on Thursday morning\n\nThe order means that breaching it could lead to a civil court hearing.\n\nIn a statement, Insulate Britain said it would continue its protests and \"as soon as the government makes a meaningful statement that we can trust, we will leave the motorway\".\n\nDuring the recent protests, the government said it was \"investing £1.3bn this year alone to support people to install energy efficiency measures, and our upcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy will set out how we decarbonise the nation's homes in a way that is fair, practical and affordable\".", "A Chinese technology executive held in Canada on US fraud charges has left the country after a deal with prosecutors, following years of diplomatic tensions over her fate.\n\nMeng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, was detained on fraud charges in December 2018 at the request of the US.\n\nOn Friday, the US Department of Justice dropped an extradition request for her.\n\nThe case infuriated China and strained relations with the US and Canada.\n\nIt also prompted accusations that China had detained Canadian citizens in retaliation, which China denied.\n\n\"My life has been turned upside down. It was a disruptive time for me,\" Ms Meng told reporters after being freed from Canadian detention.\n\n\"Every cloud has a silver lining,\" she continued, adding: \"I will never forget all the good wishes I received from people around the world.\"\n\nShortly afterwards she boarded an Air China flight bound for the Chinese city of Shenzhen, AFP news agency reports.\n\nMeng Wanzhou is believed to have left Vancouver International Airport on this Air China flight bound for Shenzhen\n\nDetails of a possible deal for Ms Meng's release have been the subject of intense negotiations between US and Chinese diplomats.\n\nThe US alleged Ms Meng misled the bank HSBC over the true nature of Huawei's relationship with a company called Skycom, putting the bank at risk of violating US sanctions against Iran.\n\nOn Friday the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said it had reached a deferred prosecution agreement.\n\nThis means the DOJ would hold off from prosecuting Ms Meng until December 2022. If she complied with conditions set by court, the case would eventually be dropped.\n\nThe deal, which recommended she be released, allowed her to formally deny guilt for key charges while also acknowledging the allegations laid out by the Americans.\n\nLater on Friday, Canadian prosecutors told a court in Vancouver that they had withdrawn efforts to extradite her to the US and that she should be discharged from detention.\n\nShe had been under house arrest in her multimillion-dollar Vancouver home for nearly three years.\n\nAhead of the court appearance, Ms Meng was seen entering the building accompanied by Chinese consular officials.\n\nThe judge subsequently ordered that she go free.\n\nAs part of the deal, Ms Meng agreed to a \"statement of facts\" admitting that she knowingly made false statements to HSBC.\n\nThe DOJ said Ms Meng had \"taken responsibility for her principal role in perpetrating a scheme to defraud a global financial institution\".\n\nThe DOJ also said said it was continuing to prepare for trial against Huawei.\n\nFor months there have been extensive behind-the-scenes contacts, with senior Huawei executives sent to Washington by the company to try to resolve a case which has fuelled international tension.\n\nFor Huawei's boss, the issue has been deeply personal, with his daughter being held, but for the whole of China it has also turned into a major cause of anger. It has also poisoned relations between China and Canada, with the latter believing two of its citizens, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, have been held as pawns in the negotiations.\n\nA deal has the ability to reduce some of the tensions that have emerged. But there will still be questions - what does the US gain out of it? And what kind of link might there be between events in North America and the status of the two Michaels in China?\n\nMs Meng is the elder daughter of billionaire Ren Zhengfei, who set up Huawei in 1987. The company is now the largest telecom equipment maker in the world.\n\nHe served in the Chinese army for nine years, until 1983, and is also a member of the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nHuawei has faced accusations that the Chinese authorities could use its equipment for espionage - allegations it denies.\n\nIn 2019, the US imposed sanctions on Huawei and placed it on an export blacklist, cutting it off from key technologies.\n\nThe UK, Sweden, Australia and Japan have also banned Huawei, while other countries including France and India have adopted measures stopping short of an outright ban.\n\nA few days after Ms Meng was arrested, China detained two Canadian citizens, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, on suspicion of spying.\n\nCritics have accused China of treating them as political bargaining chips, held as part of what is known as \"hostage diplomacy\". China denies this.\n\nLast month, a Chinese court convicted Michael Spavor, a businessman, of espionage and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.\n\nCanada condemned the sentence, saying his trial did not satisfy even the minimum standards required by international law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ren Zhengfei described the arrest of his daughter Meng Wanzhou as politically motivated\n\nMs Meng's agreement with the US may pave the way for the two Canadians' release, but tensions in China-Canada relations will not quickly dissipate, experts say.\n\nThe bilateral relationship has plunged to historic lows since Meng's arrest.\n\nThe US charges against Huawei remain, and the company is still on a trade blacklist. Other Chinese tech companies with operations in the US, such as social media company TikTok, are also facing scrutiny.\n\nChinese tech sector analyst Rui Ma told the BBC that many Chinese companies were hopeful that Ms Meng's deal with the US might mean no further deterioration of US-China relations, \"but no one is taking it to mean that there is a reversal in tensions\".", "Roger Michell with Julia Roberts in 1999, the year of Notting Hill's release\n\nNotting Hill actress Julia Roberts has joined many other stars in paying tribute to its director Roger Michell following his death at the age of 65.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress said he had been \"a kind and gentle man\" she felt \"so fortunate\" to have worked with.\n\n\"He always had a sweet grin on his face and a perfect piece of direction to share,\" she said of Michell, whose other films included My Cousin Rachel.\n\nThe Jurassic Park star said he and the cast of Blackbird had become \"friends for life\" after working on the 2019 drama and were \"gutted\" to hear of his death.\n\n\"We the cast, with our director Roger, all tattooed a bird after shooting Blackbird,\" Neill wrote on Twitter. \"I grieve with his family.\"\n\nMichell is survived by his four children - Harry, Rosie, Maggie and Sparrow - from his two marriages to the actresses Kate Buffery and Anna Maxwell Martin.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sam Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSamantha Morton, who starred in Michell's 2004 film Enduring Love, said he had been \"a wonderful director with huge integrity and compassion\".\n\n\"In this world his kindness mattered so much to me,\" her Twitter tribute continued. \"Thank you Roger for being so wonderful to us all.\"\n\nSam Claflin, who starred alongside Rachel Weisz in My Cousin Rachel, said he had been \"patient, kind and loving\" in his own Twitter tribute.\n\n\"You really were one of the finest men I've ever had the privilege of working with,\" the British actor wrote. \"Life is too short.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sam Claflin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDaniel Mays said Michell's death was \"a huge loss to stage and screen\", sentiments echoed by fellow British actor Toby Stephens.\n\nStephens, the son of actress Dame Maggie Smith, said he was \"heartbroken\" to have lost both a \"dear friend\" and a \"wonderful director\".\n\nSanjeev Bhaskar, who had a small role in Notting Hill, said he was \"shocked and saddened\" to hear of the director's sudden passing.\n\n\"He was as generous with his time and attention towards me as the main stars on Notting Hill,\" he tweeted. \"A kindness I've never forgotten.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sanjeev Bhaskar💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJames Dreyfus, another Notting Hill cast member, said he had been \"one of the loveliest, most gentle artistes I've ever worked with\".\n\nMichell was also remembered by his frequent collaborator Samuel West, with whom he worked on both films and in the theatre.\n\n\"He was a beautiful man and a consummate director: generous, authoritative, tasteful and so, so kind,\" West wrote. \"I loved him, a lot.\"\n\nA \"devastated\" Jason Watkins, whom Michell directed in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, said he would be \"lost\" without his \"mate and collaborator\".\n\n\"I owe him so much,\" wrote the actor, who won a Bafta for his role in the 2014 TV drama about a schoolteacher wrongly suspected of his tenant's murder.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Jason Watkins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in South Africa to a British father, Michell studied at Cambridge before becoming an assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre.\n\nThe London theatre said he had been \"a great friend and force at the Royal Court\" and had been \"loved by writers\".\n\nMichell went on to direct for the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre, where he directed eight plays.\n\nThe National said he was a \"brilliant director\" who would be \"much missed\", adding: \"Our thoughts are with his loved ones.\"\n\nActor Eddie Marsan, whom Michell directed at the National in The Homecoming, said he had been \"kind, supportive and insightful\".\n\nHe was also remembered by composer David Arnold, who said he was \"utterly shocked\" to lose \"one of his favourite directors and people\".\n\nDame Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent in a promotional image for The Duke\n\nMichell died just as one of his final films, period comedy The Duke, was about to reach cinemas.\n\nPathé, the company behind The Duke, said it had had \"a truly joyous time\" working with its \"wonderful\" director.\n\nClive Coleman, BBC News' former legal correspondent, also worked on the film and said he was \"devastated\" by Michell's \"untimely\" death.\n\n\"It was a joy to work with him on The Duke,\" he wrote on Twitter, describing the director as \"wise, witty, generous and utterly focused\".\n\nMichell's other collaborators included actor Daniel Craig, who he directed in 2003 film The Mother and again in 2004's Enduring Love.\n\nHe was set to work with Craig again on his second James Bond outing Quantum of Solace, only to step down before the film went into production.\n\n\"I'm a preparer,\" Michell said of the experience in 2012. \"And with such a massive project as a Bond film, it seemed to me that I wanted as much time as possible.\n\n\"Basically I freaked out. I thought 'I can't do this, this is no good.' So I regretfully said, 'I just don't feel comfortable doing this.'\"\n\nMichell worked with Daniel Craig (left) before he was cast as James Bond\n\nMichell was also to have directed the film version of Captain Corelli's Mandolin but was prevented from doing so by a heart attack.\n\nLouis de Bernières' novel makes a cameo appearance in Notting Hill as the book Hugh Grant is reading in the film's final scene.\n\nReleased in 1999, the director's most well-known film tells of a London bookshop owner who falls in love with a famous Hollywood actress.\n\nMichell himself worked both in the UK and Hollywood, juggling homegrown projects like Venus and Le Week-End with US productions like Changing Lanes and Morning Glory.\n\nMichell was working on Elizabeth, a feature documentary about the Queen. at the time of his death.\n\nIn a statement on the film's website, he said it would be \"a truly cinematic mystery-tour\" that would show the monarch \"as never before\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson has spoken to French President Emmanuel Macron for the first time since a row broke out between London and Paris over a military pact between the UK, US and Australia.\n\nThe UK prime minister and Mr Macron had agreed to \"continue working closely together around the world\", Downing Street said.\n\nA French government source said the two countries shared \"common interests\".\n\nThe row between Paris and London started after Australia signed up to the Aukus pact with the US and UK, to provide it with nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nThis involved Australia pulling out out of an existing $37bn (£27bn) deal with France to build 12 conventional diesel-powered submarines.\n\nAs a result, the French defence minister cancelled talks with her UK counterpart, while the French government recalled its ambassadors in Washington and Canberra.\n\nOne minister called the Aukus deal a \"stab in the back\", but Mr Johnson has accused the French of over-reacting, urging Mr Macron: \"Donnez-moi (give me) a break.\"\n\nIn an effort to smooth out differences, a Downing Street spokesperson said Mr Johnson and Mr Macron had spoken by telephone on Friday and discussed \"a range of issues of mutual interest\".\n\n\"They reaffirmed the importance of the UK-France relationship and agreed to continue working closely together around the world on our shared agenda, through Nato and bilaterally,\" they added.\n\nThe two leaders also discussed migrant Channel crossings.\n\nThe spokesperson also said Mr Johnson and Mr Macron had \"noted in particular the strategic significance of our long-standing cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and in Africa\".\n\nAnd they had discussed how to \"break the business model of people smugglers who put lives at risk\" in the English Channel and resolved to \"keep talking on other issues, such as fisheries licences and the Northern Ireland Protocol\".\n\nA French government source told the BBC the two leaders had spoken at Mr Johnson's request.\n\nThey added: \"Mr Boris Johnson expressed his intention to re-establish cooperation between France and the United Kingdom, in accordance with our values and our common interests.\"", "Rather than the traditional mass start, this year runners set off at staggered intervals\n\nThousands of people have taken to the streets of Tyneside for the 40th staging of the Great North Run.\n\nLast year's event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic and organisers changed the half-marathon's route this year to aid social distancing.\n\nParticipants started and finished in Newcastle rather than making their way to South Shields.\n\nStaggered timeslots replaced the traditional mass start for the world's biggest half-marathon.\n\nAbout 57,000 people were registered to take part - raising millions of pounds for charity, The Great North Run Company said.\n\nThe new route saw runners cross the Tyne Bridge twice and make their way through Newcastle city centre before finishing on the Great North Road.\n\nBBC commentator and former winner Paula Radcliffe said the event's return had been \"emotional\".\n\n\"Looking down the road and seeing all the runners, a lot of hard work has gone into making this happen.\n\n\"It was so needed just to see this step back towards people getting together, having fun and connecting.\"\n\nThis year's amended route saw runners head through Newcastle city centre\n\nCrowds lined the streets to cheer the runners on\n\nOrganisers say the revised route will be for this year only\n\nFour NHS workers were invited to start the race in recognition of the health service's efforts during the pandemic.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, occupational health worker Deborah Southworth said it had been \"absolutely amazing\" and a \"privilege\".\n\nJade Trewick, a nurse who also helped get the event under way, said it came after a \"difficult but really rewarding\" 18 months treating coronavirus patients.\n\nSir Brendan Foster, who helped launch the event in 1981, said it had been \"a tough task\" organising this year's run but it had turned into an \"incredible\" success.\n\n\"It's been really difficult. For the last 18 months, the whole nation and world have had awful times.\n\n\"The pandemic has separated people, but the Great North Run is all about being together.\n\n\"When the vaccine came around we started thinking maybe we can [stage it this year] so we made all kinds of contingency plans.\n\n\"Here we are. It's different. It's a one-off.\"\n\nAs ever, runners donned an array of colourful costumes\n\nMany of the tens of thousands tackling the 13.1-mile course were raising funds for charity\n\nThousands of runners streamed across the Tyne Bridge\n\nThe elite women's race was won by Kenyan Helen Obiri in a time of 1:07:42, ahead of Great Britain's Eilish McColgan, who was six seconds behind.\n\nScotland's McColgan was aiming to repeat her mum Liz's three victories at the event in the 1990s. Great Britain's Charlotte Purdue finished in third.\n\nMarc Scott, also of Great Britain, was victorious in the men's elite race, clocking a time of 1:01:22 to finish nine seconds ahead of Kenya's Ed Cheserek.\n\nGalen Rupp of the United States was a further 20 seconds behind in third place.\n\nSean Frame won the men's wheelchair race in 49:52 with fellow Briton Shelly Woods first across the finishing line in the women's event in 57:01.\n\nThe elite wheelchair and women's races began at about 09:20 BST, with the elite men and first of the staggered starts at 09:45.\n\nThe Red Arrows once again provided an eye-catching highlight over the Tyne Bridge\n\nSuperheroes, in this case The Incredibles, provided plenty of inspiration for running outfits\n\nNHS workers Deborah Southworth, Dorathy Oparaeche, Jade Trewick and Dr Mickey Jachuck got the run under way\n\nOn Saturday, thousands of youngsters took part in junior and mini events on Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A private service of remembrance has been held in the September 11 Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square, London\n\nThe Queen has sent a message to US President Biden marking 20 years since the 11 September attacks, saying her thoughts and prayers are with the victims, survivors and their families.\n\nIn her message, she also paid tribute to the resilience of the communities who joined together to rebuild.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the terrorists had failed to \"shake our belief in freedom and democracy\".\n\nAfter sunset, 67 candles were lit to remember the British victims.\n\nCommemorations have been taking place at a memorial garden in Grosvenor Square, London, where a private service of remembrance was held earlier, organised by a support group for victims' families.\n\nOther events have been held around the world to remember the 2,977 people killed.\n\nThe attacks, which were planned by al-Qaeda from Afghanistan, saw four US passenger jets seized by suicide attackers - two of which were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York.\n\nAnother plane crashed into the Pentagon, just outside US capital Washington DC, and a fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back.\n\nCandles have been put out in the September 11 Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square, London, to remember British victims\n\nPeople comforted each other after attending the Memorial Garden\n\nFlowers have been laid in Grosvenor Square\n\nIn her message to President Biden, the Queen said: \"As we mark the 20th anniversary of the terrible attacks on September 11 2001, my thoughts and prayers, and those of my family and the entire nation, remain with the victims, survivors and families affected, as well as the first responders and rescue workers called to duty.\n\n\"My visit to the site of the World Trade Center in 2010 is held fast in my memory.\n\n\"It reminds me that as we honour those from many nations, faiths and backgrounds who lost their lives, we also pay tribute to the resilience and determination of the communities who joined together to rebuild.\"\n\nAnd in a defiant message to mark the anniversary, the prime minister said while the terror threat remained, people refused \"to live in permanent fear\".\n\n\"That we are coming together today - in sorrow but also in faith and resolve - demonstrates the failure of terrorism.\"\n\nThe Queen laid a wreath at Ground Zero during her 2010 visit\n\nEvents have also been taking place at Windsor Castle, where a special changing of the guard ceremony took place, during which the US national anthem was played. It was an echo of the playing of the Star Spangled Banner at Buckingham Palace 20 years ago on the day after the atrocity, as a gesture of solidarity.\n\nThere was a minute's silence after the Band of the Welsh Guards performed the anthem, watched by hundreds who had gathered at the castle.\n\nActing US ambassador Philip T Reeker said the events were a reminder that the US had \"no closer ally and no closer friend in good times and in bad times\" than the UK.\n\nHe said: \"This has shown the special relationship remains so crucial to all of us.\"\n\nMr Reeker was among those attending another event at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, organised by education charity Since 9/11 for survivors of the attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says terrorism failed to drive US and UK apart\n\nDuring the commemoration, the message from the PM was played, in which he said recent events in Afghanistan had only strengthened people's belief in freedom and democracy.\n\n\"Twenty years ago, September 11 2001 became, in President Roosevelt's words after Pearl Harbor, a 'date which will live in infamy',\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"On a crystal clear morning, terrorists attacked the United States with the simple goal of killing or maiming as many human beings as possible, and by inflicting such bloodshed in the world's greatest democracy, they tried to destroy the faith of free peoples everywhere in the open societies which terrorists despise and which we cherish.\"\n\nFlowers left by Boris Johnson at the garden in Grosvenor Square, bearing a message \"in defiance of those who would have us live in fear\"\n\nMr Johnson said that \"precisely because of the openness and tolerance of the United States\", people of almost every nationality and religion were among those murdered that day.\n\n\"But while the terrorists imposed their burden of grief and suffering, and while the threat persists today, we can now say with the perspective of 20 years that they failed to shake our belief in freedom and democracy; they failed to drive our nations apart, or cause us to abandon our values, or to live in permanent fear.\"\n\nThe US national anthem was played during the Changing of the Guard at Windsor Castle on Saturday\n\nA minute's silence was also held at Windsor Castle earlier\n\nTony Blair, who was prime minister at the time, also recorded a message for the event, saying the thinking of the 9/11 terrorists was \"filled with hatred, an ideology at violent odds with a world seeking to flourish across boundaries of faith and culture\".\n\nIt is as \"flawed and irrational\" today as it was 20 years ago, he said.\n\nOn 11 September, 2001, Andrew Cullen - originally from Motherwell in North Lanarkshire - arrived at work on the 89th floor of the South Tower. Soon afterwards, he heard an explosion in the North Tower.\n\n\"Myself and three colleagues made the decision to get out of the building, so we headed towards the stairwell and began descending from the 89th floor down to the Sky Lobby at the 44th floor,\" he said.\n\n\"It was at that point that the port authority instructed us to go back to our offices, so they sort of shuffled us into one of the freight elevators.\n\n\"At that point the button for 78 was lit but we decided we wanted to go down, so I was the one who pounded the lobby button just a few moments before the second plane hit the tower above us.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the anniversary was about remembering and honouring those who were killed and showing \"support to our American friends as they mark this difficult time in their history\".\n\nHe said the tragedy was \"still so raw\", with the consequences of the attacks \"still being felt to this day\".\n\n\"But as we mark this anniversary, I'm convinced our resolve has never been stronger,\" he said. \"We will continue to fight terror and violence, by promoting our values of justice and peace.\"\n\nThe Labour leader laid flowers in the September 11 Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square, London\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the lives of innocent people, including the 67 Britons, would be remembered, adding: \"Our values of freedom, tolerance and respect will always, always prevail. Hate will never win.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury said 20 years on it was still hard to articulate the sense of \"shock and horror\" felt around the world after the attacks - including \"the devastating loss experienced by so many people, and the fear and uncertainty that terrible day brought\".\n\nJustin Welby added: \"9/11 was a sharp reminder to us of the fragility of the privilege many of us have of living free of the threat of violence, while many in our world continue to wake to war or the fear of war.\"\n\nHe urged his followers to follow the example of the first responders to the Twin Towers and be willing \"to make sacrifices for the wellbeing of others\".", "Police have said Mary McCann may try to change her appearance\n\nPolice said a woman accused of killing her two children in a crash on the M1 might \"try to alter her appearance\".\n\nA judge issued an arrest warrant for Mary McCann, 35, of Bamford Avenue, Derby, on Friday after she failed to attend Aylesbury Crown Court.\n\nShe was due to answer two charges of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nHer 10-year-old son Smaller and four-year-old daughter Lilly died after a collision with an HGV near Milton Keynes on 9 August.\n\nThey were killed after the family's Vauxhall Astra collided with the lorry between junctions 14 and 15 of the northbound carriageway at about 23:10 BST.\n\nLilly, aged four, and Smaller, aged 10, were killed in a crash with a HGV on the M1 near Milton Keynes\n\nPolice said Ms McCann has links to Derby, Huntingdon, Luton, the Northolt and Uxbridge areas of London and Ireland.\n\nSgt Dominic Mahon, of the joint operations roads policing unit, said: \"We are appealing for the public's help in locating Mary McCann after she failed to appear at court in connection with a fatal road traffic collision in Milton Keynes.\n\n\"We believe that it may be possible for McCann to try to alter her appearance.\"\n\nMs McCann is described as being about 5ft 1in (1.54m) tall, of medium build, with brown hair and blue eyes.\n\nPolice said she also speaks with an Irish accent.\n\nOn Friday, Judge Francis Sheridan said he wanted ports and airports on alert for her.\n\nMary McCann (right) failed to appear at court charged with killing her son Smaller (pictured) and daughter Lilly\n\n\"It is most likely she will flee to Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a sad case, but by absconding to avoid the indictment being put is in my view tactical.\"\n\nMs McCann and another child passenger were injured in the crash. A family member said they were on their way back from a party in London and Ms McCann's 13-year-old daughter had stayed in the city.\n\nThe court heard her children's funerals had been held on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nDefence barrister Laban Leake said: \"She gave a telephone number, an attempt was made to contact that number, but there was no response.\n\n\"We know nothing of her state of mind.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sharnie May Crooks wants to go clubbing when she heads back to uni but won't be allowed in as she hasn't had a Covid jab\n\nCovid made 2020 one of the worst years ever to be a uni student, so many can't wait to get back to normal when the new term starts - but it's going to be less fun if you've not had a Covid jab.\n\nFrom next month you'll only get into nightclubs in England and Scotland if you can prove you're fully vaccinated.\n\nThe aim of vaccine passports is to reduce Covid cases and avoid lockdowns.\n\nBut some people are angry about the rule, with one student saying it makes her even more reluctant to get a jab.\n\n\"When I turned 18 I went to one or two clubs with my friends and then Covid hit,\" Sharnie May Crooks tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"Now I'm 19, I'm going to be 20 in November - it's nearly two years of clubbing that I've just never had the chance to experience and now with vaccine passports it doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.\"\n\nSharnie's been working as a bartender and customer services assistant to make some extra cash before starting her second year studying psychology at the University of Warwick.\n\nShe says she'd \"happily\" take lateral flow tests to prove she's not carrying the virus ahead of big nights out, as we've all had to at gigs and festivals this summer.\n\nBut the idea of vaccine passports is \"outrageous, preposterous\" and \"too far to the extreme\".\n\n\"A vaccine should be a personal choice, and if you're restricting me from doing things, that's pushing me further away from making that decision because you're removing choice from it.\"\n\nSharnie doesn't plan on getting the vaccine for at least a couple of years, because she's concerned about the possibility of unknown long-term effects.\n\nScientists have repeatedly said the serious complications of Covid itself are a far greater risk to people than vaccines. The vaccines approved for use in the UK have met strict safety standards and reports of serious side-effects are very rare.\n\nSharnie says she's not going to change her mind, so freshers' week is \"not going to be as exciting as I would have hoped\" as a result of vaccine passports.\n\nBut she's \"definitely not going to be sitting at home\" while her peers have fun at uni - and says it's likely she'll end up going to illegal raves instead of legitimate clubs.\n\nSharnie (left) says she's likely to go to illegal raves if vaccine passports stop her from going clubbing\n\nShe says lots of her friends feel the same way and thinks an increase in the number of illegal raves will be a consequence of vaccine passports that the government hasn't considered.\n\n\"Staying at home, not partying, is definitely just not an option,\" she says.\n\nAnnie is 21 and we've agreed not to use her surname. She's also against the idea of vaccine passports - but for very different reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid passports: 'Illegal raves will be more popular'\n\nWhen Annie was 14 she overdosed on paracetamol in an attempt to take her own life. After that she had a \"bit of a fear of taking medication\" but when the UK went into lockdown in March last year, the fear developed into severe anxiety and panic attacks about medicine.\n\n\"Some panic attacks get to the point where I have to lie in bed and just not move because I can't breathe. I think I'm going to die, I think the side-effects are going to kill me. Obviously that's not going to happen but that's how it makes me feel.\"\n\nAt the moment Annie's anxiety is so bad that she can't take any medication - including any vaccines.\n\nScotland's vaccine passport rules apply to nightclubs, big gigs, and football matches with more than 10,000 people\n\n\"I am not against the vaccine in any way. I think anyone who can get it should get it - but me personally, I just am not comfortable taking it 'cos I know how it will make me feel. It's just the vaccine passports that I have a grievance with,\" she says.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - will be exempt from the vaccine passport restrictions. But Annie isn't sure if her condition will be covered by this.\n\nShe's looking forward to going to a McFly concert at the end of this month but doesn't think she'll be allowed into a JLS gig she has tickets for in October.\n\nShe's also worried she won't be able to use her football season ticket because stadiums with capacity of over 10,000 people are also subject to the vaccine passport rules in Scotland.\n\nJLS, pictured in 2013, are doing a comeback tour this autumn - but without a vaccine Annie won't be able to go\n\n\"Aspects of my mental health have vastly improved since I've been able to go back to events and stuff like that,\" she says.\n\n\"If I can't go to these events I'm going to be cooped up inside again, feeling all of these intense feelings of anxiety. But then if I get the vaccine, I will be feeling those intense feelings of anxiety - so it's a lose-lose situation for myself.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The winning film was directed by Audrey Diwan\n\nA film about illegal abortions in 1960s France has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.\n\nAudrey Diwan's Happening (L'Événement) is about a woman seeking a termination to continue studying.\n\n\"I did this movie with anger, with desire, with my belly, my guts, my heart and my head,\" Diwan said as she accepted the award.\n\nThe film comes after controversial new laws banning abortion after six weeks were introduced in Texas.\n\nThe 78th edition of the world's oldest film festival wrapped up on Saturday night, with international celebrities flocking to Venice's red carpet.\n\nThe ceremony was a stark contrast to last year's event, when guests had to wear masks during screenings and around half of the seats on the Lido waterfront were left empty due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe winning film, Happening, is based on an autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux and portrays a young woman seeking a termination to be able to continue her studies, despite the risk of prison or death.\n\nThe award was selected by a jury led by Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho.\n\nThe second prize, the Silver Lion, was presented to Italian director Paolo Sorrentino for The Hand of God, a film about his youth in the southern city of Naples.\n\nOther women filmmakers were also honoured during Saturday's ceremony, with New Zealand's Jane Campion picking up the best director award for The Power of the Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Maggie Gyllenhaal, meanwhile, was awarded the best screenplay prize for The Lost Daughter, which features Olivia Colman.\n\nPenelope Cruz won the award for best actress for her role in Parallel Mothers, directed by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. Best Actor went to Filipino actor John Arcilla for his role in crime thriller On the Job: The Missing 8.\n\nLast year's top prize was given to Nomadland, a US film about a widow living as a nomad after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Pope Francis has warned the threat of anti-Semitism is \"still lurking\" in Europe, during a brief trip to Hungary.\n\nHe was speaking after meeting Hungary's populist and anti-immigrant PM Viktor Orban, with whom he has stark differences on the issue of refugees.\n\nMr Orban has also been accused of an anti-Semitic stance, but he has said this is \"simply ridiculous\".\n\nIn a Facebook post, the PM said he had \"asked Pope Francis not to let Christian Hungary perish\".\n\nPope Francis' meeting with Mr Orban lasted about 40 minutes in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.\n\nIn his address to Christian and Jewish leaders afterwards, Francis warned of \"the threat of anti-Semitism still lurking in Europe and elsewhere\".\n\nHe said: \"This is a fuse that must not be allowed to burn. And the best way to defuse it is to work together, positively, and to promote fraternity.\"\n\nMr Orban was criticised for his 2017 election campaign that included posters of Jewish financier George Soros, with the words \"Let's not allow Soros to have the last laugh!\" He rejected calls from the Jewish community to take them down.\n\nOn a visit to London, the PM denied any anti-Semitism, saying that Mr Soros was simply a rival who favoured migrant movement.\n\nMr Orban and the Pope certainly have divergent views on refugees and migration.\n\nMr Orban and the Pope met at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest\n\nSome of the PM's supporters in Hungary, along with pro-Orban media, have in the past mocked the Pope as \"anti-Christian\" for his comments on helping refugees.\n\nAt a Mass later on Sunday, Pope Francis alluded to the issue, saying: \"The cross, planted in the ground, not only invites us to be well-rooted, it also raises and extends its arms towards everyone.\"\n\n\"The cross urges us to keep our roots firm, but without defensiveness... My wish is that you be like that: grounded and open, rooted and considerate,\" the pope said.\n\nFrancis was celebrating Mass to mark the end of the Eucharistic Congress, which has attracted tens of thousands of Christians from around the world over the past week.\n\nOne worshipper, Eva Mandoki, 82, told Agence France-Presse: \"We are not here for any politics, but to see and hear the Pope, the head of the Church. We can hardly wait to see him.\"\n\nThe Pope's whole Hungarian visit is expected to last only about seven hours, before he moves on to Slovakia for three days.\n\nThe brevity of his Hungary trip compared to Slovakia has raised speculation about what signals the Pope is trying to send.\n\nOne pro-Orban TV analyst said: \"Pope Francis wants to humiliate Hungary by only staying a few hours.\"\n\nThe Vatican has called it a \"spiritual trip\" and Mr Orban said comparisons with Slovakia were \"misleading\". But some sources say the Vatican rejected offers of a longer stay.\n\nThe meeting between Viktor Orban, self-styled crusader against liberalism, and the liberal Pope passed peacefully, according to comments from the Vatican and the PM's office.\n\nThe role of the Church, protection of the environment and promotion of the family were among the topics discussed, said the Vatican.\n\nThe Pope later delivered a message of inclusion and fraternity to Christian and Jewish leaders, using the symbolism of the Chain Bridge across the Danube, currently undergoing repairs, to underline his message.\n\nThe opposition-run city council, meanwhile, welcomed Pope Francis in its own way, with quotes from his speeches. \"The abuse of power wounds human dignity, which we cannot allow and must struggle against,\" read one, displayed prominently on posters around Budapest.\n\nThis is the Pope's first international trip since surgery this year.\n\nIn Slovakia, his visit aims to improve Catholic-Jewish relations and he will also meet members of Slovakia's Roma community.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Francis became the first pope to visit Iraq earlier this year\n\nFrancis has visited dozens of countries since he became pope in 2013, although his travels have recently been affected by the spread of coronavirus.\n\nEarlier this year, he made a historic four-day trip to Iraq.\n\nIn July, the 84-year-old spent 10 days in hospital while he received treatment for a colon problem.\n\nHe also suffers from a number of other health issues. He lost part of his right lung at the age of 21 and also suffers from a hip problem and sciatica, which causes pain that radiates from the lower back to the legs.", "Police have cordoned off several roads in Clacton town centre while they carry out their investigation into the fatal stabbing of the 21-year-old man\n\nEight people have been arrested as part of a murder investigation into the stabbing of a 21-year-old man.\n\nThe victim was found with a single stab wound in Rosemary Road, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, just after midnight on Sunday.\n\nHe was treated at the scene, but later died in hospital.\n\nFive people were arrested within hours on suspicion of murder, with another two arrested later. A woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nPolice tweeted that they had been called to reports of a fight.\n\nThose arrested on suspicion of murder were:\n\nThe woman arrested of suspicion of assisting an offender was 20 years old. All the suspects were from Clacton and remained in custody.\n\nThe victim was treated at the scene by paramedic but died in hospital, police said\n\nSeveral roads in the town centre, including parts of the High Street, were sealed off while officers carried out inquiries, but reopened later.\n\nEssex Police said uniformed officers were guarding the scene and helping to carry out patrols\n\nCh Insp Colin Cox, from Essex Police, said: \"People will rightly be concerned by what has happened and I completely understand that.\n\n\"But I want to reassure people that we will continue to work around the clock to deliver justice.\"\n\nHe said the on-going road closures had allowed officers to \"secure vital evidence\".\n\n\"We know the community understands how vital it is... we need to ensure justice for the young man who has lost his life,\" said Ch Insp Cox.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with the victim and his relatives at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with information anyone with information or video footage from CCTVs, dashcams or doorbells to contact the inquiry.\n\nForensics officers have been searching the scene\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rock slab known as Rochette with the two drill holes made by the rover\n\nUS space agency scientists were so excited by the Martian rock sampled by their Perseverance rover last week they got the robot to take a second sample.\n\nPerseverance drilled its first finger-sized core on 6 September, repeating the procedure a couple of days later.\n\nThe scientists believe the targeted rock is volcanic in origin, meaning it can be accurately dated.\n\nIt also contains salts, which are indicative of water alteration, and that raises the possibility of life.\n\nOr, at least, the potential for past life.\n\nBiology is not a given wherever there has been H₂O, but it's hard to see how organisms could have existed without it.\n\nNasa's Perseverance rover was sent to Jezero Crater on Mars precisely because it looks to have had a habitable environment billions of years ago.\n\nSatellite images suggest a lake was once present in the 45km-wide bowl.\n\nThere are what appear to be extensive river and delta sediments in the west of the crater.\n\nThe period in which this water environment existed could now be greatly narrowed by the rock samples just acquired.\n\nThe donor slab, nicknamed \"Rochette\", is sitting on the floor of Jezero and as such is expected to represent the oldest layers in the crater.\n\nIf the minerals in the samples can be dated, therefore, they will provide a \"no older than\" age for the lake.\n\nThe salts - likely calcium sulphate or calcium phosphate - are fascinating because they'll almost certainly host small inclusions, or bubbles, of water.\n\n\"Salts are great minerals for preserving signs of ancient life here on Earth, and we expect the same may be true for rocks on Mars,\" explained Perseverance deputy project scientist Dr Katie Stack Morgan.\n\nOf course, to do any of these investigations, the samples need to come back to Earth first.\n\nNasa's plan (in partnership with the European Space Agency) is for Perseverance to collect more than two dozen rock cores over the next two years and package them in sealed titanium tubes.\n\nThese will be left on the surface of Jezero for later missions to pick up before 2030 for transport back home.\n\n\"Because... of such high scientific potential, we decided to acquire two samples at Rochette,\" Dr Stack Morgan told reporters.\n\n\"The [Perseverance] science team has the plan to place down one or more sample caches. And so to ensure that each of these sample caches are as complete as they can be, we have a strategy to acquire two samples at each of our highest priority sampling locations.\"\n\nA close-up of the drill holes Montdenier (left) and Montagnac (right)\n\nTo get to Rochette, Perseverance rolled about 2.2km (1.4 miles) from its February landing site.\n\nIt's heading west at the moment along a slightly raised ridge to a location called \"South Séítah\" where further rock cores will be taken. All the while, the rover is being tracked by its mini helicopter, Ingenuity, which surveys the ground ahead.\n\nAt some point, scientists want the rover to move north to where the river and delta sediments are most obvious and where the chances of finding any traces of past life are greatest.\n\nMeenakshi Wadhwa is Nasa's Mars sample return principal scientist. She said the cores taken out of Rochette have their own names, too: \"Montdenier\" (6 September) and \"Montagnac\" (8 September).\n\n\"I cannot overstate the significance of these rock samples collected by Perseverance. This is a truly historic achievement - the very first rock cores collected on another terrestrial planet. It's amazing.\n\n\"These two rock cores represent now the beginning of Mars sample return.\n\n\"I've dreamed of having samples back from Mars to analyse in my lab since I was a graduate student. And now it's actually starting to feel real.\"\n\nClick here to see how Nasa and Esa will bring rocks from Mars to Earth.", "Former Royal Marine Paul \"Pen\" Farthing said the campaign to evacuate workers at his animal shelter from Afghanistan has been \"a complete success\".\n\nLast month, Mr Farthing was forced to leave behind 68 staff and family members when he and some 150 animals were evacuated from Kabul.\n\nThe staff are now in Pakistan in the care of the British High Commission.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said they would be brought to the UK in the coming days.\n\nMr Farthing's Nowzad animal shelter in Kabul - which cared for dogs, cats and donkeys, some of them belonging to UK servicemen and women - was a cause taken to the hearts of many Britons as the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan.\n\nBut when the Afghan staff were unable to leave during the frantic mass evacuation, concerns were raised that animals had been prioritised over people.\n\nMr Farthing, who insisted that his evacuation mission Operation Ark was intended for both people and animals, said the staff are \"now safely in Islamabad\" and being supported by the British High Commission.\n\nHe said he had seen pictures of staff and family members - who include 25 children and a newborn baby - after their arrival in Pakistan and the smiles on their faces \"just tell you everything you need to know\".\n\nThe operation had been a \"complete success\", he said. \"This is absolutely mind-blowing. It has still not really sunk in.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pen Farthing This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Raab said on Twitter that he was pleased the staff of Nowzad had successfully crossed the border into Pakistan, adding that the British High Commission staff are assisting them and \"we look forward to welcoming them to the UK in the coming days\".\n\nThe Afghan staff had previously made it to the airport with paperwork from the British government to leave, but Mr Farthing said last-minute changes by the US authorities to require a passport with a visa meant they were not allowed into the airport.\n\nDespite the wave of public support for the animal shelter, the evacuation mission had caused controversy, with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace saying that some of Mr Farthing's supporters had \"taken up too much time\" of senior commanders as they struggled to get to grips with a humanitarian crisis.\n\nMr Farthing also apologised for leaving an expletive-laden message for a government aide as he tried to arrange the rescue of his staff and animals.", "The Army should be drafted in and \"pop-up wards\" erected at Accident and Emergency departments where patients are waiting hours to be admitted.\n\nThe head of the union that represents Scottish ambulance staff also said \"major incident\" procedures should be initiated to increases resources.\n\nUnite's Jamie McNamee said crews were waiting up to three hours in Glasgow and Aberdeen to hand over patients.\n\nThe Scottish government said 99% of calls were handled in under 30 minutes.\n\nIt comes after the head of the ambulance service apologised for waiting times.\n\nPauline Howie said staff were working under \"unprecedented pressure\" in response to a \"huge increase\" in Covid and non-Covid cases.\n\nShe said everything was being done to get people to hospital as quickly as possible, including hiring new staff.\n\nBut the Unite union said patients were being put at risk because ambulances were having to queue for hours outside A&E departments.\n\nConvener Jamie McNamee said: \"Regularly we have ambulances queuing at facilities throughout Scotland.\n\n\"A couple of good examples are Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where routinely crews will wait three hours.\"\n\nHe said NHS staff were \"absolutely working their socks off\", but that the average turnaround time for call-outs had far exceeded the 20-minutes it was supposed to take.\n\n\"Our first option would be to initiate internal national risk and resilience procedures. That would entail building or producing pop-up wards outside the A&E departments that are unable to cope with demand, allow the crews to hand over the patients to these trained clinicians and free up that mobile asset to respond to treble-nine calls,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe the Army would have similar facilities that could come in helpful. I'm sure they're busy themselves, however I think we find ourselves in a bit of a national crisis at the moment.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said the NHS was facing significant challenges as the pandemic continued.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Despite the pressure coronavirus has brought upon our ambulance service, which serves some of the most rural areas in the UK, in 2020-21 crews responded to over 70% of highest priority calls in under 10 minutes and more than 99% in under 30 minutes.\n\n\"It is vitally important there are no unnecessary delays for ambulances taking patients to hospital and we continue to work closely with the service and with health boards across Scotland to ensure ambulances are cleared as quickly as possible.\n\nAt First Minister's Questions Nicola Sturgeon said the average wait last week for immediately life-threatening incidents was nine minutes and 30 seconds, a figure she described as \"not good enough\".\n\nOpposition politicians have cited incidents where patients have faced far longer delays, with Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross describing how a stroke patient in Dumfries waited 14 hours for the arrival of paramedics.\n\nSeveral health boards across the country have warned of rising Covid cases putting severe pressure on their services.\n\nNHS Highland said it was having to return to prioritising vital care and treatment, such as emergency admissions and cancer care.\n\nNHS Grampian said Covid patients were up more than 40% in a week while NHS Fife, NHS Ayrshire & Arran and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have postponed non-urgent surgery.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf has previously warned the NHS was facing a \"perfect storm\" of pressure.\n\nHe said A&E services and ambulance turnaround were under particular strain.", "Siôn Jobbins is one of the founders of the YesCymru Welsh independence movement\n\nOne of the founders of a Welsh independence movement says it must act to ensure \"Wales is not lagging behind\" if Scotland breaks away from the UK.\n\nSiôn Jobbins stood down as YesCymru chairman in July, over the \"strain of the role\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio Cymru, he said it was also time for those leading YesCymru to \"put their egos to either side\".\n\n\"We must work together and ensure that independence for Wales is top priority,\" he told Bethan Rhys Roberts.\n\nMr Jobbins' comments came after the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this week she would try to secure a referendum on independence in Scotland before the end of 2023.\n\n\"We in Wales need to have things in order by then,\" Mr Jobbins said.\n\n\"The starting gun has fired. Whatever our opinion about independence, I don't think a lot of people want to be in a United Kingdom that has no Scotland, and I think Northern Ireland won't stand around too long either.\n\n\"Hiding behind a sofa hoping that Westminster will give us cookies is naïve.\"\n\nYesCymru claimed 10,000 marched through Caernarfon for a rally back before the Covid pandemic\n\nThe YesCymru group was officially launched in 2016 and has seen a rapid rise in membership, and said it now boasts 18,000 paid-up members.\n\nBefore the pandemic, rallies organised by the group attracted thousands of people in Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil and Caernarfon.\n\nHowever, in recent months, some members have engaged in bitter online arguments about YesCymru's leadership and direction.\n\nIt led to the organisation publishing an anti-harassment statement in July stating it was \"aware of the targeted harassment of YesCymru central committee members and YesCymru staff\".\n\nThe entire leadership committee of YesCymru then resigned in mid-August, citing harassment \"beyond social media posts\" that had \"taken an incredible toll on mental wellbeing and can no longer be tolerated\".\n\nIt has now called an extraordinary meeting to elect a new leadership team.\n\nPlanting YesCymru stickers on signs and buildings has become a controversial tactic used by some of its supporters\n\nThe former chairman Mr Jobbins told Radio Cymru he believed the sudden growth of the organisation was primarily responsible for the difficulties.\n\n\"The organisation grew very quickly but had no structures to deal with that growth - they are now in place and we need to strengthen our systems,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a need to look at staffing and ensure that day-to-day work is done by people who are paid. The Central Committee cannot discuss all decisions on Twitter, or nothing will be decided.\"\n\nMr Jobbins said he would not be putting himself forward to chair the movement again, but would be \"back to fight\" for independence.\n\n\"A fight is going to come and people will have to roll up their sleeves,\" he added.\n\n\"YesCymru's message is more important now than ever.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A report into allegations of bullying against Scotland's first female bishop has recommended she leave her role.\n\nThe report for the Scottish Episcopal Church looked at allegations against Bishop Anne Dyer in the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney.\n\nIt claims Bishop Dyer's diocese is suffering from \"systemic dysfunction\".\n\nBishop Dyer has responded by saying she has faced \"significant bullying and harassment\" since taking up the role in 2018.\n\nThe Scottish Episcopal Church said it was setting up a mediation process.\n\nThe independent report was compiled by former Church of Scotland Moderator Prof Iain Torrance and says a number of witnesses told him they had been bullied by the bishop.\n\nProf Torrance said he \"cannot recommend the continuation of a tenure in which I fear that more people will be made to feel diminished and discouraged\".\n\nThe former moderator added that Bishop Dyer no longer enjoyed the trust and confidence of a number of the priests in the diocese.\n\nCanon Anne Dyer's election to bishop was announced in November 2017\n\nBishop Dyer was selected as the Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in November 2017, making her the first woman to become a bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church.\n\nShe said it was her \"earnest desire to seek to understand and take responsibility for my contribution to the present distress\" in her diocese.\n\nThe bishop also said that she had been \"subject to significant bullying and harassment on a number of fronts\".\n\nIn a statement, she added: \"There are a diversity of views in the diocese, different perspectives and understandings of what is happening among us.\n\n\"In addition, I am also conscious that since his investigation was carried out, I have continued to be subject to repeated attacks on social media, some of which has been described as simple harassment, and others reported to the police as possible hate crimes.\"\n\nA statement from the College of Bishops said it \"recognises the level of hurt and upset experienced by a number of people in the diocese and hopes that the mediation process will help to bring healing.\"", "Plans to raise National Insurance to fund health and social care could lead to the breakdown of struggling families, the UK's tax authority says.\n\nMinisters announced the tax hike this week to pay for an £86,000 personal cap on lifetime social care costs in England, and tackle NHS backlogs.\n\nHMRC analysis has predicted it will have a \"significant\" impact on wages, inflation, and company profits.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said it was the fairest way to fund investment.\n\nBut also speaking on Sunday, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth called the proposals a \"punishing unfair tax rise on working people\".\n\nThe 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance (NI), a tax paid by workers and employers, will begin next April, before becoming a separate Health and Social Care Levy from April 2023.\n\nAlong with a 1.25 percentage point hike in dividend tax from next April, it is expected to raise £12bn a year for the next three years.\n\nAnalysis prepared for the government by HMRC, published after MPs backed the changes last week, said in 2022-23 a worker on the median basic rate taxpayer's income of £24,100 would be expected to pay an additional £180 per year.\n\nEmployees on the median higher rate taxpayer's income of £67,100 would be expected to pay an additional £715, the document added.\n\nIt added: \"There may be an impact on family formation, stability or breakdown as individuals, who are currently just about managing financially, will see their disposable income reduce.\"\n\nThe analysis also forecast the increase would impact companies' decisions on hiring staff, and setting salaries.\n\nAnd it said turning the NI increase into a separate levy - meaning it would appear as a separate line on workers' pay slips - would mean extra staff costs for HMRC.\n\nThe majority of the £36bn fund raised by the rise over the next three years will go towards tackling the backlog of NHS cases, which has worsened during the Covid pandemic.\n\nA smaller portion of the money - £5.4bn over the next three years - will also go towards changes to the social care system.\n\nThe government has promised the share going to social care will increase after that, but has not specified exactly by how much.\n\nLabour has criticised the tax hike as unfair to working people, and said it would not do enough to improve care offered in the social care system.\n\nThe party said it backed more spending on health and social care - but has been coming under pressure to specify how they would pay for it instead.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer recently said the money could be raised through taxing landlords. He has also said it could be funded through \"wealth taxes\", but has not set out details.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Ashworth told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that improving care for people in their own homes, so that they did not have to move into a care home, could save £2.5bn a year that could be spent on \"the front line\".\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Mr Javid defended the tax hike, adding it would make government support for social care \"more generous\" and said paying for the changes through higher borrowing would be \"wrong\".\n\n\"The way this has been done, through a broad-based progressive tax, is the fairest way possible to support us all, for our health needs and our care needs,\" he added.\n\nAfter backing the proposals last week, MPs will vote on the legislation to set up the new health and social care levy next week.", "Labour has called for a probe into reports the home secretary met two airlines and the boss of a hotel chain without any officials present.\n\nThe Sunday Mirror said Covid travel rules were among topics at a lunch attended by Priti Patel last month.\n\nMinisterial rules say officials should be present or informed if government business is discussed.\n\nMs Patel has denied breaking the rules - but Labour says she has \"questions to answer\".\n\nIt is understood that she told her private office about the lunch, which reportedly took place on 11 August, after it had happened.\n\nThe newspaper also said the meeting at a Heathrow airport hotel was attended by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, the MP for a nearby constituency.\n\nIt added that the meeting was requested by Surinder Arora, founder of the Arora Group - a property firm specialising in hotels.\n\nThe businessman has previously donated money to former chancellor Philip Hammond, when he was his constituency MP.\n\nThe report said the meeting was held at Heathrow Airport's Hilton Garden Inn, a hotel owned by the group.\n\nThe newspaper added the lunch was also attended by Dubai Airports chief executive Paul Griffiths and Lisa Tremble, corporate affairs director at British Airways.\n\nThe ministerial code - the rulebook for ministers - says officials should be present if they discuss government business with outside organisations.\n\nIt adds that if a minister \"finds themselves\" discussing business without one present, such as at social occasions, they should inform their department of any \"significant content\" as soon as possible.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng was appointed business secretary by Boris Johnson in January\n\nAccording to the Sunday Mirror, topics discussed at the lunch included Covid travel rules, as well as airport and airline regulation. Mr Kwarteng also attended without officials present, the paper reported.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner called for Cabinet Secretary Simon Case to launch an investigation into the meeting, adding Ms Patel had \"serious questions to answer\".\n\nMs Patel's Labour counterpart, shadow home secretary Nick-Thomas Symonds, said it was \"reckless\" for her to attend without officials present.\n\nA spokesman for Ms Patel said details of all her \"relevant external meetings\" would be \"published in the usual way in accordance with the ministerial code.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said Arora was a \"major employer\" in Mr Kwarteng's Spelthorne seat and he was \"conducting constituency business\".\n\nMr Arora told the Sunday Mirror: \"I've known Kwarsi and Priti for years. I said pop in and have lunch and see my new hotel.\n\n\"I don't do politics. I don't support anyone. There wasn't any agenda,\" he added.\n\nMs Tremble told the newspaper: \"It was an informal lunch. There wasn't a set agenda. There was no hard lobbying and it was extremely wide ranging.\"", "Police were called to Eastern Promenade near Porthcawl's Coney Beach\n\nA man is in a serious condition in hospital after a fight erupted in the early hours of Sunday morning in a Welsh seaside resort.\n\nPolice were called to Eastern Promenade in Porthcawl at about 03:15 BST after what they believe was a \"fight\" between two groups of men near Coney Beach.\n\nA 33-year-old local man was taken to hospital in Cardiff with head injuries.\n\nA 39-year-old local man has been arrested on suspicion of affray and remains in police custody.\n\nSouth Wales Police said they expect further arrests to be made and are appealing for witnesses.\n\n\"In particular, we would like to hear from anyone who witnessed a fight between two groups of men on Eastern Promenade between 02:00 and 03:30,\" said Det Insp Jason McGill.\n\n\"This is a safe area and such violent behaviour will not be tolerated.\"\n\nInvestigating detectives said they are studying CCTV footage from the area around The Beachcomber, also known as the Cabin Bar, in the Bridgend county resort.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain is lagging way behind its schedule for cutting carbon emissions in the run-up to November's climate summit in Glasgow, a report says.\n\nThink tank the Green Alliance says current plans will deliver less than a quarter of the cuts needed to meet the UK’s 2030 climate goal.\n\nLittle progress has been made in areas such as farming (a 7% improvement), power (12%), and waste (15%), it warns.\n\nThe government said the UK is committed to meeting future climate commitments.\n\nThe UK has vowed to cut emissions by 78% by 2035 - a world-leading target.\n\nMinisters promise that the coming Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) and net zero strategy - an over-arching plan to de-carbonise the whole economy - will deliver carbon-cutting policies in time for November's summit, known as COP26.\n\nBut Caterina Brandmayr, from the Green Alliance, said: “This is a make-or-break moment for the government.\n\n“COP26 will fail without the major emitters making genuine commitments in these final 50 days - and as president of COP, the UK has to lead the way to raise ambition globally.\n\n“Unless the net-zero strategy and CSR meet the scale of the challenge and opportunity, the UK will be headed into Glasgow with little to show by way of progress on cutting its emissions in this crucial decade.”\n\nIts report said over the past six months, transport has been the best performing government department.\n\nIt is now almost half way to hitting its departmental target, thanks largely to plans to electrify motoring.\n\nAs other departments lag behind, the report’s authors are urging swift government action in five areas:\n\nThe buildings strategy has been held up as ministers struggle with the practicalities of helping people to insulate their homes and install expensive low-carbon heating when their gas boiler packs up.\n\nMs Brandmayr said: “The delay has been very disappointing. We need a comprehensive set of measures that will insulate homes, install low-carbon heating and create jobs.”\n\nGreen Alliance’s net zero policy tracker reports on progress every three months.\n\nIt reinforces criticism by green groups that the UK is a leader in setting targets, but not in sticking to them.\n\nWhen approached for a comment, the government did not directly challenge the Green Alliance figures.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"We are a world leader in the fight against climate change and are absolutely committed to meeting our future climate commitments, having already cut emissions by 44% over the past three decades, and are on track to outperform our current carbon budget plans which takes us to 2022.\n\n\"We have clear plans to cut emissions further, having recently published our energy white paper, North Sea transition deal, transport decarbonisation plan, industrial decarbonisation and hydrogen strategies.\n\n\"We have also secured new investments in offshore wind, electric vehicles and battery manufacturing and supply chains, and rolled out schemes to decarbonise homes and buildings. Further details will be set out in our net zero strategy.\"\n\nThe government’s net zero ambitions have come under fire recently by right-wing Conservatives arguing that the cost of de-carbonisation would be too high.\n\nThe Treasury is reported to be worried about the final bill.\n\nAccording to the Office for Budget Responsibility, in an \"early action\" scenario the cost of the net zero transition between 2020 and 2050 could be as little as 0.4% of GDP annually.\n\nThese costs would increase significantly in scenarios where climate action is delayed or abandoned.", "McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo won the Italian Grand Prix after a frightening crash between title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.\n\nRed Bull's Verstappen flipped up beside Hamilton as the pair battled for position, the rear of Verstappen's car landing on Hamilton's Mercedes, the halo head protection device possibly saving the seven-time champion from injury.\n\nBoth retired, beached in the gravel, meaning Verstappen remains five points ahead of Hamilton in the title race.\n\nHowever, the Dutchman was handed a three-place grid penalty by stewards after the race, to be taken at the Russian Grand Prix in two weeks' time.\n\nRicciardo's British team-mate Lando Norris was second after a brilliant late overtake, handing the team a first one-two since the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix and their first victory in nearly a decade.\n\nRicciardo screamed over team radio as he crossed the line: \"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Yes! For anyone who thought I left, I never left. Thanks guys.\"\n\nHow did Verstappen end up on top of Hamilton?\n\nFollowing a rocket start by Ricciardo from second on the grid, Verstappen fell back to second place, as Hamilton battled with Norris for third after failing to gain a place.\n\nAs the race appeared to settle down into a pattern of both title rivals being held up by a McLaren, Verstappen reacted to Ricciardo's first pit stop by coming in and suffering a slow 10-second pit stop with what appeared to be a poorly positioned front-right wheel.\n\nAt the same time, Hamilton was busy overtaking Norris - as he benefited from starting the race on hard compound tyres, with all other front runners on worn mediums - and then came in for his stop.\n\nBut he also suffered a tardy stop and the pair met by chance on track as Hamilton left the pits. The Briton held the inside line and Verstappen refused to yield on the outside as they entered the slow-speed Rettifilo chicane.\n\nVerstappen had more than half a car's length by Hamilton, but was squeezed off the track and as his Red Bull bounced against the kerbs, a rotating rear wheel launched him into the air and pitched it over Hamilton's car before thumping down on the air box which sits just above the driver's head.\n\nThe car's flat chassis slid down across Hamilton's cockpit and appeared to make contact with the halo head protection device introduced into F1 in 2018 following the deaths of Jules Bianchi in F1 and Justin Wilson in American Indy car in 2015.\n\nBoth drivers have been summoned to race stewards to discuss the incident, and penalties could be handed out.\n\nHamilton told Sky Sports afterwards: \"I'm a little bit stiff and sore on my neck because it [Max's tyre] landed on my head but I'll be OK.\n\n\"The stop was slow and I lost a couple of seconds - I came out, saw Daniel [It was Norris] come past, Max was coming and I made sure to leave a car's width on the outside.\n\n\"I was ahead into turn one, turned into turn two and then Max was on top of me.\n\n\"It's exactly the same scenario that happened at Turn Four where I was in the same position as Max and I gave way, that's racing - this time he didn't want to give way.\n\n\"He knew what was going to happen as soon as he went over the kerb but he didn't back out - I don't know what else to say.\"\n\nVerstappen said: \"We knew it would be tight. I went around the outside and he kept on squeezing me. I just wanted to race. People will start to talk about Silverstone but I didn't expect him to keep on squeezing and squeezing because we still would've had a car's width out of turn two.\n\n\"I don't know why he kept pushing wider and wider.\n\n\"You need two people to work together to make the corner work but unfortunately, we touched. If one guy is not willing to work, it is not going to happen.\n\n\"It's very unfortunate what happened today but I think we are professional enough to step over it. I think for sure we can talk about it.\"\n\nAn amazing achievement for a team on the rise\n\nThe event at Monza took place in warm, dry conditions in Italy's Lombardy region near Milan at a track affectionately known as the 'Cathedral of Speed', owing to its rich motorsport history and old, disused banked corners nestled amid the trees in Monza's beautiful royal park.\n\nThe expectation was that Verstappen, who started on pole, would take - according to Hamilton - an \"easy win\", particularly with Hamilton only fourth after a poor start in Saturday's 'sprint' qualifying race to decide the grid for the grand prix.\n\nBut both McLaren drivers held their own after a great start and Ricciardo re-inherited the lead after Hamilton's pit stop. Norris had lost out during the pit stops and was behind Charles Leclerc's Ferrari when the race restarted after the extended safety car period.\n\nThe Briton chased Leclerc down the start-finish straight and then surprised the Monegasque by going on to the grass at high speed around the Curva Grande, passing the him on the inside.\n\nHamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas - who started last because of a power unit change despite winning Saturday's sprint qualifying - produced a superb recovery drive to claim the final podium place, albeit only after Red Bull's Sergio Perez, who finished third on the road, was hit with a five-second penalty for failing to give a place back after an illegal overtake on Leclerc.\n\nThat left Perez fifth in the final standings behind Leclerc, with the second Ferrari of Carlos Sainz sixth, Aston Martin's Lance Stroll seventh, Alpine's Fernando Alonso eighth and his team-mate Esteban Ocon 10th.\n\nBritain's George Russell, still on a high following the announcement he will partner Hamilton at Mercedes next season, came home ninth to score two more valuable points for Williams.\n\nBottas has been flawless all weekend, just days after his rejection from Mercedes and replacement by Russell went public. But Ricciardo's recovery is arguably greater - a lost soul in a car he just couldn't understand all season, the Australian overtook his higher-achieving team-mate in the sprint race and got a superb start off the line on Sunday to overtake a faster driver in a faster car in Verstappen. And he got a point for the fastest lap, too. Chapeau.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nAfter a breathless triple-header in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy, a weekend off is next up before the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi - where the racing could be a little more tame, even if relations between the two title protagonists may not be.\n• None How America's leadership grappled with the events of 9/11\n• None Loathed or adored but never ignored: The definitive story of Cristiano Ronaldo is streaming now", "Fabrice Muamba: 'Be careful what you are teaching your children'\n\nOne of the country's top schools has launched an investigation after former footballer Fabrice Muamba said his son faced racist abuse in a school rugby game.\n\nMr Muamba tweeted that his 12-year-old son \"received monkey chants\" from opponents at Manchester Grammar School after scoring a try.\n\n\"Racism is learnt; be careful what you are teaching your children,\" he said.\n\nThe school said it condemned racism and would \"take the appropriate action\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"We are a diverse school with pupils from all backgrounds, and we take any allegations of racism incredibly seriously.\n\n\"Racism is abhorrent and we know the damage, distress and upset it causes. It is something we talk about regularly to all pupils.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by fabrice muamba This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman said the school hoped to speak to Mr Muamba and his family soon \"to offer our support and address their concerns\" after the incident during a match in Stockport on Saturday.\n\nFounded in 1515, Manchester Grammar School charges annual fees of £13,000 and includes notable former pupils such as Nobel Prize winner and chemist Prof John Polanyi, Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley and medical broadcaster Dr Rangan Chatterjee.\n\nThe school has previously said it will improve curriculum materials\n\nAfter the murder of the African-American man George Floyd in the US last year, the school faced calls to improve its teaching of British colonialism from current and former pupils.\n\nIt then said that it would develop curriculum materials, which it would share with other schools for free.\n\nMr Muamba is now a football coach after retiring as a player at the age of 24, when he collapsed on the pitch during an FA Cup quarter-final in 2012.\n\nHe survived a cardiac arrest when his heart stopped for 78 minutes, while playing for Bolton Wanderers against Tottenham Hotspur.\n\nThe former England Under-21 midfielder, who arrived as a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo at the age of 11, has since been involved in campaigns to get more defibrillators in public places.\n\nIt has not been disclosed which school his son attends.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Darren Osborne was jailed for a minimum of 43 years for the Finsbury Park terror attack\n\nThe terrorist behind an attack on the Finsbury Park mosque in London may lose sight in one eye after a prison attack, a court has heard.\n\nDarren Osborne was jailed for life for murdering Makram Ali after deliberately ploughing into a crowd of people in north London in June 2017.\n\nThe 51-year-old from Cardiff was stabbed at HMP Full Sutton in August 2020, Hull Crown Court heard.\n\nConvicted killer Patrick Chandler has pleaded guilty to the assault.\n\nChandler launched the \"unprovoked\" attack on Osborne on a prison sports pitch using a sharpened wooden tool, the court was told.\n\nHe stabbed Osborne in the head, arm and torso before snapping the weapon in his forehead.\n\nThe court heard that Chandler's attack left extremist Osborne with \"significant\" and \"permanent damage\" to his eye.\n\nHer Honour Judge McKone said Osborne had been left \"very frightened of losing the sight in his right eye\" and although was expected to make a full recovery, could end up requiring a glass eye in the future.\n\nThe assault has also left Osborne, from the Pentwyn area of Cardiff, with permanent tissue damage to his arm.\n\nOsborne is serving a minimum of 43 years for the Finsbury Park attack, after being convicted in 2018 of murder and also attempted murder.\n\nDuring Osborne's trial, the prosecution said they were \"clear throughout that this was a terrorist attack\".\n\nPatrick Chandler has been ordered to serve a further eight years in jail on top of his previous sentences.\n\nHis attacker Chandler was already serving a life sentence for a murder in Essex in 2017.\n\nThe 48-year-old was also given an additional 10 year term for another attack on an inmate at a prison in Chelmsford.\n\nChandler admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm on Osborne, and having a bladed instrument in the prison.\n\nHe was ordered to serve a further eight years in jail on top of his previous sentences.", "Welsh travellers currently must pay for the more expensive NHS PCR tests\n\nForeign travellers from Wales can use a wider choice of Covid testing firms from 21 September, the Welsh government has announced.\n\nWelsh residents can currently only use more expensive NHS tests - except in exceptional circumstances - in a stance that had been criticised.\n\nBut that will change because of new UK rules policing private PCR travel tests and a spot checks regime.\n\nThe Welsh Tories have accused Wales' Labour government of a \"belated U-turn\"\n\nBut Wales' health minister Eluned Morgan said the change is because of new UK regulations which will have an \"impact on standards for private tests\".\n\nTravellers returning to Wales must currently use NHS PCR tests on day two of their return - and day eight if unvaccinated - at a cost of £68 each. In England, private testing is available, from about £50.\n\nThis was previously criticised by travellers as \"unfair\" because it meant people in Wales had to pay more - and there had been a £1,000 fine for using a private test provider instead.\n\nTest requirements applied to travellers returning to Wales even if they arrive at an airport or port in England.\n\nTory MP David TC Davies had asked the monopolies watchdog to investigate the decision not to allow people returning to Wales to shop around for the cheapest deal on Covid PCR tests to save money, as is allowed in England.\n\nAnyone travelling overseas and returning to the UK must take a PCR test for Covid\n\nBut Welsh ministers said NHS testing ensured any positive cases and harmful variants were identified as early as possible, flagging concerns that test results were \"not flowing into Welsh systems\", making it difficult to track and trace holidaymakers who might be infected.\n\nAs a result of concerns, the Competitions and Markets Authority has made a series of recommendations to UK ministers to improve the travel testing market.\n\nThe UK government said it would tighten rules on private providers following complaints of \"cowboy behaviour\" by some testing companies, after complaints were raised about inaccurate and misleading advertised pricing and slow delivery of results.\n\nThe Welsh government said the new measures would ensure test results - including identifying new variants of Covid - would be processed and reported \"quickly and within a comparable time period to NHS tests\", and it will therefore allow private tests to be used for people returning to Wales.\n\n\"We've been putting a lot of pressure on the UK government to come in with measures that would give us a lot more confidence that if people were to used these private tests that they would be of a particular standard,\" said Ms Morgan.\n\n\"Given the new regulations and the impact on standards for private tests, we will make changes to the rules to enable people travelling to Wales to book tests with private sector providers, if they wish.\"\n\nThe health minister said she welcomed the progress made addressing concerns over private testing - and stressed NHS tests would also be available to book.\n\n\"It's important to remember that coronavirus is still with us, and our advice continues to be that people should avoid all non-essential international travel,\" Ms Morgan added.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have accused Wales' Labour government of a \"belated U-turn\" which they say \"will come as little consolation to the thousands of hardworking Welsh families who've been clobbered by Labour's costly testing scheme\".\n\n\"Far from something to celebrate, the timing of such an announcement after the conclusion of the summer holidays will anger many families who've been forced to fork out hundreds of pounds due to the stubbornness of Labour ministers,\" said their health spokesman Russell George.", "The US on Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks\n\nThe FBI has released a newly declassified document that looks into connections between Saudi citizens in the US and two of the 9/11 attackers.\n\nRelatives of victims have long urged the release of the files, arguing Saudi officials had advance knowledge but did not try to stop the attacks.\n\nBut the document provides no evidence that the Saudi government was linked to the 9/11 plot.\n\nFifteen of the 19 plane hijackers were Saudi nationals.\n\nAhead of the declassification, the Saudi embassy in Washington welcomed the release and once again denied any link between the kingdom and the hijackers, describing such claims as \"false and malicious\".\n\nThe document was declassified on the 20th anniversary of the deadliest terror attacks on US soil - almost 3,000 people were killed after four planes were hijacked - and is the first of several expected to be released.\n\nSome families of the victims had put pressure on President Joe Biden to declassify the documents, saying he should not attend Saturday's commemoration ceremonies in New York if he was not prepared to release them.\n\nMost of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi nationals. Al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden, was from an influential Saudi family and his organisation alleged to have received money from wealthy Saudis in the 1990s.\n\nAll of that has led to questions about whether there was any official involvement in the attacks - and whether successive US administrations had covered this up to protect an ally.\n\nThis latest document does not prove that. But nor will it dispel all the questions, making clear that the FBI in 2016 was still investigating an apparently well-connected Saudi who was alleged to have provided logistical support to two of the hijackers.\n\nThis is only the first release and even if, as the Saudi embassy maintains, none of it will show any complicity in the attacks, it may still raise awkward questions for both Washington and Riyadh, including why it has taken so long to be more open.\n\nThis 16-page FBI document is still heavily redacted. It is based on interviews with a source whose identity is classified (listed as PII) and outlines contacts between a number of Saudi nationals and two of the hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar.\n\nThe hijackers posed as students to enter the US in 2000. The FBI memo says they then received significant logistical support from Omar al-Bayoumi, who witnesses said was a frequent visitor to the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles despite his official status at the time as a student.\n\nMr Bayoumi, the source tells the FBI, had \"very high status\" at the consulate. \"Bayoumi's assistance to Hamzi and Midha included translation, travel, lodging and financing,\" the memo said.\n\nThe document is one of several that is expected to be released\n\nThe FBI document also says there were links between the two hijackers and Fahad al-Thumairy, a conservative imam at the King Fahad Mosque in Los Angeles. He was described by sources as \"having extremist beliefs\".\n\nBoth Mr Bayoumi and Mr Thumairy left the US weeks before the 9/11 attacks, according to the AP news agency.\n\nThe agency also quoted Jim Kreindler, a lawyer for the relatives of 9/11 victims, as saying that the released document did \"validate the arguments we have made in the litigation regarding the Saudi government's responsibility for the 9/11 attacks\".\n\nLast month, a lawsuit launched by relatives saw several top former Saudi officials questioned under oath.\n\nThe administrations of George W Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all declined to declassify the documents, citing national security concerns.\n\nJoe Biden had been urged by relatives of victims to release the documents\n\nBut Joe Biden last week ordered a review of investigative documents, telling officials to release what they could over the next six months.\n\nThere has long been speculation of official Saudi links to the plot, given the number of Saudi nationals involved and al-Qaeda leaders Osama Bin Laden's Saudi background.\n\nHowever, the 9/11 commission report found no evidence to implicate the Saudi government or senior officials.\n\nThe US and Saudi Arabia have long been allies, although the relationship has at times been difficult.\n\nDonald Trump strengthened ties but Joe Biden called Saudi Arabia \"a pariah\" for its part in the gruesome murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.\n\nThe BBC's Frank Gardner says Mr Biden has since softened his stance towards most powerful man in Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reflecting the hard reality of the importance of the alliance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We shouldn't be doing things for the sake of it\", Sajid Javid told the BBC's Nick Robinson\n\nPlans to introduce vaccine passports for access into nightclubs and large events in England will not go ahead, the health secretary has said.\n\nSajid Javid told the BBC: \"We shouldn't be doing things for the sake of it.\"\n\nIt was thought the plan, which came under criticism from venues and some MPs, would be introduced at the end of this month.\n\nJust a week ago, the vaccines minister had defended the scheme as the \"best way\" to keep the night industry open.\n\nNo 10 stressed the plan - which had been set to be introduced at the end of this month - would be kept \"in reserve\" should it be needed over autumn or winter.\n\nUnder the scheme, people would have been required to show proof - whether of double vaccination, a negative Covid test or finishing self-isolating after a positive PCR test - in order to gain entry to clubs and other crowded events.\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association had said the plans could have crippled the industry and led to nightclubs facing discrimination cases.\n\nThe industry body welcomed Sunday's announcement, saying it hoped businesses could now plan with some certainty and start to rebuild the sector.\n\nThe Music Venue Trust, which aims to protect grassroots venues, also said it was glad vaccine passports would not be going ahead, describing them as \"problematic\".\n\nThere had been opposition from Tory MPs on the Covid Recovery Group as well as the Liberal Democrats, whose leader Ed Davey called vaccine passports \"divisive, unworkable and expensive\".\n\nSpeaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Javid said: \"We just shouldn't be doing things for the sake of it or because others are doing, and we should look at every possible intervention properly.\"\n\nHe said he had \"never liked the idea of saying to people you must show your papers\" to \"do what is just an everyday activity\".\n\n\"We've looked at it properly and, whilst we should keep it in reserve as a potential option, I'm pleased to say that we will not be going ahead with plans for vaccine passports,\" he added.\n\nNightclubs were among the last places to reopen as restrictions were eased\n\nMr Javid denied the government was \"running scared\" on the policy after criticism from its own backbenchers. He said the passports were not needed because of other things in the \"wall of defence\" including high vaccine uptake, testing, surveillance and new treatments\n\nThe move to scrap vaccine passports appears to be a sharp U-turn by the government.\n\nOn the same TV programme last week, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said the end of September was the right time to start the vaccine passport scheme for sites with large crowds because all over-18s would have been offered two jabs by then and it was the \"best way\" to keep the night industry open.\n\nIn the interview, Mr Javid also said:\n\nScotland is taking a different approach to England - they will bring in a vaccine passport for over-18s for entry to nightclubs and many large events from October.\n\nIn Wales, ministers will decide next week whether to introduce the scheme. There are no current plans for a similar scheme in Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Sunday, the latest government figures showed there were 29,173 new cases of coronavirus in the UK and 56 further deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days.\n\nThe UK government had faced pressure from a number of its own Tory MPs, as well as from nightclubs and the events sector, to ditch plans for vaccine passports in England.\n\nFirst, there was a hint they were pushing ahead. Last week, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said they would be required in nightclubs and other indoor venues in England by the end of the month.\n\nThen came the row-back. On Friday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said they would \"almost certainly\" be necessary for nightclubs this autumn but said he'd prefer a more limited use of them.\n\nBy Sunday at 08:30 BST, the health secretary said on Sky News that the government hoped to avoid having them, and within the next hour told the BBC they will not be going ahead with plans.\n\nClearly there has been debate within government itself about their use but a decision has, for now, been made - even if the option will be kept in \"reserve\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said the government's approach to Covid passports had been \"shambolic from the start\" and lacked any clarity from ministers about the purpose of the passports and how they would work.\n\nLiberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael accused the Conservatives of needlessly sowing confusion among businesses for months and called for them to scrap the \"unnecessary and draconian Coronavirus Act altogether\".\n\nSome large venues such as football stadiums, live music venues and music festivals have already been asking people to prove their vaccination status to gain entry.\n\nAn Office for National Statistics survey, covering 25 August to 5 September, found about 1 in 10 adults across Great Britain reported that they had been asked to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative test to be allowed into a venue or event.\n\nFans had to show their Covid status to enter Sunday's Chelsea v Everton Women's Super League football match\n\nOn Saturday, Manchester United introduced Covid spot-checks on match days at Old Trafford, with the club saying it expected proof of full vaccination to become mandatory in the Premier League from 1 October.\n\nThe Premier League said at the start of the 2021-22 season that fans would face random spot-checks of their Covid-19 status at grounds over the first few match days. Brighton, Chelsea and Tottenham have introduced mandatory checks for fans at their stadiums.\n\nA series of key government announcements and decisions are expected in the coming days.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to outline plans for booster jabs soon. Mr Javid said that if the JCVI advised having a broad booster programme, he was \"confident\" it could start this month \"as planned all along\".\n\nAnd on Tuesday, the prime minister will set out his Covid Winter Plan for England, likely to include contingency measures that would be implemented if the NHS was at risk of becoming overwhelmed.", "Care workers in Wales are underpaid and predominantly women, say researchers\n\nThe low wages of social care workers are not sustainable, say researchers.\n\nFewer than half earn a \"real living wage\" of £9.30 an hour, with no above-inflation pay rises in care homes for 10 years, according to a Cardiff University report.\n\nThe authors said the \"endemic\" low pay has an unequal affect on women, as they make up four of every five care home workers.\n\nThe reports calls for wide-ranging reforms of the sector.\n\nIt said the coronavirus pandemic had \"starkly exposed the vulnerability of the residential care sector\".\n\n\"The current low levels of remuneration of the workforce does not look sustainable in terms of quality and consistency of care and staff turnover,\" said Wales Fiscal Analysis researchers at the university's Wales Governance Centre.\n\nThey also said rates of pay in care in the UK appear to be lower than other countries.\n\nBut the report warned pay rises would have \"substantial resource implications\" for governments and private care providers.\n\nThe Living Wage Foundation said people outside London should earn £9.30 an hour, instead of the £8.72 that employers must pay everyone aged over 25 under the national living wage set by the UK government.\n\nImproved pay and conditions are one of four things that deserve attention, said researchers.\n\nThe care home sector needs more funding say the report authors\n\nOther recommendations included more funding, an accurate prediction of growing demand, and rethinking the \"fragmented\" way the system is operated between councils and private companies.\n\nThe report also highlighted the role of unpaid carers who look after friends and family. The report said it would cost about £8bn - roughly the size of the entire NHS budget - to pay for the care they provide.\n\nBut even before the crisis, ministers were looking for new ways to fund social care, including the possibility of introducing new taxes in the next Senedd term.\n\nCian Sion, one of the report's authors, said: \"It seems inevitable that Wales will have to spend more on social care over the next decade. A national conversation about what the future mix of care provision might be, and who will meet this cost is long overdue.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two rare Ferraris paying for the town's new boathouse sold for £8.5m at auction\n\nTwo rare classic Ferrari cars worth £8.5m have sped up the building of a new lifeboat boathouse in north Wales.\n\nThe 1960s cars were donated to lifeboat charity RNLI by footwear entrepreneur and classic car enthusiast Richard Colton after he died in 2015.\n\nThe red 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB was sold at auction for £6.6m and a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 raised £1.93m.\n\nSome £2.8m of the legacy helped fund a boathouse on the Gwynedd coast, which officially opened this weekend.\n\nPwllheli's crew, in fact, marked the \"proud day\" in their 130-year history with a triple celebration, which also saw the naming and dedication of their new Shannon class lifeboat and a new launch and recovery system.\n\nThe new boathouse on the Llyn Peninsula was officially opened by Charles Denton, godson of late Northamptonshire businessman Mr Colton, while its construction was also helped by a £100,000 community fundraising appeal.\n\nMr Colton, a partner in the footwear company Colton Brothers, died in 2015 aged 82. He was also a member of the V12 section of the Ferrari Owners' Club and had owned other Ferraris.\n\nThe new home for the RNLI's latest all-weather lifeboat in Pwllheli\n\nThe boathouse is now home to the latest Shannon class RNLI boat, which was named Smith Brothers in a dedication ceremony, and presented to the man who funded the lifeboat, Roger Smith from Tamworth in Staffordshire.\n\n\"During my sailing activities I have always had the greatest confidence in the RNLI facilities,\" said the keen sailor.\n\n\"Whilst I have never had to call upon their help myself, I have been part of teams who helped yachts that were then handed over to the RNLI\n\n\"Life has been very kind to me, and the RNLI has agreed that I fund a Shannon all-weather lifeboat for Pwllheli.\n\n\"The more I get to know the RNLI fundraisers and volunteer crews, the more admiration I have for them.\"\n\nTributes were paid to the generosity of Richard Colton, whose Ferraris helped pay for the boat's new home\n\nThe chairman of Pwllheli RNLI Lifeboat Management Group said it was \"a proud day for all at Pwllheli RNLI and the start of a new chapter in the station's 130-year history\".\n\n\"On behalf of all at Pwllheli RNLI I would like to thank everyone who has supported Pwllheli Lifeboat Station to help us get to where we are today and make sure that our volunteer crew will be here to save lives for many years to come,\" said Alan Jones.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Runners set off from Preston Park at about 09:45 BST\n\nBrighton Marathon organisers have apologised to runners after it emerged the course was 568m (0.35 miles) too long.\n\nAbout 7,500 marathon participants set off from Preston Park from 09:45 BST on a course they thought was 26.2 miles.\n\nOrganisers apologised for the error and said they hoped it had not \"marred the experience\" for runners.\n\nThey said the marathon was a \"fantastic comeback\" after an 18-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA spokesperson told the BBC: \"The mistake was spotted after runners were on the route and therefore could not be rectified.\n\n\"The mistake was human error and we apologise sincerely to all of our marathon participants.\"\n\nBrighton Marathon's statement on Twitter said: \"We would like to apologise to our marathon participants that the course today has measured 568m too long.\n\n\"We are wholly disappointed that this has affected our runners and hope that it hasn't marred the experience, at what has been a fantastic comeback event after 18 months.\"\n\nThe course snakes its way through the city streets with thousands of spectators lining the route\n\nThe event, which has taken place since 2010, begins in Preston Park, then snakes its way through the city before finishing on the seafront.\n\nOrganisers said the first man to finish was Neil McClements, with a time of 2:33:44, with Ollie Garrod coming in second and Mark Innocenti in third.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brighton Marathon Weekend This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVerity Hopkins won the women's race with a time of 2:52:11. She was followed by Amy Harris in second and Lauren Reid in third.\n\nThere have been similar issues with the Brighton half marathon - which has different organisers from the full marathon.\n\nIn 2017 runners called for refunds or discounts after it was revealed that the half marathon had been 146m (0.09 miles) short since 2015.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People will not need vaccine passports to access public services in Wales, the first minister says\n\nMinisters will decide next week if vaccine passports should be used to gain entry to some events in Wales, the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford also said there could be as many as 100 new Covid hospital admissions a day in Wales as the Delta wave peaks at the end of this month.\n\nPeople will need passports for some events in Scotland from 1 October and in England from the end of this month.\n\nMr Drakeford said rising rates meant it would be irresponsible not to consider.\n\n\"There are a number of practical and ethical issues that need to be considered in relation to vaccine certification, and we continue to work through those,\" said Mr Drakeford.\n\n\"We will not do that in any setting where people have no choice but to go, so there will be no vaccine passports for people who need to go to use crucial public services.\"\n\nA decision will be made ahead of a planned three-weekly review of the Coronavirus regulations next Friday.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives said \"we have got to learn to live with Covid\" as their health spokesperson Russell George said he was \"absolutely against Covid passports for domestic use\".\n\nHowever, Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said Covid passports should not be totally dismissed and he would be prepared to support their use in \"very, very limited places\".\n\nIt comes as Mr Drakeford warns daily hospital admissions - currently 40 Covid patients a day - could more than double by the end of the month, based on modelling work carried out by Swansea University.\n\nA decision will be made ahead of a planned three-weekly review of the Coronavirus regulations next Friday\n\nHe said patients would include many who need to be in hospital for a long time and need intensive care.\n\nHe said the position in Wales was a \"serious\" one and the number of cases was \"likely to get worse over the coming weeks\".\n\nHe said: \"We now have very high rates of coronavirus in all our communities - rates, which our modelling says are likely to get worse over the next few weeks\".\n\nIf the virus continues to spread at its current rate, there will be about 3,200 cases confirmed every day towards the end of the month, he said.\n\n\"Until now, this rise has been manageable, because our fantastic vaccination programme has helped to weaken the link between infection and serious illness but with the rapid spread of coronavirus in our communities, pandemic pressure on the NHS is increasing once again,\" he said.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) reported 2,467 more coronavirus cases on Friday with five more Covid-related deaths.\n\nPHW said 522.7 per 100,000 population had tested positive for the virus in the past seven days - the highest Covid cases rates since the second wave in December.\n\nThe number of daily cases is almost 50% higher at this point in the third wave than it was at this point in the second wave, back in December, according to PHW.\n\nDespite that, the number of patients in hospital, with confirmed Covid, was three times higher then.\n\nPHW's figures also show in this wave there is a noticeable difference in the proportion of young people - those 19 and under - testing positive.\n\nThey are now the largest age group, making up 31% of positive tests.\n\nAt a similar point in the second wave, also the day that the vaccine programme began, it was only 16%.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the average number of daily deaths in the second wave was eight times higher.\n\nThe daily average is currently four a day - it was 32 deaths a day at this point in the second wave, under the most reliable ONS measure.\n\nIf we only take the PHW measure, it was averaging 24 deaths a day, still six times higher.", "The government needs to apply tougher standards to its list of approved Covid travel test providers, the competition watchdog has said.\n\nThe call comes as part of fresh advice from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) amid concerns that consumers are being ripped off.\n\nUK travellers must take PCR tests when they return from abroad, choosing from a list of 400 or more authorised firms.\n\nBut the CMA said basic standards should be upgraded and enforced.\n\nIt also said consumers should be able to \"get the information they need to compare providers properly and find the best deals for them\".\n\nLast week, the CMA said it had begun an investigation into one firm, Expert Medicals, following complaints that Covid test results had not been provided on time or at all.\n\nIt has also warned a further 19 firms about advertising misleading prices, following a review that found customers often faced poor service, hidden fees and refund issues.\n\nIn its latest advice, the CMA said there were features of the PCR testing market which meant competition alone would not deliver the right outcomes for consumers.\n\n\"There is a risk of a 'race to the bottom', in which providers compete on grounds other than high clinical quality and travellers end up losing out,\" it added.\n\nAs a result, it said, it was making a number of recommendations to the government, including:\n\nTests cost about £75 per person on average in the UK, but there are reports of some being offered for as little as £20, and others for more than £500.\n\nThere have also been reports that some government-authorised providers do not have full accreditation.\n\nThe government has already issued warnings to 82 firms that they could be removed from its list of authorised providers if they advertise misleading prices.\n\nRory Boland, Which? travel editor, said the CMA's review \"reinforces Which?'s repeated warnings to the government that the current private testing system is not fit for purpose\".\n\n\"The government must now urgently set out how it will implement the regulator's recommendations and ensure safe, reliable and affordable tests are available for all travellers,\" he added.\n\nAvi Lasarow, EMEA chief executive of Project Screen by Prenetics, which is on the government list of test providers and provides testing at the major UK airports, welcomed the CMA's findings, saying: \"Hopefully this will drive the cowboy testers out of town.\"\n\nHe added: \"Holiday PCR testing will be a way of life for travellers for some time to come as we need to protect the UK from new variants entering the country.\n\n\"However, the government could help travellers even more by abolishing VAT on holiday PCR tests, so they can travel safer and cheaper.\"", "Health chiefs say hospitals in west Wales are feeling the strain during the third Covid wave\n\nHealth and social care is in \"almost the perfect storm\" during the third wave of the Covid pandemic, the head of a Welsh health board has warned.\n\nHywel Dda University Health Board has postponed some routine surgery at its hospitals as Covid cases rise.\n\nIt comes as two other health boards in Wales have suspended some visits, with one of them suspending some operations.\n\nHywel Dda chairwoman Maria Battle said they now had 30,000 patients waiting for planned surgery in west Wales.\n\nHealth board staff said they had faced \"an incredibly busy week\" across in facilities in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.\n\nThe Betsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales announced on Friday it was suspending routine operations and halted most hospital visits.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board has also suspended most patient visits for \"the safety of our patients and staff\" at its facilities in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that modelling suggested there could be \"100 new Covid-19 hospital admissions\" every day in Wales by the end of September as that is when experts expect the Delta-variant infection to peak.\n\nThe Covid infection rate in Wales has risen to 522.7 cases for every 100,000 people - the highest since December last year - and Merthyr Tydfil now has the UK's 15th highest infection rate.\n\nAcross Wales, there has been a 35% rise in the number of patients in hospital over the last seven days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People will not need vaccine passports to access public services in Wales, the first minister says\n\nHowever, with almost 70% of Welsh adults now fully vaccinated, the number of people in hospital with the virus is three times less than at the height of the second Covid wave in December and January.\n\n\"Compared to the last 18 months, we may be lulled into thinking we are back to normal,\" said the Hywel Dda chairwoman.\n\n\"But, whilst hopefully the worst impact of Covid-19 is over, we are not out of the woods just yet.\n\nShe said 18 months of battling against the pandemic had come with \"fear and personal sacrifices\" for teams at hospitals like the major centres at Haverfordwest, Carmarthen and Aberystwyth.\n\n\"It is only natural that many staff are now exhausted,\" said Ms Battle.\n\n\"During this time, we have also seen a higher level of sickness absence than usual, which is compounded by a high number of vacant nursing posts in Hywel Dda.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to support all our staff and recruit to vacant posts.\"\n\nThe health board boss also admitted social care shortages across west Wales were leading to delays in discharging patients - resulting in bed-blocking.\n\n\"We are seeing ambulances waiting outside of A&Es as there are not enough beds available for patients who need to be admitted,\" added Ms Battle.\n\nHywel Dda health board has been forced to postpone some routine surgery\n\n\"At the moment, in health and social care, we have almost the perfect storm.\n\n\"But we have got through many storms together during the life of this pandemic and with your support we will get through this one again.\"", "Ksenija Sidorova is the first accordion player to be a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms\n\nIt may have been her first visit to the BBC Proms, but accordion player Ksenija Sidorova stole the show at the Last Night concert.\n\nExpressive and passionate, the Latvian musician's performance of Astor Piazzolla's Libertango brought a packed Royal Albert Hall to its feet.\n\nIt came halfway through a diverse concert that also paid tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks.\n\nConductor Sakari Oramo said the night reflected the \"healing power of music\".\n\n\"Due to the worldwide Covid pandemic, live music-making was stopped across the world for many months - and in some places it still is,\" he said.\n\n\"Music that is core to human expression went silent. The bond between audiences and performers was broken.\"\n\nNoting that, elsewhere in the world, people's freedom to make and enjoy music was currently being \"threatened and denied\", Oramo concluded that it was \"very special for us all to be here for the Last Night Of The Proms again, with an audience, to celebrate the healing and uplifting power of music\".\n\nConductor Sakari Oramo was helming his 28th Prom - and fifth Last Night\n\nThe Prommers, bedecked in crowns, bow ties, bowler hats and a mixture of EU and union flags, were typically enthusiastic, especially after missing out on the 2020 season.\n\nThey bobbed up and down to the Sailor's Hornpipe and sang Land Of Hope And Glory at the top of their lungs- the lyrics performed in full following a very public row over their possible exclusion last year.\n\nAnd when Oramo paid tribute to Sir Henry Wood, the founder conductor of the Proms back in 1895, one audience member pointed to Wood's statue at the back of the hall and shouted, \"He's behind you!\"\n\nThe concert opened with a new commission, Mother, by Iranian-American composer Gity Razaz.\n\nA restless symphonic piece with an extensive percussion section, it depicted the healing power of nature amid the chaos of modern life.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the premiere, Razaz said she hoped to capture \"the exquisite majesty of our natural world\" in a way that \"propels us to take more serious, proactive steps towards protecting our planet\".\n\nThe programme also included a heart-breaking new arrangement of Barber's Adagio For Strings, marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Proms This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe adagio was performed at the Last Night in 2001, just four days after the atrocity, with American conductor Leonard Slatkin on the podium. He asked the audience not to applaud at the end. Instead, they held aloft candles.\n\nJonathan Manners' new arrangement was suitably sombre and haunting, incorporating Barber's 1961 choral setting of the Latin text Agnus Dei: \"Lamb Of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us [and] grant us peace\".\n\nThe programme also included a recently rediscovered piece by Florence Price - the first African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major US orchestra - and Ravel's lament for the victims of World War One, Le tombeau de Couperin.\n\nAustralian tenor Stuart Skelton brought some levity with a spirited performance of Iain Farrington's I Still Call Australia Home, delivered in an eye-catching black sequinned jacket.\n\nLater, he led the audience in the traditional chorus of Rule, Britannia! wearing a full Aussie cricket outfit.\n\nStuart Skelton in his full cricketing gear, as he performs Rule, Britannia!\n\nSkelton also indulged in his love of Wagner, performing the poignant Wesendonck Lieder with a rich subtlety, before letting rip on the passionate Prize Song, from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.\n\nThe 53-year-old, who was also making his debut at the Last Night, said he was still pinching himself after being invited.\n\n\"To be considered in that pantheon? You never expect that one. It's one of those bucket list, dreams come true,\" he told the BBC. \"It's like a wrap party for the world's most prestigious music festival.\"\n\nHe even came up with a bespoke cocktail to celebrate the occasion.\n\nSidorova started playing accordion at the age of six\n\nFor all his charm, accordion virtuoso Sidorova was the indisputable highlight of the night, introducing the Last Night to two mildly revolutionary elements- the accordion and the tango.\n\nShe first took the stage in the first half, playing Franck Angelis' Chiquilín de Bachín (Little Boy at Bachín), a saccharine story of a six-year-old boy who sells flowers outside a cheap restaurant in the heart of Buenos Aires's theatre district.\n\nSat on a piano stool, sporting some impressively voluminous sleeves, Sidorova imbued the piece with a nostalgic quality, deftly swerving maudlin sentimentality.\n\nBut it was her second-half performance of Libertango - a staple of Strictly Come Dancing - that really showcased her captivating and witty playing style, as she traded riffs back-and-forth with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.\n\nViewers and prommers alike lapped up the performance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Keoni This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Abbi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Paul Chapinal🎬🎼🇪🇸🇬🇧 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Dan Gregory #notmypm #Article49 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe pomp and ceremony of the Last Night - described by Rob Rinder on BBC Radio Three as an \"upmarket stag do\" - marked the end of a triumphant six-week Proms season.\n\nComing a year after the festival was reduced to a two-week, socially-distanced skeleton, this year's event welcomed 2,000 musicians, 30 orchestras and, crucially, tens of thousands of fans.\n\nHighlights included the highly-anticipated concert debut of John Wilson's Sinfonia of London, who played a soul-stirring and charismatic programme that included Strauss, Ravel and Korngold's filmic Symphony in F sharp major.\n\nChineke - the UK's only black and ethnically diverse orchestra - celebrated diversity in composers as well as performers, playing pieces by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Fela Sowande and Florence Price.\n\nThe Aurora orchestra played Igor Stravinsky's 1945 suite from The Firebird from memory (as is their tradition); while the prodigiously talented Kanneh-Mason family joined forces to perform an updated version of Camille Saint-Saëns's much-loved suite The Carnival of the Animals.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOne of the most emotionally-charged concerts was delivered by The Proms Festival Orchestra - an ensemble of leading freelance players who were specially assembled to acknowledge the difficulties they faced during the pandemic.\n\nThe 80-piece orchestra included a double-bassist who'd taken up a job as an undertaker and a harpist who'd started working in a vineyard to make ends meet.\n\nTheir performance of Mahler's Fifth Sympony was called \"stirring\" and a \"triumph\" by The Times.\n\nA collection was held at the Last Night to support a hardship fund for freelance musicians who have found themselves in financial difficulties after the last 18 months.\n\nThe Proms will return next year on Friday, 15 July.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Wales' health minister says hospitals and GP surgeries are under \"huge pressure\"\n\nPressures on Welsh hospitals are expected to continue until at least mid-October, Wales' health minister has said.\n\nEluned Morgan has asked people to only use A&E services and GP surgeries if absolutely necessary.\n\nSome health boards have already postponed routine surgery and suspended some visits.\n\nIt comes as Public Health Wales reports eight further deaths with Covid, and 2,317 new cases.\n\nIt brings the total in Wales throughout the pandemic to 5,734 deaths and 306,060 cases.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that modelling suggested there could be \"100 new Covid-19 hospital admissions\" every day in Wales by the end of September as that is when experts expect the Delta-variant infection to peak.\n\nThe Covid infection rate in Wales has risen to 557 cases for every 100,000 people - the highest since December last year.\n\nMs Morgan said case numbers \"are likely to continue... until at least the end of September and then we're likely to see a levelling off\".\n\nBecause of the lag between people catching Covid and potentially ending up in hospital, Ms Morgan said this suggests the pressure on hospitals will \"continue at least until about mid-October\".\n\nMs Morgan told BBC's Politics Wales there were many issues to consider regarding vaccination passports\n\nMs Morgan added a \"really difficult\" decision must be made on whether to introduce vaccination passports, as England scraps their plans to do so.\n\nA decision is expected by next Friday on whether the passports will be made mandatory in order to gain entry to some events in Wales. They are being introduced in Scotland from 1 October.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid announced on Sunday that the vaccine passports would not be going ahead in England\n\n\"There are lots of practical and ethical issues we've got to consider around vaccine passports,\" Ms Morgan told BBC Politics Wales.\n\n\"Clearly, there's a hope that suggestions that we may need vaccine passports for nightclubs, for example, may help drive the numbers of young people who may want to take the vaccine up.\"\n\nMore than a fifth of young people aged 16-39 in Wales have yet to receive one dose of the vaccine.\n\n\"We know the [case] rates are incredibly high at the moment amongst young people and so that's why we're very anxious to drive those numbers up,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\nRoutine surgeries have been delayed and many hospitals have limited or cancelled visits\n\nThe Betsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales announced on Friday it was suspending routine operations and halted most hospital visits.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board has also suspended most patient visits for \"the safety of our patients and staff\" at its facilities in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nAt its height back in January, there were 1,643 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Welsh hospitals, compared to 441 cases earlier this week.\n\nBut the total number of people in Welsh hospitals because of Covid or other reasons is at its highest level since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe health minister said there were \"difficulties getting people out of hospital\" because of a lack of social care staff.\n\nShe said she was having weekly meetings with councils and the health boards to deal with a \"quite critical\" situation.\n\nShe blamed Brexit, \"because we did have a lot of eastern European workers\", and people moving to work in the tourism sector over the summer.\n\nWelsh labour made a manifesto commitment to paying all social care staff the £9.50 an hour real living wage\n\nFewer than half of social care workers earn a \"real living wage\", according to research published by Cardiff University in August 2020.\n\nPaying social care staff the real living wage of £9.50 an hour was a key Welsh Labour manifesto commitment, so Ms Morgan said the government was \"in the process of working with the trade unions to make sure that when we give that living wage that the money actually gets to the people on the frontline\".\n\nIn terms of changing the social care system, she said ministers have \"a long-term ambition\" to introduce free personal care \"but it is going to take us a while to get to that point\".\n\nAn independent report published in 2018 suggested an income tax rise in Wales of between 1% and 3% could be used to fund elderly social care.\n\nAsked if a social care levy was off the table in light of the UK government's National Insurance hike, Ms Morgan said: \"I think it would be very difficult for us to be taxing people twice for the same service.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRussia's Daniil Medvedev won his first Grand Slam title by shattering Novak Djokovic's hopes of completing a calendar sweep of the majors in a one-sided US Open final.\n\nSecond seed Medvedev, 25, lost his two previous Grand Slam finals but was composed throughout a 6-4 6-4 6-4 win.\n\nWorld number one Djokovic had already won the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon titles this year.\n\nThe 34-year-old Serb was also chasing a record 21st Grand Slam men's title.\n\nVictory would have moved him clear of rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the battle to finish with the most men's majors, but it was the potential calendar Grand Slam which Djokovic had said would be the \"greatest achievement\" of his career.\n\nDjokovic was bidding to become just the sixth player to win a calendar Slam and the first man to do it since Rod Laver in 1969.\n\nPerhaps burdened by the weight of history, Djokovic looked subdued throughout as he made a high number of uncharacteristic errors and also became tearful towards the end.\n\nHe also looked way short of his usual physical capabilities.\n\nTo put those factors down as the sole reasons for Medvedev's success would be completely wrong.\n\nThe Russian played smartly and confidently, drawing the errors out of his opponent with strong serving, dominating Djokovic from the baseline and finishing points with precise winners, as he avenged a straight-set defeat by the Serb in February's Australian Open final.\n\nThere was a slight wobble as he tried to serve out for the title - three double faults helped Djokovic nick back a break for 5-3 - before Medvedev composed himself to take his third championship point.\n\nAfter sharing a warm hug with Djokovic at the net, Medvedev broke out in a broad smile before sitting back in his chair to contemplate finally winning the first Grand Slam title which he has long threatened.\n\n\"I want to thank my team, those who are here and watching. My parents, my family, my sisters. Some of my friends are here too,\" said Medvedev, who dropped only one set in the tournament.\n\n\"Thank you guys because it is not an easy journey to win a Slam. I'm really thankful to you for helping me throughout this journey.\"\n\nAddressing Medvedev, Djokovic said: \"If there is anyone who deserves a Grand Slam title right now, it is you. Well done. There will be many more titles to come, I'm sure.\"\n\nTwo years ago, Medvedev cut an emotional figure after the men's singles final in New York.\n\nIt was the Russian's first Grand Slam final and, after an exhilarating fightback from two sets down, he eventually lost an epic five-setter to Nadal.\n\nMesmerised by a video montage on the Ashe television screens showing all of Nadal's achievements - then standing at 19 Grand Slam titles - the Russian later said he wanted to use that as further inspiration in his own quest to land the sport's biggest prizes.\n\nFinally he has achieved that.\n\nIn Melbourne on his second attempt, Medvedev was overwhelmed by the intense pressure from Djokovic and his game broke down.\n\nThis time, it was a complete role reversal.\n\nMedvedev broke in the first game of the match and while Djokovic settled down in his service games in the rest of the set, the problem was he could make no impact on the Russian's serve.\n\nFiring them down with pace and precision meant even the best returner in the men's game had no answers.\n\nMedvedev only allowed Djokovic to win three receiving points in the opening set, winning 100% of his first-serve points as Djokovic made just 27% of his returns.\n\nDjokovic had lost the first set in his previous four matches - including wins over German fourth seed Alexander Zverev and Italian sixth seed Matteo Berrettini - and had five break opportunities at the start of the second set.\n\nBut he was unable to convert any of them as Medvedev rallied to hold both times, leaving Djokovic slapping his thighs in annoyance.\n\nThe Russian broke for 3-2 - enough to take the second set - and then raced 4-0 ahead in the third before clinching victory after his brief wobble.\n\nAfter producing double faults on his first two championship points, Medvedev composed himself to land a first serve on the third.\n\nDjokovic could not return it over the net and world number two Medvedev collapsed to the court in a celebration inspired by football video game Fifa.\n\n'I've never felt like this in New York' - Djokovic overcome by emotion\n\nWhile losing the opportunity to create further history will be hard for Djokovic to stomach, there was some comfort in the rousing reception he received from a New York crowd with whom he has not always had the warmest of relationships.\n\nThe Arthur Ashe Stadium has been somewhat of a hostile venue for Djokovic over the years, particularly in the 2015 final against Federer when fans were cheering misses from the Serb.\n\nFrom the start of the final against Medvedev, right through to the moment he walked off court, there was huge backing for the Serbian 20-time Grand Slam champion.\n\nAfter a comfortable hold for 5-4 in the third set, the crowd roared further support for Djokovic and it led to him becoming emotional in his chair.\n\nInitially he laughed and then thumped his heart as the noise became louder. That led to an overwhelmed Djokovic crying behind his towel on his chair and still tearful as he stood behind the baseline at the start of the next game.\n\nAfterwards, he told the crowd while also welling up: \"Even though I haven't won the match I am the happiest man alive because you guys made me very special on the court.\n\n\"You guys touched my soul. I've never felt like this in New York. Thank you for your support. I love you.\"\n\nNovak Djokovic said earlier in the fortnight that he now had a better idea how Serena Williams felt when she fell two matches short of the Grand Slam in 2015.\n\nThe emotional demands of the challenge, fatigue held over from earlier rounds and earlier months, and the magnificence of Daniil Medvedev ultimately proved too much.\n\nBut in defeat, there was consolation - as the New York crowed belatedly took the Serb to their hearts.\n\nDespite blowing two championships points with double faults, Medvedev has barely been troubled all week.\n\nHe has won more matches and titles on hard courts than any other ATP player in recent years, but this will be the one that means the most.\n• None How America's leadership grappled with the events of 9/11\n• None Loathed or adored but never ignored: The definitive story of Cristiano Ronaldo is streaming now", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nEmma Raducanu ended Britain's 44-year wait for a women's Grand Slam singles champion as she beat Leylah Fernandez to win the US Open in the most thrilling style.\n\nThe 18-year-old ended her scarcely believable run in New York with a 6-4 6-3 win over her 19-year-old Canadian opponent in a high-quality final.\n\nRaducanu threw herself to the floor in disbelief as she fired down an ace to conclude what has been the most remarkable journey.\n\nRaducanu served for the match at 5-3 but cut her leg as she went break point down, leading to a medical time-out and a clearly irritated Fernandez expressing her frustration to the match official.\n\nHowever, Raducanu shrugged off the delay, saving a further break point before closing out her third championship point.\n\nThe two shared a warm hug before Raducanu headed up the stairs at Arthur Ashe Stadium to celebrate with her support box.\n\nRaducanu was cheered on by an emotional Virginia Wade, who was the last British woman to win a major trophy at Wimbledon in 1977.\n\n\"It means so much to have Virginia Wade here and also Tim Henman,\" Raducanu said in her on-court speech.\n\n\"They are British icons and for me to follow in their footsteps gave me the belief I could do it.\"\n\nWith the victory, Raducanu becomes:\n• None The first British female winner at the US Open since Virginia Wade in 1968\n• None The first qualifier in the Open era to win a Slam\n• None The youngest women's Slam champion since Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon in 2004\n• None The first woman to win the US Open without dropping a set since Serena Williams in 2014\n\nShe will take home £1.8m in prize money, rise to 23 in the world rankings and will become the British number one on Monday.\n\nRaducanu will also know that she has starred in one of the biggest moments in British sporting history - and captured the imagination of the fans at home and in New York.\n• None 'I don't want to let go of the trophy'\n\nAstonishing. Ridiculous. Meteoric. Unbelievable. Take your pick - but no word can ever really sum up what Raducanu has achieved.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Raducanu had a flight booked back to the UK, just in case she did not come through qualifying in New York. Seventeen days later, she has lifted the trophy in front of a rapturous crowd.\n\nRaducanu did not just come through qualifying: she dominated the tournament. The most games she lost in one set in her entire run in New York - five - came in the second round of qualifying.\n\nIt is not just that Raducanu has kept on winning, but she has done it with such dominance. She did not drop a set en route to the final, despite meeting Olympic champion Belinda Bencic and in-form Maria Sakkari on the way.\n\nIn the big moments, she has held her nerve, trusting in her power and serve, even when she saw two championship points go by in the final.\n\nThis is someone who, two months ago, was collecting her A-Level results. She only made her WTA main-draw debut in June. All this has happened so quickly, and yet not once has Raducanu not looked like she belongs.\n\nWith all the attention on Raducanu after Wimbledon - as well as questions from some about her mental toughness - she could have easily been overwhelmed.\n\nInstead, she trusted in herself, hired a new coach in Andrew Richardson and went to America to play in the various events.\n\nNo-one could have seen this coming; not the ease with which Raducanu would brush her opponents aside, or the calmness with which she would approach every match.\n\nBut Raducanu always believed. And she will leave New York as the US Open champion.\n\nFormer British number one Laura Robson on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"There are so many sliding doors moments. Before Wimbledon, Emma didn't have a main draw wild card. Would she be in this position if they hadn't upgraded it? Would this happen if she hadn't had to retire from the fourth round with breathing problems?\n\n\"She played an almost perfect performance in her first Grand Slam final. You have to think there will be so many more.\"\n\nFormer Wimbledon champion Pat Cash: \"I cannot believe it. It is unheard of for a qualifier to win the US Open. Goran Ivanisevic won Wimbledon as a wildcard but he had already been to Wimbledon finals, not playing a second Grand Slam.\n\n\"She hits so cleanly. I cannot come up with a reason for this to happen. It does not make sense at all. Her performance is mindboggling.\"\n\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller: \"I have never seen anything like this and I suspect if I work in this business for another 20 years I won't see anything like it.\"\n\nA full Arthur Ashe Stadium - which holds almost 24,000 people - is one of the most intimidating sights in tennis, but neither player looked fazed as they walked out on to the biggest stage of their career.\n\nFernandez had more of the crowd support, given that she has ousted the second, third and fifth seed in New York, but there was still good support for Raducanu.\n\nThe first three games lasted for 23 minutes, both players showing a devastating array of cross-court punches and fiery returns of serve, and they traded breaks as they found their footing.\n\nAs she has done throughout the tournament, Raducanu dug herself out from 0-30 down several times, stepping forward, playing more aggressively and finding her first serves.\n\nThat gave her the confidence to attack Fernandez's second serve and put herself on top. She closed out the first set with a forehand down the line, turning and pumping her fist towards her box before letting out a yell of \"come on!\" to the crowd as they rose to applaud.\n\nFernandez has shown tenacity throughout the tournament and she did so here, saving three break points in her first service game to stop Raducanu taking a 2-0 lead in the second.\n\nShe then found the break, adjusting to hit Raducanu's serves better, and it looked as though the momentum had swung the way of the young Canadian.\n\nHowever, there is a reason Raducanu has not dropped a set in New York. At the changeover she sat quietly, eyes closed, before again increasing her tempo and creating the break opportunity.\n\nShe broke with the shot of the match - a stunning forehand pass, made from almost off the court, that left Fernandez stranded at the net.\n\nTwo championship points came and went on the Fernandez serve, saved once again by brave hitting, but Raducanu did not falter despite taking a nasty cut to the leg as she slid behind the baseline.\n\nIt was an odd interlude in what was an entertaining final that proved that the future of women's tennis is bright.\n• None How has the Premier League succeeded?: Fever Pitch tells the origin story via the stars that made it\n• None Listen to the best tracks from nominees and winners of the prestigious prize", "The government is planning to overhaul the travel traffic light system, with changes set to be announced in weeks.\n\nGreen and amber categories could be removed and replaced with a new system, the BBC has been told.\n\nA new system would allow vaccinated travellers to go to countries with similarly high levels of vaccination as the UK without the need for quarantine.\n\nSources say the red category, which is for countries which the government says should not be visited, will remain.\n\nUnder current restrictions, red countries should not be visited \"except in the most extreme of circumstances\" and travellers returning from them must self-isolate for 10 days in a government-approved hotel.\n\nThe government declined to comment on the plans but said: \"Our international travel policy is guided by one overwhelming priority - protecting public health.\n\n\"The next formal checkpoint review will take place by 1 October 2021.\"\n\nIt is understood that the government has asked senior travel industry leaders to make proposals for international travel to replace the current traffic light system.\n\nThe government devised the travel traffic light system to limit the transmission of Covid-19 from overseas and protect against new variants coming into the country.\n\nOne of the key demands from industry bosses is the removal of Covid testing as a necessity of travel back to the UK, which they say puts customers off booking due to cost.\n\nThis would bring the UK in line with much of European Union, which does not mandate Covid tests for vaccinated travellers within the bloc. It is unclear whether this will happen in the UK.\n\nTravel industry bosses believe it is crucial that the sector receives a boost of confidence to encourage travellers and holidaymakers to book and travel again.\n\nThey say the fear caused by category changes is a huge barrier to customers booking and the sector ultimately moving into recovery.\n\nSudden changes to the traffic light categories for Portugal and Mexico at the start of the summer saw holidaymakers having to rush home at short notice.\n\nBosses also point to the \"damaging\" impact on business when commentators speculate on potential changes to countries moving on and off green, amber and red lists, which then prove to be incorrect when government decisions are officially released.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph first reported that the government was planning to scrap the traffic light system.\n\nThe third government review of international travel is due by 1 October, but sources say changes could come as soon as next week.\n\nTravel industry leaders want changes to happen as soon as possible, as the furlough scheme is due to end on 30 September and thousands of travel sector workers are still on the wage support scheme.\n\nA relaxation in travel rules, they believe, would lead to a bookings surge, which may protect the jobs of those currently on furlough.\n\nOne industry source said: \"Removing PCR testing for vaccinated passengers is essential. We have to align ourselves with what the rest of Europe are doing and stop being such an outlier.\n\nThey added that the sector now faces a \"perfect storm\": \"This summer should have been the big reopening of travel - like has happened domestically - but it wasn't because of the insistence on hugely complex and expensive tests.\"\n\nYesterday, the chief executive of British Airways, Sean Doyle, demanded that the Covid testing and quarantine system is changed, saying it is \"not fit for purpose and must be simplified\".\n\nHe added: \"We had the traffic light system over the summer. There was some progress made, but I think it's not fit for purpose. It needs to be simplified and adapted in the same way that we see in Europe and in the US.\n\nIndustry leaders say they are aware any policy changes will not happen until proposals are signed off by the Chief Scientific Officer and the Health Secretary.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Decisions on our traffic light system are kept under regular review and are informed by the latest risk assessment from the Joint Biosecurity Centre and wider public health factors.\"", "Commemorations have taken place on the 20th anniversary of the 11 September attacks.\n\nA minute's silence was held at the exact time each hijacked plane crashed.\n\nGeorge W Bush, who was the US president at the time, gave a speech in Pennsylvania, where one of the planes crashed into a field after passengers overpowered the hijackers.", "The Rafale fighter (right) and the Airbus were in fact involved in a refuelling exercise\n\nWhen an Airbus A330 shadowed by a French fighter jet roared at low altitude across the skies near Paris on Saturday, eyewitnesses expressed alarm.\n\n\"It sounded like a blast - we didn't know whether it had crashed,\" a resident told BFMTV, noting that on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the US \"of course we think about that!\"\n\nIn fact, the Airbus was involved in a drill, with PM Jean Castex on board.\n\nHis office said the Rafale fighter jet had carried out a refuelling exercise.\n\nFootage of the incident was posted online by residents, including this one who expressed concern about \"this fighter-jet nonsense\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maahdi hn 🇱🇧 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Castex's office said he was on the Airbus because of \"his responsibilities in matters of national defence\".\n\nArmed Forces Minister Florence Parly was also on board.\n\nThe military plane had recently been used in the evacuation of civilians from Kabul airport in Afghanistan.\n\nThe two aircraft landed at Vélizy-Villacoublay air base, south-west of Paris, on Saturday afternoon - just as the 9/11 commemorations were being held across the Atlantic.\n\nBFMTV commented: \"In the end, it was just an exercise. People will take their own view about the timing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sonic boom was heard all over Paris and surrounding areas (September 2020 report)", "Boris Johnson will announce his Covid winter plan for England on Tuesday, including contingency measures that would be implemented if the NHS was at risk of becoming overwhelmed.\n\nThe PM will outline plans for booster jabs after the UK's vaccine advisory body unveils its guidance on Monday.\n\nOfficials are looking at measures that could be needed if cases rose steeply.\n\nBut government sources have said further lockdowns are not being considered.\n\nMr Johnson's Covid plan is set to follow an announcement by the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisation (JCVI) on who should receive booster jabs.\n\nThe JCVI said last week that a third vaccine dose should be offered to people over the age of 12 with severely weakened immune systems - which accounts for up to half a million people in the UK.\n\nIt came after research showing about 40% of people with weakened immune systems had a low antibody response, and potentially less protection, after two vaccine doses.\n\nThe advice means the most vulnerable - less than 1% of the population - will be offered a third dose, rather than all those on the original list of clinically extremely vulnerable people.\n\nThe JCVI has yet to announce if a separate booster programme is needed and who would be eligible.\n\nA government source stressed the Covid winter plan would emphasise how society planned to continue \"living with\" the virus throughout the winter and promote Covid and flu jabs.\n\nThe Times reports that mandatory face coverings and working from home will be brought back in if there is a winter surge in infections.\n\nThere is growing concern among ministers that the NHS could come under severe strain if Covid infections surged alongside a bad flu season, the paper says.\n\nSources have told the Times the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has devised a series of options to limit the spread of Covid-19 without the use of lockdowns.\n\nThe legal requirement to wear a face covering ended on 19 July, but people have been advised to continue to wear them in crowded indoor spaces.\n\nThe UK reported a further 29,547 new infections on Saturday, alongside another 156 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nMeanwhile, 89% of the population over the age of 16 have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while almost 81% have had both doses.\n\nThe Coronavirus Act - emergency legislation introduced to give the government new powers to tackle coronavirus - is also coming up to its six-month review by MPs.\n\nMr Johnson is set to repeal regulations in England that are no longer necessary, including the powers to close down parts of the economy, such as businesses, or the placing of restrictions on events and gatherings.\n\nAlso set to be repealed are regulations that enable the temporary closure or limiting of access to schools, colleges and childcare; those that extend time limits for urgent warrants; and powers to detain infectious people.\n\nHowever, certain measures from the Act will be kept - including the requirement to self-isolate on receiving a positive PCR test; giving sick pay to those isolating from day one rather than day seven; and the power to keep schools open if they close against government guidance.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Thanks to the efforts of the public, the NHS and our phenomenal vaccination programme, we reached step four in our roadmap and life has returned to a sense of normality.\n\n\"These extraordinary times required necessary but intrusive measures. But I'm determined to get of rid of any powers we no longer need because of our vaccine defences.\"\n\nThe PM is expected to hold a Downing Street press conference next week to set out the next steps in the government's pandemic response.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aftermath of the Kerala plane crash shows the plane broken in two\n\nPilot error and failure to follow safety guidelines probably led to the crash of an Air India Express plane in August last year, investigators say.\n\nThe passenger plane with 190 people on board crashed at the Calicut airport in the southern state of Kerala, killing 21 people.\n\nThe Boeing 737, which had flown from Dubai, skidded off the runway in rain and broke in two after landing.\n\nThe flight was repatriating Indians stranded by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe dead included both pilots. Seventy-five passengers were seriously injured.\n\nThe aircraft crashed as it attempted to land for a second time. The first attempt was aborted by the pilots because of the heavy monsoon-season rainfall lashing Kerala.\n\nThe report by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said there were several \"violations\" of operation procedures before landing by the pilot.\n\nThey include that not carrying out \"adequate briefing\" for landing with tailwinds in rain and poor visibility, as well as failure to \"quickly calculate accurate landing data in adverse weather conditions\", contributed to the crash.\n\nA malfunctioning windshield wiper had also impaired visibility, the 257-page report said.\n\nThe plane reportedly overshot the runway upon landing amid heavy rain\n\nThe pilot also \"did not make the mandatory announcement for the cabin crew to be seated on the first approach for landing... This is a very serious omission and compromises cabin crew\", the report said.\n\nThe report added that \"systemic failures\" could have also contributed to the crash.\n\n\"These usually occur due to prevailing safety culture that give rise to errors, mistakes and violation of routine tasks performed by people operating within the system,\" it said.\n\nPlane crashes have happened before during the monsoon season, in India which lasts from June to September and wreaks havoc across south Asia every year.\n\nIn May 2010, 158 people died when an Air India Express flight overshot Mangalore airport runway and crashed.", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nPrince Andrew's team do not believe that legal papers from lawyers for the woman who has accused him of sexual abuse have been successfully served, the BBC understands.\n\nVirginia Giuffre has launched a civil case against the prince in New York - and legal papers have to be \"served\" before the case can proceed.\n\nHer lawyers said they were left with a police officer at his home in Windsor.\n\nPrince Andrew denies all the claims made by Ms Giuffre.\n\nOn Monday, a US judge must determine whether the papers have in fact been \"served\" before any case can get under way.\n\nThe video conference, scheduled for a New York court, will consider the next stages of the case.\n\nPrince Andrew, the Queen's son, is currently at Balmoral, the royal family's Scottish estate.\n\nAccording to court documents from Ms Guiffre's lawyers, an answer is due from him to the affidavit by 17 September and \"if you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint\".\n\nLegal papers say a process server working for Ms Giuffre's team arrived at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, Berkshire, on Thursday 26 August at 09:30 BST.\n\nThe man met security staff, left a business card, and was asked to wait.\n\nThe papers say he then spoke to police, including the head of security, who could not locate Prince Andrew's private secretary \"or anyone senior\".\n\nThe agent was told the security team \"had been told not to accept service of any court process\".\n\nHe was then given a solicitor's name and number and phoned him at 10:40, but did not get a response, the papers say.\n\nOn Friday 27 August, the same process server returned to the Royal Lodge in Windsor and spoke to the \"head of security\".\n\nHe was advised the papers could be left with police at the main gates, and they would be forwarded to the legal team.\n\nThe papers state: \"The deponent did enquire whether it was possible to meet personally with the defendant, but the deponent was told that this was not possible.\"\n\nMs Giuffre's legal team claim that by leaving the papers with the officer, the service was successfully completed.\n\nAsked whether the prince had received the papers and if he accepted they had been served, a spokeswoman representing the prince said: \"No comment.\"\n\nOne reason it is believed the duke's team does not consider papers have been served is because they maintain British legal procedures require that a valid request for assistance from UK court officials must come from a judicial or diplomatic officer in the US - and not from Ms Giuffre's lawyers.\n\nIt is understood there are also questions over the steps taken to deliver the papers, in particular, attempts to serve them personally to the prince at his home and to email them to barristers who may not be authorised to conduct litigation.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said: \"Clearly the papers have not been served personally on Prince Andrew.\n\n\"Equally clearly, Prince Andrew has not been making himself available to receive these papers so it will all now have to be decided by a judge in New York on Monday - whether they've been served, whether the court case can continue.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew said in 2019 that he could not recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nMs Giuffre - an accuser of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who died in jail in 2019 - claims she was brought to the UK at the age of 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nShe filed a case against him last month in New York. It is a civil rather than criminal case - meaning Ms Giuffre wants the court to decide whether her allegations are true, and whether the duke should pay her damages.\n\nThe case alleges the prince sexually abused Ms Giuffre at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and the US Virgin Islands.\n\nIt claims the prince engaged in sexual acts without her consent, knowing how old she was and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC about Ms Giuffre's allegations in 2019, Prince Andrew said they \"never happened\".\n\n\"It didn't happen. I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever,\" he told BBC Newsnight.", "Emma Raducanu, the teenage tennis sensation from Bromley, London, has won the US Open.\n\nThe 18-year-old, who is the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam, defeated Leylah Fernandez in straight sets.\n\nThis is how people in her hometown, including her former tennis coach, reacted to the result.", "A BBC Panorama investigation has found evidence that suggests one of Britain's biggest companies paid a bribe to the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.\n\nDocuments show British American Tobacco (BAT) was involved in negotiations to pay between $300,000 and $500,000 to Mugabe's Zanu-PF party in 2013.\n\nThe documents also reveal BAT was paying bribes in South Africa and using illegal surveillance to damage rivals.\n\nBAT says it is committed to the highest standards of corporate conduct.\n\nPresident Mugabe's 37-year rule was secured through elections marred by allegations of fraud and violence.\n\nHe was ousted in 2017 and died in 2019. The ruling party Zanu PF is now under new leadership.\n\nIn a joint investigation with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the University of Bath, Panorama obtained thousands of leaked documents.\n\nThey show how BAT funded a network of almost 200 secret informants in southern Africa.\n\nWatch BBC Panorama: Dirty Secrets of the Cigarette Business on BBC One on Monday at 19:30 BST\n\nMost of this work was outsourced to a South African private security company called Forensic Security Services (FSS).\n\nFSS was officially tasked with fighting the black-market cigarette trade, however former employees have told the BBC that they broke the law to sabotage BAT's rivals.\n\nInternal documents show in one operation, FSS staff were instructed to close down three cigarette factories run by BAT's competitors in Zimbabwe.\n\nFSS paid a local firm to conduct surveillance on a Savanna Tobacco factory in 2012, but the company got caught.\n\nThree of its directors were charged in connection with illegal surveillance. The arrests prompted the then president, Robert Mugabe, to make a speech condemning the men's actions and BAT's suspected involvement.\n\nHowever, Panorama has found that behind the scenes, contractors working on behalf of BAT were talking to Zimbabwean officials.\n\nThe man who was sent in to negotiate a deal, who wishes to remain anonymous, told Panorama he bribed a number of government officials to secure a meeting to discuss the men's case.\n\nHe said: \"I had to make it clear that they're going to expect a nice thick envelope of notes.\"\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC confirm that the man was provided with the equivalent of US$12,000 in South African rand. They also suggest the money for the bribes was provided by BAT.\n\nAn internal memo outlines the deal that was proposed. The Zimbabwean official said that with the upcoming presidential elections, a donation to Mugabe's party - Zanu PF - would help.\n\nThe memo said: \"With this donation, they could then go back to the President\" to try to get the problem sorted out.\n\n\"The amount of the donation would have to be in the region of between USD300,000 to USD500,000 to Zanu PF,\" it said.\n\nThe documents do not show whether the bribe was in the end paid, but Panorama has spoken to three sources who have confirmed that BAT was aware of the terms of the deal on offer.\n\nWithin days of the deal being offered, all three directors were free.\n\nBAT declined to answer Panorama's questions about the Zimbabwe payments, but it did not deny paying a bribe to Robert Mugabe.\n\nIt is against UK law for a British company to pay bribes, no matter where the payment takes place.\n\nFSS worked for BAT in southern Africa between 2000 and 2016.\n\nEvidence strongly suggests they bribed customs officials and police officers, and that BAT secured access to information from the police camera network, which was used to spy on its rivals.\n\nFSS tapped the phones of BAT's competitors, placed tracking devices on their delivery vehicles and bribed staff to hand over information.\n\nDocuments show senior staff from BAT's London HQ personally recruited and paid some of the informants working at competitors' factories.\n\nBAT staff would also load cash onto currency cards in London and the informants could then withdraw the money anonymously in South Africa.\n\nIt is a payment system sometimes used by organised crime groups to evade detection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. British American Tobacco: I was a spy for cigarette giant, says whistleblower\n\nBAT's lawyers said the allegations are not new and that it was not unlawful to pay sources to gather information about criminal behaviour.\n\nThey said the company rejects the allegation that any steps were taken with the aim of impacting the lawful activities of legitimate competitors or for commercial advantage.\n\nBAT said: \"We emphatically reject the mischaracterisation of our conduct... Our efforts in combating illicit trade have been aimed at helping law enforcement agencies in the fight against the criminal trade in tobacco products.\n\n\"Acting responsibly and with integrity underpins the foundations of our culture.\"\n\nNinety per cent of South African-grown tobacco is bought by BAT\n\nThis is not the first time BAT has been accused of bribery. In 2015, Panorama found the company had secretly paid politicians and civil servants in countries in east Africa to undermine anti-smoking measures.\n\nThe revelations prompted a five-year investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Earlier this year, it concluded there was not enough evidence for prosecution.\n\nBAT says it fully cooperated with the SFO's investigation, which included allegations relating to South Africa and which resulted in no action being taken.\n\nWatch BBC Panorama: Dirty Secrets of the Cigarette Business on BBC One on Monday at 19:30 BST, or on BBC World on Saturday 18 September 02:30 GMT and 15:30 GMT, and Sunday 19 at 09:30 GMT and 21:30 GMT.", "Baccara at the height of their success in 1977. María Mendiola (right) with Mayte Mateos\n\nMaría Mendiola, who sang the disco anthem Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, has died at the age of 69.\n\nThe singer, who was one half of the Spanish duo Baccara, died in Madrid surrounded by her family on Saturday morning.\n\n\"My dear Maria, a wonderful artist but above all my friend left us today,\" her bandmate Cristina Sevilla wrote on Instagram, announcing the news.\n\n\"I can only thank so much love for how I have received from you.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by baccaraoficial This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMendiola formed Baccara with another singer, Mayte Mateos, in 1977 when they were both flamenco dancers entertaining tourists on the island of Fuerteventura.\n\nThe duo were talent-spotted by a record label executive, who signed them to RCA Records in the UK, and gave them Yes Sir, I Can Boogie as their first single.\n\nA breathy disco classic (which bore a noticeable similarity to Thelma Houston's Don't Leave Me This Way) it topped the charts in 10 European countries, including the UK.\n\nIt went on to sell more than 16 million copies - more than any girl group had ever achieved at the time.\n\nSubsequently covered by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Fratellis and Goldfrapp, the song gained a new lease of life earlier this summer, after being adopted as Scotland's unofficial anthem at the Euro 2020 football tournament.\n\nMendiola said she was touched that the song was still a part of people's lives \"after so many years\".\n\n\"I never thought I'd be in the charts again. I am not young any more but I guess it shows I can still boogie,\" she said.\n\n\"The Scotland team has reminded people we exist, which is very nice.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BaccaraVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAfter Yes Sir, I Can Boogie topped the charts in 1977, Baccara's self-titled debut album became an instant success, and the follow-up single, Sorry I'm a Lady, gave the duo another top 10 hit in early 1978.\n\nThat same year they entered the Eurovision Song Contest with the novelty song Parlez-Vous Français? - which stressed the importance of a working knowledge of French for anyone hoping to score a holiday romance.\n\nRepresenting Luxembourg, the duo took seventh place, losing to Israel's Izar Cohen and the song A-Ba-Ni-Bi.\n\nThe band released two more albums, but by the mid-80s Mendiola and Mateos had parted ways, launching two competing versions of Baccara (called Baccara and New Baccara) who each recorded and toured separately.\n\nMendiola's incarnation of the band - featuring co-vocalist Marisa Pérez - achieved the most success, scoring a trio of Hi-NRG club hits in the 1980s with the songs Touch Me, Fantasy Boy and Call Me Up.\n\nThey also appeared on the 2004 ITV reality show Hit Me Baby One More Time, in which former pop stars performed their biggest hit along with a cover version.\n\nPérez stepped away from the band after being diagnosed with arthritis in 2008, and was replaced by Cristina Sevilla, who broke the news of Mendiola's death on Saturday.\n\n\"My dear Maria, I do not have the words,\" she wrote on Baccara's Instagram page. \"I can only tell you what I had the opportunity to say so many times in life... I love you.\"\n\nMendiola's family also released a statement which read: \"She will always be remembered for her love, dedication and respect for the world of music and interpretation. We will always remember her smile.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Why do Scotland fans sing Yes Sir, I Can Boogie?", "Better pay and conditions for delivery drivers will help fix the supply chain crisis, TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady has said.\n\nShe also called for a rise in capital gains tax to fund an increase in pay for care workers.\n\n\"After decades of real wage cuts... no-one can seriously say working people don't deserve a pay rise.\"\n\nShe said pay rises were crucial for the government's \"levelling up\" agenda to boost poorer regions of the UK.\n\nSpeaking at the TUC Congress in London to an audience almost all attending online, Ms O'Grady called on the UK's unions to continue their fight for better pay and conditions across the economy.\n\nTo ministers wondering how to fix the widespread problems with the supply of goods, she said: \"Well, here's a novel idea - let's make that industry deliver decent conditions, direct employment and a proper pay rise.\"\n\nMs O'Grady listed Nando's chicken, Ikea mattresses and Wetherspoon's beer as items that had recently run out due to problems such as a lack of delivery drivers.\n\nShe told the story of a care worker called Carol, working a 24-hour shift for less than the minimum wage, and called for an increase in tax on wealth - through capital gains tax - to fund a pay rise for the sector.\n\n\"It can't be right that a dedicated care worker pays a bigger share of her hard-earned income to fund the social care system than the private equity magnate who profits from buying up and selling care homes,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme ahead of her speech, Ms O'Grady urged the government to reconsider recent rises to National Insurance contributions, describing the move as \"another hit\" to young people and low-paid workers.\n\n\"We saw far too much inequality before the crisis, it's got a lot worse. We know that working people have been subject to pay freezes and pay pauses for years.\"\n\nShe argued that shifting tax to wealth instead may offer a boost in demand for the economy.\n\n\"One thing you can guarantee about working people is that they spend their money locally and that's what will get the economy moving again.\"\n\nShe called for a furlough-style short working scheme to be permanently in place, \"to keep people in good jobs - and to make sure we bounce back fast.\"\n\n\"If levelling up means anything, it must mean levelling up at work and levelling up living standards.\"\n\nThe director-general of the employer's organisation is also giving a keynote speech later today. He is set to warn that a return to \"business as usual\" in economic policy would be a mistake, with the UK lagging behind some of its international competitors in driving investment in the industries of the future.\n\nHe will say: \"The lack of detail and pace from the government on some of the big economic choices we must make as a country are the biggest concerns for business.\"\n\nHe will call for a series of measures including:\n\n\"Investing by the UK: that must be our mantra now, so that the decade ahead does not repeat the low growth, zero productivity of the decade past, and government holds the key to unlocking it all,\" Mr Danker will say.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the government had shown it was committed to supporting business investment, extending the Annual Investment Allowance increase for another year and introducing the super-deduction, which it called \"the biggest two-year business tax cut in modern British history\".\n\n\"The impact of the pandemic means we have had to make the tough but responsible decision to raise taxes. We've asked both individuals and businesses to pay a bit more as we get our public finances back on a sustainable path,\" the spokesperson added.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nEmma Raducanu says she does not want to let go of the US Open trophy after her fairy tale in New York culminated in the ultimate happy ending.\n\nThe 18-year-old is the first British woman in 44 years to win a Grand Slam singles title and did not drop a set.\n\nShe is also the first qualifier to win a major title.\n\n\"It means everything to hold this trophy and I don't want to let go right now,\" she told former British number one Tim Henman on Amazon Prime.\n\n\"Yesterday there were weird feelings I couldn't put my finger on - I think that's just normal. When I came out it was business as usual, one point at a time.\n\n\"I had to fight hard for that first set and keep myself ahead in the second. In the key moments, I came out with some clutch serves.\"\n\nHer sensational run at Flushing Meadows has captured the imagination of the public and she hopes her victory allows others to dream big.\n\n\"I've always dreamed of winning a Grand Slam. You just say these things. But to have the belief I did, and actually winning, I can't believe it,\" she said.\n\n\"I first started when I was a little girl, but I think the biggest thing that you have visions of is the winning moment, and going to celebrate with your team, trying to find your way up to the box.\n\n\"That's been playing in my head, like, a couple of nights. I've fallen asleep to that.\"\n\nThe victory over Canada's Leylah Fernandez caps a remarkable rise for Raducanu, who only made her WTA main draw debut in June.\n\nShe was playing in just her second Grand Slam, having reached the fourth round of Wimbledon as a wildcard earlier this year.\n\nRaducanu is the youngest female major champion since Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon in 2004 and the youngest Briton ever to win a Slam title.\n\n\"It shows the future of women's tennis and depth of the game is so great - every player in the draw has a shot at winning any tournament,\" she said in her on-court interview.\n\n\"I hope the next generation can follow in the steps of some of the legends, for example Billie Jean [King] right here.\"\n\nShe recovered from a nasty fall at 5-3 while she served for the match, saving two break points from the relentless Fernandez before converting her third championship point.\n\n\"I fell somehow and thought that would throw me off balance - I was praying not for a double fault!\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"The level was extremely high and I hope we play each other in many more tournaments and hopefully finals.\"\n\nRaducanu came through 10 matches to win the title, including three qualifying rounds, and beat Olympic champion Belinda Bencic and in-form Maria Sakkari in the quarter and semi-finals respectively.\n\n\"For me, I don't feel absolutely any pressure. I'm still only 18 and I'm just having a free swing at anything that comes my way,\" she said.\n\n\"That's how I faced every match here in the States. Yeah, it got me this trophy, so I don't think I should change anything.\"\n\nFernandez, who turned 19 on Monday, has had a stunning run in New York, beating defending champion Naomi Osaka, 2016 winner Angelique Kerber and second seed Aryna Sabalenka in the past few days.\n\nShe has shown tenacity throughout, winning crucial tie-breaks in four of her past five matches at Flushing Meadows.\n\nThe teenager also became a fan favourite with the crowds because of her engaging nature and brave strokeplay.\n\n\"Today is going to be hard but Emma played amazing. Congratulations,\" she said.\n\n\"I am very proud of myself and having the crowd has been amazing. Thank you so much New York. Thank you everyone.\"\n\nAfter answering questions, Fernandez asked for the microphone to deliver a message to the New York crowd on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.\n\nShe praised the city's toughness, saying: \"I hope I can be as strong and resilient as New York has been the last 20 years. I love you, New York and hope to see you next year.\"\n\nNeither Fernandez nor Raducanu were born when the attacks occurred, and Fernandez asked her parents on the morning of the match about their memories of the day.\n\n\"Obviously I don't know much about what really happened, but with the few information that I do have, I know that New York has suffered a lot the past years,\" she said.\n\n\"Just having them [New Yorkers] here happy, lively, just going back to the way they were, having my back during these tough moments, has made me stronger and believe in myself.\"\n• None How has the Premier League succeeded?: Fever Pitch tells the origin story via the stars that made it\n• None Listen to the best tracks from nominees and winners of the prestigious prize", "The Metropolitan Police commissioner has accused tech giants of making it harder to identify and stop terrorists.\n\nThe tech giants' focus on end-to-end encryption was making it \"impossible in some cases\" for the police to do their jobs, Dame Cressida Dick wrote in the Telegraph on Saturday.\n\nOn Wednesday, Home Secretary Priti Patel launched a new fund for technologies to keep children safe.\n\nShe also called on tech firms to put user safety before profits.\n\nBut cyber-security experts have told the BBC that they are not sure the solutions the government wants are possible to build.\n\nIn her piece marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Dame Cressida stressed that advances in communication technologies meant terrorists were now able to \"recruit anyone, anywhere and at any time\" through social media and the internet.\n\nIn response, the UK was needing to constantly develop its own digital capabilities to keep up with terrorists exploiting technology to their advantage.\n\nHer message echoes that of Ms Patel, who launched the Safety Tech Challenge Fund at a meeting of the G7 interior ministers earlier this week.\n\nThe fund, open to experts from across the world, is aimed at tackling child sexual abuse online.\n\nFive applicants will be awarded up to £85,000 each to develop new technologies that enable the detection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online, without breaking end-to-end encryption.\n\nEnd-to-end encryption is a privacy feature that makes it impossible for anyone except the sender and recipient to read messages sent online.\n\nWhile tech giants such as Facebook say using such technology will protect users' privacy, several governments including the US, UK and Australia have repeatedly objected to the idea since 2019.\n\nCyber-security and privacy experts believe that Ms Patel and Dame Cressida's views could be in response to Apple's decision to delay a plan to scan iPhones for CSAM earlier this month.\n\nMore than a billion people in the world now have an iPhone\n\nThe detection technology, first announced in August, compares images before they are uploaded to iCloud against unique \"digital fingerprints\", or hashes, of known CSAM material on a database maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.\n\nApple's technology was widely criticised by privacy groups and the cyber-security industry as setting a dangerous precedent, because it involved using an individual's own device to check if they could be a potential criminal.\n\n\"We already have end-to-end encryption in Apple's iMessage texting technology - it's strange that law enforcement and the government haven't hit out at Apple about that, but it's all about attacking Facebook and WhatsApp,\" Alec Muffett, who led the team that built end-to-end encryption technology for Facebook Messenger, told the BBC.\n\nMuch has been written about the wealth of data tech giants possess about the users of their services, particularly the fact they are constantly tracking user behaviour and interests in order to provide personalised ads.\n\nHe argues that tech firms already possess the technology they need to detect paedophiles and terrorists, simply by tracking their behaviour - they don't need to compromise a user's privacy by looking at all their personal files on their phone.\n\n\"If you've got an Facebook account of a middle-aged male who is randomly messaging a dozen teenagers out of the blue, then you have a potentially suspicious activity. It might be innocent, but it is certainly an issue worth delving into,\" said Mr Muffett, who has more than 30 years' experience in cyber-security and cryptography.\n\n\"The UK government is trying to detect CSAM by looking at the content, as in trying to snoop, rather than trying to observe behaviours.\"\n\nOn top of this, he says, multiple cyber-security researchers have tested Apple's NeuralHash algorithm and found that it is mistaking two completely different images, as being the same photo, so they fear Apple will falsely accuse users of having criminal content.\n\nOne leading cyber-security expert who did not wish to be named told the BBC that what the government wants is not technically feasible.\n\nCyber-security experts fear the government is asking for something that is technically impossible to achieve\n\n\"You can change the law of the land, but you can't change the law of science - there's no way of allowing the mass scanning of devices without undermining the protections of end-to-end encryption,\" the expert said.\n\n\"If somebody manages to viably protect end-to-end encryption while detecting child sexual abuse imagery, they're going to make a lot more than £85,000, so I just don't see what the economics are.\"\n\nAnother cyber-security boss agrees: \"It's almost like the government is making a statement to make Facebook and other social media organisations do more and give them more access.\n\n\"If you read between the lines, Ms Patel is essentially saying they want to recruit hackers.\"\n\nThen there's the privacy concerns. \"Can we trust those in power not to abuse these powers?\" questions online child safety expert Dr Rachel O'Connell, founder of a secure child age authentication tool TrustElevate.\n\nAs far as data protection expert Pat Walshe is concerned, Apple's solution is not legal. He says he has asked the tech giant to explain how it can be deployed in Europe, and has yet to receive an answer.\n\n\"The European Court of Justice (ECJ) says the mobile phone is an extension of our private sphere, and the courts have said that the device and any information on it is part of the private sphere of our lives, meaning it requires protection under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR),\" he said.\n\nMr Walshe, who led a team at the mobile operator Three that was responsible for dealing with the government and law enforcement, also has grave concerns about the tech fund proposal, saying it prompts too many questions about privacy.\n\nInstead, he says, there need to be better, more direct reporting channels to enable both citizens and communication providers to report CSAM to either the tech firms or law enforcement.\n\n\"And law enforcement needs to receive a huge boost in training, manpower and funding to deal with the reports,\" he stressed.\n\n\"I'd like to see a greater emphasis on that, than on breaking technology that keeps us safe every day.\"", "The boss of budget airline Ryanair has warned holiday prices are likely to rise sharply next year as consumer demand for travel rebounds.\n\nMichael O'Leary told The Sunday Times fewer flights, inflation and more taxes would drive airfares up.\n\n\"I think there will be a dramatic recovery in holiday tourism within Europe next year,\" he said.\n\n\"And the reason why I think prices will be dramatically higher is that there's less capacity.\"\n\nRyanair's short-haul rivals had all had to reduce their fleets because of the pandemic, he added.\n\n\"Take out Thomas Cook (six million seats), Flybe (eight million seats), Norwegian (nearly 24 million seats)... Alitalia's reducing its fleet by 40%,\" said Mr O'Leary.\n\n\"There is going to be about 20% less short-haul capacity in Europe in 2022, with a dramatic recovery in demand.\"\n\nRyanair is planning to open a new base at Newcastle International Airport next year, creating at least 60 aviation jobs.\n\nIts rival EasyJet meanwhile has closed its bases at Stansted, London Southend and Newcastle airports, and from 1 November, Ryanair will cease all operations at Southend, meaning no passenger planes will use the airport.\n\nThis comes as economists predict inflation will continue to rise over the rest of the year, which Mr O'Leary said was a factor in increasing airfares, as well as the threat of increasing environmental taxes.\n\nAirlines say bookings have not recovered sufficiently, despite easing Covid restrictions\n\nHowever, to combat this he intended to cut prices for winter 2020 in order to \"grab market share from everywhere\".\n\nAirlines have been hit hard by lockdowns and travel restrictions around the world, with many announcing job cuts.\n\nEasyJet said in May that it planned up to 4,500 job cuts as it struggled with the collapse in air travel caused by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt has started to fly passengers again but does not expect 2019 levels of demand to be reached again until 2023.\n\nMultiple airlines have warned that thousands more jobs could be at risk if the government's furlough scheme was not extended after 30 September, as bookings have not recovered.\n\nThey have also criticised the government for its \"confusing\" traffic-light travel list system.\n\nCanada, Switzerland and Denmark were among the latest countries to join the UK's green travel list.\n\nMeanwhile, the government is planning to overhaul the traffic light system in the coming weeks, the BBC has been told.\n\nTim Alderslade from industry body Airlines UK said: \"There are over half a million direct jobs that rely on aviation and we're now entering the lean winter period. Something may have to give, without the furlough support that is coming to an end this month.\n\n\"This summer was such a missed opportunity - alone across Europe we insisted on expensive and complex PCR tests and it's no wonder demand remained weak. Until we stop being such an outlier it will be impossible to get back to anything like 2019 levels of trade.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nEmma Raducanu won the US Open without dropping a set This sporting year seemed destined to be special - and Emma Raducanu's fairy tale in New York writes an unforgettable new chapter in the story of 2021. The British 18-year-old, who came through qualifying for the right to take part in the tournament, did not drop a set in winning the US Open women's singles title. Bookmakers responded by making Raducanu favourite to become the first woman since equestrianism's Zara Phillips 15 years ago to be the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. It was talked about so much that \"BBC Sports Personality\" became a trending term on social media. The award is decided by a public vote in December after an expert panel has announced a shortlist, but here are some of the leading names in the frame. Emma Raducanu - Ranked 361 in the world in June, she passed her A-levels in August and became a major tennis champion the following month. Tom Daley - Ended his long wait for an Olympic diving gold medal with an emotional victory alongside Matty Lee in the synchronised 10m platform event in Tokyo. Jason Kenny - Equalled Sir Bradley Wiggins' tally of eight medals when he won silver in the Olympic team sprint. Kenny, 33, has one more gold and silver than his fellow cyclist. Adam Peaty - Swimmer retained his Olympic men's 100m breaststroke title as he picked up two golds and a silver at Tokyo 2020. Lewis Hamilton - Closing in on a 100th Formula 1 grand prix victory and this season is looking for an all-time record eighth world title. Sarah Storey - Defended her women's C4-5 cycling road race title at the Tokyo Paralympics to become Great Britain's most successful Paralympian of all time. Mark Cavendish - Made history in the Tour de France as he equalled Belgian great Eddy Merckx's record of 34 stage wins. Laura Kenny - Claimed the madison title with cycling partner Katie Archibald to become the first British woman to win gold at three Olympics. Joe Root - England cricket captain returned to the top of the ICC's Test batting rankings after scoring consecutive Test centuries in three matches against India at an average of 126.75. Raheem Sterling - Scored three times as England reached the Euro 2020 final and was named in Uefa's team of the tournament alongside team-mates Harry Maguire and Kyle Walker. Max Whitlock - The Team GB gymnast successfully defended his Olympic pommel horse title, performing the first routine in the final and setting a mark his rivals could not match at Tokyo 2020. Raducanu's victory over Leylah Fernandez was the first time since a young Serena Williams beat Martina Hingis in 1999 that two teenagers had contested the women's US Open final. The talented young pair are another success story in a notable 2021 for women in sport. History was made in April when jockey Rachael Blackmore became the first woman to ride the winner of the Grand National at Aintree. There were notable achievements at this summer's Olympic Games too with golds for middleweight boxer Lauren Price, Kenny and BMX pair Charlotte Worthington and Bethany Shriever among them. Shriever went on to land the world championship title too. And 13-year-old Sky Brown became the youngest Olympic medallist for Great Britain when she won skateboard bronze in August. At the Paralympics, the 43-year-old Storey won her 17th gold medal to become Great Britain's most successful Paralympian. Earlier this month too, Europe's women completed a thrilling defence of golf's Solheim Cup in a dramatic and memorable encounter with the United States.\n• None How America's leadership grappled with the events of 9/11\n• None Loathed or adored but never ignored: The definitive story of Cristiano Ronaldo is streaming now", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nThe Queen led the congratulations to Emma Raducanu after the 18-year-old clinched the US Open title with a stunning victory in New York.\n\n\"I send my congratulations to you on your success,\" the Queen said.\n\n\"It is a remarkable achievement at such a young age, and is testament to your hard work and dedication.\"\n• None 'I don't want to let go of the trophy'\n• None Motorsport fan who loves Romanian food - all about Raducanu\n\nIn a statement, the monarch added: \"I have no doubt your outstanding performance, and that of your opponent Leylah Fernandez, will inspire the next generation of tennis players.\"\n\n\"You showed extraordinary skill, poise and guts and we are all hugely proud of you.\"\n\nIt was a historic night for British sport's newest star which led pundits to predict big things and seemingly brought the UK to a standstill...\n\n'A star is born', 'a future world number one' - praise pours in for Raducanu\n\nVirginia Wade, who was present at Arthur Ashe Stadium to witness Raducanu's win, was the last British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title - at Wimbledon in 1977.\n\nIn an unprecedented run Raducanu became the first qualifier to win a major and has done so without dropping a set.\n\n\"A star is born,\" tennis legend Martina Navratilova said. \"Emma Raducanu makes history and she is just getting started.\"\n\nFormer British number one Greg Rusedski, speaking to Amazon Prime, added: \"She is going to be a multi-Grand Slam winner, a world number one.\n\n\"She is the real deal and it is a breath of fresh air having an 18-year-old win the event.\"\n\nRaducanu, whose run to the fourth round at Wimbledon earlier this summer is her only other Grand Slam appearance, will take home £1.8m in prize money and rise from 150th to 23rd in the world rankings.\n\nFormer Wimbledon champion Pat Cash described her success as \"mindboggling\".\n\n\"This [a qualifier winning a Grand Slam] is something I never could have believed would happen,\" the Australian said on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"I think I am going to wake up. It is so unbelievable. It is flabbergasting to see this performance.\"\n\nTim Henman, another ex-British number one who was courtside in his role working for Amazon, said: \"She will win more of these [Grand Slams], she is that good.\n\n\"This is not some flash in the pan or fairytale. She is playing 'top-five tennis'.\n\n\"Her world will be turned upside down but she has good people around her and it will be a hell of a ride if she can stay injury free.\"\n\n'Delay MOTD!' & subtly checking scores at weddings - the UK is gripped by Raducanu\n\nRaducanu won the title with a classy performance in a high-calibre match against Canada's Fernandez that lasted almost two hours.\n\nBy the end it appears as if it had the UK gripped, with many people tweeting to ask for Match of the Day to be delayed.\n\nPresenter Gary Lineker tweeted: \"First time in my life I've ever tweeted whilst on air but my goodness what a performance, what a triumph, what an amazing young woman.\"\n\nThroughout the match BBC Sport also received countless messages from fans nervously following the action.\n\n\"I'm currently at a wedding, subtly checking on the score. COME ON EMMA!! From everyone at Will & Josie's wedding\" said one texter.\n\nManny in Manchester added: \"I'm currently at a wedding NOT subtly checking the score. Sorry Chloe. Come on Emma.\"\n\nAnd Ben in London said: \"We're all at Laura and George's wedding - don't stop me now! Can't not check the score! Come on Raducanu!!!\"\n• None How has the Premier League succeeded?: Fever Pitch tells the origin story via the stars that made it\n• None Listen to the best tracks from nominees and winners of the prestigious prize", "The NHS makes people proud to be British but one in five has been forced to go private, suggests a survey of more than 4,000 adults in the UK.\n\nSome complained of having to \"fight for treatment\", while others faced discrimination, the research by charity Engage Britain found.\n\nToo many are \"let down every day by our health and care services,\" said the charity's director, Julian McCrae.\n\nNHS England said hardworking staff were reducing the backlog from the pandemic.\n\nThe researchers found 77% of the people questioned were proud of the NHS.\n\nHowever, the nationally representative online survey also found:\n\nAmong people from ethnic minorities, 22% said they or a loved one had experienced racism when seeking treatment.\n\nOverall, more than a quarter of those questioned felt their problems were not taken seriously, rising to 45% of women aged 18-34.\n\nDee Montague had to go private for treatment for endometriosis\n\nDee Montague from Newport spent her life savings on private care for her endometriosis, because the NHS left her feeling \"dismissed, disrespected and desperate\".\n\nShe says she left a meeting with a consultant, feeling suicidal.\n\n\"I did not want to die, I just wanted it to be better, I wanted it to stop. You just feel like nobody believes you and nobody's listening to you,\" she told the BBC.\n\nFloss Salter, 20, from Leicestershire, who was born with cerebral palsy and needs regular care from a physiotherapist, found that despite years of NHS treatment as a child, she had to begin the process of finding the care she needed all over again, when she turned 18.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"It's just the time it takes to get everything you need, ringing receptionists and being on hold for hours, just to get a simple question answered... or waiting for five or six months just to get a chat with a physio. It's just really frustrating.\"\n\nFloss Salter says organising the physiotherapy she needs is 'really frustrating'\n\nThe vast majority (85%) of people acknowledged that NHS staff are overstretched, doing as much as they can with the resources available.\n\n\"Overworked staff are being pushed to breaking point,\" said Mr McCrae. He called for reforms to \"address the daily challenges that so many in Britain are facing\".\n\n\"Only answers rooted in real experiences can deliver health and care that works for us all.\"\n\nProf Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said: \"NHS staff have worked tirelessly over the pandemic, caring for 450,000 patients with the virus in hospital, which has inevitably had a knock-on effect on less urgent care and created a backlog, but staff are also now pulling out all the stops to recover services and help more people as they come forward for care.\"\n\nOfficials highlighted figures showing a big increase in patient treatments carried out this summer, compared to last, with 3.9m diagnostic tests and 2.6m patients beginning consultant-led treatment in June and July, compared with 2.7m tests and 1.6m treatments in June and July 2020.", "Watch the best shots as Emma Raducanu wins the women's US Open to become the first British female winner at Flushing Meadows since Virginia Wade in 1968 and the first qualifier in the Open era to win a Slam.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Around 2,000 people have left their homes after wildfires broke out in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia.\n\nOne emergency worker has been killed in the blaze, which began on Wednesday on high ground above the popular resort town of Estepona on the Costa del Sol.\n\nThe Spanish government has deployed a military unit to help firefighters in the mountainous region.\n\nSix more towns and villages were evacuated on Sunday, and huge plumes of smoke could be seen from miles away.\n\nResidents of five other communities were told to leave their homes on Friday.\n\nThe wildfires have burned about 7,400 hectares (18,200 acres), according to Spanish media.\n\nAndalusia's regional forest fire agency said hundreds of firefighters were tackling the blaze, supported by 41 aircraft and 25 vehicles.\n\nJuan Sánchez, a senior official for the regional fire service, described it as the \"most complex\" fire seen there in recent times.\n\nHe said there had been ongoing discussions about the consequences of climate change, adding: \"Today we are living them.\"\n\n\"This is inhuman, nothing like this has ever been seen,\" one evacuee, Adriana Iacob told Reuters news agency. \"The flames of the fire as they ran through the mountains, it was amazing.\"\n\n\"Since the fire started, we haven't slept for days. It's awful,\" another local resident, Pepa Rubio, said.\n\nEurope has seen a number of wildfires this summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look at some of the fires spreading across Europe - and the rest of the globe\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "Watch the moment Britain's Emma Raducanu beats Canada's Leylah Fernandez to win the US Open women's singles final in straight sets, becoming the first qualifier in the Open era to win a Grand Slam.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four 'amateur astronauts' launched into orbit by SpaceX\n\nFour amateur astronauts have blasted off from Florida on their private mission to orbit.\n\nThe Inspiration4 crew, comprising one billionaire and three \"ordinary citizens\", rode out of the Kennedy Space Center in a Dragon capsule provided by the SpaceX rocket company.\n\nThe quartet will spend the next three days circling the Earth.\n\nIt's another milestone in the space tourism market, which is experiencing a resurgence after a decade's hiatus.\n\nEarlier this summer, billionaire businessmen Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos went above Earth's atmosphere in their own space vehicles.\n\nAnd following this latest mission, there'll be three privateer visits to the International Space Station (ISS) - one in October, carrying a Russian movie director and an actress, and two either side of the New Year.\n\nThe Inspiration4 crew of Jared Issacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor and Chris Sembroski have had six months of intensive training with SpaceX. However, onboard computer systems will be in control of their Dragon capsule, overseen by SpaceX teams on the ground.\n\nThe Dragon is not going anywhere near the ISS. It's on a \"free flight\" to a target altitude of 575km (360 miles). That's about 150km above the orbiting laboratory, and roughly the height from where the Hubble Space Telescope views the cosmos.\n\n(L-R) Sembroski, Proctor, Isaacman and Arceneaux trained for six months\n\nEven if they don't have a destination as such, the foursome will have plenty to keep them occupied. They've taken up scientific experiments to be conducted inside their Dragon capsule, and SpaceX has modified their temporary home to include a big window, which the crew is sure to be using during downtime to wonder at the Earth below.\n\nThe Inspiration4 venture was purchased from SpaceX by Mr Isaacman, 38, who made his fortune developing systems to process credit card payments. But rather than go on an \"outing with fishing buddies\", he decided, as he saw it, to inject real purpose into the flight.\n\nSo, he gifted the three adjacent seats to people with inspirational stories.\n\nFans of Haley Arceneaux turned out to watch the flight go up\n\nThis is perhaps best illustrated in 29-year-old Hayley Arceneaux. She overcame bone cancer as a child and as an adult has gone back to work for the medical facility that cured her - the St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr Isaacman wants to raise $200m for St Jude's work.\n\nHaley Arceneaux was treated for cancer at St Jude as a 10 year-old\n\nDr Sian Proctor, 51, is a geoscientist and science communicator. She actually came close to being a Nasa astronaut in 2009 but missed out in the final round of selection. Dr Proctor won her seat through her role as an artist and by demonstrating her entrepreneurial skills. She plans to paint while looking out the Dragon's domed window.\n\nChris Sembroski, 42, is a US Air Force veteran and works as an engineer with aerospace company Lockheed Martin. He'd made a donation to St Jude that also entered him into a lottery draw for the fourth position in the crew.\n\nMr Sembroski didn't win the lottery - but a friend did, and asked him to take the place.\n\nThe Dragon capsule and its Falcon rocket head out over the Atlantic Ocean\n\nSpaceX and Inspiration4 have described Wednesday's launch as the first \"all-civilian mission to orbit\". That depends very much on your definition of \"civilian\". The first man to walk on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, was technically a civilian, having resigned his Navy commission in 1960, nine years before Apollo 11.\n\nThe big window during development at SpaceX\n\nBut there's no doubting the Dragon flight commanded by Mr Isaacman has significance.\n\nSpace activity - even human spaceflight - is becoming ever more commercial, and the idea that people can go to orbit outside of the purview of the major national space agencies will increasingly look normal.\n\nThe 2000s saw several super-wealthy individuals spend a fortnight on the ISS. That particular era of space tourism ended in 2009 when spare seats on Russian rockets were bought up for the exclusive use of Nasa astronauts. But this second era looks as though it will be more resilient, simply because there are many more private space companies chasing the business, and this should bring down prices for a wider pool of customers.\n\nElon Musk's vision is for humans to be living on Mars\n\nElon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, is intent on making humans \"a multi-planet species\".\n\nAnd Mr Isaacman regards Inspiration4 as a signpost of where things are going. He was very keen that his Dragon go higher than astronauts usually go. And not since the final shuttle servicing mission of Hubble in 2009 have people been to an altitude above 570km.\n\n\"We've been going to the space station (420km) for some time, and there's just unbelievable science and research and great contributions that are coming out of there. But if we're going to go to the Moon again, and we're going to go to Mars and beyond, we've got to get a little outside of our comfort zone and take that next step in that direction,\" he said before launch. \"So that was really the rationale (for our choice of altitude).\"\n\nSome commentators have voiced concern about the collective impact on the Earth's climate of spaceflights like this one.\n\nSpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket uses highly refined kerosene fuel which produces the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO₂), along with nitrogen oxides, which also contribute to warming. Emissions from rocket launches remain tiny compared with the aviation industry, though they are projected to grow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SpaceX launch: What is SpaceX and why is it working with Nasa?", "Last month, healthcare and fire service workers protested against France's Covid-19 \"health pass\"\n\nAbout 3,000 health workers in France have been suspended because they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nA new rule, which came into force on Wednesday, made vaccination mandatory for the country's 2.7 million health, care home and fire service staff.\n\nBut French Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Thursday that \"most of the suspensions are only temporary\".\n\nMany are now agreeing to get jabbed because \"they see that the vaccination mandate is a reality\", he said.\n\nThe rule applies to all doctors, nurses, office staff and volunteers.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron first gave workers notice of the rule change on 12 July, warning them that they needed to get at least one jab by 15 September or resign from their jobs.\n\n\"I am aware of what I am asking of you, and I know that you are ready for this commitment, this is part, in a way, of your sense of duty,\" he said at the time.\n\nAfter the president's announcement, Doctolib, the website people use to book their jabs, crashed as so many people tried secure appointments.\n\nBut with the mandate now in place, and thousands still refusing to get the vaccine, there are fears of a disruption to healthcare services.\n\nIn just one hospital in Nice in southern France, for example, almost 450 workers have been suspended - sparking protests outside the building.\n\nAnd in another southern city, Montélimar, one hospital confirmed that it had already begun cancelling non-urgent operations because of a shortage of vaccinated anaesthetists, AFP news agency reports.\n\n\"We have to keep these people on the job until they have been replaced,\" Christophe Prudhomme, an emergency doctor and left-wing MP, said.\n\nBut Mr Véran told French RTL radio on Thursday that \"the continuity of care and the security of care and quality of care were assured yesterday in all hospitals and medico-social facilities\", although a few services, such as MRI scans, were impacted for a few hours.\n\nHe added that the suspensions mainly affected support staff, and \"few white coats\". There have also been \"a few dozen resignations\" across the country, he said.\n\nUnvaccinated workers at the Pasteur hospital in Nice have been protesting outside the building\n\nWhen the vaccines were first rolled out globally, France was one of the most vaccine-sceptical countries in the world.\n\nThen, about 40% of eligible people said they planned to get immunised, according to a survey by Ipsos. At the same time research from BBC Monitoring found that the number of followers of French-language pages sharing anti-vaccine content grew in 2020, from 3.2m to almost 4.1m likes.\n\nBut since the introduction of a Covid \"health pass\" in July, France has become one of the world's most vaccinated countries.\n\nAlmost 90% of all adults have now had at least one jab. France has also started vaccinating children aged 12 and over, and is administering booster jabs to vulnerable people.\n\nFrance is not the only country to introduce a vaccine mandate.\n\nItaly is also making an anti-Covid \"green pass\" mandatory for all employees from 15 October, meaning that workers who can't show proof of vaccination or a recent negative Covid test will be penalised.\n\n\"The government is ready to speed up on the 'green pass'... (for) not just the public sector, but private too,\" regional affairs minister Mariastella Gelmini said on Wednesday.\n\nThe green pass is already required for anyone in Italy who wants to eat indoors at restaurants, go to cinemas and sports stadiums, and take certain public transport or flights. It is also already mandatory for teachers.\n\nIn Greece, unvaccinated public and private sector employees have to have Covid tests once or twice a week, at their own expense. The rule came into force on 13 September.\n\nAnd last week, the US made vaccines mandatory for federal government workers and contractors, and for all businesses with more than 100 employees. The rule affects covers about 100 million workers.\n\nUS President Joe Biden warned that if people didn't get vaccinated, they should be prepared to undergo weekly testing for Covid-19.\n\n\"This is not about freedom, or personal choice, it's about protecting yourself and those around you,\" he said as he unveiled the plan.", "Thousands of music fans are heading to Cardiff over the next five days as the capital hosts a series of concerts.\n\nScottish rock outfit Biffy Clyro kicks off events on Thursday, followed by two days of dance acts, before disco legend Nile Rodgers takes to the stage.\n\nManic Street Preachers will also play for NHS workers on Sunday and Monday at Cardiff International Arena.\n\nBut The decision to shut the Cardiff barrage to walkers and cyclists for the Cardiff Bay events has been criticised.\n\nBut Peter Bradbury, Cardiff council's cabinet member for culture, said closing the barrage during the concerts would reduce the risk of overcrowding, and prevent the potential for those without tickets from trying to get in.\n\n\"Such high-profile acts attract a lot of interest and if the barrage remained open, potentially large crowds could gather,\" he said.\n\n“This is the first time events have been held at Alexandra Head since before the pandemic and we want everyone to have a safe and enjoyable return to outdoor events at this venue.\"\n\nBut Liberal Democrat councillor Joe Carter told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “It’s really surprising to see a major walking and cycle route closed over the weekend to allow a concert to take place.\n\n\"The weekend is the busiest time for the barrage, particularly for the last weekend of the Aqua Park.\"\n\nConservative councillor Mike Phillips added: \"We cannot compromise active travel for a concert. Disenfranchising walkers and cyclists suggests we are not serious about embedding healthier forms of transport into our systems.”\n\nWelsh rock outfit Manic Street Preachers are playing two nights for NHS workers and charities\n\nBut Mr Bradbury said: \"Up to 11,000 ticket holders will be at these events each day so it would be difficult, if not impossible, for commuters or cyclists to cross the barrage safely.\"\n\nAbout 10,000 people are also expected in Cardiff city centre on Sunday and Monday, as Manic Street Preachers host their rescheduled concerts for the NHS.\n\nSunday's show is a free concert for NHS staff in support of their work during the pandemic, while Monday is a fundraiser by the Blackwood band for NHS charties.\n\nThe weekend events have put strict Covid-19 measures in place. The Cardiff Bay organisers have said everyone will need to show proof of double vaccination, through NHS Covid Pass, or confirmation of a negative lateral flow test on the day of arrival.\n\nSimilar regulations are in place for the Motorpoint Arena for the Manic's shows.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe Champions League is back and, on a dramatic night across Europe, the competition delivered a reminder of why it can produce memorable, must-watch football.\n\nWhile Tuesday's action failed to get pulses significantly racing, Wednesday produced 28 goals as well as myriad stories and sub-plots.\n\nLiverpool played out a thriller with Milan,Manchester City hit six, an ex-West Ham striker set the evening alight and Lionel Messi underwhelmed - and that was just the start of it.\n\nIt was a matchday that had managers, players and pundits confused and delighted.\n\nLiverpool v AC Milan - the fixture that keeps on giving\n\nLiverpool and AC Milan don't seem able to do normal games of football when they meet. Thankfully.\n\nHaving between them produced arguably the greatest European Cup final of all time in 2005, when the Reds came back from 3-0 down to win the trophy on penalties, they then gave us Milan's revenge in another gripping tournament-deciding showdown two years later.\n\nOn Wednesday, they produced another see-saw classic that saw the Reds take the lead, miss a penalty, somehow give away two goals late in the first half and then rally in the second to claim the win through Jordan Henderson's magnificent half-volley.\n\nNot a bad welcome back for supporters to Anfield, who were enjoying their first Champions League game at the ground since March 2020.\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.\n\n\"We got carried away by our own football,\" Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp told BT Sport, afterwards.\n\n\"It was clear that we had to immediately get back to how we started and then we scored wonderful goals, to be honest. It is deserved but we had 10 minutes where Milan nearly changed the whole tie.\"\n\nDefender Andy Robertson added: \"First half an hour we blew them away. Then we got sloppy and stopped doing the things we were doing really well.\n\n\"We let them back into the game and walked in at half-time thinking 'how have we let this happen?'\n\n\"We need to be smarter. Really tough but we managed to come out second half, play our football and enjoy it again.\"\n\nPep Guardiola is not going to forget his 300th match in charge of Manchester City in a hurry.\n\nOne hundred and nine days after their painful night in Porto, when they lost a final to Chelsea they were expected to win, they came roaring out of the blocks to get their Group A campaign off to a flying start against RB Leipzig.\n\nSix goals, six different scorers.\n\nNew £100m man Jack Grealish scored an absolute classic as he became the first Englishman to both score and assist on their Champions League debut since Wayne Rooney in September 2004.\n\n\"The players are always talking about last season's final. They're determined to go one better this year,\" said Grealish, whose goal put City 4-2 ahead. \"It's a good start for us. Hopefully we can go all the way this time.\"\n\nIn an incident-packed game, Leipzig finished with 10-men after former Manchester City player Angelino was sent off for two bookable offences.\n\n\"What a great performance, particularly going forward, what a fabulous attacking performance,\" former England midfielder Owen Hargreaves told BT Sport.\n\nWith Nathan Ake opening the scoring, 10 different players have scored in a City shirt in the past four games.\n\nIn addition, they have now rattled in 16 goals in the past three home matches.\n\nBoss Pep Guardiola then urged the support of his club's fans for Saturday's visit of Southampton in the Premier League after the rigours of their Champions League opener.\n\n\"I'd like more people to come on Saturday,\" he said. \"We will be tired. Southampton are so dangerous. I invite all our people to come at 3pm to watch our game.\"\n\nFor all the hype it turned out to be a disappointing first start in a Paris St-Germain shirt for Lionel Messi.\n\nThe Argentine, on his 150th Champions League appearance and first in the competition for any side other than Barcelona, struck the crossbar but was frustrated along with his team-mates by a well-drilled Club Bruges, whose spending and resources pale in comparison to their star-studded opponents.\n\nAnder Herrera opened the scoring for PSG but the Belgian side more than deserved Hans Vanaken's equaliser as they went on to draw 1-1.\n\nKylian Mbappe set up the opener before heading off injured after 51 minutes while Messi was booked and both he and Neymar were well dealt with by the hosts.\n\n\"Nobody in the team can be happy with their performance and nobody can be happy with this result,\" said PSG boss Mauricio Pochettino.\n\n\"We came here to take points. All the points. Hats off to Club Bruges. They wanted it more than us tonight and they deserve the point.\"\n\nBT Sport pundit Hargreaves added: \"PSG were probably one of the favourites going into this competition with the summer they had. Pochettino will be trying to get the balance right with so many top players.\"\n\nThe ex-West Ham man with one of the great debuts\n\nSebastien Haller was left out of Ajax's Europa League squad last year because of a club administrative error and he showed the Dutch outfit just what they missed with one of the most spectacular Champions League debuts.\n\nThe former West Ham striker became the second player in the history of the competition to score four goals on his debut in Ajax's 5-1 rout of Sporting Lisbon.\n\nHe is the first player to achieve that feat since Marco van Basten for AC Milan against IFK Gothenburg in November 1992 - although the Dutch player had previously featured in the European Cup.\n\n\"I just tried to be not too emotional because being so young and playing these kind of games it's a dream,\" said the 27-year-old.\n\n\"I was just focused on doing my job, focusing on the other team, tactically, physically and today I thank my team-mates for all this.\"\n\nOh. And that was not all.\n\nSheriff Tiraspol became Moldova's first Champions League representatives as they beat Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0. That makes them the first team since Leicester City in 2016 to win on their Champions League debut.\n\nJude Bellingham (18 years, 78 days) became the youngest player to score in consecutive Champions League games, surpassing Mbappe.\n\nHe scored and assisted one as Borussia Dortmund beat Bestikas 2-1.\n\nErling Braut Haaland, who scored the second, has netted 21 goals in 17 Champions League games - 10 matches quicker than anybody else has managed.\n\nTwo youngsters teamed up in the 89th minute as Real Madrid won at the San Siro against Serie A champions Inter Milan. Eduardo Camavinga set up Rodrygo for the only goal.\n\nAnd Atletico Madrid drew 0-0 with Porto. We don't have anything to get excited about with that one.\n• None McMafia is streaming now on BBC iPlayer\n• None What is the long-term impact of taking so many hits?", "A former athletics coach has been jailed for rape and serious sexual offences against teenage girls in Fife.\n\nEric Simpson raped one girl and subjected four other victims to indecent assaults and lewd behaviour between 1981 and 1999.\n\nAt the High Court in Paisley the 73-year-old from Kirkcaldy was jailed for eight years over the \"monstrous\" abuse.\n\nHe denied the offences but was found guilty of seven charges at the High Court in Edinburgh last month.\n\nThe offences occurred in Kirkcaldy and Burntisland as well as at an Edinburgh school.\n\nSimpson was finally brought to justice when one victim - now in her 50s - went to police in 2018, sparking a large scale abuse probe.\n\nShe had seen a photograph which featured him still involved in athletics posing with a young girl.\n\nSentencing Simpson, Lord Arthurson said: \"In light of the jury's verdict, you come across as a Jekyll and Hyde character.\n\n\"Your crimes against your victims in this case was nothing short of monstrous. You have displayed limited regret and lack victim empathy.\"\n\nJurors heard that the victim who initially went to police had wanted to protect other young girls from potential abuse.\n\nThe court was told Simpson previously boasted that it was difficult working with girls when they all fancied him.\n\nOne victim was initially molested by Simpson during massages before he ended up raping her.\n\nShe told the trial: \"He used to put music on and say it made him think of me.\n\nAnother said he also played the Gary Puckett and The Union Gap hit when he preyed on her.\n\nThis woman added she can no longer listen to the song. She was only 13 when Simpson made inappropriate remarks.\n\nRecalling the ordeal at his hands, the witness added: \"I was frozen. I was too scared to do anything.\"\n\nThree other girls were also targeted including one who he pulled on to his knee and kissed.\n\nAfter police were alerted, detectives contacted various people who had been coached by Simpson in a career which spanned from the 1970s until his suspension in 2018.\n\nSimpson was also put on the sex offenders list indefinitely.\n\nHis lawyer Krista Johnston said he was \"devoted\" to athletics, and now his reputation as a coach was in \"jeopardy\".\n\n\"He coached 15 British and two Paralympic champions,\" she said.\n\n\"He does not agree with the conviction, but has to accept the punishment.\"", "The row began after a fellow student cut Jurnee Hoffmeyer's hair while on a school bus, her father said\n\nThe father of a seven-year-old girl whose hair was cut by a teacher without parental permission is suing the school district and two staff members for $1m.\n\nJimmy Hoffmeyer's lawsuit says the constitutional rights of his mixed-race daughter have been violated.\n\nHe has pulled his daughter out of the school.\n\nAn investigation by the school district concluded in July that while the teacher had broken school policy she had not acted with racial bias.\n\nShe was reprimanded but allowed to keep her job at Ganiard Elementary School in Mount Pleasant.\n\nJimmy Hoffmeyer told the Associated Press last April that his daughter Jurnee had returned home from school one day with much of the hair on one side of her head cut. A classmate had used scissors to cut Jurnee's long curly hair on a school bus, he said.\n\nTwo days later, Jurnee returned home from school with the hair on the other side of her head cut - even though she had been taken to a hairdresser who had given her an asymmetrical cut to make the different lengths less obvious.\n\nMr Hoffmeyer said he thought another child had done it but Jurnee told him it was a teacher. \"The teacher cut her hair to even it out,\" he told the AP.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children speak about their afro hair: \"My hair is unique, I feel really lucky'\"\n\nThe lawsuit was filed in a federal court in west Michigan against Mount Pleasant Public Schools and two teaching staff, MLive.com reports.\n\nAs well as violating the child's constitutional rights, the lawsuit also alleges racial discrimination, ethnic intimidation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and assault and battery.\n\nThe district \"failed to properly train, monitor, direct, discipline, and supervise their employees and knew or should have known that the employees would engage in the complained of behavior given the improper training, customs, procedures, and policies, and the lack of discipline that existed for employees,\" the lawsuit says.\n\nNo formal response has yet been filed by the defendants and there has been no public comment from the school district.", "Choppy waters were seen at Vias in Hérault, where a man died\n\nAt least nine people have drowned in rough Mediterranean seas in the south of France, officials have said.\n\nThey were swept out to sea while swimming in choppy waters on several different beaches on the south coast.\n\nHigh winds had stirred up the seas, causing a swell, French media report.\n\nFive people in their 60s and 70s died in Hérault, two aged 58 and 71 died in Bouches-du-Rhône, and another two died on a beach in Leucate, Aude.\n\nEmergency services in Hérault said they had tried to save 12 people drowning off beaches in Agde, La Grande-Motte, Marseillan, Serignan and Vias. Seven were rescued but five died.\n\nThe region was then placed on an orange alert for thunderstorms, rains and floods.\n\n\"I cannot understand how people got into the water when the seas were rough,\" Jordan Dartier, the mayor of Vias, told French broadcaster LCI. One man drowned there after reportedly falling from rocks.\n\n\"It's a dramatic day for our region,\" he added.\n\nHérault's fire and rescue service had urged people to avoid swimming.\n\n\"Choppy seas are making water activities dangerous,\" the service tweeted in the afternoon, with a video of waves crashing into the shoreline.\n\nThe two swimmers who died in Cassis and La Ciotat in the Bouches-du-Rhône area drowned after being dragged out to sea, local media report.\n\nRescue officials speculated that the warm temperature of the water had tempted people to swim, even though conditions were not ideal.\n\nGrégory Coutarel, head of search and rescue in Bouches-du-Rhône, said: \"On weekdays, enjoying the sea at 24C is quite exceptional, and can tempt tourists.\"\n\nHe added that, as the weather now stays warm for longer, lifeguards should be kept in place \"until the end of September or even until mid-October\".\n\nPeople do not fully understand how dangerous choppy seas can be, local fire chief Aurélien Manenc told broadcaster TF1.\n\n\"The water is warm, you think you are going to have fun - and quickly you are pulled towards the open sea and towards the bottom, and you get exhausted trying to come back. This is what causes drowning,\" he said.\n\nBy late afternoon, police officers in Hérault were evacuating any beaches without life guards.\n\n\"Wednesday 15 September will remain a black day for the Hérault coast,\" wrote local newspaper Midi Libre.", "Dominic Raab has resigned as deputy prime minister, following an investigation into claims of alleged bullying.\n\nMr Raab, who was also the justice secretary, had always denied the allegations but said he would quit if bullying claims were upheld.\n\nHe has done that, but in his resignation letter to Rishi Sunak, and in an article penned for the Telegraph newspaper, Mr Raab also hit back.\n\nWhile the report from senior lawyer Adam Tolley KC makes uncomfortable reading in parts, Mr Raab - who's changed his Twitter handle to \"MP for Esher and Walton, father of two, boxing fan\" - has thrown a punch of his own.\n\nIn his letter to the PM, he said ministers needed to be able to give direct critical feedback and exercise direct oversight over their civil servant officials.\n\nHe apologised for any \"unintended\" stress caused, but referred to the \"pace, standards and challenge\" he brought to the Ministry of Justice.\n\nThe report cleared the former frontbencher of shouting and swearing at staff, and he was not found to have used physical gestures - but it did say that style of working as a minister was \"inquisitorial, direct, impatient and fastidious\".\n\nAnd it paints a picture of a man who worked from 7.30 in the morning until late at night and at weekends.\n\nMr Raab was found to have described the work of officials as \"utterly useless\" and \"woeful\" while he was justice secretary.\n\nAnd as foreign secretary, a role he served in from 2019 to 2021, the report says in one instance \"he acted in a way which was intimidating, in the sense of unreasonably and persistently aggressive conduct in the context of a work meeting. His conduct also involved an abuse or misuse of power in a way that undermines or humiliates.\"\n\nFamily: Married to Erika Ray, a Brazilian marketing executive, with two sons\n\nBefore politics: Foreign Office lawyer. He was the lead on a team focusing on bringing war criminals to justice at The Hague\n\nDespite resigning, Mr Raab is entitled to a pay-off of nearly £17,000, a quarter of his ministerial salary, as long as he is not reappointed to another position within three weeks.\n\nBut the MP, who paid his own legal fees during the investigation, faces a pay cut of £67,505 as he loses his ministerial salary. As an ordinary backbencher, he will earn £86,584 a year.\n\nMr Raab was born in 1974, the son of a Czech-born Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis in 1938.\n\nHe was brought up in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham, before studying law at Oxford University and switching to Cambridge for his masters degree.\n\nHe worked as a lawyer in the commercial sector and the Foreign Office before entering politics in 2006 as an aide to Brexit-supporting Conservative MP David Davis, and then Remain-backing Dominic Grieve.\n\nFirst elected to Parliament in 2010, the following year Mr Raab angered then-Home Secretary Theresa May by describing some feminists as \"obnoxious bigots\" in an online article also claiming men were getting \"a raw deal\".\n\nMrs May accused him of fuelling \"gender warfare\".\n\nMr Raab remained on the backbenches for five years after becoming an MP.\n\nBut the karate black-belt became a junior justice minister following David Cameron's general election victory in 2015.\n\nHe played a prominent role in the successful Leave campaign in the 2016 EU referendum, but was sacked by Mrs May when she took over as prime minister.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Raab was branded \"offensive\" by then-Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron after saying \"the typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty; it's someone who has a cash flow problem\".\n\nBut in June that year he returned to government, as a justice minister, this time middle-ranking rather than junior.\n\nIn Mrs May's January 2018 reshuffle he became housing minister - one of the highest-profile non-cabinet roles in government.\n\nAnd in July that year, when David Davis quit, the prime minister promoted Mr Raab to Brexit secretary, a cabinet post.\n\nYet his improved relationship with Mrs May did not last long. In November 2018, he quit, arguing that he could not \"in good conscience\" support the \"backstop\" arrangement designed to avoid a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.\n\nAs an influential Brexiteer, his comments were seen as significant in increasing opposition to Mrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU, which MPs repeatedly rejected.\n\nAfter Mrs May announced she was standing down, Mr Raab entered the contest to become Conservative leader, and prime minister.\n\nIn a crowded field, he failed to get the 33 MPs' votes he needed to progress to the third round. Fellow Brexiteers Boris Johnson and Michael Gove outlasted him.\n\nMr Johnson, to whom Mr Raab gave his support after his elimination from the race, promoted him to foreign secretary and first secretary of state - effectively deputy prime minister.\n\nBut he only narrowly managed to hold on to his Esher and Walton seat at the 2019 general election, seeing off a strong Liberal Democrat challenge by 2,743 votes.\n\nThe overall Conservative landslide, however, on a promise to \"get Brexit done\", meant he saw his dream of leaving the EU come true on 31 January 2020.\n\nAs foreign secretary and first secretary of state, he was the UK government's de-facto second-in-command.\n\nHe was left in charge of running much of the government when the prime minister was hospitalised with Covid-19 in April 2020.\n\nColleagues, including Mr Johnson's arch-critic and former aide Dominic Cummings, have praised Mr Raab's performance under extreme pressure.\n\nBut he has continued to anger opponents with some of his comments, in 2020 telling talkRadio's Julia Hartley-Brewer he would only \"take the knee\" - go down on bended knee - for \"the Queen and the Mrs when I asked her to marry me\".\n\nHe later qualified his remarks - following opposition criticism of his \"insulting\" and \"flippant\" tone - saying he \"fully\" supported the Black Lives Matter campaign.\n\nIn fact, some of his remarks and gaffes have resulted in mockery. Despite a reputation for being a creature of habit, he dismissed an eye-catching claim by a former diary secretary that he insisted on the same Pret A Manger lunch every day.\n\nAnd as Brexit secretary, he came under fire for saying he \"hadn't quite understood\" how reliant UK trade in goods was on the Dover-Calais crossing.\n\nAs foreign secretary, Mr Raab was heavily criticised for his handling of the aftermath of the fall of Afghanistan, specifically for remaining on holiday in Crete while the Taliban marched back to power.\n\nHe insisted he'd been across the detail and was in touch with the key players.\n\nDowning Street stood by the minister, however he was later demoted to the role of justice secretary, which although still a cabinet position is not as prestigious as foreign secretary.\n\nMr Raab stayed publicly loyal to Mr Johnson, being one of the few ministers not to resign during the final chaotic week of his premiership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deputy party leaders swap exchanges on bullying claims against him and her previous labelling for her opponents.\n\nIn the leadership race that followed, he enthusiastically threw his backing behind Rishi Sunak - and in August fiercely attacked the rival candidate Liz Truss, calling her economic plans \"electoral suicide\".\n\nThat broadside wasn't forgotten by Ms Truss's team and Mr Raab was not included in her cabinet when she became prime minister.\n\nHowever, Ms Truss was soon gone and Mr Raab returned to government in the familiar roles of justice secretary and deputy prime minister.\n\nAs Mr Sunak's deputy, he stood in for his boss at Prime Minister's Question opposite Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy. Their exchanges across the despatch box were often fiery.\n\nAs well as a big drop in salary, Mr Raab also loses the status of his position at the very top of government. Whether he will return to high office remains to be seen.\n• None Who’s in charge if the PM is ill?", "Paul Hamill was a former mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey\n\nTributes have been paid to the Democratic Unionist Party councillor Paul Hamill, who has died aged 46.\n\nIt is understood Mr Hamill died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nMr Hamill was a member of Antrim and Newtownabbey Council and served as its mayor from June 2017 to May 2018.\n\nIn the months leading up to his death, Mr Hamill had regularly shared Covid-sceptic and anti-vaccine views on social media.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) described him as a \"hard-working and dedicated representative\" and said his loss would be \"keenly felt\".\n\n\"Paul brought wide experience to his role as a public representative having worked in industry before spending many years as a pastor,\" Sir Jeffrey said.\n\n\"Those skills and experience made him an invaluable part of our council team.\n\n\"We in the Democratic Unionist Party have lost a dear friend and colleague, but my thoughts are with Paul's wife Ruth, his children and the wider family circle at this most difficult time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Councillor Anne Marie Logue This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDUP peer Lord Dodds said he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\n\"I have known him since before he was an elected representative and even before he joined the DUP,\" he said.\n\n\"Throughout that time, he has been a tower of strength to me personally and to the party within north Belfast.\n\n\"Paul was a tireless worker for the people of Rathcoole and the wider Newtownabbey area. He touched the lives of many people during his time as a local councillor and he will be greatly missed by everyone in the area.\"\n\nThe current Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Billy Webb from the Alliance Party, released a statement on behalf of the council.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I have learned of the passing of our colleague, Councillor Paul Hamill who sadly lost his battle with Covid,\" Mr Webb said.\n\n\"Many of us counted on him as a friend regardless of party affiliation, he treated everyone with great kindness, and will be greatly missed.\"\n\nPaul Hamill speaking to the BBC in 2015\n\nThe mayor added that he would open a \"virtual book of condolence\" on Wednesday and invited \"everyone who knew Paul to leave a message paying tribute to his memory and many accomplishments\".\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) members of Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council also expressed their sympathy.\n\n\"On behalf of the Ulster Unionist Party I extend my sincere sympathies to Paul's wife Ruth, their children and extended family,\" said Alderman Mark Cosgrove.\n\n\"I also offer my condolences to Paul's colleagues. This is devastating news for them all and is hard to take in. Paul will be sadly missed by his family and many friends.\"\n\nSinn Féin councillor Anne Marie Logue, who sits on the council, said Mr Hamill was a \"true gentleman\" and would be \"fondly remembered for his work in community relations\".\n\nBefore he entered politics, Mr Hamill worked for Belfast City Mission as a missionary in Rathcoole.", "Lyra McKee was was shot dead in Londonderry in April 2019\n\nTwo men have been charged with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot dead while observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate in April 2019.\n\nThe men, aged 21 and 33, have also been charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life, riot, possession of petrol bombs, throwing petrol bombs and arson.\n\nThe 33-year-old has also been charged with robbery.\n\nA third man, aged 20, has been charged with riot, possession of petrol bombs and throwing petrol bombs.\n\nAll three are expected to appear before Londonderry Magistrates Court via video-link on Friday.\n\nA 19-year-old man, who was also arrested during the same police operation, has been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.", "'Massive increase' in London footfall since May - mayor\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan says there has been \"a massive increase in footfall\" in central London, as well \"big increases\" in the number of passengers on the Tube and buses since early summer. He added: \"Our theatres now are incredibly busy, more and more productions are opening.\" \"We’re starting to see the fruits of the Let’s Do London campaign, but we’re not stopping now,\" the mayor told the Local Democracy Reporting Service. Launched in May, the £6m Let's Do London campaign aims to attract visitors back to London to support the city’s economic recovery following the pandemic. Thursday saw Mr Khan join artist Yinka Illori to unveil 18 new colourful pedestrian crossing designs, as part of London Design Festival. The Mayor highlighted forthcoming events this autumn such as London Fashion Week, London Film Festival, Frieze Masters and Black History Month. \"It’s really important that we carry on making the progress that we’ve made so far,\" he said.", "Boris Johnson became prime minister in December 2019 and immediately faced the UK's looming exit from the EU and the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe health crisis has been described as perhaps the biggest challenge the country has faced since World War Two.\n\nMr Johnson’s election win secured him the largest Tory majority in Parliament since 1987.\n\nHe succeeded Theresa May as prime minister. His only previous cabinet post was foreign secretary, which he quit over differences with Mrs May over Brexit.\n\nSince being at 10 Downing Street, he married his fiancee Carrie Symonds and the couple have had two children.", "Nadhim Zahawi arriving in Downing Street for the reshuffle\n\nNadhim Zahawi has been appointed the new education secretary for England - replacing Gavin Williamson in the Cabinet reshuffle.\n\nMr Zahawi leaves his previous post as the minister responsible for the Covid vaccines roll-out.\n\nThe departing education secretary had faced much criticism over his handling of schools during the pandemic.\n\n\"We can't pretend we are sorry that Gavin Williamson has gone,\" said teachers' union leader Kevin Courtney.\n\nMr Zahawi, who has previously been a junior education minister, was born in Iraq. His family moved to the UK in 1976 when he was aged nine, attending independent schools in London and then studying chemical engineering at University College London.\n\nHe will now be responsible for schools, colleges and universities in England, as they recover from the disruption of the pandemic.\n\n\"Education is a crucial part of our levelling up agenda so it's an honour to be back at the Department for Education as secretary of state,\" said Mr Zahawi.\n\n\"Children and young people have had a tough time during this pandemic and I'll be listening to them and their families as we accelerate our work to build back better and fairer.\"\n\nMary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union with Mr Courtney, urged the incoming education secretary to push for extra funding in next month's public spending review.\n\n\"The money promised to schools to date is a small fraction of the amount judged to be needed by the government's former education recovery tsar,\" said Ms Bousted.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: \"One of the most pressing tasks facing Mr Zahawi will be to ensure that the government now fulfils its promise to deliver a properly funded recovery package so that every pupil in the country receives the support they need and deserve.\n\n\"With the comprehensive spending review only weeks away, there really is no time to waste.\"\n\n\"The Department for Education may now be under new management but the same challenges remain,\" said Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union.\n\n\"More ambition is needed on post-Covid education recovery, investment in schools and colleges, support for children with special educational needs, and closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers,\" he said.\n\nMr Williamson's departing message said it had been a privilege to serve as education secretary \"despite the challenges of the global pandemic\". And he highlighted his efforts to raise the status of further education and skills.\n\n\"I'm particularly proud of the transformational reforms I've led in Post-16 education: in further education colleges, our skills agenda, apprenticeships and more,\" tweeted Mr Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson - the first big casualty of the reshuffle - had faced much criticism during the pandemic, with particular problems around last summer's exams, which saw protests and U-turns over how grades were decided.\n\n\"He failed to engage with our suggestions on how to make schools safer during Covid - and thereby kept them closed longer,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut David Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, commended Mr Williamson's support for further education, despite the disruption of the pandemic.\n\n\"It was always going to be a bumpy ride for Gavin Williamson. Despite that, he helped convince the prime minister and chancellor that post-16 education and skills should be a priority,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nJo Grady, leader of the UCU lecturers' union, described his time in office as \"disastrous\".\n\n\"Rather than responding to the challenges of a global pandemic, he led the charge in a completely pointless culture war against university staff and students.\n\n\"A culture war that was entirely fabricated and led to no positive change in the sector,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green said: \"Two years of exams chaos and staff abandoned, unsupported and demoralised. That is Gavin Williamson's legacy.\n\n\"The prime minister has allowed this to happen, keeping a failing education secretary in post for months and refusing to fight for children's futures.\"", "It is understood Michael D Higgins was expected to attend\n\nThe leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has called for Irish President Michael D Higgins to reconsider his decision to turn down an invite to a church service to mark Northern Ireland's centenary.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said \"politics are at play\" in the decision.\n\nEarlier, the Alliance Party also said President Higgins should reconsider.\n\nThe Queen has been invited to the service, which has been organised by Christian church leaders.\n\nIt will take place at the Church of Ireland cathedral in Armagh city on 21 October.\n\nThe inter-denominational service is part of a programme of events to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland and the formation of Northern Ireland in 1921.\n\nOn Wednesday, a spokesperson for President Higgins said he was \"not in a position to attend the ceremony and this has been communicated to the organisers\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says \"there may be some politics\" in the president's decision not to attend the service\n\nIt is understood he had been expected to attend. He did not offer any further explanation of his decision.\n\nRTÉ reports that the Irish government said it did not advise President Higgins to decline an invitation to attend the church service.\n\nBut the Irish government told BBC News NI that \"the president's diary is a matter for the president and it would not be appropriate to comment\".\n\n\"Any invitation for a government representative to attend the ceremony will be considered,\" it added.\n\nSir Jeffrey, who has written to President Higgins about the matter, said it was a \"disappointing and retrograde step\" by the president.\n\n\"We hope he will rethink this decision - it is not conducive to the kind of respectful relationship with the head of state of our neighbouring jurisdiction,\" he said.\n\n\"In the absence of clarity around the reason for him not attending many may reach a conclusion that it is a decision based on politics.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey said the service was about \"marking the centenary\", which he added was a \"fairly neutral term\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Colum Eastwood defends President Michael D Higgins over his non-attendance at the centenary service\n\nFormer Presbyterian Moderator Dr John Dunlop said he was disappointed by the decision.\n\n\"This is a time when I think you have to consolidate bridges especially in a time like this when things between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland or between Ireland and Northern Ireland are a bit fraught and a bit fragile,\" he said.\n\nAlliance Party MP Stephen Farry also said President Higgins should reconsider his position.\n\n\"This event is very much in keeping with the reconciliation efforts of successive Irish presidents and the Queen over recent years and the inclusive approach to marking the decade of centenaries,\" he said.\n\nHowever independent assembly member Trevor Lunn, formerly of the Alliance Party, tweeted in support of the president's decision.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Trevor Lunn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I don't see it as a discourtesy to Her Majesty, just a correct if difficult decision,\" he wrote.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said people should take President Higgins \"at his word when he says he can not be there\".\n\nMr Eastwood said President Higgins had a track record of reconciliation.\n\nHe said: \"President Higgins' term has been marked by diversity and reaching out to all traditions across our island.\n\n\"He has been an advocate of bringing people together and I think people should not read too much into this given all that he has done for community relations and reconciliation across Ireland.\"\n\nUlster Unionist Party assembly member Mike Nesbitt described the move as \"surprising and uncharacteristic from someone who has shown a consistent willingness to reach out and promote reconciliation\".\n\n\"The reciprocal state visits were a high watermark in Anglo-Irish relations and until we know the reason why he is not in a position to attend, we cannot be critical,\" he said.\n\nThe leader of Aontú, Peadar Tóibín, said President Higgins had made \"the right decision not to attend the event\".\n\n\"There isn't a president in the world that would attend an event to mark, commemorate or celebrate the partition of his or her country,\" he said.\n\nThe Independent Group of Senators in the Republic of Ireland has expressed its concern at President Higgins' decision.\n\nSenator Gerard Craughwell, who is a member of the group, said he was \"deeply disappointed\".\n\n\"It is a commemoration service, not a celebration service, so there should be no political connotations whatsoever to the event,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nSo far the church leaders have made no comment about the issue.\n\nPresident Higgins is in Italy and has not yet responded to calls for him to reconsider his decision or give his reasons.", "Former health minister Nadine Dorries has been appointed the new culture secretary, replacing Oliver Dowden.\n\nThe Tory MP for Mid Bedfordshire is best known outside Westminster for her 2012 appearance on ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.\n\nDorries was suspended by her party after agreeing to fly to Australia and compete on the programme. She was readmitted the following year.\n\nThe 64-year-old becomes the 10th culture secretary in 10 years.\n\nBorn in Liverpool in 1957, Dorries started out as a nurse before entering politics in 2000.\n\nPrior to her election in 2005 she worked a special adviser to Oliver Letwin, the then shadow chancellor.\n\nThe politician and author said she was \"very\" happy with her new appointment\n\nA staunch Brexiteer, Dorries has had an occasionally fractious relationships with the leaders of her party.\n\nIn 2012 she described then-PM David Cameron and his then-chancellor George Osborne as \"two arrogant posh boys who show no remorse\".\n\nOutside of politics she is a published author, having signed a deal in 2013 to write a trilogy inspired by her childhood experiences.\n\nThe first instalment, The Four Streets, was greeted by largely negative reviews when it was published the following year.\n\nIn 2015 she revealed she had been sexually abused as a child by her local vicar, now deceased.\n\nShe has previously used her Twitter account to comment on topical issues facing the arts and entertainment industry, including so-called cancel culture.\n\nOn Thursday, media minister John Whittingdale followed Mr Dowden out of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\n\nWhittingdale had stepped in to deliver a keynote speech to the Royal Television Society after Dowden's departure on Wednesday - but he also left less than 24 hours later.\n\nDorries appeared on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2012\n\nNadine Dorries, a successful novelist, a former contestant on I'm a Celebrity (which led to a brief suspension of the Conservative whip) and a strong advocate of gender equality on the BBC, certainly has a track record in taking an interest in cultural matters.\n\nIn 2017 she tweeted: \"Left wing snowflakes are killing comedy, tearing down historic statues, removing books from universities, dumbing down panto.\"\n\nHer move to the DCMS also comes on the day her predecessor, Oliver Dowden, was about to deliver his opinions on the future of Channel 4. That speech has now been made by the media minister, John Whittingdale.\n\nSport, gambling, the future of the BBC, broadband services, the DCMS has a broad remit that covers everything from dealing with the tech giants to helping to alleviate loneliness.\n\nAnd over recent months Oliver Dowden has increasingly entered debates about so-called \"woke culture\", statues and removing \"contested heritage\", political territory in which the new culture secretary has already expressed strong views\n\nHis tenure saw him negotiate a £1.57 billion support package to help the arts sector cope with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWednesday's front bench reshuffle saw him appointed co-chairman of the Conservative Party, replacing the sacked Amanda Milling.\n\nDowning Street confirmed he would hold the role of minister without portfolio at the Cabinet Office.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Inventor Sir Clive Sinclair, who popularised the home computer and invented the pocket calculator, has died at his London home aged 81.\n\nHis daughter Belinda Sinclair said he passed away on Thursday morning after having cancer for more than a decade.\n\nSir Clive's products included the ZX series of computers and his ill-fated C5 electric vehicle.\n\nHe was still working on his inventions last week \"because that was what he loved doing\", said Ms Sinclair.\n\n\"He was inventive and imaginative and for him it was exciting and an adventure, it was his passion,\" she added.\n\nHis ZX Spectrum computers brought affordable personal computing to the masses - selling in their millions across the world.\n\nHowever, in a BBC interview in 2013, Sir Clive revealed he did not, at that time, use computers himself.\n\n\"If I had a computer, I'd start thinking I could change this and that, and I don't want to. My wife very kindly looks after that for me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnlike the ZX Spectrum, his attempt to launch an electric vehicle was not successful.\n\nThe C5 launched in 1985 and buyers were disappointed with its limited range, slow speed and inability to climb hills. It caused Sir Clive severe financial problems.\n\nHis daughter said: \"I think sometimes he was a bit too early [with his inventions].\n\n\"He was very good at imagining things that people might like or might need, even though they didn't know they wanted them.\"\n\nHe was a devoted father and grandfather who will be missed by her children Samuel, Henry and Florence, Ms Sinclair said.\n\n\"They were very close to him and cared for him in the last few years,\" she said.\n\nSir Clive leaves three children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.\n• None Sinclair C5 'was ahead of its time'", "A woman left with \"life-changing injuries\" after botched surgery will receive £2.8m in damages.\n\nCarolyn Almond-Roots was a patient of Sam Eljamel, a former head of neurosurgery at NHS Tayside, in 2013.\n\nA BBC Scotland investigation in 2018 revealed that dozens of people claimed to have been harmed by Mr Eljamel.\n\nSome of his former patients are suing NHS Tayside, claiming Mr Eljamel has harmed them. Several have already secured compensation.\n\nJonathan Howat, of Thompsons Solicitors who handled Ms Almond-Roots' case, said her treatment was \"appalling\".\n\n\"The disgraceful conduct of Eljamel has left my client with very serious and life-changing injuries that affect every aspect of her daily life,\" he said.\n\n\"The level of compensation Ms Almond-Roots has received highlights the seriousness of what has been inflicted upon her.\"\n\nHe said the damages took into account \"the fact that my client will need to pay for additional care for the rest of her life\".\n\n\"The injuries caused by this rogue surgeon are appalling and we are glad that his negligent practices have been brought to light,\" Mr Howat added.\n\nSam Eljamel was the head of the neurosurgery department in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee\n\nMr Eljamel was head of neurosurgery at NHS Tayside, and also worked at Fernbrae private hospital in Dundee as well as being an adviser to the Scottish government.\n\nHe began treating Ms Almond-Roots in 2013 after she experienced a pain in her thighs that was radiating upwards.\n\nShe saw Mr Eljamel at both Ninewells NHS hospital in Dundee and the private Fernbrae hospital.\n\nThompsons Solicitors said Ms Almond-Roots reached a settlement of £2,810,118 at the Court of Session.\n\nIt has not yet been determined what share of the damages will be paid by the private hospital and NHS Tayside, as Ms Almond-Roots was treated by Mr Eljamel at both.\n\nHe was suspended from his post at NHS Tayside following internal and external reviews in 2013.\n\nHe was placed under interim conditions by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in 2014 and then removed himself from the General Medical Council (GMC) register, which means he can no longer practice in the UK.\n\nBBC Scotland's Disclosure found in 2018 that Mr Eljamel had harmed patients for years at NHS Tayside.\n\nHe was allowed to continue operating even after an external investigation found he was injuring patients.\n\nLast year, the BBC found he was working as a surgeon in Libya.\n\nNHS Tayside said it could not comment because it was an ongoing case.", "Tests similar to this one, showed the dangers of cladding as early as 2004, it has emerged\n\nLeaked test results suggest the government and construction industry had early evidence of the dangers posed by cladding, 13 years before the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nPanels, commonly used on buildings in the UK, failed fire tests carried out in 2004.\n\nThe results, marked \"Commercial in confidence\", were circulated within an industry advisory group.\n\nThey were recently passed to the BBC and, until now, never made public.\n\nHundreds of thousands of flat owners are now threatened with large bills because of construction materials which pose a risk in fires.\n\nThe 2004 results were among the first from a British test of full-scale building systems, developed in the late 1990s when there were growing concerns in Parliament about the risks of cladding.\n\nThe tests were part of research commissioned by the then Labour government to determine what standards building systems should have to meet.\n\nFive cladding systems were tested, including one with aluminium panels, although the primary aim was not to assess the risk of particular designs\n\nThe aluminium and plastic cladding at Grenfell has been blamed for spreading the fire.\n\nTwo were constructed from high pressure laminate (HPL) boards, formed from wood, or paper fibre, widely used on modern apartment blocks in the UK.\n\nIn the tests, all five cladding systems were judged to have failed against \"proposed performance criteria\".\n\nMost of the tests were carried out without using \"fire breaks\" - extra components which should be fitted to block the spread of flames.\n\nHowever, fire breaks were used in one high pressure laminate panel system, but it still failed.\n\nZoe Bartley bought a three-room flat in Chelmsford four years ago, and with her partner Ash, now has a baby.\n\nThey are desperate to move to a bigger home, but the cladding crisis means they cannot sell the flat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zoe Bartley bought a flat in Chelmsford four years ago but can't sell it due to safety concerns\n\nIt has HPL panels, as well as wooden balconies and missing fire breaks,\n\nZoe finds it \"disgusting\" that the test results were not circulated more widely.\n\nThe couple are anticipating a bill of tens of thousands of pounds to remove the dangerous materials, which could bankrupt them.\n\n\"There's no finish line, and it's all-consuming at times,\" Zoe says.\n\n\"We are very angry that we've been put in this situation.\n\n\"We've done everything right. Everything by the book: 'Buy a property and set yourself up for the future.'\n\n\"I might end up bankrupt by the time I'm in my 30s.\"\n\nHer building is lower than 18 metres, so does not qualify for government funding.\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group called the test results \"staggering new evidence which shows the government and its advisers knew these materials were dangerous, but simply stood back and allowed them to be installed on hundreds of thousands of buildings.\n\n\"The British state knew from this moment on that it was gambling with a disaster in a high-rise, but it chose not to act.\"\n\nJonathan Evans, director of Ash and Lacy, a major UK supplier of cladding systems, said he had never seen the results, and described them as \"really vital bits of information\" which would have helped assess fire risks after Grenfell.\n\nHe said that when poor test data is not made public, it creates a bias towards tests with successful outcomes.\n\n\"We all proceed along the route of thinking these systems are safer than they are, until there's a disaster.\"\n\nNot making poor test data public creates a bias towards tests with successful outcomes, argues Jonathan Evans\n\nHe said a lack of public information about cladding systems in the 2000s may have resulted in governments not abandoning a controversial British standard for building materials, known as Class 0.\n\nThe Grenfell Tower inquiry has heard evidence that this standard was much easier to meet than a stricter European classification, and that keeping it as an option in England and Wales allowed combustible materials to be installed on thousands of buildings.\n\nIf Class 0 had been abandoned and a ban on combustible materials introduced, Grenfell might not have happened, Dr Evans said.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) described the 2004 tests as \"experimental... for a different purpose\" than the rounds of testing ordered in the wake of the Grenfell disaster.\n\nThey were carried out to \"to check the criteria for testing\" rather than to assess the \"intrinsic safety of building materials\", officials said.\n\nThe findings fed into a review of technical standards used by building designers to assess the safety of cladding.\n\nAn MHCLG spokesman said: \"We are taking action to improve building safety where successive governments have failed, through our Building Safety Bill, which marks the biggest improvements to building safety in 40 years, with more rights and protections for residents and a £5bn investment to remove unsafe cladding.\n\n\"The new Building Safety Regulator will enforce a more stringent regulatory regime for buildings over 18m and oversee the safety and performance of all buildings, ensuring products are removed from the market if they do not meet regulation.\"\n\nThe Building Research Establishment, which carried out the tests and circulated them to the industry advisory group, refused to comment.\n\nNext month the Grenfell Tower public inquiry will begin examining evidence of what governments knew about the risks of cladding fires before the 2017 disaster, and what they did about it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nChina has criticised a historic security pact between the US, UK and Australia, describing it as \"extremely irresponsible\" and \"narrow-minded\".\n\nThe deal will see the US and UK give Australia the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time.\n\nIt is being widely viewed as an effort to counter China's influence in the contested South China Sea.\n\nThe region has been a flashpoint for years and tensions there remain high.\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the alliance risked \"severely damaging regional peace... and intensifying the arms race\".\n\nHe criticised what he called \"the obsolete Cold War... mentality\" and warned the three countries were \"hurting their own interests\".\n\nChinese state media carried similar editorials denouncing the pact, and one in the Global Times newspaper said Australia had now \"turned itself into an adversary of China\".\n\nThe US is sharing its submarine technology for the first time in 60 years, having previously only shared it with the UK.\n\nIt means Australia will be able to build nuclear-powered submarines that are faster and harder to detect than conventionally powered fleets. They can stay submerged for months and shoot missiles longer distances - although Australia says it has no intention of putting nuclear weapons on them.\n\nThe new partnership, under the name Aukus, was announced in a joint virtual press conference between US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.\n\nAnd while China was not mentioned directly, the three leaders referred repeatedly to regional security concerns which they said had \"grown significantly\".\n\n\"This is an historic opportunity for the three nations, with like-minded allies and partners, to protect shared values and promote security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region,\" a joint statement read.\n\nThe Aukus alliance is probably the most significant security arrangement between the three nations since World War Two, analysts say.\n\nIt means Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nWhile they are the big-ticket item in the deal, cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence and other undersea technologies will also be shared.\n\nAustralia will also acquire long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, and allow more US troops to be stationed in the country's north.\n\n\"This really shows that all three nations are drawing a line in the sand to start and counter [China's] aggressive moves,\" said Guy Boekenstein from the Asia Society Australia.\n\nBoris Johnson later said the pact would \"preserve security and stability around the world\" and generate \"hundreds of high-skilled jobs\".\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the BBC that China was \"embarking on one of the biggest military spends in history... Our partners in those regions want to be able to stand their own ground.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is everyone fighting over the South China Sea?\n\nIn recent years, Beijing has been accused of raising tensions in disputed territories such as the South China Sea.\n\nIt has been increasingly assertive over what it says are centuries-old rights to the contested region, and has been rapidly building up its military presence to back up those claims.\n\nThe US has bolstered its military presence too, and has been investing heavily in other partnerships in the region such as with Japan and South Korea.\n\nHaving the submarines stationed in Australia is critical to US influence in the region, analysts say.\n\nThe Western powers have also been wary of China's infrastructure investment on Pacific islands, although it remains below US and Australian spending there.\n\nChina is Australia's biggest trading partner, and in the past, the two have maintained good relations. But in recent years that has broken down.\n\nAustralia has accused Beijing of interfering in its domestic politics, blocked Chinese investment, and banned Chinese telecom giant Huawei from building Australian tech infrastructure.\n\nCanberra also echoed a call by the US last year for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus.\n\nBeijing's response was to deliver a series of trade punishments - sanctioning over a dozen Australian goods. It has slapped Australian wine with taxes of up to 200%.\n\nAustralia hopes the new alliance will also help cushion the economic blowback.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday: \"Beijing has seen over the past months that Australia will not back down and the threats of economic retaliation and pressure simply will not work.\"\n\nBut France has also reacted angrily to the new pact, because it means Australia will now abandon a $50bn (€31bn; £27bn) deal with it to build 12 submarines.\n\n\"It's really a stab in the back,\" France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Info radio. \"We had established a relationship of trust with Australia, this trust has been betrayed.\"\n\nThe European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell said he understood why France was disappointed by the deal, adding that the EU was not consulted about the new alliance.\n\n\"This forces us once again... to reflect on the need to make the issue of European strategic autonomy a priority. This shows that we must survive on our own,\" he said on Thursday.\n\nSecretary Blinken said the US cooperated \"incredibly closely\" with France and would continue to do so, adding that \"we place fundamental value on that relationship, on that partnership\".", "The Five Eyes group has successfully shared intelligence between Western powers for decades\n\nThe Five Eyes alliance is an intelligence-sharing arrangement between five English-speaking democracies: the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It evolved during the Cold War as a mechanism for monitoring the Soviet Union and sharing classified intelligence. It is often described as the world's most successful intelligence alliance. But recently it has suffered an embarrassing setback.\n\nFour of the members have jointly condemned China's treatment of its Uyghur population in Xinjiang province. They have also expressed concern over China's de facto military takeover of the South China Sea, its suppression of democracy in Hong Kong and its threatening moves towards Taiwan, which China has vowed to \"take back\" by 2049. One country, though, has opted out of confronting China: New Zealand.\n\nSurprisingly, perhaps, for a nation that prides itself on respect for human rights, New Zealand's Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta declined to join in this Western condemnation of Beijing, saying \"it felt uncomfortable\" with expanding the alliance's role by putting pressure on China in this way. Although New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted on Monday that its differences with China are becoming \"harder to reconcile\", the country still prefers to pursue its own bilateral relations with Beijing.\n\nForeign Minister Nanaia Mahuta declined to join in Western condemnation of Beijing\n\nChina's state media has made much of this, talking of a wedge been driven between the two neighbours and allies, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nChina is New Zealand's largest export market; New Zealand depends on China for close to 30% of its exports, mostly dairy products. So does Australia, but the two Antipodean neighbours clearly view China's policies in a very different light.\n\nAustralia's federal government in Canberra has vetoed a major Chinese investment in the state of Victoria which was to be part of Beijing's \"Belt and Road\" initiative, its growing acquisition of economic assets around the world.\n\nMeanwhile, China has imposed a series of damaging trade sanctions on Australia over the past year.\n\nAs the trade war between the two countries worsens, Australia's wine exports to China have reportedly dropped by 96% from the first quarter of 2020 compared to the first quarter of this year, from A$325m (£181m) to just A$12m (£6.6m). New Zealand, on the other hand, has been rewarded by Beijing with ever-closer trade relations.\n\nNew Zealand's Jacinda Ardern has taken a different China stance to Australia's Scott Morrison\n\nSo what exactly has all this got to do with intelligence-sharing? Very little, is the answer.\n\nIt was assumed last year by officials in the Five Eyes alliance that since all five nations broadly shared the same world view, then that view would also apply to China. In May 2020 the alliance agreed to expand its role away from just security and intelligence to a more public stance on respect for human rights and democracy.\n\nIn November the alliance criticised the Chinese government for stifling democracy in Hong Kong when Beijing introduced new laws that disqualified elected legislators in the former British colony. A Chinese government spokesman reacted angrily, mocking the Five Eyes alliance by declaring that \"those who dared to harm China's sovereignty would find their own eyes poked out\".\n\nNow, six months later, New Zealand's departure from the party line on China has meant that the Five Eyes' newly expanded role appears to have ground to a halt, prompting some to question whether the alliance is in trouble.\n\nBut that would be an exaggeration. This was about politics, not intelligence. New Zealand is not leaving the alliance, it is only drawing a distinction between the two. In retrospect it was an overstretch of what Five Eyes was meant for: sharing secrets.\n\nThere will almost certainly be some in New Zealand's intelligence community who feel embarrassment at this playing out so publicly. By far the majority of intelligence shared within the alliance comes from Washington. The next biggest contributor is the UK, with input from GCHQ, MI6 and MI5. Considerably smaller contributions are made by Canada and Australia.\n\nWhen it comes to New Zealand, an intelligence review conducted in 2017 found that for every 99 pieces of intelligence NZ received through the alliance, it contributed just one. So New Zealand would clearly have much to lose if it left.\n\nIn conclusion, then, is the alliance going to transcend into a unified diplomatic or political pressure group? Unlikely at this stage. Is its existence as an alliance for intelligence-sharing between allies in trouble? No.", "Simon Coveney faced criticism for his handling of the appointment of Katherine Zappone as a UN special envoy.\n\nIrish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has survived a confidence vote in the Dáil (Irish parliament) following a controversial appointment.\n\nFor weeks, he has been criticised for his handling of the appointment of former government minister Katherine Zappone as a UN special envoy.\n\nHe denied he was lobbied to appoint her but apologised for not informing members of the cabinet.\n\nHe won a confidence motion by 92 votes to 59.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Coveney said he regretted the \"preventable controversy\" over Ms Zappone's appointment, admitting he should have taken the issue more seriously when he was first questioned about it in the summer.\n\nHowever, he insisted the appointment was \"in no way corrupt or dishonest\".\n\nMs Zappone later turned down the job, saying the controversy had undermined the legitimacy of the envoy role.\n\nMr Coveney's party, Fine Gael, is in a coalition government with both Fianna Fáil and the Green Party.\n\nOn 27 July 2021 he informed cabinet ministers that Ms Zappone would become the new \"Special Envoy to the UN for Freedom of Opinion and Expression\".\n\nHowever, the job had not been advertised and it later emerged that neither Fianna Fáil nor Green Party ministers knew about her appointment, including the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin.\n\nKatherine Zappone is a former government minister and a high-profile LGBT rights campaigner\n\nThe Republic's biggest opposition party, Sinn Féin, tabled a motion of no confidence in Mr Coveney on Wednesday - the first day the Dáil (Irish parliament) returned from its summer recess.\n\nBut the government put down a counter confidence motion to be voted on by TDs (members of parliament).\n\nThe taoiseach has described Mr Coveney's failure to inform his government colleagues before the appointment as an \"oversight\".\n\nMr Martin warned Fianna Fáil TDs that they faced a six-month suspension from the parliamentary party if they did not support Mr Coveney in Wednesday's vote.\n\nThe taoiseach's response caused internal divisions within his own party.\n\nBefore the vote on Wednesday evening, Fianna Fáil TD Marc MacSharry resigned from the parliamentary party and insisted he would be voting no confidence in Mr Coveney.\n\nMr MacSharry, who is a long-time critic of Mr Martin, claimed Fianna Fáil policy was currently being \"determined in a fashion consistent with an undemocratic totalitarian regime\".\n\nEarlier in the controversy, it emerged Mr Coveney's party leader Leo Varadkar had not been aware of the special envoy appointment until a week before cabinet, when Ms Zappone texted him about it.\n\nIn messages released by Mr Varadkar in September, he showed that he subsequently asked Mr Coveney about the role before the cabinet meeting in July.\n\nMs Zappone replied her contract was soon to be finalised.\n\nOn 4 August, Ms Zappone announced she would not take on the special envoy position as she believed \"it is clear that criticism of the appointment process has impacted the legitimacy of the role itself\".\n\nSinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald has called for Mr Coveney to be sacked, branding his actions as not being \"of the standard expected of a minister\".\n\nThe Labour Party indicated it did not have confidence in the government but leader Alan Kelly said there were \"bigger issues\" than the row.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Coveney told a party conference he was \"embarrassed\" the appointment had led to a \"fiasco\".\n\n\"It's not been my finest month in politics,\" he said.", "William and Lorna Middleton on their wedding day\n\nA woman is facing a life sentence after being convicted of murdering her husband in a stabbing attack at their home.\n\nLorna Middleton, 36, stabbed William Middleton, 38, in the heart after claiming he had failed to stick up for her in a row with a stranger.\n\nPolice found Mr Middleton lying in a pool of blood at the flat in Clydebank. Two knives were lying near his body.\n\nHis wife later told officers: \"Revenge is a dish best served cold.\"\n\nMother-of-four Middleton later claimed she had been acting in self-defence when she carried out the attack on 26 June 2020.\n\nBut she was found guilty of murder following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nThe court heard the Middletons had people at their flat the night before the attack.\n\nWitnesses claimed Lorna Middleton got into a fight with a male stranger and threw a bottle.\n\nNeighbour James Long said Lorna Middleton later argued with her husband after he didn't \"back her up\" in the argument.\n\nThe 32-year-old stated he also saw Middleton punching William \"a couple of times on the head\" but he did not react.\n\nHe added: \"They were good punches, not to knock him out but he was more upset.\n\n\"When he was getting hit, he was sitting crying.\"\n\nWilliam briefly left the flat before returning, and this was when Middleton claimed he attacked her.\n\nHer claim was dismissed by a jury.\n\nLord Clark remanded Middleton in custody and deferred sentence until next month.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US, UK and Australian leaders welcomed what President Biden described as a \"historic step\"\n\nThe UK, US and Australia have announced a historic security pact in the Asia-Pacific, in what's seen as an effort to counter China.\n\nIt will let Australia build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, using technology provided by the US.\n\nThe Aukus pact, which will also cover AI and other technologies, is one of the countries' biggest defence partnerships in decades, analysts say.\n\nChina has condemned the agreement as \"extremely irresponsible\".\n\nForeign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said it \"seriously undermines regional peace and stability and intensifies the arms race\".\n\nChina's embassy in Washington accused the countries of a \"Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice\".\n\nThe pact also created a row with France, which has now lost a deal with Australia to build 12 submarines.\n\n\"It's really a stab in the back,\" France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Info radio.\n\nThe new partnership was announced in a joint virtual press conference between US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on Wednesday.\n\nAnd while China was not mentioned directly, the three leaders referred repeatedly to regional security concerns which they said had \"grown significantly\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said China was \"embarking on one of the biggest military spends in history\".\n\n\"It is growing its navy [and] air force at a huge rate. Obviously it is engaged in some disputed areas,\" he said. \"Our partners in those regions want to be able to stand their own ground.\"\n\nIn recent years, Beijing has been accused of raising tensions in disputed territories such as the South China Sea.\n\nOn Thursday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the pact would \"preserve security and stability around the world\" and generate \"hundreds of high-skilled jobs\".\n\nHe also said the relationship with France was \"rock solid\".\n\nThe Aukus alliance is probably the most significant security arrangement between the three nations since World War Two, analysts say.\n\nThe pact will focus on military capability, separating it from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance which also includes New Zealand and Canada.\n\nWhile Australia's submarines is the big-ticket item, Aukus will also involve the sharing of cyber capabilities and other undersea technologies.\n\n\"This is an historic opportunity for the three nations, with like-minded allies and partners, to protect shared values and promote security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region,\" the joint statement read.\n\n\"This really shows that all three nations are drawing a line in the sand to start and counter [China's] aggressive moves in the Indo-Pacific,\" said Guy Boekenstein from the Asia Society Australia.\n\nFrance's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said trust with Australia \"had been betrayed\"\n\nWestern nations have been wary of China's infrastructure investment on Pacific islands, and have also criticised China's trade sanctions against countries like Australia.\n\nAustralia had in the past maintained good relations with China, its biggest trading partner. But the relationship has broken down in recent years amid political tensions.\n\nBut there is tension now too with France, after Australia tore up the A$50bn (€31bn; £27bn) deal to build 12 submarines.\n\n\"We had established a relationship of trust with Australia, this trust has been betrayed,\" Mr Le Drian said.\n\nThese submarines are much faster and harder to detect than conventionally powered fleets. They can stay submerged for months, shoot missiles longer distances and also carry more.\n\nHaving them stationed in Australia is critical to US influence in the region, analysts say.\n\nThe US is sharing its submarine technology for the first time in 50 years. It had previously only shared technology with the UK.\n\nAustralia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines, after the US, UK, France, China, India and Russia.\n\nAustralia has reaffirmed it has no intention of obtaining nuclear weapons.\n\nMeanwhile New Zealand said it would ban Australia's submarines from its waters, in line with an existing policy on the presence of nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nNew Zealand, although a Five Eyes member, has been more cautious in aligning with either the US or China in the Pacific.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her nation had not been approached to join the pact.", "Pope Francis spoke to reporters while on board a flight from Slovakia to Italy\n\nThe Pope has said he does not know how to explain why some cardinals in the Catholic Church are hesitant to get the Covid-19 jab.\n\n\"It's a bit strange because humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines,\" Francis told reporters during a flight from Slovakia to Italy.\n\nThe pontiff, who is vaccinated himself, has previously encouraged people to get jabbed for the \"common good\".\n\nHe said one cardinal had ended up in intensive care with Covid-19.\n\nFrancis did not name the man he was referring to, but conservative US Cardinal Raymond Burke, 73, recently spent days on a ventilator in hospital after contracting the virus.\n\nIt is unclear whether Cardinal Burke is vaccinated or not, but in the past he has been critical of vaccination.\n\n\"Even in the College of Cardinals there are some vaccine negationists,\" the Pope told reporters aboard the Papal plane. \"But one of them, poor thing, has been hospitalised with the virus. These are the ironies of life.\"\n\nHe added that almost everyone at the Vatican was now vaccinated, and that they were \"studying how to help\" those who were hesitant.\n\n\"As children [we were vaccinated] for measles, polio - all the children were vaccinated and no one said anything,\" he exclaimed.\n\nBut the pontiff did recognise that some vaccine debates could increase fears and uncertainty about the jabs, to which he said \"we should clarify things and speak calmly\".\n\nSome religious leaders, especially in the United States, believe Catholics should be allowed to claim conscientious objection to the Covid-19 vaccines on religious grounds. However Pope Francis has disagreed with this, and said the vaccines were \"morally acceptable\" and could be used \"in good conscience\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The Gospel Truth?' Covid-19 vaccines and the danger of religious misinformation", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland are up to third in Fifa's men's world rankings, equalling their highest ever position.\n\nFollowing their defeat by Italy in the Euro 2020 final in July, England beat Hungary and Andorra 4-0 in World Cup qualifying earlier this month before drawing with Poland.\n\nGareth Southgate's men move above world champions France, who drop to fourth after two draws and a win.\n\nThe last time England were ranked third was in September 2012.\n\nBelgium remain in top spot, while Brazil are second.\n\nWales stay in 19th after a victory against Belarus sandwiched between draws against Finland and Estonia.\n\nScotland, who lost in Denmark before beating Moldova and Austria, rise four places to 45th.\n\nNorthern Ireland are also up four spots, wins over Lithuania and Estonia and a draw with Switzerland lifting them to 47th.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland have fallen from 47th to 50th after defeat by Portugal and draws with Azerbaijan and Serbia.\n\nThe Fifa rankings were first introduced in December 1992.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "The event started in London on Tuesday\n\nA controversial arms fair is being attended by the Welsh government again this year.\n\nIt follows a review into whether the administration should continue going to the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) event.\n\nA \"small number of officials\" are attending the London event, the Welsh government said.\n\nPlaid Cymru criticised the Welsh Labour government for spending public money on \"this contemptible event\".\n\nBut the Welsh Conservatives said it was right for officials to go.\n\nAerospace Wales, a trade association, is receiving financial support from the Welsh government to attend the event, which started in London on Tuesday.\n\nDSEI is held every two years and is supported by the UK government's Ministry of Defence.\n\nThe Conservative UK government has invited 62 countries to DSEI, including countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Colombia, which were on the government's 2019 human rights watch list.\n\nThe Welsh government has had a presence at the show over the last 10 years, including a stand in 2019. Ministers attended in 2015 and 2017.\n\nRather than have its own stand at this year's four day event, the government has paid for Aerospace Forum Wales to \"lead Wales' presence\".\n\nThe forum describes itself as the \"trade association for all companies operating in the aerospace, defence and space sectors in Wales\" and will have its own stand.\n\nThe Welsh government said a \"small number\" of officials have also been sent to support companies \"with a presence in Wales such as Airbus, Thales, General Dynamics, Jacobs and Qinetiq\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"These companies are a major part of Wales aerospace, cyber security and defence sectors which has a collective value of at least £4bn and employs more than 18,000 people in Wales.\n\n\"Welsh government officials will also be engaging with companies looking to invest in Wales and will be meeting a number of SMEs regarding investment, innovation and job creation opportunities.\"\n\nThe event is a showcase for the UK's arms industry\n\nJohn Walley, chief executive of Aerospace Wales, said: \"We believe it's important for the UK and Wales from a national security point of view, I don't think it's for us to abrogate responsibility for defending the country.\"\n\nA UK government spokeswoman said: \"Defence and security exports support 250,000 jobs across the UK and contribute over £1.8 billion to the economy.\n\n\"We always undertake strict checks before inviting foreign governments to export summits, including DSEI 2021.\"\n\nSix companies were supported to join the Welsh government at the 2019 event.\n\nSpeaking at the time, First Minister Mark Drakeford said he would review his government's presence at future events, but said officials were present \"to support important Welsh companies that operate, not directly in the arms area, but in other issues, such as cyber security\".\n\nThe Welsh government has since confirmed that Radnor Range, a weapons and explosives testing range, was one of the companies on its stand.\n\nIn a Freedom of Information response to the Declassified UK website, the Welsh government said it spent £85,350 on the DSEI 2019 event itself and £9,851.28 on expenses for 12 officials.\n\nA Welsh Conservative spokesman said: \"This vitally important sector is worth more than £19 billion to the UK economy and Wales gets to reap the benefits from the jobs that the sector provides.\"\n\n\"It's right the Welsh government are in attendance to support Welsh businesses at the event, and we hope that any future cooperation agreements with Plaid Cymru does not mean leaving Welsh business in the sector high and dry.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's spokesperson on international affairs, Heledd Fychan, said: \"Plaid Cymru condemns any action that supports the development and sale of weapons of mass destruction.\n\n\"The Welsh government should be working to prevent such action, but instead are putting public money towards the continued support of this contemptible event.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS authorities are searching for a Florida woman who went missing during a road trip with her fiancé.\n\nGabrielle \"Gabby\" Petito, 22, has not spoken to her family since late August, when she was visiting Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park with her boyfriend.\n\nPolice say the boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, 23, who has returned home, is now a person of interest in the case.\n\nThe couple had been documenting their cross-country campervan trip on social media.\n\nMr Laundrie returned to their Florida home on 1 September, police say. Ms Petito's parents reported her missing 10 days later.\n\nBut police say although Mr Laundrie is refusing to speak to them about her disappearance, he has not been charged with any crime.\n\n\"We are pleading with anyone, including Brian, to share information with us on her whereabouts in the past few weeks,\" said North Port police chief Todd Garrison.\n\n\"The lack of information from Brian is hindering this investigation. The answers will eventually come out.\"\n\n\"In my experience, intimate partners are often the first person law enforcement focuses their attention on in cases like this and the warning that 'any statement made will be used against you' is true, regardless of whether my client had anything to do with Ms Petito's disappearance.\n\n\"As such, on the advice of counsel Mr Laundrie is not speaking on this matter,\" Mr Bertolino said.\n\nMs Petito's family have called on Mr Laundrie to give answers, including when he last saw her and \"why he left Gabby all alone and drove her van to Florida\".\n\n\"These are critical questions that require immediate answers,\" they said in a statement.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Thursday, Ms Petito's father urged the public to provide information that could help in the case.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Grand Teton National Park This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe couple set off on a nomadic nationwide road trip in a white Ford Transit van in July, posting updates on social media.\n\nThey filmed themselves smiling, kissing, and running on beaches in a YouTube video, \"Beginning Our Van Life Journey\", which has been viewed over 600,000 times.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by bizarre_design_ This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwo weeks before Ms Petito went missing, on 12 August, police in the southern Utah town of Moab were called to a possible domestic violence incident involving the couple.\n\nPolice released bodycam footage which showed Ms Petito crying and complaining about her mental health to officers. She also said the couple had been arguing more frequently.\n\nThe officers recommended they spend the night apart but did not file any charges. It is not yet known what happened next.\n\nPolice have now seized the van and are examining it for clues.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Legal action could end up closing us down.\"\n\nCare home owners have said they are struggling to find insurance against Covid-19 claims, which could lead to closures.\n\nThey want the Welsh government to provide an indemnity similar to the one which protects the NHS.\n\nAnd they have also called the UK government's backing of insurance indemnity for live events a \"slap in the face\" for the care sector.\n\nThe Welsh government said it is a UK-wide issue.\n\nIt added it was working with other governments to find a solution.\n\nPublic liability insurance is a legal requirement for care home registration but owners have reported the cost has doubled or trebled in some cases.\n\nBut the insurance does not protect from claims relating to Covid-19, leaving homes vulnerable to potentially high pay-outs - unlike within the NHS, where the government provides this indemnity, or protection.\n\nThe risk, along with other challenges the sector has faced during the pandemic, could lead to more homes closing.\n\nMary Wimbury, chief executive of Care Forum Wales, said those in the sector were \"very let down\" because they feel the care they have provided for vulnerable people was treated as less important than the music and live events industry.\n\nLast month, the UK government announced a £750m scheme which protects music festivals and live events if they have to cancel because of Covid-19.\n\nMs Wimbury called on the Welsh government to introduce an indemnity scheme similar to that and the one which protects the NHS from claims.\n\n\"If a care home was to be sued, they might not be covered at all and potentially would have to close,\" she said.\n\n\"The care sector has kept caring for really vulnerable people and it's had to do that under really difficult conditions and it does feel like a slap in the face that the UK government has given an indemnity to the music industry but not to the care sector.\"\n\nOwners also said it makes them more risk averse when it comes to visitors.\n\nBethan Mascarenhas, manager of The Old Vicarage in Llangollen, Denbighshire, said while they had not had any cases of Covid, it was still one of the biggest risks and legal action could lead to the home closing.\n\n\"This isn't us over-worrying - these are things that could potentially happen,\" she said.\n\nShe said there was an injustice, adding older people were often \"forgotten and pushed to the bottom of the priority list\".\n\n\"Everybody else is able to get back to partying and having a great time but we're asking for insurance cover so they can see their loved ones and be connected again. There's a huge disparity,\" she said.\n\nJustin Otto-Jones, who helps run Parkside House in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, called the situation \"plainly unsatisfactory\".\n\nShe added: \"It's frustrating as we have been raising this for more than a year with Welsh government.\n\n\"It is a major worry and adds to the perfect storm that care homes have been facing which includes staffing issues and fatigue.\"\n\nBill Bosson says contact with loved ones keeps him going\n\nResident at the Old Vicarage Audrey Dunbebin said: \"To be able to feel in contact with your friends and family is very nice, it makes you feel very at home.\n\n\"It is very important, it connects you with your old life.\"\n\nFellow resident Bill Bosson added: \"It's important to keep the connection all the time because if you don't I think you'd go into a recluse in as much as I'd fall out of everything, whereas they [friends and family] keep me going.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said more than £185m had been given to the adult social care sector with more coming until the end of the financial year.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Our policy on care home visiting has evolved throughout the pandemic, informed by public health advice.\"\n\nThe Association of British Insurers recognised the market for care homes was challenging and said insurers were working with care homes on managing risks to increase the chances of getting cover.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Premise managers and local authorities should speak to their insurance adviser or broker to explore their options.\"", "Britain is about to embark on a world tour - in the shape of the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by a fleet of warships.\n\nThe Royal Navy says it will be the most powerful UK naval deployment in a generation.\n\nThe government sees the fleet, named the Carrier Strike Group, as a potent symbol of \"Global Britain\" - and as proof of Boris Johnson's promise to restore the Royal Navy as Europe's foremost naval power and end what he called an \"era of retreat\".\n\nThe prime minister spent this morning on board HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth naval base, ahead of its maiden operational deployment.\n\nBut is this world tour more than a symbol of national virility or a flag-waving exercise?\n\nAnd what's the point of sailing halfway across the world?\n\nOver the next 28 weeks the Carrier Strike Group will cover 26,000 miles - further than the distance around the world at the equator.\n\nHMS Queen Elizabeth will first sail into the Mediterranean. From there, she is planning to launch her F-35 jets to conduct airstrikes over Iraq against the group known as Islamic State.\n\nIt would be the carrier's first combat operation - even though the RAF has been doing the same mission for the past seven years from its land base on Cyprus.\n\nPerhaps more controversial is the decision to then go east. The strike group will sail through the Suez Canal, out to the Indian Ocean and on to the Philippine Sea.\n\nHMS Queen Elizabeth is scheduled to make a number of port stops along way - including Oman, Singapore, South Korea and Japan.\n\nLike the US, Britain is responding to the rise of China. But unlike America, Britain has less influence and fewer resources to match.\n\nFor UK foreign policy it means a more modest \"tilt\" to Asia rather than the US \"pivot\".\n\nHMS Queen Elizabeth will be accompanied by two Royal Navy Frigates, two Destroyers, two supply ships and - beneath the surface - an Astute Class Submarine.\n\nAn American Navy Destroyer and a Dutch Frigate will be part of the strike group.\n\nThere'll also be more American jets on board the carrier: 10 US Marine Corps F-35s compared to the Britain's eight.\n\nThe government insists the addition of allies is a sign of strength rather than weakness. But it is also an indication that Britain's Armed Forces are now smaller and can do less on their own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What's it like on board HMS Queen Elizabeth?\n\nThe strike group will sail through the South China Sea where China has been expanding its claim to territorial waters.\n\nBut Defence Secretary Ben Wallace insists Britain is not looking for a \"confrontation\". Instead, he says the carrier group will exercise its right to freedom of navigation.\n\nSo do not expect a repeat of what happened in 2018 when another Royal Navy Warship, HMS Albion, deliberately sailed close to the disputed Paracel Islands, prompting an angry response from Beijing.\n\nThese sensitivities highlight ambiguities in Britain's policy towards China. The British government says it still wants a constructive relationship - not least on trade.\n\nTwo former defence chiefs have questioned the decision to send the strike group east.\n\nLord Nicholas Houghton recently told MPs that \"it was not necessarily the best way of seeking an accommodation\" with Beijing, while Lord David Richards said Britain should be focusing its attention closer to home \"on Nato and the Euro-Atlantic area\".\n\nBut the deployment has as much to do with boosting trade and strengthening diplomatic ties in the region.\n\nAt sea it'll be conducting military exercises with allies, including Japan, Australia and the US. During her port visits, HMS Queen Elizabeth will become a giant floating trade and diplomatic mission.\n\nIn the words of the head of the Royal Navy, Admiral Tony Radakin: \"Navies follow trade and trade follows navies.\"\n\nHe says this deployment shows the Navy is \"flying the flag for Britain and carrying forward the prime minister's vision\" of a \"Global Britain\".\n\nSome argue there might have been better ways of sending a strong message to China.\n\nDr Peter Roberts, director of military sciences at RUSI, a defence and security think tank, says that instead of what he calls \"a predictable, long and slow deployment\", the Royal Navy could have dispatched two of its hunter-killer submarines.\n\nIf they set off north, under the Arctic ice, and then popped up in the Pacific, he suggests, that would have had a greater impact on challenging both Russian and Chinese behaviour.\n\nThe former national security adviser, Lord Peter Ricketts, believes it still makes sense to send the carrier east as a \"symbol of working closely with allies\".\n\nThis is not least to get a return on the significant investment in the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers. But, he adds, \"this is a piece of diplomatic theatre, not a military strategy\".", "Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after a chaotic 45 days in Downing Street. But where did she come from and what makes her tick?\n\nA Remain supporter who became the darling of the Brexit-backing Conservative right wing.\n\nA former Liberal Democrat activist, who marched against Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, but claimed to be the keeper of the Thatcherite flame. It is fair to say that Mary Elizabeth Truss has been on a political journey.\n\nShe was not a household name, like her predecessor Boris Johnson, when she became PM. But she leaves having made history; serving the shortest tenure of any UK prime minister.\n\nDuring the leadership election this summer, her promise to return to fundamental Conservative values - cutting taxes and shrinking the state - proved to be exactly what party members, who got the final say over who took over from Mr Johnson, wanted to hear.\n\nAnd, crucially, as foreign secretary she had remained loyal to Mr Johnson until the bitter end, as other ministers deserted him. It won her favour with Johnson loyalists.\n\nGrassroots Tory supporters of Liz Truss saw in her the steadfast, tenacious and determined qualities they admired in Margaret Thatcher - an image Ms Truss herself has tried to cultivate.\n\nBut despite her shifting political positions and allegiances over the years, these words also come up frequently when friends and family are asked to describe her character - along with \"ambitious\".\n\nFamily: Married to accountant Hugh O'Leary with two teenage daughters\n\n\"She's a very opinionated person in terms of what she wants,\" said her brother Francis in 2017, when recalling his older sister's teenage dalliance with vegetarianism.\n\n\"When you go to a restaurant, you might be 14 but she was precocious about what she wants, what she didn't want.\"\n\nWhen the family played Cluedo or Monopoly, \"she was someone who had to win,\" added Francis in a BBC Radio 4 profile of Truss.\n\n\"She would create some special system to work out how she could win.\"\n\nMaurizio Giuliano, a university contemporary who first met her at a Liberal Democrat event, says she stood out from the other students.\n\n\"I remember her being very well-dressed compared to other 18 to 19-year-olds. She also had the demeanour of a real adult compared to what we were at that age.\n\n\"She was forceful and opinionated and she had very strong views.\"\n\nSerious political debate was the order of the day in the Truss household, according to Francis, the youngest of her three younger brothers.\n\n\"You didn't sit around talking about the latest Megadrive game at the dinner table, it was much more issues, political campaigns etc,\" he told Radio 4's Profile programme.\n\nIt must have felt inevitable that she would get involved in politics in some capacity when she grew up, but no-one in her family would have predicted the path she eventually took.\n\nBorn in Oxford in 1975, Ms Truss has described her father, a mathematics professor, and her mother, a nurse, as \"left-wing\".\n\nAs a young girl, her mother took her on marches for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, an organisation vehemently opposed to the Thatcher government's decision to allow US nuclear warheads to be installed at RAF Greenham Common, west of London.\n\nThough she is now proudly a Conservative from Leeds, back then she was a Scottish liberal.\n\nThe family moved to Paisley, just west of Glasgow, when Ms Truss was four-years-old.\n\nIn a BBC interview, she recalled shouting \"Maggie, Maggie, Maggie - oot, oot, oot,\" in a Scottish accent, as she took part in marches.\n\nThe Truss family later decamped to Leeds, where she attended Roundhay, a state secondary school. She has described seeing \"children who failed and were let down by low expectations\" during her time there.\n\nSome of Ms Truss's contemporaries at Roundhay have disputed her account of the school, including Guardian journalist Martin Pengelly, who wrote: \"Perhaps she is selectively deploying her upbringing, and casually traducing the school and teachers who nurtured her, for simple political gain.\"\n\nOne Roundhay school mate, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"It was a really good school, really supportive teachers. Quite a lot of us have gone on to good universities and good careers.\"\n\nAlthough not part of her friendship group, he has clear memories of the young Truss.\n\n\"She was quite studious, serious,\" he says, with a \"heavy social conscience\" and part of a group that were into environmentalism.\n\n\"I remember a school trip to Sellafield and her asking difficult questions and giving them a grilling. I remember that quite distinctly.\"\n\nAt Oxford University, Ms Truss read philosophy, politics and economics. Friends recall a well-liked, if frenetic student.\n\nThe teenage Truss caused a stir at the Lib Dem conference with her anti-monarchy stance\n\n\"I remember her determination which was very impressive for me,\" says Jamshid Derakhshan, who was studying for a postgrad degree in mathematics when Truss was an undergraduate.\n\n\"She was very quick with everything. Going around the college quickly, being everywhere.\"\n\nAs to what sort of prime minister his old friend will make, Dr Derakhshan says: \"My feeling is she's not going to be stuck with one particular idea, she's very flexible in her mind and what will be best for the time.\"\n\nMs Truss was involved in many campaigns and causes at Oxford but devoted much of her time to politics, becoming president of the university's Liberal Democrats.\n\nAt the party's 1994 conference, she spoke in favour of abolishing the monarchy, telling delegates in Brighton: \"We Liberal Democrats believe in opportunity for all. We do not believe people are born to rule.\"\n\nShe also campaigned for the decriminalisation of cannabis.\n\n\"Liz had a very strong radical liberal streak to her,\" said fellow Lib Dem student Alan Renwick in 2017.\n\n\"We were setting up the Freshers Fair stall, Liz was there with a pile of posters, saying 'Free the Weed' and she just wanted the whole stall to be covered with these posters.\n\n\"I was scurrying around after Liz trying to take these down and put up a variety of messages, rather than just this one message all over the stall.\"\n\nHer Instagram posts have seen a transformation, from candid shots posing with rhubarb... to striding out of high-level meetings flanked by assistants\n\nHer conversion to conservatism, towards the end of her time at Oxford is said to have shocked her left-leaning parents, but for Mark Littlewood, a fellow Oxford Lib Dem, it was a natural progression.\n\n\"She's been a market liberal all of her adult life,\" according to Mr Littlewood, who is now director general of the libertarian, free market think-tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs.\n\n\"Her political career reflects her ideology - she has always been highly sceptical of big government and privileged institutions who think they know best,\" Mr Littlewood said.\n\nShe clearly changed parties, but that \"was a judgement about what's the best and most likely vehicle for her to succeed in politics and get what she wants to get done,\" Mr Littlewood said.\n\nNevertheless, what she has described as her \"dubious past\" came back to haunt her as she tried to convince Tory members she was truly one of them.\n\nAt a leadership hustings in Eastbourne, some in the audience jeered, as she told them: \"We all make mistakes, we all had teenage misadventures, and that was mine.\n\n\"Some people have sex, drugs and rock and roll, I was in the Liberal Democrats. I'm sorry.\"\n\nShe had become a Conservative because she had met like-minded people who shared her commitment to \"personal freedom, the ability to shape your own life and shape your own destiny,\" she explained.\n\nAfter graduating from Oxford she worked as an accountant for Shell, and Cable & Wireless, and married fellow accountant Hugh O'Leary in 2000. The couple have two children.\n\nMs Truss stood as the Tory candidate for Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, in the 2001 general election, but lost. She suffered another defeat in Calder Valley, also in West Yorkshire, in 2005.\n\nBut, her political ambitions undimmed, she was elected as a councillor in Greenwich, south-east London, in 2006, and from 2008 also worked for the right-of-centre Reform think tank.\n\nLiz Truss became an MP in 2010\n\nConservative leader David Cameron put Ms Truss on his \"A-list\" of priority candidates for the 2010 election and she was selected to stand for the safe seat of South West Norfolk.\n\nBut she quickly faced a battle against de-selection by the constituency Tory association, after it was revealed she had had an affair with Tory MP Mark Field some years earlier.\n\nThe effort to oust her failed and Ms Truss went on to win the seat by more than 13,000 votes.\n\nShe co-authored a book, Britannia Unchained, with four other Conservative MPs elected in 2010, which recommended stripping back state regulation to boost the UK's position in the world, marking her out as a prominent advocate of free market policies on the Tory benches.\n\nDuring a BBC leadership debate, she was challenged about a comment in Britannia Unchained, describing British workers as \"among the worst idlers in the world\". She insisted she had not written it.\n\nIn 2012, just over two years after becoming an MP, she entered government as an education minister and in 2014 was promoted to environment secretary.\n\nAt the 2014 Conservative conference, she made a speech in which she said, in an impassioned voice: \"We import two-thirds of our cheese. That. Is. A. Disgrace.\"\n\nThe speech was little noticed at the time, but it has taken on a life of its own on social media, attracting much mockery and becoming widely shared.\n\nTwo years later came arguably the biggest political event in a generation - the EU referendum.\n\nMs Truss campaigned for Remain, writing in the Sun newspaper that Brexit would be \"a triple tragedy - more rules, more forms and more delays when selling to the EU\".\n\nHowever, after her side lost, she changed her mind, arguing that Brexit provided an opportunity to \"shake up the way things work\".\n\nBecoming the first female Lord Chancellor and justice secretary in 2016\n\nUnder Theresa May's premiership, she became the first female Lord Chancellor and justice secretary, but she had several high-profile clashes with the judiciary.\n\nHer initial failure to defend judges after they were branded \"enemies of the people\" by the Daily Mail, when they ruled Parliament had to be given a vote on triggering Brexit, upset the legal establishment.\n\nShe later issued a statement supporting the judges, but she was criticised by Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd as \"completely and absolutely wrong\" for not speaking out sooner.\n\nAfter 11 months as justice secretary, she was demoted to chief secretary to the Treasury.\n\nWhen Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019, Ms Truss was moved to international trade secretary - a job which meant meeting global political and business leaders to promote UK PLC.\n\nLiz Truss held a frosty joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in the weeks before the invasion of Ukraine\n\nIn 2021, aged 46, she moved to one of the most senior jobs in government, taking over from Dominic Raab as foreign secretary.\n\nIn this role she has sought to solve the knotty problem of the Northern Ireland Protocol, by scrapping parts of a post-Brexit EU-UK deal - a move the EU fiercely criticised.\n\nShe secured the release of two British-Iranian nationals who had both been arrested and detained in Iran.\n\nAnd when Russia invaded Ukraine in February she took a hard line, insisting all of Vladimir Putin's forces should be driven from the country.\n\nBut she faced criticism for backing people from the UK who wanted to fight in Ukraine.\n\nHer decision to pose for photographs in a tank while visiting British troops in Estonia, was seen as an attempt to emulate Margaret Thatcher, who had famously been pictured aboard a Challenger tank in 1986. It also fuelled speculation that she was on leadership manoeuvres.\n\nClaims she was deliberately trying to channel Thatcher grew even louder when she posed for a photograph in a white pussy bow collar of the kind favoured by the Iron Lady.\n\nBut she has always dismissed such criticism, telling GB News: \"It is quite frustrating that female politicians always get compared to Margaret Thatcher while male politicians don't get compared to Ted Heath.\"\n\nLiz Truss posed for official shots in a tank whilst visiting British troops in Estonia last year\n\nMs Truss's campaign for the party leadership was not free of controversy.\n\nPressed on how she would tackle the cost-of-living crisis, she said she would focus her efforts on \"lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts\".\n\nShe has been forced to scrap a plan to link public sector pay to regional living costs by a backlash from senior Tories who said it would mean lower pay for millions of workers outside London.\n\nAnd she called Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon an \"attention seeker\", adding it was best to \"ignore her\".\n\nShe also got into a spat with French President Emmanuel Macron, who accused her of \"playing to the gallery\" at a leadership hustings. Asked if Mr Macron was a \"friend or foe\", she had said the jury was still out.\n\nBut it was domestic issues, or rather one domestic issue, that dominated the sometimes fractious leadership contest with Rishi Sunak.\n\nMs Truss's response to the cost-of-living crisis was always likely to define her premiership. And ultimately her time in Downing Street began to rapidly unravel following her disastrous \"mini-budget\".\n\nLiz Truss now becomes the shortest-serving prime minister in UK history.", "There has been no evidence that recent major events including the TRNSMT festival have sparked a spike in Covid cases, the national clinical director has said.\n\nAbout 50,000 music fans descended on Glasgow Green for each of the three days of TRNSMT last weekend.\n\nEveryone attending had to provide proof of a negative lateral flow test.\n\nHealth boards had expressed concern in the run-up to the event about the impact on the NHS.\n\nBut Prof Jason Leitch has said early data suggested worries it would become a \"superspreader\" event were so far unfounded.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, he said he believed recent high infection rates may have peaked.\n\nHe said: \"I am more hopeful that this number is going to stabilise and fall. We've got no sign of TRNSMT causing us big levels of infection and I would have expected that to start to come through by now. But it is early days.\"\n\nProf Leitch added: \"Further education has been back for a few weeks now and again, no big spike from them.\"\n\nA pandemic-high daily figure of 7,113 new infections was recorded on 29 August but this week numbers appeared to be falling, with daily case numbers remaining below 6,000.\n\nProf Leitch said that crowds of vaccinated fans were safer than crowds of unvaccinated fans\n\nProf Leitch said he had been helping to prepare advice for Scottish government ministers on the introduction of vaccine passports.\n\nHe said it was \"up to politicians what they did with the information\" but that \"vaccinated crowds are safer than unvaccinated crowds\".\n\nScotland has recently seen the biggest surge in confirmed cases since the pandemic began.\n\nDaily cases began rising at the beginning of August and reached an all-time high on 29 August, when 7,113 infections were recorded. However, average daily cases have now been falling for several days.\n\nGiven that the TRANSMT festival was only a few days ago, it's perhaps too early to say for sure that it isn't contributing significantly to infection levels.\n\nBut any jump in cases caused by the event could be difficult to detect using the daily confirmed cases data.\n\nInfections may be declining, but there's still a lot of noise with more than 5,000 cases being recorded a day on average.\n\nA local increase in cases in the Glasgow area will also not necessarily be an indication infections were spreading at the festival.\n\nCases are assigned to a region from the address of the infected person, not where they were infected, and music fans will have travelled from all over Scotland to go to TRANSMT.\n\nReacting to claims from SPFL chief Neil Doncaster that it would be very difficult to check that all football fans attending games have a vaccine passport, Prof Leitch said the case for spot checks was a valid one.\n\nHe also highlighted the use of staggered arrival times, already a feature at some football and rugby fixtures.\n\nProf Leitch said: \"60,000 people at Hampden all arriving at once does create some logistical difficulties, so we have had conversations with those sectors pretty much every day and we are working on what the final recommendations will be for ministers to decide.\n\n\"Spot checks is not a ridiculous idea but we just need to get the balance right between checking 60,000 and checking six, so somewhere in there is a sweet spot.\n\n\"We don't want to make football or rugby a chore, so there are a variety of options available. Staggered entry is one of them. Spot checks is another.\"\n\nThe national clinical director said he still hoped that a requirement to show vaccine status to attend certain events would encourage young people to take up the offer of a jab.\n\nHe said other countries around the world which had introduced similar schemes had seen it incentivise vaccination, particularly in younger people.\n\n\"The reality is when you look at vaccination numbers they go up,\" he said. \"I can't tell you if that's going to happen here. But I am hopeful.\"\n\nProf Leitch said that, whatever the Scottish government decided to implement, the public was likely to face continued restrictions.\n\n\"Let's remember the fundamental principle of this,\" he said. \"We have got more than 4,000 cases a day, 30 deaths yesterday.\n\n\"Inconvenience is something we've had for the past 18 months, and inconvenience is going to continue until we can get on top of this wave.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJohn Lewis is chartering a fleet of extra ships, along with a number of other businesses, to make sure it has Christmas stock on time.\n\nRetailers have been grappling with a host of supply chain problems from driver shortages to shipping delays.\n\nJohn Lewis chair Sharon White said the business was throwing everything at the issues to make sure Christmas would not be disrupted.\n\nThe retailer recorded a pre-tax loss of £29m for the six months to 31 July.\n\nThat compares with a £635m loss for the same period last year. Sales for the group rose by 6%, aided by strong demand for homeware, fashion, nursery furnishing and Waitrose online grocery sales.\n\nJohn Lewis has 34 department stores and 331 Waitrose supermarket stores alongside its online operation.\n\n\"We're acting hard and we're acting fast to make sure we can still deliver a fantastic sparkly Christmas to our customers,\" Ms White told the BBC.\n\nShe added that the department store chain had introduced a host of measures to help manage labour shortages: \"We've raised wages for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers and we're really beginning to see the results of that.\"\n\nThere is now a shortage of more than 100,000 drivers in the UK, out of a pre-pandemic total of about 600,000, a Road Haulage Association survey of its members estimates.\n\nThis has led to a chronic lack of materials for the construction sector, such as cement and timber, as well as problems for the manufacturing sector.\n\nChristmas is when many retailers make most of their profits, including John Lewis.\n\nAnd it's throwing everything at it to make sure its stock arrives on time. The pandemic has wreaked havoc for the flow of goods around the world.\n\nThere's still a shortage of containers and it's also tough getting a space on the vast ships that carry them from China.\n\nFreight costs have also rocketed. And if your stock does turn up as planned, you've got to make sure you have drivers to get the goods to distribution centres and on to stores.\n\nAdd in the uncertainty over Covid and no wonder retailers are even more nervous than usual about the all important festive season.\n\nMs White said the John Lewis Christmas campaign in stores would be delayed by two weeks.\n\nJohn Lewis said it was focusing on expanding its products and offerings for the holiday season, including 10 new Christmas emporiums in John Lewis and expanding areas related to the department store within Waitrose supermarkets.\n\nHowever, Ms White sought to temper expectations: \"We're not through Covid and there's more uncertainty than we would like.\"\n\nJohn Lewis has announced plans to recruit more than 7,000 temporary workers for the winter\n\nShe said there were still containers stuck in various parts of the world.\n\n\"We're acting at every single part in the supply chain to ensure that Christmas is saved this year,\" she said.\n\n\"Our customers hopefully won't see anything,\" she added. \"We're on track. But so far, we don't see any significant problems.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the retailer announced plans to recruit more than 7,000 temporary workers for the winter.\n\nThe partnership is hiring people for its supermarkets, department stores and warehouses, including delivery drivers for its online grocery division.\n\nIt is also looking to fill 550 permanent, full-time, driver and warehouse jobs.\n\nNew joiners will be offered free food and drink to \"help ensure we can attract the help we need\", it said.", "Detectives will take no further action over Martin Bashir's BBC interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police looked at an independent review of the methods used to obtain the 1995 interview, but had \"not identified evidence of activity that constituted a criminal offence\".\n\nThe review, by Lord Dyson, found Bashir had used deception to secure it.\n\nPrinces William and Harry say the interview fuelled their mother's \"fear, paranoia and isolation\".\n\nBashir, who was most recently the BBC's religion editor before resigning earlier this year, rejected the claim, but apologised to the princes and Diana's wider family.\n\nThe journalist told the Sunday Times that Diana was never unhappy about the content of the interview and said they remained friends after the programme aired.\n\nThe Dyson report found the BBC lacked transparency over the programme and that Bashir had acted in a \"deceitful\" way to persuade Diana to submit to the interview.\n\nIt also found the BBC covered up what it had learnt about how Bashir secured the interview, but that a 1995 letter from Diana said she had \"no regrets\" concerning the matter.\n\nMartin Bashir has now left the BBC after returning to become its religion correspondent and later editor\n\nIn the interview, Diana famously said: \"There were three of us in this marriage\". It was the first time a serving royal had spoken so frankly about life in the Royal Family.\n\nMillions of viewers heard her speak about an unhappy marriage to the Prince of Wales, their affairs and her bulimia.\n\nIn a statement, Scotland Yard said: \"In March 2021, the Metropolitan Police Service determined it was not appropriate to begin a criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful activity in connection with a documentary broadcast in 1995.\n\n\"Following the publication of Lord Dyson's report in May, specialist detectives assessed its contents and looked carefully at the law - once again obtaining independent legal advice from Treasury Counsel as well as consulting the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\n\"As a result, the MPS has not identified evidence of activity that constituted a criminal offence and will therefore be taking no further action.\"\n\nThe BBC has issued what it described as a \"full and unconditional apology\" for the way the interview was obtained.\n\nTim Davie, the BBC director general, said in May: \"While today's BBC has significantly better processes and procedures, those that existed at the time should have prevented the interview being secured in this way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Neil tells BBC Question Time he was a \"minority of one\" at GB News\n\nFormer BBC presenter Andrew Neil says he left GB News over the direction the channel was taking, saying he became a \"minority of one\" within management.\n\nThe journalist told BBC Question Time he would let people \"make up their own minds\" over whether his exit was because the channel was too right wing.\n\nHe also described the launch of the new station as not a \"startling success\".\n\nNeil resigned on Monday as lead presenter and chairman just three months after the channel went to air.\n\nIn a statement at the time, he said he had decided to \"reduce [his] commitments on a number of fronts\" - something he repeated on BBC One - and wished it well for the future.\n\nIn response, GB News said: \"Andrew is without doubt one of the finest journalists and interviewers in this country.\n\n\"GB News thanks him for his 12 months of leadership, wisdom and advice, and we wish him well.\"\n\nThe TV channel launched in June, promising to \"change the face of news and debate in the UK\".\n\nIt recruited a number of big names alongside Neil, including former BBC News presenter Simon McCoy, ITV veteran Alastair Stewart and ex-Sun journalist Dan Wootton.\n\nBut it has been troubled by low viewing figures and resignations from other staff members, including the former advisor to Boris Johnson and ex-BBC correspondent Guto Harri.\n\nNeil, 72, was on air for less than two weeks before announcing he was taking a break. amid reports that relations between him and chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos had broken down over the direction of the company.\n\nIn his first appearance since leaving the channel, Neil was asked by a Question Time audience member whether the recent resignations would lead GB News to become \"a new British Fox News\" - the US news channel popular with right-wing viewers.\n\nThe journalist said he had \"always made it clear it wouldn't be a British Fox News\", claiming the US channel \"deals in untruths, it deals in conspiracy theories, and it deals in fake news\".\n\nHe added: \"That is not my kind of journalism and I would never have set out to do that.\"\n\nBut pressed on whether the comparison was why he left, Neil said: \"I will let you draw your own conclusions as to why I am here tonight and not with GB News.\"\n\nHe added: \"In the run-up to the launch, through the launch and in the aftermath of the launch and I think most of you who know anything about it will know you couldn't file the launch under startling success, more and more differences emerged between myself and the other senior managers and the board of GB News.\n\n\"And rather than these differences narrowing, they got wider and wider and I felt it was best that if that's the route they wanted to take then that's up to them, it's their money.\"\n\nPushed again by presenter Fiona Bruce on whether the channel had gone \"too far to the right\", Neil said: \"People should make up their own minds on that.\n\n\"What I have told you is the differences were such, the direction they were going in was not the direction that I had outlined, it was not the direction that I had envisaged for the channel and I was in the minority of one.\n\n\"So it is doing what it is doing and it is up to them, good luck to them if that is what they want to do, but it wasn't going to be with me.\"", "Mathew Richards, who lives about half a mile from Walleys Quarry, was born with chronic lung disease\n\nA mother has won a High Court battle over the regulation of a landfill site accused of emitting noxious gases that risk shortening her son's life.\n\nLawyers representing Mathew Richards say hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas from Walleys Quarry, in Staffordshire, has worsened his underlying health issues.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) must now take more action to control emissions.\n\nMr Justice Fordham said he was not satisfied the EA had complied with its legal duties.\n\nIn delivering the court's 55-page judgement, Mr Justice Fordham said he was \"satisfied that there is a direct effect on Mathew's home, family life and private life from adverse effects of severe environmental pollution\".\n\nMathew's mother Rebecca Currie, who lives approximately 400m (1,312 ft) away from the landfill, said she was \"overwhelmed\" and felt a sense of \"weird relief that my son is now going to breathe fresh air\".\n\n\"It really has not been nice but I am hoping now Mathew is going to be able to go out and play in the garden, go to the local park and not be poisoned,\" she said.\n\n\"The thought that a government body, the Environment Agency, was letting this happen and basically it was killing my son... I was really, really, angry and just glad now they've got to do something about it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebecca Currie said the decision would be life-changing for thousands of people around the landfill\n\nThe family's solicitor Rebekah Carrier said it had been a \"David and Goliath case, where a mother has faced up to the government agency which is supposed to protect public health and yet has failed so badly to do so\".\n\nShe said if the EA failed to take the action set out by the court then further legal action might be taken.\n\nRebekah Carrier, the family's solicitor, said the case had been a \"David and Goliath\" battle between a mother and a government agency\n\nIn response, the Environment Agency said: \"We have every sympathy with the local community, who should not have to live with the distress caused by landfill gas being released from Walleys Quarry.\n\n\"We will continue to use our regulatory powers to require Walleys Quarry Ltd to bring hydrogen sulphide emissions under control.\"\n\nThe landfill's operator, Walleys Quarry Ltd, said it noted the judgement and would take advice on what it means in practice \"given significant changes have been in progress for some time\".\n\nCEO Nigel Bowen said: \"We will work with the Environment Agency and other local stakeholders to continue our work to mitigate local concerns and update the community as appropriate.\"\n\nThe High Court said \"real and significant change\" was required \"as a matter of urgency\"\n\nLawyers representing the mother told a two-day High Court hearing in August there was a \"public health emergency\" and argued H2S emissions were affecting \"hundreds and probably thousands of local people\" near the site in Silverdale, near Newcastle-under-Lyme.\n\nThey asked for a court order requiring the EA to take \"effective measures\" to remove the risk to Mathew's life and his family's home posed by the noxious gas, which has a pungent eggy odour.\n\nMathew was born prematurely at 26 weeks with a chronic lung disease and needed oxygen support for 19 months. His doctor told the hearing the emissions were preventing his recovery and he risked developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the future.\n\nMrs Currie said it had been horrendous seeing her son cough, choke and vomit, adding: \"You are going in his bedroom in the morning and you are just like hit by a brick wall of this toxic gas.\"\n\nIn response, the EA had argued there was not a real and immediate risk to the five-year-old's life and it had already taken measures to monitor and control air quality levels.\n\nResidents have staged protests over the landfill site\n\nAfter considering the evidence, Mr Justice Fordham ruled \"real and significant change\" was required \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nWhile he said he would not rule if there was a current breach by the watchdog, he said he was \"not satisfied, on the evidence, that the EA has yet addressed its legal duties in the way that it must\".\n\nThe judge called on the EA to ensure off-site odours are reduced and that daily H2S levels are cut to a safe level by January 2022, to meet standards set out by authorities in the United States and by Public Health England.\n\nThat would mean reducing concentrations of hydrogen sulphide in the area to one part per billion, less than an eighth of the current levels.\n\nHe said the measures should \"make a very real difference so far as the air which Mathew (and his community) breathes\".\n\nOne of the Environment Agency's duties is to tell polluters what they must do to clean up the mess they have created.\n\nAt the same time its decisions and actions must take into account basic protections that everybody has under the Human Rights Act.\n\nIn this unprecedented case, Mathew's lawyers argued that the EA had failed to protect his right to life because it had not come up with a plan, given the real and immediate risk that he faced.\n\nThe judge's ruling is highly significant because it forces the agency to make sure the action plan it must now come up with takes into account the little boy's long-term health prospects.\n\nThe judgment could play a role in future environment cases where someone else can similarly show that there is a real risk that their life will be shortened later by a failure to act against pollution now.\n\nThe EA said it would \"seek to appeal some aspects of the judgment\", but it \"in no way affects or changes our determination to tackle the problems at this site in the interests of the claimant, the community and the environment\".\n\nThe EA was refused leave to appeal by the High Court, but could take the case to the Court of Appeal.\n\nMs Carrier said she hoped the regulator would \"put these complex legal proceedings behind it and get on and do its job and protect the people of Silverdale\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's University says its rooms are oversubscribed.\n\nQueen's University Belfast (QUB) has said it is \"unlikely\" to offer a room to any student living less than 40 miles from the university.\n\nThey have told students living within that radius to make \"alternative travel and accommodation arrangements\".\n\nBut students living more than 40 miles away have also been told they may not get a room until mid-October.\n\nIt was laid out in an email sent to some students who had applied for rooms in halls of residence.\n\nQUB had previously offered students a £1,500 deal to withdraw from its accommodation.\n\nIt said due to \"unprecedented\" demand, accommodation in its halls was oversubscribed.\n\nAbout 3,500 students each year live in halls of residence run by the university.\n\nQueen's previously offered students £1,500 to pull out of their accommodation offer\n\nOn Wednesday night, some students who had applied for QUB's rooms for the 2021/22 academic year received a further update by email.\n\nThe university apologised \"for the upset caused by the uncertainty of the past few weeks\" and said it was doing all it could \"to find solutions\".\n\nQueen's said the financial package to withdraw from accommodation had been accepted by \"several hundred students\" and they were still working to secure additional rooms, including at Ulster University's Jordanstown campus.\n\n\"In prior years, the 3,400 rooms provided by the university has been enough to meet all our requirements,\" QUB said.\n\n\"This year, despite securing an additional 770 rooms, we are still unable to meet demand which hopefully gives you some idea of the size of the challenge we have faced.\n\n\"We continue to work tirelessly to secure other options but it may be mid to late October before some of these become available.\n\n\"We will be allocating all available accommodation by distance lived from Queen's.\n\n\"Presently, it is unlikely we will be able to offer a room to anyone who lives within a 40 mile radius of the university.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. QUB offers students £1,500 deal not to take up halls of residence\n\nHowever, students living more than 40 miles from QUB were not guaranteed a room for the start of term.\n\n\"We strongly advise students who have not yet received an accommodation offer and who live outside the 40-mile radius, to make travel arrangements for the first three to four weeks of term as it is unlikely you will be able to move into your accommodation before mid-October,\" the university email said.\n\nOne QUB student from Londonderry who contacted BBC News NI said the move would mean they would have to take a bus to Belfast and back every day until then.\n\nThe university said it would start to make room offers by email from Monday 20 September.\n\nHowever, if students did not accept within 24 hours their room would be offered to another student.\n\nQUB also said, however, they were \"working with a range of local hotels\" to enable students to book rooms \"for one or two nights per week\" if necessary.", "Universities say much teaching will be in person, but \"large lectures\" could stay online\n\nStudents in England pay some of the highest tuition fees in the world - but that will not be sustainable if much of the teaching stays online, says an international education report.\n\nStudents will also expect the \"social life of campus\", says a report from the OECD group of industrialised countries.\n\nThe report also warned of huge regional differences in graduate numbers.\n\nThe proportion of graduates in London's working-age population is 79% higher than the north-east of England.\n\nRecord numbers of UK students are going to start at university this term - and the annual report from the OECD says those in England will pay higher tuition fees for public universities - £9,250 per year - than any other developed country.\n\nThis doesn't include some of the prestigious private universities, such as in the United States, but OECD education expert Andreas Schleicher suggested that students at English universities will expect to have much more than online lessons for such high fees.\n\n\"I think this is going to be a real challenge,\" said Mr Schleicher.\n\n\"Students go to university to meet great professors, to watch with colleagues, to experience a social life,\" he told an event launching the report, which compares education systems around the industrialised world.\n\nIf too much of university life remained online, he said, it would fundamentally challenge the \"value proposition\" of tuition fees.\n\nUniversities had to put much teaching online during the pandemic - and last week the former education secretary Gavin Williamson warned universities that they needed to return to face-to-face tuition this term as much as possible.\n\nUniversities UK says the \"vast majority\" of teaching and socialising will be in person, but some large lectures might remain online for \"public health reasons\".\n\nAmong the decisions facing Mr Williamson's successor, Nadhim Zahawi, will be whether to go ahead with a tuition fee cut recommended by a government-commissioned review, which called for fees of £7,500.\n\nThe new education secretary will also be promoting the \"levelling up\" agenda - and the OECD report showed that there were much wider regional differences in the spread of graduates in England than in most developed countries.\n\nIn London's local economy, the proportion of the adult working-age population with a higher education qualification was 79% higher than in the north-east of England - one of the biggest regional divides anywhere in a leading economy.\n\nThis regional gap is going to get wider, according to Ucas admission figures for this autumn's intake. The number of young people going to university has continued to climb in London and the south of England, but is going down in the north.\n\nThe numbers going to university this autumn from the north-east are lower than in 2012, according to Ucas figures.\n\nMr Schleicher, OECD education director, said the gap reflected the differences in the availability of graduate jobs across the country - but said it was a \"dangerous\" problem which was a barrier to social mobility.\n\n\"Why would you study hard when there's no high-skilled employer around you?\n\n\"It means that there's a lot of unused talent, a lot of people who have actually great potential, but do not invest in their education because they don't see the purpose of it,\" he said.\n\nThe OECD education report also highlighted a need for more support in the UK for vocational education and the early years of education.\n\nHe linked these by saying that expectations about careers and future pathways had often already been shaped before children left primary school.\n\nA spokeswoman for Universities UK defended the value of tuition fees.\n\n\"UK universities are world-leading, with the benefits of obtaining a degree here wide-ranging. Graduates in England earn on average £10,000 more per year than non-graduates, and this is only one measure of success.\n\n\"The structure of the system in England means that no student pays fees up front and repayments are made based on a graduate's ability to pay over their working life.\"", "Teenage girls can be very conscious of body image - and Instagram can make them feel worse, the internal studies showed\n\nFacebook-owned Instagram has been criticised for keeping secret its internal research into the effect social media had on teenager users.\n\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal, its studies showed teenagers blamed Instagram for increased levels of anxiety and depression.\n\nCampaign groups and MPs have said it is proof the company puts profit first.\n\nInstagram said the research showed its \"commitment to understanding complex and difficult issues\".\n\nThe Wall Street Journal's report, not disputed by Facebook, finds:\n\nIn response to the WSJ report, Instagram published a lengthy blog defending its research.\n\nThe WSJ story focused \"on a limited set of findings and casts them in a negative light\", it said, but the issue was far more complex.\n\nAccording to Facebook, people's relationship with social media is complex - it makes them feel both good and bad\n\n\"We've done extensive work around bullying, suicide and self-injury, and eating disorders, to help make Instagram a safe and supportive place for everyone,\" the company said in its post.\n\n\"Based on our research and feedback from experts, we've developed features so people can protect themselves from bullying, we've given everyone the option to hide 'like' counts and we've continued to connect people who may be struggling with local support organisations.\"\n\nIt was working on prompts to encourage people repeatedly dwelling on negative subjects to look at different topics, it said.\n\nAnd it promised to be more transparent about its research in future.\n\nBut National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children head of child safety online Andy Burrows said it was \"appalling they chose to sit on their hands rather than act on evidence\".\n\n\"Instead of working to make the site safe, they've obstructed researchers, regulators, and government and run a PR [public-relations] and lobbying campaign in an attempt to prove the opposite.\"\n\nMP Damian Collins, who is chairing the UK parliamentary committee looking at how big technology should be regulated to protect users' safety, said it was time to \"hold them to account\".\n\n\"The Wall Street Journal Facebook files investigation has exposed how the company, time and again, puts profit before harm,\" he said.\n\n\"Its own research is telling it that a large number of teen Instagram users say the service makes them feel worse about themselves - but the company just wants to make sure they keep coming back.\"\n\nThe Online Safety Bill aims to give regulator Ofcom the power to fine companies that fail to act on content that could cause harm.\n\nInstagram is popular with young children, despite a joining age of 13\n\nUS campaign group Fairplay (formerly the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood) said the news showed Instagram was no place for children.\n\n\"In a move straight out of big tobacco's playbook, Facebook downplayed the negative effects of its product and hid this research from the public and even from members of Congress who specifically asked for it,\" it said.\n\n\"And in the ultimate display of chutzpah and disregard for children, the company now wants to hook young kids on Instagram.\"\n\nFairplay also called on the US government to demand Facebook released its research and blocked its plans to launch Instagram Youth.\n\nIt was revealed earlier this year Facebook planned to create an advert-free Instagram for under-13s, designed to keep them safe.\n\nJonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University's Stern School of Business, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had met Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg to discuss the social network's effect on mental health.\n\n\"He was interested but he believes the research is ambiguous and does not point to harm,\" Mr Haidt said.\n\n\"Of course, now we know they had their own research which did suggest harm.\"\n\n\"They had focus groups, online surveys, diary studies - so this was not one chance finding.\n\n\"I wouldn't expect them to come forward the first time they find evidence of harm and say, 'Oh my God our product is harmful,' but if they have multiple sources of evidence and there is evidence outside the company too, then I think the picture is pretty clear.\"\n\nBut, he added, it would take root-and-branch changes at the company to make any difference.\n\n\"The platform encourages children to post photos of themselves, to be raided by others including strangers around the world,\" he said.\n\n\"If this is the business model, there is no way to fix it.\"", "Appointing Michael Gove as the government’s ‘levelling-up’ chief in the cabinet reshuffle will help people to understand the phrase, the chairman of the Northern Research Group of Tory backbenchers has said.\n\nJake Berry said the challenge was to “bring some definition” to the term that “means all things to all people”.\n\n“And we also need to be able to point out to people how we are getting on and doing it.”\n\nThe Rossendale and Darwen MP said the next election could be in 2023 and he reckoned Mr Gove would “relentlessly focus on shovels in the ground, demonstrating how levelling up is changing people’s lives\".\n\nOne task for Mr Gove is the big issue of planning reform. Some Tory MPs in southern England fear the plans could lead to mass house building.\n\nBut Mr Berry was more receptive, adding: “Frankly, in many parts of the north of England people are quite keen to see more houses built. I understand that’s not the same across the country, and it’s not the same all parts of the north of course.\n\n“The planning system needs reform, in my view it is a clog on economic activity, particularly the time it takes, so I do hope he will take the opportunity to look at that.\"\n\nAnd as Boris Johnson continues to appoint junior ministers, Mr Berry called on him to recruit more northern MPs into ministerial roles.", "Thousands of travellers who might have breached quarantine restrictions were never investigated by Police Scotland due to a lack of accurate data.\n\nNearly two-thirds of 6,780 referrals from Public Health Scotland (PHS) were \"weeded out\" by the force.\n\nThe police's data also revealed that more than 80% of referrals were discarded in one week in February.\n\nThe health body said all referrals had contained a Scottish address and a phone number.\n\nThe system of spot checks on people requiring to self-isolate got under way in Scotland in July last year in an effort to slow the spread of Covid, and stop new variants arriving in the country.\n\nPassenger arrivals into Scotland are provided by the Home Office to PHS, which in turn passes a sample of the data to NHS National Services Scotland, the organisation which runs the National Contact Tracing Centre.\n\nIf the Test and Protect team are unable to reach new arrivals who should be quarantining after three phone calls, PHS then passes on their contact details to Police Scotland to investigate further.\n\nSince quarantine regulations came into force, Police Scotland has received 6,780 referrals from PHS relating to potential breaches of quarantine, as of 1 September.\n\nThe number of people involved could well be higher as a single referral could include several individuals.\n\nAnalysis of data collated from weekly Police Scotland bulletins reveals that to date 4,198 (62%) of all PHS referrals were \"weeded out\" by the force before any initial investigation took place. These cases were not examined further because there was not enough information provided to track down the individual.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed these thousands of cases were closed, and never revisited.\n\nData from a separate freedom of information response also shows that in some cases the two-week quarantine window had already expired before they were referred to police.\n\nA more granular analysis reveals that as many as 81% of new referrals in early February were discarded, largely due to insufficient data.\n\nThis \"weeding out\" rate remained high in June - around the time the highly contagious Delta variant of coronavirus was spreading rapidly through the country.\n\nWhile the proportion of weekly discarded cases has since decreased to 30%, an average of 61 referrals were still screened out by police investigators in August.\n\nAccording to PHS figures there were 36,375 people who arrived in Scotland from outside the UK in the last week of August, of which 5,442 were required to quarantine.\n\nOf the 116 cases referred to police that week, almost a third were never investigated due to a lack of data.\n\nA PHS spokesperson said: \"In Scotland, the onus of responsibility to comply with travel regulations lies with the individual.\n\n\"Information that is passed to Police Scotland includes the traveller's name, date of birth, travel dates, contact details and which country they have arrived from.\n\n\"Information is also included on why the traveller was unable to be contacted by the Test and Protect team, either as a result of an incorrect or no phone number, or if the traveller did not answer the phone.\"\n\nPHS said all referrals sent to Police Scotland contain an address in Scotland and at least one phone number.\n\nWhile the health body did not address specific questions related to the accuracy of the contact data, one police document reported that a number of passenger locator forms contained incorrect details.\n\nOnce the PHS referrals have been vetted, members of a Police Scotland resolution team begin their own investigation.\n\nIf the people in question cannot be reached by telephone, police officers in the vicinity are dispatched to attend the given address in person.\n\nTo date almost half of all these referred cases did not respond to phone calls, which led to the subsequent callouts of local officers.\n\nA police report submitted to the Scottish police watchdog in June reported that \"in respect of resolved referrals, 80% of the foreign travellers were found to be complying with quarantine restrictions.\"\n\nA force spokesperson said a person's statement of compliance was taken on trust.\n\nThe remaining 20% of referrals meant approximately 400 cases were never traced.\n\nThe latest police data also shows that 18 fixed penalty notices, and six standard prosecution reports have been issued by police as of 1 September.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Speirs said: \"Our approach throughout the pandemic has not changed.\n\n\"Officers support people to follow the regulations by explaining, engaging and encouraging them to take personal responsibility.\n\n\"Officers have found that the majority of those we have spoken to after a referral from Public Health Scotland are following the rules.\n\n\"However, on occasion where people are not adhering to the regulations, enforcement has been necessary as a last resort.\"", "Marks & Spencer has said it is closing 11 of its French stores because of problems supplying them with fresh and chilled foods since Brexit.\n\nThe UK retail giant said all 11 franchise stores it operated with partner SFH in France would shut by the end of this year.\n\nM&S said supply chain problems since Brexit had made it \"near impossible\" to maintain standards of food supply.\n\nNine M&S stores run at French travel hubs will continue to operate.\n\n\"M&S has a long history of serving customers in France and this is not a decision we or our partner SFH have taken lightly,\" said Paul Friston, M&S managing director of international.\n\n\"However, as things stand today, the supply chain complexities in place following the UK's exit from the European Union now make it near impossible for us to serve fresh and chilled products to customers to the high standards they expect, resulting in an ongoing impact to the performance of our business.\n\n\"With no workable alternative for the High Street stores, we have agreed with SFH to close all 11 franchised stores.\"\n\nIts French online operation, which sells mainly clothing and home products, will not be affected by the closures.\n\nOne of the main problems Marks & Spencer was facing in France was post-Brexit bureaucracy, a spokesman said.\n\nIts partner, SFH, mainly operated shops on Paris High Streets, selling fresh food products such as sandwiches, he said.\n\nDue to hold-ups caused by red tape at the UK/French border, it was impractical to get the products to the shops.\n\nThe retailer's other French partner, Lagardere Travel Retail, runs M&S stores in French airports, railway and Metro stations.\n\nThose stores are unaffected by this decision, in part because of their location.\n\nMarks & Spencer opened its first French stores in 1975, with branches in Paris and Lyon.\n\nAfter leaving France and the rest of mainland Europe in 2001 to focus on its UK business, it then reopened in Paris in 2011.\n\nM&S said its discussions with Lagardere on a sustainable future business model continued to make good progress.\n\n\"Today's announcement is the latest change to the structure of our European businesses following the UK's exit from the European Union,\" the retailer said.\n\n\"In April earlier this year, we announced the reconfiguration of our food business in Czech Republic, removing the sale of all fresh and chilled products from stores, and instead doubling our ranges of frozen and ambient products.\n\n\"This removed the ongoing supply chain risks to our business and the knock-on impact on limiting availability for customers in our stores.\"\n\nThe export of fresh processed food from the UK to the EU is a classic example of precisely the sort of trade, built up under the single market, that was bound to be challenged by the new post-Brexit arrangements.\n\nSpecialist exporters say hundreds of pages of documents including health certificates are now required.\n\nAlthough catastrophic port delays were avoided in the immediate aftermath of Brexit earlier this year, the trade data and surveys of small businesses reveal a hit to exports to the EU.\n\nGiants such as M&S were able to muddle through, but no longer.\n\nSome exporters have also complained that imports coming the other way from the EU will be waved through now until July at least.\n\nThere had been some hope that imposing UK import controls would provide an incentive for France, the Netherlands and Germany to ease controls on their side.\n\nThat discussion is not now happening. Nor is there any move towards a veterinary agreement, of the sort the EU already enjoys with Switzerland or New Zealand, that might have eased some of the new export red tape burden.\n\nInstead, there is a private acceptance that after this Brexit deal, fewer sandwiches will be exported to France, and that is the price for the regulatory and trade freedom to export more elsewhere.\n\nSteve Dresser, managing director of Grocery Insight, said that while all retailers' sales had been affected by Covid, Marks & Spencer in France was \"another casualty of Brexit\".\n\n\"Once you add inefficiency in to any supply chain, be it trade barriers or bureaucracy, plus the need for extra manpower, there is cost that needs to be absorbed somewhere along the line.\n\n\"It's likely for the minimal returns, the numbers simply no longer made sense to M&S,\" Mr Dresser said.\n\n\"It's clear that a huge amount of management resource has been taken up getting stock in the right place for European stores,\" he added.\n\nThis include the Republic of Ireland, where Marks & Spencer has had stock shortages, \"due to the way that product is accounted for coming via Northern Ireland\". Products entering either Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland from Britain are subject to EU border processes.\n\nRetailers have been dealing with stock shortages and stock being held up at borders post-Brexit, as well as a chronic shortage of drivers, which hauliers have said is in part due to Brexit.\n\nBusinesses are faced with costs, either through having to pay for warehouses in EU countries and having cash tied up in stock, through wastage if products with a short shelf life are held up at borders, or through gaps on shelves due to supply chain problems.\n\n\"The outlook remains bleak on this front, with the deal signed by UK government tying this country to checks and delays at the borders,\" Mr Dresser said, adding that this was \"baffling\" as \"we have voted to take back control\".", "Sir Keir Starmer is \"bereft of vision\" and needs to let voters know what he stands for, Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey has told the BBC.\n\nMr McCluskey - who is standing down after 11 years at the head of Britain's biggest union - said he \"desperately hopes\" Sir Keir will be the next PM.\n\nBut he said he was not optimistic about the Labour leader's chances at the next election as things stand.\n\nHe advised Sir Keir to learn from Jeremy Corbyn - and Tony Blair.\n\nAlthough a frequent critic of Mr Blair, the Unite leader said: \"Everybody knew what he stood for before he was elected, he offered an alternative, he offered a vision.\"\n\nAnd he said Mr Corbyn had the same qualities, which \"people bought into\".\n\n\"At the moment we are bereft of a vision - and that is a real, real problem that Keir has to address,\" he added.\n\n\"I will be accused of not being helpful to Keir, but in actual fact I want to do the opposite by saying to him everybody says 'well, nobody knows what Labour stands for, nobody knows what Keir stands for'.\n\n\"And in those situations, the reality is that you don't enthuse people.\"\n\nHe argued that the only way to win back so-called Red Wall seats lost to the Conservatives was to \"unite\" the party and end attacks on the left.\n\nMr McCluskey fell out with Sir Keir when the Labour leader suspended his close ally Jeremy Corbyn from the Parliamentary party.\n\nHe has accused the party leadership of going back on a deal to reinstate Mr Corbyn - an allegation which Sir Keir's office denies.\n\nHe argued that bringing Mr Corbyn back into the Labour fold would help mend what he described as a \"broken party\" but admitted he was now \"pessimistic\" about that happening.\n\nHe was speaking to the BBC at the launch of his autobiography, Always Red.\n\nThe launch party, in a room above a Westminster pub, was packed with leading figures from the Labour left, including former shadow chancellor John McDonnell and ex-communications chief Seumas Milne.\n\nMr Corbyn gave a speech praising Mr McCluskey's leadership of Unite - and for his \"support and friendship during some very difficult times\", particularly during the failed \"coup\" against him in 2016.\n\nIn his speech, Mr McCluskey said Labour had come within \"touching distance\" of power at the 2017 general election, as the country \"embraced an unashamedly radical prospectus put forward by Jeremy Corbyn\".\n\nSpeaking afterwards, he said Labour's failure to \"respect\" the result of the Brexit referendum at the 2019 general election was the biggest mistake the party had made in recent years.\n\nSharon Graham is due take over from Mr McCluskey as Unite general secretary after winning a leadership contest in August.\n\nShe has said her focus will continue to be on workplace rights rather than internal Labour party politics or \"settling old scores\" at Westminster.\n\nIn a speech to the TUC last week, Sir Keir urged the trade union movement to work with Labour to win the next election.\n\nHe is hoping to set a new direction for the party - and his leadership - at its annual conference in Brighton at the end of the month, where he will deliver a keynote speech to delegates in person for the first time.\n\nHe has also reportedly written a 14,000 word essay, to be published on the eve of the conference, setting out what he stands for.", "Microsoft has announced users can now delete all passwords from their accounts and instead login using an authenticator app or other solution.\n\nThe technology giant made passwordless accounts available for business users of its products in March.\n\nAnd that system is now being made available to all Microsoft or Windows users.\n\nIt said \"nearly 100% of our employees\" were already using the new, more secure system for their corporate accounts.\n\nIf passwordless login is enabled, users re-logging in to a Microsoft account will be asked to give their fingerprint, or other secure unlock, on their mobile phone.\n\nAnd this is far more secure than using passwords, which can be guessed or stolen, according to Microsoft.\n\n\"Only you can provide fingerprint authentication or provide the right response on your mobile at the right time,\" it said.\n\nWindows users will still be able to use quick-login features such as a Pin code, though.\n\nSome rare exceptions will still need passwords, such as Office 2010, Xbox 360 consoles, and Windows 8.1 or earlier machines.\n\nAnd if access to the authenticator app is lost - for example, if the phone it is installed on is lost or stolen or a user forgets when upgrading - backup options can be used, including:\n\nBut SMS and email are two of the most common channels for cyber-criminals targeting specific individuals\n\nAnd Microsoft says security-conscious users who have two-factor authentication set up will need to have access to two different recovery methods.\n\nMicrosoft's messaging tells customers no passwords are more secure\n\nProf Alan Woodward, part of a research team investigating passwordless authentication, at the University of Surrey, called it \"quite a bold step from Microsoft\".\n\n\"This isn't just logging into PCs, it's logging into online services as well\" - including important ones such as cloud storage, he said.\n\nMicrosoft laid out its reasons for the new system in a series of blog posts.\n\nSecurity vice-president Vasu Jakkal wrote: \"Passwords are incredibly inconvenient to create, remember, and manage across all the accounts in our lives.\n\n\"We are expected to create complex and unique passwords, remember them, and change them frequently - but nobody likes doing that.\"\n\nThe separate authenticator app - not pictured in this stock photo - is claimed to be more secure than a password\n\nInstead, people tended to create insecure passwords that technically cleared the bar for using symbols, numbers or case sensitivity - but in order to remember them, used a repeated formula or the same password on multiple websites.\n\nAnd that led to hackers guessing them or revealing them in a data breach and reusing them.\n\n\"Hackers don't break in, they log in,\" the blog post read.\n\nThe new passwordless feature greets users with a box saying: \"A passwordless account reduces the risk of phishing and password attacks.\"\n\nAnd once the feature is set up, a confirmation tells users: \"You have increased the security of your account and improved your sign-in experience by removing your password\".\n\nMicrosoft's claims about poor password use were largely true, Prof Woodward said.\n\n\"The message has been pummelled home about what good password hygiene looks like - but it's easier said than done,\" he said.\n\nPasswords were a decades-old concept \"and maybe the time is now right to start looking for something different\".\n\nBut there were no currently agreed standards.\n\n\"There are a number of different ways this could be done - and it would be good if everybody moved on, really, and tried to find a way of doing this,\" Prof Woodward said.", "Piers Morgan is to join the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp and Fox News Media, the company has announced.\n\nHe will host a new show that will air in the US, UK and Australia - his first major new presenting job since leaving ITV's Good Morning Britain in March.\n\n\"Piers is the broadcaster every channel wants but is too afraid to hire,\" Murdoch said in a statement.\n\nThe show will air on the newly-announced talkTV in the UK, Fox Nation in the US, and Sky News Australia.\n\nMorgan said he was \"thrilled\" to return to News Corp, where he began his media career more than 30 years ago.\n\nThe presenter worked for the Murdoch-owned tabloids The Sun and News of the World in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\n\"Rupert Murdoch has been a constant and fearless champion of free speech and we are going to be building something new and very exciting together,\" Morgan added.\n\n\"I want my global show to be a fearless forum for lively debate and agenda-setting interviews, and a place that celebrates the right of everyone to have an opinion, and for those opinions to be vigorously examined and challenged.\"\n\nIn addition to his new TV show, Morgan will also become a columnist for The Sun and The New York Post.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether that means he will step down from his current post as columnist for the Daily Mail.\n\nIn his statement, Murdoch said: \"Piers is a brilliant presenter, a talented journalist and says what people are thinking and feeling.\n\n\"He has many passionate fans around the world and we look forward to expanding his audience in the UK, at Fox Nation, Sky News Australia, The Sun and the New York Post.\"\n\nVirgin Radio presenter Chris Evans posed with Piers Morgan on Tuesday at an event hosted by The Sun\n\nThe appointment was announced on the same day the Murdoch-owned media company News UK announced it will launch talkTV in early 2022.\n\nThe new TV channel will be streamed live, with content available via on-demand platforms and clipped up for social media.\n\nThe title of the new network brings it into line with the company's speech radio stations talkRADIO and talkSPORT.\n\nNews UK said the new station would feature presenting talent from its existing brands, which also include Virgin Radio and Times Radio.\n\nChris Evans, Graham Norton, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Trisha Goddard, John Pienaar, Rob Rinder and the newly-hired Jeremy Kyle are among the presenters across News UK's radio networks.\n\nThe company said there would also be appearances from journalists employed by News UK's newspapers - The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times.\n\nIn a press release, News UK added the channel would feature \"proper hourly news bulletins, sports and entertainment shows as well as current affairs, debate, opinion and documentaries\".\n\nRebekah Brooks, chief executive of News UK, said: \"Piers will be the most brilliant primetime draw for our new talkTV service and a fantastic columnist for The Sun. Sun readers love Piers and I am delighted that he is back.\"\n\nNews UK said it had invested in new TV studios in its existing headquarters at London Bridge. The announcement comes three months after the launch of GB News, which has had a rocky start.\n\nEarlier this week, Morgan posed for photographs with Virgin Radio presenter Evans at an event hosted by The Sun.\n\nMorgan left Good Morning Britain six months ago after saying he disbelieved comments made by the Duchess of Sussex in her interview with Oprah Winfrey.\n\nSusanna Reid and other co-hosts challenged Morgan over his comments about Meghan\n\nOfcom received more than 50,000 viewer complaints about the broadcast, but the broadcast regulator later cleared the presenter and ITV of breaking its code.\n\nSpeaking at a Royal Television Society conference on Thursday, Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said it was \"quite a finely balanced decision\".\n\nITV was cleared because his views were balanced by co-presenters who challenged him, but Dame Melanie said: \"We were pretty critical of Piers Morgan, and some of the things he said had the capacity to be harmful as well as deeply offensive.\"\n\nBroadcaster Clive Myrie, who interviewed her at the event, told her: \"The media forums that I'm on, which include a lot of black broadcasters and producers and people in the industry, were very upset at the Ofcom ruling concerning Piers Morgan, which was about his comments and views on mental health issues, but that race element is there.\n\n\"And their sense is that it [Ofcom] is too white an organisation and would never understand why that ruling was so upsetting to so many people.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why did my mother have to lie waiting on an ambulance?'\n\nAn 86-year-old woman had to wait eight hours for an ambulance after falling and breaking her hip at home.\n\nLillian Briggs, who has Parkinson's, skin cancer and has had two heart attacks, was left lying on her kitchen floor in agony after blacking out.\n\nHer son, Robert Ewing, and his sister rang for an ambulance a number of times only to be told their mother was in the system but was not a priority.\n\nMr Ewing told BBC Scotland: \"I thought she was going to die in front of us.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service apologised for the delay and confirmed it was investigating the circumstances.\n\nChief executive Pauline Howie told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"These waits are appalling and they are not something we aspire to as an ambulance service.\"\n\nAfter receiving a call from his sister following his mother's fall in Edinburgh on Monday, the 60-year-old found his mother semi-conscious in a confused state.\n\nHis sister kept calling for an ambulance but after seven hours he called them himself and was told they knew about his mother, she was on the system and could he stop calling.\n\n\"I said hopefully you'll be here before my mother dies because my mum's in a bad way now,\" he said.\n\n\"I just held my mum's hand. She had a couple of bruises and a bashed face so I wiped her face and reassured her, put a cover over her to try to keep her warm as best I could - I couldn't move her because she was in a lot of pain - really bad pain.\n\n\"We aren't medically trained, we just did our best. My sister was getting more and more agitated and upset. My mum was getting worse, she was turning blue, her jaw was going, her breathing was getting shallower - she was in a bad state.\n\n\"I actually thought she was going to die in the house in front of us. Even now I can feel myself getting upset about it.\"\n\nLillian Briggs is currently in a stable condition in hospital\n\nMr Ewing added: \"I'd heard stories about them having trouble emptying the ambulances at the Royal Infirmary but I thought after seven, eight hours, 'goodness, it can't take that long - surely she must be a priority by now'.\"\n\nMrs Briggs is now in hospital in a stable condition following surgery but is on oxygen after developing a chest infection.\n\nHer case was raised during First Minister's Questions earlier on Thursday.\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon says it's going to be fully investigated but what does that mean?,\" Mr Ewing said. \"Is she going to get in touch with us and tell us why my poor mother had to lie there for eight hours?\n\n\"I just want a reason as to why she had to lie there for that amount of time in a critical condition because, as far as I'm concerned, a broken hip is a critical condition and she was in an awful lot of pain.\n\nLillian Briggs lay on her kitchen floor for eight hours waiting for an ambulance\n\n\"I just don't want others to go through what we had to suffer and what my mum is still suffering.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has now asked the MoD for military assistance for the country's ambulance service.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said health services were dealing with the most challenging combination of circumstances in their history due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nOpposition politicians have highlighted a series of serious ambulance delays, including one where a man died after a 40-hour wait.\n\nMr Ewing said getting military help could have happened sooner once the government knew Covid cases were rising and hospitals were getting busier again.\n\n\"Why didn't Nicola Sturgeon put in place a plan of action two or three weeks ago?,\" he said. \"I don't think she would like her mother lying there in agony.\"\n\nHe said the first minister's apology to all those who had to wait for an ambulance was \"just words\".\n\nScottish Ambulance Service chief executive Pauline Howie was asked on Good Morning Scotland if the two cases highlighted in the media were \"anomalies\".\n\nShe said: \"The vast majority of patients, for immediately life-threatening patients, will receive a response under 10 minutes and for other emergency patients, under 40 minutes.\"\n\nThe chief executive confirmed the service would apologise directly to the families and share the findings of its reviews into the circumstances.\n\nMs Howie also described the current pressures on the NHS as \"unprecedented\" and added staff face an \"extremely challenging\" winter.", "Gavin Williamson has been the highest-profile education secretary for England since Michael Gove - but probably not for the right reasons.\n\nIf the pandemic had a political fall guy, it was always likely to be Mr Williamson - often the lightning rod for irritation and exasperation from families facing disruption and U-turns on schools and exams.\n\nNow he has become one of the big casualties of the prime minister's reshuffle - tweeting on his departure that it had been a privilege to serve \"despite the challenges of the global pandemic\".\n\nIt might seem a long time ago now, but before the pandemic Mr Williamson was seen as the bringer of good news.\n\nHis predecessors as education secretary had faced constant maulings over school funding shortages - but Mr Williamson arrived with the promise of a £7bn increase. It was big bucks and big ambitions.\n\nThe trouble only really began when his department collided with the giant iceberg of Covid.\n\nThe first dent was a major U-turn on getting all primary school pupils back to school, and then there were self-defeating battles with Marcus Rashford over free meals in the holidays.\n\nOnline learning at home tested parents' patience and fed into worries about lost learning and annoyance at the hokey-cokey of going in and out of school, with hundreds of thousands of pupils regularly having to isolate.\n\nBut the biggest disaster was the chaos of last year's exams, with multiple U-turns and late-night lurches in policy that saw grades go through the roof and his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both go out the door.\n\nThat such senior staff had to step down while he stayed put didn't add to the lustre of his reputation.\n\nThe exam results system used last summer prompted protests\n\nThere has never been a full independent inquiry into what went wrong with the 2020 exams - so it's hard to know who was really to blame. But it did serious harm to Mr Williamson's credibility - and there was no shortage of people on his own side who were privately ready to point the finger.\n\nAnd his poll ratings among Conservative supporters remained resolutely negative.\n\nAs a former chief whip, it was said his survival chances were boosted by knowing where the bodies were buried. But he also made political enemies ready to come back to haunt him.\n\nMr Williamson, who has never appeared to complain about the criticism directed at him, could also feel aggrieved that he was taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nThat was encapsulated in the plans to get schools back in January 2021, when his determination to open classrooms was reversed almost immediately by another lockdown.\n\nExams, which he'd wanted to go ahead, were again cancelled and the long-awaited catch-up plans turned to dust when the catch-up tsar Sir Kevan Collins walked out over a lack of funding.\n\nThe education secretary doesn't write the cheques but he was left holding a punctured balloon of a policy.\n\nThis year's replacement exam results, with much responsibility outsourced to teachers and schools, didn't have any of the major problems of last year. There would have been cause for quiet celebration that it had all gone relatively smoothly - not an easy achievement in what remain unprecedented circumstances.\n\nBut after a successful re-opening of schools this autumn, there was another tripwire moment when in an interview with the London Evening Standard he seemed to confuse two black sportsmen, Marcus Rashford and Maro Itoje. It was another gift for his critics on social media.\n\nIt's hard to know what the legacy will be of his education plans, because he never really got a chance to start them, beyond pushing for a greater emphasis on skills and further education. The pandemic overshadowed everything else.\n\nWill he bounce back to a big post in government again? At 45 he is still young by political standards, and has the northern, state-school, non-Oxbridge credentials for the government's levelling up plans.\n\nHe certainly seems ready to fight on, describing himself as having the hide of a rhino.\n\nBut there were times when he looked distinctly weary - such as an online talk with head teachers where he extolled the virtues of getting a dog who would always be there for you.\n\n\"Not every day has been brilliant,\" he told them.", "The woman covered her face as she arrived at a previous hearing in January 2020\n\nA British woman who reported being gang-raped in Cyprus has appealed against her conviction for lying about the attack.\n\nHer legal team told the Cypriot Supreme Court that her statement retracting the gang rape allegation was unreliable because of how it was obtained.\n\nShe was detained for more than six hours, they said, with no access to a lawyer or translator, and placed under extreme pressure.\n\nThe woman, who is 21 and from Derbyshire, originally told Cypriot police she had been raped by a group of 12 Israeli men and boys in Ayia Napa in July 2019.\n\nAfter retracting the allegation she was then tried and convicted of causing public mischief.\n\nShe was given a four-month suspended sentence in January 2020, which meant she could return to the UK.\n\nShe did not attend the two-hour appeal hearing, which was conducted in Greek in front of a panel of three judges.\n\nThere was no ruling on the appeal today, and it could take as long as six months.\n\nActivists held up banners as they demonstrated outside the Supreme Court in Nicosia\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the woman's English barrister, Lewis Power QC, said: \"This is the biggest case here in the last decade beyond a shadow of a doubt and the world is watching.\n\n\"It is so important for young women across the world. This case is a beacon.\"\n\nMr Power said he had spoken to the woman and her mother, who were \"back in the UK watching from afar\".\n\n\"She's bearing up really well. She is getting on with her life at university,\" he said.\n\n\"She is very anxious about the result but she is fairly upbeat and determined that this won't ruin her life.\"\n\nHer case has attracted widespread publicity and dozens of protesters gathered outside the court building for the appeal hearing.\n\nAs they banged drums, chanted and clapped their hands, some held up banners reading \"End rape culture\" and \"I believe her\".\n\nActivists chanted outside the Supreme Court as the appeal hearing was held\n\nAdamos Demosthenous, representing the Cyprus attorney general, had argued the appeal should not be heard because the woman had criticised the trial judge in an ITV documentary, but the court ruled against the submission and heard the arguments.\n\nThe woman's lawyers said the retraction statement, which formed the basis of the prosecution case, should never have been admitted into evidence.\n\nThey said as well as being placed under pressure with no lawyer or translator, she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder at the time as a result of the rape.\n\nThey also argued the retraction statement was not written by a native English speaker.\n\nHer Cypriot lawyer, Nicoletta Charalambidou, said the lower court started from the position that there was no rape and had misunderstood the offence of public mischief, which requires a false statement of a make-believe crime.\n\nShe said the trial judge, Michalis Papathanasiou, also did not allow the defendant to talk about the alleged rape, repeatedly saying: \"This is not a rape trial.\"\n\nLewis Power QC (left) and Michael Polak of Justice Abroad spoke to media outside court\n\nIf the conviction is not overturned her legal team intends to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.\n\nAfter the hearing, Mr Power said: \"I think it was a very fruitful hearing where the court asked very poignant questions, considered the legal arguments and identified the points which will ultimately decide this appeal.\n\n\"We cannot pre-empt the decision of the court, but we were glad to see the court had given much thought and considerable consideration to a very, very difficult case.\"\n\nMichael Polak from Justice Abroad, which has been helping the woman, added: \"Without wanting to pre-judge the decision of the Supreme Court, we feel we were happy with the way proceedings went today and the way the judges engaged with our arguments.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artwork: Lunar Pathfinder will operate for at least eight years\n\nThe contract has been signed that will see the first UK satellite go to the Moon in 2024.\n\nLunar Pathfinder is a relay platform for telecommunications. It will feed the telemetry and data from other spacecraft at the Moon back to Earth.\n\nThis will make those other missions simpler and cheaper to operate.\n\nThe contract was signed in London between the European Space Agency and Pathfinder's manufacturer, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL).\n\nIt is a service agreement. Esa is not funding Pathfinder's build; it's merely purchasing a proportion of its relay capacity.\n\nThis will be used by the agency's future missions, and also ventures run by its American counterpart, Nasa.\n\nThe quid pro quo is that Pathfinder will hitch a ride on a US rocket.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Josef Aschbacher: \"We need to move faster in Europe\"\n\nThere is an armada of missions - public and private - going to the Moon this decade, including ones that will take astronauts back to the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo.\n\nPathfinder will be in a position to service all these ventures, selling its bandwidth to anyone who needs it.\n\nWith Esa as its \"anchor customer\", SSTL will have confidence it can get a decent return on its self-investment.\n\nThis is a key moment then for all parties, not least Esa which is now following a procurement model routinely practised by Nasa.\n\nThe space agency sets the requirements, offers perhaps seed money to industry to develop the product solution, and then agrees to purchase the service.\n\nNasa doesn't buy SpaceX hardware, only the service provided by the company\n\nCalifornia's SpaceX is the classic example of this model in action, producing novel rockets and crew-carrying capsules for use by Nasa at a fraction of the cost of more traditional contracting.\n\nJosef Aschbacher, the new director general of Esa, is determined to push Europe down this same route, and Lunar Pathfinder is his poster child.\n\nHe's come into the job with the ambition - he calls it his Agenda 2025 - to shake up the way space is done across the continent of Europe.\n\nIf Europe doesn't become more fleet-of-foot in the space domain, it will fall behind geopolitically, he believes.\n\n\"Europe has to realise that first of all, space is extremely important for the development of a country or a region,\" he told me.\n\n\"I would claim that if you're not a space power, you cannot be a superpower. We see this best demonstrated in China, which is really using space as a tool to become a major superpower.\n\n\"The US, of course, is doing it since a long time. So Europe has to wake up.\"\n\nThe service agreement was signed at London's Royal Society on Wednesday evening\n\nUnder Dr Aschbacher's leadership, there will be more projects where Esa acts as the first buyer, or anchor customer.\n\nThe agency will do more consulting to enable venture capital to have the confidence to back innovative ideas in Europe. There'll also be prizes and grants to stimulate this innovation. And the whole contracting process inside Esa will be re-assessed to speed things up.\n\n\"Time is crucial for the new space world,\" Dr Aschbacher said.\n\n\"Our procedures are too slow - time to contact, reviews, the various interactions with these fast-moving companies. This is about internal procedure where I need to work on Esa to be much faster.\"\n\nLunar Pathfinder will operate in a wide elliptical orbit at the Moon for at least eight years.\n\nIt will talk to other lunar missions - be they other satellites in orbit or rovers down on the surface - using S-band and UHF frequencies. Communications will be relayed back to Earth ground stations in X-band.\n\nAdditionally, there'll be a demonstration of technology that could one day lead to a sat-nav service at the Moon.\n\n\"Pathfinder will be hosting a weak signal detection receiver from Esa. Effectively, the idea is to test how signals from GPS or Galileo at Earth can be detected from lunar orbit and then used for navigation of lunar assets,\" explained Nelly Offord, the exploration business manager at SSTL.\n\nElodie Viau, the director of telecoms at Esa, said she expected Britain to play a leading role in the agency's new direction under Dr Aschbacher.\n\n\"What is great about the UK is its commercial mindset; it is very business-minded,\" she noted.", "Father-of-two Brian Phelan died after being stabbed on a rural road near Newry in 2018\n\nA 30-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of Brian Phelan on the outskirts of Newry in July 2018.\n\nMr Phelan was stabbed three times in the neck and twice in the body during an attack on a remote Carrivekeeney Road, near to the village of Camlough.\n\nHe had gone there with Daniel Martin James Carroll, of Edward Street in Portadown, but originally from Newry.\n\nCarroll was found guilty of Mr Phelan's murder at Newry Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nDuring a two-week trial, the court heard that on the day of his death Mr Phelan had met Carroll in Bessbrook before travelling to the road with the intention of buying quad bikes.\n\nThe road, which runs up the side of Camlough mountain, effectively comes to a dead end for vehicles, however a path does lead across the mountain.\n\nIt was the defence's case that three men with paramilitary links had appeared from a nearby field, attacked Mr Phelan, threatened him and then made off in the direction of the mountain.\n\nAlthough he said he knew them, Carroll would not name the men stating that his life and that of his family was at risk.\n\nThe defence said that the mountain path could have been accessed by small vehicles such as quadbikes.\n\nHowever, the prosecution said this version of events, which Carroll put forward 15 months after Brian Phelan's death, was complete nonsense.\n\nIt said the defendant had attacked the victim and then fled the scene, changing his T-shirt before being arrested nearly two hours later at a family member's home in Newry.\n\nAlthough no definite motive was identified, the jury had been told of Carroll's previous record, which included unprovoked violence.\n\nGiving evidence, a police officer had also suggested there could have been a financial disagreement between the two men.\n\nA jury of six men and five women took less than 90 minutes to reach a unanimous guilty verdict.\n\nSocial distancing meant that only a small number of Brian Phelan's friends and family were permitted inside the courtroom.\n\nThere were emotional scenes from those in the public gallery with a loud cheer from the adjoining foyer.\n\nBefore being sent down, the judge told Carroll that he would be sentenced to life imprisonment.\n\nA tariff hearing to determine the minimum amount of time he will spend in prison before being considered for parole will be set in November.\n• None Trial under way of man accused of stab murder", "Stephen Leonard was known as Stephen Chafer when he murdered a three-year-old girl in 1979\n\nThe father of a three-year-old killed in 1979 said he was \"gutted\" he could not see the full official reviews after her murderer tried to kill again.\n\nStephen Chafer, also known as Stephen Leonard, killed Lorraine Holt and, after being released from jail twice, nearly decapitated a woman in 2018.\n\nLorraine's dad Jim Holt said he did not \"want the same mistakes made again\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said \"details\" would be shared with him, but not whole reports.\n\nChafer was 17 years old when he carried Lorraine, whom he was related to through marriage, to the grounds of a vicarage in Derby.\n\nHe sexually assaulted her before stabbing her 39 times on 20 January 1979.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to murder and was jailed, before being released in 2002.\n\nStephen Chafer admitted the murder of Lorraine Holt in 1979\n\nMore than 10 years later, Chafer - now known as Stephen Leonard - was jailed for 26 months for arson, having removed the fire alarms at his Peterborough flat and set it alight.\n\nIn June 2018, just under a year after being released on licence, he stabbed Faye Mills, a 60-year-old woman with dementia whom he had known for about 15 years, in a \"frenzied\" attack over an argument about a garden rake in Peterborough.\n\nProsecutor Charles Falk had told the trial he \"almost decapitated her\" and the extent of her injuries made it \"almost inexplicable\" she lived.\n\nHe was convicted of attempted murder and jailed for life, with a minimum term of 17 years.\n\nFollowing the attack on Ms Mills both a serious case review (SCR) and a serious further offence (SFO) review were completed.\n\nIn July 2019, the BBC asked the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) for the SCR through the Freedom of Information Act, but this was refused on the grounds of personal information.\n\nAfter the BBC took the request to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the MOJ further cited \"information provided in confidence\" as a reason for refusal.\n\nThe ICO agreed with the MOJ and the review has not been released.\n\nJim Holt has asked to see the reviews\n\nHowever, Mr Holt claimed he was told he would receive a copy of the reviews, but that he was now being refused them.\n\n\"All I wanted was the reports, for them to admit that they made a mistake,\" he said.\n\n\"This isn't about Lorraine anymore. This is about all child killers that you are releasing, because if you're making mistakes on Stephen Chafer, Stephen Leonard, whatever you want to call him, you're making mistakes elsewhere because people just don't learn.\"\n\nHe said he believed the authorities were \"scared to death I'm going to sue\".\n\nBut he added: \"I don't want the money - no amount of money can bring my daughter back.\n\n\"I just don't want the same mistakes made again with other criminals.\"\n\nMr Holt had been offered a meeting and said: \"I'm prepared to meet them but I'm gutted that they say one thing and then do another - that's not fair.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has since said that, in general, SFO reviews were provided to victims of later offences to share with them the actions being taken to address any failings in the supervision of offenders.\n\nIt said the confidential information in them was not routinely available to victims of the initial offences.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The details of this review have already been shared with the victims of this crime and we are also meeting with Mr Holt to do the same.\n\n\"We are committed to ensuring victims get the information they need to understand what happened, which is why we disclose SFO reviews to victims of the offence where they request to receive them.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "A PM is rarely as powerful as on a reshuffle day\n\n\"This is a mad way to run the country,\" confessed a member of the government.\n\nWhether prime ministers wield sharp knives or attack with blunt spoons, reshuffle days like this are indeed a strange mixture of bravado and farce.\n\nBravado when, earlier, one cabinet minister told me, \"I think I'm OK,\" as, ashen-faced, looking nauseous and clammy, they were en route to see the prime minister before promptly being sacked.\n\nAnd farce when, as legend has it, on several occasions, would-be ministers end up jobless, because the post-it notes with their name on fell off the board. Forgotten, their career plunged to the floor too.\n\nThe way the most senior government politicians are recruited and removed is bizarre and brutal. For weeks ministers have nervously inquired of journalists: \"Is it on?\" And inhabitants of the Westminster village who claim real knowledge of the plan are rarely those who truly know.\n\nBut, whatever the curious British traditions of how it's done, it is what is done that makes the difference. Prime ministers rarely wield as much power as on the day of the big hirings and firings.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson has used this occasion to make big changes to the cabinet. The most significant switch came in one of the chunkiest jobs of all.\n\nRemoving the foreign secretary is a big deal. Dominic Raab's always happy to let it be known that he holds a black belt in karate. And his conversation with the prime minister this reshuffle day took longer than expected, suggesting he fought his move pretty hard. Sources suggest he managed to wangle the ill-defined title of deputy prime minister out of Mr Johnson.\n\nBeing justice secretary, running prisons, courts, and the legal system, is of course a huge job. Downing Street insists it's not a demotion, and that it doesn't want this move to be seen as punishment after what looked, to many people, like a debacle in Afghanistan.\n\nBut even with the DPM bauble, Mr Raab, the now former foreign secretary, is a less senior figure in the government.\n\nThere are some other slightly puzzling aspects. Steve Barclay was, until the reshuffle, chief secretary to the Treasury, wielding the calculator on what is a hugely important Spending Review, when cash for departments for the next few years is fixed. That review is coming in just a few weeks' time, so you might wonder at the wisdom of moving Mr Barclay right now.\n\nHe's being replaced by Simon Clarke, a previous inhabitant of a Treasury role, a strong supporter of Mr Johnson and North East MP. He's also, at 6ft 7ins, around a foot taller than his new boss in Number 11 - cue the inevitable jokes about Number 10 wanting to make the chancellor feel small.\n\nAnne-Marie Trevelyan is back on the top team\n\nIn a similar vein Anne-Marie Trevelyan, also a strong Johnson backer, returns to cabinet as trade secretary. Irrespective of the merit of her move to that department, Ms Trevelyan had been part of the government's team preparing for COP26, a major international event that starts in about 50 days. If it's a true priority, unpicking a part of the team right now may raise a few eyebrows.\n\nThere are many more jobs to be allocated, more intrigue to come when middle-ranking and junior ministers get their P45s or offers. But the shape of the cabinet itself is clear.\n\nWhat's harder to divine is any one strong political ideology, or any radical guiding idea. Certainly, politicians popular with the Tory party like Truss seem to have prospered. Loyalty to the prime minister himself seems to have been rewarded.\n\nBut it's not a Brexit cabinet, or a small-state cabinet, or to use Tory verbiage, a \"one-nation\" cabinet for those more in the middle.\n\nIt's a Johnson cabinet, with no particular bent towards any one faction or tribe. For some of his backers, that is one of Mr Johnson's attributes - he's not wedded to principle, but staying on top. For other Tories, that's rather the problem - with no one strong ideology other than a desire to win, it begs the question of what it's all really for.\n\nFor Downing Street, though, this is a day for the doers. After the early traumas of Brexit, then the emergency and horror of the pandemic, the moves represent, they hope, a refreshed team that can get things done.\n\nWhether it's building houses without upsetting the Tory shires, sorting out school exams, pushing through tougher prison sentences, with new faces it's a government that Downing Street hopes will be more able to push reform forward, and make its case.\n\nNearly two years after the election, it's perhaps the start of Mr Johnson's third act as prime minister. And while the shuffling of his cabinet pack has passed, so far largely without incident, there is no doubt about the scale of the challenge, individual and collective, that they face.", "Soho's streets were packed with al fresco diners over the summer\n\nAl fresco dining will become a permanent feature in central London but its future in Soho remains uncertain.\n\nMore than 80% of residents in Covent Garden and St John's Wood supported the continuation of outdoor dining, Westminster City Council said.\n\nSoho residents, who have been hit by road closures, disruptive noise and litter, will now be consulted.\n\nThe council previously told businesses al fresco dining would end in October when roads would reopen to vehicles.\n\nLarge crowds gathered in London's Soho district ahead of the second national lockdown in November 2020.\n\nMany central London streets were also pedestrianised when restrictions loosened in April.\n\nWestminster City Council said it had supported nearly 900 businesses, bars and restaurants to get outdoor dining licenses to help the hospitality industry bounce back from the pandemic.\n\nDuring the summer, around 60 streets benefited from either pavement widening, temporary closure of roads and parking bays to allow tables and chairs to be set-up for outdoor restaurant seating in the street.\n\nThe streets of Soho were packed ahead of the second national lockdown in November\n\nAl fresco dining will become permanent on St John's Wood High Street, Henrietta Street, King Street, Maiden Lane and parts of Southampton Street.\n\nCllr Matthew Green told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: \"Al fresco has been and continues to be a lifeline for businesses in the West End.\n\n\"This summer, we created more than 16,000 additional covers across the city - the highest number in London - helping to save countless businesses and jobs in Covent Garden and across Westminster.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There have been reports of some people facing severe waits for an ambulance to arrive\n\nThe Scottish government has asked the MoD for military assistance for the country's ambulance service.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said health services were dealing with the most challenging combination of circumstances in their history due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nOpposition politicians have highlighted a series of serious ambulance delays, including one where a man died after a 40-hour wait.\n\nThey said this should not be happening in Scotland in 2021.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government was looking at a range of plans to deal with the significant challenges facing the health services, with the detail of a request for military assistance being considered.\n\nShe told the Scottish Parliament: \"I'll be going back to my office to finalise the detail of the request for military assistance so we can submit that as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"Such military assistance is already being provided to ambulance services in England and of course we have had military assistance for other aspects of the pandemic over the past 18 months.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson later confirmed it was seeking military assistance to address acute services, and a separate request had been made to support mobile testing units.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence confirmed it had received a request from the Scottish government, which it said related to support for Scottish Ambulance Service mobile testing units.\n\nA spokeswoman said the MoD was \"working hard to identify where we can most effectively assist other government departments and civil authorities.\"\n\nInvestigations are ongoing into several cases reported in the media on Thursday, including one where a Glasgow pensioner died after a 40-hour wait for an ambulance.\n\nThe Herald newspaper reported that the family of 65-year-old Gerard Brown were told that he could have survived had help arrived sooner.\n\nMr Brown's GP - who is said to have repeatedly warned 999 call handlers that the patient's status was critical - was quoted as describing the crisis engulfing the Scottish Ambulance Service as being like \"third world medicine\".\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service is investigating the circumstances of the case, and said it will be \"in contact with Mr Brown's family directly to apologise for the delay\".\n\nMr Brown's death has been reported to the procurator fiscal, who said an investigation was \"ongoing\".\n\nPressed on the case at her weekly question session at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon offered her condolences to Mr Brown's family, and said what had been reported was \"unacceptable\".\n\nShe said Scotland was \"experiencing probably the most challenging combination of circumstances that our health service has faced since its establishment\" due to the pandemic.\n\nEvelyn from Kilwinning told BBC Radio Scotland's Mornings with Stephen Jardine that her husband had been rushed to hospital three times in the last last few weeks due to concerns about his kidney function.\n\nTheir longest wait for an ambulance was 23 hours - and on an occasion where it had been called by their GP.\n\n\"He's an amputee and I wanted to take him in the car,\" said Evelyn. \"The doctor said no, it had to be an ambulance in case he deteriorated.\n\n\"Twenty-three hours was the longest wait, the time before was 11 and a half hours and the quickest was six hours. Both of us were very distressed. He's a very unwell man so this is going to be reoccurring - but one of these days our luck is just going to run out.\n\n\"The ambulance crew were absolutely amazing, but they were run ragged. When I went to the hospital there were nine ambulances outside the hospital waiting to admit people - that's nine crews that are off the road for hours.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon met emergency call handlers with the Scottish Ambulance Service in 2018\n\nBrian from Troon said he was proud of his daughter who is an emergency call handler - but often hears of frustrated people becoming \"abusive\" to staff when they are told their cases are not high priority.\n\n\"It's reducing them to tears,\" said Brian. \"The staff are coming home looking for someone to talk to about it.\n\n\"Luckily the ambulance service have got it covered - supervisors listen in to the calls and say that's not acceptable and will cut them off and take the call themselves. They also look at the welfare side of things, they are such a good service. Abuse is totally not acceptable.\n\n\"It's their professionalism that gets them through this - they have sympathy with their callers, they try to calm them and in some cases they save people's lives until the ambulance arrives, whether it be someone having a stroke or having a baby.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Scotland News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe head of the Scottish Ambulance Service has previously apologised to patients over increased waiting times, saying staff were working under \"unprecedented pressure\" due to a \"huge increase\" in both Covid and non-Covid cases.\n\nPauline Howie said the service was \"at full capacity\" and hospitals were too, meaning it takes longer to hand over patients at emergency departments - creating delays in responding to other calls.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the ambulance service was \"in crisis\", and said cases like that of Mr Brown \"shouldn't be happening in Scotland in 2021\".\n\nHe also called for Health Secretary Humza Yousaf to withdraw comments he made on BBC Radio Scotland on Wednesday, when he said people should \"think twice\" about whether they really needed an ambulance before calling for one.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the ambulance service was already \"operating at its highest level of escalation\" in response to current pressures, and said Mr Yousaf's comments reflected others made by services \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nLabour leader Anas Sarwar raised the same case, describing it as an \"avoidable human tragedy\".\n\nHe said Ms Sturgeon should not use the pandemic as an excuse, adding: \"There is a simple truth - nobody should be left to die on the floor while waiting 40 hours for an ambulance.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said governments across the world were dealing with similar problems at the moment, and that her administration was \"absolutely focused\" on providing solutions.\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton called for the military assistance to be deployed swiftly, saying the government had \"done too little, too late\".", "Nicola Sturgeon has come under considerable pressure from opposition leaders over ambulance delays.\n\nShe described as “unacceptable” the lengthy waits some patients have experienced and offered an unreserved apology to those affected.\n\nThe first minister has also promised action to support the Scottish Ambulance Service, which she said was facing “acute pressure” linked to Covid.\n\nInitially, she told Douglas Ross consideration was being given to seeking “targeted military assistance”.\n\nBut by the time she answered Anas Sarwar, this seemed to have become a firm commitment.\n\nShe told him she would be returning to her office to finalise the details of an application for army help after Holyrood question time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum speaks of her regret at joining ISIS: 'It kills me inside'\n\nShamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria as a teenager, says she will regret joining the Islamic State group for the rest of her life and has offered to help the UK fight terrorism.\n\nShe told the BBC she could be \"useful to society\" and it would be a waste to let her \"rot\" in a Syrian camp.\n\nThe 22-year-old is accused of playing an active role in IS - she denies that.\n\nSajid Javid is standing by his decision to revoke her citizenship.\n\nShamima Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join IS.\n\nThere, she married a Dutch recruit and lived under IS rule for more than three years. In 2019, she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp. Her baby later died of pneumonia and Ms Begum said she had previously lost two other children.\n\nThe then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Ms Begum of her UK citizenship on national security grounds.\n\nMs Begum has previously said the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, in which 22 people - some of them children - were killed in a bombing claimed by IS, was similar to military strikes on IS strongholds and called the terror attack \"retaliation\".\n\nAsked by BBC reporter Josh Baker how it made her feel to think back to being part of a group that committed genocide and murder around the world, she said: \"It makes me sick to my stomach really. It makes me hate myself.\"\n\nIn the interview for BBC Sounds and BBC 5 live, Ms Begum also said she only now felt comfortable talking about her true feelings.\n\nOur reporter asked whether she had changed her opinion on IS because it had not created a caliphate.\n\n\"I have had these opinions for a very long time but only now I feel comfortable to express my real opinion,\" she replied.\n\nShe said if allowed back into the UK, she could advise on the tactics used by IS to persuade people to go to Syria and could share ways to speak to people who are at risk of being radicalised.\n\nShe said she felt \"an obligation\" to do so, adding that she did not want any other young girls to destroy their lives like she had.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum spoke to the BBC from a refugee camp in Syria in February 2019\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Begum spoke to ITV's Good Morning Britain and made a direct offer to Boris Johnson to become \"an asset\" in the fight against terror.\n\nSpeaking from a Syrian refugee camp, she said there was \"no evidence\" she was a key player in preparing terrorist acts and was prepared to prove her innocence in court.\n\n\"I know there are some people, no matter what I say or what I do, they will not believe that I have changed, believe that I want to help,\" she said.\n\n\"But for those who have even a drop of mercy and compassion and empathy in their hearts, I tell you from the bottom of my heart that I regret every, every decision I've made since I stepped into Syria and I will live with it for the rest of my life.\n\n\"No one can hate me more than I hate myself for what I've done and all I can say is 'I'm sorry' and just give me a second chance.\"\n\nShe said she would \"rather die than go back to IS\" and added: \"The only crime I committed was being dumb enough to join IS.\"\n\nMs Begum says she wants a trial, saying she is \"willing to go to court and face the people who made these claims and refute these claims, because I know I did nothing in IS but be a mother and a wife\".\n\nBut Sajid Javid, now health secretary, suggested there was no likelihood Ms Begum would be allowed to return and fight her citizenship case.\n\nHe told GMB that the decision to strip her of her UK citizenship was \"both morally right, absolutely right, but also legally correct and the right one to protect the British people\".\n\n\"I won't go into details of the case, but what I will say is that you certainly haven't seen what I saw,\" he added.\n\n\"If you did know what I knew, because you are sensible, responsible people, you would have made exactly the same decision - of that I have no doubt.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The government's top priority remains maintaining our national security and keeping the public safe.\"\n\nLiberty, a human rights group, previously called the decision to revoke Ms Begum's citizenship \"an extremely dangerous precedent\" and said the right to a fair trial was not something democratic governments should take away on a whim.\n\nOne of the other girls who travelled with Ms Begum, Kadiza Sultana, was reportedly killed in a bombing raid, but the fate of the third - Amira Abase - is unknown.\n\nMs Begum has previously said her husband had been held in a prison where men were tortured and had surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters.\n\nJosh Baker from the I'm Not A Monster podcast spoke to Shamima Begum for a forthcoming BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live podcast series.", "The Duke of Edinburgh's will is to remain secret for at least 90 years to protect the \"dignity and standing\" of the Queen, the High Court has ruled.\n\nIt has been convention for over a century that, after the death of a senior member of the Royal Family, the courts are asked to seal their wills.\n\nIt means that, unlike most wills granted probate, it will not be open to public inspection.\n\nThere will be a private process in 90 years to decide if it can be unsealed.\n\nThe hearing into the application to seal the will was also held in private in July by Sir Andrew McFarlane, the most senior judge in the family courts.\n\nHe heard arguments from lawyers representing the duke's estate and the attorney general, the government's chief legal adviser, and published his ruling on Thursday.\n\nSir Andrew said that as president of the Family Division of the High Court, he is the custodian of a safe containing more than 30 envelopes, each containing the sealed will of a dead member of the Royal Family.\n\nAnd for the first time in more than 100 years, he set out a process by which those wills could be made public.\n\nSir Andrew said: \"I have held that, because of the constitutional position of the Sovereign, it is appropriate to have a special practice in relation to royal wills.\n\n\"There is a need to enhance the protection afforded to truly private aspects of the lives of this limited group of individuals in order to maintain the dignity of the Sovereign and close members of her family.\"\n\nThe judge said he had not seen Prince Philip's will or been told anything of its contents, other than the date of its execution and the identity of the appointed executor.\n\nHe said he decided to hold the hearing in private because it would be likely to generate \"very significant publicity and conjecture\" that would \"defeat the purpose of the application\".\n\n\"I accepted the submission that, whilst there may be public curiosity as to the private arrangements that a member of the Royal Family may choose to make in their will, there is no true public interest in the public knowing this wholly private information,\" he said.\n\nPrince Francis of Teck, brother of Queen Mary, was the first royal whose will was sealed on his death\n\nHe said there was no legal reason for any representations from media organisations because the public interest was represented by the attorney general.\n\nLawyers for Philip's estate argued that news of the hearing and the application \"might generate wholly unfounded conjecture\" which would be \"deeply intrusive\" for the Queen and the Royal Family.\n\nDetailing the history of previous decisions, Sir Andrew said the first family member whose will was sealed by the court was Prince Francis of Teck, the younger brother of Queen Mary, who died in 1910.\n\nAccording to the legal and royal expert Michael L Nash, author of Royal Wills in Britain from 1509 to 2008, the new legal mechanism was devised after Prince Francis left valuable emeralds prized by Queen Mary to his mistress, the Countess of Kilmorey.\n\nAn envelope containing Prince Francis's will resides in the safe held by Sir Andrew, with the most recent additions being those of the late Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister, who died in 2002.\n\nIn 2007, a man claiming to be the illegitimate child of Princess Margaret, Robert Andrew Brown, applied to unseal the wills of the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret but his claim was struck out as \"vexatious and an abuse of process\".\n\nHowever, Sir Andrew amended previous orders, which had sealed royal wills indefinitely, so that they can be inspected privately 90 years after probate was granted.\n\nThe \"grant of probate\" is an order that allows someone to distribute a deceased person's assets according to their wishes, and normally marks the point where person's will becomes a public document.\n\nWills by the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret are among those being held in a safe\n\nSir Andrew said after 90 years each royal will would be opened and examined by the monarch's private solicitor, the keeper of the Royal Archives, the attorney general and by any personal representatives of the dead person who may still be available.\n\nThey will decide whether the will may be made public at that stage, but Sir Andrew said some royal wills may never be published, even in part.\n\nThe unsealing should be conducted by a professional archivist to ensure the documents and seals are properly preserved. Further details of the process will be decided by the court before it begins to unseal the first of the wills.\n\nThe Queen's solicitor and the attorney general argued that the wills should be sealed for 125 years, but Sir Andrew said that 90 years was \"proportionate and sufficient\" and would mean the risk of publication intruding on the private lives of royals would be substantially reduced.\n\nSir Andrew said he intends to publish an annex listing the names on the 30 envelopes in his safe, but added that he will not do so until any potential appeal against his judgement has been able to run its course.\n\nOne name which will not feature is that of Diana, Princess of Wales. Unlike other members of the Royal Family, her will was published after her death in 1997, revealing that the majority of her fortune was being held in trust for her sons until they reached the age of 25.", "Sir Elton John has postponed his upcoming 2021 UK and European tour until 2023, due to a hip injury from this summer when he \"fell awkwardly\".\n\nThe Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour dates will be rescheduled, the 74-year-old singer confirmed on Thursday.\n\n'It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I am forced to reschedule,\" Sir Elton said in a statement.\n\nHe was due to perform soon in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Belfast.\n\n\"At the end of my summer break I fell awkwardly on a hard surface and have been in considerable pain and discomfort in my hip ever since,\" he explained.\n\n\"Despite intensive physio and specialist treatment, the pain has continued to get worse and is leading to increasing difficulties moving.\"\n\nHe continued: \"I have been advised to have an operation as soon as possible to get me back to full fitness and make sure there are no long-term complications.\n\n\"I will be undertaking a program of intensive physiotherapy that will ensure a full recovery and a return to full mobility without pain.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elton John This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSir Elton went on to explain that despite being unable to play his full three-hour sets while travelling around the country/continent, he will still perform a short five-song set at the Global Citizen event on 25 September - as he doesn't want to let the charity down.\n\nAfter the event, he confirmed, he will then have an operation, and hopes to be fit to recommence the US leg of his epic final tour January 2022, starting in New Orleans.\n\nTicketholders for the rescheduled performances will receive new event information shortly.\n\n\"I know how patient my incredible fans have been since Covid halted touring last year, and it breaks my heart to keep you waiting any longer,\" he said.\n\n\"I completely feel your frustrations after the year we've had. I promise you this - the shows will return to the road next year and I will make sure they are more than worth the wait.\"\n\nEarlier this month, Sir Elton announced he is to release a new album in October entitled The Lockdown Sessions, featuring collaborations with the likes of Dua Lipa, Nicki Minaj, Stevie Wonder and Stevie Nicks.\n\nThe veteran piano player, who has previously had to postpone concerts due to Covid, recently accused the government of failing to understand the implications of Brexit on UK music and touring.\n\nHe also appeared alongside Sir Michael Caine in a light-hearted NHS ad, promoting the uptake of vaccines.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Co-op has announced a partnership with Amazon Prime, enabling customers across the UK to do their whole grocery shop online with same-day delivery.\n\nThe supermarket chain is also extending its robot deliveries, so it can push online sales up from £70m to £200m.\n\nThe partnership launched in Glasgow and surrounding areas on Thursday and will be rolled out to other parts of the country before the end of the year.\n\nBut the GMB union has accused the Co-op of compromising its ethics.\n\nAmazon Prime customers will be able to do their shopping on the Amazon UK website.\n\nSame-day delivery with two-hour scheduled slots is offered for free on all orders over £40. The minimum value for an order is £15 and a £3.99 delivery charge applies to all orders below £40.\n\nTwo towns in England - Milton Keynes and Northampton - are already receiving Co-op grocery deliveries from autonomous robot vehicles made by Starship Technologies, a firm set up by the founders of Skype.\n\nThe supermarket chain plans to increase the number of robots operating and delivering Co-op groceries from 200 to 500 by the end of this year, extending them from Milton Keynes and Northampton to Cambridgeshire and then into northern England.\n\nCo-op group chief executive Steve Murrells said: \"The pandemic has accelerated changes in consumer shopping trends and we're driving forward with exciting plans to provide rapid kerb-to-kitchen grocery delivery services.\n\n\"We are delighted to be working with Amazon. Its reach and leading technology and innovative approach means greater convenience for people in their communities.\"\n\nBut GMB national officer Andy Prendergast criticised the move: \"It's really disappointing to see a company with a proud ethical heritage like Co-op teaming up with Amazon: a tax-evading multinational with a horrifying health and safety record.\n\n\"Workers in Amazon warehouses are treated like robots. They are knocked unconscious, suffer broken bones and are taken away in ambulances in their desperate pursuit of unrealistic targets.\"\n\nThe union added that it had concerns about the amount of tax Amazon pays in the UK, as well as the fact that bosses had failed to recognise a union to protect Amazon workers' rights.\n\nAmazon said it offered \"excellent pay, benefits and opportunities for career growth, all while working in a safe, modern work environment\".\n\nThe online retailer also said it had invested £32bn in the UK since 2010, paying £1.5bn in tax last year.\n\nAndy Brian, partner at retail specialist law firm Gordons, says the Co-op-Amazon partnership is \"really where the future lies\".\n\n\"Who can successfully - and profitably - get products ordered on mobile devices to customers in the shortest possible time, so they don't even have to bother with shops at all,\" he said.\n\n\"Demand for this type of fast, no-hassle service will only increase in line with the ability for consumers to order products easily, with one-click, directly from social media or through QR codes.\"\n• None Robots to deliver groceries in second town", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool had to come from behind to win a Champions League thriller against AC Milan at Anfield.\n\nJurgen Klopp's team laid siege to Milan's goal from the start, taking a deserved early lead when former Chelsea defender Fikayo Tomori deflected a cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold into his own net.\n\nLiverpool, who missed the chance to double their advantage when Mohamed Salah's penalty was saved by keeper Mike Maignan, were stunned when Milan, after being completely outplayed, struck twice in the space of seconds right on half-time to take the lead through Ante Rebic and Brahim Diaz.\n\nKlopp's side regrouped to subject Milan to intense pressure once more after the break and were rewarded for their stirring comeback, Salah making amends for his penalty miss by equalising from close range after 48 minutes when he was superbly set up by Divock Origi.\n\nAnd as the traffic became one-way once more with Anfield turning up the volume, Jordan Henderson rifled home his first Champions League goal for seven years in the 69th minute when Milan could only partially clear a Liverpool corner to settle this richly entertaining Group B opening game.\n\nLiverpool somehow managed to transform what was, for the most part, a superb performance into a nervous night at Anfield against a Milan side who were outplayed for almost the entire game.\n\nThey opened up in a manner that suggested this opening group game would be done and dusted by half-time as Liverpool created a succession of clear openings that resulted in one goal and should have brought more.\n\nMilan were handed a reprieve when Salah suffered a rare blemish from the spot with only his second failure in 19 attempts, striking his effort too close to Maignan after Ismael Bennacer handled Andy Robertson's shot.\n\nAnfield was stunned when Milan hit Liverpool twice right on the break to somehow end the first half in the lead, but it was a harsh lesson learned as they got careless in defence and were shown that any moments when you switch off will be punished in the Champions League.\n\nThere was still a sense of inevitability about Liverpool's victory and, in the manner reminiscent of so many of their wins in recent years, it was sheer weight of pressure that finally wore Milan down, even if the winner did come from an unlikely source as Henderson's crisp drive gave Maignan no chance.\n\nIt was no more than Liverpool deserved but it was also an early warning that sloppiness is very dangerous, even against a side who had barely been out of their own half in the first 45 minutes.\n\nIn the end, it is the win that counts in a very tight Champions League group which also contains Porto and the dangerous La Liga champions Atletico Madrid. Those two blemishes apart, Klopp will be delighted with so much of Liverpool's performance.\n\nLiverpool manager Klopp has flagged up that he will use all of his squad strength this season but he may have surprised a few by restricting Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mane to the bench in an opening Champions League game where victory is always vital to gather instant momentum.\n\nKlopp is determined not to overwork Van Dijk after he missed most of last season with a serious knee injury. It allowed Joe Gomez to get 90 minutes under his belt after he suffered a similar fate to his Dutch defensive partner when he was struck down with a knee problem on England duty.\n\nOrigi came in for Mane, and the player who will always be remembered at Anfield for his Champions League deeds in Liverpool's successful 2019 campaign - when he led the sensational semi-final comeback against Barcelona and scored in the final against Tottenham - made another key contribution here.\n\nHe produced a superb piece of ingenuity to set up Salah for his equaliser just after the interval at a time when Liverpool needed a swift response to those two Milan sucker punches right on half-time.\n\nOrigi later went off suffering from cramp, understandable given his lack of action, and Anfield showed its appreciation with a standing ovation.\n\nSalah was the beneficiary and he was once again Liverpool's talisman, a man on a mission to put matters right after missing his penalty.\n\nKlopp will continue to utilise his squad throughout this campaign but Salah will remain, as ever, absolutely central to all Liverpool's hopes in domestic competition and in the Champions League - and he delivered the goods again.\n• None Attempt missed. Brahim Díaz (AC Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Theo Hernández.\n• None James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Brahim Díaz (AC Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Simon Kjaer (AC Milan) header from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Sandro Tonali with a cross.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None McMafia is streaming now on BBC iPlayer\n• None What is the long-term impact of taking so many hits?", "Changes to periods and unexpected vaginal bleeding after having a Covid vaccine should be investigated to reassure women, says a leading immunologist specialising in fertility.\n\nWriting in the BMJ, Dr Victoria Male, from Imperial College London, said the body's immune response was the likely cause, not something in the vaccines.\n\nThere is no evidence they have any impact on pregnancy or fertility.\n\nThe UK's regulator has received more than 30,000 reports of period problems.\n\nThese suspected side-effects include heavier than usual periods, delayed periods and unexpected bleeding after all three Covid vaccines, out of more than 47 million doses given to women in the UK to date.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Your questions about vaccines and periods answered\n\nAfter reviewing the reports, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says it \"does not support a link\" between Covid vaccines and the symptoms.\n\nMenstrual disorders are extremely common, can be caused by many different things, and the numbers of women affected are low, it says.\n\nPeriod changes have also been reported by some women after infection with the virus itself, and with long Covid.\n\nHowever, writing in an opinion piece in the BMJ, Dr Male says \"robust research\" into reports of period problems would help to counter misinformation around the vaccines.\n\n\"Vaccine hesitancy among young women is largely driven by false claims that Covid-19 vaccines could harm their chances of future pregnancy.\n\n\"Failing to thoroughly investigate reports of menstrual changes after vaccination is likely to fuel these fears.\n\n\"If a link between vaccination and menstrual changes is confirmed, this information will allow people to plan for potentially altered cycles,\" she said.\n\nDr Male, a lecturer in reproductive immunology, said \"clear and trusted information\" was important for women who rely on being able to predict their cycles.\n\nAnd she said the effects of any medical intervention on menstruation should not be \"an afterthought\" in future research.\n\nScientists don't yet understand exactly how vaccines could cause period changes. They may be linked to the impact of the immune system - which is stimulated by the vaccine - on hormones driving the menstrual cycle, but they could also be caused by immune cells acting differently in the lining of the uterus.\n\nOther vaccines, such as HPV or human papillomavirus, have also been linked to similar menstrual changes - but there has been little research carried out on how and why it happens.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why it's recommended you get the Covid vaccine if you're pregnant\n\nScientists agree that women's ability to have a baby is not affected by the vaccines. Trials show that vaccination did not change women's chances of becoming pregnant naturally or during fertility treatment. Research into male fertility after vaccines also shows no impact on sperm quality.\n\nDr Jo Mountfield, vice-president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), said changes to periods could be concerning, but generally lasted only one or two cycles.\n\nShe encouraged anyone who experiences heavy bleeding which is unusual, especially after the menopause, to speak to a healthcare professional for advice, but she emphasised there was no risk of long-term harm.\n\n\"There is no evidence to suggest that these temporary changes will have any impact on a person's future fertility, or their ability to have children,\" Dr Mountfield said.\n\nThe RCOG said vaccination was the \"best protection\" against coronavirus, especially if planning a pregnancy, because unvaccinated pregnant women are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill from Covid than other women of the same age.\n\nIt also called for more research into why women may experience changes to their menstrual cycle after the vaccine.", "Pimlico Plumbers has been sold to US home services group Neighborly.\n\nThe deal will see founder Charlie Mullins offload his 90% stake in the group and is expected to be worth between £125m and £145m, according to the Financial Times.\n\nThe entrepreneur's son, Scott Mullins, will retain a stake of about 10%, and continue his role as chief executive.\n\nThe London-based firm currently makes nearly $70m (£50.7m) in revenue a year, and employs more than 400 workers.\n\nFounded in 1979, Pimlico's services include heating, plumbing, bathrooms, drainage and electrics. It completes an average of more than 100,000 service jobs for central London homeowners and businesses each year.\n\nFrom starting the plumbing business with a second-hand van and a box of tools, Mullins said he had received approaches from a number of buyers after hiring advisers from Cavendish Corporate Finance.\n\n\"We had various people who wanted to buy the business, and interest from all over the world, including France, America, and somewhere in the Middle East,\" Mullins told the BBC.\n\nThe businessman often speaks publicly on economic matters and was an opponent of Brexit.\n\nPimlico completes an average of more than 100,000 service jobs for central London homeowners and businesses each year\n\nHe said the firm had experienced a strong year despite the coronavirus pandemic, with both in and out-of-hours calls increasing, as well as emergency call outs.\n\n\"Covid helped to lift the company to another level,\" he said, pointing to an increase to 2,000 to 3,000 jobs a week. \"It now needs to go international.\"\n\nHe added: \"The business will always be something I will cherish. It has been a lifetime of work, and what it has achieved is remarkable. Neighborly will take that to the next level.\"\n\nMr Mullins plans to use some of the income from the sale to back other ventures in music promotion and overseas property.\n\nNeighborly, founded in 1981, is a home services provider, serving more than 10 million residential and commercial customers. As well as plumbing, it provides pest control, cleaning, and home inspection services.\n\nThe acquisition allows Neighborly to extend its international reach. Neighborly was bought by KKR from investment firm Harvest Partners just two months ago.\n\nMike Bidwell, president of Neighborly, said: \"We are thrilled to be growing our global footprint with the addition of Pimlico as the next subsidiary brand to join our global family of home service professionals.\n\n\"Pimlico's wide array of trade services as well as its exceptional customer care perfectly align with Neighborly's purpose, which is to build an extensive service community known for providing excellent experiences.\"", "The couple were married in a private ceremony last year\n\nPrincess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have welcomed a baby girl, who was born on Saturday.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter gave birth to her first child, weighing 6lb 2oz, at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the princess and her daughter were \"doing well\" and the baby's grandparents and great-grandparents were \"delighted\".\n\nThe baby girl will be 11th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, the princess said she was \"so delighted to share the news of the safe arrival of our daughter\", thanking the midwife team and everyone at the hospital \"for their wonderful care\".\n\nBeatrice is the elder daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York. She married property tycoon Mr Mapelli Mozzi in a private ceremony in July 2020.\n\nShe is stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with ex-fiancee Dara Huang.\n\nA statement from Buckingham Palace said: \"The new baby's grandparents and great-grandparents have all been informed and are delighted with the news. The family would like to thank all the staff at the hospital for their wonderful care.\n\n\"Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well, and the couple are looking forward to introducing their daughter to her big brother, Christopher Woolf.\"\n\nBeatrice became an aunt for the first time in February, when her sister Princess Eugenie gave birth to a baby boy named August.\n\nFollowing the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's second child - Lilibet \"Lili\" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - in June, the princess herself moved from 9th to 10th in line to the throne.\n\nThe princess, who is not a full-time working royal, is vice-president of partnerships and strategy at Afiniti, an artificial intelligence software firm.\n\nShe is also patron of a number of charities, including the Forget Me Not Children's Hospice, the Teenage Cancer Trust and the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre.\n\nHer husband, known as Edo, is the son of former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis.\n\nPrincess Beatrice was last seen in public on September 16, at the Forget Me Not Children's Hospice garden party to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Russell House.", "George Webster has previously appeared in a video for the BBC dispelling the myths about Down's syndrome\n\nFans of a BBC children's channel have taken to social media to praise the appointment of a new guest presenter.\n\nCBeebies confirmed George Webster would be joining as a presenter on its CBeebies House.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from Leeds, who has Down's syndrome, is an actor, dancer and ambassador for the charity Mencap.\n\nTwitter users expressed how important it was to see diversity on television channels which are aimed at the next generation.\n\nGeorge has previously appeared in a BBC Bitesize video aimed at dispelling the myths of Down's syndrome.\n\nHe said the video prompted the approach from CBeebies who offered him the job.\n\n\"Today's reaction has been amazing and I am so happy to have so much support. I am over the moon and overjoyed. It's brilliant.\n\n\"All the positive feedback has been overwhelming.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CBeebies Grown-Ups 🎉 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmong the people who responded to the announcement was Danni who tweeted: \"As an autistic parent, I can't praise CBeebies enough for your work for diversity and representation.\"\n\nSusan Corcoran tweeted: \"My friend's three year old granddaughter was with Downs. They worry about her future, how others will treat her outside of their family and friendship group. This gives me faith that her life won't be as hard as that of previous generations.\"\n\nAmanda summed up how people felt about the news when she tweeted: \"That is wonderful. What a presenter, full of energy! My sister - currently aged 40 and with Downs - would have loved this as a child. My boys - in their teens - would have loved this. The entire CBeebies audience will be happier because of George.\"\n\nMencap, the charity for people with a learning disability, said it was excited to see its \"fantastic ambassador\" become a presenter.\n\n\"You are a brilliant role model so it is great you will have the chance to introduce yourself to so many people,\" the organisation tweeted.\n\nCBeebies said George would be starting his new job \"very soon\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nChelsea stretched their unbeaten Premier League run to five games as Thomas Tuchel's team deservedly beat Tottenham.\n\nAfter managing no shots on target in the first half, the visitors looked like a different team after the break and scored three second-half goals at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\nThe Blues opened the scoring four minutes after the re-start, when Thiago Silva headed past Hugo Lloris from Marcos Alonso's corner.\n\nHalf-time substitute N'Golo Kante added a second with his first goal in 49 league appearances, though his long-range effort took a massive deflection from Eric Dier.\n\nAntonio Rudiger found the bottom corner in injury time to complete the win.\n• None Why Chelsea's title charge already looks hard to stop - Shearer column\n• None Reaction to Spurs v Chelsea and the rest of Sunday's Premier League action\n\nSpurs started the game brightly and were the better side in the first half, but Nuno Espirito Santo's side managed just two shots on target throughout and struggled to find a response after going behind.\n\nSilva, Alonso, Rudiger, Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner all came close as the Blues enjoyed 10 second-half shots on target, but Lloris made a number of saves to deny them.\n\nChelsea are one of only three teams yet to lose in the Premier League this season, along with Liverpool and Manchester United.\n\nThe victory lifts the Blues to joint top of the table, alongside Jurgen Klopp's side.\n\nBefore the game, tributes were paid to Jimmy Greaves who played for both clubs, after he died aged 81.\n\nThomas Tuchel said in his post-match interview that he was \"absolutely not happy\" with his side's first-half performance, and whatever he said at half-time clearly did the trick.\n\nChelsea's best chance in the first 45 minutes fell to Mason Mount, who ran the length of the pitch after winning the ball in his own half, but the England midfielder scuffed his shot from six yards out after playing a one-two with Lukaku.\n\nIt was Mount's withdrawal at half-time that changed Chelsea's system and the introduction of Kante was the catalyst for Chelsea's dominant second-half display.\n\nChelsea were undoubtedly the better team after the break and two minutes after the restart, a superb ball from Silva found Alonso, but the Spaniard's goal-bound volley was tipped over by Hugo Lloris.\n\nAlonso repaid the favour not long after, with his brilliant delivery from the corner finding the Brazilian, who rose above Dele Alli to head in the opener.\n\nTwelve minutes into the second half, Tuchel's side had a firm grip on the game after Kante's long-range effort took a big deflection off Eric Dier and went in off the post.\n\nNo team has managed more shots on target in a Premier League match this season than Chelsea did against Tottenham, with all 10 coming in the second half.\n\nLloris was probably Spurs' best player as he kept a respectable scoreline, but he was eventually beaten for a third time when substitute Werner picked out Rudiger in the box, allowing the German to drill the ball into the bottom left corner.\n\nThere are pleasing signs for Tuchel that his side managed such a comfortable win without any goals from his forwards.\n\nThe German said his side still aren't at their best - a stark warning to the teams expected to be challenging for the title come May.\n\nSpurs continue to struggle in front of goal\n\nAfter winning their opening three Premier League games, it is now back-to-back 3-0 defeats for Spurs, who have scored just one goal from open play this season.\n\nFollowing a difficult Europa Conference League draw against Rennes on Thursday, Spurs started the game full of energy and showed their attacking intent from the first whistle.\n\nNuno's side were buoyed by the return of Son Heung-min, who returned to the squad after missing two games with a calf strain.\n\nThe South Korean was at the heart of Spurs' early chances and it was he who managed the only shot on target in the first half.\n\nAfter being played in by Giovani Lo Celso, Son beat Alonso, but his shot was blocked as he collided with Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga who was off his line.\n\nBut Chelsea were resolute and difficult to break down. After the break it was one-way traffic as Chelsea grew into the game and a flat Spurs side looked lethargic after going behind.\n\nHarry Kane was kept quiet and restricted to just two chances and often looked lost at the top of the pitch. It is the first time since 2015-16 that the England striker has failed to score in his first four Premier League appearances of a season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcos Alonso.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 0, Chelsea 3. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Timo Werner following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Mateo Kovacic (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jorginho.\n• None Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Antonio Rüdiger with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Timo Werner (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté with a through ball.\n• None Timo Werner (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says November's COP26 summit is \"a turning point for the world\"\n\nBoris Johnson has renewed his call for richer countries to increase financial support to poorer ones fighting the effects of climate change.\n\nSpeaking at a UN gathering in New York, the UK PM said he was \"increasingly frustrated\" at support offered to countries hit hard by global warming.\n\nHe added many richer economies had pledged \"nowhere near enough\".\n\nA longstanding promise to give $100bn (£73bn) a year to poorer countries has not yet been met.\n\nSome 100 world leaders are meeting at the UN General Assembly this week, ahead of a key UN climate conference hosted in Glasgow next month.\n\nMr Johnson said \"history will judge\" countries who \"lacked the courage to step up\" once the Glasgow conference, called COP26, has finished.\n\nAs far back as 2009, the developed world agreed it would provide $100bn a year by 2020 to help poorer countries deal with the effects of climate change.\n\nBut the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently estimated that by 2019 the figure had reached just over $79bn.\n\nAddressing other leaders at the UN climate meeting, Mr Johnson said the gap between what had been promised and what had been delivered \"remains vast\".\n\n\"Too many major economies - some represented here today, some absent - are lagging too far behind,\" he added.\n\nOn his way to New York, Mr Johnson had downplayed the chances of the $100bn target being hit by the Glasgow summit, saying it was \"six out of 10\".\n\nHowever, US President Joe Biden's climate envoy, John Kerry, has since raised hopes it could be met, hinting his boss could announce more money during his speech to the UN assembly on Tuesday.\n\nMr Kerry told Sky News: \"I think we're going to get it done by COP [26], and the US will do its part.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Biden will announce more funds this week, he added: \"I'm telling you to stay tuned into the president's speech, and we'll see where we are.\"\n\nThe US presents a huge obstacle to the climate talks.\n\nPresident Biden says he wants to undo the harm caused by President Trump's withdrawal from the international climate agreement.\n\nBut he's facing a very big bill to help developing nations cope with the effects of global heating, and it's not yet clear he can persuade Congress to stump up the cash.\n\nRich nations have agreed to help poorer countries with a $100bn annual goal as of 2017-18.\n\nRecent research from the UK think tank the Overseas Development Institute found the US paid only 4% of its \"fair share\".\n\nIt suggested $40bn would be a reasonable US contribution - and the president may pledge additional money at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.\n\nIf the cash doesn't flow, major developing nations may resist making further emissions cuts themselves.\n\nChina and India already feel aggrieved that they're being asked to curb emissions at a far earlier stage in their development than western nations.\n\nAsked about Mr Kerry's comments on Monday, Mr Johnson said an increased commitment from the United States would make a \"huge difference\".\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We have been here before, we have all heard lots of pledges, lots of positive noises, let's see where we get to.\n\n\"We are not counting our chickens.\"\n\nThe UK, which has so far committed £11.6bn in international climate finance over the next five years, is under pressure to burnish its green credentials ahead of the Glasgow conference, beginning in just over a month.\n\nThe lead author of a UN-commissioned expert report into the pledge, Amar Bhattacharya, says among the G7 group of rich countries, the \"three countries that have been the leaders are Germany, Japan and France in that order\".\n\nThe UK and Canada are slightly behind them - but the United States and, in particular, Italy, are regarded as the main two laggards.", "A leading football agent who used to represent Raheem Sterling has broken Football Association rules by signing under-age players, according to evidence seen by BBC Panorama.\n\nAidy Ward also asked Mr Sterling to speak to a 15-year-old, as part of an attempt by Mr Ward to sign him.\n\nMr Ward, who owns Colossal Sports Management, said he could not comment.\n\nThe FA prohibits agents offering deals before 1 January in the year of a player's 16th birthday.\n\nThe BBC understands that Mr Ward is already under investigation by the FA in relation to this incident, but the association has yet to conclude its inquiry.\n\nEvidence seen by Panorama reveals how Mr Ward, at a dinner with a 15-year-old boy and his mother at a restaurant in London, video-called his most famous client Raheem Sterling and asked him to speak to the boy.\n\nMr Sterling's lawyers told Panorama that as an England international he feels a responsibility to speak to aspiring players and has done so a couple of times at Mr Ward's request.\n\nHowever, he does not speak to them about agents or financial issues, and he supports FA rules designed to protect young players.\n\nMr Sterling, who has a small shareholding in Colossal given to him by Ward, dropped him as an agent late last year.\n\nMr Ward said he could not comment out of respect for the FA investigation.\n\nWard negotiated Sterling's £49m move from Liverpool to Manchester City in 2015\n\nPanorama has seen a series of leaked emails and messages that appear to show how Mr Ward has been trying to build his business by signing young players to his agency.\n\nThe programme has spoken to the parents of seven under-age footballers, who all say that Colossal had approached them offering their services.\n\nPanorama has also seen the minutes of a Colossal meeting, which took place at a south London restaurant in 2017.\n\nThe email includes a list of players the agency wanted to sign - six of whom were 14 or younger at the time.\n\nMr Ward did not respond to these points when asked by Panorama.\n\nPanorama has also spoken to a Premier League scout, who said that agencies like Colossal can often use underhand tactics to sign players.\n\nWishing to remain anonymous, he said: \"They target a single-mum family because it's easy. It all starts from a very, very young age.\"\n\nOne former youth player, Foday Nabay, now 23, told the programme he was approached by Mr Ward when he was just 12 years old.\n\nMr Nabay, who was born in Sierra Leone and moved to England with his mother when he was six, was at the time playing with England's under-16 squad, having become a star of Birmingham City's youth academy.\n\nMr Nabay said he was happy at Birmingham but Mr Ward suggested a move to Fulham, who were in the Premier League at the time.\n\nMr Ward says he has never been Mr Nabay's agent, but Panorama has obtained a series of confidential emails from 2013 that appear to contradict his claim.\n\nIn the emails, Fulham's academy director, Huw Jennings, Mr Ward and another agent he was working with discussed the terms of Mr Nabay's transfer, who was by then 14 years old.\n\nThe negotiations concluded with an offer from Fulham's academy director to pay the agents their full fee - which was £120,000 - if the deal went through.\n\nWhen Mr Nabay found out there were agency fees involved, he told Fulham he would only sign if they were not paid.\n\nFA rules state an agent cannot request or receive any payment in relation to a transfer of an academy player before the year of their 16th birthday. Agents are also not allowed to make any approaches to the player or their family before that date.\n\nFulham did not answer the BBC's detailed questions about Mr Nabay's transfer, but said that the club had neither paid, nor agreed to pay, Mr Ward or the other agent in relation to the player's registration with the club.\n\nThe FA says it thoroughly investigates all allegations of rule-breaking by agents, and that about 50 have been sanctioned over the last three years.\n\nMr Nabay signed with Fulham but was released by the club in March 2018, when he was 19.\n\nHe says he felt manipulated by Mr Ward for pushing him into a move he was never happy with.\n\n\"I was in my room 24/7, didn't want to leave, I didn't want to do anything. I was really not in a good place,\" he said.\n\nYouth academies, which train talented players, can be big money-spinners.\n\nLast summer, Premier League clubs earned at least £250m from selling their academy graduates.\n\nFootball finance expert Kieran Maguire said the problem goes beyond just one agent or one academy.\n\n\"The commoditisation of young footballers means they are now being viewed by some clubs as potential profit centres.\" he said.\n\nWatch BBC Panorama: Football's Broken Dreams on BBC One on Monday at 20:30 BST and on BBC iPlayer afterwards.\n• None Why is Hollywood interested in football agencies?", "A conservationist has been seriously injured and her cameraman killed in a paramotoring crash in the north west Highlands.\n\nAustralian biologist Sacha Dench and Dan Burton were in the final stages of a challenge to circumnavigate Britain to raise awareness of climate change.\n\nPolice said their paramotors collided close to Loch Na Gainmhich near Lochinver in Sutherland.\n\nEmergency services were alerted to the incident at about 16:45 on Saturday.\n\nThe Devon-based charity Conservation Without Borders said Mr Burton, 54, was killed and its founder, climate activist Ms Dench, seriously injured.\n\nThe pair were flying the battery-powered paramotors to mark the forthcoming UN climate change conference in Glasgow.\n\nSacha Dench and Dan Burton were in the final stags of the challenge\n\nPolice at the scene of Saturday's crash\n\nThe charity said in a statement: \"We are very sorry to have to confirm that Dan Burton, the support paramotorist has died as a result of the accident. Sacha Dench is seriously injured and is being treated in hospital. Her injuries are serious but not life threatening.\n\n\"Both highly experienced paramotorists, our thoughts are with the family of Dan Burton to whom we offer our sincere condolences.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Police were informed about the incident near by the A894 shortly before 16:45 and inquiries to establish the full circumstances are ongoing. The next of kin of those involved have been informed.\"", "People who were on the shielding list have lower protection against serious illness from Covid-19, even after two doses of vaccine, research has found.\n\nPublic Health Scotland and the University of Edinburgh published the study as a booster programme for vulnerable people and over 50s began.\n\nChildren aged 12 to 15 are also able to get a Covid vaccine in Scotland.\n\nThe injections for young teenagers will be available at drop-in centres and later in schools.\n\nOlder care home residents will be the first to be offered a booster jag.\n\nThe study found those classed as clinically extremely vulnerable had 66% protection against severe illness after two vaccine doses, compared with 93% protection in fully vaccinated people without any high-risk conditions.\n\nResearchers said they hoped a third booster vaccine would increase protection levels further for those who had previously been asked to shield.\n\nOf more than 3.5 million people who have had two vaccine doses in Scotland, the study found just 330 cases of severe Covid-19.\n\nAlmost half were in people whose health conditions meant they were classed as \"extremely vulnerable\". Most of the remainder were in people with more moderate risk conditions.\n\nProf Helen Colhoun, of the University of Edinburgh, said: \"The fact that we see an increase in protection from the first to the second dose gives hope that a third dose might increase protection further.\"\n\nDr Nicholas Phin, director of public health science at Public Health Scotland, said: \"The findings of this study confirm that all the vaccines approved for use in the UK continue to be highly effective at reducing severe illness and death from Covid-19.\n\n\"Whilst those who are clinically extremely vulnerable get, on average, a substantial level of protection to Covid-19, it will vary from person to person and by the nature of their vulnerability.\"\n\nThe booster shot of vaccine is being offered to all adults over 50, frontline health and care workers, younger adults with health conditions that put them at higher risk, and adult household contacts of people with suppressed immune systems.\n\nThe JCVI advisory group said the move was needed amid concern about waning immunity ahead of winter.\n\nResidents in care homes for older people will be offered both flu and Covid booster vaccines.\n\nAdults aged 70 years or over, and everyone aged over 16 on the highest risk list, will be contacted from the end of September either by letter or by their GP.\n\nOther eligible groups - all adults over 50, all those aged 16 to 49 with underlying health conditions, adult carers, unpaid and young carers, and adult household contacts of people who are immunosuppressed - will be able to book online from October.\n\nThe booster dose can be given alongside the flu jab and should be offered no earlier than six months after completion of the primary vaccine course.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"The booster programme will run alongside our biggest ever flu vaccine programme as both of these programmes are important for individual and for public health and, wherever possible, those eligible will be offered Covid-19 booster and flu vaccines together.\"\n\nYoungsters in the 12 to 15-year-old age group will be sent vaccination invites by post from next week.\n\nMr Yousaf told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the government had prioritised community drop-ins over school vaccination programmes.\n\nDrop-in clinics in Forth Valley, Lothian, Dumfries and Galloway, Tayside and Lanarkshire are accepting youngsters in this age group, with the remaining health boards expected to begin later in the week, once staff training in getting informed consent from 12 to 15-year-olds is complete.\n\nThe vaccination programme in schools will start after the scheduled appointments, but in some rural areas the vaccine will first be offered at school.\n\n\"We recognised that switching our drop-ins to 12 to 15-year-olds, with 12 to 15-year-olds being accompanied by an adult who can give verbal consent, is the quickest way to do this,\" he said.\n\n\"The more people we have, the greater the uptake amongst that population level, the better the outcomes in terms of avoiding educational disruption and, of course, for health reasons, not just for the individuals involved but for society as a whole.\"\n\nIt comes after the chief medical officers of each of the four UK nations concluded that the additional benefits were sufficient to justify vaccination of children over the age of 12.\n\nThey said it would help to reduce disruption to their schooling this winter and benefit those growing up in the poorest areas.\n\nThe chief medical officers said the vaccine programme will help reduce disruption in schools\n\nAll children aged 12 to 15 who are not already eligible will be offered a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nThose who have specific underlying conditions or disabilities are already covered by previous Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advice and will be offered two doses, eight weeks apart.\n\nBruce Adamson, Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland, said it was \"a strong rights-based decision\" to give children the choice to get the vaccine.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland that children and young people had \"borne the brunt\" of the pandemic.\n\n\"They have played such an important role in protecting the public health of all of us, even though they're least likely to be affected.\n\n\"It should be a child's individual choice to take the vaccine - it needs to be an informed choice, based on how they feel and their understanding. There shouldn't be any pressure to take vaccination.\"\n\nFormer prime minister Gordon Brown, the WHO ambassador for global health financing, said he believed the entire world could be vaccinated by next summer, if developed nations helped in the rollout elsewhere.\n\nHe said: \"You can do the boosters in the UK, Europe and America, you can vaccinate 12 to 15-year-olds, you can retain some supplies in case of other emergencies, and still vaccinate the rest of the world.\"\n\nHe said there would be 500 million vaccines lying unused in rich nations by the end of next month and a billion by Christmas because of over ordering, and it would be \"utterly unconscionable\" to let those doses pass their use-by date when only 2% of Africa had been vaccinated.\n\nSpeaking on Good Morning Scotland, he said: \"I believe that the whole world, all those adults who want a vaccination and we can get the vaccination to, can be vaccinated by next summer.\"\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the plan that President Biden and others should agree, is that by December we get 40% of the world vaccinated, that's of the poorest countries, then by next spring we are up to 70%.\n\n\"That's the figure that people have settled on for the rest of the world - that's on top, of course, of the rich countries, our countries, already having 70% or more fully vaccinated at the moment.\"\n• None Why are 12-15s now being double-jabbed?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey says his party is the \"gathering point\" for everyone \"fed up with the indecency and incompetence\" of government.\n\nAddressing the Lib Dem conference, he told delegates they can deprive Boris Johnson of a majority at the next election.\n\nHe announced a £5bn voucher scheme plan to help pupils catch up after the pandemic.\n\nAnd he vowed to fight for a \"fair deal\" for carers, parents and businesses.\n\nSir Ed's conference speech is the first to a live audience since becoming party leader last year.\n\nMost of the event is being held online due to pandemic concerns.\n\nAddressing a small audience of about 100 delegates at London's Canary Wharf, he pointed to success in June's Chesham and Amersham by-election - where the Lib Dems overturned a a 16,000 Tory majority to win by more than 8,000 votes - as evidence that \"the Tories can be beaten\" in traditional, so-called \"blue wall\" seats.\n\nOn education, Sir Ed said a \"massive Covid education catch-up plan is urgent\" as the UK emerges from the pandemic.\n\nHe said Liberal Democrats would give families a £200 voucher per child - paid directly to parents - to spend on activities such as extra tutoring, music or sports clubs.\n\nThe £5bn scheme would make supporting parents and children the \"top priority\" in a \"new fair deal\", he said, and would enable the \"most radical empowering of parents ever\".\n\nThat extra support \"would be doubled and in some cases tripled\" for children in care, disadvantaged children and those will special educational needs.\n\nSir Ed said his party will fight for a \"fair deal\" and aim to appeal to those who feel \"taken for granted\" by the Conservatives.\n\nReferring to the prime minister's £36bn health and social care levy, Sir Ed said it was \"little more than an unfair tax rise for workers and businesses\".\n\nHe said as a carer himself for his son he \"felt angry\" at the prime minister's \"claim to have fixed the crisis in social care\", describing it as \"just another of his broken promises\".\n\nHe criticised the plan for failing to tackle a \"dangerous shortage of care staff\" and said that those workers would be hit with a tax hike and \"heartless universal credit cuts\".\n\nHe pledged that his party would \"empower carers\" by giving them their own budget and control over care provision such as when the family carer gets a break.\n\nSir Ed said the tax-free allowance against employers, national insurance contributions should be \"raised substantially\" and that the biggest businesses would pay more tax under Lib Dem plans.\n\n\"The world's richest bosses might be racing each other to go to Mars, but before lift-off, they can pay their taxes here on Planet Earth\" he added.\n\nOn the issue of climate action, he said the UK should be leading the world by banning new oil, gas and coal companies from the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThat would stop \"the flow of money from your pension funds into the dirty industries of the past\" he added.\n\nCatch-up vouchers are a clear pitch to parents who the Lib Dems are keen to attract.\n\nPost-pandemic the party believes it can capitalise on what many said was the government's mishandling of the impact on education.\n\nAnd it fits with their broader appeal to those they say have been taken for granted or left behind by Boris Johnson's government.\n\nBut there's a danger it's seen as an expensive giveaway which would put some cautious Conservative voters off.\n\nAnd competence when it comes to the economy will be crucial if the Lib Dem's are to present themselves as a credible alternative.\n\nIn a pre-speech interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Ed was asked about the party's attitude to trans rights after an activist, Natalie Bird, was banned from standing as an MP for wearing a T-shirt featuring the words \"woman adult human female\".\n\nHe said all spaces should be open to everyone, regardless of their gender, because the issue was one of human rights.\n\n\"A trans woman is a woman, a trans man is a man\" he added.\n\nSir Ed added that transgender people are \"some of the most discriminated against\" and he accused the prime minister of toxifying the debate around rights.", "The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine is \"safe, well tolerated\" and produces a \"robust\" antibody immune response in children aged five to 11, according to the findings of a US trial.\n\nThe researchers plan to submit the results to regulators to seek approval for vaccinating children younger than 12, the current age limit.\n\nMore than 2,000 children took part and were given two small doses of vaccine.\n\nResults in children under five are expected soon.\n\nThe findings, distributed in a press release, are the first of their kind for children under 12 - a trial of the Moderna vaccine in six to 11-year-olds is ongoing.\n\nBoth jabs are already being offered to adolescents over 12 in countries including the UK, which is just beginning its rollout of jabs to healthy teenagers.\n\nThe young children in the Pfizer trial were given 10 microgram doses, rather than the 30 micrograms recommended for over 12s. Antibody responses and side effects were comparable. The under fives in the study are being given even smaller doses.\n\nDr Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech, said: \"The safety profile and immunogenicity data in children aged five to 11 years vaccinated at a lower dose are consistent with those we have observed with our vaccine in other older populations at a higher dose.\n\n\"We are pleased to be able to submit data to regulatory authorities for this group of school-aged children before the start of the winter season.\"\n\nAlthough Covid is rarely severe in children, they can still catch and spread it and some will get very sick.\n\nThe UK has this week begun offering one dose of the Pfizer vaccine to children in secondary schools.\n\nAlthough this won't stop the virus circulating, it could help keep more pupils in class, say experts.\n\nPfizer chief executive Albert Bourla said: \"We are eager to extend the protection afforded by the vaccine to this younger population, subject to regulatory authorization, especially as we track the spread of the Delta variant and the substantial threat it poses to children.\"\n\nHe added: \"These trial results provide a strong foundation for seeking authorization of our vaccine for children five to 11 years old, and we plan to submit them to the FDA and other regulators with urgency.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, has said he has already discussed his wife's case with new foreign secretary Liz Truss.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 43-year-old mother-of-one from London, has been detained in Iran since 2016.\n\nShe is serving the second of two prison sentences, this one on parole after being convicted of propaganda against the Iranian regime.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said stopping her coming home amounted to \"hostage-taking\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC One's Andrew Marr Show earlier about his continuing campaign to secure the freedom of his wife and allow her home to see her young daughter, Mr Ratcliffe revealed that he was to speak to the foreign secretary by telephone on Sunday.\n\nHe said he hoped that Ms Truss, who was only appointed in her new role on Wednesday, would be able to talk to her Iranian counterpart during the UN's General Assembly in New York this week.\n\nSpeaking after the phone call, Mr Ratcliffe said he had urged Ms Truss to take action to deter state hostage-taking, which he described as \"cost free\" for Iran.\n\nBut he also called for a resolution of the £400 million military debt which the UK has owed Iran for decades.\n\n\"I said it needed carrot and stick - that, as I had told her predecessors, they needed to address the debt if Nazanin is going to come home, and that they needed to take steps to address Iran's hostage diplomacy - to disincentivise Iran from continuing to do it.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe has said that he wants to see \"firm\" and \"clear steps\" taken against Iran because of the detention of his wife and other British nationals.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has dual British and Iranian citizenship, was first jailed in Tehran in 2016 on spying charges, which she has always denied.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said prior to his talks with Ms Truss that he would pass on the names of 10 people he accuses of being involved with \"hostage-taking\" in Iran - it is unclear if he has done that.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family have reportedly been told by Iranian authorities that she is being detained because of the UK's failure to pay its outstanding debt to Iran, rather than the criminal charge.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said: \"One of the key problems I feel these past years is there's been no cost for the Iranian side to carry on holding Nazanin, to carry on holding others, and so we've seen that now there are more British citizens in prison than there were when Nazanin was first taken.\"\n\nThe chief executive of Amnesty International UK, Sacha Deshmukh, said: \"The plight of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Anoosheh Ashoori and other UK nationals held in Iran has extended across the last four foreign secretaries. It's long past time that the UK finally brought this deeply distressing episode to an end\".\n\nHowever, Mr Ratcliffe said that it was \"a positive sign\" to be speaking with the foreign secretary \"two days into the job\".\n\nBoris Johnson was the foreign secretary when Nazanin was initially detained by Iran. He later had to apologise for remarks that the family believed made the situation worse.\n\nIn May, Ms Truss's predecessor Dominic Raab said that Iran's treatment of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounted to \"torture\" and that its government was now using her in \"a cat-and-mouse game\" for diplomatic leverage.\n\nHe said there was an \"obligation on Iran to release her immediately and without condition\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe: Nazanin speaks to her daughter most days, while under house arrest in Iran\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's parole is pending an appeal over her second prison sentence.\n\nShe is staying with her mother in Iran and has not seen her daughter, Gabriella, in two years.\n\nShe speaks to her daughter regularly but Mr Ratcliffe is aware the there is a \"consequence\" to mother and daughter spending a long time apart.\n\nBut he said it is not \"like when in prison\", the family is able to speak to each other \"most days\".\n\nUncertainty about the court ruling has led to \"real up and downs\" and the situation has been \"really hard\", Mr Ratcliffe told the BBC.\n• None Nazanin case amounts to torture by Iran, says UK", "The boss of a US company that supplies 60% of the UK's food-grade carbon dioxide supply has held crisis talks with the government over shortages.\n\nTony Will, chief executive of CF Industries, arrived in the UK earlier after the firm stopped production at its two fertiliser plants because of soaring wholesale gas prices.\n\nFood firms are warning a shortage of CO2 is threatening produce supplies.\n\nHigh global demand for gas has been blamed for the recent surge in prices.\n\nCarbon dioxide is used to stun animals prior to slaughter and in dry ice form to keep food fresh for storage and transport. It is a by-product of fertiliser manufacturing.\n\nLast week, CF Industries, the UK's biggest CO2 producer, stopped production at its Teesside and Cheshire fertiliser plants \"due to high natural gas prices\". Wholesale gas prices have jumped by 250% since January, according to Oil & Gas UK, the industry group.\n\nCF Industries said it did not \"have an estimate for when production will resume\".\n\nThe BBC has also been told that officials from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have been \"working with\" the company in recent days.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted that he had met Mr Will and \"discussed the pressures the business is facing and explored possible ways forward to secure vital supplies, including to our food and energy industries\".\n\nFood producers and supermarkets have warned of the impact CO2 shortages are having on the industry.\n\nRanjit Singh Boparan, owner of UK poultry giant 2 Sisters Food Group, said the decision by CT Industries to halt operations, was a \"massive body blow\" for the food sector and placed it \"at breaking point\".\n\nAdam Couch, the boss of pork producer Cranswick said the industry was \"already at tipping point ahead of the demanding Christmas period\".\n\n\"We have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic to keep food on the shelves, but there is a real risk of product shortages across the country if the government does not act immediately to address these issues,\" he added.\n\nSupermarket Ocado said it had \"limited stock\" of some frozen items due to gas shortages, while another supermarket told the BBC the situation was \"escalating quickly\".\n\nOne supermarket executive told the BBC the CO2 issue is \"escalating quickly\" and was causing a \"big supply issue\".\n\n\"The big meat suppliers are saying they have two to three days' supply and are now having to prioritise how they use what they have,\" he said.\n\nHe said the problem \"compounds\" supply issues the food, drink and supermarket industries are already facing due to shortages of HGV drivers in the UK, caused partly by the pandemic and Brexit.\n\nThe British Poultry Council said that the supply chains will \"inevitably slow down\" if CO2 supplies become tighter and more unpredictable in the next five to seven days.\n\nA spokeswoman said product types might be reduced as meat companies streamline production to try to cut down the impact of shortages.\n\nIan Wright, chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, stressed that the UK was not going to run out of food, but said there would be \"major concerns\" over supply to supermarkets and other food outlets.\n\nHe suggested the government would need to take an \"innovative\" approach to dealing with the shortage of CO2, such as perhaps subsidising companies who produce the gas over the next four or five weeks.\n\n\"Or the knock-on effects of this may well be felt right the way through to the end of the year and particularly over the key Christmas trading period,\" said Mr Wright.\n\nMr Kwarteng has been in talks with energy suppliers as well as the energy regulator Ofgem over the weekend amid fears more small companies could go bust in the coming days.\n\nCOP26 president Alok Sharma told BBC's Andrew Marr Show that people should not be concerned about the risk to the supply of gas. And he said the energy price cap and warm homes discount - two cost-limiting measures - would protect people.\n\nAn Ofgem spokesperson said: \"Ofgem continues to work closely with government and industry to ensure consumers continue to be protected while global gas prices are high and will speak further on these issues at the industry roundtable [on Monday].\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nTottenham and Chelsea led the tributes for their former player Jimmy Greaves, who has died aged 81.\n\nA host of Spurs legends lined the pitch inside the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as a minute's applause was held before kick-off.\n\nMartin Chivers, Steve Perryman, Micky Hazard, Paul Allen, Ossie Ardiles, Gary Mabbutt, Graham Roberts, Glenn Hoddle, Ledley King and Michael Dawson were all present.\n\nDuring the applause, some Spurs fans held flags and banners to remember the club's record goalscorer.\n\nFormer Spurs and England striker Gary Lineker told BBC Sport: \"Jimmy had a fabulous contribution to football, an incredible goalscoring record.\n\n\"He was devilishly funny as well with his wit and personality, so charismatic. But on the field of play people will remember him most. Those of us that are old enough to have witnessed his magnificence at times, he could score all sorts of goals and was a beautifully graceful footballer and a wonderful finisher.\n\n\"For me, Jimmy was one of my heroes as well. Growing up watching him play we didn't have the amount of games on television that we now do but I managed to see him play a few times.\n\n\"I also was fortunate enough to meet him on numerous occasions and he was always affable and fun and hugely knowledgeable. He was a great personality, a wonderful footballer and a man with huge charisma and fun and he will be much missed.\"\n\nOn an emotional day across football grounds, West Ham, another of Greaves' former clubs, also held a minute's applause before their Premier League match against Manchester United, as did Brighton and Leicester City.\n\nPlayers from all six teams wore black armbands for Greaves, who holds the record for most goals in the English top flight with 357.\n\nSpurs captain Harry Kane, who is second behind Greaves on the club's scoring list, told Sky Sports before facing Chelsea: \"First and foremost our condolences to Jimmy's family and close friends. It's a sad one but hopefully a day we can celebrate.\n\n\"He played for Tottenham and Chelsea and hopefully we put in a great performance in his honour.\n\n\"Jimmy was an incredible player and goalscorer and a legend for club and country.\n\n\"It's frightening really how good a player he was. For someone like me to look at his numbers and one day go on to break those numbers would be incredible. I got to meet him back in 2017 and it's just a celebration of him today.\"\n\nGreaves began his career with Chelsea and his 41 goals in 1960-61 remains a record in a season for the Blues.\n\nGreaves won two FA Cups and one Cup Winners' Cup and scored 266 goals in 379 appearances for Spurs, where he is considered a club legend.\n\nGreaves was a member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad and scored 44 goals in his 57 senior international appearances.\n\nFormer team-mate Geoff Hurst was among those to pay tribute to Greaves.", "There could be an \"availability issue\" if production is cut, says one food processor\n\nOne of Britain's largest chicken processors says it will have to cut production unless two UK carbon dioxide plants restart.\n\nLast week, CF Industries, the UK's biggest CO2 producer, stopped production in Teesside and Cheshire due to \"high natural gas prices\".\n\nFood giant 2 Sisters processes about a million chickens each week at its plant in Flintshire in north Wales.\n\nIt warned production across its nine UK sites could fall by 10% within days.\n\n\"You'd see an availability issue within a week,\" said 2 Sisters Food Group founder and president Ranjit Singh Boparan.\n\n\"We've got four to five days left, then we'll have to reduce our production by 10% - over half a million chickens a week.\n\n\"The knock on effect for farmers is horrific - some farmers won't survive.\"\n\nThe CO2 gas is used to stun chickens prior to slaughtering, and also in the packaging process.\n\n2 Sisters' Anglesey plant is the only one in the UK to process whole large chickens\n\nIn addition to its largest poultry processing plant at Sandycroft on Deeside, 2 Sisters also operates the only UK factory to handle large whole chickens at its site at Llangefni on Anglesey.\n\nThe food company has seven more poultry-processing plants dotted around the UK, and its president also took over the Bernard Matthews turkey business in 2016.\n\nMr Boparan told the BBC the food production sector was already facing challenges with workforces and labour supply.\n\n\"This is another issue that could have been avoided,\" said.\n\n\"We have to get these two plants up and running, save Christmas and save the food supply chain.\"\n\nFears for beers: No CO2 poses a challenge for brewers such as Wrexham Lager's Martyn Jones\n\nIt is not just poultry production where there are concerns.\n\nCarbon dioxide gas is used in carbonated drinks and beers.\n\nMartyn Jones, president of Wrexham Lager Brewing Company, said they will be struggling if the CO2 situation continues.\n\nThe brewer said a delivery due on Monday was already two weeks late from their supplier.\n\n\"Now they're promising a delivery today, but we know it's not going to be as much as we need, because they're trying to supply everyone,\" said Mr Jones.\n\nMr Jones, the former Labour MP for Clwyd South, said they had enough gas to last a week, and then they will have to stop filling beer kegs.\n\n\"If we don't have it, we're going to be in real trouble,\" he said.\n\nKathryn Jones from Castell Howell food wholesaler said they were waiting to hear about CO2 supplies\n\nIn Carmarthenshire, food service wholesaler Castell Howell said it has been guaranteed a three-week supply of CO2 gas - but is waiting to hear what will happen afterwards.\n\n\"In our processing plant we do use CO2 for packing cooked hams on a daily basis, that go out to wholesale and retail markets,\" said director Kathryn Jones.\n\nShe said they expected to learn on Thursday how much more gas they can expect.\n\n\"The government has had a lot of time to deal with this. This issue has built up in the background.\"\n\nSupermarket chain Iceland said it was bolstering stocks - but was not overly concerned\n\nRichard Walker, the managing director of Welsh-based supermarket chain Iceland Foods, said his company was already building up food stocks for its stores.\n\n\"We're in hourly and daily contact with some of our biggest suppliers, and none of them have any issues at the moment, but some of them are very concerned,\" he said.\n\nBut he stressed: \"Our supply lines are very robust, and actually, we are building up extra stock in anticipation of this potentially becoming an issue.\n\n\"So, it doesn't affect us perhaps as much as it does other competitors.\"\n\nBut Mr Walker said, taken together with ongoing problems with a shortage of HGV drivers across the industry, action was needed.\n\n\"I think the government absolutely needs to prioritise CO2 supplies and financing for food production to limit the disruption to supermarket supplies,\" he said.\n\n\"It's absolutely essential that this gets sorted as quickly as possible.\"\n\nFrom fizzy drinks to packaging processes - CO2 plays a major role in the food industry\n\nCF Industries provides 60% of the UK's carbon dioxide, which is a by-product of the fertiliser industry.\n\nIts chief executive has held crisis talks with UK ministers, but said it did not \"have an estimate for when production will resume\".\n\nThe BBC has also been told that officials from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have been \"working with\" the company in recent days.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted that he had met Tony Will, the chief executive of CF Industries, and \"discussed the pressures the business is facing and explored possible ways forward to secure vital supplies, including to our food and energy industries\".\n\nThe shortage of CO2 could have \" deep and wide ranging impacts on food and drink businesses in Wales\", said the Welsh Food and Drink Industry Board.\n\nIts chairman Andy Richardson added: \"It's far deeper than just asking if turkeys or beer will be available this Christmas. All food and drink manufacturers could be affected significantly.\"", "Twenty-three houses on Hafodyrynys Road are due to be demolished\n\nWork to demolish an entire block of houses on Wales' most polluted street will begin on Monday.\n\nA demolition firm will start preparing the site, near Crumlin, before the homes are pulled down in mid-October.\n\nNitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels on Hafodyrynys Road have been the highest in the UK outside central London.\n\nCaerphilly County Borough Council was due to begin demolition work in May but said it had to be postponed due to the impact of the Covid pandemic.\n\nPreparation work by Wales and West Utilities to remove gas supplies to the 23 homes due for demolition began last week and is expected to last another week, leading to a lane closure and temporary traffic lights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's just upsetting to see people in, what I still call my house, people going in there, without permission...\"\n\nHafodyrynys Road was named the UK's most polluted street outside of central London in 2016 due to recorded nitrogen dioxide levels.\n\nPollution gets trapped between the houses and trees opposite from vehicles travelling between Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent and parts of Caerphilly county.\n\nWales' most polluted stretch of road is on the main route between Pontypool and Newbridge\n\nThe compulsory purchase of these properties at 50% above the market rate was agreed by the council's cabinet in 2019.\n\nDemolition was originally expected to start in May 2021 but has since been pushed back twice, leading to criticism from residents.\n\nThe council previously said the coronavirus pandemic had \"inevitably impacted the scheme\" and that it had to \"undertake preparatory works such as ecological surveys, structural surveys and asbestos removal works\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gabrielle \"Gabby\" Petito went missing during a road trip with her fiancé\n\nA body matching the description of missing woman Gabby Petito has been found by crews searching a national park in the US state of Wyoming.\n\n\"As every parent can imagine, this is an incredibly difficult time for her family,\" FBI agent Charles Jones told the media, choking back tears.\n\n\"The cause of death has not been determined,\" he added.\n\nMs Petito, 22, was visiting the Grand Teton National Park with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, when she disappeared.\n\nMr Laundrie was declared a \"person of interest\" in the case, but not charged with any crime. He declined to speak to police, and disappeared a few days later.\n\nThe FBI said that while forensic examinations were yet to \"confirm 100%\" that the human remains were those of Ms Petito, they were consistent with her description.\n\nMs Petito's father, Joseph, posted a photo of his daughter on Twitter shortly after the news conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by joseph petito This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Laundrie and Ms Petito had set out on a nomadic cross-country campervan trip in July, documenting their adventures on social media.\n\nThey filmed themselves smiling, kissing, and running on beaches in a YouTube video which has now been viewed more than 2.3 million times.\n\nBut on 1 September, after a month of travelling, Mr Laundrie returned home to Florida with their white van and without Ms Petito. Her family reported her missing 10 days later.\n\nOn Friday, police said Mr Laundrie's family told them they had not seen their son since Tuesday, and that investigators were \"frustrated\" by the developments.\n\nA search team spent the weekend scouring a 25,000 acre wildlife reserve in Florida for signs of Mr Laundrie with police dogs and drones, but as of Sunday evening nothing had been found.\n\nHis family released a statement through their lawyer, saying: \"The news about Gabby Petito is heartbreaking. The Laundrie family prays for Gabby and her family.\"\n\nThousands of comments have been left on the couple's Instagram pages, and protesters gathered outside the Laundrie family home on Friday yelling \"where's Gabby?\"\n\nAt the news conference on Sunday evening, Mr Jones said the tips police had received from the public had been \"remarkable\" and renewed the call for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nA large search team spent the weekend looking for Brian Laundrie in Florida's Carlton Reserve, but nothing was found\n\nTwo weeks before Ms Petito went missing, on 12 August, police in the southern Utah town of Moab were called to a possible domestic violence incident involving the couple.\n\nPolice released bodycam footage which showed Ms Petito crying and complaining about her mental health to officers. She also said the couple had been arguing more frequently.\n\nThe officers recommended they spend the night apart but did not file any charges. It is not yet known what happened next.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Louise Powell says her baby died \"due to errors\" made after she went into labour in prison\n\nA woman has told how her baby died during childbirth \"due to errors\" made after she went into labour in prison.\n\nLouise Powell, 31, said she begged for an ambulance before her baby, Brooke, died in a cell at HMP Styal in 2020.\n\nThe Prison Ombudsman is reviewing the death and is also due to publish its findings on another baby's death at HMP Bronzefield in Middlesex in 2019.\n\nThe Prison Service said it had already \"made significant improvements to support female offenders\".\n\nMs Powell said she did not know she was pregnant when Brooke was delivered prematurely between 30 and 32 weeks, weighing 2.5lbs (1.1kg), but told BBC Newsnight her daughter's death could have been avoided \"if [her condition] was taken seriously enough\".\n\n\"Brooke was let down by the people who were meant to look after us,\" she said.\n\nThe Prison Ombudsman is conducting an investigation into Brooke's death\n\nMs Powell, who was sentenced to eight months in March 2020 after admitting common assault, racially-aggravated harassment and criminal damage, said it was her first time in jail and she \"wasn't in a very good place\" after a relationship breakdown.\n\nOn her first day at HMP Styal, she told staff there was \"no chance\" she was pregnant.\n\nHowever, her lawyer Jane Ryan said prison staff were aware she had not had a period for four to five months and never followed it up.\n\nAt about 17:00 BST on 18 June, Ms Powell said she started feeling \"extreme\" pain.\n\nShe said her cellmate told staff she was bleeding and had severe cramps and had not had a period in months.\n\nA female prison officer then told her she looked six months pregnant, she said.\n\nMs Powell said she \"still didn't have a clue... but I felt like I was dying\", adding that the officer \"left me in the cell\".\n\nBBC Newsnight understands the prison officer contacted the on-site health care team about Ms Powell's condition and raised concerns about pregnancy, but it is claimed no medical professional went to see her.\n\nMs Powell said she was bent over with pain and crying but managed to leave her cell and found a prison officer, telling them: \"I need an ambulance. I'm dying.\"\n\nShe said the officer told her to go back and lie down.\n\nBBC Newsnight understands the officer called the health care team again, but no medical professional was sent.\n\nAt about 21:00, Ms Powell said her cellmate pressed the emergency bell, as she felt the need to push.\n\nShe said her baby's legs \"came out\", because Brooke was breech, and it was then that a prison nurse arrived and helped with the delivery.\n\nMs Powell described the chaotic scenes which followed the birth, during which she said she went into shock and was given oxygen.\n\nShe said an officer \"told me I had a beautiful baby girl\", but when the officer returned, \"her face was different\".\n\nShe said she knew at that point her daughter \"wasn't OK\".\n\nBBC Newsnight understands staff tried to call for an ambulance, but the prison radio system failed.\n\nMs Powell said \"nobody tried to revive [Brooke]\", and when paramedics arrived, it was \"too late\" to save her baby.\n\n\"I don't blame anyone for not knowing I was pregnant... but nobody came to look at me,\" she said.\n\n\"I feel like a lot more could have been done.\"\n\nLawyer Jane Ryan says Brooke's death was \"a tragedy which should not have happened\"\n\nShe said Brooke was a \"perfect baby and she died due to error\".\n\n\"She should be here with me... and that's been taken away from me through no fault of my own.\n\n\"I never got listened to.\"\n\nShe added that the prison \"clearly can't look after people\" and treated inmates as \"a number, not a person\".\n\nMs Ryan said Brooke's death was \"a tragedy that should not have happened\" and she believed that in different circumstances Ms Powell's daughter might have survived.\n\n\"[She] was premature but she was healthy,\" she said.\n\n\"Evidence shows [that] had Louise been properly assessed... then Brooke could have survived.\n\n\"That's devastating for Louise and also a matter of public concern that yet again this has happened.\"\n\nLouise Powell gave birth in her cell at HMP Styal\n\nMs Ryan said the two baby deaths were a \"disgrace\" and a \"stain on all of us\".\n\n\"Prison is the punishment itself,\" she said.\n\n\"You still should be appropriately cared for and be able to access adequate healthcare.\"\n\nThe Prison Service said it was a \"deeply sad and distressing case\".\n\nA spokesman said the service had \"made significant improvements to support female offenders\" and inmates now had \"greater access to education, healthcare and employment\".\n\n\"We await the report and will respond accordingly to improve the care for pregnant women and mothers in prison,\" he added.\n\nSpectrum Community Health CIC, the prison's healthcare provider, said it \"extended its deepest condolences to Ms Powell\" and had \"fully co-operated\" with the ombudsman's investigation.\n\n\"As the investigation report has yet to be published, we are unable to provide any further comment,\" it added.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Journalists from the Etilaatroz newspaper were flogged with cables\n\nJournalists in Afghanistan say that they have been beaten, detained and flogged by the Taliban when attempting to cover protests.\n\nPhotos circulating online show two journalists from Etilaatroz newspaper with welts and bruises after their arrest in the capital Kabul.\n\nOne of them, Taqi Daryabi, told the BBC he had been taken to a district police station where he was kicked and beaten.\n\nOn Wednesday, the BBC's team were also prevented from filming.\n\nMr Daryabi, alongside Etilaatroz's photographer Nematullah Naqdi, had been covering a women's protest in Kabul on Wednesday.\n\nAfterwards, they were taken to a police station, where they say they were beaten with batons, electrical cables and whips. A few hours later, they were released by the Taliban, without explanation.\n\n\"They took me to another room and handcuffed my hands behind me,\" he told the BBC's Secunder Kermani in Kabul. \"I decided not to defend myself because I thought they would just beat me even worse, so I lay down on floor in a position to protect the front of my body.\n\n\"Eight of them came and they started beating me... Using sticks, police sticks, rubber - whatever they had in their hands. The scar on my face is from shoes where they kicked me in face.\n\n\"I was unconscious after that so they stopped. They took me to another building where there were cells and left me.\"\n\nMr Daryabi said he had fallen unconscious after the beating, and that after about two hours he had been released.\n\n\"I could barely walk but they were telling us to walk quickly. I was in very bad pain.\"\n\nNematullah Naqdi said Taliban fighters had tried to take away his camera as soon as he started taking photographs of the protest.\n\n\"One of the Taliban put his foot on my head, crushed my face against the concrete. They kicked me in the head... I thought they were going to kill me,\" Mr Naqdi told AFP news agency.\n\nHe asked why he was being beaten, only to be told: \"You are lucky you weren't beheaded.\"\n\nAfghanistan's Tolo news agency reported that its cameraman had been arrested and held by the Taliban for nearly three hours.\n\nThe CPJ, an international non-governmental organisation, said at least 14 journalists had been detained and then released over the past two days.\n\n\"The Taliban is quickly proving that earlier promises to allow Afghanistan's independent media to continue operating freely and safely are worthless,\" said Steven Butler, CPJ's Asia programme co-ordinator.\n\n\"We urge the Taliban to live up to those earlier promises, to stop beating and detaining reporters doing their job, and allow the media to work freely without fear of reprisal.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the Taliban, which seized control of Afghanistan in a sweeping offensive more than three weeks ago, announced the formation of an all-male interim government to rule the country.\n\nSince then, they have effectively banned protests, declaring them illegal unless permission is sought from the ministry of justice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A group of women protest in Kabul against the all-male Taliban government", "The UK's sixth largest energy company, Bulb, is seeking a bailout to stay afloat amid surging wholesale gas prices.\n\nThe company, with 1.7m customers, is working with the investment bank Lazard to try to shore up its balance sheet.\n\nIt is the latest energy company battling to avoid going bust, with at least four smaller UK firms expected to go out of business next week.\n\nHigh global demand for gas has caused a recent surge in wholesale prices.\n\nA bailout for Bulb could come as part of a joint venture or merger with another company, with a further option being a cash injection from investors, according to the Financial Times, who first reported the story.\n\nIn a statement, Bulb told the BBC: \"From time to time we explore various opportunities to fund our business plans and further our mission to lower bills and lower CO2.\n\n\"Like everyone in the industry, we're monitoring wholesale prices and their impact on our business.\"\n\nIndustry group Oil & Gas UK said wholesale prices for gas had increased by 250% since January - with a 70% rise since August.\n\nThe price hike has left some companies unable to provide their customers with the energy they have paid for.\n\nHowever, if a supplier fails, energy regulator Ofgem will ensure supplies continue for affected households, and they will not lose money owed to them.\n\nA new energy supplier would be responsible for taking on any credit balances a customer may have.\n\nFour small energy companies ceased trading in recent weeks, including Edinburgh-based People's Energy, which supplied gas and electricity to about 350,000 homes and 1,000 businesses, and Dorset-based Utility Point which had 220,000 customers.\n\nAt the beginning of 2021 there were 70 energy suppliers in the UK, but industry sources have said there may be as few as 10 left by the end of the year.\n\nThe rise in gas prices has not only affected companies supplying energy, but food firms and supermarkets who use gas, in particular carbon dioxide, to deliver and store produce.\n\nCO2 is also used to stun animals before slaughter and as a coolant agent in transport.\n\nUS firm CF Industries, the UK's biggest CO2 producer, stopped production at its Teesside and Cheshire fertiliser plants due to the gas prices, which has sparked concern across the food production industry.\n\nRichard Walker, managing director of supermarket Iceland, tweeted that CO2 was \"essential for a wide range of food and medical uses\".\n\n\"Yet 60% of the UK's supply comes from only two sites, owned by one foreign company, who have decided to close due to profitability,\" he added.\n\n\"Surely matters of national security should be state-controlled?\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has held talks over the gas shortages with the boss of the US company, Tony Will, who flew into the UK on Sunday.\n\nMr Kwarteng said he was \"confident security of supply can be maintained under a wide range of scenarios\".\n\nHe said he would host further talks with the energy industry and consumer groups on Monday.\n\nEmma Pinchbeck, chief executive Energy UK, the industry's trade body, said talks with the government focused on how companies got through the current period with as little impact on customers as possible.\n\n\"The whole of the energy sector is facing unprecedented prices,\" she told the BBC\n\n\"We are reliant on a volatile international commodity in the UK because we are highly dependent on gas both in our own homes where we burn it for heat.\n\n\"We do that at a level beyond our European neighbours, but also for our power sector and other uses in the economy, so when we get an unprecedentedly high price there are unprecedented impacts on the market.\"", "Seal pups are sometimes seen off Wales' coast between August and December\n\nPeople have been urged to stay away from seal pups after one died when its mother was frightened away by visitors taking selfies.\n\nThe pup had been spotted on the beach near Llangrannog in Ceredigion.\n\nThe council put up signs and handed out leaflets asking people to leave it alone, but said the warnings were ignored and the animal died.\n\nSeals are sometimes seen off the Welsh coast between August and December, which is the breeding season.\n\nIf there are people on the beach the mother will not return to its pup to feed it, which can lead to it being abandoned.\n\nAccording to the Welsh Partnership of Marine Protected Areas, wildlife disturbance is on the increase as more people have been visiting the coast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Plea to stay away from seals after pup death\n\nCardigan Bay's special area of conservation officer, Melanie Heath, said: \"Seal pups need space and time to rest and grow, they are fed by their mothers for just three weeks before they have to fend for themselves.\n\n\"It is vital that during this time they are given space.\n\n\"Disturbance can lead to abandonment and death.\"\n\nCeredigion councillor Rhodri Evans said: \"It is very important to remember that these beautiful iconic creatures are wild animals so keep your distance and enjoy from afar.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people have taken part in a number of Orange Walks in Glasgow\n\nPolice have condemned \"outbreaks of racist and sectarian singing\" by some of those attending Orange Order processions in Glasgow.\n\nIt said the behaviour was \"utterly unacceptable\" and a number of arrests had been made in connection with various offences.\n\nThe Orange Order has said there had been parades in Glasgow for 200 years with \"very, very little trouble\".\n\nIt insisted the group was not anti-Catholic.\n\nThousands of people attended the marches through the city, which were rescheduled from 12 July due to the Covid rules.\n\nPolice Scotland said 800 officers had been called in to police the marches.\n\nChief Superintendent Mark Sutherland said: \"We are aware that on a number of occasions there have been outbreaks of racist and sectarian singing by some of those attending to support the Orange Order processions, this is utterly unacceptable and we completely condemn this behaviour.\"\n\nHe said action would be taken \"against those intent on causing harm and dividing our communities\" where possible, and that arrests had been made.\n\nFollow-up investigations would be launched as necessary, he added.\n\nCh Supt Sutherland continued: \"Once again, we see a number of people intent in causing offence and stirring up hatred by singing unacceptable sectarian and racist songs.\n\n\"It is clear that sectarianism remains a serious, ongoing problem in Scotland.\"\n\nMembers of the Orange Order and their supporters march through the city\n\nOver the course of the day the parades passed three Catholic churches, where vigils were held by campaigners who said the walks were anti-Catholic.\n\nRonnie Convery, of the Archdiocese of Glasgow, earlier told the BBC that the Catholic Church acknowledged people had a legal right to march through the city. However, he asked that the parades were timed and go on a route that avoided causing \"fear and alarm\" in the Catholic community.\n\nGlasgow City Council has the power to alter a parade's route or timing but has opted not to do so. A spokesman for the council said the parades would be \"more disruptive to the life of the city\" if they took an alternative route.\n\nJim McHarg, Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, said the organisation had a right to its procession\n\nJim McHarg, Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, said his organisation had \"every right\" to process through the streets.\n\n\"As an organisation, we have always respected other's points of views and opinions.\n\n\"Our organisation is based on the motto of civil and religious liberty for all people - and that includes us.\"\n\nHe said the council told the Orange Order to parade on main streets, and Catholic churches were built on main streets so it was inevitable that parades would have to pass some churches.\n\n\"We do not go there to cause any offence whatsoever. It's most certainly not deliberate - we are not out to offend anyone.\"\n\nSupporters of Call It Out gathered outside St Benedict's Catholic church in Easterhouse as an Orange walk passed\n\nJeanette Findlay, from the Call It Out campaign, which opposes anti-Irish and anti-Catholic bigotry, said the marches \"absolutely should be rerouted\" by the council so they did not pass Catholic churches.\n\nShe pointed out that it had the powers and had exercised them in the past.\n\nMs Findlay said this would \"balance the rights of the community\", and said she was \"very happy\" for the Orange Order to march, and she would defend their right to, adding \"All that we're asking is that they don't march past Catholic churches\".\n\nGlasgow City Council said 32 roads in the city were closed off for the processions.\n\nThe Church of Scotland said it condemned anti-Catholic bigotry and sectarianism.\n\nIt added: \"Over the years we have worked together [with the Roman Catholic Church] to tackle sectarianism and support one another.\n\n\"We speak to leaders in the Roman Catholic Church every week and greatly appreciate the friendship that exists between our churches and our communities.\"\n\nThere have been a number of high-profile incidents around parades by Protestant Loyal Orders and Irish Republican demonstrations in Glasgow in recent years.\n\nRecent incidents linked to the marches include an attack on a Catholic priest by a follower of an Orange parade in 2018.\n\nViolent protests at a Republican march in 2019 led to a number of parades being cancelled by Glasgow City Council.\n\nLast summer's parades did not go ahead as a result of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThere have also been outbreaks of violence at some events related to football.\n\nA number of people were assaulted in May after thousands of Rangers fans took to the streets of Glasgow - despite the Covid restrictions - when the club won the Scottish Premiership.\n\nThe first minister criticised the \"sectarian\" scenes as \"utterly unacceptable\", saying that \"vile anti-Catholic prejudice\" was on display.\n\nEarlier this month, a number fans were charged after footage emerged online of fans singing a sectarian song ahead of an Old Firm game.", "Councillor Louise Hughes said she was afraid a serious accident would happen\n\nIt is \"only a matter of time before a dreadful tragedy happens\" on a coastal road where a wall has \"crumbled to virtually nothing,\" a Gwynedd councillor has said.\n\nThe boundary wall on a stretch between Llwyngwril and Friog overlooks a steep bank with a railway track below.\n\nLouise Hughes said the issue was raised with Gwynedd council in 2015, but repairs were yet to be made.\n\nThe council said it was investigating whose responsibility the wall was.\n\n\"It has crumbled to virtually nothing all along the road... it's only a matter of time before a dreadful tragedy happens,\" said Ms Hughes, who represents Llangelynnin ward.\n\n\"Llwyngwril Community Council first raised the issue with Gwynedd Council back in January 2015, who then transferred it to NRW [Natural Resources Wales] in May 2015, as NRW are responsible for the boundary wall and crash barrier.\n\n\"Since then it has been passed back and forth between the authorities.\"\n\nShe added that she had also raised the matter at the Cambrian Coast Railway Conference as a matter of urgency on numerous occasions, but \"it has fallen on deaf ears\".\n\n\"The community council, and myself, feel we are being fobbed off and that as it stands the matter is unacceptable,\" she said.\n\nCouncillor Louise Hughes said she feels fobbed off after raising the issue numerous times\n\nGwynedd Council said: \"The safety of all road users is vitally important to the council, and we are investigating whether this site is the responsibility of the local authority or another organisation.\n\n\"We will discuss any developments with the relevant elected members and community council.\"", "Parents involved in the study were taught how to respond to their baby's individual needs\n\nTraining parents how to respond to babies showing early signs of autism could reduce by two-thirds the number of three-year-olds meeting the criteria for diagnosis, a small study suggests.\n\nImprovement on this scale has never been shown before, the UK and Australian researchers say.\n\nThe first two years are critical for brain development - but most autism diagnoses are made at the age of three.\n\nLonger-term research on more children is needed to see if the effects last.\n\nThis study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, followed 103 nine- to 14-month-olds, in Melbourne and Perth, with early signs of autism.\n\nOver five months, the parents of about half of them were taught to:\n\nAnd at the age of three, while they still had developmental difficulties, their social engagement had improved, they had fewer sensory issues and repetitive behaviours and only 7% met the criteria for a diagnosis of autism.\n\nThis compared with 20% of the other children given standard care.\n\nProf Jonathan Green, from the University of Manchester, who designed the video-based programme used in the trial, said: \"Many therapies for autism have tried previously to replace developmental differences with more 'typical' behaviours.\n\n\"In contrast, this works with each child's unique differences and creates a social environment around the child that helps them learn in a way that was best for them.\"\n\nDr James Cusack, from autism-research charity Autistica, said the study was \"promising\",\n\nHe said \"creating an environment that works for autistic people is the best possible way to build skills\" and added that people should not have to wait for a diagnosis for support to be provided.\n\nBut another charity, the National Autistic Society, said the study had a number of limitations.\n\n\"Autism is not a disease and not something that should be cured or lessened,\" head of policy Tim Nicholls said.\n\n\"Early intervention should be about supporting autistic people with the biggest challenges they face.\"\n\nProf Andrew Whitehouse, who was involved in the study, from the Telethon Kids Institute, at the University of Western Australia, said the results were \"an important step forward\", however.\n\n\"This is a genuine landmark moment for child-health research,\" he said.\n\n\"Our aim is to understand each child's strengths and challenges so that we can better support and nurture the unique abilities they bring to this world.\"", "The gunman walked on to Perm University's campus on Monday morning and started shooting\n\nA gunman has killed six people and injured 28 others at a university in the Russian city of Perm.\n\nThe assailant, identified as a student at the university, walked on to campus on Monday morning and started shooting.\n\nStudents and teachers barricaded themselves inside the university building, while others were seen screaming and jumping from windows.\n\nAuthorities said the attacker was shot in an exchange of gunfire with a police officer and then detained.\n\nOfficer Konstanin Kalinin, who was one of the first to arrive at the scene, disarmed the assailant, who had a gun and a knife, before administering first aid.\n\nIn a statement, President Vladimir Putin called the shooting \"a great loss not only for the families who lost their children but for the whole country.\"\n\nThe incident occurred at 11:00 (06:00 GMT) at Perm State University, some 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) east of the capital, Moscow, in the Urals. Officials initially reported eight had died, but subsequently revised the death toll down.\n\nOne professor at the university described students leaping out of buildings: \"They jumped out in some horror, screaming,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"One of the students told me that it was a shooting. I heard pops, everyone began to scatter in different directions. I went to my students in the second building and continued to hear the pops.\"\n\nOther students locked themselves into classrooms in a bid to escape the gunman.\n\n\"There were about 60 people in the classroom. We closed the door and barricaded it with chairs,\" one student, Semyon Karyakin, told Reuters news agency.\n\nThis piece of footage of students jumping to safety was broadcast on Russian TV:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by РЕН ТВ | Новости This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe gunman reportedly acted alone and said he had no political or religious motives.\n\nIn a social media post he also said he was consumed by hatred and intended to do harm to others.\n\n\"I've thought about this for a long time, it's been years and I realised the time had come to do what I dreamt of,\" he said on a social media account attributed to him that was later taken down, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nEarlier this year, a 19-year-old gunman opened fire in his old school in the central Russian city of Kazan, killing nine people.", "After a 35-day race, the voters have spoken. And they've decisively chosen to stick to the status quo.\n\nAfter Canada's most expensive federal election in history, the electoral map is largely unchanged.\n\nPreliminary results show that the Liberals actually lost three seats in this election, over what they had won in 2019.\n\nIt comes after then-and-still-Prime Minster Justin Trudeau declared a snap election last month, hoping to firm up his minority government and establish a majority.\n\nBut despite not winning a majority, he is still the man in charge after winning his third term.\n\nOur coverage was brought to you by BBC Canada's Holly Honderich, Jessica Murphy, Robin Levinson-King and Dan Lytwyn.", "John Paul and Lacey's father Jason Bennett said \"life will never be the same again\"\n\nThe family of two children, who were found dead along with their mother and another child at a house in Derbyshire, have paid tribute to them.\n\nJason Bennett said he was heartbroken at the loss of daughter Lacey, 11, and son John Paul, 13, as he laid flowers at Chandos Crescent, Killamarsh.\n\nA 31-year-old man from Killamarsh, who was known to the family, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe third child has been named as Connie Gent, 11, from Sheffield.\n\nIt is believed she was Lacey's friend and had been in the house for a sleepover.\n\nDerbyshire Police said they were called to the house at 07:26 BST on Sunday after concerns were raised about the safety of a man.\n\nThey found the bodies of the three children, along with that of 35-year-old Terri Harris, who was Lacey and John Paul's mother.\n\nAt the scene today, Mr Bennett told Sky News: \"I'm broken, I just want to kiss my babies.\n\n\"I just want to kiss them and hold them. TikTok Queen and my beautiful boy, they were beautiful.\"\n\nIn a message posted on Facebook earlier, he said \"life will never be the same\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lacey and John Paul's grandparents said the children were \"beautiful\"\n\nThe children's grandparents, Debbie and Trevor Bennett, also arrived at the scene to leave flowers.\n\nMrs Bennett said: \"They were beautiful, well mannered kids. Terri was a beautiful and wonderful mother.\n\n\"Their dad was on holiday in Devon. He had to drive home knowing he has lost his children.\n\n\"I don't know how he's going to come through this.\"\n\nMr Bennett added: \"He's going to need a lot of help and our strength for him.\n\n\"I've only spoken to him on the phone and it breaks my heart to hear him like that.\"\n\nLacey and John Paul's mother Terri Harris was found dead at the house\n\nMrs Bennett said Lacey was a West Ham fan and John Paul liked TikTok and computers.\n\nThe Outwood Academy City school in Sheffield confirmed it was closed following the \"tragic incident\" involving three of its students.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, the school said: \"It is with great sadness that the academy will be closed today.\n\n\"A tragic incident has taken place in the community involving 3 of our students. We will however be open to any students who need our support.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all those affected by this sad news.\"\n\nLocal residents have been lighting candles at St Giles Church\n\nKillamarsh is a community in mourning and disbelief, according to the Rev Canon Helen Guest, rector at St Giles Church.\n\n\"We can't believe this tragedy has happened in our community and it's literally a stone's throw from where I live,\" she said.\n\nThe church opened this morning so that people could write in a book of condolences and light candles to remember the woman and three children who have been killed.\n\n\"So far we've had a gentle flow of people who are coming in,\" said the rector.\n\nMany of those arriving to pay their respects had young children themselves. One of the mothers had tears in her eyes after lighting a candle.\n\n\"My thoughts just go out to the whole family,\" she said.\n\n\"It's such a close knit community I think it has affected everybody. I have three children and it was a very anxious time yesterday, not knowing what was happening.\"\n\nSpecially-trained officers are liaising with the families of the deceased\n\nFlowers have been left near the police cordon on Chandos Crescent\n\nDerbyshire Police's chief constable Rachel Swann said the deaths were an \"understandably shocking event that has deeply affected the local community in Killamarsh, as well as colleagues, family and friends in Sheffield.\"\n\nShe thanked the officers who arrived to the scene \"in such a difficult situation\" and added: \"While understandably worrying and upsetting, this is believed to be an isolated incident in which those involved were known to one another and nobody else is being sought in connection with the deaths.\"\n\nShe said officers were particularly keen to speak to anyone who was in Chandos Crescent between 21:30 BST on Saturday and 07:30 BST on Sunday, and had any information that could help with their investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief Constable Rachel Swann described the deaths as a \"shocking event\"\n\nHundreds of people from the Killamarsh community gathered at Baker Park near Chandos Crescent on Monday night for a vigil.\n\nJenny Eells from BBC Radio Sheffield said people arrived to lay candles, flowers and teddies around a post in the centre of the children's playground.\n\n\"The commemoration lasted around 20 or so minutes with people of all ages, many standing in silence… some with their arms round each other and visibly upset,\" she said.\n\nPeople started gathering for a candlelit vigil in the local park earlier on Monday night\n\nMourners also left flowers and teddies alongside the candles\n\nOrganiser David Taylor, who is a local pastor from Church on the Street, said it was \"a dark day in the place I call home\".\n\n\"Each one of you is here to remember four people who are no longer with us,\" he said.\n\n\"And it is a day that we'll all remember because this doesn't happen in Killamarsh. But it has.\n\n\"Some of you know the family, some of you know the children, some of you will have never seen them before. But you're all here to show your respect.\"\n\nFollowing the vigil he told the BBC: \"Many of them wanted to be able to come and show their feelings for one another, for the community and to be there to support one another.\n\n\"I met the father this morning and as you can imagine he's in a really bad way and all I could do is comfort him and pray with him, and he appreciated that.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Man arrested after four found dead in house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a soft opt-out system\n\nA major change to organ donation rules in Northern Ireland has passed its second reading at Stormont.\n\nAssembly members approved the bill by 69 votes to six, and it will now go before the health committee.\n\nIf passed, the legislation would mean people automatically become organ donors unless they specifically opt out.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently the only part of the UK where an opt-out system for organ donation is not in place.\n\n\"One of the things this bill has allowed us to do is to start to have that conversation as to what organ donation means,\" said Health Minister Robin Swann during the debate.\n\nUntil June, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had blocked attempts to pass a bill.\n\nFollowing talks between First Minister Paul Givan, Robin Swann, who proposed the legislation, and campaigners, Mr Givan announced he had given approval for the legislation to proceed to the assembly.\n\nThe lack of opposition would allow for such a bill to become law before the assembly is dissolved ahead of the election due in May.\n\nThere are currently about 115 people waiting for an organ transplant in Northern Ireland\n\nHowever, campaigners have raised concerns that the bill might never become law due to the DUP's threat to collapse Stormont over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nEarlier this month, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said his party may quit Stormont \"within weeks\" if its demands over the protocol are not met,\n\nThere are currently about 115 people waiting for an organ transplant in Northern Ireland.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the bill had been \"long-awaited by all who are involved in the organ donation process.\"\n\nHe told the assembly the move would increase the number of donors \"and ultimately the number of life-saving organs available for transplantation\".\n\nThe minister outlined how the bill had taken on board lessons from legislation in other parts of the UK.\n\n\"This bill will mean that adults in Northern Ireland will be considered potential donors unless they choose to opt out or are excluded,\" he added.\n\nMáirtín MacGabhann, whose four-year-old son Dáithí has been waiting for a new heart for three years said the proposals would be \"a massive step\" forward for Dáithí and others on the waiting list.\n\n\"A transplant is used when all other options have been exhausted, it's the last hope for them,\" he said.\n\n\"There is something that our politicians can achieve to increase your loved ones' chances of receiving the vital organ.\"\n\nMáirtín MacGabhann's son Dáithí has been waiting for a new heart for three years\n\nHe encouraged those in power to keep the political institutions \"up and running, so important issues like soft opt out organ donation have a chance of going through\".\n\n\"I'm just pleading with those politicians to please give these important pieces of legislation a fighting chance because they can change our society so much,\" he said.\n\nHe said if Stormont were to collapse over the issue he would be \"absolutely heartbroken\".\n\n\"We have come so far and gathered so much support politically and it would be an absolute travesty if the likes of soft opt-out organ donation was not to come into law because of the collapse of Stormont,\" Mr MacGabhann said.\n\nFearghal McKinney, from the British Heart Foundation, told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme campaigners would get back up to fight for the legislation if power-sharing were to dissolve before it could pass.\n\n\"The gift of life is in the hands of our politicians right now,\" he said.\n\nIn the first year after England introduced an opt-out system, the organs of 296 people were donated.\n\nThis accounted for 29% of all donors in the 12-month period and resulted in a total of 714 organs being transplanted.\n\nTransplant surgeon Dr Tim Brown said he did not believe opt-out legislation was the \"way to achieve\" change.\n\nHe said he would like to get to a position where organ donation registration lists were \"unnecessary\".\n\n\"I would like that the norm in society, that if somebody does find themselves in the tragic position of being an organ donor, I would like it to be normal for them to go and donate without any need for them to be on a list,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had difficulty with \"the removal of autonomy from an induvial\" in the opt-out plans.\n\n\"I think education and support around donation is the way to achieve that, legislation is a further step that I don't think is necessary,\" he added.", "The Chelsea Flower Show is ready for the opening of a one-off autumn version.\n\nFinal preparations were made to the displays on Monday ahead of the event opening to the public on Tuesday.\n\nThe world-famous show is normally held in May, but this year it was delayed due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) cancelled the event in 2020 and took it online as the UK endured its first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nDame Judi Dench shares a joke with Chelsea Pensioners during an event held at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show ahead of its opening on Tuesday\n\nHolding it in the autumn means the show will have a different look, featuring blooms such as asters and dahlias, trees full of fruit and berries, grasses and seed-heads, and autumn bulbs such as nerines.\n\nThe RHS is keen to highlight that autumn is an important season for gardening - although it intends to revert to its traditional May date next year.\n\nCall the Midwife star Helen George blooms in the Florence Nightingale Garden\n\nThe Psalm 23 garden looks like it impressed actor Sally Phillips\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sue Biggs, RHS director general, said: \"It's wonderfully different and I'm like a Cheshire Cat at the moment because I can't stop grinning. To be back after such a traumatic time is just so wonderful.\"\n\nShe said what was different was the colours as the light in autumn was different to spring and that it bathed everything in a golden glow.\n\nThis year's colours are different to normal as the event is being held in autumn rather than summer\n\nChrysanthemums are some of the blooms on show\n\nIt's not just flowers and plants on show - vegetables are also having a moment in the spotlight\n\n\"On the planting side, there are lots of oranges and reds and yellows which just create a completely different feel to the very cool, fresh colours of spring of white and purple.\"\n\nLater at the event Ms Biggs said: \"Whilst everyone associates spring with being the time to garden and grow plants, there is much that can be done now as well, like dividing herbaceous perennials, planting spring-flowering bulbs and collecting seeds to create colour in your garden next summer.\"\n\nPrincess Anne attended with the Earl and Countess of Wessex, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and Princess Alexandra\n\nOn Monday, members of the Royal Family, including Princess Anne, and various flower-loving celebrities had a first glimpse of the show a day ahead of its public opening.\n\nDame Judi Dench said the show looked \"as always, immaculate\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice and other ministers toured the Cop26 garden, an area of the show which highlights the climate crisis in the run-up to key UN climate talks being held in Glasgow in November.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice looked at the garden which explores the impact of the climate crisis - and what gardeners can do to help\n\nThe garden is divided into four sections exploring different aspects of the climate crisis, including negative garden practices such as paving over areas, ways to cope with temperature changes such as planting for drought, measures to support the environment and working with nature.\n\nIts co-designer Marie-Louise Agius said she hoped the garden, which features composting, a wildlife garden, leaving edges of lawns long for nature and ways to manage water better, would be informative, educational and inspirational.\n\nVisitors Tara (left) and Valerie Pain fit in with the Parsley Box Garden\n\nThe largest plot at the show will be the Queen's Green Canopy Garden, which aims to highlight the vital importance of trees and woodland. It will boast 21 trees and more than 3,500 plants.\n\nThe display forms part of efforts to promote the Queen's Green Canopy project, an initiative to encourage people to plant trees for the monarch's Platinum Jubilee next year.\n\nDJ Crystal entertained the florists and gardeners in the green room exhibit\n\nAlso at the show is the Guide Dogs' 90th Anniversary Garden and the Florence Nightingale Garden, which marks the bicentenary of the birth of the trailblazing nurse and celebrates the importance of the nursing profession in the 21st Century.\n\nThe Florence Nightingale Garden will be relocated to St Thomas' Hospital in Westminster in 2022 to a spot currently being used as a Covid-19 testing and vaccination centre.\n\nWithin the great pavilion of the show there is a piazza featuring fruit and vegetables such as pumpkins to mark the harvest season, and a two-metre high wall of clay beehives within pollinator-friendly planting.\n\nFlorist Judith Blacklock puts the finishing touches to a floral carousel installation in Halkin Arcade. She co-designed it for the Belgravia in Bloom festival, an event that coincides with the Chelsea Flower Show\n\nThe area of Chelsea is getting in on the act with celebratory blooms adorning the streets\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Specially-trained officers are supporting the families of the deceased\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after four people were found dead at a house in Derbyshire.\n\nOfficers were called to a property in Chandos Crescent, Killamarsh, at 07:25 BST on Sunday after concerns were raised about the people living there.\n\nPolice said they have arrested a man and are not looking for anyone else.\n\nThe Outwood Academy City school in Sheffield confirmed it was closed following the \"tragic incident\" involving three of its students.\n\nMultiple emergency vehicles have been at the scene, with local people describing their shock at the large police presence.\n\nThe force asked that people \"avoid speculation and allow for space at this distressing time\".\n\nA church in the town is welcoming visitors who have been affected by the deaths\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Routledge, who is leading the investigation, said: \"We would really like to hear from anyone who saw or heard anything suspicious in the early hours of this morning, or has any information which they think could help with our inquiries.\n\n\"No matter how small you think that information may be, please do get in touch with us.\n\n\"It is understandably a worrying time for the community, and we would like to thank them for their patience and understanding at this time. It was important to us that close relatives of those involved were informed before we could give further details about the incident.\n\n\"Residents will continue to see a large police presence in the area, and patrols are being carried out for reassurance. If you do have any concerns, please don't hesitate to speak to them.\"\n\nFlowers have been left near the police cordon on Chandos Crescent\n\nNorth East Derbyshire MP Lee Rowley described the deaths as \"terrible and hugely tragic\".\n\n\"Our condolences to the family and our thoughts are with them,\" he said on Twitter.\n\n\"Killamarsh is such a lovely, close knit and warm community and I know that many residents will be shocked and worried by the news.\"\n\n\"I've no doubt that the village will pull together at this difficult time,\" he added.\n\nOne man living close by said: \"I'm shocked. I think people will be devastated.\"\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, Outwood Academy City school said: \"It is with great sadness that the academy will be closed today.\n\n\"A tragic incident has taken place in the community involving 3 of our students. We will however be open to any students who need our support.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all those affected by this sad news.\"\n\nThe school said it was working with the police and was unable to give more information at this time.\n\nSt Giles Church in the town said it was welcoming visitors who have been affected by the \"shocking events\".\n\nIn a post on Facebook it said it would provide a space for prayer and for people to light a candle for the deceased and those who are grieving.\n\nResidents have been told they will continue to see a large police presence in the area\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has launched an investigation into a data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.\n\nMore than 250 people seeking relocation to the UK - many of whom are in hiding - were mistakenly copied into an email from the Ministry of Defence.\n\nTheir email addresses could be seen by all recipients, showing people's names and some associated profile pictures.\n\nThe MoD has apologised in a statement.\n\nThe email was sent to interpreters who remain in Afghanistan or have been able to get to other countries.\n\nConservative MP and former defence minister Johnny Mercer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The reality is we've left the vast, vast majority of our interpreters behind so this is going to have a profound impact on people who are still in the country.\"\n\nHe said he had spoken to the brother of one man, trained by the UK to serve in Afghan special forces, who had been executed after the evacuation by the US and UK and whose family is now on the run.\n\nFailings by the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office had led to Afghan allies being \"hunted ruthlessly by the Taliban\", he said.\n\nThe email was sent by the team in charge of the UK's Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap), which has been in contact with them since the Taliban took control of the country last month.\n\nThe team told the interpreters it was doing everything it could to help relocate them.\n\nIt also said they should not put themselves or their families at risk if it was not safe for them to leave their current location.\n\nBut one interpreter who received the email realised that more than 250 Afghans who worked with British forces had been copied into the email.\n\n\"This mistake could cost the life of interpreters, especially for those who are still in Afghanistan,\" they told the BBC.\n\n\"Some of the interpreters didn't notice the mistake and they replied to all the emails already and they explained their situation which is very dangerous. The email contains their profile pictures and contact details.\"\n\nThe MoD then sent another email 30 minutes later with the title \"Urgent - Arap case contact\" asking the recipients to delete the previous email and warning \"your email address may have been compromised\".\n\nIt recommended the interpreters change their email addresses.\n\nLabour shadow defence secretary John Healey said the data breach had \"needlessly put lives at risk\" and called on the government to urgently step up efforts to get the interpreters to the UK.\n\nAfter the BBC approached the Ministry of Defence, the defence secretary was angry enough to order an immediate inquiry.\n\nIt's likely this data breach was just human error, and the apology is certainly sincere, but there are obviously concerns if the email addresses, names and pictures fall into the wrong hands.\n\nWhile the military evacuation on the ground was rightly lauded, the failure to get all those who worked with British forces out has left hundreds stranded and in hiding.\n\nJust this week we spoke to the family of an eight-month-old British baby who is still stuck there, an interpreter who is on the run fearing for his life, and another interpreter who just does not know what to do.\n\nThis data breach just compounds their safety concerns.\n\nAn MoD spokeswoman said an investigation had been launched into what Mr Wallace called an \"unacceptable breach\".\n\n\"We apologise to everyone impacted by this breach and are working hard to ensure it does not happen again,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the MoD \"takes its information and data handling responsibilities very seriously\".\n\nTobias Ellwood MP, who chairs the defence select committee, welcomed the investigation but said it was more pressing to get the interpreters out of the country as soon as possible.\n\n\"Each day they remain in the country the risk of them not making it out increases,\" he said.", "Some women held a protest in Kabul against the restrictions they are facing\n\nThe new Taliban mayor of Afghanistan's capital Kabul has told female municipal employees to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by a man.\n\nHamdullah Nomany said the Taliban \"found it necessary to stop women from working for a while\".\n\nIt is the latest restriction imposed on Afghanistan's women by the country's hard-line new Islamist government.\n\nDuring their previous rule in the 1990s women were barred from education and the workplace.\n\nAfter seizing the country last month following the withdrawal of US forces, the Taliban said women's rights would be respected \"within the framework of Islamic law\".\n\nBut the Taliban favour a strict interpretation of Islam's legal system, Sharia law.\n\nThe Islamist group appears to have shut down the women's affairs ministry and replaced it with a department that once enforced strict religious doctrines.\n\nAnd this weekend secondary schools reopened, but with only boys and male teachers allowed back into classrooms. The Taliban said it was working on reopening schools for girls.\n\nAccording to the Kabul mayor about a third of the municipality's 3,000 employees are women. He said some would carry on working.\n\n\"For example, women work in the women's toilets in the city where men cannot go,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But for the positions that others [men] can fill, we have told them [women] to stay at home until the situation is normalised. Their salaries will be paid,\" he added.\n\nOn Sunday, there were small protests outside the women's affairs ministry while another group of women held a press conference to demand their rights.\n\nOne of those protesting at the ministry said \"we do not want this ministry to be removed. The removal of women [means] the removal of human beings.\"\n\nIn a separate development, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission said it had been unable to fulfil its duties since the Taliban's takeover.\n\nThe organisation said in a statement that its buildings, vehicles and computers had all been taken over by the Taliban.", "A volcanic eruption from the Cumbre Vieja volcano has caused lava flows on the Spanish island of La Palma since Sunday.\n\nAbout 5,000 residents have been forced to evacuate.\n\nLocal officials said about 100 houses have been destroyed so far.", "Owner Jean-Pierre Robinet said the time was right to move on after 10 years as Britain's remotest mainland publican\n\nA community hoping to take over Britain's remotest mainland pub could know this week if it has the finances to make a bid for it.\n\nThe Old Forge in Inverie is on the Knoydart Peninsula in Lochaber.\n\nThe only way of reaching the village - and its pub - is by walking 18 miles (29km) or making a seven-mile (11km) sea crossing.\n\nSince it went up for sale earlier this year, a community group has been working to raise the funds to buy it.\n\nThe Old Forge is on sale for offers over £425,000. Private buyers are also potentially interested in the property.\n\nThe pub's Belgian owner Jean-Pierre Robinet told locals in January he was selling up after running the business for 10 years.\n\nSince January, the small community which has a population of just over 100 people, has held a consultation on a community buyout. Seventy residents took part, with almost all backing the idea.\n\nThe Old Forge Community Society was set up, and earlier this month it launched a community share offer. The rules mean 75% of the shares must be owned by locals, with a limited number owned by people living outside the area.\n\nIn just days, the shares offer was climbing towards its target of £240,000.\n\nThis week, the society hopes to learn if its application to the Scottish Land Fund for support has been successful.\n\nLocal businesswoman Isla Miller has bought a share in the community buyout bid\n\nThe Scottish government-funded land fund provides grants of up to £1m to support community and volunteer group-run projects.\n\nIn 2019, the Black Bull in Gartmore, near Stirling, was purchased by the community with financial support from the Scottish Land Fund.\n\nThe Old Forge Community Society has sought an undisclosed sum of money from the land fund to help cover renovation and other costs.\n\nSociety secretary Stephanie Harris said the community had always known there was a risk of losing out to a private buyer, but added that the determination of the community could not be underestimated.\n\nMs Harris told BBC Scotland: \"I have no doubt we will be able to raise the finance that we need. Time is the problem, and we are going as fast as we can.\"\n\nIsla Miller, who runs a pottery and a tea room with her sister in Inverie, is among those hoping to buy a share.\n\nShe said the pub was an important gathering place for the community, and welcomed the society's plan to keep the premises open all year round and not close it temporarily over winter as has happened previously.\n\nShe said the pub was a community hub, describing how local mothers returning home by ferry to the peninsula from hospital would often stop at The Old Forge with their newborn babies, adding: \"It is where you would meet new additions to Knoydart, and then everyone would head off.\"\n\nMr Robinet said he fell in love with Knoydart after visiting 25 years ago, and was later encouraged to buy the pub by his late father.\n\nWhile he said he had not done much to change to the look of The Old Forge, Mr Robinet said he had made food a priority of the business and used locally caught seafood and Scottish beef in its meals.\n\nHe said he made a commitment to run the premises for 10 years and after that spell \"as Britain's remotest mainland publican\" it was now the right time to move on.\n\nMr Robinet said: \"My father died last year and my mother, who is very brave, is suffering being by herself and having severe illness.\"\n\nHe said it was time for \"a different phase of life\" and to help his sister look after their mother.\n\nMr Robinet said the community bid for The Old Forge was a \"great idea\".\n\nThe only way of reaching Inverie - and its pub - is by walking 18 miles or making a seven-mile sea crossing\n\nKnoydart's coast and mountains have been described as mainland Britain's last wilderness.\n\nThe easiest route to Inverie is by boat from Mallaig. People who chose to walk from Kinlochhourn and Glenfinnan usually break the trip down to a journey of two to three days and are advised to contact the local ranger service for advice on the routes.\n\nIn the middle of the 19th Century, the land on Knoydart was cleared of crofters and turned over to sheep and deer.\n\nIn 1948, a group of crofters known as the Seven Men of Knoydart launched a \"land raid\" in a bid to seize back the land and live independently from the landlord system. They were unsuccessful, as the landowner obtained a court order to remove them.\n\nHowever, more than 20 years ago, the community achieved what the seven had set out to do when the Knoydart Foundation purchased 17,200 acres (6,960 ha) of estate land on the peninsula for £750,000.", "The new air travel rules will come into effect in November\n\nThe US is easing its coronavirus travel restrictions, reopening to passengers from the UK, EU and other nations.\n\nFrom November, foreign travellers will be allowed to fly into the US if they are fully vaccinated, and undergo testing and contact tracing.\n\nThe US has had tough restrictions on travel in place since early last year.\n\nThe move answers a major demand from European allies, and means that families and friends separated by the restrictions can be reunited.\n\n\"It's a happy day - Big Apple, here I come!\" French entrepreneur Stephane Le Breton told the Associated Press news agency, as he looked forward to a trip to New York City that had been put on hold because of the restrictions.\n\nWhite House Covid-19 co-ordinator Jeff Zients announced the new rules on Monday, saying: \"This is based on individuals rather than a country-based approach, so it's a stronger system.\"\n\n\"Most importantly, foreign nationals flying to the US will be required to be fully vaccinated,\" he said.\n\nUS restrictions were initially imposed on travellers from China in early 2020, and then extended to other countries.\n\nThe current rules bar entry to most non-US citizens who have been in the UK and a number of other European countries, China, India, South Africa, Iran and Brazil within the last 14 days.\n\nUnder the new rules, foreign travellers will need to demonstrate proof of vaccination before flying, obtain a negative Covid-19 test result within three days of travelling, and provide their contact information. They will not be required to quarantine.\n\nOfficials said there would be some exceptions to the new policy, including for children who are not eligible to be vaccinated.\n\nIt was not immediately clear if the new rules applied only to US-approved vaccines, with Mr Zients saying this would be determined by the US Centers for Disease Control.\n\nA White House source told the BBC that the question of whether people who have had the AstraZeneca vaccine or 12- to 18-year-olds who have only had one jab would be allowed in under the new rules was a level of \"granular detail\" that was still being worked out, though this would affect millions.\n\nAmericans who are not fully vaccinated will still be able to enter, but they will need to be tested before their return to the US, and after they arrive home.\n\nMr Zients said the policy would come into effect in early November, but did not give an exact date.\n\nThe new rules do not apply to land borders, meaning that restrictions continue to apply to cross-border travel with Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe easing of travel rules came as a surprise to many, after the US government last week said it was not the right time to lift the restrictions.\n\nOne British official told the BBC on Monday that the decision had come completely out of the blue.\n\nFollowing the announcement, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"delighted\".\n\n\"It's a fantastic boost for business and trade, and great that family and friends on both sides of the pond can be reunited once again,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nGerman Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz also welcomed the change, saying it was \"great news for German and European investments, our exports and transatlantic relations\".\n\nFor months a joint working party has been looking at ways to relax the travel ban. The work, I'm told, has been detailed and assiduous.\n\nBut last Friday in Washington next to no one (not even in the Biden administration) was expecting today's announcement. So what's changed?\n\nThe Biden administration is aware of the growing disquiet among European allies about a range of issues - Afghanistan notably, but in recent days French fury over the Aukus submarine deal. And remember France is America's oldest ally.\n\nThis week Joe Biden will be meeting not only Boris Johnson, but a whole pile of EU leaders during the UN General Assembly in New York. And all had it on their dance cards to raise the travel ban.\n\nAccording to one diplomatic source, the US over the weekend just weighed the countervailing forces: annoy some Americans with a policy that could be characterised as being weak on Covid; or continue to alienate your European allies who are growing increasingly irritable.\n\nWith the data no longer supporting the ban, this weekend came a decision. Out of the blue in one way, but quite logical in another.\n\nAirline shares rose in response to the new travel rules, with British Airways owner IAG up as much as 10%.\n\nDoug Parker, chairman and CEO of American Airlines, said he welcomed the \"science-based approach\" to lifting travel restrictions.\n\n\"With the shared goals of health and safety always at the forefront, we're looking forward to welcoming more customers back to easy, seamless international trips for business, for leisure, and to reconnect with family and friends,\" he said.\n\nTravellers also celebrated the changes.\n\nPhil White, a British entrepreneur who lives in the US, said the decision would allow him to see his 23-year-old daughter who lives in London for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\n\"We haven't been able to see our daughter over this time. And that has been very, very, very difficult for us,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\nHe said he immediately booked a flight for her daughter after the news about the change was confirmed. \"[A]s a family we're going to be together for Thanksgiving, which is amazing,\" he added.\n\nThe US has recorded more than 42 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, and over 670,000 deaths.\n\nIn an interview with BBC World News on Monday, White House coronavirus adviser Dr Anthony Fauci urged more Americans to get vaccinated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US daily death toll from Covid-19 has risen above 2,000 for the first time since February", "Welsh Labour has called off its party conference for 2021 amid concerns over rising coronavirus cases.\n\nThe party cancelled the event ahead of an expected peak in Covid cases and pressure on the NHS in the autumn.\n\nIt had been moved from February to 5 to 7 November, and was expecting about 1,000 visitors.\n\nMeanwhile Wales' most senior medical advisor Dr Frank Atherton says he is hopeful the country can avoid another lockdown, but did not rule it out.\n\nWales are due to play South Africa in front of fans at the Principality Stadium in the same weekend as the cancelled Welsh Labour conference\n\nThe party, led by First Minister Mark Drakeford, has not held a Welsh conference since 2019 - with last year's event called off at the start of the pandemic.\n\nOther large events planned in Wales around the same time include the Autumn Rugby Internationals - with Wales v South Africa scheduled at the Principality Stadium the same weekend.\n\nLabour is holding its UK party conference in Brighton this weekend.\n\nThe cancellation comes after Mr Drakeford announced a new Covid pass system for nightclubs and large events last Friday.\n\nAnyone aged over 18 will be required show the pass to prove they are either fully vaccinated or have had a negative lateral flow test result within the past 48 hours.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesman said Labour's ruling Welsh Executive Committee agreed to cancel the conference, which was planned for Llandudno.\n\n\"The virus has not gone away, and all indications are that we should expect a peak in cases and subsequent pressure on health and social care services in the autumn,\" the party spokesman said.\n\nApologising for any inconvenience, he added: \"It has not been an easy decision, but we think it is the right one at this time.\"\n\nWelsh Labour is led by Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford\n\nThe event would have been the first time the party had met since its election victory in May. Welsh Labour's 2022 conference is still planned for 11 to 13 March.\n\nThe latest figures released by Public Health Wales on Monday, covering a 48-hour period, showed a further 17 deaths and 5,258 new Covid cases.\n\nIt takes the total number of confirmed cases in Wales to 328,074 since the start of the pandemic, while 5,814 have died with Covid\n\nDr Frank Atherton, chief medical officer for the Welsh government, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people leaving their homes who have not been vaccinated are \"vulnerable\" to Covid, given the current levels of transmission in the community.\n\nHe also said he could not rule out the prospects of further lockdowns.\n\n\"From a medical point of view, lockdowns have some benefit in terms of reducing transmission but they also bring harms,\" he said.\n\n\"My hope would be is if we are sensible in Wales... if we remember the pandemic has not gone away and maintain distance, reduce the amount of contact they have, then I'm hopeful that we can avoid further lockdowns.\n\n\"But you should never say never and we just have to see where the next wave goes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru is planning its own party conference this October.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We continue to monitor the situation very carefully with public safety as the primary consideration. We will continue to act in line with Welsh government regulations.\"\n\nAsked about whether other large events should take place in November, the Welsh government said the cancellation of the Welsh Labour conference was a matter for the party.\n\n\"We are currently at Alert Level 0 but cases of coronavirus are high in Wales. We all need to take steps to protect ourselves and our loved ones,\" a spokesman said.\n\nPublic Health Wales' updated figures on Monday show 12 deaths occurred on Wednesday 15 September, the highest daily total since March.\n\nThe daily average over the past week now stands at five deaths per day in Wales. At the same point in the second wave, the daily average stood at 48 deaths per day.\n\nOn Monday, the number of hospital patients in Wales who tested positive for Covid stood at 494, up from 439 the week before.", "Pig farmers fear they may soon have to start killing their animals because of a carbon dioxide shortage at abattoirs caused by soaring gas prices.\n\nCO2 is widely used in the food and drinks industry, including for stunning animals at abattoirs before slaughter.\n\nBut some CO2 suppliers have halted production due to rising energy costs, creating a huge backlog of pigs that at some point will have to be killed.\n\nA food and drink trade body says the UK might need to subsidise CO2 production.\n\nFarmer Kate Morgan told the BBC on Monday \"thousands of pigs are backlogged on farms. If we can't kill our pigs in an abattoir, then unfortunately we will be resorting to killing them on farms\".\n\nCarbon dioxide used by the meat industry is a by-product of fertiliser production. The gas is also used to keep food fresh as well as in dry ice and fizzy drinks.\n\nCF Industries, the US-based business which produces about 60% of the UK's food grade CO2, has suspended production at two UK fertiliser plants. Norwegian firm Yara has also cut production at a number of European factories.\n\nMs Morgan, who runs a pig farm near Driffield, east Yorkshire, told BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme the situation for the industry was already \"pretty dire\" because of labour shortages. Now, meat shortages at supermarkets are a real possibility, she said.\n\n\"Abattoirs have about a week's supply of gas. It's a chain: We have constantly got pigs coming out of the breeding herd that need to go in homes. Those homes need to be emptied.\"\n\nHer farm sends about 1,500 pigs each week to abattoirs.\n\nKilling her own animals is not something she can bear thinking about. \"I can't even begin to think how we would do it. I don't want to put people who work for us in that situation,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\nOn-farm killing means the meat is not something that would be able to enter the food supply chain. \"It would be wasted,\" she said.\n\nIt is estimated there are about 100,000 pigs left on farms that would otherwise have been sent for slaughter, with the backlog having started building up weeks ago because of staff shortages.\n\nAndrew Saunders, a director at the UK's biggest pig producer, Pilgrims Pride, said there is no alternative to stunning with CO2. \"It is an essential part of the process,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Saunders, also chairman of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"80% of pigs in the UK are slaughtered in about 10 abattoirs, and those abattoirs all use CO2 stunning systems. We already face some challenges regarding keeping those abattoirs operational - some shortage of labour in those plants.\"\n\nHe said pigs can be kept on farms for only \"a very short period of time. They go beyond their target slaughter weight, they're then unsuitable for size of packets we have for our customers\".\n\nHe added: \"We hope the government can turn around to intervene to get these CO2 plants up and running again. The particular plants in question supply about 60% of all UK needs and something's required here to get this going pretty quickly.\"\n\nIt is not just the pig industry facing problems, however. On Monday, the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) warned the whole sector faces disruption.\n\nIn a letter to Environment Secretary George Eustice, the FDF's chief executive, Ian Wright, said: \"Important parts of the food and drink supply chain - already under significant pressure from the impacts of labour shortages, particularly HGV drivers - are now seriously compromised by disruptions in the supply of CO2.\n\n\"Across industry, there is a united view that the situation is worsening with little prospect of additional CO2 supply unless the UK government intervenes.\"\n\nIf ministers are considering financial help to support the energy sector, Mr Wright said then \"any subsidies made available must also be considered for the manufacturers of fertiliser to ensure there is no further deterioration across the UK food and drink supply, and production can be restored\".\n\nThere are worries that food and drink shortages are starting to appear on supermarket shelves, with the problem expected to worsen in the run-up to Christmas without action.\n\nRichard Walker, managing director of Iceland, said his supermarket is building up stocks and while there is no immediate shortage problem, he told the BBC the CO2 situation needed to be sorted quickly.\n\n\"The thing that has shocked me is that 60% of [CO2] production is concentrated in two factories which are both owned by a foreign business.\n\n\"This is something that's clearly critical to national security - not just food but also healthcare as well. So it seems quite perplexing that it's at the whim of a private enterprise in terms of whether it's profitable or not and therefore whether they produce the stuff or not.\"\n\nThe British Soft Drinks Association said if manufacturers could not get hold of CO2 supplies, \"after their reserves have run out, production of certain products will have to cease\".\n\nTony Will, chief executive of CF Industries, has held talks with the government over production at its two fertiliser plants, but the outcome is not clear.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted that he had met Mr Will and \"discussed the pressures the business is facing and explored possible ways forward to secure vital supplies, including to our food and energy industries\".\n\nWholesale prices for gas have surged 250% since January, with a 70% rise since August alone, leading to calls for support from the industry and the collapse of some smaller energy firms.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who is in New York for a UN General Assembly meeting, said the problem with wholesale prices was \"temporary\".\n\nHe added that he was \"very confident\" in the UK's supply chains and that market forces should be \"very, very swift\" in fixing the issues but that government would help where it could.\n\nA statement from the government said: \"We continue to monitor supplies across critical sectors and are in regular contact with industry on their CO2 supplies.\n\n\"The UK benefits from having a diverse range of gas supply sources and we have sufficient capacity to more than meet demand. We do not expect gas supply emergencies this winter.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olivia Colman beat her co-star Emma Corrin to be named best lead actress in a drama series\n\nNetflix's royal drama The Crown and Apple TV comedy Ted Lasso were the big winners at Sunday's Emmy Awards.\n\nThe Crown's prizes included best drama series and four acting wins - for Gillian Anderson, Olivia Colman, Josh O'Connor and Tobias Menzies.\n\n\"What a lovely end to the most extraordinary journey with this lovely family,\" Colman said of her final series playing Queen Elizabeth II.\n\n\"I loved every second of it and I can't wait to see what happens next.\"\n\nBecoming emotional, she added: \"I wish my dad was here to see this. I lost my daddy during Covid, and he would've loved all of this.\"\n\nThe Crown's victory in the best drama series category is not the first time a streaming service has won the top prize at the Emmys, but it does mark the first victory for Netflix.\n\nThe Crown's Josh O'Connor was named best drama actor for his performance as Prince Charles\n\nAnderson won for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher, Menzies for the Duke of Edinburgh, and O'Connor for Prince Charles.\n\nMany of this year's nominated actors from The Crown left the show after its most recent series, including Emerald Fennell, who played the Duchess of Cornwall, and Colman, who will be replaced as the Queen in the forthcoming fifth season by Imelda Staunton.\n\nThe 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards took place in Los Angeles on Sunday and saw most nominees attend in person, although many British nominees appeared from a separate hub in London.\n\nUK winners included Michaela Coel, who won outstanding writing for a limited series for her consent drama I May Destroy You. \"I dedicate this story to every single survivor of sexual assault,\" she said as she collected her award.\n\nMichaela Coel stars in her own creation, I May Destroy You\n\nCoel also used her speech to address aspiring writers, telling them: \"Write the tale that scares you, that makes you feel uncertain, that isn't comfortable, I dare you.\"\n\nShe said staying away from social media could help them to create their best work. \"Do not be afraid to disappear, from it, from us, for a while, and see what comes to you in the silence,\" she said.\n\nThe British writer and actress was one of the few non-white stars to score a win at the awards, which was criticised online for its lack of diversity.\n\nWhile many black actors were nominated, when it came to the ceremony itself, white performers took home all 12 acting awards across the comedy, drama and limited series categories.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ashley Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn contrast, three black stars were among the four winning guest actors at last weekend's Creative Arts Emmys, a prelude to this Sunday's main event - namely Saturday Night Live hosts Dave Chappelle and Maya Rudolph, and Lovecraft Country's Courtney B Vance.\n\nThe host of RuPaul's Drag Race, RuPaul Charles, however, did manage to become the most-awarded black artist in Emmy history on Sunday, bagging his 11th award for the outstanding competition programme.\n\nIf MJ Rodriguez from drag ball drama Pose had beaten Colman to the lead actress award, she would have become the first transgender performer to win in a lead acting category.\n\nKate Winslet was named best lead actress in a limited series for Mare of Easttown\n\nKate Winslet and Ewan McGregor were named best limited series actress and actor for Mare of Easttown and Halston respectively.\n\nWinslet said: \"I want to acknowledge my fellow nominees in this decade that has to be about women having each other's backs. I support you, I salute you, I am proud of all of you.\n\nThe HBO crime drama saw the actress play a police detective who is investigating the murder of a girl in a working-class community in Pennsylvania.\n\n\"Mare of Easttown was this cultural moment, and it brought people together and gave people something to talk about other than a pandemic, and I want to thank everybody for watching our show,\" Winslet said.\n\nPaying tribute to writer and creator Brad Ingelsby, she added: \"You created a middle-aged, imperfect, flawed mother, and you made us all feel validated.\"\n\nHer Mare of Easttown co-stars Evan Peters and Julianne Nicholson also both won supporting actor and actress for their performances in the show.\n\nBrett Goldstein and Hannah Waddingham won best supporting actor and actress for Ted Lasso\n\nJason Sudeikis was named best lead comedy actor for his performance in Ted Lasso, while his British co-stars Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein won best supporting actress and actor.\n\n\"This show is about family, it's about mentors and teachers, it's about team-mates,\" Sudeikis said. \"And I wouldn't be here without those three things in my life.\"\n\nHis co-star Waddingham, a successful theatre actress, called for more stage stars to be given TV roles during her acceptance speech.\n\n\"West End musical performers need to be on screen more,\" she told the audience. \"Please give us a chance because we won't let you down.\"\n\nShe paid tribute to co-star and fellow nominee Juno Temple, saying she wished she could share the prize with her.\n\nGoldstein won outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series for his portrayal of cantankerous club captain Roy Kent. The 41-year-old said starring in the show had been \"one of the greatest honours\" of his life.\n\nTed Lasso, which first aired on Apple TV last year, tells the story of a US football coach who moves to the UK to coach a fictional Premiership team.\n\nIncludes Creative Arts Emmys, which were awarded last week\n\nJean Smart was named best lead actress in a comedy series for her performance in Hacks.\n\nAs well as taking the top drama prize of the night, The Crown's Peter Morgan and Jessica Hobbs also won for writing and directing respectively.\n\nCollecting the writing prize, Morgan said: \"I'm very proud, I'm very grateful, we're going to party. Goodnight.\"\n\nHobbs thanked other female directors and her mother, who she said is still directing at the age of 77. Menzies was not present to collect his award.\n\nGillian Anderson won best drama supporting actress for her portrayal of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher\n\nBritish comic John Oliver, host of US late night show Last Week Tonight, continued his Emmy streak when his show picked up its sixth straight win in the outstanding variety talk series category.\n\nThe final award of the night, outstanding limited or anthology series, went to Netflix's chess drama The Queen's Gambit.\n\nIn a highly competitive category, it won ahead of I May Destroy You, Mare Of Easttown, The Underground Railroad and WandaVision.\n\nNetflix's combined total of 44 wins this year meant it towered above its nearest competitor - HBO and its HBO Max streaming service with 19.\n\nThat makes this year the first time Netflix had won more Emmys than HBO, which has dominated the ceremony for years. Disney+ was third on 14, while Apple TV won 10.\n\nThis year's In Memoriam section included tributes to stars including Larry King, Michael Apted, Alex Trebek, Helen McCrory, Jessica Walter, Cicely Tyson and Michael K Williams.\n\nThe ceremony, hosted by US comedian Cedric the Entertainer, was held after a year of increased TV viewing prompted by lockdown restrictions around the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police went back to search the house with specialist equipment\n\nMissing Ayrshire schoolboy Carson Shephard was found hiding in the loft of his own home, it has been confirmed.\n\nThe seven-year-old sparked a major search operation after apparently disappearing from the Afton Bridgend area of New Cumnock in Ayrshire at about 19:20 on Sunday.\n\nAs the search continued into Monday morning, police confirmed the young boy had been found safe and well.\n\nHe was hiding in a space in the wall which was inaccessible to adults.\n\nA police helicopter, marine and dog units had been joined by a large number of local residents who turned out to help in the search - many of whom spent the night checking sheds and outbuildings.\n\nCarson's mother, Gemma Glover, 27, from Glasgow, said Carson had been staying with his grandmother in New Cumnock for the past few months.\n\nLocal people gathered near the missing boy's home to offer help in the police search on Monday morning\n\nShe told reporters: \"It's such a massive relief.\n\n\"Police searched the loft three times last night but came in with specialist equipment this morning.\n\n\"I've never felt anything like it, it was crazy. All night I was thinking how cold it was and in my mind I was like 'he's not survived that'.\n\n\"It was so cold last night and we genuinely thought he was out the house. The main thing is he's all right. I can't explain the emotion, it's crazy.\"\n\nCarson had wrapped himself in insulation and was tucked away at the end of the loft, she added.\n\nEast Ayrshire police division confirmed on Monday morning that the boy has been found.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Ayrshire Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThey posted on Twitter: \"Carson traced - We are pleased to report that seven-year-old Carson Shephard, reported missing from New Cumnock has been found safe and well.\n\n\"Officers would like to thank everyone who assisted in this inquiry.\"\n\nAbout a dozen police vans and cars which had been scouring the area for the child were seen leaving the town of New Cumnock after he was found.\n\nLater, a police spokeswoman confirmed what had happened.\n\nShe said: \"He was found hiding in a wall cavity during a detailed search of his home address by specialist officers.\"\n\nPolice Scotland also said that officers normally carry out varying levels of searches at different points in an enquiry, and it is standard for areas to be searched more than once.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The FBI has searched the Florida home of Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of 22-year-old Gabby Petito, a missing woman now believed to be dead.\n\nAgents with a search warrant surrounded the property on Monday. Mr Laundrie's parents were removed from the home but have since been allowed back inside.\n\nOn 1 September, Mr Laundrie, 23, returned home alone after a cross-country road trip with Ms Petito.\n\nOn Sunday, remains matching Ms Petito's description were found in Wyoming.\n\nPolice consider Mr Laundrie a \"person of interest\" in the case but have not charged him with any crime. He declined to speak to police earlier this month, and has since gone missing.\n\nHis family has said they last saw him on 14 September.\n\nVideo from local media on Monday showed officers and FBI agents approaching the Laundrie home, some with guns drawn, cordoning it off with crime scene tape and placing Mr Laundries' parents in an unmarked van.\n\nAgents were then seen removing several boxes from the house.\n\nIn a tweet, the FBI confirmed it had secured a search warrant in court. \"No further details can be provided since this is an active and ongoing investigation,\" the agency said after the hours-long search.\n\nThe FBI is also set to conduct a full forensic investigation of the remains found on Sunday inside Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, to determine whether the woman is Ms Petito.\n\nSince Mr Laundrie returned home, he had not spoken to authorities or to the Petito family. Mr Laundrie's parents reported him as missing last Tuesday.\n\nAuthorities had been looking for Mr Laundrie in a 24,000-acre nature reserve in North Port, Florida, this weekend with police dogs and drones. On Monday, police called off the search, said they had \"exhausted all avenues in searching\" the area.\n\nMs Petito was visiting the Grand Teton National Park with Mr Laundrie when she disappeared.\n\nThe young couple had set out on a cross-country campervan trip in July, documenting their adventures on social media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police stopped Gabby Petito more than two weeks ago\n\nTwo weeks before Ms Petito went missing, on 12 August, police in the southern Utah town of Moab were called to a possible domestic violence incident involving the couple.\n\nPolice released bodycam footage which showed Ms Petito crying and complaining about her mental health to officers. She also said the couple had been arguing more frequently.\n\nThe officers recommended they spend the night apart but did not file any charges. It is not yet known what happened next.\n• None What do we know about Gabby Petito's boyfriend?", "The first train left Battersea Power Station just before 05:30 BST\n\nTwo new Tube stations have opened in the first major expansion of the London Underground this century.\n\nThe first train on the new £1.1bn Northern line route departed from Battersea Power Station in south London at 05:28 BST.\n\nIt called at the other new station, Nine Elms, before reaching the existing station of Kennington.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the services would play \"a major role\" in the capital's recovery.\n\nThe gates open for the first time at Battersea Power Station to excited crowds\n\nMr Khan said he was \"proud and grateful\" to be joined by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps on one of the first trains to serve Battersea Power Station.\n\nThe pair have been embroiled in a long-running row over funding for Transport for London (TfL).\n\nMr Khan said: \"It's great to see the difference teamwork makes, it's great to see the difference investing in infrastructure makes in relation to unlocking jobs and homes.\n\n\"Most of the things we're using today were built around the country. Every pound we spend on the Underground, 55 pence goes to the rest of the country.\"\n\nA band of train enthusiasts, TfL staff and journalists gathered before sunrise beneath the silhouette of Battersea Power Station.\n\nWhen the gates opened to the public for the first time just after 05:20 BST, more than 100 people bustled down to the platform to catch the first service to Kennington.\n\nAmid the blur of high-vis jackets and Tube map facemasks, the plethora of smartphones indicated this was a journey worth documenting.\n\nAlthough the trains themselves were not new, the first stop showcased Nine Elms - a second freshly constructed Tube station - to bring the south London station tally above 30.\n\nThis is the first major expansion of the Tube since the Jubilee line was extended in the late 1990s. Wood Lane and Heathrow Terminal 5 stations opened in 2008.\n\nThe Greater London Authority borrowed £1bn for the latest project, which will be funded through business rates from the local area and about £270m of contributions from developers.\n\nThe opening of two new stations brings the total number on the network to 272\n\nMajor construction on the two-mile twin railway tunnel between Kennington and Battersea began in 2015.\n\nThere will initially be a peak-time service of six trains an hour, falling to five an hour during off-peak periods.\n\nThe frequency of services will be doubled by the middle of next year.\n\nTfL estimated that the new services would support 25,000 new jobs and 20,000 new homes.\n\nMr Shapps said: \"Ahead of the opening of the Elizabeth line next year, these upgrades extend vital connectivity across the greatest city in the world and show the power of transport connections.\"\n\nTfL commissioner Andy Byford said he was \"stunned\" and \"couldn't be more proud\".\n\nHe said: \"The biggest thing is seeing the delight on customers' faces. That makes this all worthwhile. It's a bit like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis.\"\n\nBillions of pounds of investment have been pumped into the area in recent years, including through the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station for residential and business use, and the building of the new US embassy in Nine Elms.\n\nThe opening of two new stations brings the total number on the network to 272.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson is expected to urge US President Joe Biden to increase his country's climate commitments in a meeting at the White House.\n\nOn Monday, the PM had said he was \"frustrated\" that richer countries were failing to financially support poorer ones fighting climate change.\n\nThe two men are also likely to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.\n\nBut the PM played down the chances of progress on a UK-US trade deal, calling US negotiators \"pretty ruthless\".\n\nMr Johnson said he would \"rather get a deal that works for the UK than get a quick deal\", adding that the president had \"a lot of fish to fry\".\n\nThe prime minister has travelled to the US for a meeting of the UN's General Assembly, which is being attended by over 100 world leaders.\n\nAddressing a UN climate meeting on Monday, the prime minister said richer economies had done \"nowhere near enough\" to support those nations suffering the impact of global warming.\n\nIn 2009, developed countries agreed to provide $100bn (£73bn) a year to poorer countries to fight climate change.\n\nBy 2019, the figure had reached just over $79bn that year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).\n\nThe lead author of a UN-commissioned expert report into the pledge, Amar Bhattacharya, says within the G7 [a group of rich countries], Germany, Japan and France have been the leaders in terms of meeting the target.\n\nThe UK and Canada are slightly behind them while the United States and Italy are further behind.\n\nMr Johnson told UN delegates \"the gulf between what has been promised, what is actually being delivered, and what needs to happen… remains vast\".\n\nThe US's climate envoy John Kerry raised hopes that there could be progress towards the target, telling Sky News: \"I think we're going to get it done by COP [the climate conference to be held in Glasgow], and the US will do its part.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Biden would announce more funds this week, he added: \"I'm telling you to stay tuned into the president's speech, and we'll see where we are.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it would \"send a massively powerful signal\" if the US did commit to more funding but insisted \"we are not counting our chickens\".\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister also met Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. A Downing Street spokesman said they \"discussed the upcoming COP26 Summit and agreed there was an urgent need to mobilise more public and private money to help developing countries protect biodiversity\".\n\nThe spokesman added that the PM \"raised the issue of taxation, and hoped progress could be in implementing the G7 agreement on tax\".\n\nJoe Biden and Boris Johnson met in Cornwall earlier this year\n\nThe meeting with the president in the Oval Office will be the first time Mr Biden and Mr Johnson have met face-to-face since a G7 summit held in Cornwall earlier this year.\n\nThe prime minister acknowledged that the US-UK relationship had experience some problems in recent years, referring to \"pebbles in the shoe\".\n\nBut, he pointed to negotiation successes citing the end of the ban on British beef, and suspension of US tariffs on Scotch whisky.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meeting, Mr Johnson described his own relationship with Mr Biden as \"genuinely terrific - we see eye to eye on all sorts of things\" adding that the two men had bonded over trains.", "A much awaited change for the industry\n\nThis is really early days, we are still waiting to have that official announcement from the US government but my understanding from speaking to industry sources is that some of these airlines are now being briefed a change will happen. Of course this is a much-awaited change for the industry - they have been desperate to get the US-UK lines connected again. If you happen to be from the the US coming into the UK you have been able to come in if you have been double jabbed in the US since August - and not have to quarantine - so that has opened up for people travelling in one direction. But at the moment you can't travel from the UK to the US unless you have a green card or you have a special stipulation or a US passport as well. That has really limited things for businesses which rely on being able to go back and forth between the US and UK, but of course crucially for families who have been disconnected during this time and haven't been able to visit. A lot of these long-haul airlines really rely on UK-US routes and that has been closed pretty much since the beginning of the pandemic so that is a long time without that source of income.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland have withdrawn their men's and women's teams from series in Pakistan that were due to take place in October.\n\nThe men were set to make their first trip to Pakistan since 2005, while the women had never before played there.\n\nOn Friday, New Zealand's men abandoned their tour of Pakistan because of a \"specific and credible threat\".\n\nAn England and Wales Cricket Board statement said: \"We know there are increasing concerns about travelling to the region.\"\n\nIt continued: \"We believe that going ahead will add further pressure to a playing group who have already coped with a long period of operating in restricted Covid environments.\"\n\nEngland's men were using the Pakistan trip as part of their build-up for the T20 World Cup with fixtures on 13 and 14 October in Rawalpindi that were also double-headers with the women. Heather Knight's team were then due to play one-day internationals on 17, 19 and 21 October.\n\nThe ECB statement added: \"There is the added complexity for our men's T20 squad. We believe that touring under these conditions will not be ideal preparation for the T20 World Cup, where performing well remains a top priority for 2021. \"We understand this decision will be a significant disappointment to the Pakistan Cricket Board, who have worked tirelessly to host the return of international cricket in their country.\"\n\nNo international cricket was played in Pakistan for six years following an attack on the Sri Lanka team by gunmen in 2009, with Pakistan holding the majority of their home matches in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nTouring teams began to return in 2015 and Pakistan hosted their first home men's Test for 12 years when Sri Lanka travelled in 2019.\n\nEngland players have taken part in Pakistan Super League games in Pakistan and the South Africa men's team toured earlier this year.\n\nThe only non-Asian women's team Pakistan have ever hosted are the West Indies and the Netherlands. Their last home fixtures were against Bangladesh in the latter part of 2019.\n\nPakistan Cricket Board chairman Ramiz Raja told BBC World Service: \"It's absurd. We have gone out of our way to accommodate international sides.\n\n\"I'm extremely disappointed and so are the fans. Right now, we needed England.\n\n\"It's a small cricket fraternity that we have. We were expecting England to be a little bit more responsible. We are hurt, but forward we shall move.\"\n\nPakistan toured England in both 2020 and 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020 in particular, Pakistan agreed to strict bio-secure conditions in order to play in the UK.\n\nNew Zealand's men were visiting Pakistan for the first time in 18 years for three ODIs in Rawalpindi and five T20s in Lahore.\n\nHowever, the Black Caps pulled out of the tour on the day of the first ODI after \"an escalation in the New Zealand government threat levels for Pakistan\".\n\nRaja, who played 57 Tests for Pakistan, added: \"When Pakistan needed the Western bloc, they have not supported us.\n\n\"Security can be an issue anywhere in the world. We feel slighted by the way things have been handled by the Western bloc.\n\n\"They can quote mental fatigue, but that is not good enough.\"\n\nEngland's men are scheduled to play three Tests in Pakistan at the end of 2022.\n\nThe ECB said it wanted to \"emphasise an ongoing commitment to our main touring plans in Pakistan for 2022\".\n\nClare Connor, the ECB's managing director of women's cricket, told ESPNcricinfo: \"We've had lots of meetings over the last few days, with everything that has been going on in that part of the world, and it's desperately sad for Pakistan cricket and for the fans in that part of the world who are desperate to support their players and see live cricket in their country.\n\n\"It's very disappointing. Our players were excited about the prospect of a historic tour for England women to Pakistan and to take international women's cricket to that part of the world would have been something they were very much looking forward to and would have been proud of, but it's not to be.\"\n\nThere is a clear and interesting difference in England's stance to that of New Zealand.\n\nWhereas New Zealand withdrew because of a specific security threat, the word 'security' doesn't appear in the ECB statement at all.\n\nPakistan will be devastated by this second withdrawal within the space of a few days as they try to restore some normality to the game there.\n\nBut, with suffocating security and bio-bubbles to come at the T20 World Cup and the Ashes, the ECB has put the welfare of its players first.\n\n'Nothing short of a catastrophe for PCB'\n\nFor the Pakistan Cricket Board, this is nothing short of a catastrophe and their future plans to host other countries, such as Australia in 2022, look very uncertain.\n\nThey have in the last few years strived very hard to assure protection and provide a sense of safety and security to visiting teams.\n\nThey have successfully hosted Pakistan Super League matches, hosted a World XI and, from 2019 onwards, have had visiting teams from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and South Africa.\n\nThe emerging sentiment within the cricket fraternity in the country is how this decision highlights the inequality within the game, where power dynamic among countries and commercial interests are often prioritised.\n\nEspecially if one considers that Pakistan has toured English shores every year since 2016, and the tour in 2020 was carried out at a time when the UK was seeing the worst of its Covid outbreak and touring teams had to maintain a long, and hard, quarantine.\n\nThe expectation by the PCB was that perhaps their tour to New Zealand in early 2021, as well as the summer tour to the UK, would help in those teams making reciprocal visits to Pakistan.\n\nSadly, it wasn't to be.\n• None How has Wayne Rooney dealt with anger? Listen now as he tells Tony Bellew what makes him see red\n• None The Sports Desk Podcast goes beyond the headlines to find out", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nFrance's defence minister has cancelled talks with her UK counterpart as the row continues over a new security deal between Britain, the US and Australia.\n\nParis is angry after Australia signed the Aukus pact to build nuclear-powered submarines, pulling out of a major contract with France in the process.\n\nUK PM Boris Johnson said France had nothing to worry about from the deal.\n\nBut Florence Parly's meeting with UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace in London this week has been called off.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Wallace said there had been \"absolutely no intent.... to slight, upset or drive a wedge between us and France\".\n\n\"Britain and France on many issues are joined at the hip,\" he added.\n\nLord Ricketts, a former British ambassador to France who was due to co-chair the two days of talks, confirmed the meeting between Mr Wallace and Ms Parly had been \"postponed to a later date\".\n\nEarlier, Foreign Office minister James Cleverly told BBC Breakfast that \"all bilateral relationships go through periods of tension\", but added: \"I have absolutely no doubt that ultimately our relationship with France will endure.\"\n\nHe said the pact with Australia and the US was intended to \"strengthen and deepen\" the relationship with two long-standing defence partners and to support high-tech manufacturing and technology companies across the UK.\n\nThe Aukus agreement brokered last week, widely seen as an effort to counter China's influence in the contested South China Sea, ended a deal worth $37bn (£27bn) signed by Australia in 2016 for France to build 12 conventional submarines.\n\nFrench foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has described it as a \"stab in the back\" that constitutes \"unacceptable behaviour between allies and partners\".\n\nAnd in a rare step among allies, French President Emmanuel Macron ordered the recall of the French ambassadors to Washington and Canberra.\n\nThe European Union has said it was \"analysing\" the impact of the Aukus agreement on its trade negotiations with Australia, which are due to resume in October.\n\nBBC Brussels correspondent Jessica Parker said it appeared the EU had hardened up its position over the weekend, as the extent of France's anger became clear.\n\nShe said the European Commission wouldn't elaborate on what \"analysing\" the impact of Aukus could actually mean for the trade talks with Australia - but the language might lead to speculation that negotiations could even be suspended.\n\nSpeaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, where he is taking part in the UN General Assembly, Mr Johnson said the UK and France had a \"very important and indestructible relationship\".\n\n\"Of course we'll be talking to all our friends about how to make the Aukus pact work so that it's not exclusionary, it's not divisive - and it really doesn't have to be that way,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"This is just a way of the UK, the US and Australia sharing certain technologies because that is the sensible thing to do in the world in which we find ourselves.\n\n\"But that does not in any way mean that we wish to be adversarial to anybody else, or exclusive, or crowding anybody else out.\"\n\nMr Johnson is being joined on the trip with new Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who launched her own defence of the agreement in an article for the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nMs Truss said the deal showed the UK's readiness to be \"hard-headed\" in defending its interests and had the potential to create hundreds of new skilled jobs.\n\nLiz Truss became foreign secretary in this week's reshuffle\n\nMeanwhile, Australia has defended scrapping its deal with France in favour of the Aukus pact.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison rejected accusations that Australia had lied, saying France should have been aware it was prepared to break the deal.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Mr Morrison said: \"Ultimately, this was a decision about whether the submarines that were being built, at great cost to the Australian taxpayer, were going to be able to do a job that we needed it to do when they went into service and our strategic judgement based on the best possible of intelligence and defence advice was that it would not.\"\n\nThe agreement means Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nThe pact will also see the allies share cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence and other undersea technologies.\n\nBut it has been criticised by China, which has accused the three powers of having a \"Cold War mentality\".\n\nAnd on Monday, North Korea, which has its own closely-watched nuclear weapon and missile programmes, warned it could spark a \"nuclear arms race\".\n\n\"These are extremely undesirable and dangerous acts which will upset the strategic balance in the Asia-Pacific region,\" state media KCNA quoted a foreign ministry official as saying.\n• None Johnson's new cabinet meets for first time", "Jack Lane, 14, from Essex was one of the first to get his Covid jab\n\nThe rollout of Covid vaccines to healthy 12 to 15-year-olds has begun in England and Scotland.\n\nInvites are also being sent out in Wales this week, while in Northern Ireland the teen vaccinations are likely to be offered from October.\n\nIt is part of the drive to get more people protected ahead of winter as the pandemic continues.\n\nBooster shots are also being offered to over 50s, vulnerable people and health and social care workers.\n\nJack Lane, 14, who received his vaccine in Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, said: \"I am proud to have had my vaccination so that I can remain in school and continue in my education - the jab was quick, easy, and painless.\"\n\nExperts say that unlike for older people, there is only a marginal benefit to vaccinating adolescents on health grounds alone given their risk of becoming seriously ill with Covid is small.\n\nAnd although vaccinating secondary school-age children won't stop the virus circulating, it could help keep more pupils in class.\n\nJack's mother and assistant principal at his school, Michelle Lane, said: \"I'm really proud of him and I'm really relieved that he's had it done.\n\n\"I really believe that the students need to be in education. There's been a lot of issues around mental health with the lockdown and home-schooling and by vaccinating the students we can keep them in the academy and give them what they need, so I'm really pleased for him and all of the students.\"\n\nSome three million children are eligible for the jab across the UK after the chief medical officers of the four nations advised younger teenagers should be offered a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nParental consent will not be needed if a child is considered competent to make a decision by themselves, weighing the benefits and risks, including the small chance of a very rare side effect from the vaccine.\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and deputy lead for the NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme, said: \"The vaccine is safe and effective and I would urge families to work closely with their schools based vaccination team to get their loved ones vaccinated when they are invited to protect themselves and their families ahead of the winter period.\"", "The walrus, seen here when he was in Ireland this year, had not been spotted for more than three weeks\n\nA walrus previously spotted in Ireland, France, Spain and the UK has turned up in Iceland, marine experts have said.\n\nThe 800kg (125st) Arctic walrus, known as Wally, had not been seen for more than three weeks, with spotters saying they were \"starting to lose hope\" of ever seeing him again.\n\nHowever, Seal Rescue Ireland said he had been seen in Iceland on Sunday after 22 days of no sightings.\n\nHe was identified from scars on both his front flippers, the group said.\n\nThe wandering walrus was thought to have travelled 4,000km (2,485 miles) before reaching Ireland, with the new sighting in Iceland meaning he had swum more than 900km (560 miles) from his last known location in Cork.\n\nWally had a pontoon made for him in the Isles of Scilly after he damaged boats\n\nSeal Rescue Ireland said that Wally was identified after \"conferring and comparing photos with our friends at British Divers Marine Life Rescue\" and his identity was confirmed \"based on the identification of scars on the front of both front flippers\".\n\nThe walrus, thought to be about four years old, first made waves in Ireland when he was spotted in County Kerry in March, as well as along the coast of western Europe, including Spain, Tenby in Wales and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly since then.\n\nA purpose-built pontoon was made for him in Scilly in a bid to reduce damage he he caused by climbing on boats.\n\nSeal Rescue Ireland said it was \"delighted\" at the sighting after \"starting to lose hope of ever seeing the young, wandering walrus again\".\n\nIt said: \"We are absolutely over the moon that he's not only still alive and well, but he is well on his way home to the Arctic.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Folic acid is added to flour in more than 80 countries\n\nFolic acid is to be added to UK flour to help prevent spinal birth defects in babies, the government has announced.\n\nWomen are advised to take the B vitamin - which can guard against spina bifida in unborn babies - before and during pregnancy, but many do not.\n\nIt is thought that adding folic acid to flour could prevent up to 200 birth defects a year.\n\nThe new rules will only apply to non-wholemeal wheat flour, with gluten-free foods and wholemeal flour exempt.\n\nMandatory fortification - which the government ran a public consultation on in 2019 - will see everybody who eats foods such as bread getting more folic acid in their diets.\n\nNeural tube defects, such as spina bifida (abnormal development of the spine) and anencephaly, a life-limiting condition which affects the brain, affect about 1,000 pregnancies per year in the UK.\n\nMany babies diagnosed with spina bifida survive into adulthood, but will experience life-long impairment.\n\nWomen are advised to take 400 micrograms of folic acid a day for at least a month before conception and up to the 12th week of pregnancy.\n\nBut about half of pregnancies are unplanned and women are not always aware they should take the supplement - or forget to.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFolic acid is added to flour in more than 80 countries - and when it was added to bread in Australia, neural tube defects fell by 14%.\n\nHowever, there have previously been concerns that mandatory fortification could have unintended health effects, such as masking a vitamin B12 deficiency or increasing the risk of colon cancer.\n\nBut the government's independent advisory body - the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition - has been satisfied that these concerns are not supported by the evidence.\n\nSince World War Two, the UK's non-wholemeal flour has been fortified with iron, calcium and two other B vitamins - thiamin and niacin.\n\nIt's taken years of debating to reach this decision.\n\nThat's because the gains need to be carefully weighed against any potential harms.\n\nAdding folic acid to flour used in common foods, such as bread, will mean dosing the masses.\n\nClearly, getting enough folic acid around conception and during pregnancy is important for cutting the risk of women having babies with spina bifida or other neural tube defects.\n\nBut most other people already get their required amount of folate - the natural form of the vitamin - from a normal diet.\n\nThere was a concern that for some people, particularly the elderly, boosting folic acid might have unintended negative consequences, such as covering up the symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency.\n\nBut the government's independent advisory body has looked at all the evidence and is satisfied that fortification is the right thing to do for society as a whole.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said folic acid-fortified flour would be \"a quick, simple win\" to enhance a baby's development, as well as helping to boost the health of UK adults.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said preventing life-threatening health problems like spina bifida would mean fewer people needing hospital treatment.\n\nThe government said it did not anticipate the move would require a major overhaul for industrial-scale flour producers - the B vitamin would need to be listed on the labelling of all foods made with flour.\n\nKate Steele, chief executive of Shine, a charity providing specialist support for people affected by spina bifida and hydrocephalus and which has campaigned for mandatory fortification of flour for more than 30 years, said she was \"delighted\" by the decision.\n\n\"In its simplest terms, the step will reduce the numbers of families who face the devastating news that their baby has anencephaly and will not survive,\" she said.\n\n\"It will also prevent some babies being affected by spina bifida, which can result in complex physical impairments and poor health.\n\n\"This is truly a momentous day''.", "A 10-year-old cancer patient, who fulfilled a final wish to cook with TV chef Gordon Ramsay and won support from Premier League footballers and other celebrities, has died.\n\nSophie Fairall, from Stubbington, Hampshire, was diagnosed with a rare form of tissue cancer last September.\n\nTV stars Ant and Dec and footballers Jack Grealish and Mason Mount sent messages of love during her illness.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by Sophie's journey This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Fairall family drew up a bucket list with Sophie in June, when her \"aggressive\" cancer - rhabdomyosarcoma - returned and she decided not to have further chemotherapy.\n\nIn video messages, Chelsea star Mount praised her \"incredible bravery\", while Man City midfielder Grealish said: \"Carry on being the strong little girl that you are.\"\n\nShe also appeared on ITV's This Morning show, spent a day working in a supermarket and raised thousands of pounds to improve conditions for children in hospital.\n\nShe was diagnosed with a rare form of tissue cancer in September 2020\n\nThe 10-year-old's bucket list included campaigns to improve conditions for children in hospital\n\nIn Facebook posts, Charlotte Fairall said: \"Who would've thought a 10-year-old could have such a huge impact on so many people.\n\n\"It feels so surreal and although I knew she was dying I still can't believe she's gone.\"\n\nShe added: \"Sophie had so much more to give and it shouldn't have been this way.\n\n\"She was the most beautiful, funny, caring, strongest girl ever.\n\n\"She would light up a room wherever she went.\"\n\nSophie's bucket list included campaigns for hospitals to have play assistants and to improve their \"disgusting\" food.\n\nAn online fundraising page in her name has met its target of raising £50,000 for the children's cancer charity Alice's Arc.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nAustralia has defended its decision to scrap a multi-billion dollar submarine purchase from France in favour of a new security pact with the US and UK.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison rejected accusations that Australia had lied, saying France should have been aware it was prepared to break the deal.\n\nFrance says the Aukus pact has led to a \"serious crisis\" between the allies.\n\nIn an unprecedented move, it has recalled its ambassadors from the US and Australia as a sign of protest.\n\nUnder the Aukus pact, Australia will be given the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines as a way of countering China's influence in the contested South China Sea.\n\nThe partnership has ended a deal worth $37bn (£27bn) signed by Australia in 2016 for France to build 12 conventional submarines. France says it was informed of the pact only hours before the public announcement was made earlier this week.\n\nMr Morrison on Sunday said he understood France's disappointment, but that he had always been clear about Australia's position.\n\nThe French government \"would have had every reason to know that we had deep and grave concerns\", he said.\n\n\"Ultimately this was a decision about whether the submarines that were being built, at great cost to the Australian taxpayer, were going to be able to do a job that we needed it to do when they went into service and our strategic judgment based on the best possible of intelligence and defence advice was that it would not.\"\n\nMr Morrison's comments came after French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France 2 television there had been \"lying, duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt\" over the deal.\n\nHe said France's ambassadors to the US and Australia were being recalled to \"re-evaluate the situation\", but that there had been \"no need\" to recall the ambassador to the UK, which he described as a \"third wheel\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden is expected to hold talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in the coming days.\n\n\"We want explanations,\" French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Sunday.\n\nMeanwhile, newly appointed UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss defended the agreement in an article for The Sunday Telegraph, saying it showed Britain's readiness to be \"hard-headed\" in defence of its interests.\n\nThe pact means Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines. It will also see the allies share cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence and other undersea technologies.\n\nChina has accused the three powers involved in the security pact of having a \"Cold War mentality\".\n\nClumsy diplomacy, heightened emotions and spy-like secrecy: the row over the new security pact between the UK, the US and Australia has it all.\n\nBut amid the increasingly shrill invective from humiliated French ministers, there is a fundamental truth: the West is struggling to make up its mind about China.\n\nWashington has now been joined by Canberra and London in acting together to address the security challenge. Other countries - particularly some in Europe - are less hawkish, still trying to split the difference between economic cooperation and strategic competition with Beijing.\n\nFrance is furious at the breach of contract by Australia and the lack of trust shown by the US and the UK. So there is talk in the French papers of further retaliation, beyond the recall of ambassadors, perhaps involving Nato. Others are speculating this row might finally encourage Europe to agree some greater strategic autonomy.\n\nThe truth is more straightforward: if the West wishes to protect its interests in the Indo-Pacific, then France and other European powers need to be on the same page as the US and its Anglophone allies. And right now both sides are not even reading the same book.", "Insulate Britain climate change protesters blocked the exit slip road of the M25 at junction 18\n\nForty-one people have been arrested after climate activists held fresh motorway protests.\n\nInsulate Britain blocked the anti-clockwise exit slip road at junction 18, Chorleywood, Herts, on Monday.\n\nA separate protest took place near junction four (Stanborough Interchange) of the A1(M), near Hatfield.\n\nA third incident saw Kent Police prevent protesters from gaining access to the M25 carriageway at junction 1a, the Dartford River Crossing.\n\nKent Police force said officers attended at 08:30 BST and arrested 12 people on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.\n\nSixteen Insulate Britain protesters were arrested at junction four of the A1(M)\n\nHertfordshire Police said 13 people were arrested at the M25 and 16 at the A1(M).\n\nThe force said officers had been called to the M25 at 08:12 BST and to the A1(M) protest just minutes later.\n\nSeveral people at both protests had been glued to the carriageway.\n\nShortly before 11:30, the force confirmed the roads were clear and had reopened.\n\nThe protesters have also daubed blue paint on the road\n\nCh Supt Nick Caveney said: \"Protesters have made it clear that they intend to continue causing disruption.\n\n\"Not only is purposely blocking a highway incredibly dangerous, it also affects thousands of members of the public who are stuck in delays as a result.\"\n\nHe said the force had \"robust \"plans in place to minimise disruption and officers had been on the scene \"within minutes\".\n\nIn a tweet, Insulate Britain, which is calling for government action on home insulation, said blue paint had also been poured on to the road during the protest at the M25, \"leading to further disruption\".\n\nThe protest is the fourth time Insulate Britain has blocked various parts of the M25\n\nOne of the protesters, who did not want to be named, told BBC Three Counties Radio the blockade had been about \"the millions of lives we are going to lose not just here, but everywhere, if we don't do anything\".\n\nHe said: \"The scale of what is coming with the climate crisis forces us to take action.\n\n\"The measures are disruptive and they unfortunately have to be. This is no fun doing this. We are running rapidly out of time.\n\n\"We are stepping up because the government is critically failing.\"\n\nForty one arrests have been made following Insulate Britain protests on the M25 and at the A1M\n\nHe said further blockades were planned and that protesters were willing to go to prison to make their point.\n\nPolice have come under pressure from the government to clamp down on the protests and limit disruption.\n\nPrevious protests led to major delays and a large number of arrests.\n\nSpeaking to the PA news agency, Mr Shapps called for the protests to \"stop and the police to intervene\".\n\n\"It's completely counterproductive as well because they're actually creating the pollution they want to get rid of by having cars standing still, so there's no justification for that kind of action,\" he said.\n\n\"The police will have to work out their approach and tactics, but it's not right for our roads to be blocked for illegal protests like this to take place, and for it to happen repetitively.\n\n\"I've no doubt at all the police will want to learn from their experience and make sure they're able to step in more quickly and efficiently.\"\n\nIn a letter to Highways England, Insulate Britain said it was \"entirely proportionate to create disruption\" to keep the government to \"its legal obligation of staying below 2C\".\n\nPrior to the protest, the group had also called for Highways England to reduce the speed limit on the M25 ahead of the blockade.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Insulate Britain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA statement from the group on Sunday had said: \"Insulate Britain are asking the Highways Agency to review their previous decision not to reduce speed limits, even though they had been made aware that major disruption will be taking place.\n\n\"Given that this is a standard safety procedure when hazards occur on the motorway, Insulate Britain is surprised it has not formed part of the response to the campaign.\"\n\nIn response to previous Insulate Britain protests, the government said: \"People's day-to-day lives should not be disrupted, especially on busy motorways where lives are put at risk and resulting traffic delays will only add to vehicle emissions.\n\n\"We are investing £1.3bn this year alone to support people to install energy efficiency measures, and our upcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy will set out how we decarbonise the nation's homes in a way that is fair, practical and affordable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Challis was born in Bristol in 1942 but moved to south-east London with his parents when he was one\n\nTributes have been paid to John Challis, best known for playing Boycie in BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, who has died at the age of 79.\n\nHis family said he died \"peacefully in his sleep, after a long battle with cancer\".\n\nCo-star Sir David Jason said he was \"a wonderful actor\" and \"a gentleman in the true sense of the word\".\n\nChallis starred in the show, alongside Sir David and Nicholas Lyndhurst, throughout its time on air from 1981 right through to the final show in 2003.\n\nThe character - who was both a long-time former schoolmate and devious rival of Sir David's character Del Boy - was initially due to appear in just one scene, but the part grew in prominence as the series progressed.\n\nIn fact he was so popular with viewers that, when Only Fools and Horses ended its long run, the BBC developed a spin-off show following the continuing adventures of Boycie and long-suffering wife Marlene. The Green Green Grass ran for four series.\n\nSue Holderness, who played Marlene, also paid tribute to Challis, describing him as her \"beloved friend\".\n\n\"Marlene without Boycie - it's unthinkable,\" she said. \"John Challis was my partner on screen and stage for 36 years and my beloved friend. RIP darling John. I will miss you every day.\"\n\nAnd Steven Woodcock, who played Jevon in the sitcom, said Challis was a \"fantastic actor and wonderful person, amazing to work with. There is no Del Boy without Boycie. RIP my Peckham pal\".\n\nBoycie was usually found at the Nag's Head pub, alongside wife Marlene, with a cigar in one hand and a large cognac in the other\n\nIn a statement, Challis's family said: \"He will always be loved for being 'Boycie' and leaves a great legacy of work that will continue to bring pleasure and smiles for many years to come.\n\n\"Be assured that in the future there will be an occasion to celebrate John's life - when everyone will be welcome to come along.\"\n\nJeff Nicholson, the actor playing Boycie in the Only Fools and Horses musical due to reopen next month, said Challis had told him to \"carry the torch for us\" shortly before his death.\n\nHe said Challis had been supportive of him when they met and given the cast his \"seal of approval\" when the show premiered at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in February, before closing soon after due to the pandemic.\n\nDescribing Challis as \"a real stand-up actor\", he said the pair had struck up a \"nice relationship\" in lockdown, with Challis always asking for updates on the theatre production.\n\nThe BBC's chief content officer Charlotte Moore said Challis was \"a wonderful actor who will forever be remembered for playing Boycie in Only Fools and Horses - a character so well loved by millions\".\n\nChallis happily played Boycie on screen for decades - and even adopted the persona in appearances in other entertainment shows, fan conventions and even in a video message this year advocating the wearing of face-coverings in public places to help fight Covid.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Only Fools & Horses This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Only Fools & Horses\n\nBut he also showed his range as a Shakespearean actor when he performed in open-air performances of Richard III and a Midsummer's Night Dream that were staged in Regents Park in London in 1995, right at the height of the popularity of Only Fools and Horses.\n\nMore recently he played Monty Staines in ITV show Benidorm.\n\nActress Crissy Rock, who appeared alongside Challis in the show, said she was heartbroken.\n\nShe tweeted: \"John you were a true gentleman and always so loving and supportive towards me. I am thinking of your family and close friends at this hard time. Rest well. Crissy xx\"\n\nHe was due to appear in 30 scheduled dates, billed as an \"intimate evening with John Challis\", but had to cancel the tour after one date.\n\nOthers paying tribute ranged from The Three Degrees singer Sheila Ferguson to US rapper and actor Ice T, who wrote: \"He somehow became a Twitter friend... I'm very sad. Although I never met him in person, internet friends can become close.\"\n\nFormer heavyweight champion boxer Frank Bruno also tweeted his condolences.\n\n\"(He) used to say to me 'Franklyn my dear boy how the devil are you boxed anybody round the ears recently?' Loved all the TV he did.\"\n\nChallis recently became an honorary citizen of Serbia, where Only Fools and Horses remains hugely popular.\n\nHe travelled to the Balkan country as part of a documentary, Boycie In Belgrade, which explored why the show was so well-loved there.\n\nAlthough he was famed for his nasal south London twang as Boycie, he was actually born in Bristol and only moved to London as a young child. In a quirk of fate, much of his career as an on-screen Londoner was spent in Bristol where Only Fools and Horses was largely filmed.", "\n• Everyone travelling to Spain (including children) must submit an online Health Control Form (in English), no more than 48 hours before departure. This will generate a QR code which needs to be presented (either digitally or as a hard copy) at the Spanish border. All travellers aged 12 and over must be able to prove they've been fully vaccinated (with both doses of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a one-dose vaccine) at least 14 days before arrival. Proof of a negative test or recovery from Covid is not accepted. From 23:00 GMT on 13 February children aged 12-17 do not need to be double-jabbed to enter the country. Instead, they must present a negative PCR test taken no more than 72 hours before arrival. You must have received your final vaccine dose no earlier than 270 days (about nine months) before travelling. If it was earlier than this, you must be able to show proof of having received a booster jab. There is no requirement for 14 days to have passed between receiving your booster and entering Spain. Spain (like all EU countries) will accept as proof the NHS Covid Pass, Scotland's NHS Covid Status Pass or Northern Ireland's COVIDCert NI app - these can be presented either in digital form on a phone, or printed (as long as it's dated after 1 November 2021). Fully vaccinated children aged 12 to 15 can now also use the NHS app to show their Covid status, or they can request an NHS Covid Pass letter for international travel. Children under the age of 12 do not need to show proof of vaccination. If you have not been fully vaccinated, you can only enter Spain if your journey is classed as \"essential\" by the Spanish Ministry of Health. If your journey qualifies, you will need to present either a negative PCR test taken within the previous 72 hours, or a negative antigen test/LFT taken within the previous 24 hours, or else a medical certificate to say that you have recovered from Covid in the previous six months. If you're travelling via Gibraltar, check the latest Foreign Office travel advice.\n• Wherever you are in Spain, you must observe social distancing of 1.5m (5ft). Everyone aged six and over must also wear a face mask in the following places (unless they have a medical exemption):\n• any enclosed space open to the public (eg shops, restaurants, hotels or hospitals)\n• any indoor space where people from different households mix\n• any outdoor space where it is not possible to observe social distancing (e.g. crowded streets, public demonstrations etc.)\n• all forms of public transport and all transport stations, platforms and airports Some regions may have additional restrictive measures, including:\n• restrictions on meeting people from other households indoors\n• capacity restrictions at beaches or other public areas (eg booking systems) You should check with local and regional authorities for more details. The Foreign Office has specific healthcare guidance for UK nationals visiting Spain. For more details about travelling in Spain, go to the UK Foreign Office travel advice for Spain\n• Everyone aged 12 and over travelling to the UK must fill in an online passenger locator form before they depart. Adults can complete the form for under-18s travelling with them. If you qualify as fully vaccinated, you do not need to take any tests either before or after you arrive in the UK, nor is there any need to quarantine. The same rules apply for travellers under the age of 18. If you are 18 or over, and not fully vaccinated:\n• you will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test, taken in the two days before you travel to the UK\n• you will need to book and pay for a PCR test, to be taken within two days of arrival in the UK. This must be booked with a private provider before you travel\n• you do not have to quarantine unless your PCR test is positive", "Ben John was given a 24-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Leicester Crown Court\n\nThe Attorney General has been asked to review a sentence given to a right-wing extremist for a terrorism offence.\n\nBen John was handed the 24-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Leicester Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nAccording to media reports, the 21-year-old was also ordered by a judge to read classic novels such as Pride and Prejudice and to return to court in January.\n\nIn a letter, campaign group Hope Not Hate asked for a review of the case.\n\nJohn, of Addison Drive, Lincoln, was found guilty of possessing a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism on 12 August.\n\nThe offence under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act, which has a maximum sentence of 15 years' imprisonment, was brought following the discovery on a computer of a publication containing diagrams and instructions on how to construct various explosive devices.\n\nLincolnshire Police said John had also amassed 67,788 documents in bulk downloads on to hard drives, which contained \"a wealth\" of white supremacist and anti-Semitic material.\n\nDuring the sentencing hearing, Judge Timothy Spencer QC is reported to have asked John: \"Have you read Dickens? Austen?\n\n\"Start with Pride And Prejudice and Dickens's A Tale Of Two Cities. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Think about Hardy. Think about Trollope.\n\n\"On January 4 you will tell me what you have read and I will test you on it.\"\n\nAccording to media reports, John was instructed to read classic novels, including Pride and Prejudice, as he was given a five-year serious crime prevention order\n\nThe open letter, written by Hope Not Hate's chief executive Nick Lowles, stated: \"A suspended sentence and a suggested reading list of English classics for a terror conviction is unduly lenient for a crime of this nature.\n\n\"This sentence is sending a message that violent right-wing extremists may be treated leniently by the courts.\n\n\"That is a dangerous message to send when the far-right poses the fastest growing terror threat today. These sorts of lenient sentences risk encouraging other young people to access and share terrorist and extremist content because they will not fear the repercussions of their actions.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said: \"We have received a request for the sentence of Ben John to be considered under the unduly lenient sentence (ULS) scheme.\n\n\"The Law Officers have 28 days from sentencing to consider the case and make a decision.\"\n\nThe unduly lenient sentence scheme covers a variety of serious offences including certain types of hate crime and some terrorism-related offences.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry appeared virtually to present an award to scientists behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has urged governments to tackle the \"huge disparity\" in access to Covid vaccines worldwide, as he made a surprise virtual appearance at an awards show.\n\nPrince Harry was speaking at the GQ Men of the Year awards, where he presented a prize to the team behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nUntil everyone can access the jab \"we are all at risk\", he said in a speech.\n\nThe duke also blamed \"mass-scale misinformation\" for vaccine hesitancy.\n\nSpeaking via video, Prince Harry called on governments to do more to vaccinate people in poorer countries.\n\nWhile more than a third of the global population has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, he said less than 2% of people in the developing world had received a jab and many healthcare workers remain unvaccinated.\n\n\"We cannot move forward together unless we address this imbalance as one,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, families around the world are being overwhelmed by mass-scale misinformation across news media and social media, where those who peddle in lies and fear are creating vaccine hesitancy, which in turn leads to divided communities and eroding trust.\n\n\"This is a system we need to break if we are to overcome Covid-19 and the risk of new variants.\"\n\nProf Dame Sarah Gilbert and Prof Catherine Green received the magazine's \"heroes of the year\" award for their work on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nPraising the scientists, Prince Harry said: \"They are our nation's pride and we are deeply indebted to their service.\"\n\n\"For the rest of us, including global governments, pharmaceutical leaders and heads of business, we have to keep doing our part,\" he added.\n\n\"That must include sharing vaccine science and supporting and empowering developing countries with more flexibility. Where you are born should not affect your ability to survive when the drugs and know-how exist to keep you alive and well.\"\n\nVaccinologist Dame Sarah - who was recognised with her damehood in the Queen's Birthday Honours this year - began designing a Covid vaccine in early 2020.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is now the most widely used around the world, with doses sent to more than 170 countries.\n\nSpeaking after the pair received their award, Prof Green said the duke had given \"a really important message\".\n\n\"We didn't know that was going to happen, so suddenly Prince Harry's on stage [virtually],\" she said.\n\n\"And he said all of the things we wanted to say about the necessity to get vaccines to the world for people irrespective of their ability to pay.\"\n\nDame Sarah received a standing ovation at Wimbledon this summer for her work on the Covid vaccine\n\nPrince Harry has previously called for fairer distribution of vaccines at a charity concert, Vax Live, in May.\n\nHe and his wife Meghan were campaign chairs of the event, which raised millions of pounds for Covax, a scheme working to ensure Covid vaccines are available around the world.\n\nThe couple now live in the US, after stepping back from royal duties last year.\n\nTV presenter Piers Morgan also attended the awards, after he was cleared of breaching Ofcom's broadcasting code over his comments about the Duchess of Sussex\n\nEd Sheeran - who won solo artist of the year - wore a jacket loaned to him by Elton John", "Travellers from the UK to Portugal will not need to be fully vaccinated to avoid quarantine, the country's tourist board has said.\n\nInstead, UK visitors will only need to show proof of a negative PCR antigen test to get into the country.\n\nVisit Portugal said the measures also apply to passengers embarking and disembarking cruise ships on the coast of the Portuguese mainland.\n\nThe new rules are in place from Tuesday and will be effect until 16 September.\n\nUK travellers, aged 12 and above, must show a valid PCR or antigen test certificates to airline check-in staff to board flights to Portugal.\n\nA PCR test must be taken up to 72 hours before departure, or an antigen test up to 48 hours before travel.\n\nChildren aged 11 or under are not required to present proof of negative Covid tests and do not have to be vaccinated.\n\nHowever Portugal's tourism board said the rules may be revised at any time, depending on scientific or medical changes pertaining to the pandemic.\n\nAnything that makes travel easier to and from Europe is welcomed by the travel industry, but this change has come late in the summer when many potential travellers are fully vaccinated anyway.\n\nIt's unlikely to make a major impact on UK trips to Portugal, particularly as Portugal's mainland is still on the UK's amber list.\n\nThis means anyone not double jabbed will have to quarantine when they arrive in the UK.\n\nBut it is a move in the right direction for travel companies who hope countries will continue to open up rather than close shut.\n\nAt present, shops and restaurants in Portugal are currently allowed to stay open until 2am and bars and clubs may close even later.\n\nBut customers can only enjoy the revelry sitting down - dancing will be allowed again in October if the vaccination campaign continues successfully.\n\nPortugal is currently on the UK's travel amber list, amid concerns about rising Covid cases.\n\nAdults fully vaccinated in the UK, the US and most European countries don't have to self-isolate upon their return to the UK.\n\nBut a Covid test is needed three days before returning from an amber country, and a PCR test two days after arriving.\n\nArrivals who are not fully vaccinated need to quarantine for 10 days and take an additional PCR test on or after day eight.", "A member of Sir Keir's staff said the \"language and tone of the emails\" from Knott were very distressing\n\nA man who sent dozens of abusive and threatening emails to Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry has been found guilty of harassment.\n\nDavid Knott, 46, from Islington, was charged with two counts of harassment against staff due to an \"excessive number of abusive emails\".\n\nKnott claimed he sent the messages to the Labour leader and his local MP as a \"form of protest\" over his housing.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 1 October at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe court heard Knott's emails - often laced with profanity and threats to protest outside the politicians' constituency office - were related to an \"ongoing casework matter\" about housing.\n\nJennifer Gatland, prosecuting, told the court that many of the emails were \"rambling and incoherent\".\n\nThe court heard that a cease and desist letter was sent to Knott - but the emails continued.\n\nKnott told the court he was trying to complain to the MPs about the condition of his former apartment in Camden - which left him and his late quadriplegic partner \"sleepless for six months\".\n\nHe said that ongoing London Underground work had left the noise in the apartment \"unbearable\" and he was trying to warn the MPs to stop letting tenants live there.\n\nKnott said: \"I spent four years trying to get a response from these people - my MP's treatment of me is absolutely disgusting.\n\n\"I'm working class and I used the words as an expression of the torture I have suffered.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Alexander Jacobs said the emails went over a \"line that must never be crossed\".\n\nHe told Knott: \"I believe you are well aware your language was abusive and should not have been used.\n\n\"Any reasonable person would have known the number of emails and the language used would have caused harassment.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Asel and many of her international team-mates are in hiding. Asel isn't her real name. In Kabul members of the Taliban have already come looking for Afghanistan's women's cricket team.\n\n\"Every woman playing cricket or other sports is not safe right now,\" she says. \"The situation is very bad in Kabul.\n\n\"We have a group on WhatsApp and every night we are talking about our problems and sharing plans about what we should do. We are all hopeless.\"\n\nAsel has barely stepped outside her home since the Taliban entered Kabul in mid-August and has locked her cricket kit away. She explains how one of her team-mates was targeted in the city.\n\n\"The village where they play cricket, some people who knew them are working with the Taliban. When the Taliban came here and took Kabul they threatened them, saying, 'We may come and kill you if you try to play cricket again,'\" Asel says.\n\nTaqwa, who is also using a pseudonym, was involved in Afghan women's cricket for many years. She managed to flee the country after Kabul fell. In the week before she got out, she moved from house to house to avoid being detected. The Taliban called her father, but he said he had not been in contact with her.\n\n\"I don't want to think about what would've happened,\" she says. \"When the Taliban came to Kabul, for a week I didn't eat anything, I didn't sleep.\n\n\"I was not only thinking about myself, I was worrying about my girls. They are sacrificing their lives, their studies. Some even didn't get married so they could play for Afghanistan. I'm very worried about their lives.\"\n\nFor another former player, Hareer, again speaking to the BBC using an assumed name, playing cricket as an Afghan woman meant far more than just taking wickets and scoring runs.\n\n\"When I play I feel like a strong woman,\" she says. \"I feel confident and I feel proud of myself.\n\n\"I can imagine myself as a woman who can do anything, who can make her dreams come true.\"\n\nBut for Hareer and the rest of the Afghanistan women's cricket team, those dreams may well have come to an end.\n\nWhen just under a year ago there seemed to be so much hope, now they fear for their safety and feel abandoned by the sporting authorities they believe can help.\n\nThe rise of cricket had seemed something of a fairy tale in Afghanistan. The country was only granted affiliate membership by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2001, just a year after the Taliban lifted a ban on the sport. When the Taliban was overthrown soon after, cricket began to flourish, along with other sports like football.\n\n\"If we look into the last 20 years, we had war, suicide attacks, we had so many problems, but the only occasion when the entire nation was happy, they were emotionally involved… was during sport,\" Emal Pasarly, editor of BBC Pashto, told The Sports Desk podcast in August.\n\n\"Only sport gave a time or a place where people were happy and they could forget about the rest of what was going on around them.\"\n\nCricket fanaticism in Afghanistan grew throughout the 2000s as the men's team began a meteoric rise on the world stage. When they qualified for the 2015 World Cup in Australia, street celebrations broke out across the country. In 2017, they were granted Test status. Players such as Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi are now international stars and are adored across the country.\n\nAfghanistan's first national women's team was formed in 2010. They faced resistance from the start.\n\nIn the early years the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) prevented the women's team from playing at several international tournaments, saying it received \"Taliban threats\".\n\nIn 2012 the team did travel for a six-team regional tournament in Tajikistan, and they won it. But two years later they folded. The ACB again blamed the decision on Taliban threats.\n• None Storyville: Afghan Cricket Club - Out of the Ashes\n• None Taliban are back - what next for Afghanistan?\n\nDespite the team disbanding, girls and young women continued to play on makeshift wickets across Afghanistan. And the ACB still had a small number of staff responsible for arranging women's matches.\n\nBut the same problems persisted for this new generation of female cricketers.\n\nHareer says that, within the ACB, many were not supportive and would only arrange matches for the women if they \"begged them to do it\". Members of the board would also school women on how to behave when they were out on the pitch, she says.\n\n\"I'm a bowler, and when I take a wicket I can't shout and act like I'm happy because there are men watching me,\" she says.\n\n\"I have to control my emotions, I can't shout to support my team-mates, I can't support them. They say: 'You shouldn't celebrate, you shouldn't shout or strike poses.'\"\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Afghanistan and the threat to progress through sport\n\nBut as the profile of the men's team grew, the ACB had to start taking the women's game more seriously. The ICC requires its 12 full members - Afghanistan became one in 2017 - to have a national women's team. This led to 25 female cricketers being awarded contracts in November 2020.\n\nJust 10 months ago, a new dawn appeared to be on the horizon for women's cricket in Afghanistan. That hope appears to have been short lived.\n\nDuring their previous rule, from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban prohibited almost all education for girls and women (girls were not allowed to attend school after the age of 8), while women were unable to work or leave the house without being accompanied by a male relative.\n\nWhile the Taliban has made attempts to portray a more moderate image this time around, the chances of women being able to partake in sport are slim. The ACB's chief executive officer, Hamid Shinwari, has said the Taliban have voiced support for the men's team, who now have approval to play their first ever Test against Australia in Hobart in November. But he told the BBC he expects the women's team to be stopped. This would violate Afghanistan's ICC membership.\n\nAfghanistan's women cricketers are hoping to escape Taliban rule like the 50 female athletes who were evacuated by the Australian government in August. Football's world governing body Fifa has said it is \"negotiating the complex evacuation\" of footballers and other athletes from Afghanistan.\n\nA spokeswoman for the ICC said: \"We are, as you would expect, in close contact with the Afghanistan Cricket Board and we're monitoring the situation and have offered our support.\"\n\nBut Taqwa says the ICC have not been in contact directly with the country's women cricketers and that the ACB have shown little interest in their welfare.\n\n\"The ICC never help us, they always disappoint us. The ICC is talking with those people who are against women's cricket, like the new ACB chairman,\" she adds, in reference to Azizullah Fazli, who was appointed after the Taliban takeover.\n\nAsked if the ACB still supports women's cricket, Mr Shinwari said: \"The future government will decide.\"\n\nDespite the situation in which they find themselves, Asel still believes the team could come together again. Hareer comes to life when she talks about her dreams for a better future.\n\n\"I want to be an international cricket player,\" she says.\n\n\"I want to be a strong Afghan woman who can change other people's lives. I want to be a role model for other Afghan women and girls. I want to change at least a few men's minds in Afghanistan. I want to be proud of myself and that's all.\"\n\nAsel adds: \"In Afghan culture, there are barriers that affect sport for women. They say that women are weak and are not built to play cricket. They have to get married and give birth and work at home and bring up the children. They must take care of their husbands.\n\n\"In my family too, some relatives say I cannot play because an Islamic culture will not let a woman play cricket. But I love it.\n\n\"The situation is bad for us. But there is hope while we are breathing. If we get taken from the country and taken somewhere else we will start again.\n\n\"We will not give up on our dreams, inshallah [if Allah wills it].\"\n• None Stumped: Afghanistan: 'We will rise again'\n• None How do you start again when everyone remembers your past?\n• None Watch the deep and dark new thriller from the producers of Line of Duty", "The Tokyo Paralympics are nearly over - plan how you will follow the final day of competition with our day-by-day guide - all times BST.\n\nIt might be the last day of competition but GB's competitors will be hoping to finish on a high.\n\nWheelchair racers David Weir and Johnboy Smith carry hopes in the T54 marathon (from 22:30 Saturday). Weir won the event in London but crashed out of the Rio race in 2016, while it is a Games debut for Smith, his former training partner, who will be the first Romany Paralympian.\n\nDerek Rae will bid for redemption and a medal in the T46 event for athletes with arm impairments (from 22:50). The Scot failed to finish the race in Rio, which hurt him a lot, and he has gone on to win World Championship silver since then.\n\nOn the final day of the badminton event, Krysten Coombs goes in the bronze-medal match in the SH6 event against Brazil's Vitor Tavares (session starts at 01:00).\n\nMatt Skelhon's campaign on the shooting range ends with the R6 - mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 event (from 01:30), while the men's wheelchair basketball medals will be decided with GB up against Spain for bronze (02:00) before Japan face the US for gold.\n\nAustralian Michael Roeger wants nothing more than a first Paralympic gold in the T46 marathon. The current world record holder has improved his personal bests all season and is competing in his fourth Games but only has a bronze medal in Rio to his name.\n\nIn the women's T54 wheelchair marathon, American Tatyana McFadden is hoping to make up for the disappointment of five years ago where she was beaten in a photo-finish in the women's race by China's Zou Lihong.\n\nGold is up for grabs in the women's sitting volleyball (02:00) with reigning champions the United States facing China, the beaten finalists in Rio.", "The baby's mother, who is in London, says she is lost without her daughter\n\nThe parents of a seven-month-old baby who is stranded in Kabul without them say they are losing hope that they will be able to get her to the UK.\n\nThey say a five month delay in receiving their baby's British passport means their daughter is stuck in Afghanistan with grandparents.\n\nThe mother and British father say they had no choice but to return to the UK in May to retain the mother's UK visa.\n\nThe government said it would do all it could to help British nationals.\n\nThe baby's mother, an Afghan national, travelled to Afghanistan in September last year to see family.\n\nShe says she lost her UK ID card during her trip, and because of this, she was unable to return to the UK before her baby was born. Her partner joined her in December, and their daughter was born in Kabul in January.\n\nThe mother, who the BBC is not naming to protect her identity, was later issued a single-entry visa, which gave her 30 days to return to the UK to apply for a replacement permit.\n\nThe family say they had no choice but to leave their baby behind because of the limited window in which to travel back and renew the visa. They were also told the baby could not travel without a passport.\n\nThe mother speaks little English and needed the father to return to the UK with her to gain her replacement documents.\n\nThey hoped to return to Afghanistan as soon as the document was issued but events took over.\n\nAlthough the parents received their baby's passport on Wednesday, there are now no commercial flights operating into and out of Kabul.\n\nThe baby remains in the care of her grandparents.\n\n\"I have been separated from my baby for months I am lost without her by my side and we are losing hope,\" says the baby's mother, who is in London.\n\n\"I beg the government to please help us bring my baby and family back to me.\"\n\nThe speed of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan took the world by surprise\n\nThe baby's father says they applied for the baby's passport in March.\n\n\"We miss her but we cannot do anything. We want to hug her, kiss her,\" he says.\n\n\"She is stuck in Afghanistan because of the passport delay. If the passport took less time, she would have been here with us.\"\n\nBritish forces and embassy staff left Kabul before the baby could be brought to the UK.\n\n\"They said: 'Wait until she gets her passport.' I told them: 'It is going to be too late,'\" the father says, referring to British officials.\n\n\"They said she's not British yet. You have to wait till her passport arrives, then she's British, then we can help you.\"\n\nThere are also concerns for the safety of the baby's grandparents because of the help they have given to UK and US forces since 2001.\n\nThe family has not left their house in Kabul for the past week for fear of reprisals from the Taliban.\n\n\"We helped the UK when they came to our country, we now need help,\" one family member said.\n\n\"We helped as much as we could but now we need help, nobody wants to know.\"\n\nA Home Office statement said the UK will \"continue to do all we can to deliver on our obligation to British nationals and eligible Afghans\".\n\nIt said it did not comment on individual cases, but said \"more must be done to support those at risk\" and it will \"urgently\" look to establish a scheme to provide protection for Afghan citizens most at risk.\n\nMore than 16,000 people have been evacuated by the UK from Afghanistan, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said any British nationals who remain in Afghanistan and want to leave, and those caring for British nationals who are in Afghanistan, should continue to check travel advice and sign up for alerts.\n\n\"We will keep under constant review our means to help these people as the situation evolves,\" a statement said.\n\nIt said the UK has advised against travel to Afghanistan since at least 2001.\n\nIn April 2021 the UK advised British nationals there to consider leaving and on 6 August 2021 urged all those still there to leave immediately.", "The Wetherspoons chain has said some of its pubs have run out of some beer brands because of supply chain issues.\n\nThe group said Heineken, Carling and Coors were among the brands affected.\n\nHeineken and brewer Molson Coors said that like many in the industry, they had been hit by a shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nMeanwhile, a Coca-Cola bottling giant also said Diet Coke was unavailable in some supermarkets owing to the driver shortage.\n\nThe UK is facing a shortage of lorry drivers that hauliers have blamed on Covid and Brexit, and have called for immigration rules to be changed to allow EU drivers to return.\n\nBut the government has consistently said that the haulage industry and retailers need to be training new UK drivers.\n\nThe logistical problems have led to empty shelves at some supermarkets, while the retail industry has flagged concerns about Christmas supplies.\n\nFast-food chains have also been hit, with Nando's running short of chicken and McDonald's having to stop serving milkshakes.\n\nThere are also shortages of Diet Coke in some supermarkets due to the lack of HGV drivers, as well as problems sourcing aluminium cans, bottling giant Coca Cola Europacific Partners said.\n\nIt said its supply chain was working \"flat out\" to meet demand.\n\nWetherspoons also said on Wednesday that some of its pubs had seen some supply shortages.\n\nThe pub chain said there had been problems with Heineken and Molson Coors deliveries.\n\n\"We are experiencing some supply problems with both Carling and Coors, which means that some pubs do not have the products available,\" a Wetherspoons spokesman said.\n\n\"We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused. We know that the brewers are trying to resolve the issue.\"\n\nMolson Coors, which owns Carling and Coors, said: \"Like many in our great British brewing and pub sector, we have been hit by the HGV driver shortage.\n\n\"While overall our availability is good, there are intermittent pockets of pressure in our supply network that are unfortunately affecting a number of Wetherspoons pubs.\n\n\"After such a difficult period for our industry, it's heart breaking to be letting any customer down and we will continue to do everything in our power to get our much-loved brands back on every Wetherspoons bar,\" it said.\n\nWetherspoons said its problems had been caused by planned industrial action by Heineken drivers working for GXO Logistics. The Unite union said no industrial action had taken place.\n\nHeineken said: \"We're working tirelessly to find solutions to delivery issues caused by considerable disruption in the haulage and logistics market.\n\n\"Pubs won't run dry - if your favourite pint isn't immediately available, there will be a tasty alternative to try.\"\n\nThe logistics industry has said that driver shortages across the UK are due to a combination of Covid and Brexit.\n\nOn Wednesday Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin, a prominent supporter of Brexit, was taken to task by some critics on Twitter.\n\nSinger Billy Bragg wrote: \"Here's a lament for Tim Martin, whose Wetherspoons chain is struggling with the realities of the Brexit for which he campaigned so loudly.\"\n\nTwitter user Pearl Noir wrote: \"So how's Brexit working out for you so far Tim?\"\n\nThe UK is short of about 100,000 drivers, according to the Road Haulage Association, with new recruits to the industry facing problems getting driving tests due a Covid-related backlog.\n\nIn addition, when the pandemic struck last year, many European drivers went home, with few returning, according to hauliers.\n\nNow the UK has left the EU, it is no longer part of the single market, so it is easier for European drivers to find work in the EU.\n\nForeign drivers also now need visas and the Home Office is not keen on allowing lorry drivers on to a list of shortage occupations.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng this week rejected calls to loosen immigration rules, saying it would be a \"short-term temporary solution\" and that firms should employ UK workers, especially those facing an \"uncertain future\" when the furlough scheme ends next month.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We're working closely with industry to address sector challenges, which are similarly being faced by other countries around the world.\n\n\"This includes plans to streamline the process for new drivers to gain their HGV licence and to increase the number of driving tests able to be conducted.\n\n\"We want to see employers make long-term investments in the UK domestic workforce and make employment more attractive through offering training, careers options and wage increases.\"\n\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that retailers were doing all they could to avoid any possible disruption to supplies before Christmas.\n\n\"Government must address the HGV driver shortage by rapidly increasing the number of HGV driving tests taking place, providing visas for EU drivers, and looking for a longer-term solution,\" said Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the BRC.", "Declan Donnelly's black Range Rover was one of those targeted by the men\n\nFour men have admitted a plot to steal a number of luxury cars, including one that belonged to TV presenter Declan Donnelly.\n\nThe group were accused of targeting about £750,000 worth of high-value vehicles between January and July.\n\nEllis Glynne, 29, Connor Murray, 21, Perry Ogle, 23, and Vinothkumar Ratnam, 37, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal the cars.\n\nFour other men appeared at Kingston Crown Court charged over the plot.\n\nMr Donnelly's black Range Rover was one of those targeted by the thieves.\n\nThe court previously heard police had been called to the presenter's west London home in the early hours of 6 April but the alleged thieves fled empty-handed before officers arrived.\n\nThe I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here presenter, his wife, and their daughter were reportedly asleep at the time of the attempted break-in and were unaware until they were later told by police.\n\nDeclan Donnelly and his wife Ali Astall were unaware their car had been targeted, the court heard\n\nIn total, 12 men have been charged with various offences relating to several alleged planned burglaries.\n\nGlynne and Ratnam, both from Surrey, and Murray and Ogle, both from Hounslow, west London, all admitted conspiracy to steal the vehicles.\n\nAlfie Chandler, 18, from Hounslow, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to steal the vehicles, while Tommy Hutchinson, 18, from Feltham, who is also charged with conspiracy to steal the vehicles, did not enter a plea.\n\nRyan Crafts, from Wokingham, Berkshire, and Charlie Kavanagh, from Ashford, Surrey, previously entered not guilty pleas at a hearing in August.\n\nGlynne, Murray and a third man, Robert Green, 41, from Addlestone, Surrey, face a separate count of conspiracy to burgle over an attempted theft from an ATM at a convenience store in Brentford between 25 January and 7 February last year.\n\nAll three of them deny the charges.\n\nGlynne, Murray and Ogle also pleaded guilty to a second count of conspiracy to burgle, over an alleged plot to steal 11 electric bikes from Velospeed, in Thatcham, Berkshire, between 14 June and 17 June this year.\n\nAlfie Chandler and another man, Jack Foley, 24, from Surrey, have denied being part of that plot.\n\nTyler Smallworth, 20, from Hounslow, was further charged with theft of a van but previously denied the charge.\n\nEdward Atkins, 34, also from Feltham, is due to be arraigned at a later date.\n\nGlynne and Murray have been in custody while the other defendants were released on bail ahead of a further hearing on 15 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools are not \"drivers\" or \"hubs\" of Covid infection, Public Health England's medical director has said.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle said she understood parents' nervousness about schools returning after the summer in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nShe stressed that lots of measures to cut Covid spread remained in place.\n\nBut Prof Calum Semple, a government scientific adviser, said with most adults vaccinated, schools were likely to be a \"greater part of the problem\".\n\nSome have suggested a surge in cases in Scotland, where pupils returned in August, could be linked to schools.\n\nFewer measures are in place in schools than during last term, with bubbles and masks no longer in use in England and Wales, while Northern Ireland has also scrapped social distancing requirements.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast it was right for children to have a \"much more normal education experience\", with adults being able to go back to the pub, music festivals and theatres.\n\nHe said there needed to be a \"sensible balance\" and that was why mass testing of secondary school pupils was taking place.\n\nDr Doyle said there were lots of regimes in place already to prevent the spread, including extra cleaning, advice on ventilation and testing.\n\nShe said: \"We understand, and I understand fully, that parents may be nervous but I would stress again that schools are not the drivers and not the hubs of infection.\"\n\nShe added that PHE attributed some of the school-related coronavirus figures to the testing regime.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says pupils deserve to have a normal education experience\n\nProf Semple, professor of child health and outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool, said he believed schools should stay open \"nearly at all costs\" because the damage caused by a lack of education could be lifelong.\n\nHe said while pupils were unlikely to get sick themselves they could transmit the disease to others, and that this should be considered when discussing vaccines for 12 to 15-year-olds.\n\nA paper, published by the Royal Society, suggests the reopening of schools, and particularly secondary schools, is associated with an increased risk of transmission both among school-aged pupils and in the wider community. But it said the scale of that increase depended on control measures in the classroom and community as well as compliance with mass testing.\n\nProf Semple said his biggest worry was closing schools again because education was very important but he said school building stock was poor, with ventilation an issue.\n\nBoth experts agreed that school is the best place for children.\n\nBut vaccinating everyone else means that they'll look more like \"hubs\" than they did last year.\n\nIf your problems get smaller and mine stay the same, I start to look worse than you.\n\nLast September, older teenagers and younger adults saw the fastest rises in infections and cases in England.\n\nThis year, they'll be able to get vaccinated. Their place as \"leaders\" in infection rates and rises is likely to be taken by children because everyone else will have the vaccine to slow the spread.\n\nThe decision about vaccination for under-16s is finely balanced because the risks of illness for children from Covid are so low.\n\nParents have to balance the risks of Covid with the risks of disruption to education. Health experts currently appear more worried about missing education.\n\nScientists have already said it is \"highly likely\" that high levels of coronavirus will be seen in schools by the end of September.\n\nAnd there could be consequences for parents and carers, they say - but it remains to be seen what effect it will have on cases and hospital admissions.\n\nImperial College epidemiologist Prof Neil Ferguson said the UK could expect cases to surge in step with what has happened in Scotland when schools return but the big unknown was how long that surge would last.\n\nHe said that in a post-vaccine world the country could cope with much higher levels of cases and what ministers might consider an \"acceptable level of hospitalisation\" but he said that daily caseloads of 100,000 to 150,000 would put \"significant demands on the healthcare system\".\n\nIn Scotland more than 32,000 pupils have been off school due to Covid-19 as of Tuesday - with 6,471 having the virus, up from 3,500 the week before, while a further 25,622 were isolating.\n\nAmong the measures being implemented for safety in schools in England are carbon dioxide monitors to help improve ventilation, with 300,000 being made available, but when asked on BBC Breakfast Mr Williamson was unable to say how many were already in place.\n\nWhile CO2 monitors do not affect the transmission risk in schools, they can help to indicate how well ventilated a classroom is.\n\nHumans breathe out a higher concentration of carbon dioxide than is present in the atmosphere, so the monitors help to detect how much of the surrounding air has been breathed out, and how much is fresh air from outside.\n\nAsked about vaccinations for 12 to 15-year-olds the education secretary said parents would find it \"deeply reassuring to have a choice of whether their children should have a vaccination or not\" and that he was \"very keen\" to hear the decision from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nHe said that government was \"ready to go\" if it did decide to extend the eligibility to children that age.\n\nProf Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the JCVI, said there were many arguments for and against vaccinating the age group but said whatever decision the committee reached would be in children's best interests.\n\nProf Semple, who sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said it was a \"really difficult judgement\" with a fine balancing act between a \"rare side effect\", in myocarditis, and the low risk from Covid to children themselves and the impact of transmission on wider society.", "Coverage: Follow on Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website\n\nSarah Storey won her 17th Paralympic gold to become Great Britain's most successful Paralympian of all time.\n\nThe 43-year-old defended the women's C4-5 road race title she has held since London 2012 to put her one gold ahead of previous record holder Mike Kenny.\n\nBritain's Crystal Lane-Wright finished seven seconds behind to take silver.\n\nIt was a GB one-two in the men's C1-3 race too, Ben Watson winning his second gold with Fin Graham claiming silver in atrocious conditions in Tokyo.\n• None Sarah Storey 'has carried on being the best she can' - Tanni Grey-Thompson\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed, I feel like it's happening to someone else,\" Storey told Channel 4.\n\n\"I can't really explain or compute anything about the race, but crossing the line first felt so good.\"\n\nStorey's gold was her third of this Paralympics, which is her eighth Games since making her debut in Barcelona in 1992 as a 14-year-old swimmer.\n\nShe won the individual pursuit on the track before claiming time-trial gold to equal Kenny's record.\n\nStorey now has 28 Paralympic medals in total and has not won anything except gold since making her cycling Paralympic debut at Beijing 2008.\n\nIn weather more akin to her home near Manchester, with rain and thick fog making visibility difficult at the start, Storey was in the front pack from the off, alongside Lane-Wright.\n\nThe British pair allowed German Kerstin Brachtendorf to make a breakaway towards the end of the second of the six laps and the 49-year-old clocked a 25-second lead at the checkpoint.\n\nShe extended that advantage to more than a minute at the halfway stage, with Storey leading the chasing group and Lane-Wright constantly on her wheel.\n\nAs the rain got even heavier they were unable to reel Brachtendorf in, the gap opening up by another 10 seconds after four laps.\n\nBut Lane-Wright hit the front of the chasers with a significant injection of pace and her burst made all the difference as the pack quickly caught up with Brachtendorf to leave five riders in contention for the medals at the end of the penultimate lap.\n\nIt was at this point that the British duo found another gear, Lane-Wright and Storey breaking away to open up a comfortable lead coming into the finish on the Fuji International Speedway circuit.\n\nStorey punched the air in celebration as she crossed the line in two hours, 21 minutes and 51 seconds.\n\nFrance's Marie Patouillet took bronze, almost two minutes after Storey finished, with early pace-setter Brachtendorf fifth.\n\n\"I don't know if it's sunk in. It's something everyone has been talking about since Rio when it became a mathematical possibility with me doing three more events in Tokyo,\" Storey told BBC Radio 5 Live's Paralympic Breakfast.\n\n\"But you can't take anything for granted and although I knew I had the capability to shut down the gap to Kerstin, when your legs don't feel as good as they have done in the time trial and then the individual pursuit, then you think today is not my day.\n\n\"It's one of those situations where I don't know whether it will sink in when I get home, or whether it will be in a few months or even never at all.\n\n\"I just feel immensely proud and also immensely grateful to have so much support and to have such a great team around me and also a great team back at home. They're the ones who are able to make this possible, by putting me on the start line in a position to go for it, so I'm a little bit lost for words in many ways.\"\n\n'There are times when I think, 'what would Sarah do?''\n\nLane-Wright's silver was her third in Tokyo, having finished second to Storey in all three races.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who has five Paralympic medals in total, hinted this would be her last Games and was very aware of the historic nature of the race.\n\n\"I said 'this is your gold medal'. You don't have to worry, I'm not even going to attempt to take it away from you,\" Lane-Wright said.\n\n\"This is part of history now. And I didn't have the legs, she went so hard. It's easy for me to now say I gave it to her, but she won that fair and square.\n\n\"Gold medals aren't the only thing that define it, you also have to look at her as a professional. And even if she'd won silver today, she is still one of the greatest athletes we will ever have.\n\n\"I've piggy-backed on that because I'm in the same category and now on the same podium. There are times when I think, 'what would Sarah do?'. She inspires me that much.\"\n\n'You could see the drive at 14'\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson, who won 11 Paralympic gold medals for Great Britain, speaking to BBC Breakfast\n\nSarah is incredible. She's very humble, very laid-back about her performances. Cycling, and sport, is her life and it's her family's life.\n\nShe's one of those athletes who is dedicated, trains incredibly hard, and has that ability to push to herself.\n\nSome of these races she could win in a different way - a slightly easier way - sometimes, but every time she's on the start line she just gives 100%. It is amazing to watch her give so much of herself.\n\nI first met her when she was 14 in Barcelona, and even at that age, you could see the drive she had.\n\nI tease her slightly that swimming was just her preparation for cycling - it was an amazing base programme for her. If she hadn't had an ear infection, and she hadn't started cross-training on a bike, who knows where her sporting career might have gone?\n\nShe is one of those people who could probably go into any sport, but it's been incredible to watch that journey.\n• None How do you start again when everyone remembers your past?\n• None Watch the deep and dark new thriller from the producers of Line of Duty", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nCoverage: Follow on Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website\n\nJavelin thrower Dan Pembroke set a new Paralympic and European record on a victorious Games debut as Great Britain claimed four more golds on day nine in Tokyo.\n\nPembroke, who has a degenerative sight condition and competed in non-disabled events before switching to Para-sport, threw 69.52m in the F13 final.\n\nSwimmer Bethany Firth and cyclists Sarah Storey and Ben Watson also triumphed as GB stayed ahead of the Russian Paralympic Committee in second place behind China in the medal table.\n\nFirth won her third consecutive S14 100m backstroke Paralympic title with a dominant display.\n\nThe 25-year-old led from start to finish to beat Russian rival Valeriia Shabalina by 0.93 seconds for her sixth gold overall and a fourth medal of these Games.\n\nTeam-mate Jessica-Jane Applegate battled superbly for bronze - her third Tokyo medal.\n\nFirth, from Northern Ireland, had won the title at London 2012 while representing Ireland but switched to represent GB in 2013 and went on to retain her crown in Rio.\n\nHer triumph followed earlier success for Watson, who won his second gold in Tokyo with a brilliant victory over team-mate Fin Graham in the men's C1-3 road race.\n\nOn a day when Storey won an historic 17th gold medal at the Fuji Speedway ahead of team-mate Crystal Lane-Wright, the 32-year-old debutant completed a double having won the time trial on Tuesday.\n\nWheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn followed her T53 100m bronze with silver in the T53 400m while swimmer Reece Dunn claimed his fifth medal of the Games with bronze in the S14 100m backstroke.\n\nBut five-time gold medallist Ellie Simmonds could only finish fifth in the S6 400m freestyle in what is set to be her Paralympic swansong.\n\nAnd discus thrower Dan Greaves dealt with dreadful weather conditions to become the first British track and field athlete to win medals at six consecutive Games.\n\nGreaves, 38, who made his debut at Sydney 2000, won bronze in the F64 event with a best effort of 53.56m in torrential rain.\n• None Storey's record-breaking 17th gold 'feels like an out of body experience'\n• None Tanni Grey-Thompson column: 'The focus and determination I saw in Sarah Storey at 14 is still there'\n\nElsewhere, after failing to qualify for the semi-finals of the women's T11 200m, double Paralympic champion Libby Clegg has announced her retirement from the sport.\n\nThe 31-year-old won T11 100m and 200m gold at Rio 2016, having taken silvers at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. She is still due to compete in the universal relay on Friday.\n\nWheelchair tennis pair Jordanne Whiley and Lucy Shuker are into their first Paralympic final after defeating China's Ziying Wang and Zhenzhen Zhu in the women's doubles semi-finals 6-4 6-2.\n\nThey will face Dutch top seeds Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot for gold.\n\nWhiley had earlier lost 6-4 6-2 to De Groot in the women's singles semi-finals and will play Van Koot for bronze.\n\nGordon Reid failed to retain his men's singles title as he was beaten 6-3 6-2 by top seed and home favourite Shingo Kunieda in the semi-final, while Alfie Hewett lost out to Dutchman Tom Egberink 6-4 7-6 (7-5).\n\nIt means the British pair will play off for bronze on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, Belgian wheelchair tennis player Joachim Gerard, the world number three, was taken to hospital after suddenly feeling faint.\n\nA statement from the Belgian Paralympic Committee said: \"First research is pointing towards a cardiac issue. Gerard will stay in hospital for further observation.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was beaten in the third round of the men's singles and the quarter-final of the men's doubles on Monday.\n\nAs a junior athlete, Pembroke represented Great Britain in javelin at underage level, including at the 2011 World Under-20 Championships in Canada.\n\nHowever, an elbow injury ended his chances of qualifying for the Olympic Games in 2012 and a combination of that and his deteriorating eyesight saw him step away from the sport until 2019.\n\nHe has made the most of his second chance and marked himself down as a Tokyo contender with gold in June's Para-athletics Europeans in Poland.\n\nDespite the wet and slippery conditions in Tokyo, he beat the previous Paralympic record of 65.69m set in Rio but narrowly missed the world record of 71.01m.\n\n\"This is the best day of my life,\" he told Channel 4. \"I knew deep down I could win, I have wanted it for so long. I was quite anxious going into it but the third throw I gave it my all.\"\n\nFirth had a rocky build-up to Tokyo, with an ongoing shoulder injury disrupting her preparations, as well as the Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nShabalina took her 200m freestyle and 200m individual titles earlier in the programme while Firth was part of the victorious 4x100m freestyle relay team.\n\nHowever, she was not going to give up her backstroke title without a fight and after qualifying fastest, made no mistake in the final.\n\n\"This is my favourite event, the one I've been waiting for all week,\" she said.\n\n\"Having won it in London and won it in Rio, I wanted to come here and I wanted to smash this one, too.\n\n\"It's been such an up and down season, I just wanted to come out here and make everyone proud.\"\n\nAt the age of 14, Watson was diagnosed with Guillain Barre syndrome, which left him paralysed for five months and meant he had to learn to walk again.\n\nIt left him with impairment below his knees and although he was always keen on mountain biking, he never realised Para-sport was an option.\n\nFive years ago, he was working as a chartered surveyor and, in his own words, \"a bit fat\" when he attended a British Cycling talent ID day and the journey to gold started.\n\nWatson was in control once he went clear and Graham, who won individual pursuit silver on the track earlier in the Games, broke away from the pack to all but confirm the British one-two.\n\nHe crossed the line one minute and 20 seconds behind Watson with France's Alexandre Leaute taking bronze, almost seven minutes after Watson had won, with the third Briton Jaco van Gass missing out in fifth.\n\n\"Cycling has been a huge life-changer,\" added Watson. \"The illness has been a huge life-changer too but it makes you a stronger person. It helps in a situation like this. You can put it all out.\"\n\nHappy ever after at the athletics track\n\nCape Verde sprinter Keula Pereira Semedo and her guide Manuel Vaz da Veiga might have finished last in their heat of the women's T11 200m but there was a silver lining.\n\nVaz da Veiga proposed to his girlfriend and racing partner on the track after the race with the rest of the field around them - a moment he had been planning since Pereira Semedo was selected for the Games in July.\n\n\"I thought this was the best occasion and the best place to do it,\" he said. \"An athletics track is her second home. She has been competing since 2005.\n\n\"We have been together in a relationship for 11 years, so I thought it was about time to come up with a proposal. So why not do it?\"\n\nLuckily for him, Pereira Semedo, 32, said yes.\n\n\"With the proposal there's just too many emotions going on right now,\" she said. \"I don't have words to explain how I feel. I am sure our parents will go crazy. They will like it.\n\n\"These were my first Paralympic Games and with my age and speed I was actually thinking about stopping afterwards but now I have an additional motivation to carry on after the Games, always with him by my side.\"\n\nOn another busy day in Tokyo, Swiss wheelchair racer Marcel Hug won his third race out of three with victory in the T54 800m to follow up his success over 1500 and 5,000m.\n\nIt came after his team-mates and fellow wheelchair racers Catherine Debrunner (T53 400m) and Manuela Schaer (T54 400m) triumphed earlier.\n\nAustralian long jumper Vanessa Low set a new world record to beat Italian rival Martina Caironi in the T63 long jump. Low won gold in the event in Rio while representing Germany but switched nationalities after her marriage to Australian Para-sprinter Scott Reardon.\n\nAnd swimmer Jessica Long won her 28th career Paralympic medal when she helped the US to gold in the 4x100m medley relay.\n• None How do you start again when everyone remembers your past?\n• None Watch the deep and dark new thriller from the producers of Line of Duty", "The mural has divided public opinion in the town\n\nA mural designed as a tribute to shop staff who worked through the pandemic has been criticised because it \"screams welcome to our white town\".\n\nDriffield Town Council said the artwork depicted well-known personalities who worked at independent businesses.\n\nHowever, some residents took to social media to point out it failed to represent anyone with disabilities or from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nThe council said the temporary work was \"an attempt to boost the town\".\n\nThe temporary Wall of Fame in Middle Street North features local shopkeepers, restaurant owners and other personalities and has been placed on a fence to screen the site of a new care home.\n\nThe town's mayor, Matt Rogers, said it was hoped it would \"attract more visitors and shoppers\" while the building work took place, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nWriting on the council's Facebook page, Kerrie Woodhouse-Dove, said although she liked the idea it could have been \"a little more inclusive\".\n\n\"It just screams welcome to our white town, obviously being a minority is even more reinforced by this which is a shame really,\" she wrote.\n\nThe mural depicts prominent business owners in the town\n\nCassie Entwistle said: \"Oooh what a very white town. You got no people of colour there?\"\n\nAnother, Laura Geary, commented: \"So there's not a single person of colour personality in your town you'd like to recognise?\n\n\"Driffield looks like such a diverse, welcoming place.\"\n\nOthers asked why prominent BAME people brought up in the area, such as professional footballer-turned-boxer Curtis Woodhouse, were not included.\n\nDriffield's Curtis Woodhouse was awarded an MBE for services to football and boxing\n\n\"He does so much for the kids in the community, yet he's not worthy of being on your 'Wall of Fame',\" Sarah Wilkinson wrote.\n\nThe mural has attracted praise from some.\n\nSarah Fawcett said: \"Love how you have brought together the familiar faces of Driffield businesses and made something like this, think it is really thoughtful and personal to our town.\"\n\nShe hoped it would become a \"permanent fixture\".\n\nJulia Ringrose commented: \"Looks great and was being much admired as I walked past.\"\n\nThe town council said the panel depicted images of \"well-known personalities\" who work in or own shops in the town centre and was intended as a tribute to those businesses \"which had been been ravaged by the pandemic\".\n\nIt said it hoped it would attract people to the area and encourage them to patronise local independent businesses.\n\n\"This mural is an attempt to boost the town not to cause negative publicity,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send vid\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland condemned as \"completely unacceptable\" the racist abuse directed towards their players during Thursday's 4-0 win over Hungary in a World Cup qualifier in Budapest.\n\nManchester City forward Raheem Sterling and Borussia Dortmund midfielder Jude Bellingham were both targeted.\n\nUefa ordered Hungary to play three home games behind closed doors after fans' discriminatory behaviour at Euro 2020.\n\nCharges related to racism and other discriminatory conduct.\n\nBut home supporters were allowed in to the 67,000-capacity Puskas Arena in Budapest against England as this match falls under Fifa jurisdiction.\n\nThe tone was set at kick-off when England's players were booed loudly as they took a knee to protest against racism.\n\nHungary's players and their head coach Marco Rossi had asked supporters to respect England's gesture before the match but the message went unheeded.\n\nThe first half was otherwise uneventful on and off the field - but in the second half, Sterling was pelted with paper cups and bottles when he opened the scoring for England, while a flare was thrown on to the pitch after Harry Maguire put the visitors 3-0 ahead.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate had ice thrown at him by fans during his post-match interview with BBC Radio 5 Live. He said: \"I've heard reports of racism, which I hadn't heard during the game.\n\n\"Everyone knows what we stand for as a team, and that's completely unacceptable. It has been reported. Our head of security has spoken to the players and taken their statement. We will deal with it in the right channels.\n\n\"I believe that people have been filmed and we have to hope it's dealt with the right way.\n\n\"The world is modernising and although some people are stuck in their ways of thinking and their prejudices, they're going to be the dinosaurs in the end because the world is changing.\"\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane, one of the scorers in a dominant 4-0 win, said: \"I'll talk to the boys. We'll have to report it. If it's the case, then hopefully the authorities can come down strong.\"\n\nThe Football Association said in a statement: \"It is extremely disappointing to hear reports of discriminatory actions towards some of our England players.\n\n\"We will be asking Fifa to investigate the matter. We continue to support the players and staff in our collective determination to highlight and tackle discrimination in all its forms.\"\n\n'Grace and integrity' in the face of racism\n\nThis is the latest example of an England qualifier being affected by racism, following two incidents during matches en route to Euro 2020.\n\nIn October 2019, the Three Lions' game in Bulgaria was halted twice because of racist behaviour from fans. The previous March, racist chanting was directed at several England players during their match in Montenegro.\n\nTony Burnett, chief executive of Kick It Out, urged Fifa to investigate events in Budapest as a matter of urgency.\n\n\"Kick It Out was appalled to see the actions of some Hungary fans,\" he said.\n\n\"We stand proudly in support of the England players and staff, who once again acted with strength, grace and integrity in the face of racism that has no place in our game or our society.\n\n\"This is not the first incident like this in Hungary, so we urge Fifa to investigate this matter urgently.\n\n\"Those responsible need to be held to account and steps need to be taken to ensure scenes like this are not repeated.\"\n\nEngland's players, led by Sterling and manager Southgate, have become vocal figures in the fight against racism in football in recent seasons.\n\nAnd although most said afterwards they did not hear it during the game, they were quick to condemn the racism that eyewitnesses in the stadium reported to them.\n\nDefender John Stones, who won his 50th cap in Budapest, said: \"It is so sad to think that this happens at our games and I hope whoever needs to take care of it does and I'm sure they will.\n\n\"We stand together as a team and we will continue fighting for what we believe in as a team and what we believe is right.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter after the match, Manchester City midfielder Jack Grealish said: \"Brilliant win in an unacceptable atmosphere. Well done, though, boys.\"\n\nThere was a wall of noise as England players took a knee.\n\nLed largely by the ultras behind the goal, the fans booed throughout that moment, even though there were calls on them from the manager, players and leaders in the country not to overstep the mark.\n\nFor all the celebrations from England's performance, the disappointing side is that that then turned to racist chants from the ultras in the stand behind the goal that England were attacking.\n\nI definitely heard one aimed towards Jude Bellingham, when he was warming up. Raheem Sterling was also targeted after Harry Kane's goal.\n\nAfter the full-time whistle, the ultras were jumping and the Hungarian players were in the 18-yard box applauding them.\n\nAll week the manager was telling the fans to behave themselves - we know what happened at Euro 2020 and they got sanctioned. What I don't understand is that the players would have heard the noises and they are walking around and applauding? They spent at least five minutes taking the love and support they got from the ultras.\n\nNot very nice scenes towards the end.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Covid testing is the main precaution against disease spreading in schools\n\nPupils are returning to school in England amid warnings of a lack of funding needed for pupils to catch up on learning lost because of Covid.\n\nIn a letter to the government, school leaders say at least £5.8bn is needed to avert \"serious long-term damage\".\n\nAnd the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) says by next year, spending per pupil will still be about 1-2% lower in real terms than in 2009-10.\n\nThe government says it has invested billions of pounds to support pupils.\n\nThe letter, sent by the heads of leading academy chains and head teachers, says children are months behind academically and facing mental-health crises.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was looking at what more could be done to boost the attainment of children.\n\n\"I'm working with the chancellor and the prime minister, because we all have an absolute priority in terms of delivering for our children,\" he said.\n\n\"We've seen £3bn extra come into schools.\"\n\nThe IFS funding report analyses the impact of the extra £7bn invested in education in England over three years from 2019 on budgets which were already 9% down on 2009 levels.\n\nThe independent analysis says this government investment over three years from 2019 has filled, and will continue to fill, much of the budget black hole, but not all of it. This leaves per pupil funding down on 2009.\n\nIt also finds that because of recent changes to school funding calculations nationally, secondary schools in more deprived areas lost more like 14% compared to the national average of 9%.\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said the government is providing the biggest uplift to school funding in a decade - £14 billion in total over the three years to 2022-23.\n\nBut the National Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said there was no escaping the fact that the schools have had, and will continue to have, to make cuts to provision until this is properly addressed.\n\nAt the start of the new term, schools in England will be able to access funds to use a national tutoring scheme or use their own teachers to offer pupils support.\n\nThe government hopes its tutoring programme will support up to six million pupils over the next three years.\n\nMr Williamson said he expected a greater sense of normality in schools this term thanks to vaccination programme.\n\n\"That extra protection helps us find that sensible balance between protecting staff and students and ensuring education is not disrupted,\" he said.\n\n\"Keeping children in the classroom helps them catch up.\"\n\nBut Labour is highlighting how UK schools under tighter restrictions have seen more disruption linked to Covid than all but one of their European counterparts.\n\nIt quotes House of Commons Library research showing a 44% disruption rate in the UK between January 2020 and July 2021.\n\nOnly Italy had a higher rate at 48%, the figures based on data from the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker said.\n\nDespite plans for regular Covid testing of staff and pupils this term, there are concerns among head teachers, school staff and scientists about high rates of virus in a largely unvaccinated population.\n\nScientists have warned that the increased mixing related to reopening schools, combined with reduced health and safety rules, could lead to a rapid raise in cases throughout September.\n\nIt is unclear how this might play out in terms of further disruption to education, with anyone testing positive still required to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe government insists its decision to lift restrictions maintains the balance between precautions, and allowing schools and young people to get back to normal.\n\nThis includes the ending of social distancing, bubble groups and face mask requirements, although twice-weekly Covid testing remains.\n\nThe requirement for close contacts of Covid cases to self-isolate, which saw millions of school days lost by pupils, has also been lifted.", "Unity encountered unexpected winds as it soared 86km (53 miles) above New Mexico\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Virgin Galactic missions as it investigates how Sir Richard Branson's recent space flight drifted off course during its climb skyward.\n\nThe British billionaire fulfilled a lifetime ambition on 11 July by riding his rocket plane to 86km in altitude.\n\nBut the New Yorker magazine has revealed how the vehicle flew for a period outside its pre-agreed airspace.\n\nSir Richard's company has disputed the New Yorker's description of events.\n\nThe rocket plane, known as Unity or SpaceShipTwo, which carried Sir Richard aloft, landed safely.\n\nIn a short statement, the FAA said it was overseeing the investigation of the \"July 11 SpaceShipTwo mishap that occurred over Spaceport America, New Mexico.\n\n\"Virgin Galactic may not return the SpaceShipTwo vehicle to flight until the FAA approves the final mishap investigation report or determines the issues related to the mishap do not affect public safety,\" it added.\n\nIn response to the FAA announcement, Virgin Galactic told the BBC it was cooperating fully with the aviation administration.\n\nIt took such issues very seriously, it said, and was working to determine how to prevent trajectory deviations from occurring on future missions.\n\nThursday saw the company announce details of the next Unity flight - a research outing for the Italian Air Force.\n\nThis had been scheduled for the end of September or early October, but must now await the results of the FAA probe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Sir Richard Branson's flight to the edge of space (and back)\n\nThe New Yorker article was penned by Nicholas Schmidle, who's written a book about Sir Richard's near two-decade effort to develop a rocket plane capable of taking fare-paying passengers above Earth's atmosphere.\n\nMr Schmidle's magazine story said the pilots on the 11 July flight - with Sir Richard and three other company employees sitting behind them - received cockpit warnings about the off-course trajectory of their rocket-powered ascent.\n\nLeft uncorrected, this shallower than planned climb to altitude could have left Unity unable to reach its landing location on the glide back down to Earth. Mr Schmidle claims company protocols for the cockpit warnings would normally have led to the pilots aborting the ascent, but that they pressed on instead.\n\nVirgin Galactic had earlier on Thursday rejected what it described as \"mischaracterisations\" in the New Yorker's article.\n\nThe company said its pilots had encountered unexpected winds at high altitude and took the necessary actions to complete a safe climb to space and return to Earth.\n\n\"Although the flight's ultimate trajectory deviated from our initial plan, it was a controlled and intentional flight path that allowed Unity to successfully reach space and land safely at our spaceport in New Mexico,\" a company spokesperson told the BBC.\n\n\"At no time were passengers and crew put in any danger as a result of this change in trajectory, and at no time did the ship travel above any population centres or cause a hazard to the public.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said FAA representatives were present in the ground control room during the flight and in the post-flight debriefs.\n\nThe New Yorker magazine told the BBC it stood by its account of what happened on the day.\n\nWhen Unity's next mission will now occur is anyone's guess.\n\nThis is meant to take aloft three Italian nationals - Walter Villadei and Angelo Landolfi from the Italian Air Force; and Pantaleone Carlucci, an Italian national research council engineer.\n\nThe men plan to conduct 13 scientific experiments during the flight, and in particular during those few minutes of weightlessness they'll experience at the top of Unity's climb.\n\nUnder the plan, the Italians are to be supervised in the back of the rocket plane by Virgin Galactic's chief astronaut instructor, Beth Moses. If and when it happens, the flight will be her third to the edge of space.\n\nThe Virgin Galactic pilots up front in the rocket plane are designated to be Michael Masucci and CJ Sturckow. Masucci was also in the cockpit for the 11 July mission, along with the company's chief pilot, David Mackay.\n\nAfter this next mission, Virgin Galactic is expected to enter an extended period of maintenance and upgrades for both Unity and its carrier/launch plane, known as Eve.\n\nIf the schedule is not disrupted by the latest FAA ban, these vehicles are expected to resume space missions by the middle of next year. The company said one further test outing would be conducted before full commercial service began, probably in the second half of 2022.\n\nSome 600 individuals put down deposits a number of years ago to buy seat tickets costing $200,000-250,000. Tickets sales resumed last month with prices from $450,000 (£325,000) per seat.\n\nUnity and its carrier/launch plane, Eve, will undergo extended maintenance", "Jermaine (left) and Kofi Reid (right) pulled Frankie, 7, out of the lake when he fell off a jetty\n\nA mother whose young son fell into a lake has used social media to track down the two men who rescued him.\n\nNatasha Creek and Frankie, 7, were at Caldecotte Lake in Milton Keynes when he fell off a jetty last month.\n\nBrothers Kofi and Jermaine Reid were nearby and pulled him from the water but she said she was too shaken at the time to properly thank them.\n\nShe found the pair after a Facebook appeal and was \"blown away\" to meet them again with the whole family.\n\nThe family arranged to meet the brothers at a local pub after tracking them down using social media\n\nMrs Creek said the incident, on 23 August, happened quickly and her son was not a strong swimmer.\n\n\"I was facing away for just a second and didn't hear him fall into the water as my dogs were making so much noise,\" she said.\n\n\"The two lads were sitting nearby, heard the splash and ran to drag him out. We still have our son because of their quick actions. They saved his life.\"\n\nDetermined to track them down, she wrote a Facebook post with a grainy picture taken just seconds before Frankie fell into the water.\n\nIt was shared more than 400 times in 24 hours and a friend of one of the brothers came forward to put them in touch.\n\nMrs Creek said: \"I am amazed at how quickly this all escalated - so many friends and complete strangers helping to find these two amazing lads.\"\n\nNatasha Creek shared a grainy picture of her son and the then-strangers who rescued him at Caldecotte Lake in Milton Keynes\n\nThe family - Natasha Creek, husband Phil, son Frankie and daughter Arabella - arranged to meet Kofi, 23, and Jermaine, 29, at a local pub.\n\nMrs Creek said: \"We were blown away. They were the nicest guys and so humble about what they did.\"\n\nKofi described the reunion as \"the best thing\".\n\n\"They are such a loving family and it was a pleasure meeting and spending time together,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm just happy me and my brother were at the right place at the right time.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children go back to school this week in parts of Wales, while others return after the weekend\n\nPupils have begun returning to schools for the new term as the Welsh government pledges to watch Covid cases.\n\nSome children go back this week while others return after the weekend.\n\nCovid measures are being based on local risk, but head teachers have asked for more information from government.\n\nOne said schools hoped for \"as much normality as possible\" at the start of a third school year affected by coronavirus.\n\nAt Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Llangynwyd, near Maesteg, Bridgend county, there is a staggered return for pupils.\n\nHead teacher Meurig Jones said everyone just wanted normality.\n\n\"Now that we've seen society go to category zero, and greater freedom and movement, I think that's what schools are hoping for,\" he said.\n\nThe return of pupils has coincided with an increase in Covid rates, especially among the young.\n\nRecord high coronavirus cases in Scotland have partly been blamed on schools returning in mid-August, earlier than elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"I am concerned, looking at what has happened in Scotland with them returning,\" Mr Jones said.\n\nDr Christine Tait-Burkard, an expert in infection and immunity at the University of Edinburgh, told BBC Radio Wales with Claire Summers the vaccination programme meant many people testing positive in Scotland were experiencing milder Covid symptoms.\n\n\"I think people are now aware that these numbers do not directly translate into hospitalisations anymore,\" she said.\n\n\"With vaccination, many people have much milder disease, and do not only not get admitted to hospital, but when they get admitted, they're also spending much less time there, which is good news.\"\n\nBut Prof Adam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said vaccinations were not the solution to school outbreaks.\n\n\"Schools are going back, but I would emphasise that these vaccines are not really terribly good at preventing mild infection and transmission. What they're good at is stopping you from getting seriously ill and that is something that is very unusual in healthy children,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think the concept that somehow vaccination can keep schools going and stop outbreaks and is there as a solution to that problem, is not a very strong one I would say.\"\n\nMr Jones said: \"The main goal here is to keep our staff and learners safe, but to make sure they get the education they deserve.\n\n\"There's been enough upheaval over the last year-and-a-half and we want to get back to that normality.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said rising Covid rates were \"in line with expectations\".\n\n\"We will monitor the situation very closely when schools return, but the high rates of vaccination in Wales have weakened the link between the virus and hospitalisations,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBefore the summer holiday, the government said contact groups, or \"bubbles,\" would not be required from September and masks in classrooms would not be routinely recommended.\n\nThey are still needed for secondary pupils on school transport.\n\nHead teacher Meurig Jones hopes to see some return to normality, but still has concerns about Covid\n\nLast week, a Welsh government plan said it should be \"business as usual\" in schools where possible, but added that measures could be escalated or removed according to local factors.\n\n\"The framework isn't clear enough,\" Mr Jones said, echoing criticism from education unions.\n\n\"It gives us some sort of information. I feel it lacks depth of what will be required.\"\n\nThe Welsh government claimed risk in schools was low when the country was at alert level zero.\n\n\"Schools will only need to consider putting additional measures in place if the local risks differ from this national rating,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Local authorities will work with their schools to decide how these measures should be tailored.\"\n\nSecondary pupils have been encouraged to take lateral flow tests before going back, and to stay home if they are positive.\n\nNicola Chan Gizzi, from Abergele, was \"apprehensive\" as her children prepared to go back to classes\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board's public health director, Prof Kelechi Nnoaham, said it was \"imperative\" steps were taken to stop Covid spreading in schools.\n\n\"Once they're back in school, students should continue to take lateral flow tests twice a week to make sure they're not spreading the virus unknowingly,\" he said.\n\n\"Young people's education has been hit hard by this virus, and it's important we keep classrooms open as much as possible.\"\n\nWales' chief medical officer, Frank Atherton, said on Wednesday that 61% of 16 and 17-year-olds had received their first vaccine dose, and those who had not were being urged to.\n\nNicola Chan Gizzi, from Abergele, Conwy county, said she was \"apprehensive\" as her children prepared to go back.\n\nThe mum-of-six wished they were still in class bubbles as a Covid outbreak would then be easier to control.\n\n\"I feel the spread will be increased when the children do go back to school,\" Ms Gizzi said.\n\nUnder-18s no longer have to isolate if they are a close contact of someone who has tested positive.\n\nThis means it is less likely large groups of children will have to stay away from school.\n\nMs Gizzi said: \"In Scotland, for example, numbers have really gone up since children returned to school.\n\n\"We have some elderly, vulnerable members in our family and it's really, really difficult.\n\n\"We try to just meet outside and try to keep each other safe, it is a difficult position.\"\n\nMs Gizzi's daughter, Anna-Beth, had \"mixed feelings\" about returning to Denbighshire's Ysgol Glan Clwyd.\n\n\"Our school had decided to try and get everything back to normal as much as they can,\" the 15-year-old said.", "Parts of Louisiana and Mississippi have been left devastated by Hurricane Ida, which flooded communities, knocked out power lines and littered roads with debris.\n\nSatellite images taken by Maxar on Tuesday show extensive damage along the Gulf Coast and southern Louisiana following the fifth strongest storm to ever hit the US mainland.\n\nCoastal areas have been particularly badly hit, including the small towns of Jean Lafitte, Barataria, and lower Lafitte.\n\nYour device may not be able to access the slider\n\nJean Lafitte Mayor Tim Kerner said the town - 20 miles (32 km) south of New Orleans and outside the city's levee protection system - had suffered \"catastrophic\" flooding. One estimate suggested 90% of homes had suffered serious damage.\n\nThe local police chief said at least 400 people had chosen not to leave ahead of the storm - and dozens needed rescuing from attics and rooftops.\n\nAerial images show whole neighbourhoods submerged. In other areas gardens and roads were littered with debris.\n\nGalliano, on the Gulf Coast, has also been badly affected.\n\nThe hurricane passed through the area, flattening trees and ripping apart smaller buildings.\n\nYour device does not support this visualisation\n\nThe roof of Lady of the Sea Hospital in the town was blown off in Ida's winds.\n\nMany homes and businesses have also been devastated and boats capsized.\n\nHomes in the town of Laplace, to the west of New Orleans, were also flooded.\n\nResidents told of hours of harsh winds and rising water as the storm blew through.\n\nYour device might not be able to access this slider\n\nImages showed streets under water and gardens submerged. Trees and power lines were also brought down.\n\nAcross the region, many continue to be without power, after the winds downed power lines and other infrastructure.\n\nNight-time imagery from Nasa captured the extent of blackouts across the affected area after the storm, with lights knocked out in many places, including New Orleans.\n\nEnergy companies say they are working to restore power, but residents are being warned it could take weeks in some areas.\n\nMuch of New Orleans has been plunged into darkness, with only emergency lighting seen in many areas.\n\nHurricane Ida lingered over southern Louisiana for most of 29 August, bringing rainfall and floods before moving north and east into Mississippi and Alabama the following day.\n\nThe storm arrived in New Orleans 16 years after Hurricane Katrina followed a similar path in 2005, killing 1,800 people.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nScotland's World Cup hopes were dealt a serious blow as they were outclassed by a vibrant Denmark in Copenhagen to slip seven points behind the group leaders.\n\nDaniel Wass jumped above Kieran Tierney to head in an early opener, and Scotland's composure deserted them as they let in another 93 seconds later to go 2-0 down after just 15 minutes.\n\nJoakim Maehle played a flick before running off Billy Gilmour to receive Mikkel Damsgaard's pass and finish through the legs of Craig Gordon as Steve Clarke's side folded.\n\nMercifully, the vastly-superior Danes did not add to their advantage but the result leaves Scotland with a nigh-on impossible task of overhauling them, with top spot guaranteeing a place in Qatar next winter, and second place reaching the play-offs.\n\nScotland have slipped two points behind both Israel and Austria in the race for the runners-up spot, with those two sides meeting in Haifa on Saturday.\n\nAt the same time, Clarke's side are hosting Moldova at Hampden, with a critical trip to Austria to come on Tuesday.\n• None Podcast: 'That was garbage from Scotland'\n• None 'We had a crazy five minutes' - reaction\n\nWith only 16 outfield players available due to injury and Covid-19 call-offs, Clarke was still able to name a strong XI, although captain Andy Robertson was chosen to play right wing-back in the absence of Nathan Patterson and Stephen O'Donnell.\n\nBut Scotland were dominated from kick-off and, though Denmark were impressive, the individual errors from the visitors gave them an unnecessary leg up.\n\nTwice Denmark delivered balls from the left corner of the box towards Wass at the back post, but Scotland failed to heed the warnings as Tierney was left floundering when the Valencia wide man met Pierre Emile-Hjobjerg's cross and planted the ball into the bottom corner.\n\nThen, when calm heads were needed, Scotland folded. Andreas Skov Olsen drove down the right and played a one-two with Yousuf Poulsen on the edge of the box.\n\nScotland had eight players back, but two men went to Maehle and, when he offloaded the ball, Gilmour failed to follow him and he finished brilliantly after receiving the return pass.\n\nIt was a shambolic opening 15 minutes and despite an improved second half, a comeback never looked likely, although if Kasper Schmeichel had not produced a world-class save from Ryan Fraser then a sharper Scotland may have given their hosts an uncomfortable final 10 minutes.\n\nKasper Hjulmand's side illustrated exactly why they are one of Europe's top teams, buoyed by a run to the Euro 2020 semi-finals this summer in the face of adversity after Christian Eriksen's cardiac arrest.\n\nThey have stormed Group F so far, scoring 16 goals and conceding none, and they could have had more at the Parken Stadium.\n\nMaehle fired over not long after scoring, Gordon denied Poulsen when he was left unmarked at a set-piece, and the Scotland goalkeeper also had to save Thomas Delaney's rasping shot after he was given time to set himself on the edge of the box.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nPutting square pegs in round holes does not work. Without a recognised right-back, Clarke opted to play Robertson on his unfamiliar flank, and it backfired. The defence were all over the place under pressure from a strong Denmark team, and switching the Liverpool player back onto the left helped after the break.\n\nThe bigger picture, though, is that Scotland are regularly too passive without the ball. Czech Republic, and Croatia were given far too much time and space on the ball in the Euros, and it was the same in Copenhagen.\n\nLinked to that is the lingering doubt about whether the 3-5-2 formation gets the best from Scotland's technical midfielders, or Tierney and Robertson, the most accomplished parts of the team. Goals are a continued problem, and even the once reliable defence is conceding regularly.\n\nSix points from the next two games looks like a necessity for Scotland to have any chance of a play-off berth.\n• None None of the 17 meetings between Denmark and Scotland have finished level, with Denmark now winning seven.\n• None Scotland have lost three of their last four competitive games (D1) - more than they had in their previous 14 combined (W7 D5 L2).\n• None Denmark are now unbeaten in their last 21 Euro and World Cup qualifiers (W14 D7), since a 1-0 loss to Montenegro in October 2016.\n• None There was just 93 seconds between Wass opening the scoring, and Maehle doubling Denmark's lead.\n• None Mikkel Damsgaard has been involved in nine goals in his nine caps, scoring four and assisting five.\n\nScotland are at home to Moldova on Saturday (19:45 BST), and then travel to Austria on Tuesday (19:45) in a crucial tie. Denmark are away to the Faroes Island and then at home to Israel.\n• None Attempt missed. Joachim Andersen (Denmark) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Denmark) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jonas Wind.\n• None Attempt missed. Kenny McLean (Scotland) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Ryan Fraser (Scotland) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lyndon Dykes. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How did a humble arcade machine become a multi-billion pound industry?\n• None Find out how you can get your money back for a rescheduled show", "Kelechi Nnoaham says rising case rates are still concerning, despite vaccinations cutting admissions\n\nIf Covid rates keep rising, it could be a \"very difficult autumn and winter\" for the Welsh NHS, a doctor has warned.\n\nKelechi Nnoaham, director of public health at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, said everything must be done to \"bend that trajectory\".\n\nHe said although hospital admissions were lower due to vaccinations, the current trend in cases was worrying.\n\nEven so, on Wednesday, there were 67 Covid patients in its hospitals - the highest since mid-February.\n\nOn Thursday, it also said three wards at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant had been temporarily closed to visitors because of rising cases.\n\nThe health board covers Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, with about 451,000 people living in it.\n\nHywel Dda health board, which covers Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, has taken some temporary measures to help it deal with \"an extremely challenging, ongoing pandemic\".\n\nThese include temporarily suspending elective orthopaedic surgery at Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli and Withybush General Hospital, Haverfordwest, to provide more bed capacity in non-Covid areas.\n\nAdmissions and visiting to one ward at Glangwili General Hospital, Carmarthen, have also been stopped temporarily to manage a Covid-19 outbreak, with additional precautions being taken at two other wards.\n\nVisiting has been stopped at a ward in Glangwili Hospital to manage a Covid outbreak\n\n\"The rise in cases in Hywel Dda shows that, whilst hospital admissions are not as high as in previous waves, Covid-19 remains a serious risk to our health and our health service,\" said chief executive Steve Moore.\n\nThis comes after a critical care consultant said hospital staff felt \"demoralised\" to see the virus filling wards and intensive care units again.\n\nDr Ami Jones, who works at the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, Torfaen, believes misinformation has led to growing numbers of young, unvaccinated Covid patients in hospitals\n\nAcross Wales, the daily average of patients in hospital either with Covid or recovering from it was 383 on Wednesday, compared to 263 last week.\n\nOf these, 44 people are in critical care or on ventilation - up from 33 - there were about 70 at this point in the second wave.\n\nProf Nnoaham said: \"We recognise that, while the rates of hospital admission have not become very, very high, they are nonetheless increasing.\"\n\nHe said an audit of recently admitted Covid patients showed the majority were over 60, but a higher proportion of younger patients had been admitted with Covid compared with earlier waves.\n\n\"We did a deep dive on about 58 patients in recent days and weeks who have come into hospital as Covid patients, and we understand the profile much better.\n\n\"When you look at the numbers of young people in that cohort and compare it to the proportion of young people in any cohort of admitted patients during the first and second wave, it is higher this time.\n\n\"That is reflective of the fact that if you look at the age group that has the highest rates of infection now in Cwm Taf Morgannwg it is the people between the ages of 10 and 19, where the seven-day accumulative rates of infection are well over 800 cases per 100,000 people now.\"\n\nProf Nnoaham said schools would need to \"de-risk\" ahead of reopening to students, at a time when Covid rates among students were high.\n\n\"Covid is still with us, it is circulating massively in 10 to 19-year-olds - many of whom are going back to school from this week.\"\n\nHe said schools would need to have updated their risk assessments \"and identified where the biggest risks of transmission of Covid may be for students who are returning to school\".\n\nWelsh government guidelines are still that people should continue to take lateral flow tests, even if they do not have symptoms, because one in three patients with Covid are asymptomatic.\n\n\"For the schools, it means basic measures based on your risk assessment - like making sure that there is proper ventilation,\" he said.\n\n\"For some it may mean continued use of face masks in indoor classroom settings, and for some others it may mean just making sure that social distancing is happening as much as possible in places that are ordinarily likely to be crowded.", "A state of emergency has been declared in New York after it was hit by record rainfall and deadly flash floods as a result of Tropical Storm Ida.\n\nVideos showed floodwater pouring into a subway station, as well as passengers on a flooded bus and cars being swept away.\n\nMayor Bill de Blasio said the city was \"enduring an historic weather event\" with \"brutal flooding\" and \"dangerous conditions\" on the roads.\n\nNew Jersey also declared an emergency.", "Services may have to be cut unless NHS England receives an extra £10bn in funding next year, groups representing the health service have warned.\n\nThe NHS Confederation and NHS Providers said the money was needed to cover pandemic-related costs and reduce the backlog in operations and treatments.\n\nThey warned that patients could be put at risk without more funding.\n\nThe government said it had already provided additional money to tackle backlogs.\n\nThe organisations are concerned a three-year government spending review for England, some of which could be announced next week, will fall well short of what the NHS needs.\n\nThe extra £10bn to run day-to-day services would be on top of the £140bn budget already planned.\n\nJust under half would cover extra costs associated with Covid and much of the rest would be allocated to tackling waiting lists for non-urgent operations and mental health.\n\nWaiting lists have hit record levels during the pandemic, with more than 5.45 million people waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England.\n\nBut the NHS Confederation and NHS Providers warned waiting lists could more than double if budgets increased by less than £10bn.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals and other NHS trusts in England, said the government \"must fully recognise the extent, length and cost of the impact of Covid-19 on the NHS\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that when the NHS was given funding \"we deliver in spades\" - pointing to the Covid vaccine rollout as an example - but he warned that without additional cash the waiting list backlog could increase to 13 million people.\n\nThe NHS budget is already increasing. A five-year settlement will see the funding increase by £33bn by 2023-24.\n\nBut, of course, Covid has added to costs in a way that could not have been envisaged when the May government agreed the settlement three years ago.\n\nNHS leaders say the pandemic has led to the sort of pressures that have never been seen in the history of the health service.\n\nThe layouts of hospitals have had to be overhauled, services have had to be moved off site and homed in new buildings, extra infection control procedures have been brought in and the scale of sickness being seen mean extra staff are needed to care for patients.\n\nAt the same time, there is a growing backlog of traditional care, such as hip and knee operations.\n\nSo it means next year instead of the NHS budget growing by £4bn under the existing settlement, NHS leaders want close to an extra £15bn.\n\nAnd that extra money may need to stay in the budget for the following year depending on what is happening with Covid.\n\nMatthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents the healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, said trust leaders were worried that without the extra funding \"they won't be able to provide prompt, high quality, safe care to all who need it\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the two leaders said that \"health outcomes for millions of patients\" in the next three years are dependent on the \"crucial\" spending review decision.\n\n\"Patients genuinely are at peril,\" they added.\n\nA government statement said: \"We are committed to making sure the NHS has everything it needs to continue providing excellent care to the public as we tackle the backlogs that have built up during the pandemic.\n\n\"This year alone we have already provided a further £29bn to support health and care services, including an extra £1bn to tackle the backlog. This is on top of our historic settlement for the NHS in 2018, which will see its budget rise by £33.9bn by 2023-24.\"", "People who do not turn up to reservations they have made at pubs and restaurants are costing the hospitality sector £17.6bn a year, a report says.\n\nData from hospitality technology firm Zonal said one in seven customers have not turned up for a reservation without telling the venue since April.\n\nIt said 18-34-year-olds were the \"worst offenders\" for no-shows, with more than a quarter not honouring bookings.\n\nIndustry group UK Hospitality said no-shows were \"deeply damaging to venues\".\n\nJacob Georgallis, general manager at Toast Bar in Leeds, said punters not turning up and not cancelling bookings had \"massively\" affected the business during times when some coronavirus restrictions remained.\n\n\"We'd be fully booked but then no-shows would happen and you've turned away three or four groups who could have taken the space,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a really gutting feeling for us, and a nightmare for staffing and forecasting.\"\n\nDuring Euro 2020, the bar took pre-orders on food and drinks and did not experience any no-shows, apart from customers unable to attend due to Covid-related reasons.\n\nMr Georgallis said he hoped there was a \"big push\" towards solving the problem and \"finding ways to take money up front\".\n\nThe research, conducted by Zonal and consultancy firm CGA, surveyed 5,000 people nationwide.\n\nA large percentage of respondents said they would fail to turn up for bookings if someone in their party had to cancel the appointment\n\nAlthough younger people were found to be the most likely out of the sample to fail to turn up to bookings, compared to just 1% of those aged 55 and over, younger adults were more frequent bookers and ate out more often.\n\nIn its report, researchers said Londoners were found to be the worst no-show offenders in the UK, with 24% of consumers in the capital admitting to not notifying a venue that they weren't planning to turn up.\n\nThe figure was higher than the national average of 14%. The report said customers in Scotland, the South West and the South East were most likely to honour their reservations, with just 10% failing to show up.\n\nUK Hospitality said the £17.6bn loss from no-shows equated to 13.3% of the sector's £132bn in pre-pandemic revenue.\n\nVicky Liner, marketing director at West Midlands-based Suburban Inns, said no-shows had \"calmed down a little bit\" after the venue started asking patrons to hand over card details and put down deposits when making a booking.\n\n\"Taking deposits wasn't something we really wanted to do, but we've had to - and they're no bad thing if they help to change the culture,\" she said.\n\n\"We still want spontaneity in hospitality and give people the option to just walk in.\"\n\nIn response to the survey findings, Zonal and UK Hospitality have launched a campaign aimed at encouraging people to honour the bookings they make, or at least inform venues if they have to cancel a booking.\n\nUK Hospitality's chief executive Kate Nicholls said no-shows had been a blight on the industry for \"many, many years\". Added to the difficulties businesses were experiencing due to the pandemic, they were \"currently deeply damaging.\"\n\n\"Our pubs, bars and restaurants deserve our support and it's encouraging that this research shows there is a growing realisation among customers of the need to honour their booking or let the venue know they can't make it,\" she said.\n\n\"But it also highlights the fact that no shows still happen far too often, with younger customers particularly responsible, and that really can't go on.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nCristiano Ronaldo broke the world record for goals scored in men's international football as he hit his 110th and 111th goals for Portugal in their dramatic 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe 36-year-old scored two late headers - to break and extend the record - after he had a penalty saved by Gavin Bazunu.\n\nAli Daei, who scored 109 goals for Iran between 1993 and 2006, held the record which Ronaldo equalled with a double against France at Euro 2020.\n\nThe Manchester United forward has also equalled Sergio Ramos' European record for men's caps - with his 180th Portugal appearance.\n\nThe world record - only ratified by Fifa this summer - is the 195 Malaysia caps won by Soh Chin Ann between 1969 and 1984.\n\nRonaldo, who rejoined United from Juventus on deadline day, and Daei are the only two male players to score 90 or more international goals.\n\n\"I'm so happy, not only because I beat the record, but for the special moment that we had,\" he told RTE. \"Two goals at the end of the game. I have to appreciate what the team did, we believed until the end. I'm so glad.\"\n\nThis is the latest landmark to push the argument for the Portuguese to be considered an all-time great.\n\nHe is already the top scorer in club football's top tournament, the European Cup/Champions League, a trophy he has won five times.\n\nThe former Real Madrid forward is also the top scorer in European Championship history (14) and in Euros and World Cups combined (21).\n• None How has Ronaldo game changed in recent years?\n• None Watch Cristiano Ronaldo: Impossible to Ignore on BBC iPlayer now\n\nHow his international goals have come\n\nWhat tournaments have they come in?\n\nAlmost half of Ronaldo's goals have come in the final 30 minutes of games.\n\nHe has netted 33 times in the final 15 minutes - including twice against the Irish - and 22 times between the 61st and 75th minute.\n\nRonaldo has scored 17 times between minutes 16-30 and 16 times between 31-45, with 11 in the opening 15 minutes of the first half and 12 in the opening 15 minutes of the second half.\n\nSome 91 of his goals have been inside the box with 20 from outside. He has scored 14 penalties and nine free-kicks.\n\nLithuania and Sweden - seven each - are the sides he has scored the most against. He had not scored against the Republic of Ireland before Wednesday's game in the Algarve.\n\nThere is no official database for top men's international goalscorers which makes it hard to say exactly who ranks where.\n\nRonaldo is top on 111 and Daei is next on 109, of that there is no doubt.\n\nIran's Daei, who played for Bayern Munich, was said to have broken Hungarian legend Ferenc Puskas' record in 2003 with his 85th international goal. That is the year Ronaldo made his international debut.\n\nCynics could argue that Daei's goals were against easier opposition - with 95 against fellow Asian sides.\n\nHe scored eight against the Maldives and Laos and six against Lebanon.\n\nBut Ronaldo has also benefitted from facing weaker nations including six against Andorra and Luxembourg each.\n\nThe only question is who ranks below them? Mokhtar Dahari of Malaysia - who played in the 1970s and 80s - is credited as being third in some places with 89 goals. A Fifa tweet this summer seemed to confirm that , despite it never being officially validated.\n\nPuskas is definitely next, with 84 goals in 85 caps for Hungary. He was the top-scoring European before Ronaldo.\n\nZambia's Godfrey Chitalu scored 79 goals between the 1960s and 1980s - again not certified but also mentioned on that Fifa tweet.\n\nRonaldo is unlikely to beat the world record, including women's football, of Canada striker Christine Sinclair. She has scored 187 goals in 304 caps and has not yet retired.\n\nRonaldo gets one over on Messi\n\nIn the strange modern-day phenomena of Ronaldo and Lionel Messi fanboys, this is another tick in the Ronaldo column.\n\nRonaldo's 111 goals in 180 games is well clear of Messi's 76 in 151 - roughly 0.6 goals a game compared with 0.5.\n\nMessi - the joint eighth top scorer in the world - is 34 and on current form would need to play into his forties to reach 111 international goals.\n\nThe highlight of Ronaldo's international career was undoubtedly winning Euro 2016, although he went off injured early in the final.\n\nHe has scored in two Euros semi-finals too, 12 years apart - against the Netherlands in 2004 and Wales in 2016.\n\nHis finest hour at a World Cup was a hat-trick against Spain in the group stages three years ago in Russia, including a late free-kick. That is one of his nine international hat-tricks - including one against Switzerland in the 2019 Uefa Nations League semi-finals.\n\nHe has also scored in all nine major tournaments he has played in - World Cups and European Championships. Including the Confederations Cup and Nations League, he has scored in 11 out of 11.\n\nHe won the Golden Boot at Euro 2020 with five goals in four games, beating five-goal Czech Patrik Schick on assists.\n• None How did a humble arcade machine become a multi-billion pound industry?\n• None Find out how you can get your money back for a rescheduled show", "Tess White was elected as an MSP for the first time in May\n\nA Conservative MSP has apologised after suggesting that Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was anti-English.\n\nNorth East Scotland MSP Tess White heckled the first minister while she was answering a question at Holyrood about anti-Irish prejudice.\n\nAmid an angry response from SNP MSPs, Ms Sturgeon complained to the presiding officer that she was \"deeply offended\" by the remark by Ms White.\n\nMs White later apologised and said her comments were \"over the line\".\n\nShe was admonished by Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone, who said that \"members must be in no doubt at all that I expect their conduct at all times will be worthy of that of a member of the Scottish Parliament\".\n\nThe first minister was answering a question from Labour MSP Pauline O'Neill about \"anti-Irish and anti-Catholic prejudice\" in Scotland after arrests were made in the wake of Sunday's Old Firm football match.\n\nMs Sturgeon responded by saying: \"I take the view that anybody who chooses to live in Scotland, whether they or their families have been here for generations or whether they have come to Scotland very recently, this is their home\".\n\nAt this point she was heckled by Ms White, and although the exact words were not picked up by microphones in the parliamentary chamber the newly-elected MSP is reported to have said \"except if you're English\" - or words to that effect - apparently inferring that Ms Sturgeon was anti-English.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"I am deeply aggrieved that any member thought that was an appropriate thing to say.\"\n\nThe first minister told the presiding officer that she was \"deeply offended\" by the comment and wanted Ms White to be \"asked to reflect on that and to withdraw the comment\".\n\nShe added: \"It was a comment that would have been unacceptable in any context, but in the context of what we are discussing right now I am deeply aggrieved that any member thought that was an appropriate thing to say.\"\n\nLater in the afternoon, Ms White - who is herself English and says she has been the subject of anti-English sentiment in the past - raised a point of order to make a formal apology.\n\nShe said: \"My comments during first minister's questions were over the line and I would like to withdraw them and apologise to both the chamber and the first minister.\"\n\nMs Johnstone said \"great offence was caused\" by the remark, and she had Ms White stand in the chamber to confirm that her apology was \"unambiguous\".", "As we have been reporting, pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been returning to schools today.\n\nThe UK government has pledged about 300,000 CO2 monitors to schools in England this term to help detect poor ventilation.\n\nCovid is a respiratory virus, so it is expelled into the air when people breathe and talk.\n\nThis allows very small particles carrying the virus to spread around a room, where they can last a couple of hours.\n\nVentilation cuts the risk of catching the virus by reducing the level of particles in the air that someone is exposed to.\n\nWhile CO2 monitors do not affect transmission risk in schools, they can help to indicate how well ventilated a classroom is.\n\nWe breathe out a higher concentration of carbon dioxide than is present in the atmosphere, so the monitors help to detect how much of the surrounding air has been breathed out, and how much is fresh air from outside.\n\nCatherine Noakes, professor of environmental engineering for buildings at the University of Leeds, and a specialist in airborne infections, says ventilation could reduce airborne risk of coronavirus by up to 70%, although it won’t stop close contact transmission.\n\n“In a classroom, ventilation won’t have much effect on transmission from the person sat next to you, but it will from the person other side of the room,” she says.\n\n“The monitors will help schools to realise which areas are better or poorly ventilated. In some classrooms they will be able to open windows, while others may need different solutions such as putting air cleaners in that room.”\n\nHow are pupils being kept Covid-safe this term?", "Winnie-the-Pooh is one of a few animated characters with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in Los Angeles\n\nYou've probably heard of Poohsticks, now here come the Pooh coins.\n\nForget the stick game made up by Winnie-the-Pooh for a minute (although it is a classic) because the Royal Mint has marked the famous bear's 95th birthday with collectable coins.\n\nMint designers have said the nine commemorative coins are inspired by E H Shepard's original drawings in A A Milne's classic children's book.\n\nThe Winnie-the-Pooh and Friends set will be released later this year.\n\nPooh is well-known for words of wisdom and the Hundred Acre Wood's most famous resident once said \"sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart\".\n\nBut the coins which will bear images of Pooh and friends will take up most room in your moneybox as they will be 50p pieces - available in gold, silver and a special-edition colour.\n\nThe bear first appeared in print in 1926 and follows Peter Rabbit, Harry Potter, Paddington Bear and Alice in Wonderland in being immortalised on UK currency.\n\nThe Royal Mint unveiled its latest coin collection on Thursday and one of the pieces features a group shot of Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger, Kanga and Roo.\n\nThe Winnie the Pooh and Friends collectable coins set will be available later in 2021\n\nThe coins feature an original watercolour effect and were created at The Royal Mint's south Wales headquarters by designer Daniel Thorne who said he wanted to \"stay true to the iconic E H Shepard decorations\".\n\n\"Using inspiration from the original decorations of E H Shepard has been a fantastic experience but one that has also tested me,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The real inspiration for the illustrations of Winnie the Pooh has been revealed\n\n\"With each design, so much care and attention has been given to remastering the iconic decorations for the canvas of a coin while staying true to the texts people know and love.\n\n\"I also wanted to add something extra special for collectors, with the bee motif.\n\nThe Royal Mint designer Daniel Thorne has helped design nine Winnie-the-Pooh and Friends coins\n\n\"Inspired by the original decorations, the buzzy bee from the storybooks features on each of the nine coins in the collection. I hope collectors can appreciate the beauty in each design in the range and enjoy the special colour editions.\"\n\nPooh and friends, now part of the Disney brand, have been family favourites for almost 100 years and the Royal Mint, based in Llantristant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said its design was a \"fitting tribute to the much-loved adventures\".\n\n\"Winnie-the-Pooh is a treasured children's classic which, much like the popular hobby of coin collecting, has been passed down through generations,\" said Clare Maclennan, of the Royal Mint's commemorative coin division.\n\n\"As we celebrate 95 years of Winnie-the-Pooh, the latest design featuring Pooh and friends is a fitting tribute to the much-loved adventures.\n\n\"Fans of Winnie-the-Pooh can enjoy the coins individually, or as part of the nine-coin collection released over three years. We are buzzing with excitement to bring these wonderful characters and memories to life on a collectable 50p coin series.\"", "An intense rain storm has led to severe flooding in Spain.\n\nThousands of homes are without electricity, and roads and rail links have been forced to close.\n\nCoastal towns in the north-eastern region of Catalonia bore the brunt of the storm, as well as parts of central Spain near Madrid.", "People will need vaccine passports to get into nightclubs under new rules\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf says the benefits of vaccine passports for entry to nightclubs and other large events outweigh the concerns and are preferable to another lockdown.\n\nIn July, Mr Yousaf told the BBC he was sceptical about the passports due to fears of increasing the inequality gap.\n\nHowever, he now says circumstances have changed and steps have been taken to resolve the issues.\n\nThe passports are due to be brought in at the end of the month.\n\nThe plans will apply to indoor and outdoor events but will need to be approved by MSPs next week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the move was needed to help stem the recent surge in the number of cases.\n\nLatest figures showed a further 6,107 people had tested positive, with the number of people in hospital doubling in the past 10 days.\n\nAnd several areas of Scotland are among the regions with the highest rates of the virus in Europe.\n\nThe new vaccine certification rules mean people over the age of 18 will need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to:\n\nThe new rules will affect many sporting events in Scotland - particularly football matches - as well as concerts and music festivals.\n\nConcerns have been raised by nightclub owners about the fairness of passports being brought in for some venues and not others, while the SPFL said it had \"a significant number of questions and real concern\" about the plan.\n\nIn July, Mr Yousaf highlighted concerns that the passports \"might increase the inequality gap, and there would be ethical issues\".\n\nAnd after the UK government set out its plans to introduce passports in England, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said he did not believe it was right to exclude people who did not want to be vaccinated.\n\nOnce again we find ourselves at a worrying stage in the pandemic. So why not just bring back restrictions?\n\nFor one thing - vaccines are extremely effective at preventing serious illness, and in Scotland almost 70% of the entire population is now fully jagged. For most of this group, visiting a restaurant, heading out to the shops or meeting up with a group of people should be relatively safe.\n\nThat's why there is no desire to impose blanket restrictions that would also be economically very hard to justify.\n\nBut the alternatives are limited.\n\nOne is to find incentives to encourage younger people to get vaccinated. That's why the government is now pushing for vaccine passports despite it being controversial.\n\nThey also need to step up efforts to target other groups where uptake is low.\n\nReminding people to use rapid lateral flow tests as more people head back into workplaces might help, as well as basic measures like wearing masks and improving ventilation in buildings.\n\nAlso encouraging people to follow the new isolation rules and get tested quickly if they have been in contact with a positive case.\n\nFor now this seems to be the plan as officials continue to scrutinise the data in the hope that this wave of cases is about to plateau.\n\nHowever, on Thursday, Mr Yousaf told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme the problems of people who did not have smartphones being unable to access the QR codes needed had been resolved as, from Friday, paper copies would include the codes.\n\nHe said vaccine passports had never been ruled out.\n\n\"We have put on the table, quite clearly, what some of our concerns are,\" he said. \"But our circumstances have now changed. Cases have increased 80% in the last week. A month ago our test positivity was 5% - it's now over 11%.\"\n\nHe said that limiting the scheme to very specific events and venues was \"a demonstration of the fact that we still have concerns\".\n\nBut he added: \"The benefits of a certification scheme, in terms of a public health intervention, in terms of incentivising vaccination, those benefits outweigh the concerns that still remain.\"\n\nMike Grieve, director of the Night-Time Industries Association Scotland, told the programme the policy was \"incoherent\" and \"inconsistent\" as, for instance, a large pub could let hundreds of people in without the passports but they would be required at a small nightclub next door.\n\nHe said: \"There is zero consistency there. If you look at live music venues - standing capacity up to 500 - no vaccine passport - nightclub 250-300 capacity - vaccine passport. Where is the logic behind that?\"\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"Nightclubs have consistently been deemed high risk venues due to lack of ventilation and largely those attending are amongst the younger cohort where the uptake of the vaccine is lower. We also know that the behaviours exhibited in nightclubs in terms of close contact are high risk.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole Hamilton said the passports were actually \"health ID cards by any other name\".\n\nHe added: \"For the first time in Scottish society, private citizens will be asked to evidence treatment that they've had in order to access venues and services or provide their private medical data to a complete stranger in order to get into a football ground or a nightclub.\n\n\"We believe this is unnecessary. It's not been demonstrated to us how this is a tool of infection control - this feels more like state control.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is keen for more people in the younger age group to get vaccinated\n\nResponding to claims that the passports would mean people were more likely to \"drop their guard\", Mr Yousaf said: \"Even if you are in these settings with both doses of the vaccine, the virus is still there - you can still catch it. It's important that people still exhibit good behaviours and demonstrate caution.\"\n\nHe said the scheme was not being introduced immediately to allow time to gain parliament's approval, to give businesses time to prepare for it and to enable some tweaks to be made to the NHS app so it recognised the QR codes.\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"Ultimately, we are bringing this forward because we don't want to reimpose restrictions but that is always an option we have to consider, particularly if we see the rise in cases we saw last week.\"\n\nHe said early indications were that the rate of increase was beginning to slow down but the government would also \"want to keep an eye on the enormous pressure on the NHS\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Wednesday that although the hospitality industry as a whole would not be included in the certification scheme that decision would be kept under review.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - will be exempt.\n\nSeveral other European countries - including France, Italy and Ireland - have already introduced certification.", "BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey is one of the most famous TV shows to be filmed in Wales\n\nUnprecedented demand for film and TV production in Wales has led to a skills shortage in the industry.\n\nHollywood A-listers Forest Whitaker and Tom Hardy have been among the acting stars in Wales this summer as they have been filming Netflix crime drama Havoc.\n\nBBC fantasy drama His Dark Materials and Disney sci-fi drama War of the Worlds are also being filmed in Wales.\n\nBut Welsh government agency Creative Wales has said there are not enough people to work in behind-camera roles.\n\nIn the past 12 months, 37 television dramas and feature films have received public funding from Creative Wales which has helped a \"growing sector\".\n\nDeputy director Gerwyn Evans said, while the TV and film production industry in Wales was experiencing \"probably one of the busiest times it has ever had\", it needed more off-screen staff to help with productions.\n\n\"We know there are potential shortages in hair and make-up, shortages in production accountants, shortages in people working on the productions as well and shortages in supply chain,\" he said.\n\n\"It's about getting the message out to youngsters and people in Wales that this is a growing sector and there are a lot of opportunities.\n\n\"It doesn't just have to be on camera, it could be hair and make-up, electricians, set design.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by forestwhitaker This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFrom Richard Burton and Sir Anthony Hopkins to Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Sheen, Wales has a history of producing superstar on-screen talent.\n\nNow it has become used to seeing production crews on the streets and countryside, shooting TV dramas such as Doctor Who, The Crown and Sex Education.\n\nMark Wahlberg's film Infinite was shot in Wales, which meant closing part of Cardiff city centre for a stunt, while Wonder Woman was also filmed in Wales a few years ago.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Barry Island Pleasure Park This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nNow, Creative Wales is concerned there is not enough off-screen talent to support the big productions when they get here.\n\nThe organisation has spent £8m supporting screen projects in 2021, including 55 apprenticeships as it is trying to encourage more younger people into the business.\n\n\"The production sector in Wales is extremely busy at the moment - probably one of the busiest times it has ever had, which is fantastic coming out of Covid,\" added Mr Evans.\n\nSince its revival in 2005, the production of Doctor Who has been based in Wales\n\n\"But it does cause us concerns around skills and the demand for skills and the number of youngsters coming through.\"\n\nThe industry has expanded due to the rise in productions wanting to film in Wales but Creative Wales wants the film sector to operate all year-round.\n\nArwen Teagle is working as an apprentice on Disney blockbuster War of the Worlds. The 19-year-old, from Gilfach, in Caerphilly county, is a trainee camera operator at Urban Myth studios in Newport and has worked as an extra.\n\nCamera trainee Arwen Teagle is working on War of the Worlds series three in Newport\n\n\"It's really fun and everyone I work with on set is really nice,\" said Arwen, whose Creative Wales-funded apprenticeship involves setting up monitors, charging batteries and supporting other camera operators.\n\n\"It's just amazing. If I'd told myself I'd be working with Urban Myth on War of the Worlds, I wouldn't have believed myself.\n\n\"I watched the first season when it came out and it was amazing - and now I'm working on season three and it's quite a shock.\"\n\nChey Lewis is a production assistant on Havoc - the film starring Hardy and Oscar-winner Whitaker - written by Welsh director Gareth Evans, which will be streamed on Netflix from 2022.\n\nChey Lewis is working on the upcoming Netflix production Havoc and said her job was \"intense\"\n\n\"A usual day could involve anything the production needs, whether that's ordering equipment for different departments, doing some shopping or booking accommodation for cast and crew members,\" said the 21-year-old from Pontyclun in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\n\"It's definitely intense, and with 12-hour days sometimes, it's still not enough to get everything done. I've learnt a lot of accounting skills, purchase order and admin skills.\"\n\nChey is considering becoming a production coordinator and is being helped by producer Ed Talfan.\n\n\"We've got trainees across the whole project, whether it's in the art department, hair and make-up, costume or the office,\" he said,\n\n\"People tend to follow their nose. They have an idea about what they want to do in their career.\n\n\"We try to make sure they're in the right department for them and then they learn from those teams. Then the next time there's a new project, they're a fully-trained professional.\"\n\nDespite Wales' popularity as a big production destination there has been criticism of a lack of support for smaller, home-grown productions.\n\nFilmmaker Matt Hookings claimed in July he had to shift production of \"Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher\" to Lithuania, blaming a lack of financial backing in Wales.\n\nWales popularity with filmmakers means more people are needed to work behind the scenes\n\nCreative Wales said it was \"unfortunately\" not able to accommodate that production because of time factors.\n\n\"We have invested significantly in productions and it's not just big productions,\" Mr Evans said.\n\n\"We have supported a number of our indigenous, smaller production companies as well. It's about a balanced portfolio.\"", "The highway collapse came after intense rainfall as Hurricane Ida reached the US South\n\nNew Orleans officials have imposed a citywide curfew as large parts of Louisiana and Mississippi remain without power following Hurricane Ida.\n\nMayor LaToya Cantrell said the curfew would last from 20:00 to 06:00 and police said there had been \"several\" incidents of looting in the city.\n\nEnergy companies are working to restore power but residents are being warned it could take weeks in some areas.\n\nMeanwhile water services and infrastructure have also been hit.\n\nTwo people were killed and at least 10 injured after a section of highway collapsed near Lucedale, Mississippi on Monday.\n\nSeveral cars were reported to have fallen into a hole that was 50 to 60ft (15 to 18m) long and 20 to 30ft deep, according to highway police.\n\nLocal authorities believe that some of the drivers may not have been able to see the road properly because of the heavy rains. The highway remains closed.\n\nOver eight inches (20cm) of rain fell in the area during Ida, which reached the US mainland as a Category 4 storm on Sunday.\n\nWhile Ida's speed has slowed, authorities continue to warn of storm surges and heavy rains across the southern US.\n\nBy Tuesday afternoon, Ida was in Tennessee, soaking the area with intense rain and prompting flash flood warnings.\n\nNew Orleans and large parts of the region are without lights and power\n\nLocal officials have urged evacuated residents to delay their return home as more than one million homes and businesses remain without power, including most of New Orleans.\n\nMayor Cantrell said that she was hopeful \"that we should have some level of transmission\" by Wednesday but \"that does not mean we will immediately see all the lights on in the city.\"\n\nFederal officials say that some 441,000 people in 17 parishes across the region have no water, and a similar number may be without power for up to a month.\n\nIt comes as heat advisories have been issued, with some areas expected to reach 95F (35C), according to weather officials say.\n\nLouisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said some 25,000 line workers were working to restore power but admitted: \"There are an awful lot of unknowns right now.\"\n\nMeanwhile Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Bill Nungesser has warned the death toll from Ida will likely rise in the coming days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Wind gusts of up to 172mph and heavy rain pummelled Louisiana\n\nIn addition to the two killed during the highway collapse, at least two other people have been reported dead during the storm.\n\nIn Louisiana, a man died while attempting to drive across a flooded area of New Orleans. Another man died after being struck by a tree near Baton Rouge.\n\n\"Knowing that so many people stayed behind in places like Grande Isle and Lafitte where flood waters have devastated those areas, we expect there will be more people found who have passed,\" Mr Nungesser said.\n\nIda is expected to move next to the US northeast, with rain and threat of floods stretching from the Tennessee to the mid-Atlantic.\n\nWashington, DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia are among the cities now under flash flood watches.\n\nHow has Hurricane Ida affected you? Only if it's safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Students facing a financial shortfall have increasingly turned to cryptocurrency investment to fund life at university, a survey has suggested.\n\nThe proportion of students investing in cryptocurrencies tripled in a year, website Save the Student found.\n\nBut one 22-year-old investor said he had lost money and warned others to do their research before getting involved.\n\nThree-quarters of those surveyed said they had considered dropping out of their studies.\n\nMental health issues and the pandemic were the most likely reasons, but 41% said money was the key issue.\n\n\"With an unstable part-time job market as well as some parents losing earnings due to the pandemic, the usual funding sources for students bridging the finance shortfall have become hard to come by,\" said Jake Butler, from Save the Student.\n\nThe survey found that the typical student faced a shortfall of £340 every month, as maintenance loans failed to cover the average monthly living expenses of £810.\n\nFinancial help from parents, a part-time job and savings are still the most likely ways by far to plug that gap.\n\nSome said they had found other ways to raise money, ranging from overdrafts and selling possessions to gambling and taking part in drugs trials.\n\nInvestment in cryptocurrencies was still niche, with about 6% of students trying it, but their numbers had risen threefold in a year.\n\nDaniel says he should have done more research before investing\n\nOne of those was Daniel Tones, who studied psychology at the University of Warwick.\n\nThe 22-year-old said that income from a role as a student ambassador had been limited during the Covid crisis, but he had managed to bring in some money by making Amazon deliveries.\n\nGroup chats had planted the seed of interest in cryptocurrency investment, he said.\n\n\"I gave it a try,\" he said, \"but very quickly I made a loss.\"\n\nHe said he wished, after talking to economics students about it, that he had learned a lot more before choosing to take the risk. It was very easy to start putting money in, he said, but he ended up losing a few hundred pounds.\n\nOther students say that investing has been more successful for them, but regulators have warned young people to be aware of the risks when using their money in this way.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority has said that young people are investing in high-risk products for the \"challenge, competition and novelty\" involved.\n\nThey were attracted by the \"thrill\" rather than by saving for the future, it said.\n\nIn June, the regulator said that 14% of crypto buyers who were surveyed said they had borrowed to invest, buoyed by reports of big gains - a statistic one analyst described as \"simply terrifying\".\n\nThe FCA runs a campaign to prevent investment harm, using online advertising, advising people to ask:", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nBritish teenager Emma Raducanu delivered another impressive display which belied her youth and inexperience as she swept aside China's Zhang Shuai to reach the US Open third round.\n\nRaducanu won 6-2 6-4 against 32-year-old Zhang, who is ranked 101 places higher than the 18-year-old.\n\nSuperior in every department, Raducanu needed one hour and 21 minutes to win.\n\nNext she will face Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo on Saturday for a place in the fourth round.\n\nFollowing her stunning run to the Wimbledon last 16 as a wildcard, Raducanu is backing up that breakout display in New York.\n\nRaducanu qualified for her first major last week and, unfazed by the magnitude of playing in her first overseas Grand Slam, has continued to create a buzz at Flushing Meadows.\n• None Relive how Raducanu swept aside Zhang to reach US Open third round\n• None Top seed Barty through to third round, along with Kvitova & Swiatek\n• None Zverev drops just four games in one-sided win\n\nA throng of fans packed once again into court 10 to watch why Raducanu has emerged as Britain's brightest young talent and the Kent teenager did not disappoint.\n\nAfter securing victory, Raducanu stayed on court posing for countless selfies with star-struck fans - a gauge of the excitement which is surrounding her.\n\n\"I love it here. I'm extremely grateful for all the support I've been receiving here in the States. Honestly, it's taken me a bit by surprise,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"Of course I really want to connect with the fans because they're doing so much for me, getting me through some really tight moments.\n\n\"Connecting with them, I have so much fun, especially the younger kids. I hope that they can get a little bit inspired.\"\n\nStunning win shows how far Raducanu has come\n\nPlaying aggressively and confidently from the start, Raducanu dominated to such an extent that the scoreline alone did not fully do justice to her superiority.\n\nWith Raducanu leading by a set and a double break, even a glum-looking Zhang was stunned by the quality of her opponent.\n\nEventually the world number 49 - an experienced player who has won more than 500 singles matches - fought back in the second set. By that time it was far too late.\n\nDelving deeper into the match stats helps paint a fuller picture of Raducanu's brilliance.\n\nOn serve, she won 28 of 33 first-serve points as Zhang won just 11 return points.\n\nHer returning game - characterised by clinical timing and precision off both wings - yielded 27 winners and produced just 11 unforced errors as the Briton won 49% of return points.\n\nThere was a slight dip as she closed in on victory, but none of the edginess of her first-round win - where she needed a seventh match point to beat Swiss opponent Stefanie Vogele - in the latter stages.\n\n\"She was definitely going to throw everything at me and wasn't going to let me run away with the match,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"As soon as I dropped off my level, like five per cent, she was all over me and had me running corner to corner.\n\n\"I'm very proud of myself to regroup and come through the match, being resilient is one of my strengths.\"\n\nWhen the pair met in San Jose at the start of August - Raducanu's first match since reaching the Wimbledon last 16, where she retired with breathing difficulties and dizziness - Zhang won in straight sets.\n\nThis display was a measure of how far Raducanu has come since then in terms of execution, confidence and physicality.\n\nAt Wimbledon she was ranked 338th and now, just four events later, is closing in on a place in the world's top 100.\n\n'The ceiling is so high for Raducanu' - analysis\n\nFormer British number one Laura Robson on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra:\n\nEmma Raducanu played a phenomenal match. She was under so much pressure towards the end and handled it well - I can't believe she is 18 years old.\n\nI don't want to be on the hype train but how can you not when she is playing this way?\n\nI haven't seen many bad days from Emma recently and her base level is is right up there with the best players.\n\nThe ceiling is so high for her.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None How do you start again when everyone remembers your past?\n• None Watch the deep and dark new thriller from the producers of Line of Duty", "Animal rescue worker Lorraine Edwards transported dogs and cats from Heathrow Airport to a quarantine centre\n\nA woman who helped process rescued dogs and cats flown from Afghanistan said they were \"in amazing condition\".\n\nSome 150 animals from former Royal Marine Paul \"Pen\" Farthing's shelter in Kabul arrived at Heathrow Airport on a private charter flight on Sunday.\n\nLorraine Edwards transported them to quarantine kennels and expected most to be adopted by former military staff.\n\nShe said they flew in an aircraft's hold and did not occupy any space that could have been used by humans.\n\nMr Farthing, from Dovercourt in Essex, set up the Nowzad animal shelter in the Afghan capital, rescuing dogs, cats and donkeys, after serving in the country in the mid-2000s.\n\nSome 150 animals were flown to the UK from Paul \"Pen\" Farthing's shelter in Kabul\n\nMs Edwards runs a dog rescue centre in Hertford and has helped transport the Nowzad animals to a quarantine site elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"These animals were rescued from the street and offered the precious gift of companionship and comfort to our soldiers,\" she said.\n\n\"Despite the long journey, they are in amazing condition and, after four months of quarantine, they will be given the wonderful new homes they deserve.\"\n\nMr Farthing said he had spent weeks campaigning to transport his employees and animals from Afghanistan, but so far had only managed to get himself and the animals out.\n\nHe said he would not rest until the 68 staff still in Kabul were safe.\n\nOn Saturday, The Times reported it had a recording of him berating a special adviser to Defence Secretary Ben Wallace in which he accused him of \"blocking\" efforts to arrange a private evacuation flight.\n\nHe later apologised for the expletive-laden message and thanked the government for its support.\n\nMr Wallace previously said Mr Farthing's supporters had \"taken up too much time of my senior commanders dealing with this issue when they should be focused on dealing with the humanitarian crisis\".\n\nFormer Royal Marine Pen Farthing set up the Nowzad animal shelter after serving in Afghanistan in the mid-2000s\n\nMs Edwards, who runs a dog rescue centre in Hertford in Hertfordshire, described Mr Farthing as a \"selfless, compassionate man\" who had allowed others to be flown out of the country before himself.\n\nThe final British flight left Afghanistan on Saturday, bringing to an end the UK's 20-year military involvement in the country.\n\nMore than 15,000 people have been evacuated by the UK since 14 August.\n\nMs Edwards said the animals were in \"amazing condition\" despite their long journey\n\nMost of the animals were expected to be adopted by former military personnel\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Taliban fighters in Kabul. Reports say the group is targeting perceived enemies despite promising an amnesty.\n\nSince they took control of Afghanistan just over two weeks ago, the Taliban have sought to portray a more moderate image than when they last seized power in 1996.\n\nThey have repeatedly said they will grant amnesty to all, including those who worked for western militaries or the Afghan government or police. In a dramatic press conference after the group swept into Kabul, chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid made a declaration of forgiveness.\n\nBut there is growing evidence that the reality on ground is different to the rhetoric coming from Taliban leaders and spokesmen. It was not lost on some watching the press conference in Kabul that Mr Mujahid made his declaration from the seat of the former government spokesman Dawa Khan Menapal, who had been killed by the group just weeks earlier, as \"punishment for his deeds\".\n\nNow sources inside Afghanistan, as well as some who recently fled, have told the BBC that Taliban fighters are searching for, and allegedly killing, people they pledged they would leave in peace.\n\nSeveral sources confirmed that Taliban fighters last week executed two senior police officials - Haji Mullah Achakzai, the security director of Badghis province, and Ghulam Sakhi Akbari, security director of Farah province. Video footage showed Mr Achakzai was kneeling, blindfolded, with his hands tied behind his back before he was shot.\n\nThose who managed to flee say they fear for their colleagues back home. Zala Zazai, a former Afghan policewoman, one of thousands trained since the Taliban was deposed in 2001, said she was still in touch with other former policewomen.\n\n\"The Taliban call them from their office phones and ask them to come to work, and ask for their home address,\" she said.\n\nMs Zazai said that even in Tajikistan she was not totally out of the reach of the Taliban. Her mother, who is with her, received messages urging both women to return to Afghanistan and \"live in the Islamic way\", she said.\n\nA former Afghan soldier who fled from Badakhshan province along with his three brothers, all of whom were in the army, said Taliban fighters were harassing his family, \"asking them for money saying your son was in the special forces\".\n\nAnd a former Afghan special forces soldier still inside the country told the BBC that he and his family were in hiding after former colleagues were killed.\n\n\"Since the Taliban have come to power they haven't stopped killing,\" he said. \"A few days ago, they killed twelve members of the special forces in Kandahar and three soldiers in Jalalabad as well. They were my close friends. I was in touch with them. The Taliban took them out of their homes and shot them.\"\n\nThe BBC was not able to independently confirm the killings, and the Taliban have repeatedly denied committing any revenge killings. But the group was widely thought to be behind a spate of assassinations after signing a peace deal with the US in 2020, and there are mounting reports they have been searching for targets since taking power two weeks ago.\n\nTaliban forces patrol near the Hamid Karzai International Airport, a day after US troops withdrew.\n\nAmnesty International reported earlier this month that Taliban fighters massacred nine ethnic Hazara men after taking control of Afghanistan's Ghazni province in July. And Human Rights Watch reported that Taliban fighters were conducting searches in Kandahar province as they swept the country and detaining anyone suspected of working with the government, reportedly killing some detainees.\n\nA high-ranking Afghan police official, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, told the BBC from hiding that he'd heard the Taliban were searching for him.\n\n\"They caught my assistant and interrogated him for five hours,\" the official said. \"They treated him very badly. They asked him, 'Where is your chief?' If they are forgiving everyone then why are they hunting for me?\"\n\nHe said he was changing location every day with his wife and children. \"I have no money to cross the border,\" he said, breaking down as he spoke. \"The problem is the Taliban have no justice system. They have no courts, no jail. They are just killing.\"\n\nIt is not just people who worked in the security forces who say they are being targeted. Members of the civil administration, and those who worked in jobs disapproved by the Taliban told similar stories.\n\n\"The Taliban took my car, beat up my guards and took their weapons,\" said Zarifa Ghafari, who was Afghanistan's first female mayor, governing Maidan Shar, the capital of Wardak province.\n\n\"They were searching for me. They called all the people who used to be in contact with me asking where I was. They even went to my husband's parents' house to look for me,\" she said.\n\nMs Ghafari was speaking via a video call from Germany, where she fled after the Taliban took power.\n\n\"They made me do something I never wanted to do,\" she said. \"They made me leave a country that I love.\"\n\nZarifa Ghafari, Afghanistan's first female mayor, places a flag on her father's grave in Afghanistan\n\nNilofar Ayoubi was also among those who managed to flee in time. A few weeks ago, she was busy working with her staff at her high-end fashion and accessories store in Kabul. When Taliban fighters walked into the city, they began stripping everything.\n\n\"We removed the mannequins from the windows, covered the windows, locked the door and ran,\" Ms Ayoubi said. \"I paid my staff a month's salary, then I went off home, packed two bags with my documents and a few things for my children and went into hiding,' she said.\n\nMs Ayoubi applied for asylum to Poland and, after pushing through the scrum at Kabul airport, managed to escape with her husband and children.\n\n\"As soon as I landed I saw multiple calls from my family,\" she said. \"They were so scared. They said the Taliban had come to our home, pointed guns at them and warned them that if you don't call your daughter and son-in-law back, we will kill you.\"\n\nAs the Taliban settles into power, part of the concern is that even if all their promises of clemency are true, the group's factions are not all necessarily in agreement, and not necessarily under control. Many in Afghanistan doubt that the Taliban leadership plans to honour its own amnesty. They doubt the group is a new moderate version of its old self. If violent acts of intimidation and reprisal go unaccounted for, and unpunished by the leadership, it will become clear that the Taliban of the present is no less ruthless than the Taliban of the past.", "Mikis Theodorakis, the celebrated composer best known for the music from the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, has died in Athens aged 96.\n\nTheodorakis was in the resistance to the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War Two and later served as an MP.\n\nHe was also a leading figure opposing military rule in Greece from 1967-1974.\n\nZorba the Greek told the story of an English writer in Crete whose life is transformed when he meets Alexis Zorba, a gregarious peasant.\n\nThe scene when Zorba dances barefoot on the beach became a popular image of Greek culture. The theme from the film, which won three Oscars, remains probably the most famous piece of Greek music more than half a century later.\n\n\"Today we lost a part of the soul of Greece,\" Culture Minister Lina Mendoni wrote on Twitter, calling him \"the one who made all Greeks sing poetry\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by ΠΛΑΤΩ This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nTheodorakis also wrote the film music for Serpico (1973) and a song cycle called the Mauthausen Trilogy, with lyrics based on poems of a concentration camp survivor.\n\nThe song Antonis from that work became popular with Afghans. It was sung by the residents of Kabul in 2001 who greeted troops of the Northern Alliance as they entered the city and expelled the Taliban.\n\nThe same song was the theme of the 1969 film Z, whose soundtrack won a Bafta Award for Best Film Music in 1970. The film, directed by Costa-Gavras, is a thinly fictionalised account of the assassination of a left-wing Greek politician.\n\nTheodorakis himself was for much of his life a leftist and at times a communist. In 1947, during the civil war that followed World War Two, he was arrested and tortured.\n\nThe BBC's Kostas Kallergis says Theodorakis expressed the will to fight against fascism and the sense of liberty Greeks felt after the fall of the military junta in 1974.\n\nIn the 1960s, Theodorakis recorded the Ballad of Mauthausen with the Greek section of the BBC World Service\n\nTheodorakis's songs were always deeply political. He was repeatedly jailed for his beliefs and was sent into exile within Greece.\n\nHe remained politically active throughout his life.\n\nIn the 2010s he joined protests against austerity, calling for reparations from Germany for the wartime occupation. He also spoke out against the deal ending the 27-year dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, now North Macedonia.\n\nHe leaned towards the right at the end of the 1980s and even served as a minister in a right-wing government, but he was always an iconic figure for all Greeks, both leftists and conservatives, Kostas Kallergis says.", "The FM is asked about current issues with staff and stock shortages in retail in the run-up to Christmas and says a meeting has been asked for with the UK government this week on the problem.\n\nShe says she has warned the UK government of such issues since July and that seeing staff shortages putting pressure on food and drink supplies and images of rotting food in fields means \"the Tories should be hanging their heads in shame\".\n\nShe says that if children are having to be told there will be no toys at Christmas because of disruption to supply chains, the Conservatives should accept responsibility for \"their obsession with Brexit\".\n\nShe says it was \"utterly reckless\" to plough ahead with Brexit in a global pandemic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Top US general admits 'anger and pain' over Afghanistan\n\nThe top US general has described the Taliban as a \"ruthless group\" and says it is unclear whether they will change.\n\nGen Mark Milley said, however, it was \"possible\" that the US would co-ordinate with the Islamist militants on future counter-terrorism operations.\n\nUS forces withdrew from Afghanistan on Tuesday, ending America's longest war 20 years after launching an invasion to oust the Taliban.\n\nThe Islamists are now in control and expected to announce a new government.\n\nGen Milley was speaking alongside US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, in their first public remarks since the last troops left Afghanistan.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has been widely criticised over the abrupt manner of the withdrawal, which led to the unexpected collapse of the Afghan security forces the US had trained and funded for years.\n\nThe Taliban's lightning advance sparked off a frenetic effort to evacuate thousands of foreign nationals and local Afghans who had been working for them.\n\nIn the news conference on Wednesday, both Gen Milley and Secretary Austin praised the troops who had served in Afghanistan and the massive evacuation mission.\n\nAsked about their co-ordination with the Taliban in getting evacuees to the airport, Mr Austin said: \"We were working with the Taliban on a very narrow set of issues, and that was just that - to get as many people out as we possibly could.\"\n\n\"In war you do what you must in order to reduce risk to mission and force, not what you necessarily want to do,\" Gen Milley added.\n\nHe said it was possible that the US would co-ordinate with the Taliban on future action against Islamic State affiliate IS-K, the group which claimed an attack outside Kabul airport last week that killed as many as 170 people, including 13 US service personnel.\n\nIS-K is the most extreme and violent of all the jihadist militant groups in Afghanistan. It has major differences with the Taliban, accusing them of abandoning jihad and the battlefield.\n\nMr Austin, meanwhile, said he would \"not want to make any predictions\" on future co-operation. But he added that officials would \"do everything that we can to make sure we remain focused on [IS-K], understand that network, and at the time of our choosing in the future, hold them accountable for what they've done\".\n\nIn total, the evacuation operation saw more than 123,000 people wishing to flee the Taliban airlifted out of the country.\n\nThe US estimates that there are between 100 and 200 Americans still in Afghanistan.\n\nUS Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said \"all possible options\" were being looked at to get remaining US citizens and people who had worked with the US out of the country.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he was not certain how many UK nationals remained in the country, but that it was believed to be in the \"low hundreds\".\n\nThe Taliban have celebrated the final withdrawal of foreign forces, and are now focusing on forming a government.\n\nThe deputy head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, Sher Abbas Stanekza, told BBC Pashto that a new government could be announced in the next two days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Taliban are asked if there will be a place for women in its new government\n\nHe said there would be a role for women at lower levels but not in top positions.\n\nHe also said that those who served in government in the past two decades would not be included.\n\nThis magical word \"inclusive\" is being used by Afghanistan's neighbours to try to put pressure on the Taliban to share some of the power so they don't have absolute control.\n\nBut look at it in pure political terms. The Taliban have come to power much more quickly than even they expected. And they feel they have an overwhelming mandate to pursue their overriding objective to establish an Islamic system.\n\nIn this new emerging Islamic emirate, women will be playing secondary roles to men.\n\nThis is already very different from what we heard even two years ago, when the Taliban started discussing with representatives of the Afghan government and civil society. They said then that women could have any roles in our new Islamic government except the president or prime minister. They could be ministers or CEOs.\n\nNow they seem to be rolling back from that because what happened in the past is now history. It's a new day for them and it's a day when the Taliban are in charge.", "Maddie Durdant-Hollamby was stabbed to death, Northamptonshire Police said\n\nA couple found dead in an apparent murder-suicide both died from knife wounds, police said.\n\nThe bodies of Maddie Durdant-Hollamby, 22, and partner Benjamin Green, 41, were found at a house in Slate Drive, Kettering, last Friday.\n\nThe force has said it was not seeking anyone else over Ms Durdant-Hollamby's death, which it was treating as murder.\n\nFamilies of both had been informed of the findings, officers said.\n\nMs Durdant-Hollamby's body was found by police on Friday following a report of concern for her welfare\n\nPaying tribute, Ms Durdant-Hollamby's family, from Wimblington, Cambridgeshire, said they were \"absolutely devastated\" by her death.\n\nRelatives described her as a \"talented dancer\" whose career in marketing was \"sadly cut short just as it was blossoming\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with everybody who knew and loved Maddie as much as we did.\"\n\nPolice have previously said investigators \"found no known background of domestic abuse\", but urged people with relevant information to come forward.\n\nDet Ch Insp Joe Banfield said: \"Our investigation into the deaths of Maddie and Ben continues, and a file is being prepared for the coroner.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pat Hume with her late husband, John, after his election in 1998\n\nPat Hume, the widow of the late SDLP leader and Nobel prize winner John Hume, has died after a short illness.\n\nMrs Hume worked alongside her husband from the beginning of the civil rights movement in Londonderry in the 1960s.\n\nHer work continued during the Troubles, through to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.\n\nMrs Hume ran Mr Hume's Foyle constituency office dealing with community issues, housing and poverty in Derry.\n\nIn a statement, the Hume family said they were \"heartbroken\" to announce her death, adding that she \"died as she lived - surrounded by family, peacefully and generous to the end\".\n\n\"Pat spent some days in the hospital in the days preceding her death and she saw first-hand the outstanding work that healthcare workers do, and the pressures that they are facing due to Covid,\" the family statement said.\n\n\"She would prioritise public health at all times.\"\n\nThe family paid tribute to the medical staff who cared for their mother in her final days.\n\nHer death comes just over a year after the death of her husband.\n\nMrs Hume, a former teacher, was awarded the Irish Red Cross Lifetime Achievement award in 2018.\n\nPat Hume worked in her husband's Foyle constituency office dealing with community issues, housing and poverty in Derry\n\nA foundation honouring John and Pat Hume's peace and reconciliation work was launched in November last year.\n\nThe political tributes were led by Hillary Clinton, who said Mrs Hume was \"a gracious, determined force behind the achievement of peace in Ireland\".\n\nThe former US presidential candidate and first lady added that the Humes \"made the world a better place and set an example for us all\".\n\nIn a statement, Foyle MP and current SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, said: \"Pat's compassion, fortitude and strength of character was a driving force behind the peace process\".\n\n\"Without Pat Hume, there would have been no peace process in Ireland, that's the simple truth,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland First Minister Paul Givan said there was a \"real sense of loss\" following her death.\n\n\"Not just among her friends and family - and my thoughts and prayers are with them at this difficult time - but for the many lives she touched, both directly and indirectly.\n\n\"It is a testament to her legacy that people from all backgrounds, near and far, are tonight joined in sadness to mark her passing,\" he added.\n\nPat and John Hume meeting with former US President Bill Clinton in Londonderry in 2010\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she was a \"a strong and determined person whose immense contribution to our peace is recognised across this island and across the world\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with Pat and John's children, the entire Hume family, and the people of Derry who will feel her loss deeply,\" she added.\n\n\"No one who met John left the conversation without knowing Pat,\" he added.\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said she was \"deeply saddened\" by the news.\n\nFormer Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adam tweeted that \"Pat was John's best and most trusted adviser\".\n\n\"Her dedication to peace was total as was her dedication to John, especially in his latter years,\" said Alliance leader Naomi Long.\n\nDUP assembly member Gary Middleton described Mrs Hume as having a \"radiant passion\" for the city and said his thoughts were with the Hume family at this time.\n\nTributes were also paid by Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin who described Mrs Hume as her husband's \"partner in family life and in political life\".\n\n\"Pat and John worked side by side for decades, she was his trusted adviser at key political moments and his anchor in their beloved Derry,\" Mr Martin said.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins described Mrs Hume's life as one of \"total commitment to community and to the possibilities of peace\".\n\nHe said her work, like that of her husband's, \"will always have an indelible place in the minds of all Irish people\".\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said Pat Hume \"worked tirelessly and courageously\" for peace in Northern Ireland and said her partnership with John was \"crucial to the whole peace process\".\n\nShadow Northern Ireland Secretary Louise Haigh described her as \"an extraordinary woman, and a courageous peacemaker\".\n\nThe Bishop of Derry, Donal McKeown, paid tribute to Mrs Hume, adding: \"In the course of that long and challenging journey towards the peace we enjoy today Pat was brave, courageous and uncompromising.\n\n\"She was small in stature but a colossus,\" he said.\n\n\"In many ways she must have felt her job was done when John had died. She looked after him right up until the end.\n\n\"In many ways we thought - 'May you now enjoy the peace that you worked for so much in this life'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab: \"We need to adjust to the new reality in Afghanistan.\"\n\nEvacuation flights from Afghanistan could resume \"in the near future\", the UK's foreign secretary says, after talks with leaders in Qatar.\n\nDominic Raab is in the country to discuss allowing more British nationals and Afghan allies to leave Afghanistan.\n\nAsked when Kabul airport could reopen, Mr Raab said: \"that's looking like it may happen at some point in the near future\".\n\nIt is currently out of action following the withdrawal of US troops last week.\n\nMr Raab's Qatari counterpart said he hoped for \"good news\" on its reopening \"in the next few days\".\n\nSheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani added that Qatar was working with the Taliban to ensure it was operational \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Gulf state, which has hosted the Taliban's political office for eight years, is seen as a key link between the West and the group.\n\nSpeaking after meetings with politicians in Doha, Mr Raab said the UK would not recognise the Taliban \"any time in the foreseeable future\".\n\nBut he said there was a need for \"direct engagement\" with the group, to ensure UK nationals and Afghan allies could leave Afghanistan.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later underlined that message, telling reporters that if the Taliban wanted to engage with the West \"then the first priority for them for us is safe passage for those who want to leave\".\n\nDominic Raab told a news conference that co-operation on border crossings would be an \"important first test\" of the Taliban's relationship with the West.\n\nAnd he admitted the UK must \"adjust to the new reality\" after their rapid takeover of Afghanistan after the US withdrawal.\n\nDominic Raab is in Qatar - an important link between the Taliban and the West\n\nAfter talks with Mr Raab, Sheikh Mohammed said there was not yet a \"clear indication\" of when Kabul airport would reopen.\n\nBut he told reporters: \"We are working very hard [and] we remain hopeful that we will be able to operate it as soon as possible.\n\nHe added that Qatar was also in discussions with Turkey, to see if it could provide \"any technical assistance on that front\".\n\nAt the start of a tour of the region, Mr Raab held talks with Sheikh Mohammed, along with the Emir of Qatar.\n\nBritish officials have been meeting senior Taliban leaders in Doha and they will brief the foreign secretary on the outcome of those talks.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the British embassy to Afghanistan, which moved out of Kabul last week, was now up and running in Doha.\n\nSpeaking to broadcasters, Mr Raab said the UK was working with neighbouring countries to ensure the \"basic logistics\" are in place to allow people to leave Afghanistan.\n\nThe last UK plane flying people out of Kabul took off on Saturday, with the US following on days later to stick to the 31 August deadline pledged by US President Joe Biden.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Raab said more than 17,000 people had been evacuated by the UK from Afghanistan so far, including over 5,000 UK nationals.\n\nBut it is feared hundreds eligible for relocation were left behind, although Mr Raab has estimated the number of UK nationals still in Afghanistan was in the \"low hundreds\".\n\nHe has said he cannot give a precise figure of the number of eligible Afghans who wanted to leave but were unable to get on evacuation flights.\n\nThese groups include Afghan nationals and their families who worked with British forces during their time in the country and asylum seekers who could be eligible to come to the UK under international law.\n\nThousands have been airlifted out of Kabul in recent weeks\n\nMr Raab's trip to Qatar came after he was grilled by MPs on the Commons foreign affairs committee on Wednesday about the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nThe foreign secretary defended his handling of the crisis, saying the UK was \"caught out\" by the speed of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, with intelligence at the time suggesting it would hold out until the end of the year.\n\nBut the committee's chairman, Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, said a Foreign Office risk report from 22 July predicted a \"very real danger of cities collapsing\" after US forces withdrew.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was a standard monthly report that did not contain intelligence assessments.\n\nIts statement added: \"The July document makes clear that our central planning assumption at the time was that the peace process in Afghanistan would run for up to a further six months.\"\n\nSpeaking later at a military base in Essex, Boris Johnson said: \"I think it's been clear for many months that the situation could be very fast and that has been part of the intelligence briefing. There have also been suggestions as you know that the Afghan National Defence force might hold on for longer, but logically you can see what happened.\"\n\nHe added that once the Afghan army felt they no longer had American air cover then \"things did go faster\".\n\nIn an interview in the Spectator published on Wednesday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said he had argued as early as July that the previous Afghan government would fall.\n\n'It was a bit of a shock when [regional city] Herat fell,\" he told the magazine.\n\n\"Some of these big places had historically been resistant to the Taliban. When they fell, literally without a fight, I think the game was up.\n\n\"I remember back in July arguing that whatever we think, the game is up and we have to do what we can to accelerate whatever we're doing.\"\n\nHe added: \"When the actual moment came in Afghanistan, intelligence hadn't failed. It was just limited, as it always is at the very end.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Raab insisted he and Mr Wallace had been \"taking the same assessment throughout until very late\".\n\n\"We were all working to the same set of assumptions,\" he added.", "People over the age of 12 with severely weakened immune systems should have a third vaccine dose to top up protection against Covid-19, experts say.\n\nAbout 400,000 to 500,000 in the UK are eligible and will be contacted soon.\n\nThey include those with blood cancer, advanced HIV and recent organ or stem-cell transplants.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said a separate booster programme for other age groups was still being considered.\n\nWhether all 12- to 15-year-olds will be offered a vaccine is yet to be decided.\n\nThe advice means the most vulnerable - less than 1% of the population - will be offered a third dose, rather than all those on the original list of clinically extremely vulnerable people.\n\nIt follows research showing about 40% of people with weakened immune systems had a low antibody response, and potentially less protection, after two vaccine doses.\n\nPeople with severe immunosuppression are also more likely to become seriously ill if they catch Covid-19.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, who chairs Covid immunisation for the JCVI, said: \"We want people with severely suppressed immune systems to have the best chance of gaining protection from Covid-19 via vaccination.\n\n\"Therefore, we are advising they have a third vaccine dose on top of their initial two doses, as we hope this will reduce their risk of severe outcomes such as hospitalisation and death.\"\n\nHal Cohen is taking powerful drugs after having a kidney transplant\n\nHal Cohen, 40, from north London has been taking regular medication to stop his body rejecting a kidney donated by his father.\n\nBut these vital drugs also blocked his immune system from developing protection against Covid from two vaccine doses.\n\nHe is now looking forward to having a third dose.\n\n\"It's going to be really great for me, and will hopefully give me some vaccine protection and the ability to return to normal life.\n\n\"But it's not clear if the booster is going to work for people like me,\" he said.\n\n\"So we do need to carry on looking at other treatments too - to give us the best chance.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said people would be contacted \"as soon as possible, to discuss their needs and arrange an appointment for a third dose\".\n\nHe said the separate booster programme prioritising those most at risk from Covid-19 was still planned to begin in September.\n\nThe JCVI says either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine are preferred as third doses, because studies suggest they lead to a heightened immune response in this vulnerable group.\n\nFor 12- to 17-year-olds, the Pfizer vaccine is preferred.\n\nProf Lim said \"timing was important\" and a specialist doctor should decide when to give the third dose - but it should be at least eight weeks after the second and at a time when patients were least likely to be immunosuppressed.\n\nThose eligible for a third dose include people:\n\nCharities representing people with these illnesses welcomed the decision on a third dose.\n\n\"There is good reason to think some people with blood cancer will see an improved immune response as a result of a third dose, and so we urge everyone with blood cancer to get it when they are offered it,\" said Gemma Peters, chief executive of Blood Cancer UK.\n\nBut she advised people to remain cautious after their third dose until it was clear how much protection it offered.", "Coverage: Follow on Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson, who won 11 Paralympic gold medals for Great Britain and competed at every summer Games from 1988 to 2004, is part of the BBC Radio 5 Live team in Japan. Here, she talks about meeting Sarah Storey - who has broken the record for most Paralympic gold medals by a British athlete - for the first time nearly 30 years ago.\n\nI first met the then Sarah Bailey back in September 1992, sitting outside our accommodation block in the Paralympic village in Barcelona. I think we were going to be doing something for Blue Peter.\n\nAt the age of 23 to her 14 I remember thinking that she looked really young. I now look back at the photos of that time and realise just how young she was.\n\nShe was about halfway through her debut Paralympics, where she won six medals, including two golds.\n\nI remember thinking back to my first Games at 19 and not feeling half as prepared as she looked. She just seemed content with herself and very composed.\n\nAfter Atlanta four years later, where she won another three golds, we spent some time together visiting schools in the North West and it felt the world was her oyster.\n\nFast forward another few cycles and it appears that her swimming career was just about prepping her for her cycling career, which started in 2005.\n\nThere is part of me that wishes she had found cycling four years earlier, but sometimes you have to let things flow naturally. Meeting Barney, a pilot on the cycling team who later became her husband, meant that when she made the decision to switch she had immediate access to someone who knew the sport at the highest level.\n\nThe main thing that I admire about her is that she works really hard. It is not enough to win gold and there are many ways that she could win a race, and sometimes with less energy expended, but every time she competes she wants to be the best she can be.\n\nThat focus and determination I saw in her at 14 is still there.\n\nRacing is the nice part to an extent, but making yourself go out and do all the really hard miles in the winter is what makes a champion. You never know how long you might have in elite sport so she makes the most of what she has.\n\nI have always seen her be respectful of fellow athletes but it feels at times that she also competes against herself and she is a tough person to live up to.\n\nShe is one of the British athletes of whom we hang gold medals around the neck before they compete, but she still has to put in good performances.\n\nThe lack of crowds in Tokyo has been tough for all competitors, but for someone like Sarah, who has given so much to the sport, it does seem somewhat unfair that she cannot share this historic moment with those closest to her who have supported her since her earliest days in sport.\n\nI am used to seeing her family in a big group at track events. Her parents have been to every Games up to this one and I know she misses them - I do too.\n\nI miss the 'Go Bails' flag that they used to have - 'Go Storey' doesn't have the same ring to it!\n\nI also remember first seeing the knitted dolls that her parents had of her and Barney a long time ago and they have now added to it with their children - Louisa and Charlie - and their cat. Apparently they are sitting on Sarah's bed so she can have her family close.\n\nThere is so much made of elite athletes becoming mums, but so many people do not know the choices and plans that need to be made so this can happen.\n\nI remember talking to Sarah about my own chaotic experience of motherhood. It is a tough decision and all the skills you have learned in sport about negotiating, planning and logistics just get honed when it happens.\n\nIt makes you realise that you are privileged and if you are going to be both an athlete and a mum, then you just have to make both work.\n\nI was privileged to be at the velodrome in Rio when she won her 12th gold, which beat my record.\n\nThere wasn't much that needed to be said. I was really proud that she had done it. Records are a moment in time and you are lucky if you hold them. To pass it on to someone I respect is a bonus. It was never a case of 'if' but 'when'.\n\nAlthough Sarah and I obviously prefer individual sports, it would have been fun to do something with her where our careers overlapped.\n\nThere were many people who wanted her to try athletics but I think it had the same lack of appeal as me doing swimming.\n\nMost of us are only good at one sport - I was only good at wheelchair racing - but there are probably three or four sports she could have transferred into and been good at them.\n\nI imagine Louisa and Charlie are fairly swift on their bikes so they might give me a run for my money if I was to race them.\n\nIf I were to sum up her career I think she has been an amazing cyclist who happened to do swimming for a bit. More power to her just staying in love with the sport and her carrying on being the best she can.\n• None Storey's record-breaking 17th gold 'feels like an out of body experience'\n• None How do you start again when everyone remembers your past?\n• None Watch the deep and dark new thriller from the producers of Line of Duty", "Eight US states will accept driver's licences and other state IDs stored on an iPhone, Apple has announced.\n\nThe feature, first announced at a presentation in June, lets iPhone users store IDs in the Wallet app.\n\nSome had expressed privacy concerns about handing over smartphones to police or security officials.\n\nApple now says users do not need to unlock or hand over their phones for the system to work for airport security.\n\nBut it remains unclear if or how it might eventually work for other uses of ID, such as drivers stopped by police.\n\nArizona, and Georgia will introduce the system first, with Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Utah also signed up.\n\nThe \"first locations\" to use the system will be airport security checkpoints run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Apple says.\n\nAmericans usually need some form of state ID only to travel by air domestically, unlike other countries, in which a passport is widely used.\n\nTapping a phone at an identity reader at supported airports will prompt passengers to use their Face ID or fingerprint to authorise sending information to the machine.\n\n\"Users do not need to unlock, show, or hand over their device to present their ID,\" Apple said.\n\nTSA administrator David Pekoske said the new system \"will enable a more seamless airport security screening experience\".\n\nApple's announcement also stressed other security features of its new app, \"offering superior security and privacy over a physical wallet\".\n\nNeither Apple nor state authorities would know when or where ID was presented, it said, and all personal information was encrypted.\n\nBut the concept of digital IDs remains controversial.\n\nCovid passports, which emerged over the past year, were initially met with some resistance by privacy campaigners.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair: “People give a lot more information probably to their supermarkets than they will to the government.”\n\nAnd digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation has said digital IDs \"might be a big step towards national identification, in which every time we walk through a door or buy coffee, a record of the event is collected and aggregated\".\n\nIt was \"troubled\" by the mobile-driver-licence technology, which could \"make demands for ID more frequent in American life\", the group said.\n\n\"They may also lead to the routine use of automated or 'robot' ID checks carried out not by humans but by machines, causing such demands to proliferate even more,\" the group added.", "Mr Kerry has said China can do more to tackle global warming\n\nUS climate envoy John Kerry has told China that climate change is more important than politics as tensions between the two countries continue.\n\nHe made the remarks following two days of talks with Chinese leaders in the city of Tianjin.\n\nBut China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Wednesday that the worsening relationship could hamper future co-operation on climate issues.\n\nBoth countries have outlined steps to tackle climate change.\n\nBut Mr Kerry has called on China to increase its efforts to tackle carbon emissions.\n\nTensions between the two countries have worsened in recent months with disputes over China's human rights record, the South China Sea and the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Thursday, Mr Kerry said he had told the Chinese that \"climate is not ideological, not partisan and not a geostrategic weapon\".\n\n\"It is essential... no matter what differences we have, that we have to address the climate crisis,\" he said\n\nEarlier, Mr Wang called on the US to \"stop seeing China as a threat and an opponent\", accusing Washington of a \"major strategic miscalculation towards China\".\n\n\"It is impossible for China-US climate co-operation to be elevated above the overall environment of China-US relations,\" he said.\n\nChina became the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide in 2006 and is now responsible for more than a quarter of the world's overall greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping has said he will aim for China's emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for the country to be carbon neutral by 2060. But it is not yet clear how he plans to achieve this.\n\nMr Kerry said he aimed to meet Chinese leaders again ahead of the upcoming COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow this year and push for stronger emission reduction targets.\n\n\"We have consistently said to China and other countries... to do their best within their given capacity,\" he said on Thursday. \"We think that China can do more.\"\n\nIf there was to be any sign of progress between the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases you'd expect a nod to it now.\n\nThis is John Kerry's second trip to China in a matter of months.\n\nInstead China has refused to accept America's terms. It won't separate talks on climate change from the broader disagreements between Beijing and Washington DC; everything is on the table.\n\nWhich means John Kerry has - so far - failed in his bid to get just one thing on the table. One thing that's so important, he said, that it shouldn't be overshadowed by tariffs or sanctions or extradition.\n\nThe question now is will President Joe Biden - a man who has enhanced some of the punitive measures put in place by his predecessor - change tack?", "Sun shines at Machrihanish in Argyll as temperatures soared in Scotland this summer\n\nScotland has had its fourth hottest summer on record, according to provisional figures released by the Met Office.\n\nThe city of Glasgow, which will host the COP26 climate change conference, had its hottest ever summer since records began in 1884.\n\nThe Met Office said it was unusual for the UK's highest August temperature to come from Scotland.\n\nA high of 27.2C was recorded at Tyndrum, near Stirling, on 25 August.\n\nMost of the UK recorded lower than average rainfall, with the exception of Northern Ireland and parts of eastern Scotland, according to the Met Office figures.\n\nDr Mark McCarthy, head of the Met Office's National Climate Information Centre, said: \"Summer 2021 will be remembered very differently depending on where you are in the UK, with record-breaking warm conditions in parts of western Scotland and Northern Ireland, while in the south and east it's been much duller and wetter.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Scottish Water urged customers to help conserve supplies after levels at some reservoirs dropped to their lowest in 18 years.\n\nThe Met Office said Glasgow was among some places in Scotland that recorded their hottest summer in almost 140 years\n\nThe company said some parts of Scotland were experiencing their second driest summer in 160 years.\n\nIt said demand remained high at up to 100 million litres per day higher than average, after falling from a spike in demand during hot weather in July.\n\nThat month more than 30 water tankers were needed to supplement supplies. People watering plants and filling paddling pools pushed the demand for water by 200 million litres extra a day for about a week.\n\nAlso in July, Loch Ness dropped to its lowest level in five years, according to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa). Loch Ness is Scotland's largest freshwater loch by volume.\n\nSepa said drier than usual conditions in recent months were likely to be a \"significant contributing factor\" for the drop.", "Young people strapped for space at home have helped to drive a \"rapid recovery\" in membership numbers at Gym Group.\n\nThe gym operator said membership had jumped by a third since February as its sites reopened.\n\nOver two-thirds of its members are under the age of 34, and the company said many younger people lacked space to do home workouts.\n\nThe chain, which operates 190 sites, aims to open 40 new gyms by the end of 2022 by converting former shops.\n\n\"The physical gym will always be really important for people and I think that's coming through in our numbers,\" chief executive Richard Darwin told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nWhile many people worked out at home during lockdown, Mr Darwin said that many younger people \"just don't have the space... to be able to do home workouts\".\n\nGym Group is a low-cost gym operator, where customers do not have to have an annual contract.\n\nIt said membership numbers had hit 730,000 by the end of June this year, compared with 547,000 at the end of February 2021 - during the lockdown. This compares with a peak membership of 891,000 in February 2020 before the first coronavirus lockdown measures were introduced.\n\nGyms only reopened in England on 12 April this year, and later in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nGym Group reported a pre-tax loss of £28.5m for the six months to the end of June whiles sales tumbled by 21.4% to £29.3m.\n\nHowever, despite the losses, the company is looking to expand.\n\nIt said it planned to repurpose vacant retail spaces on the High Street, which has seen the closures of chains such as Debenhams and Topshop accelerate during Covid.\n\nGym Group has already opened seven new sites this year and plans to open an additional 40 by the end of 2022.\n\n\"We're seeing a lot of properties become available, particularly in retail parks which are very good for gyms as they have accessible parking and clear signage,\" Mr Darwin said.\n\nHowever, Dan Lane, senior analyst at investment platform Freetrade, said Gym Group's site rollout needed to be done \"efficiently\" and not end up \"diluting overall profits just for the sake of willing itself back to normality\".\n\n\"Rushing to snap up more properties while the current ones aren't at capacity and fewer of us are back in the office is a sign of how much the group needs footfall,\" he said.\n\n\"If we aren't going or coming from work, will we be bothered to leave our homes (many of which are now in the country, after the London exodus) to get to the gym?\"\n\nBut with lockdown restrictions now lifted there have been signs that people are exercising less at home.\n\nRival gym chain PureGym has also seen a pick up in customers, whereas home fitness bike firm Peloton recently reported losses..", "Beheshta Arghand, an anchor for Tolo News, made headlines when she interviewed the Taliban just days after they took control of Afghanistan.\n\nTwo weeks later, she has fled the country amid fears for her life.\n\nArghand spoke to the BBC's Christian Fraser about the fears she has for her country's future.", "The move means people will need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before being allowed into nightclubs and many other events\n\nVaccine passports are to be required for entry to nightclubs and many large events in Scotland from later this month, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe plans will apply to indoor and outdoor events, and will need to be signed off by MSPs next week.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the move was needed to help stem the recent surge in the number of cases.\n\nA further 6,107 people have tested positive, with the number of people in hospital doubling in the past 10 days.\n\nAnd several areas of Scotland are among the regions with the highest rates of the virus in Europe.\n\nThe new vaccine certification rules mean people over the age of 18 will need to show they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to:\n\nThe new rules will impact on many sporting events in Scotland - particularly football matches - as well as concerts and music festivals.\n\nSPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said Premiership football clubs had \"a significant number of questions and real concern\" about the plan.\n\nHe added: \"It's not clear what IT infrastructure will be in place, what time-scales clubs will be asked to work to, or what can be done for those without smart phones.\n\n\"And it's not clear if it's going to cut across terms and conditions of seasons tickets already bought by people across the land.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the hospitality industry as a whole would not be included in the certification scheme - although that decision would be kept under review.\n\nAnd there are no plans to include key services or settings where people have no choice over attendance - such as shops, public transport, education and medical services.\n\nAnyone who has good reasons for not getting fully vaccinated - including children and people with particular medical conditions - will be exempt.\n\nPeople can already request a paper copy of their vaccination record to allow them to travel, and from Friday they will be provided with a QR code so they can download a copy of the record to keep on their phone.\n\nPaper copies of vaccine certificates are already available for people who have been fully vaccinated\n\nA similar scheme will be introduced in England at the end of this month, with people needing to have a \"Covid pass\" to access \"higher risk\" settings such as nightclubs.\n\nSeveral other European countries - including France, Italy and Ireland - have already introduced certification.\n\nScotland's health secretary, Humza Yousaf, said in July that he was \"sceptical\" about the case for vaccine passports, citing concerns that they \"might increase the inequality gap, and there would be ethical issues\".\n\nThe country's deputy first minister, John Swinney, also said he did not believe it was right to exclude people who do not want to be vaccinated after the UK government set out its plans to introduce passports in England.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon told MSPs that the certification scheme was now needed to \"help protect individuals and the country as a whole and reduce the risk of further restrictions being necessary\".\n\nThe first minister added: \"Many of the events and venues that are covered by the certification scheme are important - they matter to our economy, and to our cultural and social life.\n\n\"That's why we want to enable them to stay open safely - but they are not essential services.\n\n\"And the nature of them - which involves bringing many people together in relatively small areas - does mean that, despite their very best efforts, they can contribute significantly to the spread of the virus.\"\n\nShe also said it would be \"grossly irresponsible\" to rule out re-introducing further restrictions in the future.\n\nThe Scottish Greens are not keen on vaccine passports. The new minister for zero carbon buildings, active travel and tenants' rights, Patrick Harvie, has raised concerns about their introduction before.\n\nIn July he argued vaccine certification \"would deepen discrimination against those who have not yet been vaccinated\".\n\nToday the party's health spokesperson, Gillian Mackay, said it was essential the Scottish government ensures the introduction of vaccine certification doesn't adversely affect disabled people, those with underlying health conditions and those from the global south who may not be able to access proof of vaccination.\n\nBut the Greens are now in government. Vaccine certification isn't specifically excluded in the co-operation agreement they signed with the SNP and so the Greens are bound by collective responsibility on this issue and will have to support it when it's put to the vote at Holyrood.\n\nThe first minister said it was a \"significant move\" and would need to be signed off by MSPs, with a debate and vote to take place next week.\n\nHowever the SNP has a comfortable majority with the backing of the Scottish Greens - who have previously been opposed to the move - and the cooperation agreement between the two parties commits them to working together on Covid-related matters.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats were the only party to hit out directly against the plans following Ms Sturgeon's statement, with leader Alex Cole-Hamilton saying vaccine passports were akin to \"medical ID cards\", adding: \"This is an illiberal step\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the Scottish government had \"wasted months\" that could have been spent making preparations, and was now \"introducing vaccine passports at the last minute\".\n\nHe added: \"It's a striking u-turn from what John Swinney said last month, where he emphatically claimed vaccine passports were \"the wrong way\" to go.\n\n\"We need businesses to get in-depth guidance around these certificates as soon as possible. They should be involved in the process and the government needs to clarify whether they will be expected to police these new rules.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the virus was now out of control and Scotland - and claimed the government had no strategy to deal with it.\n\nCase levels in Scotland are 80% higher now than they were last week, and five times higher than they were four weeks ago.\n\nThe number of people in hospital has more than doubled since 20 August, from 312 to 629.\n\nIntensive care admissions have not risen as quickly, but have still gone up from 34 to 59 over the same timescale.\n\nMeanwhile 4,108,804 people have had a first dose of vaccine, and 3,691,066 have had two.\n\nThat includes 95% of people over 40 who are now fully vaccinated, as well as 71% of 30 to 39-year-olds and 51% of 18 to 29-year-olds.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the many affected firms would not welcome the certificate scheme - but would accept it as an alternative to stricter restrictions.\n\nBut it said the system needed to be user-friendly for both businesses and the public, and warned against a \"rush\" to extend the scheme to other settings.\n\nThe Scottish Licensed Trade Association (SLTA) said the scheme was a \"threat hanging over the whole of the hospitality industry\", while the UK Hospitality Scotland said the move would \"cause dismay amongst businesses\" that had only recently been allowed to reopen.", "Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani has died at his home in Srinagar at the age of 92.\n\nHe passed away after a lengthy illness.\n\nA veteran campaigner against Indian rule, he had been under house arrest for much of the past 11 years.\n\nIndian authorities have imposed a strict security clampdown in Srinagar, Kashmir's main city, placing barbed wire and barricades on the roads near Geelani's home.\n\nReports say that internet services and voice calling have been suspended in most areas and a curfew may follow. His burial took place in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nSuch measures are not unusual at moments of tension in Indian-administered Kashmir. Police typically describe them as precautionary, citing the need to stop online rumours fuelling potential violence.\n\nIndia and Pakistan control different parts of the Muslim-majority territory, but both say it is wholly theirs. There has been violence on the Indian-run side for 30 years, due to a separatist insurgency.\n\nGeelani was a divisive figure in India. Experts said he always talked about Kashmir's freedom but personally favoured the region's merger with Pakistan.\n\nTributes have come from Kashmiri leaders in India and also from Pakistani politicians.\n\nMehbooba Mufti, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, said she was \"saddened\" by his death.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mehbooba Mufti This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan called Geelani a \"freedom fighter\" and declared Thursday a day of official mourning.\n\nHe said the separatist leader had \"struggled all his life for his people & their right to self-determination\".\n\nPolice in Kashmir allowed only close relatives to attend Geelani's funeral.\n\nAnnouncements were made from loudspeakers at the main mosque near Geelani's home after his death, asking local people to march towards it.\n\nHowever, Indian troops and armoured vehicles are said to be on the streets and police have urged residents to stay indoors.\n\nGeelani was a legislator for more than 15 years, representing Jamaat-i-Islami - a major political-religious organisation in Indian Kashmir, which was banned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in 2019.\n\nHe spent long spells in prison, including nearly 10 years after 1962, shortly after he began campaigning for Kashmir to merge with Pakistan.\n\nGeelani led a faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella group of almost two dozen separatist parties - but walked out in 2020, accusing others of \"revolting against his leadership\".\n\nHe was known for his strong opposition to any kind of dialogue with India. He insisted that a plebiscite on whether Kashmir should remain under Indian rule should be held before talks could take place.\n\nThis often put him in conflict with younger colleagues, who were more open to holding talks with Indian leaders.\n\nIn 2020, Geelani was awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan, Pakistan's highest civilian honour.", "Tom Cruise's films Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 7 have been delayed due to a surge in US Covid-19 cases caused by the Delta variant.\n\nMovie studios are concerned that the highly contagious variant will deter cinemagoers.\n\nParamount has pushed the Top Gun sequel back six months to May next year, while Mission: Impossible 7 has been moved from May 2022 to September that year.\n\nThe studio has also delayed the release of comedy Jackass Forever.\n\nCruise was 24 when the original film was released in 1986\n\nThe shock comedy franchise starring Johnny Knoxville is now scheduled to be released next February, a delay of four months.\n\nTop Gun: Maverick is a sequel to the hugely successful 1986 action original, with Cruise starring again as US Navy pilot Pete \"Maverick\" Mitchell, joined by Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly and Miles Teller.\n\nThe seventh instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, will see Cruise starring as special agent Ethan Hunt, along with co-stars Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg and Vanessa Kirby.\n\nHayley Atwell and Cruise filmed Mission: Impossible 7 in Rome last year\n\nBoth films have been repeatedly delayed because of the pandemic, and production on Mission: Impossible 7 in the UK was halted for two weeks in June due to positive Covid tests within the crew.\n\nCruise is also a producer on the action spy series, and last year a recording emerged of him apparently shouting at workers on the set, threatening to fire them if they broke guidelines.\n\nThe daily case average of Covid in the US earlier this week was 160,041, according to official figures.\n\nMany other blockbusters have been delayed or moved to streaming because of the pandemic, but some - such as Black Widow, Fast & Furious 9 and Suicide Squad - have finally hit cinemas in recent months.\n\nThere had been uncertainty about whether the next James Bond film would be postponed for a fourth time, but its studio has committed to releasing it in cinemas from 30 September.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland consolidated their position of power in pursuit of a place at next year's World Cup in Qatar with a hugely impressive victory against Hungary in a hostile and often unsavoury atmosphere in Budapest.\n\nGareth Southgate's side made it four wins from four qualifying games to open up a five-point lead over Poland, who England face in Warsaw after Sunday's meeting with Andorra at Wembley, at the top of Group I.\n\nIn a match which contained several flashpoints in the crowd, including loud jeering when England's players took the knee before kick-off, objects being thrown and racist chanting, they came through a mediocre first half to take total control after the break and run out easy winners.\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane missed a great chance to give them the lead shortly after the break but it did not prove costly as Raheem Sterling crowned a smooth move involving Declan Rice, Jack Grealish and Mason Mount to slide home his 16th goal in his past 24 international appearance after 55 minutes.\n\nSterling then turned provider eight minutes later as his deflected cross sat up perfectly for Kane to head home, Harry Maguire adding a third as his header from Luke Shaw's corner slipped through the grasp of Hungary keeper Peter Gulacsi.\n\nIn one of many incidents, Shaw was showered with plastic cups before taking the corner, as were England's celebrating players after Maguire scored. Sterling suffered a similar fate after putting England ahead when he took off his shirt to display a message in tribute to a close friend who died a few days ago.\n\nEngland's night was rounded off three minutes from time when Gulacsi's second serious error gifted them a fourth as he allowed Rice's routing shot under his body.\n\nEngland's path to Qatar now looks smooth - and this was a performance that cemented their status as firm favourites to come through their qualifying group with ease.\n\nSouthgate's side kept their nerve and discipline in the unsettling, intimidating surroundings of Budapest, with the behaviour of Hungary's fans leaving much to be desired, to turn up the heat and punish their opponents ruthlessly once they had gone ahead.\n\nEngland's defence was untroubled and the only disappointment for Southgate was that the victory margin could have been even more convincing, with Kane and Sterling missing clear chances to heap even further misery on the fading Hungarians.\n\nSterling was once again England's key figure, as he was in the Euros, scoring the goal that broke the deadlock before setting up the second for Kane.\n\nSouthgate will have been delighted with the manner in which England carved out their first goal, Rice winning possession before a slick link between Grealish and Mount set up Sterling for a composed finish. It was exactly what he wants from those players.\n\nEngland now face Andorra at home on Sunday before travelling to Poland for what is likely to be the toughest game on the road to Qatar in Warsaw next Wednesday - but it is already hard to see who can stop Southgate's side taking their place at next winter's World Cup.\n• None Daniel Gazdag (Hungary) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Hungary 0, England 4. Declan Rice (England) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Offside, England. Harry Kane tries a through ball, but Jack Grealish is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Dániel Sallói (Hungary) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by László Kleinheisler.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jack Grealish with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Attempt missed. Dominik Szoboszlai (Hungary) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How did a humble arcade machine become a multi-billion pound industry?\n• None Find out how you can get your money back for a rescheduled show", "The pair were investigated as part of a probe into 13 Metropolitan Police office between 2014-17\n\nTwo former Met officers would have been sacked due to bullying and offensive remarks had they still been serving, a disciplinary panel has found.\n\nAn investigation was launched following allegations that a police constable had sex in a room at Charing Cross police station, where the pair worked.\n\nDuring the investigation the pair were found to have exchanged racist and misogynistic messages to each other.\n\nA panel found the pair would have been sacked had they still been serving.\n\nOne officer, known as Pc A was sacked in June 2019 after being convicted of a criminal offence. The other officer, Pc B, resigned in May 2019. Both are barred from returning to the service.\n\nThe pair were investigated as part of a probe into 13 Metropolitan Police officers who worked at Charing Cross police station between 2014-17.\n\nOn Wednesday, an independent panel found that Pc A, had bullied a colleague over the course of eight months - sending them inappropriate messages and repeatedly asking about their sex life.\n\nWhen the victim complained, Pc A sent a series of messages to colleagues, threatening to hurt the officer.\n\nIn November 2014, the panel heard Pc A repeatedly used a racist term at a Christmas party.\n\nPc A wiped his WhatsApp messages when he suspected he might be arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into a separate matter.\n\nInvestigators found offensive images and comments about women, ethnic minorities and disabled people, on his phone.\n\nThe panel also found that Pc A was taking steroids in April and May 2017.\n\nPc A exchanged messages with Pc B that constituted gross misconduct, the panel found.\n\nThe pair made comments about drug-taking and offensive remarks about women that included references to domestic violence and prostitution.\n\nInvestigators also found other offensive texts including foul and inappropriate language, some of which was racist.\n\nThe panel found that all allegations made against the two officers were proven, and that they would have been sacked without notice had they still been serving.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pen Farthing said he had to leave his staff behind after a Taliban commander threatened him with an AK47\n\nThe founder of an animal shelter in Afghanistan who rescued more than 100 dogs and cats said he was still working to get \"terrified\" staff members out of the country.\n\nPaul \"Pen\" Farthing used a private charter flight to bring some 150 animals to the UK.\n\nHis 68 staff members were left behind, prompting criticism he was prioritising pets over people.\n\nMr Farthing said he was working \"every day to get them out\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, the former Royal Marine, from Essex, said: \"We are not giving up. People think I've got the animals out, that's it. It is not. Operation Ark was always people and animals.\n\nFormer Royal Marine Pen Farthing set up the Nowzad animal shelter after serving in Afghanistan in the mid-2000s\n\n\"I talk to them daily. They are terrified. Our little operations room is still going every day to get them out.\"\n\nMr Farthing formed the animal rescue charity Nowzad in Kabul in the mid-2000s.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said some of his supporters had \"taken up too much time of my senior commanders dealing with this issue when they should be focused on dealing with the humanitarian crisis\".\n\nMr Farthing previously apologised for the language used in an expletive-laden message for a government aide, but said he was not sorry for making the call itself.\n\nMany of the animals rescued by Mr Farthing belong to UK servicemen and women\n\nHe said he wished he had pushed harder to get his staff visas after they were prevented from leaving Kabul airport by a Taliban commander.\n\n\"It took a while to get the visas from the British government,\" he said.\n\n\"If I had hammered them harder and got the visas a day before, we could have got through.\"\n\nMr Farthing said British troops helped look after the animals once they reached the airfield\n\nMr Farthing said he did not rely on British support to \"get off the ground\" and accessed the airport without any government assistance.\n\nHe said his staff and their families, including children, made it to the final one of four checkpoints when a Taliban commander told him they could not leave.\n\n\"They had the correct paperwork from the British government to leave, but Jo Biden had changed the rules two hours earlier to state only people with passports with a visa in would be allowed into the airport,\" he said.\n\n\"I pleaded, pleaded, pleaded with the Taliban commander. I was on the ground, pleading with him and he stuck an AK47 in my face. There was nothing I could do.\"\n\nMr Farthing said once he was on the airfield, British troops from 16 Air Assault were \"absolutely amazing\" with off-duty soldiers helping to look after some of the animals.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The drill sample from the slab known as Rochette will be sent back to Earth for analysis\n\nThe US space agency has confirmed that its Perseverance rover has retrieved its first rock sample on Mars.\n\nThere were an anxious few days after the robot drilled into a thick slab dubbed \"Rochette\" that the core might have been dropped.\n\nBut new images of the drill head show the sample safely inside the mechanism.\n\nIt's a historic moment. The core represents the first ever rock section collected on another planet intended for return to Earth.\n\nThe rover is tasked with gathering more than two dozen such samples over the next year or so that will be fetched home by a joint US and European effort later this decade.\n\nThe deep, 45km-wide depression, some 20 degrees north of the planet's equator, looks to have held a lake billions of years ago.\n\nBecause of this, scientists think Jezero's sediments may hold traces of ancient microbial life - assuming biology ever took hold on Mars.\n\nFrom its touchdown location, the robot has driven more than 2km to a slightly raised ridge nicknamed the Citadelle.\n\nIt's here that the Perseverance team selected Rochette as the target for the latest drilling attempt.\n\nJust visible inside the corer is a section of Martian rock\n\nThe robot is equipped with a caching system that will take a finger-sized core of rock cut by the drill and place it in a titanium tube.\n\nBefore sealing this cylinder, however, the rover will image the contents. It was at this stage in early August during a first sampling attempt that Perseverance scientists realised they had nothing in the tube; the coring mechanism had shattered the rock to a powder that then fell back on to the ground around the drill hole.\n\nBut the mission team were encouraged by the first pictures downlinked by Perseverance on Thursday which appeared to indicate rocky material from Rochette in the corer head at the entrance to the cylinder. The very latest pictures confirm it.\n\nThe first core attempt in August produced only a mound of powder\n\nThe rover must now fully process the sample within its belly.\n\nPerseverance continues to be shadowed by its mini-helicopter, Ingenuity.\n\nOriginally taken to Mars as a technology demonstration, the drone is now being used routinely to scout the terrain ahead of the rover.", "Warming in the Arctic region is being linked to extreme winter weather in the US\n\nA new study shows that increases in extreme winter weather in parts of the US are linked to accelerated warming of the Arctic.\n\nThe scientists found that heating in the region ultimately disturbed the circular pattern of winds known as the polar vortex.\n\nThis allowed colder winter weather to flow down to the US, notably in the Texas cold wave in February.\n\nThe authors say that warming will see more cold winters in some locations.\n\nOver the past four decades, satellite records have shown how increasing global temperatures have had a profound effect on the Arctic.\n\nQueues form outside a grocery store in Austin, Texas, after the unexpected snow storm\n\nWarming in the region is far more pronounced than in the rest of the world, and has caused a rapid shrinkage of summer sea ice.\n\nScientists have long been concerned about the implications of this amplification of global change for the rest of the planet.\n\nThis new study indicates that the warming in the Arctic is having a significant impact on winter weather in both North America and East Asia.\n\nThe researchers detail a complex meteorological chain that connects this warmer region to a rotating pattern of cold air known as the polar vortex.\n\nThe authors show that the melting of ice in the Barents and Kara seas leads to increased snowfall over Siberia and a transfer of excess energy that impacts the swirling winds in the stratosphere above the North Pole.\n\nThe heat ultimately causes a stretching of the vortex which then enables extremely cold weather to flow down to the US.\n\nThere has been an increase in these stretching events since satellite observations began in 1979.\n\nThe scientists believe this vortex stretching process led to the deadly Texas cold wave in February this year.\n\nFuel pumps out of action during the electrical grid shutdown in Texas during this year's cold wave\n\n\"We're arguing that melting sea ice across Northwest Eurasia, coupled with increased snowfall across Siberia is leading to a strengthening of the temperature difference from west to east across the Eurasian continent,\" explained lead author Dr Judah Cohen, who's a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a director of Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a weather risk management company.\n\n\"We know when that temperature difference increases, that leads to more disruptions of the polar vortex. And when it's weakened, that leads to more extreme winter weather such as the Texas cold wave last February.\"\n\nThe researchers say that their findings are based on both observations and modelling and they show a physical link between climate change in the Arctic, the stretching of the polar vortex and the impacts on ground.\n\nThe authors believe their work could improve predictions about the onset of extreme cold winter events.\n\n\"One of the benefits of this study is that if you recognise these precursors and you know the conditions that are favourable for triggering such event, then you get to extend your forecast lead time,\" said Dr Cohen.\n\n\"In Texas, people could have certainly prepared better with better warnings, some people froze to death in their homes and perhaps they could have gone to seek shelter.\"\n\nLooking at the bigger picture, the research team believes that their findings will help people understand that global warming is complex and perhaps dispel the idea that colder winters mean climate change isn't happening.\n\n\"There has been a long-standing apparent contradiction between the warmer temperatures globally, however, an apparent increase in cold extremes for the United States and in northern Eurasia. And this study helps to resolve this contradiction,\" said fellow author, Prof Chaim Garfinkel from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\n\n\"In the past, these cold extremes over the US and Russia have been used to justify not reducing carbon, but there's no longer any excuse to not start reducing emissions right away.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Science.", "The sign outside the Biddle Rd branch of McDonald's in Medford\n\nA branch of McDonald's in Oregon, US, is calling on 14 and 15 year olds to apply for jobs at the restaurant amid a shortage of fast food workers.\n\nThe Biddle Road franchise in Medford put a banner outside its shop two weeks ago, urging younger workers to apply.\n\nAccording to reports, it has seen a spike in applications since making the offer, which complies with labour laws.\n\nIt comes as fast food and other outlets across the US struggle to fill vacancies despite restrictions easing.\n\nHeather Kennedy, operator of the Medford restaurant, told Business Insider such staff shortages were \"unheard of\" in her family's 40-year history operating McDonald's franchises.\n\nInitially she tried to attract more workers by raising the restaurant's minimum wage to $15 (£10.50), but did not spark enough interest.\n\nHowever, Ms Kennedy said she had received more than 25 new applications since she opened her doors to under 16s.\n\nMcDonald's declined to comment on the move but told the BBC franchisees were using a range of measures to tackle staff shortages including better pay, sign-on bonuses, and new benefits like backup childcare.\n\nMcDonald's also recently announced it will raise hourly wages to an average of $15 per hour at company-owned restaurants across the US.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by trixie tang This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not the first fast food chain to ask younger workers to fill staffing gaps.\n\nBranches of Burger King and Wendy's have put up similar signs recently. And according to reports, the Texan chain Layne's Chicken Fingers is promoting workers in their teens and early 20s into managerial positions, amid a lack of more experienced recruits.\n\nUS labour laws vary from state to state, but in Oregon, people aged 14 and above are allowed to work in non-hazardous jobs such as food service, as long as their hours are limited to accommodate schooling and they get adequate rest breaks.\n\nHowever, it seems to be rare - the average age of an employed McDonald's worker in the US is 27, according to research from jobs website Zippia.\n\nThere is currently a sharp labour shortage in the US as fear of Covid, schools remaining shut, and a lack of available child-care keeps workers at home.\n\nSome economists have also blamed generous federal benefits brought in during the pandemic - which provide an extra $300 every week - although these have already expired in many states.\n\nVacancies for lower skilled, lower paid jobs have been particularly hard to fill, prompting firms such as Walmart and Amazon to offer retention bonuses and higher starting wages.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police have been searching at Sand Hutton gravel pits, near York, since 24 August\n\nA lake has been drained by police in their latest search for clues to the suspected murder of Claudia Lawrence.\n\nThe 35-year-old has not been seen since she failed to turn up for work at the University of York in March 2009.\n\nDrone images taken above Sand Hutton gravel pits, about eight miles (13km) outside the city, show officers combing a lake bed as part of the search.\n\nForensics officers and underwater search teams have also been spotted at the site over the past 10 days.\n\nThe aerial images from the scene - taken above one of two lakes at the popular fishing spot - show two officers appearing to carry out a careful search of mud.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police confirmed they had drained the lake as part of their investigation. A spokesperson said: \"The searches are ongoing and we expect them to continue for a number of days\".\n\nSpecialist officers could be seen searching the exposed lake bed\n\nIn addition to water-based searches, specialist officers have been seen combing through a large area of woodland that surrounds both lakes.\n\nLead investigator Det Supt Wayne Fox has said members of the public have provided new information and lines of inquiry since the searches began.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police has not revealed what led officers to the location, but has said the search was one of \"several active lines of inquiry\" being followed in the case.\n\nThe force said searches at Sand Hutton could last for some time.\n\nUniversity chef Ms Lawrence's disappearance sparked one of the longest-running and highest-profile missing person cases in the UK.\n\nShe was last seen at 15.05 GMT on Wednesday 18 March 2009 walking towards her home on Heworth Road, York.\n\nThat evening she spoke to both of her parents in separate phone calls, but failed to arrive for her shift at Goodricke College the following day.\n\nHer father reported her missing on 20 March. A friend of Ms Lawrence's had called him after she did not turn up at a local pub on the evening of the 19 March.\n\nPolice used boats and specialist diving officers before the lake was drained\n\nThe lake is one of two at the site and is surrounded by woodland\n\nA number of people have been questioned in connection with her disappearance, but no charges have ever been brought.\n\nThe land at Sand Hutton is owned by the Church Commissioners for England, which said it would \"continue to support North Yorkshire Police with their requirements and apologise for any disruption caused\".\n\nThe York and District Amalgamation of Anglers, whose members use the lakes for fishing, said the area remained cordoned off by police.\n\nIn a statement, the trustees said they were aware of the ongoing investigation and were \"thoroughly co-operating with all organisations involved\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there Image caption: A US flag is seen posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, two days after the attack there\n\nThe BBC is covering the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US, which led to the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan.\n\nThis is the story of Chris Cruz, who explains in an interview to BBC's OS programme why he decided to join the US army.\n\n\"My mother was heading to work on a normal 11 September day. As soon as she exited the subway, she was told to start running as the buildings were coming down. She literally saw them coming down and described people jumping out of the windows,\" says Chris.\n\n\"When she finally made it home, I - as an 11-year-old boy at the time - had to tell her that she had burn marks and blood spots on the back of her legs. She was in a state of shock.\n\n\"As I grew up, I realised... I had the ability to be part of an organisation that could defend and prevent these atrocities for all Americans.\n\n\"9/11 played a role, but not in a way of revenge. I didn't want to join out of bloodlust. I served two tours in Afghanistan. Both of those times I volunteered to go.\n\n\"I don't think our mission would have succeeded without our Afghan partners. I agree we couldn't be there forever, but we made a promise to keep our partners safe and that we wouldn't turn our backs on them, and that's exactly what we've done.\"\n\nChris adds: \"I do think the way we pulled out, the way we left it, was completely wrong. There needed to be a better exit strategy.\"", "An Islamic State (IS) group suspect from the UK has pleaded guilty in a US court to multiple charges relating to the murder of four American hostages.\n\nAlexanda Kotey is accused of belonging to an IS cell dubbed \"The Beatles\" which was involved in kidnappings in Iraq and Syria.\n\nThe IS cell was allegedly responsible for the beheadings of a number of Western and Japanese hostages.\n\nKotey, 37, pleaded guilty to all eight charges and now faces life in prison.\n\nHe attended a change of plea hearing at a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia on Thursday, where he pleaded guilty to charges including hostage taking resulting in death and conspiracy to murder US citizens.\n\n\"Kotey has been afforded due process and in the face of overwhelming evidence, he made the independent decision to plead guilty to his crimes,\" lawyer Raj Parekh, a member of the prosecuting team, told reporters outside the court.\n\n\"He has agreed to spend the rest of his life in prison,\" he added.\n\nKotey and fellow \"Beatle\" El Shafee Elsheikh, 32, are on trial for their involvement in the murders of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and relief workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.\n\nBoth men are also suspected of involvement in the deaths of other hostages, including Alan Henning - a British taxi driver who was delivering aid - and Scottish aid worker David Haines, as well as two Japanese nationals.\n\nThe pair initially pleaded not guilty at a hearing in October.\n\nThe change of plea suggests Kotey may now co-operate with prosecutors. It is not yet clear whether Elsheikh has reached a plea deal with authorities.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\nThe two men were flown from US custody in Iraq last year to face the charges, which carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.\n\nOriginally from west London, their alleged IS gang was given its Beatles nickname by hostages due to their British accents. They were stripped of their UK nationality in 2018.\n\nSome of the victims were beheaded, with their deaths filmed and broadcast on social media. The high-profile killings triggered outrage around the world.\n\nThe group's alleged ringleader, Mohammed Emwazi, known as \"Jihadi John\", was killed in a drone strike in 2015.\n\nAnother gang member, Aine Davis, was arrested and imprisoned in Turkey.\n\nKotey and Elsheikh remained at large until they were captured in 2018 by Syrian Kurds fighting IS.\n\nThe US government had wanted to put them on trial but was lacking evidence.\n\nThe men were in a legal limbo for several months, held by the US military in Iraq where the US attorney general threatened to hand them over to local courts, known for their summary justice and executions.\n\nBut the US said it would not carry out the death penalty if the men were convicted in a US court.\n\nBritish counter-terrorism officials have since shared crucial evidence with US officials.\n\nElsheikh is scheduled to go on trial in January.\n\nKotey's plea deal, meanwhile, carries a minimum sentence of life without parole. But after 15 years he would be eligible to be transferred to the UK to face any possible charges there.\n\nHis sentencing is due to take place in March next year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The West has, until now, had help from Afghan special forces in operations against insurgent groups in the country\n\n\"The UK will fight Islamic State by all means available,\" says Dominic Raab. The foreign secretary added that the UK would \"draw on all elements of national power\" to pursue the group's leaders.\n\nSo what does that mean in practice? What exactly are the tools at Britain's disposal? Or is this, as some critics would maintain, just an empty boast?\n\nAfter Western defence and intelligence agencies collectively failed to foresee the speed at which Afghan National Security Forces would collapse, it seems they have since lost no time in making discreet approaches to the incoming Taliban government.\n\nIn a surprising move, the CIA Director, William Burns, reportedly flew to Kabul almost within hours of the Taliban takeover of that city, holding talks with their political chief, Mullah Baradar.\n\nA key aim is to stop Afghanistan becoming a haven for transnational terrorism. The former chief of MI6, Sir Alex Younger, told the BBC: \"I am not optimistic that the Taliban have the capability to do this, even if they had the intent.\"\n\nHe added: \"It will be important... to persuade neighbouring states that, for all our differences, we actually have the same problem and need to find some form of co-operation.\"\n\nPakistan plays a crucial role in achieving this goal, and Richard Moore, the current chief of MI6, has held talks with its army chief to discuss just that. Pakistan's shadowy Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) have supported numerous militant Islamist groups in the region. Yet at the same time, Pakistan has suffered multiple casualties from domestic jihadist terrorism.\n\nIntelligence officers from MI6 are also reported to have held talks with the Taliban in both Kabul and Doha with the simple message that if a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan is to have global legitimacy, then it cannot be allowed to again become a haven for terrorism.\n\nMI6 talking to the Taliban is not new. What is new is that the entire paradigm of US-backed counter-terrorism in Afghanistan changed at a stroke on the day the Taliban walked into Kabul on August 15th.\n\nThe Taliban takeover of nearly the whole of Afghanistan means that the West - and specifically the CIA, MI6 and other intelligence agencies - no longer has a trusted, in-country security service or Afghan special forces to work with.\n\nFor the nearly 20 years that Nato and other multinational forces have been in Afghanistan, the intelligence provided by the country's National Directorate of Security has been vital in disclosing the covert activities of al-Qaeda, ISIS-K (the Afghan affiliate of Islamic State group) and other jihadist militant groups.\n\nAfghan, US, British and other special forces were then able to swoop in, often by helicopter in the dead of night, and close down those bases before they could successfully launch any international attacks.\n\nHence the claim that for 20 years there has not been a single transnational attack launched from Afghanistan while Western forces were there.\n\nSo what now? What's left?\n\nThe loss of both its Afghan bases and an established network of human informants has forced the West - primarily the US and UK - to now rely on two other methods: cyber interception of messages, and \"over-the-horizon\" drone strikes.\n\nThe fact that the US was able to locate and strike an ISIS-K target in Nangarhar province so soon after last Thursday's deadly bomb attack at Kabul airport shows that it still has some skin in the game - that it is not completely blind to what its adversaries are up to in the more remote corners of that country.\n\nThe US Central Command facility at Al Udeid airbase in Qatar maintains oversight of operations in Afghanistan, and when a target is identified it can call on a number of \"assets\" in the region to attack it, most notably missile-armed drones which are able to hover, unseen, over a location for hours on end.\n\nBut there is no getting around the fact that Afghanistan has now become a hard target for intelligence agencies. Most of those human informants who were supplying tip-offs on militant activities have either fled the country or gone into hiding.\n\nBoth MI6 and the UK government's listening station GCHQ ultimately report to the foreign secretary, so Dominic Raab will be well aware of the challenges ahead.\n\nGCHQ, together with its US counterpart the National Security Agency, has been instrumental in locating ISIS terror cells in places like Syria and Iraq.\n\nBut for MI6 the reality is that it will need to rebuild an entire network of human informants if it is to successfully place agents \"upstream\" inside terrorist organisations in Afghanistan who can then give warning that an attack is being planned. And that could take years.\n\nIt is one of the bizarre oddities of the whole Afghan situation that the US and the Taliban, who have just spent the last 20 years fighting each other, now find themselves on the same page when trying to confront ISIS-K.\n\nISIS-K is a declared enemy of both the Taliban and al-Qaeda and is likely to become the new insurgent challenge to Afghanistan's new rulers.\n\nBut when it comes to al-Qaeda, the situation is a lot murkier.\n\nAccording to a UN report published in June there remain strong ethnic and marital ties between the Taliban and al-Qaeda.\n\nThe purported return to Afghanistan this week of Osama Bin Laden's former security chief Amin ul-Haq is a worrying sign. That such a high-value individual, classified by the US as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, should feel safe enough to return now the US has left will be deeply troubling for counter-terrorism officials in many countries.\n\nThey won't be taking their eyes off Afghanistan for many years to come.", "The blue lobster was caught off Aberdeen\n\nA fisherman has told how he had to pinch himself after catching a rare blue lobster - the chances of which are said to be two-million-to-one.\n\nRicky Greenhowe, 47, has been fishing off Aberdeen since he was a teenager and it was his first such find.\n\nHe said he would offer the lobster to an aquarium or put it back in the sea.\n\nBlue lobsters are so-coloured because of a genetic abnormality that causes them to produce more of a certain protein than others.\n\nMr Greenhowe found the striking-looking crustacean off Aberdeen on Thursday morning when creels were brought to the surface on his boat, Skua.\n\n\"I spotted it straight away and put him in a box on his own\", he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"I have never seen one before, and I have been fishing since I was 14.\"\n\nMr Greenhowe said a normal lobster of that size - about 1.5kg (3.3lbs) - would be worth perhaps £25.\n\n\"It's not about the money - it should continue its life\", he said.\n\n\"I will phone Macduff Aquarium to see if they want it, if not I will put him back.\n\n\"It's so rare, it would be a shame to put it in a pot.\"\n\nTwo fishermen in Dorset hit the ultimate lobster-probability jackpot in 2011 when they caught an albino, or \"crystal\", lobster - the odds of which are estimated to be one in 100 million.", "Amazon is offering a £50 weekly bonus for permanent staff at some UK locations for turning up to work on time.\n\nThe reward is for people who have 100% attendance, excluding time taken off for sickness linked to disability and Covid.\n\nAmazon said the enticement would help it meet summer and Christmas demand.\n\nLast week, the online retail giant advertised a £1,000 joining bonus for new warehouse workers.\n\nIt comes as the UK labour market continues to rebound, with UK job vacancies at a record high in August.\n\nThe attendance bonus will be offered at sites including Amazon warehouses in Durham and Gateshead.\n\nAs a current or former Amazon employee, what's your view of the scheme?\n\nAn Amazon spokesperson said: \"We are currently offering an attendance bonus at a number of locations to permanent associates to support our summer demand and help us prepare for the festive season ahead.\"\n\nThe bonus will be paid per week, and will be based on 100% attendance for all scheduled shifts, excluding absences under the Equality Act and relating to Covid.\n\nAmazon recently advertised that new starters who start working before 18 September will get a £1,000 signing-on fee.\n\nThe company has faced accusations of poor working conditions in the UK and elsewhere.\n\nIn March, Unite, the union, launched a whistleblowing hotline for Amazon workers in the UK. It also called for Amazon to allow British workers to unionise and to have a greater share of the firm's profits.\n\nIn July, the union described working conditions at Amazon as \"Charles Dickens meets 21st century Britain\".\n\nSome workers described having to run to the toilet to make it back to their workstation on time, and not being allowed to sit down for ten hours.\n\nOther workers described queues for toilets which meant they had to urinate in bottles.\n\nAmazon's recruitment and retention efforts come as UK job vacancies hit a record 953,000 in the three months to July.\n\nSome parts of the UK economy are struggling to recruit, including efforts to try to address a chronic shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nTesco has offered lorry drivers a £1,000 joining bonus, and John Lewis plans to increase annual salaries.\n\nThe meat industry has said it is hoping to recruit prisoners and former inmates to fill roles in abattoirs and processing plants.", "We've been speaking to residents in New York and New Jersey about their experiences of the flooding. This is what they told us:\n\nLast night in our basement it started to pour through the windows like a waterfall. After we went down to look at that it also started to leak through our electrical panel.\n\nThe fire chief came out and said he had to shut our power off.\n\nNow, we’re stuck in a hotel until we can get an electrician out who will check that we’re OK to get the panel back on, and then we have to get the power company back out to reconnect the power to the house, and then we’re going to have to pump the water out of the basement.\n\nWhen we were driving to the hotel, it was like a lake at points.\n\nThe dog is at the hotel with us. The fire chief’s wife took our pet cats to look after them at the firehouse.\n\nOur condo is built in a lower area so we are prone to flooding, but what I saw last night is unimaginable. I have never seen water coming in all directions.\n\nThere’s huge damage here. It is a big hit for us. It’s going to cost us money.\n\nWhen the flooding hit, my neighbour living downstairs came to my door and said: \"Help me.\"\n\nWhen I went there, what I saw was that her bathroom was flooded, her living room was flooded. Their apartment was completely ruined.\n\nThe only thing we could do was try to get rid of the water, but there was nowhere to put the water. So it was just a waiting game until the rain stopped.\n\nI don’t want to have to deal with this every few years because it’s going to cost us money and it might cost lives as well. We need to really think about what we should do about such disasters.\n\nWe were thinking it would be about a foot maximum, but it was 10 to 12ft (3-3.6m).\n\nThere has been huge property loss, huge damage everywhere. It’s pretty awful.\n\nWe had information that a storm was coming but nobody said it was going to be so bad.\n\nThe water just gushed in and caught us by surprise.\n\nThe elevators, the lobby, all the furniture have been destroyed.", "Joe Rogan's blunt and sometimes inflammatory style has won him legions of fans\n\nHugely popular US podcast host Joe Rogan has announced he has Covid, months after he caused controversy by suggesting young, healthy people did not need the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nRogan told his 13.1 million Instagram followers he was recovering but would have to postpone his next show.\n\nHis podcast was acquired by Spotify last year for more than $100m (£77m).\n\nIn April he faced a backlash over his vaccine comments. He later clarified: \"I'm not an anti-vax person.\"\n\nAnyone over the age of 12 in the US is eligible for a vaccine and nearly 62% of the country has received at least one dose. However, there has been a slowdown in the vaccination rate - particularly in the southern states - which has been blamed in part by a lack of urgency among young people.\n\nThe US has recorded nearly 39.4 million cases of Covid-19 and more than 642,000 deaths - the highest figures in the world.\n\nRogan, 54, said on Instagram he had returned from a show in Florida when he began to feel \"very weary\" and \"run down\", with a headache.\n\nHe said he had quarantined himself from his family and taken a Covid test, which came back positive.\n\n\"We immediately threw the kitchen sink at it, all kinds of meds,\" he said, listing a string of medicines including the deworming drug ivermectin, which health experts say has yet to prove effective against Covid.\n\nHe said that, three days on, he felt \"great\" but he would have to move Friday's show in Nashville to 24 October.\n\n\"A wonderful heartfelt thank you to modern medicine for pulling me out of this so quickly and easily,\" he ended his post by saying. It was not clear if he had been vaccinated.\n\nThe stand-up comedian and TV host-turned media mogul is known for courting controversy thanks to his blunt and sometimes inflammatory style on air.\n\nHis podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, was Spotify's most popular podcast in 2020 and he also has millions of followers on both Instagram and Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Are children and Delta on a collision course?", "The risk of \"long Covid\" in children is much lower than many had feared, leading child health experts have said.\n\nAfter the world's biggest study into the issue, the researchers, led by University College London, said they were \"reassured\".\n\nThey surveyed 11- to 17-year-olds testing positive for coronavirus in England between September and March.\n\nThe research suggests somewhere between 2% and 14% still had symptoms caused by Covid 15 weeks later.\n\nThe team said it was important those with persistent symptoms, which included headaches, tiredness and breathing difficulties, received support.\n\nBut there was little evidence huge numbers had sought NHS help for symptoms that had left them bedridden or unable to attend school.\n\nThe study, which has yet to be published in a medical journal, also gathered data from young people who had never tested positive, meaning more than 50,000 were surveyed in total.\n\nAnd 53% of them had at least one symptom after 15 weeks, simply because they are common in the general population.\n\nAmong those who had tested positive, this proportion was 65%.\n\nA more significant difference was seen among those 30% had three or more symptoms, compared with 16% of those who had never tested positive, suggesting 32,000 out of nearly 235,000 who were infected between September and March have developed long Covid.\n\nBut the numbers could be even lower.\n\nOnly 13% of those asked to respond to the survey did so.\n\nResearchers believe those who are suffering ongoing symptoms would be more likely to complete the survey than those who are not.\n\nIf all those with long Covid were to do so among those who did so, that would suggest their actual number was just 4,000 or fewer than 2%.\n\nThe research team - including Prof Sir Terence Stephenson, from UCL's Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health infectious disease lead Dr Liz Whittaker, and Public Health England officials - will continue to follow the children in the coming months.\n\nBut Sir Terence said he was already \"reassured\" suggestions, at the height of the pandemic, that half of children could develop long Covid cases were wrong.\n\n\"It is nowhere near what people thought in the worst-case scenario\".\n\nAlthough, he said, the numbers were still \"not trivial\" and the issue needed to be taken seriously.\n\nMost likely to report persistent symptoms were older girls who already had poorer physical and mental health.\n\nThose struggling emotionally and mentally could be more attuned to even minor physical illnesses, the researchers said, and a positive coronavirus test could help trigger that.\n\nOf all the children in the study, 40% reported feeling sad, worried or unhappy.\n\nAnd the researchers said it was clear the pandemic had had a damaging effect on young people because of:\n\nThis showed how important it was to get \"back to normal\" and have schools open, Dr Whittaker added.", "This is the first hospice in the UK to follow the Scandinavian-inspired \"Sengetun\" model of care which puts patients and families first, providing private, dignified and compassionate care. The hospice creates light-filled and familiar places that look and feel like home, with medical assistance sitting firmly in the background.", "Long Covid has two dozen common symptoms including fatigue, a cough and breathlessness\n\nThousands of long Covid patients in Scotland are not being referred to a support service, a charity has claimed.\n\nChest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) launched the service in February - but say they cannot get in touch with patients because of \"NHS bureaucracy\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with the NHS, but \"no one approach\" would fit all circumstances.\n\nThe latest figures from the ONS estimate 74,000 people in Scotland are living with \"self-reported\" long Covid.\n\nAbout 60,000 had experienced long Covid symptoms for more than 12 weeks and 28,000 for a year.\n\nHowever, CHSS said they are only managing between 55-60 patients per month.\n\nThe condition has more than two dozen common symptoms - though experts have said they are often unpredictable and affect patients in different ways - and can last months.\n\nNew research suggests that being fully vaccinated against Covid cuts the risk of an infection turning into long Covid.\n\nThe long Covid support service, funded by CHSS and the Scottish government, was described in February as a first step towards a comprehensive national service.\n\nIts aim was to work with GPs and develop a support plan for people early on in their experience with long Covid as they awaited further NHS treatment.\n\nIt came after repeated calls for specialist long Covid clinics, which were introduced in England last year. At the time Scotland was devoting resources to research.\n\nHowever CHSS chief executive, Jane-Claire Judson, said the service has not made the progress she expected, and instead was meeting patients at the \"sharp end\" of long Covid.\n\nCHSS chief executive Jane-Claire Judson said the current system of support is not reaching enough people\n\nShe said: \"They come to us as a self-referral, so we're supporting people at the worst points in their long Covid journey - but that's not what the service was for.\n\n\"It was to receive referrals from people going to primary care so that we could start working with them early on. That means that thousands of people are not getting the support they need from us or the NHS.\n\n\"It means the data sharing is not in place and bureaucracy is preventing us and the NHS from working together and having a massive impact on people with long Covid. That's not acceptable.\"\n\nMairead Johnson said long Covid has limited every aspect of her life\n\nNine months after contracting Covid-19, Mairead Johnson, 58, and her husband Henry, 62, are reluctant to leave their house in Greenock as they are suffering the effects of long Covid.\n\n\"We only go to the shops once a week at night because we don't want to catch Covid again,\" she said.\n\n\"I was really frightened of getting the vaccine because again you didn't know is it going to make the long Covid worse.\"\n\nMairead said she and Henry have experienced the symptoms commonly associated with long Covid - breathlessness and fatigue - but that other effects are often unnerving.\n\nShe said she has received some support, but often feels nothing can be done for new symptoms as medical professionals know little about the condition.\n\n\"My husband would smell burning when there was nothing burning,\" she said. \"My hair has stopped growing, my yawning reflex has gone, I get a racing heart and breathless just from standing up. I have joint pain in my foot, as if one toe is permanently broken.\n\n\"You get to that stage where something happens and you go that's long Covid. A doctor said to me that's quite a scary thing because there could be something else wrong that might be serious.\n\n\"We need research, but to do the research properly they've got to speak to us and it's got to be collated from every GP practice. It's a brilliant opportunity for them to find out what's happening because it's happening to so many people at the same time.\"\n\nCHSS have now published a long Covid action plan which calls on the Scottish government to make a number of changes.\n\nCrucially it wants a fund to be set up for health boards to establish local long Covid services - although a figure has not yet been established.\n\nIt also wants bureaucratic barriers in the NHS to be removed and data sharing to be improved so that it can speak to patients more quickly.\n\nAdditionally the document calls for patient care plans to be developed and for medical staff to be trained on long Covid - as the charity said some do not recognise it as a real condition.\n\nDuring FMQs on Thursday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the organisation had made a number of very important points.\n\nShe said she wanted to discuss the recommendations with the charity in detail and will give the capacity fund serious consideration in budget discussions.\n\nThe Scottish government says it recognises the impact long Covid is having and has responded by strengthening existing NHS services and investing £2.5m in long Covid Research.\n\nA government spokesperson added: \"NHS Scotland continues to deliver its full range of services to support the needs of people with long Covid, and we are engaging with NHS boards as they co-ordinate pathways across primary, community and secondary care services to support a coherent patient journey.\n\n\"While long Covid clinics are one model that NHS boards may explore, we know no one single approach is likely to fit all areas and circumstances.\n\n\"We are keeping all aspects under review, including specialist services and funding to ensure people suffering from long Covid receive the best possible care and support.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 18 councils across the UK confirmed on Thursday that they are experiencing ongoing disruptions to their bin collection services.\n\nIt is due to staff self-isolating and a lack of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers for bin lorries.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) told the BBC that the delays were primarily affecting garden waste.\n\nHowever, some councils are also delaying recycling collections in order to prioritise general waste.\n\nIt comes as three councils in Devon wrote to Home Secretary Priti Patel on Thursday, asking for the government to grant temporary visas for trained European HGV drivers to ease the shortage.\n\n\"At the time of writing, North Devon Council are attempting to fill seven [bin lorry driver] vacancies, Torbay Council eight vacancies, and Teignbridge Council 10 vacancies,\" wrote councillors Steve Darling, David Worden and Alistair Dewhirst.\n\n\"This equates to approximately 20% of the HGV workforce in driver vacancies and it is proving very challenging to fill this resourcing gap given the dynamics of this labour market.\"\n\nThe UK currently has a shortfall of about 100,000 HGV drivers, after many EU workers returned home following Brexit and during the pandemic.\n\nMinisters say UK employers should hire locally to fill the gap, but the councils said it would take time to train the next generation of drivers. They also highlighted delays in the current HGV driver recruitment process.\n\n\"With our efforts to 'grow our own' HGV drivers, we need their DVLA applications to be fast tracked, as for example in Teignbridge, there are five [bin lorry driver] applications in the system which if fast tracked could help partially tackle the challenges we face,\" the councillors stressed.\n\nThe BBC understands that the DVSA has already increased the number of vocational tests from 2,000 a week to 3,000, and the DVLA are prioritising HGV provisional licence applications and taking about two weeks to issue them.\n\nHaulage firms are offering sign-on bonuses and pay rises but councils say this is affecting them and their partners\n\nWaste management giants Biffa, Veolia and FCC Environment told the BBC they are \"doing everything\" they can to mitigate the driver shortage.\n\n\"We are working hard to recruit new drivers, offering great rates of pay alongside fantastic benefits, as well as full training,\" said Biffa's human resources director Jane Pateman.\n\nVeolia said it currently has 180 bin lorry driver vacancies in the UK. In August, it launched a campaign encouraging mothers to consider a new career in driving for the waste management industry.\n\n\"To meet the industry-wide shortage of drivers, Veolia are offering incentives such as a sign-on bonus for new staff, and a retention bonus for existing drivers in areas where we are most affected,\" said Veolia UK and Ireland's chief human resources officer Beth Whittaker.\n\n\"We are also up-skilling existing staff and utilising our extensive apprenticeship scheme.\"\n\nThe councils confirmed to be experiencing ongoing bin collection delays are:\n\nRecycling and waste management firm FCC Environment said it too was trying to attract more workers to the profession.\n\n\"We are focused on actively recruiting drivers across the country, offering local people local employment with job security in the waste and recycling sector, and an attractive package that includes flexible, part-time hours with no overnight stays, fitting around family life and helping work/life balance,\" said FCC Environment's operations director Steve Longdon.\n\n\"In the short-term in some areas, working in close agreement with our local authority partners, we have prioritised waste and recycling collections - enabling these to continue by temporarily suspending other services, such as garden waste collections, to allow us to reallocate drivers.\"\n\nHowever the LGA said that the haulage industry was causing part of the problem: \"Fast inflating HGV driver salaries in the private sector risks exacerbating issues in the public sector, with the rises potentially creating a retention as well as a recruitment problem for councils and their contractors.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the LGA released a report showing 46% of councils in England and Wales experienced disruptions to their bin collection services in July.\n\nDr Adam Read, director of external affairs at Suez Recycling & Recovery UK, told BBC Breakfast that chronic driver shortages had been going on for about 10 to 12 weeks.\n\nVeolia launched a campaign in August asking mothers to consider a new career in the waste management industry\n\nHe set out what he sees as the benefits to working as an HGV driver in waste management: \"You might start early, but you finish early and you get to pick the kids up.\n\n\"You're not working long shifts and certainly not driving long distances, a lot of it is close to where you live - so there are some upsides to the sector.\"\n\nHe did concede, however, that waste collection firms do not typically pay as well as delivery agencies or supermarkets.\n\n\"In some geographies, we've seen some staff start to have their head turned by slightly better pay conditions,\" he added.\n\nIn a bid to tackle the wider HGV driver shortage, supermarkets such as Tesco and Aldi have increased wages or started to offer sign-on bonuses for delivery drivers.\n\nFrance closing its border with the UK in December 2020 led to a huge tailback as more than 6,300 lorries\n\nBefore the pandemic, there was a shortage of an estimated 60,000 HGV drivers, according to the Road Haulage Association, but that's now risen to 100,000.\n\nSince Brexit, many European drivers who worked in the UK have returned to their home countries or decided to work elsewhere due to the additional paperwork required at borders. It slows them down and costs them money, as they are often paid by distance covered rather than per hour.\n\nPandemic travel restrictions and a lack of Covid tests for drivers have also played a part.\n\nThousands of lorry drivers were forced to spend Christmas in their cabs in December, after France closed its border with the UK due to a backlog in coronavirus testing.\n\nAbout 4,000 lorries had to park at Manston Airport in Kent, with another 2,300 held on the M20, creating a long tailback.", "Being fully vaccinated against Covid-19 not only cuts the risk of catching it, but also of an infection turning into long Covid, research led by King's College London suggests.\n\nIt shows that in the minority of people who get Covid despite two jabs, the odds of developing symptoms lasting longer than four weeks are cut by 50%.\n\nThis is compared with people who are not vaccinated.\n\nSo far, 78.9% of over-16s in the UK have had two doses of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMany people who get Covid recover within four weeks but some have symptoms that continue or develop for weeks and months after the initial infection - sometimes known as long Covid. It can happen after people experience even mild coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe researchers, whose work was published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, say it is clear that vaccinations are saving lives and preventing serious illness, but the impact of vaccines on developing long-lasting illness has been less certain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long Covid means brushing my hair can be \"emotionally traumatising\", says Megan Higgins\n\nThey analysed data gathered from the UK Zoe Covid Study app, which tracks people's self-reported symptoms and vaccines and tests.\n\nThat meant that between December 2020 and July, the health was tracked of more than 1.2 million adults who received one coronavirus jab and 971,504 who received two jabs in that time frame.\n\nResearchers found some people were more at risk of so-called breakthrough infections (getting Covid after a vaccine) than others - including frail, older adults and people living in deprived areas. This was particularly the case for people who had only had one jab.\n\nLead researcher Dr Claire Steves said people at increased risk needed to be prioritised for booster jabs.\n\nShe added: \"In terms of the burden of long Covid, it is good news that our research has found that having a double vaccination significantly reduces the risk of both catching the virus and if you do, developing long-standing symptoms.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said vaccines had saved more than 105,000 lives and prevented more than 24 million infections in England alone.\n\nHe said: \"It is clear vaccines are building a wall of defence against the virus and are the best way to protect people from serious illness. I encourage everyone who is eligible to come forward for both their jabs as quickly as possible.\"\n• None COVID Symptom Study - Help slow the spread of COVID-19.website The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites."], "link": ["http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58642558", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58633626", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58646017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58632984", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58627115", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58636467", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58645719", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58604552", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58633515", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58600583", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58632681", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58636369", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58637968", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58636367", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43643025", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58565067", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58600725", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58627644", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58638229", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58639538", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51722301", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58637116", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58631097", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58627764", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58639253", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58641394", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58627995", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58636439", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-58637547", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58631668", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58500579", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58572389", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58598608", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58637572", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-58627794", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58641781", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58622164", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58618072", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58629592", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58637086", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58624724", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58628491", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58636057", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58627325", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58646087", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58643787", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58635771", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58629194", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58640369", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58641076", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58638825", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58635383", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58636001", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-58632372", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58628865", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/58629482", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58642224", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58644894", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58639895", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58641946", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58427963", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58441174", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58434171", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58428087", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58439668", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58426795", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58437673", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57781637", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58426792", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58442611", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58436404", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58436099", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58440649", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58437713", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58438094", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58437665", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-58414580", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58426640", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58382715", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-58440257", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58425526", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58417078", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58405212", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58421389", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58431842", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58439049", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58435664", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-58436865", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47593693", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58428800", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58432042", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58434723", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58442799", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58436735", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58438669", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58428699", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-58279900", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58433647", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58351961", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58421796", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58427519", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58427171", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58432092", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58432347", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58435904", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58431982", "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58383077", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58423967", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58421192", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58432776", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58418627", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58409267", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58435541", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58405169", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58427808", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58423924", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58425154", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58430255", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58424343", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58424222", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58426880", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58586624", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58583104", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58600583", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58600453", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58597174", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58594944", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58591006", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-58554332", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58587866", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58593836", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58574180", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58594953", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58593572", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58604655", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58579399", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58603084", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58583324", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58582399", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58584348", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58582573", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58592613", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58596394", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58600723", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58593589", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58592376", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58575895", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58600588", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/58598585", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58604541", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58591909", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58587040", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58584085", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58577911", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58589759", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58506013", "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58516551", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58594420", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58583251", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58560720", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-58593615", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58578380", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58585349", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58598186", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58602051", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58549650", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58589593", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58602999", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587147", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-58593564", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58586093", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-56997931", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58538885", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-58505658", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58539880", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57781637", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58545892", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58519200", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58536118", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58547901", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58517295", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58542140", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58508001", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58548528", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58545944", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58520330", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58464664", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58539666", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58541644", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58542840", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58535258", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58552769", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58537844", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-58550047", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58507764", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58551992", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58540571", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-58515769", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58540110", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58542797", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58549650", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58543496", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58548620", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56941911", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58523132", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58543603", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58550197", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58517339", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58538887", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58536503", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58545870", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58537030", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58549883", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58503012", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58453246", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58540915", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58499064", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58540570", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58537599", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58542451", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58549830", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-58460702", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58457136", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58468557", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58473802", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58474438", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58462181", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-33986844", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58479017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58472978", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58469879", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58466154", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58458086", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58462359", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58479028", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58464674", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58475922", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58476547", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58480730", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58386792", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58478227", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58473208", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58476138", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58469238", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58467017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58466647", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58474392", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58464163", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58470253", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58470093", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58482356", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58434093", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58472335", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58479375", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-58463104", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58469496", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58473260", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-58474385", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58473078", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58473018", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58467000", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58471928", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58441555", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58481425", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58482850", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-58468897", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58407238", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58464747", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58395994", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58467784", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48539885", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58479234", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58463493", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58465147", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-58279900", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-58160697", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58471040", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58478187", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58476632", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58694894", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58682356", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58689536", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58691824", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58683002", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58694004", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58684030", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58690096", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-58666322", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/58692075", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58687071", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58684726", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/58682632", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/58678537", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58682693", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58687070", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58678275", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58645712", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-58686660", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58681315", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58683718", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58691016", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58681105", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58676451", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58695094", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58689531", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58685889", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-58685166", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58694809", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58689884", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58681313", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58682998", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58689239", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58685219", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58689623", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-58690754", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58690974", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58521779", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58684583", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58684724", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58690225", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-58680014", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-58680103", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58689962", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58694304", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58646017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58656551", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58635995", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58654624", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58649698", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58632162", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58653197", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-58649729", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58643437", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58645719", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58647031", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58652876", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58654725", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58630492", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58654350", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58648526", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58638229", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58648466", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58648049", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58641394", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58639253", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58654630", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58656605", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58649432", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57436035", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58646768", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58600181", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58632147", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58647331", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-58647481", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58649410", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58646499", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58649286", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58652497", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58654045", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58639955", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58638702", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58643647", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58646087", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58636057", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58647755", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58653653", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58627325", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58643787", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58642266", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58648566", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58646917", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58628689", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58649805", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58643793", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58639895", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58639602", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58654046", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58648769", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58642224", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58644894", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58657887", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58658745", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58653737", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58558394", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58549373", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58548745", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/58559089", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-58559255", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58558880", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58549303", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58545892", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-58557434", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58558355", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58560720", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58464664", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58545944", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58502559", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58552769", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58556453", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58552157", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58536961", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58544950", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58559171", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58561561", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58547221", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58548437", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-58550047", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58555703", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58551992", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-58550010", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58553594", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58550833", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58549650", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58560031", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58561776", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58529158", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-58556790", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58560011", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-58559511", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58550197", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58556726", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58560185", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58562067", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58545870", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58555227", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58474418", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58557727", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58549883", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58555665", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58556460", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58463375", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58501199", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58504744", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/58512624", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58509932", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58521865", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-58516337", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58516156", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58496167", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58507434", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58515312", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58524401", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58521779", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57829261", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58504522", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58509117", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58522061", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58519458", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-58508163", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58510368", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58508603", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58523119", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58507206", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58502593", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58515401", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58502589", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58496385", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58274806", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58518146", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58507100", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58510192", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58512257", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58515732", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58208721", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58493841", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58497904", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-58505688", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/tennis/58513418", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58515771", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58516654", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58510530", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58516799", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-58506598", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58509085", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58524893", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58520199", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58495533", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-wales-58501487", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58510294", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58505151", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58515511", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58513670", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58512901", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-58519620", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58518526", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58518892", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58515731", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58503264", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58506013", "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58463375", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58511033", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58516367", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58517369", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-58279900", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58522588", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58507436", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-58511173", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-58516623", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58511816", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58520146", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58516300", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58510594", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58441174", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58438715", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58434171", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58432352", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58444204", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58442969", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58437673", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57781637", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58448655", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58442611", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58436404", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58448900", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58409885", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58437713", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58438094", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58446881", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-58440257", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58437469", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58445274", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58421232", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-58448700", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58441142", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58428800", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58447549", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58448565", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58442799", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58438669", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58430624", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58433461", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58446539", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58446098", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58351961", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-58443729", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58447559", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-58437999", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58365963", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58439099", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58395974", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58450809", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58447179", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58450378", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58694894", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58698432", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58691824", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58698864", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58692020", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/58701498", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58696999", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58694004", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58698369", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58698589", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58698406", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58699072", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58698128", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/58692075", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/58678537", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58699946", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58696143", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58701880", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58696977", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58682693", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58692806", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58613174", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58699444", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58699058", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58683718", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58695094", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58697347", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58696604", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-58644812", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58690666", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58699357", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58698189", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58694809", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58685889", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-58682345", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58681313", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58700994", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58691368", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58680153", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56821462", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58697307", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58689623", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58690974", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/58678543", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58521779", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58697878", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58698029", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58693663", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/58698234", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58690225", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58694304", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58598046", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58607498", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58600723", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58606870", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58602884", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58604655", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58600583", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-58557434", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58611007", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58605735", "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58516551", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58612530", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58495112", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58594420", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58611030", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58600453", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58599482", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58593836", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-58607923", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58605688", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58525384", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58603084", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58608676", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58612566", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58600588", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58611602", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58604541", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58598186", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58602051", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58602023", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-58599180", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58607813", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58604620", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58608496", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58602999", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58587040", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58603539", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58481330", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58600875", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58573703", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-56997931", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58490819", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-58491958", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58483150", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58490048", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58482840", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58457136", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58473802", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58477231", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58487173", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58478227", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58465148", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58477966", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58493663", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58483848", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-58488476", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58493076", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58407238", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58493947", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58486791", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-58487733", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58486526", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58485816", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58485278", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58484155", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58465147", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58479017", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58483036", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58491245", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58484951", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-58492328", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-58490690", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58472506", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58404777", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58490809", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58480550", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-58489566", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58487347", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58477926", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58483850", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58492169", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58482850", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58482356", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58487025", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58478187", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-58490510", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58494842", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58481326", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58475922", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58476632", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58476547", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58474416", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58386792", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-58476687", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58451372", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58453258", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58432352", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58451647", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58447126", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58449386", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58452949", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58429014", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58448900", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58409878", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58446881", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58441662", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58437288", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58434887", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58452953", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58421232", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/58457293", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-58448700", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58453617", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58448565", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54703955", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58434735", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58433461", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58430624", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58457078", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-58443729", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58455826", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-58457214", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58455022", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58372986", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58452548", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58365963", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58456832", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58420003", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58453650", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58431982", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58372987", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58453530", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58455015", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58455620", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58443653", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58454438", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58457143", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58453250", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58450378", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54717608", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-58712602", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58709852", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58701543", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58684351", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58682692", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58712232", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58671915", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58708723", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58708728", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58685035", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58707621", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58701889", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/58701498", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58698369", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58708156", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58705932", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58698406", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58704625", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58699072", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58704507", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58705738", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58708999", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58675196", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58704508", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58703128", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58713266", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-58703376", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58701880", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58696977", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58711403", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58637877", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58713102", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58699444", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58708009", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58699979", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58696604", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-58644812", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58713175", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58700994", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58711302", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58705186", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58680153", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58707753", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58705376", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58700986", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58697878", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58714203", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58524714", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58515732", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58522061", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58513149", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58531347", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58533531", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58491003", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58517125", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58531131", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58519458", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58512901", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58505044", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58517351", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58523119", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58495112", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58530744", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58530738", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58533541", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58515271", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-58532208", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58533341", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58528886", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58533107", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58516799", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58529158", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58512257", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58524893", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58514875", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-58532514", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-58528515", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58527909", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58520199", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58346534", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58530938", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58510504", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58524401", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58524715", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58524261", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58520146", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58437003", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-58522972", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58524559", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58527312", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58570239", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58561621", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58562149", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58571483", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58561561", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58550833", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-15064366", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58560011", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52064637", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58562438", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/gymnastics/45795697", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19615906", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56907220", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-58571515", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58547824", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58567192", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58565271", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58556460", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/58568610", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58554326", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58574180", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58573066", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58574250", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58552157", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58571545", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58565658", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58568409", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58551992", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-58564999", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58572575", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56941911", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58564127", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58569020", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58557370", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58560185", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58474418", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58564837", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58555665", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/58559089", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58573892", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58575692", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58565652", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58502559", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58566235", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58575895", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57195317", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58576095", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14969225", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/gymnastics/53101341", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58570353", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58569794", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57844784", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58570037", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58566067", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58575954", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-58557434", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58573059", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58578571", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58569360", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58578380", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-58550010", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58560031", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58573501", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58571554", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58562067", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58561430", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42725339", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58565272", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58575177", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58573593", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58667822", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58662328", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58654519", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58654624", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58654240", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58671941", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58651081", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58670355", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58643437", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58663052", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58664788", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58657224", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58673547", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58661771", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58654725", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58662455", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58654350", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58662091", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58665809", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58671588", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58656551", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58653492", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58657984", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58641394", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58661817", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58670835", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58654630", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58669632", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58672967", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58659717", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58645712", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58667268", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58665538", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58600181", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58659667", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-isle-of-man-58670437", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58658318", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58660192", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58661931", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58654045", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58670790", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58653653", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58655298", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58669824", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-58662846", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58638854", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58669512", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58650753", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58639602", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58657887", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58654046", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58667660", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58661926", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58662756", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58415127", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58395954", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58398606", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58180616", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58410574", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58415877", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58406184", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58407316", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58395401", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58400595", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-58411100", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58409349", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58416135", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58390546", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58393886", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58391936", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58393763", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58414597", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58412201", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58407643", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58400997", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58396975", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58393866", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58388323", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58408210", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58394215", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58393877", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-58279900", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58403050", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58377984", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-58402488", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58411464", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58405624", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-58395154", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58403735", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58412832", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-58416317", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58354662", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58408911", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58389771", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58405169", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-58408240", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58408990", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58410584", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58403047", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-58255378", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58390965", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58400061", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58402911", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58504263", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58493663", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58495112", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58496967", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58504744", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58509932", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58500579", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58501527", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58491245", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58502779", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58404777", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58496167", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58507434", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58487347", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-58500230", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58504123", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58490698", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58497899", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58509117", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58492953", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58498433", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58491967", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58507206", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-58463918", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58496667", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58496405", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58499899", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58505194", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-58489566", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58506228", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58482356", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58496185", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58495531", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58493841", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/58497681", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58497904", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58485825", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58499055", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58497706", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58503313", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-58499963", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-58506598", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58509085", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58480550", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58492169", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58490568", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58494842", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58487026", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58499863", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58497685", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58505151", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58490819", "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58495112", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58503264", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58506013", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58493076", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-58499827", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58493947", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58508240", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58498427", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58502963", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58446539", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-58492328", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58492663", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58496410", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58490038", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58487901", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58494391", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58503963", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-58500077", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-58506749", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58612961", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58607498", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58613394", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58611761", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58606870", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58533942", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58610234", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-58557434", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57809611", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58615590", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58611007", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58612530", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58611030", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58615689", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58615784", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58616727", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/52217646", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58525384", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58619418", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58618177", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58612566", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58613389", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58615356", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58611602", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58615829", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58613195", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/32581203", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58614113", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58620379", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58604620", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58413690", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/58615434", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58614679", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58584839", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58615838", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58612965", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58612529", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58616759", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58600875", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58613988", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58617114", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-58460702", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58466939", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58469496", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58468557", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/58396310", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58424596", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58463458", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58451647", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58460511", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58447126", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58458584", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-58458587", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/58466419", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58441662", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58459802", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58469238", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58467784", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58437288", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58434887", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58463493", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58460081", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58460158", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58460845", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58443186", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58461911", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58463439", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11811293", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58460297", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-58279900", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58434735", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58457078", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58455826", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58469879", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58466647", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58467000", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58467014", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58467874", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58458086", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58466608", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58462359", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58464163", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58456832", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58470253", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58460357", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58461991", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58463792", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58465087", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-58468897", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58431607", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-58454188", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-58674452", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58676080", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58684025", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58682472", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58669632", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58676366", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58667520", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58638854", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58673550", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58594542", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58665603", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58675198", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58670553", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58670355", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58682602", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58684030", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58673547", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/tennis/58681849", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58667590", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58645712", "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58623663", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58676451", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58672303", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58670765", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58674934", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58684724", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-58680014", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58682356", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58667328", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58670751", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58671941", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58671588", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-58679503", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58681116", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58672967", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58675703", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-58676610", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58674176", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58681313", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58670790", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58679960", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58669865", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-58666322", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58653492", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58663615", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-58686660", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-isle-of-man-58670437", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58676450", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58678907", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58676358", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58682998", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58675644", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58677189", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-58519044", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58522061", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58531347", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-58505658", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58533531", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58533533", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-58535593", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58539880", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58533972", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58530550", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58519193", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58531131", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58536118", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58536126", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58537841", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58520330", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/58537637", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58536338", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58530744", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58532433", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58533538", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58535258", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53763899", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58537844", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-58538441", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58515771", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58514414", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58530738", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58533541", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58535611", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58540110", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58533341", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58491245", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58533107", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58536534", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58529158", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-58532514", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58527909", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58533861", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58517339", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58533613", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58538887", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58533776", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58537599", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58537030", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/58530526", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58533034", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58517295", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/tennis/58533722", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58540570", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/tennis/58533591", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58561621", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58581682", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58574640", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58579179", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58586532", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58591006", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58579407", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52064637", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58562438", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58587866", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58581105", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58574180", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58573066", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58579399", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58575177", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58578440", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58584348", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58582573", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-56970640", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58557370", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58584025", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58564837", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58573892", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58581144", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58571428", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58579717", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58575772", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57195317", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58575895", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58581828", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58581812", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58576095", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58591909", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-58577136", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58577911", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58587568", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58570353", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-58583440", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58574130", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58582860", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58583100", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58575954", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58586493", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58585395", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58573059", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58583251", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58585459", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58569360", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58413667", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58578380", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58583771", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58585349", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-58574791", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58573501", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587147", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58582258", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58581809", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58561430", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58573593", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58632984", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58627115", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-58632649", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58533942", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58631262", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58600845", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58615590", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58615586", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58614679", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58623062", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58615689", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58615784", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58616727", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58625569", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58584833", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58620272", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58598608", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58500579", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58619418", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58629122", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58608676", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58615510", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58626945", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58623160", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-58627794", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58622164", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58618072", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58625761", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58620379", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58629592", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58614113", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58625781", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58624724", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58628491", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58623684", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58627325", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58620247", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58621345", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58629194", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58621491", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58627995", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58621759", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/58629482", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58620220", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58623058", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-58632372", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58615838", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58623969", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58616759", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58622088", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58617114", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-56997931", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58425648", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58417074", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58415127", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58428087", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/58396310", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58180616", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58410574", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58395401", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58409349", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58418767", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58417160", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58418019", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-58419692", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58428699", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58407953", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58421796", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58320026", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58413690", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58409267", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58325431", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58421067", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58418627", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58417076", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58413919", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58412201", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58421178", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-58418535", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58410507", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58417789", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58420003", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58409551", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58405169", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58409442", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58427963", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-58409613", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58395954", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58419832", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-58420089", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58415877", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58416135", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58382715", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58417078", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58407643", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58406025", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58422469", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58427519", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58413033", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58394904", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58401364", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58412832", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-58416317", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58419680", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58338123", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58413889", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-58420839", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58398904", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58425526", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58414597", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58420931", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-58279900", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58427171", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58395371", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58420028", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58414875", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-58420997", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58416801", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58410584", "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58416687", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58409187", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58424343", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58410354"]}